COMING OUT OF THE MAZE

MAY 3, 2006. This is another backgrounder for my upcoming tele-workshop, THE TRANSFORMATIONS. The first live session takes place five days from now. Click on the link above for details. The response has been very large.
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Many people find their lives resemble a maze. They move along paths that seem to lead to open and free space, but then they find dead-ends and they keep moving around and around.

The whole substance and shape of the maze is a product of misdirection. People are looking for signs and signals that will point the way, but the signs are only temporary fixes.

To put it another way, people are ignoring the source of their own power. They are attributing it to something outside themselves. In doing this, they may discover they are being urged to surrender completely, to give up everything they want.

This urge dovetails nicely with the idea of a controlled society in which citizens basically accept what is given to them.

I could form all this into a riddle which goes: how do you give up yourself, and when you do, what's left?

The answer is: YOU DON'T. YOU DON'T GIVE UP YOUSELF AND YOU DON'T GIVE UP WHAT YOU WANT.

Starting from that premise, the rest is clear. You discover, more and more, what you DO want, and you manifest it.

The more manifesting you do, the more power you create.

The more power you create, the more answers you find. Answers to ALL the questions you have.

It's a straight line.

It's a very broad highway.

All the problems a person has, all the wandering in the maze a person does comes from radiating less power than the person really has.

It may be socially polite to minimize one's own power, but actually doing it spawns many troubles.

People are taught, and teach themselves, that there is something wrong about exerting their power. Accepting that, they embroider all sorts of strategies to limit their strength and their creative capacity. In other words, they act against themselves.

In such a strange and burdensome space, it appeals to them to give up the ghost altogether. It feels good to surrender everything.

But sooner or later, that doesn't work. Another dead-end is reached.

I teach exercises for manifesting what you want. They work. They involve exerting your creative power. They don't add anything unnecessary into the mix.

When a person does the exercises long enough, he achieves a breakthrough. He IS moving on that broad highway. He IS getting what we wants. He IS discovering, more deeply, what he truly wants. All this is done by him. Which is the only way it can be done. Every other way presupposes that someone else is writing the script. That goes nowhere.

There is a clarity in THINKING that you can manifest what you desire. There is a much greater clarity that comes from DOING it.

When you do it over and over, you gain more lucid and confident and true degrees of perception about YOUR OWN power.

It's like planting a garden. You can make up a plan and think that'll it all work out. But you can DO IT, and in the process of doing, you become very, very sure that you have the capacity to make that garden. You see it before your eyes. You know you did it. You know how you did it.

That's what real manifesting is all about. That's what I teach.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com