The media seems to have been taken over by pundits and trend setters. Rather than get news that can help us make better choices we get instead glitz and spin. I was on A BETTER TODAY Blog Radio Show with host Steve Maraboli (very savvy with cutting edge consciousness) and we discussed the difference between perception and what’s real. I went a step further and distinguished between the outer life with make-up and disguises and the inner world where the naked truth lives.
My position has always been that we live in a parallel universe: there is what I refer to as 1) the “perfect place” from whence we come, get our telepathic intuition and to which we will return at death and 2) the maya or illusionary world (which Joseph Campbell and I refer to as reform school) which has the infection and rampant misinformation sired and promulgated by one’s Ego. Mr. Maraboli asked me how one got from illusion to truth–from outside mystique to the inner life of freedom–and I told him, “Through pain and going to any lengths to wake up from the trance state that the transitory world offers.” I have worked with a lot of people and I never heard one man or woman say that he or she got out of bed one day and decided to quit alcoholic drinking or that they thought it would better serve them not to have never-ending partners, one after the other. Like me, the pain and destruction of the bad boy or girl behavior got us to put the plug in the jug with the fellowship of those whose lives changed with steps. Like Buddha, the challenge in the New Year is to “Wake up” and find the path to peace and tranquility by connecting to a power greater than oneself, God.
Albert Clayton Gaulden is the founding director of the Sedona Intensive and author of You’re Not Who You Think You Are: A Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You. For more information about Albert and Sedona Intensive visit http://www.sedonaintensive.com/.
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