Got Going
On a lunch break after the morning portion. All my concern over cultishness or new age profiteering was immediately allayed. There were no more than fifty people in the room. Neale also asked to be able to make eye contact with everyone, so there were some adjustments in seating. Being my unashamed self I was already on the front row.
He's tenth book will be coming out in about a month. He did express that if we'd found worth in the prior books, that this book would be worth reading. Pretty much shooting fish in a barrel, but he didn't make it about book sales. He explained that today's seminar was a condensed overview of what's in the book. That the first nine books were mostly conceptual in nature while the last one and this one are about application.
Perfection. While I feel I have a good understanding of the material and it resonates so well with me, the questions I brought with me were all about how to make these things work for me. Apparently Neale himself saw the need.
This morning's session was about the Mechanics of the Mind. What I have always found inspiriting about his work is how he involves basic scientific concepts along with psychology in building spiritual models. In the space of two hours he diagrammed an insightful flow of how an event is translated into personal reality. Naturally all the esoterica came along, such as, “What is real? Nothing.” It did charge me up and I can only imagine what the afternoon will bring when he links this into the soul.
Nearly four solid pages of notes so far. Got pretty emotional a number of times yet haven't cried too much yet. The worst it got when he was talking about the nature of truth. How we all live by agreement. And his first example was gay marriage. He apologized for picking something politically charge, then exclaimed, “About time! Who said that is wrong? That love should be limited. Who said that?!” So wonderful to hear from a man who has my total respect and admiration. And amusing being in California right after Ms. California's ignorant response allegedly cost her the title.
People are the only problem so far. Three chairs down is the typical revivalist, bless her heart. After some of the stronger statements she'll be grunting out “uh huh”s or “Amens!” While I appreciate her enthusiasm, it's quite distracting and difficult to tune out. Yet I also had to get some attention. His model was so simple and elegant I asked him about his inspiration for the book since it felt beyond his body of work. He admitted there were four other major influences that he cites in the book.
Going to have to get that book. Wish it were out now because I need to be applying this stuff now. Will take away as much as I can. I so needed this.
He's tenth book will be coming out in about a month. He did express that if we'd found worth in the prior books, that this book would be worth reading. Pretty much shooting fish in a barrel, but he didn't make it about book sales. He explained that today's seminar was a condensed overview of what's in the book. That the first nine books were mostly conceptual in nature while the last one and this one are about application.
Perfection. While I feel I have a good understanding of the material and it resonates so well with me, the questions I brought with me were all about how to make these things work for me. Apparently Neale himself saw the need.
This morning's session was about the Mechanics of the Mind. What I have always found inspiriting about his work is how he involves basic scientific concepts along with psychology in building spiritual models. In the space of two hours he diagrammed an insightful flow of how an event is translated into personal reality. Naturally all the esoterica came along, such as, “What is real? Nothing.” It did charge me up and I can only imagine what the afternoon will bring when he links this into the soul.
Nearly four solid pages of notes so far. Got pretty emotional a number of times yet haven't cried too much yet. The worst it got when he was talking about the nature of truth. How we all live by agreement. And his first example was gay marriage. He apologized for picking something politically charge, then exclaimed, “About time! Who said that is wrong? That love should be limited. Who said that?!” So wonderful to hear from a man who has my total respect and admiration. And amusing being in California right after Ms. California's ignorant response allegedly cost her the title.
People are the only problem so far. Three chairs down is the typical revivalist, bless her heart. After some of the stronger statements she'll be grunting out “uh huh”s or “Amens!” While I appreciate her enthusiasm, it's quite distracting and difficult to tune out. Yet I also had to get some attention. His model was so simple and elegant I asked him about his inspiration for the book since it felt beyond his body of work. He admitted there were four other major influences that he cites in the book.
Going to have to get that book. Wish it were out now because I need to be applying this stuff now. Will take away as much as I can. I so needed this.