The Tree of Life: Sowing Your Seeds of Destiny

By Brian Zater

Tired of feeling like you have no control over your thoughts and feelings or like there’s no way to change your circumstances?

The Tree of Life teaches us how our lives grow from Source, the root of existence, according to willpower’s use of intention to direct the river of mind along the paths of either ego or spirit. These growth paths branch into the five major areas of life that support the canopy of our circumstances: relationships, career, health and fitness, spirituality, and outreach.

You’ll learn how ego-born thoughts result in events and circumstances that impose limitation and lack, weakening life, and how spirit-born thoughts branch into a limitless, abundant life within each of its major areas.

By revealing the process and by guiding us within to realize our role in it, The Tree of Life empowers us to gain mastery over it and over the creation of our lives from this moment forward!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982229184

Brian Zater

From his experience of what it takes to create and transcend life-shattering hardships and circumstances, Brian Zater has developed and given empowerment classes and seminars to federal prisoners for over 18 years. Committed to doing the difficult work of equipping broken men with the tools they need and are willing to use to repair themselves, he regularly sees his students return to society and become success stories. He's not had one student return to crime and prison, each one becoming a successful entrepreneur and family man. His message being "If we can, so can you," he also serves as teacher, mentor and life coach, helping people in free society break free from their own personal chains of limitation. A strong advocate for positive social change through the collective awakening to our light, life and love within, check out his positivity postings at: www.thetreeoflife--sowingyourseedsofdestiny.com And he can be contacted by: email: [e-mail] FB: www.facebook.com/TheTreeofLifeSowingYourSeedsofDestiny

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THE Tree OF

LIFE

SOWING YOUR

SEEDS OF DESTINY

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BRIAN ZATER

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Copyright © 2021 Brian Zater.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-2911-5 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date:    02/05/2021

To You

Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Whole Picture

SECTION 1

The Roots of The Tree

1.1 Source

1.2 Intention, Mind, Willpower

1.2.a Intention

1.2.b Mind

1.2.c Willpower

1.3 Core Beliefs

SECTION 2

The Trunk of The Tree

2.1 Ego vs. Spirit

2.2 Ego

2.3 i

2.4 Spirit

2.5 I

2.6 Thought

2.7 Emotion

2.8 Surface Beliefs

2.9 Motivation

2.10 Action

2.11 E x (R+-) = R2

SECTION 3

The Canopy of The Tree

3.1 The 5 Main Branches

3.2 Your Relationships

3.3 Your Career

3.4 Your Health & Fitness

3.5 Your Spiritual Path

3.6 Your Outreach Work

SECTION 4

4.1 Time Management

SECTION 5

Leaves & Acorns

5.1 Leaves

5.2 Acorns

The Whole Picture Distilled

SECTION 6

Supporting Elements

Air

6.1 Goals

Water

6.2 Self Esteem

Lightning

6.3 Sin

Application Exercise

Summation

Closing

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Donor Acknowledgements

About the Author

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The Tree of Life

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

~ Louis L. Hay

"Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble,

whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

whatever is admirable––if anything is excellent or

praiseworthy––think about such things."

Philippians 4:8

Preface

Considering The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge, generally speaking, they are opposite sides of the same coin. They’re the You (Spirit) looking into the mirror and the you (ego) reflecting back. Also, they are divergent paths, though originating from the same starting (Source) point.

Specifically, The Tree of Life represents Spirit, Unity, Truth and Life. Intuition and Knowing come from here. The Tree of Knowledge represents Ego, Duality, Illusion and Death. Perception and materially-based knowledge come from here. To get a better idea of the difference between the two, the Greek philosopher, Plato, taught about the higher domain of pure Ideas.

To reveal this concept, he used his now famous allegory about prisoners in a cave. These prisoners spent their entire lives chained to the floor in a cave in such a way that they could only see the stone wall in front of them. A fire was burning behind them, which they could not see. A group of actors used the flame’s light to put on a puppet show of shadows. The prisoners didn’t see or know about these people. All they could see were the shadowy images playing out scenes on the wall. For the prisoners, this show was the entirety of their reality. It’s all they knew as real.

But one day a prisoner was helped to break free from his chains of limitation. Getting up off the floor, he was led outside, where he encountered for the first time in his life the light of day, which at first was blinding. After his eyes adjusted to the brilliance of the light, he saw the truth of existence, the vibrancy of life and the depth of Reality as it actually is. All the ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions and judgments he’d held to so strongly up to that point were shattered. Thus liberated within and without, he returned to the cave and attempted to explain to the other prisoners that everything they thought they knew about the world was a lie. It was but a pale and limited shadow cast by actual Reality. He tried to encourage them to break free, to step out of the cave with him and to see for themselves the Truth. He wanted them to share in the overwhelming beauty of life as it really is. But despite his encouragements and the arguments he made, the others only believed he’d completely lost his mind.

Plato used this allegory to reveal the difference between how the world appears to be on the surface––shaped by language and concepts––and how it actually is. He also revealed how tightly we come to hold onto our beliefs, and how they tend to keep us imprisoned and stuck from ever achieving our full potentials. But through this he reveals that there’s a special kind of Knowing, which he termed gnosis. Knowledge gained as a consequence of gnosis is very different than that gained from intellectualizing and logical rationalization.

Over two millennia later, William James, the father of modern psychology and renowned philosopher, used the term noetic, having described noetic experiences as:

states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority.

So gnosis or noetic Knowledge is deep-seated and intuitive, born directly from out of the Source of life itself. It’s