Kala Speaks

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David Kala Ka La - MasterWorks International 2006

A series of Articles from Kala Ka LaKahuna of the Huna Mua Tradition and author of the

book

The Way of The Flamekeeper

MasterWorks International


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INDEX

AlohaThe Beauty of Small ThingsCentreYour SignificanceYour inviolate selfDreams and IllusionsMore dreams and IllusionsThe Roots of BeliefA Possible TruthOnly Ask if You are Prepared for the AnswerThe Warrior WayAn Essential PracticeReleaseTransformation and Huna MuaJudgement and CriticismIn Difficult Times

Not ActionMeditationYour bodyDeathInto the labyrinth

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All articles are copyright David Kala Ka La 2006

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ALOHA

ALOHA - perhaps one of the most well known of all Hawaiian greetings. What do you think itmeans? Most people would think of 'hello', 'greetings' or some similar sentiment. They would becorrect. However it also means goodbye, affection, joy, sympathy, kindness, grace, compassionand behind all these - around, within and without - is above all one expression, that of LOVE.

In the world today the word LOVE has become corrupted, sentimentalised, cheapened, almostexhausted because it is used so randomly and without thought, so much so that when it is usedwith power and integrity it is often dismissed and ignored.LOVE is all!

LOVE, once properly acknowledged and understood, is the greatest force for change in theuniverse. It is never restricting or uses its power over others, it always opens the doors to awider universe. LOVE is not some insipid sentimentalised nonsense, it is also not the soleattribute of the religious, in whom its power and sincerity is so often sadly lacking. In fact it isthe ultimate power of transformation.Many truly spiritual teachings, which have now become sleep inducing religions and far distantfrom their sparkling beginnings, actually began in, and with, the incandescent transformative

power of LOVE at the core of their teaching.

LOVE does not just transform others, their circumstances and thoughts, but most importantly itis the true powerhouse for the transformation of yourself. Use the spirit of ALOHA for yourselfas well as for those with whom you come into contact.

Not only is ALOHA the genuine welcoming acceptance of another, the acceptance, face on andopen LOVE of your fellow humans without deception or deceit but it is the true power ofacceptance and open LOVE of yourself. For there is absolute truth in the saying that to trulyLOVE another you must LOVE yourself first. Remember that within yourself are the secrets ofthe universe, and that by loving oneself the universe itself is consciously acknowledged,appreciated and imbued.

LOVE is the power of connection, transformation, excitation and the meaning of life itself.LOVE is manifestation and creativity. It is the battle cry of the warrior heart. It is the power ofyour very own soul.So, ALOHA to you all.


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THE BEAUTY OF SMALL THINGS Lets face it, by far the vast majority of our time is spent in mundane, boring, life demoralisingtasks, which usually if reflected upon, only lead to that dreaded feeling of dissociation from thegreat stream of sparkling consciousness that enlivens the universe. It is as if we sat in somedistant and long forgotten cave, far away from the breathing centre of creation. It is dull but notdead, alive but demoralised, and can lead you to believe that you are ignored perhaps even tosuper inflate the ego to seek the attention you feel you are not receiving.

Isnt it funny how we all carry images of how our well-evolved spirits will be greeted by theuniverse. Somehow that last shred of self aggrandisement and importance occupies itself withthe thought that we cannot possibly be overlooked by whatever it is that places the signposts onthe path for us; the reward must come soon and then everything will be magical, just like thelives of those who write the many books we read to fill up our ordinary lives. How is it that weare ignored? It must be because we are not living the life we should, that we are not goodenough, that we are not important enough, we must do more work.

But then we become panicked with the thought that we havent enough spare time to do thework, to concentrate, to adapt, to learn, to integrate. If only we didnt have to work in mundane

jobs; why werent we born into a culture that supported our endeavours; why havent we enoughmoney to support ourselves; why arent magical and fantastic beings hovering over our headswith instructions to guide and support our journey?

But, as Im sure you know, this is not how the path really is. It is an inch by inch walk into themagnificent manifestation of the truth of your creation, surprisingly facilitated by these small,seemingly insignificant irritations of life, but only if you use them correctly. Do you reallyexpect that the whole of the rest of your life will be spent healing magnificently, inspiring with

well chosen words, altering consciousness, manifesting your absolute certain magnificence, andthat everyday will be like that when you finally enter the supreme state? Let us get back to thenitty gritty of our everyday lives and the pursuit of the evolution of us as human beings, let uscontrol our fantasies just a little bit.

So how to begin? Well, of course, each of our lives, no matter how very important our positionor our status, is filled to the brim with ordinary, everyday acts. What are you actually doing withyour consciousness during these ordinary acts? Are you aware whilst you brush your amazingteeth in the morning, or is it an absent-minded act, born out of necessity not respect. Are youaware of your body at all as you rise from a chair, walk to work, sit at your workstation? Isthere somewhere, small but still alight, which is conscious of the wind, and the clouds, of the

earth, the massive fire radiance of the sun, the plants, all those secret and never to be discoveredasteroids and comets flying just around our galaxy? Can you be conscious of these whilstsitting at your desk? Can you keep in mind the massive and the small at the same time? Whilstyou stand at the photocopier are you absentmindedly looking into space or becoming aware ofyour posture, of how you are holding your neck and head, how firmly your feet are planted ontothe earth? Are you aware of the different trance states you move in and out of all the time? Isthere some conscious decision making about how you express your self when it comes toarguments and points you might want to make to your work colleagues? How true are you to


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that unique and sparkling song that is your very own? Can you sing it simply sitting there,without a word? How many times during a day do you lose awareness of any or all of this?Am I being obsessive? Do you think for one minute that your ultimate integration only dependson the 20 minutes each day you spend meditating? In the world we live in today it is a verydifficult task to live as we should do, and we have to take the teachings that would naturally

have been taught to us pathwalkers in forests and mountains into the city, into our daily ritual atthe office, the workplace, the bank, and the shops from which we buy our food. It is very, veryhard to do this. And if anyone tells you different then they are not true pathwalkers. It is reallyhard work. But it is with these seemingly small and insignificant aspects of life that we can

practice, practice and practice and set our knowledge into reality. All the time we haveavailable to us the hard practical lessons of life to which our knowledge, if at all viable andrelevant, must be applied. If it cannot be applied here, then it is irrelevant to your continuedgrowth.

Make no mistake about it, being a pathwalker involves a daily and perpetual struggle againstsleep. You are in the midst of a battle between consciousness and unconsciousness, between

those who would have humans stay as they are and those who wish humans to own and manifestour true magnificent potential. You are in the midst of that battle. You are a foot soldier, rightin the thick of it. Maybe you always will be, but that is absolutely irrelevant. Your part issignificant, even if no one else notices or acknowledges it. But if you want to stop yourselfgoing to sleep and forgetting the battle, the possibilities that are available, the evolution, thegrowth, the consciousness, then you must try your best to practice with, and in, the everyday. Itcontains and encourages a secret strength, rather as a musicians daily practice refines and co-ordinates aspects of his/her physical being, which are undeveloped in other people, until theyare second nature.

This is the beauty of the small things in your life. They are the arenas within which you can test

out your skills, your consciousness, and they will all too readily point out where more attentionand practice is required. However, they can also become the strong roots that support theimmortal tree. They are the raindrops that create the rainbow. They are the mirror that trulyreflects the state of your consciousness. Use them for the benefit of your development, ratherthan feeling demoralised and defeated by their ordinariness. In this way your onward evolutioncan continue apace and you are in no way disadvantaged. Press on.


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CENTRE

At the centre of each and every human is an incandescent centre of radiating joy. Its lightcannot often be seen because the clouds of everyday life obscure this sun. Its source is infinitelydistant, yet closer than your breath; yet for all of this often cold and deathly life we lead it is just

behind it, so close and yet so very far. A cold life because this joy does not warm and percolateinto the everyday, and deathlike because we forget the part of us that is ageless, timeless andlimitless.

So, is this joy the same as love? Actually this is my experience, this joy, you may call it love, orlight, or perhaps it is limited by such names. It is as if something had instantly removed allconstraints that are imposed by the everyday world and the light with which we are created hadshone forth. As on a rainy day, after the dark and rain heavy clouds had suddenly cleared, it isthe shaft of sunlight that reflects and re-reflects on the washed clean and clear surfaces of theworld. It is like that. The light within the sparkles.

And at that time it just sits there, this whole/hole in the fabric of my being; it sits there radiatingout joy, joyfulness; life. Just like the sun at the centre of our solar system makes all things

possible, but is not in any way concerned with anything other than the actual life of being, so isthis joy. It is the essence of, and the radiation of, aliveness.

Sometimes, when this opening appears it is quite possible to feel it being overcast from mylimbs, inwards: as if something dark and damp repulsed it, something opposite and opposed.Yet it can re-appear and re-occupy the same places by awareness. By allowing that radiance tosimply be, to occupy it, to become inside it, to slip into that whole hot light and stand there,there is still one, still me and yet so much more. It is the actualisation of our real inheritance.Without the stupefying and stupid life deadening rules and constraints we are born into there is

just this: joy.

This joy is different, it is so different from what you expect, that it is a shock to realise itsdifference. And it is a shock to think about how long you thought you knew what it was.Perhaps because it is immediately real and solid, not a nebulous thing, not ephemeral, notsomething that you can be unsure about, or misinterpret, not something to be searched for andwonder if it is found. It is the sun at the centre of our being. It is like the real touch of a realhuman on your real skin after years of loneliness of putting up with superficial relationshipsand sex, of all the superfluous connections, the meaningless of it and then those eyes, that touch,that love and inside that love is joy. There is this absolute and definite appearance that is soinspiringly new; and yet at the same time there is sadness that it should be so new.

Carry on walking your path under each footstep is joy, joy and joy. So dont force it and dontworry, it is there and you are walking within it at every conscious step. If it appears it will not

be your ever-conscious companion, although it is here, all the time: life will get in the way.That is fine, that is nothing to fret about. Whether you are conscious of it or not, whether youhave gone years without experiencing it or not, it is still here. This sun at the centre of your

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an unexpected gift: one that wasnt asked for, but one that you never knew you couldnt dowithout. Like the gift of your breath, or the gift of your heartbeat, day after day their rhythmkeeps you alive, yet this joy is what is behind them both. Behind all of it.

Imagine you had thrown off all inhibitions, both self imposed and imposed from the outside.

Imagine you could fly in a sea of sparkling energy. Imagine you had no borders. That therewas no constraint on being who you actually are. Imagine that every direction was available toyou. Imagine that. The only thing left is radiating joy.

But joy is my name for it, what is yours?


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YOUR SIGNIFICANCE

It may be that for many of you the task ahead seems almost insurmountable. To be a pathwalker, walking the way, is the hardest task one can undertake. Added to this there is usually theconcomitant endeavour to improve the world. To leave this world a better place than it was

before we decided to seek for true self knowledge and share our discoveries with the world; wewant to make a difference. And, because we also have this idea of the size of the changes wehope to bring to bear on the world, the task can seem far too much for one human to bear.

You see, we can give up for the simple reason that we have misunderstood what is required ofus during our daily life. It may be that for a minority of the total population of the earth there isa daunting task ahead on their path but for the vast majority of us the task is not so grand,however it may well have just as much, if not more, impact. It is the small acts during theeveryday that amount to something far more than the parts. The little kindness, the genuineconcern and feeling, stopping work for a few minutes to share time with someone, helpingsomeone across the road when the traffic is roaring by. There are numerous ways to show our

humanity during our day to day existence. I am not advocating looking for opportunities to begood. No, definitely not. What I am describing is the events that happen during the normal lifeof any of us. If, and only if, the opportunity arises to help or assist, (to be human!) then do itwith good grace. Sometimes this is not so easy, in front of us we see the huge task of saving theworld and here someone is asking for our oh so precious time for an insignificant act, howcould they not realise we have far more important things to occupy ourselves with. Dont forgetin your headlong rush to save the world that you are a humble human being and, whether youlike it or not, belong to this amazing creative impulse which can literally change the world. Byhelping another across the road we help the world across. By listening to another who needs totalk, to be recognised or acknowledged, we acknowledge the whole world. The small thank youcard fills the world with thanks, and the acknowledgement of love for even one other person on

this earth adds to the sum total of love in the world. Your acts are absolutely significant. Asummer storm that clears the air is nothing more than a collection of individual raindrops. Eachgrain of sand contributes to the paradise beach. Each plant contributes to the oxygen of theworld that we all need to breath. Each of the planets holds the earth in place. A forest consists ofindividual trees. The year contains the seasons, which in themselves consist of individualmonths, weeks, days, hours, minutes. Do you see? The pattern is produced by individual lines,dots, dashes and waves. And if we have enough perspective it is not difficult to see that yourlittle contribution is as it should be. You are not asked to do it by yourself, you are simply askedto be part of the movement towards love and light which with just one more act, one morecontribution, could tip the scales to its opposite, the world that all of you reading this articlewould prefer.

So, you see, you do make a difference. Your simple beautiful acts do count. One of the truths ofthis life is that we rarely if ever understand or have knowledge of the full importance orramifications of our actions in the world. Imagine that human life, is a massive complexmachine where the end result is the progression of the human race, the future. Imagine that eachhuman is a cog in that machine, you are an individual cog. Now do you see how important youare. The smallest, seemingly most insignificant acts can have profound ramifications andrepercussions. Tinged with love, all acts glow. Add all this light together and a sun is formed.And of course the sun lights the world.


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YOUR INVIOLATE SELF

Inside, there is a definite and real place where we do not have a need to forgive. No need toforget or heal, no need to rescue or be rescued. Inside every one of us. It is not damaged byinsulting and derogatory comments. There is no injury sustained by betrayal and it is notfragmented by shock. It is a place where these petty human concerns havent the remotestresonance. Rather as if a grain of salt were to hit a mountain: the mountain would hardlyregister the impact, let alone be affected by it. It simply is.

So what would be the point of suggesting searching for this treasure, of encouraging it, what isthe point of identifying it at all?

When you have fed this place with your attention there will arise a certain resilience to theslings and arrows that will assail you. This does not mean that you will never shed tears again,that you will not fret or become depressed: you will feel all that humans can feel. It isnt thatyou rise above being human - why would you want to do that - it is simply that you will becomemore human, more real and more whole.

It is important not to confuse your search. It will be easy to find the ego version of this aspectof your being but it is nothing to do with this. It has nothing to do with self aggrandisement,with appearing a particular way. That is not what will be your primary concern your externalappearance or how others are affected it will be a very simple certainty. At first it is as if youhad caught a fleeting glimpse of a mystical creature and then it had disappeared without trace.Then, maybe a long while in the future, out of the blue another sighting will take place, but thistime it will awaken that long forgotten memory and re-infuse it. Again and again you willremember until there comes a time when the real substance of you overpowers that part whichalready knows that it will itself begin to shrink in importance if you pay attention to this magical

creature. It is afraid of losing its influence.

I must emphasis that your human qualities will be just as human. Put simply it is their residencein your being that will become temporary. More and more and this will take many years tomanifest properly your upsets, depression, your bitterness and jealousy, your pain andresentment will begin to clear naturally, just as the sky moves freely between the rain storm andthe blue sky.

Gradually there comes into being an aspect of yourself which cannot be injured and indeed istotally unconcerned with such ordinary issues. Simply put, it will be the radiance of your truenature in all its completeness and that radiance is not in the least interested in daily affairs

which, in truth, are only concerns whilst we live physically on the earth. Think for a minutehow much of your daily activity is truly part of your beingness and is not just activity which wehave to do to be part of the society we have created. Much of what we regard as important is soonly with respect to our society, not the great and awesome reality that is the real: that fromwhich we arose and to which we will return, whether whole or fragmented.

This can only be experienced and it would be particularly impossible to manifest permanentlywithout years of attention. However the experience is important to your development, to your


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pathwalking, for it gives a glimpse of a human being without pettiness and small concerns,without the fear of abandonment or derogatory action or comment. There is an inner resilienceto the sometimes awful and thoughtless actions of others during your life. As I have alreadystated you will still feel hurt and upset during your life, just as you would expect, but you will

be utterly and confidently aware of your inviolate, immutable self.

And why would a man or woman really search for this magical human within? Simply put, it is proof of the magnificent being that each one of us really is. Not in competition with others,simply as a single and unique manifestation of creation. You, no matter how well it is hidden,have this aspect of yourself within.

So, next time you are hurt, offended, belittled, angry, spited, diminished in the view of yourselfor others, look for the eyes of that aspect of yourself that shines as it always has done, thatsmiles peacefully, that cannot be hurt in any way and is passionately radiating beingness.Suddenly there will be a choice.

Ignore what I have said or not, but you cannot pretend that you havent been alerted to, andinformed of, its existence.


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DREAMS AND ILLUSIONS

At some point during the early years of your walk you will have tried to obtain information frommany sources. It is highly likely that you read many many books on the various aspects of

pathwalking, though all were connected in that they seemed to have some information that youthought may be of benefit to help you to struggle out of the shell of your sleep.

Not many of us have had the opportunity to talk with someone who is a true pathwalker, and practically all of us began to get some idea of how someone who was on the spiritual pathwould behave and think - how they would appear to us - from these books.

It is an interesting exercise to imagine yourself as an evolved and integrated human being,further along the path than you are now and embodying to a larger extent your true nature. Iknow you have wondered about this, it is absolutely usual and human to do so. Bring that imageto the fore now and look at it with honest eyes. How are you acting, what are you doing in yourlife, where are you living; what are you thinking?

Now look at that image again and imagine that the appearance of your external self is none otherthan the external image that you have now. Maybe your job, your relationships, your actions, islittle changed and the only difference is internal, invisible to those that do not have eyes to see.

What I am trying to point out is that we each have erroneous ideas about how the 'spiritual'appear. It is so important to rid oneself of these false images because it is quite possible that youare chasing after an impression of yourself that will never exist and actually has nothing to dowith you as an evolved and integrated human being. We have to rid ourselves of the idea ofholiness, religiousness and saintliness: allow them to exist for others, but you must find yourown way to manifest your birthing integrity and to integrate it into the real world that we all live

in.

Are you trying to be another Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao Tsu, perhaps a powerful wizard,or witch? Or else someone that others can't help but be impressed by. Or have you anotherimage in mind? Whoever it is, you can of course allow their teachings and life to inspire you, ifthat is what you wish. It would be arrogant not to acknowledge their impact on the world welive in today. And they all had something to say about the human condition. But I think youshould simply try to be yourself: maybe you will be ignored by the rest of the world, maybe noone will ever acknowledge how much hard work and endurance it has taken for you to integrateyourself. Imagine that it will never be known, other than by the immortals. How would thisevolved you appear now?

Of course, it could be very different from this. I am simply saying that any precondition youhave about your evolved self may well be stifling your very real development. After all, we arenot the only humans evolving. Out there, a few independent people are trying their very best tointegrate themselves and to manifest their humanness. From my point of view, they haven't theluck to have encountered Huna Mua, and to have a very real explanation for the various stagesof their development. However, it doesn't stop the fact that they are evolving human beings onthe spiritual path. You could encounter them anytime in your daily life: walking, sitting on the


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bus or train, when shopping, in the office or your place of work. But they wouldn't appear to beany different from every other human being out there. Perhaps subtle differences would beevident for you who are developing the eyes to see, but for others they may be invisible, or evenattract derision and negative comments.

That could be you: invisible, never seen for the human being that you are, or as one of thosetrying to manifest their potential. So where is the difference? Nowhere but inside us. Inside us iswhere our reaction to the outside world originates and is formed. Inside us our thoughts andfeelings are born. Inside us is the perception of our consciousness, that most precious attribute:the equipment without which we could not even begin our walk.

And more important than all this is that small quiet room in which you have ignited the flame.Whatever its size, whatever its luminosity, whatever its heat, it is in existence. What your

birthing integrity must first do is to protect and nurture the flame's existence, its life. Feeding itas often as you are capable will enable it to grow, to take up permanent residence in yourconsciousness and your life.

I want you to imagine that the light from the very flame that you are feeding and protecting atthe moment will at sometime begin to shine through your eyes, permeate your actions, andilluminate your words. Its heat will begin to incinerate those aspects of your self that are nottrue. Once this process begins then the flame will never go out, although life will occasionallydrive it back into that small protected room until it is encouraged once again to engulf your

being. Do not be afraid if this happens: it will retreat until your life, once again, becomes fertilefor its growth.

What I am talking about is the real spiritual path. Now, how that manifests in your life will be amystery that you cannot foresee. Most likely it will be invisible to all but those who themselvesare awakening. I cannot possibly predict its effects on your life. However, I can promise youthat you will know you are changed, that you are no longer asleep and have awoken to an aspectof human consciousness that is available to all who wish to evolve. Rid yourself of your

preconceived ideas about you as an evolved human being and allow the real human being tomanifest. It is the surprise of this new and unsuspected self that will be one of the mostenjoyable aspects of your journey. It will be unique and will never have been seen before.

Surely, that is the point?


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MORE DREAMS AND ILLUSIONS

In a previous article you will have read my comments about the dreams and illusions that can pollute the image you have about your own evolved self. There is one other arena in which all pathwalkers can be subject to such illusions that of beliefs and concerns about the naturalworld and our place in it.

It seems to me that it is incredibly important for us to fully appreciate, to comprehend andrealise the kind of physical universe we live in and to eradicate any dreams and illusions wemay have about it.

The earth is a finite and enclosed system as far as anything living here is concerned. It is also a predatory one. Even though you are evolving as a human being you are not immune to thevicissitudes of daily life. You cannot rely on your shining spirit to protect you from theimminent car crash, from the loss of employment, from violence at the hands of another. Allthese can be mitigated against by your blossoming integrity, however you are still subject totheir attentions, just as any other human being would be. What I am drawing your attention to isthe importance of eradicating from yourself the feeling that just because you are evolving youwill naturally be supported and protected by the life on this earth or that you can rely on - orwarrant - protection from the evolved beings who surround us. You will not. Death breathsdown your neck just as much as it does the next man or woman.

Even at your origin there was death. Remember that your very body was born at the same timeas thousands of sperm cells were dying. The tree produces thousands of seeds yet only one ortwo will grow to maturity. At this very moment bacteria and viruses are being ruthlessly killedas your body protects itself on your behalf. Innocents die everyday for lack of food or shelterwith absolutely no justification. All around us there is the magnificence and awfulness of life.

When viewed from our very human perspective the world can be an extremely cruel andheartless place. One only has to watch any nature film to see the young fawn eaten by the lion,watch the hyenas drag down and eat alive another animal. Severe weather can kill many formsof life without a second thought. I am only bringing this to your attention because it is so easyfrom some of the writings of enlightened individuals to suppose that the earth is a magnificentand benevolent planet on which to live. Certainly, each is offered equally the conditions of lifeon earth. The sun and wind and rain make no distinction between the saint or sinner. But to thediscerning human mind it is not a great leap in understanding to see, from our perspective, howunfair this can prove. This unfairness will also apply to you, whether you are evolving or not.

Do not rely on others to protect you from the inevitable difficulties that life brings. You must

take it upon yourself to protect and nurture the flame within: the very flame that embodieseverything that you have come to know as the light and love of your creation. The body thatholds that fire is yours to support in a way you see fit; but support it you must. Protect it youmust. Acknowledge it you must. And you must also acknowledge its vulnerability and fragility.I do not wish to unduly alarm you with these thoughts, simply to alert you to the fact that if youare asleep to the real nature of life on earth, you could find yourself in difficulties because of anillusory idea about the good being protected and supported and only the bad being injured and


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defeated. This is clearly not the case. Look around you with clear eyes, not with eyes coloured by anothers thoughts no matter how authoritative their words seem.

Look at physical reality as it really is, not how you wish it to be. There were millions of beautiful sunrises and sunsets before eyes of any kind could see them. Thousands of plants and

animals have lived and died that humans have never seen. Mass and terrible extinctions havealready taken place on this amazing earth and there is no reason to think that this could not bethe case again.

Let me leave you with this thought: that when you truly realise the nature of physical reality, oflife on this earth and in this universe, the fact that humans evolved at all is absolutely andmysteriously magnificent; that the awfulness and staggering beauty of this planet is beyond allart and words. Mysteriously, whether you are a spiritually aware being or not, it brings uscloser to the awe that should really be at the heart of all humans when confronted by this

perplexing, staggering, beautiful, terrible, glittering jewel that we call earth. The fact that weare here at all is enough reason for you to investigate and fulfil your unique human potential.

You are so lucky to have the chance to live and experience this magnificence. And all thiscould so easily be taken away from you by something that has no idea you are on the path orsomething that does.

Take care of yourself; keep alert. You have no idea how rare and precious the flame you arecultivating within really is.


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THE ROOTS OF BELIEF

There is a fundamental aspect of your nature which must be constantly addressed if yourevolution is not to be unnecessarily corrupted: the clarification of the origins of your beliefs andopinions.

That sentence has major implications and consequences: what I am trying to shed light on isthat you need to have a very clear perception of the reasons for your opinions and beliefs as theydetermine your behaviour during your life on earth. Fundamentally you need to constantlysearch out the real motivation behind your actions. In essence I am asking you this question: doyour actions arise from your true, integrated self, or is there, even in the smallest part, the ideaof consequences, retribution and/or praise from the creator, from those you may call the Gods orGod, for your actions?

On an obvious level you should be able to identify any contamination in the substance of those beliefs or opinions but it is not such an easy task to look deeply into the roots of your behaviouras they are naturally buried deep in the beginnings of thought. As the root system of a tree ishidden to view, so are many of the impulses manifesting as beliefs and opinions that drive your

behaviour.

How early did it all begin? No matter how you were bought up by your parents or guardians -no matter how freely - there were of course influences from your society, culture and the mediathat surround us. So what I am asking is how certain are you of your motives for acting in theway that you do?

How sure are you that your generosity, kindness, loving; your compassion, your charity, are notmotivated by the ideas of reward, of correct behaviour for the spiritual aspirant, of karma;

because your God or the laws of nature reward and/or punish you for behaving in such a way?Likewise, is the reason you dont show anger, resentment, lust, jealousy, bitterness or hate,

because you fear the continuing gaze of the all that is? How much do you pretend not to have orhave these qualities because the eye is on you, an eye that sees everything, every thought, everyaction? Do you even pretend not to have or have these qualities to the outside world, even toyour fellow men and women.

Or, do you acknowledge them? Do you see them arise and watch them? Do you shine the lightof the best aspects of yourself onto the reality of your mind, not how you believe it to be? Doyou endeavour to clarify your opinions and beliefs with your clear light?Or is it your ego that cant take the fact that you need to change, that you are not as pure, clearand bright as you would like to think you are? A strong ego is good, not bad, but only if it is

based on the template of your soul.

When you express an opinion or belief it must come from the deep pool of your being, not fromthe shallows. It is so easy to express an opinion and yet not so easy to create one; likewise a

belief can take a minute to hear, but many years before you are able to express in words whatyou have learned from your own self. It is this underground work - just as a seeds activity isinvisible - that makes the flower so beautiful. But the work must be real, not the stolen phrases


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and sayings, the pilfered admonishments and criticisms of others, no matter from where they aresupposed to have been originally uttered. They must arise from the depths of your very own

being. Your direct input and experience is paramount in becoming whole and integrated. For,in the depths of your own being is the gateway to universal experience - but it has to be opened

by oneself alone, only by your own hand can the door handle be turned. Then you will have

access to simple yet profound universal truths, and in that light is the consciousness that wasmeant to infuse your being; your mental being included.

This is why, when true beliefs are expressed - ones that arise from the depths of the universe - itis hard to resist the consciousness they are infused with. They have real consciousness, theyhave mana. But, even if this is the case, you must still search for the place inside whichresonated with those truths. Spiritual growth is always a case of re-inventing the wheel. Nowhere else in life is it so true, no where else does it apply so clearly - every one of us has toadvance through our own efforts, listening and even following anothers teaching can only helpus if we integrate them into our own being, and only then if those truths are real. In this wayyou will never blame another for the consequences of what you have spoken. Justify each one

of your beliefs and opinions with thorough and convincing arguments from the reality of yourown experience and your life, never with what has been told to you. Even if blasted with afirestorm until you flesh drops from your bones you will stand resolute in the knowledge thatyou were true to your own self, to that self which the creator gave to you as a gift.

Accept no other truth than that which you find at the foundations of your own beingness. Youmust ruthlessly uproot the weeds and enticing but illusory plants and flowers that have taken uphome in the garden of your mind: they threaten to stifle and obscure from view the real andmagnificent oak that is at this very moment struggling to establish itself in your mental world;resonating with the great tree of life from which everything arises.

Only in this way will you develop enough internal power,enough strength of character and inner conviction to enable youto survive the arduous life of the true path walker, the trueflamekeeper.


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A POSSIBLE TRUTH?

Let me propose a scenario..

There is a parent. Through will and desire children are born. The children grow and leavehome, they can cope by themselves without any assistance, thank you very much. They moveaway and communicate infrequently. The parent gets on with his/her life as well. Soon enoughthere is less and less communication and the parties separate. The parent sits at home, thechildren build a world for themselves and exist quite happily, becoming more and moreentangled with their lives, their loves, their careers, their fun and enjoyment. In fact, even if the

parent visits then he/she will find that they have very little influence: what could you possiblyknow about my circumstances, what help are you to me, so are you going to bail me out?And, in fact, the parent can look at the children and find it very difficult to find anything incommon with the life they have made for themselves their concerns are different, their desires;in fact it is as if they lived in their own separate worlds. Even if the parent tries to give advicethe children just will not listen. The parent and children communicate less and less until they

both get on with their lives totally separately. They do not relate. In fact the parent recognisesvery little of the world his/her children have created. Why would they even want to live in suchand such a way - leading to the well known response I dont understand you, I dont evenunderstand your life anymore, when the obvious possibilities hadnt manifested as they wereexpected to possibilities that the parent had provided for in the first place.

What do you think of this scenario? In one view of this universe you could replace parentwith creator, and the dimensions are the worlds created for us by the creator. Until a certain

point there was direct communication between the creator(s) and this physical world. However,out of the physical world sprang the mental world, provision for which was made, but in whichwe were never supposed to live. The creator has no influence in the mental world because the

vast majority of its thought forms are man made, they are absolutely nothing to do with anyoriginal set-up. These thought forms then have a life of their own and can only be related to,altered or changed by the physical beings who made them. It is, if you like, a whole new branchof the tree that has been grafted on to the original. Just as grafts in the plant world can actually

be mistakes the graft outgrowing the rest of the original plant so too could you view themental world as just such a creation: it has become this monstrous, out of control animal with avoracious appetite and an even more seductive appearance. The physical and mental worlds arefundamentally so well structured now that even if the creator wanted to change anything withoutdestroying it absolutely it couldnt we are metaphorically too far away. It has become toosolid and impervious to interference.

We are so far away now that only those who choose of their own will to try to communicateagain are going to facilitate any change. Thus, only by a child, or children, re-establishingcommunication with the realm of spirit (or, of course soul) are they able to re-introduce thoughtforms into the mental world that are actually in harmony with impulses from the creative forcesof the universe, or to change those that exist to a more congruent form. Rather as we try, in ourown personal journey, to facilitate the integration of our three bodies to a congruent andintegrated whole, so too will the mental dimension need to be bought in to line with the soul and

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this it is possible to see that the creator might not be able to effect change in this physical worldat all any more, and that the only way for change to take place is through humans who decide tore-establish links to the gods and to the creator via their soul body or their immortal spirit body.In other words it is up to us!

By humans in this physical dimension creating thought forms in the mental world congruentwith the consciousness of the gods, and then again those thought forms beginning to exert pressure or force on other thought forms will the physical world change, or rather the manner ofour society and civilisations change to be more in line with the soul impulse, which of itself hasa connection to the creator via the transpersonal gateway.Maybe we have now moved too far away from the original creative impulse; maybe the worldtruly is our own; maybe this really is a free-will universe, literally. Then no matter what yourview point it is up to us anyway.

Why are we talking about this? Just to keep you aware of the way that things may be. That thismay be one of the reasons why there seems to be so little intervention in the world from the

creator, or even the gods. That may be why sometimes we feel so alone and that the path seemsso difficult we are not just struggling to deal with our own personal integration, but the wholeweight of thought forms that continually pressure us to conform, to tell us that we are wrong.Perhaps it also explains why the world seems so absolutely unrelated to what we feel it should

be. As pathwalkers perhaps we are seeking to re-establish communication; to re-create strongand durable thought forms (by our own personal integration) and for this to influence the mentalworld and hence the world at large. Not in the sense of evangelism, to narrow the humanexperience, but real alignment of the self with creative intention. Rather than an exclusive andsmall-minded view, an inclusive and expansive view of human potential.

Perhaps it is absolutely up to us. The only way that gods can have a real effect in this world is

through us. Hence the reason for ritual, for communing with nature, for the perfection of theintegration between mind, body and soul. In this way you are not a cowering servant, the godswould not use you like that remember they were and are human you are acting as amouthpiece for their very simple message, most of which you already know anyway! However,real immortal beings who have decided to stay around the earth (though I believe there arentthat many) are trying their best to help those interested with their evolution to align themselveswith a direction that has little to do with the current forces holding and moving our society. Doyou realise how different that could be? Maybe thats why real spiritual truths are so verydifferent from what we expect. Maybe that is why we are occasionally really disappointed withthe truths that we cant ignore, when we have that innate feeling that we cannot be any clearer

because there are no clouds obliterating our vision of that particular area of the sky and yet we

are not very happy with what we see.However, whether we like it or not, maybe this is the truth and if this is the case it makes it evenmore imperative for you to proceed onward for everyones sake.


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ONLY ASK IF YOU ARE PREPAREDFOR THE ANSWER

Grey overhead, clouds, already early afternoon the weather was unlikely to change from this

dull, cold, day. He walked quickly along the street with his coat pulled around him and hishands plunged deep into the pockets. The bus had dropped him off a few streets away, he knewthe house was somewhere near here. Then he stopped, 201, that was the number he had beengiven. The man with the wisdom lived here, the knowledge of such being confined to those menand women interested in acquiring information on subjects less material, about the moreintangible and thoughtful ways of the earth. This is why he had come.

He knocked on the door. After a short time a middle-aged lady answer. She asked him his nameand then beckoned him inside. The man noticed that she looked rather plain, disinterested in

preening herself to suit the tastes of others. He approved of this.

A cold day, he said, trying to the friendly,Yes it's certainly is. Now wait here a minute.

Her response was a little impersonal, like that of someone who had known many like himself.She answered in the way that people who are accustomed to helping others always seemed todo; polite, knowledgeable, but perhaps tired of a life lived such as this, preserving, inside, a littlelove for themselves.

The hall was like that of many a small house, leading off were the living room and the frontroom and the stairs lead upwards to what he presumed was a bath and bedrooms.She knocked on the back room door, looked inside, then asked him to follow her. The room wasin darkness. Thick curtains had been pullled across the windows and, but for the light shiningfrom a single candle placed near the door, the air would have been pitch black.It was cold in here to. He could just about make out a seat where he presumed he was to sit. Bythe side of the seat was a large black net curtain, hung from the ceiling to the floor and almostthe entire length of the room. The woman lifted up the net at the side and walked through.Sit down please, she said.He did.

Through the net he could see the outline of what, he presumed, was the Adviser, who he had been told was a man, but he could make out nothing of his features and could only concludefrom the shadowy figure that he was sitting down and perhaps a little small. No one had everseen the Adviser, indeed his life only seemed to be of significance to the people who consultedhim. In here though he was powerfully present. The man sat still and kept quiet.

The lady spoke again, Please tell us your problem.

He had thoroughly prepared his question, ensuring that there was no confusion concerning theanswer he required.


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'My problem, he said is a great problem for me and I am troubled continuously by. It. It mayseem like nonsense to you and others but to me it has called real distress. I feel an unrelenting

pressure to find the secret way of life and living in that will give me that knowledge and wisdomto follow the correct path from me. I am aware of life in and around the, but I do not know howto tap into this energy that I might keep up an exchange or rapport between myself and the life

force in order to direct the course of my life. I am worried that although I realize I gain wisdomas time passes by, I am still no closer to understanding why my life runs as it does. What shouldI do? In what ways should I think and act in order to arrive at the correct way of life for me?That is my problem.

The question had been asked and he prepared himself to listen to, and remember, any advice hewas given.

The room fell silent. All of a sudden the air seemed still like a great sea whose wind rippledsurface had suddenly flattened into a dead calm, into a massive double sided mirror. Glasssmooth, it reflected all that was above and below. The air had no outer edge or circumference, it

was open. He could almost here the candlelight igniting the darkness. Then there was a crack, asif somebody had smashed the silence and broken through the thoughts which lingered in the air.It was the crack of the Advisers voice, calm and deep.

Your problem is not a small problem, it is one which many, but certainly not all, share. It isdifficult enough to live life but to want dialogue with something which seems invisible and tosome not even to exist, is a desire which only a few can fulfil, if even they do. Life is hard, butwe make it harder still by asking questions when the path that we must follow his self evident. Itis easier to take the right path rather than the wrong one. It is easier to do that which is right forus at that time than to do it at another more inappropriate time. Generally your response will bedetermined by the make up of your personality, your past experiences and the stage of

advancement of your soul. These all colour your decision. It is the victor of the battle betweenwhat you think you should do and the guilt attached to you if you do not act in the certain way,that ultimately decides your fate.

I was myself confronted by this very problem when I was young. There was much that I wantedto do and experience but, because of events out of my hands, I was unable to follow other pathswhich may have led me to other lives. I am old man all and in the end, I have to say that itseems from this vantage point I was always destined for this end. Much of the life we live isthought of as chance incident and own decisions. I think, after my life and the experiences Ihave had, that we are little more than leaves floating on the stream of life. If we can,occasionally, stop our flow along the surface, but the under current is something which runs

without our interference and is not open to manipulation, desire or entreaty. It is rather like thatlove we have all shared, the love of a single person in our lives who was not interested in us andwhich stays with us forever. Someone for whom we would have given our very heart away, tofeel their hands on our skin, their lips on our lips and hear them whisper in the middle of thenight 'I love you'. Yet it does not happen. We try to bargain with whatever powers the universehas but to no avail. In the end we have to surface from the dream and realise reality to bedifferent from our desires.


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Sometimes we think a move in a certain direction to be a major achievement, that we havestruggled and passed tests which give us a sense of having conquered fate itself. But, if we lookclosely at the situation, it will be found to have been the only path open to us at that time.Another person may well have made another decision but to you, at that time, there was onlyone way of acting and still remaining true to yourself. That person, at that time, had only that

option open to them from life; from that which is to be lived.

You come to me and ask how to strike a bargain with the life energy; I say to you it cannot bedone. We can only learn to sense its direction and not interfere with a destiny which, I'm sure,was meant for us. The only benefit we obtained from the lessons of life is wisdom, gain wisdomfrom whatever befalls you, accumulating riches which no amount of study or emotion couldotherwise give. In this way although you cannot control life, an ability is developed which willhelp you to cope with life wisely, and thence to advance further.

In the end we arrive at the destiny decided for us at our birth. Tread water and swim against thecurrent if you must, but we all end up where we were meant to be originally.

The room collapsed into silence. The man could hear the Adviser straining to catch his breath. Itwas time to leave.

I have to think deeply about what you have told me. I know you to be wise but I need to testyour advice against reality. Thank you for your help.

The Adviser answered:That is the way my friend. Goodbye. Take care of your life.

The woman walked through the curtain, led the man out of the room and showed him to the

door.Thank you, he said, Goodbye she answered as she closed the door.

He greeted the daylight with squinting eyes, walked out of the garden into the streets and madehis way to the bus stop.

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Let us fly back to the house, float through the closed door and hover in the back room. Thecurtains at the window are drawn back now, the net taken down. This is our first sight of theAdviser. It is the shell of a man. His eyes glint and glimmer with his wise shining soul, but his

flesh is tortured and gnarled, he is stunted and deformed. He whispers to his wife that he needsto sleep. She lifts the light frame of his body easily, having become accustomed to carry himover many years. It is no task for her anyway; she loves him. At this moment she walks upstairswith her husband in our arms, pushes open the bedroom door with her foot, and puts him gentlyonto the bed. Soon he is covered by the sheets and his head rests on the pillow. She pulls thedoor to as she leaves.


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In here, inside the covers, he has dreams of the way he would have liked life to an ended forhim. As he drifts of to sleep, which always takes him awhile, he uses the time to think about the

people who visit him, about their lives and loves. He wonders about the advice he gives to themand which they seen to take deeply into their hearts. Life has being very hard for this man andhis advice, he knows only too well, must be coloured by the manner of his own life. That is the

way of all knowledge. In his opinion, we can only judge and advise others with a wisdomobtained from the personal perceptions of our own lives and loves. Wisdom, to him, never evercomes from a place not allied to this life.

How could this man's life have been any different? Magic has died inside, magic from withouttherefore cannot affect him.

His breath is beginning to deepen and slow, soon he will have the dreams that he wishes werereal life. Are they life? Nowadays he thinks that perhaps his dreams are reality and it is easierfor him to think of life as unreal. He has the ability to control the images in his dreams. Insidehis head, as direct body sleeps, he can walk and run, he can play and stretches body tall. His

skin is soft, his face kind. His fingers can perform any intimate wish that he desires. In hisdreams he is taller than his wife and as she approaches him, their skin touches in all the placesthat it should, he cradles her in his arms and holds her tightly. He can touch her gently, touchher face and neck, her breasts, arms, legs, her stomach and her back. He kisses her, as he movesup and down her body, giving her delights, because it gives him pleasure to see her in pleasure,this is how he wishes life could be. Sometimes, when they are in bed together and waiting forsleep to fall upon them, he tells her of these things he wishes he could do. Then he begins to cry

because he cannot. Tears well up in her eyes because he wishes that he could. Even with hisknowledge and wisdom he cannot change his life. He can only influence anothers and help it toan easier conclusion.

He sleeps soundly in the bed upstairs.She puts on her coat, picks out a shopping bag and closes the door behind her.

The man has by now caught the bus. He is sitting on the top decked looking out of the windowat his side onto the world below. He is at once depressed and secure. If he floats on the waterthen perhaps he will come to no harm, unless, that is, it is his fate to be hit by a stone and sink tothe depths of the under current and then he realises that the under current will support him and

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THE WARRIOR WAY There is no lack of information about warrior styles of living. There is advice available fromhow to act, what to think, down to what to eat and drink! So where, if at all, does the attitude ofa warrior fit in with following the path of light, with that of a flamekeeper?

Much of the spiritual path of growth and development does require you to be strong in the faceof adversity, to endure difficulties after others would have given up, and to be quietly controlledwhen circumstances become confused. These are, of course, what we would expect of anymature human being. Having endured the difficulties and vagaries of an ordinary life it isobviously necessary, if you are to maintain a certain state of harmony with life, to havedeveloped these qualities.

So, in a spiritual context, what does the warrior attitude require of you. All of the abovequalities are absolutely necessary. This does not mean that without them, or for them not to beevident during such and such an incident, you have failed or you are not expressing warriorqualities. The general trend of your life though must move towards being brave and strongwhen life becomes difficult, to endure through disappointments and tribulations and to a certaincontainment and self possession when uncertainty is in the air. To these I would add selfresponsibility for ones actions. Do not blame others for the results of your own actions. Even ifyou find yourself doing so please try to gradually draw away from this habit, for it is only withself responsibility that you can ever hope to direct your life in a positive direction towards light.For me the true expression of the warrior tradition as far as it applies to spiritual seekers is to goforward. This is exemplified by someone who is confronted by a situation, pulls back andassesses the positive and negative possibilities of that situation, and in spite of the fact that theoutcome is far from certain will proceed forward. This in no way implies that in allcircumstances you should proceed, you will have to assess what the possible outcome could be

and whether it serves you and your growth, and of course there is always the impact on othersand their life to consider. In a way I find it difficult to describe what the feeling is when youknow you should advance. Perhaps it should be this: try to be aware when you are pulling awayfrom a situation because you are mentally scared or in fear, when you are worried for reasonsthat have little to do with your growth and all to do with your ego. Nowhere is this attitude moreevident than in the field of love: in my opinion this is where you can exemplify the path of atrue warrior. For instance, suppose you had been deeply hurt during the break up of arelationship. It had taken you a long while to process all the issues surrounding the relationshipand you had once again established a certain equanimity in your daily life. Then another personappears, someone who attracts you, who offers, once again, that fall into love with another.

However you look at the possible outcomes and realise that this relationship could just as easilyfall apart, even with your increased wisdom (hopefully) gained from the last disaster! Whatshould you do? In such an instance it is so easy to turn away, to settle for something that is atleast relatively stable, it is known and comfortable. If you decide not to proceed then that isyour decision and is fine. No one is asking you to do otherwise. Taken in the full light ofclarity and self responsibility there can be no criticism of you or your actions, a consciousawareness of why you have made that decision is all that is required. A decision made in such away is itself an expression of warriorship. The alternative is that you proceed. You do not


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know the outcome, but with your integrity intact and your honourable intentions clear it is awonderful decision to proceed. It is brave and graceful. It is human and filled with light. Onceagain you give the love of one human for another the chance to transform you and your life, andof course the other person and their life. Even if the outcome is not the desired one, as long asyou have clarity and do not find yourself doing anything that goes against your spirituality and

your true nature, you cannot lose. In retrospect there is always some positive contribution toyour nature that comes from expressing true love even if it is the confirmation that you cansurvive the terrible loneliness and disappointment if the relationship breaks down! You willendure and live to fight another day.

Do you see how in this instance you would be acting like a warrior. In truth if you can maintainand support the flame of light and love in your daily life, in the oh so very difficult life of us allthese days, you are acting like a warrior. Do not be too concerned about the implied covertsubtext to the word warrior. Do not be overly pre-occupied with other peoples ideas abouthow to behave like a warrior. And certainly do not be troubled by the dictionary definition ofthe word. We are using the word in a modern context and yet bringing back to the world the

true meaning of a warrior life where the battle is more to do with your inner self than it is to dowith the external world. Change yourself and the whole world changes. It is a more subtle anddifficult battle. You are only fighting your own limitations, your own beliefs about yourself,you are fighting ignorance and prejudice within yourself, and in many cases you are fighting thetrue light within, your true nature; wishing to remain in the comfortable illusory world of halftruths and soothing platitudes. Have you no real desire to find out how things really are?Remember the truth is that you are only enhanced by a true perception of yourself. No matterhow bad you think that is, at least you know the place from where you can commence yourinner transformation. Now let this phrase sink deeply into your warrior consciousness, let

battle commence: with the only possible result that you will begin to discover the truth, thelight of knowledge, there seems little point in maintaining the comfortable illusory world that

the majority of people live in. A warrior who bears the emblems of love and light on theirshield can always stand proudly in the face of adversity.


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AN ESSENTIAL PRACTICE

The manner in which some instructors talk about the way often bears little resemblance to thereal growth and transformation that you and I experience. From their words you would thinkthat after using the slash and burn techniques advocated to fight your way through the jungle ofyour mind, you come upon a scene of utter perfection and paradise. No weeds trouble the

perfect grass, no predatory animals stalk you, nor are there any rain clouds to spoil the perfectly blue sky. Most of all, and more important than any of these, there are no traps or snares, oranything to trip or slip on as we walk into the sunset. Strange isnt it, that many of those whoare well known to us all, admit no fault in their path which, of course, you havent followedreligiously if, in any way, you fall short of this sunset glow.

These five minute cures, for the overgrown and uncontrollable forest we call human naturesomehow never seem to work, because every single one of us on the path never experiences this

permanent peaceful scene for very long before realising that the shrubs and weeds and trapshave once again appeared, unnoticed until now, and have grown to obscure your view of peaceand truth.

You see, to ensure our continued evolution, what we should really be looking for are fine, sharp,adaptable - and above all, access to - tools which will help us to control the ever present andcontinuous threat of this re-growth of the jungle that we fought so hard to control. The roots ofthese troublesome and sometimes disabling plants can never be eradicated for good becausethey are absolutely part of the potential of human nature, of your very humanness. They were

potentials in each individual seed of human uniqueness; they had to be or there would be nocompletion available to us during our life.

Until we fully realise this fact, we have no hope of permanent and sustained evolution. Thisrealisation is actually one of the true foundations of real growth and transformation.Again I will come back to a metaphor that I often use: we must leave the light on and the doorajar to every room, every cupboard, every nook and cranny, of the mental mansion that we callself. This is absolutely essential if you are not to suddenly find yourself felled by weeds thathave grown around your feet whilst you looked at the beautiful vista before you; pestered bynagging biting animals that are invisible to the sight; or else fall asleep in this warm paradiseand awake only to find oneself lost and disorientated in a new jungle of unknown proportions.So what can we do about this very real problem for those on the path?

I wonder if you perform any kind of short daily ritual? This is the whole purpose of personalritual. It has nothing to do with the elaborateness of it, or the sequence or offering, it hasnothing to do with beseeching the gods for favour or transformation (for, after all, this can never

be achieved by anyone or anything other than your very own self), but everything to do withyour commitment to yourself and your path. Again, it is nothing to do with those who hear or

pay attention; it is the act of hearing oneself stating aloud and reaffirming whatever issues haveconfirmed their essential importance to you and your path. Usually they are nothing to do withmagnificent acts but simple affirmations that any true path walker would make, common to anytrue spiritual tradition. Such a simple ritual should be held in the body, not the mind; it should

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prevent, even for a short time, your one sidedness. You are, after all, welcoming your passionate, sparkling, vibrant, sensual and joyful soul nature to invigorate your body, your mindand your life: for your affirmations or statements during such a ritual should originate in yoursoul and not your mind. The consciousness of all three, however, should be present. Such anact secures any progress you have already made on the ever clearer path that you are following

and ensures that you are much less likely to fall asleep, to trip, to become unaware long enoughfor any real damage to substantially delay your journey.

Do not think that I am advocating a kind of purifying ritual. This is not the time - every day -to make penance for your terrible fall from grace, for how bad you are as a person. All this isnonsense, pure self indulgence. Dont let rituals from other religions taint the very simple, veryreal, very human few minutes that you will take to help you move one step at a time. All youare aiming to achieve is an aid to helping you to become a very clear human being.Without doubt you will, almost every day, feel that you are not acting/thinking/being how youshould be. But, occasionally, there will appear a vista of such magnificent beauty, of suchvibrant stillness, of unbelievable clarity that such times will remain as unforgettable experiences

that feed your path with energy. To ensure you experience these times again in the future the performance of your simple ritual is the glue that helps to bind these experiences to yourawareness: a familiar thread through both good times and bad. It provides a vitalising force forthe many days when the last thing on your mind is your path - when getting out of bed may

prove enough of an ordeal!

Related to this lack of vitality is the very important daily task of reconsolidating your mentaldefence techniques. As much as it may be uncomfortable to confront such issues I can assureyou, as can other pathwalkers, that it is quite apparent that there are definitely forces, beings,energies that are absolutely interested in maintaining the status quo with humans and theirdevelopment: they will actively try to discourage any individual who begins to clear themselves

of erroneous thought and beliefs, anyone who ignites the light of truth within themselves.Sometimes it is easy to defend oneself: you feel vital and fully alive. However, to incorporatesimple and effective defence techniques, (perhaps symbols, magical animals, sacred objects, ormore concrete and obvious items that are important or have significance to you), as part of yourshort daily ritual will prove very beneficial to your growth, especially when life is less than

perfect, or your body tired and lacking vitality. Do not ignore this aspect of your spiritual life:it can be a major reason why people who have made good progress on the path seemingly go tosleep and do not wake up again for many years. Sometimes they sleep for the rest of their life.One other very real benefit is the fact that your ritual will always remind you that no matter howfar you think you have travelled, and you may well have travelled a long way on your walk intomagnificence, that a fall from grace is always possible. This simple ritual, whose form and

words will change as you do, can help you to recognise how very human you and your fellowsare, how flawed, and yet how that, in itself, is not a bad thing: it is very human.Dont forget this simple measure to aid your path. It doesnt take much time to perform andadds real concrete benefits to your life. Do it for a few months and then stop: its significance toyour life and your path will become very apparent.


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RELEASE

Iam sure that practically all of you have spent an inordinate amount of time reappraising your past in the belief that working through difficulties and conflicts that bought you pain and

anguish - or otherwise left you with troubles that have plagued you since that time - will enableyou to leave behind and cleanse those resulting aspects of yourself that have been hinderingyour evolution.

For a few minutes let me address this issue. The very fact that you are reading this article meansthat you have moved well beyond the unconsciousness of many humans and your insights and

personal work have bought you to a level of understanding that is both insightful and reasonablyaware of the work that there is left to do. In other words, you have realised your humanness!You will have realised that you have certain traits that are irritating to others and maybe evenyourself, that you react in certain ways to particular situations and you have decided to try tochange that behaviour or to put up with it because you actually dont really mind that you

behave as you do. That is all fine. However, I am sure that you each have certain incidents fromthe past that still haunt you. Maybe certain resentments about the way you have been treated bylife, the seeming injustice of certain happenings, and how they were not deserved. Maybe thereare only a few such legacies from the past, however no matter how much you have dealt withthe original circumstances and reasons for your behaviour, there is still this nagging and pullinginside you. There is still the revolving thought about what happened, there are still discussionsabout how things turned out. Even if you have sorted out to your absolute satisfactioneverything about the incident, you are still very aware that there is this faint shadow, stilllingering. Tentacles from the past can attach themselves to us in such a way for the rest of ourlives. How should we deal with this?

There will come a time, an instant, when you suddenly realise that you have reached a point inyour life where you can let it go. Simply let everything go that is dragging you back into the past. I cannot tell you when that point will be reached, however I can definitely tell you that ifyou continue to pay attention to your evolution that time will appear. It is good to ask yourselfoccasionally if it has done so. As an evolved human you cannot lie to yourself, even if you lie toothers. There will come this thought in response: actually, I think I have the choice to let thisgo now. That is all. It is a seemingly insignificant phrase. I have the choice. So all those yearsspent mulling over and analysing the happening have come to this I can just simply let this gonow? You havent ended up with justice, not by any means. You havent been paid back forwhat you did, or what was done to you. The other person/people will no longer be in yourconsciousness with anything other than a memory of an incident, they will not have any energy

and vitality left to occupy your time in the present moment. They will never know you haveforgotten what happened, neither will you be rewarded with good karma or any other suchacknowledgment. They will have paid no price or debt (which they probably didnt feelanyway) and the gods will not in any way acknowledge the strength it took you to endure andwhat it actually means for you to let go.

So what possible advantage can this course of action precipitate? I want you to think for aminute of such an incident that still plagues you, maybe a series of incidents that are strung


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together (even if they were, in reality, unrelated); think of something that you are still holdingonto out of a preoccupation with the results, with no reasonable explanation for what happened.

Now imagine, just for a minute that you let it go. Let it all go. Just let it drop behind you as youwalk away, like a heavy cloak that you have been carrying around with you for years. So long.So very long. So long that you have forgotten what it was like not to have to carry this burden.

Let it drop on the floor and walk away

What do you notice? It feels like a helium balloon must feel to be released into the air. My ownexperience is the absolute certainty that my energy level had immediately improved. I feltreleased and freed. And, because it was the right time, there was no lingering bitterness thatcontaminated the moment. This is not to be forced. It is simply done when the time is right.

I return to my original question: what possible advantage can this course of action precipitate?Have you noticed that when you are tired or exhausted, when you are under stress, when there issimply too much to do before you need to sleep, that your spiritual awareness drops out ofsight? Have you noticed how you just didnt seem to have the will or inclination to get up and

walk again? You see, as others before me have pointed out, real spiritual growth absolutelyrequires energy. Now what you call that energy - how you experience it - may be different.However, it definitely equates to a feeling of vitality, an inner strength to move furtherforwards. Each new stage seems to require the mustering of a certain amount of strength and,when it is attained, it takes a certain power or strength to maintain that level of awareness ifit is to become anything other than a brief and temporary experience.

Shall I use another term for it: mana. That is definitely one way that you could term thisenergy. The energy that is freed by allowing the results and implications of past incidents tofall away contributes to your overall quantity of mana. Maybe tackling this issue now interests you. If you do allow yourself to let fall such burdens from the past, you will experience theirtemporary resurrection every so often. Do not be alarmed: they have not come back to haunt youfor evermore. They are just old patterns of thought (thought forms) that require feeding beforethey wither and die. If you are tempted to indulge them then do so and immediately notice thatthose rooms seem so shabby and dull now. They no longer seem to fit into the house of your

being. Close the door; let them drop again from your consciousness and you will notice yourincreased sense of energy once again. They no longer have any power over your awareness andcannot be allowed to sap your strength. Let the grass grow over those bare patches of earth youonce walked on so frequently. A little persistence will see them off forever.

There comes a time in the life of all pathwalkers when they must let fall their old skin; whenwhat is tired and worn out must be left behind; when the clothes you wore in the past no longerfit you because you have grown. Let them drop and fall away. Let them go. Walk forward ontothe next stage. They do nothing but hinder your progress, a fact that is in itself of interest tocertain forces in the world, but it is definitely not in yours.

Let them go.


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TRANSFORMATION &HUNA MUA

Huna Mua is not only a pre-eminent system, but alsostill the clearest and foremost understanding of thenature of being human and the realms we inhabit. It isabout you and your fellow humans. Today many

people are expecting the world to change as if bymagic, there is much talk about alterations of humanconsciousness sweeping the planet, great newmovements afoot towards the dawning of a new era.Everyone interested waits with baited breath for manato descend from the skies, as if the change will be anexternal one. It must be understood by you who are

interested in this subject that there can be no change inworld consciousness unless you and your fellowhumans look to yourselves first. The responsibility lieswith us all. We must be responsible for ourselves, notgiving away the awesome, magical and mysteriousqualities that being human naturally includes.However, the changes that are required will not befound in other realms, in psychedelic andhallucinatory trips, no they are more mundane andactually more difficult because of that fact.

Look to yourself. Look to transform and evolve yourself, your beingness in this universe, tomake it a powerful expression of your true nature. Become a responsible and congruent adulthuman being. In this way, as difficult as you may find it to believe you raise and influence, evenin small ways, the sum of human consciousness. You are not expected to be a pristine, pure,saintly or god like being in physical form. That is pure fantasy. You are simply asked to becomeresponsible for your decisions, actions and opinions and to weigh them against what you knowinside to be true of yourself. How do you feel about yourself? Not your possessions oraccomplishments but your true self, that part of you that may have been kept hidden , because itseemed delicate or tender and so very human. How do you measure up to its unsullied nature,not in moral terms but in it not being contaminated with opinions and attitudes about how youshould act from external sources. Think about this. Do you see how enormous the change would

be if each person took responsibility for their actions and behaviour. Each drop of rain, nomatter how small contributes to the sum total of the water on the earth. You are important. Youdo count. You are a unique being, each one of you a unique facet of the jewel. So you see, if youwork on yourself first of all you are laying the firmest foundations you possible could for a

better future for every thing which lives on this earth. Huna Mua can help you to do this.


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JUDGEMENT AND CRITICISM

Of the many people you encounter during your daily work I am sure that there are a numberwith whom you would rather not spend too much time.

You know, you're not a bad person for finding some people less than interesting, or for notwanting to spend time with others who only have to breathe in deeply before your hackles beginto rise. Yet again, there will be one or two whose opinions or behaviour you cannot possiblyagree with, even to keep the peace.

However, as one who is seeking to evolve, you could - if you chose to - use these manyencounters as material to help you in understanding the motivation of others. To watch yourmeeting almost as a disinterested observer: analysing and dissecting your interaction with them.I would, however, suggest that even if you were to interview these people you wouldn't be anycloser to understanding their motives for acting in a particular way: because they themselveshaven't the faintest idea about why they do what they do. The truth is that whatever reason youultimately arrive at is really just supposition.

Therefore what I suggest is this: don't spend too much time wondering about why other peopleact in the way that they do - you may be right or wrong but the truth is that it doesn't matter one

jot what their motive is: you're just wasting your own limited and finite time on this earth.Time which you should be spending on yourself: on unearthing your own ulterior motives.You haven't got the time to sit there criticising and being superior - throwing away something so

precious and wasting valuable energy trying to maintain the illusory facade that such an attitude precipitates. One other point: they never asked you for your opinion in the first place!

Believe me, you will find plenty of material in your own life to keep you busy. Just watch the

internal commentary which blabbers on and on as you walk through town, watch the television,read the latest expose on a celebrity, sit in an interminable meeting at work. I am not saying thatthere is anything wrong with this commentary, just that it will serve you to be very clear abouthow it surfaces and, more to the point, from where the momentum originates for it to leave thedark and meet the daylight. Of course you will make comments and humorous asides during theday: that is natural and leavens life. What I am suggesting is that once you begin thisinvestigation there will be very specific instances when you will have to ask yourself why youdo what you do. Is it because you want to look better in someone's eyes, are you trying toimpress by sharing information with them that should have remained secret: are you belittlinganother because you are threatened by them? The uncomfortable truth is that we can all findthese motives lurking in the dark.

Be brutally honest - absolutely and completely honest with yourself - no recrimination, no blame - just find out how it is with you. Stay with yourself, within yourself.

Begin this today. Then there will appear a space within - a space that you may once or twicehave experienced before. It is the space where there is only observation. Only eyes. Onlyknowing.

Try it and see.


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IN DIFFICULT TIMES...

At the present moment there is a disturbing tide of public opinion which wishes to drown out thecry for help from people not born in our country yet seeking to find respite from harassment,imprisonment and at worst the terrible crime of torture.

It is oh so very easy to batten down the hatches of our comparatively safe lives and turn up thecacophony of our daily irrelevant chatter in order to pretend that we cannot hear their cry forhelp. Very easy to look at an undoubted minority which seek to take advantage of the situationand ignore the majority who are truly seeking some form of safe haven from their troubles and

persecution.

It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many people who find it almost impossible to seethat their own situation is actually almost as precarious. It seems to me that what such peoplehave in common is their absolute belief that they are safe. Safe from prejudice and unwarrantedattention, safe from a swift and unexpected change in government ideology and safe in theknowledge that they reflect the 'majority opinion' and belong to the mass.

I have never felt that safe and I'm pretty sure that you don't feel that safe either.

As a pathwalker you must not get swept along with the tide of public opinion at this moment intime for it is absolutely essential that you become a beacon of independent thought. Part of the

process of this becoming is a withdrawal from the mass mental world and standing as a beingresponsible for your own opinions and beliefs. That does not mean that you have to be against

public opinion, but you should arrive at your decision independently, having gathered as muchinformation as possible.

Your intense and honest investigation into your opinions may result in a feeling of shame aboutsome rather uncomfortable insights you have discovered. However there is absolutely noexcuse for pretending that you are better than you are. This is not about presenting a spiritualand religious face to the world; your

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