Hercules is Coming

Very soon the new book on Hercules is coming for the final chapters are being completed. I am sure this new book will rock the market because the contents include some of the firsts of their kind in print, especially about certain stages of Taoist cultivation, Tibetan Vajrayana, Biblical Jewish cultivation, Egyptian cultivation schools, the Indian Nath yoga tradition and so on which have never been disclosed. Secrets, BIG secrets until now …

Basically, here’s what you need to know about the path of spiritual cultivation that comes through in the book, which is a good synopsis of the path in general. You should already know this, but I have collapsed it down to simplicity, just as in the Hercules book.

All genuine religions, spiritual schools and traditions employ a variety of cultivation practices, or meditation methods, which are designed to help you achieve a quiet mind. This is the basic beginner’s spiritual path so a lot of spiritual practices help you do this. Because thoughts die down from practicing these techniques, this resulting mental quiet or silence is called peacefulness, cessation, calming, stopping, purity, emptiness, empty mind or any number of other pertinent synonyms. Your mind empties of loud, busy thoughts and so you experience peace.

When the mind quiets, proper spiritual practice is that you must remain aware (rather than try to suppress thoughts from arising) and that awareness practice is called witnessing, observing, contemplating, knowing, prajna, introspection, awareness and so on. As the mind quiets, you continue to watch the mental scenarios of the mind but without attaching to them. This is cessation-witnessing practice, also known as mindfulness, rememberance or “vipassana.” The two principles of cessation and witnessing are inherent in all spiritual practices. ALL spiritual practices. The important thing is that you learn how to let go of thoughts, called detachment, in order that wandering thoughts (the monkey mind) dies down so that the stage of cessation finally arrives. That’s why you practice meditation.

Because the gradual calming of your mind means you are letting go of thoughts (which is why they are able to die down in the first place), and because chi and consciousness (thoughts) are linked, as you let go of thought attachments you are also letting go of clinging to the chi in your body. Normally you’re pushing your chi around all the time, especially in your head, but with meditation you learn to let go of this consciousness-chi-body connection. You learn how to let it function without interference, which is what happens in a perfectly healthy body.

Chi and thoughts are linked; by letting go of thoughts you are not interfering with your chi flow anymore. Attaching to the chi of your body and physical energy sensations is something you are always subconsciously doing but you don’t realize it because you are so used to the habit. From countless lives you are used to this habit, so it takes time to break it. Once you learn how to truly let go and be free, with nothing pulling your chi this way or that way anymore because you have learned how to let go of thoughts, the real chi of the body will start to arise and its natural circulation will start to resume. Thus it is said, “From the stillness of yin (quiet), yang will arise.”

That yang chi is called kundalini, which is the real chi of the body as opposed to the wind chi that people are always playing with as they practice most spiritual techniques. When the yang chi of the body finally arises, it will open up your chi channels and chakras naturally. There is nothing you need to do to prompt this other than cultivate an empty, non-clinging mind. There is nothing you need to know other than how to be quiet and let go to experience the peace. Your outer physical body, due to the yang chi resultantly arising, will experience transformational phenomena as this happens called spiritual “gong-fu.”

Your inner subtle chi body will also transform and purify the more you let go of thoughts and let your mind quiet. Your chi will purify as well, and thus your emotions and habit energies. Your physical and energetic bodies will start purifying because you are finally letting go of clinging to your chi, and so it will revert to its natural circulation – the way it is supposed to flow in a perfectly healthy individual before thought attachments warp it this way or that. Thoughts are supposed to come up all the time – you aren’t supposed to suppress them – but you should not cling to them.

The transformation of your body that results from your ascending chi results in a purification of your physical nature, but because chi and consciousness are linked, your mind will reach a higher stage of purity (emptiness) as well. So a quiet empty mind leads to your chi arising, your chi arising leads to the purification of your chi, channels and chakras, that purification leads to a greater degree of mental purity or emptiness, and the two components body and mind reach ever increasing levels of purity until eventually from that purified foundation one can achieve samadhi.

All from just learning how to let go…

The forthcoming Little Book of Hercules explains all the chi and body phenomena that happen along the beginnings of this process … what we must call “beginner’s spiritual gong-fu” for attaining the Reward body, or sambhogakaya. You’ll find out that the ancient mystery schools of the west knew as many of these phenomena as the eastern schools, but while the evidence is right before your eyes you’ve probably missed it. This new book will reveal it.

Now because of samadhi, a wise person who has the right teachings (and thus view) can eventually detach from consciousness to realize the clear base of awareness that is always present with being or existence. But since that clear awareness is just a function of the original nature, recognizing that pristine empty awareness that knows is not full enlightenment yet. What gives birth to that awareness is the original nature or fundamental essence, God, Allah, Brahman, or whatever your wish to call the true self. No one really knows how to describe It, so it is also called the Unknown One. When one realizes that original fundamental ground nature or essence, one becomes enlightened, or realizes their true self. Hence the term “self-realization.”

In the universe we go for countless lives, countless eons searching for everything but our true self. When beings find their true self, they finally become spiritually free, liberated, saved. It all starts with spiritual cultivation. While religion will not lead you to this, spiritual practice will and the proper sort of spiritual practice, and stage of gong-fu you will resultantly pass though as you make progress on this hero’s journey will all be revealed in the Little Book of Hercules when it soon comes out.

As to our latest paperback release on Amazon.com, Spiritual Paths and Their Meditation Techniques, the price has risen in December as I said it would but you can still order it in time for Christmas: http://amzn.to/cuF1vE . A great book to teach you what you should be doing and where you should NOT BE WASTING YOU TIME in spiritual practice. This will save you years of effort and I wish I had the information when I get started. Like all our books, we speak directly with no nonsense and try to put in as much information as possible so that just one of our volumes is the equivalent of reading dozens of other books out there.

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Many wrote to thank me about the information from John Thomas, the hedge fund trader and his synopsis of world trends. I already made money on his advise, and my friends as well, and it came from his email newsletter which is free. Enlightenment is not just about spiritual practice but worldy wisdom… understanding the world and how to skillfully deal with the world. Many enlightened masters were doctors, some were politicians, some businessmen, some martial artists, some cooks and many other occupations, too. They weren’t just all monks or nuns. If a king found a man of Tao in his kingdom he would try to employ him as a minister because they were easily competent in all things.

The universe is endless and you must start learning about all dharmas if they can help others and yourself. Start here: http://bit.ly/fxf4Ck Pass to friends. As I’ve been writing elsewhere, if America does not invent something new and big and does so fast, job declines will continue and there’s nothing all the rah-rah patriotism can do about it. As Wikileaks proves, and as I try to point out all the time,  what the government says to the public is different from the reality of the way things really are. Without jobs, which we’ve offshored, we’re cooked compared to emerging markets competitors and lower standards of living are here to stay. To protect your income and retirement, watch these videos, learn this information (he’ll have several in series, such as a recent one on currencies so you know where to put your monies in your IRA via ETFs):

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Speaking of diverse things, along these lines of the fact you should study many disciplines, we hope to release a new book on combining spiritual parenting with practical education, a book on small business marketing, multi-generational income and several other non-fiction titles next year. More when that happens …

And lastly, please take the time to avail yourself of a personalized Karma Calculator reading of the upcoming events for 2011, 2012, and 2013 in your life before the special December discount ends. It’s just $50 for several years and I often throw in more years beyond the special deal listed. But come January 1 the special is finally over as previously stated. This is a great Christmas gift for yourself or someone else (you just need the birth time, birth date and birth location) and will help you prepare for the years ahead. It’s dirt cheap compared to the $250 normally charged for just one year from a Vedic or Chinese astrologer. Someone wisely told me that if you want to mantra to change your fortune this will tell you what to mantra about.

It’s at http://www.karmacalculator.com/order.html

If you have an IRA, 401k or any other type of savings or investing account I highly recommend you go watch this presentation:

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This is the last gift I can give you for 2010. Watch it and share it with anyone who you know is saving or investing for retirement, who wants to buy a house, or who just wants to understand world trends and what the next ten years are going to bring. Sharing this is an easy way to do a good deed and gain some “financial merit” because this will dramatically increase your worldly wisdom about money.

If you think you’re too “spiritual” to worry about money you’re fooling yourself – having money and NOT being attached to it is what lets you be more charitable, be more influential and be a more effective positive force in the world. This information will help you get to that position yourself. To be a leader you have to know this stuff and learn to think this way … finally I found some guy who put this in a video (the sort of information I hammer into my Stages students all the time).

If you’re a cultivator I always say it’s your responsibility to understand how the world really works. Confucians, for example, are “ashamed when they find something they don’t know.” Because the only way to be effective in the world is to see it clearly.

And in this remarkable presentation one of the founding fathers of the international hedge fund industry explains the big global trends around the world and why we are where we are.

Including what big companies like Goldman Sachs are REALLY betting on right now. And how you can help yourself, your friends and your family recover what they may have lost in the financial crisis or grow their nest eggs using this same worldview and information.

Just ignore the title “How to play the commodities boom” (because it’s not really about that) and get past the first few minutes where the man (John Thomas) establishes his credentials, and then sit back for a presentation usually only privately given to the mega-wealthy telling them where to put their dollars because that’s where the macro trends are going.

These are the trends you’ll normally only hear about after most of the rich insiders have made their money. They are not secret, but you just won’t ever hear this information. These are the forces shaping the US right now, and the world, and what will prosper as the recession continues.

On “60 Minutes” Ben Bernake just revealed what I have been telling people – the employment will not be here for years because we offshored manufacturing and sent many jobs overseas that are not coming back. You need to know that lower living standards are a definite for the next generation of Americans because of countless mistakes made in all sorts of policy directions.

But that does not mean you cannot become financially independent anymore or that you cannot do anything to protect yourself and prosper, which is what cultivation is also about. If you have the information, as in this video, you can prosper safely following what the big boys do (you just never hear this information – I am so glad a Stages student sent this to me so I can pass it on to you).

This is the best short video to get you up to speed that I can give you. I write about these topics on the blog and in my books, but this guy has put it all together and he’s fascinating. The information on population pyramids, how countries are producing a giant inflationary risk in the future that will dictate your decisions, what gold will do, why people are switching from paper assets, the prospects for residential real in the foreseeable future, … all this is invaluable to saving you money or making you money.

So because of how badly the financial crisis hurt so many good people I urge you to watch this, retrain your mind to start thinking of things this way, and share it with anyone you know who has a savings or investing account or who is thinking of buying property next year. You will learn a lot from this, especially how to think as you protect yourself and your family in the years ahead. They do not teach you what he has to say on television or in the news.

So consider this a rare opportunity for you as a spiritual cultivator to develop your financial wisdom.

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P.S. Learning how to think this way is a great skill to master. This is how George Soros got rich, how Jimmy Rogers got rich, how Paul Tudor Jones got rich, how the largest hedge funds made their money while everyone else slept and how you can help yourself not get caught in what the next years will bring as the US economy struggles and other countries decouple. I warned everyone about this recession long before the government finally recognized it and this info will prepare you for what’s coming these next five years because from my own financial forecasting work (I used to work in Wall Street) it’s pretty scary with ups and severe downs between now and 2015. Frankly I’m tired of writing about all this and people not believing me. This guy has a great series of videos that will finally educate you. And yes, ignore his sales talk if you don’t like it; that’s why he made the video in the first place, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to get this information, so I’m thankful. Soak up his way of thinking, that’s the important thing! He’s definitely one of the brightest guys I have found in a long, long time and has a lot of information to offer (especially in the other videos I saw). May you prosper in 2011 with this sort of info, and please pass it onwards to others who might benefit.