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WISDOMS SOFTWHISPER
A Manual for Sincere Wizards
Wizard Baldour
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Wisdoms Soft WhisperA Manual for Sincere Wizards
Trip Overholt and the Wizard @ WCOM
By Wizard Baldour
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Table of ContentsThe Dawn of Wisdom
Awakening From Illusion
Believe Not
Magic Assumes Doership
The Capacity of Now
Significance of the Wizards Staff
Put a Capital M on the MysteryMeditation is Not Something YouDo
Practice is Real
Every Action is Perfect
Unlocking ESP and the Sixth Sense
I-Dolls, Deifications & Role of Toto
Turning Inside Out
The Ultimate Paradigm ShiftSharing What Already Is
Bridge to the Unknown
Wizards Alchemy
Pure Stillness
The Narrator I in the Head
Everyone You Meet is a Godsend
Intense Grace
The Folk Fellowship at Large
A Wizards Re-Creation
The Cauldron
Wizard Baldours StoryLine
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Non Fiction
Spiritual, PhilosophyFree PDF Vook file for e-book readers
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The Dawn of Wisdomonsider the word, water. Is the word, water,
wet? Can that word quench thirst? Is the
word, water, really water? Of course not. Its
just a word, not real water.
Now consider the word, I. Is the word oreven the internal statement, I, floating in
your head really who you are? Again, of
course not. The silent speechless state that
witnesses the word, I, is who you really are.
That is Wisdom. The word, Wizard, comes
from the word, Wisdom. It is prior to the
bundle of alphabets and words called the
mind. Wizards have the ears to hear the
silent whisper from beyond alphabets. That
is Wisdom.
A Wizards Wisdom cannot be defined,known, contained or found. Thats because
knowledge is of the mind. Wisdom is that
which is prior to the mind. A Wizard dwells
in Wisdom, the domicile of the wise. A
Wizard re-cognizes the I, mind and
C
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knowledge as a useful tool and a servant,
effortlessly, perfectly. Knowledge is always
gained anewby the knower I, called the
mind. What is gained anew will certainly
disappear. Conversely, Wisdom is
transparent and eternal. Knowledge is but a
veneer of alphabets and concepts laid over
reality. Peel it off to reveal the true realm of
Being without the I notion. This is thedawn of Wisdom.
People come here with some profound
concept of spirituality. They think they have
spiritual knowledge and they want me to
give them a clean certificate. This I don't do.
I blast their concepts... All knowledge isignorance.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj~
"The only thing that interferes with my
learning is my education."
~ Albert Einstein~
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Prince: Where do you go when you so want
to know?
Where can you listen in silence?
When you are all alone in eternity looking
for Love?
Where do you seek
Wisdoms sweet peace
In a world thats going insane?And where do you hear
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on a planet that crying in pain?
Wizard: Theres a cave which exists at the
center of life,
Where dwells the dream of creationIts threshold is flooded in sunlight,
Its halls are ten thousand mirrors
Reflecting the love
That lives in the soul
At the heart of the whole universe
To reach this quiet place
You must travel the road
That runs alongside this great river
And follow its voice
To the sounds own sweet source
And discover the Hearts pure existence.
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Listen in silence
To the streams laughing song
To the poem of its life-giving waters
And know you are One
With infinite Love
Your journeys begun when its over
The Prince & The WizardPhilip Rego~
Philip Rego
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Awakening from IllusionWizard has the eyes to see through the day-
dream of mortal existence as if it were an
illusory and transparent dream.
The building blocks of illusion are words,
concepts, imagination, relationships and
alphabets. Just information, memory andthoughts. Mind stuff. They make up the
belief systems and images of who you think
you are and what you think you see.
Words have meanings which breed even
more words that breed even far more words!
Where will thinking end? Soon the ever
growing bundle of thoughts becomes rather
large like someone who collects pieces of
string their whole life and ties each and every
new found piece to the end of the ever
growing ball of string. This ball of string is
like a busy full mind. Its shear gravitycommands attention. It obstructs your
outlook.
Herein lays the home of the ego-Narrator I
and the idea or statement of who you think
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you are. Its the imaginarynarrator I. It can
no more change the outcome of your life
than a narrator on the radio describing a
sports event can change the outcome of the
game they are narrating. It is only a belief.
An illusion. A phantom. A second guesser.
You are in for an awakening. The mind is not
who you are. Nor is your body. Dont take
anyones word for it. See for yourself. Youare pure non physical existence.
Prior to the mind and that within which the
mind arises and sets is a silent state (like
dreamless sleep), not a statement, but an
eternal, ever present state that witnesses the
I and its bundle of thoughts. That silent,still realm is who you really are. It is the
actual Here and Now your thoughts
manifest within.
To be that which you already are is to be a
Wizard. It is Wisdom. It is not dependent on
the thoughts, information and alphabets as
knowledge. It does not require a diploma.
Wisdom is simple being prior to knowledge.
Be wise. Take your rest in Wisdom prior to
the mind.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one."
~ Albert Einstein~
The I am is nothingness. From nothingness
this "I-am-ness" has appeared ~
Nisargadatta Maharaj~
That which sees through the eye but whom
the eye sees not; that is the Atman.
Mundaka Upanishad~
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Believe Notizards do not believe in believing. No need to
believe anything.
Consider a belief like reincarnation. With all
due respect, reincarnation is just a belief.
Beliefs are constructs of the mind. Whoreincarnates, anyway? Any image or concept
or idea about reincarnation from the bundle
of thoughts (the mind) is just more of the
same. Imagination. It is objective, insentient
and not true awareness. It is a belief. All
belief is temporary. Images, thoughts,
concepts, ideas and bodies arise and dissolve
in the pure awareness that is Wisdom.
Consider Wisdom, the domicile of the wise.
There are apparently as many belief systems
as there are people. Beliefs are of the
individual mind and constructed from wordsand thoughts rooted in mortal existence.
Belief, time and memory are thought-threads
in the tapestry of illusion and that includes
reincarnation, myths, theologies, ideas and
the like. Good is a belief. Evil is even a belief.
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Heaven is a belief. Hell is a belief. All after-
life scenarios are beliefs. Each just another
thought-thread woven in the tapestry of the
illusory storyline.
Beliefs and myths serve a multiplicity of
structural functions for a variety of cultures
and individuals. Some beneficial, some not.
Where would the antiquated caste system beif not for the belief in reincarnation? Why
the constant emergence of religious wars if
not for different belief systems? Race
prejudice? Gender inequalities?
Homophobia? Terror? Politics?
Imagine there's no HeavenIt's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
~ John Lennon~
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It is synchronicity. The common
denominator of all synchronicity is non-
doership, not doership. You have already
experienced it. It is a sign of graceful living.
It is miraculous. Keep the Faith. Renounce
doership. Allow synchronicity to enjoin you.
Synchronicity fosters ever more trust.
Synchronistic events provide an immediatereligious experience as a direct encounter
with the compensatory patterning of events
in nature as a whole, both inwardly and
outwardly.
Carl G. Jung ~
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The Capacity of Nowonder present awareness. Ponder just the
Now. Is it separable? Is it moving or still?
Can you be away from it? Ever? No way!
What is its capacity? Infinite. Ponder. What
is this Now? You?
You are synonymous with the Now. It cant
be missed. Just be here right now. Open your
eyes and empty the mind. Do nothing.
Ponder how the Now accepts every-thing and
attaches itself to no-thing. The Now is
immediate and ever present as the Self. That
means that the Now is actually you! Right
now! Ponder that limitless capacity. Be
empty! Be formless. Be in repose. Be
nameless. Allow yourself to Be That! That is
Wisdom.
The Now is the Ocean of awareness andbody-minds are like waves on the ocean of
awareness. Same stuff. From stillness to
becoming to returning to present stillness.
Ponder further. Is not all a direct incarnation
of this silent, still, infinite Ocean of
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Awareness? Can the Now ever be reduced to
be less than greater than what arises within
Now? Can Now ever reincarnate or is it, in
truth, ever present as infinite capacity? Can
the seen ever be greater than the witness?
When the glass is broken, what is apparently
inside is at once seamless with its
environment. Does the space inside ever re-
incarnate or is each and every created form anew incarnation of the ever pure space?
Open the mind and find its ground of Be-ing.
It is not about believing. It is the antithesis of
believing, Faith opens the door of discovery.
Surrender. Open the door. Now.
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"Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of
courage -- to move in the opposite
direction."
Albert Einstein~
When you surrender to what is and so
become fully present, the past ceases to haveany power. The realm of Being, which had
been obscured by the mind, then opens up.
Suddenly, a great stillness arises within
you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And
within that peace, there is great joy. And
within that joy, there is love. And at the
innermost core, there is the sacred, theimmeasurable, That which cannot be
named.
Eckhart Tolle~
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Significance ofThe Wizards Staffn truth, are you really a linear story line
married to the concept of time? Are you
going through time on a moving now and
held captive in a body? It is true that thebody-mind carries memory in the form of a
DNA code that perpetuates the illusion of
birth-life-death of biology. But memory is
biology. And memory is an insentient and an
illusory trail and a seduction of the exquisite
illusion that holds your attention in the idea
of mortal time.
In fact, yesterday and tomorrow are always
nonexistent and make up the illusory
horizontal mindset of before and after.
History and future, ideas and concepts,
beliefs and notions. It all requires time andspace for its illusory mortal existence. Does
this illusory movie not play out in the theater
and on the screen of the ever present Now,
the move-less paradigm, like a dream? Of
course it does! A rainbow of shadows playing
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on a still screen. Movement is illusion.
Stillness is the truth. Be Stillness. Be in
repose. That is Wisdom.
Herein lays the significance of the Wizards
Staff. The Staff stands for Wisdom, the
vertical paradigm. That which is move-less
and invisible and indivisible. Pure Wisdom.
The Domicile of the Wise. Keep the Staffvertical. Remember its significance.
Yesterday is dead! Tomorrow is not here and
now and never will be. The Staff stands for
that enduring Faith in the present moment.
Witness the play of consciousness from the
standpoint of stillness. Keep the Staff
vertical.
E=MC2
Energy = Matter
Vertical = Horizontal
Verb = Noun
Nothing = Everything
Hang right, suffer mortality.
Stay on the left. There is no noun to be
identified with. You are immortal.
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures: He leadeth me beside still waters.
He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the
paths of righteousness for his names sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for
Thou art with me Thy rod and Thy Staff
they comfort me. Thou preparest a tablebefore me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup
runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy
will follow me all the days of my life: and I
shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
~ 23 Psalm~
"The 'Here' is everywhere and the 'Now' -
always. Go beyond 'I - am - the - body' idea
and will find that space and time are in you
and not you in space and time. Once you
have understood this, the main obstacle to
realization is removed"
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj~
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Put a Capital MOn the Mysteryow, consider Faith. True Faith. Faith as
surrender and total acceptance rather than a
theistmeaning or a specific religion.
This is a very important distinction.
Faith is actually Trusting the Mystery. It is
the antithesis of belief. Belief is made up of
words deeply impressed in the mind. Faith is
not. Faith is the invocation of perfection by
acceptance of the Now. Faith is the way of
the Wizard. Heres why.
True Faith disarms belief systems and
dogma. To put in plain words, Faith requires
no words, beliefs, ideas, concepts or
conditions. It does not even require religion
or theology!
Faith simply puts a capital M on the
Mystery and trusts it. Thats all! Faith is not
dependent on belief systems, thoughts or
learning. Faith holds no judgment, no
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punitive concepts, no limitations, and no
doership and allows everyone to see one
another as Thy Self and as a pure and equal
incarnation of the higher Truth. Faith is
always forgiving and accepting.
Faith literally transforms illusion into the
play of the consciousness that reveals the
true nature of Being. Faith gracefully divestsall holy icons and idols into the Peace of
eternal Now.
Accordingly, Faith allows the eventual
relinquishment of the idea of doership, itself.
Faith restores innocence, trust, love and
oneness. Faith is the mightiest prayer.
Faith allows you to truly Be. Faith, like Self
Inquiry, is universal and free of the
ownership of any religion or theology. Faith
inherently releases attention from doership
and leads to Self examination which
dissolves the illusion of separateness and you
awake from being identified with your
storyline. The true and only birth is the
waking up from the mortal birth-life-death
storyline concept to understand you are the
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eternal dreamer and not held captive within
the dream.
"Great spirits have always found violent
opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously
uses his intelligence."~ Albert Einstein~
The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and science.
~Albert Einstein~
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
~ Albert Einstein~
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Meditation is NotSomething You Do editation is not something Wizards do.
Meditation is not a group sport. Being in
repose in the midst of all action,
unencumbered, is meditation. It has noform. The Wizards way is to surrender
doership. Meditation happens. Meditation is
Wisdom.
Put a capital M on the Mystery and trust it.
That will release attention that is addicted to
the narrator I. Naturally allowone's
attention to shift back to the silent witness or
ground of Being. There is no transmission or
even presumption of a separate self.
Just natural stillness as existence. Already
present. One is re-cognized as non
physical existence and the narrator Idissolves into the Witness or Self. Allow
yourself to do what comes naturally. Be
innocent. Everything appears and
disappears. That's your Sacred path. "See all
action as perfect". In relationships, that deep
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feeling of peace is contagious. That is sacred
Love. That is enough.
There are those who traverse the schools of
bodily yoga and mental manipulations.
There are countless such schools. The
extraordinary experiences and light shows
generated are fascinating and never ending.
Energy centers open and bloom like flowers.It is exciting and enticing. Experiences come.
Experiences go. Let go!
These experiences are laden with
burdensome doership. They create deep
impressions in memory that haunt your
attention. None of it is really permanent. It isonly the mind. It is a distraction for Wizards.
Wisdom says to take the bypass. Go directly
home. Renounce doership.
I feel within me peace above all earthly
dignities, a still and quiet conscience.~
William Shakespeare~
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Practice is Realf you practice throwing a ball to someone,
you really throw a real ball to someone real.
You dont pretend to throw the ball, you
actually do it. Practice makes perfect.
Spiritual practice is taking care of the here
and now. Allow tomorrow to take care of
itself.
Really put a capital M on the Mystery.
Trust it. Be presence. Be here now.
Transcend the narrator I and dwell in the
domicile of the Wise. No need to pretend.Relax. Be the real You. Practice makes
perfect.
Wisdom then is not a matter of seeking the
truth and gathering information but rather
of the practice of living from Wisdom. This is
the supreme challenge for Wizards. Practicemeans just that, practice. You practice the
real awareness of here and now. It is not
pretentious. Practice the paradigm shift to
vertical. Be here now. The practice of being
I
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the jewel. Not the activity of doing
something to find it.
A Wizard is watchful for the continued
tendencies of re-seeking after discovering
this jewel of Faith. It is just an old mental
tendency unwinding. When the jewel is
seen in an apparent other form, whether this
or any book, image, scripture, arts, music,nature, idol or any other, recognize that
jewel as a reflection of your own jewel of
enlightenment and remain in repose.
Practice makes perfect.
To know that there is no separation, there
are no limitations, and nothing is by chanceis to know inner peace. To illustrate this,
experience your innermost thoughts while
listening to the silence; for it is in the silence
that we will truly know the oneness that we
are. To accept the truth of this oneness is to
know that we are a magnificent expression
of Love, which is life's energy.
~ Laurie A. Monroe ~
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Every Action is Perfector Wizards, life is all the play of
consciousness. In other words, it is all Thy
Will Be Done. Thy Will is perfectly Free Will.
Critical insight says Thy Free Will does not
suffer the dilemma of apparent choice. Itsimply is. Without any obstruction,
whatsoever. That means that every action is
perfect. No exceptions. Ponder further.
That includes even ones own thoughts as
well as actions. This supreme Faith teaches
the Wizard that the best form to worship is
every form. A Wizard brings that Faith to
ordinary life. Live. Simply do what comes
naturally. Surrender. Relax. Be ordinary. Be
in repose. Be enterprising. Deal with money.
Allow intimacy. Drink and eat what you feel
is best. Let thoughts happen. Have fun andexperience sorrow, suffering and empathy
for others. Allow anger, failure and madness.
Stumble. Laugh. Cry. Live like you are
writing on water. Take no thought. Leave no
tracks. Take no credit. Dont look back. Allow
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life to unfold with a sense of awe, surrender
and grace, whatever that might look like or
be. Synchronicity will enjoin you and you
will discover Wisdom. Regrets vanish. All is
as it should be.
Awareness in the now is the state of Being
and every-thing you perceive is like a passing
dream in this awareness, the Peace of God.Everyone eventually wakes up to realize they
are the infinite dreamer. There is no other.
Wow! You are really It!
Harbor no real need or desire to seek or be
or look or act spiritual. There is no mask
any closer to the truth of who you are thanany other mask. No need to change
costumes. Be not a man or woman of the
cloth if it is not your natural inherent
destiny. It is mostly counterproductive.
Wizards understand that appearing ordinary
is just fine and in most cases, preferred.
Wizards have no models of behavior and
dont take themselves too seriously. They
love to disguise. They love to play. When you
dont judge yourself, then you see others in
the light of loving oneness. It is not wise to
bring on yourself the burden of spiritual
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comparison and vanity by feeling superior to
another who is really your own Self in
another disguise. Be the highest common
denominator, whatever the mask and
costume. See one another in Spirit.
Many Wizards abide in the folk fellowship at
large. However, there are those who do
honestly wear the cloth and participate inorganized spiritual groups and some serve a
purpose in bringing attention to Thy Free
Will. It is their true destiny. Respect that.
They are other Wizards in disguise. Partake
in awakened company and enjoy the
playfulness, insights and joy that comes with
all good company wherever you find it, bothinside these organizations as well as
anywhere else it avails itself
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'I exist' is the only permanent self-evident
experience of everyone. Nothing else is as
self-evident as 'I am'. What people call self-
evident, that is, the experience they get
through the senses is far from self-evident.
The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry
and be that 'I am' is the only thing to do. 'I
am' is reality. I am this or that is unreal. 'I
am' is truth, another name for Self.Ramana Maharshi~
Ramana Maharshi
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Unlocking ESP &The Sixth Sensevery Wizard has ESP. Extra Sensory
Perception (ESP) is the Sixth Sense, the
actual sense of existence.
The Sixth Sense is neither verb nor noun. It
is nonphysical. It is Wisdom. Not accounting
for the Sixth Sense is like the story of the
tenth man; the ten men crossing the river
in a boat and each counting only nine men
after crossing to the other side to verifyeverybody made it safely and each forgetting
to count their own self, the tenth man. The
discovery is simply counting the Self.
The same is so with the five senses, the Sixth
Sense is the Self. The Sixth Sense is the only
truly sentient sense. Like an unbroken
thread of intuition, the other senses are
strung on it.
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The Sixth Sense is the inherent, invisible
substratum of the mind & brain and
transcends the mind & brain at the same
time in a continuum. The Sixth Sense is
intangible awareness and the enlightened
sense of the senses. This pure sense of
existence is not dependent on the body,
brain and mind and the body, brain and
mind actually appear and disappear withinit, not the other way around. This is the big
illusion and why it is and always will be a
Mystery for the mind to comprehend. The
causeless, still background is ever aware and
reflective like the surface of a mirror and
ever-present like space.
Doership is absent. Wisdom, present. The
sixth sense is pure sentience. It is not
dependent on the body-mind.
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Increasing evidence is demonstrating that
ESP does exist, but it cannot be explained or
quantified by physical laws; and
furthermore, that the mind (consciousness)
and the brain are two separate entities.
Simultaneously, research in quantum
physics points to the existence of a second,
nonmaterial universe. So, the time is fast
approaching when Western scientists mustcome to terms with the Eastern mystical
concept: that an extrasensory force exists in
another reality, and intersects and
integrates with the physical world".
~ Mystica~
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ESP does really exist. Does really occur, we
say. ESP is nonphysical. It shows that there
is something that man can do (be) that
extends beyond space/time. Thats
tremendous! Thats like discovering another
continent, a new world. First, take religion.
Most of the world is religious. What is the
greatest enemy to religion or the greatest
weakness in the position of religion? Thefact that it cannot successfully refute the
growing conception in the world of science
that man is a wholly physical being. That is,
its the position of materialism. If religion
could refute materialism, it would be in a
much firmer, sounder position because it
stands on the assumption that there issomething spiritual or extra physical about
man ~ J B Rhine~
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I-Dolls, Deification& Role of Totoeifications and I-Dolls are constantly sticking
their heads up in the Now. They appear in
many incredible forms. They are a part of the
mortal and mystical drama. Many are simplyego trips. They are projections from the
veneer of the mind. They can be awesomely
seductive and trap your attention. You may
even have a secret desire to be an I-Doll. This
is not to say that sincere saints and sages are
not worthy of veneration. The true sage,
however, will exhibit equality and expose
deification.
Many I-Dolls are situated around the very
well of our being. The water in the well is the
same for everyone. Some set up toll booths to
sell you, you. Usually it is in the form of asecret method or secret school of the esoteric
arts with hierarchies, vows, mantras,
memberships, God squads, wannabes they
are all the same. It is carrot stick quackery.
Dont be fooled! Drink freely from the Well.
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In the story of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothys
pet, Toto, pulls the curtain back on the
Wizard at just the perfect time to reveal an
extraordinarilyordinary Being. Toto is a fact
of life. Toto happens. A blessing.
We are all One. Toto is making sure equality
is recognized. We are all unmasked at theperfect time. Welcome Toto when he
appears. He comes in infinite forms to level
the playing field. Surrender. Allow Toto to
pull the curtain back. Understand how Totos
perfect action empowers Dorothy, the Tin
man, the Lion and the Scarecrow.
Empower others. Be extraordinarily
ordinary. Be transparent. Love is Oneness.
Nobody is a Wizard. Everyone is the
Wizard. This is the Truth. This is Wizardry.
This is Love.
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Oz never gave anything to the Tin Man,
that he didnt, didnt already have
~ America~
"Try and penetrate with our limited means
the secrets of nature and you will find that,
behind all the discernible laws and
connections, there remains something
subtle, intangible and inexplicable.Veneration for this force beyond anything
that we can comprehend is my religion. To
that extent I am, in fact, religious."
~ Albert Einstein~
Here the frailest leaves ofme and yet my
strongest lasting,Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself
do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my
other poems.
~Walt Whitman~
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My spirit to yours dear brother,
Do not mind because many sounding your
name do not understand you, I do not sound
your name, but I understand you, I specify
you with joy O my comrade to salute you,
and to salute those who are with you, before
and since, and those to come also, That we
all labor together transmitting the samecharge and succession, We few equals
indifferent of lands, indifferent of times, We,
enclosures of all continents, all castes,
allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters,
perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent
among disputes and assertions, but reject
not the disputers nor any thing that isasserted, We hear the bawling and din, we
are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies,
recriminations on every side, They close
peremptorily upon us to surround us, my
comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the
whole earth over, journeying up and down
till we make our ineffaceable mar upon time
and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time
and eras, that the men and women of races,
ages to come, may prove brethren and
lovers as we are.
Walt Whitman~
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Walt Whitman
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Turning Inside-outhe WizardsWisdom is a profound paradigm
shift, turning Being, itself, inside out. That
is to say the body, mind, world and even the
I-thought arise and dissolve in the infinite,
eternal and inseparable NOW. Not the otherway around.
This silent theater of theaters, all inclusive,
birth less and death less pure spirit within
which State arises, I Am is Who you are
turned inside-out. It is Wisdom. It is
causeless. All are of it (Wisdom) but dont all
recognize it. Being actually nameless,
Wisdom goes by a lot of other names in
many cultures throughout history; Atman,
Tao, Christ, Bhagavan, Collective
Unconscious, Divine, Self, Guru, Spirit, Holy
Ghost, Rama, Now, God, Love, Intuition,Sixth Sense, Soul, Nirvana, Void, Heart,
Arunachala, Shiva, Peace, Wizard, The Zone,
Omkar, Great Spirit, etc.
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Being immaculately still, Wisdom exhibits no
name of its own and allows all names and
claims.
Be still and know this silent Truth for and as
ones nameless Self. It is re-cognition of non-
physical existence. It is simple, natural,
effortless, motionless, and Self affirming. It
is the very core and Heart of existence. Beingno-thing, it is ungraspable like trying to grab
a hand full of sky. It is perfect clarity and
intuition. Perfectly transparent, it allows
everything. Including and transcending the
body, brain and mind (including all
phenomena). This Wisdom, this Sixth Sense,
is Who you always already are, Stillness,the Peace that Passes Understanding.
Reaching the point of diminishing returns
and exhausting the search is the prerequisite
for turning inside-out. The focus needs only
to turn around 180 and observe the
searcher. Explore the nature of yourself to
the point the inner statement, I, dissolves
into the silent state of the Self, Wisdoms
sweet Peace. You are inside-out. Totally.
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Now he has departed from this strange
world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between
past, present and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion."
~ Albert Einstein~
Albert Einstein
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The UltimateParadigm ShiftParadigm Shift is when a significant change
in perception happens from one
fundamental view to a completely different
view. Thomas Kuhn wrote about Paradigm
Shift during the sixties, and explained how
"series of peaceful interludes punctuated by
intellectually violent revolutions" caused
"one perceptual world view to be replaced by
another view." In lay terms, a Paradigm Shiftis a shift or transformation of the way we
perceive events, people, environment, and
life altogether.
Non physical existence is literally true and a
profound dis-covery for all Wizards. It is a
THE paradigm shift.
Ponder the notion that all phenomena is an
insentient light show like a hologram played
in the theater of the transcendent and
transparent Self. All phenomena are
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objective. Perception is sentient. Find out
who is perceiving. Perception is of the
subjective. It is the Witness and real
awareness and who you are. Dis-cover it by
focusing attention on the little i which
constantly narrates your story line. The
silent listener and state of the real formless
I will become Self evident as that within
which all arises. It is always just behind theaudible little i thought. That is the ultimate
paradigm shift! The sense of Being, itself,
shifting from knowledge to Wisdom.
It is the most powerful paradigm shift. It is
unimaginable. True alchemy. A significant
change in perception. From physicalexistence to boundless non-physical
existence. It must be experienced
subjectively. It is genderless. It is formless. It
is free of the ownership of religions and yet
validates the essence of all religions. It is
That which messiahs point to, That which
poets sing to, That which sages proclaim the
Wisdom of, That which devotees bend the
knee to, That which inspires leaders, artists
and visionaries. That which Seers see. It is
the theater within which all appear and
disappear. The vertical paradigm. It is
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literally the Now, right now! The Tao. The
Way. The Truth. Wisdom. It knows no
boundaries.
Not being of the five senses and the mind
(extra sensory), the Truth cannot be known
by the mind. It is like putting the Pacific
Ocean in a quart container. It won't fit. The
proper tool of discovery is Being, notknowing. This is very important to Wizards.
This is what makes it so difficult for
academics to grasp. It is too simple and
natural. Being perfectly still, nobody can
grasp it but everyone is it and inheres in it.
Having infinite capacity, it accepts
everything. Being forever constant, it goesunnoticed.
Draw your conclusions of the diminishing
returns and the futility of seeking and
searching through objective fleeting
phenomena and turn attention around 180
degrees. Discard all the illusory elements of
the psychic world as noise and distraction
and focus on stillness and silence. This is the
Breakthrough as to the real nature of human
beings, Wisdom.
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We are not Beings having a sacred
experience; we are sacred Being having
human experiences. Allow the paradigm
shift.
The aim of the (Rhine) foundation, he said,
was to be non-doctrinaire, nonpolitical,
intended to be free of even philosophical
bias, by the increased illumination ofreliable knowledge. This search for truth
about the nature of man, he thought, would
profoundly affect those systems of belief
that now prevail. In a world so full of wide
ranging claims and confusing, even
conflicting, doctrines and creeds the need,
he said, is for strong independentinstitutions to which these great problems
can be referred.
Louisa Rhine~
J B & Louisa Rhine
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Sharing What Already Isne of the difficulties in communicating the
truth of our oneness is that the vertical
paradigm cannot be known by the mind. The
mind is the horizontal paradigm with past
and future images comprised of knowledge.
The paradigm shift to vertical does away
with the illusion of the mortal paradigm and
transforms your world into a benign play of
consciousness.
Although it cannot be known, "It" can be
experienced by anyone as the heart of Being.Extricate your sense of Self from knowledge
and be Wisdom. It is experienced deep
within your own Being as your Being,
headless and prior to thought. Share that.
One experiences nonphysical existence, first
hand. This is the paradigm shift that is so
liberating. Affirm that Oneness which isalready shared as the highest common
denominator.
To share Wisdom and the sixth sense is to
commune. It affirms Oneness and Love. This
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Love authenticates non physical existence,
joyfully. This recognition frees
enlightenment from the ownership of
religions while at the same time, offer
religions a reason to be. It exposes dogma,
the charlatans, toll booths at the well of our
Being, the dead talking to the dead, and
carrot stick quackery. Be a wise Wizard.
Share the sincere Truth!
There is no greater mystery than this, that
we keep seeking reality though in fact we
are reality. We think that there is something
hiding reality and that this must be
destroyed before reality is gained. How
ridiculous! A day will dawn when you willlaugh at all your past efforts. That which
will be the day you laugh is also here and
now.
Ramana Maharshi~
The Kingdom of God is at hand
Jesus Christ~
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Bridge to the Unknownhe existing paradox of life is fraught with
confusion and contradiction. Words and
knowledge at best only point the way to the
unknown. Words are the tip of the finger.
Words do not constitute Wisdom. Enough
said. Stillness is reached by being still. It isall Wizardry when you are quiet enough to
listen. Bathe in the silence. Be not concerned
about how the storyline unfolds. Allow the
horizontal paradigm to dissolve away. Take
your stand in headless Being. The mind
cannot fathom the depth of who you are and
is not the proper tool to re-cognize who you
are as the unknown. Being is the girder and
strength in the bridge to the unknown. Allow
Being, itself, to fall to the heart. Paradigm
shifts. Wisdom dawns.
Faith is the antithesis of belief and/orconcepts. Faith abides in the heart and
requires no thought. Wizards peel the
veneer of words off reality and put a capital
M on Mystery. That is Faith. Trust the
Mystery as Thy Free Will. It will take you
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home beyond the mind to the thoughtless
and unknown. The thoughtless can never be
contained in the mind. What's left
is Wisdoms sweet Peace. The illusory doer
(and knower) is undone in the process. It
never existed! What is already the case is Self
evident. Being true, it is confirmed by the
Wisdom of the Ancients, the essence of the
arts and the spontaneous personalexperiences of many and intuition of many
more. Be the unknown. That is Wisdom.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me
as it did before, Or else I am awake for the
first time, and all before has been a mean
sleep.Walt Whitman
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The intellect has little to do on the road to
discovery. There comes a leap in
consciousness, call it Intuition or what you
will, the solution comes to you and you don't
know how or why.
Albert Einstein
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Wizards Alchemyncient lore has it that a Wizards alchemy
changes base metals into gold.
In Wizard speak, this means the translation
out of the physical paradigm into non
physical existence. This is bona fide alchemy.
It should get your attention. Anything else is
trickery!
Hold fast to the ever present paradigm of
Now. Allow the horizontal story line to be, as
it will, and your sense of Being will betransformed as the world becomes
transparent and sacred. Simple surrender
invokes non physical existence. This is true
for both theists and atheists alike. Wisdom is
not about what you believe; its about simply
putting a capital M on the mystery and
trusting it. Alchemy will take it from there.No doubt.
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"Any sort of survival (non-physical
existence) holds such significance for human
thinking and feeling as to dwarf almost all
other scientific discoveries."
J B Rhine~
J B Rhine
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Pure Stillnesstillness is just that. Stillness. Stillness is
unmovable, omniscient and omnipresent.
Stillness is the Self, pure existence. Stillness
is ever present as the pristine and
inseparable Now. Stillness is peace, quiet,
invisible and undivided.
So-called past and future concepts emanate
spontaneously from the core or heart of the
Stillness creating the Mysterious horizontal
illusion of incarnation, time, past, future. It
is an illusion that the Now moves through
time. Now is still and everything moves.
Allow the movement as a benign apparition.
Thoughts are no more real than the dream is
real. That's all. Birth, life, doer, death and
reincarnation are time bound concepts
arising within the eternally still "Now". Alltemporary, but seductive story-lines
reaching back into the illusory past and
forward to the mysterious future. How can
"stillness" be otherwise than move-less
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silence within which the story-line appears?
Hold to Wisdom! Be still.
The still and silent sense of being is truly
shared by all. No exceptions. Forms come
and go. Wisdom is what is left after the
forms become transparent.
Only ponder words. Words themselves willnot penetrate, they only point. Allow the
words and messages to fall away leaving the
residue of pure re-cognition and Wisdom.
It's the state rather than the statement that
attention abides. Mostly unnoticed. It's not
what is said and heard but rather what you
share in stillness that awakens.
Jesus was instructing, not bragging when he
shared:
Be still and know, I am God
~ Jesus Christ~
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The Narrator IIn the Headhe narrator I in the middle of the skull-
bone cannot know the unknown with the
mind. The mind is simply an improper tool.It is like using arms to walk instead of using
legs. The narrator I is the individual
personality and seeker. The same seeker that
seeks/desires money, food and sex
ultimately seeks the truth and wants to know
or own it. The Narrator I is never, never,
ever enlightened and most likely a rascal. At
best, it can only bow its head.
If the narrator I cannot muster the Faith,
another efficient way is to use the mind for
self examination. It is using a thorn to
remove a thorn. Either way, mind is undone.
Being is the true and eternal sense of
existence, not thinking. When the mind is
quiet, that which is nonphysical, eternal and
unknown is inherently Self evident.
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Again, two ways are the simplest. Surrender
to Thy FreeWill and put the narrator I out
of a job or practice Self Inquiry to realize the
illusory nature of the bundle of thoughts
claiming to be "I". Both result in the stilling
and disappearing of the narrator I in the
mind.
Tendencies may continue to play out but
without doership and are benign. Life
becomes synchronistic and graceful. Be
patient and trust the Mystery, all is unfolding
as it should. You are blessed!
To the mind that is still, the whole universesurrenders.
Lao-tzu~
They (Synchronicities) demonstrate the
unity of psyche and matter, forcing us to
transcend our rational, scientific,
materialistic attitudes.
Mansfield~
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Everyone You MeetIs a Godsendiew everyone you meet as a Godsend. Never
be too proud to do so. Treat every
circumstance the same way. Be humble. Bethe sculptor who sees that true image
embedded in that piece of granite.
Ponder "every action is perfect" and let it all
go. It is even prior to forgiveness. Trade
knowledge for pure innocence. Recognize
one another in God.
See all as grace, including some intense
grace. Pain and discomfort are not
necessarily suffering, but they are part of the
condition of the body-mind. Just biology.
Old age, sickness and death are inevitable forthe biological body-mind. Allow biology to
run its course. No need to judge the biology.
In the mean time, the subjective Being is no
more affected than the surface of a mirror
reflecting an image. Just like a dream when
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asleep. Who you are is ever present,
eternal and non physical. It issynonymous
with the now and omniscient. It is the screen
the movie is playing on and the true state of
your sentient Self.
Suffering starts with bodily identification
and "doership". True healing and alchemy
are the transcendence of bodily identificationrevealing the eternal God Self. Destiny will
unfold appropriately as your actions become
your dance with the divine and peace of
mind prevails. Wizard sees Wisdom, ego
sees ego. See God. Be God.
There are only two ways to live your life.One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein~
Love One another as I have loved
you
Jesus Christ~
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The Folk FellowshipAt Largembrace the inspiration to communicate the
truth of our oneness in different ways and in
challenging cultures as fate will allow. Yourwork will undoubtedly break the role models
of the past and many traditionalists will
inevitably be shocked or offended as new
leaves and forms bud on the tree of life. This
alchemy of creation yields and reveals ever
new ways to express the truth of who you
really are. You will be using your present
unique human endowment and
circumstances to express the truth of your
oneness.
A Wizard sees the truth of oneness in the
dance of daily realities. This gift has thepower to bring out the truth in each and
every one and is the secret of good company.
The master sculptor sees the goddess in the
block of granite and goes about removing
what is not the goddess to reveal the beauty
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of the figurine. God sees God and ego sees
ego. When God sees God, it is holy
communion. When ego sees ego, it is a
reflection that teaches about your own
mental tendencies that prevent you from
recognizing that you are in the eternal Now.
It is where the sculptor goes next to chip
away. Allow.
Communicating this truth of oneness via a
variety of ways in both the Eastern culture as
well as in the Western culture is rapidly
emerging in the information age on a global
scale. This cross-cultural bridge is genuine
and the timing, auspicious. Some of the ways
manifested are at a variance of what isconsidered traditional Wisdom. This is grist
for the mill and invites relationship for those
involved resulting in edification for a work in
progress that is fitting in a new time and a
new generation. Like threads in the tapestry
that cant be compartmentalized. Together,
these relationships contribute to the healing
of nations, increased tolerance, deepened
spiritual understanding and reformation.
Folk Fellowships go by a number of different
names spread across far distant places. In
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China, they are referred to as Taoists. In
Japan, Shinto. In India, the Hindus, In the
British Isles, Pagan (means country or
natural). In Jamaica, Rasta. In South
America, Shamans. In America, Hippies and
New Agers. Now its Burning Man and a New
World with Eckhart and Oprah. All are a part
of the Folk Fellowship at large. These are not
organized religions but they are veryauthentic fellowships. There are also many
fellowships unknown and unrecognized. The
mark of authenticity is the love and equality.
Membership button, belly button.
A Wizard is just another name, form and
symbol for the formless, nameless universalSelf that is the foundation of everyone and
everything, and therefore represents the true
nameless and formless Being of all. Be Wise.
Be a Wizard, Be your Self.
Find a mythological microcosm of universal
Truth for all abiding in the Now. Find
artisans in every form living their own way of
expressing the inexpressible, making up
pieces of the patchwork that come together
to form the tapestry of our communities and
world. Countless gems in a sacred necklace
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around the Mountain of Peace. Some are
well cut and polished like diamonds and
others are very informal and natural like
diamonds in the rough waiting to be
discovered. Known or unknown, they are all
true gems. Altogether they make up the
wonderful garland that adorns the Truth of
our Oneness. The Folk Fellowship.
"It would be possible to describe everything
scientifically, but it would make no sense; it
would be without meaning, as if you
described a Beethoven symphony as a
variation of wave pressure."
Albert Einstein~
You must be the change you want to see in
the world.
Mahatma Gandhi~
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You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm
not the only one. I hope someday you'll join
us, and the world will be as one
John Lennon~
John Lennon
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A Wizards Re-Creationhe Wizards Vision is always present Peace
and clarity. It is the eyes to see the Now,
clearly. It is not an image of the future.
The Vision is one of responsive service, here
and now. The Vision is a recognition of
existing wholeness. It is the wholeness of the
mutual transcendent Self, our minds &
bodies, our planet, all within our current
reality. The Vision spontaneously supports
stewardship and mentorship. The Wizards
Vision is open-ended, open-minded, inrepose and allows for its own unique re-
creation.
An environment that fosters a Wizards re-
creation is mutual trust. Simply called good
company. Enjoy it! A Wizards re-creation is
natural and organic and aligned withMystery. A Wizards re-creation is to
nourish and heal, continually restoring
wholeness back to the environment. A re-
creation that is responding to the genuine
needs of one another and those served. As a
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Wizard, re-creation is to enjoy the good
company of apparent others. Everyone may
participate in the re-creation of a fresh,
wholesome and enlightened Planet Earth.
Membership of the fellowship is as big as all
outdoors. Aspire to make the Vision Real-I-
Zation.
"Great spirits have always found violentopposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously
uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein~
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Wizards Wizardshere is already a Wizard in your life. Most
Wizards are unknown. They are also known
as saints, sages and seers. Wizards manifest
in different forms, including animal and
nature forms. The Wizard also dwells within
you as you. There are precious few confessed
Wizards. Wizards have Wizards.
The author of this manual has many mentor
Wizards, both known and unknown. Ram
Dass, James Campbell, Swami Muktananda,
Ramana Maharshi, Nityananda, Neem KaroliBaba, K. Sridhar, V. Ganesan to name a few
of the known. A true Wizard is a friend and
will relieve you of your search. They will re-
cognize you as your sacred Self. A few other
confessed Wizards you may have heard
about are Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu,
Walt Whitman, Eckhart Tolle, Papa-ji,Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rama Krishna, Sai
Baba, Puppet-ji, Albert Einstein, John
Lennon, Carl G. Jung, Bob Marley, Deepak
Chopra, Ramana Baba, Stephen Covey et al.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment:
that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in common
hours. He will put some things behind, will
pass an invisible boundary; new, universal,
and more liberal laws will begin to establish
themselves around and within him; or theold laws be expanded, and interpreted in his
favor in a more liberal sense, and he will
live with the license of a higher order of
beings. In proportion as he simplifies his
life, the laws of the universe will appear less
complex, and solitude will not be solitude,
nor poverty, nor weakness. If you have builtcastles in the air, your work need not be
lost; that is where they should be. Now put
the foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau~
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Ramana Maharshi
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James Campbell
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K. Sridhar
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Neem Karoli Baba
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Eckhart Tolle
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Nityananda
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V. Ganesan
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Swami Muktananda
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Jesus Christ
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Papaji
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Ananda Maya Ma
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Hexagram 50 TingThe CauldronThe six lines construct the image of Ting,
THE CAULDRON; at the bottom are the
legs, over them the belly, then come the ears
(handles), and at the top the carrying rings.
At the same time, the image suggests the
idea of nourishment. The ting, cast of
bronze, was the vessel that held the cooked
viands in the temple of the ancestors and at
banquets. The head of the family served the
food from the ting into the bowls of theguests.
THE WELL (48) likewise has the secondary
meaning of giving nourishment, but rather
more in relation to the people. The ting, as a
utensil pertaining to a refined civilization,
suggests the fostering and nourishing ofable people, which redounded to the benefit
of the state.
This hexagram and THE WELL are the only
two in the Book of Changes that represent
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concrete, human-made objects. Yet here too
the thought has its abstract connotation.
Sun, below, is wood and wind; Li, above, is
flame. Thus together they stand for the
flame kindled by wood and wind, which
likewise suggests the idea of preparing food.
THE JUDGMENT
The CAULDRON.
Supreme good fortune. Success.
While THE WELL relates to the social
foundation of our life, and this foundation is
likened to the water that serves to nourish
growing wood, the present hexagram refers
to the cultural superstructure of society.
Here it is the wood that serves as
nourishment for the flame, the spirit. All
that is visible must grow beyond itself;
extend into the realm of the invisible.Thereby it receives its true consecration and
clarity and takes firm root in the cosmic
order.
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Here we see civilization as it reaches its
culmination in religion. The ting serves in
offering sacrifice to God. The highest earthly
values must be sacrificed to the divine. But
the truly divine does not manifest itself
apart from man. The supreme revelation of
God appears in prophets and holy people.
To venerate them is true veneration of God.
The will of God, as revealed through them,should be accepted in humility; this brings
inner enlightenment and true
understanding of the world, and this leads
to great good fortune and success.
THE IMAGE
Fire over wood:
The image of THE CAULDRON.
Thus the superior man consolidates his fate
By making his position correct.
The fate of fire depends on wood; as long asthere is wood below, the fire burns above. It
is the same in human life; there is in man
likewise a fate that lends power to his life.
And if he succeeds in assigning the right
place to life and to fate, thus bringing the
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two into harmony, he puts his fate on a firm
footing.
Cauldron of Ghee Flaming Atop Arunachala
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The Story Line of theAuthorWizard Baldour aka John Troy
ohns friends as well as his business andprofessional associates call him The Wizard.
He says hes just doing what wants to
happen.
John Troy is a horizontal story line. As
such, it is written in third person. It is
imaginary in the sense it is not what youthink it is. Wizard Baldour is the ever-
present vertical paradigm. It is not
imaginary. It is
nameless. It always is.
The preceding portion
of this manual is
written from the
stance of the vertical
paradigm of existence,
the here and now.
J
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The following is the illusory linear story-line
of Johns transition to Wizard and the
domicile of the wise, Wisdom. In the end,
accept the message as your own and reject
the messenger as just another temporary
story line. Let it fade away.
John Troy (Wizard Baldour) is a North
Carolina native, born and raised in thisgentle, southern state.
As a child, summertime found him at a farm
in the Blue Ridge Mountains where he began
to learn all about the natural world of foods,
forests and fellowship, firsthand. His
Grandmother was a wonderful mentor. Hespent his time harvesting strawberries,
shucking corn, collecting eggs from the
henhouse, churning butter and even milking
the cows. He helped his Grandmother
prepare lavish meals on a wood cook stove.
Mealtime was the highlight of the day at his
Grandmothers farm and he loved the notion
of feeding people. Mixing savory smells,
good times and mighty fine eating became
dear to his heart.
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John and his brother, Frank, loved to play in
the woods and climb the mountains.
Out of school, John started a stereo
component business that became a leading
retailer in the Southeast in the stereo
component business.
John, while still a young man, had aspontaneous event one evening at a friends
home that changed his life. It was a sudden
paradigm shift of profound magnitude. A
profound realization occurred while reading
a newly released book called, Be Here Now,
by Ram Dass. John was listening to a newly
released record album with stereoheadphones. It all happened spontaneously
and quickly.
Johns attention introverted. He was being
drawn upstream in a river of light towards its
source. Reaching its source, identity
imploded. Awareness was free from the body
and gravity. An awesome vibration-like
sound that was felt as a huge bell ringing.
Formless existence was very briefly cognized
before completely being Self absorbed as the
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eternal unknown Divine realm. All
"otherness" was obliterated. Beyond
description. The ultimate experience of this
absorption proved unknowable and the only
recollection was through subtle intuition.
The fruit of this intuition was a perception of
oneness as Love and the maturing and
deepening of Faith. The thorn of death was
removed.
John later learned that the formal term used
in Hindu philosophy to describe this event is
Nirvikalpa Samadhi. This is a temporary but
total absorption in God, in which all bodily
awareness is dissolved along with all form to
reveal the formless nature of God or OnesTrue Self.
The experience of conventional reality upon
resuming bodily awareness was interpreted
by John as turning inside-out. Being was
non-local. The first eye contact after this
experience was with a small girl in the same
room. When John looked into her eyes, he
realized that he was looking at his Self! Not
as a reflection of a form in a mirror but the
very essence of both were really one and
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there existed a continuum. Reality was
transparent.
When the sun came up the next morning, he
recognized the sun within the same infinity
of his Self. Everything was within the infinity
of Self. He had turned inside-out.
John was stunned by this realization and hadlittle context in the world in which to frame
it. He had always thought he was literally the
voice in his head. He lacked the vocabulary
to express and articulate any insight. Shortly
afterwards, he began to lose touch with the
realization and started searching for a way
back to it. He had not the coaching orconviction to abide in this realization.
Then came a chance
meeting with a truly
remarkable man, James
Campbell. It was in
Jamaica.
Jamesy-Man, as he was
called, was the first
person that John met that
truly shared that deep understanding of
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being inside out. Jamesy, a little man in
the mountains of Jamaica with a heart as big
as all outdoors became Johns elder and
spiritual Godfather without any fanfare.
The meeting was quickly cut short in
synchronistic circumstances and the party
had to leave. Jamesy mentions to John, in
parting, that he (John) will return andpointed to a mountain on the horizon and
said to meet there, on top. He said he will
prepare a place.
John returned to North Carolina and his
domestic story-line totally fell apart. His
business was failing and his wife left him tobe with his best friend. His heart was
completely broken. In the midst of the
emotional turmoil, John could not get
Jamesy off his mind. Within a few months,
he sold his last possession, a Volkswagen,
and purchased an airplane ticket and
backpack and left family, home and garden
behind to go be with Jamesy in the
mountains of Jamaica. He had no money or
worldly possessions left to take with him. He
trusted his newly discovered intuition.
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He arrived at James (affectionately called
Jamesy-Man) camp, on top of the mountain
that had Jamesy pointed to, a few miles into
the wild mountain country of Jamaica,
outside of Cascades. It took several hours of
strenuous mountain hiking to reach his
campsite. When John finally reached the
camp, Jamesy was actually expecting him
and had built a grass hut for him to stay in.The hut or Gate as they would call it was
woven with bamboo and situated on a knoll
under a Mango tree. John could see the
Caribbean Sea in the far distance.
The camp was permeated with a deep and
profound stillness. He was introduced to theothers in the camp. There were several other
Caucasians in the camp with similar
circumstances as Johns. They all had very
interesting stories about how they were
drawn to be there with Jamesy.
John stayed with Jamesy in the mountains
for that entire winter. Jamesy began to teach
John the lessons of Love through
nourishment in every conceivable way.
Jamesy literally fed John out of the wild.
There were no roads, no electricity, no
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mirrors, no running water, etc. There was no
money around as money was not used. The
huts were made of bamboo and straw with
dirt floors. There were no schedules, no
books, no names of days and months and no
watches or time references within the
environment. The veneer of words and
concepts was absent.
John was treated and respected like a God.
Jamesy mantra was I & I One Love Jah
Rastafari. The idea of you or "other" was
not in his mind or language. Jamesy never
asked for anything from anyone in return for
his profound generosity. He taught John not
to put his faith in money.
Jamesys way was totally natural and out of
the wild. Jamesy could not read or write. He
taught by example. John adapted the skills of
preparing healthy food with what the good
earth freely provided. Days were spent
gathering and preparing food from scratch
from the wild harvest. Jamesy taught John
the power of blending love, fellowship and
food.. naturally, gracefully and peacefully.
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as the Rasta would call it. It was timeless. It
was just happening.
John began to see this illiterate black man in
the mountains of Jamaica as one with a
profound saintly nature, similar to the sages
he had heard of from India; Neem Karoli
Baba, Ramakrishna and Swami Nityananda.
During that winter, several of his friendswere also drawn to Jamaica for varying
lengths of time. Everyone was treated with
equal love and respect. Others from different
parts of the world trickled in and out with
stories of remarkable synchronicity. The
local people would visit frequently. They
would bring gifts of food and always be goodcompany in the camp.
The environment was free of conventional
religious trappings. There was no
organization or hierarchy and nothing to
join. There was no politics. Everyone
enjoyed the simple company of Jamesy.
From time to time, Jamesy would share a
little story that he would make up on the
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still pool. Puppy forgets bone in mouth and
is attracted to bone in reflection. Puppy goes
for bone in said reflection. Jamesy says.
In a very animated way, as the story goes,
Jamesy then goes for the reflection of the
bone in the imaginary pool as if he did not
already have the bone in his mouth and
immediately the stick (bone) drops from hismouth. Now puppy dog not happy, lost
bone! Jamesy says as he starts acting like a
puppy that is fretting.
Jamesy starts looking for the bone again.
After another very fretful search, he finds the
stick (bone) and is once again happy.
Puppy quickly looks to same said still pool
with bone, Jamesy says, holding the stick in
his mouth. This time puppy looks very
carefully. Jamesy says slowly cocking his
head to the side Puppy sees its only a
reflection of bone already in mouth. Puppy
understands puppy has bone. Puppy holds
on to said bone with conviction. Jamesy
then swiftly departed and left the small
audience to ponder the teaching.
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And so it went with John that winter in
James camp. As winter turned into spring
and thinking about friends and family back
home, John returned from his sojourn to
Jamaica and Zion.
When John returned to the US, he became a
devotee of Swami Muktananda who initiatedhim with Shaktipat and an extensive
mystical awakening and tour through the
world of mystics and visions. John was in
and out of Muktanandas gracious company
for several years. Muktananda blessed him
and his work, consistently.
At Muktanandas last evening Darshan in
America before departing back to India and
discarding his physical form, Swami
Muktananda placed the Wizards hat on
Johns head and blessed him.
John co-founded The Lindenself Foundation
and began retreats and gatherings with
Muktanandas blessing. Here is where the
Wizard dimension becomes more self-
evident.
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The years pass. Johns Co-founder at
Lindenself, Philip Rego, asks John to help
develop the Wizard character for a musical
drama he was working on. The nick-name
sticks. The Wizard character continues to
develop out of the fellowship and motif of the
Lindenself Foundation and its community of
the arts.
John becomes one of the founding fathers of
the natural and organic food industry. They
get to know him as Wizard Baldour, like his
community at home. At first it was the first
power bar called Wizard Baldours Power
Pac. The Wizard becomes a folk Wizard.
The Wizard then
begins to build a
unique business that
manufactures and
bottles organic
sauces, dressings and
condiments. The
products are of very
high quality
ingredients with outstanding taste
characteristics. Organic food products that
function as delicious delivery systems loaded
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After some 20 years, John is, again, drawn to
James Campbell in Jamaica. The
synchronicity was just as intense as it ever
was twenty years earlier. Johns intimate
partner, Carol, his son, David, and a few
others go on a pilgrimage to Jamaica. John
meets Jamesy again and it is no different
than the first time. A profound sense of
peace is at hand. Jamesy recognizes John,seems to be expecting him, and they both
pick right up where they left off. The sense of
One Love was so pronounced, that all
seeking and questions were dissolved in the
stillness of the moment. John is humbled by
his reunion with Jamesy. They spend very
precious momentstogether. John is
left speechless.
When John returns
from Jamaica, an
Indian, K. Sridhar,
is introduced into
Johns story line.
Sridhar is a very
accomplished
Indian classical
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musician. Sridhars mother was a devotee of
Swami Nityananda, a great saint in India,
and Muktanandas Guru. Sridhar had grown
up with Swami Nityananda in India as a
small boy. He played music for many
masters and other genuine spiritual
mahatmas, spent lots of time in seclusion,
had pilgrimages to the Himalayas, or at
Arunachala. A real yogi.
Like Jamesy, he understood Johns
experience of inside-out. He asks John
about his relationship with Adida, Jamesy,
Nityananda and Muktananda. He informs
John his guru in India sent him (Sridhar
gives all credit to his Guru); He notices aphotograph of Swami Nityananda on Johns
mantel over the fireplace and acknowledges
that as a sign from his guru. He begins
immediately to build confidence in Johns
own self-realization, just like Jamesy did.
Again, there are no money issues. You cant
give money to Sridhar. He wont take it. He
will give it away. He will only accept money
for concerts or CD sales. You may feed him
and offer a place to sleep. Sridhar, like
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seekers, formal organization, pictures, books
and religion trinket business.
Sridhar was teaching John what organized
religion business is all about, first hand. It
depended on the devotee dropping the bone.
It depended on devotees staying within the
confines of a religion or belief system.
Deification was always evident.
This was the turning point in his trip to
India. John felt he had totally transcended
any need for organized religion in all its
forms, once and for all. The whole world was
Johns spiritual community.
They rented a car with a driver and traveled
overland to the ancient city of Benares on the
Ganges River. This is a very holy city in
India. It was sunset. Sridhar leaves John in
the car at a round-a-bout at the edge of the
mystic maze that sprawls to the sacred
Ganges River. Sridhar is winding his way to
find the rooms by the Ganges River and will
return with help for luggage.
While sitting in the back seat of the car,
waiting for Sridhar to return, John has an
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All phenomena were literally E or energy,
simply a light show. Phenomenally, John is
looking over the Ganges River, next to the
burning Ghats with dead bodies being
cremated, watching candle lit flower pujas
float down the Ganges with a profound sense
of Dj vu. All was exquisite perfection. He
spent that night in Benares, India opening
and surrendering. Mortality was missing,even amidst the burning bodies.
The following morning Sridhar returns. He
affirmed the experience as a Darshan from
the sage. John is then instructed by Sridhar
to go down to the banks of the Ganges. A
Brahman Priest meets him and instructs himto take three complete dips in the river. He
does so. He then sits on a bamboo mat facing
the Ganges, while the priest applies Tiki to
his forehead and performs a series of Vedic
chants before dismissing him. The rest of the
day is spent spontaneously in bliss. The knot
of separateness was dissolved for John.
John finishes the India trip with a stay in
Southern India (Tamil Nadu) at Ramana
Maharshis Ashram. When they arrived at
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separateness again dissolved so easily in this
ocean of silence.
What John was learning with Sridhar in
India is exactly what Jamesy was teaching.
You are the one you seek. You are the very
reflection you see in holy people, literature
and places. You are your own bone. You
are silence. John embraces the convictionneeded to not drop the bone of self-
awareness. He began to see everyone and
everything more seamlessly in God.
When John returned to Jamaica after being
in India with Sridhar, the same synchronistic
patterns emerged. Jamesy had moved to anew camp in the mountains. Nothing had
changed about Jamesy. John shared with
him about Sridhar and his journey to India.
They laughed, talked about earlier times on
the mountain, and reasoned as he would
call it about spiritual matters. The teaching
was always the same. I and I One Love.
He gifted John with a bowl he had hand-
fashioned from a calabash. The party bid
farewell and left, returning to their
accommodations on the cliffs of Negril.
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green jade egg before returning back to a
calabash bowl.
Still naked, he returns inside the one-room
bungalow and stood facing the Ocean
through an open door with lightening
flashing everywhere. Drops of rainwater
dripped steadily through the ceiling
anointing the very crown of his head. He feltthe presence of Jamesy. He moves forward
and takes a seat and is transfixed, staring at
the ocean flashing with lightening for some
time, deeply absorbed in the silence, within
which, was raging a great storm. Jamesy was
communing with Wizard Baldour at the most
profound depth of silence. At times theWizardwould rage back, Yes, I! Yes I! I and
I One Love! Wizard Baldour was God-
intoxicated and began dancing with the
lightning.
The next time the Wizard sees Sridhar,
Sridhar inquires about Jamesy. He said that
his guru in the Himalayas informed him
Jamesy was the Wizards guru. They were all
coaching the Wizard to not drop the bone of
Self Realization. The real teachers are all on
the same team. They empower. Jamesy,
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Nityananda, Neem Karoli, Sridhar, God,
Guru, Self and in truth, everyone, are all one
and the same in spirit.
The Wizard was being taught that Love is far
more gracious than a name and Love makes
no claim of its own.
The last time the Wizard saw Jamesy was thesummer of 1998. Carol and the Wizard
traveled with Carols daughter, Lisa, and the
Wizards son, David. David and Lisa brought
more of their friends who wanted to visit
with Jamesy. The party visited the market,
bought fruit, veggies and a rope of tobacco
and set off to visit Jamesy