Just Get There

Letters from the Devic Realm

Chapters 4, 5 & 6

CHAPTER THREE

Trying to explain what meditation is and to autopsy the process and make recommendations is like trying to balance a bicycle on an exercise ball. It’s also like trying to rake leaves on a windy day. It’s not easy. Meditating is a lot easier to practice than to talk about and meditation isn’t easy unless you can gain the cooperation of the mind. If you can’t get the mind to behave you’re going to wind up with a head full of monkeys in a cellar filled with snakes.

Let me just say that one of the objects of meditation is to still the mind and one of the best ways to still the mind is to cast out thought. Sit at the door of your mind and throw everything out. Don’t try to keep it out or to imagine that you can reject a thought before it arrives; just keep cleaning house. Another approach is to focus on something particular and watch the mind as it works to distract you from that and to pull your attention back again and again to your primary focus.

A very powerful methodology is Awareness watching awareness but I wouldn’t recommend that for a beginning experience. The first thing you need to do is to try to meditate and see what you run into and see if it is enough to run you out of town.

I’m not going to presume to teach anyone to meditate. I will say that you meditate every day without realizing. Whenever you put your mind on something and give it attention you are meditating after a fashion. So it is that most of our meditations are of a negative variety because they come about as a result of our worrying over the solutions to conditions that the world throws up in front of us.

Intentional meditation addresses our intrinsic nature at a point prior to the seeming appearance of problems and allows for certain inexplicable mechanisms to sort things out for us without our having to do anything except to focus on a state higher than the one we find ourselves in. You see how complex it can become just talking about it? Do you see how many arguments might ensue as a result of my words not being comprehensive enough? Meditation is meant to go beyond words and words are the medium of argument. It’s possible to arrange your mental furniture so that arguments begin to be replaced by solutions.

What I suggest is to look about on the free resource of the internet and find a simple form of meditation that will give you a structure for daily practice. There are a lot of places you can go to get started. Well, look at that, there’s two already; found by a simple search for “simple meditation”. You don’t have to use any of the techniques within the system from which they emerge. You can apply these meditations to any format you prefer.

Meditation isn’t really difficult. Beginning to meditate is difficult. Being consistent in continuing to meditate can be difficult. Being aware of the ancient oppositions that come forth and maintaining the passion or dispassion (grin) necessary to experience continuing success can be difficult. The mind will make all sorts of excuses not to. The mind appears to be the greatest adversary to your ability to successfully meditate. For those who persist you will find that the mind can be transformed into your greatest ally.

Why do I think you should meditate? Why is it so important that I mention it even before diet and other imperatives that will follow? Unless you can get yourself right with yourself and which will automatically make your world more manageable in every respect you aren’t going to be able to make very much progress. Your mind will tell you that you don’t have the time to meditate. That you could even consider that to be true tells you what a control the negative side of your mind has over you. A wild, masturbating monkey is running many people’s lives.

Meditation needs to be consistent and to have a regular time. You can certainly manage five minutes in the morning and five minutes before you sleep. You can do it lying in bed before you even get up. You can do it lying in bed after you lay down. No matter how lazy you are you can start. If you do even this little consistently you will find that it will lift you into a sitting position soon enough and you will be so transformed by the noticeable benefits that come from this practice that you will have all the discipline and drive necessary to continue.

The key is to practice it long enough for the benefits to begin to arrive. For some people it is possible to see benefits in a few days or a couple of weeks. For most people who have not attempted it before it may take six weeks but I personally guarantee that you will see benefits no later than that if you persist. You will, quite frankly, be amazed.

By practicing meditation and changing your diet, while adding a daily regime of exercise, you can literally peel decades away from how you feel and within a fairly short period of time become a completely different person. Why would anyone not want this? See what your mind says to you about that. See if your mind already has an attitude about me or what is being discussed here… before you have even done any one of these things. Think about it.

The point of this whole book is to bring you to a point where a community materializes around you. The community has always been there but most of us have not been practicing members of it. The point of the book is to provide the tools that will manifest an aura of protection around you and cause good fortune to flow into your life. The purpose of this book is to give you some 3 in One oil to grease the flow of your existence.

We are already a part of a community no matter where we are and that community is based on how we think about ourselves and others. When a person enters into recovery for a drinking problem or related difficulty, one of the things they notice after awhile is that all of their companions have changed and that they cannot even remember who their former companions were. I’m talking about pure applied magic whose results can be clearly seen. Why would anyone not want the benefit of it?

You may feel free to choose any denomination of religion or to reject them all. None of what is going to be shown here will compromise that. This is about spirituality and spirituality isn’t going to steal from you your freedom of choice and the possibility of a normal human existence ...or deny you the fruits of companionship and well being. If anything it will make it super normal and heighten your enjoyments across the board. You will enjoy 'being' so much that you may well be comfortable with that alone.

Begin to practice a simple meditation and begin to watch how your mind works. Make yourself open to greater possibilities. Watch your long term patterns of resistance to change. Watch the arguments and show them the door. Empty your mind. What really belongs there won’t be going anywhere.

Next time we’re going to talk about diet and we’re going to have a variety of solutions for the different temperaments that will be involved. One of the failings of so many systems is that they don’t provide any latitude for personal differences. The same thing doesn’t work for everyone. We’re determined to find what works for you.

Light Up Ahead

CHAPTER FIVE

Let’s talk about the reactive mind today. I see that in the process of writing this book that there are a number of approaches. Thinking about it, it occurred to me that I should intersperse related topics between the topics. That way we can creep up on things like diet, which is coming soon to a justgetthere blog near you and other subjects that won’t be injured by appearing a little later in the game. I like the idea of digressing and bobbing and weaving- more of which will appear when we talk about the martial arts- and stinging like a disappearing honeybee, floating like a butterfly and moon-walking across the stage to the beat of the auctioneers hammer at Neverland.

I can assure you that progress toward real independence and spiritual as well as temporal survival and security, not to mention general, overall well being, are highly dependent upon your control of the ‘reactive mind’. You know what that is right? That’s the part of your mental makeup that reacts to thoughts and words and situations. It triggers emotions and it can wind you up tighter than a Republican’s sphincter without anything more than your getting caught up inside the thoughts inside your head. I realize that using imagery like tight Republican sphincters is a bit of a misnomer given their predilections as viewed in news bites over recent years but you can go ahead and think of it in terms of the personality type instead of otherwise… whatever that might imply.

What I’ve done here- writing this the way I have and using provocative graphics in what is supposed to be a spiritual groove; all high-minded and like that… what I’ve done is to give you an example of the reactive mind inside your head as you read these words and wonder why I said this and that. This is something to keep in mind no matter what you read or feel or see or think or any part of the perceptions you have and the way you manage their interpretations. It’s always good to put yourself inside the mind of the writer and it is possible to get right there too. Just as there is a great deal going on behind the scenes in the world outside, there is also a lot going on behind the scenes of the world inside. Smoke and mirrors work in both directions.

It is my belief that control of the reactive mind is one of the most important issues you can address. Imagine what it would be like to not have your mind automatically react. Imagine what it would be like not to have your buttons pushed by your own thoughts and feelings or the words and actions of others. Imagine what it would be like to be so centered that nothing threw you off balance. It’s not impossible. In fact, it is quite possible. I’m no friend of Scientology and I can assure you they have been no friend to me but I would like to point out that everything they do is about controlling the reactive mind. Unfortunately… it looks more like their controlling it than you controlling it.

The military does this with you. Religions do this with you. Cultures do this with you. Your parents did this to you. Your schools did this to you. Doesn’t it make sense that you should do this to you to offset all the bad programming you ran into? Of course, all of the influences previously mentioned did not leave you with only bad programming. Some of the programming was good. We want to remove the bad programming.

How do you decide which programming is good and which bad? First you must come to some understanding of who you are? Who are you? Based on that you can determine if what you are is an effective representation of who you are. All of the battles you are fighting outside of yourself are based on inner conflicts. We know very little about ourselves and what lies beneath. There are things going on beneath the surface of your mind of which you are completely unaware. There are tangles and pressures and all manner of forces which work their way up into thoughts and words and actions.

You have to put on your tool belt and dive into the deep. Meditation is one way to do this. In the esoteric tarot, card number 17 is “The Star”. It is the card of meditation. Its name is Tzaddi which means ‘fish-hook’. The 12th card is called “The Hanged Man” its name is Mem and it means water or more specifically a body of water, like the sea. The 13th card is called “Death” and its name is Nun and it means a fish. Think about this.

You can take the fish-hook of Meditation and drop it into the great sea of the subconscious and catch and pull out the fish of death. I am not recommending nor discouraging this path. I wish merely to show you that there is a lot more to some things than might appear from cursory examination and the same applies across the board. You can take all of the tenants of Yoga and find them to be resident in the system of Hermetic Science and Alchemy. All of these sciences cross-reference. All of the real systems are complete, comprehensive and perfect. The only thing that is not is you and I and that is because the reactive mind of the personality is making you less than you could be and certainly less than you are.

Remember as we go along that the whole purpose of this book is to introduce you to a community of kindred souls and to provide certain tools that will grant you some protection from the dangers that consume everyone all around and which you can witness and hear about every single day. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. The reactive mind makes it nearly impossible to concentrate… to see time for what it is… to gain maximum enjoyment from life and to live and grow infinitely beyond anywhere you may be at the moment.

Treating with the reactive mind is best left for the next chapter. It’s enough for now to know that it exists and to begin to watch how it works. If you make it a point to be observant about how you react through your day, you will see and perceive some interesting occurrences that will cause your mind to point some things out to you that you might not have been paying attention to before.

It is important to realize that life is a magic show in all of the best and worst ways. Life is brimming to overflow with magic and we don’t see it because of the reactive mind. We don’t see the beauty of existence because we are in a continuous reflex mode. Something happens between puberty and adulthood that closes certain doors and the closest we ever get to the spontaneity and openness of our childhood is when senility sets in. We’re supposed to lose our innocence and we are supposed to regain it but…

This book is going to weave in and out of a great many areas. We’re slated for about 35 chapters and we are only on chapter 5. There’s a point to the manner of presentation and a point to the pointing at and to. I’ve nothing against Republicans or anyone unless my reactive mind tells me I do. We have allowed ourselves to become very confused about what is going on and this can be proven to be true just by looking at the dissatisfactions in our lives and the fact that we don’t change the conditions we are in.

This book isn’t for everyone. This book is only for those who want to find a way out of the hamster cage and into the clear living reality of a free human being. The tools to achieve this are available. Few people realize the power in imagination and faith as well as so many qualities we hear about every day and don’t think about. Opportunity abounds and life itself wants you to be prosperous and well. Something is concealing this from the popular mind.

Thank you for the supportive letters. We’ve only just started here and I think you will like where we wind up further along the road.

I’m Coming Back

CHAPTER SIX

There are a lot of disciplines out there (and in there). They span the gamut from the most intricate forms of hidden tantra to celebrity diets. Somewhere in the process, some small percentage of people may be helped by some of these. In most cases a lack of consistency in application accounts for failure. Failure also comes because the discipline is flawed or useless. We could talk all day about the how and the why of more subjects and processes than 10,000 meth-infused monkeys could discuss over 10,000 lifetimes and with about as much success. We’d like to add here that the more talk given to anything, the more the understanding and capacity to practice will depart. It disappears somewhere into the massive landfill where all the cell-phone conversations go to die.

There are some definite disciplines that will make your life better and we’ll talk about some of them; mental attitudes, diet, physical practice, emotional balancing, aspiration, imagination, determination, concentration and others. It won’t do to begin doing all of these things at the same time and later on in the book we’ll talk about time frames and adding on. Begin with care in a few small things and let the power that collects from doing a few small things the right way carry you into larger venues of being and acting.

Every time you change something that you have been doing you are also letting go of what used to occupy that space. If you begin to eat tofu-dogs where you used to eat pork cracklings then it stands to reason that tofu-dogs are going to replace flavored pig skins. There are flavored pig skins on many levels; physical, emotional, mental- subdivisions of and… beyond.

Anything can be okay for a few days and, like many before you, you may feel that you are breezing along and motoring on up the highway. Enter the reactive mind. The habitual mind can be triggered from various locations. Things that you hear and see will do it. Previous operating patterns will do it. Things you used to do may wait a few days before dropping in and wanting to know if you would like to cop some of the ‘same old same old’. Like the ache of an old love affair, the siren is going to sing to you of attractions that never were anything but a hallucination and are going to provide you with a new hallucination where the dog vomit looks like a wood-fired, brick oven pizza.

Here’s where the path veers. It may take five or ten hot button hallucinations of a condensation-beaded beer, a drag on a good smoke, the touch of willing, seemingly beckoning flesh, some Mexican-style jalapeno pork rinds… whatever it is it’s going look better than it actually looks and it’s going to promise you things it never, ever gave you at any time. It’s going to look the way that bar-hog looked last night at 3:00AM and not the way he/she looks this morning. It’s a routine as old as time and it’s part of the terrible ache of mortality and guilt that makes you old and longing for death… sooner or later.

The reactive mind is many things. It is as many things as it can take the shape of to get you to react while it tickles the emotions and the appetite and the ancient longing for something… something complete… that only comes when you have cut everything lose and long for nothing but the bliss of the eternal moment you are in. Then you can taste this and touch that but there is no sticky slime to weld you to the item in front of you or in your mind. The mind is actually both in and out and surrounding and composing everything which is all made out of the same thing and is all the same thing taking different shapes to appeal to different appetites so that you can sit in the cage and push the same button over and over that triggers that feel good thing which can’t be the ‘real, feel good thing’ because it ends and you have to do it again and there… there you have the world and all of the fantasies and shelves filled with products and the idea that you will be the one to drive that golden spike a few millimeters closer to the unreachable edge.

We need to go slow… start with one pushup and add another when the desire to do another comes from the strength that came from having started and being determined to do it right by not racing down the highway like somebody that got born again and who finds out that now that they are saved they can just indulge in every common thing except casual sex unless they are married because once you get saved you don’t have to do anything any more except make sheep noises in the pasture and expand horizontally while you wait for the chariot from Heaven to arrive. I hope you caught your reactive mind playing ping pong with your objective mind as you tried to figure out what might be wrong with this paragraph.

Watch yourself. Watch yourself and something is going to happen to your reactive mind all by itself as we take away some things and add some things in the hope of revealing some things. Don’t fight the reactive mind but you can do with it what was suggested earlier when talking about meditation; cast out thought. Stop thinking. You can also use replacement therapy. Put something you have chosen in place of these automatic images. Also you can pull it out of shape like taffy or put a clown nose on it or just take off it’s clothes. I often do this when I see some psychopath engineering the deaths of thousands while talking up the usual lies that get your reactive mind to go along with the program.

Before we can move on to other useful disciplines we have to address the basic circumstances of your being. We have to recognize that we have patterns that are out to get us. We have to be able to take a moment twice a day to meditate. Meditating is like sitting up in bed and calling your mother. Keep doing it. She will come. It’s like pulling the fish of death out of the great sea but it can also mean tossing bread on the sea or sailing on the sea or floating on the sea or merging with the sea.

At no time in your life will you suddenly hear horns and be informed that all of your troubles are over. Often the troubles you have are the clear evidence of where your reactive mind has put you and also helpful signs concerning behaviors that are no longer needed. Imagine that everything is perfect but that you are not seeing it. Learn to be still long enough that something deeper can emerge and engage you in a dialogue. All of the blessings of the spiritual realm are based on scientific fact and truth as yet undiscovered. You start to do certain things and certain things will begin to happen and resistance to your own well-being will come up alongside.

When you change your diet you will not notice much for the first few days, although you might feel better right away (and you might not). But after a few days the old taste requirements are going to start talking to you about Pistachio-flavored pork thins. Trust me on this. If you hold out for ten days to two weeks your taste buds will change and they won’t remember how Boysenberry Pork Rind Ice Cream tastes. All of the five taste sensors will be getting all of the things they ever got from the new things to which they have adjusted. You HAVE TO have enough drive to get this far. Alternatively, poor health may eventually force your hand… some terrible trauma or loss… life does this when you won’t.

We’re going to go into diet for the next few chapters and see if we can figure out anything about food. We’re going to make this so easy for you. No matter how easy we make it you won’t find it easy because it will be YOU who is fighting it. Yes… once we conquer the enemy within there will be no counterpart in the world without; no matter what ‘appearances' say.

Something Good (is coming soon)

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© 2008 Les Visible

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