Competitive Advantage

While the motivation of the Shaman is healing and Love, this does not mean that people who are following a Spiritual Path must be broke, unemployed or ill themselves (although some Shamanic healers choose certain lifestyles or deal with illnesses for a variety of reasons). In fact, the vast majority of those who are traveling a Spiritual Path should wind up as more successful than the remainder of the world.

It is pretty clear that we are entering a nationwide, and perhaps global, depression that will make 1929 look like a Sunday School picnic by comparison. I understand the fear that many people have about this depression, and a great deal of it is justified. However…

Those who are taking the time and applying the discipline to walk a Spiritual Path and who are clearing their “old tapes” from their bodies, minds and spirits through effective body work, deep Shamanic healing trance and various cognitive methods have no need to fear a worldly depression.

Do you know how many thousands of people got wealthy in 1929? Enough that FDR blamed the wealthy for the length of the Great Depression. Certainly the idiocy of the Supreme Court and the Hoover administration’s policies had a great deal to do with the Great Depression. But even during the Great Depression, people became wealthy. The Great Depression wasn’t so depressing for everyone.

It would be very nice if no one suffers due to the idiocy of our government and the absurd policies of the Bush-Clinton-Bush administrations and the extreme foolishness of the Fed under both its current and past masters. But realistically, that is not going to happen. We are going into another depression. The question is: Are you going to choose to participate?

This isn’t a rhetorical question. The fact is that those who are walking in Spirituality with bodies, minds and spirits focused, disciplined and cleared of failure “tapes” do not need to choose to participate in the Great Depression of 2009. We can choose to “opt out.”

“Opting out” of the coming Great Depression of 2009 is the most Loving and Healing thing we can do. There are going to be many problems that can be solved by writing a check. There always are. The question is whether you’re going to be the donor or the recipient. It is better be the donor.

We also have a deep responsibility to our families. While we have a responsibility to all of our fellow humans the basic unit of any society is the immediate family. If everyone in the world fulfilled his/her responsibilities to his/her families there would be very little poverty, very little crime, and very little mental illness. The cause of much misery in the world is the “FOO” or “Family of Origin.” We who are walking a Spiritual Path must not be part of this problem, but a part of the solution. Our families must be fed, clothed, housed, educated and so on.

We also must form communities of like-minded people walking Spiritual Paths. These communities are going to be social communities, but also business communities. I will be much happier entering into business with someone who is of like mind regarding a Spiritual Path and the Source of wealth (the Universe/God/Great Spirit/etc.) which is inexhaustible than with someone who believes that we are tossed to and fro by economic whims. Those who are walking the Spiritual Path with bodies, minds and spirits cleared of old information and making decisions based on the way that the Universe actually works rather than based on the myths and deceptions of old thinking are going to, frankly, “kick ass.” Walking a Spiritual Path is not just for feeling good. It is a very real and very powerful competitive advantage and Darwin is alive and well regardless of what the right wingnuts say! We’re about to see evolution in action, folks, and I want us to be the humans who survive to reproduce instead of the Neanderthals.

Those walking the Spiritual Path must use their “competitive advantage” to the fullest. We can tap into the inexhaustible wealth of the Universe. We have several “Fort Knoxes” as our fingertips and all we must learn to do is to tap them. This is irrespective of the economic or political conditions of our country or those that exist globally.

We are entering, I believe, the next stage of human evolution. It is time for the linear/concrete thinkers to move aside and eventually go extinct. We are entering the time of the organic/holistic/Gestalt thinker who is operating in Spirituality rather than the natural realm, in Love rather than fear, in Creativity rather than destruction. It is truly time for us to turn our backs on the illusory world in which we have been living and open our eyes to see through the illusions and understand how the Universe truly works — and obtain the tools to operate in this Universe effectively…those of trance and clearing of the mind, body and spirit.

There is nothing “magic” about this. Once one understands the actual workings of the Universe, “miracles” start to happen. Of course, they aren’t truly miracles. They simply seem like miracles to those who are bound by linear ways of thinking. In reality creating a flow of money in the middle of a nationwide or global depression is no more magic than flipping on a light in a dark room and, with the flick of a switch, “magically” dispelling the darkness.

Those who are not following the Spiritual Path, for whatever reason (weird, scared, not traditional, too shy, etc.) are at a severe competitive disadvantage. If one wishes to survive and thrive, getting on the Spiritual Path is the only way.

Of course, even if there isn’t a depression, the people walking the Spiritual Path have incredible competitive advantages. One of my Students was able to start her own company in a very difficult field. Everyone told her it didn’t have much of a chance. Before she even got her business cards printed, people were knocking down her door to hire her as their consultant. How? Well, while she was in trance, I had her heart search for the exact right people to call to herself. She literally spiritually called her prospective clients who would use her services. Two other Seekers, a beautiful, loving couple, saw an almost instant turnaround on financial challenges they were having. And so on.

There is nothing “unfair” about having this competitive advantage. There is no law against performing “old Jedi Mind Tricks.” The competitive advantage is open to anyone with an open mind and open heart. Those of us who are walking the Spiritual Path would love to see everyone (even our business competitors) walking this Path alongside us. We no longer need the illusion of business competition. We know that there is plenty for everyone, so we can truly rejoice in the successes of our “competitors,” knowing that, as we do so, they, also, if they are walking the Spiritual Path will rejoice in our successes.

We can also, if we’re working with others on the Spiritual Path, enter into business or personal relationships with them, knowing that the business will be profitable and helpful. It is much easier creating wealth, clients, customers, etc. by going into trance, or into a drumming circle of others who are becoming adept at Spiritual Creativity than trying to do all of that pesky networking and advertising. It is also a great deal cheaper and more effective. For if we obtain clients or whatever through advertising or networking we don’t know if they will be appropriate for our businesses. If we obtain clients/customers through Spiritual Creation we can draw to our businesses the precise “type” of client/customer we wish to obtain. While we’ll pick up a real pain in the butt every once in a while, it won’t be a regular occurrence.

Ditto for those in career transition. There are two ways of finding employment, especially at the executive level. There is the natural way which entails tons of networking, chasing ads, listening to headhunters, and so on or there is the Spiritual Way. In my “other life” I am an executive career transition consultant. I can testify that it is much easier (and much faster) for executives to find the exact right position by Spiritual Creativity than by the “natural world” method.

So why don’t I just teach Spiritual Creativity? Well, that is simple. Many of the people I work with aren’t ready at any level to enter into the Spiritual Path and put forth the Spiritual discipline to focus their thoughts and discipline their minds and spirits. They are still caught up in negativity, fear, reluctance, shyness, rationality, and other roadblocks to operating spiritually. Once the chasm has been bridged, they look back and laugh at their fears. But the chasm must be leaped without any assurance they can believe in that they’ll reach the other side. They will, of course, but these reassurances don’t sound very comforting when the chasm is 7 feet across and a few miles down!

Of course following the Spiritual Path gives a competitive advantage in everything else, including relationships. One of the Seekers with whom I work is single and asked me a few weeks ago, “So Mr. Right is just going to waltz into my life, huh?” My reply? “Well, he might not waltz. He might foxtrot, East Coast swing, or even break-dance into your life.” Calling one’s soul mate is much easier than the horror of dating in the 21st C. with all of the risks of disease, date rape, and so on.

The first step to freedom and this competitive advantage is to get with a Teacher and being to understand how the Universe works and begin erasing the bodily, mental and spiritual failure “tapes” that are held in our bodies, minds and spirits. As the old saying goes “Watch that first step, it’s a doozy.” But like diving into a cold lake on a hot day, the shock only lasts a few minutes. The payoffs are eternal.

So…enough reading. Get out there and begin to learn at the experiential level with a Teacher. Kick some butt, take no prisoners, and show no mercy! For by being successful and powerful you are leading others to the Path of peace, tranquility, prosperity, health, loving relationships and harmony with oneself, others, nature and the Universe.

Peace, love and joy,

J.

John may be reached at wlfbearshaman@gmail.com and welcomes your questions and comments, either in the comments, or by individual email. Watch for our website coming soon: www.Laughingriverretreat.org. It should be up in a couple of weeks.