[Bluerose]

This is a paragraph from The Master key -

It might help you to understand what I am going on about.


"Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the Universal Mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation, but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but in the Universal Mind. It is not an objective faculty but a subjective process, and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences."

But all said and done, what I believe is that we all create our own reality from the thoughts we entertain.

Therefore, what we are discussing and comparing is your reality and my reality and they are very different. Not wrong just different.

Truth? A tough start in life left me searching for a way to survive. I haunted book stores and libraries. Then I found The Masterkey. It appealed to me a lot, I didn't take much of it in to begin with but returned to it again and again over the years.

I think you would have to read it for this discussion to continue. And perhaps you might like to recommend a book from your reality.


"Charles F. Haanel (1866-1949) Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan was a noted American author and a businessman. He had owned several major companies and was a self made success in his time. He was president of the Continental Commercial Company he is also president of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Company and president of the Mexico Gold & Silver Mining Company. He is best known for his book The Master Key System that covers everything from how to get wealthy to how to get healthy. By 1933 The Master Key System had sold over 200,000 copies worldwide."


What are your thoughts on this?

"All your life, they've taught you how to be the wise man .... But, what if they've been wrong? What if it's the fool who gets everything they want!"

[Bluerose]

And finally, one last piece of information about the author -

Long before Anthony Robbins, there was Charles F Haanel...

The Master Key System is simply one of the finest studies in personal power, metaphysics, and prosperity consciousness ever written.

Covering everything from how to create abundance and wealth to how to get healthy, Charles F Haanel leaves no stone unturned. With precision, he elucidates on each topic with logic and rigor that not only leaves you feeling good, but also thinking good. The book was banned by the Church in 1933 and has been hidden away for decades.

Rumor has it that while he was attending Harvard University, Bill Gates discovered and read The Master Key System. It was this book that inspired Bill Gates to drop out of the University and pursue his dream of "a computer on every desktop." You probably know the results. . .

It is Silicon Valley's secret that almost every entrepreneur who made a fortune in recent years did so by studying the words Mr. Haanel penned over eighty years ago! Almost every millionaire and billionaire in the Valley read The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. Since this book was no longer in print until recently, copies of The Master Key System became a hot commodity in the Valley.

The book has even recently been linked with the TV event known as "The Secret".

[Bluerose]

I posted this earlier. I put the wrong date. Don't want to cause any confusion.

"I know this has nothing to do with Jesus but that statement rings true for all of us in the context of The Masterkey (perhaps not The Secret) - which was banned by the catholic church back in 1700s because I suspect they also thought the information would be dangerous in the wrong hands - But we must also forgive ourselves."

The Masterkey Systen was actally banned by the catholic church back in 1933.

Sorry.

[ordinaryguy]

This is a paragraph from The Master key -

It might help you to understand what I am going on about.


"Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the Universal Mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation, but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but in the Universal Mind. It is not an objective faculty but a subjective process, and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences."

I went to the PsiTek link that you provided and read the Introduction, the Foreword, Part One and the associated Study Questions. As far as I can tell, it is an adaptation and modernized restatement of the principles of Kabbalah, the mystical tradition within Jewish culture and thought. I very much respect and agree with the basic ideas involved, though I do think Haanel tends to oversimplify and oversell them somewhat. I've signed up for the weekly email installments of the lessons, so we'll see how that goes.

But all said and done, what I believe is that we all create our own reality from the thoughts we entertain.

Therefore, what we are discussing and comparing is your reality and my reality and they are very different. Not wrong just different.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "reality". If you mean the outer world of events and circumstances, then I would say we all inhabit the same one, (allowing for differences of time and place of course). If you mean the inner interpretation and meaning we each ascribe to these events and circumstances, then each person's "reality" is different.

Truth? A tough start in life left me searching for a way to survive. I haunted book stores and libraries. Then I found The Masterkey. It appealed to me a lot, I didn't take much of it in to begin with but returned to it again and again over the years.

I think you would have to read it for this discussion to continue.

I certainly hope not. Surely we can discuss ideas without it becoming a referendum on the relative virtue of particular expressions of those ideas.

And perhaps you might like to recommend a book from your reality.

OK. Here's one. The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment - Thaddeus Golas
About the author: Thaddeus Golas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What are your thoughts on this?

"All your life, they've taught you how to be the wise man .... But, what if they've been wrong? What if it's the fool who gets everything they want!"

I think anybody who goes through life getting what they want will find in the end that they have indeed been a fool.

[NeedKarma]

I've never had a need or want for all these self-help books or systems. I really don't get it to be honest. Life isn't that complicated: take responsibility for your own actions, have something resembling of a five year plan that gets updated continuously, live within your means (learn good basic finance early in life), hang with nice people and avoid the toxic ones. Find out what you like to do and find a way to get paid to do it. Life is what you make it.

[Bluerose]

NeedKarma,

Have you always known that life is that simple?

I only started to live when I was twenty. I had a lot of catching up to do and Self-Help books played a big part in that. I had two little children whom I didn't want to suffer because I grew up hating the world and his wife. So I am happy to say that I had at least enough sense to look for what I felt I needed from people who had coped with and survived what I was now struggling to come to terms with.

Some people are just born lucky and I think you must have been one of those.

[Bluerose]

ordinaryguy,

"As far as I can tell, it is an adaptation and modernized restatement of the principles of Kabbalah, the mystical tradition within Jewish culture and thought."

Don't know anything about that therefore can't comment.

"I very much respect and agree with the basic ideas involved, though I do think Haanel tends to oversimplify and oversell them somewhat."

I'm glad he did oversimplify or I might not have been able to understand it. And the oversell is more in the way of repetition in order to get the message through. As in the way we use affirmations.

"I've signed up for the weekly email instalments of the lessons, so we'll see how that goes."

Good. And thank you for that book link I will read it later.

"I suppose it depends on what you mean by "reality". If you mean the outer world of events and circumstances, then I would say we all inhabit the same one, (allowing for differences of time and place of course). If you mean the inner interpretation and meaning we each ascribe to these events and circumstances, then each person's "reality" is different."

This is a hard one. I think it begins with the world within but reflects in the world without. And since it comes down to what I am thinking, I am thinking and trying to be positive about the things around me. Sounds rather selfish but I'm still figuring it out. I go along with.... That if we all improve the quality of our own life then that will improve the quality of Life in general.

Like everyone being willing to clean their own doorstep makes for a nicer neighbourhood.

"..for the discussion to continue.."

Don't take that the wrong way. I just meant to continue to discuss it we should have some idea of where we are each coming from.

"I think anybody who goes through life getting what they want will find in the end that they have indeed been a fool."

It's not about getting everything we want. It's more about getting EVERYTHING we think about, good and bad, positive and negative. And what we are trying to do is get more positive than negative things.

Hope that makes sense.

[NeedKarma]

Some people are just born lucky and I think you must have been one of those.

The more I read the posts on this web site the more I tend to agree with you here.
BTW, I'm 45, married, 2 young children, so yes, I've lived a little. :)

[Bluerose]

NeedKarma,

"The more I read the posts on this web site the more I tend to agree with you here."

I hear you. But for me it's like I come from the opposite direction. When I read some of the posts here I struggle to be sympathetic sometimes. I hope that doesn't sound too harsh. But I wish all I had to worry about back then was some guy cheating on me.


".. Life isn't that complicated: take responsibility for your own actions, have something resembling of a five year plan that gets updated continuously, live within your means (learn good basic finance early in life), hang with nice people and avoid the toxic ones. Find out what you like to do and find a way to get paid to do it. Life is what you make it."

I guess that's what I was aiming for. Been a bit of a tough road though.

How old are your children?

[kaitou]

When this post was first made I didn't understand it. But a recent event has made me understand it a little.

In the past 4 months I have became close friend with this girl that I knew from high school. We always knew each other. I know that she's a nice person, and she knew the same about me. But we never became friends, because we only had 2 classes together through out the 4 years of high school. I was also not at school much, because well let's just say that it wasn't one of my best experiences in life.

So after we graduated from high school, we would occasionally say random messages to each other on msn, but we never actually have a conversation. Then 2 years after graduation, one day we started talking over msn. And the next thing I know we became close friends that hang out every weekend LOL..

It turns out that she lived only 2 minutes driving distance away from me.. and our personality really matched. I can't believe she's as weird as I am.

I'm still really surprise that we're good friends now, but I'm really grateful that it happened.

[runbaker]

The Secret Scam - A Word Of Caution.

Just a word of caution:

1) There have been many sites popping up that are selling illegal (bootleg) copies of the secret for as little as $5. People are encouraged to avoid these sites because selling bootleg DVDs is just like stealing and based on the Law Of Attraction, you don't want to participate in that type of energy. The best places to buy the DVD is from the official site (Law of Attraction :: The Secret :: Official Web Site of The Secret Movie) or from one of the teachers. The DVDs are only $25

2) Other people reported that there was a pyramid scam selling 'gratitude rocks' as well, but fortunately these sites were shut down. Please don't get this confused with the actual secret seminar site: The Official Secret Seminar.

[granmaboat]

I can tell you that a great deal more goes on that is not usually seen or heard or noticed at all for many people... Additionally it helps to realise how reality is co-authored by everyone... Its important to get good at recognising that if you choose X, that Y and Z come with it... and no one is capable of bending those rules anymore than they can suspend gravity or breathe underwater unaided.

Nothing in our lives happens by coincidence or by chance--nothing.This is the lesson so many young people don't seem to be getting. Cause and effect.Consiquence of action. Everything we do or say effects not only us but others, even when we don't want it to. Only through self-control can we hope to innitate chang, and we can only change the vibration,the degree, how we re-act, not the mode. Hot and cold are the poles, or extrems of temperature. But who is to say where one begins and the other ends. You can't change the rules but you can use them.

[granmaboat]

Smile and the world smiles with you,
Weep and you weep alone
The sad old earth must borrow it's mirth
It has troubles enough of its own.

Don't know who wrote this.

[chuff]

""LivingtheLifeinFLA disagrees: coinsidence"

Not what the disagree box is for, let's introduce ourselves by you reading the rules of the site. I'm glad to be back, and you'll be glad to have me.