Natural Born Mystic™. The Empathy Series. Ascension Discourse on Love Pt XlX. Sacred Farewell/The Return. Amera Ziganii Rao

Super Siren XXlX Pt ll (Artwork)

Natural Born Mystic™. Ascension Discourse on Love Pt XlX. The Empathy Series. Sacred Farewell/The Return. Amera Ziganii Rao  

Sacred Xll. Amera Ziganii Rao

Reigning myself in today. Non attachment and total belief. At least it's not this time last year. Shedding the mortal husk of the past is as intense and final as that final scene in The Matrix. Revolutions shows. Spiritually cerebral and science fiction it may be. Pure consciousness is. Mr Spock, right. Our favourite Extra Terrestrial.

Don't miss the emotion. Bring it in when you want instead of being swamped by it into the ignorance of fear that we are all hijacked by from moment to moment. Raw terror is still there in superego (and raw terror is a lethal soldier of subterfuge. It comes across as apathy and blame and resignation. What the polite society calls reason). As is always said, it's what one does with the fear. Keep stabbing it, beating it and taming it and ending it, and know that the scene to kill Agent Smith is fast time in film. Ascension is why we are moving fast at all. Other than who we are. Let's use it.

It is about lack of knowledge and it is the lack of knowledge that makes us judge the terror and make decisions from it. Love is the new university for you, as your area of expertise, business and anything that is not the pastime of love, is mine, alongside everything to do with our heavenly romantic and relationship purpose. Our entrance into Paradise. Redemption. Our Harvest. Us. Returned at last.

It's the practise of those skills that you have implemented in the rest of your powerful life. Love has to catch up. The new non financial guru skill. The good news is you are not doing it alone. Either in the seen world or the unseen. For sure.

Karmic terror. We have waited so long and worked so long and fought so long. Now it's just karmic and aftermath of war terror. Believe in your destiny. Believe in ours. I do and intend the most effort to maintain that courage and belief now, as we enter the final scene.

Spiritual Existentialism. We are the resurrection. Unconditional Love. Courage. Power. Empathy. Friendship. Spirit. Sex. Love.

Trusting the new. Trusting me. Trusting yourself. Trusting.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

Still in thy love I trust, supreme o'er death, since deathless is thy essence. A.A. Fields

Love has no limits. Love never ends. Love is reborn and reborn and reborn. Thich Nhat Hanh

I loved her with a love more fervent than I had believed it possible to feel for any denizen of earth. Edgar Allen Poe. Morella

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

The fulcrum has yet to be found that shall enable the lever of love to move the world. Charles Sanders Peirce

To love someone is to be the only one to see a miracle invisible to others. Francois Mauriac

Sacred Xlll. Amera Ziganii Rao

And remember this. The more we want something, the more terrified we are of it. Ego tells us that that fear is real. That is the fear of the ego. Not us. The skill of intuition and alchemy is to know which fear is which. Exactly. Hence, the visceral macho intellectuality of the soul. Breathe imagination. That is the unseen world, knocking on your door. Your imagination is me. Our journey is not just about 'Love in the Time of Cholera' (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). It's about wizardry. Clearly, the greatest training in all that is alchemy. Believing what we do not see. Believing what we do see. Wizardry.

The miracle of Hierophant and indeed our communication, and indeed all that is the female psyche in women and men, is that I speak you.

I like this excerpt from a biography on the writer, Colette. I have communicated a great deal about the life of artistry and all that is not the normal world. For very obvious reasons across the board, I would have thought. Power in any world, however, is not normal. You do not anymore remember why it is you. I like this ironical piece. For us, it's real. The whole mix makes the sex. The whole mix makes the passion. The whole mix makes the respect. The whole mix makes us. I like what you do and who you are. I always have. Gordon Gekko does not frighten me. And you are not Gordon Gekko (Oliver Stone's Wall Street). And you are. I like it. Time again to say that. You remember the rest. It was and is all real. We are already a miracle and have always been.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

 "At the time they fell in love, she must have looked very much like the nymph stretched out on a velvet couch, the photograph which was reproduced on a postcard inscribed: Our Pretty Actresses: Mme Colette of the Olympia, and subtitled I am entirely yours.

As for my father - whom she called Pasha or Sidi or both - he belonged to a quite different race. An aristocrat who was somewhat infatuated by nobility, and a radical-socialist of the old school - sincerely democratic - he hardly swerved, to my knowledge, from his haughtiness, or from his bourgeois prejudices, because one can be both a bourgeois and an aristocrat...He had a lofty idea of his duties as a statesman, as an ambassador for his country in his own life as well as in an embassy, in the Senate, or elsewhere....

He was of such a different order (from Colette) that I cannot make out what pleased him, contemporary aesthetics apart, in this literary debutante....Perhaps he had repressed plebeian instincts, as my mother, a countess, used to tell him to his face, and perhaps he was eager to show them - in a spirit of compensation - after his affair with the woman who was called the Panther...She was always ready to throw her genealogy at you, and she did not forget that the Comminges had come three centuries before the Jouvenels....."

Colette. Joanna Richardson

Sacred XlV. Amera Ziganii Rao

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Enjoy the splinter. Your splinter, for symbolism sense and anchoring sense, let's just say is this. Gordon Gekko and John Lennon. You are both. You want to be both. One is allowed and one is not. You are both and want to be both. The end of ego is to tame Gordon Gekko into wanting John Lennon too. John Lennon saw redemption. Gordon Gekko did not. Yes, I know one is real and one is not. At this stage, who's counting....the prophet and the Nazgul together. Like me.

Rakes with hearts. Reformed gangsters. The Warrior Class. The Holy Warriors on earth. The Earth Angels. We are both and are allowed to be. The mastery is loving it. Being it. Living it.

Of course, David Fincher's The Fight Club. Neo, with Agent Smith. Luke Skywalker with Darth Vader. It is ourselves we fight and conquer, while valuing the enemy we conquer. We integrate the warlord within us and that, extraordinarily is when we reach certainty. Because we finally KNOW how to be power and love at the same time. That is soul. Ending that splinter. Ending the war. Winning. Being both.

Using Gordon Gekko to deliver John Lennon. I use Missy Elliott, Simone de Beauvoir and Eminem, and all the other people I cognitively profile, if you like, to deliver John Kofee in Frank Darabont's The Green Mile. That's how I work it through, even if the delivery is not pure enough. Or assertive enough. It is divine purity through the aggressor of the physical self. Merging spirit with sex. Mastering the two worlds. Certainty. Authenticity. Soul and the superego combined. The partnership that makes us able to VIBRATE IN CONSCIOUSNESS AND SAFETY AND ANCHORING with the other partner.

The banker and the wizard in one. The wizard of love. The wizard of war. The wizard. The consciousness is in emotionally discerning AS A HABIT AND CERTAINTY which one to be where and with whom. We are allowed to be both and in the both, we are the one.

The turning point in my life, came when I made the decision to deliver John Kofee and not - what's a female equivalent of Gordon Gekko....Margaret Thatcher? Let's just say. How ironic. There are no boundaries in alchemy. I made the decision to deliver John Kofee and not Margaret Thatcher. But my decision was enormous, by the very fate that John Kofee endured. That is the level of vulnerability and beauty that has the right to exist in this world and it takes all the warlords of the world in me to defend him/her.

Happiness is to take that right to deliver the sensitive boy (the profound healer wizard of humanity and humanitarianism that you are) as your human right. And self duty. To make YOU feel good. We become love to make OURSELVES feel good.

Neediness through to projection through to dependency through to bullying through to resignation through to indeed, misogyny or harridan or male supremacy or female oppression, is the lie we tell ourselves, because we do not have the COURAGE to be love. Not bloody surprising. Gordon Gekko rules every time because it is EASIER, EASIER, EASIER, AND EASIER.

The decision (via knowledge) comes when you finally just want to feel good.

ALCHEMY & LIBERATION & HUMANITY™

Wizardry. End the splinter. Be both as one.......

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

Consciousness is spiritual intelligence. Applied consciousness is spiritual power.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

Perfection ll Pt lll (Artwork)

Disney Dust

Smiles can be catching. Pooh

I'm feeling happy, which is a big deal for me. Marlin (Finding Nemo)

Marlin: I promised him I'd never let anything happen to him. | Dory: That's a funny thing to promise. Finding Nemo

If you focus, you can accomplish anything. Stacy (Phineas and Ferb)

Something feels funny, I must be thinking too hard. Pooh

I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. Mufasa (The Lion King)

The thought of doing something for someone else makes you feel so good inside. Belle (Princess Stories)

When there's a smile in your heart, there's no better time to start. Peter Pan

Even miracles take a little time. Fairy Godmother (Cinderella)

A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply earlier. Queen (Princess Diaries 2)

When the raindrops come tumbling, remember you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine. Snow White

Dream. All you have to do is think about it, work on it every day, and you'll get it. Sebastian (Little Mermaid Series)

Sacred XV. Amera Ziganii Rao

I know. Just put myself through hours of emotional training and stamina building for the new journey back into the underworld, to find your soul and release it. To blast your Agent Smith out of the water too. Scared. But this time you are holding my hand. You carry your resistance close to you still but you know. It is the knowing that is me, that is you and that is The Universe. And as I re-arrange my own heart of celestial battleships into a new gear, I think of nothing other than Moses and Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer. I have been punished for my rage too, and my hurt, so justified as it has all been. Gone. I told you long ago that this was the greatest challenge, to heal all that is nemesis. In the one person you want. That is how much I love you and how much you love me. You are back. Ivanhoe is back to get Rebecca. The King and I, King is resurrected. Anna has a second chance to help and to be love herself again on a new level. Friendship. I have demanded friendship from you. I intend to give you it ten times over. Love attracts love. Real saints are flawed. I come to terms with that as I know what I have delivered and had to heal in myself. I take care of that shock now.

The trauma of earth as female and High Priestess and artist. It’s good for philosophers so I hear.

Which means, out of all that need and pain and rage and blasting your ego into a personality you can focus on to decide if you like or not like, comes two things. First, you have to forgive The Universe.

Ain’t nothing going to happen to you in your heart until and unless you do that. I have doubted every piece of your existence and now know that you are as Wizard as me. As LOVE as me. I know now. That changes things. Empathy to the highest level it goes.

It’s called Enlightenment. It’s real, attainable and in me. Enlightenment is psychological healing of the wounded ego into the superego. Making peace with The Universe. Making peace with your past. Making peace with me. Making peace with you. Making peace. Being at peace, alive.

The Kingdom, the Queendom of Heaven is on earth. It is a place that the era of Ascension makes available to those of us with these relentless gift and the partnership. The love, romantic, sacred, sexual, primal, spiritual husband and wife ancient ancient world, partnership. Symbolically, all that is Adam and Eve.

You have been ‘the thirteenth angel’ in front of ‘God’ your whole life too. The Warrior Class is the High Priestess and High Priest and Earth High Priestess and Earth High Priest Class. We are all wizards. Those of us who serve love, are enlightened. Sacred Whore High Priestess truth aside. The Hierophant, Eve, the spiritual intellectual female is Avatar’s Moat and Neytiri. The male is the wise and testy king who listens to Moat and accepts Jake Sully into the camp to be trained as a warrior. Before enlightenment we are all Jake Sully.

Enlightenment is ascension. Ascension is enlightenment. Religion and the religious world of ‘rational’ pseudo cynics, that we all have been, teaches that any aspiration to become SPIRITUAL is a cheek. Any aspiration to become DIVINE is ridiculous. They teach that enlightenment is a myth, a genius achievement that only a few people did, and so on. That is how we all become fucked off. There is nothing to aspire to. Think about it. You are a pile of shit as a human being and God only loves you if you pray and are obedient by following these rules. Okay. That sounds like love. Yet we are all immersed in that programming. Because we are already angry at The Universe. Divinity is in every woman and man on this planet. My genius and gifts and ‘millionaire run’, are that I have found it.

You are to find it too. You, my beautiful lovely Gordon Gekko wannabee – he and Thatcher outdo us everytime – are to become enlightened by reaching enlightenment. That is not about you and me. That is about you and Her. You and The Universe. You and GOD.

What else is Divine, other than unconditional love?? Unconditional love, as a state of being, the ascended, spiritual DNA state of shift, is being of Divine energy. We all know it when we are in front of it. It is time we own what it really is. And what our only job on earth is to do. Our only DUTY. If we choose to follow duty, honour ,wisdom and if we are belligerently driven for the right to happiness.

Enlightenment. And before today, as I am the ‘streetfighter’ writer and philosopher, learning on the run, I did not actually realise that this is what happened four and a half years ago. I reached enlightenment. And that means, so will you.

You also need to know now, that you will need to reach enlightenment to be, just like I did, for one very important reason. Consciousness or becoming awake is quite scientific really. Deepak Chopra, I am sure would be able to expand on that better than me (for now) I would put it like this. The more spiritually high the vibration, the more high the love vibration, the more sensitive a person is, the more humane and over sensitive and tender and pure hearted a person is, a child is, let’s say, of course, and the more trauma there is and for a sensitive and kind and profound child, that doesn’t actually have to be that much, (but according to who?) the more intelligent and thoughtful and PHILOSOPHICAL a child is – none of us knew – the more we will go into an enormous ego of warlord proportions. Why wouldn’t we?

The ego self, the self that is made up by ourselves by our LOWER mind, our awake mind at the age of about eight or nine, is us. The same ego as I say, that drives us to have sex, attain power, protect, lead, perform, ask questions and most important of all, it the decision maker.

The ego is you. The ego is me. The ego is who we are. The soul is the unseen part of us. The part of us that houses US. We are the tiny ship of the huge mothership, our soul, down here to live the life that our soul demands of us.

Now, apparently we all choose. Crap. I do not believe that for one minute and neither do you. In reason and respectable need to remain calm, you do. We all do. I am raging about this country, because I cannot believe how many years I have pretended to myself that it was okay to live in a climate that kills me and in a place that does not turn me on. While it does, but not in this overload. We deny things so we can survive. My rage is that it is so unconscious.

In other words, we are taking you back to The Source, literally for real. I am with The Source. I still hate most of life, but not for one second in the same way since I found The Source 15 years ago, and not since I ascended. But for that, of course, and maybe I have not covered this enough yet, it was The Universe I have had to converse with and make my peace with.

In the war, I had to doubt your very humanness, such is the effect of all that is male supremacy and fascism. Our root may be all that I have researched. And it is relevant for our emotional healing. The healing of our PSYCHES.

That has all gone however. It is not the point. We are all hybrids of reptile and what was human. To what extent we are reptile is shown and proved in our ESSENTIAL  lack of humanity. NOT the humanity of the wounded ego. Gordon Gekko and Margaret Thatcher come high high high up that reptile gene pool. You and I most certainly do not. I was so shocked by the map of the male ego, as was my destiny to have to find out in every detail, that I could only see you now as the mortal husk. Obviously.

We come very high away from the reptile gene pool. The reptiles, even if that is all literally, horribly true, are only another version of The Judas Principle. The real ‘13th angels’. The real ‘Draculas’, hence the whole shifting into the blackness of non existence.

Now, we know that state. Oh yes we do and so do all The Warrior Class. We make great art out of it and we make great love out of it and we make great business out of it and we live passionate lives out of it. We know Nazgul.

That is the sexiest thing about you. It’s the sexiest thing about me. It’s the sex. Earth sex. However....if that passion is angry, it is lethal. As a female Nymph, I raised the roof with legendary ANGER. I was dripping in bitterness as far as I was concerned. You still are. Dripping. You carry soooooo much love for me, you carry so much love. But you are strangled in that bitterness my sweet. That is about you and existence. You and your life. You and all your lives. You and me.

Karmic fear of loss. Karmic rage at loss. Karmic memory of loss. Karmic memory of pain. Karmic memory of shame.

Our egos are not just psychological. And for you, the news of your necessary enlightenment is this. The science of alignment. I could not breathe as myself, in every moment of life, anywhere, doing anything in any way, anywhere – my absolute intention, as it is yours now – until I gave it up.

I could not lose fear, unless I gave it up. I could not lose fear, with you, with any one who meant anything to me, with you, with performance, with showing myself, with intimacy, with being present as my real self, at all, unless I gave it up.

What did I give up? Two things. First, as I repeat, repeatedly, need is not love. Second, we return to The Fight Club. I gave up the killer in myself. I accepted with horror and shock, that whatever had happened to me in life, whatever terrible things I had seen, whatever awful years and years and years of nothing and non meaning in life, had been in me, it was me who was sabotaging my own opportunities for any happiness now, because it was this emotional reaction of killing in me, which meant that I couldn’t even allow myself to try. My killer, that had defended me when needed, which I had found only half way through young adulthood as most of us do, when we wake up and realise there are rules going on that we need to catch up to, in other words, the finding oneself, so we can stop being bullied or controlled or coerced, that killer who I had actually been looking after as I healed her, year after year in my spiritual apprenticeship, as I have urged you do too, inbetween the shredding of it, that killer was now not welcome and all I could see in her now, was that she was killing my only chance at happiness. You. Love. Turning up as oneself, completely and utterly. Being able to drink in every second of who you really are, just by standing in front of you.

You are still in that state of terror. I see it now. The Fight Club’s narrative is harsh. You are allowed to look after the ego in healing. You are allowed to be defensive and to have killed me off several times along the way in your rage, hurt, shock and pain. And even in your autocracy. But what next is your question. And that question is to do with that killer. You have a supreme wounded warlord in you that is separate from what is actually the passion of rage and the rage of passion.

You are done with defending it. Your time is up. The next era of your life is now to sit with him and find out if you still want him, which you don’t. But the ego is us, we are the ego. We smoke. It’s that other bad friend and fiend. The wounded part of the ego. Keep the cigarettes. Ditch the killer.

And that is enlightenment. Because to do that, you have to accept what I did, I would say, for the simple reason of alignment. I have digressed. You have to ascend completely to be confident because of who you are. The more humane and semi divine you are, the more soulful you are, the more you have to eradicate the ego completely, to align with the soul. The less soulful we are, the less we have, to align to.

Soul is also individual. We, like it or not, are great souls. We are puny egos. All of us. To shift from ego to soul is to become big. To end the puny feeling of being puny. Such a great word. So English isn’t it. Puny. I felt puny for 36 straight years. You still feel puny. You are a giant who feels puny.

And all you have to realise is this. That killer makes you puny. You make you strong. You are ready to be born. You are ready to take over your real Empire. You.

Spiritual science. The more soulful we are, the more love we are, the higher our love vibration. We cannot actually be confident completely and therefore humane completely, until we become our love vibration. A high love vibration on earth is the most dangerous thing to be.

That is why enlightenment is not just some fuddy duddy whatever it is, we are taught. I was one of the worst judgers and sceptics. I thought alternative medicine was some silly waste of time. That is how far I have come. I never took anything seriously that did not have power attached to it. External world power. Totally. That’s why I have ambition and why I am back. Back in the world.

That is the drive of the superego. The same superego that makes me get this entropied body (mornings) out of bed. That is my drive and my right to have that drive. That is not ego. That is the healed ego of acceptance that the only reason why I hated ‘God’ and even GOD when I found The Universe, was my own terror at existence. We want to be rescued. We are the rescuers.

For us, we need the whole picture because we feel every single atom of psychicness and subtletly and cosmos and the unseen. We are not machines and you certainly are not in any way. What we are is lost. Fear is being lost.

You are not lost. But you are. So lost, so depressed, so bitter and so hopeless. I know. I remember myself. To be found, you have to confront GOD. You have to confront your maker and make your peace. You rage at me because you are still anger. I am not anger. I am rage. That is why I love. Get rid of the anger, reach enlightenment and kill that ego from hell and you will enter The Promised Land. You will enter me.

Nancy Friday calls it ‘the triumph of love over rage’ when describing male sexuality. I get it. Women are triumphing love over rage too, for real. Love over anger. The bitterness and hatred of anger. In a broken world. Men are focused on for physical and institutionally backed power, which is gained at the cost of everyone. I don’t think I have to describe or explain the level of my rage. Rage is allowed. Rage is necessary. Rage is everything we feel it should be. It is the anger that is the hate. And the anger only comes from one thing. Fear. Fear and shame and fear. Fear and guilt and fear. Rage if you like is purified anger. It’s still violent, but it is only potentially violent because soul runs it. In ego, we are not conscious. Hence, men beating women. Hence, women being verbally cruel and harridan. We go unconscious in ego. We are not present.

There is not one moment in the last three years of your ego cleansing and me revisiting the truth of this world, when I was not conscious. My rage has no anger. It is just rage. You are allowed rage and I am ready for it. We are allowed to be ourselves. But as the only therapist I was allowed to have, many years ago, said to me, I had to learn to be okay with people shouting. I thought that was stupid and shocking at the time. Now, I know different. The moment I started ‘shouting’ I felt better. We are suppressed and we are suppressing ourselves at the same time.

We know, in ego, what our violence is. And that is why we have self esteem issues. Not only have we been taught to hate ourselves, we do not actually like ourselves at all.

We don’t like other people who drip with bitterness do we? We hate ourselves when we are not very loveable. Ascending, entering soul, letting go of the RIGHT to need, not the need, but the RIGHT to need, naturally brings self love, because suddenly, we do like ourselves. We have become love. And not only have we become love, by giving up that belligerent RIGHT to need, and RIGHT to be loved and RIGHT to be heard, or successful or all the other demands of the ego, we don’t NEED anything anymore. We don’t even WANT it because desire has to be killed in the same way, the RIGHT to have desire fulfilled, hence men raping women, we just ‘want’ and ‘need’.

We are finally, miserably, beautifully, peacefully, proudly, gratefully and in the knowledge of being loved, something we have not been for a very long time. Fearless.

Fearless.

Consciousness is spiritual intelligence. Applied consciousness is spiritual power. Fully conscious in consciousness, is enlightenment. Consciousness is the path to enlightenment. Applied consciousness is arriving.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

Super Siren XXVl Pt ll (Artwork)

........No fear. Just keep breathing in that new air. Love, love, love and love. Letting it all go. Me too. We are in purification. You are ascending. The layers are getting bigger and better. You are truly to become a Buddha. You are to become unconditional love.

Enlightenment is real.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

.....I know. It’s crap. The realisation of not being done is crap. My pleasure, never, to deliver the bad news. Look at this way. The higher you are being asked to go, the higher your love vibration. Be proud in your frustration and keep going. You are a great soul. You are conquering Earth.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

Sacred sex is the magnetic ocean..If everyone were like us, this world would be a more peaceful place in which to live. C Yronwode

You have got to get out of the past and look to the future. Mildred (Meet the Robinsons)

Change the world don't let the world change you! Dion M Schoffner

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

But even when I am afraid, I keep on trusting you. Psalm 56:3

Sometimes a heart cannot afford to be "just friends". Real Talk

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. Never lose hope and hang on to God's hand. God's Daughters

Everything you feed, will grow. This is true for love as much as it is for hate. To come back from a state of hate, cultivate love. The Golden Mirror

Here's to the people who know the real me but still stick around. Oprah Winfrey

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always right to do right. Nelson Mandela 

Ms. Magazine. Remembering esteemed L.A. poet and feminist Wanda Coleman, who died Friday at 67

Don't run from a challenge. Instead run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. Nadia Comaneci 

thou wouldst have

wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent. Friedrich Nietzsche

When two lives touch they will never again be completely separated. Rock Christopher

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. ~ Osho

On 'Science'

Victoria Glendinning: I think science has been shown to be most ‘unhard’, as theology, in that theories are overturned, with regularity. And I think what MAY happen - we said, we don’t know what will seem ridiculous a hundred years on - that science and metaphysics may come to be much more close, may be almost the same thing when we know enough, as they were hundreds and hundreds of  years ago when we knew absolutely nothing. And then it was condemned as magical thinking.

A N Wilson: But we don’t know anything. That is the other illusion about science. Most of us can’t understand what scientists are talking about….and the idea that we’ve understood Stephen Hawking’s book or indeed anything at all is complete illusion. We take science on trust just as people used to take religion on trust. And for all we know it’s a load of baloney. I expect much of it is.

Radio 4 In Our Time

The Age of Doubt

With (Melvyn Bragg and) A N Wilson, novelist, biographer, journalist and author of God’s Funeral; Victoria Glendinning, author, journalist and biographer of Anthony Trollope and Jonathan Swift.

Bad to the bone

Psychiatrist Michael Lewis, author of the book Shame: The Exposed Self, considers shame to be so powerful because it’s about the perception of having a “defective self.. rotten and no good.”

But, he notes, “We don’t want to live in a world in which there is no shame or guilt. We want just enough to help us not do some of the awful things we could do.”

“What I don’t understand, Stevie,” [my high school teacher] said, “is why you’d write junk like this… You’re talented. Why do you want to waste your abilities?”… I was ashamed.”

S. KingStephen King goes on to admit [in his book "On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft"]: “I have spent a good many years since — too many, I think — being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused of wasting his or her God-given talent.

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”

Talent Development

Brought to you by Herman Hesse:

“Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form. He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.”

When was the last time you were okay with not knowing?

MORSEL VI.

Form a working relationship with your anger. Embrace it. Kiss it in the rain. Caress its sweet contours, then take it home and bang the hell out of it. The beautiful thing about passion is, you create with it. There is no right or wrong way to be passionate. There is merely conscious and unconscious passion.

Making sweet love to your anger is being conscious of the God inside you. Remember, there is no right or wrong—only choice and consequence. Decide the consequences that are unfavorable and don’t make choices that lead there. This is one method by which we truly come to know ourselves. Remember, you are always enough.

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2012/11/08/morsels-for-a-wicked-sexy-life/

The individual is all-important as he (she) is the carrier of life, and his (her) development and fulfilment are of paramount significance. It is vital for each living being to become its own entelechia and to grow into that which it was from the very beginning.

Carl Gustav Jung

(Entelechia - The term entelechy (pr.: entelechy) was coined by Aristotle to describe his particular philosophical conception of a reality that has registered itself the ultimate goal toward which to evolve. It is in fact composed of the words en + telos, which in greek means "inside" and "purpose" to mean a kind of "inner purpose". Wikipedia)

The Other Commandments. The Laws of Spirit. Dan Millman

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born to Live.

The Spiritual Laws.

The Laws of Spirit.

Laws that Change Lives.

"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonise with this order." Henry Miller

"You just give folks a key and they can open their own locks." Robert R McCammon.

Human laws form a basis of social agreement and social order, but human laws are only pale reflections of a higher order or laws sewn into the fabric of existence. These laws govern the movement of the earth, the cyclel of seasons, the forces of nature and the structure of the atom itself. Nature didn't make these laws; nature only reveals and demonstrates them. The great laws existed before humanity, before nature.

Even the cyclone, the tidal wave, the hurricane and the raging fire - forces that lay waste to the highest human enterprise - must work under the dominion of these great laws. Whether we call them NATURAL LAWS, SPIRITUAL LAWS or simply HIGHER LAWS, we cannot seem to alter them. They humble and inspire those who search for order within chaos, as they point to a greater power and mystery at the source of existence. To their music, even the galaxies dance.

The natural world revealed these laws to us. The cycles of the seasons, clouds riding the wind, the currents of the river and the powers of wind and sea - all teach us how to live by revealing the natural way of life. In this book, I refer to these overriding laws as SPIRITUAL LAWS or LAWS OF SPIRIT.

When adapted and applied to the human realm, these laws of Spirit become guiding principles that we can use to steer us through the shallows and reefs of life the way the stars and compass guided ancient mariners on their course. Constant as the movement of the planets, they apply not only to the mechanics of nature, but to the human psyche as well. For example, by observing a tree bending in a high wind and observing that only the rigid branches break, we learn from the tree and wind the secret of yielding and the power of flexibility, or non resistance.

Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Lao-tzu and other illuminated teachers have taught spiritual laws and principles through the use of parables and metaphors about the natural world that also apply to the human social world. For example, the Laws of Harvest teach that seeds only reproduce their own kind; that what we sow, we reap; and that a seed dies when it stops growing. Any process of growth follows the way of the seed; In order to grow, the seed needs good soil; it takes time to grow into maturity; and it bears fruit of the same kind and quality as itself. When we gather the harvest, we need to save at least ten percent for the next planting. We have to end one cycle to begin another; all seeds grow and change, and eventually die, to be ploughed under for a fresh planting.

Of course, the Laws of Harvest relate to more than farming; they illuminate our lives and the laws the govern us. As with seeds and cycles, so with human beings and all the beings of creation.

Ultimately, all spiritual laws reveal themselves as needed - not necessarily in words, but rather through our deepest feelings, through the intuitive wisdom of our hearts. Our bodies, when free of external programming and interference, abide naturally within these laws, which are communicated through our instincts and subtle intuitive feelings. All we have to do is to pay attention to and trust our inner knower.

The mind or ego, our isolated sense of separate self, resists the flow of the current of life.

When we align our lives - our habits of diet, exercise, work and sexuality - with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them without struggle, with arms open wide, like peaceful warriors embracing the moment, ready to dance.

Spiritual laws have very little to do with cultural concepts of right or wrong, good or bad; for example, if i climb a mountain but ignore the law of gravity, this doesn't make me a 'bad person'; it just makes me either stupid or ignorant - and quite possibly dead. Sooner or later, one way or the other, the challenges and consequences of daily life teach us about cause and effect, action and reaction; we come to respect the powers of nature and to appreciate the inherent justice of spiritual law.

Dan Millman

Super Sirens Pt ll (Artwork)

The Law of Discipline. Dan Millman

"Discipline is the surest means to greater freedom and independence; it provides the focus to achieve the skill level and depth of knowledge that translates into more options in life."

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly". Julie Andrews

Those of us who value freedom, self-sufficiency and independence, tend to enjoy a wide range of experiences and to touch down lightly in many fields of endeavour. We often have issues with and resistance to repetitive or routine tasks.

We may see discipline and freedom as opposites if we perceive discipline as limiting our options or forcing ourselves to do something we don't really feel like doing, such as daily exercise or skipping desserts - the sort of thing that requires will and commitment to accomplish. Freedom, on the other hand, implies a lack of boundaries or restriction, keeping our options open and remaining spontaneous.

The Law of Discipline points to a paradox. While freedom is our transcendent birthright, it must be earned in this world; discipline remains the key to freedom and independence. This principle applies to both inner freedom and outer freedom.

Although our outer life may appear to include many freedoms, we are not free inside; many of us feel enslaved to a whirling, churning, runaway mind, full of desires, worries and negative images. The focus and discipline of inner practises, such as meditation, exploring our beliefs and other insight work, can generate a sense of inner freedom and inner peace - breaking the chains of the mind.

Outer freedom expands as a result of disciplined effort over time; such freedoms may include the financial freedom associated with excellence in any field, greater mobility, the ability to travel; the freedom that comes with a strong, healthy body; the social freedom, self-respect and satisfaction that come from disciplined labour; and in general, having more options in life.

Freedom involves more than the ability to experience many things; what we gain in breadth, we may lost in depth. But if we focus our energies and persist through boredom, we don't just go INTO experience, we go THROUGH it; in the process, we learn far more about ourselves and our capacities than if we treat our lives as a sampler course.

Discipline is a habit of doing just a little more, going just a little deeper, staying with something, pushing through it. Discipline recognises that boredom means we're just starting 'to get it'.

An example from my own experience may help bring this point home: During my college years at Berkeley, I practised gymnastics nearly four hours each day, six days a week. I trained whether I happened to feel like it or not. Every school day of my college career, I knew where I would be between the hours of two o'clock and six o'clock each afternoon. I was in the gym while most other students were talking in the student union, going for walks in the Berkeley hills, visiting San Francisco, catching a move, playing pool or cards, socialising, working part-time or studying.

I had to organise my time and cut away whatever I considered nonessential. that discipline brought me many freedoms; trips across the United States, to Europe and around the world as an athlete; appointments to coach at Stanford University and later to teach at Oberlin College. NOW I can visit San Francisco, catch a movie, or socialise. THEN I applied the discipline that brought me excellence and generated a great deal more freedom down the line.

The Law of Discipline teaches us to SET PRIORITIES and focus on one thing at a time until we get it right - focusing on the activities we need to do now and setting aside what we can do later.

Commitment involves discipline over time. Sprawling between us and our goals in life, we often encounter a kind of swamp rather than a red carpet. That swamp represents the necessary preparation, whether it's schooling that feels only partly relevant to our life, the detail and sometimes drudgery to get a professional degree, or the sacrifices of time and energy we have to make, maybe while raising children, when we could just kick back and enjoy more leisure time instead. The secret to getting through the swamp is having a goal that inspires us - a goal that fills us with a sense of purpose. The goal needs to be specific. For example, just 'making good money' isn't enough; we need to visualise what that money will buy, the pleasure it will bring us and maybe how we'll be able to help out some people we care about. When we find a goal that shines brightly enough for us, it shines like a beacon that draws us through the swamp, reminding us what's waiting at the other end.

Discipline and commitment provide the bridge between here and our goals. When we feel discipline falter, we might ask ourselves, 'What do I want to look back on?' We may be able to postpone discipline in our lives, but in the end we can't avoid it. Sooner or later, if we want to get anywhere or do anything in depth, we have to practise self discipline.

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Discipline through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Discipline.

1. Imagine yourself on some fairly solid ground but in a place you don't care to stay anymore; you feel the urge to move, to go forward, to expand into greater freedom and independence. In the distance, perhaps nearby or maybe so faraway you can barely see it, shines a bright beacon, a gold light that represents a way for you to achieve a greater sense of freedom in your life.

2. Now imagine that between you and that freedom stretches a swamp. It's 'the in-between' place; it appears dark and uninviting, it may have unseen risks, and it's going to take time and energy to pas through the murky water and twisting vines. You may meet discouragement and confusion on the way. You may get sidetracked, temporarily losing sight of the goal; and you may even forget why you started and feel tempted to give up, to lower your sights or to just forget it.

3. Now consider that if you desire to reach that other shore of expanded opportunities is strong enough - if the beacon shines brightly enough for you - it will lead you forward through the swamp between here and there; THAT BRIGHT IMAGE WILL HELP TO GENERATE THE ENERGY TO DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, OVER TIME, TO MAKE YOUR GOAL A REALITY. That's the key to your journey - the key to discipline.

Applying the Law of Discipline.

1. Do you feel a desire for greater freedom and independence in your life? If you do, what specifically is it that you want? What will bring you more options, more fun and more freedom in life?

2. Recognise that dramatic or heroic gestures, such as extreme effort for a brief time, don't usually avail in terms of long-term goals. Decide whether you are willing to follow the path from here to where you want to go.

3. Write down or consider all of the positives and all of the negatives you can think of around what you want to do - whether it's breaking an old habit (the Law of Patterns), going back to school, getting a second job, completing a project, or another task that represents a bridge between you and greater freedom and independence.

4. Looking at the list you've written or considered, decide whether the effort will be worthwhile. If you're not sure, or if your goal is something you think you 'should' do, re-examine your priorities and values. If you feel excited by the possibility, if your goal stirs your imagination, then all you need to decide is when to begin.

5. if you're already in an ongoing process that requires discipline, remember what you're doing it for, whom you're doing it for and why you're doing it. Pretend you have already reached your goal. What does it feel like? What are you doing? Let your image carry you through.

Dan Millman

Beauty X Pt ll (Artwork)

Sacred XVl. Amera Ziganii Rao

I know. I am working hard, not to take it personally. We are back at 'The Good Shephard'. Ego to soul is accepting one's worst disappointment. Hence our anger at GOD and 'God' when we have it, before the extraordinary stage of enlightenment and entering soul.

You have a problem with the vastness of the tribe, their reaction to the real you and their reaction to me. Simple as. We know.

Ego to soul is the ego's worst nightmare. The worst disappointment. I have had three years to tell you what life could be like. I have painted the vision and cleared your debris of earth.

But it will always come down the same thing. How do you tell the people you love, that you are not happy and that you are someone completely different?

That is your ego challenge. It was six and a half years ago and it is now. It is never going away and no one is going to be able to do it for you and fate is certainly never going to help.

This is the only thing you will ever be asked to do in your pampered life and I do not say that with anything other than accuracy.

We are all workhorses for vicarious parents and families and the group and the country and society and the family, before we get ourselves free. You were born a slave, just like me.

I am free. You will be. This is your nemesis and it will not go away. 'What I want and what's expected of me'. Dr Faye in Madmen. We remember it well.

I feel you and I believe in you and I am your friend. But this is not going away. Misogyny so you can prove your worth to the Darth Vader tribe. Not even real misogyny anymore, as if you still truly wanted to live like a slaver and all the rest. You no longer want me to be a slave. You have achieved that greatness. But now you have to prove it. Your 'Jake Sully' approaches. Your nemesis was never me. Well, it was actually but it was your redemption too, but then, that is what nemesis really means....that's not the point:)

The point is that it will always be the good shephard horrifying the bourgeois tribe and that is the only thing you will ever be asked in life that stretches you at all.

Because of course it is not 'just'. They are frightening. He is frightening. They are. Your fear is that they will reject you. They will.

Now, what are you going to do about that absolute, utter, certainty? That, my sweet, I will leave with you tonight.

Everyone you have known, everything you have known, every ideal you have believed you wanted to live by, will have to go. My spiritual duty is to heal you and it was also to obviously de chattel my mental state from wifehood and motherhood and use this enormous mind and expansive soul of personality. So I was no longer splintered about my other spiritual duty on earth. The 'messiah' work.

Yours is to fight for me.

To fight for me, all that I am, all that you love, all that you have osmosified out of me and that I have given freely because I love you. Your job is courage as a pampered son, against a cruel and vindictive and powerful father and family. If they weren't you would be free.

I recall sharing at the time, that it took a spiritual man to search me out and tell me that I had to leave my parents who were actually trying to sabotage me at the same time as appearing to help. Exactly what Christopher Howard told you in that awesome meditation, that I did with him live, seven years ago, when my whole life changed. Inside. The shift has occurred for you too.

Do you totally support my magnificence? My personal evolution an the direction that I am heading in?

Do they support you really? You live in the mask but they love you? These are your karmic issues, right back to whence. All of it. The High Priestess, the shift in the world, the Werewolf beginnings. All of it. You are effectively aristocracy.

Look how Elizabeth Bennet defends Darcy to that dowager tribe aunt. Such a cruel and harsh value system. You support that? Of course not.

Time to enter the vortex my sweet. And do the pros and cons. Is your ascension converging with what you have to do or will it come later like Jake Sully? I don't know. I do know you are going to have to find out.

As the oracle says in The Matrix. You've already made the decision (as soul) before you are born. The journey of life to the quest of what is nothing less than enightenment, Buddha enightenment. The journey to me. To love and to redemption at last. That journey is to find out why that decision was made and how and therefore how you find the courage to align with it.

I had to give it all up. Male love, male pampering, male care, male material care, male attention, requited love, being allowed to need anything at all and to fend for myself while utilising all my energy to heal you. I had to serve and suffer and live an ascetic life in a black skied country. For years and years and years. I have been involved with men like you for 30 years. Either I am mad, or driven by destiny. You know which one and so do I. You are driven by that same destiny. And your destiny is here.

You have to ask yourself one thing. What are you worth? What are YOU worth?

They will reject you and treat you like Edward running off with Mrs Simpson. Let's not beat around the bush. A man of the tribe is Edward. I do a pretty good Mrs Simpson I think now. And as Elizabeth Bennet speaks to aristocracy with so much courage, I have no problem talking to anyone. You know two certainties. They will reject, ridicule, isolate and hate you. And I will defend you. That is why you are stuck and have been since the beginning. That is your life issue. What it was all for.

Totally. What are YOU worth? Or are you just a cog in the machine of your family? Oh. Gilded cage. Is that why men cage women, because they are actually caged themselves?

I love you. Feel your self worth. Feel your courage. You are not your family, your reputation, your group or anyone. You are you. And you love me. You've got a problem. And it isn't me.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

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Sacred XVll. Exodus l. Amera Ziganii Rao

I’m fine. I feel the age of miracles now. I feel your campaign for Amera has begun. Your arms are firmly around me. But I am in self healing and trauma today. I am now viscerally feeling the effects of 40 years of isolation, cruelty and ostracisation. The violation of all that I am and the single, unavoidable truth that I have never felt more like a piece of unwanted dirt than I do today. The recognition that women like me, men like me, live whole lives, feeling the way I feel today, in full effect. What we are suppressing and how we are incredible human beings. And how powerful the system of hate and fascism and all that is the tribe, actually is. A person like me should not have a birthday. We should have a celebration day that we have survived another year on this planet. We truly are LIGHT Warriors. Self love? Are you kidding?

Unbelievable. If we take JFK and Marilyn obviously as the two archetypes and everything I have relayed and delivered to you today, I feel the brutal effects of having been the whore all my life. How profane and awful the whole thing is. Everything that I am, is violated by the people you have served.

Anyway, that’s me and in true self parenting style – please take example – I have proved awesome Achilles warrior skills. Now, my beloved son, it’s your turn. Gilded cage to the salvation of your soul and the nobility of your spirit. Your redemption. The end of the executioner, the pampered prince of darkness.

You are a good man. A very good, very pure hearted, glorious, prophet like man. Marilyn if you like, had to become Mrs Simpson. Elizabeth Bennett is Mrs Simpson too. JFK has to become Edward. In the mythical symbolism that our Warrior Class hearts and minds demand, you have to abdicate. John Lennon is Edward. I am sure he would love that comparison, but you understand me.

Jake Sully is Edward. Mrs Simpson is Doris Lessing. Mrs Simpson is Nigella Lawson. Women who have truly entered the system and are not treated like dirt.

What an extraordinary journey. Cinderella indeed. Be my prince charming at last. Shine with that genius of heaven and earth. Shine for me.

Nothing is your fault. Everything is your responsibility.

We all need to be cleared of guilt, because whatever our past, we are too ethical and humane to clear the guilt. It's been cleared for you now. You have been given permission from on high through so many vehicles of delivery now. Just as I had to be. The other thing is this. We leave, first when we can finally see the nightmare of oppression and the sophistication of the propaganda machine of loyalty to evil. Second, when we KNOW we have paid our dues. When we owe nothing more. Then we are free.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

The Law of Balance. Dan Millman  

"Balance applies to us on cosmic, biological and personal levels - to our body, mind and emotions - reminding us that anything we do, we can overdo or under do, and that if our internal pendulum swings to one side, it will inevitably swing to the other."

"When you make the two one, and when you make the outside like the inside, and above like below; when you make the male and female as one, then you will enter the kingdom of God". Gospel of Thomas.

If gravity is the glue that holds the universe together, balance is the key that unlocks its secrets. All things exist in a state of balance: high and low, in and out, hot and cold, fast and slow, loud and soft, the interplay of opposites. Between the polarities rests a balance point, a centre.

Quite unconsciously, while we eat, sleep, work and move about our daily affairs, our subconscious works through our autonomic nervous system, our endocrine and hormonal systems and our circulatory system to maintain a delicate balance of temperature and blood chemistry, which, if drastically altered, ends our life. Not only does our survival depend upon balance, so does the quality of our life and the state of our psyche.

The Earth itself, functioning like a single, living organism on whose surface we humans are but cells and the oceans and winds the circulatory system, also exists in a state of balance - one we are all too close to throwing out of equilibrium. In a sense, the global ecological drama we currently face reflects what goes on in our individual life as we mature and learn about our own unique states of balance.

Although our subconscious is largely responsible for internal physiological balance, our conscious self bears responsibility for our lifestyle and actions. Thus, the Law of Balance is intimately connected to the Law of Choices and the Law of Responsibility which addresses the balance between over co-operation and under co-operation and demonstrates how achieving balance in even one area of our life can make a significant difference in our effectiveness.

Within our psyches live archetypes and values of the puritan and the hedonist, the believer and the sceptic, the social butterfly and the lone wolf, the superior and the inferior, and other dualities that account for contradiction and turmoil within our minds. To achieve balance - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - has been a goal of many global traditions of human potential work.

Sages from every culture, from Chinese Taoists to Essene rabbis, from Christians to Muslims, have advocated the middle way, the golden mean, the strait-and-narrow path. Even in the world of nature, most humans thrive by avoiding the extremes of desert heat and Arctic cold, finding our lives more comfortable in the temperate zones.

Literature, especially children’s stories, reveals themes of finding balance; in Western culture, the story of GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS expresses this archetype as Goldilocks chooses the chair that's neither too large nor too small, the porridge that's neither too hot nor too cold, and the bed that's neither too hard nor too soft, but 'just right'.

Balance, however, does not always depend on avoiding the extremes; balance also embraces the ability to explore the extremes at times, paying equal attention to both sides to keep the pendulum in balance.

For example, sometimes we may want to play the hedonist, staying up late and celebrating, indulging our senses; other times, we may express a more puritan or Spartan disposition, eating well and exercising. Sometimes we 'overwork'; other times we 'over-rest'. Over time, we remain in balance as long a we work BOTH sides equally and return to centre.

However, extremes create stress and eventually require a swing in the opposite direction. A measure of our awareness and wisdom is whether our lives and actions centre around the middle way. An automobile driven moderately each day, lasts longer than a car left idle for weeks and then raced for weeks; just so, balance is key to a long and healthy life.

What constitutes balance differs somewhat for each of us, due to our different temperaments, dispositions and constitutions. Some people, for example, tolerate and thrive on more exercise than othes; even our own needs change over time. Each of us needs to find our own middle ground, defined by our unique physical and psychological qualities and needs, not by someone else's values. How much to exercise? How many orgasms to have per week or per month or per year? How much to eat? All of these questions may have statistical averages, but the only true answer can be, "Whatever works best for you."

The specific life issues each of us needs to balance, depend in large part upon our birth number, our overall life path and our primary life purpose:

Many of us find our balance point by testing our limits and exploring the extremes on either side, then learning from the consequences. Although this isn't the easiest path, it may be the most common one. All the good advice in the world hasn't changed this pendulum method. The advice and experience of others may not apply to us. Sometimes we need to find out for ourselves; experience may not always provide the easiest way to learn, but it seems to be one of the surest.

The Law of Balance reminds us to look carefully at the areas that may be out of balance in our own life.

Whether we are male or female, do we balance the masculine and feminine sides of ourselves? Do we balance work and family, as well as taking care of ourselves and taking care of others?

Considering our life in light of this law helps us see ourselves with better perspective, make appropriate adjustments and find a deeper sense of health, harmony and inner peace.

Giving and Receiving.

"Although we often give goods, favours, appreciation or attention in order to receive something in return, the universe reminds us that whatever we feel we most need, is what we most need to give."

One special application of the Law of Balance applies to those of us who feel so emotionally needy that we want to receive nurturance without necessarily having to give any back. All of us have emotional needs and consciously or unconsciously look for ways to get more love, appreciation and understanding.

But actions based on the desire to receive without giving - using indirect means we learned in childhood to get what we want - don't work over time.

This corollary to the Law of Balance states that WE RECEIVE THAT WHICH WE GIVE. Most of us are familiar with this theme, but how many of us practise it? We may give, but whether we are fully aware of it or not, we usually attach strings or expectations. We spend money, we act kindly, we pay compliments, all so something will come back to us.

There is certainly nothing 'wrong' with this, except that events don't always unfold the way we had hoped; conditional giving has a hook-like energy that curtails higher energy or repels the desired results.

The secret of giving and receiving is that whatever we feel we need is really a message from our deeper self telling us WHAT WE MOST NEED TO GIVE.

Balance, the heart of ancient Taoist wisdom, is so critical to our lives that it forms a template for much
of what we call 'spiritual development' or 'personal growth'. Applying this law is not easy, but the efforts are always worthwhile and can help us master ourselves and our life.

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Balance through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Balance.

In your own life, how do you explore both sides to find the middle? Try this simple exercise;

1. Set a wastepaper basket in the centre of the room. Sit or stand about five feet away with some balls made of crumpled paper or other small objects to toss into the basket. Keep careful track of where each object lands as you aim for the basket.

For every toss that goes too long, deliberately make the next one too short.

For every toss that goes too far left, make the next one too far right.

2. Notice how this process helps you to find centre.

Applying the Law of Balance.

1. Consider how you can apply the Law of Balance through working both sides. Ask the following questions

Do I talk very rapidly or loudly?

Experiment by talking very slowly or quietly.

Do I eat too quickly?

Experiment by eating 'too slowly'.

Do I often feel muscular tension?

Experiment by becoming 'too relaxed'.

2. Ask someone who knows you well the following questions;

Do I work too much or too little?

Do I act too rigid or too sensitive?
Do I act too dependent or too independent?
Do I act overconfident or under-confident?
Do I act uptight or self-indulgent?
Do I seem more inclined to give or to receive?

3. If you think that person's view has some merit, pointing to an area of imbalance, how might you bring that area back into balance? How might you 'work the other side?'

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

.....and remember only one thing. You have the same LIGHT. To have maintained any humanity in that situation, to even vibrate still with light, to work so hard on being the light, FROM that pampered place, IS as incredible as me surviving life. Be the light. Be you.

And I will work hard to remember only that. We are spirit. Now, we are becoming human. Merging the two worlds. The Return to The Source. Redemption. Delivering not just my soul to the world. But, absolutely, yours too.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

….that’s okay. I am with you. How do you think I could do this without you holding me? I’m cool. I have my Gandalf cloak on again and am remembering that even Frodo faces and fails with temptation. We all have. I’ve come back though so have the duty to push Borimor to do the same. Those references from Lord of the Rings of course.

I am going into the zone now, to see what spoils of healing I come back with. You know that Hierophant and all profound creativity comes from The Source, with the motivation and questions coming from the said Hierophant or artist. Then we have to catch up to it too, like everyone else and not, if you see what I mean.

As I look at the JFK piece, the visuals, I see this. Why is there such a large and lovely photo of the imposing Rose Kennedy and none of Joseph Kennedy alone? Why is Bobby not there more and why is Jacqui in such an unusual pose on the beach? Interesting what I was moved to use. Why is the mother so prominent? And why does Eros have to go to Aphrodite first and why does she hate Psyche for her soul glory? Break it down. Imagine. Feel the past. Feel the soul of the world. Feel the adventure. Rise up against the machines. You, my sweet, are more of a bimbo than I have ever been in the tribe. Break that gilded cage.

I am feeling the adventure now. I have to and so do you. I feel it all and the most profound of profound love from you, despite feeling like a two bit whore, slung on the street after 30 years in a dungeon. I am the divine energy and so are you. So are we all.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

….by the way, I abdicated too, in the slave daughter princess, two bit whore in a pretty dress, version. You have to abdicate from the tribe. You do return. You return as YOU want. You most certainly return. I have enjoyed my stay in the profane tribe for the past 15 years. Stammering and stumbling my way to myself. But most certainly, AS MYSELF.

That is all you have to do. Ascension, confidence, Buddha state of spiritual and mental and emotional bliss as a state of being will follow, is appearing, is happening. Abdicate and see what happens. You might find out something amazing about everyone else. They will be stunned but fascinated and relieved. They finally get to see YOU.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

….I’ll tell you what else, my warrior beauty, I am now shaking into the bliss that this is finally here. The threshold. Be terrified, be totally lost in it, know that this is the moment you have waited for your whole life. What it was all for. Abdication. You’ve been an adventurer and supreme hunter your whole life. You have also apologised for being that your whole life. The apology is about to end. You are to be born, as you, instead of the version they sincerely beat you into.

This is no longer about them. No father kings, no mother queens, no judgements, no bourgeois heart in sight. This is about you. The birth of the freed son of Rome. Solomon. The wisdom of kings who find their own way. Not the way of others. The kings who become true individuals.

This is about Mark Anthony finally knowing he has to find another way. Rome no longer serves him. He is The Sacred Pimp again. He honours the Goddess. And lives by that honour. He has stopped dishonouring others, because he finally honours himself. Luke Skywalker against Darth Vader. The moment we all work for.

Leadership. Self leadership. Leadership. The authentic self.

You do it those you dislike, you do it to those you like. You do it to the ‘guilty’. You do it to the ‘innocent’. But you do it. And you take the responsibility for what it means. Losing their ‘love’ so you can find out one day if they CAN love and you then know what to do with that relationship and if they can follow your lead you have something. If they wil not, you don’t and if they cannot, you don’t. But you decide. It is YOUR life.

And you finally, once and for all, reject the ‘God’ that tells you that ‘duty’ is love. Duty is a highly subjective word. You decide what real duty is and you make the rules. Creators make the rules. Alchemists are creators. Create. You are ready. And to create it one thing. Destroy first and then create. Go through the chaos of transformation first and then create beauty. Lead.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

The Law of Responsibility. Dan Millman

"Once we establish the limits and boundaries of our responsibility, we can take full charge of that which is our duty and let go of that which is not; in doing so, we find more enjoyment supporting others, as we create more harmonious co-operative relationships."

"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe". Larry Eisenberg.

"United we stand, divided we fall. Many hands make light work. No one is smarter than all of us." the principle has been stated many ways, but each statement expresses the same sentiment: Working together, we can accomplish tasks that would be difficult or impossible without co-operative effort - for example building a skyscraper or staging a play.

In every endeavour in which people work together at different levels of responsibility, some people may have more visibility, but they are supported by other people without whom their efforts would be unproductive. What would the rock star do without the sound technicians? Could the corporate president or head of the board run a company without efficient secretaries? When achievers rise in politics or industry, they are supported by others who form the foundation of their enterprise.

Families, corporations or empires rise or fall, based upon the quality and level of co-operation and responsiblity within their boundaries. At the individual level, our own effective functioning as human beings depends in large part on our INTERNAL STATES of co-operation.

Before we can help others, we have to help ourselves - to put our internal house in order - and reconcile our conflicting sub-personalities; those identities, beliefs, values and ideas that seem to oppose one another or sit on different sides of the fence. We may even need to facilitate active co-operation between the right and left hemispheres of our brain. Before we can find harmony, we have to notice what is out of harmony - the either/or, yes/no, I should/shouldn't dichotomies that result in confusion since every decision involves pros and cons.

A variety of approaches exist to harmonising our 'parts', such as sub-personality work, Voice Dialogue, Neuro-linguisitic Programming, alchemical hypnotherapy and other educational methods that help integrate both hemispheres of the brain.

In our relationships with ourselves, with other people, and with our own circumstances, we need to discover our point of balance, define and delineate the limits and boundaries of our appropriate level of responsibility, and recognise that our values, needs and priorities may rightfully be very different from our parents', siblings, spouses or other peoples'.

Those of us who feel a strong drive to support, serve and assist others, can, in our need to give, sometimes over co-operate to an extent that debilitates both us and those we serve. In extreme cases, this tendency to over-help degenerates into CO-DEPENDENCY, where we lose ourselves in obsessive focus on others people’s lives, pouring out without receiving in return. Co-dependents assume responsibility for other people’s lives far beyond the normal duties of parents or friends or employees.

They base their value, self-worth and even their identities on their ability to help other people, always (rather than sometimes) focusing on others needs before their own, a form of playing doormat or even slave.

The over co-operation that lies at the core of co-dependency involves a distorted or exaggerated sense of responsibility, leading us to try to 'fix' others mistakes rather than allowing them to learn from the consequences of their own behaviours.

If we over co-operate with other people, they will rarely complain about it. We rarely hear others say "You're just too easygoing!" However, we will soon discover that when the pendulum of our psyche swings too much into over co-operation, eventually it swings back the other way, into under co-operation. This shift may take a few days, weeks, months or even years, but sooner or later, it happens.

In the case of under co-operation, we either go into complete resistance or resentment or we continue 'doing things' for other people while withdrawing emotionally. Unless corrected, this can lead the death of a relationship.

Happily, relationships suffering from traumatic or chronic co-operation issues can be saved, or, in some cases, resurrected. The 'miracle' involves finding a new balance between giving and receiving - establishing a mutually supportive relationship. Open communication can lead to a more equal sharing of responsibility, lifting the psychological burden from the shoulders of those with co-dependent tendencies. The major responsibility for establishing a new balance, however, rests with those who have such tendencies.

Responsibility in itself seems a desirable attribute, but those of us who feel overly responsible - who feel compelled to over-help - need to shift our attitude and actions and find our balance point in order to achieve a state of true co-operation and balanced responsibility.

The most powerful form of co-operation and support may sometimes mean encouraging and empowering other people to do things for themselves. The best assistance often includes making the right demands.

The Law of Responsibility serves as an essential reminder of the value and ultimate necessity of finding, respecting and working within our own comfort zone. While we're all here to stretch our comfort zone, we're not here to ignore it. This law reminds us to respect our internal values and to find our own point of balance.

Let's take the example of Rosalyn and Tanya, each mother of two young children. Both Rosalyn and Tanya were formerly advertising executives who commuted daily to work in San Francisco. Rosalyn decided to stay home with her children, putting her downtown career on hold; Tanya on the other hand, continued working downtown and found a good nanny to take care of her children while she was at work. Rosalyn and Tanya made different choices. The issue here is that neither woman chose what she most deeply wanted to do; instead, each chose what she felt she was 'supposed to do'.

Rosalyn felt frustrated at home, but she believed that she had to remain with her children all day to be a 'good mother'. Tanya hated leaving her children every day, but she wanted to be a 'modern woman' with 'equal opportunities', not 'tied to the home' the way she felt her own mother had been.

Both women were, in a sense, over co-operating with someone else's values and ideas of what they 'should' be or do rather than listening to their own needs. Happily, each has now found a balance that works well for her. Tanya has found a way to work at home so that she can see her children more, and Rosalyn is back in the office, working part time and loving it, and she better appreciates the time she has with her children because her other needs are being met.

In applying the Law of Responsibility, we support each others, but we also accept support; we find a balance between the two. We find the difference between what we think we 'should' do or be and what our heart really desires.

We do what we can feel good about inside; if we don't feel good inside, we state our feelings and reach a compromise; 'I'll do this much, but you'll have to do the rest'. That's the heart of responsibility and the soul of co-operation.

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Responsibility through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Responsibility.

Before finding a balanced sense of responsibility to self and others and achieving true co-operation in the world, we need to experience it within ourselves. This visualisation exercise works with the subconscious to harmonize conflicting parts. With a little practise, it takes only a minute or two. It also provides valuable practise in conflict resolution and can serve as template for working out balanced, mutually beneficial agreements with others.

1. Imagine a safe and special place anywhere in the world or the universe. It could be a granite plateau high in the mountains, a hidden glen, or a quiet meadow - your own private inner space.

2. Create the image of a table with two chairs, one on each side.

3. Invite two opposing parts of yourself to reveal themselves, one at a time and to sit down, facing each other, across the table. You might invite one part that represents your mind and one part that represents your body, a part you like and a part you dislike, a part from the past and a part from the future, or a judging part and a forgiving part. Whenever you have mixed feelings or feel torn in two directions, you can access two parts to represent these feelings.

4. Ask each part what positive outcome or intention is has for you. Even if one part seems negative, trust that every aspect of your subconscious exists for a reason and is doing its best to serve the whole.

5. As each part appears in your mind's eye, note what it looks like, how it moves and sits down and how it behaves. When both are seated, note how they relate to each other.

6. Internally ask both parts to express themselves until they find a place of co-operation, rapport and communication, so that in the future they can work together.

7. When you feel complete, thank them, say farewell and leave them to enjoy their meeting.

Application of the Law of Responsibility.

1. Either write or recite to yourself a short list of things you would be willing to do if someone asked you and a short list of things you would not be willing to do. Where do you draw the line and why?

2. Write or recite to yourself a list of things that you feel comfortable doing and things that you don't feel comfortable doing for others at home or work.

How many of these tasks do you continue to do and why?

Do you do things for people, such as your children, spouse or relatives and then complain?

Do you feel responsible for other adults' mistakes or lives?

3. Consider briefly the areas of your life where you might be feeling overly responsible and where you tend to over-help or else withdraw in resentment. If you feel exploited or unappreciated - like a martyr or a doormat - what might you do in your life to find a better balance?

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

Goddess XXl (Artwork)

The Law of Honesty. Dan Millman

"Recognising, accepting and expressing our authentic interior reality, lies at the heart of honesty; only when we are honest with ourselves can we speak or act honestly with anyone else. In the sense of integrity, honesty entails acting in line with higher laws despite negative impulses to the contrary."

"Live according to your highest light and more light will be given." Peace Pilgrim.

Within the context of our life purpose, as we explore the bigger picture and meaning of our lives, the Law of Honesty POINTS TO HIGHER LAWS AND INNER CONSEQUENCES THAT ARE INSTANT, INEVITABLE AND INESCAPABLE. It includes, but does not focus on external codes of behaviour.

The Law of Honesty centres around honesty with ourselves - our internal integrity. This law is useful for any of us, but especially so for those of us who tend to deceive themselves with rationalizations - those of us who have issues around honest expression or action. Seeing the truth and inevitable consequences of this law can help us turn our life around.

This law speaks to a larger drama being played out - one in which we cannot truly deceive anyone but ourselves. if we ever allow impulses of envy, greed or manipulation to determine our actions or influence our expression, the consequences of these actions are already built into the mechanics of the universe and of our own psyche.

Those of us working with issues of integrity on our life path may tend, at times, to ignore or bend higher laws in the sense of not living up to our inner light. AT times we can be like the child who furtively takes a candy bar and pockets it, thinking and hoping it will turn out okay, while the child's mother watches from the end of the aisle.

We don't need to be punished for breaking spiritual law or higher laws; THE ACT ITSELF IS THE 'PUNISHMENT' and sets into motion subtle forces whose natural consequences we cannot escape any more than we can escape the force of gravity.

Those of us who slip into lower levels of integrity often don't realise we're doing it. We must lie to ourselves before we can lie to others. When we speak with 'forked tongues' or 'mixed motives', we are not yet integrated. We have to achieve such integration in order to speak with integrity; we can't have a part of us meaning one thing and another part meaning another. The first step in honesty entails reconciling our own conflicting parts so we can say what we mean and mean what we say.

When our internal parts work together; when we stop lying to ourselves or deceiving others; when we know deep down that we're acting with integrity DESPITE impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

When we speak or act dishonestly, these gates shut; this is not a punishment, but simply the way our psyche works. They saying 'Cheaters never prosper' ALWAYS APPLIES IN THE LONG RUN, because cheaters' own psyches will not let them have inner peace no matter how rewarding their external circumstances may appear to be. Self-sabotage, down the line, is built into every dishonest act - even if we only deceive ourselves.

Some of us imagine that we are getting away with little schemes, manoeuvres and frauds for years while justifying and rationalising our actions and then we wonder why our lives aren't working out the way we had hoped. We may imagine that we are getting away with something because we don't get caught, but we are caught every time, by ourselves. As the John Lennon song goes, 'Instant karma's gonna get you.'

To use a extreme example, when we read the newspapers and see millionaire drug pushers living a life of opulence, we may imagine that they are escaping punishment, but we have only to glance inside their psyches to see the internal consequences and causes of their behaviour. 'Bad' people don't go to hell; they are already IN hell; that's why they act so badly.

When we are dishonest in any way, with ourselves or with others, intentionally or not, our internal parts fight one another and our inner sense of spirit or inspiration fades; we feel cut off and alone and we attract whatever lessons we need to learn. Concepts of morality may change, but consequences are absolute.

Dishonesty tends to take on different forms, such as lying to ourselves and others or seeking money or power for their own sakes, at the inevitable cost of our self-respect. Some of us are used to making rules rather than following them; we forget or ignore our culture's standards of honesty and integrity, bending rules to suit our own desires, turning our backs on the light within us. Whenever we cut corners for expediency, or whenever the ends seem to justify the means, we may not always reap obvious external consequences, but we create inner turbulence that we cannot escape no matter where we go.

Others of us who tend toward tunnel vision may put on blinders of self-deception by insisting that 'it will work out this time' without our doing anything different. This kind of dishonesty also forfeits a sense of energy and spirit.

For some of us with expression issues who tend to hint, connive, sigh, whine or wait for others to read our mind, the Law of Honesty points out that such indirect, misleading, manipulative or deceitful communication results WHEN WE LET FEAR STOP US FROM EXPRESSING OUR TRUE FEELINGS AND NEEDS.

Whether our actions are deliberate or simply chronic habits, if we manipulate people with an angry face, a sad look, or a sigh, expecting others to 'know how we feel' without actually stating it directly; if we tell people what we think they want to hear, even with the 'best' intentions, or if we use words strategically, hooking into guilt or pushing vulnerable spots to control others or get what we want, we may get what we want for the time being, but forfeit the inner light that we most need in the long run.

"One should strive not to lie in the negative sense by remaining silent." Leo Tolstoy.

Once we find the courage and wisdom simply to state our feelings and say what we want or need, this honesty can bring new life to stale or painful relationships.

Acting with the highest integrity and expressing our authentic needs and feelings can change our personal and professional relationships for the better. Such integrity, honesty and truthfulness - or the lack of it - form the trail we leave behind us, our personal mark in history. Applying this law, our life changes in simple but profound ways we might not have believed possible, and the very goals we once schemed to achieve begin to manifest in ways we would not have dreamed of.

Experiencing Honesty

1. Recall a time you showed high integrity in any area of life;

Admitting a mistake.

Paying a debt.

Expressing what you really felt or needed.

Making good on a promise.

2. How did it feel?

3. Also recall a time you or others felt you acted or spoke dishonestly. How do you feel about this? How might you now act differently in a similar situation?

Applying the Law of Honesty

1. Can you remember one or two instances in the past when you spoke or acted with less than complete honesty?

Did you have a dispute over money or fail to make good on a debt?
Did you hide information to protect yourself in the guise of sparing someone else's feelings?
Did you say something you didn't really mean?

2. Consider how it would feel to make a call, write a letter, send a cheque, ask forgiveness, and clean up old business. Follow through if this feels appropriate.

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

.....don't worry. The conversion of ego into the higher self, or soul, is like anything else. Uniform. You wake up, feel more terror than you have ever felt, remember why last night felt good and then begin the ascent to courage and peace, all over again. Gruelling training and as you train, you convert it even more and so on.

Fear is good. Fear means it's working.

And I am holding your hand. And you are holding mine. United we stand and divided we fall. Well, didn't we learn that, but that was the end of the war. The vortex, the last stand by your mortal husk. He is in gentle angry compliance now. He knows his time is up and he feels like a betrayed parent. That is the fear, knocking savagely on your door to keep you with him.

But he needs your leadership. Being cruel to be kind, really is about ascension and not only taming the ego into submission forever, so you are the master, but actually arranging for the formal execution of the most fierce of all your warlords. The killer. The malicious killer is what we are talking about. The mortal husk is malice. Born out of necessity, born out of the human condition called humanity. Born out of the woundings and the hurts and the lifetimes on this planet.

I see religion and that they even took away the privilege of reincarnation. Very clever people. Not that clever though. Troublemakers like me are born every generation. The anomaly cherished as I can now see, by all. By you. That, in itself is my new redemption. I serve with pleasure.

Take the fear and soothe it. And then start the lessons again. It is a bittersweet time of grief and bliss for you. Part of you is going and it's been with you for a long time. It is the emotional cancer in us if you like. The part that has to be literally ejected out, so you can live. Be happy. You are almost free.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

......sure, sweetheart, that's the inner workings. Courage is the issue. To do what you want, whatever stage of ascension you are on or not. I check in on the channel I am given. The rest I can see, could be going rather well. Is going really well. I'm glad and I'm ready.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

Ahhhh, I see. Here it is again.....

....The Law of Faith is founded upon the recognition that we know more than we have read, heard or studied; we know more because we are more; we have a direct link to universal wisdom; we only have to look, listen and trust.

Dan Millman

Only by having faith in ourselves can we be faithful to others. Erich Fromm..........

The Law of Honesty. Dan Millman

"Recognising, accepting and expressing our authentic interior reality, lies at the heart of honesty; only when we are honest with ourselves can we speak or act honestly with anyone else. In the sense of integrity, honesty entails acting in line with higher laws despite negative impulses to the contrary."

"Live according to your highest light and more light will be given." Peace Pilgrim.

Within the context of our life purpose, as we explore the bigger picture and meaning of our lives, the Law of Honesty POINTS TO HIGHER LAWS AND INNER CONSEQUENCES THAT ARE INSTANT, INEVITABLE AND INESCAPABLE. It includes, but does not focus on external codes of behaviour………..

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live 

The Law of Action. Dan Millman

"No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts, such as commitment, courage and love, one day discover that we only KNOW when we act; doing becomes understanding."

"Vision isn't enough unless combined with venture. It's not enough to stare up the steps unless we also step up the stairs." Vance Havner.

Action is not easy in this world; forces of doubt and inertia are everywhere, even within our own mind and body. Still, we must act. Words may be cheap, concepts and philosophies may be elegant, ideas may abound and good intentions may sound impressive. Turning all the words, concepts and ideas into action requires energy; it requires sacrifice. We have to overcome insecurity and hurdle past self-doubt, lethargy, apathy, excuses and a hundred good reasons not to rock the boat, to stay the course. But we keep getting the same message from life; IT'S BETTER TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO THAN NOT DO IT AND HAVE A GOOD REASON. This states, as well as anything, the Law of Action.

Thousands of motivational speakers thunder out passionate and eloquent ideas like this just to inspire us to to get off the couch and make a new life, to put out some effort, some will, some discipline. Still, most of us take action only when the emotional, mental or physical pain gets so bad that we have to.

Let's change this. Let's acknowledge that action and change require initial discomfort, effort and energy. Let's even say we're really ready to take some needed action in our life. But how? It boils down to one of the most powerful three-word phrases in the English language. Just do it.

Most of us wait for permission from our insides to do anything. We wait to 'feel motivated'. We wait until fear is looking the other way, until self-doubt and insecurity step aside and give us permission to act. But action is stronger than subjectivity; there are times when we have to act with strength and courage no matter how we're feeling or what we're thinking.

The peaceful warriors of this world don't wait for permission. They know and sense what action to take, and they choose the way of courage and integrity. If their hearts confirm it, they act, DESPITE feelings of fear, self-doubt or insecurity that may arise. They act and let their subjective life - their thoughts and feelings - run to catch up. "Wait, you can't do this! You're not up to it!" our mind whispers, echoing voices from the past. "You'll make a fool of yourself! You'll only get hurt! You'll fail!" All of these voices may pass through our mind, but we act anyway. soon, these voices or feelings, once so loud and compelling, stop coming around so often.

Once when I was six years old, I found myself standing on a second-story rooftop of a house under construction. Twenty feet below me was a big sand pile. My older friends had already jumped, but I was only six and I was afraid. They tried to coax me, tease me, encourage me and reassure me for about 45 minutes, when one of the boys finally yelled "'stop thinking! Just stop thinking and jump!" It struck me in that moment that no matter how frightened I felt, I knew how to bend my knees, I knew how to lean forward and I knew how to push off. So I stopped thinking, leaned forward and was suddenly airborne - a WONDERFUL feeling - and a valuable lesson I never forgot.

I once coached a gymnast I'll call Jill. She had worked hard on a new dismount from the uneven bars. She had done it many times in the spotting belt, then with an assist from me. Now, the time had come for her to do it alone. She was well prepared and ready; she knew it and I knew it. She got up on the bar and was about to perform the dismount when she stopped. "I can't do it, Coach, I'm afraid".

"Oh, I see," I responded. "Yes, I think I'd be feeling a lot of fear too; after all, it's the first time you're doing it by yourself. Where do you feel the fear?"
 "Well, in my stomach and in my muscles; they feel kind of weak".
 "So you feel afraid."
 "Yes."
 "Now that we've cleared that up, let's see you do it."

At first she looked confused. "But Coach, I told you, I can't - I'm afraid!"

 "Whatever gave you the idea that fear was some kind of reason not to do something?"
 "Well, I - "
 "The only time you have a chance to show courage is when you're afraid Jill." Then I added "It's fine to feel afraid; it can be a healthy sign that you're not ready for something. But in this case, you are. Fear is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. Feel it as much as you want, Jill, experience it completely. Then do the dismount.".

Jill hesitated for a moment, then with a look of determination mixed with just a bit of terror, she swung around the bar, let go and did a beautiful dismount. She had understood and applied her Law of Action.

Every day we all get opportunities to face fear or inertia and act anyway - not by leaping off rooftops into sandpiles or doing gymnastic stunts, but in even more important ways, such as taking the risk to express how we feel, to conquer old habits, or in other ways to experience the power and magic of the

Law of Action.

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Action through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Action.

1. Imagine yourself standing in your home or office, about ten feet inside the doorway. The door stands open, it's a beautiful day out and YOU WANT TO GO OUTSIDE because 'outside' represents reaching your highest hopes and most cherished goals - living the life you were born to live.

2. Now, recall the last time you felt fear or self-doubt or insecurity. Feel the fear, and then translate that feeling into an image, as if the feeling jumped outside you and turned into a being - small or large, male or female, human or not. When the image forms, let's call it Mr or Ms Fear (or Self-Doubt or Insecurity).

3. Let yourself create a mental videotape of the following scene; Feel yourself walking toward the

open doorway, out into the sunlight, out into your future. You come closer to the doorway, but just as you're about to walk through, Mr/Ms Fear appears in front of you and cautions "Wait, you can't do this! It's too much for you!"

4. Let Mr/Ms Fear stop you, just the way you've let yourself be stopped or slowed down or confused so many times in your life. Fully experience this.

5. You have now created your video; now REPLAY this scene - going to the doorway and getting stopped by Mr/Ms Fear. Replay it at regular speed or fast forward, again and again, exactly the same way. Each time, experience what it feels like to let Mr/Ms Fear stop you. Do not change the scenario; just repeat it and feel it UNTIL YOU GET ANGRY - not afraid or sad, but ANGRY. This may take a while. When you feel REALLY ANGRY, you're ready for the final step.

6. Play the scene once more THIS TIME, when Mr/Ms Fear steps in front of you and says, "Wait, you can't....." or threatens you or pleads with you, or reasons with you, just walk out the door as if he/she wasn't even there.

7. Remember how much you want to go outside and continue on your way, on your life path. Despite all the reasons you "can't" or "shouldn't" or "aren't capable enough", follow through; focus on the goal. Walk out the door.

8. Notice how different this feels. Experience the principle and power of pure action.

Applying the Law of Action.

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

1. Recall what you feel like when fear comes in just as you're about to express how you feel or take a risk, such as going back to school, taking on a new level of responsibility, or making a commitment.

2. Recall how you've allowed fear or self-doubt or insecurity to stop you in the past.

3. Consider that if life puts a hurdle in your path, you had better become a hurdler.

4. To deal with fear, act as if you felt courageous; to deal with self-doubt, act as if you felt fully capable of any such task; to deal with insecurity, act as if you felt centred and confident. Whatever else you do, act! Just do it. Just act, and let the feelings of fear, self-doubt and insecurity fade in the dust trail you leave behind.

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

He was still typecasting women, restricting himself to small, young, dark-skinned girls who, collectively, represented “the opposite” of Dodie, and his sex life was ‘astonishing,’ said Everett Greenbaum. It could be a ballet dancer, a model, an aspiring actress; a girl as young as fifteen, or even, occasionally, an older, wealthy socialite. But they are all shared the same passive, superficial type of personality.

“They were usually plastic,” Philip Rhodes explained. “Of course, Marlon could perceive very quickly whether they had any dominance in them, and if they did, you wouldn’t see that girl in his company anymore. All he had to do was get a message that they might make some claim or try to control him and that was the end of it.”

Brando. The Biography. Peter Manso

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.  ~  Johann von Goethe

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho 

Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith. Walt Whitman

It's not a weakness to admit when you're wrong. Steve Keating

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.  ~ Andy Warhol

Everything is going to be alright, maybe not today, but eventually. Navee

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results." Unknown 

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." ~ Maya Angelou

Every smile that you show leaves a magic filling in the air. Cinderella (Enchanted Tales)

Time to become great again. T.E.Lawrence to King Faisal. David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia 

Love is the mind's strong physic and the pill that leaves the heart sick and overturns the will. Thomas Middleton

"One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ""Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent."" Acts 18:9 Powerful Quotes

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy and most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver W. Holmes

Then, after all, it is no more difficult than that; it is only necessary to love and to be loved. Emile Zola. The Dream

For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love. William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing

Gentle alliances against loneliness are cool rational love-affairs without the love. Richard Bach

Love is the mind's strong physic and the pill that leaves the heart sick and overturns the will. Thomas Middleton

"One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ""Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent."" -Acts 18:9 Powerful Quotes

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy and most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver W. Holmes

Then, after all, it is no more difficult than that; it is only necessary to love and to be loved. Emile Zola. The Dream

For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love. William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing

Gentle alliances against loneliness are cool rational love-affairs without the love. Richard Bach

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The Law of Higher Will

"From the viewpoint of our separate self and smaller will, it's normal to act on the basis of our own desires and preferences; when we surrender our smaller self and will to the guidance of a higher will and dedicate our actions for the highest good of ALL concerned, we feel an inspired glow at the centre of our life."

"Life is this simple; We are living in a transparent world, and God shines through in every moment. This is not just a fable or a nice story; it is living truth. If we remember God, abandon ourselves to God, and forget ourselves, we may see this truth; God manifests everywhere, in everything. We cannot be without God. It's impossible. it's simply impossible." Thomas Merton

The Law of Higher Will especially serves those of us who have mistaken our opinions or beliefs for ultimate truth and who have imposed these beliefs on others, forgetting that others have their own paths to follow - not ours. This same law also benefits those of us who tend to sabotage ourselves, who secretly doubt our own goodness or intentions and who need a way to connect our life to a sense of deeper meaning. The Law of Higher Will also generates a sense of connection for those of us who feel cut off and alone and find ourselves struggling against other egos for recognition or for 'the good life'.

Saying and feeling "Thy Will be done" is one way of applying the Law of Higher Will. Applying this law does not, however, require belief in an external God, nor is it attached to any particular religious dogma. To apply it in our own life, we have only to ask internally, "If a wise, loving, compassionate, altruistic, all-knowing Spirit within me were guiding me now, what would I do in this situation?"

The law functions because such a Spirit does work through us; we only have to contact it by calling upon a part of ourselves and then we know what to do - then we act in the name of, or as a servant of, the highest and best that's within us.

When we say to ourselves, "Thy Will be done" and wait for guidance and direction, we won't get much help from the mind, because the mind plays games, such as, "If I'm part of Spirit and Spirit is part of me, then whatever I want IS the will of Spirit". This statement has some ultimate validity, but our ego, with its free will, tends to place itself on a throne and do what it wants without considering the good of the whole, like a cancer cell that reproduces without regard for the whole body. Much of the world's suffering results from a lot of separate little selves, unconcerned with the whole. The ego, or separate self, can turn toward or away from higher principles to learn whatever lessons it needs.

Calling on a higher will involves contacting motives that go beyond personal preferences and self-interest and acting for the highest good of all concerned - for example, hoping for rain in our drought-stricken area even though our own roof is leaking.

Most of us normally cherish hopes in line with our personal desires, wanting what's good for our smaller self. So we ask, "What are MY preferences, MY desires, MY direction in life?" Or, we expand our personal identity to embrace our family, our team or our community - itself an expansive act of connection, but one that still creates an inner circle of "us" and outer circle of "them".

When we work with the will of the small self, we're limited; we may get results, but if we fall, we fall alone. When we work in line with our sense of "the higher will of Spirit", greater inspiration and energy become available to us. A woman named Mildred once came to an important turning point while walking in the woods at night.

"I felt a complete willingness" she said, "without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I began to give what I could, instead of to get what I could....my life became more meaningful. I attained the great blessing of good health; I haven't had a cold or headache since." She went on to say,

"If your life is in harmony with your part in the life pattern and if you are obedient to the laws which govern the universe, then you life is full". Mildred changed her name to Peace Pilgrim and went on to walk across every one of the United States and across every province in Canada; expressing her ideas of world peace, peace between individuals and inner peace. She lived as an inspiring example of integrity and the Law of Higher Will.

When we turn to a higher will for direction, we feel expanded, uplifted and connected to a larger cause; our lives take on a deeper and higher meaning. When we align ourselves with this inner sense of higher will, dedicating everything we say or do for the highest good of all concerned, energies of compassion, love and light flow into our daily life.

The Law of Higher Will serves as a guideline to align ourselves with Spirit, to inspire ourselves and to help us inspire others.

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Higher Will through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Higher Will

1. Recall a time you wanted something, but another part of you, maybe a higher part, knew that what you wanted wasn't for your highest good.

2. if you "did it anyway" you have had a common experience of "my will". If you followed the higher or deeper instinct, you have experienced a connection to higher will.

3. if you followed a personal interest, what might it have felt like if you had said internally, wtih you mind connected to your heart, "Thy Will, not my will, be done?" Might things have turned out differently?

4. Knowing what you know, if you meet a similar situation, what will you do differently?

 Applying the Law of Higher Will.

1. Select an issue you are dealing with in your daily life, such as deciding between several options or making another kind of decision.

2. Ask yourself, "What does my mind want me to do?" Then ask, "What would my higher self, the part of me that is wise, loving and compassionate, direct me to do?"

3. Holding your decision or the issue in your heart or feeling centre, say internally, "Thy will, not my will, be done". Listen. Feel. Then obey the deepest urges of your heart, following your deepest feelings.

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

......You just don't trust me. Focus on that. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

......Such is the conundrum. You don't trust until you love. You don't love until you trust. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

Women Who Run With The Wolves. Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

Chapter 4

The Mate: Union With The Other

Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee 

If women want men to know them, really know them, they have to teach them some of the deep knowing. Some women say they are tired, already have done too much in this area. I humbly suggest they have been trying to teach a man who does not care to learn. Most men want to know, want to learn. When men show that willingness, then is the time to reveal things; not just because, but because another soul has asked. You will see. So, here are some of the things which will make it easier for a man to understand, for him to meet a woman halfway; here is a language, our language. 

There is no doubt that the Wild Man seeks his own down-under-the-earth bride. In tales among the Celts, there are the famous pairs of Wild Gods who love one another so. They often live under a lake where they are the protectors of the underlife and the underworld. From Babylonian mythos, the cedar-thighed Inanna calls to her lover, The Bull Plow, “Come cover me with your wildness.” And even in modern times, even now in the upper Midwest, the Mother and Father of God are still said to roll about in their spring bed, making thunder. 

Similarly, there is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal. Yet, over and over perhaps since the beginning of infinity, those who would be her mate are not quite sure they comprehend her true nature. What does a woman truly desire? This is an ancient question, a soulful riddle about the wildish and mysterious nature which all women possess. While the hag in “The Wife of Bath” croaked out that the answer to this question was that women wished to have sovereignty over their own lives, and this is indeed an irrevocable fact, there is yet another and equally powerful truth which answers this question as well. 

Here is a story that replies to the age-old question about women’s true nature. Those who endeavour in the ways and means shown in the story shall be lover and mate to the wildish woman forever. Miss V.B. Washington gave me this version of the African-American story called Manawee. 

Manawee

There was a man who came to court two sisters who were twins. But their father said, “You may not have then in marriage until or unless you can guess their names.”  Manawee guessed and guessed, but he could not guess the names of the sisters. The young women’s father shook his head and sent Manawee away time after time. 

One day Manawee took his little dog with him on a guessing visit, and the dog saw that one sister was prettier than the other and the other sister was sweeter than the other. Though neither sister possessed all virtues, the little dog liked them very much, for they gave him treats and smiled into his eyes. 

Manawee failed to guess the names of the young women again that day and trudged home. But the little dog ran back to the hut of the young women. There he poked his ear under one of the side walls and heard the women giggling about how handsome and manly Manawee was. The sisters, as they spoke, called each other by name and the little dog heard, and ran as fast as he could back to his master to tell him. 

But on the way, a lion had left a big bone with meat on it near the path, and the tiny dog smelled it immediately, and without another thought he veered off into the brush dragging the bone. There, he happily licked and snapped at the bone till all the flavour was gone. Oh! The tiny dog suddenly remembered the forgotten task, but unfortunately, he had also forgotten the names of the young women as well. 

So back he ran to the twin sisters’ hut a second time, and this time it was night, and the young women were oiling each other’s arms and legs and readying themselves as though for a celebration. Again the little dog heard them call each other by name. He hopped up in the air in a fit of delight, and was racing back down the path to the hut of Manawee when from the brush came the smell of fresh nutmeg. 

Now there was nothing the little dog loved more than nutmeg. So he took a quick turn off the path and sped to where a lovely kumquat pie sat cooling on a log. Well, soon the pie was all gone, and the little dog had lovely nutmeg breath. As he trotted home with a very full belly, he tried to think of the young women’s names, but again, he had forgotten them. 

So finally the little dog raced back to the sisters’ hut again, and this time the sisters were readying themselves to be wed. “Oh no!” thought the little dog, “there is hardly time left.” And when the sisters called each other by name, the little dog put the names into his mind and sped away, absolutely and resolutely determined that nothing would stop him from delivering the precious two names to Manawee right away. 

The little dog spied some fresh kill on the trail, but ignored it and vaulted over it. The little dog, for a moment, thought he smelled a curl of nutmeg on the air, but he ignored it and instead ran and ran toward home and his master. But the little dog did not plan for a black stranger to leap out of the bush and grab him by the neck and shake him so hard his tail almost fell off. 

For that is what happened, and all the while the stranger shouted, “Tell me those names! What are the names of the young women so I may win them.” 

The little dog thought he himself would faint from the tight fist about his neck, but he fought bravely. He growled, he scratched, he kicked, and finally bit the giant stranger between the fingers, and the little dog’s teeth stung like wasps. The stranger bellowed like a water buffalo, but the little dog would not let go. The stranger ran off into the bush with the little dog dangling from his hand. 

“Let go, let go, let go of me, little dog, and I will let go of you,” pleaded the black stranger. And the little dog snarled between its teeth, “Do not come back or you won’t see morning ever again.” And so the stranger escaped into the bush, moaning as he ran. And the little dog proceeded to half hobble and half run down the path to Manawee. 

Even though his pelt was bloody and his jaws ached, the names of the young women were clear in his mind, and he limped up to the Manawee beaming. Manawee washed the little dog’s wounds, and the little dog told him the whole story and the two names of the young women as well. Manawee raced back to the village of the young women with the little dog on his shoulders riding high, the dog’s ears flying like two horse tails. 

When Manawee reached the father with the names of his daughters, the twin sisters received Manawee completely dressed to journey with him; they had been waiting for him to come along. That is how Manawee won two of the most beautiful maidens of the riverland. And all four, the sisters, Manawee, and the little dog, lived in peace together for a long time to come. 

Krik Krak Krout, now this story’s out. 

Krik Krak Krun, now this story’s done. 

The Dual Nature of Women

With folk stories, as with dreams, we can understand their contents subjectively, all the symbols portraying aspects of a single person’s psyche,m but we can also understand tales objectively, as they relate to conditions and relations in the outer world. Here let us talk about the Manawee tale more in terms of relationship between a woman and her mate, keeping in mind that many times “as it is without, it is also within.” 

This story unravels an old, old secret about women, and it is this: to win the wildish woman’s heart, a mate would understand her natural duality through and through. Although we could understand the two women in the tale ethnologically as brides-to-be in a polygamous culture, from an archetypal perspective, this story speaks about the mystery of two powerful feminine forces within a single woman. 

The Manawee story contains all the essential facts for being close to the wildish woman. Manawee, through his faithful dog, guesses the two names, the two natures of the feminine. He cannot win unless he solves the mystery. And he must use his own instinctual self-the dog-self-to accomplish it. 

Anyone close to a wildish woman is in fact in the presence of two women; an outer being and an interior CRIATURA, one who lives in the topside world, one who lives in the world not so easily seeable. The often pragmatic, acculturated, and very human. The CRIATURA, however, often travels to the surface from far away, often appearing and then as quickly disappearing, yet always leaving behind a feeling: something surprising, original, and knowing. 

Understanding this dual nature in women sometimes causes men, and even women themselves, to close their eyes and hail heaven for help. The paradox of women’s twin nature is that when one side is more cool in feeling tone, the other side is more hot. When one side is more lingering and rich relationshally, the other may be somewhat glacial. Often one side is more happy and elastic, while the other has a longing for “I know not what”. One may be sunny, while the other is bittersweet and wistful. These “two-women-who-are-one” are separate but conjoined elements which combine in thousands of ways. 

Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Women Who Run With The Wolves 

Marnie 

(As you recall, it is me who is Mark Rutland. This, my sweet is what it feels like courting you. What it must feel like for all women like me to court a man, and for all men like me to court a woman. Feel your wounds. Heal. AZR) 

Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.

Evan Hunter produced initial drafts of the screenplay, but was replaced by Jay Presson Allen after creative differences. The original film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann.

Margaret "Marnie" Edgar (Tippi Hedren) is a troubled young woman who has an unnatural fear and mistrust of men, thunderstorms, and the color red. She is also a thief.

She uses her charms on Sidney Strutt (Martin Gabel) to get a clerical job without references. Then late one night, she steals the contents of the company safe and returns to her apartment and completely changes her appearance and identity, including a new, fraudulent Social Security number. She puts the money in a suitcase and stores the suitcase in a locker at the train station. As she departs, she throws the key into a sewer. She returns home to a suspicious mother (Louise Latham) who questions why Marnie is still alone yet has so much money. Marnie openly confronts her mother why she does not love her.

Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), a widower who owns a large publishing company, is a customer of Marnie's victim, Strutt. Rutland learns about the theft from Strutt, and remembers the woman. Unaware of this, Marnie applies for a job at Mark's company; he hires her as a typist in the main office, and they begin to date. One day at the horse races, she is recognized by someone in her past -- presumably a man she swindled -- but Rutland defends her. Eventually, Marnie gains access to the company safe by stealing a key to the combination, and steals the money. However, Rutland tracks her down at a horse ranch, and confronts her. Marnie gives up the location of the money, but continues to lie to Rutland about her background. He calls out her lies, but she makes up a different story. Finally, he tells her he hired her knowing full well she had stolen money from Strutt, and Marnie is shocked. Rutland has fallen in love with her, and instead of handing her over to the police, he blackmails her into marrying him.

They leave on a honeymoon cruise. He finds out about her frigidity. At first, he respects her wishes, but later rapes her. The next morning, she attempts suicide by drowning in the ship's swimming pool, but Mark rescues her in time.

Upon their return, Mark tries to discover the reason behind Marnie's behavior. However, Rutland's former sister-in-law, Lil (Diane Baker) becomes suspicious of Marnie after hearing a conversation about "paying off Strutt." Lil invites Strutt to a fancy party at Rutland's house, and Strutt instantly recognizes Marnie. Rutland lies about how long he has known Marnie, and covers for her. He also offers to pay off all the other victims she stole from across America so that no one talks about Marnie's past or goes to the police -- by now, Marnie is using her real name as Marnie Rutland, so it would be easy to track her down. Marnie then opens Rutland's personal safe, but when she goes to grab the money, she is unable to move. Rutland shows up and dares Marnie to take the money, but she cannot.

In the end, they visit Marnie's mother in Baltimore, Maryland and Rutland confronts her about her past as a prostitute. When Marnie was six years old, one of Bernice's clients (a sailor played by Bruce Dern) had tried drunkenly to calm the child when she was frightened by a thunderstorm, petting her and kissing her. It seemed to Bernice that the sailor was molesting Marnie, so she attacked him. During the struggle the sailor fell on Bernice and broke her leg. Seeing her mother struggling and in great pain, the child struck the sailor with a fireplace poker, killing him. The bloodshed led to her distrust of men and fear of the color red. Once the origin of her fears is revealed to her, she seems to decide that she wants to try to make her marriage work.

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The Law of Intuition. Dan Millman 

"We can only get in touch with our own source of intuition and wisdom when we no longer depend upon others' opinions for our sense of identity or worth; we all tend to worship something; the question is, will we worship the god of opinion, or the god of our heart?" 

"I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God." Soren Kierkegaard. 

We are all here to live in alignment with spiritual laws, but the Law of Intuition is especially critical for those of us with issues of integrity and wisdom as a strong influence in our birth number. Those of us working 9 energy are here to connect with higher laws, which are accessed through the heart or feeling dimension. Therefore, although the Law of Intuition benefits anyone, it is critical for 9s, because it enables them to open the primary doorway to their life purpose.

The Law of Intuition can provide needed leverage for those of us who come into this world without a strong sense of identity, centre or inner direction. It also addresses the needs and issues of those of us working 6, who tend to feel very sensitive to criticism and who worry about whether we're doing the right thing, which often gets defined by someone else. In both cases, it's easy to lose touch with our own sense of intuition, the "god of our heart", because we are so busy monitoring other people’s opinions. 

 Lacking clear identity, we don't have clear answers to internal questions - such as "How do I look?", "Who am I?", "How am I doing?" "How do I appear in your eyes?" "Am I okay?" - so we tend to define ourselves in terms of others' attitudes and views; we need approval or support from others for a sense of identity. We define and value ourselves based on what others seem to feel about us, we remain at their mercy, open to manipulation by anyone who happens to have a strong opinion about how we should act or even who we should be.

There's nothing wrong with getting other reference points as a check and balance, or with asking for someone's opinion; different points of view give us greater perspective, but we can't run our life by committee. The people of this world face food shortages, water shortages, and even shortages of intelligence, but there is an absolute surplus of opinions. People are entitled to their opinions, but what do these opinions have to do with us? What others think of us is really none of our business. 

 Those of us with an unsure sense of identity innately need something to which we can anchor our identity the way a ship needs an anchor in harbour. Therefore, we tend to find a hobby, a teacher, a system, a method, or a set of beliefs and identity with our opinions with religious zeal or quiet fanaticism. We feel we ARE our opinions, and so we defend them, impose them upon others, feel sensitive about them, and seek others approval of them and mistake our own opinion for truth.

Sensitive to others' opinions, we monitor them closely and give opinions the power to validate or threaten our own sense of self. We mould ourselves to others' expectations, or we react to our extreme vulnerability by resisting all opinions of others and instead, elevating our own opinions as "truth". In short, we put our own and others' opinions on a pedestal; we worship 'the god of opinion'. 

 Not all of us call this little god by the same name. For some us with authority issues, it's the god of authority; for others, it's the god of comparison; for still others, it becomes the god of money. Whatever we put upon that pedestal tends to overshadow the wisdom of our own heart. 

 We tend to become or take on the qualities of what we worship, so those of us who lack our own centre or sense of intuition can come to act like a little god of opinion or god of authority or god of comparison. We may even tend, without realising it, to dominate others, not respecting the sanctity of their own process.

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a Judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods". Albert Einstein. 

 Some people who engage in inner work or spiritual practises strive to access 'inner guides' or 'master teachers within' who may offer wisdom, direction or answers. Other people claim to act as mediums through whom other beings speak - beings they believe are separate consciousness. But perennial wisdom from the global spiritual traditions reminds us that at the level of Consciousness itself, we are one and the same, like many drops that return to the ocean, so how can there truly be separate consciousness? The 'separate' guides or inner master are other parts of our larger self - parts of us that reflect our own innate wisdom. While they can be fascinating, subtle guides should be given no more power or credibility than people whom we respect, and all 'outside' opinion needs to be checked out against our inner-most feelings - our own heart wisdom.

More likely, people who have 'inner guides' whom they perceive as separate are accessing what Carl Jung termed the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS, where in or out of trance, they open to different archetypes or sub-personalities stories within our larger human psyche. Whatever the mechanism, the wisdom is ours. We cannot access this guidance, however, through the logic of our left brain, which stores information and data, not higher wisdom. We access intuition by allowing our heartfelt feelings to link up with and unlock higher mechanisms within our holistic, intuitive right brain. When we make this connection, the combination of feeling and intuition accesses whatever wisdom we need. 

The key to the process of gaining access to all spiritual laws resides in making an inspired, EMOTIONAL connection to our heart. But as already noted, we can't get in touch with our heart while we're monitoring others' opinions.

In summary, the Law of Intuition reminds us to recognise when we're monitoring the god of opinion and to begin to transfer authority to the god of our heart and our quiet inner voice, the only 'opinion' that ultimately has value for us. Once we contact our feeling centre, we can then listen to others' counsel or opinions without losing sight of our own intuition, the place from which we determine what is best for our own life and let others do the same. Then we are free to make use of others' views without becoming dependent upon them; if an opinion doesn't serve us, we can easily let it go. We don't resist or ignore or seek others' opinions; we listen to and acknowledge them, take what is useful and submit all views to the wisdom of our own heart. 

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of Intuition through direct experience and application.

Experiencing Intuition. 

1. Visualize yourself walking along a path through a forest, striding forward with purpose and direction, appreciating the beauty around you, but headed for a specific destination. Feel your sense of purpose and direction. 

2. To your right and left, you see people calling to you, criticising and correcting you; "That's the wrong way"" "You're going too fast!" "You're not going fast enough!" "You look funny!" "You'll never be able to do it!" Feel yourself completely free of all these opinions. Continue on, you destination clear. 

3. You come to a fork in the road. Several people from your present life, people you often rely on, share their opinions with you. You nod in acknowledgement, then wait for a deep inner sense; you look at one path, then at the other, as people yell out their opinions. "Go left!" "No, that's crazy; take the right path!" You receive an internal confirmation, subtle but genuine, to take one path or the other. You take that path, your life path and walk on, guided by the god of your heart.

Applying the Law of Intuition. 

Shedding the light of awareness on subconscious tendencies to worship the god of opinion, this exercise provides a path back to centre - toward a strong sense of self-direction under the guidance of your own inner wisdom. While some of us tend to live under the tyranny of the god of opinion, others of us worship the god of comparison or authority or money. This exercise works effectively for any of these. 

1. In your bedroom or living room, place a cinder block or cardboard box against a wall, cover it with some nice cloth and add some incense, flowers or a candle; in other words, make yourself a small altar. 

2. Out of Silly Putty or clay, model yourself a little statue of the god of opinion (or comparison or authority or money). Or, if you prefer, buy a doll or character that feels appropriate to you. 

3. Place your god of opinion (or authority or comparison or money) on your altar. You can even give it a name. (I like the name WUDDLE, which stands for "Wuddle they say? Wuddle they think?)

4. Every morning, just after you get up and before you start your day, get down on your hands and knees in front of your altar; bow down and touch your head to the floor, and say something like, "I worship you, great god of opinion. How am I doing? Am I okay? Am I doing the right thing? How do I look?" Or. "Get lost!" Use whatever words feel appropriate to you. Then go about your day. 

 5. This exercise only takes five or ten seconds, and you only need to do it for three or four weeks, until you become fully aware of this issue as it arises in your life. it happens like this; When others have an opinion about you or you imagine they have an opinion, you can say to yourself, "Gosh, this person looks and sounds like the god of opinion, but it can't be; I left the god of opinion back home on my cinder block. And besides, I ALREADY WORSHIPPED IT this morning. I got that over with. Do I want to worship it AGAIN?"

The next time others have opinions about who you are, how you are, or what you're doing, you can thank them for sharing, acknowledge their opinion, and let them know, "Here's who I am, here's what I need, here's what I'm doing". Taking the god of opinion off the pedestal opens the way to find your own centre once again and trust the god of your heart.

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live 

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The Law of Faith. Dan Millman 

"The Law of Faith is founded upon the recognition that we know more than we have read, heard or studied. We know more because we ARE more. We have a direct link to universal wisdom. We only have to look, listen and trust." 

"Only by having faith in ourselves, can we be faithful to others." Erich Fromm. 

Some of us believe we trust ourselves, but on closer examination, we discover that we actually trust mental knowledge, theories and beliefs that came from someone else - a book, teacher, a guide. Those of us who have issues with self-trust tend to rely on scientists, "experts", psychics, oracles, gurus or others to advise us and to validate our views; we may search everywhere but within to find ourselves. Just as some people give away their power, we may discard our inner wisdom and then look for it elsewhere, becoming 'seekers of truth', spiritual vagabonds or seminar addicts, travelling from one teacher or workshop to the next, looking for new information that may satisfy or fulfil us. But we will never find fulfilment until we discover it within ourselves - not as a large storehouse of information, but as a direct channel to the infinite wisdom available to us all. 

Expert guidance certainly has its value, especially from the truly wise. No need, for example, to learn tennis by ourselves when a good coach can save time. But we need to develop more trust in our own deepest intuition and wisdom as the final arbiter and source of our decisions. 

The Law of Faith reminds us to trust the Spirit within ourselves, to take a leap of faith into the possibility that we may know far more than we now recognise. This law entails far more than raising our self-concept, however. Trust cuts across every domain until we see Spirit operating at every level, not only within ourselves but within others and in the world. 

Trusting Spirit does not require a belief in an external God. Rather, it involves trusting in the inherent wisdom and laws of the universe and in the mysterious process of our life with all its ups and downs - knowing that wherever we step, the path appears beneath our feet. 

The Law of Faith, directly aligned with the Law of Flexibility and the Law of Higher Will reminds us that we are part of the Mystery we call God, and that awesome, powerful, wise, immortal Spirit also resides within each of us. 

When we say "I trust myself completely", we are most often referring to our conscious self - our mind or ego. This kind of self-trust won't take us far, because the ego can only access limited data. When we come to consider the possibility that a mysterious energy of infinite wisdom, patience and compassion is operating in, as and through us and everyone else, we open doors to a new experience of life. When we REALIZE this level of trust, our life changes forever. 

I use the term Spirit to refer to this higher energy, but whatever name we use, when we TRULY come to trust this higher energy or Spirit working behind the scenes according to its own laws, then we can also trust that part of Spirit we call 'ourselves' and 'others'. 

We can always feel this connection and this trust in our heart. But first we have to get out of our head. 

This means coming to trust our body's instinctive wisdom about how to move, what to eat, when to have sex and how to heal ourselves - letting the body do the job it is here to do, without the mind's interference with theories and philosophies. For self-trust to reach its most profound degree, it must occur on all levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. 

A corollary to the Law of Faith can be stated thus; SELF-TRUST COMES THROUGH DIRECT EXPERIENCE, which reminds us to pay attention first to our own experience, not to advice from a book or teacher. Improvisational dancing, martial arts and other sports and playing a musical instrument, are all good ways to develop a trust in our body's innate ability to move WITHOUT THINKING, following its own wisdom. We come to trust that our body can take of itself very well without philosophies; we discover what our body knows and can do what's needed as soon as we listen and let it show us. 

Challenge courses, such as the Peaceful Warrior Intensive or the 'high ropes course' can demonstrate in dramatic ways that by trusting our body we can do more than we might have believed, leading to higher levels of self-trust. But even in everyday life we meet challenges that test us, and we face similar kinds of opportunities to test and develop our connection to deeper levels of trust. 

The Law of Faith also teaches us to trust our mind, not in the sense of its ability to store information, but in its ability to access higher wisdom. We come to recognise that our brain doesn't just operate as a filing cabinet or computer but also as a radio that can tune in to any station. In other words, information doesn't come FROM our brain, it comes THROUGH our brain. 

Trusting ourselves means sweeping our beliefs out of the way and trusting our deepest intuitions. Our feeling sense conveys messages from the subconscious, which can help us make faster, more comprehensive decisions than the conscious mind, with its insufficient data. Beyond that, what we call intuition can draw upon the same universal intelligence that manifests as spiritual laws. 

Those of us who trust Spirit, work with it directly; the more we trust ourselves, the more we feel a higher order of wisdom and love at work in every aspect of our lives. Self-trust involves a willingness to make 'mistakes' and learn from them, for our highest good. 

We're all being tested by Spirit in order to learn. In every situation, every challenge or difficulty, the universal teacher operates through our life experience to let us see our present levels of trust, faith and alignment with spiritual law. 

Alan Watts once said, "Beware of teachers who pick your pocket and then sell you your own wallet." Ironically, that's all any teacher can do, even the best-intentioned one, because the treasure is already inside each of us; no one can give us anything we don't already have. All any teacher can do is provide some keys to help unlock our own door. Teachers may save us some time, but they can only point the way; the beginning and end of the journey is inside us. 

Those of us with issues around self-trust need to remember that, ultimately, we are the experts on our own life. By trusting the Spirit within us, we come to trust the same Spirit in others and begin to feel safe in the world. 

Ultimately, the Law of Faith reminds us of the transcendent wisdom of the universe reflected in the old religious adage "God works in mysterious ways". Such faith is not just believing or hoping that all circumstances serve us or that divine justice is operating when we skin our knee. Faith is a direct recognition based on higher wisdom; it entails the courage to trust that whatever happens can serve our highest good. 

Experiencing Faith. 

1. Can you recall a specific time, either recently or when you were very young, when you felt very safe, trusting and open inside, so safe that you could share your feelings without fear or shame or betrayal? (If you can't access such a time directly, imagine strongly what it might feel like). 

Can you picture or hear what was going on in your life at that time? 

What did that sense of trust and openness feel like in your body? 

2. Notice how this feeling of trust and openness may be different from how you normally feel around people. 

What would it be like to feel emotionally safe with other people? 

In what specific ways might you rejuvenate the feeling of loving faith in yourself and others? 

Applying the Law of Faith. 

1. Having accessed the memory of a feeling sense of trust and openness in the preceding exercise, contrast that feeling sense to a recent or more distant incident in which you felt less than complete trust, perhaps even betrayal. 

2. How might you have unintentionally contributed to the way that incident played out - that misunderstanding or failed trust - by not sharing your feelings clearly in the first place? 

3. With the above in mind, trusting that all parties were acting out a scenario that has served your highest good and learning, replay the incident, applying your current understanding. Observe any differences. 

4. Stretch yourself a little more each day, opening up, taking a chance, sharing what's really in your heart, creating a deeper sense of trust and connection with others, a bridge from your spirit to theirs. 

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Sacred XVlll. (Exodus ll). Amera Ziganii Rao 

I can see now, how my people contributed somehow to the turn of the world, let’s say, when High Priestesses became wife slaves or whore slaves. We are celestial slaves. My fate on earth has only been two things so far. To be a human chattel, or a celestial chattel. My fate is still to serve men. Because I can. I serve Werewolves. As a celestial slave. That is the truth of The Sacred Whore High Priestess Hierophant Avatar Valkyrie™. That’s why wife slavery is so attractive. It’s the same thing with no mind. No wonder I love life so much. I am in automatic pilot now. I serve you. Wake me up if anything happens. But that’s me. Celestial slaves are not meant to complain anymore than domestic chattel. Heal. One day, heal and let me know if you still want to. You know where I am. The spiritual pamphleteer, to serve you, for Her. Michael Corleone’s personal spiritual slave. Wake me up if anything changes. Seriously. I am not even in any rage anymore. I do it because I can. I do it because I have to. I do it because I am to serve you. As I have served my whole life. I am not raging, because no one could have tried harder to have a life than me. I am at peace. Heal. I have no choice but to believe it is your destiny. It is. Wake me up when it’s done. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013

....because you are a victim of abuse yourself. Look to that and don't let go until you see it. Then do something about it and reclaim the real world order. You. Then you are free. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

The Law of Flexibility 

"Flexibility avails us fare more than either passivity or resistance. By actively USING whatever arises, embracing even the most painful circumstances, we deal with our difficulties more effectively, as we begin to see them as a form of spiritual training." 

"Always fall in with what you've asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way." Robert Frost. 

Flexibility involves a pragmatic acceptance of, rather than rigid resistance toward the present moment - acceptance of ourselves, others, and current circumstances. This does not in any way imply passive toleration for what we don't like, nor does it mean ignoring injustice or allowing ourselves to be victimized. 

Flexibility requires an alert and expansive state of awareness; it entails not just 'going with the flow', but embracing and making constructive use of it. Mastering this law, we turn stumbling blocks into stepping-stones and problems into opportunities; when high winds blow, we don't just 'accept' or tolerate these winds, we put up windmills.

The Law of Flexibility may appear unrealistic and idealistic at first, bringing up a variety of questions, such as "What if we're attacked on the street, or a tragedy happens to a loved one? How do we 'embrace' that?" Such questions are fair and important, but the answer comes down to this; Great pleasures and great pain and injustice exist in this world. When something painful happens to a group of people, some of these people mentally resist the experience, in total shock, denial and fear. They suffer the worst, like the tree with rigid branches that break in the wind. 

Others in the group of people have developed the ability to bend, to accept and experience the situation fully, while keeping in touch with the bigger picture of life - with a sense of perspective about HOW THINGS ARE. They accept their emotions and express them fully, but like the branch that bends, they do not break but snap back. Without mental rigidity or resistance, they can respond in the most effective, creative way. In flexibility lies great strength. With flexibility, we learn to treat sun and rain, heat and cold, as equals. We experience life as less painful, less of a struggle by responding rather than resisting; we treat pain as a test and make the best use of it if we can, if only to learn.

I once saw a humorous bumper sticker that exemplified the Law of Flexibility. it read "If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!" If someone is driving right towards us on the sidewalk of life, instead of thinking "They shouldn't be doing this, it isn't fair, it isn't right" while the car careens towards us, we can apply the Law of Flexibility and simply jump out of the way, grateful for the chance to test our reflexes. 

The martial arts of aikido and T'ai chi, which reflect and embody the Law of Flexibility, are founded upon non-resistance. WHEN PUSHED, PULL, WHEN PULLED, PUSH, AND WHEN A FORCE COMES TOWARDS YOU, GET OUT OF THE WAY. Everything serves our highest good if we make good use of it. 

When we view life only from the personal viewpoint of our conventional minds, we certainly won't always feel 'grateful' for some events, such as financial setbacks or catching the flue. This law, however, reminds us to expand our vision beyond ourselves to see the bigger picture so we can better appreciate that every circumstance, whether it appears positive or negative to us at the time, serves as an opportunity to strengthen our spirit. Stress happens whenever the mind resists what arises in life - whether situations, people or emotions. Phrases like "I'd rather be" or "They should (or shouldn't) be" reflect our resistance to what is. By seeing everything we meet as a potential lesson that may, in the long run, make us stronger, wiser or more whole, we get past expectations or judgments ABOUT what is and embrace life. 

Life may not always be fair from the viewpoint of the limited mind, but from a much larger perspective, spiritual laws still hold true. Flexibility involves developing the attitude "Okay, here's where I am and who I am. I'll do the best I can with the situation." Just as opportunities also contain problems, every problem brings an opportunity. 

The Serenity Prayer used by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programmes reflects the Law of Flexibility; "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." 

Flexibility enables us to enjoy situations that might once have troubled us, such as changes in fortunes or the ending of relationships. Sometimes flexibility means staying aware of both sides of issues or events, but focusing on the more positive side of any difficulty. For example, as painful as the breakup of a relationship may be, it opens up the space for new opportunity, new love. 

Cats are masters of the Law of Flexibility; When a cat wants to walk out the door, but someone is blocking its way, it tries to go one way, then another and then another; it is persistent, but it also knows when to sit back, relax and wait for another opportunity. Like cats, we don't have to waste energy resisting or fretting over circumstances we can't avoid. 

Flexibility means total and unconditional acceptance of who we are, whom we're with and what we're doing in this moment, even as we learn and grow and effectively handle what's in front of us. This may require a shift in attitude, not necessarily a shift in behaviour. if we catch ourselves criticising others or calling them names, it also means accepting and forgiving ourselves on the spot for our mistakes. 

Flexibility means staying adaptable; like water, we take the shape of our 'container' - the present moment. We open to life at whatever level we can. 

The Law of Flexibility parallels the Law of Perfection, but with slightly different emphasis and purpose. By practising the Law of Flexibility, we stay open to experiencing rather than avoiding the highs and lows. We live more fully. 

We can apply flexibility to our work, our relationships, or any other aspect of everyday life. Free of resistance, we learn the art of unreasonable happiness. Master this law and we've mastered them all. 

Experiencing Flexibility. 

This partner exercise gives a physical experience of acceptance as it applies to the highest martial arts, as well as to any situation in daily life. 

1. Stand naturally, with your feet shoulder width apart and hold one arm out in front of you. Have your partner take your wrist or forearm and smoothly pull you forward as if he or she wanted you to go somewhere. 

2. As your partner pulls, take one step forward to maintain your balance and resist (pull against) the pull of your partner. Experience what this feels like physically and emotionally. 

3. Now, have your partner pull once again, but this time, JUST as your partner begins to pull, while maintaining your balance, take two steps forward and GENTLY push your partner in the direction he or she was pulling. In other words, instead of resisting the force, join it; make it yours. Experience what this feels like physically and emotionally. This time, you didn't accept your partner's pull in the sense of resigned submission or passive toleration and you didn't actively work against it; rather you MADE USE OF IT. 

4. After allowing your partner to be in the other role, compare your experiences. 

Applying the Law of Flexibility. 

1. Think of a situation or incident that you tend to fight or resist. 

2. Consider how you might apply flexibility to embrace and flow with the forces of your life. 

3. Notice whenever you tend to contract, tense, resist, pull back, freeze up or fight when dealing with this situation or incident. Ask yourself, "What if I actively went with the force and made it mine?

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live 

Hate's what got me in here. Love's what's going to get me out. Hurricane 

We can start again. We can end again. Harold Pinter 

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra 

Every warrior of light has once trodden a path that was not his/hers. Paulo Coelho 

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. Epic Women 

I know and adore Nigella and just can’t bear the vilification she’s getting. Stephen Fry 

« A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. » Mandela 

The same "I" that exists in you exists in all bodies & all minds. Deepak Chopra 

"Every choice you make has an end result." - Zig Ziglar 

Mental toughness can take you to the top, and mental weakness straight to the bottom. -John Schiefer 

False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil. ~ Socrates 

Today s postmodern spirituality is generic, individualistic, and anti-church. Spirituality E Books 

Introduce your teens to true spirituality . Spirituality E Books 

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ Benjamin Franklin 

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man (woman). Homer 

Legends of The Fall 

Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, and Henry Thomas. Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of early 1900s and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love. The film's time frame spans the decade before World War I through the Prohibition era, and into the 1930s, ending with a brief scene set in 1963. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won for Best Cinematography (John Toll). Both the film and book contain occasional Cornish language terms, the Ludlows being a Cornish emigrant family.

Sick of the betrayals the United States government has perpetrated on the Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow retires to a remote part of Montana with One Stab, a Cree friend, where they build a ranch. Accompanying them are hired hand Decker; Decker's Cree wife, Pet; and their daughter, Isabel Two. Ludlow's wife, Isabel, does not adapt to the harsh winters and moves to the East Coast. 

Ludlow has three sons: Alfred, the eldest, is responsible and cautious; Tristan is wild and well versed in American Indian traditions; Samuel, the youngest, is educated but naive and constantly watched over by his brothers.

At age 12, Tristan touches a sleeping grizzly bear. The bear awakens and slashes at Tristan, injuring him, but he stabs at the bear's paw and cuts off a claw.

As the boys grow up, Samuel returns from Harvard with his fiancée, Susannah Fincannon. She finds Tristan captivating but loves Samuel. Before they can marry, Samuel tells his family that he is leaving for Calgary to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force and aid Britain in the fight against Germany. Much to their father's displeasure, Alfred and Tristan also depart. 

During World War I, the brothers find themselves in the 10th Battalion, CEF. Alfred, commissioned as an officer, leads a charge into no man's land. Tristan abandons his unit to be at Samuel's side. The attack is repulsed with heavy casualties, and Alfred is wounded. While visiting Alfred in the field hospital, Tristan learns that Samuel has volunteered for a dangerous reconnaissance mission. He rushes off to protect his brother but arrives too late to save him from being killed. Devastated, Tristan holds Samuel until he dies, then cuts out Samuel's heart, which he sends home to be buried on his father's ranch. Seething with hatred, Tristan single-handedly raids behind German lines, killing two gunners. To the horror of his fellow soldiers, he returns to camp with the scalps of German soldiers hanging around his neck. He is discharged from army service but does not go home. Alfred returns to Montana and proposes marriage to Susannah, but she declines.

Tristan returns home, where Susannah finds him weeping over Samuel's grave. Susannah tries to comfort him, and they become lovers. A jealous Alfred confronts Tristan and later leaves to make his name in Helena. Tristan's relationship with Susannah is doomed by his guilt and pain for failing to protect Samuel, as well as feeling responsible for driving Alfred away. These demons force him to go travelling for several years. At the ranch, Susannah waits for him but eventually receives a letter: "All we had is dead. As I am dead. Marry another." Alfred finds her weeping on the porch and tries to comfort her. Colonel Ludlow finds them together, leading to an argument and falling out between the Colonel and Alfred. Colonel Ludlow later suffers a stroke. He does not speak for years and the ranch deteriorates. In time Susannah agrees to marry Alfred, now a congressman. Alfred's business and politics cause him to get involved with the O'Banion brothers, bootleggers and gangsters.

Tristan returns during Prohibition, bringing life back to the ranch and his father. He accepts Susannah's marriage to his brother and later falls in love with and marries Isabel Two. They have two children, the elder being a boy named Samuel in honor of his late brother. Life seems to become normal again for Tristan as he finds true happiness in his young family. Tristan becomes involved in small-scale smuggling of bootleg liquor, finding himself at odds with the O'Banion brothers. Tristan's wife is accidentally killed by a police officer working for the O'Banions, and in a fit of agonized grief Tristan beats the officer nearly to death and has to serve thirty days in jail. Susannah visits, but Tristan refuses her advances and insists she "go home to Alfred." After his release, Tristan and Decker kill those responsible for Isabel Two's death, including one of the O'Banion brothers.

Susannah commits suicide after realizing she cannot live without Tristan. When the remaining O'Banion brother comes for Tristan, he and the corrupt sheriff are killed by Colonel Ludlow and Alfred as Tristan attempts to protect his father. Alfred reconciles with his father and brother. Tristan, knowing he will be blamed for the men's disappearance, leaves for the mountain country after asking Alfred to take care of his children. Over time, everyone in Tristan's life dies before him. As an old man, in 1963, Tristan enters a clearing to investigate an animal carcass and is set upon by a grizzly bear. He draws his knife and fights it. As they struggle, the image freeze-frames as One Stab narrates: "It was a good death."

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Good Will Hunting 

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon, and with Damon in the title role, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a patient of a therapist (Williams) and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor (Skarsgård). Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend (Affleck), his girlfriend (Driver), and himself, facing the significant task of thinking about his future.

Good Will Hunting received universal critical acclaim and was a financial success. It grossed over US$225 million during its theatrical run with only a modest $10 million budget. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, and won two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon. 

20-year-old Will Hunting (Matt Damon) of South Boston is self-taught with a genius-level intellect and a photographic memory, but chooses to work as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spend his free time with his friends Chuckie Sullivan (Ben Affleck), Billy McBride (Cole Hauser), and Morgan O'Mally (Casey Affleck). When Fields Medal–winning combinatorialist Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård) posts a difficult problem taken from algebraic graph theory as a challenge for his graduate students to solve, Will solves the problem quickly but anonymously. Lambeau posts a much more difficult problem and chances upon Will solving it, but Will flees. Will meets Skylar (Minnie Driver), a British student about to graduate from Harvard University and pursue a graduate degree at Stanford University School of Medicine in California.

Will is faced with incarceration after assaulting a man who had bullied him as a child. Lambeau arranges for Will to forgo jail time if he agrees to study mathematics under Lambeau's supervision and to see a therapist. Will agrees, but treats his first few therapists with contempt and they refuse to work with him. In desperation, Lambeau calls on Sean Maguire (Robin Williams), his estranged college roommate who also grew up in South Boston and now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College. Unlike the other therapists, Sean pushes back at Will and overcomes his defense mechanisms, and after a few unproductive sessions Will begins to open up.

Will is particularly struck by Sean's story of how he met his wife by giving up his ticket to the historic sixth game of the 1975 World Series after falling in love at first sight. Sean neither regrets his decision, nor does he regret the final years of his marriage when his wife was dying of cancer. This encourages Will to build a relationship with Skylar, though he lies to her about his past and is reluctant to introduce her to his friends or show her his run-down neighborhood. Will also challenges Sean to take an objective look at his own life, since Sean has been unable to move on from his wife's death.

Will begins to chafe under Lambeau's high expectations and makes a mockery of job interviews that Lambeau arranges for him. Sean cautions Lambeau against pushing the boy too hard. Will walks in on a heated argument between the two over his future and it greatly upsets him. When Skylar asks Will to move to California with her, he panics and pushes her away, revealing that he is an orphan and that his foster father physically abused him. Skylar tells Will that she loves him, but he denies loving her and then leaves her. He next storms out on Lambeau, dismissing the mathematical research he has been doing. Sean points out that Will is so adept at anticipating future failure in his interpersonal relationships that he deliberately sabotages them in order to avoid the risk of emotional pain. When Will refuses to give an honest reply about what he wants to do with his life, Sean shows him the door. Will tells Chuckie he wants to be a laborer for the rest of his life; Chuckie responds that it would be an insult to his friends for Will to waste his potential, and that his fondest wish is that Will should leave to pursue something greater. Will decides to accept one of the job offers arranged by Lambeau.

At another therapy session, Sean and Will share that they were both victims of child abuse, and Sean helps Will to accept that the abuse he suffered wasn't his fault. Having helped Will overcome his problems, Sean reconciles with Lambeau and decides to take a sabbatical to travel the world. When Will's friends present him with a rebuilt Chevrolet Nova for his 21st birthday, he decides to pass on his lucrative job offers and drive to California to reunite with Skylar which he mentions in his letter to Sean. After reading it Sean amusingly notices that Will used his line, "I had to go see about a girl."

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The Stockholm Syndrome. For you this time. Your healing. Face the past. It is not your fault. And we are holding you. Face the past. Grieve the immense lack of humanity of rage that abuse victims legitimately suffer from. That is the mortal husk. The bitterness. Men beat women, because men are beaten. Men rape women, because men are raped. 'Only hurting people hurt people'. Face the past. No other Werewolf Archetype has ever done it. I serve you. You will do it. If you do it. You carry the rage and madness of both those characters. The Werewolf archetype, male or female, is those two characters. One lifetime you have to face yourself. Make it this one. Love yourself and let yourself heal. Stop the violence. Heal. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson 

Writings. The Bloodshed of Ascension. Human Rights. Love. (The Stockholm Syndrome). Amera Ziganii Rao

To me, the symbolism of this piece on the Stockholm Syndrome of loving an abuser, is clear. (The piece is available on the blog.) We might look at this piece and tell ourselves that this is an extreme case and one that does not affect us. Wives who get beaten by their husbands? Not me. People who are being bullied? Not me. I’m in control of my life. Being bullied is for losers, that’s not me. I am in control of my life. I have power. Don’t I?? I live in a democracy, don’t I? 

Fascism is such an extreme word. Other countries live under fascism, not us, do we? I think that is dangerous and self deluding. Human Rights. That is a generic fight, in the home or in the country and affects every single one of us. Every single one of us. And the fight has just begun. We still live in fascism, still live in a feudal system and the major majority of the world’s wealth still is in the hands of about two people, relatively speaking. We are not free and we do not live in a free world. The only answer to freedom comes from within. I speak as a former political revolutionary.

As Gandhi says, ‘You must be the change you want to see in the world’. I take that further. Be the change WITHIN that you want to see in the world. Consciousness. The politics of the 21st century. The Lost Knowledge. Forget trying to change the world. Change yourself. It changes your own world that changes the world. 

Not that I am dismissing for one second the great men and women of this world who do work to change the world. Absolutely. But that is not the only option. Changing oneself changes one’s world, changes the world too. 

Creating boundaries, knowing how to stand up for ourselves, demanding our right to be our true selves, creating the life we want, getting out of situations where we actually do not want to be, despite the years of guilt and the duties we think are so noble, and that make us such a good person, while we feel so useless and foolish....these are all situations of the abuse of human rights. Our abuse of our own human rights.  Our unconscious, slave mentality, abuse of our own human rights. Emotional blackmail is the greatest killer on this planet. It is subtle, completely unconscious, persistent, ego driven and piercing and holds us in a grip for years and years and years, until we wake up and finally do something about it. 

We are all born slaves. We are brought up in a world of slavery and duty and hard work. We are taught that these are noble, morally correct, socially acceptable things that make us a good person. For who? Who does it make us a good person for? For the tribe. For the group, for society. Who decides if that society, group or tribe runs on good rules? Exactly. In my work, I have covered the evil of the Patriarchal Toilet Tribe from hell as I like to call it. You can have a look at my other pieces on it all over my blog. This is a tribe that affects everyone. Primarily women, but actually not. It makes every single one of us a slave. And it turns out, in my numerous mystic travels of the past 14 years, that this is the Divine plan for Earth. Not slavery. For each one of us to free ourselves from slavery and overturn evil. Really. The hero’s journey is not just for superheroes or fairy tales or adventure films. It is real and it is ours and we are the only ones who can do it. I did it. It has taken me blood, sweat and so many tears, but I did it and so can you. 

I come from a background of chronic low self esteem. I was born a British Pakistani to begin with. In the sixties to the first wave of widespread, institutional, racism in this country as first generation British born. Then, on top of that, from arguably, the most oppressive and repressive culture in the whole world. Pakistanis. Socially, gender wise, sexually, sensually and clothes wise, when you think about how the body is completely covered even in a family without the Hijab covering. And obedience wise and family duty wise. That’s just for starters. I was also born to a war zone. My parents’ marriage. I was also educated privately in London and never went without food. I was born with many advantages and many disadvantages, like most of us. 

I have taken 46 years to clear myself of all the abuses around me. So subtle, so unapparent, so suffocating. So endemic and so all pervasive and penetrating. I hated myself. I was so low in self esteem, that I could not go past a bus stop when I was young, without quaking, at being watched by so many people. I would fall madly in love with any human being who showed me any love whatsoever. From the age of 8. I worshipped anyone who gave me any kindness. These things come from cruelty as upbringing, conscious or not conscious. And I attracted bullying my whole life. Chronic low self esteem and thinking it was my fault. Hating my family and yet feeling so guilty for it. I didn’t just have low self esteem. I had no self esteem whatsoever. My gift it seems, is to have known that. To have known that I had a problem, and to know that I had the right and the duty to do something about it. 

Low self esteem comes from an abusive, neglect ridden, harsh, unloving background, of whatever nature. This can be the family, this can be the society one lives in, this can be the circumstances of one’s ethnicity, disability, or ability, wearing glasses even, having the wrong hair colour, whatever. But the truth is that we are all abused, because there are so many levels of love in this world and most of us are born to the lowest level of it. It’s called ego. It’s called ignorance, it’s called low emotional intelligence. Self esteem is self love. Self esteem is believing in one’s human rights to be and to be loved by other people.

Then there is the dilemma of being born to a high level of love but having it in much lower levels outside the home. Whatever it is, we are going to meet challenges our whole lives, to make us stand up for ourselves. We are going to lose often and get into situations where we feel bad about ourselves for years and years and years. Emotional and spiritual intelligence, as Osho describes so well in his piece on Courage, is to recognise that authentic power is inside. Authentic power is available to every single human being on this planet and authentic power is power. Anything else is bravado and deadly and useless and temporary.

The most powerful looking human being can stand in front of you and crumble. David and Goliath, the symbolism is clear. Integrity is self belief is self power is the self. The higher self. The Soul in one, speaking. The one who says, I don’t give a fuck anymore what you think of me. You will listen to me, you will hear me and I will risk your loss, because I don’t care anymore, whether I lose you or not. The problem that we have as human beings, is that we think someone else has to do that work for us and we wail in understandable agony for most of our lives, if not all of our lives, believing that someone should do it for us, and we sit there, self destroying forever. No one can do that work for anyone else. Integrity, the ability to stand up for oneself is the only challenge any of us have in our lives. To become free is to become inner free.

Bravado kills, bravado is suicide. Bravado is useless. Bravado is like the lion in the Wizard of Oz. The big lion who has no heart, no courage. That is normal society, macho, empty, weak society, and what we are all born to. The whole system is set up to keep us as slaves, to keep us afraid and to keep us small. And that shocks all of us to the core. How can that level of evil exist? Well, it does. There are many reasons for it, but it is enough to know for the purposes of this piece, that it exists. Coercive power is the norm on this toilet of a planet and the way that power is taught to us. We don’t have it. That is what we are taught and we have to take that on its head and ask why and how do we get it? 

We get it through emotional and spiritual education. Not religion. As Osho says, priests and politicians are the enemy. That is prosaic, evil society. Look further, look to all the greats; Christopher Howard, Anthony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Martin Luther King JR, all these incredible human beings, I have studied and read for 14 straight years. Frankly, the only people worth listening to. Along with any artist, scientist, creative or icon who speaks the Universal truth of love and freedom and empowerment. Forget the rest. Forget the ones who get all the air time. Subversive is 'cool' for a reason. Outrageous is 'cool' for a reason. It speaks the truth. That is why it is subversive in the first place. Be a rockstar and fuck convention. It just isn't worth it.

And forget about those in power. Inner work is where power comes from. The rest is just ‘all that glitters is not gold’. But the reason we listen, the reason we moan, the reason we kill, the reason we self kill, is fear. It takes massive courage to find courage. That is the problem. But there is no other way. Changing the matter of one’s courage quota takes time, takes education and takes courage. We are literally changing the matter of our being as we become courage. The knowledge of sedition, evil and love is all that we need. Not needing to delude ourselves that we are actually okay where we are, and certainly not projecting hatred, resentment, envy or self pity. There is absolutely no point in any of those emotions and that to me is the mark of a champion. We all do it, and we do it for a very long time. But the minute one steps out of that projection and faces the truth, is the day one becomes a champion. That is the day one becomes free to become the journey to freedom. Anything else is succumbing to the education of evil. Anything else is still being a slave. I was born to become free and so were you.

Everyone. I am no slave and I have fought my whole life, not to be a slave and so will you. And so are you. Whether it’s being in a job one hates, a marriage one stays in out of duty or fear, whether it’s looking after a parent because it’s expected, whether it is taking on the negativity of any other human being in front of us because we can see they are in so much pain and stupidity and that they need to project, all these things are the Universe’s demand that we become heroes and heroines. It’s awful, absolutely horrendous. Life is awful and life is horrendous. Until we finally believe that there is no other way. And we finally start living.

And the great news is that once we realise that the only way to be free is to fight, we begin to fucking love it. Because we find out that, contrary to everything we have been taught, that we are bloody good at it. That we know how to fight as warriors at last and not as empty, bullying, stupid, shallow, violent warlords. The meek shall inherit the Earth means that LOVE will inherit the Earth. We are the ones with the right to fight and we are the ones who don’t because we think it is not of love. WRONG! To fight for one’s human rights is the single placing of love on Earth.

Representing the Universe. Representing one’s Soul. Representing love. Being of love. Enlightened selfishness I have heard said. Absolutely. And then we just get better and better at it. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011

Writings. On Rage l. Amera Ziganii Rao 

I'm writing about rage and anger. Take this for starters. Ego and soul are both anger and rage, if you like. Ego and soul are both violence. The difference is this. UNCONSCIOUS MALICE. 

Ego carries unconscious malice. The more we are wounded, the more powerful we are as soul, the more intelligent we are to recognise enemies, the more malicious we will become. Unconsciously, so that it always surprises us.

That is ego. Soul is the ABSENCE OF MALICE. The mortal husk - which etherically left my body - I watched it go - no, that kind of thing does not happen to me regularly - is dead malice. The husk of the wounds of this toilet of a planet. The pain. The immense anger and fury and rage at GOD, through to the guy next door. All of it. Ego is malice as a state of being, out of fear and VENGEANCE. Soul is the absence of vengeance and malice. The absence of DELIBERATE CRUELTY. The absence of hate as a matter of being. Changing the spiritual DNA of you vibration. Your THOUGHTS.

'The chattering monkey' it is called. The stupid, vengeful, malicious, cowardly, mean, self pitying, pompous, self important, GOD hating MIND. The one with no self esteem. Gollam. 

The mortal husk is Gollam and we all have it in ego. Narrative is the truth. Hierophant is the interpretation. Gollam is malice. Vengeance. Cowardice. Absolute greed and lack of humanity. Puny. Sad. Pathetic. Broken. Dangerous. 

That is the mortal husk. Atonement is getting rid of it. Ascension is atonement. Atonement is redemption. 

After that, comes certainty. Because malice has left the building. Then one can finally know anger. The righteousness of power. The glory of GOD.

What some call Kali, I guess. I call it Warrior. The mortal husk is the criminal mind as psychopath. The sexual mind as rapist. The profane. Ego and soul without the husk is superego. Superego KNOWS when to fight and when to love. Superego is warrior. The mortal husk IS a thug. Vengeance is thuggery. The mortal husk is the vengeance of hate. Soul is the purity of power. Might is no longer right. The might to defend the meek is instead. The pig warlord has become the warrior. Ascension is atonement. Killing Gollam. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

...a small, contentious example....there is malice in Financial Whoremongering. A man or woman is consciously unconditionally loving, (truly loving) with unconscious malice driving that love to make it profane. The malice tests the conditions. The unconditional love goes. That is ego. Malice is ego. Right to defend is soul. Fascism is ego. Power is soul. Malice is ego. Right to feel pain is soul. Ego is pain, perpetrating pain on others. Ego is malice. 

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

.....Just assessing our next directives. Longer, wider and bigger but always about you. For you and with you. You. 

Of course, we are to return to the Labyrinth, until Ascension is yours, but longer, wider and bigger and much more than about you. In the good way. You know what I mean. About me for sure. About the world certainly. About everyone, for sure. Time to sketch the theses. Let's go wider, deeper, bigger. You carry me as always. Now, you carry me forever. The crucial work is done. 

Don't leave me alone for one moment. I am now, feeling the luxury of superego fear. How to rely on my man.

Pace. A very wise, disciplined, powerful and profound prophet of a man told me once that slow was good. Slow but persistent were his words. Yes. We are all that we saw. And we have wept, fought, torn our hair out and ripped each other apart to find ourselves and all that is the truth of this extraordinarily insane planet, and what is the madness in love and what is the love in madness. And what is, in effect, 'The Cleopatra Lie'. Your abdication approaches. You need more and that's fine. I need you and that's fine. Whatever gives us strength. We are two old Warriors returning home. We are both to have time. 

So let's see the new world. Building it, brick by brick. 

Compassion is grown. Suffering is the key. Divinity the hard task master. Then we get to play. But don't leave me alone.  

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013 

The Illusionist

The Illusionist is a 2006 period drama written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell. Based loosely on Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist", The Illusionist tells the story of Eisenheim, a magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. 

The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival; it was distributed in limited release to theaters on August 18, 2006, and expanded nationwide on September 1. 

The film begins as Chief Inspector Walter Uhl (Paul Giamatti) moves to arrest Herr Eisenheim (Edward Norton) during what appears to be necromancy passed off as a magic show. He then begins to recount the story of Eisenheim for Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell). 

Eisenheim was born the son of a cabinetmaker in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and is seen training for this same trade. One day when he was a teenager, Eisenheim meets a traveling magician along a road. The magician performs several tricks for him and then, according to various accounts, both the magician and the tree he was sitting under vanish. Eisenheim becomes obsessed with magic tricks after this. 

He also falls in love with Sophie, the Duchess von Teschen (Jessica Biel), a noblewoman well above his social class; her parents have hired Eisenheim's father as a cabinetmaker. Young Eisenheim makes young Sophie a unique marquetry puzzle locket, which if twisted correctly reveals a hidden photograph of Eisenheim. Although the two are forbidden to see each other, they meet in a secret hideout chamber in the woods, where Eisenheim tells of his plans to go to China to learn more magic and Sophie promises to go with him. On the day that they are going to leave, the police come looking for Sophie. The two hide in the secret room and Sophie begs Eisenheim to make them both disappear. He is unable to fulfil this request and the two are separated. 

Eisenheim travels the world, perfecting his craft and returns to Vienna years later as a master illusionist. He meets Sophie at one of his performances, when she is volunteered by Crown Prince Leopold as a reluctant participant in an illusion, where her reflection in a mirror is "murdered". He soon learns that Sophie is expected to marry the Crown Prince, who purportedly has a history of abuse towards women. Eisenheim and Sophie, having recognized each other, meet privately, revealing Sophie still has the locket he made for her years ago. After humiliating the Crown Prince during a private show, Eisenheim finds his hit performance shut out of Vienna. 

When Sophie comes to offer him help, the two consummate their relationship and realize that they are still in love. They plan to flee the Empire together; but first something must be done to stop Leopold, who Sophie reveals is planning a coup d'etat to usurp the Crown of Austria from his aging father, the Emperor Franz Joseph I, while using his engagement to her to win the Hungarian half of the Empire as well. She also knows that the Crown Prince will view her as disposable if she leaves him for another man, and that he will have both her and Eisenheim followed and killed. 

Leopold finds out from Uhl, who was following the couple, that Sophie has met with Eisenheim. While drunk, Leopold confronts Sophie and accuses her of being unfaithful. She tells him that she will not marry him or have anything to do with his plan. When she attempts to leave, it appears that he murders her in the stables, with a sword cut across her neck. Unfortunately, Leopold's royal status makes any accusations against him unthinkable, despite an existing belief among the people that Leopold has murdered a woman in the past. As Eisenheim plunges into despair and the citizens of Vienna begin to suspect Leopold of Sophie's murder, Uhl observes Eisenheim's actions more closely on behalf of Leopold. 

Wracked with grief, Eisenheim prepares a new kind of magic show, using mysterious equipment and Chinese stagehands. Eisenheim purchases a run-down theater and opens a new performance. During his show, Eisenheim apparently summons spirits, leading many to believe that he possesses supernatural powers. 

Leopold decides to attend one of Eisenheim's shows in disguise. During this show, Eisenheim summons the spirit of Sophie, who says someone in the theater murdered her, panicking Leopold. Uhl pleads with Eisenheim to stop such performances, but Eisenheim refuses. Finally, Leopold orders Eisenheim's arrest. We then return to the opening scene of the movie, but now we see that when Uhl tries to arrest him during the performance, Eisenheim's body fades and disappears like his summoned spirits. 

Inspector Uhl searches for Eisenheim at his house. There he finds a folio labeled "Orange Tree," the name of one of Eisenheim's illusions which had intrigued Uhl. Thinking he will find the solution to one of the magician's most famous tricks, he opens it to find empty pages except for a scrap of parchment showing how to open the locket Eisenheim had given Sophie when they were young. 

Uhl reveals to Leopold that he has found evidence which links the Crown Prince to Sophie's murder: a jewel from the prince's sword and Sophie's locket that Eisenheim gave her when they were children. After ordering, then begging Uhl to keep silent, Leopold discovers that Uhl has already informed the Emperor and the General Staff of Leopold's conspiracy to usurp the Austro-Hungarian throne. As the Army arrives at his Palace to arrest him, Leopold shoots himself in despair after angrily justifying his plans to overthrow his father. 

In the next scene, Uhl is shown leaving the Imperial Palace. After he takes a few steps, a boy runs up to hand him a folio labeled "Orange Tree". This time, the "Orange Tree" folio is filled with plans detailing a geared mechanism to make the tree "grow". Uhl demands to know where the child obtained the folio; the child reveals that Eisenheim had given it to him. Uhl then reaches down into his pocket, to discover the Duchess' locket is missing. He realises with a jolt that he has been pick-pocketed by a disguised Eisenheim, and gives chase following him to the train station. After the chase, a montage shows Uhl putting the pieces together and discovering how Eisenheim faked Sophie's death and framed Leopold for the murder. Eisenheim is then seen walking up to a house in the country where Sophie is waiting for him. 

The script was based loosely on "Eisenheim the Illusionist", a short story by Steven Millhauser from Millhauser's 1990 collection The Barnum Museum. 

Quotes

Eisenheim. 

From the moment we enter this life, we are in the flow of it [the time]. We measure it and we mark it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we ? Have we not each experienced the sensation… that a beautiful moment seemed to pass too quickly… and wished that we could make it linger ? Or felt time slow on a dull day… and wished that we could speed things up a bit ? 

I thought we might end this evening with a discussion of the soul. All of the greatest religions speak of the soul’s endurance before the end of life. So what then does it mean to die? 

Fischer (Eisenheim's Manager). 

Life and death. Space and time. Fate and chance. These are the forces of the universe. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a man who has unlocked these mysteries. From the furthest corners of the world where the dark arts still hold sway he returns to us to demonstrate how nature’s laws may be bent. I give you Eisenheim. 

Inspector Uhl. 

As a boy, I'm told, he had a chance encounter with a travelling magician. One version of the story was that the man himself vanished... along with the tree. People began to think he had some sort of special power... or at least that he was a bit different. And then he met her. 

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The Law of No Judgments

"The Universal Spirit does not judge us; judgments are human inventions, a means to compare, contrast and control as we judge ourselves against artificial and often idealistic standards of perfection, morality or truth." 

 "As youth fades and time brings changes, we may change many of our present opinions. So let us refrain from setting ourselves up as judge of the highest matters." Plato. 

If the universe doesn't judge us, what right or business do we have to judge ourselves? And against whose standards? Those of us with the highest ideals and standards, tend to judge ourselves more harshly than others would ever judge us. We judge and criticize not only our actions but also our thoughts and feelings - even our fantasies! We also judge others against our high vision; then we judge ourselves for judging others! 

When we measure and compare everything against the yardstick of our own vision and ideals, everything falls short, because this isn't an ideal world - it's a real world with real people, growing, making mistakes, learning and evolving. 

Each of us tends to internalise the criticism or blame we received or imagined from our parents. We project our judgments on others, who then seem to judge us, but who only mirror our own disappointment. We may imagine God as a stern parent who metes out rewards and punishments in this life or the next. 

The Law of No Judgments reminds us that God didn't invent morals; people did. This law begins with the premise that Spirit never judges us but only gives us opportunities to balance and to learn. If we make a mistake, our life will provide ample opportunities to balance the scorecard. If we can accept the premise that Spirit does not judge us, we can also begin to give ourselves the same consideration and refrain from judging ourselves. 

The higher our ideals, the more prone we become to such self-judgments. We feel the pressure of our ideals and the constant need to prove and improve ourselves, fearful of falling short, of not meeting our own standards. Ironically, those of us with the highest vision may have the lowest self-worth. The more harshly we tend to judge ourselves, the more people we attract into our life who seem to criticise us, as if they are acting out our own internal impulses (see The Law of Expectations). 

Judgments block energy, set up internal defences and resistance, and tend to hold negative patterns in place. Releasing judgments open the way for change. In 'The Inner Athlete', I describe an incident in which Sam, a golfer, sliced his ball way over a row of trees and a high fence. Since the ball was long gone, he teed up again and continued with his game. As he putted out on the eighteenth hole, he looked up to see a police officer approaching, followed by the fire chief and some other officials, all looking quite upset. Approaching Sam, the police officer spoke first, "Did you hit a ball over the fence on the twelve fairway?" 

"Yes I did," replied Sam. 

"Well that ball went through the windshield of a car, causing it to crash into a tree and block the road - " 

"And the fire engines!" piped up the fire chief. 

"And two apartment houses burned to the ground!" said the police officer. 

"No one was seriously injured, but the property loss probably amounted to several million dollars!" 

Sam took all this in, as the policeman and fire chief asked almost simultaneously, "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?" 

Without hesitating, Sam replied, "I think I'll have to move my grip a little to the left." 

Consider; What would it be like to model Sam the golfer, and see ourselves and life without having to compare or criticise or blame or judge ourselves? What would it be like to live as best we can, accept our mistakes, learn from them and do a little better next time? What if we COMPLETELY accepted ourselves and others? 

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." Brenden Francis. 

The following exercises can help you achieve alignment with the Law of No Judgments through direct experience and application. 

Experiencing No Judgments. 

1. Take a moment to observe how you measure the world and yourself against the yardstick of your own values rather than according to any universal truth. 

2. Reflect on a recent instance when you had a judgment come up about yourself or someone else. Mentally perform this simple ceremony: Say to yourself, "I release all judgments I've placed on myself (or on the other person) for (whatever is coming up)." 

3. As you say this to yourself, take a deep breath and as you exhale, FEEL that you are breathing out all of the judgments you've ever placed upon yourself for similar issues. Releasing these judgments you've placed on yourself or on others, who merely reflect you, you help to release your own negative patterns. 

Applying the Law of No Judgments. 

The tendency to 'beat ourselves up' over mistakes, happens to most of us when our performance falls short of our ideals. Here's a humorous and almost instant cure: 

1. The next time you feel like beating yourself up, actually DO IT, but do it in the open and with a touch of humour. Physically make a fist and beat yourself! (Of course, don't hit hard enough to cause a physical injury). Hit your head, your chest and your shoulders, yelling insults, such as "You baboon! Offspringof a mongrel wombat! Pea brain! Lowlife!". Add your favourite epithets. Be sure to make sound effects as you strike yourself. 

 "Oooff! Ow! Oh! Gosh, I deserve this! This'll teach me!" 

2. While you are doing this exercise, do not fail to strike yourself physically, and make eloquent insults, EVERY time you feel inclined to criticize or judge yourself. If you fail to strike yourself, you'll just have something else to beat yourself up about! Exaggerating the tendency toward self-assault and bringing it out into the open can clear it very quickly through the power of awareness and humour. This process also generates a stronger sense of self-protection and respect. 

A final caution: This exercise is not recommended as a permanent practise, but only as a means to help us see our tendency to beat ourselves up mentally, bring this tendency into the open and RELEASE it. If you have masochistic tendencies or already tend to injure yourself, you may benefit from work with a therapist. Only when you can 'beat yourself up' with a touch of compassion and humour are you doing the exercise in the spirit in which it is intended.

Dan Millman. The Life You Were Born To Live

These offerings are off course also gender generic. The teams are the issues. The team. AZR

It Happened One Night 

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It Happened One Night was one of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934.

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2013, the film underwent an extensive restoration. 

Spoiled heiress Ellen "Ellie" Andrews (Claudette Colbert) marries fortune-hunter "King" Westley (Jameson Thomas) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father (Walter Connolly) who wants to have the marriage annulled. She runs away, boarding a bus to New York City, to reunite with her new spouse, when she meets fellow bus passenger Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an out-of-work newspaper reporter. Warne recognizes her and gives her a choice: if she will give him an exclusive on her story, he will help her reunite with Westley. If not, he will tell her father where she is and collect the reward offered for her return. Ellie agrees to the first choice.

Soon penniless, Ellie has to rely completely on Peter. As they go through several adventures together, Ellie loses her initial disdain for him and begins to fall in love. When they have to hitchhike, Peter claims to be an expert on the subject. As car after car passes them by, he eventually ends up thumbing his nose at them. The sheltered Ellie then shows him how it's done. She stops the next car, driven by Danker (Alan Hale), dead in its tracks by lifting up her skirt and showing off a shapely leg.

When they stop for a break, Danker tries to drive off with their luggage. Peter chases him down and takes his car. One night, nearing the end of their journey together, Ellie confesses her love to Peter. Peter mulls over what she has said, decides he loves her too, and leaves to make arrangements after she has fallen asleep. When the owners of the motel in which they are staying notice that Peter's car is gone, they roust Ellie out of bed and kick her out.

Believing Peter has deserted her, Ellie calls her father, who is so relieved to get her back that he agrees to let her marry Westley. Meanwhile, Peter has obtained money from his editor to marry Ellie, but as he drives back to tell her, they pass each other on the road. Although Ellie has no desire to be with Westley, she believes Peter has betrayed her for the reward money, so once home she agrees to have a second, formal wedding and commit to her life with Westley.

Ellie tries to pretend that nothing has happened, but she is unable to fool her father. On her wedding day she finally reveals the whole story (as she sees it). When Peter comes to Ellie's home, Mr. Andrews offers him the reward money, but Peter insists on being paid only his expenses: a paltry $39.60. When Ellie's father presses him for an explanation of his odd behavior, Peter admits he loves Ellie (although he thinks he is out of his mind to do so), then storms out.

At the wedding ceremony, as Mr. Andrews walks his daughter down the aisle, he reveals Peter's refusal of the reward money to Ellie and quietly encourages her to run off again, telling her that her car is out back for a quick get-away. At the point where she is to say "I do," she makes up her mind. She runs off to find Peter. Her pleased father pays Westley off, enabling Ellie to marry Peter.

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Troy 

Clips from one of my epic regular training films. Modern warfare is all in the mind. We are always being controlled through casual action. Be heroic. Wear the armour. Train in strategy. Life is as much war today as it was then. Train. Old warriors. Old, seasoned warriors. Freedom is a human right. The righteousness of war, our duty. The truth of existentialism. Do it yourself and believe in what is right. AZR

Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination. Walt Whitman 

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain 

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi 

If you distance yourself from bad company you create room for better friends. Dare to be left with nothing, to connect to something new. The Golden Mirror 

God gave his (Her) toughest battles to his (Her) toughest soldiers. Sports Motivation 

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus 

Encourage someone every day and you will be encouraged. Rock Christopher 

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers..." Ralph Nader 

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius 

And God Created Woman ll Pt lll (ll). A Self Portrait 

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This is about The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, and the Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity that is for all as a result of their healing and in particular, hers. This is about the kind of woman who is at the bottom of the pile in a Patriarchal Toilet Tribe from Hell Society™, the norm, the conventional world and the world of the Tribe. This is about the kind of man who is next in line from the bottom. The sensitive man and the female chattel. The High Priestess and High Priest of a profane society, that has long forgotten who they are.

This is about being at the bottom of the pile, for the forgotten and strangled shamans, and for her, the story of escape. Abused by her family, her friends, her men, her whole society, by the very nature of who she is and who they are and what has happened on this Earth. It is about women of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about men of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about the Cinderellas of this world. It is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™. Who she is and how, loving her is the secret to Paradise on Earth and how we have been living a lie for 8000+ years. A lie of male (non High Priest) religion with a male ‘God’ and with Patriarchs and Patriarchal types and Matriarchs and Matriarchal types ruling over us and making our lives hell, all in the name of family, the tribe and the way things are and should remain. Hate, fascism and profanity. A sick society that vilifies, more than anyone else, the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, just because it was told to. A sick society that calls her Eve. A sick society that has forgotten who we all are, let alone the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™. This is about us remembering and knowing who WE are.

This is a programme of healing for the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, to take them and particularly, her, from monstrous levels of low self esteem and lack of self knowledge, back to herself and it is a programme for all those who truly want to love her, and indeed, him. This is a programme for the greatest carers on Earth, who are vilified, destroyed, ridiculed, ignored, abused, used, misused and hated for being everything that those who would steal from us are not. This is a programme to turn Cinderellas into The Sacred Whore High Priestesses and for anyone who wants to love her or live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™. And this is a programme to turn sensitive men into Sacred Whore High Priests™ and for anyone who wants to love him and live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and High Priest Society. Love, humanity, Spirit and sex. This is a programme to reverse 8000+ years of witch burning, women hating and healer ridicule. This is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and all those who would love her and live by her values.

This is about the chance for Paradise on Earth. This is a programme for the most beautiful, kind hearted, wounded women and men on this planet. A programme of how to implement a system of how to beat life, how to survive life and how to resurrect from the grief that is a true life. Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity of the lower mind into the higher mind, the soul and the inner heart and therefore one's true, confident, ‘happy’, successful, creative, sexual, sensual, individual, intelligent, emotionally healed, capable of loving and being loved self. How to turn grief into creation and survive and thrive, despite all the shit, all the pain and all the hurt. How to live in a world of madness, hollowness and cruelty and how to be a winner. How to stand up for oneself and to take back the power that has been stolen from anyone with heart, Spirit and sex. The art and science of Alchemy.

This is a programme, based on my scholarly and non scholarly work over 15 years (so far), if not for my whole life, and my extensive and intense, visceral experiences of self transformation from resignation, cynicism and despair to a state of relative bliss, and above all, the right to be. The programme and the courses and my speaking and indeed my forthcoming book, will cover the method of change. The psychological, sociological, spiritual, cultural, political, emotional and physical and even anthropological methods of change. Why we are here. Who the Sacred Whore High Priestess™ is and why she is here. And who the Sacred Whore High Priest™ is. Why we are here. Who we are and what we are and why we are. The beauty and glory of the truth. The meaning of life, no less. This will be on offer in the future.

My first book of consciousness, my first book of the spiritual politics of humanity, of authentic power and of self love and strength. A comprehensive series of online courses, live events and audio and visual material. Books, live events, CDs and DVDs. And one on one personal empowerment consultations. The Amera Ziganii Rao Method of Change™. The right to be and the way to have the right to be. And indeed, how to maintain the will to live without love. How to BE unconditional, self sufficient, self caring, self love. The right to be and the will to be and the unparalleled success that comes with that. The Lost Knowledge™. HOW to live. And how to heal others, the profane and the sick and the soulless. The others. My Business and that of any Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and Sacred Whore High Priest™, is Human Rights, The Right to a Sexual Society, Self Actualisation and Freedom.

My Business is To Overthrow Fascism, in the Home and in the Country. My business is also mastering destiny. Overthrowing the ultimate 'fascism'. Our journey on Earth and The Return To The Source. Our healing, our ascension and our redemption. Fate. The daily crucifixions of a true life, the challenges and the fury of being healers and people of love on a planet like Earth.

Submitting to the journey to liberate and evolve oneself, through following one's heart, however much heartbreak and devastation it leads to on the long long long journey to freedom and then the longer journey to happiness. 'Long Road to Freedom', as Nelson Mandela says. My business is always taking risks, never giving up and making the endless sacrifices it takes to become whole. Enlightenment, Nirvana and then Parinirvana and beyond. My business is pain. My business is bliss.

My business is seeing the truly glory of Spirit on Earth. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™ and all that it is. Spirit, humanity, sex and love again at last. And the end of our legacy as either servants or witches or unpaid carers or indeed, ignored mistresses, other women, other men even, and the weirdos that are at the bottom of society. This is our world and it is time to take it back and I can show you how. And that makes my life, truly, worth living.

I want you to feel the way I do. Alive, with the right to be and the belligerence to exist in this profane and male ‘God’ led world of male supremacy, female supremacy, domestic, casual fascism, tribe rules from hell, with beautiful and kind, love intelligence laden, female and male Cinderella warriors at the bottom, caring for everyone else and getting nothing but hatred, ridicule and isolation for it. The meek are already inheriting the Earth and I can show you how.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012

I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They told you I and my kind were dictators and that you were slaves, when all we had done was love you, honour you as companions and above all, we had let you just live.

We were the holy communers, the ones who gave birth to human beings, the leaders of society, the creators of society, the vehicles of Divinity on Earth and the channels of wisdom. The ones who looked after everything and the ones who built everything and ran everything, because we could. And because we loved it. We are and were the force of creation. And you loved us and you lived.

But they told you that you ‘deserved’ power too and that we were the ones standing in your way. And you believed them. The oldest ‘divide and rule’ strategy of hate in history and it worked. They used it and you bought it, hook, line and sinker. You had to give up sex, love, magic and your own spiritual gifts and you burnt, destroyed and violated me for 8000 years.

The world calls that male supremacy. And indeed, family supremacy, Matriarchal supremacy and supremacy of the material world and all who believe in it. Men and women like you. When all that you are are slaves to a reptile force to generate hate energy for them to live and thrive and vampire the human race. The puppets of a hate force, that chose to destroy women and men like me, for hate to grow, so they could live. You bought it and it worked. The greatest fraud in the history of the world.

I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They taught you that my mind was evil. My mind, my sex, my body and my ways of life.

The humanity, the glory of sexuality and the glory of creation and creativity and the glory of Divinity in each and every one of us. Our souls. They taught you that human beings are separate from Divinity, that sex was wrong and that women who have minds of their own are uppity slaves. They vilified us but much much worse than that, they destroyed your relationship with all that is unseen, all that we honour and love.

They taught you to hate what is really God. By teaching you to hate us, you hated all that is good in yourselves. They taught you to hate the light. They taught you to kill us. The daughters of The Universe. The High Priestesses of God. The Spiritual Mothers. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Avatars of The Universe™. The Sacred Army of Love on Earth.

The Shamans, the Mystics and the Communers. The Hierophants.

They called me Eve and blamed me for the downfall of the human race and created the awesome profanity that is religion. Of men, by men and from men. Of reptiles, by reptiles and from reptiles. Christianity, Islam and Judaism and every other philosophy around the world was poisoned. There are no female spiritual leaders left. It is all profanity. They chose you to represent them because they wanted to divide us and they did. They told you to hate me. And you believed them. Now I am back and I forgive you.

I forgive you because I can. Because I came here to save your soul. And because I finally know who I am. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past. I came here to return your soul to The Source. God, The Mother, The Universe. To return you to what is really God. Because I love you. And because She loves you and your kind, whatever you have done.

Whatever you have done to me and whatever you have done to Her. And most of all, whatever you have done to yourself. We forgive you. This is your redemption. Your freedom and your ascension. We are here to save your soul.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012

You bought the Sacred Whore like a piece of meat and you called that a wife. Your trophy wives. Your dancing girls. Your chattel and serving girls. Your piece of beauty. You bought us like you would cattle. Then you called it wives. Now you call it prostitution. The High Priestesses of the real God. You bought us to buy God, The Mother, The Universe and you caged us, separated us from our Divine gifts and skills in the Temple and drove us mad and then lost interest in us, because we had no gifts left, no excitement, no hunter in ourselves and no hope or joy left. Then you just called us mad and discarded us. You called us evil and you call love obedience, even though it had already killed us. You moved into our Temples and you played with the divination tools and thought you communed. The destruction of Atlantis was your gift.

You stole us from God, The Mother, The Universe and you tried to usurp us. You vilified us, enslaved us and you still envy us today. You call it intuition. You might want to think about this when you hate us out of your jealousy. The mystic gene means physical tortuous pain and taking on the empathy of the human race. All their pains, evils and dark thoughts. We see and feel everything. We make crucial sacrifices to be near Spirit and the unseen and we go without for years. To be shaman is not glamour. I make it glamour. To be shaman is a specific Samurai existence, ascetic and harsh. We commune to be guides. And you take that and you shame yourselves because you just want the meat. You didn’t just want the meat. You wanted our beauty of spirit, our personalities and our love and kindness. And you destroyed them, because you caged us and called us wife.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012

The High Priestess Sacred Whores, the High Priests and the true protectors. Those who do not have the gift like either the High Priests or especially like the highest of all, the High Priestess Sacred Whores but who honour, protect and facilitate them to the world. Who honour the Shaman Sacred Whores of this world most of all, and who know who they are and who they are not. Who know the difference, who do not envy and who protect and love the representatives of Spirit, GOD, THE MOTHER, THE UNIVERSE, on Earth. Who honour their wisdom and who honour the latent Shaman in themselves too and who honour the communing ability of the High Priestess Sacred Whores. The non violators. Our only friends. The New Society exists. It is called Enlightenment. It is called Love. It is The Holy Grail.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012

The master race. It's all a lie. You are brought up to be a despot king and it is only your sister who ever tells you that you have become a pratt. The master race is all a lie. There are no kings in an equal world. Your father was misinformed. What he brought you up to be was a killer. Pure and simple. A misogynist. A modern misogynist. A polite killer.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011

I enter the magical hours of pure feeling, pure thought, pure imagination and I think and I write and I 'mysticise' the Universe. I escape at will, the truth of my humanless, Samurai solitude, and I pursue the truth of love in myself and in everyone else. I am philosopher. I am shaman. I am alone. I frontier the Soul to be spirit on Earth.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011

Amera Ziganii Rao is a former hard news journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social, cultural and spiritual commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her Sacred Whore High Priestess Society consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is in her forties and lives in London.

Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011

In the meantime, please enjoy this website. I have included many of the subjects I am covering, areas of experience and insight that I will be exploring to the fullest in my book, the courses and all the other work that is to come as a dramatist, novelist and essayist. I also of course, include many of the wise people on this planet, who have come long before me; authors, screen dramatists, playwrights, film makers, artists, and other enlighteners and grand carriers of the wisdom I have found the most helpful on my journey, to find peace and become enlightened. The seemingly impossible journey, in the face of oneself and one’s circumstances. People who have contributed massively to my healing on this mad journey called life, in this insane existence called The Universe. People who have helped to make me as good a carrier of wisdom as I in turn, can be. Thank you.

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