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I have never been a religious person. I sort of invented my own spirituality. But once in my late twenties I was fed up not knowing anything so I went into a church in Putney, London, and I prayed fervently to God to make me wise. It was quite a shrewd move for a lad of tender years, as the gods of fame and fortune are inundated by billions of messages each day, but the gods of wisdom have very few dingbats to deal with. So you are more likely to get given wisdom than you are to get fame and easy money, somehow I figured that out quite early in life.

I was more than royally treated and while the wisdom stuff came bit by bit, it did arrive at a steady pace. I kept bumping into exactly the right people and the right time and eventually the Morph descended in March 2001 and my perception rocketed from there.

Through the Morph journey, which was painful and rather scary at times, I came to see that spiritual humility and redemption is the final act of triumph in a human's spiritual journey. As I said last time, no one can absolve you of your sins, nor can they take away your darkness, it is all eternal so you'll have to bite the bullet and accept that.

It made me feel a bit helpless at first, how do I get rid of certain embarrassing blots on my soul? I can't. Eventually I came to see that a human soul is beautiful because of the blots, not because of the perfection of what a person has done and who they have become.

It occurred to me if I could write out a simple manual for how you will redeem yourself I might possibly redeem myself at the same time. There are millions of people out there that live in a purgatory they call “daily life.” If we could unlock the door and set a few free they might trot off and set others free. I'm not saying we can save the world because there are forces here now that have that task well in hand. They don't need us for that.

But they may need us to find the people, as deep in the heart of every nation there are standouts; silent spiritual warriors that are brave enough to make a run for freedom. The problem is they don't know how to get away. They are not on a level playing field, there are many forces stacked against them that they can't see. I soon realized that being able to see is more than bloody vital, it's everything.

We all suffer from abandonment of one kind or another. Our first abandonment is a spiritual one, for deep within we remember we come from an abode of light. There is sadness in all of us, whereby we finally remember the celestial world from which we came. That is why we seek to reconnect with that light through religious and spiritual practices.

Then there is the abandonment we suffer when we move out of our teens into the grown-up world of responsibility. Protection offered by our caregivers in youth is lost and suddenly we are in a dog eat dog world, trying to make sense of it all.

Then we go through various abandonments in our relationships as we try out various combinations and we discover that the idea of romantic love is a concoction — an idealism that grew out of the Middle Ages. The real thing is often not built to last. The words “and they lived happily ever after” is just a cute way of ending fairy stories. In real life, living happily ever after takes a lot of effort, communication, and compromise.

The material world of competition and performance sets us up for further knocks.. If we falter, or if we are not up to form minute-by-minute, we are soon rejected and ditched. If we don't make it in a world that worships glamour and materialism, our self-image may suffer a setback.

Then, many of us had to deal with abandonment in childhood. Our fathers and mothers left and went elsewhere, Or they were physically present but they were engaged in the helter-skelter of modern living. We were virtually ignored as we grew up, left to our own devices. Maybe the presence of it all drove our caregivers to drink and drugs or other dysfunctions.

Abandonment is common. We each face it as a part of our lessons in life. We have to transcend the sense of loss and helplessness and become freestanding individuals, in control of our lives. It's easier said than done. But none of the lessons of the earth plane are beyond us. If the lessons were impossible, I doubt, from a spiritual perspective, that any of us would have come here knowing that we were bound to fail.

The other abandonment we have to deal with is when we experience society in general, and when the State in particular has abandoned us. As we become more isolated, people become less helpful and nastier, especially as conditions get

tougher. Meanwhile, the State has changed from being a benign protector of its people to an aggressive predator, one that seeks to consume people's energy ( security) to sustain itself.

Another abandonment we are forced to look at is the abandonment of self. In a lifestyle of excessive activity and dysfunction, we often abandon the inner child, who is then left in the terror of its lonely existence, unable to do anything about its pain.

First, we have to realise that abandonment and the loneliness it brings, is common to all of us. Our world suffers from mass abandonment. It's part of our evolution at this time.

Second we have to want to transcend that abandonment and reclaim the inner child, by nurturing it and acting as it's lost parent. It has to know that we will protect and look after it. By taking care of the inner child we become self sufficient. To rely on others who are in the rat race and or the State apparatus, is to enroll in the University of Hard Knocks.

Once we realise materialism is an illusion, we see that we can have serenity and self-worth without great wealth, and prestige. We can then retreat within, away from the mire of the outside world, and so the healing process begins. As a part of that healing we have to link with others, forming tribal connections with loving, helpful people who understand there is another way. it's important that each of us has a support system around us. In actively joining the Love Vibe and others of like mind, we grant ourselves meaning. It is how we step away from the ego’s isolationism to a more collective global belonging.

Finally we have to return to the source. So via meditation, quiet time, ritual, and prayer, we walk slowly back to the spiritual home from whence we came. In that silence we pick up the inner child; reassuring it, embracing it, while telling it we love it and promising never to leave it behind unattended and alone.

Taking 3 years off from being on the road was my way of claiming back that which I had lost. It meant a lot to me, more than words can say. If I drop dead tomorrow I would do so, at one and at peace with my God and my inner child. By transcending abandonment, I completed a journey, one of many I suppose, but an important one.

Stuart Wilde.

The Eternal Tao

My ol’ teacher was a Taoist. He taught about the old sages in China and their wisdom and their gentle ways. There is a concept in Taoism called wu wei that literally means non-action or non-doing.

The Taoist writer Lao Tzu explains that beings (or phenomena) that are wholly in harmony with the Tao behave in a completely natural, uncontrived way.

The Middle Way

Aligning to nature and its softness is the middle way. It involves no struggle, or confrontation. You can act coherently in life, but you do not need to force your way along, as the emotion of that often pushes things away from you. It’s like the Zen philosophy, it’s a solid calm, it’s the way of love and the path of least resistance.

The Tao is full of love because it respects animals and nature and other humans. Also in the calm of the middle way you can communicate more clearly with yourself, aware of your feelings and intuition.

The Tao Philosophy of Detachment

The Taoist philosophy aligns to the spirit of nature and its purity.

When I first started my journey I studied with a Taoist teacher. He emphasized the central Taoist philosophy of detachment, which he said was achieved by emotional discipline, calm, meditation, and a comprehension that the world of people’s egos takes to many torments and half truths, and so backing away you stay safe, and you can still respect people by allowing them to do whatever they want to do.

Love is letting people go. By pulling out of their emotion you can be there for people from a higher perspective.

You walk by the banks of the Tao in an eternal calm, so your strength builds, you grow spiritually. And you learn to detach from your emotions and see them in a proper light. It is important to be able to laugh at yourself and keep an open mind about things.

The Tao is very beautiful the more you enter into the Tao and Gaia the more free you become. There is such a simple truth in this.

The Mysterious Female

The concept of the Tao as a river of light in all things was very advanced when the idea was first suggested in 500 BC. Very few people could read in those days and beliefs were very rudimentary, there wasn’t any metaphysics in that age, which makes the text of the Tao so extraordinary.

It is easy to become indignant at the evil of the world and the way the planet and its animals are mistreated. It is all very sad. Yet your soul can become wet wading through rivers of injustice that you are powerless to fix. Sometimes the weight of helplessness and futility hangs over us like a shroud. We lose touch with beauty as we become blinded by a silent rage that taunts us from the gates of hell to become as evil as the injustice we rile against. One can soon lose sight of self and which way to go.

In the end, I reconciled it in my heart by realizing two important things: powerlessness is a part of people’s karma in this life; we have to be gracious and accept it. And, while injustice is a terrible thing, we can see an improvement in the world over recent decades as humanity becomes more and more conscious and aware of itself. Also in being aware of injustice and watching it we learn what it is that we don’t want to become.

Beauty lies in surrender. It’s a feminine humility that calls to wounded souls from beyond the mists of the eternal Tao and Avalon. Late at night I’d called to the ladies of the mist saying, “Help me, my heart, she cry.”

And sometimes the Spirit of Surrender would whisper to me in visions and dreams and she would tell me to quit and sit and wait. So to while away the time I’d breathe love into the hearts of liars and crooks and pedophiles and the embezzlers of human souls, and I felt better and I waited as instructed.

Most of the evil is yang and all of our glorious histories of which we are so proud, are but gruesome accounts of pillage, mass murder and conquest. Humanity is but a child sick with a terrible bout of yang that has lasted several thousand years. It’s an evolutionary phase like the antics of a rebellious teenager. There is no point in fighting it for in the emotion of your antagonism you abandon the very softness that offers you reconciliation and redemption.

We are all changing and growing and in the collective nightmare of our humanity a golden light trickles through in the dead of night liberating people as fast as they will embrace a new ideal. We have to be grateful for small mercies, there are many people on the spiritual path that are trying to escape and they are bringing others with them. Understanding that, we should be patient and surrender, for there is gentleness in that, and anyway, in a long enough time-frame the yang will burn itself out and the feminine will triumph. As a part of that softness it is best not to get too hung up with people’s deficiencies but rather look to their heroic redeeming qualities, while of course fixing yourself, all the while.

Much of what we call ‘feelings’ are in fact only the sensations of the electrical impulses that we register in the brain when we for instance tapper hard surfaces with our knuckles.

The other things we call feelings are in fact how emotions are the outcropping of the intellects opinions. Pleasing emotions rise from pleasing circumstances, negative emotions come from circumstances that contradict our opinions. It seems to me that human emotions are not really feelings, they are reactions.

I have come to realise that real feelings lie in the subtle body, the etheric body which is the energy field around your body. You can prove this to yourself. Lie down, head to the north, feet to the south. Relax, breathe deeply and entrance yourself. Mentally elongate your etheric body by visualising it pushing it out through the bottoms of your feet and through the top of your head.

Next, visualise yourself hovering above the physical body at about the height of one foot to 18 inches. Roll off to the right like a log, pause, and come back. Then repeat the process to the left. hovering once more over the physical body, mentally force your etheric self into a pole shift, so now your etheric head is where your physical feet are and vice versa.

Try visualising yourself rocking back and forth like you're in a hammock. This will dislocate your etheric body from the physical body somewhat, causing extra energy to flow through the subtle body, loosening it.

When do you feel nice and relaxed, visualise your legs moving down through the floor. By now, if your etheric is nice and loose, you'll feel your etheric legs dangling through the floor. Or perhaps your whole etheric body will float down and you'll feel your etheric perpendicular to the floor. Meanwhile, you're still aware of the sensation of your real legs flat along the ground sending impulses to the brain. You'll begin to see how sensations and feelings are very different.

Physical sensations are real enough but they do not feel anywhere near as real as etheric feelings, which are much more subtle. You are your etheric and the etheric contains the perpetual memory of you, the spiritual “feeling” that identifies you as an eternal being.

Colin Wilson is a good writer. He writes books about the paranormal from a fairly logical scientific approach. He's open-minded yet not too taken by the woo-woo of it all that he loses the plot.

In his book “Alien Dawn” he mentions Peter Ouspensky who was born in Russia in 1878, Ouspensky became known as the pragmatic voice of Gurdjieff. Ouspensky spent much of his life translating Gurdjieff’s teachings into a coherent mythology. Gurdjieff and Ouspensky’s teachings were impacting, certainly in the years between the world wars.

The ideas that Gurdjieff taught Ouspensky was a technique known as self remembering. Colin Wilson mentions it in his book saying self remembering is looking at some object – say a watch - and being at the same time aware of yourself looking at it. This is extremely difficult to do. After a few seconds, you become aware of yourself and forget your watch, or you become aware of your watch and forget yourself.

Colin Wilson goes on to say that while Ouspensky was practising self remembering, he would walk around St Petersburg. He noted that as he began to succeed in the process, his consciousness would be flipped into another reality, expanded from the personalities finite world view to the more infinite holistic view (the Zero Point). He could sense the individual history of houses as if they were living beings, full of thoughts, feelings and emotions. The material world came alive, resonating with activity and life.

I certainly have seen the same in the woods when I've been out Fairy Walking with the Druids in Ireland. You can see golden lines of energy criss-crossing the forest. They are memory traces of people who have been there before. Certain spots in the woods have a special character in that they retain the memory of human events, meetings, prayers, laughter and gatherings. It's really strange to see. In the woods I go to a tree we call the psychiatric tree. When people sit by it, their mental emotional dysfunctions come to them thick and fast and they become aware of how to heal those dysfunctions. The tree teaches them things.

There's another spot in the woods that is very scary and dark. It's marked by spawn on the ground which has an odd shape and looks like one of those big headed grays of the abduction kind. Yet another spot by a clump of oaks has the memory of romantic love. You can see from the lines of light that people have made love they're in the past.

In one section of the forest there is a dead goat carcass. If you look into the eye of the goat skull you'll see your marriage/relationship right there in all its glory, or in its loveless lack of harmony. The forest has a memory. it's a museum. Light in parts, dark and scary in others.

Self remembering helps you see the history of places and material things. The practice of self remembering requires you to be in two places at once, i.e. in the part of you that is concentrating on your wrist watch say, and in the part of you that is aware or distanced from your physical body - that is detached, watching you, watching your wrist watch. It forces you to engage both sides of your brain simultaneously. I think in many ways it's compatible to Monroe's level 10, which seeks to build a bridge between the left and right brain in order to induce the out of body state.

The other similarity that comes to mind is Castenada’s technique of going to sleep and trying to see your hands in the dream state and remembering seeing your hands. When I did that exercise I got it right the very first time, which might have been a lucky fluke. I must say when I tried Castenada’s technique I'd been into lucid dreaming, meditation and trance states for a very long time, so that's possibly why I managed to hit it on the first attempt.

Everything is connected, the bird that flies over head is in fact flying in your heart. The friend who is sitting across from you at the table in Denny's drinking coffee is also inside your heart. The whole of reality is internal even though we move through life with the reassuring illusion that houses, people and birds and restaurants are external to us.

The only way of developing true meaning in life is to move out of our left brain ego/personality - which eventually is destined to suffer a heat death of energy. It is not just physical death but boredom, irritation and neurosis. We must cross the bridge to the right brain, the special infinite self in self remembering we are in fact making that crossing.

The other technique I might remind you about here is one that Trevor Ravenscroft, the author of the Spear of Destiny, taught me. It is a technique that comes from the Hindus, of going backwards in time. At night prior to going to sleep, run methodically backwards through the events of the day in your mind's eye. In this way you process and release your finite observations of external reality. It takes you out of the finite 3D World and leaves you open during the night to a more infinite perception.

What are the things you can do prior to going to sleep is to call on that Infinity within you to provide instructions to you via your dreams or by induction while you are asleep. Sometimes you might seek an answer to a problem you are working on to which you have not found the solution. Sometimes you might ask for instructions because you want to see the world in a grander way or develop more meaning for your life.

The other thing this process does is to allow you to travel backwards in time. Past, present and future coexist in an eternity. Because of our linear day-to-day method of going through eternity we override the sensation of the infinite time was reality within.

A lack of direction and meaning is one of the intrinsic diseases of our Western societies. No amount of comfort and technology can grant a human meaning in life, which comes of course, only from his or her connection to all things

I was in an Irish pub recently listening to a traditional band when a young lad about twenty came up to me and he held my hand to his heart and he asked me if I was okay. I told him I was fine and I asked after him.

Then he leant forward and kissed me on the cheek and wished me ‘all the best’ in Gaelic. I was very moved by the young stranger, his heart was very warm.

How many places in the world will you see a young lad of twenty kiss a grey haired stranger and welcome him. Later two boys in the same group of lads got up and danced a jig together twirling each other round. It was most endearing they were so natural and uninhibited. Ireland still has a soul in a western world where our soul has been surgically removed from us.

You can’t just pretend to be nice. All of your feelings, your thoughts and your actions have to exude love and acceptance for others.

And you have to dance and sing and bring color into your life or you will be swamped by the greyness of people’s fears; their insanities will become your insanity, their disdain will fuel yours. The hopes and dreams of your deep inner soul will be drowned out by the stern voice of conformity and the wagging finger of the Fat Controllers.

You have to fight for the right to be spiritually free. It is not granted to you automatically, quite the reverse. Tick-tock’s drummer will try to force you to march to its tune and be like it—bland. It will suck you dry to sustain itself. You must encourage yourself to resist and praise yourself when you do.

Psychic powers are usually very mental, the psychic picks up on your mind and tells you about your life, but the mental game is open to great error and misinterpretation, people hear what they want to hear and the psychic needs your money so they often dry-clean the reading and only tell you the sugary stuff.

You may know from reading my Sixth Sense book/audio that everything emits a feeling. An inanimate object like an office building emits a feeling that is laid upon it by the people that use it. Animate objects, humans, animals and plants generate their own feeling, a thumb-print signature of energy, I call it.

Start this first simple exercise in extra sensory perception by learning how things feel. Ask yourself a dozen times a day when looking at things, how does this feel? Remember how it looks, how it seems, what you think about it is not necessarily how it actually feels, not it's true reality.

Try this exercise in shops. How does the shop feel, pleasant or chaotic? Or try it with people in the street, animals, plants, outdoor areas, news stories, food etc.

Once you insist that your perception accurately tells you how things feel, it will respond quite quickly. When a person passes you in the street, mentally reach out a long arm and grab a molecule from their heart, an etheric molecule of their energy comes back to you, which is in effect linked to the holographic data bank of the entire human and so you will know much about them.