From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 18 - August 1994
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More on Goals
By Antony A Phillips, Denmark
Here is a quotation on goals from a very interesting book:
"...If a person dies without completing all the lessons
they need to learn, their spirit body returns and is reborn in another
physical body.
The kahunas(2)call this invisible
aspect the aumakua, or 'higher self.' Like Whitton's(3)
metaconsciousness, it is the unconscious portion
of a person that can see parts of the future that are crystallized,
or 'set'. It is also the part of us that is responsible for
creating our destiny, but it is not alone in this process. Like many
of the researchers mentioned in this book the kahunas believed that
the thoughts are things and are composed of a subtle energetic
substance
they called kino mea, or 'shadowy body stuff.' Hence,
our hopes, fears, plans, worries, guilts, dreams, and imaginings do
not vanish after leaving our mind, but are turned into thought forms,
and these too, become some of the rough strands from which the high
self weaves our future.
Most people are not in charge of their higher self,
said the kahunas, and constantly bombard their high self with an
uncontrolled
and contradictory mixture of plans, wishes, and fears. This confuses
the high self and is why most people's lives appear to be equally
haphazard and uncontrolled. Powerful kahunas who were in open
communication
with their higher selves were said to be able to help a person to
remake his or her future. Similarly, it was considered extremely
important that people take time out at frequent intervals to think
about their lives and visualize in concrete terms what they wished
to happen to themselves. By doing this the kahunas asserted that
people
can more consciously control the events that befall them and make
their own futures(4)."
Ron had some thing similar to say(5), referring back to the practice
of magicians:
"The first thing that should be sorted out in any operation
is the intention or the goal. This was a practice of ancient
magicians.
He would become an effect if he just caused, caused, caused at random
without ever analysing what he was trying to do, he was just doing
at random and heading towards chaos.
...
To cause something one must be cause and the primary requisite of
cause is a statement of intention and goal. The primary requisite
is a clear statement of what you're trying to do and only when you
clearly state it can you avoid being an eventual effect. 'What
am I trying to do?' You can't answer that, you'll foul up."
I'd express the same thoughts in this way: 'If you do not cause
the future, others will'. or 'If you do not postulate your
own future, and that of the groups to which you belong (including
the world), the postulates of others, which might well be contrary
to your own desires and well being, will take effect - and make
you effect'.
I therefore sing the song again, which I sang in IVy 14 page
7, enlarged a little:
Take time to consider what future you want. Take time to discuss with
other members of the groups to which you belong (including free
scientology)
what future you all want.
I have observed that here and there people who have worked together
in a group, no longer talk (communicate) with each other. And when
talking to me about the person they no longer communicate with, they
tend to say bad things of the other. I have wondered if this peculiar
phenomena (peculiar because it is amongst people with a strong
scientology background) is due to the fact that they have worked
together
in some group, possibly under some stress (to get high stats,
sometimes!), and have never discussed what goals they had. In fact
they were each striving for different goals than the other,
but were not aware of this. Thus stress, criticism, and (I say it
as quietly as possible) they went out of ARC.
I say: It takes all sorts to clear a world. Or just improve the planet
and society we live in. And it works even better if we are in
communication
with each other.
Take time out to think about and discuss what you (as individual,
and a part of groups) want the future to be. And why not keep a comm
line in with your earlier friends and colleages?
(1)The
Holographic Universe, By Michael Talbot, HarperPerenial, ISBN
0-06-092258-3.
(2)Native Hawiian shaman
(3)referred to earlier in the book
(4)FThe data was from a German book, quoted in Holger
Kalweit, Dreamtime and Inner Space; The World of the Shaman
(Boulder, Colo.: Shambala, 1984).
(5)Philedelphia Doctorate Course Nr. 40, near beginning, 12 December
1952