A Midwest Journal

As much as I’ve enjoyed all this blogging, and talking with each of you, people evolve and I’m no exception.

I’ve told you before about my interest in cartooning and definitely here you’ve seen how I work at raising grass-fed beef.

These two have now become my primary interests.

Reason being that I’ve written my last self-help book and nothing more need be said. There are tons of other authors who need a paycheck from this material and are willing to keep turning out the wordage to keep you subscribing and buying their stuff. Same with Internet Marketing.

It all really moves you to your own spiritual training – where you find essentially that you’ve already had everything you are “looking for”. Again, read my last book – although a great deal of it is in this blog, if you want to look for it.

So to keep up with me, I’m creating one new site and revamping another – Worstell Farms will cover my work at selling the grass fed beef I raise, while Go Thunk Yourself! will evolve into my world of cartoons, comics, and rural living observations – all in parody format.

Otherwise, just to serve all those people who have come here looking for material – I’ve saved this site as static pages so you can find what you are looking for. Eventually, it will drop off the radar as an archive. (But you’ll always see the top 10 over to the right…)

Where I have anything to say in these areas, you can find it over at “A Midwest Journal, Too.” The comments on this site are closed, obviously. But you can pick up the thread there, since all the posts are available in their new home.

The problem is that there is just no way to actually and accurately move these pages so that you can find them in this format. (And I’d earlier posted about the last straw I’d encountered with WordPress.) As well, due to WP’s inherent internal linking problems, most of these pages link right back to this site, even if they are moved. This is why I’ve elected to make these pages static – to continue to provide the service people are looking for.

Again, if you want to follow my ongoing work, see my Worstell Farms site on grass fed Missouri beef, or Go Thunk Yourself for my latest cartoon parodies.

So I leave you with these links and hope you succeed in everything you do – it’s really true that you will, anyway…

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The problems governments and politicians have is that people have learned to distrust them – regardless of what “party” they say they are from or what they say they are going to “help” us with if we will only support them.

Governments can make or break a country, regardless of what resources they have. North and South Korea are prime examples. One destitute, with starving people, building weapons that can destroy life nearby for millions of years. The other, a few miles to the south, same language – have one of the most advanced public broadband systems in the world and are know for the quality of their innovation.

The US’s current leader is proclaiming a “shortage” in “affordable” health care. To solve this, he is going to make everyone pay and “redistribute” our wealth. The healthy are going to pay for the sick.

Wait a minute. Isn’t health something you were born with? If you take care of yourself, doesn’t the body normally heal? Laura Silva just sent me an MP3 and video this morning (free, of course) where she tells you how you can use your own personal resources to get and keep yourself healthy. Of course, she is going to pitch you a one-time couple-hundred dollar course. But you get to keep it (or return it if not satsified), and it’s cheaper than the annual payment we are being faced with.

There’s another course you can take, from Hale Dwoskin’s Sedona Method - part of a larger package – called Effortless Health and Well-Being. And yes, this is also only a couple hundred bucks and you can also return these if you aren’t completely happy with your results..

Both tell you to trust and use your own common sense to solve any problem that faces you. They don’t tell you to trust the government (which most people don’t).

My studies of earlier best seller self help authors shows that these guys (Charles Haanel, Wallace Wattles, Thomas Troward, Genevieve Behrend, and many others) all agreed on one point – that the Universe deals in abundance. Abundant health, abundant wealth, a gorgeous life for everyone.

The only reason people don’t have abundance in their lives is that they’ve listened to enough blow-hards and pompous dictocrats to the point they started believing them. Government-run schools are full of this type of data. You’ll find most of the independent thinkers have quit listening long ago and started looking at things for themselves.

I’ll keep this short. You don’t have to even buy anything to improve your health. Just do what you know is sensible. Eat right, get some exercise, stop watching TV (especially the news). Take up a hobby that gets you moving on a regular basis – doesn’t have to be expensive (how about bird watching in your own community – or gardening?)

Just start thinking for yourself – be yourself. Discover the abundance within you and all around you.

And have fun!

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I’ve often repeated the old Japanese adage: “There are many paths up the mountain”, often with the Huna: “No one school has all the teachers.”

And of course, if you’ve been following my journey, you’ll note the stuff on Levenson’s Sedona Method. This last seems to be the capstone to my research. As this tends to explain and resolve the others I’ve come across.

Not that my research is done, it’s just that Levenson’s unique perspective on how things are brings new insight to older philsophies and understandings.

But I’m diverging slightly.

The point I was working over with a friend tonight, after he shared Ken Wilber’s video on “I am Big Mind” – it came to the point that “I am” is always present, timeless, outside of time in fact.

So this brings up the topic: You just got to the top of that mountain you and everyone else is climbing.

What do you find out?

Maybe there is no mountain – maybe there never was.

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Ask your “guru” that when he tries to sell you that new book, DVD set, or electronic gizmo…

The best-kept secrets are already known by everyone;
the best things in life are free and can’t be bought for any price.

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Update: 090906

This might be alarming to some, I don’t mean it that way. What one believes is exactly that – your own thought-system which works for you. There are two ideas here:

1. That many, many self-help guru’s are pitching hot-air (none listed on this blog)
2. The very old idea that the world is actually an illusion which we create from moment to moment and keep in front of us.

In the latter case, it is ourselves who are pitching the hot air and need not blame anyone else for the world we live in.

It is that exact scenario I am examining currently.

Levenson’s work has been the most enlightening I’ve seen on this. He is painfully honest on this point – saying in one tape: “I’m using your ego to undo your ego.”

And of course, this isn’t for the faint of heart. However, even if you do take the Matrix blue pill, you really wind up mostly surrounded again by the original environment you sought to escape – because there is no one-shot wonder to take you out of what you’ve created.

I have found, in working this line, that our old stand-bys work wonder to resolve any world-view. The Golden Rule, when utilized as an introspective tool, will markedly change the world around you. Where you are critical toward others, they will become critical toward you. Using the Levenson Sedona Method, as you keep simply releasing your own critical thoughts, all your in-bound critical remarks drop away as well.

The nearest I’ve found to this is in Christian Larson, “The Ideal Made Real”. (This was his bestseller.) In this, he goes beyond the old Hermetic saying, “As above, so below; as within, so without.” And points out that as you create your internal world, so will reflect the external. And to the degree which you simply keep applying Levenson’t Release techniques, this does occur.

I haven’t ever found anything this effective to date in all the spirituality and self-help famous authors I’ve studied.

I wouldn’t go so far to say that this replaces everything – more that it augments and improves everything it is aligned with.

So your mountain is still there – it is now just easier to climb. And what you find at the top is now up to you.

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