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I drew my teachings from the wide and varied traditions, both modern and ancient, that I had studied and developed a system known as Conscious Transformation. Through these methods, I transformed my own life and showed people how to consciously transform their lives on all levels. This system of Conscious Transformation empowers individuals to become the architect of their lives, giving them practical tools to intentionally create any vision they choose.
These are the mental, emotional, and physical bodies and a fourth body that we refer to as the spiritual body. The spiritual body is the part of us that extends beyond our human existence.
If we wish to realize our full potential and go beyond the mundane experience of life, we must be willing to master our mind, emotions, and physical body, and increase our opening to spirit.
The mind can serve as a bridge or tool for unlocking these patterns in each of the aspects of the inner matrix. In order to unlock that door and taste freedom, we must understand the mind and gain the capacity to think the mind instead of allowing the mind to think us. In other words, we must train the mind like an athlete trains the body for a race.
The mind, like the heart, is always operating and fulfilling its purpose. The heart’s purpose is to constantly pump blood, carrying oxygen and nutrients throughout the body via the circulatory system; it does so without our awareness of this happening, without ceasing. The mind’s purpose is to think. It is constantly creating thoughts, beliefs, and concepts, giving us the ability to function in life and interact with our environments. If the mind were to stop serving its purpose, we would slip into a vegetative state, unable to function.
As time passes, food and water cease to arrive in your cell, and you experience the intolerable pain of thirst and hunger, which increases your yearning to venture outside. Finally, when the discomfort becomes too great, you step out into the unknown and begin to explore the inside of the greater prison. Time and time again, this experience repeats itself, and you venture farther and farther out. Eventually, you discover a door leading outside the prison, and one day, you step through it and begin to wander the prison grounds.
Over time, you gain awareness that this world is ever-changing and that nothing remains the same for long. As time passes, you learn to build houses, bridges, and roads. You learn to find your own food. One day you realize that there is no longer a yearning inside of you for anything. You become aware that you were actually the architect of the prison that once held you. For the first time, you know that you are truly free of its confines.
Seeing your former self in the current prison inmates, you return to the prison out of a sense of love and a desire that everyone know the freedom you experience in the world outside of the prison.
The only way to know our internal world is to step beyond our cell. Anything we imagine while we are in our cell is just an extrapolation of the cell itself. It is just an extension of what we already know and have experienced. While caged, our imagination cannot begin to approximate the majesty of existence beyond our four walls.
The mind is a pure space or void, containing the energy and power to manifest any vibration that is placed in that space. Every thought is a vibration of energy. Each
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The Inner Matrix by Joey Klein 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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