You are a being of Light!...It is not mystical! It is real!
Michael Singer
OMG ! I loved when I heard Michael Singer begin his podcast today by saying that he didn't like the "Law of Attraction." I knew instantly ...I would get something from this video. I knew it would speak to this that I am beyond the "me" today. And it was exactly what I needed to fall back a little farther, away from ego, into this "I am".
I discovered recently that my awakening process, albeit a slow one lol, involves the use of my intellectual mind. For some reason, I cannot just "feel" truth ...I have to understand it and know it first. Words, concepts, teachings are a part of that process for me. (Not sure if that is because I spent so much of my life learning in and out of the educational system or because I spent so much of my life teaching in one way or another). As limiting as these things might be they are pointers to a greater truth within me that can only be felt and experienced. So, I bombard myself with these pointers...seeking, seeking; finding teachers who make sense to me...and then filtering teachers and teachings from my life experience as I process the direction these pointers are taking me. I am very selective.
Though I begin with concepts I don't follow the pointers unless "I feel" what is being said, unless it resonates with something within me. When a concept, idea, or teaching resonates in me...I feel and I experience it viscerally. When I have an "aha moment", learning something I already knew but forgot, I literally vibrate a bit from my solar plexus outward. It makes sense to my gut brain I guess. I find myself straightening up saying to the air in front of me, "Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank You!"
As I was listening to Michael Singer this morning, I felt that vibration. For sure...he is a teacher for this that I am beyond the "me". I knew that from the first chapter of "The Untethered Soul". I guess his intellectual and practical approach matches my intellectual and practical approach. I feel we are on the same wave length, if that doesn't make me sound 'grandiose'. Still, I know he 'teaches' me from a place I have yet to touch, because I have so many "aha moments" with him....that lead me closer to that place. Today was one of those days where I fell back a little deeper into the "I am".
I also felt a twinge of that 'spark'...if you want to call it that... the other day when I was listening to Dr. Sue Morter speak to Andre Duqum in a podcast. I found myself on my feet shouting, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" My cats thought I was crazy. I could feel that vibration in my gut...that feeling so much like 'hope' but more powerful and less ego related. I orderd her book.
I was getting ready to "test the teacher" like I did with so many others. At the same time I heard Michael Singer say, "Why do you want to play with energies. If you can't handle your life now, how are you going to handle all that energy flowing through you?" (or something like that.) I felt myself questioning and cautious. Still, I was going to test the teaching and teacher by reading the book.
My practical intellectual mind has to be convinced first. So, as I began to read I found this mind soothed by the great writing, the clear articulaton of concepts, and the teaching itself. I began to underline. I underlined and underlined and underlined stuff that clicked. I began to "feel" the truth of what she was saying. It wasn't new stuff...just a new approach to understanding it. I even had an "aha moment" that cleared up sooo much confusion I have had about something for so long. ( I will share in another entry). I felt my belly vibrating and myself saying to the air, "Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank You!"
What cemented it for me was when I opened up Michael Singer's podcast today and he was speaking to the same thing I was reading in the book. Serendipity! It was like a sign from him and/or the universe, if you will, saying, "It's okay! This teaching and teacher are okay! They showed up exactly when you needed them to for a reason. They will take you a step deeper away from ego and into Self ( Soulful Self). "
And I am filled with this "hope-like " feeling again.
Spoiler Alert!!
Wow! Anyway I am just going to quote, summarize, and paraphrase what I heard in the podcast today. Please listen to the podcast for yourself before you go on any farther!
Michael Singer began by introducing the "law of attraction" and his feelings about it. Then he relayed two stories of serendipity.
The first story: Michael Kane wanted to read from a very rare book instead of a script for a part he was playing in a school play. (The play was written from this book). He was looking for the book everywhere in London, going from store to store, and couldn't find it. It was very rare. One day, after an exhausting search, he went down to the subway station waiting for the tube. He sat down on a bench and looked down and there was the exact book he was looking for.
The second story: In 1973, Michael Singer picked up a hitch hiker in his VW van and took him quite a distance. On the drive they spoke about the picture of Yogananda Singer had on his dash. Eventually, the hitch hiker was dropped off . A decade or so later Michael Singer had to travel to Boston for work. Hungry, because he hadn't eaten all day, he found himself that evening searching through Harvard alley for a vegan restaurant...He searched and searched but there didn't seem to be any food options that would meet his needs...until out of nowhere he looked down an aisle to see a sign "Today's special brown rice and vegetables" . He went there and was served by a fellow who for some reason kept staring at him. At the end of the evening the man approached and asked if he was "Mickey Singer". (At this point Michael Singer would not have been known to the public as he is now). When Singer said yes, the man proceeded to tell him that he was the guy he had picked up in 1973. He told him that he was in a very dark place during that drive but after their discussion on Yogananda, he had gone on to purchase "An Autobiography of a Yogi" and that it had saved his life.
So, the rest of the following is what I gathered from listening to the podcast. He seemed to be saying that the law of attraction is real; it isn't mystical; but we can't use it to serve ego. He then went on to say there is so much we cannot see but that doesn't mean it isn't there...
"This is not the only plane"...
It is an infinite universe...our instruments are just limited in what they can measure. ...we cannot see past the electromagnetic spectrum with our tools...but there has to be other planes...they are just more subtle
Sri Baba could manifest piles of ash from an empty jar, reciting to those who witnessed... " I will give you what you want...a miracle...so you give me what I want...your ego."
Most of us are taking the infinite spaciousness of consciousness and staring at little me stuff...we are contracting it...
Stop staring at you, you start to feel more of the universe...you are a part of it."
Stop staring at your stuff.
Most of us are married to the physical plane so we dont feel the higher energies...we dont feel the shakti...that energy is higher than the physical plane
There are four forces science talks about: gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force....but there is also another force science doesn't talk about "will power"...volition...which is also capable of changing the physical plane by using a power higher than the physical plane.
You are a being of light!
Healers don't do the healing...they get out of the way so the high energy can come through.
"It is not mystical!" It is physics and meta physics...we just do not have the instruments to measure it yet
There is God manifest and God unmanifest. The field before it vibrated/manifested is the unmanifest God ...Brahman...With the vibration "Om" It becomes God manifest. Yogis knew this long before science did. They understood the ripple, the vriti....that all matter comes from a vibration on the stillness. Then quantum physics discovered the same thing at Cern...
Man minus mind=God...Meher Baba
When you stop staring at yourself there is God...
It is just different vibration rates and consciousness is the cause of the vibration
It is all God...including you
What is the quantum field? God!
There is nothing higher than consciousness.
Most of us live off our ego.
Humility is not something you make yourself be...
Liberation is not having a big ego...it is about not staring at your ego.
Freedom in not freedom for your self...it is freedom from yourself.
Even scientists answer the question "What was there before the big bang?"...The universe is infinite...was and always will be...
There is law of manifestation and law of attraction? Yes it works but be careful...
If we operate from ego...we attract something the ego feels it is missing. We use it to build ego...
The cause of every single thing that is what is wrong on this plane is becasue of the ego...
Seek thee first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then all these things will be added on to you..Matthew 6:33.
Don't seek from the ego
A great being has no hopes and dreams.
There are no psychological needs ...we just believe there is...
You have been gifted with a mind and that which comes into it without your effort...we don't think...thoughts come in...
You have everything but screwed self up by not appreciating it...
The truth of the matter is you are a great being but you dont feel like it because you are limiting your Self by staring at your ego
Recognize and appreciate all that you are.
Wake up! You are way greater than this...
No one sees what you see...the meaning of your life is to offer this unique perspective to consciousness
These things you call mystical are real....
Be the one who notices it, instead of the one that says "I have to chnage it."
That is what real power is about....the power to accept.
Anyway this was the podcast I "felt" and "experienced" today.
All is well!
Michael A. Singer ( April, 2025) Beyond the Law of Attraction: The True Nature of Reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhbJkRmZys