{"id":1089,"date":"2021-09-20T04:56:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spirituallife.com.au\/site\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:13:51","slug":"paul-tisdell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spirituallife.com.au\/site\/paul-tisdell\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Tisdell – Welcome! to my Tao, the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Work, let us call it \u2018the alchemy of being\u2019, the great work of self-transformation.
Alchemy has the Philosopher\u2019s Stone that transforms things, a philosophy that is so solid it is referred to as a stone.\u00a0 It is said, simply by putting this stone in water, the water becomes so charged that it will heal man\u2019s suffering.
The water is mind and if you apply this stone to mind it transforms one metal, state of consciousness, into another until it becomes gold. Gold is incorruptible, it is the metal of the Sun, the Sun shines constantly;\u00a0 the movement of the earth creates duality, night and day, life and death. Consider a sun-like consciousness that has no day and night, no life and death, it is one consciousness – your soul, solar the sun, the son\/sun of God.
The work is to transform consciousness, so the darkness of the ego\u2019s night transforms into the light of the soul, solar\/sun.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Nature of the work is designed to give some degree of mastery over the mind.\u00a0 A simple description of this has been experienced by all of us \u2013 imagine you are in a room and the worries of the day are taking your attention, taking you away from being present, now.\u00a0 If you look around the room, can you see any of the objects from the stories of your mind?\u00a0 Can you see depression?\u00a0 Is there anxiety in the room?<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

If they are not there, the question is, where are they?\u00a0 They are in \u2018your\u2019 mind.\u00a0 Your mind is not just your thoughts, mind is also feeling, it is where you sense things.\u00a0 All of this happens within.\u00a0 Someone touches you and you feel it in your body.\u00a0 Someone touches you with beautiful words and you feel it in your heart.
A wheel spins and anything attached to the wheel spins with it until it spins off.\u00a0 There is only one still place, that is in the center of the wheel.\u00a0 There are many wheels of thought, of reaction, of desire, all rolling along creating all manner of stories in the mind.\u00a0 Most are addicted to mental media \u2013 the way to stop the addiction is to stop the mind, the center of the wheel \u2013 this is what meditation can give you if you achieve the meditative state, the center of the wheel.\u00a0 Without this stillness of mind, entering the great work can be all but impossible \u2013 the mind\u00a0 can get one flash of light, one tiny insight and this supercharged energy will have it thinking, spinning around yet actually going nowhere.\u00a0 Consider your mental process, the mundane thoughts that you entertain have a 2 volt energy charge whereas one realization from the unfoldment of the great work is 240 volts, it is highly charged.\u00a0 Your mundane mind is wired in a 2 volt circuit \u2013 up the voltage and the wheels of entertainment you think are real accelerate with great velocity; this is not healthy, it creates unbalanced behavior, hence very poor decisions.\u00a0
Meditation!\u00a0 A classic example of this is \u2018stress\u2019, when we get stressed, we are holding a lot of energy \u2013 it is all running around, tightening muscles, clenching jaws and powering attachments in the mind.\u00a0 One thing leads to another until the burden becomes too great \u2013 Meditation stops this for the time you actually achieve the meditative state. Let us say\u00a0 you achieve it for 5 minutes;\u00a0 if you hold\u00a0 your breath until you cannot hold it any longer, the first thing you do is breathe out, to do this you have to let go, then you can breathe in, problem solved, let go first!\u00a0 Meditation!

Imagine if you had 5% of an enlightened mind, all of that light and energy all of a sudden energizing all of the worldly media you entertain \u2013 besides insomnia, it can make you unbalanced.\u00a0 Meditation resolves this!\u00a0 Once you have achieved meditation sitting, then the work is to attain that state in a waking, mundane function.\u00a0 This is called, \u201cbeing present\u201d, not off in thoughts and stories somewhere in mind but actually being present with your environment \u2013 try it!\u00a0 See if you can actually stay out of the mind for a minute.

May I suggest meditation and relaxation to be the forefront of any of your practices.
I am told that at this stage of the website what is said has to be simple and in terms that the reader can be drawn into the work that is offered.\u00a0 The deeper aspects of my work are in archetypal language and in reality, all works of this nature is written in this manner, consciously or not.
There are advantages to this, when one connects with the archetypal theme there can be an energetic response. There are different levels of consciousness entered in the practice of meditation. These states are scientifically identified by 4 basic brainwave frequencies;\u00a0 Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

* Beta<\/strong>, waking consciousness,
* Alpha<\/strong> softening of outer awareness, relaxing, so that inner visualization can take place – this does not necessarily mean seeing images, the imagination is broader than that, but it is play, \u201cone must be as a child to enter the kingdom\u201d. There you go, enter your inner world, your kingdom.
* Theta<\/strong> is the meditative state wherein archetypes can enter the awareness, the ego and its desires have fallen away.<\/p>\n\n

It is a tradition in kabbalah that one must be 40 years of age to enter kabbalah, this is an archetypal concept and to those that do not understand, it becomes literal and they think one must wait until they are 40 years of age, this is not so. 40 is a number and a number is a pure archetype, 40 days and nights. 40 is the Hebrew letter \"\" Mem. Say MMMM\u2026 your mouth is closed, get any ideas? Silence? Meditative mind? What this is saying is one must have attained and be practicing meditation, 40 years old \u2013 a degree of maturity, there is a degree of stillness of mind with maturity, that type of mature mental processing helps bring theta<\/strong> state into awareness consciously, a waking meditative state.<\/p>\n\n

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Delta<\/strong>, let us consider it as a still pond,
Theta<\/strong> reflects light upon the waters,
Alpha<\/strong> – one uses the light and movement of the waters to create.
Beta <\/strong>is swimming in the water and there is nothing to see here, just busy swimming, for example; consider your daily life, you may be a Mother, a Carpenter, a Policeman, some sort of \u2018thing\u2019 you identify with and assume you are \u2013 you are busy being \u2018that\u2019 in the outer world, to enter the inner kingdom you have to let go of the outer world \u2013 detachment!\u00a0 Beta<\/strong> is busy in the world, doing and being whatever the world demands.\u00a0 Be in the world but not of it.
A parable or story asks you to enter imagination, alpha, and if you get it, theta the moral of the story comes before your awareness and you understand. Understanding is a light that comes within your consciousness, unless you understand (YOU understand), you are in the dark. When you are stressed (beta) try to understand; beta is strong, and the waters are so active you cannot see anything in the mind \u2013 no understanding here, just stress. Understanding is to \u2018see\u2019, I do not mean seeing an object in mind, without understanding you are in the dark, get the idea? Here the obvious vehicle of explanation is within a story, the story of water enabled the imagination to be involved and the basic idea I hope was understandable. The use of words that represent archetypal ideas, things that can appear in dreams etc can take the awakening\/understanding deeper. When one achieves a deep state in meditation the effect of such takes a while to become conscious, for its effect to come to the surface. True understanding is the same.
Now you have somewhat of an understanding of mind and the basis of what is called the Tetragrammic key. The image below is the Hebrew letters that create the word Tetragrammaton, the image you were created in, it is an archetype which you now have a relationship with, it is a map.<\/p>\n\n

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Beta is the instinctual level of consciousness,
Alpha is reason,
Theta, insight and
Delta, I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The H below is instinct,
the V reason
the H (life above) above insight and
the Y I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a relationship to these 4 principles, Nature and the Cosmos \u2013 as you develop an understanding of this you begin to realize you and it are one thing, the ego has cracked and the light comes in, you are not separate, you just think you are, stop thinking (meditation) be present and you are no longer separate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sphinx has 4 creatures, the pyramid has 4 sides \u2013 there is a reason for this.  The pyramid produces an energy, life-force, it is the most significant architecture on Earth.  It is solid stone, a philosophy set in stone, the philosopher\u2019s stone, the nature of mind, how to transmute one level of consciousness into another, lead to gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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