There’s a rather foolish tendency of the human mind to attempt to control external reality – foolish when you consider the forces at play out there: an infinite universe of eternally, ferociously moving parts, replete with black holes, galaxies, cosmic wind, hurtling asteroids, scuttling cockroaches, teaming viruses, seething insanity in peoples’ minds, stellar explosions, trucks trundling full-pelt along highways, muggers on the byways, planes zooming through the sky and so on and so on – you simply can’t begin to control all that with your mind.
However you can tune into the underlying preatomic force generating (creating) and informing it all in all: the Tao, for want of a better expression and by so doing place yourself in confluence with it, thus magically and mysteriously causing the way it shows up to you and acts upon you to be benignly transformed.
In other words, though you can’t control the outside, you can take command of the internal state and by transforming it, transform the very warp and weft of external reality to suit you better. The ancient Taoists, who purportedly knew a thing or two about the warp and weft of reality, called this enterprise, wu wei, meaning being able to manifest shifts of external conditions using intention alone, without recourse to exertion of any kind – magic, by any other name.
However its success depends ironically on not giving a fig as to the outcome. To successfully affect external transformation of your world using wu wei, you have to step out of the way and take your desires, fears, hopes, self-doubt, complexes and local personality out of the equation with you, not just while engaged in the intention-forming (visualisation) process but also in the aftermath, while you’re hanging around waiting for the results to show.
So say you needed to manifest ten grand in a hurry, without which your life would become untenable, hence requiring a successful result or you don’t stay in the game, you tune into the Tao (a full explanation of how is in today’s BAREFOOT JOURNAL), tell it you want ten grand within a specified number of days, you visualise ten grand in your hand and then you totally let go of it, let go of figuring out how or whence it will come to you and let go of driving yourself crazy about whether the magic will work or not and completely surrender to the mystery.
And without fail, either the ten grand will drop into your account in the nick of time or your reasons for needing it will be attenuated or removed and your life will go on – you’ll be provided for.
But it will only work if you let go of caring whether it works or not.
This requires being able to face and accept the alternative to it working, however dire that appears and be willing to welcome and embrace that eventuality should it arise, with grace and equanimity.
That way you’re in a state of courage, even if quaking in your boots about it and in courage, grace arises. Through grace, miracles occur and you’ll experience the majesty of the universal force, the Tao operating in your life and moving all the pieces into place to facilitate your ongoing success at staying alive and in the game.
Meanwhile, may you feel so alive and in the game today and tonight it’s all you can do not to sneak up from behind, hug yourself heartily and whisper I love you in your ear.
Love, Doc
PS if you want a really sound read, check out ‘F**k It. The Ultimate Spiritual Way ’, by my friend, John C. Parkin,
now at http://www.amazon.co.uk/
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