Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Reich on Trial

Robert Anton Wilson

(The scene: Wilhelm Reich is on trial in Hell. The trial looks in all respects like a 3-ring circus, complete with jugglers, acrobats, fire-eaters, etc. The prosecuting attorneys are the Marquis de Sade and Count von Sacher-Masoch, both of whom are dressed as clowns. The Ringmaster (Satan) presides as judge.

Early on in the trial, Dr. Reich introduced as evidence a Computer which continually monitors the growth of the worldwide nuclear weapons stockpile. The Computer emits an ear-splitting whistle every time there is an increment in firepower equivalent to the original Hiroshima bomb.....)
SADE: Why did you rebel against Freud?
REICH: (slowly) I rebelled against Freud because he was a coward.
SADE: A coward? The man who challenged all the taboos of his age?
REICH: He back-tracked, he evaded, he weaseled. He would not say flatly what his theories all implied.
SADE: You mean he did not share your Utopian fantasies.
REICH: Look at the photos of him; look at that jaw.
The Computer whistles again.
REICH:Look at his expression, those clenched teeth. He was holding back -- and I tell you, all of you, that is why he got cancer of the jaw finally. He wouldn't speak what he knew. He held it in, behind those clenched teeth, until it killed him.
SADE: And what is the truth Freud dared not speak?
REICH: Everybody knows it by now. Look at the crime news on TV --
REICH: or go into the emergency clinics and talk to the rape victims. Talk to the battered wives and the abused children. Our whole species is mad, emotionally plagued. We have been mad so long that every attempt to break out of the Trap just unleashes unconscious rage and increases the violence.
REICH: We all know we're in the Trap, but nobody knows how to get out of it. We attack each other thinking that's the way out.
SADE: What? That is the truth Freud dared not speak? I thought he said all that in Civilization and its Discontents.
REICH:He would not say there was a way out of the Trap -- one way only --
SADE: Your way, of course.
REICH:The way I discovered, gradually, after many mistakes.
SADE: Which is?
REICH:Work on the breathing and the muscle tensions. And tell people frankly that there is no metaphysical Good and Evil in the human world any more than there is in the animal world or the chemical world or the physical world of gravity and mass.
SADE: Hedonistic materialism, in short. The permissive society.
REICH: Not permissiveness. Sanity. If a child is a nuisance, tell him so. Tell him his behavior is annoying. But never, never make a metaphysical moral issue out of it. Never, never say anything is sinful or wrong in a cosmic sense. Never pass on the lunacey, the Emotional Plague, that has come down to us from ages of superstition and barbarism.
SADE: A world without morals. Anarchy. That is what you mean?
REICH: It is not anarchy. It is what every person with an ounce of sanity knows. Nobody is to blame for anything. We are all in the mess together because our ancestors were mad and a mad society has passed on their repression from generation to generation.
SADE: And the things I did before I was brought here and cured? They were not Evil?
REICH: You enjoyed feeling Evil because it made you seem heroic. The humiliating truth, Marquis, is that you were merely ill.
SADE: And Hitler was merely ill?
REICH: That is the horror of the situation. We all know it by now, but we cannot remember. We repress it and go on blaming one another -- we forget what we know, because remembering it means remembering that we are robots, too -- that we have all been crippled in different ways by trying to live in the imaginary world of morals instead of the real world of nature.
SADE: So we just teach people how to breathe properly and relax their muscles and we will have Utopia?
REICH: No. I never said it was that easy. I said it was almost impossible, but we had to try, if there was to be any chance of survival at all. Removing the Emotional Plague is just like removing bubonic plague. It will take decades of work all over the world by thousands of specialists. But if we don't try --
REICH: We must understand that every moral idea is strictly a hallucination. It creates guilt which creates muscular tension, which creates rage. That leads to further armoring, to hold the rage in. That leads to all the psychosomatic illnesses that orthodox medicine can't cure and to all the social pathologies around us. Rape. Child-beating. War.
REICH: (excited, beginning to harangue) You compared me to Rousseau. Yes, in the Age of Reason, he had to recreate the myth of Eden again; he called it the Noble Savage. A hundred years later, Marx had to recreate it: he called it the primitive matriarchy, before private property. Eden is always recreated, because we know there is a natural grace and a natural way of life we have lost. We lost it through the invention of Good and Evil. As soon as we believed we were sinners, the Trap closed on us. We accepted the sin and punished ourselves. Or we projected the sin outward and punished scapegoats.
REICH: (rage bursting through) Masochism or sadism -- those were the only choices once we believed in Good and Evil, once we believed in Sin. We are animals. We are no more guilty than a dog, a cat, a horse, a chipmunk. Everybody has known it since Darwin. But we are still in the Trap.
SADE: You really hate the Morality that caused you to kill your parents.
REICH: It is causing the whole human race to kill its children! We cannot see what we are doing. We have been robbed blind by our damned Morality.
SADE: Your Almightiness, the prosecution rests. We believe it is obvious, out of his own mouth, that the defendant is a menace to civilization as we know it.
REICH: Wait! Do you know why that moment in nature is so precious, that moment of peace and oneness?
RINGMASTER: The defendant will not speak at this time.
REICH: It is a moment beyond Good and Evil!
RINGMASTER: You can argue that later. Fifteen minute recess. Then we will hear the case for the defense. (He rises)
MASOCH: All rise!
REICH: Listen to me a moment! That moment of peace, that moment in Nature, beyond Good and Evil -- that is the essence of us. Our core. Our true selves. We normally never feel it because --
RINGMASTER: Clear the Court!
REICH: because our muscles hold it down. Our muscles are chronically tense, it is so chronic that we never notice it. We only notice the peace when on a rare moment the tension relaxes. What do you think the Drug Culture is all about? Relaxing the muscular armor, getting rid of that tension for a few hours, or a few moments.
ACROBATS go down into the audience and persuade people to leave. They are very polite, like well-trained policemen, and become very threatening (in a polite way) with those unwilling to leave while REICH is still talking.
REICH: We are diseased -- dis-eased. We have lost touch with natural feeling. When the Life Force tries to break through the muscular armor, it gets deflected, I say, and comes out dis-eased and violent. That's why all political revolutions fail. That's why there are no political solutions. That's why
RINGMASTER: Silence the defendant.
MASOCH and SADE "beat" REICH with bladders again and drag him offstage right.
REICH: (as he goes) You can't feel naturally. You can't see what you are doing, or what is being done around you. You are robots. Robots. All of you. All of you.

Friday, November 17, 2006

From Ego to Self

*Ego Attitude Versus Spiritual Attitude

Attack….fear Love
Selfish Selfish/Selfless Balance
Holds grudge Forgiveness
Top dog/Underdog Equality
Competition Cooperation
Judgment Spiritual Discernment
Guilt Innocence
Self-righteousness Personal Opinion
Life as War Life as School
Fights Universe Accepts Lessons
Life is a Bummer Life has Challenges
Problems Opportunities
Pessimistic Optimistic
Insecurity, self-doubt Self-Confidence
Powerless, out of control Self-mastery
Anger and depression Emotional invulnerability
Neediness, dependency Preference, want
Victim Master
At effect At cause, choice, creator
Self-pity Takes responsibility
Impatience Patience
Suffering Joyous, happy
Reacts Responds
Hurt Invulnerable
Sees sin Sees mistakes
Attachment Involved detachment
Laziness, procrastination Discipline
Jealous, lacking Whole, complete, non-attached
Law of the jungle What you sow, you reap
Makes demands Asks
Moody Positive mood all the time
Self-punishment Self-love and forgiveness
Mistakes are negative Mistakes are positive
Ego-sensitive Unchanging self-worth
Giving is losing Giving is winning
Stealing is gaining Stealing is losing
Rejection fears Remaining centered, whole
Self-centered One team
Intimidates Uses power appropriately
Automatic pilot Consciously creating life
Over or under-indulgent Balance, integration, moderation
Past thoughts, future fears Now-present centered
Lonely Finds wholeness in self
Stranger Brothers and sisters
Embarassment No judgment of self or others
Martyr Selfish/selfless balance
Gossip Remain quiet if you have a judgment
What will others think? Inner-directed, non-conformist
Worry, anxiety Faith, trust in self, Higher Power
Indecisive Decisive
Envy Happiness/joy in other’s abundance
Attached to others’ lessons Responsible only for own lessons
Comparisons Not insecure, inner-directed
Undeserving Deserving
Sickness Ability to handle dis-ease,let it go
Sexuality: no love or affection Sexuality with intimacy and love
Poverty consciousness Prosperity consciousness
Arrogance and insecurity Humble and self-confident
Sullen, serious and over-involved Humor, objectivity, perspective
Fault-finder Builder and lifter of others
Rebellious or conforming Inner-directed
Curses Blesses
Scattered Focused, purposeful
Fear of failure or success Successful
Aggressive Assertive
Harsh Gentle
Emotional Roller-Coaster Emotional Stability
Disorganized Organized
Bored Interested, not enough time
Abandonment Whole, complete within self
Sadness and Grief Involved detachment
Disappointed Involved detachment
Rationalizes and makes excuses Self-honesty, tough love
Immature honesty Spiritual honesty
Tell people off Speak the truth in love
Needs center stage or hides in fear Able to judge to suit occasion
Conditional love Unconditional love
Rejecting Accepting and supportive
Lessons as punishments Lessons as gifts
Dog eat dog world School for spiritual evolution
Power versus surrender Power plus surrender
Limited Unlimited
Intolerant Tolerant
Conflict Peace
Illusions Truth
Hypocritical Consistent, honest
Despair Hope
Close-minded Open-minded
Distrustful Trust in self and others
Defensive Nothing to hide or defend

The big question is “How do you get from ego attitudes to spiritual attitudes?“

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Getting beyond our Comfort Zone

You know you ought to leave your job and move on to greener pastures, but who's to say you'll find anything better?

If this scenerio strikes you as remotely familiar, you know what it means to hit the "terror barrier" — that defining moment when you are challenged to move outside your comfort zone and you don't feel like it. Not one bit. So it's a struggle between one impulse (to just lay low) and another impulse (to follow through).

The fact remains: If we want to reach the goal, whatever that goal is, at some point we must get out of our comfort zone and enter uncharted water.

But how do you do that...

How do you blast past the Terror Barrier?

You run out into the water, lured by the beauty of the ocean and the excitement of an invigorating swim. A little way out, the waves start breaking on you, repeatedly nudging you back toward shore... Sometimes with such force that they knock you right off your feet. You might want to give in and just let the waves carry you back. It's hard work getting through the rough surf. But when you plunge forward and keep swimming, soon enough, the waves are breaking behind you.

And a crystal blue infinity lies before you.

Whenever we move off in a new direction, we predictably are beset by waves of doubt, insecurity, worry, and uncertainty. It feels as if it will be much better — definitely much easier — to head for shore and back to the way things were. We long for the familiar and put off charging forward because, in that moment, going forward is unknown. It can feel scary and unsafe as we leave our comfort zone, as we start to plunge into the surf.

If you are not growing....you are dying

Yet we need to remember that the comfort zone is the most dangerous place to be. If we're not plunging forward, we're not growing. And in this world, if we're not growing, we're dying.

Everything, from the lowliest plant and plankton to every person on this planet, is blossoming, unfolding, blooming, or growing in some way, or it's withering and dying away. This is simply a natural principle in the world.

Realize all goals are spiritual goals.

Humans are both biological and spiritual beings. The spirit desires expansion — that's where we get the idea to attain a goal in the first place. Our biology, however, dictates that we seek security and safety — that's why we feel resistance to anything unfamiliar. So the spiritual impulse is to grow, and the biological impulse is to keep things as they are.

Desire and aspiration are spiritual impulses; safety and comfort are biological ones. Is there some way to honor both? In reaching for a goal, perhaps not. But eventually, the bio-self can be convinced that even the spirit's flights of fancy sometimes bring more comfort and safety. Leaving a job you hate may mean a temporary interruption in income, but could bring you a whole new career with better income potential, or better longevity because you love it, or improved skills that can lead to even more exciting professional opportunities.

Carefully saving money and investing it wisely can bring plenty of the physical comforts life has to offer. Honestly dealing with issues in relationships often leads to greater trust and security within the relationship, whether it's with a child, a friend, a parent, or a romantic partner.

Imagine that your comfort zone encircles your reality. You have a circle around you, which outlines your life, defines your limits. When you start pushing at that circle, the whole thing starts shaking. When you break through to a new level, let's say in the area of relationships, the circle doesn't crumble or warp; the circumference expands to encompass a whole new realm of possibilities and capabilities in other areas, too.

And what if things don't turn out as you'd planned?

Was it all for nothing? No, simply engaging in the process of pursuing a goal has its own rewards — even if you don't reach the goal. Helen Keller once said, "Any time a door closes, a new door opens." Unfortunately, most people spend so much energy griping about the closed door that they don't see all the other open doors around them.

Realize that pursuit of any worthy goal creates leaps in understanding and an increase in consciousness, and this is the end your true self seeks. To the degree that people can expand and grow, they are able to experience life at a different level and be more productive, effective and, most important, happy and at peace.

Make your efforts mean something.

Regularly lifting greater and greater weight is what builds muscle, not lifting a light weight whenever we feel like it. Likewise, personal strength comes from continually meeting the next challenge, putting in a little more effort, overcoming obstacles again and again.

You can choose to enjoy the breakthroughs, to see your resistance as a signal that great things are yet to come. The next time you're facing this, remember the following story of two great entertainers.

According to singer/songwriter Carly Simon, when she is backstage just before a live concert, her heart starts beating rapidly, her palms get clammy, she paces back and forth, and sweat beads on her brow. She has said that, in this moment, she just knows she can't go on stage, she's terrified.

Yet she does it anyway. Similarly, as Bruce Springsteen paces backstage, his heart beats rapidly, his palms get clammy, sweat trickles from his hairline. But in his experience, this tells The Boss he's "ready to rock." And he leaps onstage and has the time of his life.

One person's debilitating fear becomes another person's motivating fuel.

You have a choice. You can see these brushes with the terror barrier as attacks of stage fright that have to be conquered, or you can use them to get you ready to rock. Either way, know that you can overcome these hurdles, and you must.

Here's how:
Start by clearly defining exactly where you are going and what you choose to create.
Remember, the physiological experience/emotion of fear is similar if not identical to "fuel" — decide to be The Boss.
Continually focus on where you desire to go. Your mindset and focus determine your actions, your experience, and your results

James Ray

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The 4th Dimension is Upon Us!

by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Interviewed By Leading Edge Newspaper Publishers,
Diana and Kenneth Burke

Drunvalo is a big-hearted, gentle man who "walked into" his adult physical body in 1972 and who retains full memory through different lifetimes and varying dimensions of consciousness. He is an accomplished scientist, physicist, inventor, healer and teacher. His main purpose in coming to our 3-D world at this time is to help Earth's people to make a smooth transition through the upcoming Shift of the Ages. He feels the most important work "is to remind us about our MerKaBa, the powerful etheric fields that exist around each of our bodies, which have been in a dormant state since the fall of Atlantis," which occurred approximately 13,000 years ago.

LE: What is our next step in evolution?
Drunvalo: I can't really say except that we will move into formlessness. We won't have bodies, and we won't have too much of a localized expression. We will be much more expanded, but the understanding of "expanded" will keep growing. Every time we go into another dimension, the understanding gets higher and higher. It keeps growing.

LE: Once we get into 4-D, how long will it take of Earth time before we get to the twelfth overtone and take off beyond that? Can you estimate this?

Drunvalo: It's all potential. It's all light. It's a thought in the mind of God. What happens will be that our memory of our previous Earth 3-D will be like it happened a long time ago. You could go into the fourth dimension for hundreds of thousands of years and come back to Earth and only a few seconds have gone by,. It's very different in 4-D. We are now slowly beginning to interface with the fourth dimension. A lot of people think we're already there. We're not. But 4-D's effects are beginning to effect time. Time is speeding up. Things are beginning to go really fast.

LE: We understand that you have spent quite a bit of time in the fourth dimension. Can you please describe this more?

Drunvalo: It isn't anything at all like the third dimension. Every dimensional level is completely different. Every time we take a step it's different...

LE: Different...like water and land?
Drunvalo: It's even more different than that. Everything...the whole way that spirit relates is different. In 4-D you do have bodies, but you can fly. You don't need food. There are many differences. The colors are completely different. The way that you interact is not as an individual but as a unit, like a cell within a body. So, everything that you're doing is being done in sychronicity with other life. Although, some of the lower realms of the fourth dimension are not healthy. They are rather distorted, like this one is, where you've got a lot of weird thoughtforms. But the higher realms are very evolved. The seventh, eighth and ninth overtones are where your angelic realms are. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth, right next to them, is where the higher levels of human consciousness are. Other levels of consciousness move through there also, not just humans.

LE: You've stated before that we can change our body forms in 4-D. Sounds like we won't get bored.

Drunvalo: It's a thousand times more interesting than here. Every breath is like an eternity; it's so special. We have lost our connection to God here and we don't remember what it's like to have God in and around us, moving through us, and to be intimately connected with God, so that, whatever you're thinking and whatever you're feeling is directly created. You could go into the fourth dimension and actually recreate the third dimension. That is a child-like thing from their (the beings in 4-D) point of view. We are considered babies there. So, as a baby we will create a more-or-less third-dimensional world, but it won't last long because you quickly realize that whatever you're thinking starts happening, and the whole idea that we are separate becomes meaningless very quickly.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Unconscious Self-Talk

As long as you keep your self-talk unconscious, you will be bound to
repeat the same path, the same choices, the same errors, over and
over. There is nothing new and nothing fresh. The reason is
simply because you keep repeating the same self-talk. 90% of the
50,000 thoughts you have per day are repetitive.

David Cameron