Month: September 2021

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Your Most Important Best Day

The Game of “Best Day of Your Life”

In the comedy movie, “The Water Boy”, in the last scene of the movie, the movie’s hero, Bobby Bouchet, has just gotten married to Vicki Betancourt. They are both outside of the church preparing to leave (on a riding lawnmower LOL). Their friends are also outside the church and are shouting encouragement and good wishes to the two newlyweds. Before riding off into the sunset, Bobby Bouchet shouts to his friends with complete conviction, “This is the best day of my life.” As you review your life, decade by decade, are you able to say with equal conviction what that one best day of your life was?

The “Best Day of Your Life” game is an interesting and illuminating exercise in thought and feeling. I played this game and could not narrow it down to just one single day. I think each decade that goes by it becomes increasingly more difficult to do that. What I did do however was adjust the rules of the game. I allowed myself to choose decade by decade what my one best day was. In each decade there were many really good days, as well as many bad ones (and some downright horrible) but this game requires you to choose that one best day. Even splitting things up into decade by decade, it still took some deep reflection, completely free of the expectations of any other person. As I am sixty-eight years old, I came up with seven best days. As I am guessing for a number of reasons that I have one decade left, there is still time for one more “grand finale” best day.

I have already chosen what that final best day will be. It is what I call “Culmination Day”. It is that day that has already happened in my mind. It is that day that I am sitting at my desk, with a cup of coffee, looking out the window and saying, “Thank you Father. It is done.” It is the day when all the pain, all the suffering, all the obstacles are mere footnotes in my history as I feel the unbounded joy of seeing that all of my conscious manifesation choices have come into fruition.

Now Substitute Your Face For That of Ponzi

OK, so what’s the purpose of this game you say. Why should you bother to play it? Answer: Because it forces you to be one thousand percent honest with yourself about what day or days in your life brought you true inner joy. Many times humans may say things or do things or even think things based on the expectation of others. In doing so we execute a con job on ourselves. In the image above you see Charles Ponzi, the con man who originated the flim flam known today as a Ponzi scheme. Boy does he ever look the part of a huckster con man. His photo reminds me of those guys who used to sell vegetable choppers on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Looked great as he was demonstrating it. Then when you got home you saw that it was a piece of shit. I still remember my father cussing up a blue storm when the chopper broke within five minutes of using it. Anyway, in the best day game you penetrate the outer crust of bull manure and reveal to yourself truths, truths that you can build on to make your life better. You can stop with that royal con job that you do on yourself better than even Charles Ponzi ever could.

Your Future Most Important Day But Right Now

Your best day for any decade can be but does not have to be a typical life-changing event such as a birth, or a marriage, or a healing, or a career move or, well, you get the idea. It can be something quite simple and unassuming. For example, in the decade between birth and ten years old, I like most children had good days, bad days and days somewhere in between. The very best day that I can recall however was a day that I spent at my grandparents’ house on the lake with my Mom and brother. We all didn’t go around holding hands and singing Kumbaya, but on that particular day, as a kid, with my mother and brother and grandmom and grandpop, I just felt such love surrounding me, infusing me, that I begged my Mom to stay late because I didn’t want the day, or the feeling to end. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. It was just a feeling but it was a feeling beautiful beyond description.

To get back to the answer to the question of – why bother? – it is because you can productively use the feeling that you felt on that best day to bring about a desired manifestation in your life right now. Identify your desire. Then go back to the feeling you felt on that best day. The happenstance that caused that day is unimportant. What is of the utmost importance however is how you felt on that day. Feel it. Feeling the feeling of it. Then step into your current desire as if has arrived to you transferring your joy from the best day event to the manifestation of your current desire. Once you have sufficiently felt your current desire as realized and natural, then wait for Universal Intelligence to bring about the means to the end. And give thanks that it has really happened, because it has.

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Assume Your Life – Money, Relationships, Career, Health, Intercession

Meet Mr. Chi

In traditional Chinese culture chi (or qi) is said to be the vital life force energy of a human being. Your chi is the ultimate level of your vitality. While you are here on this earth, at a certain age you begin to desire certain things. As an infant it’s “feed me and change that poopy diaper”. As a child it may be just playing and having a good time. Even as an adult it may continue to just be playing and having a good time. Most of humanity however usually formulate definite goals and objectives in different areas of life (ie., school, job, marriage, security in living, etc.). In order for you to manifest into reality whatever your desire is, you must have a clear idea or vision of exactly what that desire is. I introduce to you now an individual, an acronym, that encompasses every desire you will ever have in your life. His name is Mr. Chi and he has everything that you possibly desire.

An Examination of Mr. Chi

Let’s examine the five facets of Mr. Chi – Money, Relationships, Career, Health, and Intercession.

M = Money. Money is a necessary tool for purchasing everything you feel you need for optimal living. Money buys food, water, shelter, transportation, clothing, electricity, internet, heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, gifts for others, entertainment, etc. It can also buy the vices a person may desire such as drugs, sex, gambling, power over others, etc. Even if you choose not to develop specific goals in your life and simply wish to remain in the playing and having a good time mode, you still need money or you need to sponge off of another person’s money.

R = Relationships. This is a wide collection of desires under the universal umbrella of the type of relationship you desire to have with: God, your self, your loved ones including your father, your mother, your brothers or brothers, your sister or sisters, your spouse or fiance, your ex-spouse or fiance, your children, your relatives, your friends, your neighbors, your acquaintances, the strangers you randomly meet, Mother Nature, your schoolmates, your teachers, your co-workers, your clients, your boss, and members of the worldwide ABC Club (assholes, bitches and the clueless).

C = Career. This area of human desire has to do with what type of daily occupation that you choose to engage in. If you are not employed in any capacity, or in business for yourself, then career means the daily interests and avocations you pursue, whatever they may be. In essence, career is how you spend those hours, days, weeks, months and years that make up the substance of your lifetime. Career is what you choose to do with your alloted time.

H = Health. Good health, I will assume, is something you desire for yourself. It is most likely deep down what everybody in the world really desires, even those with self-destructive or suicidal personalities. Health means much more than your body and all of its components being in a vibrant and pain-free status. It also means that your inner spirit is in attunement with Original Source and that your mind is operating in a manner that brings you endless peace and fulfillment.

I = Intercession. This universal human desire is to do something that will bring substative help and assistance to another individual or group of individuals. Intercession on behalf of another is something that you do, whether it is known or is anonymous, that will enrich the life of another. The personal satisfaction that you get when you help another in their life journey allows you to experience heaven right here on earth.

Success In Working With Mr. Chi

So there you have it – money, relationships, career, health, intercession. This jazz quintet has it all. Look closely at each of these five areas of Mr. Chi. In each one, what is it that you desire? Once you have clearly established in your mind what your true desire is, then go right to “the end” (result). Dwell in that consciousness only. Your state of consciousness, that of dwelling in the end result, will ultimately bring about the result you desire. Discipline yourself to have patience. The Bible, the greatest scientific book ever written, says it clearly, ” Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.”

All over the world, billions of prayers go unanswered. Why? Because prayers are offered to a God that is far away in the heavens somewhere. The prayers are offered to a God that does not exist. The Kingdom of God is within you. Take the universal desire of money for example. Men pray for money while they are conscious of not having enough money. What they are conscious of is granted to them. If you pray for money, deny the evidence of your circumstances. Assume the consciousness of having plenty of money. Feel it. FEEL IT. Let that consciousness filter down to the very core of your being, then let go and go about your daily activities. Let Universal Intelligence take over as to the means of how it happens. Your only responsibility is to assume the end result. Seek the Kingdom of God and all things shall be added unto you. Get into the consciousness first, and the object of your desire is compelled to appear. And remember to be thankful.

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Inner Space…….You’ll Love What You Find There

Outer Space Is Not The Final Frontier

Arguably the most famous introductory voiceover in the history of television was from the original Star Trek series from the 1960’s. Intoned by William Shatner, the opening narration is known to millions of Star Trek fans worldwide: “Space…..the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission — to explore strange new worlds…..to seek out new life and new civilizations…..to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

As much as the above narrative voiceover has ingrained itself into tv history, I am going to disagree with Bill Shatner. Outer space is not the final frontier. That title is reserved for (drumroll, please)…..Inner Space.

Inner Space – It’s A Groovy Trip

Before trying to understand what is meant by Inner Space (to go within), let us take a look at the usual (normal) way that a man or woman goes about making a big decision about something. Let’s take a random example of looking for the right job. John Doe has his educational or vocational credentials. He now needs to decide what industry to go after, what companies to target and what type of job he should go after. As he makes his decision, John is going to look at several different things that will help him make his decision. Some of these things include: what companies are hiring, where is the work geographically located, how much pay is he going to receive at hiring and in the future, the input of his wife or girlfriend, if John has kids to support, John’s parents and family, what type of jobs are hot and which are cold, how tight the economy is, his financial situation, how much student debt he has, and so on.

Every one of the things that John is looking at and taking into consideration as far as his decision are “on the outside”. They are all part of his external environment. None of them are part of the internal part of him that has access to the kingdom of the Divine, that inner realm within John that always, always, has the right answer to every question. To get that answer however, John has to go there…..Inner Space, the kingdom of God, alignment with the consciousness of Creation.

The kingdom of God is an eternal spiritual realm over which God reigns as king. It is a spiritual realm that you can enter and explore and experience. You must however, make the choice to give up pre-established expectations. Just let the light of God illuminate your path and then follow that pathway. Just as your car’s headlights allow you to make your way on the road in the darkness of night, the light of God allows us to travel to Inner Space to realms of higher consciousness, power, love and truth. As they used to say back in the 60’s and 70’s, it’s a groovy trip. In our earthly existence, there are limits. We can’t fly. We can’t snap our fingers and have every wish appear before our eyes. We can’t jump off a twenty story building and not get splattered. We can’t spin our head around like a top. Within the realm of Inner Space however, there are no limits. There are only endless possibilities.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

From Luke 17:21 KJV — Neither shall they say, Lo here! or Lo there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

OK fine. Sounds good you might say, but how do you get there?! Good question. Here is my answer. First, you have to understand. Understand and fully believe that your access to Unlimited Intelligence and Wisdom is already within you. It is there now. It has always been there from the moment you were born. It never leaves you although of course, you can refuse to access it (free will) if you so choose. Second, get rid of your thoughts about the past and the future. Neither exist. One is gone, never to return and the other is merely a collection of possibilities, none of which has actually occurred. That leaves just the present moment. In this moment of right now, zero in on your creative intention — what do you want. The very first words uttered by Jesus in the gospel were “What do you seek?” When you have this figured out, then believe you already have it. Feel it. It is now yours. Third and last of all, wave the white flag of surrender — surrender to the Higher Power that created you. Not surrender like the losing side in a battle but surrender in your attempts to control everything. Let Universal Intelligence handle all the details. Dwell on the Almighty in the moment of now, in whatever way works best for you, and then get the hell out of the way and let Universal Intelligence run the show. You couldn’t possibly have a better producer and director.

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Your Personal Magic Soviet Textbook

The Soviet Textbook

Josef Stalin. Russian Big Cheese. Dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to his death in 1953. He is seated in the middle of the front row in the image above. He pretty much was the new tsar of Russia taking over where Nicholas II left off, with seven years of Lenin in between. The big difference however between Stalin and Nicholas was that Russia/the Soviet Union was now totally immersed in the political structure known as totalitarian communism.

In the Soviet Union, as was the case in the 1930’s and 1940’s with fascism in Germany, the state was paramount. The state controlled the newspapers. The state controlled radio and movies. The state controlled travel. The state controlled industry. The state controlled agriculture. Maybe most important of all, the state controlled the youth of the society through its total control of the education system. Of course, in a political system such as this, the functionaries of the state wrote and printed all of the textbooks approved for use throughout all levels of schooling, primary thru university. While science and mathematics were pretty standard with the textbooks of schools outside of the Soviet Union, things like history and literature were most assuredly “bent” to reflect whatever the state wanted to feed the populace. History textbooks reflected history as what Stalin and the communists wanted it to be. Factual data was secondary to promoting the communist agenda.

Now You See Him…..Now you Don’t

One of the unusual facets of the Soviet textbooks was the “now you see him, now you don’t” phenomena. A famous example of this was a famous photograph taken in the mid-twenties of Stalin and three other luminaries of the communist revolution. They were standing around a desk of some sort. Stalin was more or less in the middle and the other three were by his side. First of all, Stalin, who had a pitted face due to contracting smallpox as a child, miraculously now had a perfect complexion. As each year or two went by, one by one the other three poor slobs fell out of favor with Stalin and wound up executed or given a free one-way ticket to Siberia. In the second edition of that textbook, the picture showed Stalin and two others. The fourth was totally removed from the photograph and all textbooks having the picture of comrade number four were destroyed. In the next edition of this text, there was no mention of comrade number four ever existing and the photo showed Stalin with two revolutionary comrades. The man never existed. The next edition of the text showed Stalin and one other revolutionary comrade. Yes, comrade number three must not have laughed loud enough at one of Stalin’s jokes because he was tried and executed and unceremoniously deleted from the textbook. No mention is made of the now two deleted men. The final edition of the text shows Joe Stalin standing alone at the desk. I think he’s even a little taller now in the photo. That’s right, the other guy was likewise given the heave-ho and all mention of him completely excised from the new edition of the text. It reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode that I watched one time where something similiar happened.

Having total control of the educational system of the Soviet Union, the communist structure merely revised their history to whatever they wanted it to be. Due to censorship imposed by authorities, history was what Stalin and Company said it was. What children believed about their past was based what they were taught from the revised reimaging of it by their totalitarian controllers.

Your Own Personal Soviet Textbook

So what does all this Stalin and soviet stuff have to do with manifesting something that you want in your life? Well it has to do with the concept of revision popularized by Neville Goddard. Revision is a simple concept. Notice that I said simple but I did not say easy. If some event in your life does not meet your satisfaction, just revise it in your mind to something that you find more satisfactory. After you do that part of the revision process, then invoke within yourself the feeling that your revision was actually real. Feel the way you woud feel if things happened according to your revision. Once you do this part of the process then drop the matter and go about your activities for the day. This whole thing need not take more than five minutes of your time. That’s it. Your personal soviet textbook method for manifesting something.

There are many success stories on the internet of people using revision. Here is one example: A man’s relatives were in town to visit him. They lived far away so he did not get to see them very often. Among the group of relatives was his mom. The mom texted him saying that his niece, just a small tyke, had caught a severe cold. The man revised the text in his mind to say, “Your niece looked to be catching a bad cold but she feels much better now and everything is on track for tonight.” The man continued reading and re-reading his revised text until he got himself to the point where he really believed it was real. Then he dropped the matter and went on with his day. That evening, when he met with his relatives, they told him that the niece bounced back quickly and the cold symptoms left as if she had never had them. That is but one example of manifesting using revision.

Try it. You might be like Mikey from that old Life cereal commercial. That was the one where two brothers at the kitchen table saw a new box of cereal their mother had bought that was supposed to be healthy. They both said that they were not going to try it. They then said they would give it to their younger brother. Mikey, who hates everything (food-wise). Then to their surprise, Mikey liked the cereal whereupon they poured the cereal into their own bowls. Further study about revision is readily available on the net. Pour some into your bowl.

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A Never Ending State of “Thank You”

The Concept of Gratitude

If you enter the word “gratitude” into the search box on a google search, you will receive over two hundred million search results. Obviously then, the concept of gratitude has evoked a huge ocean of human thought and opinion over the ages. If you go to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, under the word “gratitude” you find the definition “the state of being grateful”. Not very helpful. Continuing on and going to the word “grateful” you find the definition of “appreciative of benefits received”. Ok then, a generic definition could be described as a feeling – a human feeling of being appreciative of benefits received. So here is where we run into trouble with the concept of gratitude.

That Troubling Bible Verse

In my Sunday school class when I was a child, we were studying in the Book of First Thessalonians one Sunday. when the teacher got to chapter 5, verse 18. This verse states “In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. An alarm went off in my head regarding this verse. My mind went to all the people in this world who are suffering in one way or another. I hate suffering. I mean I really hate it. I have never seen anything noble about it. The very thought of suffering, whether it is my own suffering, or a loved one’s suffering, or the suffering of a total stranger, actually makes me sick to the stomach. I asked the teacher “how could you be thankful for suffering”? The general response that I remember was that (a) man’s sin was the cause of all suffering, (b) we do not have the divine perspective of God, and (c) suffering deepens one’s faith. I was about to respond with a “Yeah, ok, but…” however the last time I did that with regard to another verse, the group started giving me dirty looks. Thus, I just nodded my head, said “Ok” and kept my mouth shut. Inside however, I was definitely not satisfied with the answer.

Science Weighs In On Gratitude

In 2015, there was a scientific study of the brain neural impulses done at the University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, with regard to the human feeling of gratitude. Participants in the study underwent magnetic resonance imaging of their brains while external stimuli were used to induce the feeling of gratitude. The results revealed that the ratings of gratitude on the part of the study participants correlated with well-defined neural brain impulses observed in the anterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex of the brain. This study in affective neuroscience pinpointed the brain circuitry that accompanies the feeling of gratitude.

So There It Is – It Is All For You After All

You live in an outer shell that we call the human body. Within this shell resides your spirit. At some point after our birth, you ultimately shed this outer shell when it stops working. We call this event “death”. Your spirit, which is pure energy, proceeds onward. I cannot tell you exactly where or how your spirit will proceed after death because this is not learned until after death. While on this earth however, your energy, your spirit, resides within your body. It is the true you, and, being pure energy, it can project outward. You may have experienced something of this when for no rational reason whatsoever, you felt “good vibes” or “bad vibes” from another person.

Electricity is a form of energy. Neural impulses within the brain are electrical. When we activate those neural transmitters in our brain that science has identified as dealing with gratitude, these electrical impulses are picked up on by Universal Intelligence – All That Is. The universe has consciousness. As the early twentieth century author Wallace Wattles put it, ” There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by that thought.”. Matching, or like impulses are then attracted to you by your transmission of gratitude neural impulses. In other words, if you truly feel gratitude, the universe has been created in such a manner that you will then be given something (“good stuff” I call it) that matches up with the level of your gratitude. Thus, the reason we are told by Scripture to “be thankful in everything” is for your own benefit or for the benefit of the one for which you wish to favorably intercede. If you are in trouble, it is a way out. Loving Omniscience did not create human beings so that there would be an endless supply of fawning sycophants. Loving Omnipotence has graced you with a never ending way of receiving good stuff in your life and thus displaying the glory of the I Am through your never ending state of gratitude. So there it is – gratitude is all for you after all.