"Awake"

Awake and repent ye sinners for the hour is nigh at hand!  "Morning has broken, like the first morning, blackbird has spoken, like the first bird, praise for the singing, praise with elation, God's recreation of the new day" Thankyou Yusuf Islam, you're certainly one of the coolest Cats I ever heard :-)

Ok so we (mankind) are asleep and we need to awake, that much is quite clear, so how to go about it?, for those few who can recognise they are asleep and want to do something about it, escape in fact, I have some answers, but you must truly desire to escape, because make no mistake this sleep is a prison, and it is a very difficult prison to escape from.

And it is not just a case of recognising that one is asleep in order to awake, although that must come first. In my own case for example I had known myself to be asleep for eighteen years. I had struggled the best part of fifteen of those years to awake, and had pretty much given up hope of a major event of the type I had scented in all my searching for the "Holy Grail" and resigned myself to living a particularly ordinary life. That's not to say of course that I didn't have my moments, with all of us there are times when we are more awake than others, and being fully awake is very painful at first! Our little Johnny Ego that we all have inside us, will do almost anything in fact, to trick us into staying asleep. I call mine morgan, with the small m deliberate, because for me this best describes him, and it keeps him separate and in his own domain. In my case, as an enlightened man, I may pull one or another facet of morgan out of my bag of tricks for the benefit of say, playing the fool at parties, but he will be firmly in his place... David will be in charge.. and David has resigned himself entirely to God's Will. This is why I think I mentioned before that I think free will is overrated! Strange for a freedom lover, you might think, a paradox?, well perhaps, or rather perhaps just because God's Will is so much better than mine. He knows so much more than I do, and I have overcome all past difficulties I may have had with having faith in that Will. This is not something a man learns overnight though. First he must awake.

Ok, so having realised one is in a prison of sleep what does one do about escaping. Well one needs teachers and one needs tools, and I am here to teach you about some of the tools I have learned to use for myself. So here we are in this prison of sleep, and we don't remember ourselves, this is chiefly why we are asleep, we think we remember ourselves but we do not. If you can accept / realise that, then you are ready for the first tool in my kit, that I have to give you... "Self Observation"...  if you will observe yourself carefully one of the first, in fact probably "the", first thing you will notice is that you cannot keep this up very long, you very quickly forget, even to observe yourself. You are too readily identified with everything, one minute you are practicing yoga on your living room rug, and you are observing yourself most diligently, the next there is a knock on the door, and it is the pretty wife of your neighbour at whom you look askance through the left eye, and immediately you forget to self observe, you have forgotten that you knew before that you did not remember yourself, and in fact another " I " altogether, which is in reality only one of many iiiiiiiz (facets) of your deeply divided ego, has taken over. After she has gone, (and she only wanted to borrow a bowl of sugar) you suddenly remember what you were doing before she came, and you feel a momentary rush of something, that could be conscience or something like that, but you quickly suppress it and go back to your yoga, or maybe something else altogether, but either way it is unlikely you will self observe, for you have a lifetime's habit of identifying to break, if you wish to Awake.

Now then I think it is time to conclude this chapter, and a good place to give you a gift, a gift beyond price in fact, because this gift is the secret to the Fountain of Youth no less. The truth is we were not meant to live only 70 or 100 yrs, we were meant to awake and live many hundreds of years, if not thousands. You'll understand these things when you Awake, but meanwhile I am going to conclude by posting the secret, for the benefit of you all.. A tiny effort each day is all it takes to begin practicing the ancient art of the Tibetan Rites, including the sixth right for those who wish to go all the way and become supermen or superwomen...

I give you......       " The Fountain of Youth "      

I'll also give you just a couple of book titles that would make good reading for anyone who feels they may be behind the eight ball about what I've said so far.

" The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution "   by P. D. Ouspensky    A very good introduction that can be read in one sitting.

" The Fourth Way " also by P. D. Ouspensky.    An excellent handbook that you can go back to time and again, and always glean something new. My own copy which is about fifteen years old has been thumbed so much it looks like the Dead Sea Scrolls! 

Try Dan Milman's " Journey of the Peaceful Warrior " and " Way of the Peaceful Warrior " as much lighter reading that none the less delivers some very rewarding lessons to those who have an ear.

The same can be said for the entire series on the "Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Casteneda.. Very good.

Of course there are hundreds of good books out there, and books alone won't wake you up, any more than this website alone can wake you up. You have to want it!

If you feel you are right up there with me so far, you might like to read the Holy Bible, the Holy Qur-än, the Egyptian and Tibetan books of the Dead, and add to that a total complete in depth understanding of the occult. Oh and no true seeker should be unfamiliar with George Ivanovic Gurdjieff, that greatest of all 20th century GIGs !! :-) :-)  If you can claim to be reasonably well read in these areas you might be on the road to becoming an Alchemist and turning your lead into gold. You could even be an Alchemist. I don't know, I only reiterate that I have never actually met another, though I am familiar with one or two, usually we are murdered if we become too well known so that is why I am keeping this website low key... well one reason anyway.. it's an aspect of my reasoning in any case, though the chief element in that reasoning is the knowledge that men do not want to awake, they do not want to be told they are asleep, and so on. Nay matter the ultimate purpose of the teacher is to make himself redundant, and if I could achieve that I should gladly die (discorporate) happy, so be fast learners my friends, I could be gone from among you tomorrow. !!

This is the lesson that was hammered home to me really hard last August when the woman I had loved and cherished like no other for seventeen years, died suddenly. It was hard to take, but perhaps an ultimate lesson in not identifying, after all, from God's perspective, it'll all be over by four o'clock anyway! Life that is.. In terms of our present miserably short little earthly lives at any rate. So after I have typed up the Fountain of Youth project for you, I am going to work on a tribute to Rita, which will hopefully reinforce in you all, the need to appreciate what you have before you lose it, love is a rare and precious bird that is normally too caged by an imprisonment in words, but I'll do my best to tell you why this very special woman meant so much to me. 

I think what I have done so far is enough to get you thinking if you've come with me this far. So at this stage I'd be happy to receive any feedback you may want to send me. If you are remarkably witty, intelligent and or charming I may even publish some of your missives on my upcoming feedback page. I have not yet decided what name to call chapter three by, but the inevitable death must come sooner or later, and if you can learn to die right, it's better to get it over with sooner rather than later. Real growth can only begin once you have died and been born again of the Spirit, so the next chapter will probably be called Time to Die or somesuch! :-) :-)

God bless and keep you safe, Amen.

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17/01/01 ... I have decided to call the next chapter "The Terror of The Situation" where I shall be enlarging on what I have said so far. I shall begin on it as soon as I have completed the file on "The Fountain of Youth" and my tribute to the beautiful Rita Flynn.

Meanwhile as you await with baited breath, these further developments of my website, you might care to contemplate the following from 2nd Timothy Ch 4 Vs 3 & 4 of your Bible.

" For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. "

Beware of teachers who aren't seeking redundancy my friends!  ;-)

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