Clear Your Mind
From the moment of birth, we are given ideas, conceptions, and doctrines that shape us, for the better or worse, as we prepare to enter the world as adults. With every human relationship from school to friends to business partners and co-workers, this meta-programming is unrelenting and omnipresent. With the advent of the internet and social media, there exist no isolated moments in which clarity and presence are dominant.
Even with the adoption of meditation, retreats, and even prolonged sabbaticals from work, each one of us is, ultimately, the product of our total life experience. In this milieu of mind, thoughts arise and disappear on their own, whether guided by intention or in the process of dreaming, awake or asleep. In any case, reality as it is will always be obscured due to the nature of brain-derived experience, the subsconscious, and all other hidden aspects of awareness that operate, for the most part, autonomously as we move from one moment to the next in life.
We live in the culture of taking
Everywhere, in almost every corner of modern society, people are silently practicing a psychology of scarcity. We say to ourselves, “If I don’t collect my share now, if I don’t make my move, there won’t be anything left for me.” We look upon each other, especially in the realm of close friendships and intimate relationships, quietly thinking…
“What are you going to give me, what can I get out of you?”
“How much sex will I experience with you?”
“How much money will the bank loan to me?”
“How profitable will my business be?”
“What is this corporation or company going to do for my career?”
Despite any counter-balancing motives of generosity or selfless consideration of others, we are, in one way or another, mesmerized by the culture of taking, based on an inescapable sense of lack and need.
A self-hypnotized world
of mass psychosis
If you don’t believe that we are hypnotized by the culture of taking, simply observe. This belief is running silently through almost every communication in media, almost every conversation you hear on the street, in the workplace, or at the market. You must become sensitive to the fact that people the world over are reflecting their inner mental state to one another. They are reinforcing a collective state of mind that presumes a world of limited resources, finite capabilities, and a never-ending stream of problems, both at home and in the global community at large. What more obvious message of “taking” is there than the appearance of tragedy, war, terrorism, or domestic abuse? People the world over are being stripped of their humanity and their will to live. This is the epitome of the psychology of taking.
Our reality is the projection
of our minds
You must come to understand that every single sensation or experience of lack, pain, suffering, or discomfort is a direct reflection of both your own mind and the collective minds of those you are in connection with, both personally and impersonally. The moment you decide to turn the tides and realize this shocking truth, you have taken your first step to freedom and boundless joy. From this moment, you stop habitually looking for what you can receive or focusing on what you do not have and begin to see how getting yourself and your thoughts out of the way is the path to every solution. You become increasingly transparent to the source of all thought and begin to choose the ones you consciously bring into reality. This is the path to true genius that can and will propel humanity forward to a future free of lack, scarcity, terrorism, and war.
The Self can appear anywhere at anytime
Time and space are illusory reflections of the infinite. We are all familiar with phrases such as “the beginning” or “the end” of time. These misperceptions of reality are echoed through every layer of human consciousness, originating, ultimately, in the brain. Having chosen embodiment in a specific place and time, it seems logical to us that the body and brain have a beginning and end in the spectrum of time and space. We, in turn, extend this presumption to all apparently manifest things. The presumption, however, is based on a myth. Time and space never began and they will never end. Beginnings and endings are finite ideas arising from an infinite mind, your mind and your identity. Therefore, what appears to your finite life to be millions of years of evolution in the past is the ultimate illusion, self-created and elaborated by the very One that gave birth to you: Your True Self.
Prior to your appearance in this world, you create, simultaneously in all other times and places, specific encounters and specific experiences that would be a constant reminder of Who you are. These reminders can (and are) able to surface literally anywhere and anytime. All you must do is be ready. If you would prefer to remain asleep and be tossed around (and consequently “roughed up”) by what only seems to be outside of you, then you are yet engaged in the process of unconscious dreaming. As soon as you begin to suspect your reality, the pre-ordained encounter with Your Self can happen in the most surprising of circumstances, in the least likely of times or places. There are literally no conditions that must be present for This Self to orchestrate its encounter with your body and brain or, ultimately, with humanity at large.
What is happening now (and has been happening forever) is a paradoxical process by which the One True Self is finding its pieces scattered through time and space, gathering them up, and preparing for a joyous and novel surprise of cosmic proportions. As this gathering occurs, there are fewer and fewer gaps in consciousness, less darkness, and less ignorance.
The Myth of Meditation
The Way of the Giver is not a path of isolation or personal revelations. It may seem, because of the chaos and disarray of the mind and the world that springs from it, that the only reprieve is meditation. You do not have to look far to find someone staking their life and beliefs on the utter necessity of contemplation, reflection, and meditative trance. Our Way is a radically new and wildly free embrace of gradually increasing transparency to a pre-existing yet unimaginable state of constant, unbroken mind. The path is quick, decisive, and penetrating of all illusion, within the constructs of time and space.
By sitting formally in meditation, in isolation from the world around you, regardless of your non-motives and non-intentions, you are nonetheless seeking, searching. You are engaged in self-centered activity. There are endless examples in history, even in modern times, of those that have reached the highest state of being in meditation, the formless, perfect singularity. They go up to the ultimate peak then come back down. Up and down, up and down ad infinitum. They must “get high” over and over again. While it’s gone beyond the pettiness of the physical or emotional high, it’s still a conditional “high”, and therefore useless. It is denying physical reality and, therefore, unable to transcend it.
Transcendence in Motion
Our Way embraces a process of cutting through illusion as quickly as possible, so that you may move your “false self” out of the way and assume Your True Identity within the dream. It is the most ecstatic activity that you can experience as a human being. It is the means to go beyond yourself and become a living conduit, allowing energy to flow through you, to others. Realization and enlightenment, as understood by most spiritual and philosophical schools of thought, is absolutely self-serving in purpose. It is the pursuit of a state of being, to the exclusion of everything else (i.e. a renunciation of life) in order to escape from a false reality. But there is nothing to escape from but your own misperceptions of reality.
The Way of the Giver is naturally extroverted. It pushes a person beyond their need to protect themselves from external influences or shelter themselves from the world. The Way reaches out to others, inherently and naturally. The more you channel the transmission, the greater your capacity to give becomes. In this way, you are incrementally purified, effortlessly and joyfully, of all obstacles, without the pain and struggle of typical “self-work”.
Become enlightened by giving enlightenment
Enlightenment comes slowly to those that seclude themselves in meditative isolation. Even when it does “come” to the seeker, it is fragile and easily disrupted by affairs and business in the world. For this reason, religious and spiritual organizations have setup retreats, believing a person can find peace only through exclusion from that which is not peace. When enlightenment comes to the isolated individual, the energy has nowhere to flow but from whence it came. It may enliven the seeker, but as she returns to the world, she must make extraordinary efforts to maintain “a connection”, remembering the vision, and muscling down to bring it into reality.
In the Way of the Giver, enlightenment is effortless, without the need for isolation or formal meditation. If you do meditate, it is simply part of your already effulgent experience of reality. More often than not, you will find yourself in the world, channeling your vision, creating wonders, and changing lives.