A polluted society

A polluted society

 

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;

We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.

We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less.

We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just ignore it.

YJ Draiman

"Why is this happening to me . . .AGAIN?!"

"Why is this happening to me . . .AGAIN?!"
"Why is every relationship the SAME?"
"Are loving relationships even POSSIBLE?"
These are common complaints, often accompanied by a host of painful emotions, extreme bewilderment, and a desperate "Why are they doing this to me!! . . .Again?"

An instant later, the culprit will be judged and sentenced. Full of remorse, the separating parties cry, "If only you would change, I wouldn't have to leave!" Both parties, in their confusion, ask the same questions and reach the same conclusions, "I'm right! You're wrong! It's settled! Why argue?!" Each tells the truth but somehow they see opposite realities. The inconsistency of alternating from confusion to absolute judgment is seldom realized and the behavior that follows this mindset is usually bizarre.

In ancient times, this state of 'confused absoluteness' was known as "a house divided against itself." It is caused by the dis-ease, Blockage of Truth, a state in which one is locked into and can only see error. In this state, error is called truth.

Seldom does it occur to the confused mind that, "If I'm present in every experience of my life, perhaps I'm involved in creating my pain." Rarely does it occur to a mind to ask themselves, "If they're the one with the problem, why am I the one with the pain?" Only for a fleeting moment can this mind conceive that it might have set itself up for what is happening . . . Again!

Pain signals a self-imposed dis-ease, Blockage of Truth. A person in pain usually identifies who they think the 'guilty party' is - and it's always someone else - an opinion that is worshipped! An opinion that makes it impossible to see the truth! The typical solution is blame, guilt, and separation which initiate another downward cycle into more pain and deeper resentment.

Sound familiar?

There is joy and aliveness beyond pain and there are ways to heal the need to struggle! The primary requirement for healing is the ability to admit, if I'm in pain - I'm in error. This admission does not mean that the "other" person is freed of responsibility for their actions; it simply gives the person brave enough to take responsibility power over their own lives.

Responsibility, interpreted through a mindset of victimhood, tends to look like guilt, fault and blame - a totally invalid idea. The Truth about responsibility is that it is simply a tool that uncovers the hidden internal dynamics that lead to the confused absoluteness referred to earlier.

Next comes the willingness to do one's work - to take a different action based on taking responsibility. Out of Love of Truth comes the ability to tell oneself the truth and heal. This makes what the world calls "impossible," achievable!

Effective tools for self-correction coupled with a willingness to actually use them are critical to healing! Haphazard use of the tools will not produce the internal healing that is possible, nor the desired changes in relationships, health, or finances.

With the right tools, not only will healing occur, but, as a result of facing conflict with a responsible mind, a blame free mind, wisdom and empowerment will result!

A new mindset is needed to recognize and undo Blockage of Truth. One must redesign the personal thought system that has led to confusion, pain or loss. Healing starts with a 'renewing of the mind.' Though these ideas may at first sound crazy or impossible, thousands have healed themselves with the use of these tools.

Total explanation of this new, though actually ancient, thought system is not the objective here. That would take volumes. The goal is to give you practical, workable tools and a glimpse of the philosophy that backs them up. Another key to healing is an open mind.

YOU CANNOT SOLVE A PROBLEM WITH THE MIND THAT CREATED IT! Albert Einstein

The basis for all true healing, mental, physical and emotional, is knowing that the body is not real - it does not exist! Scientifically, this was best said by Albert Einstein when he said, "What we have heretofore called matter, is energy whose vibrations have been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter!" Ancient teachings called matter 'appearances' and cautioned not to 'judge,' or be taken in by them.

What appears as a body is an energy field, integrated and organized by what is back of and superior to it. The field is not self existent and there are organizing principles behind it - principles that can be known and harnessed.

There are two basic qualities of organizing energy superior to and back of any energy field, including the 'body':
1. Integrative -expressed in humans as Love, enthusiasm, and joy which manifest as creativity, health, beauty and aliveness.
2. Disintegrative - expressed in humans as fear, blame, anger, criticism and revenge which manifest as pain, suffering and dis-ease.

The ancients called disintegrative energy 'sin' or 'defiling the temple,' cautioning that if these energies are stored in the "body," it violates the integrity of the host tissue, causing the deterioration we refer to as dis-ease. The wages, or result, of 'defiling the temple' is that the energy system decays and eventually dies.

This understanding and warning, which is usually interpreted as some kind of punishment or threat from the Creator, came from an energy based knowledge of physiology, not religious dogma!!

The beauty of recognizing and taking charge of these powerful, primary energies is that we are at choice. We are not their victims, but are the ones who put them in place and can change them at will.

The quality of these underlying energies, our choices, is the cause of everything - the health of our bodies, minds, lives, relationships and finances - every circumstance we seem to arrive at by accident or chance! And we are never the victim of cause, we are its determiner.

When involvement in our experience is denied, we hide the cause of that event inside of ourselves. We pretend we are innocent victims and can carry out that scam on ourselves because our denial has suppressed that part of the mind that is at cause. It is then, with these hidden disintegrative energies, that we create our lives. Again, the Ancients who understood these energy principles, warned, "Take care the heart (the unconscious) for out of it are the issues in life." Through our own internal, hidden dynamics we create our conflicts and dis-eases!

Pain and disease are helpful signals that warn that we are in error. Although reputed to be enemies, they are friends in disguise. Pain is never a sign of someone else's mistake. It is the body's 'error message,' a reminder that the quality of energy we are putting into our system is self-destructive.

Most people ignore the messages, drug the messenger (the body) and wonder why disease strikes. They wish someone would discover a 'magic pill' that would allow them to continue destructive habits and not pay the piper. "Let me hate, gossip, have fear and anger, put down and criticize whom I wish. Let me steal and be as cheap as a nickel! Yet, please, don't make me accountable for my words and actions. Let me ignore nutrition and eat junk, but please, PLEASE make me healthy, happy and abundant!" An insane wish!

We cannot engage in negativity and have health, anymore than a farmer can sow wheat and reap corn. It is a LAW that we always reap as we have sown!

Failure to be aware, response-able and release negativity leads to an endless succession of similar events. Hence, the agonizing question: "Why is this happening to me . . . Again?!" 'Premature positive thinking' (pretending all is well, when it's not), produces the same result. Appropriate and honest thinking is the goal. Self-correction follows naturally.

The only restorative processes are those which face and release stored negativity. The body can then use its own recuperative powers to rebuild.

LET GO AND YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
The steps to true healing begin by understanding that:
1. The purpose of life is to heal you and to bring you joy! Anything less is Self-Inflicted Nonsense.
2. We will define the output of the human mind as reality. In ancient times, called the 'mind of man.'
3. Pretending someone else causes your mind's disturbing output is projection.
4. Blaming another for your reality (the output of your mind) is irresponsible and the key to being a victim.
5. Thinking and feeling like a victim is self-destructive and compromises one's mental, emotional, physical, relationship and financial health.
6. Pain is the energy that results from holding onto disintegrative energy and/or negative thoughts. Pain warns of the need for tools to release stored negativity and create internal healing.
7. Forgiveness (changing your reality, the output of your mind) is the only PERMANENT solution.
8. Forgiving is NOT about others, rather, it is an internal healing process.
9. Understanding the principles behind transition is simple but not always easy.
10. It takes commitment and work to heal yourself of patterns that have continued, often, for generations!
11. The rewards are beyond what the mind in pain can conceive.


TRUE FORGIVENESS is the master release process, a tool that opens the energy field of the 'body' and liberates destructive energies from within. Once you actually understand Forgiveness, you will never forgive anyone again. Forgiveness is not letting another off the hook for their offenses. The root meaning of Forgiveness in Aramaic is 'to cancel, untie or let loose.' It is a tool for changing a reality in the mind.

To heal, identify disintegrative emotions or thoughts that reside within your 'energy system.' Own them as yours, although they appear to be caused by someone else. If you've had a particular conflict eighty-seven different times, with forty-two different people - notice you are the one who has been there EVERY time.

Your thoughts are the output of your mind and the realities from your mind reflect the energies held in your body. The output of a human mind tells more about the content of that mind than about the perceived world!

The next step toward healing is verbal release of the mental and emotional energies that make up repeating realities.

Say aloud, if practical, "I totally release from my life and body all feelings of ______."Be specific with your feelings (i.e. fear, anger, criticism, or pain). "I release the thoughts that _________."Be specific with your thoughts (i.e., Life hurts, No one loves me, or I'll never make it).

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! The steps to liberty? Be accountable for your thoughts, emotions, and realities. It's your life! Recognize and undo disintegrative energies. Learn to Forgive! The person or event you think 'causes' pain only surfaces realities that are already within you. They have given you the opportunity to heal . . .Again! Take advantage of that opportunity!

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support people in their search for more fulfilling lives.

support people in their search for more fulfilling lives.

On this site you will find information about a great many subjects. Some of it might even seem "out of place". However, it is our desire to help you find some of the "tools" that are available for learning about Unconditional Love, Forgiveness, and about being fulfilled & happy. Some of this requires "returning to our roots", if you will, in the sense that we must un-learn much of what we have learned, and re-learn much that has been "lost or forgotten" as we have lost touch with ourselves in our headlong rush into our "modern" lives.

"Unconditional Love?", you may ask; "...that can only come from God..." Well, it can and does come from us as well, and we will attempt to help you understand it, learn about it, and learn how to give it and receive it. Unconditional love is, in essence, the acceptance of our imperfection and that of others, and the realization that within the great imperfection lies the beauty of what we really are.

"Forgiveness?, how do we 'do' forgiveness?" Again, it is one of those "abilities" that we have somehow "forgotten", or never knew, and that we have made "conditional" upon the behavior of others. And that is not what true forgiveness is. We will help you re-discover the meaning of forgiveness, as well as offer you aids in your quest to find it. True forgiveness liberates the forgiver, and has little to do with the forgiven.

"Why all this 'stuff' about Essenes and Aramaic?" The Essenes were a people from the middle east, whose known writings date to around 100-200 BC. They are "special" in that they practiced  fundamental, universal laws of man with zeal and wholehearted dedication; they were very much aware of "our" place within ourselves, the world and the universe. Perhaps most importantly and unlike others who were like them, they left their writings behind for us to find.

The Essenes and their beliefs were very influential during the time of Christ, and there are a great many theories about them which we will neither endorse nor deny here. We simply make use of their deep knowledge of man, the spirit, and our place in the universe, as building blocks towards a better life for us today, and as an example of what we believe man was meant to be; united and "whole"; with himself, the earth, the universe, and the rest of mankind. Aware of one's gifts and limitations, and desirous of finding deeper knowledge and of learning and practicing how to be a better "citizen of the universe".

"What about all the psychology material?" As modern man, we have learned over the last few hundred years to "believe" in science and in what can be "proven" through scientific means. Since we do not expect anyone today to "magically" or with "blind faith" just accept what in many ways may amount to a 180 degree turn from what we have learned and believed most of our lives, there are many areas of Psychology, Transactional Analysis, and Personality studies which "help" us better understand some of these realities, in a way that is more familiar to us; more "scientific" (if you will), and grounded in a science that we can relate to. In addition, there are a great many areas of these sciences, the comprehension of which will help us understand ourselves, and grow as individuals and as members of the universal community. It is our concession to the reality that modern man has become somewhat incredulous of things which cannot be "scientifically" demonstrated.

How this "marriage" to the belief in scientific evidence occurred, why, and what it might mean to us personally, are the reasons for having a section about "Philosophy". Here we explore the roots of this change in man, a change that is relatively recent, (from the last two centuries or so), and through it we can see examples of other peoples and how they have retained their beliefs and grounding in their ancestors' teachings, and to show why we may want to "return to our roots" in this sense.

"Spirituality?"...As is often the case, we quickly find that everything about our lives; relationships, issues, successes and failures, even happiness, is related to our personal beliefs. We often turn to our faith for guidance and answers. In support of this fundamentally human inclination, we have included spiritual material here. As always, we do not promote or reject any individual faith or belief system; we respect individual choice in this, and the materials you will find here are presented as they pertain to universal messages, common to most religions and faiths. In fact, we believe that as we delve into these, we soon discover that most faiths express the same beliefs, values, and goals, they simply use different symbolism. The Hindu and Buddhist teachings in particular, are universal.

We believe that by following your heart in selecting and exploring the material here, you will find the right combination for you; the material which will support your need and desires, as well as the material that can answer some of the questions you will face in your quest. To this end, we earnestly request your feedback and opinions, and we thank you in advance!

We hope you will enjoy your visit here, and that you will find value, comfort and inspiration in what we have selected and put together.

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Materialism Spiritualism bridging

Materialism Spiritualism bridging

In my vision of life materialism and spiritualism are not contraries; materialism paves the way for religion. Hence I am utterly materialistic and utterly spiritualistic. That is one of the most fundamental teachings that I am delivering to you: never create an antagonism between the body and the soul, between the world and God. Never create any antagonism between materialism and spiritualism; they go together, just as body and soul.
Remain materialistic and use your materialism as a stepping-stone towards spirituality. That creates much confusion in people’s minds because they have always been thinking that poverty is something spiritual. That is utter nonsense. Poverty is the most nonspiritual thing in the world. A poor man cannot be spiritual. He can try, but his spirituality will remain superficial. He has not yet been disillusioned by riches, how can he be spiritual?
A great disillusionment is needed, a great disillusionment with the outer world; then you turn in. The turning in comes only at a certain point when you are utterly disillusioned with the outside — when you have seen the world, you have lived the world, you have experienced and you have come to know that there is nothing in it, all soap bubbles, momentary experiences.
They promise much but they deliver nothing, and in the end only emptiness is left in your hands. The outer world can only give you death and nothing else. Life has to be searched for within.