The Code - 10 Intentions for a Better World

I've been reading some books specifically regarding the Laws of Manifestation and also the creation of a “better world” through conscious intent.  These are books written by Tony Burroughs and they are available through his website - http://www.intenders.com.
 
So, specifically what is The Code?  It is a list of 10 Intentions meant to be the foundation for manifesting according to the Highest Good for ALL concerned.  The author suggests that the individual applying them should read them out loud every day.  His books are entertaining (I am really enjoying the book I am reading now, a fictional parable based upon The Code with Native American and current political undertones called Book 2 - The Reunion - a parable for peace) and his basic principles regarding manifestation seem sound.  There are times I think he is a bit extreme regarding conventional systems of government and finance but then, in days such as these, one can't help but keep an open mind regarding what we don't know but maybe should.

I will try to elaborate on The Code in a bit more detail, from his book The Code - 10 Intentions for a Better World, by adding to this thread from time to time.  I know there are some of you who are already aware of this code or this author's work, as it has been circulating around Gaia lately, but I think it worthy of repeating here for our pod members benefit.

I'll attach ”The Code” itself as a reply to this thread.

Deb

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The Third Intent - Set Your Course
 
 

Reading about The Third Intent was short and pretty easy for any one familiar at all with the Law of Attraction or Manifestation as Mr Burroughs calls it. 

This caused me to wonder if it might be a good practice to have a place where we can “play around” with setting small intentions for a single day, each day anyone might be inclined to do it, and then watch how these manifest or actually unfold.

It could be encouraging and inspiring for others to read about these little successes and an even more helpful lesson, if they don’t manifest for some reason.  In hindsight, it is often possible to discern the blockages within our own self to a manifestation we thought we wanted, ie thoughts that we are not worthy could be one example.  By sharing where we find our sources of resistance or negative or doubting thoughts that have hindered our intentions, we can assist one another to become more effective intentional persons. 

It would be nice to have some feedback about whether this idea interests anyone in this group.  Even if only a few partiicipate and no one participates daily, it might pick up momentum over time.

For those who have had some difficulty with setting their intentions, I offer the follow sections from this chapter entitled - The Third Intent - Set Your Course.

When we set an intention
we enter the world of the magical.
By stating our word boldly
we draw unseen forces
to work on our behalf.
Many do not believe this.
They discount the miraculous
and say that it does not work.
But they are missing out.

Our thoughts and words
are powerful.
They are active
and very energetic.
Used unconsciously
or with disrepect
they bring chaos.

Intent is a very special ally.
It is a friend to man and woman,
a harbinger who readies,
a helper who gathers,
an artist who shapes and forms
the quantum substances
so that they may
materialize
and manifest
miraculously
before us.

How do you approach
this powerful companion
so that you know
you will work wisely together?
You single out a desire,
any desire.

Make sure it is one
that you really want to experience.
Then call forth the Highest Good
(so that only the intentions
that serve you will manifest)
and then clearly,
courageously,
confidently
speak aloud
the dreams of your heart.
Intend that they come to you,
then let them go and know that
Great Oneness is taking care of everything
from then on.

After that, all that is required
is to remain alert,
be ready to receive
and know:
when you set your intent
for that which you seek to create
it will be created.

Here are Mr Burrough’s suggestions for setting intentions -
 
 
 
[1]     Make at least one or two intentions for a physial object. 
          Have it be something you need and remember to intend
          that you’re open to receive it from both expected and
          unexpected sources. 
 
 
 
[2]      Set a clear intention for the overall or for your own environment.
 
          For instance, you might intend that our air, water, and soil are
 
          completely pure.  Or that mankind is living in peace.  It could be
 
          for a renewed balance in the world economic systems.  Get as
 
          creative as you like.  (deb’s note - certainly this could be for your
 
          own personal environment - de-clutter the house, clean out
          the year’s growth from the garden, plant fall flowers, etc)
 
 
 
[3]     Make at least one or two intentions for an emotional
          experience.  Perhaps it will be for a relationship, or for a
          state of joy to embrace you.  On this one, be sure to find
          the positive way to say it.  Don’t say “I intend that I am not
          angry anymore.”  Instead say, “I intend that I am tolerant
          and emotionally balanced at all times”.
 
 
 
[4]      Make an intention or two about your expanding mental
          faculties  It could be that you desire to enhance your
          memory, or that you connect with a higher soure of wisdom.
          Anything that expands your thinking outside of its customary
          processes will do.  A good example of this is, “Knowing
          that my thoughts are the forerunners of my experiences,
          I intend that I am more vigilant of my thoughts, and that I
          am keeping my attention only on thoughts that serve me
          and my world”.
 
 
 
[5]      Make an intention or two regarding your spiritual growth.
          Perhaps you’d like to intend that your next step is clearly
          revealed to you.  Or that you experience yourself as a
          spiritual being becoming fully conscious.  Or that you feel
          the true love of God in your life.  Intend whatever seems
          appropriate for you at this time, but make certain that it
          is something that you really want - because you’re going
          to get it ! !
 
 
 

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I would like to hear other peoples perspectives and intentions for a better world.
(I would Love to see them)

My intentions are to actively promote sustainability for all beings. My methodology, using technology to promote sustainability and health (solar panels along all our high ways, a resurgence in medical cures and advances as being less wasteful and justly sharing food and other resources) , Questioning our system of monetary bartering, as well as the idea of power.

!%@% Harmony @!@%!

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Pirocheetah,

Good intentions you have there.

I am in the middle of an interview with Riane Eisler in Super Consciousness magazine.  Best known for her 1987 bestseller The Chalice and the Blade (which I would really like to get and read sometime), she expresses some very interesting ideas.  Historically, our economic system is based on domination.  Eisler says that it doesn't have to be trickle down (top tier privileged and everyone else with the leavings, as we call them in our household).

Eisler is promoting a partnership system, which she says is not only more effective in human and environmental terms but in economic terms, as well.  She says the fact that we value plumbers more than caregivers is pathological and built on an invisible system of gendered values.  

She believes the underlying and largely invisible gendered cultural values are more powerful than market values.  The percentage of military spending in the 2005 budget as compared to education, health care, early childhood development, etc is quite skewed.  That we're told big government and huge deficits are just fine when it comes to wars and weapons and prisons but somehow we can't afford child and health care.

She uses the Scandinavian nations as an example and says that the values she is talking about transcend socialism and capitalism.  She says these nations are a mix of free market enterprise and central planning and that it isn't really socialism (these nations don't call themselves socialist), they use the term “caring society”.  Wow, does that term really sound good to me.

She faults President Obama's job creation plans as still having that gendered system of values - he wants to invest in bridges, roads and the green economy.  This is all very good and well but besides the material and natural infrastructure, she would like to see emphasis on the human infractructure; which would be early childhood related jobs, primary teaching and hands on healthcare - all traditionally women's jobs.

Well, that is as far as I've gotten in the article but as we look at the fallout and destruction of the old ways of “doing” the economy, I think we'd do well to consider some of Riane Eisler's ideas in the new mix.  Maybe we wouldn't need so many prisons.  Now, there is savings we could put back into women's jobs created.

Deb

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The discrimination of money.

Who has money? Who Doesn't? Why?
Who has an abundance of food? Who Doesn't? why?

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Pirocheetah,

Thank you for continuing the conversation.  Also in the current issue of Super Consciousness, I read an article titled Scarcity: The Great Lie by Lynne Twist, the author of The Soul of Money.  She blames Money for the belief in the lie of scarcity.

For the last 30 yrs, Lynne has worked in global initiatives addressing hunger, rainforest protection, the enpowerment of indigenous people, improving health, economic and politcal conditions for women and children, advancing scientifice understanding of human consciousness and creating a sustainable future for all life.  Her greatest inspiration was a lecture she attended in the 1970s by R Buckminster Fuller.  What he had to say changed her life from that point forward.

Fuller said that for centuries, perhaps thousands of years, we have lived in the belief that there's not enough to go around, and that we need to fight and compete to garner those resources for ourselves.  Perhaps it had been a valid perception at one time, or perhaps it hadn't been, he said, but at this point in history (in the 1970s), we were able to do so much more with so much less that as a human family we clearly had reached a point where there actually was enough for everyone everywhere to meet or even surpass their needs to live a reasonably healthy, productive life.  This moment represented a dramatic breakthrough in the evolution of civilization and humankind, he said.


Whether it was a recognition of something already true or a moment of transformation in the status of civilizations, he said, either way it could be the most significant turning point in our evolution because it meant we could move from a you-or-me-world - a world where either you or I make it, and where we need to compete and fight to see who wins - to a you-and-me-world, where all of us can make it.  In that you-and-me-world, all of us have enough food, enough water, enough land, enough housing, enough of the fundamental things for each one of us to live a fulfilling and productive life.


This new threshold completely changes the game, and it would take 50 years, he predicted, for us to make the necessary adjustments in our world so we could move from a you-or-me paradigm to you-and-me pardigm, a pardigm that says the world can work for everyone with no one and nothing left out.  He said that our money system, our financial resources system, would need to adjust itself to reflect that reality and it would take decades for us to make that adjustment, but if and when we did, we would enter an age, a time, and a world in which the very fundatmental ways we perceive and think about ourselves and the world we live in would be so transformed that it would be unrecognizable.


I note that as our financial world appears to be melting down and in total disarray, we are approaching that 50 yrs he predicted it would take.  Perhaps it takes everything falling to pieces all at the same time to move us to make the change that has been there awaiting our recognition for so long.

Deb

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Yes.

There will always be enough for our needs

There will never be enough for our greeds

(Gandhi)

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So very well said.

Thanks for the quote from Gandhi.

Deb