Spiritual Warrior: A 20 Year Old’S Guide to Human Evolution

By Ryan Amann

Spiritual Warrior was written in the midst of a physical and spiritual awakening. Ryan Amann went through a serious and life-changing few months and emerged virtually unscathed. His knowledge of all things spiritual and of the evolution of mankind is based not only on his experiences, but also on his prior knowledge and on the research he has done.

It will allow you to:
Learn about various beliefs and ideas related to the evolution of the human race
Begin to hypothesize about the direction we are headed in as a society
Understand how to best be actively engaged in life and live life in a fully aware and rewarding way

Though Spiritual Warrior is Ryans first book, it contains the precision of one that has written for years, and it is a page turner. His first book offers an exciting glimpse into the future of the human psyche and human evolution. It also offers insight into how we will specifically be growing and the types of things we will learn as we evolve into a more aware and conscious species. This book is a must read for those interested in the spiritual evolution of our race, but can also be enjoyable to read for people of all races, genders, and ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452516547

Ryan Amann

Ryan Amann is currently a student at Rutger’s University and previously a student of University of Maryland, College Park. He is planning on majoring in Communications with a minor in English. He is currently working on two other books, one a novel and the other a philosophical and social guide, and has plans to write for the rest of his life, if not as a full time job. Ryan lives with his mom, dad, and brother in New Jersey. If you would like to contact Ryan for any reason, you can text or call him at 908-295-3210 or email him at [e-mail].

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Balboa Press rev. date: 10/06/2014

Contents

Forward by Celeste Amann

Part 1 Personal

Journey of a 20 year old’s self-discovery

Distinction Between God and Higher Power and Church Experience

My Pain

Dreaming and Subconsciousnesses and Brief Rant on Medicine/Inequality

Music

What I’m Going Through - January 26th, 2012 - Status Quo

Tony Robbins on Piers Morgan Tonight

My Dream Last Night

Prophecy and Dispelling Skeptics

Respect For All (Affirmation)

You Never Think It Will Happen To You

Karma and Karmic Debt

I Will (Affirmation of Healing)

Miracles

Disconnect

Respect/Karmic Balances

Part 2 Beliefs, Ideas, and Prophecies

Kundalini Understanding (W/O Research) - Affirmation

The Chakras (Energy Systems of the Body)

Worship and Power of Worship

Open Your Eyes/Antithesis of Society - Growth - Spread Awareness

How Realistic and Attainable Perfection Is As A Society

Main Biological Idea

Cyclic Tendency of Life

Human Purpose and Evolving the Education System

Solving the Equation

Super Society - A Revelation of Sorts

Affirmations

Tell Non-Believers…

Notion of God - Source Energy Declaration

Pineal Gland

More Than Religion

Channeling Benevolent Beings and Angels

Creating Reality and Dreaming Big

Higher Consciousness and Personal Experience

Profiting and Integrity

The Grand Scheme and Each Age’s Place In It

Unconscious Minds - Evolution

The Ideal Mind - Four Quadrants

Elderly People

Decree/Social Determinations

Be What You Want - Control Your Destiny

Money - Root of All Evil

You Are Brilliant: The Human Purpose and Human Evolution

A New Understanding

Rap about spiritual alignment and four quadrants and completely balanced well-being

Rap about Kundalini

Acknowledging Skeptics

Part 3 Healing

Healing

Self-Worth - Absorbing Blame We Ought To Absolve (Karmic Balance)

Human Experience Manual

Fear Vs. Love

Evasive Action With Regards To Stress

If We Do These Things

Part 4 Short Stories

Fulfilling Gifts, Previously Icy

Pineapples in Paradise

Rock From Above

My Temple

Helpful Resources

Forward by Celeste Amann

A n unexplained, hard-to-diagnose illness led to taking a semester off for my son, Ryan. This gave Ryan the ability to crawl deep within himself & find a path to healing. An explosion of awakening… the kundalini within. Opportunity to pay attention, refine the interior structures of thought and translate into well-being, allowed Ryan to begin to sink into his own presence.

From Fall 2011 through Spring 2012 - Ryan was in love with life. He loved University of Maryland. He was enjoying classes, friends, concerts, a long distance relationship with realistic boundaries, and saying how he loved even the air he breathed. He was content and peaceful.

This was not an orthopedic issue. Not just a nerve or two but a network of nerves within Ryan’s physical stature were affecting his well-being. We feel that the incidence of shingles and post-therpetic neuralgia symptoms had prompted Ryan into a state if dis-ease, along with other self-care issues and possibly a pre-disposed condition. Shingles is the same virus, varicella zoster virus, that chicken pox is. Ryan got the chicken pox vaccine (one shot) July 2011, before he went to college.

Postherpetic Neurolgia is described as a deep aching, burning, stabbing or electric shock kind of pain. It is nerve damage from the initial episode of the shingles virus and sends abnormal electrical signals to the brain. Symptoms after the outbreak of the shingles virus & rash: cutaneous scarring, hypersensitivity or decreased sensitivity in nerve path. The pain comes from the nervous system itself. Usually one side of the body is affected. (exactly what Ryan was describing)

We focused on a system of healing. It needed to be positioned, applied and practiced DAILY feeding the four quadrants of well-being. Deep relaxation, meditation, breathing & mindfulness practices, nutrition, nurturing from a soul level.

Ryan spent time allowing himself to be loved, listened to, spoken to, understood and didn’t want to wait for a catastropic illness or event to have to happen to come to a place of peace and stillness. Activating on a deeper level and experiencing feelings of health, wellness & love.

I know one thing for sure and that is you cannot expect to take a pill and expect to get to the bottom of your distress.

At this point, the most discerning concern is the longevity of these symptoms. I am proud with the way Ryan handled the pain and symptoms with a mission to communicate and help others find a way to heal and cope while being on the road to his own recovery. I find that quite remarkable for a 20 year old boy.

After activating and practicing extreme self-care and advocacy, healing and joy became rapturous.

I could only think - can pain be a messenger and fast track to spiritual growth?

After meeting at least 18 Doctors, which was frustrating at times, we had the feeling that things would unfold in time. We did meet some exceptional Doctors and were able to get Ryan back to feeling like himself. It was a six month journey. In that time Ryan sat down and wrote. This book is what materialized.

The most critical lesson learned was how from this day on self-care was the most important way to keep health and wellness in life, regardless of a diagnosis.

I read this book with very little expectations, since Ryan was struggling with his health while writing it. I enjoyed the book and when I got to Super Society - A Revelation of Sorts, I realized I had come across my favorite book that I had ever read. I hope you enjoy the philosophies, beliefs and prophecies that lie in the mind of a 20 year old wanting to see a bright future outside and within as much as I have.

The idea is to practice positive life coping skills to other people’s negative actions in order to build a temple of love within yourself. Ryan Amann

Part 1

Personal

Journey of a 20 year

old’s self-discovery

Never let anyone tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself. - Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness

T he reason I want to document this story is because of its significance for people my age (twenty year old college students, teens, etc.) and because of its significance to the medical community. I believe that my story can be extremely helpful to a large number of people if told in the right light. And that is the only goal of the story. This book is being written as straightforwardly as possible in order to demonstrate that good health is not something that should be taken for granted and at the same time, that poor or debilitating health is not something that you should accept living with. I am a sophomore at the University of Maryland and in the second semester of my first year at school, I began to not feel like myself.

The change was swift and was noticeable and was linked to a spiritual awakening (but more concretely to shingles) that I went through (said spiritual awakening or usage of the term ‘spiritual’ should not dissuade anyone from continuing to read. If you believe in things of a spiritual nature, which are real and widespread and which society has to learn to accept and to integrate into the scientific field somehow; or be made logical or be made a field that is widely studied and elaborated upon, then continue reading with greater interest and perhaps greater urgency. If you have not yet been exposed to that which is divine and that which is all too real, read on so that you can be exposed to such amazing gifts of nature and perhaps begin to see examples in your own life. Feel free to contact me on questions, comments, concerns.). At the end of this brief but extremely real awakening, I began to experience painful and uncharacteristic symptoms.

Growing up in a family with strong health and athletic values shielded me from most sicknesses and ailments that many of my peers experienced. Aside from the occasional flu or strep throat, my brother Corey and I had been healthy all of our lives. Knowing my past history and my definitive lack of illnesses made this all the more puzzling. I told my mom and dad and they were both quick to assure me that what I was going through was something common for early college students. Many 18, 19, or 20 year olds went through a period of sickness like this after moving into college. A lot of these sicknesses could be explained by exposure to others’ germs, change of environment/stress, or poor eating habits and learning to live on ones‘ own and ‘fending‘ for oneself as my parents put it. All of these are results of moving into a somewhat foreign environment, usually by oneself, usually for the first time, and being made to survive. Granted, I lived my first year (and this past year) in a cushy apartment with individual bedrooms, a full kitchen, and living room, so I am somewhat exempt from this ‘being made to survive‘ notion. At the same time, like all other college students, I required a period of transition in order to get used to my surroundings and food options etc. and to learn to take care of myself fully independently. This is not an easy chore to ask of someone who is generally more concerned with getting hammered on weekends than of getting the proper amount of servings of fruits and vegetables per day, let’s be honest. And for some reason, despite my great eating habits and exercise routine, I found myself stricken with something. So I told my mom and dad and they both suggested that I go to the Health Center at school at the University of Maryland, and see if they could provide me with any care. After a diagnostic evaluation, it was determined that I had shingles. What…? I had seen a commercial for shingles recently and it said that only old people got it, why did I have it? Now keep in mind that the staff at the Health Center had gone through a couple different illnesses before settling on shingles. Chicken pox generally precedes shingles but I never had chicken pox. This only leaves the option of having gotten the vaccine and being afflicted with shingles that way.

After I was diagnosed with shingles it became a matter of survival at college before I had a chance to come home. I started going to a nearby chiropractor because x-rays showed that my cervical spine (neck) and lumbar spine (lower back) both had disks that were bent in the incorrect direction. During this time I spent a lot of time in my room at college. I am not complaining because I had an awesome apartment and a rather spacious room. What I mean, though, is that I was spending all of my time in my personal room as in one of four in the apartment. This was a difficult step seeing as how I was always someone that loved interpersonal communication and was always someone that was outgoing. I was forced into a shell and skipped a lot of classes and only left my apartment building for walks and for chiropractic adjustments. This was truly turning into a personal hell and was without hesitation one of the most difficult periods of my life. I encountered isolation like I had never dreamed of and had to try to go to classes with many of my peers and friends while I felt completely unlike myself. At this time I was suffering and I was miserable.

When I came home at the end of the semester I felt like a gigantic weight was lifted off of myself. Just the sense of being in a familiar environment allowed me to finally feel comfortable and at ease. I still did not feel like myself, but as it became clear that my parents were going to let me stay home for the semester so that I could recover (no small feat), I began to relax and decided to let things run their course.

Here I am several months later, at the beginning of summer, and I am just beginning to escape from the symptoms that held me hostage for over a year. I am finally beginning to leave my house, granted only with family and friends, but I feel as though the worst is finally past me. After being through everything I have been through I can definitely confidently say that the worst is past me. I am proud to have gotten through what I did in the fashion that I did (despite all of the issues I had to overcome) because I went straight through it. At school I was not awarded time to try to figure out ways to survive but was simply pressed into growing spiritually very quickly. I now recognize the value in this and appreciate the lessons I have learned and the fashion I have learned them in.

To summarize, I was diagnosed with shingles, a virus, at the University of Maryland when I started to not feel like myself. My neck and lower back were shown to be out of proper alignment when I went to a chiropractor for neck and lower back pain. Also, and I have not mentioned this yet, but I separated my shoulder and bruised two ligaments in my shoulder during hockey tryouts. Months later I was put on medicine for a psychotic episode I had while at school in November ’12 and an antidepressant to help me deal with the chronic pain I was feeling in my neck and back. All of this occurred in less than a year. It was clear to me that spirit was trying to get a hold of me or trying to force me to learn lessons. My mom always says it is like someone just hit fast forward on my life as so many things happened in such a short period of time.

I can just remain grateful and appreciative for all I have gone through and surrender and trust the master plan and what is in store for me in the future. I can say one thing for sure: this experience has showed me the world in a different light and has taught me to be more understanding and empathetic than I previously was because you really have no idea as to what others are going through. I remember being so grateful for aspects of simple kindness or if someone helped me out in public in any way. These small gestures always meant the most to me and I recommend that you always try to serve others because no matter what you are going through, someone is always suffering more or going through something rougher. Be understanding and help in any way that you can. The other person always appreciates it whether they demonstrate it or not and you will be reciprocated thanks to the Universal Laws.

Distinction Between God and Higher Power and Church Experience

Do not fear those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. - Jesus

T he distinction between God and a higher power from the spirit world is as follows. God comes in many different forms (as do other HP beings) but these different forms are worshipped in many different ways by many different churches. I think the fact that God has become a sort of taboo word (because of certain churches and their followers’ actions) and can have many different meanings and is used in all sorts of contexts