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Posted By AwenMan on February 12, 2010

Vegetarian memes abound in our culture from false knowledge. There are long term studies that show that in the end the vegetarians were just as healthy as the meat eating controls. But this type of undirected study is not much different than saying that people surviving years in concentration and prisoner of war camps shows that this is an acceptable way to live, humans are resilient and can survive much. This camp survival might even be held up to support the new research that shows that a reduced calorie diet is a life extender. The truth is that there is no direct conclusive research to support the superiority of a vegetarian diet and lots of detracting factors (Google: unhealthy veggie diet.) There are lots of well intentioned claims about the benefits of certain foods but no overall evidence for the superiority of an overall vegetarian diet. The health benefit superiority of vegetarianism is just an urban legend meme. My apologies to Mr. Spock of Star Trek for revision of his greeting to that you should “Eat Meat and Prosper” as in the title here, it is a positive truly healthy sentiment.

SOME FACTS OF LIFE
Not that long ago newspapers reported on a New York State couple that received a prison term for child neglect when they tried to raise their baby on a vegetarian diet. The diet worked well for them (they praised its helpful benefits on their own bodies) so they refused to take seriously the dramatic malnourishment symptoms of their baby, blaming it on everything else. They just kept thinking their “healthy” diet would eventually cure their baby and didn’t seek outside help. Fortunately the error of their stubborn stupidity was caught in time before the baby died; but they were charged for delaying so long in seeking help when a distressed baby was so obvious. This sort of scenario is repeated in long lines in doctor’s offices of unskilled populist vegetarians looking for relief from their nutritional deficiency ailments. Being a vegetarian is fine for a skilled nutritional expert but not for the general population who will follow the regime because they are following memes and don’t realize the dangers. If you are a nutritional expert you can navigate a vegetarian diet but for the average man-on-the-street with second hand knowledge it is not a safe way to eat. It is comparable to driving while talking on a handheld cell phone, it is inviting an accident to happen.

Nutritional science is trying hard but is still almost as much an art as a science. Science once held that butter was bad for you but then margarine became the bad guy and butter was rehabilitated. In truth you have to be a very skilled vegetarian nutritionist to overcome the difficulties of the diet. As an example, it is very difficult to get your required B12 unless you try very hard (B12 is plentiful in meat but only very sparse in some very limited veggies.) A prolonged shortage of B12 will rot your brain which will eventually kill you, slowly. Science now knows, too late, that importing the substitution of the Western preference for white rice for the native brown in eighteenth century China brought with it Western medical problems. The Western world also develops weird food memes and it took a long term British study to show that there are no nutritional benefits to “organic” foods. The point is that nutritional science still is not too deep and the evidence for this is found in all the scam “nutritional” and “weight loss” networking companies that abound on so-called “scientific evidence.” The great knowledge required to safely be a vegetarian raises the question of are you in charge of your food intake or are you allowing yourself to be controlled by popular stances?

THE WORLD WIDE EXPERIENCE
Some may point to cultures, past and present, that practice vegetarianism. Research shows because they live close to the land they get more than enough healthy bug protein unintentionally mixed into their food, a viable substitute for meat. This is not surprising as even in our sanitized Western culture we consume about two pounds of bug parts a year in just the food we eat from canned goods. Health regulations do not say the product must contain “no” bug parts but rather that it “shall not be more than…”

THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE
A positive known fact is that the North American raised children of European immigrants in the last century ended up being taller then their parents. Research showed that this was attributed to the superior North American diet where meat was daily fare instead of a weekly treat,
Western culture has also benefited in becoming the world leader of scientific knowledge and research by being such strong meat eaters. Brains need Omega 3 fatty acids to function and grow and meat is an excellent source, right after fish. The veggie Omega 3 variety found in products like flax seed aid the heart but do nothing for the brain. Eating meat leads to brain power which then leads to becoming more prosperous.

THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS
What can we be sure of? We can look at the bodies that Mother Nature gave us. We were designed to be omnivores as evidenced by our teeth and digestive system. What vegetarians are doing is giving Mother Nature the finger and saying: “Up yours Mother Nature, I don’t care how you designed me, I know better than you!” A very stupid stance to take.

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Posted By AwenMan on January 27, 2010

Are people of religious conviction stupid? Not at all! They are experiencing a “dumb drop.” A dumb drop is the opposite mind phenomenon of the intelligence spike that idiot savants display. An idiot savant is an imbecile individual (or mentally challenged to be politically correct) of well below normal intelligence level who displays a talent, such as for music or mathematics, that is at a normal or above normal level. This spike above the imbecile level has to be provided by genetics and is what is seen in reverse in religious adherents. It is one of two ways that the VMAT2 gene (please Google) works. First it provides impetus to develop religious feelings and then it provides the stamina for perpetuation of these feelings. The first trait of impetus for acquisition works just like language. We as humans are epigenetically programmed to speak a language and the language we speak we acquire from our parents. We similarly satisfy the genetic need for religion by acquiring it from our parents. Religious teachings are what would now be called memes that are supported by genetic propensities.

 

You say your religion is about having faith! GOOD BOY! GOOD BOY! You are a good little animal blindly following instinct from your old animal brain and and like a good little doggie doing exactly what your gene master is telling you to do! Once imprinted at a deep unconscious level there is no questioning of that imprint for most people, it is true old brain animal thinking. Your falling back on that old chestnut is a completely emotional response that you cannot find any rational or intelligent support for – in other words old animal brain thinking. The genetic old animal brain lord moves in mysterious ways.

 

The second genetic trait of push of perpetuation is of course also found in other traits than just religion. Modern research is finding more and more that we are not “independent, free thinking individuals” but unconscious slaves to older animal brain thoughts where we don’t apply our human higher brain thinking. A very revealing example is the Incest Taboo. We know a lot about this taboo because of the history of the Israeli kibbutzim. In a kibbutz a common element is that everything is held in common, even child raising. This means that while the members of any kibbutz can include families fron across the planet, the children were raised as members of one family; any child can be attended to, and even breast fed, by any female. It is very telling that the children so raised always went outside their own kibbutz (their family) to find mates. The Incest Taboo is Mother Nature’s way to avoid the negative effects of inbreading. The way this “to close family” takes place (a gene is not very geneology astute) is that people you grow up with (as a family) are your “too close family” for the gene. Once imprinted, “family” just like religion, becomes a lifelong perpetuation and is automatically followed from subconscious forces without thinking.

 

An imprint can be changed but as Jesus said this is a major effort of “being born again.” The Incest Taboo is religiously applied even if the factual diversity doesn’t require it. This is following your old animal brain directives. In the case of incest it is mostly productive as there is no tangible way for many people to know to avoid relationships with people who might create inbreading problems. In the case of religion it is an abrogation of our human higher brain thinking. In primitive societies religion is useful but in civilized ones it is often outdated. Using Christianity as an example, we have evolved 2000 years since its creation and away from the rural mideast society of its origins, it is not in step with a modern mindset or life. The genetic driven tendency of perpetuation is what keeps otherwise intelligent people from thinking intelligently about, or questioning, the underpinnings and tenants of their religion, hence a dumb drop. Instead of being a Christian, be “born again” into the truth.

 

 THE CHRISTIANITY EXAMPLE

An example of the nonsense that can be is that most Christians don’t realize that the Jesus story of the Gospels is a rather direct plagiarism of the concurrent neighboring Egyptian god Horus story. Both are just cycles of the prehistoric man-god myth that can be found first recorded as much as 5000 years ago in the writings of the Egyptian mystery school’s documents, such as the Pyramid Texts of Egypt (c. 3000 B.C.E.)

 

Like many cult leaders of his day Jesus can be assumed to have been a charismatic orator, but one who lead an otherwise humdrum undramatic life except for being strung up as a common criminal. This ignoble death must have given the early cult leaders a Herculean headache with gaining new converts. Fortunately neighboring Egypt provided a similar death scenario for their god Horus with a positive spin by proclaiming that Horus died as a self-sacrifice to save the followers from sin. (Most often it is held that Horus died by scorpion bite while tied to a tree. Horus is however closely pictured and associated with the cruciform figure, a nice similarity that possibly originally drew and inspired cult leaders who were looking for rationalization and justification for the crucifixion.) Some of the early cult leaders were no sluggards in co-opting this salvation meme myth and then it was a short step to copycat other elements of the Horus myth to dress up the Jesus story with needed drama.

 

The Council of Nicaea chose the retold Horus story for the Bible they cobbled together from among the thirty two Jesus stories that were available to it. Committees are notorious for getting things wrong but the rise of Christianity in this case proves the saying that the end (a successful religion) justifies the means (choosing a dramatic man-god story also found in the Horus religion). It is unlikely they were not aware of the success of the retold Horus narrative in gaining converts and moving people, after all, the story was successful enough to appear in four retellings, the four Gospels. The man-god story would also have appealed to the Emperor Constantine, the originating patron benefactor of the Council, as suitable for his newly adopted religion.

 

The Gospel Jesus story with exciting copycat sales pitch details is a composite story for the very practical reason of expediency in convert drawing power. The word “marketing” may not have been invented yet but that doesn’t mean the precepts cannot be followed intuitively. The world’s most populous religion is no different than any other and is the product of myth memes.

 

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

I am not alone in my thoughts here. A no less illustrious thinker than Freud found that the Horus/Christ and other similarities showed that the Bible was a total lifting from the meme myths of Ancient Egypt, Sumer and Babylon. You can also Google “Jesus Horus” (for pro and con: the adherents just won’t let go of their imprinted memes) or ‘man gods” and find a plethora of information supporting wide spread dispersion of the meme man-god myth. (Check out the Krishna myth for man-god similarities to Jesus.) A very good analysis of the myths that shape our culture can be found in the DVD lectures of Joseph Campbell, and pay especial attention to what he says in the first lecture of the Mythos 1 series about the Shadow self. (it supports the religious imprinting discussed above.)

 

CHECK IT OUT!

You can print out a PDF version for further lucubration. Better still take this to your friendly neighborhood priest and see what religious orthodoxy he has to counter these analyses. His dumb drop should be strong and deep. Watch for an emotional answer that doesn’t say anything except to admonish you to blindly (old animal brain thinking) believe. In effect saying: This is all wrong, Trust Me! HE JUST FLUNKED THE INTELLIGENCE TEST!

 

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Posted By AwenMan on January 15, 2010

In some American universities professors have asked students in “scientific” experiments to visualize things such as doing well in an important upcoming exam. The experiments had the reverse result, if anything. Since visualization is one of the cornerstones of the Law of Attraction, what gives here? Even university professors can be ignorant and create faulty “scientific” experiments when their knowledge of the subject is no better then the general public’s understanding of urban myths.

As an explanation of what can go wrong let’s start with the experience of Shakti Gawain, a recognized authority on achieving results through visualization. Is she always successful? No, in one of her books she tells of how when she meets failure she becomes introspective and examines what in her psyche might be creating the failure. And that is the secret that the university professors didn’t understand. The requested results must be in flow with reality and what you are totally committed to. You cannot be visualizing getting a top mark when the examiner is visualizing giving such top marks only to people who demonstrate the required knowledge. In the university “scientific” experiment the students were asked to visualize but not to make any study efforts to increase their knowledge. If you visualize getting top marks in an exam and follow through with diligent study you will achieve success. You have to not only want something but be fully committed to it, not just think about it through visualization.

The above experiment reflects the rules of what can be asked of the Law of Attraction outlined in my book Accessing Awen. In the book I give the parallel example of an employee wanting a promotion that he feels he deserves and is qualified for while the boss feels the opposite. A limited resource is being fought over by different visions. The employee will have to do a lot more then just visualize to change his boss’ vision. In general you should ask from abundance to satisfy your flow to be successful!

Anthony Robbins in one of his books also shows how to be successful using visualization. He says that he decided that he wanted a soulmate so he starts with the successful technique of writing out exactly who and what that soulmate should be. He then turns it around and analyses what such a person would want in their soulmate. As he works to create that attracting person the magic happens and they do meet. He was successful because he created the flow between the two of them and didn’t just sit back and visualize with no other effort on his part.

I recently read about the “scientific” experiments related above in a self-help book. The university professors just confirm the truth of a fridge magnet that I have that reads: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.” The group sometimes knows so some urban “myths” such as the power of visualization are truths, to those who understand. Visualization is a very effective tool to achieving happiness by receiving what you want but you have to be in the Flow by satisfying the Rules of the Road.

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Posted By AwenMan on December 15, 2009

Now that the Christmas season is upon us I keep reading stories in newspapers and magazines about what are the poor, neglected atheists to do about feeling left out? What’s the problem? Christmas is the holiday invented by Christians because they felt left out of the popular winter solstice celebrations. It is an indisputable historical fact that Jesus was not born at the winter solstice, or December 25 as a close approximation. The Bible makes no mention of the time of year but shepherds would not be out tending their flocks during the middle of cold winter, the sheep would be safely harbored and tucked away in protective enclosures. Various sources speculate that Jesus was actually born in the fall or spring. Just as now many atheists try to appease the larger Christian community by celebrating a holiday at Christmas; in about the fourth century CE it was the early Christians who tried to appease the larger pagan population by celebrating the birth of Christ on the last day of Saturnalia, December 25. (They didn’t want converts to feel left out of a great celebration.) What goes around, comes around! The New England Puritans as good Christians even went so far as to have Christmas banned and its observance made illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681 because of its pagan origins. Try Googling the Internet and you will find a plethora of information on how the Christians absconded a perfectly good rite of the passage of a year. Christians are the Grinch that stole the real holiday.
Personally I would like to see the holiday returned to its Western European roots of Yuletide, a season for family. Happiness can be following your own path even if it is different from those around you. Having a path is what makes the difference. If you would still like to celebrate a birth then I have heard that it would be appropriate to celebrate a truly stupendous birth, that of the Big Bang start of our universe thirteen billion years ago. December 25 as the date has as much going for it as the true date of the birth of Jesus.

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Posted By AwenMan on December 2, 2009

Spirit guides exist. Spirit guides are entities outside the everyday self that come to help you in everyday life. Even the Pope in Rome has come out to make it official policy that one such guide, your Guardian Angel, does definitely actually exist. In fact the Catholic Church is a good example where in their Virgin Mary and Saints they have institutionalized spirit guides as part of their religion.

Little children before their minds have developed to create “reality” barriers regularly see “imaginary” friends before they grow up, or are socialized out of such encounters. These imaginary friends are cute in little children but what happens when such encounters continue on into adulthood? Consider that it is held to be very improper and rude to just talk about someone in the third person when they are right there; so how much worse is it if someone is talking to an entity only they can see to the exclusion of other people around them?

When an adult has not learnt, or been able to build a “reality” barrier, to stop an experience of actually seeing a spirit guide in this world they are held to be “strange” and schizophrenic. Movies give the rest of us a taste of this private world. In the comedy Harvey a very gentle treatment is given but in the semi autobiographical film A Beautiful Mind the full tragedy is made clear. Only saints and mystics are allowed to have visions, a double standard.

Spirit Guides are a part of many traditions (an indirect proof of their reality) and are a very helpful and useful adjunct to life for those who can utilize them. The trick is to fully realize they are “spirit” entities and not of this physical world. Fortunate are those who have learnt not to throw out the baby with the bathwater and to enrich their lives with what Spirit Guides have to offer!

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Posted By AwenMan on November 20, 2009

The British BBC Brain Test Britain experiment has posed what it thinks is an interesting question. Do the mind training materials available actually work, or do they just train you to become proficient in the exercise presented. Another approach to this question is whether Sudoku or Tetris is a brain trainer or just a game you can become more proficient at. Unfortunately what BBC is obviously doing is throwing out a red herring for naval gazing, and to increase viewership. If the mind could not generalize from what it learns the human race would be in terrible trouble. If you learn to shake hands with John as a form of greeting do you really have to relearn it to greet Tom? If you learn speed reading with excerpts from the novel Moby Dick does that mean you can only speed read Moby Dick and not other material? The BBC show is running the experiment with audience participation to answer its question but if it comes up with any answer except that training does become generalized then we have to question its mythology.

TRAINING MATERIAL

The interesting thing to question is how far afield can the mind generalize. Here a PC program like Ubisoft’s  Mind Quiz is useful because they take the mental abilities of verbal, numerical, spatial, memory and logical and give three separate exercises for each. That is three separate examples of doing the trait for the mind to experience, and so helps generalize the mental skills learned.

An interesting field is that of neuroscience. By using brain scans they have found that the brain is very plastic and its abilities can be enormously expanded. The science goes overboard though by presently claiming that we start with completely blank minds just because the cell count is the same. If that were true then babies would not go through distinct stages of development, the terrible twos would not exist. Their claim also flies in the face of the well researched fact that identical twins separated at birth develop into adults of roughly equal intelligence and personalities. Not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, neuroscience does show ways that the brain can be positively enhanced so a PC program like NeuroActive is a great find. It is created by experts in the field so it is probably your best bet for dramatic results. These positive results have been shown to occur so that anyone can seriously increase their IQ. Even if you are someone who has been labeled on the dull side you can become brighter. Become an idiot savant of intellectual talents that are indistinguishable from those of “real” intellectuals! They claim their exercises are 15X more effective than Sudoku.

SPIRITUALITY AND HAPPINESS

How does all this apply to spirituality? Like IQ spirituality is genetically based so it should be possible by exercise and training to enhance the level and depth of your spirituality. You don’t need to communicate with a god for greater spirituality if you are willing to take the time to do mental learning and spiritual enhancing exercises. Immerse yourself in the biographies and teachings of great spiritual role models of the past such as Confucius, Buddha and even in finding the core truths in the biased and colored beliefs and views of god believers

The same is true of happiness. The old James-Lange theory of emotions is that what we experience as emotions is the brain sensing different body states. Modern research suggests that there is a mental component to a felt emotion. So once again we are back to being able to increase happiness by mental exercises!

BEGIN IT

Improve yourself! Get the programs mentioned above and also some of the Train the Brain material on my website at http://awenman.com  The material on my website will help you turn your new found expanded brain power into practical and applicable success in your life.

Just begin it and keep at it and miracles will come to pass. It has been shown that a bit of training each day is more effective than a few marathon sessions. To quote the German Shakespeare Goethe’s famous Begin It Now lines:

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

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Posted By AwenMan on November 3, 2009

 Prayers are not a unique way of addressing the Answerer and other helping entities. Traditional Law of Attraction techniques of affirmations, visualization and rituals are every bit as much prayers as what the average person might call a prayer. Here we will consider them all together in analyzing difficulties with having prayers (the collective here described) answered.

The problems can be divided into:

1.      External to one’s self conundrums

Internal negating problems of:

2.      A major Detracting and Retarding ISA Legacy

3.      An overpowering collective of minor negative ISA Legacies

4.      A powerful sum of the above two (very onerous to overcome, read story of lottery winners)

 

1: EXTERNAL TO ONE’S SELF CONUNDRUMS

There are things that will never come about because you do not have the unlimited power to change them. This situation is best explained by examples.

If you dream and pray to become the king/queen of England – good luck Charlie! Actually even Prince Charles is having trouble becoming king as his mother is still going strong and with no hint of retiring. A real lesson here is to always ask from abundance and never for something that someone else possesses (the right to be king/queen in this example.)  To ask for someone else’s possession is a humongous daunting task because you not only have to create the attraction to yourself but also to break the attraction the other person has for their object. In the old west the rule of thumb was that possession is nine points of the law, so take the lesson that asking for someone else’s possession is almost as hard as asking to be king/queen of England and always, but always, ask from abundance instead.

A more down to earth example might be where you want a promotion that you feel you are qualified for and deserve. Unfortunately everyone else thinks differently. You are again fighting the wishes of others rather than asking from abundance, even if the desired position is open. This type so conundrum is often hard to identify as you are not always objective in the analysis.

As another example of what not to ask for we quote the Biblical admonishment that faith can move mountains. Very few can even exert psychokinetic control over a delicately balanced compass needle, never mind moving something more massive. The adage was actually meant to get a point across rather than being taken literally (in spite of what some religious ferverts might want to believe.) An individual’s faith may not be able to move mountains but considerable research shows that prayer can play a very important and even dramatic role in healing. Again in real life it is not so easy to distinguish when you have crossed the line into asking for something impossible. King Midas’ touch and the medieval Philosopher’s Stone were fervently believed to have the power of turning base materials into gold. Today some believe that prayer will win them the lottery. While a good number of grand prize lottery winners have had psychic premonitions about their wins, nobody has found the formula for using prayer to win. That no one has succeeded in finding the secret to using prayer to win in itself doesn’t actually mean that it isn’t possible. Where people cross the line is by thinking that they can do it without knowing anything special and just using simple prayer, a proven none starter here. (But then again hope springs eternal and if simple prayer is all you know, then you use what resources you have!) A lottery win is a scarce resource that many are vying for (and whose prayers you have overcome) so again success with riches comes from asking from abundance.

The examples chosen were extreme cases to bring across the point. If you are consciously asking for extremes like this then in the words of the song watch out for the “nice young men in their nice white coats that are coming to take you away – ha ha.” In real life there are none-the-less many cases of where it is not clear when you have crossed the line. Be aware that it is possible to cross the line into the impossible and if you are not getting the results you ask for, then examine very carefully what it is that you are asking for.

 

2: A MAJOR DETRACTING AND RETARDING ISA LEGACY

A Legacy, for those not familiar how I use this term in my books, is a mindset that is developed though life experience and is used by Awen, your subconscious, as a model for action. Who you are today is a lifetime buildup of supporting background Legacies. (The Legacy concept is found in various schools of psychology where they are called names like “maps” in NLP and even defined as “games” by Eric Berne in his famous book.) Your Legacies define you, who you are.  As you go through life, even starting in the womb, you experience things: and from these experiences learn how to react when similar situations arise in your life again. Each of these stored mental action / thought paradigms is a Legacy. The task of Legacies is to do “footman” work to ease your daily living. Legacies give the right reactive procedures so that if someone puts out their hand to shake yours you don’t have to sit down and think out what has happened and what to do next. Legacies develop in the moment to handle the extant situation so it is an unfortunate truth that life marches on and that circumstances change. Legacies can also be compared to computer programs and they don’t change once programmed (or change a little at a time and slowly.) But just like computer programs it is possible to acquire new ones that replace the old. The problem arises that updates aren’t automatic and existing Legacies resist change (they have to to be useful.)

Legacies can be classified into groups to make it easier to talk about them as I have done in my book ASPS (that deals with how to overcome bad, unwanted ones.) What we are concerned with here can be called Detracting and Retarding ISA Legacies. (ISA is from my interest in, and my book RnR Runes and Remedies on the Viking Runes where the ISA rune is defined to be retarding/impeding/cooling.) These are Legacies that were formed to be useful but whose actions now restrict your moving in new desired directions. Legacies cannot be erased (they are after all a collection of biologically connected synapses), they can only be replaced as the dominant one that Awen (your subconscious) calls upon to deal with the situation at hand. This means that until you are established in a new mental mode ISA Legacies will try to keep you from getting there. Shakti Gawain in her famous book Creative Visualization gives the description that when her visualization efforts fail to bring success within a short period she looks to herself to see what personal mindset she might be conflicting with. Whether you like or appreciate it or not, Legacies rule your life.

As a further example of explanation: you often hear of a map of the mind so think of the mind as a geography of countries. In this geography it is Legacies that are the countries with borders (the action or thought patterns that define it.) Each country is ruled by its Legacy and ready to fight to keep its borders and influence. These countries are warring countries that look to assert dominance wherever they can. Like missionaries (or Crusaders of old) they want to be the ones in charge and so doing their anointed work of controlling your life. Now unwanted Legacies fighting for control and power of influence can be compared to the parasitic barbarian missionaries that destroyed the New Word natives that they were “saving.”  These missionaries were the viral blight that wiped out the native civilizations and likewise Detracting and Retarding ISA Legacies decimate your New World hopes and dreams for a better life. They destroy your budding new country that is the dreamt of new you. Both missionaries and unwanted Legacies think they are doing good but actually have the opposite effect,

You learn many such Legacies from life experiences, some conflicting, so your mind is programmed to utilize the strongest one. This is how you change, you create a stronger Legacy to follow.  Some social scientists believe from their research that almost all of daily activity stems from such Legacy mindsets rather than original thought. This goes against the grain of some people who find it abhorrent to think of themselves as happy little automatons following the way of programming in dealing with the vagaries of life instead of being the vaunted “free thinking” individuals that they love to feel they are. Actually having a truly original idea is held to being slightly mentally unbalanced, to being able think far enough “outside the box.” (Genius is a nutcase!?) Being programmed is in practice useful as you can preprogram (create a Legacy) and be on autopilot instead of constantly thinking everything out.

So this is the point here. If your prayers aren’t giving you what you want it is not the methodology that is at fault, but you yourself.  Your efforts weren’t strong enough because they are being thwarted or possibly they aren’t even in the right direction. A truth from advertising and brain washing (and psychology): that if something is heard often enough it is accepted to be true by the mind. If prayers aren’t working for you than you have a strong subconscious objection, one that can eventually be over come by persistence with your prayers (but can be much more quickly overcome by direct active intervention – that is the thrust of many books on the Law of Attraction, including my Accessing Awen.) Whether you persist with continued prayers or take alleviative action this time tried, tested and trusted adage applies:

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

 

2a: Testing for ISA Legacies

You can question yourself about what ISA Legacies you may have. Runes are a link to your subconscious and will give you messages just like your dreams do. Just like dreams Rune messages have to be interpreted, part of the revelation process. A complete study of Runes can be accomplished by studying a book like RnR Runes and Remedies found on my site at http://awenman.com  but the PC program RuneCaster will let you explore whether you like working with Runes without doing any memory work. RuneCaster is a no cost freeware download on the same site as the book.

A quick study is to go to the bottom of the home page of http://awenman.com where you will find RavensCaster to consult. RavensCaster is a free two Rune casting with complete details so that you just have to do the evaluation. Unless you are a fervent disbeliever in such processes you will get in depth revelations about your inner beliefs.

 

3: AN OVERPOWERING COLLECTIVE OF MINOR NEGATIVE ISA LEGACIES

Legacies aren’t necessarily isolated from one another but support each other to form your total personality. Sometimes you might find that what you think is a minor change really has tendrils that invoke many Legacies. If what you want to change goes against a lot of your legacies then you have a major battle on your hands. The situation is not unique but is even reflected in the sixty second I Ching hexagram M called the “Preponderance of the Small.” The idea being that things are ruled by many smaller factors rather than a major one. This is true if the change you want is also a major lifestyle change and not specific to some trait.

A good example of this is type of collective personality is if you grew up in poverty. Then during the very crucial formative years you developed many, many Legacies in support of that status. There isn’t a single Detracting and Retarding ISA Legacy but rather legions of reactions that grew up in defense of, and in support of, a lack mode of living. Another specific example is not having a car and wanting one. Want a car? Should be easy to acquire through prayer and the auspices of the Law of Attraction as “everyone” has a car, and why should I be different? Think again! You are different. Everything you do outside the house has a Legacy thought pattern of yourself doing it by walking or taking public transportation. Not having a car is a very persuasive league of “countries” that vie against your dream by trying to keep the status quo. To reword: you have a whole army of Legacies that help you make best use of walking and public transportation. These Legacies don’t go away just because you desire a car and they will keep your dominant thinking in a car-less mode. This applies to other areas of your life as well; as in your spiritual being. Jesus said that people have to “born again” to follow him. Whole new groups of Legacies have to be replaced in much the same way that the old were formed in growing up, to reformat your personality and thinking. The conventional quickie techniques oft quoted in some self help books are not sufficient.

Not to give up hope. Using again the growing up in poverty example. The ever so popular Horatio Alger stories of rages to riches as well as the legions of true stories of self made millionaires give evidence that major changes can be accomplished. The common element is that there is a time factor. Just expect that it will most likely be a slow revamping of your Legacies as your fortune grows rather than a quick conversion (like winning a lottery.) To tackle a whole collective group of Legacies at once is too much but by chipping away at one or a few Legacies at a time the task can be accomplished. What applies is the spiritual Tao Te Ching  guidance that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You can change yourself radically to whatever you want if you approach it one step at a time.

Inch by inch

Life’s a cinch

Yard by yard

Life is hard

 

3a:  Discovering Your Inner Self

The Runes mentioned under 2a above are not the only way to discover about your inner you. They are however possibly the easiest way in that you only have to visit the site to use RavensCaster immediately. Another way to contact the mind is through the traditional use of the pendulum. On the page dedicated to my Accessing Awen book: http://awenman.com/awen.htm is a free PDF download of instructions on pendulum use and the Rose to print out to use it with. Pendulums have been shown to work easily for everyone but the difficulty come in that you can only get yes/no type answers so you have to be able to ask the right questions.

More advanced work can be done in a Mystic Mirror or Sanctuary Study session but you will have to purchase the book Accessing Awen for instructions on this.

 

4: A powerful sum of the above two (very onerous to overcome)

If this is your case then you just have to try and work harder. In real life terms this is realistically what is actually your situation if you are facing a major lifestyle change. A popular self help guru quotes the phrase: “You will see it when you believe it.” But what is believing? It is not fervently wishing for the change but it is your having converted all your Detracting and Retarding ISA Legacies to new dominant Dream Legacies that now support your wishes. It is getting all your ducks in order, as the saying goes.

Are legacies really that strong?  It is a well researched fact that most top lottery winners dissipate their found good fortune after only a few short years to return to the fiscal state they were in before the win, the lifestyle that their Legacies are still comfortable with.

A major lifestyle change is a Herculean task but remember that Colonel Sanders started his fast food chicken empire with a social security cheque at the common retirement age of sixty five (by doing it one step at a time.) Mega giant McDonald’s also started with only one store. Never give up and remember:

 

If you can imagine it…

you can achieve it

Dream it…

and you can become it

W. A. Ward

 

You can download a PDF version of this blog at

http://awenman.com/notanswered.pdf

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Posted By AwenMan on September 21, 2009

Spirituality through my books

My book ASPS will show you how to help control and overcome
errant thinking. All the established and major religions are emotional fantasies of the old mid/animal brain that are promoted by the VMAT2 gene. Religion is assisted by the VMAT2’s evolutionary protégé development of the forebrain’s “God Module” and is further supported by the religions’ holy book(s) (of what is really folklore.)

What is truth is that our experienced spirituality comes from
our innate, unconscious and automatic actions and reactions as social animals. Research has shown, and time tested demonstrated, that we live best and most successfully by spiritually following a win-win strategy and the Golden Rule (no God required.) My book Accessing Awen will show you how to maximize the resources available to you and so give you the peace of mind that you are all that you can be.

We all want to live the life outlined in my book Fabulous Fortune Forever. A lesson is to be learned from mankind’s earliest known literary work written more than 4000 years ago of where humanity should seek answers:

“When the gods created man, they let death be his lot; eternal life they withheld. Let your every day be full of joy, love the child that holds your hand, let your wife delight in your embrace, for these alone are the concerns of humanity.”
Gilgamesh Epic

My Charmed Life Trilogy will let you have it all and do it naturally with spirituality rather than religion. So hearken unto the words of the greatest genius scientific mind (an atheist) of the twentieth century:

He who joyfully marches to music in rank file has already earned my contempt. He was given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
Albert Einstein

 Be an open and honest thinker who recognizes and follows truth rather than just be one more of the dull-witted sheep in the flock!

You can read more of my thoughts on spirituality in the free Manifesto Ontic Movement but please buy my books to really learn more of my lucubrations. Lucubration is also the  modern moniker used for the Rune Ansuz (that the ancients understood to be wisdom coming from the mouth of a god) in RnR Runes and Remedies, a book that also explores the ancient morality of the Vikings (that still applies today!) For now a heartfelt wish for you in a combined very ancient Egyptian blessing with a very modern one:

May the Force be with you
along all the dark and empty paths you must walk!

See my books at:
AwenMan.com

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Posted By AwenMan on September 6, 2009

In order to encourage people to visit my websites I am giving away some free valuable gifts. To obtain the first two gifts you must follow the links to the websites, the third gift is right here on this site These gifts are features that are online and able to enrich your life. The boxes in the left and right sidebars give the clickable links to these resources.

 The First Free Valuable Gift

The first free valuable gift is to find out what your Higher Self knows about the events of your day and about your life. Doing a Runecast with the ancient Runes of the Vikings is contacting your Higher Self, which in turn is your opening to the higher realms. This Runecast is real and personalized to you - completely unlike the vague daily horoscopes found in many newspapers where a one size fits all forecast is supposed to fit all the millions of readers. Besides a reading for the day you can also question your Higher Self through this Ravens RuneCaster program about anything of interest to you. Using Ravens RuneCaster is your Awen Higher Self gateway to useful sources like your Higher Self, other world entities and the Akashic Record (that is held to hold all knowledge, past and present.) You can find out more about Runes and runecasts in the RnR Runes and Remedies book detailed on my AwenMan site.

 The Second Free Valuable Gift

The second free valuable gift is one of dual importance. The Neo-Enneagram a way to find out what is your personality type. The first importance it holds is that knowing your personality type is regularly held up as a vital key to your success in business and personal relations.  Many books, expensive seminars and other resource materials are available but here we are giving it to you for free.

The second great importance of the Neo-Enneagram is that a study of personality types is very important in manifesting, as in the Law of Attraction that is the subject of the wildly popular book The Secret. You must know how you relate to the world so as not to ask for the wrong things. If your personality is that of a “back room boy” that organizes and gets things done then don’t ask the Law of Attraction to make you the knight in shining armor that is leading the charge. Your subconscious mind that knows you well will thwart any such incompatible request. Knowing your personality type does not mean that you cannot be anything you want to be (people do display different personality types in different environments), it is just means you might have to do some extra steps to achieve your goal. BUT YOU DO NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WORKING WITH TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES AND PROGRESS!

 The Third Free Valuable Gift

The third free valuable gift is about using your spirituality, as in the power of prayer, to bring you greater happiness. If you find your prayers (or other manifesting efforts) aren’t being answered to your satisfaction, aren’t bringing you the success you want, then here is an alternative to try. Remember the rule is: “If you keep doing what you have always done, then you will keep getting what you have always got.” Or with an Eastern flavor: the Buddhist saying is “This existing, that arises.” If you do not change any of the “this existing” then why are you waiting for a different “that arises.” If what you are doing isn’t giving you the results you want then almost any other action has a better chance of succeeding! Here is a new alternative to try. Click on the left sidebar link to bring happiness or the right sidebar link for a Power Success prayer where you choose your Intend.

 Affirmations and Prayers

Prayer is a powerful tool to help people effect changes in their lives. Even people who use affirmations (a form of secular prayer) as a psychological self help tool, and swear by these pseudo prayers. make claims that affirmations change much more than just their personal habits. Proper affirmations work on deeper principles, not just wishing, and are capable of attracting and changing many things for the affirmer. Prayers are looked at as being even more pervasive, like affirmations on steroids.

 This is a blog about finding happiness through spirituality. When you read the title of this post you didn’t really expect riches of crass materialism, did you? The mind is the most powerful tool that we have. We have given you three tools to enhance the efforts of your mind.

 

AwenMan
http://awenman.com

    
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Posted By AwenMan on September 2, 2009

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

First to begin it is genius because beginning it engages the genius faculties of your Higher Self, your prodigious forebrain unconscious thinking. The Higher Self that is the Id, as Freud calls it, or Awen as in my book Accessing Awen. Is always there, even when you sleep, and is working away constantly on your behalf on any project you give it. But you must begin it for this genius part of you to know that it is for serious consideration. It is genius because for deeper problems it is actually much better than your conscious mind as the conscious mind is our evolutionary survival strategy for problems in the immediate moment. This is why everyone has “eureka” or “aha” experiences where the genius of the Higher Self has made itself consciously known.

When you are bold and begin it you activate power, the power behind the universal Law of Attraction. Becoming committed is like a silent prayer that now starts attracting ideas, people, events, things and synchronistic happenings that all contribute to furthering a successful outcome. Hamlet said: “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy” and beginning it harnesses the power
to bring these things into your dominion.

The magic is the culmination of your conscious and genius Higher Self efforts with the power of synchronicity that magically makes your intended dream come true. The magic is in seeing it all resolve into reality, the whole process that started with begin it.

Too many great ideas, plans and visions fall folly to never making a commitment, to beginning it, and so come to naught. Not beginning it is to ignore the Biblical admonition that it is better to light just one little candle than to curse the darkness and the spiritual Tao Te Ching guidance that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So hearken unto the words of Goethe and just begin it!

AwenMan
http://awenman.com

genius power magic

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