I realize that what I talk about is so far from how most people perceive reality,
But,
You know,
Because of the way my life went,
By the time I was in my mid-thirties,
I.
.
.
The culture.
.
.
I had lost faith in the cultures.
Like,
I'd lost faith in the way I'd been taught to live.
I thought our culture doesn't teach us how to live wisely at all.
Despite our intellectual capacities and our technological expertise,
We're underdeveloped in the way of wisdom.
And this seemed dangerous to me,
And that it was partly the cause,
But,
You know,
It was why I had become so unhappy.
And I thought,
This unhappiness will show up,
Finally,
In the West.
And,
You know,
I didn't know at the time,
But Osho had said,
In the West,
We needed to learn how to meditate,
Or we're going to have an epidemic of mental illness.
Remember,
In the East,
Mental illness is seen as the psyche healing into a more expanded understanding.
And,
You know,
Another way to get to the expanded understanding is through meditation.
I also want to talk about body work and also how wise people help.
Now,
If somebody is really,
Really awake,
And they touch you,
Or even spend time with you,
What happens is,
There is a soul meeting,
Soul communication.
This will also happen in true love with people,
Too.
It's a meeting of souls.
And when this happens,
The ego gets weakened just from the experience.
The soul strengthened,
And the individual,
They'll have more access to their divine wisdom.
And this is the whole point why people want to hang around wise people.
And I'm sure it's why I'm a hug,
Because,
I mean,
My experience getting a hug from her was a meeting of souls.
And that's how I grew a lot.
It made it much easier for me than it would have been.
You know,
I want to talk about really what we can do if we just love somebody,
Even if we're not very awake.
I want to talk about what happened with a family member.
I was in my mid-thirty.
I guess he was about forty.
Anyway,
He'd been in a cult,
Quite a mainstream cultish religion that's very judgemental for about thirty years.
And he was sort of meeting with family,
And we were having a picnic.
He lay down next to me,
And I'd been studying with Abraham by this point,
While I'm cooking and I've talked about learning body work.
And he said,
Put your hands on my back.
Yeah,
Put your hands on my back.
And I did,
And started just sort of gently massaging his spine.
Now that's where the seat of the Kundalini in the West,
In the East,
With the belief that the energy blows up the spine and clears the individual of all the emotional complexes they're carrying.
It's a gradual process,
But it also can be.
I mean,
That clearing is gradual,
But the Kundalini experience can be quite sudden.
Anyway,
As I put my hands on his back,
I could feel how far away his soul was from his experience.
Like,
Really how big his ego was.
Now,
I had a big ego too,
So it's like,
We just have big egos in our family.
But that's how we started out.
And it made me so sad that it was so far away.
And then as I felt the sadness,
What happened was,
I could feel this big sunshine coming up under my hand.
The sunshine,
Kind of like a big sunshine that was far away.
And it was coming into his body.
It came right up into his back.
I knew it was his soul.
And that basically,
He and I together had invited his soul back into his body more.
What I didn't know then,
But I know now,
Is that kind of body work can be absolutely life changing in just the best way.
So what happens is,
When the soul comes into the body,
Difficulties in the outside fall away.
It can be,
It's almost like,
You know,
A big,
All the blocks,
Or blocks are removed.
The blinkers come off the eyes.
You can see more clearly,
And since your soul's more conscious,
The universe doesn't have to give you difficulties to wake you up,
Because your soul's in more.
So you get to flow along with life.
Well,
Within two weeks of that body work,
He had left his religion.
And it seemed to me that the religion,
You know,
Of course the religion would no longer make sense.
To someone who's,
Like a very judgmental,
Narrow-minded kind of religion wouldn't make sense to somebody who really,
Their infinite capacity for love was allowed up into their body and their mind.
Yeah.
Now the trouble is,
You know,
It might not be considered possible by lots of people,
Or even body workers might not have had too much experience with that.
I don't know why that happened,
Except it was just the moment where it did.
I guess his soul wanted him out of that religion.
And there was enough loving,
Love coming through me at that time with all my experiences,
And things started to stay with Abraham,
Who was functioning,
And now can just go,
I have enough trust,
That something like that could happen.
Anyway,
Never put a lid on the possibilities of your life,
Please.
Never put a lid on,
You know,
The possibility that maybe your journey can be eased by really wise people.
I mean,
In some ways there may be not many around,
But I'll tell you if you're sincere,
You'll find one.
And pray about it.
And just to get the help goes the arm of,
Get a hug.
Anyway,
I hope this was inspiring,
And that you're being more optimistic.
Okay,
Bless your heart.
