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We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.
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I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights)
Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
Inspiration is what keeps us well.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights)
This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
you should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
the First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one’s life, the feeling that some other process is operating.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
the health of the body is determined to a great degree by our mental processes: what we think of life and especially of ourselves, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we’re able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
We’re all looking for more fulfillment in our lives, and we won’t put up with anything that seems to bring us down.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
And when it comes to relationships, we’re so demanding that we’re making them near impossible.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
Al actuar y ser como eres ahora, estás determinando la forma de ser y actuar de los demás.
James Redfield (The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (Celestine Prophecy, #4))
Because, again, very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
you’re going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal... in league with the devil himself.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
You do not make yourself love... You allow love to enter you.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
Your whole life has been a long road leading directly to this moment
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After a while, the conversations became almost cordial.
James Redfield (Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight)
What we don’t realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else’s energy.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we’ve gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We’ve forgotten that we still don’t know what we’re surviving for.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
It is not just about being thankful, it is to make eating a holy experience, so the energy from the food can enter your body.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
Fear lowers one’s vibration tremendously.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
He paused, thinking, so Dobson asked again that we sit
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy)
Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
if the idea comes to you that
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The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
As if pulled by my growing sense of beauty, I then felt myself expand at the emotional level into a profound feeling of love and Connection with everything around me. Something in the area of my heart burst outward, and I knew without a doubt that I was now home and cared for, and absolutely---I couldn't believe it---Protected
James Redfield (The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (Celestine Prophecy, #4))
Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we’ve gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We’ve forgotten that we still don’t know what we’re surviving for.’ Out
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
That humans are stuck in a kind of competition for each other’s energy. When we can get others to acquiesce to our view, they identify with us and that pulls their energy into us and we feel stronger.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
Do you see how preoccupied everyone has been? This perspective explains a lot. How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called transcendent, spiritual. If you find yourself reading this book, then perhaps you already sense what is happening, already feel it inside. It begins with a heightened perception of the way our lives move forward. We notice those chance events that occur at just the right moment, and bring forth just the right individuals, to suddenly send our lives in a new and important direction. Perhaps more than any other people in any other time, we intuit higher meaning in these mysterious happenings. We know that life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. And we know something else as well: know that once we do understand what is happening, how to engage this allusive process and maximize its occurrence in our lives, human society will take a quantum leap into a whole new way of life one that realizes the best of our tradition and creates a culture that has been the goal of history all along. The following story is offered toward this new understanding. If it touches you, if it crystalizes something that you perceive in life, then pass on what you see to another for I think our new awareness of the spiritual is expanding in exactly this way, no longer through hype nor fad, but personally, through a kind of positive psychological contagion among people. All that any of us have to do is uspend our doubts and distractions just long enough... and miraculously,this reality can be our own.
James Redfield
creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we’re alive, and we’re going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can’t know.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.
James Redfield (Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight)
This restless searching is what’s behind the ‘me–first’ attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it’s affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs.” She
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
You allow love to enter you. But to do this you must position your mind by remembering what it felt like and try to feel it again.
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reconciliation of views
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
We’re cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
Only individual opinions are fixed and dogmatic.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to the people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure by James Redfield | Summary & Study Guide)
Then, we’re ready to begin the evolutionary flow.” “And how do we engage this process?” I thought for a moment. “By keeping our current life questions firmly in mind,” I said. “And then watching for direction, either in a dream or in an intuitive thought or in the way the environment illuminates and jumps out at us.” I
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Prvi korak za svakog od nas u procesu raščišćavanja jest da svoju osobnu dramu potpuno osvjestimo. Ništa se ne može nastaviti sve dok ne pogledamo sami sebe i ne otkrijemo što činimo kako bi manipulirali energijom.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
In the face of this deficit, we humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known: by seeking to psychologically steal it from others—an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
When you fully integrate this view of your life, you will have achieved what the Manuscript calls a clear awareness of your spiritual path. According to the Manuscript we all must spend as much time as necessary going through this process of clearing our past. Most of us have a control drama we have to transcend but once we do, we can comprehend the higher meaning for why we were born to our particular parents, and what all the twists and turns of our lives were preparing us to do. We all have a spiritual purpose, a mission, that we have been pursuing without being fully aware of it, and once we bring it completely into consciousness, our lives can take off.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
In other words, the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe – as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
The movement of this energy, if we can systematically observe it, is a way to understand what humans are receiving when we compete and argue and harm each other. When we control another human being we receive their energy. We fill up at the other’s expense and the filling up is what motivates us. Look, I must learn how to see these energy fields.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my perceptual field, from the small insects close to my face all the way to the galaxy of stars behind the moon. I was looking at everything from the larger perspective of the entire Universe.
James Redfield (The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (Celestine Prophecy, #4))
hedonism.
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Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.
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the human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
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a pleasant reverie
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Perhaps you met so that you could receive some information that will extend your journey here. And doesn’t it follow that perhaps you have some information for him as well?
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy)
That’s the incredible high we all call being “in love.” Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from the other person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other – only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way. At this point the relationship degenerates into the usual power struggle
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
We’re already living in the information age. Everyone will have to educate themselves the best they can, become an expert in some niche, so that they can be in the right place to advise someone else or perform some other service. The more technical the automation becomes, and the more quickly the world changes, the more we need information from just the right person arriving in our lives at just the right time. You don’t need a formal education to do that; just a niche you’ve created for yourself through self-education.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy #2))
No, you were drawn in because you made the same mistake you made earlier: you didn't just open up and listen to those souls; you gave yourself over to them, as if they automatically had all the answers, without checking to see of they were connected and motivated by love.
James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy, #2))
When humans begin to raise their vibrations to a level where others cannot see them,” Julia continued, “it will signal that we are crossing the barrier between this life and the other world from which we came and to which we go after death. This conscious crossing over is the path shown by the Christ. He opened up to the energy until he was so light he could walk on water. He transcended death right here on Earth, and was the first to cross over, to expand the physical world into the spiritual. His life demonstrated how to do this, and if we connect with the same source we can head the same way, step by step.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we’re trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and at the level of nations.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
The First Insight is a reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. We are experiencing these mysterious coincidences, and even though we don’t understand them yet, we know they are real. We are sensing again, as in childhood, that there is another side of life that we have yet to discover, some other process operating behind the scenes.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1))
why humans treat each other so violently. We’ve always known that this violence comes from the urge humans feel to control and dominate one another, but only recently have we studied this phenomenon from the inside, from the point of view of the individual’s consciousness. We have asked what happens inside a human being that makes him want to control someone else. We have found that when an individual walks up to another person and engages in a conversation, which happens billions of times each day in the world, one of two things can happen. That individual can come away feeling strong or feeling weak, depending on what occurs in the interaction.’ I gave him a puzzled look and he appeared slightly embarrassed at having rushed into a long lecture on the subject. I asked
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism)
Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be successful.
James Redfield (The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (Celestine Prophecy, #4))
Understanding the Fourth Insight, it said, is a matter of seeing the human world as a vast competition for energy and thus for power. Yet, once humans understand their struggle, the insight continued, we would immediately begin to transcend this conflict. We would begin to break free from the competition over mere human energy…because we would finally be able to receive our energy from another source. I looked at Wil. “What’s the other source?” I asked. He smiled, but said nothing.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy)
Quero lhe dizer o seguinte—disse o padre Sanchez. — Lembre-se de parar quantas vezes for preciso para se religar em sua energia. Permaneça cheio, permaneça em estado de amor. Não esqueça que uma vez atingido esse estado de amor, nada, nem ninguém, pode retirar mais energia de você do que a que você pode recuperar. Na verdade, a energia que flui de você cria uma corrente que puxa energia para dentro de você na mesma proporção. Você não pode ficar vazio. Mas deve estar consciente desse processo para que ele funcione. Isso é sobretudo importante quando você interage com pessoas.
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights)
It's like there is a huge balance scale in the sky, weighing the relative strength of two opposing fields of Influence. One side represents those opening to a higher personal spirituality, and thus acting to lift others into that consciousness. The other side of the scale represents those who are still stuck in fear and anger, who are acting to pull people down into a simmering, untruthful fear and rage." The statement hit me hard. That meant there was a contagion from both sides, and the balance shifted daily depending on how consistently those in Alignment could hold their truth with others.
James Redfield (The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (Celestine Prophecy, #4))
And what quantum physics has shown is that when we look at these patterns of energy at smaller and smaller levels, startling results can be seen. Experiments have revealed that when you break apart small aspects of this energy, what we call elementary particles, and try to observe how they operate, the act of observation itself alters the results--as if these elementary particles are influenced by what the experimenter expects. This is true even if the particles must appear in places they couldn't possibly go, given the laws of the universe as we know them: two places at the same moment, forward or backward in time, that sort of thing.
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It was an amazing experience,” I said. “By remembering the love I felt I was able to open up. I sat up there all day simmering in it. I didn’t reach the state I experienced on the ridge but I got close.” Sanchez looked more serious. “The role of love has been misunderstood for a long time. Love is not something we should do to be good or to make the world a better place out of some abstract moral responsibility, or because we should give up our hedonism. Connecting with energy feels like excitement, then euphoria, and then love. Finding enough energy to maintain that state of love certainly helps the world, but it most directly helps us. It is the most hedonistic thing we can do.
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I talked with the priest a long time about this,’ she replied. ‘He said that when both partners in a relationship are overly demanding, when each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.’ What she said struck home. My last two relationships had indeed degenerated into power struggles. In both situations, we had found ourselves in a conflict of agendas. The pace had been too fast. We had too little time to coordinate our different ideas about what to do, where to go, what interests to pursue. In the end, the issue of who would lead, who would determine the direction for the day, had become an irresolvable difficulty.
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Do you remember the Third Insight, that humans are unique in a world of energy in that they can project their energy consciously?” “Yes.” “Do you remember how this is done?” I recalled John’s lessons. “Yes, it is done by appreciating the beauty of an object until enough energy comes into us to feel love. At that point we can send energy back.” “That’s right. And the same principle holds true with people. When we appreciate the shape and demeanor of a person, really focus on them until their shape and features begin to stand out and to have more presence, we can then send them energy, lifting them up. “Of course, the first step is to keep our own energy high, then we can start the flow of energy coming into us, through us, and into the other person. The more we appreciate their wholeness, their inner beauty, the more the energy flows into them, and naturally, the more that flows into us.” She laughed. “It’s really a rather hedonistic thing to do,” she said. “The more we can love and appreciate others, the more energy flows into us. That’s why loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.” “I’ve heard that before,” I said. “Father Sanchez says it often.” I looked at Julia closely. I had the feeling I was seeing her deeper personality for the first time. She returned my gaze for an instant, then focused again on the road. “The effect on the individual of this projection of energy is immense,” she said. “Right now, for instance, you’re filling me with energy. I can feel it. What I feel is a greater sense of lightness and clarity as I’m formulating my thoughts to speak. “Because you are giving me more energy than I would have otherwise, I can see what my truth is and more readily give it to you. When I do that, you have a sense of revelation about what I’m saying. This leads you to see my higher self even more fully and so appreciate and focus on it at an even deeper level, which gives me even more energy and greater insight into my truth and the cycle begins over again. Two or more people doing this together can reach incredible highs as they build one another up and have it immediately returned. You must understand, though, that this connection is completely different from a co-dependent relationship. A co-dependent relationship begins this way but soon becomes controlling because the addiction cuts them off from their source and the energy runs out. Real projection of energy has no attachment or intention. Both people are just waiting for the messages.
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to show us the way—the easier life is to handle. 'So, to begin, we have to put a sticky note on the bathroom mirror, or tell a friend to call us first thing in the morning, anything to remind ourselves to set up an expectation for Synchronicity first thing each day. Eventually, it becomes a habit. And once all the mysterious coincidences are happening and our destiny seems to be unfolding, all that is left is to stay in that flow.” He paused dramatically. “And to do that,” he went on, “we have to learn to communicate what’s going on with us to others.” “What?” “Think about what happens when we lose the Flow,” he explained. “Doesn’t it occur because we hit some situation where we have to interact with others who aren’t in a flow, and who can’t readily see the meanings we are seeing? The effect is to knock us out of it altogether.” I thought about what happened to me with the skeptic. It was certainly true in that case. “When I’m in the flow,” I said, “I usually try to get away from most people, so they can’t knock me out of it.” “I know,” Wil said in a mock accusatory tone. “Are you saying' 'I asked, “that I should have taken the time to talk with that skeptic, even though that’s not what I wanted to do?” “No, I’m suggesting that you should have been open and truthful with him, maybe asking him to wait a minute while you talked to the people at the table. He was needling you, but you didn’t lose your flow because of him. You lost it because you didn’t find a way to honestly communicate who you were and what you were doing.” “I don’t think he was interested in hearing anything from me.” “You’re missing the point. I’m not telling you to defend yourself or to convince him of anything. You just have to give him the truth of the situation as you see it, with the main purpose being to keep yourself centered in the flow.
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Your whole life has been a long road leading directly to this moment.” He smiled. “When you fully integrate this view of your life, you will have achieved what the Manuscript calls a clear awareness of your spiritual path. According to the Manuscript we all must spend as much time as necessary going through this process of clearing your past. Most of us have a control drama we have to transcend but once we do, we can comprehend the higher meaning for why we were born to our particular parents, and what all the twists and turns of our lives were preparing us to do. We all have a spiritual purpose, a mission, that we have been pursuing without being fully aware of it, and once we bring it completely into consciousness, our lives can take off. “In your case, you’ve discovered this purpose. Now, you must go forward, allowing the coincidences to lead you into a clearer and clearer idea of how to pursue this mission from this point on, what else you must do here.
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We were talking about childhood dramas. Then I remembered. “You had said something that had confused me,” I said. “You had said that a person cannot play a control drama with us unless we play the matching drama. I didn’t understand that.” “Do you understand now?” “Not really. What are you getting at?” “The scene outside clearly demonstrated what happens if you do play the matching drama.” “How?” She glanced at me briefly. “What drama was the man playing with you?” “He was obviously the Intimidator.” “Right, and what drama did you play?” “I was just trying to get him off my back.” “I know, but what drama were you playing?” “Well, I started off in my aloofness drama, but he kept coming after me.” “Then?” The conversation was irritating me but I tried to get centered and stay with it. I looked at Julia and said, “I guess I was playing a Poor Me.” She smiled. “That’s right.” “I noticed you handled him with no problem,” I said. “Only because I didn’t play the drama he expected. Remember that each person’s control drama was formed in childhood in relation to another drama. Therefore each drama needs a matching drama to be fully played out. What the intimidator needs in order to get energy is either a poor me, or another intimidator. “How did you handle it?” I asked, still confused. “My drama response would have been to play the Intimidator myself, trying to out intimidate him. Of course, this would probably have resulted in violence. But instead I did what the Manuscript instructs. I named the drama he was playing. All dramas are covert strategies to get energy. He was trying to intimidate you out of your energy. When he tried that on me, I named what he was doing.” “That’s why you asked why he was so angry?” “Yes. The Manuscript says that covert manipulations for energy can’t exist if you bring them into consciousness by pointing them out. They cease to be covert. It is a very simple method. The best truth about what’s going on in a conversation always prevails. After that the person has to be more real and honest.” “That makes sense,” I said. “I guess I’ve even named dramas myself before, though I didn’t know what I was doing.” “I’m sure. That’s something all of us have done. We’re just learning more about what is at stake. And the key to making it work is to simultaneously look beyond the drama at the real person in front of you, and send as much energy their way as possible. If they can feel energy coming in anyway, then it’s easier for them to give up their way of manipulating for it.” “What could you appreciate in that guy?” I said. “I could appreciate him as a little insecure boy needing energy desperately.
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It describes a significantly different way of life. For instance, the Manuscript predicts that we humans will voluntarily decrease our population so that we all may live in the most powerful and beautiful places on the Earth. But remarkably, many more of these areas will exist in the future, because we will intentionally let the forests go uncut so that they can mature and build energy. “According to the Ninth Insight, by the middle of the next millennium,” he continued, “humans will typically live among five hundred year old trees and carefully tended gardens, yet within easy travel distance of an urban area of incredible technological wizardry. By then, the means of survival—foodstuffs and clothing and transportation—will all be totally automated and at everyone’s disposal. Our needs will be completely met without the exchange of any currency, yet also without any overindulgence or laziness. “Guided by their intuitions, everyone will know precisely what to do and when to do it, and this will fit harmoniously with the actions of others. No one will consume excessively because we will have let go of the need to possess and to control for security. In the next millennium, life will have become about something else. “According to the Manuscript,” he went on, “our sense of purpose will be satisfied by the thrill of our own evolution—by the elation of receiving intuitions and then watching closely as our destinies unfold. The Ninth depicts a human world where everyone has slowed down and become more alert, ever vigilant for the next meaningful encounter that comes along. We will know that it could occur anywhere: on a path that winds through a forest, for instance, or on a bridge that traverses some canyon. “Can you visualize human encounters that have this much meaning and significance? Think how it would be for two people meeting for the first time. Each will first observe the other’s energy field, exposing any manipulations. Once clear, they will consciously share life stories until, elatedly, messages are discovered. Afterward, each will go forward again on their individual journey, but they will be significantly altered. They will vibrate at a new level and will thereafter touch others in a way not possible before their meeting.
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