The Magic Excitement of Chooses

"The lifetime of your personality is one of a myriad of experiences of your soul"
Gary Zukav

There was a time that my burden was not my choice.

My golly gee! You are a most curios dolt. What a miserable, crappy life. It does make a great contrast. Maybe I should have made you my pet toad. You'd have been happier. No! Maybe the toad I always seem to step on.

Now some of you might say, "I'm not that bad." Well, that's khool. It took me forty years to move from there to where I am now.

I didn't have a guidebook to help me along the way.

The above poem describes some of my burden. I absolutely knew the things happening in my life were things I did not choose.

Maybe the toad chose not to choose?

To remove all burden maybe we can use the easy answer, Have fun, be happy'.

As usual, it doesn't quite work. So we have to start doing some subtle work. Remember one small step at a time, one word at a time.

Our burden creates contrast from nothing. Someone once told me he would rather have burden then nothing. "Nothing" is death; the absence of all feeling and thought.

I chose to know burden.

I next chose to look at another contrast to "burden."

Greatness seems the better of the two choices of burden (victim) or greatness.

Your guide has never met anyone without their ample share of burden (victim) and greatness. Some label "victim" feelings negative and "great" feeling positive.

Your guide found the source of victim (burden) to be fear. Fear slams. It is very clear contrast for me. I could use the useful word terror, however not everyone has had true terror. Everyone has had fear. For our journey we will call them greatness and fear. Fear is victim or burden. Victim is fear. Burden if fear.

Would you like to be forever in fear or in greatness?

Your guide chooses to maybe one, maybe the other. Your guide chooses whatever he wants, when he wants.

Space in your abode was created because one can clear everything and choose. He knows the magic for both fear's ride and greatness's ride. He chooses and directs the activities of his perceptions.

The magic ride is his.

There are forces in your guide's abode. Let's call them primaries.

These primaries just are. They are the source we create magic from. Like a witches brew you need ingredients to create things.

Your guide will label the primaries for clarity. Remember, they are just labels. We know these with our being, with our feeling. Their characteristics we will describe when just labels are not adequate. They are more then the labels, much more than descriptions.

Some characteristics of these are:
They always are and always will be.
They are constant, they have no time.
They are the source of our feeling.

We go in and out of them as a stream flows through cool and warm, hot and cold.

Let's flow to a side stream for a minute to reflect on this guides information.

Your guides view is just another view, another perception, and another extrapolation. To be a true wizard you must gather your information from all over the universe. Use these sources to develop your life's picture, your Rembrandt of thought, your mosaic of reality. Life is not an answer, one word, one set of words. A magician's life is a process of seeing from all angles, of subtly pulling the wizards tools to use and enjoying the beautiful view of your life's picture, the beauty of your sunset.

Your sunset may be different things on any day. Perfection is in the artist eyes. As with a painting, if one color doesn't work, paint over with another. Your guide seeks truth, to have a true picture, to be one with reality. I am continually making subtle changes to my picture.

Drawing a picture is only a metaphor for thoughts. Thoughts have three dimensions and probably many more.

Back on the main path we now proceed.

You are a Stream, path, make up your mind. Oh using magic to be a path one time, then a stream the other. Cleaver, cleaver. Let me tell you about my journey to this funny place call OZ. Well when I ………(as he disappears in a wisp)

Primaries will be our major magic ingredients as we go practice using subtlety to create our freedom.

Subtle words "control" and "direct" will flow into our awareness. We will analyze them and bring clarity for our continued journey.

Your guide chooses to direct emotions. He finds he cannot control them, trap them, corral them, dam them. The more I tried to control, dam them up, the more pressure I would build up.

Watch out when the dam busts, it can blow a mental gasket.

Your guide directs his emotions, moves them into side streams, he flows into other primaries, or just rests with all primaries equally. The equality, neutrality is that peaceful place, the tranquil, the quiet abode, the music of the universe flowering, flowing.