Do ETs Work ? Your Answers !

Do you think that ETs (and space faring ETs in particular) work ? I’ll give you what I know next post !

 

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ETs Are From Where ? (How Did They Get Here So Quick ?)

I dedicate this post to Darci, Chris and Ethan for your ongoing support, encouragement and appreciation ! Thanks for helping a wind blown monologuer feel that it’s worth it ! 😉

Ever since the night in 1997 when I woke up and found an ET arm in my chest, I have wondered, “Where the hell are ET from and how do they get here ?” !

It’s popular with certain people these days to say that aliens are not actually just ETs coming from other planets. Well, I beg to differ completely ! There are formless beings who can take form. There are deceased humans who can materialize and deceased ETs who can materialize. There are beings seemingly composed out of light who can materialize another form or remain as light. There are also ETs who can emanate light. there are projects that come from the minds of living beings and deceased beings. But as far as I can tell from my own experiences and the experiences I have heard about, the beings that we identify as coming to Earth in space craft, are actually from other planets. The difference is this. The ETs know their true nature. They know what they are. They know that at their core exists The Light (although they may not refer to it as that). They know that they are God because they know that on the one hand they are separate individuals and on the other hand that they are the totality of existence.

Some of these ETs, like my friends Dude and Anamika, can change the very fabric of reality and the way that other beings perceive that reality. They function in such a way so as it appears that they can do things that are like magic ! They function in a way so as to do things that defy logic and reason ! They do not fear death and do not see death as the veil or the boundary that we see it ! Because they know their true nature they live in such a way as to defy any possible explanation that we could conceive of that would explain their existence. But, and this is a big one – they were born on another planet, they live, they have physical requirements for their physical bodies, their bodies are prey to change and impermanence, they can be killed (though often not easily !) and they will die ! While they are alive they exist in such a way as to appear as if they are both physical beings and non physical beings who are capable of almost anything !

These beings are not formless beings, they are not angels as we would conceive of them, they are not demons as we would conceive of them, they are not energetic beings as we would conceive of them, they are not gods as we would conceive of that term, they are not beings of light as we would conceive of them. They are physical beings from other planets ! But because they know their true nature, they can be and do what we cannot ! They are extra terrestrials. Not ultra terrestrials. Not super terrestrials. Not sub terrestrials. And really the words don’t matter. In Latin we would say that they are entium ab aliis planetarum (beings from other planets) or ex altera planetarum (from other planets) or extra aquatic (extra aquatilium)
or scio hominem in vera naturae hwo (beings who know their true nature) or extra terrestrium (extra terrestrial) ! What matters is the conception and the sentiment that we are trying to convey. Just because something appears fantastique, does not mean that it did not originate from a planet. And just because it is popular to believe something did not originate from a planet, doesn’t mean that it is so.

Shift gears and move into a different concept…

I am amazed at what appears to me to be an instantaneous response from ETs that I often experience when I go go for my walks and attempt contact. It can even happen before I have articulated the thought or attempted to radiate feelings. They just know. Even before I do !

So I have had a lot of time to think about this. How is it that the ETs can respond so quickly ? Mostly through light signals but sometimes through telempathic contact and sometimes through face to face contact. When I wish to speak to Dude or Anamika they are there in my head within seconds ! I do not have an answer to how the ETs can respond so quickly and I have yet to ask my ET friends how they do it. I do however have some ideas about how it might be possible for them to make instantaneous or very rapid contact.

Regarding light contact or physical contact, they perceive us energetically through feeling and thought and then :

1. They come from somewhere else in the same overall space, near by or far away.
2. They come from a different space, nearby or far away.
3. They materialize from the same space or different space, having been partially phased into this region in this space.
4. They project from somewhere else in the same overall space, near by or far away.
5. They project from a different space, nearby or far away.
6. They project from the same space or a different space having been partially phased into this region in this space.
7. They influence our internal (mental) perception or external (sensory/somatic) perception of space and or phenomena, so that we can see them when they are there but only partially phased in or cloaked or when they are not there at all.
8. They know us and sense us and what we are experiencing by our energetic signatures.

Regarding telempathic contact they perceive us energetically through feeling and thought and then :

1. All of the above explanations.
2. They allow their bodies to range out and include our bodies (Dude has pointed this out to me before and Tarfu has discussed how he meditates to feel all the living beings within a certain distance) and know instantly everything that we are experiencing and respond when they feel it is necessary.

And bear this is mind. With some of the ET races, like the Muajra, Teal’hia, Sarpalxn and Sar’Won’Dee, it isn’t just the ETs who perceive us instantly and who can respond; their sentient craft also have the same abilities. Imagine for example you try to initiate contact and a craft that knows you picks up on you and then notifies several crew members who know you that you seek contact, whilst simultaneously responding to your request and sending out a projection (a craft and or a strong flash – blinker) to confirm that they have sensed you, whilst consulting with the crew members about whether or not to physically come and visit you. These are sentient, intelligent, feeling craft that know how best to respond to other sentient beings. They can make decisions with or without the input of crew members !

So you might be wondering, “How do ETs actually perceive us ?”. I have several suspicions about this but I don’t know for sure. First, I suspect that because some ETs know their true nature and that they are also the totality of being – they sense everything that is occurring within them. They know when something that they have connected with before or that seeks contact is wanting them. Second, I suspect that some of those ETs who do not have a complete experience of the totality of being, may be engaged in long periods of perception based stillness or activity, where they actively seek out signals coming from other sentient beings. In other words, they actively look for beings who are asking for or yearning for contact. Third, I suspect that some ETs use implants to monitor the totality of an individuals functioning – so that they know when you are asking for or yearning for contact. Fourth, certain individual ETs have a collection of energetic signatures that they are attuned to (the Teal’hia for example work with large numbers (50-200) individuals over the course of their entire being, across life times – from the emergence of the spirit to it’s merging back into the light) and as a result they know everything that is happening to these individuals at any given moment. And fifth, perhaps some beings use all four approaches.

It maybe that how other beings perceive us and choose to respond to us so quickly, is beyond our comprehension. I certainly don’t buy into Quantum Theory, String Theory, Entanglement and all that crap ! These are old ideas that are need of replacement ! Until we have a more robust understanding of the nature of reality and how the life force is related to reality and how awareness models like unconsciousness-consciousness relate to the life force and reality, we really have no idea how things work. Just because we think we know more than Galileo or Copernicus or Newton or Leibnitz or Pauli or any of the people who laid the foundations for modern physics, doesn’t mean that we have a clue about how things really work ! We are as much in the dark ages as all those who came before us were relative to now ! And we have so much to learn !

I can only speculate how things work. And it’s been playing away in my head for more than two decades ! I know one thing. It has nothing to do with consciousness and everything to do with the nature of the primordial energy of the universe and space itself ! And until we can fully define what those things are and fully comprehend what they are, we will remain blind and ignorant, fixated on things like anti-gravity and light speed and super luminal flight and consciousness ! 

Imagine that there is only one space and within it there is an infinite number of other spaces. Some enfolded within each other, some parallel to each other and some merged with each other. What could you do if you knew that you existed within one of those spaces and that you were also, all of those spaces ? What could you do if you knew that you were just space ? 

 

An Unusual and Simple Method For Initiating ET Contact

I dedicate this post to my good friends Frédéric, Sandor and Nick for your ongoing generosity and kindness ! Thanks guys for everything ! May contact be yours and may your former contact experiences come back to you !

I want to share with you all, a simple and direct method for initiating ET contact. I’ve hinted at it before I’ve but never described it. It is unusual and you may think, “WTF is Bright talking about ? ” when you hear it ! With this method it is possible to initiate contact in as little as ten seconds or less. I have had instantaneous contact with this method. And the reason for that is this. Unlike what some people have said, contact isn’t created directly with thought. Sure you might think, “I want to have contact tonight” and that gets the ball rolling and you focused on initiating contact. Contact is essentially created by feeling. And why is that ? Well it’s not easy for me to explain why that is, so this may seem a little difficult to get your head around. Feeling (emotional and somatic) represents the transformation of primordial energy of the universe (the life force) into secondary energies that radiate instantly through space. It’s as if the second you feel, your own life force sends out a ripple through space that is connected to the life force elsewhere in space, whilst simultaneously sending out a ripple of secondary energy that is connected to secondary energy elsewhere in space. The life force gives rise to all other energy. When you feel you send out ripples of energy as a result of the energy you experienced that arose from the life force. The secondary energies contain the life force and so does all space and all matter. 

I think it’s also reasonable to suggest that contact occurs because of the convergence of thought, feeling and the life force.

So how can you initiate contact based on what I’m suggesting about feeling ? Well first remember all that I have previously said about contact – things like watch your expectations, watch your desire for control, work through your fears etc.  With that in mind, here’s what you can do :

1. Have the intention to initiate contact.
2. Ask for contact.
3. You want then to allow yourself to create a genuine and authentically strong emotion. Now I’m not sure if anger will work because I’ve never tried that but it may create energy that sends the wrong kind of signal to our ET friends. So perhaps it’s best to avoid anger. It’s better that you try and create a strong emotion like sadness, joy, gratitude, contentment, grief, loneliness, longing etc. anything that isn’t outwardly hostile.
4. In order to create one of these emotions, you need to do some activity that facilitates the authentic arising of this emotion. Perhaps for example, you want to let yourself feel sadness. You might do that by looking at some old photos of someone that you love who you have not seen for a long time or who you have lost or who has died. This is not going to be an easy thing for you to do but if you can do it and allow the genuine emotion to come to you authentically, you will then have the emotional power and resonance to act like a beacon calling out to the universe.
5. Then whilst you are still experiencing the emotion, go outside and let yourself feel as if your heart is radiating the emotion. What that means is that you literally feel your heart experiencing sensations that you cannot control. You let the heart speak truthfully everything that it feels. If you cry, you cry, if you sob, you sob, if you have painful memories, so be it. You allow yourself to authentically and genuinely experience that emotion.
6. While all this is happening look up and feel your heart radiating through the universe.
7. At some point you may become aware of a craft signalling to you or an ET presence on the ground or in your mind. Respond to whatever you  perceive first with feeling and if you must, then with thought.
8. Finish when you are ready by expressing your gratitude.
9. Go inside and let all your emotion slowly go.

If you practice this method regularly it gets easier, such that you can experience desired emotions whenever you wish in an authentic way. You may need prompts at first (like old photos) but eventually you can simply use your own memories or experiences. I have had really terrible arguments with my son and gone outside and the ETs instantly begin signalling me, as if to say, “We’re here for you !”.

When you begin to do this it’s good to start with the really painful tough emotions and then over a number of weeks to work slowly across the emotional spectrum towards the really uplifting emotions. I often feel joyful after a wonderful day of connecting with the birds, ants, cat, wallaby and trees. At such times I feel such joy being alive, that it’s almost as if I’m emanating some kind of visible energy. I’m not (well at least not to my eyes) but I seem to be emanating something that the ETs quickly respond to.

When you get good at letting emotions come naturally, you can drop the first two steps and just allow yourself to be receptive.

Now just a note about anger. Maybe you can do this with anger but I suspect that it depends on the type of anger. If you go outside and your spewing up at the sky saying, “Fuck you you mother fucking dumb ETs for letting my life get screwed up !” or “Fuck you you mother fucking ETs for letting us humans destroy everything !” or “Fuck you you mother fucking ETs for anal probing us against our will !”; well I doubt that will be felt and perceived to come from an entity with whom there is any reason to connect. Why would you want to connect with some one who is radiating hostility, who wants to hurt you ? But if you’re angry because of something bad that has happened to you or you had a bad argument with someone you care about or love or you experienced some kind of terrible tragedy or someone has walked all over you and left you feeling terrible and you’re feeling angry and you’re carrying that anger, not trying to hurt anyone with it; then chances are that it will be felt and perceived to come from an entity that is in pain with whom there is a reason to connect. And the ETs will feel for you and if they can they will reach out to you to console you.

The ETs make contact when you use this method because they pick up on your emotion from a long way away and because they genuinely care. I wouldn’t be surprised that there is more ET contact during times of war – over the battlefield and back over the homes of those who are at war because there is genuine feeling, genuine pain and genuine suffering. They’re drawn to that and when they can they will try and show that they care.

I have periods where I don’t ask for contact and it just happens because I’m feeling a deep sense of connection and the joy of connection.

And when I do have face to face contact, I try to allow that excitement and that joy to come through, so that the ETs know just how incredibly grateful and joyful I am that they have come to visit me. I suppose it’s like when you see someone you love who you haven’t seen for a very long time. You don’t have to think anything or say anything or do anything. You just feel this incredible love and joy that they are in your presence again and both of you know that without you ever having to speak a word.

This method will really suit you if you are already having lots of dramas in your life or if you feel incredibly content ! So if you are desperate for contact and you’ve never had contact before or you don’t have contact often enough, give this method a go and I’m pretty sure it will work for you. The key is to be authentic and genuine ! Don’t be pretentious about it and don’t fake it or fake it trying to make it. Be the feeling. Be the emotion. Enter the emotion fully.  Feel what you feel and let it radiate into the universe and let the doorway of your heart open a doorway into the hearts of the ETs.

It really is very simple ! 😉

 

© Bright Garlick, 2018.

Silly Symphonies

Silly Symphonies is a Walt Disney classic. I loved Looney Tunes cartoons as a kid and still like watching them every now and then ! Today’s animations owe so much to these early cartoons !

 

Musical Diversity

Here’s the latest post on Silentium Musicorum on ancient and new instruments  : https://silentiumetmusicorum.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/ancient-and-new-musical-instruments/.

 

Pang On A Minute, That’s Pangtastic !

Some of you will be aware that I have very diverse tastes in music. But let me be clear about two things. I can’t stand hippies, hippy attitudes or man buns (It’s like, get fucking real – are you a man or a woman ? And why jump on the bandwagon and why not be yourself ?). Anyway, that aside there’s a musical instrument that I have seen played by lots of hippy looking folk in Melbourne over the last decade and it’s called the Hang. Sometimes if played well, it actually sounds very beautiful.

The Hang (not the Hang Drum as it is often called) was developed by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer from Switzerland (those damned Swiss geniuses and perfectionists ! 😉 ) in 2000 and is now one of many Idiophone musical instruments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiophone) that have been developed by Felix and Sabina’s company PANArt Hangbau  AG https://panart.ch/ / https://panart.ch/en/instruments  / http://www.hangblog.org/. This particular development in Idiophone musical instruments initially interested me because it remanded me of some of the music and  musical instruments my ET friend Dude had told me (I touched on the subject here https://etandi.wordpress.com/?s=ET+Music+stone+instrument but didn’t go into the detail that Dude had shared with me).

I’m very curious to see how this family of musical instruments develops and if Felix and Sabina start exploring other materials like stone and wood. Since the Hang, they have also developed a stringed musical instrument they call Pang Strings and I’m keen to see how this influences the development of an entire new genre of music. I can see some enterprising person developing Pang Metal and a whole new form of heavy metal arising from Pang Strings ! You never know how the development of one thing will lead to the development of something else that was completely unforeseen ! For those with an interest in the development of new musical instruments, this is a new form that is worth keeping an eye on !

 

TSM Scraps

Hey folks, it’s been three months since I’ve posted a TSM. I have actually made about a dozen but the wind (which I didn’t think was an issue) was so bad that I deleted half of them. I have another few that are OK but there’s still a little wind through each recording. I was planning on deleting them. Are they worth uploading for you or should they be deleted ? Maybe you like wind ?

This wind issue is really driving me crazy and has resulted in me wasting a huge amount of time. I’ve probably scrapped 40-50 TSMs. A friend of mine is exploring various different designs for a soft covering for my phone and iPod, to see if we can eliminate the noise issue. Part of the problem is that these new phones have such great sensitivity that they pick up everything – wind, zips flapping in the wind, the squeak in my shoes etc. My original dead cat fell apart and was really only suited to my Zoom recorder. So if I get this issue sorted I can go back to making TSMs without fucking wind !

If you think it’s worth tolerating the wind, which is minor in some recordings and significant in others, let me know and I’ll upload them soon.

The 50 Classics Series

A while back I picked up several of Tom Butler-Bowdon’s 50 Classic Series on the cheap – including 50 Philosophy Classics, 50 Psychology Classics and 50 Economics Classics and I thought at the time they looked OK but having now read them I am now very impressed at how one author has managed to distill the essence of so many other writers into one book. This series is fantastic for anyone who seeks an overview of a particular subject area and to understand the essence of what particular writers have said ! And while the 50 books listed in each classics book are not necessary the 50 best books that should be on the list (Tom does include a list of an additional 50), most of them are still interesting books that are probably worth reading. Without being overly familiar with each of the sub-disciplines covered in each of the books, it’s hard to say how accurate Tom’s summaries are but my feeling is that he understands his subject matter pretty well. Think of each book as wonderful stepping stone into the works and ideas of writers you may or may not have known existed ! This series is my favourite non fiction series of the last decade and I look forward to reading the remaining books and any new books that Tom writes ! So far I think there are 8 books in the series with a promise of more books to come ! If you like the Dummies series, consider this series a step up in intelligence !

You can find Tom’s classic books series here : https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Butler-Bowdon/e/B001JOYK7A/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 and his website here :  http://www.butler-bowdon.com/.

 

Books that Changed My Life

Lots of people claim to have read a book that changed their life. But is that really true ? No, it is not ! Books in themselves are just bundles of paper with glyphs on them. A book carries ideas and stories and if we’re lucky a pretty picture and a little dust. Nothing more. It is up to us what we do with a book. How we read the book, how we interpret what we read, how we enjoy the insights, the stories, the plot or the characters and how we integrate what we learn into our life.

I write this post now to share with you how certain books changed how I function, so that you too can think more critically about how to choose influences in your life. And who knows, you may even be curious about some of the books that I talk about !

I no longer seek answers from other people and recognize that there is simply an aspect of myself that has always been a seeker. But I am interested in what other people have to say and I still read extensively because I am curious about how my fellow human beings make sense of existence. I also recognize that there are many people who are where I once was, looking for answers. And even though I know that the act of seeking is a significant obstacle to knowing what you need to know, I understand that some guidance can be helpful in leading people to trust in themselves and in creating and following their own path.

When I first went to university people I knew were either reading extreme books like those of the Marquis de Sade or William Burroughs or pseudo spiritual books like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469) or science fiction and fantasy. I read some of those books too but I also read many others across a wide range of subjects. My first truly deep book was Friedrich Nietzsche’s  Beyond Good and Evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil), which seemed at first to cater to my rising anger but later struck me as selfish and arrogant. A few years after I read the book, I met a young vocalist from an extreme metal band in a heavy metal store in Melbourne called Extreme Aggression and we spoke at length about Nietzche. During our discussion I realized that Nietzche’s ideas could be used to justify all kinds of hostility and prejudice. It was only 20 years later that I began to truly appreciate Nietzche’s philosophy. Which is fundamentally about encouraging man to accept his short comings and arouse the will and power to live fully.

In my early 20’s I spent a great deal of time haunting the Melbourne Theosophical Society library, where I read everything but particularly books on magic/magick. Initially I though that Aleister Crowley was onto something when he said we should find our true will. I thought he was saying the same thing as Nietzche and for an angry young man, nothing seemed to resonate more than the idea of finding your own power. I soon began to feel that Crowley was a loser and that his own power was a selfish kind of power. Little wonder he was killed secretly by a practitioner of Catharse. In the years that have passed, in my head Nietzche has risen up and Crowley has remained at the bottom of a spiritual ladder where he belongs.

There came a point and I can’t say exactly when it was in the mid 90s when I began reading to heal myself. Then in 1999 with the birth of my then very sick son, I was forced to take full responsibility for my anger, my anxiety, my willingness to hold onto past hurt and all the shit that I had let accumulate in my life. The changes that had started in the 1990 began to fully materialize and I transformed into a very different person. Since 1990 I had picked up certain books with the intention of learning something of value and some of these had a profound impact on my development. Before 1999 the content of most books washed over me. It was only by being confronted with the possible death of my son that I was forced to come to a point of genuine understanding of what I was reading.

So there are is a small list of books that have truly had an impact on my life. There are no novels on this list, which is surprising even to me, given that I think of myself in some way as a novelist and have read a great many novels. If I had to choose one novel that changed me in some way, it would be Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, which taught me how to write from the eye of the heart. So in no particular order, here is a list of books that facilitated my development and helped change my life.

John Paul 2 (Karol Wotjyla) : The Place Within – The Poetry of John Paul 11

This is my favourite book of poetry and this book means so much to me ! It came to me in the mid 90s when I was struggling with my demons and helped to calm my brewing hatred of the world. Karol taught me how to write with simplicity, power and feeling. https://www.amazon.com/Place-Within-Poetry-Pope-John/dp/0679760644.

M.R. : Revelation

This early ‘dictated from the dead’ (what today some people label as channeling) book was given to me to read by my then partner. Her copy is covered in Catharse symbols and belonged to a teacher of Catharse. This book woke me up to the ability to converse with people who have died and helped me to understand how our journey of being continues into an after life, complete with a lot of the shit and emotional baggage that we experience in life. It also triggered a series of significant dreams and realizations.

James Gleick : Chaos

I first read Chaos in 1989 or 1990 when I was studying for my applied science degree. I remember reading it and studying things like how the brain works and how the heart works and enzymology and ecology and thinking “Fuck, it’s all systems and chaos !”. Now even though today my way of understanding and appreciating how things work has changed, the ideas in this book remain significant to how I think and understand many phenomena. This book triggered off a long investigation into Chaos and later Complexity Theory across all manner of disciplines, from physiology, to meteorology, psychology, sociology and even history itself. There was no single discipline of human study, where I could not find the relevance of Chaos Theory. As a result of reading Chaos I developed an interest in systems, Systems Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory) and processes. In a way Chaos led me to a deep understanding of the nature of the self and dependent origination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da). And because of that I am more relaxed about life and content with my life and interested in the interconnectedness of life and reality. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0747404135/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5.

Nicola Phillips : I’m Doing What I’d Rather Be Doing – The Big Difference – Life Works When You Choose It

This book came at a critical period in my life when I had significant choices to make about where to from here. What I liked about this book was the simplicity and clarity about how to make choices and change the course of our life. This book helped me to look much more critically at my own patterns of behaviour and my emotional and mental functioning in general.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Difference-Life-works-choose/dp/1843040018 http://www.nicolaphillips.com/.

Tony Humphreys : The Wisdom of Negative Thinking

This book helped me so much personally and as a developing therapist to understand the coping strategies that people use to survive and how to work with the body to understand how we really feel. It also helped me to understand the language that people use to disguise how they feel and reflect the signals that the body sends when it is suffering. This book is ideal for any one interested in mind-body medicine and how to heal and anyone who practices psychotherapy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580910971/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6 http://www.tonyhumphreys.ie/.

Osho : The Buddha Said

Let me be clear about something. Osho was a seductive idiot and I read many of his books when I was younger because I was also an idiot ! There were two Oshos – Osho the idiot who couldn’t help himself and needed prescription drugs to survive and who fed his somebodyness constantly and Osho the wise and benevolent sage. If you can see this, then by all means become familiar with the teachings of Osho. But make sure that you see the man first, with all of his vulnerabilities and weaknesses. In this book Osho interprets one of the great sutras of the mythical Buddha (as recorded by the Chinese emperor in the first century CE). What is spectacular about this book is his way of teaching with humour, insight, peculiarity an clarity. There’s no denying that Osho was a great teacher but what he failed to do was to fully integrate what he understood into how he lived. I read this book at a time when I was exploring many of the Buddhist traditions – reading sutras, doctrines, lineages, teachers etc. and talking to monks and this book helped me to understand the teachings of Buddhism with greater clarity. It is without doubt, one of Osho’s best books. https://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Said-Meeting-Challenge-Difficulties/dp/1842931156.

David Godman : Be As You Are – The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana Maharshi was probably the wisest Indian sage / teacher of the modern era (along with the neighboring Bengali Dadaji – Amiya Roy Chowdhury). In this book David Godman compiles questions from seekers and answers from Ramana. The questions typically follow a low level seekers path and Ramana handles them with grace and kindness. Ramana’s Self Inquiry process provides a direct path to understanding and knowing the self (what others may call enlightenment or liberation). When I first read this book, a light bulb went off in my heart and I received confirmation that what I felt to be true was true. There is a lot of talk about waking up but most of the people who sprout that crap are asleep. If you understand the core teachings of Ramana Maharshi you will wake up and you will never fall back asleep again ! I still can’t decide if when I get older I’ll dress in white suits like Mark Twain or the skimpiest undies like Ramana ! Maybe less is more and I’ll frighten away people who are just irritating !  Ramana was a real Buddha who walked the Earth. Complete with sexy undies and an undying love of cows and his sacred mountain ! Read this book and risk becoming someone else !

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Krishnamurti’s Notebook

I like both UG and J Krishnamurti, who were in a way like each others arch nemesis.  They both had something of extraordinary value to teach us ! In Jiddu’s notebook he describes his daily experiences of being. And through it he describes what he calls The Process (perhaps the I amness of his being) and the beauty and majesty of the world that he experiences. This book is truly beautiful and helped me to understand the nature of choice, choiceless awareness (which may not really exist), the nature of thought and the nature of the self that is constantly categorizing and judging and filtering through conditioning. This is a book that Jiddu claimed to write for himself but he may well have written elements of it to create a certain image of himself. Like all other sages and teachers, he was a man who was not without his shadow aspects and his contradictions. Mostly this book taught me about how powerful beautiful descriptions of the world can be and how nature has a power that can help us transcend our ordinary suffering. https://www.amazon.com/Krishnamurtis-Notebook-Jiddu-Krishnamurti/dp/1888004630 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnamurti%27s_Notebook.

Lama Surya Das : Letting Go of the Person You Used To Be

This book was my introduction to Das’s writings on Buddhism and fell into my life when I was struggling to overcome some lifelong habits and feeling overwhelmed by my apparent shortcomings and failings. It helped me to understand how to let go of my stories and how to experience the moment. It also helped me to understand how loss and grief cause immeasurable suffering and how the stories we tell about our suffering dissolve in the presence of mindfulness. https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Person-You-Used-Transformation/dp/0767908740.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj : I Am That

This book is a difficult book to read and many of Maharaj’s insights are hard to grasp but if you persevere (or read some of his other books) what he is trying to say becomes crystal clear. I Am That is a Q & A book that is essentially about the nature of the self – where does it come from and how does it function. Maharaj was the first Indian teacher that I read and this book gave me a serious kick up the arse and helped me to dig deeply into the nature of the self and the nature of reality. If you want to study a spiritual tradition that teaches you something about the nature of the self – you could for example, study Buddhist Psychology and that can be very, very challenging or you can study Hindu spirituality and the various non duality traditions and that can also be very, very challenging. Or you can listen to a teacher who has studied a tradition and himself and lived what he has understood. Maharaj is one such teacher. From Maharaj : “Give up all questions except one, “Who am I?” After all the only fact you are sure of is that you “are”. The “I am” is certain, the “I am this” is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality.” https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-That-Nisargadatta-Maharaj/dp/0893860468 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That.

Thomas Moore : Care of the Soul

Care of the Soul had a profound impact on me, helping me to understand how I had disowned all the darker aspects of my self and how to bring them out of the shadows and into the light. This is an ambiguous book about the messy ambiguity of the soul and it’s need to express itself through our life. This book helped me to reconcile a lot of stuff that I did not want to own up to and helped me professionally to see the hidden in others and recognize their need for acceptance. After I read this book I began to see people’s personalities and their mental, emotional and physical symptoms not as a pathology but as a symptom of the soul. The soul’s need for expression and acknowledgement.  And I began to see my own symptoms as a cry from the soul. Later when I was diagnosed with tumours, this book played a critical role in helping me to understand what had gone wrong and how to find a path towards healing. https://www.amazon.com/Care-Soul-Cultivating-Sacredness-Everyday/dp/B002AYT86Q/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542094789&sr=1-2&keywords=Care+of+the+soul .

William Henry Hudson : Far Away and Long Ago – A History of My Early Life

Far Away and Long Ago is a biography about WH Hudson’s early life in Argentina. William is one of my guides and a man I have come to love and respect. He is also a distant relative. William was a naturalist and an avid bird lover. As a child he loved nothing more than rambling through the wild and making unexpected discoveries. This book reads how I would have lived my childhood in that time – riding horses and running wild and free through the landscape. I love this book because it paints a perfect picture of nostalgia and helps me to understand the man I have come to know. Who incidentally, has been a wonderful support in my life and a great inspiration and encouragement for writing my own fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Hudson / https://librivox.org/far-away-and-long-ago-by-wh-hudson/.

Candida Peterson : Looking Forward Through The Life Span – Developmental Psychology

When I went back to uni the second time, one of the things I chose to do was to study other things that interested me. I picked up this book on developmental psychology for $1 from an opportunity (thrift) shop and it’s the best $1 that I have ever spent ! This is a text book that takes all the latest research (mine was a 1989 copy) and maps out human development in a clear and easy to read manner. I found the section on gerontology particularly fascinating and it has helped me to understand the older people that I know and my own ageing.  https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Forward-Through-Life-Span/dp/0724807454 / https://psychology.uq.edu.au/profile/2155/candida-peterson.

Sharon Kaufman : The Ageless Self – Sources of Meaning in Late Life

When I was working as a therapist I was engaged in a lot of family therapy and I kept seeing the effects of transgenerational loss, grief and trauma and individual and family dysfunction. Because of this I became interested in the ageing process and understanding how the patterns that people set up in their lives at an early age, carry on through life. When I started exploring the ageing process I came across Sharon Kaufman’s research into the lives of older people. In this book she condenses the insights she gained from 60 interviews with older people and discusses what life is like for older people and how their sense of self has changed or remained the same over their life span. I found this book to be very clear and insightful in regard to understanding the patterns of people’s lives. And it helped me to understand the people in my own life and how my own life was unfolding and is likely to unfold. More than anything it helped me to understand the narratives and the patterns of my own life and how I might potentially alter them. By understanding the patterns of other people’s lives, I was also able to understand how people make sense of their life and how they see themselves and find meaning in their life. This book was a real game changer for me and it’s one that I can’t recommend highly enough for people of any age but particularly for anyone over 50 and people who work in the psychotherapy field !  https://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Self-Sources-Meaning-Studies/dp/0299108643/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542155901&sr=1-1&keywords=The+ageless+self.

Lawrence LeShan : Cancer As a Turning Point – A Handbook for People With Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals

Lawrence LeShan was a pioneer in paranormal research, promoting meditation in the west and is considered by many to be the father of mind-body medicine in the west. His insights came from years of research and years of psychotherapy work with a range of people – including people with Stage 4 cancers. This was the first book I picked up after I was diagnosed with a Renal Carcinoid Tumour in 2007 and it was a book that completely shifted my attitude to healing. In many ways it confirmed my belief that true and lasting healing could only arise when you allow the life force to express itself freely. This book introduces the idea that cancer is a turning point in which the person has an option to either change and grow or stay the same and die. I found it to be an incredibly optimistic and encouraging book, whose primary focus is on encouraging people with cancer to find the power to live life on their terms, free of the expectations of others. This book is a perfect compliment to Gabore Mate’s When the Body Says No. https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-As-Turning-Point-Professionals/dp/0452271371.

Lawrence LeShan : How to Meditate – A Guide to Self Discovery

I didn’t have any support when I began meditating many years ago but soon after I came across How to Meditate and it changed my conception and understanding of the practice of meditation. In the process helping to consolidate everything that I would learn through Buddhism and helping to lay a foundation for a daily meditation practice and ongoing mindfulness practice. LeShan writes in such a way as to make difficult concepts accessible. He deconstructs meditation and makes the process easy to understand, without any psychobabble or new age references. This book is a classic and still one of the best books on the subject. I believe there is also an up to date version of the book. https://www.amazon.com/How-Meditate-lawrence-leshan/dp/B000VUPF3G/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542175922&sr=1-12.

Ainslie Meares : Relief Without Drugs – How to Conquer Tension, Pain and Anxiety

Ainslie Meares was an Australian psychiatrist who pioneered the mind-body medicine movement here in Australia. He taught relaxation (and meditation) and influenced many of the so called great teachers of mind-body medicine here in Australia (including the likes of Ian Gawler), well before Buddhism arrived here en-masse. If you want to learn the art of deep relaxation, how to create a calm state of mind and how to cope with tension, pain or anxiety; this is the only book you will ever need. When I first picked up this book many years ago I learned very quickly how to relax my body using the mind (as an alternative to say progressive muscle relaxation) and about the links between mental activity, tension, pain and illness. This book utterly transformed my understanding of how I function and later became a significant influence in how I worked with my psychotherapy clients and how I approached my own healing. I still use what I learned from this book on a daily basis. Read this book and practice what Ainslie teaches and I guarantee that you will change your life completely ! https://www.amazon.com/Relief-without-Drugs-Overcome-Tension/dp/0285632248.

Here are some related posts/videos from 4 or 5 years ago :

• https://etandi.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/spiritual-books-1/
• https://etandi.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/spiritual-books-2/

And from more recently : https://etandi.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/books-for-the-mind/.

 

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I have 45 posts in my draft folder but I really have nothing to say right now. It’s bloody hot and uncomfortable and words are difficult to come by ! Until I feel like writing again, please enjoy some music.

A big thank you to Chris and Sandor for your recent donations and thank you very much  Sandor for remembering my birthday !