The First Spiritual Law of Success

Saturday Stories

March 30, 2019

The First Spiritual Law of Success

By Jonathan Aquino

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In the upcoming "Avengers: Endgame," Ant-Man is back so I think they can use the quantum realm to defeat Thanos. The quantum realm is the infinite multidimensional space between sub-atomic particles that defy the laws of physics, similar to where Doctor Strange went in his first mystical out-of-body experience in Tibet. But the good Doctor had turned to dust during the Decimation – or did he? Our heroes can travel in time through the quantum realm to get the Stones first, but it would completely change the timeline.

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This is a level of existence that is beyond time and space, where the past, present, future – and all their many parallel versions – are happening simultaneously. Modern science knows this through quantum physics, and ancient esoteric teachings have known it for thousands of years. This realm is nonphysical, but it is where everything that is physical comes from. This is our source because our true nature is pure energy, which we call "spirit" or "soul." The spiritual author Deepak Chopra calls this "the field of pure potentiality." 

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And The Law of Pure Potentiality is the first of "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," according to Chopra. This is about accepting that we are, in essence, pure consciousness – and proving this to ourselves. "When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are," says Chopra, "in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be." This is also known as the Law of Unity because we are all connected to this stream of pure potentiality – which flows through everything in the multiverse.

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So how do we experience this cosmic oneness? Chopra shows how to tune in to the field of pure potentiality – through silence and non-judgment. Just as there is space between atoms, there is space between thoughts, which he (and Wayne Dyer) calls "the gap." It is this gap between thoughts that we go to when we quiet our mind. But our judgmental thoughts creates a turbulence that "constricts the flow of energy between you and the field of pure potentiality," says Chopra. He cites a prayer from "A Course In Miracles" – "Today I shall judge nothing that occurs." In our moments of silence, we let go of thoughts and emotions until we achieve a stillness that is so profound that it cannot be described, yet so comforting that we'd want to come back to it, over and over, because it feels like home. Chopra also quotes the Scriptures: "Be still, and know that I am God."

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All You Really Need To Know

Saturday Stories

March 22, 2019

All You Really Need To Know

By Jonathan Aquino

I'm intrigued by an episode of "DC's Legends of Tomorrow." The story is about Rip Hunter, a time-traveling Englishman like Doctor Who, who has gathered some of the heroes from "Arrow" and "The Flash" – Atom, Hawkgirl, Hawkman and Firestorm. They travel through time to find and kill an immortal named Vandal Savage who will destroy the world in 2166. An assassin known as The Pilgrim went to their childhood to erase them from the timeline, so they went back in time to save their younger selves.

And I think to myself: If I meet my younger self, what would I say to him? I'll tell him that he is loved and he is inherently worthy of being loved, that he has never been alone and he already has everything he needs. I would ask him to not lose faith in humanity. A part of me would want to protect him from some of the things to come, yet another part wants him to be free to explore on his own because that is the only way to learn, to grow, and hopefully, to find wisdom.

I would try to explain that the world can be complicated, that people are not always what you thought them to be, and there will be times when we'll do something we won't be proud about. I'd tell him it's okay to make mistakes as long as we learn from them, that there is no shame in falling as long as we get up again. And I would also tell him that the world is filled with good and decent people, and that life is full of so many beautiful things that we take for granted or refuse to see. 

And, if I could, I would give him some books, the ones that pointed me in the right direction, like "All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten," the beloved classic by Robert Fulghum. It's all there – "Share everything" ... "Play fair" ... "Don't hit people" ... "Put things back where you found them" ... "Clean up your own mess" ... "Don't take things that aren't yours" ... "Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody" ... "Live a balanced life" ... "Be aware of wonder..." Sometimes – oftentimes – to be the best version of who we are, we have to get back to the basics.

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Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese

Saturday Stories

March 16, 2019

By Jonathan Aquino

March 16, 2019

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The great 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan first arrived in the Philippines on this month 498 years ago, on March 17, 1521, on an island named Homonhon in what is now Samar. I'm across the bay in Cebu as I write this, and there is a famous tourist spot here called Magellan's Cross, a wooden cross in a small pavilion behind the Santo Niño Cathedral. The marker says it was planted by Magellan on April 21, 1521. I came here 492 years later, on February 13, 2013, so I didn't meet him in person. Yet I thought a lot about Magellan – and some of the other legendary explorers like Vasco De Gama and Christopher Columbus.

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I think it takes great courage to embark to the unknown, and it takes even greater courage do it while many are saying you could not – or worse, should not. In every great venture, like when Magellan went out to sea or when the Apollo 11 went to the moon, there are those who will say that many are hungry, so why waste money building ships? They have a point, but they also miss a more significant point. Life is about trying to help others – but it is also about following our dreams.

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And there is something else that everybody knows but some find hard to accept – that life is a constant change. You could stay where you are, or you could go to another place and go through different experiences, but either way, everyone and everything around you will change – even you. But not all of us are always ready. In Dr. Spencer Johnson's classic fable "Who Moved My Cheese," a man named Hem has found a gigantic block of cheese in the endless maze where they all live, and he was so happy that he found it at last. He made a new set of routines that revolve around the cheese. I think this is understandable because it's perfectly natural to want to have security in life.

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But as time went by, the cheese began to run out. Things are changing right before his eyes but he could not – or would not – accept it. He thought of it as the symbol for his success, the reward for all his hard work, and he has defined himself by his possession of the cheese. Then, one day, there was no more. Hem would go home at night and return the next morning, hoping the cheese would come back, but it never did. He told himself that somebody must have taken it. "Who moved my cheese?" he said. He said that people like him are special, and, therefore, are entitled to the cheese. His friend, Haw, said they should leave and look for new cheese. Hem refused. He said he would stay and get to the bottom of this. He asked Haw to stay, and both of them could wait until the cheese comes back.

Embracing Your Sacred Life Path

Saturday Stories

March 9, 2019

Embracing Your Sacred Life Path

By Jonathan Aquino

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The psychic Uri Geller once said – "Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution." I love people who make this world a better place in their own ways, those who give us hope and remind us that we are more than our bodies. I first heard about the spiritual teachers Aletheia Luna and Mateo Sol last year when I somehow came across their site Lonerwolf.com. Luna (which means "moon") and Sol (which means "sun") describe themselves as "twin flames." They met on November 11, 2011, which is 11-11-11, and since there is great significance for 11:11 in many mystical traditions, I think that is so cool.

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They share books for free, and the first I got was 101 Questions. I still have my notes on it which I shared on the comments of "Friend of Mine," my Facebook post for February 15, 2018 – "A lot of the questions are open-ended, e.g., 'How?' For the Yes-or-No questions, my answer is a big 'Yes!' to questions 5, 10, 15, 17, 20, 35, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 60, 67, 68, 75, 87, 91, 93, 96, 97, 100 and 101." Question 10, for example, goes "Am I loving in a healthy way?" And Question 42 asks: "Do I easily become happy?"

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I have taken some of their personality tests. Apparently my Psychological Archetype is The Magician, one who "searches out the fundamental laws of science and/or metaphysics." I'm The Peacemaker in the Enneagram test, one who is "wanting to create harmony in their environment, needing to avoid conflict and tension." And I'm an INFP, Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving, in the Myer Briggs Personality Type where "Your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit into your personal value system."

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I just finished their Wild Wolf Within: How To Find and Embrace Your Sacred Life Path. I have always believed that there is something in us that makes us want to be more than what we are. All of us would come to a point where we'd ask ourselves if we really are doing what we were meant to do. So "Don't walk someone else’s path. Don't walk the path your parents predestined for you just because you feel emotionally indebted to them. Don't walk a path that appears to be yours, but is actually society's fabricated ideal of who you 'should' be."

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