Creativity Is the Way to God

Creativity is the way to God because just as God created us and everything in our universe, it is our opportunity to take our aspect of God and create something which is uniquely ours. Whether it is a musician, painter, sculptor, cook, actor or a writer like myself we all take an aspect of ourselves and express it in our creative medium. It is like we take the smallest essence of our god given talent and imbue it in a new creation.

For me when I hear a violin or the male tenor voice I get so wrapped in the music that there is a moment when the singer, the instrument and myself are no longer separate but become one. It is a feeling that I experience with all of my body but especially in my heart. There is a point where the beauty of what I am experiencing becomes too much and I am beyond time and space and am connected with all things. In those wonderful moments I am brought to tears. It is in these moments that I can understand why God created us as some would say in his own image. It was to allow a part of himself or herself to go beyond their individual aspect and express itself from the Godforce that we all have within.

We do not have to be a great artist or a musician to tap into this creativity. It is there for all of us. When you are sitting on the beach looking at a sunrise or sunset there are moments when you and the sunset are one. You have connected with the creative aspect inside yourself. The sunset itself is beautiful but it is nothing without your experience of it. Everybody has this amazing innate ability to connect and produce their own god like moments of creativity.

All we need to do is still ourselves and allow the magic we have inside all of us to come out.

Blessings and Peace - May your find your own creative spark and light up the world.

Geof


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The Higher Self

Old Chinese was an energy that came through Marshall Lever to teach a group of students who wanted to move beyond the ego and the Earth plane. His teachings required discipline because he believed it was necessary for discipline for the individual to move beyond the ego; for the ego doesn't like discipline because it wants to have its own way. By providing it discipline it tends to quiet and let the higher self come through and around the subconscious mind. This energy from the higher self allows the individual momentary glimpses of the divine. In those moments when we have this connection with the higher self we are connected to all things. The challenge is that as soon as we recognize these moments of pure creativity coming from the higher self; the ego tries to hold on to it, but in the process of hanging on to it, all that is left is the ego and its self importance. Like the Tao the Higher Self is an energy that is indescribable. We have moments of it enlightening our lives or a situation, but because in most cases these moments are so brief we cannot describe them and in the end the higher self withdraws into itself and our ego believes that it does not exist and that it was an epiphany from our own wonderful goodness or intelligence.

You can recognize that it was your higher self because, it is an energy that you cannot put your finger on. You have a wonderful insight and then it is gone; most times you don't even have a memory of what the insight is.
Through discipline, such as meditation, fasting and time spent in nature you can slow down your ego to the point where these insights increase. You can even ask a question and an insight is immediately given; sometimes in the form of a feeling or a single word; sometimes these insights come from something in the outside world such as a sign or a word that would not normally have this effect on you.
Another discipline that allows your higher self to come forward is the discipline of creativity. It would seem funny to use the words creativity and discipline in the same sentence, but to be truly creative, you must have discipline. It is one of those strange quirks of fate that when you are at your most creative, whether a writer, painter, sculptor or anything that is creative, that in that moment of creation your are extremely focused and yet also in a meditative state. People who meditate regularly will tell you that in those moments when you are in your deepest meditation are the moments when you are connected with everything around you. If you want to feel the energy of the higher self then find what is your stick, what it is that drives you creatively. For me I am at my most creative in three situations; firstly when I am writing, secondly when I am teaching spiritual or metaphysical concepts or when I am meditating. In all these situations it is like there is a little voice that I am not aware in my normal life that comes around my subconscious mind and shares its wisdom. The trick I find is not to try and hold on to the little voice, but allow it to share what it needs to share and let it go. When you try to hold onto the little voice or the concept that is coming through it is only your ego which is feeling full of itself as it believes it was the creator of the idea or concept when in reality it comes from the higher self. But I hear you say that if it is from the higher self does that mean that we cannot create by ourselves. My answer to that would be it is the act of creation that we allow a window between ourselves and the higher self. If we could keep our ego out of it and continue in the act of creation like a little child then these moments of connection with the higher self can become longer.

Blessings and Peace - may your higher self give you a hint of its magnificence

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Free Will

The whole concept of free will fascinates me and is one of the main reasons behind me writing the 33rd Sage and sharing the teachings of The Elements of Man.

Many of us believe we have free will; those who are a little more self aware realize that in reality there is no such thing as free will. I know some of my audience will baulk at that comment, but just stop for a moment and think about it.

The definition I would like to use is,  "The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act with one's own discretion." This last bit is where I would like to focus my attention, "...the ability to act with one's own discretion." It is almost like I can hear some of my readers screaming at my blog. "I am alway at the point of choice. I have spent years clearing away all this muck and everyday I make the choices that define me." Yes I am sure you do, but is it Free Will?

The next time you buy food at the supermarket. The next time you buy your beauty or cleaning products. The next book you buy. The next movie you see. Your choice in fashion or even your choice in a partner or friends is it because of Free Will. I would love to say yes, but on balance of a very strong possibility I would have to say no.

The reason I wrote the 33rd Sage was for many reasons, but one in particular was to help people to understand that they look at the world through a bias which has been called the season or Elements. Each of these Elements has a very distinct way of viewing the world and it is because of this world view that we make many of the decisions and take many of the actions that we do in our life. These inherited, incarnated or genetic predispositions blinker the way we see the world. Add to this the fact that our senses including our sight and hearing are not that good at seeing and hearing what's really there. Add to this that in the first few years of our life we are a sponge and take in all types of ideas from our parents, media and friends which give us an even smaller world view and by the time we are a teenager we see the world as we are programmed and not necessarily how it is.

As you wander through the day making countless free will decisions, stop and reflect on whether you are making these decisions out of free will or preprogramming. When you order that chocolate bar and the first taste sends you into that short state of ecstasy is it because you chose it out of free will, or are you addicted to the chocolate or sugar or does it remind you of a time when you were young and innocent or maybe you shared this chocolate with your first love or maybe it was given to you as a reward by your mother, teacher or whatever for being good. Now you associate chocolate with being good and when you are a little down you reward yourself. Chocolate was always my weakness. I always wanted to be a good boy and my reward was chocolate.

For me the word Enlightenment was alway a fun word. I would love to watch as all these Holly Molly Enlightened beings who would parade their cleverness when I have met many of them on my spiritual journeys. They could recite the bible, the Tao, Buddhist teachings and yet for the most part they were some of the most heavy spirited individuals I have come into contact with; some were so anal retentive that could not see there was any other way than theirs.

For me Enlightenment always meant to lighten up. To be Enlightened there always needs to be a lightness of being. Your teachings or studies can help to point the way, but in the end you have to be the way.
Enlightenment is about becoming lighter and this means to remove the biases that we currently have and this will give us a better chance of seeing the world as it really is. Eventually we will stop using the organs that have their own built in biases such as the eyes, ears or even our touch and begin to use the organ that allows us to see everything as it is.

This short journey from our mind to our heart is the true meaning of the spiritual journey; the journey within. The heart unencumbered by our prejudices sees the beauty and connectedness in all things.

After twenty eight years on this my spiritual journey I still don't have free will, and every day I make judgements of others and myself and yet I am lighter in spirit now than I have ever been.

When you really want to make a choice that is yours, go into your heart and allow your real decision to come forward.

Blessings and Peace. May the lightness of your being shine its light for all to see.

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The Energy Behind the Form

"The key to understanding and fully appreciating all life is to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary," said the old sage. "Go into any hospital and watch a surgeon performing miracles with his knife and we are left in awe of his abilities. The same person does these operations over and over and for him they ordinary everyday occurrences. As very young children we can see the extraordinary in many situations, our first cup of coffee; a new ball; a new bike; the list is endless. We become too trapped in our habits to see the magic in the mundane. I hope in our time together that you can once again see with new eyes, eyes that reveal more than we have come to expect."
    These were the words that greeted Conway, my character in the 33rd Sage, as he wiped the sticky sleep from his eyes.
    "Try today to see the newness in everything that you do. Reach for the magic in everything. If you believe, it will be there for you."
    Rising from his bed, he felt the stiffness in his body. This was something he had experienced for many years, but these days he took little notice, relieving it with a warm shower. He had pictures of rust in the joints and the water was the oil that allowed the joints to move freely. What caused the stiffness? He wasn't sure, but it was probably a build up of lactic acid that required some movement or heat to move it from the joints. He started to think about how the blood was flowing more quickly through the body; now he was moving; through the mechanical heart that kept on beating even while he slept; how the body was in a continual state of dying and rebuilding.
    Chung Fu was right; he had forgotten how to see the magic in the world around him.
    Chung Fu handed him a cup of coffee. The smell was heightened by the newness of it. Had a coffee ever smelt this good; it was the smell and the sharp bitter taste, which first drew him to the beverage, but after so many years and so many coffees; the smell and the taste were something that he had religiously every morning?
But this was different. This was new. He held the white porcelain cup and imagined the time it would have taken and the care to mould this cup into its present shape. His picture was of an old, skilled artisan who put love and care into everything he made. The key to his livingness was to give the best of himself in the making of every article. He could also feel presence of the artist in the fine texture of the cup. The first sip of coffee took Conway to the hills where it was grown. He had become a coffee bean waiting to be picked. Life was a continuum of shifting focus. What became habitual was ordinary, and what was new was filled with magic; by changing his focus ever so slightly he could once again see the magic in the mundane.
    He hoped he would never take anything for granted again, but knew that he would. The difference was that every now and again he would re-experience the extraordinary in the ordinary.
    Even as Old Chinese spoke, Conway watched the magic as the voice came from his lips, words which he understood. What an extraordinary thing the voice was, and the words and language it brought forward. The old man’s voice, his words, were English but with more than a hint of Chinese inflection. Conway watched as the old man’s mouth changed, mirroring the vowels that came forward. His old face lined and marked, changing to express his thoughts and feelings; his arms and hands moved when expressing a point of view or a flourish to add drama to a sentence. The closer he watched the more he could see. The creases in Chung Fu’s face opened and closed, as if they were also mouths offering their own words; his hands forever moving, as he reinforced his stories, creating paintings in the air. Watching just his hands you could get a sense of what he was saying, if not the exact words. When he made a strong emotional point, his hand would cut the air like a knife and when the words described something that was closed off, his fists tightened, strangling whatever blood was left in the veins on the back of his hands.
    The more Conway looked, the more he could see. Beyond the arm waving, he could see the lines and liver spots on the back of Chung Fu’s hands. The deeper Conway looked the deeper he fell. Chung Fu’s whole body was sending out signals. The voice was one level of communication but beyond there were many others, levels we do not even consciously think of. Below the physical level was the level of the aura, where there was even more to be experienced. He had not seen an aura before, but here in front of him were clouds of colour wrapping themselves around the old man's body. As the old man’s mood changed so did the colours: one minute surrounded by blue and violet, the next swirls of red and orange raced around like stairs up a lighthouse. Beyond the colours there was something deeper, more subtle, the originator of the electrical charge that surrounded the body. Its origin was so subtle he had to close his eyes to be able to sense it; his eyes were too gross to sense anything so subtle. With his eyes closed, Conway could feel the energy. He tried to feel what it was telling him, but he could not get any words, only a feeling of one whom was living his life’s purpose. He opened his eyes in the hope of seeing the feeling, but was greeted with swirls of emotional colour encapsulating the old man. He pulled back, the colours disappeared, replaced by the grinning face of Chung Fu.
    "You have seen the energy behind the form. No one can trick you any more. If you focus like you just have, then everyone will be open to you, like a book waiting to be read. Remember to look for the energy beyond the form. First, you must still yourself. Put yourself in a position of none judgment and then allow your own inner sight to lead you to where it knows to go. Do not try to force it, because then it will be coloured by your expectations... It doesn't just have to be with humans that you can use this technique. It is just as successful to use them with animals or plants or rocks. Allow yourself to become an empty space; this will allow the perceptions of the energy behind the form to become one with you, and through your own feelings you will get a strong sense of what is being given out by the other party, whether they be, human, animal or plant. The whole of life is interrelated; by becoming the pause between the notes you can tap into all God's creations."

Today, stop for a moment and experience the energy behind the form. See, do, touch, think or feel something in a way that you have never experienced it before. My old Chinese teacher taught me how to put a molecule of my own feelings into a situation, so that I could feel it for for what it is rather than what it appears to be. This feeling tone allows you to experience the energy beyond the form. At first it will feel silly and uncomfortable, but persevere and soon you will have the ability to see the energy behind any situation. I have used it when I have met people for the first time or when I am in a new situation or walking down the streets of a town or city I have never been to before. When the feeling returns with a negative response I avoid the person or situation. When I get a positive response I know that I can easily move forward.

Of all the techniques that my old Chinese teacher taught me, this was certainly one of the best. Imagine being able to send a molecule of yourself into any situation and knowing if it was appropriate to move forward. If I had known this when I was younger I would have never made some horrible mistakes, such as buying timeshare and many others I would not admit to in these blogs; for you never knows who might be reading them.

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The Power of Forgiveness

 The Power of Forgiveness 

One of the most powerful teachings that I ever received from my old Chinese teacher was the Power of Forgiveness. 

How many of us have people or things in our past which have hurt us. Pain which we cannot forget or forgive. These people deserve our rage for what they have done to us. But who are we really hurting. By holding the anger within ourselves we are still being hurt by their actions. I once read a sign which said, 'Holding a Grudge is Like Letting Someone Live Rent Free in your Head.' This sign brought home to me the need to forgive everyone who has trespassed against us and in an earlier part of the Lord's Prayer it says that we should also forgive us our own trespasses. This is not a blog on religion as each of the great religions talk about the power of forgiveness.

I use the word power not in the sense of power over others, but we have the power to release ourselves from the thoughts and hurts of others. It is not until you are able to forgive everyone that you are truly free. This does not mean that you have to accept the misdeeds of others, but if you cannot forgive them then you will carry them with you forever.

There was an old mystic who once said that he who is without sin can cast the first stone. We have all done things that in hindsight that were not for our highest good, but rather dwell on these we should forgive ourselves and release them.

These few quotes do far more than any pages I could write.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Mark Twain

The Power of Forgiveness. Forgive people who have upset you and you release them and free a part of you for a more creative purpose.

Geof  Spalding

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself

Suzanne Somers

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Neihbur

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The Four Centred Disciplines

The Four Centred Disciplines

I am going to take a break from writing blogs for a couple of weeks while I work on my third book in the 33rd Sage trilogy. I hope you have enjoyed the blogs of the Elements of Man and in a few weeks I will return with some new and exciting blogs and hopefully news on the publication date for the 33rd Sage and the Initiate. In the meantime please enjoy the following parable and the teaching on the four centred disciplines. For those who have read the 33rd Sage, now might be a good time to revisit it as the lessons learnt from reading the Elements will transform your next reading.

Blessings and Peace to you all and may the Godforce that lives inside you point you in the direction of your bliss.

In Old China an emperor called his advisors to him and asked, "Who am I?" They said, "You are the Sun, the light, you are the essence."

"Why do you do what I ask," said the emperor? They answered, "Because you are God and we are followers of God."

"If I am God, then I must be all-powerful," said the emperor, and the advisors said, "That is true."

The emperor asked again, "Why do you do the things I ask you?" The advisors said, Because you are God."

"Why do you not just not do them?"

"Because you would have us put to death."

The emperor realized that there was fear. He said, "If I am God, why does not the flower grow where I ask it?" The wise men said, "We will plant it where you want it."

"Why does it not rain when I want it to rain?" The wise men said, "It does not rain because when you want it to rain, that is not what you really want."

The emperor walked away into his garden and looked at the flowers and the birds; he looked at the small stream, at the little fish within it. He saw butterflies and the greenness of the grass, and the softness of the moss. He thought, if I am God, why did I not create this? What is real? I am only God to the people, not to the plants, or the flowers or birds. If there is a God, there must be a God of all; but the flowers do not follow anyone; they do not go here or there for fear of dying. The butterfly does not fear the frog as it flies by, even though the frog will eat it. What is reality?

He returned to the palace and said to his advisors, "What is real. What is true? What is reality?

In your world there is much beauty. But the beauty that you see, hear, touch or taste is only a particle of the beauty that lies around you. In your world are four disciplines that will allow you to find reality.

1. Physical Discipline 

First is a physical discipline, not exercise of the body, but being proud of what you are, and not of what you want to be. The discipline of being able to look at yourself in a stream or mirror and say, I am proud of what I am. Controlling the body and it's movements and not allowing it to move you is a discipline, realizing that you are a carriage that has within a most important rider.

Physical discipline means walking straight and sitting straight, knowing that when you cross a leg or an arm to someone, you are limiting communication. Physical discipline means not running or hurrying; physical discipline means knowing your body, it's muscles, it's bone. It means exercise, not in a religious sense but realizing that you are the God Force, that your body is what it should be and being proud of it.

2. Health Discipline

Foremost within that is respecting yourself. Above respecting all things is respecting yourself. You cannot respect other things without first respecting yourself, healthwise. The foods that Old Chinese suggests are not prescribed by a religion or a discipline. Old Chinese does not suggest that you should not eat meat because it will get you to your higher self, or from this plane faster. There is no diet, no choice of food for a specific, moralistic cause that will get you closer to your higher self.

We know that you are herbivorous and so meat is foreign to your system. There is no needed to worry about the killing of animals. Since there is no death of anything, you should not worry about it. Old Chinese suggest no meat because it causes damage in your body. Meat eliminates calcium from your system, and many other things. The reason for eliminating root vegetables is that the cellulose in them interferes with the correct digestion of carbohydrates.

The food, diet or health you choose should respect your body first. Of secondary importance is the evolution of spirit within the food, but first is evolution of spirit within yourself. Health discipline is the realization that each and everything that is wrong in your body, or that feels wrong with it, is a mental though form. There are no I curable diseases, only incur able people.

You can learn through the discipline of health that when you have a soreness or a congestion, it is because of your though patterns, because of dealing with a person or a resentment. Thought becomes a very important governor of your disciplined health perspective. Eating sugar and salt are equivalent to eating sand; and gluten flour, or anything that contains it, interferes with assimilation of vitamins in most personages.

Respecting yourself nutritionally is not some faddistic religion, not saying I am doing this so will be better than that person. You are doing this because you respect yourself, and you respect yourself because you are the God Force within you. You are your own reality, and so, by respecting yourself, you recognize what the emperor did not. It is easier for a person who is working on their spiritual evolution, or in essence is trying to come in tune.

3. Harmony

In-tuneness means the ability to perceive, to feel to hear, to touch, to taste everything at each and every moment of the day. This is in-tuneness with everything that is going on around you. When the musical instrument is in tune, it plays a harmonious chord. It is pleasing, it is awareness of what is around, and it allows others to feel harmonious. In tune is to be harmonious with all your surroundings.

It is easier for you to be out of tune in your world, than it is to be in tune. More on your world are inharmonious than in tune. It is easier for you not to have a nutritional body, than have a nutritional body. Most people in your world complain or have something wrong with them. That way, if you are like them, nothing is wrong.

Your world thinks that if you at spiritually disciplining yourself, you should be free from disease. That is not true, for the more in tune you become with your nutrition, the more out of tune those around you will feel. They will centre on you, and find every little thing you are reacting to. Before, when someone said to you, "You are not too smart in certain parts," You would have laughed. Now, like a finely tuned instrument, just a little outward vibration can cause you to come out of tune and play a disharmonious chord. It is easier for you to not be in tune. Those who strive for spiritual nutritional health are like fish out of water. In the water it is easy, but once out of your environment, out of what everyone else is doing, you become not very important.

A harmonious person is one that is aware of everything around them and does not combat things. If someone comes to you in an inharmonious way, and you react to them in an inharmonious way, you only create disharmony. The Nazarene once said, "Resist not evil." Your world thought that meant something else. It meant when evil, or negativity comes to you, do not fight it. If you fight it, you create war, dissension. Relax. Be as the rock on the shore as the wave lashes against it - stand firm - and when the tide goes out, the rock stands alone, beautiful. Watch those things that are thrown in, do not try to combat, or jump against the wave.

Your world finds great disharmony; it is the world of disharmony, or the university of disharmony. In reality, disharmony is one of the great dilemmas of your physical plane. How harmonious are you to yourself? - not to those around you; to yourself. Do you feel the new morning? Do you touch the wind?

4. Balance

The fourth discipline is balance; balance of self. In Old China, there was a teacher who told the student, "If you relax or meditate for four to five minutes each day, you would find great things happening."

The student was enlightened and found that it caused an ecstasy. He returned to the teacher and said, "I was so delighted with the results that I am now meditating twenty four hours a day. And the teacher said, "You are unbalanced."

The person who meditates half a second a day is unbalanced. Those who sleep twelve hours a day are as unbalanced as those who try to maintain on two hours of sleep. Those who eat constantly are unbalanced, as are those who eat not at all.

You have come to be within your world, not to escape it. You have reincarnated to be a part if your world, not to be a recluse, a monk, a mystic or hermit; not to withdraw from community or institutional situations, but to live in your world. By living in it you can maintain a balance. Those who can walk on hot stones, or levitate for hours, or, at a breath, can cause a tree to change from here to there; they too are unbalanced. Why do you need to know how to walk on coals? And what will levitation do for you? It may cause you a nosebleed if it goes too high.

You must have a little imbalance within balance. Approximately 3200 years ago, the creation of yin-yang developed in China, to create a balance of spiritual essence and military difficulties. You should watch this theory that puts negative before positive, and remember, he who walks the middle of the road gets hit from both directions.

Consider your eyes: if your right eye saw equally as your left eye, you could not see. If your left ear hear as equally as the right, you could not hear. If your right arm had the same strength as your left arm, there would be inertia. The same strength in the right and left leg would cause inertia. There must be a little imbalance within the balance. Instead of walking down the middle of your path, go from side to side and you will experience energies of either side without getting off the path.

How do you maintain balance in an unbalanced world? How do you ride a muddy water buffalo? Or shake hands with a tiger? Each individual cries out for balance within, for solitude; not a twenty four hour solitude. Each individual needs no more than one minute per hour of the day, and you can balance. But how? When you fight the subconscious  or the would so hard. Consider these things: First, the higher self projects through you outwardly. Energy comes through you from the higher self, which is a combination of all you are or have been, the God Force. There is no energy returned to it. This is a one-way energy path.

Second, as long as you act subconsciously, energy will try to come through the subconscious mind, which is like trying to pick rice in a rainstorm. The energy - or the power, or the inspiration or the light from the higher self - that activates the subconscious, controlling all of your movements, feelings and moods, will cause impulse instead of intuition. It will cause doubt instead of faith; it will cause negativity. By disciplining yourself for twenty four minutes, you can relax the subconscious and the higher self will circumvent it, bypassing it.

Chung Fu

May the infinite self inside each of you reach out today and touch deeply the heart of another. A new age mystic once said, "Love is the answer, Love is the key."

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The Elements of Creation

The Elements of Creation 

The idea of the point of power or the point of choice, that moment when you can make a decision that will change the rest of your life has always fascinated me. When we commit to a course of action what effect does it have on the world? What happens to the other choices we could have made?

When we reach a point of choice. How much does our emotional state effect what happens beyond the point of choice? Can we create the life we want to live?

For many years I have tried to learn as much about the topic as possible. The journey has led me to ancient manuscripts around the world, to physics through quantum mechanics and the multiple universe theory, to hundreds of mystics and teachers who could throw any light on the subject.

Now I believe it is time to start sharing some of what I have learned in the hope that others who are following the path or about to step onto it spend far less than fifteen years or twenty years or even a lifetime trying to gain this understanding. A teacher should be able to allow his students to step on his shoulders and wish them luck as they go beyond him. For it is only through teaching that you can truly master the subject. As my old teacher said, “We teach what we need to know. Once we master something it is time to move on, because we no longer benefit the student or ourselves through our teaching. A real master touches people as he moves anonymously passed them and changes them forever. The master understands that in the quietness everything is possible.” If I had understood what he meant in those four lines I could have saved myself many years on the path.

Thought creates reality is something I have believed in for a long time. I believe that we create the world that we live in. That the world around is only a mirror of what we are experiencing on the inside. Even the latest research points to our words and feelings effecting our DNA. While I still believe that our thoughts create our reality there has always been something missing. I have been able to change my life, moving from a fairly negative existence to one of a fairly happy and creative life. Once dyslexic, reading and writing forever a struggle, I now find my passion in writing and inspiring others. And yet there has always been something missing. Not that the concept of thought creates reality was wrong but more that it was not the whole picture.

One thing that always amazes me is that the information that you are searching for has generally been with you a long time before you actually realise its importance. It is a bit like buying a book because the subject interested you, only to put it aside. Then one day, months or even years later you pick up the book and start reading it and it answers the questions that you currently have in your mind. In some way we have an ability to know our possible futures. To slip past the bounds of time and buy a book that will give us the answer in the future. 

“Right place right time,” as my old teacher used to say. "Walk don’t run and you will always be in the right place at the right time." While studying and researching into the idea that our thoughts create our reality I had at the same time been studying an old ancient Chinese understanding of the seasons within nature and within mankind. Two wonderful teachers taught me this skill. One an architect/dancer who studied in an old Chinese mystical circle and the second the old Chinese master I met on the beach in Bali. The architect taught me about the theory of the cycles within man and nature and the old master taught me through practice. As I have said previously, he would make me sit for hours in the snow or on a beach on a hot summer’s day and learn from the elements themselves; he taught me about the cycles within man and mankind. How man is like the seasons and that to understand the seasons in nature you could understand the different personality types or cycles within mankind. Studying both these topics side by side I did not see their connection.

It was not until I was reflecting on some of the things that I had created in my life. Sometimes it was easy to create and other times it did not matter how much work I did or belief I had in it nothing seemed to happen. I had read all the books by the experts in creating you future, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale and Anthony Robbins to name but a few. I had done all the workshops and as usual I was fired up for a couple or days or weeks about what I had learnt and would put them into action, but that passion soon faded and some of my creations stalled.

Sometimes they failed because it was not the right time; others failed because they were honestly crap. But there were others, which failed, and I was sure I had done everything right. I had visualised what I wanted to create. I had the desire for it. I took action to complete it or show the universe and its inhabitants that I was serious about it. But nothing. I knew as an intuition, a feeling that there was a component missing. It is funny how even the last sentence which was written unconsciously; as the words flowed from what sometime’s appears as my conscious mind but was in reality from the deeper place; a place which was showing me why some of my attempts had failed. Some of you who are reading this will have already picked up on what was missing, but alas I was not so clever. So let me share with you the story of how the penny dropped for me.

I was sitting in a workshop listening to Gregg Bradden give a lecture on …….. And he was talking about the power of feelings and how feelings can connect our heart to our head. He was giving me the answer then of what was missing for me in creating the life that I wanted, but I was not ready or able to hear. He talked about the four forces in the universe and how science has been trying to find a way of tying them all together into one unified field. He talked about the four parts to the DNA. He talked about feelings having the ability to change our DNA. He spoke of the importance of the heart and feelings. He talked about the connection between the heart and the brain and yet I still did not hear him.

In the afternoon break I was in the toilet and a friend shared the urinal with me. He asked me how I was enjoying the seminar. We chatted for a few brief moments, then washed our hands. As we were leaving to go back to the seminar, he said to me that the unified field theory was just another way of looking at the elements. The elements which I had taught him about in conversations and through my book the sage. He said the ether was no more than a combination of the elements, just like the unified field force was a combination of Gravity, Electromagnetism, the weak and strong nuclear forces. It was nothing I had not thought intellectually and I was congratulating him on his insight when all of a sudden I was hit with that moment of epiphany. Creation, the source of all that there is just a combination of all the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth. There could not be creation without all these elements being present. My years of  training of two different lines of thought or study had crossed over each other at that very moment and I had a number of wonderful revelations. To create what you want you need to have all these elements present. By bringing these elements together in the right amount you collapse the reality from the ether. You collapse one of the many possibilities into reality. We create through our inner combinations of these elements.

I could see that most of what I had created which had failed had one of the four components missing. Just like nature follows the seasons, we need to go through the seasons when we create something. We need the Fire of Winter. The Water of  Spring. The Air of the Summer and the Earth of the Autumn. Everything in nature follows this fourfold process right down to our very DNA. If feeling which is the water in the fourfold process is proven to effect our very DNA then what effect could all the elements have on the very fabric of the universe itself.

How could I have missed the four-step process in creation? I had recognised it in many other aspects of life. I am not saying that I should spend more time talking to people in toilets. It is the realisation that if you are open then the answer can come from anywhere. Sometimes our best teachers are the not the great masters, but the moments and the people we come into contact with in any moment of our life. Life has an amazing way of mirroring back to us what we focus on within.

If you want to take charge and create the life you want it is as simple as the following fours steps. 

Step 1 Fire – Create the Vision

Step 2 Water – Feel the Feeling

Step 3 Air – Create the Plan

Step 4 Earth – Take Action

These four substances come together to form what the ancients called the ether which is the energy, the Chi, the life force within all things. If any part of the cyclical process is missing then what you want to create becomes just another wasted thought. It is through the combination that we contact the substance the ancients call the ether, it is this substance that is within all things. It is as though we do not create the object of our desire it is more that we collapse it into reality. It is as if it was already one of the infinite possibilities and we have collapsed it into reality. Many of the teachers of manifestation tell you to imagine that you already have the object of your desire. To a certain point this is correct, but in reality you do not have to imagine that it does exist because it already does amongst the infinite possibilities that we can choose.

If you have read my first book “The 33rd Sage,” or have been following this blog on the Elements you will already have an understanding of the cycles within man and mankind. For those who haven’t, please read back over the blog or better than that buy a copy of my book, as the story itself was written so that whenever you read it, it seems as if the story is different. This is because each time you read it you come to it with a deeper understanding of the Elements and the cycles within man and mankind. 

 I am going to finish the blog there because in reality you have all you need to create the future that you want. For some of you there will be epiphany’s going off all over the place. For the others, you think you need more and I could have written a book about it, but it is a simple concept. If you follow the seasons and ensure that each of the elements are used then you can create the future you want.

Creating your future is as easy walking from the winter, to the spring, onto the summer and then to the fall.

Blessings and peace to you all and may the living spirit within all things offer up their teachings to you.

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