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People Have Power over the Plague and Not the Other Way Around

6/24/2018

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People “Have Power over the Plague and Not the Other Way Around”

Napoleon visited a site were the plague was in full force. I have included a painting of Napoleon, by Antoine-Jean Gros, “Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa,” painted in 1804 and hanging in the Louvre, depicting the event. Napoleon walked among the plague victims to demonstrate to his soldiers that he had no fear and the plague could not affect him. Goethe said in his memoirs that Napoleon told him that he went to where the plague was raging and deliberately walked and touched the plague victims to demonstrate that man has power over the plague and not the other way around.

I have made numerous posts regarding the inner power and gifts that we all possess.  I have posted many examples of individuals around the world who appeared to do extraordinary things yet what they have accomplished we all have the possibility of also manifesting.

The hang-up, if I might use this term, for most people reading about the near miraculous activities of others is that they don’t really believe that they have the capability or understanding of how to reach this ‘state.’  Throughout the following post I’ve included several keys for you to consider.

Napoleon and Wolfgang Goethe met twice during their lifetimes.  Within Goethe’s autobiography, and other books quoting Goethe, we learn of some interesting attributes of Napoleon.

“Napoleon was especially great in that he was at all hours the same, before a battle, during a battle, after a victory after a defeat; He stood always firm, was always clear and decided.  He was equal to each situation and each moment.”

“He (Napoleon) really visited those sick of the plague; to prove that he who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also, and he was right!  I can instance a fact from my own life, when I was inevitably exposed to an infection from a putrid fever, and warded off the disease merely by force of will.  It is incredible what power the mortal will has in such cases.  It penetrates the body and puts it into a state of activity that repels hurtful influences.  Fear, on the other hand, is a state of indolent weakness and susceptibility, which makes it easy for ever foe to take possession.  This Napoleon knew well, and he felt that he risked nothing in giving his army an imposing example.”

In an earlier post I mentioned that story of the pilgrim and the Plague. A pilgrim was leaving the city of Constantinople for a trip when he met the Plague coming into the city. The pilgrim said, ‘why are you here? The Plague answered, I am here for 5,000 souls. Two months later the pilgrim was returning to Constantinople and met the Plague as it was leaving the city after 50,000 people had died. The pilgrim said, ‘I thought you said you came for only 5,000 people?’ The Plague responded, ‘I only took 5,000 souls, Fear took the rest.’

Goethe often remarked that he lived in a ‘mad world’ but he was not a part of it.  From a journal entry of his written in September 1776, Goethe gave an expression to the high resolve by which he was striving to conduct his life.  Under the similitude of a voyager on the high seas he pictures the hopes and fears of himself and his friends regarding his future career.  “Long days and nights the ship that was to convey him lay in haven awaiting favorable winds.  The auspicious morning at length came and the ship set sail amid the jubilation of his friends on shore.  But baffling storms drove the vessel from its course, and his friends anxiously awaited his fate.  But, he conclude;, strongly he stands by the helm; winds and waves make sport with the ship, but not with his heart, with the confidence of command he views the grim depths, and places his faith in his gods, whether shipwrecked or safe landing be his doom.”

“In Goethe’s estimation the highest attainment for a person was the art of life – the art which gives ease and confidence in intercourse with one’s fellows, a grace and dignity which ae the expression of an assured inner harmony.”

Another aspect of individuals such as Napoleon, Goethe and even further back to the ancient philosophers was the method in which they extended and deepened their experience of a phenomenon until they reached that element of the phenomenon which is not given externally to sense experience.

The organization or unity of any phenomenon is real and can be experienced even though it may not be evident to sensory experience through a perception by an intuitive experience.  The intuitive knowledge can be gained through contemplation of the visible aspect.

Goethe following guidelines from more ancient philosophers decided, “When observing a phenomenon it is necessary to be more active in seeing than what we normally do. We tend to think of an observation as just a matter of opening our eyes in front of the phenomenon, as if it were something that happens to us when visual information flows in through the senses and is registered in consciousness.”  Observing the phenomenon has the great teachers of the past would say,” requires us to look, as if the direction of seeing were reversed, going from ourselves toward the phenomenon instead of vice versa.  This is done by putting attention into seeing, so that we really do see what we are seeing instead of just having a visual impression.  It is as if we plunged into seeing.”

"Psychologist Bruno Klopfer was treating a man named Wright who had advanced cancer of the lymph nodes. All standard treatments had been exhausted, and Wright appeared to have little time left. His neck, armpits, chest, abdomen, and groin were filled with tumors the size of oranges, and his spleen and liver were so enlarged that two quarts of milky fluid had to be drained out of his chest every day. But Wright did not want to die.

He had heard about an exciting new drug called Krebiozen, and he begged his doctor to let him try it. At first his doctor refused because the drug was only being tried on people with a life expectancy of at least three months. Wright was not expected to live that long. Finally the doctor gave in and gave Wright an injection of Krebiozen on Friday, but in his heart of hearts he did not expect Wright to last the weekend.

To his surprise, on the following Monday he found Wright out of bed and walking around. Klopfer reported that his tumors had 'melted like snowballs on a hot stove' and were half their original size. This was a far more rapid decrease in size than even the strongest X-ray treatments could have accomplished. Ten days after Wright's first Krebiozen treatment, he left the hospital and was, as far as doctors could tell by their tests, cancer free. When he entered the hospital he had needed an oxygen mask to breathe, but when he left he as well enough to fly his own plane at 12,000 feet with no discomfort.

Wright remained well for about two months, but then articles began to appear asserting the Krebiozen actually had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes. Wright, who was rigidly logical and scientific in his thinking, became depressed, suffered a relapse, and he was readmitted to the hospital. The tumors had literally returned all over his body.

This time his physician decided to try an experiment. He told Wright that Krebiozen was every bit as effective as it had seemed, but that some of the initial supplies of the drug had deteriorated during shipping. He explained, however, that he had a new highly concentrated version of the drug and could treat Wright with this. The physician used only plain water and went through an elaborate procedure before injecting Wright with the placebo.

Again the results were dramatic. Tumor masses melted, chest fluid vanished, and Wright was quickly back on his feet and feeling great. He remained symptom-free for another two months, but then the AMA announced that a nationwide study of Krebiozen had found the drug worthless in the treatment of cancer. This time Wright's faith was completely shattered. His cancer blossomed anew and he died TWO DAYS LATER."

Remarkably, Dr. Klopfer would later discover that the original medication that he had received was only a placebo and not the Krebiozen. Some medical professionals have discounted this story because it was ‘all in Wright’s mind.’ Isn’t that the intriguing part of this experience? Isn’t it enlightening that some tumors the size of oranges and others the size of walnuts appeared and disappeared so quickly due to his thoughts?

The following is a slight paraphrase of a true story that Paul Harvey told about 35 years ago. A doctor from Harvard Medical School was making his rounds in the heart ward. He had 6 interns with him. They came to the bed of a patient who was in a coma and was expected to die at any moment. The patient's heart was literally in pieces. The professor placed his stethoscope on the patient and turned to the interns and said, 'Listen to that beat (which was very erratic)...just listen ...to the wholeness.' Each of the interns placed their stethoscope on the patient and remarked that they heard what the doctor was talking about. They continued on their rounds.

The next day the patient came out of the coma...one week later the patient was walking around and two weeks later was checking out. The professor happened to see the patient and remarked...you are a real miracle! The patient said, that's not what you told me doctor. The doctor remarked, 'what did I tell you?' When you told me how whole my heart was, and all the other doctors agreed, I thought I was alright. Now, not only did he think he was all right...but his heart completely rectified itself. He was in a coma! The doctor tells the story so that the young interns know that they don't know everything and are not God.

This is the power of our minds and belief.

With love, in love and through love to you.
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How Do They Have That Green Thumb?

6/9/2018

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How Do They Have that Green Thumb?

Why is it that some people appear to have a green thumb and others do not?  Why is it that some people have almost a complete control of animals and others do not?

Why is it that some doctors and nurses seem to create a healing when they enter the hospital room even before they have dispensed any medicine?   Why do some patients relate much better to one doctor or nurse over another?

One possible explanation is that these individuals are in resonance with the archetype related to their interest or profession. 

The ancients built idols and images created in the likeness of some deity.  Despite what some people believe today, the ancients did not believe that the idol was actually doing the healing but the deity that was behind that stone, marble or metal figure was whom they were aligning with.

Our more modern interpretation, if you consider 300 BC more modern, would refer to the deities being archetypes or Principle.  “If an image was constructed with the proper skill, it became sufficient similar to the Principle for which it stood and a sympathy could now exist.  The sympathy resulted in a motion of energy from the original to the symbol and from the symbol to the receiver.”  Therefore a deity was not distant but now closer to the receiver or requestor.

The Archetype would be the ultimate pattern or form of any person, object or thing.  The ancient concept stated, “Things alike cannot be kept separate, things not alike cannot be reconciled.”  Therefore when a form comes into harmony with an archetype, there is a release of energy, from the Archetype to the form that is consistent with it.    The moment the form varies from Archetype, the sympathetic bond is broken and the energy is no longer present to the same degree. 

The uniqueness of our construction as human beings is that “within us is the sympathetic potential polarity of all things.”  We (YOU) are capable of knowing all things, being all things and attuning to all things because the roots of all seeds of all things are within YOU.

Some of the great philosophical thinkers form the past felt that in order to align to the highest of Archetypes, “An individual must come from innocence to virtue, childishness to child and then to an individual who voluntarily surrenders his opinions and realigns himself with an Archetype, or a pattern of the highest value.”

In the case of the doctor that seems to have something special about him or her, “A physician who is only a scientist is not responsive to archetype, only science.  The individual must be more than just physical, he or she must be a philosopher.  As a philosopher the individual brings in archetypal remedial ancient philosophy or Reason as part of health.  This individual now aligned with the great archetype relates now to the three natures of the self; spiritual, intellectual and physical.”

Now I am sharing with you the thoughts of individual healer/philosophers from around 2,000 years ago, but I feel that we can still gain some greater understanding from their viewpoints.
As the ancients conceived of various archetypes they established a specialized group of requirements that included;

Absolute Sincerity
Simple Honesty
Intuitive Integrity
Instinctive Ability
 
These types of personality traits released the power of the archetype.  In regards to the doctors and nurses, the doctor or nurse is the greatest medicine, not pills or shots.  The doctor is the healing balm and releases it archetypically into the body of the patient.  The ancients believed that the archetypical doctor heals by:
 
His/Her Dedication
His/Her Intellect
His/Her Intuition,
His/Her Emotions
His/Her Consciousness
 
The doctor instinctively and naturally discovers the remedy by becoming open, becoming completely dedicated to truth.  The doctor is no longer blocked by traditional knowledge or academic reputation.
 
What I am sharing above is the same for those who work with pets, grow plants or a person who becomes a lawyer, clergyman or any other profession.  Conceive of a perfectly dedicated person whose ultimate genius lies in their adjustment, harmony and sympathetic alignment to the archetype of their subject or interest.
 
“If any human character or temperament identifies its conduct with archetype, it them becomes a container or reservoir of energy from the archetype.”  “We exist in a material universe supported upon a magnificent framework of universal principles manifesting as radiant blossoms or archetypes.”
 
Can you image what the perfect archetype would be in your field of interest, line of work or someone you would admire as a teacher or leader?
 
I have taken some free license from the old writings by substituting the word individual or His/Her where they have written Man or Him in some of the old quotes.  But rest assured that these beacon lights from the past recognized both women and men in their writings.  So I take responsibility for alterations like these in some of the quotes.
 
With love, in love and through love to you.

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Comprehending the Light Within

6/7/2018

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Comprehending the Light Within

People are visible to us, we can touch them, listen to them speak, take a photographic reproduction, but what do we know about the person? How much do these things actually tell us about the person?

In reality, a person is actually a ‘being’ that is unknown in his total manifestations. We can only estimate those parts of a person which are within the gamut of sensory perception that we utilize.
It is the same with many elements in nature, we only know their outward characteristics but not their inner substances or the laws that they follow.

“All elements are essentially invisible. The visible parts that we see are merely extensions into compounds that we call form.”

“We cannot follow some of the parts that extend into greater dimensions so we assume we are surrounded by space. Space is a reservoir of dimensions.”

The ancients believed that aspects of the elements of nature exist beyond our dimensional awareness. We don’t just live in 3-dimensions, but infinite dimensions. The ancient schools of higher learning believed that human beings are hypnotized in believing they are bound by three dimensions and the focus of their teaching was to assist their students to breakthrough to other dimensions.

There are forms beyond our 3-dimensions which we cannot capture but they do exist. T.V. and radio waves move through us. These waves have an existence and integration beyond our limited sensory comprehension.

The more enlightened individuals from the past believed that human beings already possess mechanisms that would allow for the extension of our consciousness into the multi-dimensional universe.

“We don’t really see because our comparative ignorance of the subjective is due to our hypnotic addiction to the objective.”

We have directed and trained our faculties only in one direction. Our senses do not take in a full area of what they ultimately are capable of, which they might be able to ascertain, had they adequate instruction.

“Small children retain a certain capacity to penetrate dimensions as well as primitive people. Primitive people are closer to nature and they are not conditioned to sophisticated intellectualism. Primitive peoples always insist on the sub-mundane beings or creatures existing within the elements.”

We only view the surfaces of things and are assessment is going to be based upon the quality of our observation. Our limited perception, which also may be faulty, cannot observe depths nor grasp beyond our five senses.

In most cases we only learn trivia, whether it is our observation of people or in our observance of the universe, we do not see the causes which are not visible, apparent or immediately available.

Something interesting to consider…there are as many living parts within an individual’s human body as there are on the earth around the individual. There are millions, perhaps billions of minute units living within the human body.

Some ancient teachers believed that Humans are an order of life, not merely cells within a body, but a vast government, a hierarchy of internal structure. “They believed that there were not only gods in the heavens, there were gods within human beings. There are not only hierarchies in the universe but hierarchies within the organic structure of an individual.”

“Within the cellular, atomic and electronic structure of people, there is law, order, government, republic, democracy, dictatorship and tyranny. Every form without is found within.”

Just as storms may damage people’s property; moods, tempers, fits, hate and other emotions can disturb the psychic interior of a person’s atmosphere. So you see, you cannot always recognize just from the outside appearance of an individual, which form of government is in ascendancy within their internal kingdom. From just a cursory view from the outside you don’t know what is the driving force, thought or motivation that resides within that physical conveyance?

When we look at something or someone we see either its objective physical form or we perceive its light. Everything that lives, lives in light. Everything that exists, radiates light. All things derive their life from light because within light is life itself.

There is:

Spiritual light
Emotional light
Mental light
Vital light and
Physical light.

You can perceive things either according to their outward nature or according to their inward nature or light. We are used to perceiving things by just using our outer senses but we can learn to perceive things by our inner senses. “The heart has eyes as well as the body. The mind has ears and all internal parts of people have equivalent senses of cognition.”

Messages conveyed to each one of the body natures comes “either from light, which is the source of the energy that conveys, or from the working of light operating upon any level or plane.”
We see the life within nature because of light that shines within it; we see nature because of the light that shines upon it.

And of course the key is…by observation we behold things lighted, by intuition we behold things self-luminous. Intuitively we behold the true inner light of all creatures and substances; outwardly we see only the reflection of light upon creatures and substances by which they are visible to our sight.

I surround you with the highest and best with love, in love and through love.

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Is Your Door Closed or Open?

6/5/2018

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Is Your Door Closed or Open?

If you place a person in a room, close all the windows and doors, the individual will generally kill himself by poisoning the atmosphere around him.  The individual in the room will suffocate as a result of the poison that he breathes into the air around him.  If there is no way the air can be purified he will suffocate in the end from the lack of oxygen.

Now most people would initially blame the atmosphere itself by saying the air is bad, not realizing until they take some moments to remember some of the science they learned in school that they are poisoning their own atmosphere.  So in order to have fresh live-giving air, there must be adequate ventilation.

Human feelings when they are kept in the same confined place, where freedom of ventilation is not possible will poison one to death; the individual who blocks the circulation of any part of nature, draws a circle of enclosure around their mind.  Following the old axiom; as above, so below, as below so above, one can understand that whenever a line of limitation is created to set aside or limit any area in which we live, it will ultimately poison and start a process of decay within an individual.

It is absolutely necessary that the atmosphere around an individual be kept in circulation and the individual live in the largest possible atmosphere.  What provides the largest possible atmosphere?  NATURE!

“To protect themselves against inclement weather, people build habitations for themselves.  In the same manner people;

Build their way of life
Build their policy of thinking
Build their religions and Creeds
Build their attitudes and prejudices.”
 
The activities I listed above are all natural and seem to be a part of human nature.  We are protecting ourselves against something outside of ourselves, against some collective atmosphere that we find disagreeable.
 
In the process of building these structures, if you leave doors and windows closed, one will finally stifle the self with their own poison and die while blaming the atmosphere.  The average person grows older closing windows and doors of their own mind. 
 
Nations, races and communities can suffocate themselves by closed doors.  That which is closed leads to death.  We can find closed doors with;
 
A closed mind
A closed heart,
A nation closing itself off through building borders and
Political systems that become too isolated.
 
All of the above deprive a body and psyche of natural circulation.
 
One of the old philosophers discovered that the greatest magical agent for health was a mysterious and intangible thing called the Human Will.  He found that those individuals that had the Will to do, the Will to Be, the Will to expand their borders; the people who had intense purpose or intense purposefulness in life, could successfully face almost any difficulty that was presented in life and that they were almost always the heathiest of individuals.

“An individual could believe in anything and die of anything, but the moment one believed anything, enough to do anything about it, the mysterious transition between the static state, (closed doors), and the dynamic state began.
 
These two states, static with limited circulation and dynamic with its more encompassing action was the keys to a persons’ health and well-being.  The key is an individual’s own action and this means a person’s contribution to their own way of life.  “Where an individual’s life actions gave strength, the individual became strong.  When an individual has only bitterness, contention and weakness in the faith that life is good, that people are good and they believe that the world is ‘out to get them,’ there is no escape from the final judgement of nature.”
 
Perhaps you might think that the following idea from ancient times is just this, ancient and not valid today.  Some old physicians and philosophers believed that, “health is a body cleansed of falseness in some way.  Sickness is a corruption of some kind.”  All sickness is in some way due to a poison. 
 
An old adage stated, “One needs more than common intelligence to know who he is, only the individual who studies himself properly and knows from when he comes and who he is, will give profound attention to the eternal.”  “Everything that a person does and has to do, he should do by the light of nature, for the light of nature is nothing other than reason itself.”
 
You should not judge people according to their physical stature, but honor them all equally.  “What can be learned by individuals is not properly called learning, because everything is prefigured even in the child; it must only be awakened and summoned forth by the individual.  If you awaken the stonecutter in a person, they will be a stonecutter, if you awaken the ability to make shoes, one will become a shoemaker; and if you summon forth the scholar in a person, they will become a scholar.  This is because all potentialities are inherent within human beings.  What you awaken comes forth, the rest remains un-awakened, absorbed in sleep. We are born to be awake, not to be asleep.”
 
With love, in love and through love to you.

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