" The Beginning "  

(Turn my lead into gold)

" Heaven sent the promised land, looks alright from where I stand, coz I'm the man on the outside looking in! " (thankyou Pink Floyd). Well I'm sure we all know that feeling don't we, that sensation of being on the outer of something intangibly wonderful, yet when we try to grasp it, it somehow always seems to slip away from us! Bah! Well not to worry folks, I took hold of it and turned my lead into gold. Now I am the man on the inside looking out! And I am here to tell you to wake up!. Some of you will not like the answers I have to give you, but I can't help that, this website is focused on the needs of those who can make use of this information.

I think I will declare today (Monday the 15th January 2001) "The Beginning" in terms of this website, even though I slapped the index and menu up a day or two ago, I have yet to inform anyone of my now established cyber-presence. I shall begin by informing a few friends and family over the next few days, while I hopefully continue here in concocting a more useful and detailed introduction to my subject... the subject of Alchemy that is folks, the process of turning lead into gold.. The art of refinement, call it what you will, there are many ways of alluding to the fact that man is not a completed animal and has been left by his Creator to self-evolve or devolve.. Free will folks.. Personally I think it's very overrated but we'll get into that and more later on. Right now I have to think of a way to catch the interest of the widest range among you as possible. I am going to cast a net and see what comes up. I hope to engage many of you in conversation, and even, if some of you insist, intellectual combat :-).... I hope not, but I will give you what you need you can be sure of that!

"Hey you with your masquerading,

always contemplating.... what to do,

in case happiness found you,

can't you see,

That it's All Around You... "   (A great song that, Crispian St Peters had a big hit with it in the sixties).

I shall often chuck snippets of songs at you, to try and illustrate my point, so what's the point of the above extract (Pied Piper) you might be asking. Well, I am the Pied Piper for this waltz baby, so come right on in and follow me, and I shall surely attempt to show you where it's at.

Ok, it's a new day, and while we are focusing on waking up at this stage, I'm going to smack you right between the eyes with the next stage of evolution. Death, yes folks we all have to die, and I can tell you it's much better to die now voluntarily, than to wait until after death before dieing. A paradox? perhaps.. Crazy? you might think so.. I would say however that it is very simple for I have already died, and not just once either in the sense that you understand dieing, because I tell you now that discorporation, the shedding of the physical body that you think of as death is not really death at all. It is not the sort of death Jesus was talking about when He said "I tell you that unless a man die and be born again of the spirit, he can in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven"  No He was referring to a real death.

That which you think of as yourself, that thing in you that says " I " all the time, that which is most dear and precious of all to you, and the reality of which you believe in implicitly is in fact false! It is nothing but your ego, your manufactured personality, which you have invented as a way of dealing with the wicked world in which we live.. I know you don't remember inventing yourself, but that's the sad truth, you don't remember "yourself" at all. In fact you are floundering about looking for external realities without realising that your most precious reality of all... that which you think of as yourself, is in reality only a false thing you have constructed and is nought but ego! THIS is what must die, and this cannot happen before you wake up, because it has to be a 'voluntary' death. You cannot make such a decision in sleep, for the ego cannot voluntarily die. "You" have to wake up first, and then it will be possible, which is why Jesus Particular Christ also said  "Awake, watch, do not sleep" ... it will not be easy, especially at first, in fact for almost everyone it is a most terrifying and painful experience, myself included. But if you can last out a couple of weeks of abject terror (as I did, it may be more, or less in some cases) and survive that, then things will become a little more comfortable as you begin to be "Born again of the Spirit"....  So now perhaps you will begin to understand why I have emphasised the need from a very early point in these missives of mine to WakeUp !! :-)

I am going to tell you a few hard facts about mankind/yourself and most of you are not going to like many of them. I think I said before that it couldn't be helped. I'm going to sock a few of these undeniable, yet (for most) very uncomfortable facts at you early on, because until these following facts are properly understood I can teach you no more, and I am looking to throw out all the dross early on, so as not to get swamped by unteachables, of which there are unfortunately rather too many. Anyway nay matter, be that as it may, we shall proceed with.....

" The Terror of The Situation "

1. People believe they are "awake", fully conscious, have will, can do etc. Whilst these things 'are possible' they are not possible for men who are sleeping automatons... machines to all intents and purposes. Men will not seek out or struggle in the least to obtain a thing they believe they already have, and that is a terrifying situation, because in reality what you think of as your subconsciousness ought to be conscious. You ought to be Awake! Are you?

2. To dispel any doubts on the part of those who may be well and truly infected by modernism in it's many forms I would like to point out that I make no apologies for referring to mankind in the general sense, such as in... "men think they are awake but in reality are trapped in the sleep of their false consciousness", I mean womb-men as well Ok.. So I'm not keen to hear from feminists of either sex telling me to include women. I do. Wombmen, as they were originally known, are men too, in the mankind sense of the use of the word men. Good, so that's cleared that one up then. Peace Man. :-)

3. Ok, I am going to keep these statements to 3, and sum up the Terror of The Situation in this third one, in which I also make a plea for other Alchemists to come forward, then we could certainly widen the cast of our net. Unfortunately at this stage I do not know anyone else who has produced anything 22 carrot in themselves.. Certainly I know folk who are on the path, and we often compare notes. The enlightened man however is always alone.. everybody is of course, but the enlightened man knows it, he lives it at all times, he has no peers. So in summation let me say, there are those who are on the path, the seekers of this world, the truth lovers, though they be but precious few, the true Alchemist who has burned in his own fire, he is even rarer, a rare bird indeed.... So the terror of the situation relates to the masses, and I have already said in essence that this site is only for the few, knowing as I do how enamoured of herself Jane and Joe Bloggs are! :-) What they think is themselves that is in any case ... You see we are probably talking in the region of 99. something % of people on this big old ball of dirt who are simply programmed automatons, believing their limited consciousness to be real and their egos to be them"selves"... and this is where the major terror comes into it... because of the sheer weight of numbers, and the rule (among sleepers) that " everyone rises to their own level of incompetence and stays there", this means that your Prime Minister / President, town Mayor, newspaper editor, and uncle Tom Cobbly and all, are incompetent cretins, and undoubtedly each one believes that they are the only one who has all the answers. The Terror and I certainly mean "The" terror here as opposed to 'the' terror of the Situation is that nobody recognises a genuine teacher or leader even if one should awake and try to communicate, (and even if (s)he is the "messenger is invariably shot") with the result that nobody understands the ramifications of what they are doing.. 

Anyway as I was saying The Terror lies in this fact alone, that because there are evil men in our world they will programme those folk, (to all intents everybody except the self appointed elite, and the rare handful of woken and waking ones who have wrested back control of their own minds) who are not awake, to suit their own grisly purposes, and the stupid sleeping sheople who form the great mass of humanity who accept the outer gloss and smell of roses that the fourth estate spins onto every foul deed their masters commit, do not understand how they are being used as an instrument of their own destruction. Will you be a believing lounge lizard automaton or will "You" wake up?

I have said that the next stage is dieing. The art of dieing, the Warrior's Way, there is much for us to talk about, but first we must concentrate on Awakening, so I have just this very moment decided to make an end to this beginning and to call the next chapter "Awake"

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