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While I encourage the new age movement, much of it still operates out of old attitudes of lack, infantile wishful thinking and neediness rather than identification with the Infinite Self.
A higher state, more energy and more well-being is the true aim behind these desires. Paradoxically and quite ironically feeling better is not the goal of my work, but its prerequisite! Wellbeing is not the goal, it is the starting point. Without any energy or enthusiasm to start with, none of it works. This is funny and kind of tragic, because the people most desperate for certain things will be the least likely to get them. People who visit my workshops out of curiosity but in a state of general well-being will get the results…they’d also get them without my workshop.
mirror (life) will not smile before you smile. Expecting circumstances to change before you change does not work.
Spend a certain amount of time on a regular basis to become silent and relaxed until you find happiness within yourself in the here and now…independent of the ever changing conditions and circumstances of the world. Find some well-being independent of outside objects, people and events. This single piece of advice will boost the quality of your life in ways you may not yet suspect.
They become a limitation when you substitute teachings and techniques for your own self-responsibility in daily life, your own first-hand common sense and intuition, your own inner authority. Some resemble a person who is standing at a lake where a child is drowning and screaming for help and has to consult his tarot-cards in order to find out “what to do next”. The truth is not a path followed, but one created by your own footsteps. Follow another’s path and you become the other, not yourself. Becoming dependent on outside sources and teachings is the number one mistake I have observed in the new age scene. In other words, it is not going to be a guru, teacher or technique that ultimately forms your experience, its going to be you, the “I am”, the Youniverse that you are.
The answers are not always “out there” but very often “in here”. When you make something on the outside more important than yourself, you are presuming that it is not you who is creating reality but some outside “authority” who knows more than you. This is an invalidation of your Infinite Nature and the surest way to cut yourself off from your intuitive and common sense. The prime source of reality are not rules, concepts, behaviours, teachers, masters, gurus, but you. Yes, go ahead and ask others questions and gain different viewpoints. But do not become dependent on them for well-being. You are a sovereign, individual, unique, beautiful and very, very, very powerful being and it is silly to assume that others have access to more of the infinite resource than you.
Each highway represents a unique life experience, options you could decide for. Each of these highways represents a different version-of-yourself. Each highway contains experiences, props, people, sceneries, background, emotions that are distinct and different from the other highways (on some there are similarities or overlapping). Each time you make a decision or change your decision, you change your direction on the highway or towards another one of these many highways.
The parallel universe concept applied to the Self holds that the multidimensional, infinite, eternal and universal aspect of yourself is experiencing all of these highways simultaneously, has travelled, is travelling, will travel all of these variations. This Oversoul-Version of Self not only travels on all highways but is also creating highways for itself and others to travel on. The concept presented in this book holds that you truly and really already exist as many different versions of self, even though “you” (the limited version of yourself) may only be aware of one reality, one version-of-yourself this moment. The reason for this limitation is simple: Were you to perceive all highways simultaneously you wouldn’t be able to focus on, learn from and enjoy a single highway properly. When you make a Decision for Highway A another Version of yourself is simultaneously deciding for Highway B. The Version-of-You that would have decided for Highway B actually does exist…in a parallel Universe.
They are all accessible by you, because they are also you. This also means you don’t really have to “create” these realities, because they already exist. You merely have to become the version-of-yourself that corresponds to the desired reality.
Parallel Reality Surfing Life becomes ever more interesting once you realize there are many versions of yourself and millions of options that await you. The hundreds of highways already lain out in front of you, may be called your “destiny” or highest probability. Which of these highways you choose may be called a matter of free will. Even if, from a limited viewpoint, your choice is reduced to only a hundred paths, that’s still a lot more than most have dared travel up to now. Do you feel that breeze of fresh air when becoming aware of how many options you have to choose from? Do you feel the breeze turning into a thunderstorm of fascination when I tell you that your infinite self has actually travelled all of these paths and that you can link into any of these versions of reality and experience them just as real as you are experiencing your current reality? The only catch is that you have to forget or loose one reality in order to fully identify with another. And that is the precise reason you are sitting there acting as if your current reality were the only one…we do that in order to focus-in-detail rather than being swept away by a chaos of infinite myriads of possibilities. We limit ourselves in order to focus on one aspect of being in detail.
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Parallel Universes of Self by Frederick E. Dodson presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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