bigjon
02-26-2006, 09:21 AM
CEREMONY AND RITUAL (ugh!) IN THE ART OF MANIFESTATION
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It has long been a staple of secret societies that ceremony and ritual are part of the art of manifestation.
These rituals are nothing more than garble used to rope in the members. Costumes, lights, arcane symbols, words nobody understands, music, solemn gestures, an air of authority.
In other words, hypnotism.
Of course, hypnotism is the very opposite of what you need to manifest what you really want.
The ancient Babylonian and Egyptian priests were masters of the ritual, and they employed their skills in this area to convince the rubes (citizens) that something important was going on.
Coming forward in time, the Roman Church and its papacy knew a good thing when they saw it. They realized that with enough decoration and art and mystery and myth, they could work a manifestation in the minds of their adherents---they could bring to life the major figures of the story they were selling.
Notice that this is manifesting something for someone else---not at all what I'm talking about.
When you do it for someone else, that's called mind control. When you do it for yourself, that's called acting from a platform of freedom and choice. There is a world of difference.
The Jewish faith (ditto for Islam) has its own set of manifestations it tries to pack on to the backs of its people. It presupposes that everyone is always on the edge of breaking some sacred law, and only an iron dedication to what is right will sustain the masses. It ignores the fact that, if consulted, even small children have an innate sense of good and bad, and they can live this out in a natural way, without any heavy moral policing. But when you don't consult and tap into that innate sense in a child---and instead play the role of Moses coming down from the mountain whenever possible---you're doing hypnotism---badly.
Even in the universe of Zen, if the teacher exercises significant control over the student, whatever magic is produced tends to dissipate over time.
We can take this into the realm of current politics. What happened on 9/11 was used as the kernel to launch a blizzard of propaganda (lies), so that people would connect the tragedy and the shock to Iraq. Key phrases, images, and media repetition achieved a hypnotic manifestation in the minds of millions of citizens. An all-out war became the overwhelming response. This tells you that a hypnotized person does not need to be sleepwalking. He can be carrying a gun and killing people he perceives as the enemy.
When you analyze the Satanic cults, you find out that these devotees, down deep inside, believe they can manifest nothing without the help of "the dark side" and certain preposterous entities dredgd up by the imagination under tight control.
Satanists are adrenaline junkies of a weird type. They need to cross the line into real and fantasy crimes, in order to find sufficient energy to even begin to believe they have enough power to manifest what they think they want.
Down through the centuries, artists have been one of the major camps of holdouts. Artists, in general, have always believed that they have the power without any need to dress it up in absurd costumes of church, state, or cult. Therefore, artists have tended to be rebels. By the second half of the 19th century, Western artists grabbed that power and ran with it. They simply began to create without the feeling they needed to cling on to some stifling ideology or authorized framework.
What I'll offer in this workshop are clearly defined exercises you can use to manifest what you want. The exercises require no belief system. They don't commit you to any system of thought. They don't demand that you must have "special talents." They don't ask for devotion to any load of metaphysical baggage. They hook you up to your own creative power. That power is always there. It never goes away.
All of us hold limiting ideas about what we can manifest. In this sense, we are tied to the culture we live in. The breakout comes when we actually begin to practice manifesting. At that point, the limiting ideas start to recede into the background. We, as it were, come up from under the water and breathe fresh clean air. We take our rightful place with ourselves.
Many people believe that only a few among us, whose brains or genes are arranged differently, can achieve manifesting. This is one of those limiting ideas. It's really a joke, when you see where the limiting ideas come from. They come from the strange feeling that we should be able to have extraordinary powers BUT, at the same time, we should be ENTIRELY NORMAL AND AVERAGE. Understand what I'm saying here.
"I want to do some amazing things. I want to be able to manifest. But I also want to be exactly the way I am now. I want to be average. I want to experience defeat. I want to be like everyone else. I want to suffer the sting of disappointment. I want to live a completely average life. I want to have something to complain about. I want to get out of this hole, but I want to stay in it."
This knot of feelings and ideas is, at bottom, a self-sustaining illusion. it speaks of a fear that, if we could truly manifest what we deeply want, we would suddenly be weird. We would stand out from the crowd. We would attract unwanted attention. We would be regarded as freaks. We would no longer know how to relate to our friends and family. We would do something bizarre. We would spiral out of control.
That whole knot IS mind control. Self-imposed. It's the oldest and best way to keep ourselves in the swamp.
Here is what REALLY HAPPENS. As you practice manifesting, you gain a sense of your own power. The knot dissolves. It requires little or no untying. It drops out of the picture. As you assume more of your power, you find you know exactly how to relate to other people. You know what to do. You don't pass into the Weird. You become more natural. You enjoy your days and nights more. You don't concern yourself with the limitations of others. You don't feel bound. You don't suddenly show up at a dinner party wearing a robe and a pointed hat waving a wand and speaking mysterious spells. Nothing like that happens.
You fit in when you want to fit in, and you don't when you don't want to. You have more control, not less. But the kind of control you have doesn't create bad ripples. It's natural. Your generosity expands, and you don't have to force it. You don't have to become somebody who isn't you. You become more of you.
All that other cloudy garbage was an illusion. It melts and vanishes.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
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It has long been a staple of secret societies that ceremony and ritual are part of the art of manifestation.
These rituals are nothing more than garble used to rope in the members. Costumes, lights, arcane symbols, words nobody understands, music, solemn gestures, an air of authority.
In other words, hypnotism.
Of course, hypnotism is the very opposite of what you need to manifest what you really want.
The ancient Babylonian and Egyptian priests were masters of the ritual, and they employed their skills in this area to convince the rubes (citizens) that something important was going on.
Coming forward in time, the Roman Church and its papacy knew a good thing when they saw it. They realized that with enough decoration and art and mystery and myth, they could work a manifestation in the minds of their adherents---they could bring to life the major figures of the story they were selling.
Notice that this is manifesting something for someone else---not at all what I'm talking about.
When you do it for someone else, that's called mind control. When you do it for yourself, that's called acting from a platform of freedom and choice. There is a world of difference.
The Jewish faith (ditto for Islam) has its own set of manifestations it tries to pack on to the backs of its people. It presupposes that everyone is always on the edge of breaking some sacred law, and only an iron dedication to what is right will sustain the masses. It ignores the fact that, if consulted, even small children have an innate sense of good and bad, and they can live this out in a natural way, without any heavy moral policing. But when you don't consult and tap into that innate sense in a child---and instead play the role of Moses coming down from the mountain whenever possible---you're doing hypnotism---badly.
Even in the universe of Zen, if the teacher exercises significant control over the student, whatever magic is produced tends to dissipate over time.
We can take this into the realm of current politics. What happened on 9/11 was used as the kernel to launch a blizzard of propaganda (lies), so that people would connect the tragedy and the shock to Iraq. Key phrases, images, and media repetition achieved a hypnotic manifestation in the minds of millions of citizens. An all-out war became the overwhelming response. This tells you that a hypnotized person does not need to be sleepwalking. He can be carrying a gun and killing people he perceives as the enemy.
When you analyze the Satanic cults, you find out that these devotees, down deep inside, believe they can manifest nothing without the help of "the dark side" and certain preposterous entities dredgd up by the imagination under tight control.
Satanists are adrenaline junkies of a weird type. They need to cross the line into real and fantasy crimes, in order to find sufficient energy to even begin to believe they have enough power to manifest what they think they want.
Down through the centuries, artists have been one of the major camps of holdouts. Artists, in general, have always believed that they have the power without any need to dress it up in absurd costumes of church, state, or cult. Therefore, artists have tended to be rebels. By the second half of the 19th century, Western artists grabbed that power and ran with it. They simply began to create without the feeling they needed to cling on to some stifling ideology or authorized framework.
What I'll offer in this workshop are clearly defined exercises you can use to manifest what you want. The exercises require no belief system. They don't commit you to any system of thought. They don't demand that you must have "special talents." They don't ask for devotion to any load of metaphysical baggage. They hook you up to your own creative power. That power is always there. It never goes away.
All of us hold limiting ideas about what we can manifest. In this sense, we are tied to the culture we live in. The breakout comes when we actually begin to practice manifesting. At that point, the limiting ideas start to recede into the background. We, as it were, come up from under the water and breathe fresh clean air. We take our rightful place with ourselves.
Many people believe that only a few among us, whose brains or genes are arranged differently, can achieve manifesting. This is one of those limiting ideas. It's really a joke, when you see where the limiting ideas come from. They come from the strange feeling that we should be able to have extraordinary powers BUT, at the same time, we should be ENTIRELY NORMAL AND AVERAGE. Understand what I'm saying here.
"I want to do some amazing things. I want to be able to manifest. But I also want to be exactly the way I am now. I want to be average. I want to experience defeat. I want to be like everyone else. I want to suffer the sting of disappointment. I want to live a completely average life. I want to have something to complain about. I want to get out of this hole, but I want to stay in it."
This knot of feelings and ideas is, at bottom, a self-sustaining illusion. it speaks of a fear that, if we could truly manifest what we deeply want, we would suddenly be weird. We would stand out from the crowd. We would attract unwanted attention. We would be regarded as freaks. We would no longer know how to relate to our friends and family. We would do something bizarre. We would spiral out of control.
That whole knot IS mind control. Self-imposed. It's the oldest and best way to keep ourselves in the swamp.
Here is what REALLY HAPPENS. As you practice manifesting, you gain a sense of your own power. The knot dissolves. It requires little or no untying. It drops out of the picture. As you assume more of your power, you find you know exactly how to relate to other people. You know what to do. You don't pass into the Weird. You become more natural. You enjoy your days and nights more. You don't concern yourself with the limitations of others. You don't feel bound. You don't suddenly show up at a dinner party wearing a robe and a pointed hat waving a wand and speaking mysterious spells. Nothing like that happens.
You fit in when you want to fit in, and you don't when you don't want to. You have more control, not less. But the kind of control you have doesn't create bad ripples. It's natural. Your generosity expands, and you don't have to force it. You don't have to become somebody who isn't you. You become more of you.
All that other cloudy garbage was an illusion. It melts and vanishes.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com