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While it may not always seem this happy, just sticking with the tides of Intuitional Living brings more peace than consternation.

I was all excited (so to speak) about following my bliss with this Intuitional Living stuff and then hit a rant that kept coming up. You see, I thought that this type of lifestyle was simply going to be peaceful and joyous and all that.

Forgot about the baggage we are all carrying around – all those mental habits of thinking all the time for a lifetime. Don’t figure that these will go away overnight.

But the trick and cure with the Sedona Method is to simply look at what is coming up and then release it as it does.

Intuitionally, the best way to get it released is to bring it to the surface.  It’s that old phrase “God’s Will” or “Moving with the Spirit” or some such.

What you get with Intuitional Living is a completely independent and mutually interacting lifestyle. Intuition flows through all of us. We are all interconnected, but not interdependent.  So several people acting on Intuition can show up to help someone in need – same time, same place, all there “accidentally”. Like that “Miracle on the Hudson” – a pilot who had trained his entire life just for that one particular situation. Post-grad degrees and extra studies, etc. All lives saved. Same river a few months later and you see a small plane blind-siding a copter while the supposed air traffic controller was on the phone with someone else.  All lives lost. Same river.

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It came to me this morning (which is why I’m up early blogging) – Government is the Will of the People, but when that Will gets sufficiently strong, there is no longer any need for Government.

On a small scale, I’m checking this out on our farm. We get a few hundred bucks every year because we tell the FSA what crops we put in and they tell us if there is a Loan Deficiency Payment. And in return, we agree not to sell anything directly off that land (like planting sweet corn instead of commodity yellow corn.) Every time you agree with the government for anything, you give something else up.

Now sure, with Katrina, the Coast Guard was doing great plucking people out. But if those people were truly following their Intuition, they wouldn’t have been in trouble, would they? Or they would have been able to rescue themselves. You don’t hear about the people who got out ahead of the storm or simply rode it out and rebuilt their homes without anyone else’s assistance.

All Government (and Mainstream Media) talks about are the few who can’t do anything for themselves. But that’s the wrong approach. Of course they are going to do that – those are people who need government to survive.

But does that give them any right to rip off others, take their money away by duress (what happens if you don’t pay taxes?) – when those people have never educated themselves to deal with life? Instead of running some training programs so people can get out of the poor mental habits which keep them poor – they start Welfare. And everyone else pays while they have children out of wedlock.

OK, this is turning into another deal altogether. Back to the farm. When we looked over the programs we could get into, we found that more and more we were being told we could do this or that and not the other. We were actually being given the choice of giving up our own independence in order to get the “security” and approval of these government people.  (And a little bit of money to sweeten the pot.)

I had a guy out to give me some advice about how to improve drainage on my farm. He said that because these low areas flooded once a year, they were “wetlands” and so I couldn’t do so-and-so with them – that he had to check his books for the statutes. All I wanted to do was to trim some trees so it would get back into it’s normal drainage patterns rather than start new ones.

Not like I’m draining a swamp where extremely rare and exotic wildlife live.

That’s government. Non-intuitional. Very much over-thought.

But is my life improved by getting out of government programs? Sure. Less payroll taxes if you work for yourself or as a contractor. Save up if you want to replace your own Social Security program. Like Insurance – if you have the money to pay directly, you’ll actually save money by not paying all those premiums.

Life insurance is for what – pay off your bills and funeral costs when you are dead, plus leave a little for those you left.  How about setting up what you own as an LLC or corporation and including them as stockholders, and deeding over your controlling stock to them when you are gone? Means no real estate tax if  you set it up right. Have that corporation pay for your funeral.

Taxes, as I’ve often said, just get the stupid rich, not the smart ones. Smart ones don’t “own” anything and so aren’t worth being sued or taxed. (And high taxes on millionaires just makes them move out of state – ask California.)

Government needs you, you don’t need it. Check out TOLFA.us for the theory behind this.  I’m into philosophy and can’t easily be bothered with this stuff (just bothered by it, as you can tell – need to do more releasing…)

There’s an old phrase for dealing with coyotes – the three S’s: Shoot ‘em, Shovel ‘em, and Shut up. I can harvest all the deer I want on my own property if 1) I wanted to hunt them, 2) No one saw me, 3) I didn’t tell anyone. (Plus, I’d have to process my own meat.)  Deer are a runaway nuisance, but you have to get a permit to hunt them. We are their only predators, but are only allowed to hunt them in certain times of the year and only so many at a time.  (Heck, I usually pick up several a year that other hunters throw out on the sides of the back roads because they don’t have enough tickets. Wasted – and smelly.)

The argument against this is like the buffalo – but independent ranchers saved that species, not any amount of government intervention. There are domesticated deer now.  But I’m way off the beat here. (And I’ll have the wacko enviro-extremists camped out here any minute now… “Save Bambi!”)

Look, just live your life the way it makes sense to you. Get rid of all these negative emotions hanging around and quit chasing the thrill-ride adrenaline rushes of the top end as well. Live that normal, calm, peaceful existence you know is within you.

Doesn’t mean you trip to that state will be like floating down a sedate river on a balmy afternoon – sometimes you’ll hit the rapids. But just ride them out, enjoy the trip, don’t freak out. Release all the time.

And you’ll make it.

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Just found this early Lester Levenson tape, on a YouTube video.

He talks about having to move beyond having to get anything out of this world, that people and groups who achieved a great point of bliss – where everything in this world was working just great for them, everything was lined up nicely – that these people soon after had catastrophes happen around them.  And Levenson then cautioned to go right beyond that state, to take the next step.  He pointed out that the world itself is a trap, that your joy and your freedom comes from yourself.

As well, Levenson pointed out that you get your freedom by wanting and helping others to go free. I stumbled onto this earlier when I told people to “pay if forward in advance”. This is actually another one of those very old concepts which has riddled our philosophies and religions right down the line. If you want something, help someone else get it first. Along the way, and the more people you try to help, the faster this appears for you.

When you take the Sedona Method straight out – follow it right out past any limits you think it has – then you find a very, very interesting place. There are no words to describe this, because words fail – they are simply useless. And it’s not a state of being, doing, or having anything. It is probably best described as the most profound peace…

But, again, words fail here. Because there are no superlatives, no descriptions which fit. And when you reach it – even if you only touch it for a moment – you know what I say here.

And that state is beyond being true. It actually makes up truth, or causes or allows truth to appear – take your choice of concepts.

OK, how to get there:

In any area you have your attention on, or pulled to -

Extend beingness into that area, object, or entity.

Release all negative feelings regarding this.

Release all other feelings re: this. (And this includes any ideas of control, security, or approval.)

Release being, doing, or having this.

Release any idea of this.

Release any separation or oneness.

Release any ideas.

Release releasing.

You can see the logic of this. And you can see where this is heading.

Try it yourself on anything in your life.

And there are a lot of benefits from this – but I’ll let you figure these out. Once you get into that point, you’ll see that this goes beyond having power or ability or anything in this universe, because power or ability or anything physical is a limit. And limits define your freedom.

Freedom, actually, is itself a limited concept. But it is way, way beyond anything that any average humankind participant can really get or understand fully – so pushing freedom enables everyone to see a lot more of the world around us, and allows us to begin to become greater than that world and actually end up not have to play that game any longer.

Have fun with this.

Good Hunting!

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How to make your dreams become real – and finish the last steps to world peace.

Your dreams become more real every day. Whatever you think tends to become reality around you. And there’s a reason for this.

Through years of studying things that work, I’ve discovered that there is an underlying system that keeps things working.

And this system is bigger than all of us, yet requires every individual to play their part in order to keep the whole thing running.

What is practical and observable is that we can work with our thoughts to produce the here and now. Every building has to be planned before it can be built. Any big ship is based on the observation of physical laws (like a china bowl can float, but a piece of china can’t float like a piece of wood.) Building big metal ships which can transport goods across water requires a lot of thought – and a lot of action.

You see, the world is what you think it is. As you change your thoughts, you change the world.

The world doesn’t run you – you create your own world.

As many authors point out, what you see around you is what you are constantly creating. There are pure metaphysical applications to this which take us into incredible realms. That one idea can take us far afield. But we are here to discuss solutions, pragmatic and practical solutions to your life and mine.

A problem is, of course, what we consider it to be. There is a field of study into problems which defines them by type. Yet the common solution to these is to take responsiblity for their existence and then they tend to vanish. You simply confront them head on and find the optimal solutions for the resources to hand. Once you do this, you find yourself at peace with what is happening and the changes that need to happen – in your estimation.

And that is the odd and interesting thing about that underlying system mentioned above. It runs on Harmony. It actually has Peace as its goal. That doesn’t mean a boring monochromatic world where everything is the same. Rather this system thrives on diversity. Like any great choir – it is composed of individual voices, all different in their ranges and qualities. But the result is to sing with one voice. And any great choir is capable of singing many, various songs.

While the metaphor is limited, it serves the point that we are all in this together to create a new world, to participate in singing a new song.

For any problem we are facing personally or globally is really just one which we aren’t confronting.

You will find lots of agreement on ideas like everyone having a liveable quality of life. That no one person should hold any individual or group of people hostage. That people should have their own individual and personal right to think whatever they want. And they should have the opportunity to express that thought – to create their life the way they want it. What people object to is when someone considers that they have the right to change others’ thoughts by force.

In that statement above, you’ll see the complete struggle in Politics. Classes of thought striving for control over law-making bodies – so that they can determine how best to forward their particular class of thought.

But the funny punchline is that people in general don’t want government telling them what to do with their lives. Sure, they will do what they have to in order to “get along” with people around them. And there has to be ways in our modern society to get the garbage picked up, and keeping the streets cleaned, and keeping the roads repaired, and keeping all our modern improvements like telephone and Internet running when we want to use them. We all participate in keeping these services running, either by working at repairing these directly, or paying a fee to someone else to do so.

That’s mostly the basis of taxes and government.

My divergence with all these classes of thought is that I know for a fact you can’t require anyone to think any particular way. That no way of thought is “better” than any other. That all classes of thoughts are necessary.

But the best government is the one which interferes with individual lives the least. It facilitates environments where free thought can generate new ideas and new creations. But once you get past keeping the roads open and ensuring that no one is blowing our trade ships out of the water or our airplanes (transporting goods and people) out of the sky, then most people think that government should give them little more and require as few fees as possible.

And Politics is a fascinating study in and of itself. But I’ll leave that to people who study that stuff for a living – or a hobby.

My job is to tell people about this great natural system which makes politics and government and anarchy all possible at the same time.

If you study Nature, you’ll find all the points of the above present – except one: thought. And that is the universal solvent to all of Nature, which people have said “sets humankind apart” from the rest of the species. But does it?

All we have is the capability to examine our own thoughts – or so we think. Practically, there have been a great deal of studies into “Animism” and all sorts of beliefs we use to hold from ages past. What you make of these ideas is entirely what you believe – what you think.

Because if you believe that our species is alone on this one ball of water, dirt, mud, and rock – then that is what you will always find. If you open your mind to the possibility of other life “out there”, then you find ideas of UFO’s and Atlantis all very possible and real. Evidence starts being dropped in your lap to support whatever you believe.

This brings up “The Secret”. Not everyone believes in that that DVD said. And yet, it was really only quoting our own texts from across history. Everything those people said who were in that movie – all these things can be found in much older texts – our Bibles, our ancient legends, all these sources of information just came forward and were produced into a modern version we can all experience. And it was translated into many languages so that many various peoples besides our Western, English-speaking culture could have this data.

I like to point people to an earlier best seller, Earl Nighingale’s “Strangest Secret”. There he points out other authors and historical figures who have stated the same point over and over and over.

That point: “We become what we think about.” All through written history, people have this same concept – and they all agree on it completely. They may not agree on anything else completely, but this they all held in common.

And when you go down that road, you’ll probably see some system build up along these lines. That is, if you’re looking for this system to show up. If you are only looking to get your own team into the play-offs and then win the world title – well that is what is going to happen for you, as long as you take some action to make it happen.

That is the great second part to this: you have to take some action to help your thought take place. That’s the difference between daydreams and what is good-naturedly called “reality”. People think up goals and then work out a plan, and then carry out that plan to achieve those goals.

You can have this big, beautiful world in your mind – and it will stay there. Big, beautiful,
and shining – until you take some steps to make it happen. It may just be writing down your descriptions of all this – most, if not all of our great novels and fantasies stem from this. Or you might tell enough people about it and allow them to co-create your thoughts so that they also create your vision. Our United States developed from that – several ideas from Locke and Smith and others which said that a person could think independently and that we were “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights”, among these being “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

That one concept, of individual freedom to think and act on those thoughts, is what is revolutionizing this world. While not everyone (even in this country) wants the Western culture – they mostly all want to have their own thoughts, to think whatever they want, and to be able to act on those thoughts and make their dreams become reality.

And while we’ve covered a great deal of ground today, what we are really saying is that there is one principle common to all humankind: You can think for yourself, and that thought can create your reality.

Beyond that the idea: If you think and act in terms of harmonious interaction, your world and all the worlds around you will be better places to live in.

From those two points, you can probably work out that all our laws and rules have been working in that direction for eons.

And right now, we are living in a true Golden Age, which can be improved and made more golden and shiny – as we continue to work at it and help others around us to create their dream. Because, if you think about it, some 90% of our planet is working together in peace. We’re almost there. (Just quit listening to what passes for modern News and start observing for yourself and it’s easy to see this.)

Think about it – we’re almost all the way to world peace. Sure, we have some minor conflicts. And we have some rather dense-thinking people in charge of various areas. And yes, there are some weapons around which can make that peace look rather fragile. But lets start talking with each other, in person, by letter or email, by chats and twitter across this planet. Let’s get some agreement on the idea of everyone working together so that individually people can make their dreams come true. Let’s get this idea out that people have a right to live their own lives and not be interfered with – so people can live long, prosperous lives in mutual action with the people around them.

We don’t all want the same thing. And that is what makes this idea possible. Anyone who wants to be a sports star can. Anyone who wants to be elected to a high office can be. Those of us who want to run a small farm successfully can. Not everyone wants to be a Luther Burbank or a George Washington Carver and create all sorts of new possilibities from plants. We each have our own dreams. Some simply want to raise a fine bunch of kids and live a quiet life. Others long to be movie stars, or just build sets for movies to be filmed on.

But the lesson here – we can each live our own dreams and make them into reality. And the more we tell people this, the more we help others achieve their dreams, the more our own dreams can take shape.

That’s the second basic law which is observable and also written throughout history – you can’t get without giving. Or, more positively – help others and that help returns to you from others. Also: spread over many shoulders any burden becomes light.

So that’s my gift to you: share the peace you are living with others so we can spread peace to everyone on this small planet. Help people with their dreams as you work at living your own – and living your own will become easier.

Thank you – and the very best to you.

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