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CYL - Neale Donald Walschdebyemm said Jun 26, 3:12 PM: |
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Well, I'm finally getting around to returning to my Celebrate Your Life journal of conference notes. I attended the full day, pre-conference workshop with Neale Donald Walsch on Friday, June 5th. YOU ARE CREATING YOUR OWN REALITY This statement would not be anything new to anyone who remotely believes in metaphysical practice. Walsch asked us to answer these 4 questions, based upon our beliefs at this moment in time. He suggested that we carry this practice forward; at the least, as an annual exercise, perhaps on New Year's, on your Birthday, whenever you feel it is time to re-evaluate or whenever you think you need to assess these key factors of your existence. [1] Who am I ? [2] Where am I ? [3] Why am I where I am ? [4] What am I supposed to be doing ? Walsch goes on to say, “How many books do you have to read to change what keeps showing up?” Realize that there are no “right” answers to these questions he poses. He reminds us that since life is fluxuating and ever changing, that the answer will change from moment to moment, so just give any answer that seems accurate for NOW. And if your answer to one or more of these questions doesn't work for you anymore the next time you review them, the changes you wanted to make, do not seem to be working, simply “change the answer”. This concept is what his new book is about (at least by the apparent meaning of the title - When Everything Changes, Change Everything). Walsch said that “going with the flow” simply absolves us of a sense of responsibility for what we are creating in our own life. If you live that way, you may arrive near the end of your life feeling that your life makes no sense. Walsch recounts hearing his father say, while rocking in a chair at the nursing home “I don't understand any of it, it hurt me”. He thinks this has to be the saddest response to having lived a life. So, what is seeking to emerge through you? At this point, Walch began to talk about Reality Creation as a function of body, mind & spirit - saying it was the mechanics of the mind, but a system of the spirit. When next I continue, I will get into the graphic heart of Walsch's presentation on Reality Creation. Deb  |
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Re: CYL - Neale Donald WalschTomDix said Jul 2, 10:28 AM: |
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Hi Deb! I'd given up on the thought of posting here, but tried last night for shiggles and it took! Looking forward to posting my own thoughts on CYL very soon. |
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Re: CYL - Neale Donald Walschdebyemm said Jul 2, 5:08 PM: |
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Tom, |
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Re: CYL - Neale Donald Walschdebyemm said Jul 16, 1:23 PM: |
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Notes from the Neale Donald Walsch workshop at Celebrate Your Life in Chicago, Jun 5, 2009 continued - There are 2 kinds of Data - both are in the “past” tense - Judged Past Factual Past Judged past data becomes a kind of truth, embracing data is not a “reaction”, it is totally voluntary and Walsch said this is what the word means - re-sponse-ability Judged past data creates an “imagined truth” producing a “Distorted reality”. Factual past data, Walsch said, is like Spock on Star Trek. The reaction to that type of perception could be called “fascinating”. He also commented on the “new” Spock, Data from The Next Generation series and said that Data is not perfect for he lacks and yearns for “emotion”. This reminded me that I saw a version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers not that long ago. The most striking concept I came away with, after watching that movie, was how the “possessed” people were so dull and emotionally life-less, that without emotions, we are not truly Human - even though our emotions can be the source of much of our emotional pain, they are also the core essence of our aliveness. Walsch also was quick to point out that judged past data need not be a negative interpretation, it could just as easily be an “imagined, positive Distorted reality”. OK-k-k-k, that one I struggle with. Of course, yes, I can see the truth of that statement. Yet, the place of beginning for this group - Living Metaphysics - is often a “practice”, we are called to prove to our self that we really do create our own reality, by intentionally doing that. When we are at this stage, the Manifestor, or level of development as a human being, we are intentionally “distorting” our negative reality in a positive direction, shifting the energy, and the truth is, if one practices distorting their reality in that positive direction long enough, their perceived and experienced reality becomes more positive because ???? yes, we do create our own reality. We are simply “proving” that truth to our own self, in our own way, in a way that no external entity has tricked us into believing or accepting. I did understand however, what he was trying to say as he went on to describe that Enlightened BEings do their work in the “data” realm. Rarely do they go to the Imagined Truth, though they may be perceiving in the Observed Reality / Apparent Truth levels, fields or realms. An Enlightened BEings truth woud be operating from Actual Truth, an EB would be aware that he was the cause of what happened, which involved him self in an event. Being aware that one is living an Actual Truth, that one has in some way intentionally “created” an event, leaves no room for rejection and the emotion could be described as one of pride in accomplishment and celebration in the ability. Walsch said, when one is in the “right” frame of mind, they are experiencing Ultimate Reality, they are clearly understanding, perceiving life as God, being a human in this particular time/space vehicle of the body (physical, mental and emotional - all). Walsch made the point over and over again that “we can choose any reality we wish”. So, if your reality is not to your liking, then “why are you doing that to yourself?” Walsh asked “Who determines what is factual?”. Well, this is an “x” and that's obviously what's “so” but then, he said, not so obvious is “so what?” The “so what?” is what creates “judged past data”. The observing mind does know the difference but the Ego is what decides “so what?”. It is to the Ego that the “so what?” matters. Someone did “x”. So what? So, they must really hate me, not love me, be out to get me, etc. It is equally likely that the “someone” is not thinking of any of those reasons as being the impulse that caused them to do “x”. Beverly (the one that Tom mentions in his sharing of the Chicago conference, as sitting next to him), said in the workshop that she had just “channeled” an answer - “Judged data comes from Ego, factual data comes from Spirit”. I don't know. I smile when someone claims “channeled”, though I know and sincerely accept that is what it feels like to many people who have those experiences and I am certainly in no position to judge for someone else what the fact is, in such instances. Yet, I will share with you here, what my experience of such is, it comes from within. I simply “believe” it as my Higher Self, God who is in me or accessible to me from within, and thankfully I can “receive” that thought, for it generally seems beyond what my human self could know. I'm saying that thought has not appeared to have arrived from the experiences of my life but I personally don't feel the need appreciate it as something external to my individualized soul or to put some other entity into my personal equation. I tried that in my 20s and it got me into loads of trouble. This way never gets me into that kind of trouble because I have to take responsibility for it at some level, even if it is at a non-physical, inhuman level (a spiritual level). Please, I know this is a touchy concept for me to even dare or risk sharing; because many, many people who have such experiences interpret and “know” the experience as being a “channel” and coming from somewhere “out there” or “in there” but the Source is not from their own Self or soul. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that concept. Michael Bernard Beckwith uses the concept of being a channel as a phase of human potential in development. I believe it is the 3rd or 4th phase he describes. This portion of the Walsch's workshop session closed with Em, Walsch's wife, reading one of her beautiful poems. I wrote down a couple of phrases but of course, could not write fast enough to get it all. She has a book of poetry coming out soon. Having heard her recite her poems, I feel it easy to recommend the book to anyone who loves spiritual poetry - her website is http://www.Em Claire Poet.com. When I come back to this discussion thread again, I'll continue on with Neale Donald Walsch's development of his concept of Reality Creation. There is quite a bit more to it. So, I'll close this section, of my notes from Walsch's workshop, with the lines from Em's poem that I jotted down - “There is only the openning, the unfolding ever happening.” “Thoughts - Lollipops for the Mind.”
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Re: CYL - Neale Donald Walschdebyemm said Jul 17, 4:30 PM: |
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I was struck by how some of the information I was posting yesterday, to the Neale Donald Walsch workshop thread, from Celebrate Your Life in Chicago, intertwines with some of the meditation concepts in Elizabeth Lesser's book - The Seeker's Guide, which goes into meditation practices and details, in depth. |
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