Until I Post Here Again…

You can read my current post at Wordlust Paperfetish. I’ll post here soon. Must gather my thoughts:-)

-grizelda

Roots

It’s been almost a year since I decided that the crux of the Law of Attraction is this: You must find a way to be happy with your crappy life, and you must stop wanting.

Besides the fact that like does not attract like (anyone with a high school education in physics knows that opposites attract, hence polarity), I realized that shrewd, ambitious gurus do attract the money and trappings of success that they want by selling books, tickets to lectures, videos and recordings, and by espousing so-called ’secret teachings’  of prosperity and manifestation.

So they’ve been busted.

But the question remains: How can I get what I want?

The answer: Gravity.

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Yup. You must have mass to attract more mass. That’s it. Plain and simple.

So how do your desires acquire mass?

They must vibrate. You must say them aloud, i.e. prayer.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.”

There it is.

I’m not saying that you must pray TO anyone, or anything. You just have to give those thoughts some density, some weight, something to bend the space/time fabric. That’s all.

Say what you want. Create your own dark matter. Do it.

Did you know that Desire and Star are somehow, mysteriously, related etymologically? Wonder why?

Numerologically, Desire, Density, Magnetism, and Word all reduce to 6, which is a number that attracts things to it because it creates a void, a vacuum by giving, from service, from loving.

Look at the number 6. Just look at its motion. If you draw it starting from its center, the momentum will continue in spirals, like a galaxy. Do you see it?

That anything in this world exists at all, is because of desire. The desire of Consciousness to know itself, to express itself, this is why. For every question that begins with why, this is why. Desire, wanting, wanting to know, wanting to become, wanting to experience, wanting  wanting wanting–this urge is the force that has created everything.

You are this urge. Everything in your life revolves around this urge, this pulse, because your soul–that dense, irresistable singularity at the center of your experience  has pulled your life and everything and everyone in revolutions around it.

Who is “Everybody”? Part II

In summary, people who are marketing their spirtual epiphanies, I mean, sharing them, are people who’ve already tasted success. They are people of means. Their spiritual ’success’ journey doesn’t start at a bottom point and progresses upward, they start at a fairly high level.

Not fair.

I can no longer take these people or their discoveries seriously. I’m waiting for someone to write a book who has been dirt poor and has a high school education–and who isn’t a Baptist minister. Whatever they’ve done to turn their poverty into prosperity is the message for the masses. 

 Educated, degreed, yuppified gurus have  no credibility. How can I relate to teachings espoused by the elite that are obviously meant for their peers? They haven’t figured out anything. Until they can reveal a formula which is applicable to everyone from all backgrounds, they haven’t really discovered anything.

 The rich have always delved and dabbled in esoteric teachings, the occult, new age, and other marginal spiritual practices to alleviate boredom. They’re not really looking for a way to make their lives better. Why would they need to do that? At one time,  long after it was a crime punishable by death, witchcraft was the ‘new age’ practice among the aristocracy. Then it was seances. And then it was TM. And after that came the ashrams, and yoga, and the spiritual sherpas going by the title Rimpoche. You see where I’m going.

I’m looking for something that will not just comfort or palliate, but a teaching that is truly instrumental in shifting hopelessness into happiness. Not just a suggestion of personal power, but a demonstratable, repeatable process for exercising will.

How does an ordinary person with no physical means transform her life? The lost bee finds the flower.  I can’t remember the name of the man who wrote that, but I love that thought.

 I am the lost bee.

 

Who is “Everybody”? Part I

I’ve noticed in perusing the selections of new age, self-help books that the writers and spiritual teachers who are having these epiphanies have something in common: They are educated professionals. Not necessarily trained in  fields like divinity or even psychology–although a number of practicing ’shamans’ and gurus have backgrounds in counseling, these people figured out the meaning of life. For themselves anyway.

These are people who have had material sucess, and more often than not, they come from wealthy, or at least upper-middle class families. At some point in their lives, they decide to travel, to abandon the trappings of their comfortable lives. What this means is they visit exoctic spiritual locales like India, Peru, China,  and Egypt. They’re usually well connected with other wealthy friends and acquaintences who set them up with this guru or that teacher, or some healer in these remote places. They experience an opening, an awakening, or a healing that sounds something like: “cha-chiiing!”

They come back to their river front homes and write their books, and because they have important connections to somebody who knows somebody in publishing, they get a book deal and speaking engagements, and the whole merchandising  kaboodle.

Although they all profess that what they discovered is an innate ability or knowledge posessed by everybody, sometimes they trademark their esoteric little treasure:The Reconnection® and Psy-K® are two that come to mind right now; I know there are others.

Who are the people these things are being marketed to? Most of them are also educated, well-off professionals. These are people who have the means to go off to secluded ashrams and temples to ‘find themselves’. These are people who in their youths, have wealthy parents and trust funds cusioning their yuppie vision quests, and in their 40s on, have savings, or the support of a spouse, or make a good living in a profession. So they spend their money on crap like crystals and meditation classes and healing and blessing sessions and pilgrimages to whereever. They have a disposable income with which they can play Quest for Enlightement. They have the time and the means to contemplate the deeper, vaster meaning of their lives, because they are not so bogged down with things like debt, and juggling which credit card to use to buy groceries because there isn’t enough money in the checking account to cover the electric bill and pay for milk and toilet paper.

The eduacated and well-heeled in this world have also had the luxury of not believiing anything. I’ll say right now that the first atheists were the priests of the Old Testament, or Torah. If they really believed there was a god, they wouldn’t have dared to make such arrogant, self-serving, humanity-sacrifcing pronouncements. Their ‘law; was concerned  cheifly with real estate and offerings owed the temple. The priests were the first kings of this world, and ruled the superstitious peasants through fear. They could not have actually believed in a just god who would mete punishment to the evil, or the priests would have been certain of their own punishment.

So the rich can toy and experiment with spirituality, and they have through the ages. While the impoverished and uneducated are left with their superstition and are controlled by the ruling class through fear-steeped religion. In a nutshell, the ruling-elite are entitled to Conversations with God, and the rest of us are left with fundamentalism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self Absorption Defined

“A narcissist is someone who has a problem with me being the center of attention.”

 

–Cindy St. Onge