Reflections: Part I

By Peter James Ford

Peter James Ford, The Unlikely Messenger, is a unique individual with a broad understanding of life from having lived life from many lifestyles. Peter experienced the good, the bad, the ugly, and then an awakening and redemption. His younger years found him struggling with alcoholism and the drugs of the sixties, with having learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, and growing up in a violent environment. Peter turned to physical training and motorcycles and found much satisfaction in both. At an early age Peter crawled into the 12-step recovery program a broken man. This was the beginning of Peter’s spiritual journey. Over the years, Peter attained the promises of the program and began living a great life. Many years later, Peter was initiated into a yogic path that had begun thousands of years ago by an ancient lineage of Masters. Peter did not realize that his profound spiritual experience at that time was actually a powerful “Kundalini Awakening” within him. Shortly after his awakening, these mystic tales of past lives and powerful wisdom truths began flowing. Peter has just completed his seventh book about his life adventures and spiritual journey. Peter hopes people find something useful in his writings, or at least that they will bring a smile to your face when thinking about Peter, this “Unlikely Messenger.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 27, 2024
• ISBN: 9798765250778

Peter James Ford

Peter James Ford, The Unlikely Messenger, is a unique individual with a broad understanding of life from having lived life from many lifestyles. Peter experienced the good, the bad, the ugly, and then an awakening and redemption. His younger years found him struggling with alcoholism and the drugs of the sixties, with having learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, and growing up in a violent environment. Peter turned to physical training and motorcycles and found much satisfaction in both. At an early age Peter crawled into the 12-step recovery program a broken man. This was the beginning of Peter’s spiritual journey. Over the years, Peter attained the promises of the program and began living a great life. Many years later, Peter was initiated into a yogic path that had begun thousands of years ago by an ancient lineage of Masters. Peter did not realize that his profound spiritual experience at that time was actually a powerful “Kundalini Awakening” within him. Shortly after his awakening, these mystic tales of past lives and powerful wisdom truths began flowing. Peter has just completed his seventh book about his life adventures and spiritual journey. Peter hopes people find something useful in his writings, or at least that they will bring a smile to your face when thinking about Peter, this “Unlikely Messenger.”

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Contents

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Destiny

Dedication

The Mystic’s Soulmate

Sincere Thanks

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1  It All Began From A Simple Story About Sevens…

2  Newburyport, Massachusetts

3  Sacred Places

4  Akashic Wisdom

5  Some Random Thoughts

6  Power of the Present Moment

7  Majestic Teachings

8  Golden Mind – Golden Life

9  Soul Whispers

10  Timeless Wisdom

11  Priceless Insights

12  Sage

13  Perfect Self Expression

14  Simply Spoken

15  Consider These Words…

16  There And Back Again, A Seeker’s Path…

17  To Be Known and Accepted…

18  The Power of Kind Words

19  Vision Quest

20  Safe Passage

21  Losing Yourself in Nature

22  Vibration

23  Mystic Voice

24  The Way of The Mystic

25  Preview of Future Stories

About The Author

Conclusion

Destiny

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Destiny is an interesting phenomenon. The meditation master was once asked whether everything was ‘Destiny’ in our lives, as already predetermined, or was it up to the individual to determine his future.

The meditation master replied: "The crux of the matter is that an individual does have this power to create his future through his thoughts, words, deeds, attitude and motives. These actions will determine and create your future. Now, it also seems that there is a divine providence that intervenes and guides our footsteps and decisions above and beyond our conscious mind’s ability. So, is it God calling the shots or is it us creating our lives? Yes, both are true. Two things can seemingly contradict themselves and both be true. We do determine our future with the thoughts, feelings and attitude that we are entertaining in this moment and also there is a higher intelligence that walks with us helping us make the right decisions.

When I began my recovery from alcoholism and sixties’ drug use I would pray to a God up in the sky to please help me. My prayer was to die sober and sane. Many years later, I realized that the God that I prayed to up in the sky (a seemingly father-type God) was true, but this father type God was My Higher Self. God had become me and all my answers to all my questions laid within me. God the father, the holy spirit, universal consciousness, my own consciousness were all one in the same. This was very empowering and so freeing. No more looking to anyone else or any group for answers. I could sit quietly and have Conscious Communion with God. We truly are a part of universal consciousness. We are one and the same as this power we call God. So, if we are one with God then God’s powers are our powers. This is the greatest creative power in the entire universe and it is our mind using thoughts to create our life and reality.

Have you noticed that people who believe they live in a terrible world find themselves living in a terrible world? While others, living in the same, exact physical world believe it is a great world full of great people, opportunities and happiness, and that is the world they live in. I have repeated these following words for thirty-five years and they have become true for me: There is nothing or no one that opposes me or wishes me any ill will. Knowing the power of words and choosing the most uplifting, successful, happy, positive and loving words about ourselves will transform your life. There is one power, one force in this entire universe, and we control it through the words (thoughts) we choose to speak to ourselves and others.

There can be situations, circumstances and people that just seem to appear in our lives and that can be explained by karma. The ancient ones have taught that in a past life we will make agreements with individuals to play different parts for each other so we can have experiences to free us of our past baggage. Another way to say it is that to burn off our past karma (good or bad actions) we must experience it again, but this time with our actions being done to us. If in a past life I had mistreated someone then I must be mistreated to even the score card to get free of those actions (my past karma.) These agreements with people to meet in a future lifetime to play a part for each other is the process to free ourselves from all karma, good and bad. I believe my sweetheart, CeeCee has come into my life to complete my dream…

It is interesting that it is not only bad past actions (bad karma) but even good action that we need to get free of. If we are full of pride and ego for doing a charitable act or a show of kindness our identification with being the ‘doer of the action’ creates karma we will need to experience. Yes, if you have done good actions, you will come back and enjoy good things coming to you, but the eventual goal is to be free of all karma, good and bad. The trick is, as Arjuna learned from Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, is not to identify as the doer. Like Nike says: Just Do It, leave your ego and identification out of the action. Just know you are like the piece of wire that the electricity runs through. You are not the source, you are just the conduit. The key to freedom is not to let your ego grab on to anything. Examples for me is thinking I am the worst person or occasionally thinking I am something special. The ego (false identification) is relentless in its need to be labeled. The ego in partnership with the conscious (reactive) mind is the source of all problems in our life and in the world. When we have a big ego we take everything personally. Individuals and whole countries start conflicts over taking everything too personal with pride and ego. If you have a big ego you will also be in competition with everything and everyone.

We are able to let go of these puny identifications when we realize the truth of our own being. Actually, we are the most special manifestation possibly as God has become us. God is manifesting as us in this present moment. The consciousness you see in my eyes is the same consciousness I see in your eyes. This consciousness is one and the same and it is The One that most of us call God. When you reach this level, the next time your subtle body (your mind, emotions, ego, and memories) leaves your physical body on its last exhalation you will merge with universal consciousness for eternity and you will return no more to a physical body. You will have completed the process of evolution or God’s game that God set up for God’s own amusement. God really does have a sense of humor.

As, two things can contradict themselves and both be true, you will come to see that this illusionary world and even the spiritual path is full of contradictions, paradoxes, and that everything (even these ancient truths) are all just stories someone made up. If you are locked into believing your perspective of the truth is the one and only true perspective and is the ultimate truth that just shows a ‘big ego’. I know as I was one of the worst becoming self-righteous when I began learning the ‘relatively true teachings’ of the masters.

There is only one ultimate, eternal truth and it cannot be known with words or from a teacher. This eternal truth is an experiential knowing in your own heart. The destination is your own heart. Even without any knowledge of the spiritual path you can reach the greatest heights by turning inward and meditating on your own heart. God will reveal itself to you…

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Once again, I sat down to write something and then I wrote two paragraphs of thoughts before getting to the point of this section. This writing in A Flow of Consciousness is a constant surprise for me.

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My feelings about ‘Destiny’ are that it is a mystery that keeps unfolding. After my younger wild years I ended up in the 12-step recovery program and I began my journey on the spiritual path to recovery and redemption. That was in March of 1970, at the age of nineteen. It now seems like many lifetimes ago. I turned seventy-three in December of 2023. I will be eternally grateful that the ‘Grace of God’ removed my obsession for alcohol or substitutes and gave me a new life. I was many years in the program before I fully recovered and attained the promises written by the founders, but my day did come. So, it took me many years to grow enough that I was ready for the next level. That is when I was introduced to Siddha Yoga. My life was to be rocketed into a new dimension. I was to learn the power of thought and how to create anything I wanted. I proceeded to create a whole second life with all the great stuff of the physical/material world. I was to meet the perfect female companion at the time, a beautiful country home, a collection of Custom Show and Go Cycles (worth 250 grand), complete success at reversing the aging process, complete success at physical training, and everything that I had ever dreamed of. I continued to improve physically into my late sixties and then maintaining my health into my seventies. They say some people will live many incarnations in a single lifetime. I believe it means that you complete a piece of your purpose and then move into a new world as a competingly new person. That certainly has been true for me. I believe that life, at that time, was my second incarnation in this lifetime. This relationship was to complete its purpose and we parted friends and went on our separate ways. She went to Los Angeles and I went to Miami. In South Florida I began writing my second book three years ago. Since that time I have written nine more books. I believe this was my third incarnation in this lifetime.

I just completed my eleventh book that you are holding in your hands and I am really hoping this flow of stories stops for a while. As, I had written the sweetest woman has come into my life and I feel the beginning of another incarnation for me and her. I feel the best is yet to come. I am so grateful for all that I have been given and that I have experienced. I never would have believed my life would keep unfolding into an even more evolved existence with an even more mystical, fascinating woman. One thing that has never changed for me is the love of a good woman. I feel that my gift of writing and recording everything that has helped me over my seventy-three years is coming back to me as this sweet, Cherokee/Irish beauty.

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At twenty-five years old and sober six years in the recovery program I experienced the worst depression of my life. I was crippled emotionally, mentally and physically. It lasted an entire year and near the end of it I just could not stand the mental anguish and severe depressive state and I put a gun to my head. I could not pull the trigger and broke down emotionally and laid on the floor. One of my brothers came in and we went down and walked the beach and not long after I began coming out of this nightmare. I would have missed so much if I had ended my life at that time. It was my destiny to live and to share my tales in my books. Who would have ever thought this was my calling? So, my conclusion about destiny is that it is an unfolding mystery. If you are still breathing you are still in the game of life and miracles can still happen for you in any moment. I encourage anyone struggling to hang in there and not to give up hope.

These are my simple and probably insignificant thoughts about destiny…

Dedication

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This book is dedicated to the sweet, Irish/Cherokee girl called CeeCee…

I had shared with a friend how I gave everything I had into these books, everything I have learned over my seventy-three years about myself, life, the spiritual path, and any and all wisdom and knowledge that I had attained. My friend said, Whatever you give out you will get back, so if you gave your very life’s blood, you would receive an abundance of blessings. At first, I thought the books would be successful and return me great wealth.

I later realize the wonderful blessing that I was to receive was in the form of the sweetest, most evolved, highly spiritual, beautiful woman named CeeCee. By chance, I had seen a rare post of CeeCee on a social media and she captured my heart. She was so mystical, allusive, and so beautiful. We all have our own personal image of that special mate and mine is someone who is very feminine, gentle but strong, very pretty, smart and wise. My mate needs to have self-respect and know she is very special and deserves to be treated like a Princess. CeeCee has all these qualities. I sent her a friend request on social media and months passed before she ever responded. She is very particular about who she connects with.

It took only a few conversations and she had captured my heart and mind. Our connection has unfolded into something so beyond my wildest dreams. We share the same love of nature, animals, spirituality, and a simple uninvolved life, living in peace and harmony.

We are looking at the perfect place in nature, maybe the Great Smoky Mountains, to settle and have the perfect home base and to live out our days…

All dreams are possible and we just need to keep suiting up and showing up to receive…

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The Mystic’s Soulmate

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In 1969, Judy Collins wrote a song called SOMEDAY SOON. She sang of a young girl’s love for this rowdy (rough around the edges) cowboy from Southern Colorado. She tells how he was just out of the military service and looking to sow his wild oats. This cowboy followed the wind (with his freedom and independence) and he lived to ride the rodeo. Like many soldiers returning from the military or the war, they were looking to keep that sense of action and brotherhood going. They were looking for their fun and freedom.

Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin in the movie called THE WILD ONE represented the longing for adventure and the good times with riding that so many of us yearned for. Not surprising that this young girl’s parents could not stand him. This girl sings of how this cowboy loves that damn old rodeo as much as he loved her. When we are young and we have that love of being IN THE WIND riding your Harley Chopper, with your brothers, it is so strong that it rivals our love for a woman. There is something so powerful about riding your Harley Chopper down the passing lane, with a wide open throttle, passing cars like they are standing still. It is like telling the world to go fu-k itself with all its rules and laws. It is like no one can touch you. When you ride in a pack, no one tries to stop you, not even the cops. You have the momentum and the power.

Many years ago, I rode through the little town of Ipswich, Massachusetts with the Brothers and it was like time stopped still. Everyone in town just stood and silently watched. It was a powerful feeling. Time passes, many years (fifty-five years) of my being In the Wind, but my love of riding never has left me. But what has happened for me is that the love of a good woman, the one that I have named my ‘Destiny,’ appeared like a mist and has stolen my heart. My sweet Irish/Cherokee girl has captivated me and she has my full attention. My dream has shifted to my life with her in our mountain cabin living in peace and harmony with nature.

DARE TO LIVE YOUR DREAMS!!!

Sincere Thanks

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I am sincerely grateful for having experienced receiving everything that I ever wanted. The best gift of experiencing I love the life I live, and I live the life I love. I am sincerely grateful for the teachings about the mind and the power of thoughts and feelings, the wisdom of the proper way to breathe, and the knowledge of our true Self. I am grateful for all the wisdom from the ancient Masters to the present-day teachers like Gregg Braden, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Bruce Lipton. My great friend, Kay, who has always encouraged me to write and who believed in my writing process. I thank D.R. (Ram) Butler for sharing his endless wisdom and his life of selfless service.

I can’t forget my great friend, Bob Hawes, who has done so much in so many ways to help me create these books. Big thanks to the great team at Balboa Press. Heather, Tara, Ann, Denise, Mae, and the design team have been so understanding and helpful and have done such a great job setting up and designing my books. Big thanks to Louise Hay, owner of Hay House International, for providing this vehicle for indie authors like myself to be published all over the world. Big thanks to the Yogic Path I follow, and to all the monks and my friends. Big thanks to all the sweet women that have filled my books. A big thanks to Michele and Karen for sharing their beauty that filled my writings. Michele and Karen are two very special and exceptional individuals who have been such great friends.

Thanks to Dan Svenconis, a great friend, who showed up and helped me with my past books. Dan, a college professor who is very knowledgeable about writing, told me that I wrote in a very Joycean (James Joyce) style, which is writing in a flow of consciousness. I remembered James Joyce’s name from my younger years at school. I am not sure I deserve that compliment as Joyce is what I consider a real writer, and I am just a humble typist for the ‘Voice’. This unseen voice is the real author/writer behind every book. I am not really sure what is even in these books. One day I will have to read them.

From the time I started my first book until it was published was ten years. In the last three years, I have published eleven more books. Now, my tenth book is out next to the first nine books out everywhere. That will make nine books published in three years compared to one book published in ten years. I would call that a miracle and another gift to be grateful for. It is funny how hard it was for me to write in the beginning and now I have found I have a gift for storytelling and the books are just flowing. I don’t think of myself as a writer but calling myself a storyteller fits. I was always good at telling stories about our escapades when we were younger. You have to be able to laugh at yourself and not take yourself too serious.

So on the day that I had the following thought, I smiled to myself. I jokingly have called myself:

The Irish storyteller of Miami Beach.

All in Good Fun

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So, a very big thanks to all that have enriched my life.

And always a big thanks to The One.

Foreword

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THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN…

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Let me first say that my books are not perfect literary creations and you can find many mistakes in them. But these books will tell more about the reader than they do about the writer. Some people have the wonderful quality to look for the good, to look for the point of the writings and not worried that I forgot a comma or did not dot an i. So, you have been warned as my writings will tell more about you than about me.

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You know the expression that the joke was on me or that I am always the last one to realize something about me. Well, once again, the joke is on me. I had lived under the radar in the way a criminal would live. I don’t consider myself a criminal (despite others thinking that) but it was just the way I was raised in the ‘City of Sin’, Lynn, Massachusetts. I never let anyone know my true feelings. I never talked about anything. I lived a life in secrecy. So, when these stories started flowing out of me, I was a little surprised with the honesty and openness I was experiencing. I credit the opening of my heart and mind to a rare, authentic Kundalini Master, who had awoken me from my sleep walking in this life. My first book MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT tells the story of my powerful spiritual experiences. I had almost finished the first book and I tore it up. I did not want to share my personal struggles with the world. A few days later the pain in my heart would be unbearable and it would not stop until I began writing again. Once again, I was almost finished and tore it up again. In a few days the heart pain began, so I returned to writing my first book of tales. I tore the book up three times before I finally surrendered and accepted that writing was my purpose, for some reason I did not know.

For the last thirty-five years (It might be forty years?) I have devoted myself to learning, reading, studying and practicing every spiritual tool I could find. The end result of all this study after writing my first book is that I have written another eleven books in the last three years. Many of these books are over 900 pages and overflowing with teachings from every authentic spiritual path. On one hand from reading and studying I probably did acquire some wisdom and on the other hand I found my path brought me full circle. That place that my path brought me to was to practice the ancient teaching of ‘No Mind’ to meditate with a certain technique to bring me to a ‘Thought Free State’. It was to go beyond my conscious mind and just dwell in universal consciousness. Not thinking or doing but just knowing and experiencing that I am already everything and everyone. In this state there is nothing to attain, nothing to become, nowhere to go, as you know you are already everything. You will experience (an experiential knowing) without words that God has manifested as you in this moment. That your life is really God’s life. We are all just playing a part, like a role in a movie, for God’s purpose. I love that my role in this life is to just be myself. The goal and purpose of this life is to realize that you are already one with God. The purpose of this life is to realize your own self as God.

Enlightenment or Self-Realization simply means you ‘Realize your own inner Self’ that life force (which is God) is what enlivens your very being. It is like the sun is always there but sometimes clouds block the sun. Our inner self (God) is always present or we would be dead. For the human beings our false identifications (ego) are like the clouds blocking the sun. Our identifications like I am a Biker or Trucker or Writer are only temporary images of ourselves. Chronos, the God of Time, whose number was ‘seven’ had said that anything temporary is not wholly real. I retired from the Teamsters Union and I am not a truck driver anymore. One day I will not be able to ride a motorcycle anymore and that identity will not be true anymore. I don’t want to invest in temporary stuff. I focus on the part of me that is eternal. That part of me is what they call ‘The Self’ in yoga or ‘The Eternal Soul’ in Christianity. When we let go of our false identities it is like the clouds cleared away and we experience our awareness/consciousness and know that it is God manifesting as us in this moment.

Well, the point of this section is that all my studying and reading about spiritual stuff giving me a measure of wisdom is all good but now it is time for me to forget everything I think I know. The highest form of meditation is not seeing visions or predicting the future (which is so easy for me) but it is ‘The Thought Free State.’ That thought free state is where God dwells. God speaks in the silence. Silence is the language of God. That is where true peace lies for the individual. The spiritual path and life are really so simple. We need to just see what is right in front of us and to just flow with the powerful river of life.

So, with the completion of this book I am returning to my simple and uninvolved life spending time in nature, silence, solitude, reflection, contemplation and meditation. I have come full circle and living in gratitude for another day in this body. Just being here calls for a celebration. Everything will be here when your time comes so there is no time limit and no worries. So, just follow your heart which will always lead you home…

Preface

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The purpose of this book is the same as all my other books which is to share teachings that have changed my life and freed me from countless human issues. It is also to share my experiences on this amazing journey from ‘knuckle dragger’ to someone that has realized his divinity. Through ‘Grace’ I have had and live the experience of God in every moment. I always appreciated when someone that had traveled ahead of me shared the best methods to achieve success and to point out what would be a waste of my time. So, in my own way, I try to share what has worked for me for this journey back to my heart.

There may be rare individuals that awaken on their own but most of us need a little help to awaken in this lifetime. A teacher or some words of wisdom that just sparks that dormant power within us to reemerge. When I was eighteen years old involved in heavy alcohol consumption, sixties drug use, violence, crime and lots of pain, I was to have a powerful reawakening. I should have been staying out of trouble at this time as I had Conspiracy and Narcotics charges over my head and a suspended sentence out at Deer Isle in Boston Harbor which was full of people who hated anyone from Lynn, Massachusetts.

I was suffering from alcoholism and my decisions meant nothing as alcohol called the shots. I had loved the lifestyle of the bikers who just took what they wanted and anyone that got in their way got a beating but I hated being locked up. After being locked up in a Boston Jail, known as ‘The Tombs’ I made a conscious decision not to live a lifestyle that would get me locked up. My decisions at that time meant nothing, as I had said, alcohol called the shots. I also was on probation for a year, and in that year I had three highspeed chases, including running a road block and having my muscle car shot up by the police from two towns, plus numerous actions that would have put me away for a long time.

This particular night I was with a friend, who was a golden gloves fighter, and also had a bad drug problem. I had drank a quart and a half of tequila and numerous drugs and I was barely standing and it then was about three o’clock in the morning. My friend said to me that he had begun reading a book and it talked of being in a powerful river and going with the flow. In an instant, I sobered up completely and I had a vision of a black book with a big red circle in the middle. Somehow, I knew what my friend was talking about. I believe I was remembering spiritual practices from past lives. In a few moments I collapsed and passed out. I forgot all about that night until thirty years later when I began writing my first book. I searched for this book (This image that I saw) and I was to find it. It was The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Carl Jung loved this book, too.

I was one that needed help getting focused on the path back to my heart and I began reading everything I could for the past thirty-five years. I studied daily and practiced countless techniques to improve my conscious contact with God. I read daily for all those years a correspondence course from an ancient lineage of authentic masters.

The surprising thing is that you start to see all the contradictions, and paradoxes all through the physical world and life. The startling thing for me was to see these ‘seeming’ contradictions and paradoxes even on the spiritual path and in the highest spiritual teachings. Just as I saw everything was a story made up by a person regarding life and the world, it was true with even the most spiritual, authentic paths. I was to see there was some truth in both sides of an issue or belief. One time I was sitting with a friend on each side of me down by the river. The friend on the right of me said about a person we knew that he was a very generous, considerate, helpful person. The friend on the other side said he only gave money to people so they liked him and to fill his ego. They both looked at me and I said: You both are right. I really was surprised and relieved to see that there is ‘some truth’ in everything. That both sides of an issue has ‘some’ validity. Sometimes when I write about a universal truth I also remember the complete opposite also was true. Then to make matters worse, the teaching that everyone’s opinion is equal to everyone else’s opinion was a hard pill to swallow. That everyone’s perspective is equal to everyone else’s perspective seemed absurd. The lesson for me was that I had to realize that there is more going on than my limited conscious mind and five senses can process. Yoga forces you (gently) to have to go past your conscious mind into the realm of ‘Buddhi’ a higher intellect that holds all concepts and all knowledge.

One yogic teaching said that if you leave everything in God’s hands that everything will be taken care of. Then in the next lesson it says you are completely responsible for yourself. The thoughts you choose will determine your life. Your destiny lies completely in your hands. This one drove me crazy for ten years until I realized they are both true. So, I think the best thoughts of health, abundance, prosperity, success and wealth in all areas of life and then I leave my life in God’s hands to fill in the details. I do both things which seemed to contradict themselves. Two things can ‘seemingly’ contradict themselves and both be true.

I love to say, Welcome to Yoga The Land of Paradoxes and Contradictions. When you can just forget everything you thought you knew for you have entered a much higher realm. This realm is a place of ‘No Good or Bad’ ‘No Right or Wrong’ ‘No Black or White’ ‘A land of No Shoulds or Have To’s’ ‘No Judgements’ ‘No Labeling’ just ‘SIMPLY BEING’. This is the true ‘Heaven on Earth’.

The good news is when you can accept these words it will free you of other peoples’ opinions and even free you of your own opinions. Why bother having an opinion when it has no more meaning than anyone else’s opinion.

This new way of thinking freed me and my relinquishing my need to defend my point of view released huge amounts of energy that had been wasted. Just know ‘The World is just what it is’. Everything ‘Is just what it is’ no need to judge it, label it, criticize it, or have an opinion. Let the world spin out of control without you.

When I refuse to play the game (by having no opinions) I am free of the world.

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When I accept and respect the world as it is, the world will accept and respect me as I am. Sounds like a fair deal. In truth, I just wanted to feel good and to be at peace and these teachings did this for me. I will freely admit they were the hardest to swallow as on the physical level there is a lot of ‘seemingly’ wrong but I came to terms with that by helping people in my little world in any way I can.

My path is kind of humorous as I went from becoming knowledgeable about much of the spiritual world to turning back to acting like I don’t know anything. Many masters would act like fools so nobody bothered them. It is much more fun and life is so much easier when you are nobody. The world will ignore you and that is what I always wanted. My path will seem pretty silly or nonsensical to most but my way is the way of the ancient ones that had no need or desire for fame or recognition. They just lived in peace out in nature. I will join them…

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Wishing you and yours the best on your personal journey

Introduction

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Someone asked me about my books and I said I just jot down a few words. A few days later they came back to me and said: You just jot down a few words? Some of your books are over 900 pages. I said: Yes, I jot down a few thoughts and then ‘The Voice’ behind every book writes the next 890 pages. I felt I have become the typist for what most call ‘The One’ or ‘The All’ behind all things. To be honest, I write for myself as writing stuff out is the best way for me to learn. I have said for a long time that ‘There is something magical about writing stuff out’. Writing out honestly about any subject will give you clarity and insights in an amazing way.

Some feel that the Preface is to tell the purpose of your book whereas the Introduction is an overall view of your book. Basically, I could use the same Forward, Preface, Introduction, About the Author, and Sincere Thanks for all my books. My dedications were a little different and it gave me a way to thank people in my life.

This book was my attempt to write a smaller book so that it was more affordable for people. They price my books by page count and my books have grown huge. I have gotten them down from 998 pages to around three or four hundred and that seems to be the best I can do. I did not write books to make money as I give away the author copies I get from the publisher. I learned something so valuable to give me a great life and that is, ‘If I am continually giving then the universe will continually fill up the void. Actually, you will get even more back then you give. The universal law of giving is really the law of giving and receiving. In the 12-step recovery program information that literally saved my life was given to me freely. So, how could I charge people for sharing ancient truths that have helped me? Some new age writers take credit for quotes that are not theirs.

There is nothing new under the sun. Every piece of wisdom goes back to the ancient ones and the wisdom was not even theirs. These ancient masters would freely tell people that any and all wisdom comes from ‘The One’. I would feel pretty foolish if I pretended any wisdom that flowed through me was mine. There is only ‘One’ that has become everything and everyone.

So, the need for copyrights and credit for falsely claiming ‘These are my teachings’ are not only unnecessary, silly, but untrue. It is just the ego of these writers trying to take credit for wisdom that is not theirs but goes back to the beginning of time.

The only valid reason for copywriting your books is so that someone else cannot corrupt or twist your writings.

The author/writers world is yet another place I don’t fit. I fit perfectly with myself. Nowhere to look, nowhere to go, as your own heart holds the secrets of the universe and the true peace for your soul. The destination is your own heart and your own self-acceptance.

It is like our names which are just a label to distinguish us from others. They could have called/named me 777 and it would not matter. Do you see people who get so crazy if someone pronounces their name wrong? Once again, it is all ego. The ego is the only part of us that is offended by anything. Most things don’t bother me today but there were a lot of names that would make me flip out. Deep down I felt less than others and I did feel ignorant so when someone would use that word I would rearrange their face for the worst. Today, living in a world where the ‘masses’ are all ignorant it is not offensive to me. As, I have a lot of company, lol…

I can laugh about this today but shortly after learning that ignorant just meant ‘lack of understanding’ makes it not sound so bad. I was to be confronted by a swami. I had shared about my life and he said it is not your fault you were ignorant. I could feel the veins popping out of my neck as I slowly raised out of the chair starting across the table. I kept repeating to myself It just means lack of understanding, just lack of understanding, just lack of understanding. I was able to control myself and sit back down. I looked at the swami whose eyes were wide open and he was pale white. I can laugh about it today and I am so grateful that I learned that ignorance just means a lack of knowledge. This swami was a great friend and he was also the one that said the following words to me about my awakening. He said it is so great to see someone have an awakening but when someone like you has an awakening now that is really something. I thought that is a little insulting, maybe I should have snapped his neck.

Around the same time I had an editor tell me that people will be amazed at the wisdom in your books coming from someone like you. Didn’t these people read between the lines in my book and realize they are playing with fire. Well, the power that has saved me countless times from myself and my own actions has really worked overtime keeping me out of trouble.

Well, back to the overall theme of this book and that is a collection of teachings that hopefully will help people and to share pictures of great friends and family (Riders) and tell the story of the Riding World from my experiences these last fifty years.

If something is of benefit to you that would be great!!! If even one person is helped…If you disagree with my experiences and conclusions then just disregard them and find something that your heart resonates with. Don’t waste any time on anything that is not making your life better. We want to focus on what is expanding for our lives and reject and let go of the things that are contracting, even if that is family members.

Always and only focus on straight ahead believing every step of the way in your dream coming true.

Believe your dream is already a reality and thank the God of your understanding…

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WISHING YOU AND YOURS THE BEST…

It All Began From A Simple Story About Sevens…

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My tale about sevens started in a short story in my first book and has grown into a huge collection of fascinating information about the Seven Phenomenon. I have included this growing tale in my last two books as it is a huge piece of my research and writings. The sevens’ stories had grown to ninety pages. If you would like to read the complete story about sevens it was in my last four books called A SEEKER’S JOURNEY, SOUL QUEST, JOURNEY’S END or MYSTIC. I will do a very short version in this book about the fascinating seven phenomena. I have to warn you that once you notice how often sevens show up in life you will see them everywhere. I turned on the TV just now and seven people were rescued in Florida. Seven shot last weekend in Chicago. If you are aware you will see endless sevens all through life.

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These stories or tales about sevens seems to be a never-ending one. Many years ago, long before I began writing, I used to make a joke that seven was my lucky number. I was born on the seventh (Pearl Harbor Day). I went to Catholic schools for seven years. I used and abused alcohol and the drugs of the sixties for seven years. I had seven broken noses in my teenage years. My first marriage lasted seven years. My second one lasted seven years, too. Seven years into a twelve-year correspondence course based on a yogic path came to an end. And many other seven-year periods in my life. One day, I heard what I was saying, and I became aware of all the sevens around me in life. At this time, I was going to a Church of Celebration called Unity on the River in Amesbury, Massachusetts. I was sitting listening to the minister, named Shipley, and she stopped in the middle of her sermon and said: The number seven represents completion in the physical world and the number twelve represents completion in the spiritual world. I thought where did that come from? I thought I was born on 12/7 so does that mean that I will complete both my physical and spiritual journeys in this life? As, I became more open and aware the sevens and sequences of sevens began coming to me from numerous sources. I was bombarded with people sharing their stories of sevens in their lives.

I thought that I would write a short story about this phenomena regarding sevens. As it turned out, this story about sevens was the catalyst for me writing my first book called MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT. The plot of my first book was about the powerful spiritual awakening that I had in this historic seaport town. All the hidden secrets of this unique little town, which was full of Native American history (their energy), the electromagnetic crossroads beneath the town, seafaring tales, and an abundance of Nature’s gifts, all revealed themselves to me. So, I wrote about what most people are not even aware of in this mystical, magical, little town. My first book was introduced at the Miami International Book Fair as a modern-day version of the Herman Hesse classic novel called SIDDHARTHA. I had a story in this first book about sevens called THE TALE OF THE SEVENS. It was full of sevens from all walks of life. I thought I had completed the story with sevens, but I had just begun. I decided to write a seven-book series under the title MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT. I used this title to honor this one-of-a-kind magical, little town where I had my profound spiritual awakening. These stories are less about any particular location but more of a unique School of Thought or maybe just the ramblings of a madman. My second book in the series was called MYSTIC RIDER. In the second book the story about sevens was called THE SEVENTH SON. It was a huge story full of hundreds of seven sequences and I had thought for sure I had completed the story of sevens.

Once again, I was surprised as I began my third book called SHADOW RIDERS that the sevens kept coming out of the blue from endless sources. The story in my third book was called THE CURSE OF THE SEVENS. It was another seventy pages of amazing sevens in our world. I was sure there was not another significant seven left to write about. I was mistaken again. I don’t know the purpose of my writing stories regarding this number, but I had an inner prompt to write them, so I humbly obeyed. I just write what flows from an unseen source. I jokingly call this source The Mystery Writer and my great friend Ram Butler just simply called it The Voice. Once again, as I began my fourth book THE RECLUSIVE MYSTIC more sevens kept coming to me, so I am doing a little add on. In the story called THE SEVENTH SON I had long, long lists of books with seven in the title besides all the other phenomena regarding this number. It should not surprise me as many have written (including scientists and mathematicians) that seven is the most significant and abundant number used in the Universe. Even the early Christians said: God’s number is Seven. All religions and spiritual paths are overflowing with sevens in their teachings and stories. The scientists have discovered a correlation with numbers and vibrations. They can actually assign a number with a vibratory signature. My conclusion after researching this phenomena and writing endless stories on the number seven is: God’s numeral vibrational signature is the number SEVEN.

We usually think in the terms of the five senses, until we learn about our sixth sense (which is God) and is expressed in our own Intuition. When we pray we are speaking to God. When we listen in the silence, God speaks to us through our intuition. We have a direct line to God through our intuition which can only be known with a still mind. As I was completing my third book SHADOW RIDERS I came across two of the most powerful writings. One was the writings of Hermes Trismegistus in the KYBALION, and the other insight was regarding our SEVENTH SENSE. I had written about this phenomena in my last book and basically it is that the seventh sense is a compilation and organizing of all the other six senses into one powerful tool for the individual soul.

I will include the new sevens and some of the more significant sevens from the other stories. This following list may seem like a lot of sevens, but it is just a small sample of the huge lists in my other books. So here we go again…

Well, that was my little, early morning rant and I will get back to the sevens list again.

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