Three Magic Words

The only thing, the single important thing that concerns his existence on earth, is the discovery of his soul.
Andersen, Uell S.. Three Magic Words

The sun is shining after a couple of days of much needed rain. It was lovely to wake up to its precious light pouring through my window.  I can hear cricket and bird song out there again.  It is all so good!

The Book

Have not been here very much over the last couple of weeks...dealing with some circumstance : the well issue and no water, followed by the massive clean up in the back room where the well pump  was kept and the clean up of the house in general, followed by a tired body and mind ( if the body is tired, the mind is tired lol) that was determined to really study Andersen's Three Magic Words.  For three hours a day, I soaked up each chapter, wrung and squeezed each drop I could from it.  I was determined to understand what was being said even if I didn't agree with it, even if there was still something in me blocking me from "believing' completely that which something in me tells me is true.

Still A Veil Between Me and Truth

My mind is still a bit dominated by an ego that doesn't trust the teachings, the notion that within us is so much more than that which others see.  There is still, I am discovering, a veil between me and true realization.

Not "New" Thought

At the same time, in my core as I read the beautiful words, is a resonating "yes!".  Many of us have heard of similar thought before.  Most recently, the teachings are the same as those in The Secret. Many would say it was "new age".  These teachings, however,  are not new to the world and they are not new to me.  The yoga sutras and Hindu scriptures are full of these teachings.  It echoes ACIM or ACIM echoes it ( it was written before ACIM). It is basically what Eckhart Tolle teaches and definitely what Wayne Dyer taught, as it was a book he referred to often. I see so much of what is taught in this book taught in Buddhist dharma talks and the Tao te Ching is loaded with this wisdom. Many references to science are provided, especially biology, physics and quantum mechanics that can not be denied.  So, so many great poets are quoted and echoed throughout the pages as if they were entitled to catch glimpses of the truth and spill it  out on the page before the world or  they themselves truly understood it.  Yeah...this voice within me, that so often gets drowned out my ego's incessant whining and doubting...tells me it is all true. "I", who I really am beneath my thought and my doing, knows it all to be true and perceives  the words to be a gift to whoever reads them. 

The Author

I know very little about Andersen, why he wrote this book and what he personally gained from it.  There is hints of Christian Science in it so one could wonder if he was a scientologist on a mission. Was he trying to "hypnotise" the world in to following him like some cult leader might? Was he hoping to gain wealth, recognition and success as a spiritual leader? I don't know. I really do not think it matters.  When he was writing this book, something much more powerful than any "personal, egoic" motivation he may have had...comes through. It really does.  And it is never the messenger but the message that really matters.  This message is profound! That is what matters. Besides, this book came out in 1952 and it would have been risky to publish such ideas then, wouldn't it?  Much more risky than it is now.  (Okay I had to look him up and discovered that his teachings, together with those of Earnest Holmes, were sucked up by the 50's Hollywood stars...Elvis had a copy of his book ...kind of wish I never discovered that tidbit, diminishes my faith in him a little bit...have to remind myself it isn't the messenger but the message.)

Message Blasphemous?


Of course some would see it as nothing short of blasphemous, especially when they discover what the three magic words actually are.  I recall that Wayne Dyer, during a PBS special he did, was censored and bleeped out when he dare utter these words on screen.(At least he was in the you tube clip I have of it.) It seems such an arrogant assumption to assume that those three words are true, breaching every notion ingrained into our subconscious about God, and self and life.

Yet...if we remove our reliance on "words", on labelling, on conceptual construct to explain our reality ...and look at what is being said  , without ego, without making it  into just another 'idea' , would we see the possibility in it?

To the ego, that relies so much of our conscious mind to get around here...it is indeed a blasphemous statement.  To the spirit within us, that which we really are, that sees itself as a small piece of something so grand and "almighty" , of everything...can it be anything but true?

Examining It

I really have to examine this fully.  I am in the process of acting as if it were true, doing the meditations, following the advice...testing it out.  There is no arrogance in my doing this...just humility and question, a desire to connect with Self...as I have been attempting to do long before I discovered this book. I am asking to be guided to truth as I always do...past ego and assumption. 

Will I recommend the book to you?  Hmmm? I will neither recommend it or tell you to stay away from it.  If you are meant to read it, you will.

It is all good.

Andersen, Uell S.. Three Magic Words . BN Publishing. Kindle Edition.