The Island of Your Life: Processes for Healing the Wounded Soul

By David Yurth

Masterfully crafted exercises and processes based on 50 years of scientific testing and validation, heal our inner woundedness and liberate us from the story we tell about ourselves. Like-minded seekers, in convocations small and large, can share these empowering practices with friends, families and partners in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Yurth
• Release date: May 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463816615

David Yurth

David G. Yurth is a scientist - he co-authored the scientific monograph “Y-Bias & Angularity: The dynamics of Self-organizing Criticality From the Zero-point to Infinity”, which was published as an open-source document in 2005, as a new model of fine-scale physical interactions.He is an inventor and technology integrator, with more than two-dozen patents issued and pending.He is an author of six science-as-fiction books, which can be obtained in serialized versions through his publishing company 3rd Rail Press (https://3rdrailpress.com).He has an MBA in Organizational Leadership - his Master’s thesis “The Pyramid of Agendas” has become a standard text in MBA programs around the globe.His seminal book “Ho Chi Minh Guerilla Warfare Handbook - A Stratgeic Guide to Innovation Management” has been used as the basis for strategic commercialization of disruptive technologies for more than a decade.He is a PhD candidate in Cosmology - the Origins of the Cosmos. He is also a candidate for a PhD in Fractal Predictive Modeling.He is the author of more than a dozen screenplays - “CODE:Eraser” has been acquired by Ray Zimmerman (Sr. VP Product Development - SONY/Tri-star/Columbia Pictures (retired)) for development as a full-length feature film.He is a lecturer and frequent guest on numerous talk-shows (e.g. Coast-to-Coast, Cancel the Cabal, Unicus Radio Hour, etc.). He is a singer-song writer, avid fly fisherman, and inventor of the Floatfisher kick-boat.

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THE ISLAND OF YOUR LIFE

Processes for Healing the Wounded Soul

An Original Work of Nonfiction

By: David G. Yurth

Copyright © 2020 by David G. Yurth.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David G. Yurth is a scientist - he co-authored the scientific monograph Y-Bias & Angularity: The dynamics of Self-organizing Criticality From the Zero-point to Infinity, which was published as an open-source document in 2005, as a new model of fine-scale physical interactions.

He is an inventor and technology integrator, with more than two-dozen patents issued and pending.

He is an author of six science-as-fiction books, which can be obtained in serialized versions through his publishing company 3rd Rail Press (https://3rdrailpress.com).

He has an MBA in Organizational Leadership - his Master’s thesis The Pyramid of Agendas has become a standard text in MBA programs around the globe.

His seminal book Ho Chi Minh Guerilla Warfare Handbook - A Strategic Guide to Innovation Management has been used as the basis for strategic commercialization of disruptive technologies for more than a decade.

He is a PhD candidate in Cosmology - the Origins of the Cosmos. He is also a candidate for a PhD in Fractal Predictive Modeling.

He is the author of more than a dozen screenplays - CODE:Eraser has been acquired by Ray Zimmerman (Sr. VP Product Development - SONY/Tri-star/Columbia Pictures (retired)) for development as a full-length feature film.

He is a lecturer and frequent guest on numerous talk-shows (e.g. Coast-to-Coast, Cancel the Cabal, Unicus Radio Hour, etc.). He is a singer-song writer, avid fly fisherman, and inventor of the Floatfisher kick-boat.

Where to find David G. Yurth Online

Website: http://davidgyurth.com

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yurth-233312b1/

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Other Works by David G. Yurth

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

The Island

Our Purpose

SECTION ONE

An Introduction to Woundedness

The Magic Bike

Original Woundedness

Mastering Personal Power

The Voice In Your Head

The Importance of Writing

Self-Sabotage

The Essence of Safety

Making and Keeping Commitments

Cubic Centimeter of Chance

Rising to Nobility

Visualization

Journal

How To Ask For What You Want

Unexpressed Expectations

Losing Our Identity

Creating Your Sacred Space

Considering Woundedness

The Original Myth

Interpretive Filters

The Purple Pig - Personal Centurion

Releasing the Genie

Healing Woundedness

Woundedness = Dark Hole

Energy Sucking Strategies

Recapitulation

Coming Home

The Awakening - Alta, Utah

SECTION TWO

Introduction

Before We Begin

The Role of Money

Walking the Walk Alone

Sharing In Groups

Traversing Sacred Ground

Unit 1: Creating Safety For Ourselves and Others

Unit 2: Setting Your Intention: A Journey of Self-Discovery

Unit 3: Selecting Your Music

Unit 4: Selecting A Personal Object

Unit 5: The Island – A Restaurant Filled With Tables

Unit 6: Who Am I, Really?

Unit 7: The Problem With Seeing

Unit 8: All Perception is Projection

Unit 9: The Way People Treat Me

Unit 10: The Inner Child - Our Personal Myths & Legends

Unit 11: Managing Personal Power

Unit 12: Control Dramas

Unit 13: Forgiveness

PROLOGUE

As a culture, we are deeply, grievously wounded. We long for a moment’s peace, for surcease from the relentless madness that assaults us every day of our lives. The insatiable emptiness that fills our days consumes so much of our time and attention that there is no time left to just Be. The media bombards us with a never-ending barrage of death, destruction and mayhem. Advertisers constantly remind us we are too much of this or not enough of that. Truth is twisted to take advantage of our uncertainty and the bastions of certitude we need to rely on can no longer be trusted.

At the end of the day, we are left exhausted, tormented, anxious and afraid. We end our days without fulfillment and take pills, drink booze and smoke dope to get through the nights. When morning finally dawns, we begin again – striving, hoping, forging ahead, knowing in our heart of hearts that there has to be a reason for all this madness and travail. If only we could figure out what we’re doing here, how we ended up on this crazy planet in the first place, maybe we could make some sense out of the way we live.

Life would be so much easier if we could just get on with it, without having to find some meaning in it all the time. What would be the point? We are not built that way. We have to know why. We yearn to know where we came from, why we have come here, and where we’re bound once our mortal lives are ended. It is the pursuit of these truths that stokes the fire that can set us free.

Since the days of the Sumerian Creation Myth more than 5,000 years ago, we have been enculturated to believe that we are shameful, spiteful creatures. Everything about the way we have come to see ourselves and each other is framed to reinforce this awful idea. How did it come to be this way? Can we do anything about it? If we can, why hasn’t anyone told us about it before?

Daniel Quinn got it mostly right. The cultures we live in, particularly in the West, have evolved to embody the notion that there is something inherently wrong with us. In this deeply enculturated, shame-based view, the path to safety, fulfillment and redemption can only be found in the pursuit of work. The nature of the work we are compelled to perform is largely determined by someone else. The sufficiency of the work we do is judged by others, by those who control our societies.

In fact, in this model, we are compelled to conform to the requirements of the social order controlled by others at the risk of our very survival. The culture decides what is to be done, how it is to be done, and who is to do it. The culture dictates the social agendas, and all are assimilated to satisfy these agendas. Those who do not voluntarily allow themselves to be assimilated are annihilated. This is the world we live in.

As the myth of intrinsic shame has spread throughout the world, we have witnessed the annihilation of entire cultures that resisted assimilation. We don’t need to revisit the list. We all know who they were. Those who control our cultures have taken upon themselves the right to make decisions that were once the sole province of the Gods – they alone have the power to decide who lives and who dies.

Where is there room in this model for joy and self-actualization? Where can we go, who can we turn to, who can we trust to guide us away from this Flatland to a place of love and light and joy? In the final analysis, there are only a few options left to those who are not willing to allow their lives to be used up to satisfy someone else’s agenda. That is what this book is about. My notion about this process is perhaps different from others you may have considered. It is based on a personal philosophy which says that each of us arrives on the island of our life with an infinitely powerful connection to Source which is deeply embedded in the core of our Being. I refer to this core aspect of our identity as the Ancient One. It knows all, sees all, IS all. It is embodied within us as our own individuated expression of the eternal nature of the Great Chain of Being. It is who and what we truly are.

The Island

Before we are born, the features that comprise our islands have already been formed. Because of the nature of the physical dimension we live in, the eternal nature of the Ancient One is cloaked by an envelope of architectural limitations that deprive us of the ability to experience anything in the world around us directly. As a result, everything we think we know about the world is skewed by the sensory limitations built into our physical equipment. As a species, we are all the same – as individuals, we are each unique.

Beneath the physical construction of our bodies and the energy fields that operate within and around us, somewhere in the very center of us the Ancient One longs to bring the disparate parts of us to a full measure of integration. What lies between the person we appear to be and the luminous, totally empowered, fully actualized Being we yearn to become is only the nature of our physicality.

Carlos Castaneda wrote extensively about this for nearly three decades. His writings marked a path for others who have mustered the courage and fortitude needed to follow in his footsteps. Miguel, Ruiz, Alberto Villoldo, Fritjof Capra, Stanislov Grof and others unearthed the vestiges of original cultural traditions that can be used to move us along this path. The remaining survivors of those original cultures are now offering to share many of their ancient secrets with the rest of us.

In his book ‘Tales of Power,’ Castaneda first wrote about his metaphor of the Island. The image he created, which was based on a concept he referred to as the tonal, has been adapted to fit our purposes in the following way:

The tonal is like the top of a table--an island. And on this island we have everything. This island is, in fact, the world. There is a personal tonal for every one of us, and there is a collective one for all of us at any given time, which we can call the tonal of the times. It's like the rows of tables in a restaurant, every table has the same configuration. Certain items are present on all of them. They are, however, individually different from each other; some tables are more crowded than others; they have different food on them, different plates, different atmosphere, yet we have to admit that all the tables are very alike. The same thing happens with the tonal . We can say that the tonal of the times is what makes us alike, in the same way it makes all the tables in a restaurant alike. Each table separately, nevertheless, is an individual case, just like the personal tonal of each of us. ...the important factor to keep in mind is that everything we know about ourselves and about our world is on the island of the tonal.

Modern science has discovered important clues about the marriage of consciousness with our physicality. In short, we now have at our disposal a broad palate of carefully researched, rigorously validated and time-tested strategies for healing woundedness. What has not yet been provided, in a form that is palatable to those of us seeking to escape the confines of the Culture of Shame, is a definitive road map. In the Hopi tradition, a symbol has been created to symbolize our quest to find integration. It is referred to as the ‘Man in the Maze.’

In this symbol, a lone person stands free at the gateway to a stylized maze, the pathways of which eventually lead away from the center of darkness to light and freedom. This symbol portrays more powerfully than any I have ever found what we are trying to accomplish. My wedding ring is embossed with this image.[1]

Figure 1 – The Man in the Maze

This symbol is said to represent a person's journey through life. Although the design appears to be a maze, it is actually a unicursal figure with many twists and turns. In the O’odham tradition, these are said to represent choices made in life. The center is dark, as the journey is one that proceeds from darkness to light.

In the context of our model, the journey from darkness to light requires persistence, guidance, a sense of direction and personal power. So long as the black holes representing unresolved conflict and woundedness are allowed to consume and dissipate our personal energy, precious little remains available to support our quest for personal actualization. Our task in life, as the Man in the Maze symbol suggests, is to find a way to liberate enough energy on our island