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The Little Book of Clarity

Diederik Vemer

Published by Diederik Vemer

Edition 1.3 published February 2010

Copyright 2010 Diederik Vemer

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the

Little Book

of Clarity

A tiny tome that turns the tide

by

Diederik Vemer

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Contents

A Letter from the Author

Introduction

1. The Search for Meaning

2. Correcting the Misdirected Search

3. The Inner Realm.

4. You Creator.

5. Change Your Mind.

6. Beyond This Mind.

7. Onwards.

Tool For Truth

Authors Bio and Feedback info.


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Introduction

revelation |rev!l!sh !n| noun- the making known of something that was previously secret or unknown

- the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to humanexistence or the world

We each come into the world and are cloaked by it. Within 48 months from

birth our vision is clouded by the stories that surround us and are absorbed by

our voracious, empty minds. We take on the spell of the world and lose our

innocence. Our connection to Source, which so charms the adults of the world

who gaze upon its reflection in our gurgling baby-god radiance, is put to sleepby the recognition of separation and the cloak of fear formed by that

recognition.

Thus the challenge for our lives is set: To learn how once again to become like

little children, unbinding ourselves from the spell of the world and

remembering our natural affinity with Source and our untarnished innocence.

It is a difficult challenge, made more so by the unrelenting assault of the story

of the world - it surrounds us constantly and we drown in it - sometimes

believing for an entire life that no reality other than this exists. Aligned with

fear we take up arms and fight for our right to live, to be, maybe even to

prosper. All the while in the silent gaps in the drama of the world a thrumming

knowing beckons us something is missing we know. But the guesses are

confused and misleading, the Story of True is mixed with the political will of

ego; fear and love are blended into a disharmony - the song of the world is out

of key.

This unmelodious tune becomes our anthem - we become resigned to the

reality which holds us captive and time and time again return in an attempt to

be free of it. Some of the Guides to God call the freedom from the bondage of

the world Salvation but none in Western Culture seem to explain it without

gifting us the extra burden of guilt which comes with the twisted story. So weoften let it go and try other ways, ways which may work - but due to the blind

nature of the quest - often do not.


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It is time the darkness was lifted - too long have we walked with hearts locked

in fear and eyes dull from the drugs which keep the pain at bay. The walking

dead must find their life again and release themselves into the freedom of their

unchained true nature. Through knowledge towards Truth. Through knowing

we go Home.

May the words within this tiny tome weaken the bonds which bind you. May

the knowledge within these few lines drip into the hard mind of the world-

weary and begin to break the spell which renders you small and tight and fear-

filled. May you find the clues which help set you free. Only then can a new

world be born, one aligned with truth and populated by people filled with sure

confidence, a confidence which arises from the direct knowing once again of

whothey really are, whythey are here and who their real Daddy is.

In the film The Matrix Neo is offered a choice: he may take either the red pill

& see how deep the rabbit hole goes, or the blue pill & wake up in his bed and

believe whatever he wants to believe. Neo is given the opportunity to find out

what is really going on; who he really is and how he landed up within the world

in which he finds himself. He takes that opportunity - he swallows the Red Pill -

and the truth is revealed to him. The truth beyond the dream.

I was never sure it would be possible to get to the place of revelation Neo

reached within my own life experience. I set out on a quest to uncover the

context of the world at an early age and now, it seems, 45 years on, the veilhas lifted enough to get a glimpse. The revelation of the truth behind the

mechanism of the world you and I find ourselves in did not require that I take

a pill, but it did require the willingness to be shown. It did require surrender.

What I am about to share with you is the red pill, and this is no movie...

Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas Shes going bye-bye.

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1. In Search of Meaning

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could thenbetter judge what to do, and how to do it. - Abraham Lincoln

Ido not think I am the only one who has stared out of the window of their

traffic-jammed motor-car, looking out at the sea of vehicles all going seemingly

nowhere and wondered What is this all about? Wheres the meaning in this?

Why am I here? Maybe you didnt have that thought in a traffic-jam, maybe

it was on working day number 134 of year 38 on subway 12 at 8:45am -

somewhere between monthly salary number 222 and 223, or maybe it was at

3am, eyes and head heavy, stomach in a knot, 6 hours before youre due to

write that exam, the one youre still cramming for.

At some point each of us reach a place of wondering about the meaning of it

all

And we dont have an answer. Well, were sortof given one by our church, but

its not very convincing and many of us put it aside in a quest for freedom from

all the guilt which came with faith. So we keep ourselves busy - find directions

which promise meaning - and keep heading out towards them. But the

meaning never stays, nothing seems to stick. Its a horrible way to live - like a

bad dream in a sense. And its born from simply not knowing; from not being

shown the truth, and from not knowing how to find out.

Well - were lucky to be living in this current timespan - it seems that this is

the time of truth. That word Revelation has some eerie connotations due to it

appearing so often towards the end of the Big Book. But revelation is about

things being revealed, its about truth, and truth will set each of us right. Once

revealed it places each of us squarely back on our feet so we can see, and

sense, and choose in full consciousness, with complete awareness as to the

repercussions of our choices.


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The truth gives you your power back, the power to broadly know the result of

each and every one of your actions and inactions. Your life becomes fully yours

again, and in that is freedom. Whats beautiful about that freedom is that it is

freedom within the context of clarity. So it is constructive freedom the kind

which inspires creative action born from a solid sense of knowing whoyou areand whyyoure here, from knowing thatyou fit, whyyou fit and exactly where

you fit. It leads to the type of joyful creativity which arises from being

comfortable with the medium in which youre working, from knowing how the

material of your life will respond when you do something in a certain way.

Sounds good huh?

It gives new meaning to the phrase Living in the Light.

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2. Correcting the Misdirected Search

You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.- WernerErhard

Our recent history (the last 500 years or so) has increasingly placed our focus

on our external world - the structure of the world that we can see, feel, touch

and physically interact with. Strangely enough this move away from Gods real

resting place within us was initiated by the church. The massive Catholic

Corporation stifled all belief and teachings that communion with God was as

natural as breath. It served the political will of the church that theyheld the

keys to God within theirhand, and that only through the church could you be

saved. This political agenda granted the church unheard of power and wealth.

Suddenly Source was no longer something within us but in buildings of the

church, art, ritual and titles of Chosen men. We were led to believe that what

we needed was outside of us and this is where we placed our focus. As a result

great advances have been made in the evolution of physical stuff - the stuff

which surrounds us - but in the focus upon that external stuff we have

neglected the internal world within our psyche and even deeper, beyond the

psyche. We have lost our connection to Source.

This imbalanced focus upon physical form needs to be corrected: we cannot

build a sustainable future upon a skew foundation - it will simply topple. As the

world of matter begins to destabilise and change as part of a necessary

process of balance and correction, any person who defined themselves through

the world of form - the physical and material - will lose the secure foundation

of the physical world upon which they built their house of Self. As a resultthey may, out of necessity, begin the search for something solid to anchor

their destabilising identity and paradoxically they will begin to look in the one

place unaffected by the shaking of the world - the spiritual realm which was so

long ignored, partly because it seemed so insubstantial and un-bankable.

It seems the time has come to test for true the structure upon which our world

rests. This is a good thing - a world re-centered within truth is a healthy world,

one which fosters a sense of security and peace. During this time of shift there


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is deep comfort to be found in the fact that Truth supports itself. Shake

everything up and the only thing left standing will be Truth.

Within my own life experience I have learnt that in times of change all the

tools required to successfully navigate a shift are always available.

Luckily the Eastern and Indigenous cultures were not in such a hurry to drop

their internal world and they have played guardian to the knowledge pertaining

to our deeper spiritual nature whilst the culture of the West has been playing

with matter. They have kept safe within the rituals and myths of their cultures

precious knowledge of the context of the world; the bigger picture in which themovie of life is being played, knowledge about what is real, what is beyond all

of this and what all of this is taking place in. This knowledge is the tool we will

use to bring our collective self back into balance.

As our current world destabilises (new ideas take root more easily in broken

soil) we will seek out the still centre of the storm; the unchanging place around

which all of this change will occur but which will remain untouched by it. Andthat place will be Truth, and Truth does not rest within the world of form - it

rests beyond the world of form, in the zone in which form was made.

How do we access this zone which contains Truth? All you seek is within you.

The kingdom of Heaven is within you. Our quest for meaning will be

answered by going inwards - the opposite direction to where we have been

going for the last couple of centuries. This internal journey is the theme of the

era of correction and rebalance we are now entering.

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3. The Inner Realm

In this world there are two orders of being, the perishable and the imperishable. The

perishable is all that is visible. The imperishable is the invisible substance of all that is

visible. - The Baghavad Gita

When we die we return to something, some other state. Most of us have

some sense that something else is going on besides this, and it is around this

sense that religion is built. We all have a concept that we go somewhere else

after death - a vague idea of Heaven slumbers in the corner of our mind.

And if this is so, then what actually dies when we die if we continue on to

Heaven? What has actually ended if our awareness remains? Surely its justthe body and our idea of attachment to it which dies? And when our bodies die

and we return from whence we came then surely this indicates that whatever

is beyond death is home? Whatever is beyond this world is the unchanging

ground zero from which we come, and to which we return. Were just visiting

and like a Japanese tourist in America knows they are not American we need

to get savvy about this as well

It may be that you have never really focussed upon what occurs beyond death;

the world you experience at present serves you well enough and you feel no

untoward sense of lack or discomfort. Youre enjoying the game and as a result

nothing as yet has driven you to seek beyond the game. Because of the deeply

immersive nature of life on Earth we make the basic mistake of centering our

entire existence upon our current viewpoint. We see this life, this mind within

this body, thinking these thoughts with this brain, as the foundation, the very

centre-point of all of existence. Yet its actually a side show, a symptom. The

phrase: I am not a physical being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual

being having a physical experience, has come forth into our awareness

because its time we embraced this viewpoint.


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When it is shared that God made you in his image, what image do you assume

that is?

Only our myopic arrogance would assume that means that God is a bloke like

us hanging out somewhere with the best bod, the biggest house and all the

toys. And your realization of how silly it is to think that God has a physical

form places you squarely on the path to clarity; your correction of the

misconception.

If God made me in his image and he is not in a physical body... Then what am

I doing here? Why am I in a body?

This is a good question the answer to which has been distorted by time and

ego to leave us more confused and blinded than had we not asked it at all. Its

actually quite possible that the twisted, illogical response to that very

legitimate question inspired us to give up and head out in our quest for

meaning in the physical world, which at least seems logical and to some extent

comprehensible. At least in the world we could measure stuff and arrive atsome consistency. In comparison to what the priests were saying this appeared

more believable, more true. We ventured out into what we could see and

embraced the world as true; we made it the centre of our existence and we

dropped that question. Its time we picked it up again:

If God made me in his image and he is not in a physical body... Then what am

I doing here? Why am I in a body?

You can add to that:

If God made me in His image then I must be like God: creative, eternal,

timeless and everywhere -beyond space and place. I must have the same

characteristics... But then why do I look upon myself as different to this? Why

do I see myself as physical if I keep returning to spiritual and why do I see

myself as limited man when it looks like I should see myself as unlimited

God-like ?


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This leads us towards the door of Truth - were asking the questions which

begin to unravel the mystery and place the world in its proper context.

One God-like quality we seem to have kept relatively intact in our physical

form is creativity - we seem to still do a lot of creating - and therein lies a

clue

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4. You Creator

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."- Albert Einstein

Yup you creator, me creator, us creator. It is this talent weve been

squandering. And the story of the prodigal son is about us, collectively.

As is the story of Adam & Eve

In some moment our Source made us as an extension of Itself, and imbued uswith the ability to create and the free will to do whatever we wished with that

talent. All was good and well, we played within Gods Creation, as His creation,

at one with everything around us, aligned with Truth and Gods mind. We lived

according to His Will. Then we decided to approach - with curiosity - the Tree

of Knowledge of Good and Evil, to be found right there, at the centre of our

place of Happiness and Bliss.

This was an interesting tree: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil contained

the valid notion of duality. It presented the idea that Light could have an

opposite: the absence of Light Darkness. Entwined within the branches of

that tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a serpent and all the serpent told

was lies. And this serpent explained to Adam and Eve how they could utilise

the Knowledge of Good and Evil to become ruler of their own kingdom, with

full autonomy and jurisdiction over their OWN creation. The serpent shared

that a place could be created through the Denial of Light, and that this place

would be beyond the reach of Gods mind - beyond His will. It was here, in the

Darkness, that the serpent suggested you could build your own kingdom, one

outside the house of your Father, in a place where YOUR will would be done.

This sounded like a plan


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Eve listened first and accepted the plan - the fruit from the tree - she

embraced the idea and shared it with Adam, who too could not resist the

possibility of using their gifted talents and creative abilities in this way.

Like the prodigal son - they took their talents and left Home to make it on their

own. They were going to Create - just like Dad - their own kingdom, beyond

the walls of their Father.

And what was the mechanism by which the serpent said you could achieve

this? What was the fruit from the tree of knowledge of opposites which they

accepted from the serpent? It was a lie, a lie they believed, and it went likethis: To claim this power to create whatever you wanted, beyond the

jurisdiction of God, you had to Walk out of Gods Mind out of the Light, and

you could do that by forgetting who you were. In a nutshell the deal was this:

you could have a place all of your own, with full autonomy, full creative licence,

in exchange for your idea of your true self - your soul. Sound familiar? Of

course it was a lie but the serpent was a clever talker and seduced Adam and

Eve with the concept of total freedom of will and the ability to create not only

what Gods will was, but anything beyond Gods mind too. They bought into the

idea webought into the idea. The moment you believed it you accepted and

ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. At that moment

what you accepted as possible became real - it is through our beliefs that we

create our reality, whether its true or not. We traded our knowledge of

oneness with God in exchange for separation from our Source and the promise

of a space all our own in which we could do what we wanted, how we wanted.

We walked out of Gods mind into a world of our own creation.

And thus you were cast out of Heaven, not by your Father, but by your own

choice. And this place beyond God where we are separate from him and live

according to the law Let MY will be done is called Earth. The ruler of this

world you have created is formed from your desire to do it YOUR way and we

have given it the name Ego. It rules this kingdom and as long as you place

your focus in it, as long as you believe in it - it rules you too.


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I call EARTH: Egos Attempted Response To Heaven.

The sad part about the whole deal was that you had to give up your true self.

You had to give up the knowing that you were created by your Father - whom

we have named God, the All from which we sprung. You had to give up the

truth that you are imbued with the spirit of your Creator and share His nature:

that you are eternal, infinite, effortless love. To make your own kingdom,

seemingly beyond the reach of Dad, you had to believe that you could be

separate from Him, not like Him. It is for this reason that you are blind in the

world. It is for this reason that you believe you can die. In believing you can

die you guarantee your autonomy - death is nowhere in Gods mind.

I wrote one day after meditation: Diederik has discovered the secret of

Eternal Life... He's just not prepared to give up Mortality for it. How silly.

This separation from your Source explains the underlying feelings you live with

whilst here The one is your sense of being lost, which drives a deep seated

yearning to belong, to find love (your renounced essence), to be a part ofsomething solid and safe. The other is the guilt of having made such a massive

error. You deal with the guilt by projecting outwards into other; blaming them

for your lack of peace. And then there is the foundation of your creation: Fear -

the opposite of Love, of Light. Fear is the lack of Love.

Luckily the serpent waslying. Of course its not possible to be outside of

everything. All that you could do is forget where you are - all you could do is

give up your memory of true sense of self, your soul. Your entire present

creation is born from believing a lie. And your ego exists becauseyou want to

believe the lie. So the choices Adam and Eve made are the choices you make

in each moment and the choice is always this: do I want to do it MY way or

will I surrender control and allow Gods idea of me - Its Will - to reveal itself

again? Your own creation - ego - is born from a lie and it is therefore not aware

of the Truth. You cannot become something other than what Source made you

as. By the same token your ego cannot change into the truth; it cannot

become anything other than what you made itas. Ideas cannot leave their


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source. Ego is born of the lie and will remain as such. Illusion cannot become

truth and truth cannot become illusion.

This simple law is your saving grace. It is why I, and our Creator, have the

utmost faith, born from Knowing, that you will find your way back Home. It

also explains why you cannot find everything youre yearning for: peace,

belonging, love and deathlessness / fearlessness, by following the voice of ego.

As long as you listen to and believe in its story you remain in illusion, you keep

believing the lie, you keep yourself from Home. To find what youre looking for,

to come Home to yourself and your Dad back in Heaven, you need to let go of

the lie, drop it, fall out of the dream and return to the solid peace and joy of

reality. That place where you just KNOW who you are, THAT you are.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you; beyond the story of the World playing

out in your mind and kept alive by ego. Beyond your willful and controlling

ways, beyond your desire to have it your way. At the very core of you is the

unalterable truth of who you are - still as God made you, steady and unaltered

in Its mind.

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5. Change Your Mind

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."- Albert Einstein

The spiritual can never be attained, until the material has been extinguished.-

Swami Vivekananda

And now, as you let this information settle within you, watch the world about

you as you go about your life. You may begin to notice that it makes so much

more sense than trying to pair the flawless loving nature of our Source to the

madness, the sorrow, the loneliness and the instability of this creation.

In accepting this corrected view the power is returned to you. There is no more

guilting, the fear of God dissolves and is replaced by love, as it should be; your

unconditionally and eternally loving Source will never, does never, and has

never judged you unworthy. Your Source cannot even relate to where you are:

pure eternal infinite love has absolutely no concept of fear... The one precludes

the other.

Fear is the foundation of your world as naturally as one who runs away from

home runs away from a sense of safety, security and belonging. You walked

out on the love which supported you and into fear; which is simply the absence

of love.

Your creation rests upon fear. No, this is not perfect... God did not make this.

And you're here to correct it. How? By correcting your thinking. It is fromwithin your mind, our minds, that we make it real. We make the thoughts that

we think matter, into matter. By believing them we make them true, and bring

them into form.

This is the creative force gifted to you by your Source. Through your mind you

created this, through your thinking you made this real, and it is in your mind

that you undo your creation. The pain and loneliness of the world will dissolveas quickly as you let go of the idea that you are not One with your Source.


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As you release your attachment to the world you begin to shift your focus from

your flawed creation, which occupies your mind constantly.

Now it should start to make sense to you why meditation leads to

enlightenment and salvation. As you learn to take charge of the thoughts

which occupy you, the thoughts about the world, and as you bring them to a

stop, you are releasing your focus from your creation. And in so doing you are

choosing God's version - His idea of you, how He thinks about you - what He

created. The Truth.

And as you surrender your idea, your creation, for God's idea, you re-enter

Heaven. As you give up the world, you return Home. Can you see why it would

be so difficult for a rich man, with all of his attachments to the stuff HE

created, to enter the kingdom of Heaven?

Now it also makes sense when the enlightened mystics across all spiritual

practices tell us that the world is illusion, that we're living in a dream. This

world was born from a lie - one that we willfully accepted so that we could

escape the will of God and play independently.

You may notice, as you apply this to what you experience in your days, that

this may be very different to what you were taught. And that this makes a lot

more sense. It does require a fundamental shift in your thinking, but the shift

is rewarded with the removal of confusion.

One thing I've noticed in my walk home is that everything I have accepted, I

have accepted, not on blind faith, but because it is all so clearly logical.

The closer we get to Truth, the more sense it makes.

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6. Beyond This Mind

The Universe is the Will of the Soul; and from this will comes the law of Cause and

Effect.- Mundaka Upanishad

The answer to your questions does not rest in the human mind. The human

mind is centred on the construction of the lie. The human mind is a thought of

separation which exists in the mind of your True Self. As long as you reach

outwards into the World you look to illusion for Truth. And as long as you look

for the answers within your human mind, you do the same.

While you focus on the thoughts in your human mind you do not know who

you truly are. Like a person lost in a book youre no longer aware of the room

youre sitting in.

I practise meditation regularly and as my practice has relaxed and deepened

over the last 9 or so years I have noticed that when I sink out of my thinking

human mind into the stillness and peace of no thoughts I am aware of the

essence of myself. I notice, without thinking about it, that I am vibrating at the

frequency of love and can find no boundary to myself - I do not end, I also

notice that this presence of peaceful, loving, watchful awareness is not

measured by any ruler - it is beyond time.

In this watchful awareness without boundary or barrier, beyond time and

without end, the state of grace arises; pure stillness, ground zero, and all I

KNOW, is I am . Knowing this I recognise fully my affinity to Source, that It

and I are the same - like father like son.

I have also recognised that I reach this state of grace through the simple

practice of releasing all attachment to the thoughts of the human mind, the

ego. I notice that any attachment to thoughts about the world keeps me from

awareness of my true nature.


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When I return to the goings-on of the world and the needs and requests of my

human mind and the body it rests in, none of this knowing is included in that

consciousness, it is like the two are worlds apart, and they are. You cannot

think two thoughts at the same time. And you cannot think or see Gods

thought - His Creation - if youre focussed upon your own thought - your

creation.

Each time you are born into a life experience on planet Earth - your creation -

you re-enter your self-created idea of separation from God. You are born once

again into sin. The word sin in Latin is Pecatus and it actually means

missing the mark. There is no massive guilt here - that is the political

manipulation of the church. Youve just re-entered the lie. When youre living

in sin - youre living in a misconceived idea of self. You will keep re-entering

the lie until you wake up and recognise it as such - and let it go consciously -

forgive it and release it.

This was the message of Jesus. A man who knew his house was not here, but

with his Creator in Heaven. A man who recognised the flaw in his thinking and

the flaw in ours. Jesus realised you cannot judge someone, who is

unconscious, for what they do - like you cannot judge a blind man for bumping

into things. Its silly.

It is quite possible that you choose not to humbly concede that your thinking is

flawed. We are all aware that the path to correction can only begin with thestatement I was wrong and we are also aware of how difficult it is for

someone fully invested in ego to make such a confession. After all it goes

completely against the nature of ego to give up its own will - it was born from

the desire to have everything its way!

This is the crux of each of our lives: the choice to follow the willful way we

earlier embraced - the misconceived idea of the serpent: The voice of Satan,or to release that idea and surrender to the will of God and align ourselves


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with how Source sees us. In each incarnation back into our idea of a world

apart from God, ruled by ego, we have the opportunity to once again choose

otherwise.

And the choice always remains up to us.

There is a twist though.

As A Course In Miracles so beautifully shares:

It is crucial to say first that this is a required course. Only the time you take it

is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you establish the curriculum. It

means only that you can elect what to take when. It is just because you are

not ready to do what you should elect to do that time exists at all.

Your salvation is inevitable; Truth will prevail over illusion. Time will never

outlive Eternity.

And even though thats not good news for your ego - for the lie you currently

embrace - it is good news for the You beyond the illusion of the World. The You

which lives beyond the lie.

You have never left Gods Mind, you are simply lost in a thought other than the

one of perfection your Creator thinks. God remains untouched by your ideas

and does not judge you for being asleep and dreaming any more than youwould judge a child caught in a bad dream. Let go of the guilt, it is unfounded.

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7. Onwards

There is no weapon more powerful in achieving the truth than acceptance of oneself.

- Swami Prajnanpad.

Transcend:

To go beyond the predefined boundary of something. To rise above expectations. In

this case to move beyond our collective definition of who and what we believe we are.

Only when you accept yourself will you be willing to go inwards and honestly

appraise the beliefs upon which you have built your existence. Through

forgiveness of your own misjudgment you begin to release yourself and the

world from the grip of the lie you believed up until now.

This Earth you see and experience is the fruit of your original sin, your original

misconception. The only one that it affects over whom you have jurisdiction is

yourself - its your choice - it always has been.

This clarification also makes it clear to you why it is that embracing yourGodliness - embracing the idea once again that you are like God - returns you

to Heaven. Your world was created through the denial of your true nature. And

it will dissolve through the re-acceptance of it. Through remembering who you

are.

Of course - it is impossible to create a space outside of Gods Mind and the

world you created was made through dreaming opposite to God. Darkness is

formed through the absence of Light. Through the denial of Gods Light within

you you have conceived your world. But it is a misconception - it is your

original sin. The misconception lies within the fact that darkness has no force

of its own - it exists only so long as light is kept at bay. When you open a door

into a dark room, does the darkness seep out and devour light? Darkness

exists only as long as you accept the idea that you can be something other

than what God made you as. Which is not possible.


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This creation of yours is an act of smoke and mirrors. Through keeping secret

the truth you maintain its existence. Light is Truth and darkness exists only if

you deny Light - which is a lie because Light does exist. This is why the world

of ego needs a constant story to uphold it. An unending drama needs to play

out as confirmation of its existence. A story of death, suffering, aloneness,desire, need, competition (the one with the biggest will wins).

Silence destroys ego. In stillness the story, the dream of the world, dissolves

into the nothingness it always was. When you let everything go - the only thing

left standing is Truth. In the Zen tradition they share this by teaching Do

nothing, and it will be revealed to you. Jesus put it this way: Be still and

know that I am God. Created by Him as a pure expression of Source, yourEssential Self, your essence, remains untouched by this lie you dream is real.

When you silence the world a gap is created in which Truth appears. When you

no longer believe the story of ego that you are weak and fragile and vulnerable

and limited, you are once again thinking Gods thoughts - which is your Truth,

your world of lies ends and Heaven replaces it.

This is how and why meditation enlightens you, this is why your salvation is an

act of surrender and release, this is why to return to Heaven you must first let

go of Earth, of your creation. You cannot stay outside your Fathers House and

go Home - that is impossible, you need to choose.

From here forward you may find yourself becoming aware of your choice to

either listen to yourwill and focus upon the world of yourcreation, or your

choice to be still, surrender your own will, and become aware of the thoughts

of God instead.

The prodigal children have their work cut out for them Your will - or Gods

Will? Here or Home? Maybe one day. In the last moment before time

disappears we will carve upon the tombstone of the World: I did it my way.

and it was hell.

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Tool for Truth

Meditation - Purpose and Practice The Snow-Globe

The Purpose

In life, what traps you is your unawareness that there is some other aspect of

Self that you can attach to and identify with. You believe you are only this one

thing and that there is no other self identification possible. Meditation reveals

this not to be true by revealing the other to you that you have not been aware

of. Meditation gifts you an option.

As you can imagine this is deeply liberating and powerful. It reveals that you

never need to be stuck between a rock and a hard place - that there isALWAYS a way out, there is always an escape route out of a nightmare. The

even deeper gift of meditation is that this other which is revealed to you by

which you can identify yourself is the one youve always searched for! This

other innately possesses all the qualities you yearn for: love, peace, fulfillment,

security, abundance, capability, union, belonging and compassion.

Knowing this is there any possible reason NOT to learn how to meditate so

that you can access the gift of discovering this optional, magical you? The

experience of heaven is only prevented by your inability to let go of hell.

How does meditation reveal this other to you?

The other we speak of is constantly present - you are simply unaware of them

because you are trapped within a thought, and attached to a belief that you

are only this one thing you are presently experiencing: this human being

struggling to survive on a planet called Earth, fighting and jostling with 6

billion others for a small piece of a limited pie whilst fighting off the constantspectre of death and eternal annihilation. This may sound over-the -top, but it

is the premise on which all of human life is built.

As you are well aware, living out this reality takes all of your focus and

energy. This idea is deeply gripping and mesmerizing: it is the ultimate movie.

In fact this movie is so good youre totally absorbed by it and dont even

realise there is something else besides it. THAT is why you are not even aware

that there is another self to identify with. This idea is so all encompassing and

pervasive that you are lost, completely and totally, in it. You believe it to be

utterly real, and it has therefore become your reality.


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This idea - like all ideas, day dreams and fantasies, imaginings and concepts -

lives in your mind. And that is how meditation works its magic: it teaches you

to slow down the thought you have lost yourself in. As you slow down your

thinking human mind and as the thoughts which rush through your head every

second of every waking moment begin to come to rest a new view is revealed.Like a picture shows up once the snowflakes in a snow-globe settle to the

ground - you gradually see something else beyond the swirling snowflakes,

something that was always there but could not be seen because of the storm

of snowflakes in the foreground which had your full attention. It is not that

something new was created, this was always there; you simply couldnt see it.

This is how meditation works

As you train your thoughts and learn not to attach your awareness to them

they begin to settle due to your non-attachment. And in settling, another

picture is revealed beyond the snowstorm. Your awareness focusses on

something you were, up until now, not aware of. You suddenly see what you

could not see before. The more you are able to keep a still mind the clearer

you can look at the picture because the snowflakes, the thoughts, no longer

obscure your vision. The longer you focus on this picture which is revealed,

which was always there, the stronger your attachment to it becomes and the

more deeply you realise that THIS is the constant which has always been andwill always be, NOT the snowstorm of thoughts and ideas which had 100

percent of your attention, your focus, all of this time, through all of this life,

and many, many lives before this one.

This, quite simply, is enlightenment. This simple thing, oddly, is what all the

sages and mystics, guides and masters have been trying to teach you all of

this time - they just didnt have snow-globes to illustrate it with

Your full focus and attention on the super movie called I am a human being

on a planet called Earth means that much of your attention, much of your

creative force and energy, is focussed on the snowflakes and keeps the snow-

globe agitated. As you learn, through meditation, to withdraw your focus from

the thoughts which storm through your mind, you remove your energy from

them, you stop agitating the snow-globe; the snowflakes settle to reveal the

other you could never see, and were therefore not aware of.

What is revealed beyond the snowstorm?


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The landscape beyond the snowstorm of thoughts - that which has always

been there but could not be seen - is your True Self.

This True Self does NOT live on a planet called Earth in a body separate from

others and prone to attack, sickness, decay and death. THAT was the

snowstorm. I do not want you to simply have faith that this is true - I want you

to learn how to stop agitating your snow-globe so that the constant landscape

beyond it - the True You - becomes visible, so that you can experience this true

self by once again placing your focus, your awareness, there. As you deepen in

your meditation practice and gaze upon the landscape which is revealed once

the snowflakes have settled, you will re-discover the qualities of this self:

You will notice that it is timeless, and space-less.

That it is complete.

That in that completeness it is fulfilled.

That it is eternal and cannot die.

That because it cannot die, it has no fear of death,

And because it has no fear of death - it has no fear,

And because there is no fear its nature is revealed:

And its nature is pure, pristine, flawless, love.

The longer you remain in meditation - the longer you are able to keep your

mind still through not attaching to, and giving energy to, even one snowflake -

the deeper and stronger your re-connection and communion with this constant

Self becomes. As you strengthen your sense of identity with this constant Self

rather than with the snowstorm, you re-embrace your true nature: peaceful,

eternal, fearless, loving & abundant. How can one NOT be happy when they

fully know themselves as this? Re-identifying yourself with your true nature -

made possible because you once again found the other to identify with through

meditation - is the goal of life.

Simple.


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The Practice

Meditation practice will begin with a choice to meditate: you will need to

choose to meditate every day. As you learn how to still your mind successfully

and begin to experience the peace and pleasure of that centred stillness, it

becomes easier and easier to make the choice to meditate, but you will

ALWAYS need to choose to meditate.

Your choice to meditate is your choice to put down your toys and listen out for

your Fathers thoughts. Your choice to meditate undoes the choice you made at

the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and will eventually return you to

Heaven. It may seem like a tiny choice, but its just as powerful as the choiceyou made as Adam or Eve at the beginning of time.

This is almost all you need to become adept at meditation. The choice to

meditate is the crux of your practice because it is your choice to see something

other than what entertains you and keeps your focus now. It is the choice to

put aside your will for a while and listen out for Gods idea of you. In that

choice rests the entire purpose of your life.

Meditation itself is no more difficult than breathing. It is no more mystical than

riding a bicycle. It requires no tools, no special garments or rituals, no

specialist knowledge of any kind about anything. Meditation is not about

learning - it is about unlearning; letting go.

All you will be doing in meditation is learning how to let go of your attachment

to thoughts.

Take every single beautiful idea youve ever had about yourself, your friends,

lovers and family, your personal world and this planet and toss them out of

the window. As long as you maintain focus on any of these ideas you are

agitating the snow-globe and will not be able to see the picture beyond the

snowstorm.


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This is why Zen practice says Do nothing and you will become enlightened.

Give the snow-globe zero energy, zero input, and all the flakes will drift to the

bottom and reveal what was always there but could not be seen.

The doing nothing bit

Sit in a comfortable position, preferably upright to help you stay awake. If its

cool or cold, put on an extra layer; your body temperature will drop as you

relax. Choose a still space in which to practise, where you will not be

disturbed. Switch off phones and cellphones, TVs, radios, etc. Make the space

as quiet as possible - make it as easy as possible for you to forget the world

which you are so lost in normally.

What you will be doing is sitting in silence and becoming aware of something

other than your thoughts.

When you sit in meditation, become disinterested in your thoughts, focus on

something constant and boring, like your breath, which is always with you, or

a single word repeated over and over. You may find yourself become attached

to an idea which drifts into your mind: something REALLY important which HAS

to be done! Smile and notice how the super movie grabs your attention.

Choose to allow the other movie to come into focus - remove your focus from

that REALLY important thought and return to your breath. This is all about

constantly choosing to look somewhere other than your thoughts, to place

your focus elsewhere. It is important to realise that you do not know what

youre looking for; its been a long time since you saw it and you do not knowhow to see it, nor do you know what it looks like. All you can do is stop

agitating the snow-globe so that the picture beyond will once again become

visible. Do not try to see the picture, you will use your mind to do that and in

using your mind youre jiggling the snow-globe! Be still, watch your breathing,

be still, watch your breathing, be still, watch your breathing

At first simply do this for 5 minutes. If you find this extremely difficult considerusing a guided meditation CD to help focus your mind and wind it down. The


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Healing Sand meditation by Brandon Bays of The Journey was very helpful

for me. It is a 30 minute voice guided meditation orated by Brandon herself.

Brandons own centredness and ability to be still are helpful. Be aware that

many guided visualisations are not meditation: they are mind trips which

keep you in your mind; rather than working to quieten the mind they use yourminds imaginative abilities to visualise alternative realities and create a sense

of healing and happiness. What were doing is stopping all thought - thoughts

are the snowflakes which obscure the other self you are at present blind to.

If you find yourself falling asleep thats OK. Its a sign that your thoughts are

settling and because you have not learned how to detach from your thoughts -

your awareness, your focus, is settling along with them

You will find itdifficult to remain awake if you meditate just after a meal and if youre really

tired. Its best to meditate in quiet restful time, like early morning, or after a

cup of coffee in the evening, when the kids have gone to bed and the house

has settled.

I feel it is good to be light about your practice: whim of steel would be a

good approach

Do not fight with yourself you will get the urge to scratch,

and adjust your body, do it and move on. I remember sometimes in the

beginning of my practice having an intrusive noise, like someones lawnmower,

intrude on my meditation and I began to use the noise as my focus - placing

all my attention on the noise rather than trying to push it away. This was oddly

effective for me. Try it - see if it works for you too

The practice of sitting cross-legged on the floor and watching your breath is

recommended for this simple reason: if you become used to sitting cross-

legged on the floor and watching your breath to meditate it gives you no

excuse not to meditate. There will always be a floor to sit on and you will

always have your breath with you What I have noticed as well is that the

action of sitting cross-legged to meditate over a period of time has now

become a trigger - as I cross my legs my mind begins to quieten and centre,

the physical action has become synonymous with stillness.


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As you consistently choose to meditate you will be rewarded with the gift of

stillness, of catching glimpses of this magical other You which you could not

see through the snowstorm in the snow-globe. Your practice periods will

become longer, you will gain access to peace and a deeper, wiser, less panicked

sense of Self; someone infinitely capable and strong. Beginning to knowyourself as this other will gift you all of the things you have up until now

searched for in the snowstorm. It will be the greatest gift you have ever given

yourself and you will give it to yourself through practising meditation.

To support you in your choice to see something beyond your thinking mind and

inspire you to continue meditating feel free to visit my blog every now and

then. You will find short inspiring posts, access to new documentation as Ishare it, access to supportive chants and links to further supportive

information and inspiring articles. You will find the blog address on the

Authors Biography page.

Wishing you the indescribable joy and deep satisfaction of discovering your

enormous, indestructible, power, beauty and truth.

See you in the Light.

Diederik Vemer

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Authors Biography

Diederik Vemer was born in 1963 in Witbank, South Africa, under the sun

sign of Aquarius.

From a very early age his life was fuelled by the quest for the

unchangeable truth about the world and the context of its existence. He is not

a Buddhist although he likes them, nor is he a Catholic, although he was one

once.

Stillness is his teacher and the place beyond the human mind is where he

finds his centre and support.

Until recently he worked as an architect and design consultant, now hes

writing and sharing what he sees. He does not think hes enlightened.

He has an ego and has fun watching it.

He currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, but retreats into the Karoo

to write and grin.

He has a blog:

http://www.stillpoint.iblog.co.za

And can be reached via this e-mail:

[email protected]

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