Month: October 2021

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Message To Autumn – I Love You

My Lifelong Love Affair

I think I felt the first stirrings of my lifelong love affair with autumn when I was just five years old, some sixty-three years ago. My mother, my brother and I went apple picking at a pick-your-own apple orchard in the area. Afterwards we went to a peaceful, heavily wooded park nearby and had ourselves a little picnic. The air was crisp yet comfortable. The day was sunny but neither hot nor humid. The leaves that were still in the trees were showing off with their annual color display, shining in the golden October sunlight. It was a day of apples as we sunk our teeth into those crunchy, tart Winesap apples. We savored some of the fresh-pressed apple cider that we had just bought. We ate our baloney sandwiches that we had packed. Later, we watched the geese in formation overhead, honking as they flew to somewhere else. My brother told us a story he had heard about an old house that was supposed to be haunted that was in the area that we lived. Mom got the football out of the trunk and my brother and I practiced “going out for passes.” Even though I had the pea brain of a five-year old, I very distinctly remember the first stirrings of love within me for the season known as autumn.

The Four Seasons

Summer has its definite moments…….swimming, vacation from school, amusement parks, baseball, hiking, barbeques, bicycling, a cold beer under a shady tree. Spring has its unique “the cold and snow are finally over and the daffodils and tulips are doing their thing” vibe. Winter has Christmas, New Years Day, snowballs, snowmen, hot chocolate, a steaming bowl of chili, freedom from bugs and flies, egg nog. There is that something about autumn however, that has always captured my heart.

Humans have a tendency to get tired of the same old thing after awhile (types of food, jobs, relationships, etc.). I never remember a time however when my heart did not jump a little when “autumn entered the room” so to speak.

Autumn – Vibrant Yet Calming

Autumn feels to me like….well, like “me”. It has the ability to enter into me and seep down into every crack and crevice of my being. It has a truly potent vibrancy yet at the same time, a wonderful calming presence. Autumn feels like “coming home”. It is a feeling that is much more understandable if you feel it rather than attempt to describe it.

At a job that I worked at for twenty years, I worked at a desk near the water cooler. In that area that I worked, I was the only one there so I was able to have my radio on without bothering anyone else. A man who worked on the other side of the building came over to the water cooler one day to fill up his mug with water. At that time, a piece by Bach was playing on my radio. As he filled up his mug, he said to me, “I guess that is real relaxing music for you.” I responded, “Oh yeah, but at the same time, totally invigorating.” He just smiled in response but the look on his face spelled out “Well it’s sure not my cup of tea but I guess different strokes for different folks.” I do believe that is what it comes down to and for me, autumn is in perfect attunement with my inner wiring.

The Sweet Spot

Perhaps the specialness of autumn has something to do with the getting away from the frenetic comings and goings of summertime, the constant mowing of lawns, the planning and attending of different events and the overall “sweatiness of summer”. It is that sweet spot when the hot and sticky days of summer are over and the muddy, rainy months of spring are still far off. It could be any combination of things including, what to me is the grandaddy of all annual holidays…….Thanksgiving. I really do try my best to practice thanksgiving on a daily basis (not always succeeding). I do “get it” that gratitude is beneficial to my personal well-being. Autumn has the honor of hosting that one holiday where all are invited to vary from their normal routine and simply feel gratitude.

Stanley Got It Right

Published in the 1983 issue of Readers Digest magazine was that eighteen word poem written by Stanley Horowitz that has a good chance of being found wherever the joys of autumn are mentioned on the internet. It goes as follows: “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all” That sure sums it up better than anything that I could think up. Autumn could be appropriately called, “The Total Package”. I was born in the autumn and I hope when it is my time to die that it will likewise be in autumn. I am of the same mind as the great nineteenth century English author, George Eliot, who wrote, “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”

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My Altruism Cocktail………With A Unique Twist of Selfish

The Reason For This Blog

The idea for this blog came forth into my mind many years ago. The first published blog post was in August of 2020. Since then I have published one post per week over the past sixty weeks. My intention is to continue in this manner until my body stops functioning. Likewise, there is currently a book inside of me that is continually swirling and evolving that will be completed in the near future. At that time it will be offered for sale at a price affordable to everyone. It is a book which will entrust to its reader a power to make good things happen. So, the primary reason for this blog is to provide something of real value (information) to the reader (you). A second reason is for me to derive some monetary earnings so as to subsidize the other aspects of my multi-faceted, remaining life paradigm.

Getting back to reason number one for this blog, to provide you with information that will, if acted upon, help you obtain what you desire in life, that reason would be defined as practicing the principle of altruism. Altruism can be defined as the principle and moral practice of concern for the heightened quality of life, both material and spiritual, of other human beings. Thus, the reason for this blog is altruism……..but with a unique selfish twist. Read on.

I confess that I have had my share of failures during my sixty-eight years of living. With that said and out of the way, I have also experienced many beautiful successes as well. When I have followed the Universal Laws, I have done well. When I have strayed from them, I have not. As I read and edit the weekly posts that I have published, I have helped myself in that I have been able to re-focus and remind myself of powerful truths that for some perverse reason, I lose sight of from time to time. Thus, this blog, if read by nobody other than myself, will in fact be helpful to someone, namely, me. So in that sense, you could say that my altruism has a hint of selfishness. There is a greater reason however that flavors my altruism cocktail with a unique twist of selfishness…….The Life Review. Read on.

I Have Nothing To Say Until I See My Lawyer

In our life, which continues in spirit after our physical body ceases to function, there will come at that point, “the life review”. After having shed my dead body, I can picture my spirit in a waiting room in a grand courthouse type structure similiar to the image above. This life review is something that enters into my thoughts quite often. I can see in my mind’s eye, two old guys with long beards and robes standing in the hallway. They are looking over my folder and whispering to each other. One of them keep looking over at me after looking through my folder and slightly shaking his head. Finally, one of them says, “OK Mr. Butler. Everything you ever said, did, thought, felt and believed during your lifetime has been visually recorded (in HD quality sound). Shall we begin with the life review process in the courtroom.” That is when I blurt out, with sweaty spiritual palms, “I have nothing to say until I speak with a lawyer. Is Johnny Cochran available? How about F. Lee Bailey? I know most of the attorneys usually go down to the “Downstairs Place” but there has to be some up here to help us poor slobs during our life review. Just don’t stick me with anyone from Jacoby and Myers.”

The life review is experienced by everybody who has experienced a lifetime on earth. If you are a person who believes in reincarnation, you will have many life reviews. It is a process where every trace of bullshit is stripped away. We see clearly what we did and we see clearly what we didn’t do. We see how all that we thought, said, did, felt and believed affected our life. We see how everything we thought, said, did, felt and believed affected other lives.

My best guess is that I have about eight to ten years left. Quite bluntly, I have to state at this point, that my life has literally been saved from death, not once, but on four different occasions. It is patently obvious to me that I have yet to complete my life mission. I am currently working on a massive manifestation involving several facets and including all areas of human endeavor. There are two crystal clear “intercession manifestations” that I feel very clearly — (1) to help a specific person in my life to achieve specific goals and (2) to help an unknown amount of human beings through my writing (blog, books, etc.).

I know from personal experience that the stuff I write about in my blog posts “work”. By “putting it out there” by way of the avenue of the internet, I am doing what I can to help my life review. “Yeah, I see all my mistakes, but Judge, Your Honor, I did my best to get the truth out there. You have to give me that much. I did try. I don’t know how many people were helped, but I did try.” At this point I nudge my attorney and whisper to him “Come on man, you’re supposed to be helping me with this.” Ultimately my life review will concluded and my spirit will proceed to where it exactly belongs to be. There are no crooked judges in the life review. Everything is perfectly fair.

“The Culmination”……….Redemption

As I mentioned above, although nobody really knows, my rough estimate as far as how much time I have left is about eight to ten years. I have created a “reality paradigm” in my mind that encompasses a grand, multi-faceted manifestation that I have named “The Culmination”. The Culmination encompasses all five areas of human endeavor — money, relationships, career (the spending of time), health and intercession. Some of the facets stand alone while others have facets within facets. Every facet of The Culmination is clear in my mind’s eye. In a sense, it is already a reality. My work, over this last part of my life, is to feel, in the very core of my being, as real, every single facet of The Culmination as my lived reality, manifesting through Original Source, according to the timing of the Highest Power, the I Am.

That will be my closing statement at the life review. “Yeah, I made a bunch of mistakes but don’t forget about the good stuff too and especially The Culmination at the end. The Culmination was done by God, through God, from God, for the glory of God. You have seen my inner heart. I now throw myself on the mercy of the court.”

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Your State of Consciousness Right Now Is Everything

Circumstances Don’t Matter

Circumstances do not matter…..only state of being matters. If you truly want to make good things happen in your life, then always keep that mantra in your mind. In fact, if you place emphasis on the words “matter” and “being”, the sentence takes on its own unique rhythm. It sounds like you were at a political demonstration of some sort, chanting a slogan.

Circumstances do not matter…..only state of being matters. Those nine words define your entire lifetime — from the time the obstetrician slapped your rump in the delivery room to the time of your body’s very last breath just before you die. What…is…your…state…of…being?

In the image above you see a woman who is experiencing a virtual reality experience via the electronic device that she is employing. Her eyes, her mind, her senses, are conscious of something that is totally different than her actual circumstance and surroundings. When she ultimately removes the virtual reality device, her mind, her vision and her feelings revert to the room and surroundings in which she started before putting on the device. While she has it on however, her mind, her senses and to a degree, her beliefs, mirror the experience that she is feeling as a result of the virtual reality device.

Feeling Is The Secret

In the daily circumstances of life, there are things, there are circumstances, that you desire to have and experience. Some of these desires are stronger than others. Most likely, you have formulated some type of general plan to go about getting these desires fulfilled in your life. Even if your plan is to just continue with the status quo and hope for the best, that is still a plan.

The huge stumbling block with the majority of humans however, is that while going after the fulfillment of your desires, you are aware of being without that which you desire. Your awareness of being is that you do not have it and you want it. Your feeling may be that if you work hard at your plan that you will get it (and for a number of reasons that may happen) but your state of being, your core belief is that you do not have it. So, for the overwhelming mass of humanity, day in and day out you live with this belief, this omitting of “living in the end”, Universal Source then matches you up with your overriding belief – the belief being that you currently lack what it is that you desire. The secret sauce to receiving is believing you already have it. Yes, I am aware of how difficult that is, but if you work at it, you can do it.

Matthew 21:22 states, “Whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive” (New English Translation Bible). Feeling inside that you already have that which you desire, is the missing ingredient. Feeling is the secret.

You Choose, You Receive

The above statement of “you choose, you receive” is certainly highly controversial. Many who are in dire straits and/or agonizing pain would indignantly rush to say, “I never chose this. My injury, my illness, my horrible situation at work, my divorce, my failure, was certainly not my choice. What about infirm or abused infants and children who have no real ability to choose? How dare you!” OK, fair enough. In this earth dimension in which we live, there are all manner of things transpiring under the surface layer of the world’s consciousness that we are just not aware of. Why this?…Why that?…How could a loving God allow all this suffering in the world?

I will be the first to admit that I have no answers for all the world’s suffering. I absolutely despise the suffering of anybody. Nevertheless, in the everyday world of money, relationships, career/work, health and intercession, two of the Bible verses that keep appearing and reappearing in my mind, as I continue to search for answers are “God is not mocked” and “The Kingdom of God is within you”.

What we choose to feel as true, becomes true. If we fear, or pick up on another’s fear, the origin of the fear will manifest. Fear is poison. If we love, or pick up on another’s love, the joy of that love will manifest. Love is truth. You cannot serve two masters. If through patience, discipline, faith and desire, you can find yourself in a place where your very state of consciousness, your awareness of being, totally encompasses and includes the fulfillment of your desire as real, right now, then, nothing in heaven, in hell, or anywhere in between can keep it from you.

Simple But Not Easy

“When you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.” Is this a simple concept? Yes. Is this an easy concept? No. Years and years of habitual counterproductive thoughts and feelings are habits that need to be let go of. And letting go is hard.

Are you capable? Of course you are. You are a child of God and have the Kingdom of God within you. Now go forth and manifest for the glory of God.

Peace.

Conceive. Believe. Receive.

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New Manifesting Technique: 18 X 10 X 40

18 X 10 X40 = Whatever You Desire

The focus of this week’s post is the little known manifesting technique of ” 18 X 10 X 40″. You may have heard of the 3 6 9 Method, the 7 7 7 Method, the 5 X 55 Method and the baby brother, the 3 X 33 Method but probably not the 18 X 10 X 40 Method. Well if you haven’t, don’t feel left out because I don’t think too many people have. I came to learn of it by chance decades ago and actually used it successfully. Being afflicted with the malady of metaphysical ADHD however, I moved on to other methods and techniques. In fact, at first I thought it didn’t work when nothing occurred after the allotted time period. Like most of my manifestations however, there was a distinct time lag between my initial expectation time frame date and the actual date the desired manifestation came into my world of third dimensional reality.

The gist of the method is for you to custom create eighteen strong affirmation statements of between ten and eighteen words each regarding your chosen desire. No less than ten and no more than eighteen. Do not just copy other affirmations you may have read somewhere. These affirmation statements have to be your own unique creation. Each statement has to strike a real chord with you personally. Only you know the best words that will “ring your chimes”. You can do it. Just take your time. Give it deep thought and see what statements lift you up into the clouds. Pay your mind no mind as it says to you, “That could never happen to you. Get real!” Respond to your mind with an old Harold Camping retort, “Thank you for caring and sharing. Now let’s move on.”

OK, you have done your work and you’ve got your eighteen statements which we will call “statements of fact”. Now, using a recording device, record each statement ten times in a row. When you are done you will have recorded one hundred and eighty statements. Since I was back in the Stone Age when I used this technique, I used a cassette recorder and a Sony Walkman. Record these statements in absolute privacy so you can be totally free and uninhibited. Negative comments or vibes from the peanut gallery can wreck the whole process. Inject strong feeling into your statements. Make every effort to make each of the statements sound a little bit different from the one before. That helps to keep your mind from wandering away. Then, just listen. When you are done, just turn off the recording device and stop thinking about the whole thing. Do this once per day for forty consecutive days without skipping a day. If you skip a day, you have to start over again at day one. The best times each day are during what is termed SATS (State Akin To Sleep). This is that time that you are in that twilight time of consciousness immediately upon waking or as you are drowsing off to sleep.

He Got His Desire…..And It Put Him On The Hot Seat

So how did I happen to come across this particular manifesting technique? Well, it all started back many moon ago with a college chum who subsequently swore off using it because it became too successful for him. He never told me where he got the technique from . Neither did he explain the significance of the 18, the 10 or the 40. He was just an average, ordinary guy like me. His deep desire was to make it with the chicks. Not just one, but a whole flock. He told me that he used this method and it worked better than he ever imagined. He wound up dating a half-dozen women at once, one even twice his age. When he confided to me his dilemma, he was deeply in debt, his “chick-mania” was affecting his studies, and he was entangled in all manner of boyfriend-girlfriend relationship drama. I clearly remember to this day him saying to me, “I can’t believe this one crazy chick. I told her bluntly to get lost and she just keeps coming back for more. I can’t get rid of her.” Anyway, to fast forward the story, he eventually was able extricate himself from his dilemma. He said the manifestation must have “run its course”.

To say the least, I was intrigued by the whole episode. I decided to try the 18 X 10 X 40 method the way he explained it to me as best as I could. I went for the strong desire to get myself in a better financial position. I imaged in my mind being in that place of improved finances without trying to figure out how it was going to happen. It took me awhile to get the affirmations just right. Then I had to make sure that I recorded the cassette where nobody could hear me. I didn’t want anyone laughing at me. I listened faithfully for forty days. At the end of the forty days, I did not see any improvement in my financial situation. I did not deride the process however. I just figured maybe my friend just had the knack for it or somehow I didn’t do it right. I went on with my daily activities, considered it an interesting experiment and pretty much forgot all about it. The results did not kick in until several months later when a series of unexpected events did indeed improve my financial situation dramatically. Why the time lag in effect? Your guess is probably as good as mine but it probably is a combination of the depth and strength of my belief, unconscious inner resistance to letting go and a lack of discipline on my part (plain old mental laziness).

Today’s Special At A Very Affordable Price

Why are there so many manifestation techniques floating around out there in Internet Land? Probably for the same reason that a restaurant menu doesn’t limit itself to just one item. Just as an item on the menu may appeal to one patron, while another patron finds appeal in a different menu item, one person may get excited about a particular technique while another may look at it and say “Meh, just doesn’t interest me”.

The one common denominator in the manifesting techniques that I have written about in this blog over the past year is that they all can be done without any outlay of money, What they do require however is (1)time, (2)effort, (3)discipline, (4)patience, and most important of all – (5)faith – belief that they work.

With this particular manifesting technique, you will require some type of recording device. Then you will need ear buds or ear phones so that you can listen to your affirmation statements in private. Do not allow others to hear as it will only invite comments that will despoil your faith in the process. Listen to them in their entirety when you wake up or when you drift off to sleep or both if you so wish. Refrain from thinking about it in between listening sessions. Let Divine Intelligence work out the necessary details. Your job is to be those affirmations as you are listening to them. If the forty days are up and you haven’t received the desired results, refrain from making any judgement as to the process. If you have done your end of things conscientiously, the soup is definitely simmering on the stove. When it’s ready, it is going to be downright delicious.

Believe. Receive.