Living Large or Small, This Choice is Yours Alone
While we all chase this, we all endure it, some thrive in it – but it is only this discussion of Life and Death.
Levenson holds that all our desires (insatiable wants and needs) stem from this. It certainly held his interest after the doctor told him he had days, perhaps three months to live.
But Levenson was as some describe, an “alpha” personality – one who was driven and high-energy in their living.
So some excuse this discovery of his to be nothing more than an extension of how hard he had lived his life to that point. When deprived of all his other options, when shown that all the various engineering degrees and studies he had masters, all that information he had acquired – shown that all of this was worth nothing compared to his life being over at age 42 – some would say that he simply took all that energy and turned it within.
Of the various biographies of Lester Levenson, I still consider the most well-written to be found on Larry Crane’s site (I haven’t found a direct navigation to it, but Google gave it to me here.)
The point is that there is no point.
Huna holds that life is a dream, that when we “die”, it is simply waking to a new dream. Levenson often used that description of life and death. Your dreams are real and you live in them.
My background in Scientology also steeped me in the ideas of past lives. While these are true for some, they are un-provable to others. (Unfortunately, I found that those beliefs and their “auditing” also opened up the idea of being able to live simultaneous lives – so caveat emptor. As well, you are able to go into “past track” into earlier universes, but what happens if you “jump” into a universe which has a different concept of time, or isn’t based on time – or if you go so far backtrack that time doesn’t exist as it hasn’t been “mocked up” yet?)
All philosophies, all belief systems have holes.
None are sacrosanct - not even what you are reading.
Because progress is personal and singular. What two people want are never identical, even in twins.
What turns one’s person crank can turn the next person right off.
Life and death can be said to be part of the same coin. (One with no edge, metaphysically speaking.)
You can hold this coin in your pocket, or the palm of your hand, or skip it across the pond, or spend it at a bar. You still have it back and, like a bad penny, keeps showing up.
Death is just a different form of Life. Pretty final, perhaps. But on the other hand, you see people “dying” for years – some jobs are called a “slow death”. And people can revive from near death (like Levenson did) and live as long after as they did before.
The deal is this: you get out of life what you put in. Live for yourself alone and you get yourself alone. Live for others and you find that your own life improves to that degree.
But regardless, there is a way to live peacefully – and this depends on your learning to deal with death as a non-event. And derive your peace in living from the quality of life you find around you.
For me, this has come directly by releasing, more than anything else I’ve tried. Even now, the various guru presentations and “life coaches” I read up on – there is a calmness which pervades everything I study. And while I pick up new tricks, I see nothing revolutionary or basic compared to what I’ve already found.
And I could have died at age 21 when I contracted cancer. But I decided I had more to do and the cancer healed. It wasn’t the many surgeries or treatments which I endured – it was my own decision to persevere.
Now I have it all. Anything I want I can now demonstrate in my life. These next few months will simply be tests of this, more that I’ll be refining these techniques so that I can teach others (or at least blog about it).
For I could sleep tonight and not wake up. Or next week, next month, or a hundred years from now.
This is not your life. Your mileage may and will vary. But try it for yourself. See if you don’t like what you find.
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