Look Within
I’ll tell a story from Islam. There was once a camel herder and the camel herder sought his entire life for Mohammad and thought, ‘If I could find the great prophet and ask him this one burning question, it would solve the riddle of my entire existence.’ One day, as a very old man, he was wandering in the desert and he came across an oasis. And there sat Mohammad up against a date tree. And he walked up to the prophet and said, ‘Oh, great prophet, I have one question to ask you which will solve the riddle of my life.’ Mohammad said, ‘Ask it, brother.’ And he said, ‘Shall I shackle the legs of my camels at night or shall I have faith in Allah that they will be there in the morning?’ Mohammad thought and he said, ‘Brother, shackle the legs of your camels and have faith in Allah that they will be there in the morning.’
So what we are doing by setting our outcomes, by languaging our world in a way that we know we are first person accountable for the reality we are creating, we are shackling the legs of our camels. If I have a flat tire on the side of the road, am I going to sit there and pray that god comes along and actually fixes my tire for me? Or am I going to use my legs, walk to the gas station and get my tire fixed, knowing that god gave me the legs to do it? Whatever that power is gave us the power of imagination, of language and of being able to evoke emotions, all of which are the three key elements to conscious creating.
What if god just looked down and said, ‘Yes!’ Whatever you’re dwelling on, whatever you’re contemplating, ‘I’ve got no judgment! There’s no death and there’s no good or bad. I have no judgment. Just Yes! Whatever you choose to dwell on, the answer is Yes.’ Disease and pestilence. Yes! Wealth and abundance. Yes! What if that was the way it was? Would that be weird? It’s all a belief. How does any of us know? But what if that was true? Would it be useful then to learn how to direct the mind? It could be very useful.
I’m a firm believer that we affect and drive and move our reality. I’ve suffered way more than what I know I could have. I can hang on the cross longer, whine better, than anyone in the room. I will guarantee it. And I know one of the gifts of me teaching this course is because some of you get it and you’re off and running. I consistently remind myself this is a gift to me completely. I thank you so much for showing because I get to remind myself of this information. I have yet to have it mastered. And I think one of the reasons I have yet to master it is because, when I speak to groups it’s with a lot of emphasis and a lot of passion and a lot of power because I know it works and I know I’m still teaching myself.
I got started with all of this working with the AIDS community 22 years ago. I’ve seen more people die than a man my age ought to have. I’ve seen horrific deaths; I have seen absolutely blissful deaths. I looked at what made that different and it was really the quality and the consciousness that individual lived their life from and did they potentialize themselves in the context of their living. Did they feel like they had done what they came here to do? Each one of you is the one in your ancestral line out of thousands and thousands and thousands of ancestors who have gone before you, you are the one who has shown up to express your life differently. Because you are an imprint of everything that has gone before you. So you’re the one who can stand in your ancestral line and say, ‘I’m going to be the one to finally do it.’ Now either you can not be and hand it down to your children or you can be the one. If that’s true – the Hopis say there is absolutely no past, that everything that ever existed is present right here in the cells of my body – every ancestor that ever lived is resonating in my DNA. You are the culmination of the thought forms of everything that has gone before you and you have the choice to do it differently, to overcome the idea of separation and the idea of my fear, my victimization, and move out of the victim archetype into a place where you are first person accountable creating your world out of the words you speak, the things you contemplate and the emotions you choose to feel. Every word you speak has millions of synaptic responses being fired off inside of your body moment by moment by moment.
How many of you can create depression? How do you think you do it? Every word you speak is a symbol like a cross or a swastika. When you think of those two symbols all kinds of images and thoughts and feelings come up in your mind, true? Your words are the exact same thing in microcosm to the subconscious mind. Every time you speak a word which is the symbol of your thinking, your mind has to associate to those feelings. You’re firing off thousands and millions of synaptic firing off in your body and you are creating emotional states word by word by word. Have you ever walking along and suddenly by the afternoon you think, ‘God, I feel depressed. Why?’ If you watch what you spoke and dwelt on and imagined you would find out why. We’re creating the emotional states and as we create the emotional states our behavior follows and as we behave, we are responded to by the world; as we get the response from the world our identity builds and this is how we become who we are.
If I have a little child up here and everyone in the room is a child hater and we all silently thought hateful thoughts about this child, would the child be affected? Are you any different? If you have judgment and you are thinking those judgments, will the person you are projecting those judgments to be affected? This is highly, highly important to be a committed listener. Write this down: I stand in my light for your victory.
I was at a training with Robert Tennison Stevens, who is this amazing man who taught me tons about language. In that training I was up in front of the room being processed. I was the first one to go up during this particular training. I did it other than because I was courageous. It was because I raised my hand to ask when lunch was and my attention was someplace else and the whole room applauded because I had just volunteered myself to be the first one to be processed.
To be continued in tomorrows Blog!
Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez
