- healing your mind
- STEP 1. question everything!
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the first step in the evolutionary process is to become a seeker. a seeker is
someone who is looking for truth... looking for answers. we are each born with
infinite potential! at birth we are pure expressions of divinity. but, we
come into a particular family, social-class, region of the world and culture.
we are then systematically indoctrinated into a particular belief system based
upon this circumstance. our social norms, religion and diet are inherited.
our self-image is also largely a reflection of our family and community
environment. this circumstantial indoctrination slowly creates a mask over our
bodies, minds and spirits. the way we dress, talk, act and think becomes an
automatic expression of our circumstantial conditioning. we begin to turn into
predictable robots. little by little, we are wrapped in a mummies cloth. our
true self becomes lost; buried deep within. We fashion a social mask for
ourselves and wear it atop the mummy cloths. this mask represents who we think
we are and how we want others to perceive us. what we have in fact created for
us, is a synthetic, fantastical, delusion known as the ego.
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the west (euro-america) has successfully constructed a trillion dollar industry;
the mass media machine, which constantly bombards us with images that reinforce
the delusion of the ego. the media tells us that we are all separate individuals
living isolated lives. it suggests that all we have is this one short life and
so we ought to seek physical and material pleasures by all means. the constant
media images of wealth, celebrity, and differentiation create a self-interest
based reality within our minds. this delusional conceptualization is referred to
as the 'pursuit of happiness'. accepting this reality sets us out on an endless
journey towards the unattainable goal of happiness through worldly
pleasures/desires. the western media and educational system continually
categorizes us into 'the in group', and 'the out group', cool and un-cool,
winners and losers, rich and poor etc. in due time, and especially when children
are exposed to this conditioning from a young age; this divide and conquer
strategy succeeds at instilling within us deep rooted feelings of individualism
and separation.
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the public educational system, religion and television work together to limit our
consciousness. they each feed us a false version of the truth that serves only
to box us into someone else’s reality. this mental slavery is designed to
inhibit our ability to discover the real truth. the truth is the light, and the
light is empowering. the truth is within you. the way to the light is to
question everything! as soon as we begin seeking and questioning, the answers
are then revealed to us. the answers MUST be revealed to us, because the truth
is within us! the truth is within you!
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a good way to begin this evolutionary journey is to ask yourself the fundamental
questions of life such as:
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- what is life?
- what is existence?
- what happens after death?
- what is the purpose of life?
- who am i?
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make a promise to yourself that you will truly seek the answers to these
questions. chances are that you have been force-fed 'answers' to all of these
questions by your parents and family. remember, you were by chance born into a
particular culture and no culture has a monopoly on truth. so, if you think you
know the answers, then try to learn what other cultural traditions believe the
answers are. read diverse books, books from different cultures, watch
documentaries, talk to elders and pay attention to your body and spirit to see if
the information resonates with you. the truth is within you, your own spirit
will be your guide. question every thought and action that you have; let your
spirit confirm to you whether or not your present moment experience, and the
information you begin to attract is in alignment with truth.
- STEP 2. take control of your karma!
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the next step is to take control of your karma! this is very powerful and
important. karma means action. everything we do, think, feel or say is an
action. and every action has a reaction... karma is simple once you understand
it. the way it works is this: if you do something good, righteous, or pure;
then something good, righteous, or pure will come to you (in the future), if
you do something unrighteous, destructive, or harmful; then energy of like kind
will somehow, sometime return to you. it is like the universe is recording all
of your actions, and you continuously build up a positive balance or negative
debt to it (the universe). and always remember, no one ever escapes his or her
karmic debt!
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in order to be a creator and to have your dreams manifest with ease(as we will
discuss later); it is necessary to have clean karma. obviously karmic debt
(negative karma from past actions) will cause setbacks as seemingly random 'bad
things' (suffering) will occur in ones life; interfering with ones desires and
ability to manifest those desires.
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there are two ways to clean one's karma:
- endure suffering - most people simply pay off karmic debts by enduring
enough moments of suffering such that the negative karma burns off. this is
not the preferred method for obvious reasons.
- transform it - when we perform actions that would normally give us good
karma; but we have a karmic debt, then those good karmic actions will wipe
away some of the bad karma. good karma can be generated by anything from
selfless service to emitting/projecting love vibrations to other beings in
our environment. anything to do with peace, love, kindness, giving and
harmony will get you good karma.
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the key to taking control of ones karma is to be aware of ones thoughts. Our
actions are preceded by thoughts; but the majority of these thoughts some 95%
are subconscious (for most of us)! so, the key is to become a conscious being,
aware of all of our thoughts. a conscious being has enabled her/himself to
avoid negative karmic actions by filtering those thoughts out, and at the same
time to fill ones life with positive thoughts and actions; which will
eventually generate a lasting happiness and joy.
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in step 1 we began the process of de-programming our subconscious. now, we are
beginning the process of re-programming our subconscious with positive and
evolutionary thoughts/impressions of love, peace, joy, kindness, giving,
selfless-service and harmony.
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the only complicated part about karma is that there is individual karma,
collective karma (family and community karma), and past life karma to deal with.
they are all related. Healing one’s self necessarily heals the family and
community; and we should accept our past-life karma because we are always given
the necessary tools in the present life to overcome our circumstance and continue
the evolutionary process.
- STEP 3. listen to the sages
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many sages have come before us; they have walked this path and embarked upon
this journey that we are now choosing to follow them on. jesus, the buddah and
imhotep are a few, but there have been plenty others... in fact, you may know
one or two! all of the information you need to return to glory, purity and
wholeness is written in your dna; but, studying the insights of other sages can
help activate the divine codes in our dna.
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it is important to study scriptures from various cultures and traditions. The
spiritual journey of humanity is singular, as we are truly ONE. choose at least
three or four traditions that resonate with your spirit and study their
spiritual/holy scriptures. for example, it would be nourishing to understand
asian, african, indigenous american and european religion and spiritual texts. i
would recommend the 'bhagavad gita' from the hindu tradition, your choice of text
from buddhist and taoist traditions, the 'egyptian book of coming forth by day'
and your choice study of west afrikan spirituality from the afrikan tradition,
the 'popol vuh' from the native american (mayan) tradition, the koran and 'new
testament' of the bible from the european traditions (not that the koran or bible
are completely european).
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devote an hour daily to studying the scriptures, and then allow 30 minutes of
silence to reflect upon them.
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it can be especially beneficial to place an emphasis on your own culture. if your ancestors were afrikan, then you should seek to thoroughly understand afrikan culture, spirituality and civilization. if you ancestors were mayan or otherwise indigenous , then it is imperative that you re-connect with that culture and history; and the same is true for europeans. connecting with your ancestors can activate knowledge and wisdom within you that is very specific to your journey as a spiritual being. your ancestors have gained wisdom through their experience, and that wisdom and experience lives within you. spirit animates through culture, and culture provides the foundation and grounding that is necessary for ascension. so it is important to re-construct ones culture (way of doing things) such that it is once again in harmony with nature and the cosmos. the study of great ancient civilizations is one way to do this.
- once again, the knowledge within ancient scriptures and ancestral energy will simply re-awaken the divine wisdom that is already within your veins. so long as you are seeking with an open heart and mind, the truth will reveal herself to you.