Stuart Wilde (Page 14 of 17)

Quotes, gosh for this Ghostwriter your quotes are thick, yet l agree, play have fun, yet remember also, that ignorance of what is available is simply what has been fed to us for centuries...the more you learn the less you realize you know, its always the same, where there is a saying there will be another in opposition, but in truth, there are no opposites, ceptin that which is inside of your thinkings, thoughts do create things, you write your own story, and if it is full of unrest, then unrest is what you will get...

If it is 'l dont want to know' then that is what you will get....:)

The main point is, do whatever you fancy...and enjoy it all...

A= XYZ

Sucess equals work,play and never reveal your source...

Your letters are your steps, your words are your rails, grip them surely, surely.

But always remember, that it is your emotions of feelings of goodwill that will allow you to take each step for the wholesome of all that we are and will be...

Great post....and if you beleive  it,  then that is what you shall surely have......;)

feedbaxlow,

You were confused, Nexus is the one saying to protect the bodies: physical, mental, etheric and astral, because damage to these can impair spirituality function in terms of growth out of limiting realms and belief systems. I would have to say that I agree with Nexus and AO (about feeling that the SW material is off, somehow) the most of any on this thread, which appears to be the most active on the forum right now, and which I have read from beginning to end.
Khatru says: "We do what we want." S/he (?) seems to think that we have some sort of self-regulating function that will stop us from getting too out-of-control with self-destructive patterns. However, if we had that capacity we would not have addictions in the first place. Saying that when we get too fat, or too bizarre we will automatically switch that behavior off and move on to something else is a psychology/materialist/rationalist way of looking at it. If we could all do that, we would not have addictive, self-destructive behavior in the first place. Addiction (and that includes mental addiciton to belief systems) is like a pernicious dog-do that you just can't scrape off of your shoe. I do believe that this goo can be contracted on the etheric and astral planes and that it is hard to get rid of once gotten. AA was based on spiritual principles, which is why is has worked for many, although the spirituality of groups like AA is very simplistic compared to what people on this forum are into on a theoretical level (which I do appreciate-kudos, the thinking is brilliant, even if I don't always agree with it).
I do not believe that "wanting" is humanity's cheif problem. Wanting and desire are natural parts of our consciousness, it is false wants and desires implanted in our consciousness that are our downfall. If a person is living in miserable poverty, only having enough food and rest to get up every day and do the same thing over again for the remainder of his/her life:That person would want to change their situation. Otherwise why would we bother doing anything past surviving? False desires that are consumptive, exploitive, greedy, cause suffering to others, these I believe can be contracted on the astral/etheric planes and so forth, which is what some have been cautioning of on this thread.
And speaking of... It has been said that SW is "a drinker" and "drinks," that he has mood swings and rages and irrational behavior, but no one has come out and said that he is an alchy. I don't know if he is or not, but I can say that I know for myself that I cannot take wisdom teachings from an alchoholic, my take on it being that they have toxic brain chemistry and I think much of what humanity is trying to heal from is toxic brain chemistry caused by trauma, caused by toxic brain chemistry caused by...  A continuum of the matrix many of us would like to jump off of, if possible. And please, don't anyone give me the "crazy wisdom" b.s. rap, because I have been there, and done that.
When people like SW quote 14th Century Samurai poems and all that. I have to ask myself, does this person have nothing? Do they live homeless and simply? They have no real estate, cars, bank account, publicist? I doubt it. I'd have to say that I no longer take seriously the advice to have and own nothing from people who seem to have a lot. If SW was just a simple guy, living life and living and having nothing, certainly not enough to travel internationally, then no one would pay him the slightest bit of attention. He quotes: "I have no magic secrets, I make character my magic secret." Isn't morphing and all of that and the Redeemers Club his magic secrets that he is selling for profit?

Feedbaxlow, I think you  sum it up well and tell it like it is when you ask:

Why? because toxic narcissism knows how to get the media attention and money. Would people follow and admire the life of  a simple, kind, hardworking person who lives their spiritual values and elevates themselves that way in a quiet, humble manner? No, that would be boring. That would be a person taking into maturity the beautiful, healthy narcissism of the child to demand that their physical, emotional and spiritual needs be met and living it actively. -lala

Nexus, thanks for your intelligent and passionate response
I don't think we disagree in essence.
But with this fragmented ideology in place you will remain frustrated by your goals.
This is not merely an argument of terminology.
You have an extremely intellectualized sense of how awareness works.
However this can be "fixed" if you are learning to listen and live in the now, instead of in your head.
Perhaps you are doing that, but lets try to be very clear, simple and direct.
I see a lot of potential in your logical abilities and raw energy. The latter is rare and may take you directly towards the truth if you are willing to let go of all assumptions and really look into what you are right now.
Go simply and slowly.
Are you going to insist on all this "structure of reality" that you have been conditioned to believe?
To see the living truth is to let go of all belief structures, because you can see with clarity that none of what you thought with the human brain was real or correct. True revelation is just seeing clearly. Freshly.
All the pictures of reality must be dropped to live in the present. Pictures and images impede the ability to perceive directly right now.
In my experience all the metaphysical mumbo jumbo isn't necessary to live in awareness.
What you say may be true, but those ideas aren't necessary to realize Self and are actually in the way of being here fully present.

You see the false by continually looking into "what is" here for you, without dogma, descriptions, explanations or idealizations, until it is absolutely clear for you.
When you are finally "in contact" with what is, all these systems and theories melt into joyous laughter or a silent smile.
Bring the abundance of energy down from your brain by being here in the body as it is right now. Lower body has great energy.
Feel your feet if possible while reading this.
Become unstuck from the head and neck. Feel the seat you are in, the whole thing.
Stillness. the breathing. The body and all it's many energy overlays are all present, become clarified by attending to this miracle simply and silently... way down low where it is energetic, dark and quiet in the lower body. Let the tension fall away.
The mental activity and verbal rationalizations must become quiet, the body it is a circuit that must be rewired by awareness, which can replace thinking and all the previously programmed images.
What is truly here within the body has gone unrecognized all this time because of conceptual activity, memory and belief structure that stands in for the missing awareness.
Most "me" thought and it's structure consists of what you call lower or slower vibrations.
What's here in "your body" is not unreal, impure or a fiction. Get to know it without thought constantly intervening.
Aligning all the bodies happens without your effort to do so. Just look and listen openly.
First you must be comfortable in your physical presence. Get to know it directly until there is no "inner and outer"
In fact the questioning of all that you think you are right now, the suspension of assumptions and the willingness to look innocently will  allow the truth to reveal itself.
When the mind is quiet there is no need to manifest anything or make material anything. It happens of itself.
It is a process that takes patience and intense interest. You seem to have that. That is key and why you have a shot if you do.
All the dualities and conceptual hurdles of a "high or low" self, perfect or imperfect being, and all the other obstructive images are revealed as false thinking, clarity replaces it.
What it is seen then is what always was, but obscured by "ideas of me" and assumptions. conditioned thought.
Ideology must be left behind now that you are close enough to see what you must do. It is weighing you down.
That pride of intellect and knowledge. Realize all that is excess baggage for what you need to do right now.
You don't know. Be honest.
You would not use "duality talk" and "time thinking" if you did.
That's not a problem because you can find out if you are willing to admit you don't know.
You cannot see if you insist that you know. Openness.
Actual being here is not knowing. i am not being tricky, it's that simple, but not easy.
To simplify is not an injunction to shed possessions. Shed the mental baggage and pride. Look into Self like a child at a butterfly.
This world that is yourself is not uncovered by knowing. It's found each moment by looking innocently, without prejudice or artifice. it always new and fresh and all that "knowledge" is not needed once you have a clue.
All the metaphysical information is not the light itself is it? let it go and "real" light comes in.
The fact is, all mental information is not direct seeing, but conditioned thought.
Constructed from man's memory and knowledge.
Information gets you no closer to realization, in fact it obscures the essence that is manifesting right now.

The Buddha taught the path of the middle way between ideals and distancing abstractions... and a belief in materialism or nothingness that leads to self satisfaction and inactivity.
What the Buddha taught was direct seeing and that is the first and last step. 
Don't worry about the rest, it comes of it's own when you are ready.
It becomes plain and obvious.
Your only task is to allow obstructions to fall away.
Be here with what is happening spontaneously.
All the frustrating dualities and "goals of perfection" will evaporate like the morning dew in the sunshine of awareness. 
peace, Jay

Nice post Khatru.
Your reasonable voice is quite soothing.
The science of attracting things is a little reflexive lately it seems. It seems to slip a bit into dualism. "Me" and "the universe".
All these models we use to describe our experience are only temporary expedients. It's fine but the flexibility available to us gets lost when we forget they are just ways of expressing and not fixed constructions. Even "laws" sounds a bit heavy handed...for the way things work. If we are not separate from the universe than who is attracting what? There the expedient model of of manifesting might work as well or better.
We manifest the lesson needed.

i take it that you mean we can't often see ahead of time what the consequences will be.
But i doubt there is much free will manifested on this plane.
More like we are attracting the consequences, as you say, by blindly following our programming.
I don't disagree that free will exists, at least in principle, must be possible. But until there is some seeing and consequent freedom, it is fairly predictable that we will destroy the planet and each other etc.
I'm not sure if this whole setup is "real" or just a holographic representation to learn about this.

Stuie brain damaged?
Like you say, more an observation that a diagnosis. hehe
Poor Stuie. i really meant you'd have to be brain damaged to pay that guy $800. for a 2 day "workshop"
i am not serious, we are all brain damaged to some extent or another.
If he can do this well with what he's got left, than there is hope for us all.

Khatru,
Thanks, for the lively response.
It's nice to have a good hashing out session on a few things to clear the air and also to learn what i can.
That definition of consciousness seems to be the Hindu model and the post new age reflex as well.
This is a debate that could go on almost endlessly. Nobody in science  seems to be able to confirm exactly what consciousness is or where it originates. Buddhists sometimes side-step this and just say: "One mind" (not "your mind" or "my mind").
But with Zen comes the injunction to avoid thinking in terms of either mode saying "It is not One and it is not Two" thus avoiding the trap of conceptualizing models altogether.
In other words experience it directly and don't make a model.
Consciousness can used to mean "awareness" as it seems you are, but i have developed or followed a different line.
In this line; consciousness as in "the contents of consciousness", is thinking, memory and all of that.

Awareness is what happens when all that is seen as it is arising and becomes moot or silent rather than running on automatic.

In awareness it is seen that thoughts are just there, conditioned and influenced by "the ten thousand things" and when we stop identifying with them and merely observe them, there is freedom and the reflexive quality of our words and actions can come to rest.
It is only then that freedom can come into play. When we are merely reacting to everything without awareness, we are like robots and can be easily programmed as by "controllers".
So in this way of defining, consciousness is replaced by awareness in waking up and we are no longer controlled.
it also seems that all "matter" (including animals and lifeforms) have consciousness that is closer to awareness.
The space that matter mostly consists of, is not separate from awareness since it's all a form of energy; that simply exists everywhere without distinction or differentiation. In this space; time irrelevant.
Time is thought created.
The brain creates/condenses thought and then suffers time and relative measurements, judgments that create an isolated "me".

I like your integration of "real" being "all of it", but that is really no different than "none of it", since change is the constant.
But deciding whether things are real or intrinsically empty becomes an intellectual exercise.
What is; simply is.
I tend to agree that it seems unlikely we'd be allowed to pollute space and the planet's atmosphere, but that is mere conjecture. We don't actually know. The earth will survive regardless with or without us.
I would just ask if behind these scenarios, is the fear of losing personal or racial continuity so great that we are willing to fantasize or rationalize our way out of this obvious discomfort?
Death is a huge fear within the human psyche. We are programmed to survive and continue to spread our DNA.
As human beings our understanding cannot help but be affected by this fear, so i will suspend any definite conclusion.
I gets interesting right about here

Hi ENT Doc, thanks for sharing your experiences in this thread.

I don't think it was your perception that changed about Stuie - it was him that changed.  And it seems to be a fundamental thing that happens to anybody who takes any sort of altering substance.   For instance, my brother, the one who was demonically shadowed.  He was only nice when he was drunk or high.  Versus many people who drink and then become nasty and violent.  It was the exact opposite with him, he was mean and dark and hateful when he was sober and only nice when he was on something.  Alcohol, drugs, Aya, what have you, they seem to be "mask removers," and reveal what's really on the inside.  My brother started off as a good person who was severely messed with and then later demonically shadowed and the alcohol and pot would remove that hateful tacked on exterior that wasn't him, revealing the real self that still lingered deep down.   It sounds like Stuie's been messed with in a big way and is normally carrying around all this tacked on external negative "baggage," to put it delicately.  Then you get him on Aya and it discombobulates things enough so that the tacked on artificial demonic outer mask falls way revealing what really lies beneath...a good guy.  But the second he's off the Aya, the negs can latch back on again, doing their thing. 

Then to use an example of a roommate I used to have named Todd, back in '96.  He normally wore a mask, pretending to be a nice guy, a Christian (Catholic) and all this mainstream normalcy.  It was only barely hidden though, it wanted to come out all the time.  But when he drank, watch out.  He became crazy and unstable, mean, bitter, hateful towards females who've denied him.  The mask came off, revealing his true self underneath.  It was creepy.  He went after me one night in fact when he was drunk, stumbling around, physically lunging for me, all bitter and hateful (I think because I didn't like him like that and he wanted to hook up) and my other guy rooomates had to physically restrain him and pull him back and "escort" him away from me and my room as he stumbled around, slurring and being hostile.     Sober though he was calm, restrained, normal, the good Catholic boy.   

The ironic thing is, at least with my brother anyway, is that the very alcohol/drugs that discombobulate things enough so that the tacked on demonic layer can fall away is the very thing that may have caused them to become latched on in the first place.  !   (It probably wasn't Aya for Stuie that did it though - he was a heavy drinker for years and years remember, and alcohol brings the neg entities around in a big way.)  Also, all his Morph work and the spiritual things he's been involved in would make him a natural big time target for negative "stuff."  So I think the Aya is the least of his worries, it's not what's causing this Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde personality switching.  But when he's on it and it discombobulates things, it reveals that Stuart normally seems to have neg entities latched onto him. 

That's too bad that your first experience two years ago was a disappointing let down.  But you're right, it is a good lesson about not putting people on a pedestal, everyone is fallible, and everyone has good and bad in them.