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Graham Sutherland
By: grahamsuth Date: April 20, 2014, 6:32 pm
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I spent 30 years doing the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi
meditation techniques for about two hours a day. Then seven
years ago I met AJ. I liked what he had to say and told him i
didn't know whether he was Jesus or not but for me the message
is more important than the messenger. He agreed. I still feel
that way.
I bought a property just down the road from AJ's and was one of
the initial creators of the 600 acre property that was initially
called The Sanctuary but is now called The Learning Center,
Cushnie.
I feel i went through a honeymoon phase with the Divine Love
path and that perhaps most people do. Eventually I began to see
my true self and it wasn't in nearly as good a condition as I
had wanted to believe and was making very much less progress
than I had thought. The human mind has such an incredible
capacity for self deception. I have addictions that I don't seem
to have the genuine desire to challenge any more than
superficially. The majority of my biggest soul injuries are
still there in their fullness.
It seems like when we start on this path we make progress, but
only on the easy stuff, the stuff we are willing to address.
Eventually we hit the stuff that we really don't want to see or
address or even admit exists within ourselves. This is where i
find myself now.
I remember AJ saying quite some time ago that he has already
told us all we need to know. He has also personally told me
loads about myself over the years, most of which I am still
trying to address. So i have backed off from listening to AJ and
am focussing more on my own inner guidance that is from guides
that have been where i am (unlike AJ) and have progressed
through it.
These days the trouble I have with listening to AJ (or anyone)
is that he talks in words that must be taken in through the
intellect. The intellect seems such a limited way of making
spiritual progress. My guides on the other hand are with me all
the time and can give me guidance on experiential levels without
words. Often my guides make me aware of what i am really doing,
as opposed to what i think or want to believe I am doing. So my
journey has become more personal.
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Re: Graham Sutherland
By: Johan vd Berg Date: April 22, 2014, 5:51 am
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Hi Graham,
welcome to the forum :)
I actually feel that two of the latest seminars really address
the issues your facing... The first one was putting it all
together, about how fear limits our experiences and what we're
willing to face... What do you fear that you'll be like without
your addictions? And the second one was understanding your
emotional self, where AJ talks about investing in your
emotions... If you've looked at your addictions for 7-ish years
and not done anything about it, the problems have become much
greater in your mind than they are in reality... You've made an
elephant out of a mosquito (as a Dutch saying goes)...
I don't know what in particular you are facing, but I hope this
helps..
Johan
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Re: Graham Sutherland
By: grahamsuth Date: April 22, 2014, 5:34 pm
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Hi Johan
What i am doing now feels right for me to be doing now. What i
had been doing wasn't working very well so it is time to try
something different. I am big on doing experiments, just like AJ
suggests. I have become aware of how easy it is to misunderstand
what AJ is saying and have observed others do the same. If you
watch an AJ video many times and get something different out if
it each time it shows just how much we do miss and
missunderstand what he says. So many around here misunderstood
about emotional processing and spent ages punishing themselves
by encouraging what turned out to be emotions of avoidance or
emotions of spirits and not the emotions they really needed to
be processing.
Ultimately we have to discover the way for ourselves and within
ourselves. AJ can only be a guide to let us know there is a way,
give us some ideas for us to experiment with for ourselves to
help us find it, and put some signposts along the way that give
us an indication whether we are on the way or not.
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