The Joy of Being Seek joy! Seek joy until you cause joy! Cause joy until you know you are joy. –C. Teevens When I urge people to seek joy, usual mind may think that means vacations on sandy beaches, a shiny new car, ecstasy with a lover, or a rich bank account. That is the usual way people try to make themselves happy. The blatant reality is that all of them come and go. All of them are impermanent and unreliable. Because we have needed them, we believe in free will so we can try to make them happen. And it may be that you do get them. Once, twice, or even more. Yet still, they do not stay. And …
The Alchemy of Death
The Alchemy of Death Ring…Ring… “Cindy! The phone’s for you,” my friends called. This was unusual. I was in college and had just turned nineteen. I did not often get calls up there, in New Liskeard, 160 km north of North Bay. On the other end an unrecognized voice said words I will never forget: “Hello, this is your long lost Father.” In some kind of limbo, I thought of my Dad and, partly stunned, I said, “My Father’s not lost.” Reaching around in my memory, thinking about my Dad at home who raised me and how this was not his voice, I remembered what was not high in my consciousness; that I had another “Dad”. My blood father. It …
“Don’t Quit” poem
–My Father wrote this famous poem It appeared far and wide on posters, bookmarks, etc. as “author unknown.” In memory of Lawrence J. Wilcox (1940-2010) It became so popular so fast, that there was no way of correcting this, and truly, Dad was elated just knowing it was helping so many people. With his passing, it is time to let it be known that he wrote it. I actually read this poem before I was re-united with Dad (at age 19), after which time we became very close. He had submitted the poem to a publisher, who never responded, but later used it. From that he learned and shared with me a clever way to protect your work: mail yourself …
Seeing eye-to-eye
Seeing eye-to-eye I looked and blinked. And looked. And blinked. Something was not quite right with him. Something about his face. That was a year ago, and our first meeting. It was not until the third meeting that I could see what was obvious–he had one green eye and one grey eye! And here it was happening again. I looked up at the doctor and noticed something “off”. Then she asked me what I was there for. On the weekend I headed out for my walk but found myself being drawn deeper and deeper into the woods, and into the stillness. Onto a log, I layed on my back and released into it. Then sat up and sank further. Then …
True Infinite Love
True Infinite Love A gift arose with the early morning sun on my stroll today. I had been contemplating the massive changes in my life and my experience of life since last April (when I discovered the joy we all are), when a big picture understanding struck me. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) it is known that we hold values that drive our attention, intention, behaviour, and beliefs. Beliefs cluster around values, and while we can loosen, erode, and replace beliefs one by one, it is a tedious and slow process because there can be many of them, and also perhaps because they are important to supporting the more important, larger value they are linked to, and so we cling to …
Top 100 Spiritual Books
The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ is in the Top 100! Thank-you all for making it happen! “Alchemy” is in the top 100 in the “Next Top Spiritual Author” contest, out of about 2,500 books. While this is a good sign, anything can happen and the bulk of votes are yet to come, so please keep talking about The Alchemy of Love and Joy™, and send people to this link. On May 3rd voting ends and the top 250 books will advance to the next round. In Round Two we write and submit a book proposal to a panel of judges that will make up the majority vote. (Each author in the contest also assesses another author.). Only 25 authors …
A smelly realization
On the Easter weekend I spent some time with a friend, and after emerging from the bathroom she asked me, “Are your systems working o.k.?” or something like that. As I had just been in the bathroom I “mind read”, or guessed, that she was commenting on the bathroom being smelly, and then mind read that she thought something was up with my bowels. I went back in memory to recall if there was a smell left last visit. No. Looking at her perplexedly I replied “Yes.” To which she repeated, “Are you sure?” “Yes,” I said. Then quite content to let her suspicions go, I almost turned my attention elsewhere when I had another mind read. “Why–are yours off?” …
Top Author
Next Top Spiritual Author Contest 2017 Update: My book on the Alchemy of Love and Joy won the Next Top Spiritual Author Contest in 2010, but I turned the prize down. It was just a bad deal for this work, and I needed a bigger platform to get a better deal. So I went back to work helping people end their stress and pain. Great things are happening to bring this work to the masses in other ways. Subscribe to my updates in the top right corner to keep connected. Alchemy wins first phase of book contest Thank-you for voting! Out of 2,500+ books and authors, “The Alchemy of Love and Joy” has advanced to the second round of the …
Cindy and Mooji Speak the Unspeakable
The Laughter of Speaking the Unspeakable with Mooji What fun! April 25th, 2010, on a live webcast, I got in as the last caller to speak with Mooji… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH1XiPju1iU[/youtube] Mooji teaches “self-inquiry,” which was the additional practice I added just before the direct seeing of self in the woods this past winter. The use of his words cut through the false sense of “I” strongly grabbed me, turning me inward. (More on that in “Speaking the Unspeakable” in this newsletter.) In the video, I tell Mooji about that understanding, and the experience of the laughter and crying with joy and gratitude, and our attempt to speak the Unspeakable was funny. Thank-you Mooji! After further inquiry some weeks later, even the …
My Favourite Videos
My Favourite Videos “Everybody Loves Raymond” illustrates how no-one knows why we are here on earth, with humour. (Refer to the chapter “Survey says?!” in “The Alchemy of Love and Joy”. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjbBuqaT4s&feature=related[/youtube] Find out who you are now [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06tpkfKYEQ&feature=subtivity[/youtube] What is the evidence of “You”? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYHlTV-FS8&NR=1[/youtube] Stay as I am [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBcWBKzFb1E&feature=related[/youtube] Before knowledge [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJqM8XRIFsw&NR=1[/youtube] Papaji answers “Can you show me God?” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOwPteS_Xg[/youtube] Detonator for the ego [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfl-uwrmgo&feature=related[/youtube] Surrender [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFXYCvTguE[/youtube] Absolute Watchfulness [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lri0TAOyXRg&feature=related[/youtube] Were you born? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhD51Zi-DUM&feature=related[/youtube] Forget about enlightenment [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pS_wPeDxDQ&feature=related[/youtube] You are the Holy Spirit [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwJGTOI8k0&feature=related[/youtube] Amazing Grace [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I5unCsE8mE&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]