Category Archives: Energy & Imagination

JON’S PROMISE

 

JON’S PROMISE

 

THE MAGNIFICENT ENERGY

 

AUGUST 21, 2011. Lately, in my articles, I’ve been mentioning two audio seminars of mine: Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations.

 

I want to make sure you know this:

 

I’M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ARISE WHEN YOU DO THE EXERCISES DESCRIBED IN THOSE SEMINARS—OR IN OTHER SEMINARS OF MINE IN WHICH EXERCISES ARE GIVEN.

 

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

After you’ve been doing the energy exercises, consistently, for at least a week, if you have questions, write me and explain, in detail, what help you need. Tell me exactly what you’re not sure of.

 

I will do everything I can to help you.

 

You see, these exercises form a foundation on which many other practices and techniques are then based. So it’s good to get it right.

 

I’m in this for the long haul.

 

No one walks the whole road of magic, energy, or imagination overnight. Our culture may think in terms of “magic bullets,” but I know the fallacy of that. After investigating profound medical fraud for 30 years, you bet I do.

 

More people are ordering my audio seminars now, and I want to make sure you get everything out of them you can. What I’m teaching doesn’t fall into the mainstream of what people are used to. This is unusual material. It dispels a muddle that’s been around for a long time—and that muddle has to do with energy blockages and deficits. That’s what most people experience in their lives.

 

Not enough energy. Energy blocked. Energy that isn’t focused. Energy that seems to run into a brick wall. Energy of a quality that doesn’t break through into the manifestation of more power. This is what many people experience. And they know, intuitively, there is a better answer.

 

There is.

 

It isn’t just a quick snap of the fingers for two seconds. But the answer is there, for you to experience, through your own actions doing these exercises and getting the feedback from them in an intimate, personal way.

 

So that you come into more of your own power.

 

This isn’t therapy. It’s about magic, which is our natural ability and heritage, which has been misplaced, which has been sacrificed on the altar of some vague notion of “efficiency,” in a highly technical age.

 

Nothing wrong with efficiency. But it can be oversold and over-bought. It can put a lid on the vast well of power we naturally possess.

 

This “private status quo” I’ve been writing about? It’s all based on lack of available energy. People circle the wagons in their lives and say, “This is enough. I’ll settle for this. It’s not all that good, but what else can I do? I’ll stop hoping for more. I’ll settle for half.”

 

Power requires much flowing energy. Power projects energy. Power is the capacity to make deep desires come true in the world.

 

When people experience a taste of that, they begin to discard their personal cover stories about how limited their lives are. They begin to drop those cover stories.

 

Most people are secret agents. They carry out assignments designed to prove they are limited in their capabilities.

 

They go through life that way. They say, “See? See what I just did? That demonstrates my limits. That proves how little I can do. That proves I can only gather up enough energy to keep going. That’s my keynote—I keep going. I endure. I get by.”

 

This is, by and large, the logic of the world.

 

It isn’t the logic of magic.

 

Here is where a certain kind of confusion sets in, and I want to explain it, because it’s instructive. People think that, in order to realize their potential, they have to disassemble the elements of their own personal status quo. They have to take it down, brick by brick, stick by stick, like a tinker-toy. The prospect of doing this is, understandably, unsettling, because the person wonders what in the world they’ll do if they don’t have that reliable status quo to fall back on.

 

They feel like they’ll be left in a vacuum.

 

Well, that’s not the case at all.

 

When you project energies across space, you simply SURPASS the status quo. You OUTDISTANCE it. You TRANSCEND it.

 

There is no dismantling involved.

 

This process isn’t like a puzzle that needs to be solved.

 

It’s more like outfitting a train with a new and much bigger engine that allows it to go on an express route. It doesn’t have to keep making all those local stops.

 

For far too long, people have been dickering around with the local stops, the little things, the little dreams, the idle fancies, the vague ruminations, all of which are symptoms of the fact that they really want to leap across the pond and the puddle, and get into open spaces.

 

They want to get to the place where they can stretch out and exercise their power—and feel what that is like.

 

As our society becomes more controlled and more regulated, more people yearn for that open space and power. And they are right to want it.

 

Fifty years ago, I found it when I started painting. It saved me. It did more than that. It showed me that SPACE wasn’t just a physical aspect of the universe, it was personal and individual. It was a doorway into energy unlimited. Space is possibility manifesting.

 

When you “create big,” you literally enter your space into the space of the world. You prove, without even thinking about proof, that the world has room for “new unending spaces.” Perhaps this sounds like a paradox, but it really isn’t. It’s as actual as rocks or rivers.

 

For a very long time, painters have known about space. They’ve become ecstatic about it. It’s magic.

 

In the past, I’ve written about Hermes, the trickster god, who upsets apple carts and status quos. Hermes is the archetype of “other spaces.” He sees, as clearly as you’re seeing these words right now, that the bulk of humanity is living in a delusion of One Space. And in that space, they fail to realize the uncreated potential of an infinity of other spaces.

 

Hermes, now and then, here and there, punches holes in the shared delusion of One Space, and then he stands back and laughs.

 

When you project energy, you create space. You become aware of a different feeling about space. Space opens up, expands. It takes on new and more natural qualities, as if you’ve just unbuttoned a straitjacket and tossed it aside. You can breathe. You can move. You can flex the elasticity of your being.

 

And in that elasticity, you can access more imagination, more possibility.

 

It’s called joy.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

GETTING RID OF THE NEGATIVE

 

GETTING RID OF THE NEGATIVE

 

AUGUST 20, 2011. A significant amount of traditional therapy, and a whole lot of pop-culture psychology, involves “getting rid of negative material.” Baggage.

 

The theory behind it sounds good at first. It’s sort of like surgery. The doctor says, “You have this thing right here, and we’re going to take it out.”

 

But lo and behold, as the years roll on, it doesn’t seem to be turning out so well. One piece of “negative emotion” is sort of gone, and so is another piece, but other pieces, not seen before, have cropped up. Where is the end to it?

 

Clue: there is no end.

 

Why not?

 

Because when the goal is “getting rid of problems,” people dedicate themselves to it, and in that dedication they will keep finding (or inventing) negative material so THERE IS SOMETHING TO DO. Otherwise, the goal is useless.

 

Therefore, the goal becomes a long freight train heading down the tracks, and it keeps going—and keeps on going…

 

This was not seen clearly when modern therapy was first invented. Neurosis (in the generalized sense) was viewed more or less as a big tin can, and the negative material was inside. If you washed the can out, you were cured.

 

However, it’s not that simple.

 

Often, the patient in therapy becomes dimly aware (or not so dimly) that he can keep using the search for more problems as a shield and postponement against just making his life better. “I have more material to work through.”

 

The patient develops an ingrained habit, which is “looking for negative baggage.” It’s a reflex. The other part of the habit is explaining lack of success in life by: “The negative is keeping me from getting what I want.”

 

Again, it sounds right, but the theory just doesn’t work out.

 

There is an analogy in the medical world. “Germs cause disease, so we have to keep getting rid of germs to make you well.”

 

Actually, the solution there is non-medical. You have to make your immune system stronger.

 

In life, you have to expand your creative power, to create what you want.

 

The world is filled with people who have undergone therapy with the hope of ascending to a new level of happiness. A large percentage of them have never gotten what they showed up for. Instead, they’ve saddled themselves with a habit: they continue to search for negative material that can explain why they aren’t happy.

 

All of this engenders a loss of energy over time.

 

From a more expansive point of view, it’s obvious that, in a scientific rational age, humans would invent a theory of behavior that would define happiness as the elimination of unhappiness. It’s neat and precise and simple. It’s straightforward. Discover what constitutes unhappiness in the mind and remove it.

 

However, adopting a rational position doesn’t always ensure success. That’s a lesson that needs to be learned. The kind of logic that applies so well when you are analyzing an argument won’t work in the same way when you assess the human being as a whole.

 

As I discovered long ago in my consulting work with clients, the creative aspect of a person will always assert itself in one way or another. You can’t discount it or block it out or pretend it doesn’t exist.

 

For example, at the most profound level, a person creates problems if he decides he has a reason to. Not only that, he creates the basic mindset that views reality as “problems that need to be solved.”

 

I’m not making an academic point here. This is as real as rocks and trees. You can seemingly neutralize all sorts of problems…and more will crop up. The TENDENCY to have problems is, at bottom, a creative decision, in the same way that a playwright or a director will sculpt and shape a stage play to have a certain kind of mood, atmosphere, and plot.

 

So I decided to work directly with that creative impulse in people. That’s where the core and crux of a life resides. (I had seen that for myself, in 1961, when I started painting.)

 

In that creative core—that’s where a person will build his own private status quo.

 

Tearing down a few bricks from it won’t do the trick. He’ll just rebuild it.

 

Because, like it or not, he’s an artist.

 

You can’t change things by scrubbing out a few areas in his paintings. He’s still a painter, and he still has ideas about what he wants to put on the canvas.

 

Again, from a rational point of view, it might seem that you should get a person to change his thoughts about what he wants to paint.

 

“Paint more positively!” “Instead of painting THIS, paint THAT.”

 

But the results from such an approach yield disappointing results.

 

Instead, you need to acquaint a person, more thoroughly, with his creative power. You need to have him do things (exercises and techniques) that put him, more consciously, in the driver’s seat of his own power. That’s been my approach.

 

When you do that, the person can undertake a personal revolution of a kind. He can feel and experience more energy, he can use more energy, he can tap into his imagination, he can see wider realities, he can create in ways he’s forgotten about, he can see, first-hand, that problems are just one “mode” or style of creating. Because he’s operating at the core of his own being and power.

 

There is a guideline here: when a person is creating with enough power, and knows he is, he will, by his own choice, find deeper desires he wants to fulfill—and he will create that fulfillment in the world.

 

At that point, the “negative” is just a vaporous illusion that breaks up and disintegrates like the plot of an old story he doesn’t want to tell anymore, because he’s bored with it.

 

That’s all it ever was.

 

It was a piece of HIS art, and HE tossed it aside because HE was ready for more, because HE could do much more, because HE took charge of his own creative power.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

SAVING THE PEA

 

SAVING THE PEA

 

AUGUST 20, 2011. This is a culture that unalterably believes in endless fairy-tale progress and the preservation of things down to the last dress of the last doll a child played with in her cradle.

 

Which is why the culture has spawned such an absurd and puerile version of psychology.

 

People take every destruction as a gross insult. EVERYTHING MUST BE SAVED.

 

If you want to make a good living, go into the storage-locker business. You’ll always have a steady supply of customers.

 

If you eat a plate of peas, save the last pea, put it in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer. Someday you might want to eat it or just look at it and remember the time you ate the plate of peas.

 

It really gets interesting when a person wants to preserve the pattern of his life, even though he’s unhappy with it. It’s a “thing” so, automatically, it has to be saved.

 

I once met a sandal-clad therapist at a party. He asked me, “If you could tell me every thought you have, express every feeling you ever had, without fear of recrimination, would you become a patient?”

 

An interesting conversation-opener-sales-pitch. I said, “If I were to tell you every thought I have, it would take ten billion years.”

 

“Why is that?” he said.

 

“Because I invent them.”

 

For him, that was a puzzler.

 

I guess he thought all thoughts were in a metal container you saved in a storage locker, and you could just unpack them and play them back.

 

In my consulting practice, I work to take the coat of shellac off existing “saved” reality, because, placed in the correct perspective, reality is more like taffy. It can be sculpted into many shapes. It can be invented at the drop of a hat. This isn’t just theory, it’s real.

 

Saving isn’t really a bad thing until it becomes extreme, until the person wants to preserve his own private status quo, even though it’s not making him happy.

 

People do a risk analysis—they weigh the dissatisfaction they feel about their own status quo against what the risk might be if they step out of the shadows and begin a new kind of life—a life that would fulfill their deepest desires.

 

They add up both sides of the ledger and decide where the lesser risk is. Of course, when you use comparative risk as your only standard, you’re pretty much into saving the status quo.

 

In my articles, my consulting practice, and my audio seminars, I’m building a visible foundation for the second choice—a life lived in pursuit of fulfillment of deep desire.

 

That’s where the magic shows up.

 

It’s not really in the pea in the bag in the freezer.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

POWER AND MAGIC

 

POWER AND MAGIC

 

AUGUST 18, 2011. The power to manifest deep desire and make it come true in the world is not a timid thing. It does not come walking with its hands in its pockets full of self-effacing apologies.

 

This power is not aching for compromise. It is not trying to please everyone everywhere and gain acceptance from the group.

 

This power is a force.

 

With that as a prelude, some people would conclude I am talking about a thing that is intrusive, immoral, overbearing, and decidedly anti-social. Against all norms.

 

But actually, this power (magic) would never step on the freedom of another person. It has no truck with that. It doesn’t attempt to diminish or cow anyone.

 

And as an incidental spillover effect, it benefits other people.

 

The accelerating socialization of planet Earth, in which the population is taught to be one mass of “people giving up everything to serve each other,” is, at bottom, an agenda of control over the individual, and so naturally propaganda is going to be employed to convince one and all that power, any kind of personal power, is bad.

 

When I consult with a client in my practice, I’m fully aware that, sooner or later, we’re going to meet up with the issue of power. And more than simply a topic to discuss, power needs to be created and experienced.

 

To do anything else is to detour around a high mountain and pretend it isn’t there.

 

Power has many features, and one of its side effects is its ability to act as a kind of air-blower, cleaning out the dust, cobwebs, blocks, and doldrums of a lifetime. It literally rejuvenates the cells of the body and the electromagnetic field around the body.

 

Power has its paradoxes, too. The more of it you have, the less you need, in order to make things happen.

 

Here’s a rough metaphor to explain power as it rises to the level of magic:

 

Joe is taking an acting class. The teacher is having the students break up into pairs and do the same short scene from a play. Joe brings off his scene perfectly. He knows his lines, he doesn’t miss a beat. Yet each time he does the scene, the teacher doesn’t gush with praise. Joe is puzzled. Finally, one day, it all comes to him. What’s missing is sufficient depth of feeling. He’s giving a very clean performance, but he isn’t projecting the twists and turns of feeling his part requires. So that is what he works on, and lo and behold, he discovers something about himself. He can inject deeper and deeper levels and layers and energies of emotion into his performance. And when he does, he comes alive. He experiences being alive in a way he hasn’t ever felt before. His whole world and space opens up for him. He’s got energy running through his body. It’s as if his cells have been eagerly waiting for this moment. He knows what efficiency is all about, but this is way beyond that. He’s crossed a line. He’s broken through. Some sort of abundance is flooding into his veins. He hasn’t solved a problem consisting of numbers and equations. He’s blown the walls off his boundaries.

 

And if, in that moment, you asked him whether he felt power, he would say yes, without hesitation. It wouldn’t need any thought. If you asked him to describe this power, he might say it was the exhilarating confidence that he could use and direct and even inhabit great energies to move in any direction he decided to go, toward any objective.

 

He might say this was genuine illumination.

 

He might say he could now project his subjective world into the physical world.

 

He might say this was magic.

 

And he would be right.

 

It’s a new leap along the great road of magic.

 

Power, as it rises to higher levels, paradoxically acquires a “centered fluidity,” an ability to manifest the fulfillment of individual desire and, simultaneously, spill over with spontaneous generosity.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

How does a life change?

How does a life change?

The energy

by Jon Rappoport

August 17, 2011

Some years back, I considered trying to come up with a name for my consulting work with private clients. I eventually decided it didn’t matter. I didn’t need a name for it. But one idea was: ENERGY CONSULTING.

I want to explain why that fit. Stay with me on this, because it’s the difference between things remaining as they are and changing for the better.

A person tends to “gather up his own life” and construct its boundaries and possibilities in his own mind. It’s like taking a snapshot of life and pinning it to the wall and saying: THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE IS. IT COULDN’T BE ANYTHING ELSE.

And when he does that, he builds a thought-form that tells him where he can go and what he can do and where he won’t go and what he won’t do.

In my consulting work, I come across this.

I once had a client who was very enthusiastic about our work. In each session, he would come across new ideas and resolve to put them into action. However, he never did put even one idea into action. It was as if these new possibilities were bouncing off something already set in his mind. And that something was, literally, a thought-form he had built years earlier, for the purpose of defining his life.

This thought-form operated as a trampoline. It repelled anything new.

In this sense, a person can have his own private status quo. No matter what he does, no matter what he says, things will remain the same.

You can call the thought-form a mask, a wall, a fortress—you can call it anything you want to. But it doesn’t budge. If a piece of it comes loose, it is rebuilt quickly. Workers show up with remarkable speed and re-set the bricks.

But then problems develop. All sorts of problems. Physical, relationship, emotional, spiritual…

Why? Because if your life stays the same, at some point it doesn’t work.

Which then means you will become preoccupied with solving problems. And that equals endless distractions.

If you want to see this, as an analogy, played out on a group scale, look at the so-called the US National Security State. All its branches, its procedures, its protections, its research programs, its surveillance, its intrusions, its spies, its need for empire building, and so forth and so on. Problems? They never end. Solutions? They never end.

Well, this is what happens to a person’s life. As a result of keeping that thought-form in place, that configuration that defines his life, the person will experience many problems. And those problems will require solutions…and on and on it goes. He will keep bringing more and more elaborate solutions on board, until finally his life looks like a problem-solving machine that can’t quite keep up.

Into this, all of this, I drop a liquid called imagination.

And the work then involves bringing the person on to a new plateau where solving problems isn’t the prime directive.

Instead, a new shining direction is chosen, in which imagination and power play the central role.

Of course, the old thought-form is still there.

So I give the person exercises to do. These exercises acquaint him with using energies he’s never used before.

And in that process, he begins to realize HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO LIVE HIS OLD LIFE.

HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO MAINTAIN HIS STATUS QUO.

HE HAS MORE ENERGY THAN HE NEEDS TO RUN HIS PROBLEM-SOLVING MACHINE.

HE HAS EXCESS ENERGY. LOTS AND LOTS OF IT.

THIS is how life changes.

A person realizes he has more energy than he thought he had.

You see, in order to keep bowing at the feet of his thought-form, the thing that tells him what to do and what not to do, the thing that hems him in, he needs to expend a certain amount of energy.

Staying the same requires a “steady maintenance dose” of energy. And the person intuitively knows this.

He believes he’s living a zero-sum game. He puts just enough energy into maintaining that thought-form to keep everything the same. And then he gets? His life as it is.

SO HE CONCLUDES THE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE ENERGY HE HAS ON HAND IS ALL THE ENERGY HE’LL EVER HAVE.

But suppose one day he shows up with 100 tons of new energy?

This is new, this is different.

Because ENERGY IS THE THING THAT WILL CONVINCE A PERSON HE CAN LIVE A NEW LIFE.

If he has an abundance of energy, he’ll offload that thought-form that’s been holding him a straitjacket.

Because he sees he can go farther than the thought-form can take him. He has the energy to do it.

Energy is the proof.

That’s what, subconsciously, he’s been waiting for and hoping for.

When I saw this in action with clients, I knew I was on to something.

A few of those exercises are contained in my audio seminar, The Transformations.

Finding new energy is like finding a gold mine.

Until that happens, people with a tight, restraining thought-form will keep bouncing new possibilities off it into the air and walking away and letting those great new ideas fall on the ground.

Energy is the key.

There are ways to restore it and expand it.

Fuel (energy) was the key to the great leap forward in rocket science, and it’s the missing piece in the leap forward in life.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

“ENERGY ESCAPE” AND MAGIC

 

“ENERGY ESCAPE” AND MAGIC

 

AUGUST 16, 2011. There are many ways people try to avoid creating energy, and since magic is usually associated with some kind of “spiritual universe,” people who take an interest in magic tend to want to detour around the whole subject of energy. They prefer replacing it with “thoughts” and “ideas” and “wishes” and “rituals.”

 

They eventually find out they’re up against a wall, and that wall is energy.

 

It’s not just because we live in an energy universe. It’s because magic is centrally involved with energy.

 

Magic, the producing of realities that go beyond the laws of this continuum, steps forward with energy—and doesn’t draw it from the universe, but creates it point-blank.

 

That was the original purpose of ancient breathing exercises and practices and techniques, before other objectives bled into the scene. Harmony, balance, peace, relaxation, and so on are not the same thing as magic.

 

In modern society, the strategy is to resolve uncertainties with a sense of balance and peace—but that is just a preliminary tactic that takes a person a few miles down the road, where there is a dead-end.

 

Magic deals with uncertainties by continuing to create energy.

 

Society frowns on this approach, and wants to swallow up people in a networked collective. The whole vector and purpose of modern structures is to AVOID magic.

 

I could downplay all this and pretend that my work is about some ultimate spiritual method of “fitting in” to “the cosmos,” but that would be a lie. That would be promoting yet another cover story designed to absorb people in ideas that, long range, have a sedative effect. Such ideas simply satisfy a need to receive everything and create nothing.

 

I once knew a painter who would sit in front of his blank canvas and do nothing until he received an idea. This eventually wound him up in diminishing returns. Improvisation exercises cured that.

 

Contrary to popular belief, we aren’t creatures automatically networked into a grand energy design of universe. That’s an interesting legend, among many legends. It has political implications in an overall collectivist agenda. On one level, there is a “web of life,” but it isn’t ultimate, and it doesn’t form the basis of magic. This is surely a disappointment to many believers, but there it is. As I’ve stated many times, the “grand design” notion, in the long run, has the effect of making people passive. Boiled down, it becomes, “Wait and keep waiting. Something good will happen.”

 

Yes, as you wait 50 years, good things will happen, bad things will happen, and neutral things will happen. None of that requires you waiting.

 

The ability to project energy is the first step on the road of magic. It isn’t something weird or tricky. It’s quite straightforward, and the exercises I describe in two audio seminars, Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations.

 

One could speculate about the possibility of getting into a perfect state of peace and calm—and then generating a single lucid thought that creates a transformative impact on physical reality. But waiting for that to happen could take a very long time…and still it might not occur. Instead, the exercises I describe involve the strong and active projection of energy across space.

 

That’s the start of something big.

 

That’s power, and yes, I know, power has become a nasty word. Through propaganda, it’s been intentionally twisted to mean something anti-social. People have been brainwashed into thinking power is bad. They opt instead for living in a little fairy-tale world of pretty hopes, wishes, and thoughts. I have no problem with that, but it has nothing to do with magic.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

CREATING ENERGY, AND MAGIC

 

CREATING ENERGY, AND MAGIC

 

AUGUST 16, 2011. One of the first tenets of true magic is that energy can be created out of nothing at any moment. Practically speaking, it’s only important that the individual creates it. It doesn’t matter where it comes from.

 

Life is constructed, ordinarily, as some kind of equilibrium. Energy in equals energy out. This is an outrageous arrangement, but there it is. You work, you sleep. The energy you expend at work is replaced during sleep. As the years tick by, the expenditure diminishes and therefore the replacement is less.

 

This is what you might call an energy network. It breeds non-individuality.

 

The mind seeks the equilibrium, or a reasonable pretense of it—a thought pattern, ingrained.

 

Result? An inner core of passivity.

 

Magic, though, means creating unlimited amounts of energy with no balancing effect.

 

Therefore, exercises in that direction are all about creation/production of energy.

 

This violates two hallucinations called laws of physics. One, the conservation of energy, and two, the storing of stale energy in a remote area (entropy).

 

To create raw energy, you project it. This forms the basis of a number of exercises, several of which I describe in two audio seminars—Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations.

 

Although manifestation of desire is the objective of these exercises, on a deeper level the more profound goal is simply creating energy (through projection).

 

This is why, as spectators, populations seek out sports, music, films. They sense the presence of spontaneously created energy. There is only one problem. They are soaking up the projection, instead of projecting energy themselves.

 

Projecting energy (by many people) would tear apart modern society, in which the fantasy of equilibrium is expressed as collectivism.

 

The leaders of a collectivist society are networked in as thieves. In other words, they are the ones stealing energy from other people. This, in the long run, gives the leaders nothing. Less than nothing. They live in a minus universe in which they are without creative resources. In such half-light, they search for a missing key without having any real idea about what it is or how to find it.

 

Under the cover story of modern society lies the capacity (on the part of the individual) to create and project energy. This capacity is generally ignored.

 

All the mysticism in the world, and its attendant forms and systems, is actually dedicated to bringing about new versions of equilibrium—as if they were stages of enlightenment. Nothing could be further from the truth. These forms are simply restatements of collectivism on a “spiritual level.”

 

99.9% of the population wouldn’t recognize the true projection of energy if it happened two feet in front of them. They would blank it out.

 

Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

 

Richard Jenkins, Healer

by Jon Rappoport

August 16, 2011

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Lately I’ve been writing about my consulting practice, which involves expanding the use of imagination.

Richard Jenkins, the extraordinary healer I wrote about in my book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies, explained it to me this way:

You get an idea, he said. The idea is what you want. It could be money, it could be love, it could be anything—but you really want it. It’s not just an idle speculation. And then subconsciously, your imagination goes to work on it. The idea of what you want is the magnet, and imagination assembles energies around it that would produce the outcome. The problem is, most people don’t recognize this process is being forwarded by imagination. They don’t realize they’re gaining the power and means to achieve what they desire.

In his case, Richard said, the idea was Healing. That was where he started. And he knew his imagination was entering into that simple concept. And he followed his imagination. He entered into the process fully. Soon, he said, he took over. He “became” his imagination. He knew there were no wrong moves.

This was the gateway into healing for him. He walked through the gate and then it was all good. From that point on, he developed paranormal abilities. From that point on, his desire to heal was, as he said, transformed into “a dance.”

He told me it was hard to put into words what he was actually doing with a person to bring about healing, because it was so abundant. He was doing so many things with his energy and his intent to make healing happen.

He said something that stuck with me: his subjective world was becoming objective fact.

He was projecting his subjective world into the physical world. This was the power.

He said it was a secret available to anyone.

When I watched him work, I saw him enter the room where the patient was, and I felt he was creating healing from the inside out, so to speak. He was imaginatively and creatively projecting healing with every move he made. It was his subjective and spontaneous decision to make healing happen that was making things happen. It wasn’t anything else, really.

That was his power. And he could ignore anything else, because he didn’t need anything else.

It was as if he was demonstrating that: improvisation in the moment was all you needed.

In his room, where he worked, I became aware that the world is dedicated to the notion that the paranormal isn’t real. That is the position of the world. Of modern society. And he was working with that, like a sculptor works with clay. He welcomed that idea, that the paranormal wasn’t real. That was his “material.” He could re-shape it, make it into many different shapes, and ultimately he would show, not just the patient, but “everyone, all at once,” that there was another reality, and it was higher and wider and deeper.

For him, imagination became his “sculpting,” his demonstration.

And the last few times I watched him work, he transcended even that. He projected healing everywhere and it became the “replacement” for the status quo. In his presence, everything that wasn’t healing disappeared.

His subjective world became the objective world.

He proved to me, without trying to prove anything, that he was doing more than just working on the patient. Other people in the patient’s family began to be healed. And they weren’t in the room. They started to experience greater health and and a greater sense of well-being.

He said, “This is how imagination works.”

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A VACCINE AGAINST MAGIC

 

A VACCINE AGAINST MAGIC

 

MAGIC AND DEPRESSION

 

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”

Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

 

“Those people who recognize that imagination is reality’s master we call ‘sages,’ and those act upon it, we call ‘artists.’”

Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

 

JUNE 11, 2011. No guts, no glory. Pursuers of any great goal can tell you that.

 

In the human psyche, from the moment a newborn baby emerges into the light of day, he/she has a desire for magic.

 

We are told this is an early fetish that fades away as the experience of the world sets in. As maturity evolves. As practical reality is better understood.

 

In most areas of psychology, sensible adjustment to practical reality is a great prize to be won by the patient. It marks the passage from child to adult. It is hailed as a therapeutic triumph.

 

In truth, the desire for magic never goes away, and the longer it is buried, the greater the price a person pays.

 

A vaccine against a disease can mask the visible signs of that disease, but under the surface, the immune system is carrying on a low-level chronic war against toxic elements of the vaccine. And the effects of the war can manifest in odd forms.

 

So it is with the inoculation of reality aimed at suppressing magic.

 

One of the byproducts of the “reality shot” is depression.

 

The person feels cut off from the very feeling and urge he once considered a hallmark of life. Therefore, chronic sadness. And of course, one can explain that sadness in a variety of distracting ways, none of which gets to the heart of the matter.

 

It is assumed that so-called primitive cultures placed magic front and center because they couldn’t do better. They couldn’t formulate a “true and rational” religion with a church and monks and collection plate and a European choir and an array of pedophiles. They couldn’t fathom what real science was. They couldn’t invent plastic-coated shiny candies in twelve colors in a box.

 

Their impulse for magic had to be defamed and reduced and discredited. Why? Obviously, because the Westerners who were poking through their cultures like demented professors had already discredited magic in themselves—they had put it on a dusty shelf in a room in a cellar beyond the reach of their own memory. But they couldn’t leave it alone. They had to keep worrying it, scratching it, and so they journeyed thousands of miles to find it somewhere else—and then they scoffed at it.

 

Let me give you a succinct sentence: I’M INTERESTED IN YOUR MAGIC, NOT MINE.

 

That sums up a great deal of human experience. In fact, it gives birth to organized religion, the attempt to promote a distant metaphysical geo-location where every bit of magic takes place, under the tutelage of a great authority. His magic, not yours.

 

And we wonder why, under the banner of religion, there has been so much killing. It’s because, at a deep level, the adherents know they’ve sold their souls and they’re depressed, angry, resentful, remorseful, and they want to assuage and expiate their guilt through violence.

 

The urge for magic is forever.

 

And yet the charade goes on. While paying homage and lip service to ordinary practical reality seasoned with a bit of fairy-tale religion, people actually want to change reality, they want to work it like putty in their hands, they want to reveal their latent paranormal power, they want to get outside reality, they want to create realities that, by conventional standards, are deemed impossible.

 

They want to find and use their own magic.

 

In our modern culture, we’re taught that everything is learned. That, you could say, is the underlying assumption of education. It has far-reaching consequences. It leads to the SYSTEMATIZING OF THE MIND. The mind is shaped to accommodate this premise.

 

“If I want to know something, I have to learn it. Somebody has to teach it to me. They will teach it as a system. I will learn the system. I will elevate the very notion of systems.”

 

In the long run, that’s a heavy loser. That’ll get you a lump of coal in a sock, a spiritual cardboard box to live in, on a side alley in Vegas, after you’ve dropped your whole stash in the casinos.

 

In fact, Vegas is a pretty good metaphor for what I’m talking about here. I love the place. Every time I’ve gone, I’ve experienced magic in the big rooms with no clocks. Video poker, dice in a cage, I’m good. But I notice the casinos have that one big thing on their side: time. Time, the cardinal part of the ordinary-reality illusion. It sinks in. It makes its presence known. It’s not really the odds that beat you in Vegas, it’s time itself, the wearing away of the stone. If you stay at the tables long enough, you’ll lose. The statistical probabilities set in. The averages average out. The norm takes control. The neutral blandness spreads. You end up trying to decide whether you want to keep sitting there, tick-tock, losing, or you want to eat a fairly dismal meal or take in a fairly dismal show. Tick-tock.

 

The bosses’ magic in Vegas is no-magic. That’s their strength. They wait, and they collect.

 

So what happens. Everybody tries to learn a system. To beat the house. A system will create magic.

 

Good luck.

 

“I don’t have any magic of my own. I can’t beat the house. So I have to learn a system of magic. Not mine. Somebody else’s.”

 

As I reconstruct the legend of Merlin, one of my favorite guys, I put him in my sights as the one who taught himself magic by abandoning all systems. That was his genius. Don’t misunderstand. He didn’t turn himself into a blithering idiot. He just stepped outside systems. He went down roads based on his own naked desire to make magic. That was the car he drove.

 

To modern man, this makes no sense. His highway is different. It comes into existence only through learning about structures built by someone else. “Show me that someone else. Otherwise, I’m lost. I don’t know how to proceed. I can’t navigate.”

 

This is a joke. It’s a confession that the great and basic desire (making magic) doesn’t lead to anything. It’s like saying, “I’m on the launching pad, I’m sitting in the most powerful rocket ever built, and I have no idea what to do. I want to get out into space, but I’m clueless. You mean this thing I’m sitting in can actually take me into space? No, that doesn’t sound right. That makes no sense at all.”

 

Yeah. Well.

 

So he gets out of the rocket, he enrolls at Harvard, he studies anthropology for six years, he flies to a jungle in South America, he digs up remnants of a lost culture, he infers they performed arcane ceremonies six times a week, he writes monographs—and he concludes they were a very picturesque society with fascinating customs and totems, and their brand of magic can best be understood as an inevitable consequence of their matriarchal organization, which itself was an accommodation to rainfall levels. The actualmagic was nothing. It was about as important as ants carrying little packages of material into their hill.

 

The anthropologist takes two Paxil and goes off to teach a class on the meaning of ancient eyebrow trimming in Tierra Del Fuego.

 

The rocket is still on the pad. It’s waiting.

 

JON RAPPOPORT

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From The Magician Awakes

by Jon Rappoport

June 4, 2011

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Traditionally the gaze was conceived as a way of fingering, of touching. The old Greeks spoke about looking as a way of sending out my…soul’s limbs, to touch your face and establish a relationship between the two of us which is this relationship, and this relationship was called vision. Then, after Galileo at the time of Kepler, the idea developed that the eyes are receptors into which light brings something from the outside…People began to conceive of their eyes as some kind of camera obscura. In our age people conceive of their eyes and actually use them as if they were part of a machinery. They speak about interface. Anybody who says to me, I want to have an interface with you, I say please go somewhere else, to a toilet or wherever you want, to a mirror…can’t you recognize that there’s a deep otherness between me and you, so deep that it would be offensive for me to be programmed in the same way you are.

(Ivan Illich, interviewed by Jerry Brown, KPFA, March 22, 1996)

Unlike other of my projects, The Magician Awakes will probably never end. Right now, it’s scattered in 20 or 30 places, several of which are lost owing to a hard-drive crash…which is okay, because the structure of the book allows something like that to happen.

It’s in taped talks, in pictures, in essays, in fragments of fiction, in poems. It doesn’t move in a straight line.

So today, I write a few more pieces of it.

I was planning an interview with Salvador Dali. I thought I would have him explain things he would never have bothered to explain while he was alive. It seemed like a good idea. But then, as I began to punch keys, I realized this wouldn’t work. For example: “You haven’t seen most of my paintings. They’re underneath the layers of the ones you know. They’re quite ordinary. A glass on a table. A soldier drinking coffee at a truck stop. A necklace on velvet. This is my real work. I’m a hack. I’m a machine that went haywire. You ask for something extraordinary, all of you. You keep refining your need for the amazing. If a person talks to you and then doubles back on what he’s saying, you’re disgusted. You want a trip to Mars to have certain qualities which symbolically represent your addiction. If a flying saucer turns out to be an object that was sitting under a cup of coffee, you want to kill someone. I find that interesting. It’s literal-mindedness taken to such purity it’s a little fascist empire of The Astonishing. Your personal museum.”

I was sitting at my desk and wondering what would happen if the objects on it became words in a language. The envelope, the pen, the headphones, the hammer, the clock, the keys. The dullness of such a language could be enormous. It might envelop the world. People would fall asleep in the middle of conversations. Then they would dream in that language, and look for a way out. But to what destination would they want to flee? I think it would be a courtroom, where decisions are rendered in simple terms. Justice delivered in bromides. Final decisions. It looks good, but nothing changes.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663) was witnessed as he levitated. Many times. Occasionally to a great height. Once after kissing the foot of the Pope in his chamber. He had to be ordered back down. In some respects, Joseph was an idiot. He was obsessed with devotion to the cosmological artifacts of the Church. It just goes to show. Would you sacrifice your personality to fly a hundred feet into the air? I know people who would. I believe this subject would make an interesting Sunday sermon.

Public relations is in the business of manufacturing clowns. If you’ve ever been the subject of a real campaign, you’ve experienced it. Magic as animation. A doctor moves along at your side, injecting you with local anesthetics and carving away pieces of you. By the end, you’ll believe anything. You’ll believe there is a wheel of karma, and you’re turning on it. Or the moon is a coin in your pocket. But you have no power over the moon. It just sits there in your pants, and occasionally you take it out, to see what it looks like without a sun to shine on it.

I used to think waking up was done in a straight line. But each time I found a line to walk, it led me to a smaller place. A place where I could possess one and only idea: I’m awake.

Obviously, the telephone should have been invented after the computer. The phone is so much more inflected. In the same way, magic should have been invented after the establishing of modern civilization. Well, it turns out that is the case. We are inventing magic now. And it has very little to do with technology. But that doesn’t mean it’s simple. Let me offer you a provisional hypothesis. When you apply Simple (even if it is stunningly lucid) to the world, Simple begins to deteriorate in a few hours. It’s wonderful, it’s delightful, it may even be ecstatic, but it’s kindergarten magic.

People love the new sheriff who comes into town and takes care of the bastards. I suppose I’m as addicted to it as the next person. But at least I understand that the clapboard hotel has tunnels under it, and the tunnels lead to the center of the Earth. And then there is this: there is no center. There is a place called a center, and it can be correctly measured, but it doesn’t give you a gun you can shoot, so that you can wipe out your mind. If you want that, try the little white church with the steeple at the end of Main Street. They might have something for you.

There is a notion that if pressure were taken off the minds of people, if they were released from controls imposed from the outside, if things were more just, the natural life would flow like honey. I’ve never seen that happen. Here is something I have seen: citizens trying (and failing) to impose a tyranny based on demanding a three-word answer to a profound question. There is a clue in this. If the answer has to come in three words, then the question wasn’t really deep. The words of the question may have been impressive, but it was being asked from the inside of a cartoon casino, where everything is cast in plastic, and people are sitting at roulette tables and slots, and watch keno and bet on blackjack. And they’re all trying to beat the house with cons. And later, they’re standing out on the sidewalk with drinks in their hands, wishing they could collar a random person passing by and make some kind of citizen’s arrest.

The Matrix Revealed

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.