Spirituality and Wealth

Socialists have recently been working overtime to make us think that wealth, ownership and private property are somehow negative---not spiritual. A very good example of this Neocommunist myth is the short video on U-tube titled "I Am", presumably about enlightenment, but the whole video collapses into a communist lecture against all competition and the evils of those who "Have more than their share"....as stated in the film. Most people who are wealthy are wealthy because they are hard working and Intelligent, not the greedy crooks portrayed in this film. The man behind this Socialist sell is Tom Shadyac, a man who bumped his head while riding his bike and claims to have awakened to the great truths of the evils of great wealth. Frankly, I don't think he ever recovered from his concussion. Shadyac gave us the great comedy Ace Ventura, starring Jim Carry. He earned his wealth by offering us a entertainment. He deserves the money....but since he bumped his noggin, he feels that he should do penance....what a waste.

After the brain concussion, he traveled all over the world interviewing the best socialist liberals he could find and cloaked his neo-communism in the makings of yoga, meditation and the Noetic Sciences. Since I am a veteran meditator and teach meditation to my many clients as a Psychologist, I very much resist this fruit cake pushing his anti capitalist, anti wealth and anti competition views while hiding behind the enlightenment rubric. This man is plain crazy. In the film, he shows us the immense wealth he acquired in Hollywood, then shows us how he gave all that up to now live in a trailer house....truly self sacrificing ! Giving up his mansion did not make one poor person less poor.

So what is the top income that we are allowed ? Who decides what our "fair share" is? If you are smart enough to get rich, by all means get rich. As the other film, "The Secret" rightly tells you, there is enough wealth in the Universe to go around. Being rich did not make anyone else poorer, unless you are using people like animals for back breaking labor. The whole idea that there is only one consciousness and we are partaking of it, comes from the Hindu Vedanta, one of the most advanced views of reality ever discovered by man. The communists are using this idea to push their agenda...don't fall for it. Meditate AND get rich.

There is only one All Pervading Consciousness...and you and I are part of it. The Hollywood socialists are afraid of their own wealth. The neo-communists would stop the Olympics, because to them, all competition is bad. The truth is, they FEAR competition and they fear the wealthy. Competition is the heart of nature, and it is the reason any of us are here on earth. Since these Socialist feel guilty for acquiring their wealth, I would be happy to accept a few million dollars to the Dr. Richard Pratt fund. I will use the money to keep writing....about the joys of Meditation and the glories of being rich. Poverty never helped anyone, and we will never be able to completely eradicate it, simply because there are non competent people in the world. That may or may not be their fault.

Rich people are giving us all a great deal, and we should applaud them. Live long and Prosper.

Gods Reality is Within Us

Many have sought God as a form, outside of themselves, when in reality, God is a never ending clear light that has no form. Through out the Universes that exist as expressions of this great, infinite consciousness, there are beings who are stepped down versions of God and these beings have good will, supreme wisdom and Love for all that exists, knowing full well that all that is, is God Itself. Our conventional language, especialy in the west, usess the term HIM for God as the feeling that God is the personification of a powerfull, yet loving male. In parts of India, where spirituality is much deeper that it ever has been in the west, God is worshiped as the DIVINE MOTHER. When the yogi in his/her deep meditation enters the place behind and above that thought stream, created by a brain reflex...they feel and move into the The Clear Light of the very essence of God.

The never ending Clear Light has never not existed, and all matter is but a condensced form of energy, which is itself a very condenseced form of Pure Consciousness....God. The word God is really a title and not a name. The Name of God is expressed by thousands of sounds, uttered from the human voice. YahHehWahHe, from the Kabbalah, Radhasoami, or Sat Nam from Sant Mat, Rama from Hindusim and Allah, or Ilah from Islam. All of these names come from some point in the heart that resonates with the feeling of the divinity that is within us. When we realize that God must be at the core of our being, we stop trying so hard to project an egoistic, "Me and my story" image to others. Since God fills all of space and is the space of space itself, we know that deep within us, deeper than our cells or blood or brain, is the Clear Light of Pure Mind....The Most High.

We then never again fear Death or Deaths many workers and helpers. Death is the just like walking through a doorway, or perhaps a beautiful gate with a garden path, that leads to the light of Heaven. There are many Heavens and beings on other worlds, who look nothing like us in the flesh, have their Heavens. God, who is beyond all form, and does not change, is also beyond all manner of worlds, Heavens, Gardens, Planets, or Hells. God Is. The true seeker seeks much more than Heaven, but seeks God Himself....the Being behind Being, the light behind all thought. When you daydream, worry, go back into the past, try to second guess the future, you are locked in your skull and have not the means to find peace. Letting go of your constant inner chatter is the key. You can do this by holding the image of a clear light that completely sorrounds you and is always with and interpenetrates your body and your mind.

Say to yourself that "Day and night, God dwells within my mind." Which is in fact, the truth. All of your worries will mean nothing a few years from now and when you die, they will also come to naught. Now, this moment is your appointment with eternity and now, this moment, is where the part of you that is also God and in touch with God....dwells.