Awesome Insights: A Digest of my Books.

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Wayfarers Journey

(To be published)

Key Teachings

Conventional mental health practices often ignore spiritual dimensions, and I suggest that recognizing one’s inner capabilities and fostering a connection to the greater consciousness can lead to healing and transformation.

• Attachments: There is a persistent influence of attachments and desires on individuals, even those who claim to be undergoing recovery. The emphasis on attachments illustrates this barrier to fulfilling personal journeys. Recognizing that attachments impede progress is crucial for personal growth.

• Attachments and Soul Memory: Attachments linger in soul memory, complicating one’s progress, particularly negative thoughts and addictions affecting post-death experiences. Dominant thoughts can significantly affect the spiritual state post-death. Experiences and emotions are recorded in a spiritual context, influencing future existences

• Dominant Thoughts and Death: There is a pivotal role of dominant thoughts at the time of death. They can dictate one’s spiritual journey. Invoking a safe place or guiding light is advised during this transition.

• Spirituality in Mental Health: Spirituality is increasingly relevant in mental health evaluations and that addressing human attachments in this context is essential for emotional healing. Emphasizing spirituality in mental health can enhance recovery and personal development. Standard psychological methods detach mental health from spirituality, and I propose a more integrative model that recognizes individual experiences. Dismantle the rigid structures imposed by traditional religion. Advocate for a personal, experiential understanding of spirituality.
• The Journey’s Goal: The journey aims for personal growth and understanding, transcending external organized beliefs and focusing on self-discovery and transformation.

• Alternative Identity: I suggest creating a new personal identity through reflection on strengths, values, and actions required to serve others. This is achieved through Meditation and Inner Awareness: A true identity lies in pure consciousness. Engaging in exercises to craft a new identity boosts self-awareness and resilience.

• Post-Perfection and Practicality: Even then a realistic approach to life after achieving personal awareness is needed, with flexibility and acceptance in dealing with real-world challenges. True growth often arises from serving others and addressing individual and communal suffering through compassionate actions. Also, modern pressures lead to greater disconnection from one’s spiritual essence, so there is a need for a revaluation of approaches in contemporary mental health practices, to account for this dimension.

Key Insights

Embracing Inner Power: Accepting one’s inner power and divinity is pivotal in overcoming mental health struggles and realizing one’s potential. By surrendering to this higher identity, individuals can foster resilience in the face of challenges.

The Role of the Mind: The mind’s habitual negativity can trap individuals in cycles of despair. Through consistent practice and mindfulness, it is possible to redirect thoughts toward more productive and healing outcomes.

Value of Compassion and Service: Providing service to others is not only beneficial for the community but also reinforces individual well-being. In helping others, individuals often intersect their path of recovery and growth.

Shift from Deficits to Strengths: Moving away from focusing strictly on deficiencies and disorders allows individuals to recognize their inherent strengths, enhancing their journey toward wholeness and fulfilment.

Spirituality as a Healing Component: There is an undeniable synergy between spiritual development and mental health. Integrating these dimensions into therapeutic practices can lead to profound transformations and healing for individuals.

Why do this Wayfarers Journey?

There will always be a residual impetus to chase desires, hope and aspirations, as well as maintain attachments and “collecting”. If you talk to those who have been clean and sober for innumerable years, they may well say: “I am in recovery, but I am still an addict/alcoholic”. The memory banks still work to embed past perspectives, even though we may have moved on, even to another plane of existence.

The underlying issue seems to be attachments, even if we have let go of so much baggage.

Some finishing processes are needed to complete our Journeys. To transcend our attachments. Do this by discovering what your focus is meant to now be – if you have reached the “plateau”.

First, we check what our attachments are, in relation to the advanced stages of our Journey.

Attachments

Unfortunately, attachments will remain in the soul memory and affect future passage onwards, even after death. This will be especially so if predominant negative thoughts remain to the time of death. Some type of obsession, addiction, or just plain old lust, may have a regressive effect regarding entry to the next realm after death. Fortunately, the power of the Journey will cut through the bonds in this life, even if it seems there is some delay – as these things take time. Be patient with the short trial which occurs while practicing and allow the Journey to pick up success in its own time. Here may be the time to take up some different personal identity and again your Practice will facilitate that.

A “not my will” decision is needed. Surrender to your choice of Inner Sanity and allow what you can’t control or overcome to be cleared away. We will do an exercise to use when you are next sitting in your special place. (The mountain top plateau that we attained in the previous exercise).

Firstly, though something about:

Dominant thoughts

 This is very important, and if we are firm in our self-development Practice, then we will remember what we need to even at death. This time of death may entail a final return to our Special Place. (May be for you something different than the mountain top plateau). Here, invoke your chosen image etc. at the point of death. The emissaries of darkness will be held back. The emissaries of light will be summoned.

There seems to be some confusion, or very different ideas about the timeline of post body experience. Here take only what you need for your sanity! What makes sense and seems productive. The writings of those who are wise are important though, as they have had this experience, (in different presentations or meditative states).

In fearlessness we lose our anxiety, sadness and our obsessions!

Accepting one’s Inner Power is part of the Journey. Religion may however want to us to bow down before their gods, higher powers, saviors and avatars. (And no others).

Religion and spirituality issues have become more in recent times, part of a mental health clinician’s initial evaluation, or assessment. That doesn’t address the issue of human desire and attachment, nor the consequences of that. It’s a clinical direction that often defers to culture, political correctness, religious groups etc. without really understanding how all the mental health issues are bound up with, or concurrent with spirituality. Therapy and counselling services may look at the issues in part, but may not revisit this area during treatment, once any initial assessment phase is over.

Our journey is about the goal, the end product, not-withstanding the connections made on the way with organized anything, New Age ideas, and evidence-based therapies. Anything becomes a block to growth when it interferes with, or is allowed to, block further evolvement.

Who am I? What am I? What is life? What is Truth?

Alternative New Identity attainment

Firstly, some questions remain to be answered.

1. Not just: What is this all about?
2. Not just: Who am I & what am I?
3. But also: What do I do (as service)?

1. What is this all about?

Now awareness is here that there is no religion, or even spiritual belief, that I have to defend. I also do not have to follow any particular path, and I am simply aware of my own choices in this matter. I had opened up to any religious or spiritual experience that helped and accepted the need for some of the many options that religion and spirituality presented. However, this then led me to where I am now, bypassing all spiritual practice hype & confusion.

I discovered that we all walk towards our final destiny, and our world of experience is set up to provide the necessary learnings. We can sit back when we see life “as it is and ourselves as we are”. This does not cure or even deny room for change or personal growth. Just that one is able to work, without being affected dramatically by success or failure.

Exercise

Write down:

I focus on my Wayfarers Journey. (Or other statement that you prefer).

Write this in large letters on a piece of card to keep somewhere you will look at regularly for a short while.

Then.

Who am I & what am I?

On our mountain top plateau we look around and see/feel the light.

Write in large letters on a piece of card kept where you will look at regularly for a short while.

Say or write.

 I am in the light. I am the light.

I call myself a Being of the light.

This is who I am.

This is to cement new awareness and represent the attainment of a special identity. Here you decide for yourself what will represent/declare or otherwise enhance your new special identity.

This is what I am.

A being of the light connected to consciousness. (Or some similar statement of your choice to declare: What I Am).

Alternative – New Identity

On a third card you write:

I award myself a title/name/ or I designate an item to wear. (Words of your choice here).

(My name is…, or designation is…., or words of your choice…)

Some other option may be your choice.

What do I do (as service)?

Here write down your Strengths, values and positive personal qualities. A strength could be: “I never give up”. A value could be: “I believe in helping others”. A personal quality could be: “I put on a smile on – even in pain”.

My Strengths are:

My Values are:

My Personal Qualities are;

Remember that all the above will help your own resilience in adversity. By serving others you serve yourself.

 Now write something regarding how you will develop all of these positives, with a view to enhancing what you do in the world. This can seem like a personal focus goal, but it will be also of benefit to others.

I wish to achieve these goals using skills derived from all the above:

What action will you undertake? Here get some feedback if possible. Brainstorm some ideas. Look at the pros and cons. It could here be about Service to your True Self, and to others and the Universe/planet. A big task, so take some small bites first!

This is what I plan to do or change:

Three items above are based on the stance which will drive your life. As always, your Inner Guide will be the Light that illuminates your path and keeps the special place for you whenever you return there.

Having arrived at the “plateau on the mountain top”, as per previous exercises, you will then want to engage in the “final meditation”. This will not be some trance like state, but a cementing of your Awareness. You will culminate your Conscious Journey, as being in your desired state.

I do not cover all possible problems and distress experience that “prevents” you from doing this bit of the exercise! Sorry about that, but we have moved on from that sort of focus. It’s now not what’s wrong with me, but what’s right with me.

We accept the past and present suffering or pain, but we bypass it

Now it’s about what I am doing currently to make my life centered on my goal, including mental health stability

What I will do is more of all that’s positive. That will enhance my life now.