tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34384365505601637322024-03-06T12:02:51.953-08:00COSMICBUHAYAscension, Cosmic Awareness, OnenessErle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-47692057497534220682017-02-08T00:53:00.001-08:002017-02-08T00:53:30.990-08:00ENHANCING DIVINITY VIA CANDLES, INCENSE, FINE MUSIC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">ENHANCING DIVINITY VIA CANDLES, INCENSE, FINE MUSIC</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Guru Ra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com/2010/04/enhancing-divinity-via-candles-incense.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com/2010/04/enhancing-divinity-via-candles-incense.html</span></a>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">May the Light of Divinity be with you
today!</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Fellows, I will write this time about the
topic of ‘enhancing divinity’ and some practical tools that can aid in inducing
such a state. The practical tools I have in mind are those that you already
have right in your hands: candles, incense, and fine music. I’m sure everybody
out there who understands the English language knows what candles, incense and
music are, so I need not belabor so much point to demonstrate what they are
(smile).</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">By ‘enhancing divinity’ I refer to
preparing your immediate environment, whether this be a temple or home
meditation spot, for prayers, meditations, and rituals. The environment must be
preferably one where the ‘energy of rest’ (feminine energy) is strong. Some Catholic
priests here in Manila have been complaining that holding masses in shopping
malls, a regular event now present in practically all large malls here, is a
bad practice, to which I concurred in the positive. Shopping malls are
predominantly of the ‘energy of motion’ and aren’t appropriate places for
meditative, prayer and ritual purposes. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Having established the parameter above,
prepare next the enhancers that you may need for your purpose. In some
practices, you may need holy water or ‘hyper-energized water’ as we mystics
call it. For this particular piece, I will delimit my clarification on the
functions of candles, incense and fine music among such tools for enhancement.
Ritual tools are particularly so many, so I’d leave that as a standard tool kit
for the end user based on his/her spiritual philosophy and group concerned. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let me begin with fine music. I’m stressing
here the word ‘fine’ as not all musical pieces are of the finely vibrating
frequencies. Fine music would be nature music, classical music, new age music,
Celtic music, soft versions of world music, and Gregorian chants. The list is
far longer, but suffice me to mention those that are readily available in the
nearest CD shops around or can be downloaded from the internet. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">You see, when you listen to fine music, and
listen with some intensity, you are immediately brought to a higher level of
focus and vibration. From ‘beta brain wave’ (normal conscious) you’ll be
transported instantly to an ‘alpha brain wave’ (beginning of altered state). This
is important, very important. It is only in the altered states of consciousness
that one can effectively send messages to the spiritual spheres and receive
messages from them. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dissonant music, such as metal rock, gothic
rock, punk rock and other related pop music forms, will do the exact opposite:
place you into dis-focus and keep you locked up in the dense spheres, unable to
communicate effectively with the higher dimensions. That is why spiritual
masters have cautioned people about the strongly Dionysiac music that dominates
the airwaves today, most of which are dissonant or do the opposite of enhancing
divinity. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When one is inside a bus or train and one
has to pray or feels like praying, but the music being played is loud or
dissonant, the remedy is to simply stay silent and begin with the opening
mantra. As always, we start a prayer with “In the name of the ….” And then end
with amen. This can do the work somehow of bringing you to focus at least, and
hopefully to an opening of the communication channels to the higher spheres.
End the opener with 3 Amens or Aums to ensure effect, and say it longer even if
this were in thought form, eg. Ammmmmmeeeennnnnnnnn lasting around 10 seconds. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">With your focus and shift to alpha state
done, you can then proceed to your next tools. You can choose to light incense
first or light candles first, or even light them all at the same time. The good
news is that lighting incense to enhance aromatic fragrance at home, and
scented candles as home decors have both become fashionable today. So it’s
getting easier and easier to find where to procure candles and incense.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Incense works potently to drive away ‘bad
spirits’ or unwanted entities in the immediate surrounds. This is its function:
as a cleansing agent. At home, you can choose to light two (2) pieces of
incense at a time. This is to make sure that the aroma is really strong. The
message to those unwanted unseen entities also gets stronger: they ought to
stay away from the area.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">‘Bad spirits’ bring along with them dense
vibrations or ‘bad vibes’. They shouldn’t be allowed to linger in the space of
meditation/prayer work, as they can suck out your energy or transfer dense
energy to you. Either way you can get depressed so suddenly, or even get sick.
Remember those morning risings when you suddenly have feelings of fear and
depressed without clear reason? A ‘bad spirit’ is around most likely inside
your bedroom. Better cleanse your bedroom regularly by lighting incense morning
and evening. When you experience that depression with fear again, light an
incense and drive away the unseen malevolent entity by saying “hekas hekas este
bebeloi” (away! away! all of you profanities) at least 3X, then end with Amen.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lastly, candles function to invite angels.
As soon as a candle burns, angels’ attention get attracted to its source. And
then they come forth to your sanctum for spiritual work. And as soon as they
arrive, the area’s frequency will be elevated some more, by a few musical notes
equivalent, thus enhancing divinity all the more. Not only that, the angels
also come to protect you from whatever danger may come while you are doing your
prayer, meditation, or ritual. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The tip here is that when you burn a
candle, as much as possible burn it entirely. Small candles are advisable for
home spiritual activities as they burn within less than one (1) hour. If you
have to leave the home after your activity, put off the candle but don’t blow
it off. Blowing off candles would negate or leave to zero the effect of your
petition. Instead, get a stick or teaspoon and use this to put off the candle.
Then you can always light the candle again when you’re back home.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do you see that practice of burning candles
during one’s birthday, making a wish and then blowing off the candles
afterwards? And they say your wish will be granted? Hello! Think again. If
someone gifts you a cake with candles on your birthday, better revise the
practice by doing the following: request your friends to form a circle and hold
each other’s hands, and focus on you as you make your wish. Burn the candles,
proclaim your wish 3X, end with “So be it!”, and then put off the candles with
your thumb and forefinger, and then explain to your guests why you didn’t blow
them instead. It’s party time, go ahead and say your wish loudly, but <i>por
favor</i> don’t blow off the candles for your own sake. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do the colors of the candle matter?
Affirmative, they do. The appropriate purposes for each color would be as
follows:</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">WHITE: Purity, balance. White contains all the colors of the
spectrum, so it can be used in place of the other colored candles if your
supply of the latter is suddenly short and got no time to buy at once. The
color of Christ. Also of the goddess Luna. Great hue for Monday prayer, day of
Luna. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">RED: Will, power. Chinese use this color a lot for feng shui
purposes and prayers. When you aspire to be more decisive since you lack this
trait, use a red candle for your prayer and even meditate on the candle itself
(focus on it, and visualize that power transferring to you). Sunday would be a
good day for Will enhancement. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BLUE: Protection, will. Saturday is a day for energy closures and
cleansing rituals, so blue candles would be preferred on this day. Color of the
dyani-buddha (archangel) Michael and his department. Exorcism rituals should,
as an imperative, use blue candles, located in all four (4) corners of the
exorcism spot. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ailments, including those healing that go after an exorcism ritual. For the
latter, violet is combined with blue. Healing involves a closure of energies,
so Saturday would fit for them. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">YELLOW: Wisdom. Sundays through Tuesdays would be good prayers for
wisdom enhancement. Don’t forget to use this color, combined with White, for
your purpose. Using the Chinese way, you can combine Red with Yellow candles
for wisdom enhancement.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">PINK: Love, devotion. All kinds of love (erotic, fraternal,
filial). Thursday is perfect for love rituals, prayers and meditations. Red
combined with White would be substitute in case your pink supply runs out
suddenly. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">GREEN: Money, knowledge. Want to have more cash inflows from a
certain transaction? Bless your house so that money will flow with bountiness?
Want to enhance your analytical, tactical, strategizing prowess, and be a
powerful thinker in work? Use green, on a Friday preferably. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BROWN: Planting & harvest, livestock. Brown candles enhance a
connection with the elemental world which supplies those forces that can help
in the growth, protection and harvest of plants. Same goes for enhancing
livestock growth, protection and harvest. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As to black candles, I’m sorry folks but I am not keen
on using this color or to recommend it. Maybe you can inquire from the people
of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Satan</st1:placename></st1:place> who may have the answers. I am
color blind to black candles, had never burnt a single one and will definitely
never ever use it for ritual purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I’ll now close the article at this point. The
enhancement and practices I cited above are already standard 7<sup>th</sup> Ray
practices, so I’m largely re-echoing what have already been known for eons. May
you note them well and practice them as well. Aum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 14 April 2008, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-10904673314035236582016-09-01T21:16:00.000-07:002016-09-01T21:16:02.123-07:00VOW BREAKAGE, DEMONIC BEHAVIOR: SOME CASES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Belated Happy Mothers’ Day to all mothers,
women, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Divine Mother! Glory be to our mothers!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I will substantiate today the thesis I made
in a previous article about the effects of breaking of vows. Vow-breaking is
the working of one’s ‘inner demon’ (see my article “Inner Demon,
Doppelganger”), it is as demonic as any criminal act. Vows pledged to certain
Orders are particularly those that will be dealt with heavy penalty by the
Karmic Board, and the neutralization of effects is something I have no idea
about for now. Let me meditate on that later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Meantime, just to show to you what the
deleterious effects of vow-breakage can do, let me cite some cases of brethren
of my libertarian-service Order, the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>.
As I said in a previous article, to my own shock, I found out that Leviathan
(Satan, Ahriman, Belzeebub, Anti-Christ) was himself actively involved in
fragmenting <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>,
and is likewise doing the same to many fellowship groups here and in other
fallen planets. Right now I see the same pattern happening in the charismatic
fellowship Couples for Christ, and pity this huge brotherhood it is fragmenting
at a time when it has been showing great strides in its social development
campaign (via the socialized housing Gawad Kalinga). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are some cases of what’s happening, as
the brethren of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
are now being engulfed by the most evil of energies from the 7<sup>th</sup>
Dominion of the Dark Side:</span></span></div>
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70s-early 80s. Committed to get active in reviving <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city> in 1994, promised me not to join the
Free & Accepted Masons. To my shock, he joined masonry, disappeared in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>. And secretly got
involved in gold smuggling overseas, through passenger plane operations….
Result: JM is today suffering from debilitating stroke. Slowly deteriorating,
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Philippine School for Business Administration. Committed to be active and help
me in reviving and re-engineering <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
to a grand order. Secretly got involved in overseas smuggling (gold, other
contrabands), with Yakuza partners. He got caught, jailed, then went back home
with brain damage. …Result: Since the mid-90s yet, he was a vegetable for life.
Lucky enough, he’s got a devoted wife to take care of him. He’s till
deteriorating gradually, and worsening by the day. Yet he lives.</span></span></div>
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but was half-hearted. Always found reasons not to get involved too much.
Disrespected the innovations that I was introducing to the Order. Till he
dropped out, around the late 90s…. Result: His wife divorced him, c 2001-02.
Past his 50s, as a development professional he can’t get a job above the
coordinator level, which makes him financially average if not troubled. Some
brethren, such as Brod Ronald (his former colleague in a NGO), parted ways with
him, on ideological grounds. At his age, in his own words, he said “hanggang
ngayon wala pang nangyayari sa buhay ko” (till now nothing substantial has
happened to my life). Coming from an intelligent man, who attended the premier
university, what a pity!</span></span></div>
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Annie M. Refused to even attend any of the Phoenix fellowships since after we
met him in Sept. 1994. His wife Annie wished so much to get involved again, but
was blocked by Cesar….Result: Annie began to suffer from debilitating cancer in
the 90s. For almost a decade she suffered. Then, around 2005, she died of the
ailment. Pity on this man, who knows not what he’s doing! I hope he won’t lose
his only daughter, so cute and beautiful like her mother Annie. Or lose his
advertising job, his only fund source. </span></span></div>
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chapter. He’s been appearing in past anniversary and other events in 94-98. He
showed enthusiasm to get involved, but always floated the excuse that he was a
family man, was active in civil society (Left), had no time for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>. …Result: Around
the late 90s, his wife suffered from debilitating ailment (apparently cancer).
In one surgery alone, his family had to spend nearly P400,000 which, in the
90s, was a fortune here. I never heard about him again till the 1998
anniversary. </span></span></div>
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suffering from psychosis in mid-80s. Was able to function in his job for a
while, till 1990. Before that, his wife Gina began a long bout with cancer.
We’ve been together in civil society for a time, and he was among those who
joined me to revive <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
in 1994. However, due to his lingering bout with schizophrenia, he couldn’t
keep focus. Only in 1999 did he become active. Did some appreciable tasks. Then
his wife died couples of years back. He’s still dysfunctional job-wise, he can
only do volunteer work and is a bum till now. Lately, he betrayed me and the
Order, put up another group with his factional pals, does not even know the
consequences of his own action. What would you expect? The perennial loser guy.
A jinx to his own family. Living a vicious circle. </span></span></div>
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as a mere loose club. Cronyist since we were youth, Jim had this aura of
creating an inner circle even if he superficially relates to brethren. He was
factional in youth, had Attention Deficit Disorder condition, was an
underachiever and phlegmatic in personality. Committed to help me in
re-engineering <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
in 1994. But he was so superficial in his behavior, ‘plastic’ as we called it
in Filipino, his commitment was half-hearted. In the 1990s his own wife, a
feminist leader, divorced him. He was simply unable to make his wife happy.
Even in the new <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
(grand order), he hardly did anything appreciable such as to build a lodge. He
recruited his cronies, and still aspires to build a club of his former activist
cronies. Then, in 2005 he betrayed me, slandered me before a former boss with
whom I departed ways for his group’s incompetence and unwelcoming behavior.
This was the last straw. Already guilty of treachery, this guy never even put
his foot forward to apologize, and instead moved to get his faction out of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city> and is now
building this club of cronies. What will happen next to him is worth observing.
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and chances are that by 2012 all brethren will see deaths to themselves, or
spouse or family member. Add to that the catastrophe of financial collapse,
debilitating mental ailments, or any disaster that would come in ‘surprise’
fashion. Nothing is surprising about their destruction, come to think of it.
They broke vows, broke with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
like it were some garbage of shit, and what would you expect? They unwittingly
unlocked the 7<sup>th</sup>-dimension Dark Energy veil! </span></span></div>
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the couples of vows that you may have broken in the past or are about to break.
As to the karmic penalties for the vow breakage, only the Karmic Board can fix
that and revise it with the help of certain Boddhisattvas. Question is, do you
even connect to Boddhisattvas? Do they even figure in your life paradigm? Save
your own souls, fellows. God bless!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Almost everyone experiences fear, among which is the
fear of the Devil. Why not re-examine your behavior, and one time or another
you’d be going through the rituals of demonizing people around you: neighbor,
fellow officesmate, Saddam Hussein, or anybody outside of you who would
exemplify the Demon-incarnate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Fellows, the demon is right inside of you, so please
don’t over-bother yourself with looking for demons outside of you. True, there
are ‘devils’ (fallen angels, negative aliens of the Reptilian type) and
‘demons’ (interdimensional demented beings) everywhere, but you failed to see
this Inner Demon inside of you. Mind you, we all have this petty demon inside
of us, and it matters how we manage to rise above its dictates on us—through
the Primal Self, or desire-driven pursuits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Inside of us too is an ‘etheric double’ that looks just
like us. It is our doppelganger, and at times it can disengage from us, show up
elsewhere and materialize right there, looking exactly just like us, and then
moves back to be re-integrated into your physical body. The doppelganger is the
repository of everything negative in us, becomes our ghost when our soul
departs with the astral body, and disintegrates after around 500 years or so.
Our Inner Demon necessarily nestles in the doppelganger, they are One. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Since we all tap Light from above, at varying grades of
intensity (masters and mystics tap the greatest), the question that arises is:
for what purpose do we use that Light? If 51% of the time the Light is used for
Primal pursuits, than chances are that we have become Demonic or moved over to
our Dark Side, ceased to be human, and is a hazardous Thing that moves around
freely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">If at least 51% of the time the Light is used for
service-for-others, loving others, productive pursuits, and constructive
engagements, than we end up more human at the end of our life. Better if 75% of
the time we use the Light or ‘spirit’ for higher purposes, and only 25% or
lower for primal-sinning purposes. This way, we have a chance to evolve a bit
higher, and when we reincarnate at some other time, we will be of a better
quality of being. </span></span></div>
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Tough question, fellow Earthan. Should we control our passions, thus ending up
with a tamed Inner Demon? Lucifer taught us that Path before, and it backfired.
I am myself not in frequency with those who use a ‘passion control’ method,
like the Born Again, fundamentalists, and their likes who are, in effect,
wittingly or unwittingly serving Lucifer. Controlling passions will only lead
to our repetitive return in the physical plane without nary a bit of soul
improvement. Lucifer saw the result of his flawed prescription, and he never repented
at all about it. Bad! Arrogant! From a Being of so much Light, a producer of
Light himself, who till the end of his “last breath” was producing Light and
sharing this to His own minions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The better way is through gradual deprogramming
renunciation. Gradually, deprogram each of your vices (opposite of virtues),
and then consequently build virtues. This is not the same as controlling
passions. On the contrary, if passions strike you while still young, go ahead
and flow with it for a while, and then realizing thereafter that flowing with
the Primal brings you down, then you yourself with rise up above the passions
and flow with the Light or beneficial energies instead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember the story of Mary Magdala? She rode astride
her Inner Demon for some time, both for survival (she has to make a living
through commercial sex) and probably for pleasure (sex, wine, controlling
people were damn good pleasures). Until the World Teacher, Jesus Christ,
arrived in her life and she had this paradigm shift. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, do you ever know of any occasion when Jesus
condemned passions the way Lucifer did? “He who hasn’t sinned will cast the
first stone,” was his candid declaration to the folks who wished to condemn a
sex worker & sinner. In that process, the respective Inner Demon of the
folks were projected unconsciously on the sinner, and as a matter of expiation
exercise they would have stoned their own same Inner Demon. And the horror of
it is that another person will die due to their own sinfulness. See? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">In some previous writings of mine, I already elaborated
on the matter of deprogramming of vices, building virtues, the use of prayers
and meditations for enhancing divinity, and related spiritual technologies.
They are the ones that are easily applicable and practicable, so I’m
recommending that you examine their efficacy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Again, fellow Earthans, let me repeat, the more
dangerous Inner Demon is just right inside of you rather than those external
ones. Even if there were 1 Billion demons and devils surrounding you, like they
did to the baby <st1:place w:st="on">Krishna</st1:place>, if you are vibrating
at higher frequency, are virtuous and possess a strong aura that is truly
protective of your being, then those Evil Ones will never be able to attack nor
destroy you. On the contrary, they would snub you, feeling frustrated and
giving up on their annoying abominations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">So, Dear One, please work out to tame your Inner Demon
and your doppelganger as well. Don’t enslave it as this will certainly lead to
schizophrenia. If you get to that point of manic-depressive disorder, your
Inner Demon-doppelganger will then invite external Evil Ones who will possess
you collectively. It may take another lifetime before the possession will be
corrected and healed. Or, you may end up becoming demonic yourself, and may
take many lives before you attain relative self-integration. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Learn how to dance with your Inner Demon and eventually
tame it, making it conform to your will. It can be done, mind you, yes it can.
The various teachers and masters have demonstrated to us the tools to do them.
Have the will, courage, patience, you will be able to tame this Inner Demon.
May you succeed in this noble task of yours. Carpe diem! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">At this juncture let me share notes about the
deprogramming of vices and building of virtues as an essential lesson in the
Path. These tasks are one and the same: you will advance in the Path by
building virtues, and building virtues is a matter of deprogramming vices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">You see, a lot of people are not exactly evil, yet you
see them existing here in 3<sup>rd</sup> Density or 3<sup>rd</sup> Dimension.
If they aren’t evil, then they must be good people, and so they are saints.
Wrong! Better listen to the late <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> President Abe Lincoln when he
registered the observation that “a lot of people don’t have vices but they
don’t have virtues either.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now, that’s a part of the human condition, nay the
tragedy of human existence. One lives here, isn’t exactly evil and possesses
probably nary a defect that is so gross as to be incapable of unlearning, yet
nary a virtue either to be adjudged as worthy of being counted among the wisest
and most sagely people. That’s why they are called folks: they do not at all
stand above others as to be called ‘extraordinary’ precisely due to their
virtues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The building of strengths or virtues is incidentally
making waves today among the most urgent traits that ought to be built within the
worksphere. Many management consultancy groups offer team building lessons or
‘social technologies’ that include certain tools about how to deprogram a bad
trait and replace it with a good one. Without realizing it, these experts or
consultants are very close to what the spiritual masters have been working all
along for eons now: of deprogramming vices and building virtues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, dear fellows in the Path, if you’d ask me a
question whether it’s alright to employ such tools for your self-development,
my response is a loud Yes. By all means, please go ahead and immerse yourself
in those workshops offered by consulting groups, organized by your company or
employer. Do not put attitudinal barriers into the said practices by saying “I
will only participate here because I’m required to and because it will be good
for my promotion.” Ride the tide, flow with the wind! For failing to do so, the
result would be disastrous: your own anxiety disorder condition may be
reinforced, rendering you one step backward in the Path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But indeed, before everything else, there must be a
constant realization within your part that you have a long list of bad traits
or ‘vices’ that must be deprogrammed. Failure to engage in that recognition,
and more so stubbornly believing that nothing’s wrong with you, that you’re
near to perfect, would ruin your chances of progressing in the Path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, begin by recognizing what those defects are. It’s
so simple a thing to do, and do it by fixing a schedule for the task. You can
do it inside your church, a coffee shop, an eco-park, atop a mountain while
you’re with fellow mountaineers, beside the sea, inside your home, or wherever
you find yourself most comfortable. Your listing can begin by reflecting on
your own observations about yourself. Then, you can proceed to the feedbacks
coming from other people, such as when they remark that you always come to
meetings late. If you are hard up in making self-reflections, then begin right
away with the feedbacks from others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now, to ensure that your esteem won’t sag so badly as
the long list of weaknesses might prove unbearable to your psyche, then come up
with a list too of your strengths. Your simple task in life is to maintain
those strengths and even possibly build them up even more. But don’t ever be
shocked to find out that your weaknesses may end up longer than your strengths.
Admit it, that’s life, that’s why we’re here in 3<sup>rd</sup> Dimension that
is our school for learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After determining the list of traits, both for
strengths and weaknesses, then begin a deprogramming schedule for the
weaknesses. This task is no easy thing to do, and please don’t ever brag that
in just a day they will be gone. Bragging itself is a vice, so if you are a
braggart, list this down as a weakness. Many braggarts suffer from Attention
Deficit Disorder and need psychiatric help as a tool to deprogram the trait. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For optimal results, take one (1) month to deprogram a
vice. If you meditate regularly, meditate on the vice for one (1) week, by
asking yourself first why do you possess such a weakness. If you don’t meditate
at all, then use prayer: before sleeping, ask your Guide or Guardian Angel to
give you answers as to why you are, for instance, a braggart. The answer will
come to you intuitively, mind you. For a yogi like me, the answers come in
pictures, like some 1 megapixel photos, flashing before my eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now, do immediately meditate or pray, right after doing
the diagnostic questioning, by deprogramming the vice. Here would be some tips
to do, whichever of the following practices you wish to use:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Meditation:
Visualize the vice you possess. Be creative in your visualization. E.g
consummate liar. You can visualize the trait as a huge, bad lizard that harms
people. Deprogram it then by visualizing that the lizard will be neutralized,
or killed. You can visualize an angel coming from higher space, coming down
with an unsheathed sword of Light, and tearing down the lizard to pieces. Do
the visualizations for a week.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Prayer:
Try to visualize your Guide or Guardian Angel standing in higher space in front
of you, assuring you that He or She is around to help you. Do pray with a
purple-colored candle, as this will help in the ‘healing’ process. Petition the
Almighty I Am Presence, thru the help of your Guide, to deprogram the vice for you.
Improvise on an invocation such as “My Guardian Angel will deprogram my
tardiness for me,” and declare it seven (7) times. Then end with Amen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After a week of meditation and/or prayer, observe the
results. It would always be best to observe the results in the social sphere,
in environments where people are around. Do this for the next three (3) weeks.
See the results by noting the feedbacks from other people. If you used to be
tardy and come to meeting late, and then your office mates will observe you changing
the pattern, then indeed the vice has been quite deprogrammed. All you need to
do is to sustain this new strength, then move on to the next deprogramming
schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For a vice to be effectively deprogrammed and the
corresponding opposite—virtue—will be built, I would counsel strongly that you
only take one trait at a time. Do not mix up two or more ‘evils’ and force a
deprogramming of them altogether. Note the term ‘force’ there: you are indeed
hurrying up too much by mixing up traits altogether. Remember that your
Unconscious Mind, which is the repository of the traits, has its own
complexity. It is best to get the cooperation of your Unconscious by working on
a trait one at a time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As to the observable or ‘visible vices’ such as
smoking, licentious sex, gambiing, doping, and shopaholic behavior, do the same
procedure. But assign a longer time frame for these ones. They may be caused by
childhood fixations and traumas, so it may take a bit more time to deprogram
them. I used to smoke a lot, and I found out from my own mother that it only
took a short time to breast-feed me as I was lactose-sensitive (I had to be
bottle-fed with soya milk). So, knowing my psychoanalysis fairly well, I
realized that my smoking has a great deal to do with the breastfeeding
deprivation, that smoking was compensatory for this unconscious lack of an
essential maternal provision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I kept on quitting smoking since young adult age, and
only got to quit it in the late 1990s as I already suffered from the following
by then: asthma, chronic tonsillitis/throat infections, sinusitis &
allergic rhinitis. My ‘mother body’, nay Mother Nature was telling me to please
quit smoking as this is a gross disrespect to my physical body that is the
vehicle of my very soul. In 1993 I even underwent tonsillectomy, but despite
this surgery I went back to smoking. Nicotine had a good way of keeping me
awake and the habit made my astral body a bit thicker instantly, and I was
getting to be more sensitive that year as my mystical awakening was fast unfolding….
Till I finally quit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do note that a lot of these vices were acquired via
past life learning experiences, so it isn’t that easy to unlearn them and
replace them with strengths. As to which lifetime did you acquire them, don’t
worry about the matter too much. Leave that to your Inner Guide or Guides, who
see you from a higher dimension. If in case that other people during those
lives may have been involved in learning the bad attitude or trait, then add in
the deprogramming a forgiveness of those people even if you don’t know who they
were. Just trust that the message will reach God Almighty, and this can
accelerate the healing process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Successfully deprogramming vices one after the other
and replacing them with corresponding virtues is like winning a war. It is in
fact a war against your own Primal Self. Every time you win, you gain more
merits in life and move ahead in the Path. Even in your career and/or business
you will succeed all the more. Those who succeeded the most financially are, as
per result of researches, precisely those people who have greater insights
about their own weaknesses and strengths compared to others. Read thru Jim
Dornan, Robert Kiyosaki and John Maxwell who are among top gurus of financial
success today, and you will hear the same things as I tell you now:
self-insight leads to greater financial success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So Fellows in the Path, learn from the gurus of
success. But most of all, do work out to practice those tools and turning
yourselves into jewels of exemplary behavior. It can be done, believe it. Amen.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 11 April 2008, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-43051206720388962212016-07-26T01:21:00.003-07:002016-07-26T01:21:57.452-07:00DREAM AS COMPASS TO SEEKER’S PREPAREDNESS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">DREAM AS COMPASS TO SEEKER’S PREPAREDNESS</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Good day, Noble Seeker!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">With certitude I’d reckon that you dream every time
your body sleeps. And if thou art Seeker indeed, your dreams are colored in hue
most often. Evolutionary Laggards dream in black & white and wouldn’t dream
as often as seekers and mystics. As a soul advances in the evolutionary path,
so does the access to higher vibratory climes increase, such climes thereby
appearing in ever greater colorful textures in dreams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Do make it a habit to keep tab of your dreams, Seeker.
At least keep a memory tab, at most maintain a daily dream journal. Dreams
reveal so much about our unconscious and superconscious states, we can’t afford
to throw away this ‘tool’ of self-reflection into dustbins just like trash.
Were it not for our problems of retrieval, which is a matter of short-term
memory, our dreams could be <b>total</b> guides to our daily actions and
routines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Interpreting dreams, however, is no layman’s task. So,
Noble One, please learn to interpret dreams with a modicum of mastery. In
ancient language, the term <i>exegesis</i> was used to refer to the
interpretation of texts, and <i>exegete</i> refers to the interpreter. Since
symbolic templates of life today are regarded as text in hermeneutics (art of
exegesis) and semiotics (science of signs), then it pays to be an exegete in
various respects: dream interpretation, exegesis of myths, interpretation of
body language, divination interpretations (e.g. tarot, palmistry, numerology,
astrology, runes, I ching), etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Necessarily, one must learn from the masters of
hermeneutics and semiotics to be able to interpret dreams with some degree of
accuracy. It takes some time to learn, but it is a rewarding thing to do
exegesis. Rest assured you will procure the greatest benefits from the exegetic
process, and you’ll feel a deep sense of satisfaction, sometimes euphoria,
every time you’re able to crack the codes behind the deeply coded messages in
your dreams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">To name a few representative masters: Carl Jung,
Sigmund Freud, Mircea Eliade, Claude Levi Strauss, Umberto Eco among social
scientists and philosophers; and, the theosophists H.P Blavatsky, Annie
Bessant. You can also review materials coming from popular literature about
dreams such as those written by psychics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">In sum, the said experts have contended that the
figures one sees in dreams, myths, and cultural symbols (e.g. totem) must be
regarded as <i>archetypes</i>. As Eliade clarified, an archetype is a basic
structure. In Eco’s semiotics, an archetype is a signifier—a representation of
a deeper meaning or structure, the signified. Exegesis basically entails an
appropriate unlocking of the signified meanings hidden behind the dream
symbols, in the case of dreams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Note also that the contents of dreams are often related
to the dreamer’s experiences in the lifeworld. For instance, when an ice cream
appears in one’s dream, this symbol appears on account of the person’s
experiencing of eating ice cream. This archetypal subject wouldn’t likely
appear in the dream scenes of a person whose entire life is spent in
hinterlands where ice cream isn’t an established fact of daily life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Dream themes could be a revelation of the following:
unfulfilled wishes, ailments that are about to surface, past life scenes being
replayed from ‘above’, events forthcoming in the next few days in the person’s
life (dejavu), prophecies about one’s country or planet, and lessons from one’s
Spirit Guide. Freud made very interesting contributions to first two forms (he
was keen most of all on mental ailments being a psychiatrist). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The lessons or messages from one’s own Spirit Guide or
inner space guru is what you the Seeker should be on the alert for as a sign
that you are about to enter the Path. Or, when you have already began the
ascent to the Path, the Guide can show signs that you have just graduated from
one stage or phase in the journey and you’re about to move on to a next phase.
Usually it takes seven (7) years to begin and end a phase, though if one
chooses to stop for a while in one’s lessons the period could be extended.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">In my experience, I first began to feel that something
uncommon was going to happen to my life when, as a pre-school child, I strongly
felt the presence of a mighty divine being, a figure I’d recognize later as the
Archangel Michael. His assuring presence (maybe I was networked to his
‘department’) made me take routes less traveled, such as to dream of becoming a
priest, knowing that God always watches me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Before reaching the age of ten (10) I realized how
different I was from my siblings. I was overly contemplative, introspective,
and nerdy at an early age. And somehow, deep inside me, I knew I wasn’t among
the Earth’s people. The daily course of materialistic life that I encountered
early enough shocked me so much that I longed to enter the seminary and say
goodbye to normal life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">My dreams were very colored in hue, so colored that the
dream objects were so real, beginning in early childhood years. Even the smell
of dream objects, like the smell of delicacies, grasses and flowers in the
fields, and animal dung were all so real, further multiplying the psychic and
emotional powers of the dream scenes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">It was at age 18 when I first encountered my mahaguru,
the Master El Morya, while in a dream state. I was already a 2<sup>nd</sup>
year university student then. I wished somebody else so wise and divine could
explain to me so many questions that the church people and mediocre spiritual
pretenders couldn’t explain at all, and were it not for the timely appearance
of my guru, I could have moved on to become an atheist for the rest of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought it was God who appeared to me in the dream,
as He blasted me with feelings of love so incomparably overwhelmingly,
encompassing and ecstatic. He gave me a lengthy message of love, encouragement,
and note about my future missions. I woke up weeping with joy and euphoria,
assured at last that a Divine Being takes care of me personally. From then on,
I intensified my lessons in the Path, reading voraciously a diversity of
topics, to wit: esoteric philosophy, yoga, ETs & UFOs, mystical science,
eastern psychology, paranormal science, theology and comparative religion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">From that time on, my mahaguru would appear every now
and then in my dreams. He guided me to the materials that I should read, made
me encounter my first yoga lessons right inside the classroom, meet interesting
people who were also fellow seekers, and so on. With the passing of time, I
recognized my great Guru as the Ascended Master El Morya, chohan (sort of CEO)
of the 1<sup>st</sup> Ray of the Great White Brotherhood. In the succeeding
dreams, he would appear more in archetypal form (often as a university
professor), while I would perceive his face directly as my mystical vision
opened due to yoga practice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve already entered several phases in my journey. And
in 1994 I graduated to a mystic level, no longer seeker but finally reaching
the initial ‘end of a journey’, when the Filipino guru F.F. sponsored me into
the Great White Brotherhood. My seeker phase had ended, but my mystical path
just began then. I still kept on seeing my master in my dreams, with the
addition of other masters in couples of other dream scenes thereafter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Just recently, more than a month ago, I dreamt of my
guru again, instructing me in many lessons. The dream scenes lasted for three
(3) hours. Some other fellow mystics were there with me during a dream phase.
In other dream phases other masters appeared. I just received lessons that
could last for over 1 year’s study, offered in just a single moment, which I
must gradually retrieve from my memory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">So, Noble One, similar experiences could happen to you.
You see, if you dream of your Spirit Guide offering you lessons, even when you
wake up to urinate, the moment you go back to sleep the same dream scene will
be continued. Or, there would be another scene, but it will till be the Guide
offering you lessons that will be the dream theme. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Take note that during the initial encounters with your
Guide, your guru may not appear to you in literal form. Rather, the
manifestation would be archetypal, e.g. beautiful large sheep radiating light
and peace to you. Or, the Guide could appear as your deceased Grandma or
Grandpa whom you cared for so much, so the Guide will make use of your
grandparent’s image to bring messages to you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I recalled the narrative of a fraternity brother of
mine, Glen B., whom I personally initiated into my wisdom brotherhood, the
C.L.. He revealed to me and some brods one day that I appeared to him in a
dream, offering him sublime lessons. I was so elated at his narration, and told
him that it was his very own Guide and not me who actually appeared in his
dream. I was happy because it was a sign that, as a mentor, I succeeded in
catalyzing the link between a young seeker and his Guide. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">So, Noble One, enjoy reading your dreams, these being
exciting, fitful compasses to your journeys. Bon voyage!</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">KNOW THYSELF </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Know thyself!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">That sounds like a tall order of a command.
It really is no command but a task, a lifelong task. It fused together ‘know’
and ‘self’, the task being to ‘know the self’ in its totality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Self-knowledge is knowledge of a very high
order. This we mystics are very much aware of. We regard self-discovery as the
last frontier, the frontier of ‘inner space’. To be able to make adventures in
‘inner space’ and discover truths along the way is the very task of a seeker or
knower. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">To take it for granted that you already
know yourself, or pretend that you know yourself 105%, is pure hubris. On the
other hand, to be so disabled from knowing the self, so much that you cannot
even think of qualities that indicate your personality and level of
psychological integration, is a mark of deep fragmentation and disorder. Both
tendencies must be discarded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">It pays to know the self. Today’s gurus of
success are very right in their contention that persons who have greater
insights about themselves get to become more successful than those who don’t.
Robert Kiyosaki and John Maxwell, who are on top of this chain of success
gurus, have declared this contention very explicitly and kept on re-echoing it
in their various writings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Know the self well, as this is the way to a
more successful future. This is another way of writing the formula. To put it
in mathematical language:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Success = fn (self-insight)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Success = A + B X (Self-insight)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Where A = Goals in life</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">B= Pace of acknowledgement and absorption
of self-insight</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The Teaching is so filled with methods for
self-insight, methods and information that past gurus have already shared to
the world. You can go ahead and study them well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Take a look at astrology and numerology.
They are examples of methods for self-analysis and insight devised by masters
in antiquity. It pays to study them well. The better if you do the study
yourself rather than rely all the time on an external agent (numerologist,
astrologer) to do the analysis for you. There are information packages that
would be best for you to find out for yourself, as you derive the information
intuitively.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As a young yogi in the making, I did study
numerology and practice its analytical powers on myself and my former students
(1980s, 90s). Numerology, using the combined Pythagorean-Chaldean methods,
worked so wondrously that each person done with a reading exclaimed their
mighty accuracy of up to 90% most often. The lowest self-assessment I received
for efficacy was 80%, with 20% error. The highest was at 95%. That high
precision renders numerology into a great scientific tool!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Learn as many methods as you can. Study
Jung, Freud, Maslow, Erikson, and other personality psychologists. Study also
the methods for examining abnormal psychology, so that you will have an
advanced method of self-integration assessment. Nobody is perfect, each one of
us has degrees of personal fragmentation that’s why we’re here in the physical
plane. So please take pains to study the methods and even undergo psychological
tests from time to time. This is for your own good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The last thing expected of you is to
declare that you’re perfect okay and other people are very defective. If you
make this self-claim, please see a psychiatrist as you delude yourself with
grandiose states. You may need to be locked up in an institution, the better
for you. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me articulate at this juncture the last
of the 7<sup> </sup>Ray Lessons that I wish to stress: Serve God and His
Creations! I will begin with some reflective notes on the sociological ‘law of reciprocity’
which the masters made known to us through the ‘golden rule’. I will
incorporate in the discourse the reflective notes on libertosophy that I
elaborated in my book <i>Libertosophy and Freethought: The Path of Illumination
for Libertarian Freethinkers.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sociologists and anthropologists alike
discovered the ‘law of reciprocity’ across cultures. In philosophical sense,
this law is an axiological standard and is at the core of ethical teachings. On
the positive sense, it is stated: “Do for others what you want others to do for
you.” In the negative sense, it is stated: “Do not do unto others what you
don’t want others to do unto you.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In libertosophy, I outlined three core
principles regarding the liberation project: (1) to be able to attain
liberation, one must liberate others; (2) only the free can set other people
free; and, (3) liberation must be done within the context of the social world
(never in isolation from people). They are all inter-connected and mutually
reinforcing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Teaching is clear that one must
practice yoga (union) and attain union by (1) immersing in the social world,
(2) observing mutual devotion with your fellows, and (3) doing mutual service
unto each other. In no way should one opt to attain nirvana via a total
detachment, by meditating inside caves, by retiring in monasteries early in
life for successive lives, by a prayerful attitude and yet manifesting
anti-social behavior towards fellows. Only under exceptional cases should one
do yoga in isolation, such as when one has been exhausted due to over-immersion
in the social world for successive lives. In which case, one will be allowed to
meditate in isolation by your Mahaguru (e.g. Christ) for an incarnation or two.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But after some times in isolation, your
Mahaguru will again remind you to go back to the social world or ‘lifeworld’.
At the minimum, one might be allowed semi-isolation, through a monastic life,
in which case one is in the company of a group and can then conduct service
with a team of monks. At the maximum, one must immerse fully “with the crowd”,
practice a profession or business for a while, and then retire early so as to
do the work of a Teacher. Another option would be, based on good karma in past
embodiments, to incarnate you in a wealthy family so that you need not have to
work for a living. For the latter experience, you as an advanced yogi-mystic
can catalyze your ascent to Master status and become a Teacher early in life,
such as Paramahansa Yogananda and his teacher Sri Yutekswar Giri, both of whom
came from wealthy families.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among the current gurus of financial
success is Robert Kiyosaki, writer of best-selling <i>Rich Dad, Poor Dad</i>.
In his books, Kiyosaki emphatically reiterated the need to do service unto
others, by sharing your graces to others. He said succinctly that “the more you
give, the more you receive.” Without need to mention, the trait of stinginess
speaks of negative backlash. But very graphically, Kiyosaki did stress the
dangers of becoming greedy as this would lead to disasters in one’s financial
life. Though Kiyosaki is no yogi, couples of core wisdom lessons were
articulated by him that reverberate the wisdom of the ancient masters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let it be clarified that there is not one
fixed form of service. The 6<sup>th</sup> Ray gets manifested in diverse forms.
By praying for others, whether singly or as a team, one does service to others.
By extending financial gains to the less fortunate ones such as the clients of
a hospice, one does service. By doing relief works for those affected by
calamities, one does service. By washing the feet of priests during special
occasions, even if such priests are dogmatic and sinful, one does service. Who
is without sin anyway? “He who is without sin will cast the first stone,”
declared Jesus Christ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the emerging contexts, service as a
manifestation of deeply divine principles has been steadily increasing. So
powerful is the subtle force behind the 6<sup>th</sup> Ray that even capitalism
itself has been transformed from the greedy money-bag capitalism of
yesteryears, which has no moral philosophy whatsoever, to that of ‘corporate
social responsibility’ capitalism or ‘compassionate capitalism’. Many young
executives are turned off by purely money-making concerns, even as some other
top echelon executives demand that, prior to their appointment as CEO of a huge
conglomerate, CSR must be considered first and foremost. The noble CEO Mr.
Licuanan, who steered the Ayala Group for sixteen (16) years, whose leadership
led the said conglomerate to grow to multinational scale, made such a demand on
the corporate patriarch Don Jaime Zobel de Ayala who empathically listened to
him and granted his demand. Look at the enormous stride in the growth of the
Ayala Group with CSR at its core principle of operations, which has diversified
its investments from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manila</st1:place></st1:city>
to overseas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many other young executives, fresh from
MBA, choose to shy away from the corporate world altogether. Rather, they opt
to serve the NGO sector, or the Non-Profit Associations. In a recent research
conducted by me lately about international consulting think-tanks, I was amazed
at the trebling of numbers of such young executives who serve international aid
organizations and non-profit think-tanks, risking their lives in the poor
regions of the emerging markets. This trend is bound to grow exponentially as
the years go by, rest assured.</span></span></div>
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whose nature is to help others in their financial lives. Among these
enterprises, network marketing is the fastest growing form. It is among the
least understood enterprises, because people are fixed to the old ideas of
doing business: pure old capitalistic profit-seeking. Per my own research,
network marketing socializes teams of marketers to help out each other, via the
adage “the rising tide will lift everybody up.” The members of a team can’t
afford to claw at each other like crabs, for the demise of one could redound to
the demise of the entire group. The team members observe the lesson that you
must help yourself first, and when you gain profits than you can have the extra
income to help the less fortunate. It makes a lot of sense, this network
marketing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It surely pays to listen to the new gurus
of success including those who brought network marketing to maturity such as
Jim Dornan of Network 21. They first of all stressed on the power of the team
approach, and the norm of helping each other out. In the process, network
marketing and related modalities are very potent at deconstructing the ‘crab
mentality’ in the lifeworld. Converging with CSR at some junctures, the new
modalities for ‘compassionate capitalism’ may lead to some other modalities in
the future, and reformat the world from old-world capitalism to altruistic or
‘community economy’ within a broad context of Information Society.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Understood in another sense, the lessons
say “do not hoard what you have, learn to be self-sufficient but when resources
permit, share your blessings to others.” Among the various thinkers in the
scientific community, it was the Erich Fromm who discoursed on the dangers of
the principle of hoarding. He articulated this well in his books, such as the <i>Art
of Loving</i>. Hoarding is among the counterproductive traits, and the greater
we hoard in life the more we become objectified or depersonalized. Liberation
becomes expressed, among other things, in more productive behavior such as
loving, sharing, or those related to “being” that make us all more ‘human’ in
the process. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The creation of a ‘compassionate society’
has been the obsession of many thinkers particularly those on the Left. “Serve
the People!” declared Mao Zedong, who secretly was an engaged seeker and was no
atheist. This society, in their mind, should also be a ‘rational society’, so
that the cognitive principles of ‘rationality’ should harmonize with the
non-rational axiological principles or value-based rules. They envisioned
integrated societies, where the detached rationality of modernity would
harmonize rather than clash with the value-based axioms of the ethicists and
spiritual masters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At this point, let me stress the narrative
of Mother Theresa of contemporary <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This great soul is the
exemplar of a saint or master who ascended to the level of a Mahatma or
Ascended Master via the Path of Service. It pays to contemplate and meditate on
her wisdom adages regarding service and love. She counseled us all to do
service no matter what response (indifference or sympathy) would be exhibited
by the recipient of your altruism. Even if the recipient hates or scorns you
for your behavior, love and serve them just the same, quipped this indubitably
holy being. No wonder that she won a Ramon Magsaysay Award (<st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>’s
Nobel prize) for service, which she truly deserves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We sorely need the likes of Mahatma Theresa
today, and we miss her so much. But we need not worry much, as her likes left the
world with large cadres of Godly servants who are referred today as
Lightworkers. The increasing presence and influence of the Lightworkers is
changing the social landscape of the planet. Every institution of society will
more or less be transformed in the decades ahead, as the numbers of
Lightworkers increase all the more and their altruism becomes the sacrosanct
standard behavior. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One last point that I need to stress is the
distinction between the “service-for-self” and “service-for-others”. Because altruistic
service had become pervasive for the last successive decades, there are those
hoarding-oriented or egotistical types who rode the wave by exhibiting
“service-for-self” behavior. In this case, one does service so as to be noticed
by others. It isn’t serving others due to a “call of the heart” but rather due
to selfish pursuits. It is service that won’t allow you to ascend for sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After our periodic conduct of service, it
would be fruitful if we meditate on the service that we have delivered. We can
make self-assessments whether the service is egotistical or altruistic. It
would also be great if some sensitive souls among our fellows (seekers,
mystics, masters) would help us in our self-assessments. It should be the job
of a spiritual Teacher to be a seeker’s mirror or feedback-giver and
self-development counselor, but with the reality that we have a scarcity of
teachers this option is equally scarce. If one is already well connected to
one’s Inner Guide, then the guide can be a surrogate for the teacher and can
share the feedback through dreams or intuitive thoughts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To conclude, let us all be like Mahatma
Theresa, and let’s hasten the construction of the ‘compassionate society’. Let
us serve God, our Fellows, Mother Nature and her biological endowments, and
show the greatest respect for all life forms around us including minerals. Who
knows, the 6<sup>th</sup> Ray could be the last lingering alchemical agent that
could make one ascend to the next level of soul evolution. Try it, amid risk,
for God Almighty provides the blessings in your Path and protects you along The
Way. </span></span></div>
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Tat Sat Om. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">In this article, I will stress the need for
filling up another important ‘glass’ in one’s Path: the ‘glass of Will’. As I
have repeatedly echoed in previous articles, faith alone does not suffice to
make one ascend the Path towards liberation or salvation. One must fill up
other ‘glasses’ of life as well, one of which is the ‘glass of will’. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">If life were likened to war, then one must
have both lance & sword to be able to gain mileage in many battles to
fight. This kill weaponry tandem is equivalent to the Will, a trait that one
can’t do without in life. It is Will that keeps one moving in life, and so is
it Will that will propel one to climb the Heights of inner transformation. For
it is truly a matter of climbing mountains, this task of moving ahead in the
Path.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The need for Will-bearers in society led
the Hierarchs to evolve a particular class of humans to perform this role: the
Warrior or ksattriya class. From among the warriors came a special class, the
King, who wasn’t only endowed with Will but was also with extraordinary occult
powers like unto the shamans’ or magicians’. The Warrior class, being the
embodiment of Will, became the models for developing the traits that were
subsidiary to a strong Will.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Weak will leads to stagnation and death,
while strong will leads to greater life and liberation. Subsidiary to Will are
the following traits: Courage, Audacity, Decisiveness, Self-Determination, and
Organizational Ability. Without these traits, human society will flounder and
self-destruct. Mutual faith/devotion is as good a pasting material as we can
ever imagine, but without Will to enforce the norms of mutual devotion, human
associations will self-destruct and society fragment altogether.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Gone may be the Warrior as a class, but in
its stead had evolved the ‘Leader Class’. In all sectors of society, there is
that high expectation to exercise leadership. Necessarily, the exercise of
leadership would require leaders. In political society, we have the Political
Class as a subclass of the Leader Class. In the military/police organizations,
there is the Officers’ Corps. Among the various professions, we have the
Executive Class. Among civil society groups, there is the Mass Leader. Within
the Priesthood, there are the Bishops, Patriarchs, and Imams. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">There simply isn’t any sector today that
doesn’t manifest a need for leaders. And no one sector will ever enforce a
lesson of “be weak, remain lowly and weakly in esteem, for thou art of the
weakest types.” No Sir, the lesson is for one to follow the leaders and, in due
time, for one to emerge among the leadership of the organization, group, or
sector. And various discourses have emerged to articulate the need for
leadership, the traits of a leader, the concomitant need for organization, and
determination as a core ingredient in achieving success in business,
professional life, and financial life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Warriorship—and the Kingly class that it
spawned—was originally a response to the need for Rulership. The Rulership
principle, being a universal/cosmic principle, must be forged in all the
dimensions of human life. Rulership begins first of all with one’s individual
life: one must be Ruler unto one’s Self. The philosophers Plato and Aristotle were
so adroit at their observation of this principle, that both contended for the
need to be King unto one’s Self without reserve. Without the capability to be
King unto one’s self, it will be futile to be King or leader unto others. </span></span></div>
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where the need for leadership and role models among diverse “In-groups” must be
exhibited. Sociologists have done enormous studies on the lifeworld, using the
scientific tools of sociometrics to examine the elements of social distance and
leadership. Max Weber theorized about the ideal types of authority to explicate
leadership types in various contexts: traditional, charismatic, rational-legal.
The principles and elements discovered and articulated by sociologists
eventually overflowed into the new science of management.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Within the context of formal organizations,
the principles and practice of management have already developed to a very
highly complex, sophisticated level today. In the evolving context of
Information Society, new principles are being innovated on which were largely
absent during the time of Weber, Taylor and Fayol, the fathers of the science
of bureaucracy. Ouichi’s Theory Z, for instance, elaborates on the trend
towards more decentralized, autonomous, participative leaderships. The
excitement in the sciences of organization and management is a never ending
story, and I myself wish to continuously get updated about them as a
sociologist and practitioner of organizations and institution-building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Onwards to the highest levels of expression
of social organization, the need for Rulership remains invariable although the
forms for those at the national, regional and global/international ones do
manifest their own peculiarity. At this juncture, we have reached the point
where the need for a global state has become irreversible, and sooner or later
we will have such a polity at hand. ‘Political Will’ shall then be exercised
with greater resolve, and international fiats executed with more teeth than
before. Otherwise, in this continuing situation of ‘anarchy of nation-states’,
we might end up blowing each other apart and destroying the planet through
weapons of mass destruction due to our stubborn intolerance towards
differences. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">So, as one can see from above, it is
sacrosanct an expectation to develop Will and its subsidiary traits to be able
to climb the Heights to the ‘mountain of salvation’. To be able to forge a
strong Will requires intense studies on the subject, intense focus on modeling
one’s behavior from the mentors of Strong Will (executives, leaders of
professions, high political leaders, etc), and practicing leadership in real
life contexts when opportunities for such present themselves. One must also
develop the sharpness at recognizing when a context is filled with opportunities
for exercising leadership. In both normal and contingent situations, such
opportunities present themselves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As to the study of the subject, it pays to
get some formal studies on leadership, organization and management in whatever
form. Even when one had already accomplished a program degree or special course
on leadership, one must go on and continuously update oneself about new
developments in the field. As many leaders (officials, managers, supervisors)
have found out, refresher courses make such strong dent that the practitioner
gets to be reminded of both flaws and appropriateness in one’s supervisory
behavior after a management workshop. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">It is also very enlightening to do
self-assessments about one’s own weaknesses and strengths regarding Rulership
or leadership principles and practice. Many of the weaknesses and strengths are
results of one’s own socializations in previous lives which overflow into the
present embodiment. Some others are results of socialization processes in the
present embodiment. The lesson, which the 2<sup>nd</sup> Ray shares unto us in
our learnings of the 1<sup>st</sup> Ray, is to sustain our strengths and
overcome our weaknesses. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Overcoming weaknesses, through diverse
methods of learning and unlearning, is no easy process. But it is a possible
undertaking nonetheless. Overcoming the Fear complex is at the core of ironing
out weaknesses, and this begins with identifying one’s various fears. A listing
of fears could result to a long list, and one should better be honest about
them. Honesty about fears will facilitate one’s unlearning of the said traits,
while dishonesty will only lead to possible scorn from observers. No one can
ever fake Will when one lacks them in certain contexts, since other people are
there to observe you. So better be honest, recognize your weaknesses and
gradually work out to deprogram them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Those fears that are learned complexes from
out of traumas in life, both past and present embodiments, are the hardest to
unlearn. For instance, the habit of obese eating, which could make one mightily
overweight, could be traced to a previous life of starvation and death. And so,
in this present life, the unconscious fear of starvation leads to indulgent
eating habits and obsessive food storage. Therefore, no matter what weight reduction
and slimming programs one goes through, the same obese habits would come back
and weight lose efforts fail. One must then go through a healing process to be
able to solve the problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As already mentioned in the previous
articles, self-development tools and applications are exploding today.
Addressing Rulership-related problems can gain much headway from using such
tools. What I wish to emphasize here is for you to add the tool of yoga
meditation (and prayers too) to unlock the causes of fears and related problems
and take out the dense energies from one’s Unconscious Self. If the fear
complex is very deep-seated, schedule at least a week to meditate on a
particular fear trait. If the fear complex borders the abnormal or
dysfunctional, then better consult a psychiatrist in addition to practicing
meditation and prayers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">In my own experience, joining the radical
mass movement, at a time of Martial Law, demolished my wimpy or low risk-taking
attitude. At age 19 I was initiated via the ‘baptism of fire’, by being posted
at the frontline of an Anti-Dictatorship protest rally in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manila</st1:place></st1:city>’s <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Rizal Avenue</st1:address></st1:street>, and was cruelly truncheoned
by cops. I admittedly almost urinated with fear and terror on that occasion.
But things changed as I joined and led mobilizations against the dictatorship
and post-dictatorship regimes. By the time I became a national leader of civil
society groups, I no longer had the goose bumps when I faced cops in protest
rallies. Many of my warrior traits acquired in previous embodiments that remained
dormant in my Unconscious were released along the way, strengths that have
since been with me as professional and leader.</span></span></div>
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disappeared, a disdain that developed during the terror times of Marial Law
(1972-86). I was already a yogi and mystic in the mid-90s when I led national
mobilizations by teachers against unjust economic and educational policies. At
that time, when I looked at the cops in front of my mass formation, I could
only see people who were doing their own duties, many of whom feared the mass
in front of them. Yoga had changed the way I look at duty. I hope that both the
activists and cops learn to meditate and face each other as people doing their
own duties respectively.</span></span></div>
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miss out on the <i>Bhagavad-Gita</i> among your readings on leadership and
organization. The sublime thoughts of Sri Krishna are compressed in this book.
It is one exquisite piece that integrates High Wisdom into the practice of
warriorship. It begins with being possibly struck by the ailment of
indecisiveness while one is already in the midst of battles, and what wisdom
lessons to practice to overcome the ailment and win the war eventually. The
lesson says: win the war within one’s self first, in order to win the greater
war ahead of you. What discourse can possibly deconstruct such a recondite
principle, if ever? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">For this moment’s reflection, I
would focus on the rationale behind living a prosperous socio-economic or
financial life. Those with Piscean mindsets still think in terms of ‘Money
versus Spirit’ dichotomy which, to my mind, is a flawed mental construct. This
article will deconstruct that old fogey line, and advance the following thesis:
we all deserve to live prosperous lives and reproduce in our micro-lives the
abundance of the cosmos.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I will simplify my contentions
by referring to the works of three (3) divine beings: Jesus, Buddha, and ‘Earth
Store’ Bodhisattva. From Jesus via his apostles we will employ the aphorism
“from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” (see <i>Acts
of the Apostles</i>). From Buddha we will borrow the adage “Right Livelihood!”
culled from his 8-Fold Path (see <i>Dhamapadda</i>). From the Bodhisattva we
will cull the axiological link between prosperity and good karma (see <i>Sutras
of the Earth Store Bodhisattva).</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Livelihood—economic life and
the institutions that arise in its fulfillment—is intended as a legitimate
response to a core attribute of the human soul: craftsmanship. This trait is
the 3<sup>rd</sup> Ray, the ray of art. It is wise and divine to enable all
humans to practice their respective crafts. Conversely, it is foolish and evil
to obstruct and bar humans from developing their crafts. Souls can only advance
in the Path by each one’s filling up of shis (his/her) ‘glass of crafts’. This
is the core rationale of the imperative “Right Livelihood!”</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Everyone possesses abilities, a
fact that Jesus and his Apostles (who were Ascended Masters) declared in the
Teaching. “From each according to shis abilities” (I revised the adage a bit to
include Her in the beneficiary list), says the aphorism. This line is very
deep, as it is the start of economic theory. The line implies that all of us,
possessing respective abilities (crafts), encounter each other with our
diversity of crafts that complement each other. If we meet in a common niche,
with our crafts and the products of our respective craftsmanship, than we have
a ‘market’ going. Needless to say, without abilities, there will be no market
at all. This Jesusian-Apostolic line is the ‘supply side’ of the economy.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Buddha’s imperative adage of
“Right Livelihood” is the externalized response in fulfillment of practicing
certain crafts. The word “right” implies an opposite “wrong”. It would be
virtuous an act if each member of society will be provided ample opportunity to
practice shis crafts, hence the term “right” in the imperative. Conversely, it
would be a commission of injustice if people are compelled to practice crafts
that do not cohere with what they were trained for or what they’ve mastered.
And, it would be awefully wrong if individuals, due to their lack of
self-motivation and drive in life, do not train in certain crafts, practice
them, and earn their keep, thus rendering these persons parasites for life. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">No spiritual master ever
mandated that Lightworkers shouldn’t practice crafts or livelihoods, or should
live extremely ascetic lives. On the contrary, they forewarned about the
dangers of asceticism. Except for those persons who have declared their main
tasks as praying & meditation, and who opt to live a monastic life,
everyone else who is “kasinlakas ng kalabaw” (as strong as the carabao) must
practice crafts and livelihoods. Anyone who is as “strong as the carabao” but
who refuses to labor out of laziness and low self-motivation, whether rich or
poor, will face the karmic consequences of shis misbehavior. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Let us now reflect the other
side of the Jesusian-Apostolic adage, “to each according to shis needs.” This
is the demand side of the economy. It is that side where various responses to
the needs of people can be fulfilled through industries instituted by market
players. Hereof we will take the line on the micro-level view: the level of the
individual producer. If a producer practices crafts, then shis needs can be fulfilled.
Since Buddha declared the imperative “Right livelihood” as sacrosanct to the
Teaching, then we can integrate this into the Jesusian-Apostolic thesis to
elicit the following model:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Abilities (Crafts) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Livelihood </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Needs</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">From the foregoing model, we
can see that a person possesses abilities that are translatable to crafts or
professions. A person should go ahead and hone shis talents up to the greatest
extent. In the emerging Post-Industrial or Information Society, it is most
fitting to study up through the PhD level and post-doctoral programs, aside
from attending special seminars, as strategies for enabling
capability-building. In today’s development argot, it is but fitting to build
up one’s own ‘human capital’, and per declaration in international treaties and
agreements, the ‘right to livelihood’ must be observed by all nations. If one
were to practice the vocational-technical crafts, then the person should go
ahead and hone the crafts up to the highest levels of mastery. Because
craftsmanship practice is a constitutive part of soul evolution, to re-echo the
theme.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As far as this note is
concerned, it is erroneous to associate the Path back to God as a mere chanting
of the name of God in multiple bhakti or church expressions. As expressed in
other articles of mine, to reduce spirituality to faith/devotion is
reductionist hogwash. Each one of us was provided by God with ‘glass of crafts’
as well, and given not merely our ‘glass of faith’, so we should strive to fill
up our respective ‘glass of crafts’ along our evolutionary path. Failing to do
so, we will face the karmic consequences (see the Bodhisattva’s elucidations)
of such a misbehavior. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In my own analysis, failure to
hone crafts—as much as possible a plethora of crafts across all of the 7 Rays—across
our re-incarnated embodiments will be tantamount to rendering ourselves as
‘laggards’. This theory explains, to a great extent, why we have so many
laggards today, whom psychologists classified as the idiots, imbeciles,
borderlines, below average-intelligence persons, and retardates. We also have
so many phlegmatics who, in my analysis, were an improvement over the laggards,
were once laggards in past lives and are no longer in that state today, but
whose learning paces are so slow compared to the smarter members of society. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">On the other hand, following
from the law of karma’s explications, many of the poor folks today, including
those millions of street people or waifs, were once very wealthy and powerful
persons, but who squandered the opportunities available before them, lived
vicious lives in some past aegis. As we have declared in the 2<sup>nd</sup> Ray
lessons, we must build virtues along the way to be able to ascend the Heights.
Live wealthy lives now, but live your life viciously, and guaranteed in the
next lives you will end up eking out to survive in the streets or as lowly paid
slaves of employers. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">But if one lives a prosperous
life today, and sustains virtues-development till one becomes transformed like
unto the finest gold internally, and the same soul follows the virtues and
expectations along the other Rays of life, then, as the Bodhisattva assured,
s/he will receive protection from above in this life and on to the next. More
significantly, this Virtuous One will live prosperity again in the next
embodiment, assuming that this person will still need to come back in the
physical plane to complete the karmic cycles. Accordingly, those kings who live
virtuous lives, will be returned as kings in later lives. A simplified
causality chain is shown below:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Abilities</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Livelihood</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Prosperity
w/ virtues</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Prosperity
in future lives</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">End of
karmic cycles (Nirvana)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Come to think of it, no one is
doomed forever to be poor. Even if one bears with them the bad karma of past
lives and begin with sloppy financial lives today, through relentless practice
of the Teachings, with yoga meditation at the core, one can deprogram the past
karma, re-program the present embodiment into a new timeline, and end up life
prosperously. Nothing is impossible in the cosmos. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As to the honing of talents,
the teachings of many gurus of success today are encyclopedic. Seekers should
go ahead and learn from these gurus. One can encounter them as readings in the
university, both in the bachelor’s and graduate degrees. One also encounters
them in the vocational-technical schools, where certain instructors have
incorporated them in their human capital trainings. The gurus have written
their pieces in formulaic designs in order to make the lessons simpler and
effect their diffusion down to the most motivated phlegmatics, maybe even to
the laggards. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Among the latest crop of gurus
of success are Robert Kiyosaki and John Maxwell. I’ve reviewed Kiyosaki’s
books, beginning with the <i>Rich Dad, Poor Dad</i>, and found his teachings
very sound and practicable in today’s context. Maxwell’s CD-packaged lessons
are amusingly substantive, and are excellent tools for success. On the
macro-economic side, there’s Robert Reich with his <i>Work of Nations,</i> John
Naisbitt with <i>Megatrends</i> and <i>Megatrends Asia</i> meant for the aspirants
who desire to anticipate what opportunities are brewing in the planet. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As I have declared in my
workshop lectures on entrepeneurship to marginal families, don’t ever wait for
“guavas to drop from the sky,” but rather do work out to “produce the guavas
yourself by cultivating them.” In other words, the pro-active strategy is to
create the opportunities from within your niche, rather than simply wait for
those opportunities to come to you on silver platters. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Should opportunities shut
themselves out, and opportunity-building gets shut off so unexpectedly at a
given juncture, than assess the causes right away. Accept the responsibility
and don’t blame others. If there are imbalances in your home, than apply
geomancy principles and practices such as feng shui. If you maybe relentlessly
attacked by invisible forces, then do an energy closure by consulting shamans
who can do the closure operations. Protect yourself with the necessary energy
and balancing aids, mantrams, geomancy tools, and so on. And continue to build
virtues within you. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As I was reviewing the works of
contemporary gurus of success, I noticed right away their very emphatic
contention on the significance of building and exercising virtues as part of
success-building. Greed and arrogance are among the most sordid vices or evils,
and many who have fallen in the prosperity grid were observed to have been
greedy and arrogant all along. Virtues related to livelihood, the virtue of
serving others, the virtue of continuous studies and re-invention of oneself,
the virtue of high determination, the exhibition of good attitudes at all times
are among the core traits underscored by the same gurus. I was bent on agreeing
with them to the fullest, even before I finished reviewing their works. There
can never be any argument against building virtues. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Seekers, move on and chart
a life of prosperity. Let me end this note with the line: Perfect thy crafts
and practice them with virtues, and the heavens shall open themselves up to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">[Writ 07 October 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-53454435915986286732016-06-02T01:19:00.002-07:002016-06-02T01:19:27.336-07:00SCIENCE, THE DIVINE AND THE NIRVANA PROJECT (Seekers’ Lesson 4)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">SCIENCE, THE DIVINE AND THE NIRVANA
PROJECT (Seekers’ Lesson 4)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat! Good
afternoon to you all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Before everything else, let it be clarified
that this note intends to advance and articulate the thesis that science is a
way to the Divine. Knowing is an inherent trait of the soul (or 5<sup>th</sup>
body), and given that all souls were emanated sparks from the divine Godhead,
then science is an endowment from the Almighty I Am Presence and is among the
seven (7) essential ways or paths back to the Godhead. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let it be clarified further that science—as
the enterprise that seeks to build knowledge—is not only limited to material
science. The other core category is spiritual science: knowledge of the higher
ontological domains called ‘spiritual dimensions’, the purpose for their
existence, the intelligences inhering in them, and most of all the knowledge of
the Almighty Cause of all Causes or ‘God’ (from Teutonic Godin, related to
Nordic god Wodin or god of the woods, related to the Nordic deity Odin). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A Seeker is one who, after filling up shis
(his/her) ‘glass of faith’, must move on to progress in the path by filling up
shis ‘glass of knowledge’. For a Seeker, it doesn’t suffice to just believe in
God. It must be proved, by way of scientific methods—established for both the
material and spiritual sciences—that the higher ontological domains and the
intelligences inhering in them do exist. By employing the very accessible
scientific method of yoga meditation—in its advanced form—such domains and
intelligences can be observed and known.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So the lesson for Seekers is: learn the
sciences for both domains, the spiritual (with 3 dimensions) and material (with
4 dimensions), study them arduously, learn the methods and theories about them,
the rules about the establishment of knowledge, and internalize the scientific
attitude in daily life. Not only that, as explained in the fundamental article
on the 2<sup>nd</sup> ray, a Seeker must adopt the critical thinking that
pervades the sciences whenever s/he does a task of interpreting texts
(exegesis). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Discourses on science are tough ones, so
bear with me, Noble Seekers, as I am a scientist myself: a sociologist,
economist, and ‘social technologist’ (technocrat). As Seekers you have chosen
particularly the 5<sup>th</sup> Ray (science) and 2<sup>nd</sup> Ray (wisdom)
as twin sub-paths congealing into a singular Path, so please digest
knowledge-based discourses no matter how tough they are. I’ll try to simplify
them, worry not about the digestibility, masticate the discourse well and quaff
them with ‘glasses of wisdom’ for more efficacious comprehension.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">To move on, science is a systematic,
institutional response in fulfillment of a basic human attitude: knowing.
Situational adaptations demand knowledge, adaptations to complex situations
demand complex knowledge. Knowledge manifests in two essential forms: science,
or ‘know-why’ (pure knowledge), and technology, or ‘know-how’ (applied
knowledge).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Knowledge must be further converted to
information, or those quanta of knowledge that are used to make decisions or
choices. Such a conversion process requires a fundamental strategy of how to
make do with information that seems to be almost always imperfect. The degree
or level of intelligence would determine to a greater extent the appropriate
identification and efficacy of any strategy applied thereto.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Incidentally, human society is moving
towards the Information Age. In this Age, which had in fact already begun but
which is just in its infantile stage, human engagements will be largely
knowledge-based. Daniel Bell, Alaine Torraine, and Alvin Toffler elaborated on
this coming Age very deeply and successfully. This rising context brings
enormous luck to Seekers, precisely because the emerging context will demand
the Seeker-type souls who will, in the main, come to dominate this society as
it matures in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Needless to say, human society will go
high-tech, and only those who are most adaptable to the new context will
survive in it. Fact is, only the aboveground of the physical plane now remains
in this infantile state of Information Age. The underground cities, of which
there are more than a hundred (please do your respective research on this), and
the worlds or cities of the higher planes or dimensions, are exceedingly
high-tech aside from being high-Spirit (take this as a given). So it pays to
understand science very substantively and adapt adroitly to the technological
developments evolving. We aboveground people need to catch up with our
underground and other-dimensional siblings, and likewise those advanced
siblings in the other star systems and constellations who are able to travel
across vast spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If your evolutionary level is lower than
that of a Seeker or advanced Devotee/Believer at least, and you cannot catch up
enough for reasons that are largely internal to you (such as the laggards do),
then necessarily you must be transferred elsewhere. You aren’t fit on Earth,
which is itself evolving and will climb from 3<sup>rd</sup> density to 4<sup>th</sup>
density very soon, so you better be shipped out to less evolved planets that
would fit you most. The moment that the planet moves to 4<sup>th</sup> Density,
misfits (not necessarily ‘bad guys’ or ‘evil ones’ but simply slow learners)
won’t be able to adapt to the vibration of the planet and to its demand for knowledge-based
smart living. Forcing the slow learners to stay here later will leave them
highly fragmented and perpetual schizophrenics, unable to digest and comprehend
what they see and feel. Pitiful siblings, but out of compassion let us give
them what they deserve: the chance to continue evolving in contexts that fit
them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Practically all of you have already begun
your science studies in fact. And, chances are that many of you Seekers who
browse this website are scientists, technologists, and professionals who deal a
lot with information: ‘Information Workers’. But many of you may not know where
to begin your inquiries on the mystical or spiritual sciences. So I can give
you some tips here, your fellow Seekers can input some other tips, and your
Inner Guide will lead you to the bulk of the reads.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I presume that you are familiar, if not
adept with the structure of the scientific enterprise. This you learned in high
school yet. The notion of structure was well articulated in the 1<sup>st</sup>
half of the 20<sup>th</sup> by the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Vienna
Circle</st1:address></st1:street> thinkers and the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:place></st1:city> school, with their followers
extending the discourses until the 1960s. You can examine for instance Hempel,
Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Wittgenstein, Russell and
Popper and see how they treated the matter of structure. Positivism was the
dominant paradigm then. Planck, Shcroedinger, Heisenberg and Einstein, on the
other hand, represented a variant of relativism that challenged the objectivism
of the positivists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">On the mystical/spiritual side, the
outstanding giant is no other than Helena P. Blavatsky, the mind and heart of
Theosophy. She and her team mates—Hodson, Leadbeater, Bessant, Olcott—began to
establish the contours of spiritual science at the tail end of the Victorian
Era (late 19<sup>th</sup> century), tasks that spilled over to the first three
(3) decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. It took just a single figure,
Blavatsky, to deconstruct devastatingly the arrogant contentions of the
classical Evolutionists who regarded change as a very static, linear movement
from one stage of life to another. In place of lineal evolution was
superimposed a cyclical theory of evolution, which already shows the seeds of
the evolving paradigm of ‘dynamics’. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The contributions of the theosophists were
very monumental, by my own admission. Although I do reserve certain critiques
of their discourses, notably regarding the ‘Lucifer question’, I appreciate the
monumental and indispensable contribution of the theosophy team. Remember that
the said thinkers, all of whom were Teachers or gurus in quality, were battling
wars on two fronts: on the objectivist front were the atheistic scientists who
shamelessly reduced science to a mere building of knowledge about the material
world; and, on the subjectivist front, the vulgar spiritists comprising of the
churches and their legions of Pied Pipers who slandered the theosophists no
end. I’m sure you’d agree with me that it was a very, very tough war, with
uphill battles fought on many sub-fronts at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After the Blavatsky team, many mystics
tried to fill up their shoes and hats. But, sad to note, the post-theosophy’s
outputs paled in comparison to the thinker-gurus. What you, Noble Seeker, must
do is to gather the different bits and pieces of information about the works of
other mystics so you can erect the tapestry of spiritual science yourself. For
instance, the contributions of Paramahansa Yogananda and his guru Sri Yutekswar
Giri are of paramount importance, per my assessment. Among contemporary mystics
you’ll discover the contributions of Sal Rachele who, like E.Argonza, was
trained in the sciences and can handle the toughest scientific questions from
sub-atomics to cosmology (see www.salrachele.com). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sadly, many mystics and psychics are
channelers who by my estimation do not measure up to the accepted standard of
an epistemologist and scientist. They came straight from experiences of
spiritism and healing, and without the proper grounding in scientific precepts
and meta-language, they tend to misrepresent spiritual science into a
hodgepodge of seemingly unrelated quackery with nil scientific credibility at
all. There are too many of them over the internet, even as many before the
internet days have published materials that sound low-tech and approach
spiritual science from a defensive, superstitious position. Without mentioning
names, I would honestly say that they are a disgrace to us Lightworkers. They
should better stick to their spiritism and healing works and leave science to
the scientists, technologists, and epistemologists among seekers and mystics
who abound in great numbers today. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">One more thing to note: over the past three
(3) decades, there was a marked shift from questions of structure to questions
of process. Today, being among the students of the latter thinkers, I tend to
view science and the knowledge pursuit from the vantage point of process, even
as I am nauseated by the antiquated fixation to structures and elements, and
the flaws of its paradigm ramparts (systems theory, neo-evolutionism,
structuralism, uniformitarianism, psychoanalysis, structural functionalism)
which, thanks heavens, have all become obsolete before the turn of the century.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For your own sake, for an understanding of
the contemporary issues involved that are process-centered and transdisicplinary
(borderless science), I would recommend that you review the key works of the
following thinkers:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer: Founders of the ‘<st1:place w:st="on">Frankfurt</st1:place> school’, they were among the earliest defenders
of ‘inter-disciplinary’ and transdisciplinal (borderless science)
methodology.These were elaborated in scattered articles. Adorno’s <i>Authoritarian
Personality</i> is an example of cross-disciplinary method, by integrating
sociology, psychology, and medical science (psychiatry) to explain the rise of fascism
and nazism. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thomas Kuhn: He dovetailed on the notion of ‘paradigm’ as focal
category for understanding scientific revolutions. Kuhn is an excellent thinker
on the history of science. The key work is <i>Structure of Scientific
Revolutions.</i></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jurgen Habermas: A dissection of the interests inhering in
knowledge led Habermas to infer about the logic inherent in theories. He
clarified the emergence of three paradigms—positivism, hermeneutics, critical
theory—on the basis of inherent human interests. Go straight to his core work <i>Knowledge
and Human Interests.</i></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Michel Foucault: He disclosed the connection between knowledge and
power, and the process of how Discourse emerges from that link. He is a
brilliant thinker on the history of ideas. The book <i>Order of Things </i>is
the fitting start of his works regarding scientific methodology.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jacques Derrida: Advanced the thesis that ‘writing’ (referent for
text in general) preceded speech. He also innovated on the method of
‘deconstruction’. His works have enormous implications for scientific modeling
purposes. The work <i>Of Grammatology</i> is a fitting start. Follow it up with
<i>Writing and Differance. </i>[Note the distinction between the terms
‘differance’ and ‘difference’.]</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: This team of thinkers
elucidated the preference, in terms of modeling, for the ‘machinic discourse’
in contrast to the pervasive ‘organismic discourse’ of previous thinkers.
Reality moves like unto a machine that keeps on rolling, without bordered
elements. The team also advanced the ‘transversal’ (transdisciplinal) method of
establishing knowledge. The machine model has much kinship to fluid dynamics,
which is the preferred model of Chaos Paradigm. Go straight to their work <i>Anti-Oedipus</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As to scientific discipline, the attitude
in science is one of humility. No scientific theory can be regarded as fixed,
absolutely pervasive and applicable throughout time. More so, there is no such
thing as a Theory of Everything or TOE. Every scientist, no matter how
brilliant s/he may be, can only contribute to a fragment of the cosmic tapestry
of knowledge. Such a situation explains the humility of scientists and
university professors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Go ahead in your scientific pursuits, Noble
Seeker. For the scientists and technologists among you, it is highly
recommended that you take up advanced degrees up through the PhD level.
Remember, you are not only preparing for ‘this life’. We are all preparing for
the ‘afterlife’, and your learned knowledge and information will have a strong
bearing in the other planes as well when you go back there. Go ahead and please
conduct research, present papers in conferences before scientific peers, and
publish your outputs in reputable journals. Bro. Erle is well with you in these
S&T efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">To conclude, let me echo the note of one of
my most revered thinkers, Jurgen Habermas: let us transform knowledge into a
liberative pursuit, and allow the knowledge-bearer to apperceive the
transcendent in the process of knowledge pursuit. Knowledge is liberation.
Amen. <st1:place w:st="on">Om.</st1:place> Aum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[October 2007, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:city></st1:place>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-75109488323897779222016-05-20T01:39:00.000-07:002016-05-20T01:39:05.343-07:00STUDY THE WISDOM LESSONS (Seekers’ Lesson 3)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">STUDY THE WISDOM LESSONS (Seekers’
Lesson 3)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Greetings in the Almighty God’s I Am
Presence, Noble Seekers!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For this moment’s reflection, I’d stress on
the need to read and study the wisdom lessons or ‘the Teaching’. The essential
attitudes to observe regarding the Teaching goes by the social marketing line:
Read Everything, Question Everything, Doubt Nothing. Let’s go over these
attitudes one after the other. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Read Everything!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Read and study everything that would come
into mind as contributing to building a reflective, contemplative, wise self.
This is a very important aspect of your own ‘capacity building’ efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">It’s up to you to define where to begin.
Fact is, you may have already begun. In my case, I began with the Holy Bible:
page after page of it, hungry with knowledge and wisdom, I quaffed every wisdom
note that I could procure from both the Old and New Testaments. It’s the King
James version, coming from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
brought to my ancestral home by my gifted, genius grandfather. I was 15 years
old when I first went through it…. So, you can begin with scriptural materials.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There are many of you there who may find
scriptural materials as quite nauseating. “Geek! What Stone Age kind of things!
What Greek stuff!” (pardon me, dear Greeks!) Alright, if you’re this type, then
maybe you can begin with controversial materials. I was 17 when I read the
first controversial, mystical material, <i>The Spear of Destiny</i> by Trevor
Ravenscroft, a British white magician. The book came from my own biological
mom’s collection (we all have a Divine Mom, remember!). I almost went
ecstatically orgasmic while reading the stuff! More such materials came later.
You can do the same.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Maybe you can begin with the conspiracy
materials. Those among you who are fond of detective novels can perhaps be
titillated with conspiracy stuff. There’s <i>The Hiram Key </i>by Christopher
Knight and Robert Lomas, <i>Their Kingdom Come/Inside the Secret World of Opus
Dei </i>by Robert Hutchison, and more reads. There are so many reads on this
stuff on internet by the way, and most likely so many of you Seekers have
already done research on them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Perhaps the esoteric philosophy materials
could be your entry point. These texts go by their wisdom traditions:
Theosophy, Kabbalah, Essene, Gnosis, Druid, Eleusinian, Sufi, Esoteric
Buddhism, Esoteric Christianity, Freemasonry, Anthroposophy, Mayan, Native
American, Babaylan (Malayo-Philippine), Veda, Vedanta, Tantra, Tao, and related
items. You may focus on just one tradition, but I’d highly recommend that you
also do research on the others across time. I began with theosophy, circa 1980,
I guess because these lessons were largely those synthesized by my guru El
Morya and his team, which he then passed on (channeled) to HP Blavatsky and her
team. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Transdisciplinal materials could suit you
as entry point. They combine philosophy and sciences’ discourses into an
exquisitely woven singular material. <i>Tao of Physics </i>by Deepak Chopra is
an excellent example of the transdisciplinal type. Zecharia Sitchin also writes
using transdisciplinal methodology, which you will observe in such books of his
as <i>The Wars of Gods and Men</i> and <i>Divine Encounters.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">You may be drawn the strongest to psychism
and magic. Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings would be fitting start ups. Ravenscroft
is also into this genre. U.S. Andersen’s <i>Secret Powers of Pyramids </i>is
another example. Wicca could also be worth reviewing for you. Materials on
evocative magic may also attract you. There’s also sex magic, such as the <i>Toaist
Secrets of Love</i> by Mantak Chia. Materials on prophecy and futuristics made
by mystics and psychics are related ones. Go ahead, please read them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble Seekers, there is no fixed
formula as to which reading to start. Feel it from your heart, take away those
barriers of mind that could deter you along the path. But never forget: read
all of those generic materials as much as possible. They are all important.
Stay away from thoughts that “these are more important than those ones,”
“scriptures are Stone Age and irrelevant,” “My God! Scary New Age stuff! That’s
Lucifer’s footnotes!” If you think this way, thou art no seeker at all.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Question Everything!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Oh My God! That’s
wonderful!”…”My God, those texts are exceedingly wise! I’d follow them all!”
“Look at Deepak Chopra! He’s great and superman! I’ll read only him from now
on!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hello! Aren’t you Seekers? Only the cult
devotees romanticize certain teachings and texts and tend to look down on
others as filthy and small-time. Read everything, but also add the element of a
critical mind while you reflect and contemplate on the texts. Never worship the
texts or its writers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I am a Filipino, and I was reared to a
great extent in Anglo-Saxon philosophy that was brought to the islands by the
Americans and the post-colonial scholars. I was also schooled at the University
of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(main campus), where the critical tradition is dominant and sacrosanct till
these days. The Germanic-continental tradition is an addition in my alma mater,
the sociology department. The critical tradition has been with me since, and I
find the critical mind very helpful for reflection purposes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I was also trained as a
scientist—sociologist and political economist—and I always bear with me the
thinking that every text that I read contains errors or gaps. No text
whatsoever is so perfect that it would withstand the test of time and be
all-relevant for all times. There also is no such thing as ‘Theory Of
Everything’ or TOE, and I’m allergic to any contention about certain texts
categorically declared as meta-narratives fit for all situations and
explanatory of all phenomena. That’s pure dung!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Always allow some space for critical mental
process, for some questionings. As in any scientific work, there always is a
possibility of 10% error. As a scientist, I’m already very happy when critiques
would say I’m hitting 90%. Upon releasing my book <i>13<sup>th</sup> Gate
Unveiled,</i> a prophetic-futuristic book about the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>, ASEAN, and the
Aquarian Age, I was gladdened by a note from a fellow mystic Rachel Somera when
she claimed that I was hitting 90% accuracy. What a high mark for an amateur
prophet!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In my own experience of readings on
theosophy, I was almost completely mesmerized by the brilliant synthesis of HP
Blavatsky. Her team mates—Hodson, Leadbeater, A. Bessant, Q. Judge—were all
able mystics and thinkers, and met my expectations of what Teachers should be:
as Thinkers first and foremost. But their treatment of the ‘Lucifer Question’
got me raising questions. This gap somehow led to the adoption of Theosophy as
a foundational reading by secret societies of Fallen Ones such as Hitler’s <i>Germanenorden</i>.
One gets the feeling that “Lucifer is Cool!” after going through the Lucifer
aspect of their reflections. I don’t buy that part. And I was led into further
research to get clarified about the ‘Lucifer Question’. I’m still researching
on the Lucifer item till these days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Not only that. The time-frames used by
Blavatsky in her estimations of the evolution of human generic types—called
‘root races’—seem unbelievably and overwhelmingly long! Is this the only way of
looking at time periods or timelines? It is more apparent to me that Blavatsky
& team was largely seeing reality, including time period and the
evolutionary pattern (cycical), from the focal lenses of a paradigm (to use Thomas
Kuhn’s term). I was right in my questions as I stumbled upon texts, such as
those written by the fellow mystic & teacher Sal Rachele, indicating the
paradigm-fixation of many texts. Needless to say, our view of the time periods
can also change, the timelines of ancient history can change, depending on the
paradigm we employ in our analysis or exegesis of the templates of life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I should like to share more questions here,
but space doesn’t allow. To end this portion, Noble Seekers, go ahead and raise
questions. Keep tab of them, jot them down if possible. These questions will
lead you to do research all the more, and this is what ‘seeking’ as an attitude
is all about: texts should be able to provoke you into raising questions, and
into doing inquiries along the way. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Doubt Nothing!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When you are able to raise questions
properly—meaning to say, the texts passed through your inquisitive eyes and
critical mind—than you can move on to ascertain truths about realities. The
truth criterion, in my mind, is still a very relevant criterion, and I do not
go along with the contentions of the post-modernist about the matter who regard
the truth criterion as hubris. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Anything that is absolutist is a
questionable thing to me. Fixed Idea is dangerous and obnoxious. But it is
equally dangerous and obnoxious to throw away the truth criterion. “Aha that’s
passé! There’s nothing today but the all-luring power of Desire! The Primal!
What truths are you talking about?” That’s the line of the followers of
Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Baudrillard and the post-structuralists, and they are
entitled to their opinions. But think many times before you regard the truth
criterion as trash.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Nothing can stop you from perceiving facets
of reality as paradigmatic: you can observe them from different angles, and
your inferences or conclusions will depend largely on the vantage point from
which you perceive them. For instance, in Theosophy, the ontological dimensions
are thought of as comprising 7 dimensions of existence, with 7 corresponding bodies
of man. There are some other texts that have a different view, as they employ
the ‘density’ category rather than ‘dimension’ category. Accordingly, there are
’12 densities’, we are 3<sup>rd</sup> density humans in the physical plane,
that the planet will evolve shortly into a 4<sup>th</sup> density planet, and
so on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There may be variances in inferences due to
paradigm differences, as observed above. But one thing is certain at least: the
physical plane, where we live, isn’t the only ontological dimension, and that,
logically and empirically, there are dimensions higher than the 3<sup>rd</sup>
dimension or 3<sup>rd</sup> density. And because of this certainty, I will
never doubt the existence of beings in other dimensions, as they can be
empirically observed and known. And I will never doubt the existence of the
all-pervasive, all-guiding Almighty God, as both inductively and through yoga
meditation I am certain of the existence of the Highest Cosmic Being and of
ontological planes higher than the physical plane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I’m not saying that doubting is a bad
thing. What I’m saying is that in the end, you must establish certainties based
on the truth criterion. That would be the start of increased wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So here we end, Noble Seekers. Prepare your
own research agenda, trust your Inner Guide in the process, and you’re into
this version of ‘magical mystery tour’. Good luck in your enquiries!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 04 October 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-79701815182080529602016-05-05T17:32:00.002-07:002016-05-05T17:32:46.004-07:00YOGA MEDITATION: SCIENCE & CRAFT (Seekers’ Lesson 2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">YOGA MEDITATION: SCIENCE & CRAFT
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Magandang umaga sa inyo! Good morning to
you all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I’d summarize to you at this moment what
yoga is: as science and practice. Yoga means yoke, a signifier for union. One
who practices yoga would want to re-establish a union with the God Self even
while the practitioner still resides—in bio-physical form—in the physical
plane. There are too many materials on yoga, and a lot of teachers too, so
please go ahead and learn from those materials and teachers. I will summarize
in this article meditation as a specific yoga practice. As a clarification,
this is only a beginner’s meditation kit and not one for the advanced types
(mystics, masters).</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Meditation as Science</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Yoga meditation is a
science first of all. It is a method that is the least costly, available for
free or for a minimal cost (if acquires it via a workshop), and safe. It is
effective in expanding awareness, increasing one’s vibratory frequency,
increasing intelligence, acquiring information/knowledge using higher
intuition, harnessing beneficial energies (chi, cosmic energy), and integrating
life experiences and the self into a coherent tapestry. One can deal with it in
the manner of an experiment: go through it, examine the effects along the way,
and compare your pre-yoga and yoga meditation practice periods. </span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Meditation and the Psyche</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Meditation is a
psychological undertaking, a fact that adds to its scientific import (science
of psychology). It comprises a part of the reflective-introspective chain, to
note: focus</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">contemplation</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">meditation. Meditation is not identical to
contemplation. But contemplation can be the start of a meditation session.
Focus is needed, of course, as one cannot contemplate and meditate without a
foundation of focus. Meditation, as method, increases a person’s power of focus
and contemplation, in that it provides order and integration to the two
processes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In addition, as an integrative tool, yoga
meditation can help stabilize those fractured aspects of the lower self. For
instance, if one is emotionally unstable, meditation can aid the practitioner
in healing the emotional body (astral body) and harmonize it with one’s
cognition (mental body or mind), bio-physical body, and ‘social self’. If the
social self is fractured, which causes personality disorder conditions
(manifesting in suicidal ideation and sociopathic hostilities), meditation can
also be employed to heal and stabilize this aspect of the lower self.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Purposes</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. The purposes or goals of yoga meditation
must be made clear to the person before practicing it. In planning practice, we
divide goals into the general objective (main goal) and the specific
objectives. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For all seekers, it should be clear that
the general objective (long-term or strategic goal) is self-realization or
God-realization. They mean the same. Self here means the higher self, while
realization refers to the awakening and functioning of the higher self (or
God-self), and its direct interventional guidance over one’s lower self or ‘psyche’
even while one is physically awake. For most people, their God-selves are
asleep most often, which makes the folks somnambulists or sleep-walkers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">With the inner eye focused on such a goal,
one can then move on to the specific objectives whenever one meditates. These
specific objectives should accrue to the attainment of the long-term goal. Use
meditation, for instance, in looking for a house fit for your purposes (yogi’s
house type), spouse to marry, jobs to take, studies to undertake, heal ailing aspects
of yourself and/or physique, travels to make, speeches to write, and so on.
These specific purposes are often tied up to your needs, both felt needs (of
the moment) and those that are arising or yet to emerge. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There are those people who mentor inquirers
into using meditation for opening up the 3<sup>rd</sup> eye. This is psychism,
and I declare categorically that I am not among the mentors of psychic crafts.
Think many times, Dear Seeker, before you embark on this purpose. Without
spiritual awakening and sterling virtues developed in the Path, you will just
use those paranormal powers to control and manipulate people, to aggrandize
wealth and expand your ego. I am a Teacher of the Path, not a master of
psychism. </span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Craft or Practice of Meditation</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Meditation as a 7<sup>th</sup>
Ray practice often goes hand in hand with prayer. Prayer’s function is to send
messages to the higher spheres, while meditation’s function is to receive
messages from the same spheres (including from your higher self). In my
practice, I often pray before I meditate. Prayer helps one to establish focus
& contemplation quickly. It will also help one to invite higher beings such
as an <st1:place w:st="on">Archangel</st1:place> or Angels who can protect you
while you’re meditating. Let’s go over the process one after the other:</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Abdominal state</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Meditate at least 1
& ½ hours after taking a meal, or 1 hour after taking an afternoon snack.
It is bad to meditate when there’s too much food in the stomach, as the mass
will block the flow of chi (vital energy) and can make you feel bad in your
abdomen. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Schedules</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. I presume you are the
urban/suburban Seeker, busy with work schedules. So do your meditation in
staggered manner. When ‘capable’ of meditating in full (1 hour per day),
meditate for 20 minutes upon waking up (before bath & breakfast), 20
minutes inserted in the morning, and 20 minutes before sleeping. Or, if time
permits, 30 minutes upon waking up and 30 minutes before sleeping. If you can’t
meditate while in the workplace, then meditate after work and before you take
supper.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Duration</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. When you’re just
starting, begin with a regimen of just 10 minutes per day for at least 1 month.
On your 2<sup>nd</sup> month, raise it to 15 minutes per day. On the 3<sup>rd</sup>
month, raise it to 20 minutes total. On the 6<sup>th</sup> month, go ahead with
a total of 30 minutes per day (e.g. 10 upon waking up, 10 at daytime, and 10
before sleeping). Every 2 months thereafter, add an increment of 5 minutes per
day for each month, till you get to 45 minutes per day on your 12<sup>th</sup>
month or 1<sup>st</sup> year. Stay at that schedule for another year. On year
2, begin a regimen of 1 hour daily, and stay at that schedule for at least
seven (7) years. Please don’t jump ahead by forcing a 2-5 hour regimen per day
during that 7-year period, as this will abruptly open up your chakras, both
major and minor. Such regimens are more fit for monks and not for you Seekers. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Where to Face</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. East or North would be
the best cardinal points to face for both prayer and meditation processes. If
you meditate using the prostate or supine lying position, then your head must
face east or north. My bed faces east, and I meditate using the supine post
most often, and it’s been having great effects for me at this cardinal point,
rest assured. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Positions</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. A simple squat with
your legs crossed in place of a lotus position for the non-Indians, as our
physique were conditioned differently from Indians. Or, sit on a chair, but
don’t cross your legs. Chin up, as this will connect your ‘lower terminals’
with your ‘higher terminals’ more easily (don’t ever bow your heads, except when
you do your brief prayer before meditation). Or, you can lie down in bed or on
the floor (on a mat or carpet), or on a grassy area (make sure there are no
bugs or ants). If you squat or sit on a chair, you can use the closed-finger
mudra or simply open up your palms and rest them face-up on your lap or near
the knee. In supine post, let your palms face the floor (face down). As you
advance, you can go ahead and study the mudras that are recommended by yoga
schools.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Breathing</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Meditation breathing
is what makes it stunningly unique. When one masters yoga breathing, it is no
longer air but chi (for mystics add cosmic energy) that enters the lungs and
your body. Begin by breathing deeply, and visualize white light coming down
from above your crown and moving down your aura, then pause a second or two.
Then, exhale slowly, with your out-breath even slower than in-breath, and
visualize dark energies flowing from your body and out of your nostrils as you
exhale, then pause a second or two. Then inhale again in the same slow process,
pause, then exhale and pause, and so on. Do this for around 15-22 counts. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Eyes & Brow Focus</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. You can opt to open or
close your eyes. If you choose the open eye option, fix your eyes in a point on
the wall or on a space ahead of you. Meantime, put your focus on your brow
area. Use that focus during the entire process of meditation. It pays most
specially to use a potent focus when inhaling, and when meditating on certain
themes.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Music</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. You may opt to
meditate with music. Nature music, new age music, soft classical music, and
soft world music would be best. They are musical pieces that elevate and
transport you to the higher realms. You can also meditate without music, as
this can make you attune to a higher music: the ‘music of the spheres’. Soft
musical pieces that are melancholic, such as ballads and love songs, are a
no-no in meditation, as they transfix you in sadness and cut you off from a
higher awakening that happens when meditating.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mental Inactivity</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. While meditating, make
sure not to think actively of whatever images, save for the theme you will
meditate about. You can opt to meditate without a theme. ‘Empty-mind’ yoga is
what zen prescribes, and this technique is difficult for most people to do. I
rather recommend the ‘passive thinking’ rather than ‘zero thinking’ technique:
observe thoughts that come to your mind, don’t block them, simply observe them
as they come, but don’t actively produce thoughts. Guaranteed it is easy to
meditate this way. In my case, I was trained to meditate using counting, and so
I count a number from inhale to exhale phase, two for the next phase, and so
on. 100 counts often equate to 15 minutes, so I don’t have to use a watch or
clock to measure time while meditating. 200 counts is 30 minutes more or less. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Theme Meditation</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. After doing the
initial focus and conditioning (first 15-22 counts), you can move on to your
meditation theme if you opt for this. If counting distracts you, then move on
to the theme without counting. Follow the mental inactivity state. When your
theme is optimized, move on to the theme-less state, observe the flow of
energy, observe the singing of birds in the surrounds, observe the wonderful
power of silence, and so on. Then end your meditation.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Ending</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. When ending meditation,
go back to your regular breathing. If you meditated for half an hour, breath
regularly for at least 10 minutes or 100 counts before standing up. The regular
breathing will help bring back your nervous system to regular mode. And don’t
just stand up abruptly after the process. For at least two (2) minutes, savor
the quietude, the fine environment, the wonderful moment. Meditation should
make you exude good mood and harmony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 02 October 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-38754136469819305702016-04-25T03:09:00.002-07:002016-04-25T03:09:43.114-07:00FAITH, DEVOTION, BHAKTI (Seekers’ Lesson 1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">FAITH, DEVOTION, BHAKTI (Seekers’
Lesson 1)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Magandang araw sa inyo! Good day to you
all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For this moment’s reflection, I’d focus on
the faith element in the Path. A Seeker is someone else who should have filled
up shis (his/her) ‘glass of faith’ and need not over-focus on faith-centered
works. Just like when one needs medication, the moment that the ailment had
healed, one must take off from the medication right away or else face
deleterious consequences of overdose and over-exposure to the medication. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So is it with faith. Faith is the central
affective (emotions, feelings) element in the soul, it makes one a ‘believer’
at the minimum, and is definitely needed to ascend the heights. But faith alone
isn’t enough. There are the cognitive, intuitive, nirvanic and higher elements
in the Self that must also be given attention. Let us presume that the Seeker
has the faith element well built up, and will need not demonstrate overtly that
s/he believes in God and the transcendent reality.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There are two things to note here by the
Seeker. It concerns devotion: the ‘externalization’ of faith. One, constantly
check out on your devotion to your ‘significant Others’. And, two, practice
some form of Bhakti. Devotion to the ‘significant Other’ (loved one, boss,
fellow, etc) and devotion to God Almighty are very much intertwined. To say
that one can show utmost devotion to God while showing bitterness, apathy and
sociopathy to fellows is non-sense. They must co-condition each other. Failing
to observe this synergy, one will flounder in the path.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devotion to the
‘Significant Others’</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Based on the observation of sociologists,
the complex web of social relations we call ‘society’ cannot be possible
without devotion manifested at the micro-level: the level of ‘in-groups’. In
these groups we perform roles of great diversity, roles that shift as we move
on from one situation to another. We encounter our ‘significant others’ in
these groups, and they comprise the base of our ‘lifeworld’ (<i>lebenswelt</i>).
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">During the early heydays of the founding of
sociology, the intellectual giants Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Mannheim, Cooley,
G.H. Mead, Sorokin and Schutz went down to brass tacks right away, designed the
methods that will uncover the veils of reality at the micro-level, see what
forces make society possible at that level, and assess the human condition
within the templates of that reality. Their finding was a homogenous one:
devotion is the most singular, powerful force that cements social bonds, and
the social bonds in return produce norms that, in return, make institutions and
society possible.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble Seeker, it all boils down to
devotion. With high devotion, social order; with low to negative devotion,
social chaos. Systems of representations form a rubric from out of devotion,
notably: norms, prescriptions and proscriptions, values, laws, sanction
systems, etc. When forces are operative that will tend to bring devotion down,
crisis results (see Weber, Durkheim, Sorokin). Weber observed ‘dehumanization’
within the context of a rationalized, bureaucratized order; Durkheim, that of
‘anomie’ as community solidarity self-destructs, giving way to an ‘organic
solidarity’ in urbanized settings; and Sorokin, the ‘crisis of our times’ due
to excessive sensate values. Earlier than them, Marx elaborated on the problem
of ‘alienation’ as the most central human predicament.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Since those studies of the sociological
founders were released, the human predicament had deteriorated to greater
extremes, madness seems to have become dominant, giving rise to the thesis
about the failure of Reason or the Enlightenment as the root cause. There had
since been the greater clamor to build more community, to create more social
harmony, and so on. With the presence of an increasing number of Lightworkers,
we are glad to note that the values aimed at affecting community are
penetrating deep down the private sphere where the social bond is embedded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble Seeker, the world context is
quite better now for alternative paradigms. Please check out constantly on your
devotion to your ‘significant others’. Check out whether you are a harmonizer
or a destroyer of bonds most often. If there is a ‘critical mass’ of antipathy
or sociopathy in you, chances are that you are suffering from personality
disorder condition. Your emotional self is badly ailing and damaged, and cannot
function to the fullest. So damaged is it that you cannot function socially as
well, since your emotional self is the foundation of your ‘social self’. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And if your emotional-social selves are
damaged, there is no way that energy from Above can flow to you fully. You
aren’t capable of interconnecting with your fellows, of demonstrating an
interface of your ‘heart chakras’, you experience alienation and anomie, and
you could become a factor in damaging the ecology of any organization or group.
If people with badly damaged emotional-social selves would come together, they
could only seal social bonds through compulsion, fear and intimidation, and the
result is mafia groups or totalitarian groups.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My thesis is that you can only best
approach the Almighty God via devotion if you likewise can demonstrate devotion
to your ‘significant others’. And that devotion must be a balanced, harmonic
devotion, not the forced devotion of mafias and totalitarian groups. If you as
Seeker has got some balancing to do on your emotional-social aspects, than
please do so soon enough. Secure the help of a clinical psychologist at least,
or a good psycho-social counselor who can help you do the self-assessment and modify
your behavior towards greater balance accordingly. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sustain high levels of goodwill with your
‘significant others’ at all times. You may have some fiery quarrels with people
on personal and professional grounds, and the conflict can bruise your bonds.
Take some time to heal the bond, but as soon as the negative energy of the
conflict is extinguished, re-establish goodwill. At the minimum, pray for the
persons involved, express in thought and heart that you have forgiven them.
Even if you won’t see the same persons again, or decide to cut off links with
them, decide just the same to maintain goodwill. That clearly done, you will
contribute to firming up the loose soils of the fractured societal bonds, and
become a true Lightworker in the process.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devotion to God, the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Bhakti Way</st1:address></st1:street></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">No matter how far you’ve advanced as a
Seeker or even as a mystic or master, just the same you will feel the urge to
do devotional works. The most individuated Seekers are allergic to mass
production devotions (church, congregations). If you are this type of Seeker,
then schedule a bhakti session alone, in your home, by chanting the name of
God. The lines you learned from your churches would be alright for this
purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For instance, you can chant repeatedly for
around fifteen (15) minutes at least the mantrams “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare (7X), Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (7X),”
over and over. You can also diversify the mantrams. Advanced seekers are
universalistic, and if you’re of this kind, than you can add, even if you were
born a Hindu, the chanting of the “Hail Mary” of the Catholics, and vice versa
(Catholics can chant the Hindu’s bhakti mantrams). A powerful chant is “Om Namo
Narayanaya” which is expressing devotion to the Spirit-side of God. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">That is why the “Hail Mary” or the novena
was designed—by mystics within the Roman church—precisely to diffuse powerful
mantrams as sustainers of devotion to Mary and God. So powerful is the novena,
devotees just can’t comprehend its power but during the focal devotions the
novena keeps the believers glued to where they are. If only the church can
re-codify the Hail Mary into chant form, and let it be sung repeatedly, it
could transport the devotee to the heights of the higher dimensions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If you Dear Seeker are keen on attending
church service, than that would be your regular Bhakti session. During a mass,
the devotees chant, invoke many mantrams (prayers), and end the ritual with an
invocation to let the Violet Flame descend unto the participants (Violet Flame
= Holy Spirit of Christians). Go ahead, Seeker, maintain your church life, but
to make your bhakti more meaningful you must also join your ministries or
equivalent. Join the liturgy ministry, or youth ministry, or ecology ministry,
where you can work with ‘significant others’ and strengthen your devotion at
that level.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">It is possible that if you, Seeker, can
stabilize your emotional-social selves via bhakti if you are unstable in this
regard. Bhakti can be a powerful tool that will make your heart warm up to your
hostile “enemies” (per your perception) and reconcile with them even if the
reconciliation will be non-physical (visualization with prayers, reconciliation
of the heart). But if your emotional-social ailments have reached the
dysfunctional level, then please see a psychiatrist who can help you take off
the dark energies that cause the ailments from your unconscious mind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Look at all those devotees who practice
bhakti, but who after coming from church service are back to their hostile,
antisocial attitudes towards their ‘significant others’. They suffer from deep
psychiatric malaise, and they are using bhakti (church service) as a dope or
opiate to temporarily relieve them of the ailment. The opiate then makes them
delude into believing that they are already saved. Sociologists found out after
extensive research, some with disbelief, that indeed the ‘opiate effect’ thesis
of Marx, or ‘religion as dope’ of Simmel, or ‘religion as illusion’ by Freud,
was empirically correct, accurate and precise. (See the works of Kenneth
Thompson regarding the theme of ‘belief and ideology’ as summary of these
inquiries.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Don’t ever imitate those whose behavior you
think isn’t worth emulating. Such as the mass of devotees, most of whom are
laggards, who have reduced devotion to dope. Make bhakti a truly liberating
one, let it penetrate through you and empower your conscience. With an
empowered conscience, virtues can work within you, and you can develop healthy
relationships with ‘significant others’ based on true, spirit-filled devotion.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Summary</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In sum, put devotion in your program for
self-realization, and practice them at both the social and trans-social
(transcendent) levels. With your heart you can then intuit on the cosmic
significance of the category of ‘Other’, and discover that the ‘significant
Others’ are One and indivisibly parts of the ‘Divine Others’, all thus merged
in the heart, mind and will of the highest ‘Other’: God. Then indeed are you
prepared to journey to the Heights of the Divine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 05 October 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">SELF-LEARNING: MODALITY FOR PRESENT
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Noble Seekers, Fellows in the Path who by
now number by the tens to hundreds of millions, this article focuses on the
modality of methods for transcendence for the current and future contexts. To
begin with, it will be largely the self-learning modality that is now dominant.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">While it is a fact that individuation
continues to rise and expand in a very dynamic fashion, and that the old
institutional methods of attainment are crumbling by the day, it is also a fact
that there has been an explosion in the population from the past century onto
the present, which constrains the Ascended Host or divine beings in embodying
teachers who can attend to Seekers’ needs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In the language of economics, we have a
huge demand for the Teachings, but we are short of the supply of Teachers. We
have right now a ‘buyers’ market’ as far as the teachings are concerned, and so
this situation raises challenges on the Ascended Host to innovate on means of
attainment so that the ‘buyers’ (Seekers) will meet their specific needs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">All souls here must reckon with the fact
that the physical plane, nay the planet Earth as a whole, is a school for life.
As such, it is an open market for various teachers, both of the Dark Side and
the Light Side. It used to be that the Dark Ones were dominant in the physical
plane, where they held sway in an almost monopolistic manner. However, beyond
the year 1934, the equation had changed, and we have more or less an equal
opportunity for both the Dark and Light sides to present their platforms and
lessons before a huge ‘market’ of souls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The new development was made possible by
the increased ‘supply’ of more evolved souls in the physical plane. Such souls
have graduated to the level of ‘old souls’, to use a Chinese term. There are
now a ‘critical mass’ of evolved souls and other advancing seekers, leading a
further larger number of enthused devotees, seekers, mystics and masters whom
we all refer to as ‘Lightworkers’. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thus, with a ‘level the playing field’ now
optimized, we have a greater opportunity to proceed in the Path than ever. We
have an ‘equal opportunity’ situation here, to use the term of civil
libertarians. Of course, the Dark Ones would want to shift the balance back to
their favor, by sabotaging the operations of the Lightworkers—by attacking us
all both internally (within each one of us) and externally, or in situations
where we are weak. But their efforts are looking ridiculously slapstick, for
they realize that they cannot have the competitive edge in this manner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">One thing that the Dark Ones will never be
able to control is the increasing power of the Christ Consciousness on this
planet. And this situation, which the Fallen Ones would wish to subtly
neutralize via the relentless permeation of the Anti-Christ Consciousness in
the private sphere, is shifting the balance in favor of the Lightworkers more
or less. You would see in all mass media, for instance, the constant
bombardment of the mind with negative images, libidinal messages, and many more
imaging devices that leave the folks mesmerized and wallowed in cesspools of
crass materialism. But these efforts are largely a panic complex by the Fallen
Ones, and they will lose the day as the Christ Consciousness further permeates
the private sphere and individual consciousnesses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">However, we Lightworkers would also admit
that the explosion in our populations have constrained the hands of Teachers in
the Path. For while there may be many mystics and masters, not many from our
ranks can perform teaching roles. In the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region> for instance, which is
a remnant of the ancient Mu continent, healing has been the chosen mission of
about 2/3 of mystics & masters. There is now a revival in this country of
ancient techniques, popularized in antiquity by Lemuro-Atlantean priests, of a
method that would accelerate the pace of inner awakenings without having to use
yoga meditation that will take decades of painstaking practice to achieve
desired results. And so we have an explosion of healing ministries in the
archipelago today, but too few teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, whether in RP or in the other
countries, we face a low supply of teachers inspite of a huge stock of
Lightworkers. The best remedy for the situation is to devise innovative methods
that will shift the learning from teacher-centered to seeker-centered learning.
The learning situation had in fact already shifted to the self-learning
modality as of the last quarter yet of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So what is the role of the Teacher in this
situation? As I elucidated in my book <i>Libertosophy & Freethought</i>,
the teacher performs the role of a<u> catalyst</u> of change in the new
context. The guru or teacher is much like the university professor whose
instruction is only 30% of the equation, while the student does 70% of the
efforts. There would be an instance when the teacher can recede in the
background, and the Seeker programs his/her own readings and lessons, with help
of course from shis (his/her) Inner Guide. Just like when one graduates from
college, the professors won’t be around any longer, but the alumnus can move on
to program his/her readings and thematic learning using various methods such as
enrolling in special seminars. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The same thing is true for the Seeker. The
physical Teacher will help you begin the courses, explain to you the ‘program’,
then supervises and monitors your undertakings for a specified or expected
period. Each seeker will absorb lessons differently for sure, so the Teacher
will recommend to you whether to continue with the existing program or move on
to a succeeding set of lessons. Be prepared to hear the Teacher recommend that
you get instructions from some other Teachers who may be adept at certain
courses and methods. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And so, just like in the university where a
student encounters many professors before graduating, a seeker will encounter
many teachers along the way. It’s possible that you, Noble Seeker, will be a
disciple of a single Teacher, and it cannot be avoided that you will develop a
strong, devotional attitude bordering a filial bond with the Teacher. There’s
no problem with that. Still, your main Teacher may encourage you to seek
lessons from other teachers, and then you go back later to your main Teacher
who can help you assess where you are situated so far in your spiritual compass.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Such a Teacher is truly noble, and has the
proper mark of a ‘true teacher’: one who will respect your autonomy from the
very onset, and encourages you to get instructions from others. S/he will never
show a sense of jealousy towards other teachers at all, but will be deeply
happy over the disciple’s expanded learning from other physical teachers. True
teachers never call themselves ‘master’ at all, it is the disciples who out of
deep filial respect will call the teacher a master, or papa/baba (father), or
mama (mother). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Any Teacher who labels himself/herself
master is suspect. Likewise would the trait of trying to control seekers by
using the “I am your only teacher” or “you cannot have any teacher other than
me” line. You may even end up being forewarned of the dire consequences of
leaving the teacher for another teacher if ever. A very egotistical teacher
this one is! Beware of their kinds, they are manipulative and deceptive and
they abound in our planet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In my case, I would go for a formula of 10%
learning from me, and 90% of learning self-programmed by the Seeker. For the
advanced seekers, who are bound to become mystics, I’d have it a residual 3%-8%
learnings from me, and the rest from the seeker. Most of you seekers are out to
be handled by your own ‘true guru’ who is no other than your own respective
Inner Guide, and my role is simply to help connect you to that Guide. But I
will always open my gate to you, as my own commitment of co-partnering with
your Guide in instructing you, and will have to clarify questions and lessons
every now and then or when you feel a need to. The time will come when it will
be largely you and your Inner Guide co-partnering, as I am done from my duties
for you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My main guru, the Master El Morya, does the
same thing to me: he instructs me approximately once every 1 & ½ years
only, with 1%-2% lessons coming from him. He also helps me to assess lessons
learned from other teachers (who are non-physical). Sometimes he calls for me
urgently, to which I oblige very willingly, and then lets me go quickly. His
occult powers are beyond my comprehension, as he can summon me and transport my
etheric body right in front of him in the higher dimensions, while my physical
body is taking a ride for work in the big city (Manila), instructs me in 20
minutes or so, and then brings back my subtle body to my physical body before I
alight for work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But there are those phlegmatic types who it
seems are former laggards who have quite evolved compared to their own kinds.
They absorb lessons so slow, that sometimes I keep on repeating the same
lessons or subjects to them. Their long-term memories don’t work as much as the
smart seekers whose IQs border the genius. So for the phlegmatics I am
compelled to raise the formula to 50% learning from me, and 50% self-learning.
And I have to pray to the Almighty God for additional patience to handle them
because no matter how slow they are, they keep on going in the Path and no
teacher has a business to throw them away just because they’re slow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now, for the smart ones, who admirably
absorb lessons so fast, I can take on a merely residual of 3%-8%. And there are
seekers whose IQs are genius level. Genius is the highest level of awakening
that a seeker can develop. Geniuses in IQ who are also geniuses in emotional
& social quotients are those highly evolved types and are Big Siblings unto
others. Provided that they are focused in their lessons, meditate regularly,
and they do the 7-ray program consistently, they can become mystics by middle
age. By that time, their main guru will shift from a physical teacher to an
Ascended Master who may be non-physical but of a higher-dimensional nature. In
my experience, I never was initiated by a physical guru, but rather guarded
& guided by an archangel and then instructed by an Ascended Master from
young adulthood onwards. I became a mystic at Age 36. It was 98% self-learning
for me from the inception.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now, are you somebody else who’s dependent
on a teacher 90% of the time? Whose lessons are doctrinal, never learning from
texts outside of scriptures? Who regards the words of the teacher as the only
true and correct expression of the divine? Then please stick to your church.
Your teacher is your priest and/or patriarch and not a guru. You are rest
assured of my goodwill, as we are all ‘children of God’ (emanations from the
Cause of all Causes).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But if you wish to combine seekers’ and
devotees’ lessons, like many phlegmatics and laggards do, well and good. No
problema! Please consult matters with me, as I’m very willing to help you out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble Seekers, good luck to your
learning! I’ll be with you as much as I can as your Big Brother.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 01 October 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-49964917629914639622016-04-05T01:13:00.001-07:002016-04-05T01:13:17.160-07:00LESSONS FOR SEEKERS: A BRIEFER <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Most felicitous greetings, Noble Seeker!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">It should be of interest to you to know what would be
the configuration of lessons that you ought to undertake in your journey to
God-realization. By using the imperative ‘ought to’, I don’t mean to scare you
with the implication that if you won’t do the lessons, you’d go to hell. Far
from it, you are a free will being. The best attitude for you is to reflect on
the notes below with reason, wisdom and love rather than obey them out of fear.
If they don’t make sense to you, fine, I’d still treat you as a Fellow human.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">To begin with, please familiarize yourself with the
system of 7 that I’ve adopted. As a mystic, I’m well aware of the Law of 7: 7
days in a week, 7-year itch (for newly wed couples), every 7 years all of the
cells in our body replace themselves entirely, it takes 7 years to start and
complete a phase in the Path before going to the next, the 7 planes or
dimensions of being, etc. Again, this is a cosmic law or axiom that pervades
all universes (bio-physical, astral-etheric, causal, spiritual universes).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">I also borrowed heavily from H.P Blavatsky and her team
of theosophical thinkers, by adopting the 7 Ray system. Accordingly, 7 Rays
emanate from the Godhead, representing thus 7 different ways of galvanizing
life in the domains of the manifest worlds, to wit: 1<sup>st</sup> Ray, Power;
2<sup>nd</sup> Ray, Wisdom; 3<sup>rd</sup> Ray, Art; 4<sup>th</sup> Ray, Love;
5<sup>th</sup> Ray, Science; 6<sup>th</sup> Ray, Service; and, 7<sup>th</sup>
Ray, Alchemy or Ceremonial Magic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Such Rays represent essential soul attributes and
personality traits, to note: Power (1<sup>st</sup> Ray), Will-oriented; Wisdom
(2<sup>nd</sup> Ray), Contemplative or intellectual prowess; Art (3<sup>rd</sup>
Ray), Craftsmanship; Love (4<sup>th</sup> Ray), Devotion; Science (5<sup>th</sup>
Ray), Knowledge-building; Service (6<sup>th</sup> Ray), Serving others or
Altruism; and, Alchemy (7<sup>th</sup> Ray), Synthesis or power of integration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, this lesson note may sound like the 8-Fold Path of
the Lord Gautama, and honestly it is crafted in like vein. This is for
simplification purposes: it makes it easier on the mind to note what lessons to
do, where had one advanced and where had one lagged behind, and so on. So, this
mystic-teacher would opt here for a 7 Ray Lesson Set as a matter of
simplification. In succeeding articles, each of these lessons will be
discussed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">1<sup>st</sup> Ray Lesson: Develop Organization,
Leadership, Determination (O-L-D).</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">
Developing one’s will is beyond compromise. Weak-willed persons will drift in
life. Will must be used to develop the other traits as well. It would be great
to join clubs, learn management skills via formal lessons, seminars, workshops,
and via practice. Look for lessons shared by human resources gurus such as
Maxwell that can help you develop the O-L-D traits. For those who are
Power-oriented, they should program themselves to take on leadership and
management roles wherever they go. Those who are weak-willed must learn the
traits from those who are powerful in this respect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">2<sup>nd</sup> Ray Lesson: Build Virtues</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. From philosophy we learn
ethics/axiology, epistemology, metaphysics. For this Ray, I’d emphasize
axiology: let values work in your life. Recognize what your weak attitudes or
‘vices’ are, and systematically deprogram them by using a combination of yoga
and self-development lessons. Build virtues gradually but determinately. In
addition, study every philosophical material along the way. Read everything,
question everything, doubt nothing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">3<sup>rd</sup> Ray: Show Devotion to All You Love</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Demonstrate devotion to the Divine
Beings, to your close kins, close pals, superiors and apprentices, to Mother
Earth and her blessings of nature and resources, to your Other Half, and so on.
Sociologists recognize the central import of devotion in maintaining
institutions in the private sphere such as family and peerages, without which
society will fragment. No devotion, no social order, high chaos. Conversely,
high devotion, high harmony, high order. So, please contribute to this, as your
devotion will be paid by Others with love and devotion. Take time to do bhakti
yoga such as singing and chanting The Lord’s name in your church or privately
at home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">4<sup>th</sup> Ray Lesson: Practice a Craft</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Right Livelihood, said the Gautama
Buddha. A soul without a craft is a soul-less robot and laggard who needs to be
instructed via social programming from superiors. The craft or profession
should be determined by you most of all, not by others. Crafts must come from
your heart and depth of your soul. “From each according to his abilities, to
each according to his needs,” so declared the Acts of the Apostles (New
Testament). The said fiat means: practice a craft or profession, and you shall
get paid accordingly for your efforts. Be not a parasite, for parasitism is a
vice or ‘sin’. Aim high in your profession, dream with great ambition, and
build capabilities along the way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">5<sup>th</sup> Ray: Know Thyself, Thy World, Thy Cosmos</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Learn as many tools for self
insight as you can learn, such as those developed by psychologists and human
resource gurus. Also, keep on studying the sciences, from the biological to the
social sciences, and develop analytical-empirical skills in the process. Use
such inquisitiveness and tools for understanding the other dimensions, study
metaphysics thereof, and learn about the cosmos in general. Develop a
scientific attitude in your practical life. Learn to understand the spiritual
spheres via spiritual science to be able to break away from superstition and
dogma. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">6<sup>th</sup> Ray: Serve God & Fellow Men</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Do service to God and the
Transcendent, and serve your ‘significant others’. ‘Serve the People!” declared
Mao Zedong, who himself was secretly a Seeker. Follow the Golden Rule with all
thy heart. If you are a boss, love and serve your subordinates, and Heaven will
open itself up to you. Keep on giving whatever you can give without expecting
rewards. As Robert Kiyosaki said in his books on personal success, the more you
give, the more you receive. Mother Teresa herself taught us: please keep on
serving Others, whether those Others will show sympathy or hostility to your
service offerings. If they show you hostility, love and serve them just the
same. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">7<sup>th</sup> Ray: Practice Centering thru Meditation
& Prayer</span></u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">. Learn
and practice yoga meditation. And learn to pray well too. Yoga meditation is
the most focal lesson taught by great Teachers. When practiced properly and
consistently, meditation can hasten your higher levels of awakenings. At the
highest levels, you can use meditation to burn your own past karmas and
effortlessly merge with your God Self or monad (7<sup>th</sup> Ray body). So,
instead of coming back to the dense spheres for around 1 million more years of
repeated reincarnations, you need not come back any further. Yoga is safe and
effective. Couple it up with prayers (used for devotional practice, etc), pray
short invocations at least 5 times a day. When fully centered, you will attain
synthesis and self-integration at quantum speeds and gigantic strides. Your
mystical powers will also increase, thus allowing you to help others via your
potent prayers & meditations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Note that such lessons are not chronologically nor
axiomatically arranged. You can do the lessons simultaneously every day of the
week. It doesn’t mean that 1<sup>st</sup> Ray is more important than the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Ray, or 2<sup>nd</sup> Ray more important than 3<sup>rd</sup> Ray, and so on.
All the Rays are equally important. Strengthen your traits in all rays, for
improving one at the expense of others will create imbalance, disharmony and
dysfunction in your psyche, leading to psychiatric disorder conditions if not
schizophrenia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As much as possible, please reflect on which trait is
most dominant in you. For example, if your strongest is 3<sup>rd</sup> Ray,
then that will define your vocation in life. As an artist, you must build every
capability along the way, aim high in your goals (e.g. a painter must do
exhibits and become a ‘signature’ artist, known locally and internationally as
much as possible), trust God Almighty that you will succeed as a Star in your
vocation. Be somebody in your vocation, God never made nobodies. All were
crafted as Stars by God, so assert you Starhood in your vocation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Can you develop sub-vocations or sub-specializations?
By all means, please do so. If you feel so strongly that you must be a
physician-surgeon and a concert pianist at the same time, why bother with
thoughts that these vocations will conflict? Grab both tigers by the tail, and
become both a high-performing doctor and inspiring concert artist at the same
time. Failure to do so, deep frustrations could lead into schizophrenia later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Please note that your spiritual missions (tasks) may be
different from your vocation. Do some periodic reflections too about your
missions, or core <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mission</st1:place></st1:city>,
and see how this can harmonize with your vocations. In today’s context, most
missions are concentrated on the 6<sup>th</sup> Ray. In my case, I realized
that my core <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mission</st1:place></st1:city>
is Teaching (2<sup>nd</sup> Ray), or guru task. I refused to accept this for a
long time, denying that I’m capable of a guru’s task. But the Heights keep on
knocking at my doors each day, and I just can’t refuse the task anymore. I have
to face it squarely, be bold to accept both successes and failures in my
practice, and trust God Almighty that help constantly comes from the Above for
me to be able to succeed in my <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mission</st1:place></st1:city>.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Noble Seeker, make no further procrastination,
configure your specific lessons now. Help will come from your Guide, trust
Almighty Providence. Good luck in your lessons! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">[Writ September 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-27361130622512489132016-03-26T01:18:00.002-07:002016-03-26T01:18:45.413-07:00ATHEISM IS AN ENEMY OF HUMAN LIBERATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">ATHEISM IS AN ENEMY OF HUMAN LIBERATION</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne Argonza</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I was once invited by a group of Sunday
coffee drinkers who called themselves Freethinkers’ Society. I thought all the
while that they were the balanced, Seeker-type of freethinkers. To my shock, they
were atheists, and they had envisioned an atheistic Philippine society in the
long run. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I noticed that they were largely from the
middle-aged section of the urban boheme. They were the idle petite bourgeois
who got nothing much to do on weekends, and so they decided to gather together
every Sunday morning to configure courses of action about their supposed
mission to destroy ‘religionism’ or ‘spiritism’. After having observed closely
the cognitive operations and patterns of the group, I decided to pull out,
having acquired my empirical data about the atheists of the present. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">What I made known to the group, and ditto
for other sectors of society, is that I am no atheist, that atheism and
freethought are not identical, that atheism is vulgar materialism and I got
nothing to do with its dissemination nor with that of its advocacies. However,
there are instances when, together with some atheists within the academe, I did
join them in coalition to demand for greater justice for state laborers,
overseas workers, youth & students, and related sectors.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In my book <i>Libertosophy and Freethought</i>,
I re-echoed the contention of HP Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical
Society, that the danger to humanity today comes from the two extremes: on the
one side is Vulgar Spiritism, represented by religion and quasi-religion, that
had mired people in superstition, dogma, and fanaticism; on the other side is
Vulgar Materialism, represented by the atheists, who deny the existence of the
Spirit and the other ontological domains (dimensions, planes).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In the same book, what I advocated for was
the Integrated Man, who had synthesized the material and spiritual towards
his/her own liberation (nirvana, salvation). By Man I don’t mean the male
gender, but rather the human being, man having been derived from <i>manu </i>or
‘thinking being’. The Integrated Man has none of the characteristics of
contemporary humans who are, in the main, drifters in life, who had
compartmentalized life into ‘material life’ and ‘spiritual life’, who are like
zombies (in Marcuse’s language) whose life orbits around a one-dimensional
pursuit for the hedonistic and crass materialistic things, and who suffer from
incurable alienation precisely due to the tension between the material and
spiritual within them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In no way will I say Hallelujah to the
Atheist who had denied and continues to deny the Spirit. Any force that denies
the Spirit, and who delimits reality therefore to the 3-dimensional world of
the bio-physical, commits a terrible error of reductionism. The spread of a
highly materialist <i>weltanschauung</i> (world outlook) largely by the
atheistic sections of the population, notably the Western intellectuals, had
created new traps for the human soul. By reducing reality to the 3-dimensional,
mankind confronts a new blindness of sorts, or is made to believe in the
illusion that life is only the 3-dimensional reality. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Having been castrated of the impulse to
know further the other possible life domains, the beings inherent in them and
the purpose for their existence and missions, the atheist therefore drifts in
the lower life domain like any animal or ‘zombie’. The one-dimensional man (to
borrow from Herbert Marcuse) of today, who had reduced life to money
making-buying-accumulating-consuming hedonism, is the classic case of the
somnambulist or the sleepwalker. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Per my own enquiries, there are a total of
seven (7) major ontological domains, or seven (7) planes of existence. There
are dimensions of life that are invisible to the physical eye, but since within
us we also have bodies that correspond to the other domains, then such bodies,
possessing their own corresponding ‘eyes’, can be activated to observe and move
in those other dimensions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">During the sleeping state, for instance,
the physical body sleeps together with the physical eyes. And as the body
sleeps, the 2<sup>nd</sup> body, called Astral Body by the mystics &
masters, awakens. Even before the body had slept, the Astral Body already
wakens up, floats around nine (9) feet above the physical body, and than stands
up in wakened state, and simply walks along the avenues of life in its natural
domain: the Astral Plane. The sceneries where the Astral Body moves are then
registered in the memory and visuals of the physical body as dream scene. The
Astral Plane is, in fact, the ‘dream plane’, the ‘plane of illusion’, where we
can practice engaging in materializing objects using our thoughts, including
houses, that we cannot do in the physical plane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Various academic researches on
Out-Of-Body-Experience or OBE had documented very well the prevalence of
another body. In <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manila</st1:place></st1:city>,
among the top experts on the matter is the Jesuit professor, Fr. Bulatao, who
is based in the Ateneo De Manila University. Wherever Fr. Bulatao goes to
deliver lectures on the paranormal, he demonstrates the factuality of OBE, and
therefore of the existence of subtle bodies other than the bio-physical body,
by making the audience participate in the experiment. After each workshop or
seminar talk, the awe-struck participants have openly expressed the amazing
experience they just went through, of their instantaneous presence in some
areas thousands of miles away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Note that in this instance, the professor
used scientific method to let people realize that there are other aspects to
reality that the ordinary state of consciousness cannot reveal to us. Well, to
the atheists, they would simply label this method as ‘pseudo-science’ and
dismiss the results as merely illusory games. And that’s the problem with the
reality reductionists, the atheists, for having created new superstitions in
place of old ones that they have themselves so militantly come to demolish. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So be it that there are atheists in life.
For as long as the atheists would respect the reality paradigms of other
people, that they would come to appreciate difference, then no one would accost
them. This is no longer the time to persecute people such as atheists, and so
the atheists should likewise reciprocate this by tolerating competing
paradigms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But as one can see, this hasn’t been the
case. When the situation arrives that atheists come to dominate the public
sphere, such as what happened to Communist states, the atheists resorted to
mass witch-hunting by exterminating people who strongly believe in the Spirit
and the other dimensions of life. This is a case where atheism celebrates the
mass mind, the Herd Mind, the cult of the Party Cadre and the State, and has
nothing to do with freethought whatsoever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Not only that, the Communists also resorted
to the extermination of freethinkers, including many spiritual Seekers
(freemasons, anthroposophists, etc) whose competing <i>weltanschauung</i> is
incompatible with the worship of the State and the party cadres. For even
within the Communist Party, there are also freethinker-Seekers who are silently
conducting their own duties, missions, and tasks toward their inner
transformation. Being free spirits, they tend to be highly authentic in their
views, manifest thoughts that contravene with the accepted dogmas. They are the
equivalent of free spirit clergy whose ideas contravened against the dogma of
the Church during the medieval period, and who were burnt at stake for their
free thought. So is it with the Communist Party and other ideological movements
of the extremists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Look at the mainland Chinese today, after
decades of official atheism. We wonder what happens to the souls of the Chinese
of the present generations when they depart from the physical plane, without
any spiritual engagement whatsoever. And I don’t mean the devotional
engagements, which they had demonstrated aplenty by showing filial piety,
devotion to the Chinese nation and to the Communist leadership. I mean the life
of a spiritual Seeker, which at least is accorded the devotees in those states
where spiritual life is considered a fact of life and sacrosanct for existence
and transcendence. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">That is, without the spiritual moorings,
without the profound virtues that are immanent from the higher spheres and well
anchored in the conscience and unconscious, the person concerned will simply be
an agglomeration of vices, to note: lying, deceiving, conceit, manipulating,
divisiveness, obstructionism, and so on. Atheism reduces people to the level of
the ‘reptile’ which signifies everything that is cold-blooded and
Machiavellian. Lucky enough if virtues will permeate an atheist, and finding a
virtuous atheist is like searching for a needle in the hay stack. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I’ve had atheist friends before, among
university professors, and I stayed with them so closely for almost two (2)
decades. As my own yoga practice progressed, I noticed that I became weakened
by the incessant resort of these former pals to deceit and slandering of their
competitor groups in the academe. My aura was practically bombarded with
negative vibes by their talks and their dense auras, and so finally I had to
decide to pull away from these friends. They were fellow free spirits, but they
were no Lightworker types, and the demarcation between them and me was so
marked. Their lifestyle was vulgarly hedonistic which I had nothing to do with.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, fellow free spirits/freethinkers, this
is my position and proxemics: deconstruct atheism and keep a distance with the
atheists. I shall give my respect to the atheists as fellow humans, even as the
walls between us shall remain here and in the other domains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 21 November 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-42428294687159581942016-03-15T20:54:00.001-07:002016-03-15T20:54:35.941-07:00POST-CHURCH SPIRITUALITY <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">POST-CHURCH SPIRITUALITY </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Here comes the Aquarian Age! Welcome the
post-Piscean Age! Hail the Post-Church Era!</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Planet Earth is now at the ascending arc of
her evolution. Ascension holds true for humanity, whose evolution in the dense
spheres is now ending and the entry to the higher dimensions accelerating. It
takes 555 million years for the entire human race to devolve & evolve—to
devolve into the dense spheres, and go back to the divine spheres as evolved
beings. The midpoint of the 555-million year period was reached on the 21<sup>st</sup>
of September of 1934 yet (see revelations of Guru Roerick, Guru R.K.K)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The ascendant route in our evolution is now
way up since 1934. So cheer up, Noble Seekers! This route will see the
emergence of greater individuation in the human psyche, a development that was
anticipated many decades ago by the H.P. Blvavatsky, Carl Jung and Tailhard De
Chardin. As mankind individuates all the more, so will the bond with the
collective mind get fractured. All those institutions that sought to control
humans and reduced them to automatons that lack autonomy are now crumbling.
That includes Religion with the capital R.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Institutional behavior is largely effective
for those with the strongest ‘herd instinct’, even as it harnesses the folk
spirit or <i>folkgeist</i> to secure individual loyalty to society and
institutions. For the highly individuated souls, institutional behavior or mass
behavior is sickening and misplaced, and will seek every way to express their
autonomy as ‘free spirits’ rather than dance to the sway of the folkgeist.
Those high risk takers will not take second thoughts in leaving their churches,
peers, kinship circles, old neighborhoods if to prove the toxic nuisance of the
old ways and the highest value of their freedoms.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sadly for the devotees, religions will end
in violent upheavals over the next few decades. In many European countries, the
church-going impulse had died, many have left their churches and are seeking
new modalities of adaptation that will see the greater expression of
individuality and autonomy. Many of the Europeans have fallen into the
atheistic path, but many are Seekers who aspire for alternative spiritual
programs that are of the individualized platforms rather than institutional
(churchly) types. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">One must understand that <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
had enormous traumas with religious life, passed through many Dark Ages that
were reinforced by religious precepts, and went through bloody genocides and
wars due to religion. And so, when the most open society—the postmodern society
with a post-industrial economy—began galvanizing in their countries, Europeans
at last found the environment they needed to throw away the garbage
institutions that have enchained their souls for centuries and millennia. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Institutions are crumbling. The postmodern thinkers
have already pronounced the ‘implosion of the social’, the ‘end of
meta-narratives’ and ‘rise of micro-narratives’, the ‘end of ideology’, and
every kind of terminal phases of old worlds that have for so long enchained the
human psyche in the fiery hells of Dostoevskian existence. Go through the works
of Jean Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,
Daniel Bell, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Jurgen Habermas, Alvin Toffler and
Kenichi Ohmae, and you’ll find their thoughts converge on the observation about
the rise of the new context marked by collapse of institutions.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In the emerging context, old modalities and platforms
of adaptation won’t work as they are ineffective. It would be futile to revive
them, reconstruct them into hip-hop type things for they are largely meant for
the ‘herd mind’ or ‘collective mind’. In the emerging contexts, the herd mind
of the Laggard is out and the individuated mind of the Free Spirit-Seeker is
in. The mighty waves of the new context are now here with us, dealing
catastrophic blows on old societies & cultures, economies, polities,
religions, kinships, world outlooks, educational systems, health institutions
and other behavioral morphs that tend to retard or obstruct soul ascent to the
divine spheres.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The new world is rising with so much birth pangs, as it
violently pushes its way up and disgorges itself from the wombs of the old
world. We are in the transition phase, as we witness the representatives of the
old world working so hard to assert their remaining powers so as not to let go
of their largesse and privileges derived from controlling and manipulating
people. We witness the clash of religious tolerance versus religious
fundamentalism, and the clash of religious fundamentalist groups that have so
far resulted to countless deaths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The next twenty-five (25) years will see the further
intensification of religious conflicts. We now see another world war shaping up
from out of the revived age-old conflict between Sunni and Shiite Islam. While
the war shapes up, the old war between the Catholics and Protestants in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region> hasn’t
totally died out. The Moslem-Christian conflict in the Balkans and <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> haven’t extinguished too. The ancient hatreds
between Arabs and Jews are still around, though in the coming world war the
Sunni-Jewish alliance will galvanize in a tenuous coalition versus Shiite
aggression. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">It is now certain that tens of millions will die in the
ensuing wars. It seems like we’re back to the 30-Years War (1618-1648) which
began along the Catholic-Protestant cleavage, but which later ended up
differently as alliances changed. In this new 30-Years War shaping up, the
Shiite-Sunni cleavage will just be the trigger towards a bigger war scene as
the world powers enter the war fronts and declare their alliances accordingly.
The conflicts could spread to all continents, unless that the madness be
stopped before the globe will catch up fire in the process.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">One thing is certain should the religious cleavages result
to enormous deaths in warm bodies: a global shock for humanity, a shock that
will rapidly see the esteem of Great Religions diminish radically. Past the
year 2030, it is most likely that the survivors of the wars will lose respect
for their religious elders, and would rather choose the path of the
freethinker. Religious participation will decline to insignificant levels
thereafter, as the shockwaves of the carnage will refuse to die out many
decades after the last embers of the battles have extinguished. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And this will be the explicit message of the
forthcoming global experience of religious madness: it does not pay to sustain
and reinforce religion as a modality of expressing and meeting the spiritual
needs of an individuating populace. If it will take this bitter path to take us
all out of the old world life and celebrate later a post-religious
spirituality, then let it happen. And the sooner that the catastrophic events
will happen, the better will it be for us all. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">What I’ve been prophesying all along will come forth:
the birthing of the post-religious society. There’s no way that herd-mind
institutions can survive a new world that will be dominated by the life
modalities for the individuated minds or free spirits. Humanity is rapidly
moving towards the noosphere and there will be no turning back to the herd mind
of the Stone Age. Teilhard De Chardin, whom the church badly demonized for his
unorthodox futuristic vision about the coming of the noosphere, will be
vindicated. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But most of all, you Noble Seekers will be vindicated.
You who have to hide in the shadows for fear of persecution, you who have
silently deconstructed in thought and action the destructive ways of your
churches and priesthoods, will be vindicated. You whose figures were vilified by
pals, kins, and every fanatical devotee you may have encountered, will be
vindicated. And you will exhibit the last laugh, as you will witness before
your own eyes the violent collapse of churches. Islam will go, then Judaism,
then Christianity, then Hinduism, and all those that have resorted to mass
slaughters of perceived ‘infidels’.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">No more will inquisitions work. Even if global tyranny
will be established today in the name of God, by religious zealots of the most
fundamentalist groups coalescing to save their crumbling powers and privileges,
this tyranny won’t hold. Every church group that has been resorting to
inquisitions such as the jihadists and Christian terrorists will be humiliated.
No draconian measure whatsoever that will shackle the free mind will ever
succeed again, more so in the sphere of the sacred. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Age of Dogma had already faded away in social life
and is more markedly a part of historical analects as narratives of the damned.
The Age of Interpretation had long superseded dogma, with the new context
leaving it up to the individual reader or learner to interpret texts, lessons,
archetypes. But the defenders of dogma refuse to accept their fated defeat, and
they seem to have a window of opportunity to unleash their powers via religious
fundamentalism and televangelism. But their days are numbered, and as soon as
humanity will witness the full horrors of the religious holocausts now shaping
up and intensifying, the compass of the day will point to more lay people
leaving their churches more so among the younger generations.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dear Seeker, what then should be your attitude towards
your church? You really need not leave your church as you ascend the Path, you
can still make use of it as a vehicle for your bhakti (devotion) practices. But
if you’re tired and sick of your church and you’ve left it for good, very well
then, welcome to the world of freethinkers. You can still do your bhakti at
home, include it in your prayers, or set special occasions for around 10-15
minutes or more in a week to focus on chanting the name of God, as well as the
Avatar (e.g. Christ, Krishna, Maitreya, Buddha, Ahura Mazda) and Divine Mothers
(e.g. Quan Yin, Mary, Portia, Vesta, Liberty) that attract you most. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble Seeker, if you’re so disturbed by the surge
of fundamentalism and other fascistic religious movements, this will only be
for a temporary phase. Past 2030 they will be residual, clumsy, ridiculously
spent out forces. Seekers and freethinkers will be the victors of the day. So
please show more patience and love to the fanatical devotees, for many of them
will leave their churches yet and go the Path of the Seeker. Hail the Age of
Post-Church Spirituality!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 27 September 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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Brothers and Sisters, here are some information about internet sites where you
can find the reads & services of teachers &/or masters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">SEEK YE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRANSCENDENT!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Seekers, freethinkers, all you potential Lightworkers,
seek ye the Light of the Transcendent! Seek for it everywhere, but of all
spaces, please search for it in your inner space. For within you resides your
true self, your Higher Self, waiting for you to unite with it in the most
sublime union you’d ever experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Being thus united with your Higher Self, thou will
thenceforth be merged with your God-Self, nay merged with God Almighty in Shis
(his/her) resplendent glory. Thus, seek ye this Path towards your
self-realization, your mutation from a rough mineral material into the finest
piece of jewelry, your path towards God Realization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">To clarify first of all: Who’s a Seeker? Isn’t anybody
who believes in God or the transcendent realm a Seeker? Doesn’t the Hallelujah
God crowd constitute the seekers that we Lightworker mystics speak of?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Fellows on Earth, if you delimit your actions to blind
faith, blind obedience to dogma presented by your patriarchs, bishops and
priests, and most specially if you like unto the great mass of herds couldn’t
conceive of salvation without being pushed into such an option by Fear Complex,
than you are no Seeker but a mere Believer or Devotee. Devotees are better served
by their institutional masters, for they couldn’t conceive of attaining the
Path beyond institutional means, beyond attunements to mass consciousness or
‘herd instinct’ (to echo Nietszche).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Anybody who aspires to the transcendent height by
individual attainment, by going beyond dogma, by boldly searching for higher
knowledge through a combination of methods, by synthesizing philosophy, science
and the arts toward a higher form of self-understanding and knowledge of the
higher realms, and by a further synthesis of material science and spiritual
science towards self-attainment, is a noble and true Seeker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Using Jung’s thought constructs, the one who attains
the highest expanse of individuation, the one who is able to detach from mass
consciousness and rise above the constrictions of the latter, and therefore the
one who is open to experiment on a diversity of methods and absorption of
teachings from various teachers, is a Seeker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">We can formulate the evolutionary trajectory thus: one
manifests in primordial antiquity as a Devotee (all were born believers), who
then evolves into a Seeker through many sojourns in the dense spheres, and then
attains a heightened awareness characteristic of a Mystic, and then graduates
to Master level (master of wisdom), and then moves on to become an Ascended
Master or Christed One, until finally one becomes an Avatar or God-incarnate.
To simplified model is shown below: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devotee</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Seeker</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mystic</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Master</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Ascended Master</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Avatar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">What a long, arduous sojourn, one may quip. Indeed, too
long a soul evolutionary process, but optimistically doable. The Gautama Buddha
is among the exemplars of those who proved the possibility of attaining the
highest level of awakenings as a matter of Will-to-transcend and
self-attainment. By way of such a colossal feat, it has been demonstrated that
not only is the process doable, but also that the timeframe for liberation can
be shortened should one practice the science of yoga most determinatively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">It is now the era of post-modernity, of the Aquarian
Age, and in this era, Fixed Idea is dangerous and anathema to growth.
Therefore, any determined Seeker must deconstruct old modalities of thinking
and behaving, trash those methods that he/she may have instinctively followed.
Such as to think of science as purely material science, or to think of science
as antinomy of the spirit, or to fix spirituality to religion which is the
‘path’ better fit for the herds of devotees/believers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There is no fixed Path, the trek to the heights is a
‘pathless one’ as Krishnamurti claimed almost a century ago. What is important
is one must actively seek for the height rather than follow blind faith and
consign oneself to believing. Blind beliefs, blind obedience, blind faith
entrap one in the hovels of ignorance, and no one attains higher awakenings by
systematic ignorance and gross contortions of truths through dogma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, Noble One, a Path nobly awaits you, a path that is
individualized, customized for you based on your psyche and soul-type. Seek for
that path yourself, let no external dominating force do this for you, for only
you and no one else can find your viable path. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When you are ready, a teacher appears in the path who
can be a companion in the seemingly desolate journey. And no better teacher
could be there other than your own Higher Self or your Inner Guide (‘guardian
angel’ of Catholics). Lucky enough if you can find physical gurus, for in a
world populated by billions of souls we all confront a scarcity of gurus. But
everybody has an Inner Guide, the Wise Old Self of you residing in the higher
dimensions. And it is this Guide who can help you a lot by pointing to you the
possible courses of action in your journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">No Guide or teacher will ever impose thoughts on you,
remember this always. For you are a Free Will being, a constituent of the human
lifestream, and you can always disagree with offered options and lessons. It is
always you who should make the final choice, while your Guide, out of shis
(his/her) genuine concern for you, lovingly offers options that you can consider.
The Guide is not your personal Tyrant but your co-partner in your travail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Reflect on this clear enough, dear Fellow. If you
disagree and you’d still stick to fixed ideas of spirituality as a churchly
matter, than go ahead and go this way like the billions of evolutionary
laggards and devotees around us. But if you think of this option as a clear,
viable choice, than right at this moment, your Guide feels elated for you and
will reach out to you in a more intense manner. Being in such state, you are ready
for the Path, and you will see signs yourself that you have a Companion of
Light along the way who is no other than your Inner Guide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Decide in a whole-hearted manner, make no half-hearted
decisions, for in your indecisions the Light cannot flow unto you. The grey
energies produced by your indecisions and fears of going thru the Path will
block higher Light or Spirit from flowing through you, even as you attract
instead negative beings from the dark domains of the astral plain to misguide
you and enchain you in more ignorance and perpetual incarceration in the
existential grounds of a meaningless life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So, dear Fellow, if you seek the Path whole-heartedly,
make no postponement, decide soon enough as your Light Companion awaits your
sweet, noble decision. Trust your heart in the matter, for in thy heart resides
your soul which is your inner companion. Move on, please move one, trust your
soul, listen to the voice of your Inner Guide, and you’re there in your Path. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">God Bless you in your Path!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[Writ 20 September 2007, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Quezon City</st1:place></st1:city>, MetroManila]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Readers, seekers, here are some readings that you can go through as
part of your cosmic awakening program.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">FOUNDATIONS FOR SEEKERS</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Bro. Erle Argonza’s Notes: 7-Ray Lessons (See Parts I
& II of this book)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Teachings of Jesus Christ /Master Issa: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">New
Testament</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Teachings of Sri Krishna:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Bhagavad
Gita</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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Isopanisad</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Teachings of Gautama Buddha:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Suttras
of the Earth Store Bodhisattva</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED LESSONS, SUPPLEMENTALS</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Theosophists’ Writings</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Helena Blavatsky</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Isis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> Unveiled</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Secret
Doctrine (3 volumes, & Abridged version)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Astral,
Psychic, and Spiritual Man</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Reincarnation
(w/ WQ Judge)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">William Q. Judge</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Ocean of Theosophy</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">C.W. Leadbeater</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Man
Visible and Invisible</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Monad</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Devachanic Plane</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Henry Steel Olcott</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Applied
Theosophy</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Geoffrey Hodson</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Call to the Heights / guidance on the pathways to self-illumination</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Annie Besant:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Mahabharata
(narrative version)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Man
and His Bodies</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Virginia Hanson</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">HP
Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Vicente Hao-Chin, Jr.:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Why
Meditate?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Supplemental Readings</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Erle Argonza:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Libertosophy
& Freethought: the Path of Illumination for Libertarian Freethinkers</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">13<sup>th</sup>
Gate Unveiled: the Glorious Destiny of the Philippines & Southeast Asia</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Blogwrites:
http://raefdargon.mysticblogs.com, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
http://unladtau.wordpress.com</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">U.S.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> Andersen:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Secret Power of the Pyramids</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Richard Bach:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Jonathan
Livingstone Seagull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Baha’ullah and the New Era (Bahai foundation)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Book of Mormon / Another Testament of Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Tom Brown:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Vision</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sir Richard Burton:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Fritjof Capra</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Tao of Physics</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Carlos Castaneda:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">A
Separate Reality</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Edgar Evans Cayce:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Edgar
Cayce on Atlantis</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Selwyn Champion & Dorothy Short:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Readings</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> from World Religions</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Erika Cheetham:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Prophecies of Nostradamus</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Mantak Chia & Michael Winn:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Taoist
Secrets of Love </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Deepak Chopra:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Way
of the Wizard</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">L. Sprague De Camp & Catherine C. De Camp:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Citadels
of Mystery</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Marc Dem:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Lost Tribes from Outer Space</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ivy Oneida Duce:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">What
Am I Doing Here? (on Sufism)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Don Fearheiley:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Angels
Among Us</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Shakti Gawain:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Living
in the Light</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Kahlil Gibran:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Prophet</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">R.A. Gilbert:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Elements of Mysticism</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Guru Nanak Saahib:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Holy Japhi Saahib</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Guru R.H.H.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Talk
Does Not Cook the Rice / A Commentary on the Teaching of Agni Yoga (2 volumes)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Paul Hawken:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Magic of Findhorn</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Douglas Hunt:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Exploring
the Occult</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">J. Jagadeesan:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Journey Within / Sai Baba / Journey to God (parts 1-3)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Anne Klein:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Knowledge
and Liberation</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Holy Koran</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Master Hua: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Herein
Lies the Treasure-Trove (2 volumes, on Tripitaka instructions)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Jaime Licauco:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Soulmates
Karma Reincarnation</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Exploring
the Powers of your Inner Mind</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sandra Maitri:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ruth Montgomery:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Aliens
Among Us</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Companions
Along the Way</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Herald
of the New Age</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
World Before</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Old Testament – Holy Bible</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Psychic
Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Louis Pauwels & Jacques Berger:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Morning of the Magicians</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Joseph Chilton Pearce:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Exploring
the Cracks in the Cosmic Mind</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Charles Pellegrino:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Unearthing
Atlantis</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Elizabeth Claire Prophet:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Lost Teachings of Jesus (3 volumes)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Prophecy
for the 1990s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ashram
Notes by the Ascended Master El Morya</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Saint
Germain on Prophecy / Coming World Changes</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sal Rachele:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Articles
and Channeled Messages from the Founders, Sananda, Others in
http://www.salrachele.com</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Trevor Ravenscroft:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Spear of Destiny</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Antichrist</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Lytle Robinson:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Edgar
Cayce’s Story of the Origin of Man</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I.C. Sharma:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Edgar
Cayce, Karma & Reincarnation</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Master Sheng-Yen:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Getting
the Buddha Mind</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Zecharia Sitchin:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Wars of Gods and Men</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Divine
Encounters</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sri Ram:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Thoughts
for Aspirants</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Kenneth Ring:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Omega Project / Near Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, Mind at Large</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sri Sahtya Sai Baba:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Sathya
Sai Speaks (multi-volume)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Jess Stearn:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Edgar
Cayce – The Sleeping Prophet</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Brad Steiger:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Seed</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
Rainbow Conspiracy (w/ Sherry Hansen Steiger)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Rudolf Steiner:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Theosophy:
An Introduction </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Knowledge
of Higher Worlds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">An
Outline of Esoteric Science </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Terry Lynn Taylor</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Creating
with the Angels</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Jacques & Janine Vallee:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The
UFO Enigma</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Erich von Daniken:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In
Search of Ancient Gods</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Alan Watts:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Beyond
Theology / The Art of Godmanship</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">George Hunt Williamson:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Secret
Places of the Lion</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ernest Wood:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Concentration
/ An Approach to Meditation</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Paramahansa Yogananda:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Autobiography
of a Yogi</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">LONG LIVE THE FREE SPIRITS & FREETHINKERS!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Erle Frayne Argonza</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bury all bishops & priests! The Free Spirit Rises!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In a previous issue, this free spirit Bro. Erle wrote about Love among
free spirits. That must have shocked the unprepared, uninitiated Mainstreamer
no end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Mainstreamer has been the preserver of Dogma in all forms, whether
in material life or in Spirit. The Mainstreamer makes all behavior
institutional, including those of spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">To the Mainstreamer, no Love can be bridged outside Dating, Courtship,
Marriage. No Spirit realm reached outside Church. No political life made
meaningful outside emotionalisms and mass ideologisms. Ad nauseum!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Religion is the Realm of the Herd Man!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Herd Mind is the dominant mind among Mainstreamers. For them, you
need to be among this group or that group, never rising above the group.
Groupthink is precisely the mindset of the Herd Mind. With groupthink, everyone
else is subject to manipulation and control by Pied Pipers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Those pied pipers with documents called Bachelor of Divinities (i.e.
priests) and their shoe wipers (nuns, brothers, monks, ministers) are the most
marked of all deceivers, come to think of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They’d keep on peddling worn out propaganda that “there is no
salvation outside the church.” Meaning, only thru the institutional path
(church) can one reach heaven. The question is, which one among these churches
offers the only correct path?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">To the freethinker, institutional path is a dark path. The freethinker
is attuned to the Individuated Mind, and is a Free Spirit in the conduct of
life. The freethinker is not a mere Believer but is foremost of all, a Seeker.
The freethinker approaches problems of spiritual illumination through
individualized lessons. By that we mean the lessons are customized for the
individual, based on shis (his/her) temperament, soul type (1<sup>st</sup> to 7<sup>th</sup>
ray), personality, and unique traits.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That’s the problem, folks: the Churches just can’t accept that there
are freethinkers around. In the ancient worlds the Churches called us freethinkers
‘heretics’ and massacred our communities by the millions. Today when religious
fundamentalism is rising, the crusading attitude is back among the
Mainstreamers and their Pied Pipers: kill darn heretics and infidels by the
millions! Burn them at stake!</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are many Paths to Salvation!</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are many roads leading to MetroManila from outside. Yes fellows,
that’s the truth of it all. Same holds true for the Spirit world: no one single
path can claim an exclusive franchise to reaching the spiritual dimensions.
Only Dogma or ‘dog ma’ bow-wow-wow claims so. See that? A-woooooh! </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A Chinese sage once said that Truth is like unto a single mirror.
Tragedy struck however when the mirror fell. One religion got a piece of the
mirror, another religion got another piece, and so on. The question is, which
religion can represent Truth in its entirety?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Catholic Church is lucky enough to have re-invented itself lately.
Vatican II says that God is so great yet so mysterious that He gave some truths
to this church, some other truths to some other church, and so on, so that no
single church can be so arrogant as to claim that it represents all truths in
their grand totality. Which means that, in order to recapture truth as a grand
whole, all the churches must exercise ecumenism and discover the truths while
in dialogue with one another.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">How wonderful is Vatican II, isn’t it? It declared that no single
church today can claim to an exclusive franchise to heaven. But the question
is, how far has Vatican II penetrated the mind of Catholics? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And, did the Vatican
ever recognize those millions of souls who wish to approach the Spirit world
thru individualized paths? Of course not! Church life is Big Business, and
losing adherents means lesser tithes and collections. Lesser collections means
Father Mustard can’t buy a new flashy car and some extra realty for the
holidays. No extra money for gambling, womanizing, faggot ties, and donations
to further control people through false or deceptive social service.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Freethought is rising!</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A ‘new age’ is now dawning: the age of the free spirit. Institutions
are crumbling by the day, they simply don’t work out any more than they are
instruments to control and manipulate souls. Churches will eventually collapse,
led by the Vatican
which will crumble from within. The Free Individual, guided by Spirit and
conscience, will triumph against the Herd Man and Pied Pipers, this is for
sure.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the dawning age, which coincides with the global Information Age or
Space Age, the individualized pathway will replace the churches of the Herd
Man. Fewer and fewer people will be attending masses, as more and more people
will discover the free spirit/freethinker within each one of them. The
freethinker is the seeker, who wishes to feel and experience Spirit rather than
obey blindly the diktat of the Pied Pipers.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hail the freethinker, the free worshipper, the free spirit! We shall
overcome! And to all those mainstreamers out there, discover the free spirit
within you. It’s never too late yet: we are all potential free spirits, come to
think of it. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let there be no more weeping from the lashes and thorns of the Herd
folks and their evil Pied Pipers! Rise all ye freethinkers! Thou art free and
will always be. Amen. Aum. Om.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[Writ 26 November 2004, Quezon
City, MetroManila]</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753761162220285794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438436550560163732.post-48507438780710676212016-01-25T02:51:00.002-08:002016-01-25T02:51:28.781-08:00CALLING ALL YE SEEKERS, FREETHINKERS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">CALLING ALL YE SEEKERS, FREETHINKERS!</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Good day to all you freethinkers or Seekers of knowledge, truth,
wisdom!</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is now a time for a gathering, Dear Ones, as the Earth proceeds
through the new phase in its history. A New Consciousness—by a New Humanity, in
a New Earth—is rapidly arising. We are fast proceeding through what Tailhard De
Chardin referred to as the ‘noosphere’, the sphere of higher knowledge and
awareness. The long phase of fixation to the biosphere is now fading fast from
the historical canvass, as the noosphere arises in a meteoric ascent to glory.
In this new phase arising, the ‘Christ Consciousness’ will become the dominant
organizing force behind everything else, knowledge included.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The days of Dogma, bigotry, intolerance over differences, fixed ideas,
dualism, and all those thought constructs that have stifled the evolution of
humanity to higher climes, are over. But the defenders of these Ideas of the
Old World, Old Humanity, Old Earth, are reacting violently and have no desire
to see a New World which will see their privilege to dominate and manipulate
humans fade away, for it is through such encumbrances that these power elites
have enriched themselves at the expense of the great mass that they have
rendered effectively inutile and subhuman.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let us all assert our greater humanity, precisely through an increased
power of transcendent values in our conscience and behavior, an intensification
of Oneness in all spheres of life, a movement towards higher reason, enlightened
intuition, operative compassion. By so doing you shall all experience in your
daily lives the true meaning of mutual respect, the substance of authentic
liberation. Of course, we shall all be co-inheritors of the Earth and its
beneficent resources, thus mutually enriching our inner lives with the infinite
resources of the planet and the universe.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Be bold and daring. The sooner that you leave the cocoon of the Old World in haste, the better will life be for you. No
matter what pains this process may bring, dare to face the storms and pangs of
the process. You may lose friends, relatives, church, residential niches,
crafts and professions as you move on towards a new Path, and this, I’d truly
say, is a natural, normal process in the birthing of any new life. Have the
courage to face them all, the strength to weather deceitful attacks against
your person by the demonic tongues of those born and grown up in the ways of
the Old World.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fear not, Noble Seekers, for it is you who will be the true inheritors
of the New Earth, and you will be the prototype of the seed of the New
Humanity. Those manipulators and defenders of the old life are the ones whose
battles are uphill, and they feel defeat every day and year in their lives. Do
not make efforts to make war against those who are now losing, but rather
extend your olive arms unto them, build goodwill no matter what animosities and
hostilities they unabashedly exhibit unto thee.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All of you Seekers or freethinkers are called upon to move on, and
when needed by arising exigencies be together and learn new truths and
knowledge from each other. Create networks of Love & Light, and by the
power of higher Light spread New Enlightenment with gladness and optimism. You
will be the victors, the new stars that who become the Light-bringers of a new
canvass—the New World arising.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This mystic, Lightworker and Fellow of the Great White Brotherhood
brings love and peace to you all. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[Writ 18 September 2007, Quezon City, MetroManila]</span></div>
</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">LET BEASTS OF BURDEN REST!</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">REST THEE CARABAO</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">From
childhood to young adulthood I feasted myself</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">With
sights of carabaos at work in fields of planters</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Like
willful servant the carabao has been unto us</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Humble
Filipinos of an aegis of rustic past</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Came
forth new times and tractors filled the lands</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where
carabaos once tread the fields till wee hours</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Gradually
did carabaos came to rest at last</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">No
more to shame nor lame for slave tasks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So
let it be the new mark of unfolding times</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That
carabaos be our true friends sit in glory</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[Philippines, 14
October 2010]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">REFLECTION</span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The
title of the reflection note is in command form. This is just to stress the
urgency and wisdom of letting all beasts of burden rest from their enslaving
toils today. We cannot wait for the planetary ascension to fulfill such a goal
for one of our best friends ever: beasts of burden. Name them—buffalo, carabao,
horse, elephant, cattle, dog—nay every animal that can carry loads for us, Terrans
have enslaved across time!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well,
we are witnessing to the rapid disappearance of this rather imperial behavior
of Terrans who think they can enslave all creatures other than they
are—elementals, plants, animals, even fellow humans! But time draws near for
the great change, and we still see people clinging to ancient sadistic
addictions to making beasts of burden out of those fauna mentioned. The good
news is all of that will come to end post-2012, by the grace of the Almighty
Providence!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Not
only that, even the practice of making meat out of our friend pets and beasts
of burden, which we still do today, will end post-2012. There will be a brief
transition when New Earth habitués will still need to input organics for energy
sources, after which the death of eating organics will be solid reality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When
I see those same beasts of burden playing with freedom again in the faunas of
the morrows, I will be very happy and fulfilled. Pets can be had at home, but
an end to making them utilities or machines for work or even for entertainment
(such as what we do to horses) will end. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ra</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">May
2011</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">CITY FOR CHILDREN</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Erle Frayne D. Argonza</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If
I shall have a hand in building the world anew</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A
city I will build and dedicate for babes & tots</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where
they can frolic the day to hearts’ delight</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Relish
their minds with fantasies of creation</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Toyland
and chocolate city rolled in one</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This
wonderland will be a place to baptize</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">New
babes a-born with Universe’s smile in face</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Grand
place to celebrate birthdays too for them</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Who
are growing up a bit to tot’s fanfares</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Late
at day shall theatres turn their lights</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">To
them who’d desire for heroism tales</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For
Cinderellas & Mulans of the morrows</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yes!
Let there be such a city to shine the world</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bursting
tots’ laughters like happiest bards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[Philippines, 06
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">REFLECTION</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Being
a bachelor or single-blessed, I never had the opportunity to build a family and
raise children. This lack of children and the strong longing to raise some of
them, surely had this impact of making me showing my love and devotion to
babies and tots, so much that just the sight of them (babies) playing in the
sun and malls (tots) give me profound happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Make
no mistake though, I did raise children in past lives, and my Twinflame & I
raised children in Sirius, the same children we brought along to us on Earth. And
I already had reunions not just with my own children but also with our
grandchildren, who I still visit every now and then today. Often than not my
Twinflame Beloved is with me during the visits, and the sight of Her giving her
undying care to them gives me profound happiness too. My Twinflame will always
be my personal Saint, even in matters of family devotion She is my Beloved
Saint.</span></div>
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will be dedicated to children. In today’s homes the couples assign a special
space at home for children, where they can do their studies, art works, have
their library collections, and shelves for their stuff. It’s high time that a
city will serve such a purpose, for if we humans are a family then let us
assign a space for our children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If
the future World Leader Avatar will seek for my counsel about the planning of
cities across the New Earth, I will honestly share my proposal for a city of
children. If this will vision will come to fruition, expect me and my Twinflame
to visit the city every now and then, and feel the joy of just being with the
babe creations of the Prime Creator. Surely my spiritual ascension has made me
into a small Baba or Father, a reproduction in micro scale of the Almighty
Father.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">RETHINKING CHRISTMAS: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF MEANINGS</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Erle
Frayne Argonza</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[See: <a href="http://erleargonza.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html">http://erleargonza.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html</a>]
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to
everyone else!</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">That I started with a goodwill greeting
associated with the Christmas occasion doesn’t make me a church devotee of
which I definitely am not. I have departed a long time ago yet from Catholic
Church, my childhood church, though I am still sympathetic to some of its key
doctrines of faith notably Vatican II. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">On the other hand, not being a church
devotee doesn’t make me any less a disciple of Jesus the Christed One. I am
very much a disciple of Jesus and his team-mates of Ascended Beings, and I’d
categorically declare that I am, in this respect, a Christian. It is for this
reason that I do attune myself to the rituals of the Christians who are largely
fanatical devotees of the Cult of Jesus which was officially dubbed as
Christian Church in the generic sense.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">So many fallacies and lies were
propagated by the Jesusian cults (i.e. churches) over the past two (2)
millennia, one of which is the contention that Jesus was born on the night of
24<sup>th</sup> of December. Nobody knows about the exact date when Jesus, the
World Teacher, embodied and was born as an infant a full Age ago (1 Age = 2,150
years approximately). There are mystics today who claim that Jesus was born
around the end of March, but as to the exact day of his birth (using the
Gregorian calendar) no mystic had made a precise claim.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In the first place, the devotional
practice of giving so much importance to the exact day of birth of a founding
Master in its literal sense is purely this: blind fanaticism. Even if we
presume that Jesus was born on the 24<sup>th</sup> of December, there is a
greater underlying meaning behind his birth that the ordinary devotees and cult
hierarchs have no knowledge about. But if only the cult devotees would look to
numerology for some answers regarding the question of meaning, they would find
fruitful answers via this method.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But as everybody realizes, Jesusians
are bent on declaring that any contention that lies outside the church/cult
dogmas is a work of the Devil. You could just imagine how many freethinkers and
esoteric seekers may have been labeled with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ad hominem</i> Devil by the Jesusian cultists (church goers), and it is
no surprise that this writer had earned the ire of many such fanatical cultists
such as his former university students. Well, the bad luck for the fanatics is
that this is no Medieval Period, and so I could make the boldest claims to
unmasking church lies without being accosted or burned at stake by fanatics.
Also, I reside inside the University of the Philippines
(Diliman) which is the ultimate bastion of freedom in the whole of Southeast Asia. My big city, Manila, is also the citadel
of freedom in Asia, so no one would stone me to death or burn me alive anywhere
here for being an iconoclast. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Now, let me go straight to the question
of meaning. This interpretive task is a matter of deep exegesis, likened to
interpreting a dream. As one who had studied semiotics (science of signs) via
the behavioral sciences and esoteric philosophy, the task is easy just the
same. Humans normally resort to rituals or ceremonies, and often the cycles of
seasons and weather patterns evoke ideas that then translate into ritualizing
engagements. Social relations produce thought, as the sociology of knowledge
(cognitive sociology) had so succinctly declared as a social law. This is our
starting point for our recondite reflection. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In the ancient past, the production of
rituals was the chief task of the Shaman (<i>babaylan</i> in ancient Philippines).
The shaman was the priest (or priestess), medicine man (or woman) or healer,
white magician/alchemist (taps energies for beneficial purposes), mystic
(bridge to the Divine Beings), and philosopher, all rolled into a single
functionary. It is important to cite the shaman here, as we can best understand
the significance of the ‘December 24 event’ by putting ourselves in the
position of the Roman high priests (Rome’s own equivalent of shamans) and see
what this intersubjective process can reveal to us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Remember that the Roman shamans were,
in ancient parlance, pagans. In today’s anthropological language, they were
animists. As such, they represented a people that was so close to nature, and
knew well the cycles of seasons. Like the shamans from other cultures, they had
designed rituals for every kind of human activity conceivable. A child, before
being born, is prayed for using mantrams and ceremonial rites, and then
receives another ritual upon birth, and another ritual upon reaching puberty,
and so on till death. Likewise did the seasons of both hemispheres receive
equal treatment in terms of ritualization. Ditto to the cycles of
pre-cultivation, cultivation, and post-harvest for food production
(agriculture, horticulture). The Romans were into such practices, to
emphatically mark our point here, more so that they were already city-builders
and were of advanced caliber in knowledge and technological pursuits of their
time; their shamans, likewise of the highest caliber.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Culled from above is the idea of
ritualizing for the end of the autumn season and the beginning of the winter
season in the Northern hemisphere. The significance of Christmas, of Jesus’
birth being assigned to the 24<sup>th</sup> of December, has a great deal to do
with the autumn-to-winter interface (to use current terminology). Officially,
the equalization of the patterns of autumn and winter is cognized as the Winter
solstice, which falls on the 21<sup>st</sup> of December in the North (winter
solstice in the south falls on the 21<sup>st</sup> of June, which is summer
solstice in the North). </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Even before Christianity was declared
an official religion, without doubt the Romans were already in the habit of
ritualizing the coming of Winter. No further research is needed to establish
this. All of the ethnic communities in the Mediterranean
for that matter held rituals signifying the start of Winter, and the
inter-permeation of cultural elements by dint of cultural diffusion is
responsible for the degree of homogenization of Winter ritual patterns in the
same area. Which means that the Latins (Romans), Etruscans, Greeks, Hamites,
Semites, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Iberians shared more or less similar
traits in their Winter rituals, the most focal being that they all celebrated
Winter solstice in certain ways.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The question now is, what is the deeper
significance of December the 24<sup>th</sup> other than that it marks the 3<sup>rd</sup>
day after the Winter solstice? And why the 3<sup>rd</sup> day after the
solstice was declared as the ‘birth of Jesus’ by the new rising religion, the
Cult of Jesus (Christianity)? Why not simply assign the 21<sup>st</sup> of
December as the day of his birth, which will make the birthday identical to the
1<sup>st</sup> day of winter (the 21<sup>st</sup>)? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">As to the date, the 3<sup>rd</sup> day
after the solstice, a note: 3 is the number of Trinity (Father, Son, Spirit) in
Christology. In numerology (Indian and Pythagorean systems), 3 denotes
creativity, productivity, motion, action, activity. The two semiotic sets do
converge. Instead of copying the solstice day as D’ Day, the ancient shamans
(who were the new bishops and priests of the Jesusian cult) decided that it
would be more appropriate to indicate the Trinitarian power in the date, which
makes the 24<sup>th</sup> rather than the 21<sup>st</sup> as the top candidate.
For a numerologist, the day makes sense, in that declaring a creative-dynamic
signification on a winter’s season, which is a season of rest or
motionlessness, generates a sense of balance of the action-rest duality
(yin-yang in the East). </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Not only that. It would also make
greater sense for the devotees or blind fanatics (a redundancy really, because
devotee and fanatic are identical) if the date of birth would be on a day other
than the 21<sup>st</sup> which most Mediterraneans and Northerners already
celebrate. The ‘uniqueness criterion’ is an important element in
decision-making, and by using this criterion means that the 24<sup>th</sup> of
December made the Jesusians or Jesuits (church fanatics) a unique people who
created rituals outside of the common ritual templates. That is, the 24<sup>th</sup>
of December rendered the fanatics the illusion of uniqueness, which made them
rest on solid psychological grounds: they need not defend any longer that they
were copy-cat folks. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Now, that leads us to the next idea:
converging the ‘uniqueness’ element with the ‘chosen people’ eschatological
belief present in all religions and cultures. Supposedly, Jesus was the
harbinger of the new idea that the ‘gentiles’ (literally the ‘outsiders’ of a
chosen people who were the Jews) were themselves a ‘chosen people’ and not
outsiders or outcaste. The Jesusian cult has now given the fanatics not only a
sense of uniqueness, but also declared that such a uniqueness reclined in their
being the ‘chosen ones’. The time for the old chosen ones has ended, and a new
chosen one has begun in mandate. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">You could just imagine the ecstatic
impact that such a convergence of ideas could produce among the erstwhile herds
of fanatics, who for many centuries were loathsome outsiders in the
civilizational game. They were the barbarians & savages of the previous
ages, the outsiders who were recognized best for their destructive
propensities. Now they are the co-creators or co-producers of the Divine Spheres
or God (co-creation signified by number 3), the next harbingers of
civilization. And true indeed, the former barbarians, who were mainly
Europeans, felt this mission so strongly in their psyche that for many
centuries thereafter they scoured the earth for ‘heathens’ who would be
converts to their idea of civility, of being cultured, progressive, rational,
and humanist. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Of course, the psychological mood or
theme evoked by the entire ritualizing of birth in the 24<sup>th</sup> is Hope:
that Jesus was the embodiment of hope, that there was finally hope for the
Europeans who for centuries were heathen slaves. Of course, it was the greatest
psychological victory for the Latins (Romans & sister tribes) in as much as
they were then the center of civilization world-wide. The 24<sup>th</sup> also
gave the same Europeans the same sense of hope at a time of hopelessness and
despair that were evoked by the cyclical winter season. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Cultivating the seed of creativity,
activity, uniqueness and hope, all converging within a common seed-idea—the
birthing of the Ascended Master Jesus and bestowing him with the role of
Begotten Son of the Father God—and planting this in the psyche of Europeans is
among the most profound developments in the genetic seeding and improvement of
the Europeans themselves. True indeed, and humanity better accept this, no
matter how destructive may have been the methods employed by European powers in
their conquests, the Torch of Civility for the entire Piscean Age was vested in
the European. Their time had come 2000+ years ago, and no force on Earth could
stop that. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2000+ years ago, the seed of that
historic mission of the Europeans was planted, concocted, congealed in thought,
which then permeated right deep into their Collective Unconscious, which
eventually got implanted in their genes. For the Collective Unconscious, which
belongs to the Electromagnetic Field or EMF, interfaces directly with the
biophysical, and that to induce changes in the EMF will likewise result to
corresponding changes in the bio-physical dimension. The changes, in other
words, will be planted as genetic traits that will govern the actions of the
people concerned in the long run. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">That, dearest readers, is the
significance of the (night of) 24<sup>th</sup> of December. The mission of the
Europeans has now been optimized, after the full Age of Pisces. Likewise the
mission of Jesus: to carry on his shoulders for 2000+ years the collective
karma of Earth’s humanity. The European-Jesusian missions are now over, and the
Torch is now being passed on to the peoples of the East, particularly to the
Pacific Asians. But this new development, which will be the definitive
development of the Age of Aquarius, is another thing. Suffice me at this moment
to say: I’ve shared my thoughts about the deep significance of the 24<sup>th</sup>
of December, by resorting to an archeology of the psyche and soul.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">A Merry Christmas again to you all! May
my love for all Jesusian cultists be re-declared here, please accept my
goodwill for you all. May you all evolve in spirit! Let’s all chant the mantram:
Jesus is Love! Jesus is Love! Jesus is Love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">[Writ 14 December 2007, Quezon City, MetroManila]</span></div>
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