The Second Insight

The Second Insight: This awakening represents the creation of a new, more complete worldview, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old preoccupation with secular survival & comfort.  While this technological preoccupation was an important step, our awakening to life coincidences is opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this planet & the real nature of our universe. 

The Second Insight, solidifies our perception of mysterious coincidences as the central feature of a whole new way of approaching life. 

As the Manuscript teaches, in order to evolve we must first reconnect with what we are surviving for as a human race.  For the entire culture to thrive, a critical number of people must open to the idea of allowing intuition to guide them back to a connection with the spiritual. 

Our task, both culturally & individually, is to continue to choose more expansive, more life enhancing priorities.

The amount of consciousness you bring to the collective mind is part of your contribution.

Subtle & ever-present, core beliefs are invisible determining factors in our lives.  These thoughts imperceptibly organize our internal energy field & determine our continuing reality. 

Deepak Chopra highlights that: The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer.  We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. 

Chopra assumes that: Perception...is a learned phenomenon.  The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it.  If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body & your world.

Chopra also assumes: Although each person seems separate & independent , all of us are connected to patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos.  Our bodies are part of a universal body, our minds an aspect of a universal mind.

We can begin to evolve consciously by noticing the coincidental events that are purposeful to our growth.  We are not alone.  The answers to our questions come to us through an intelligence greater than our conscious mind, if we but trust in this process.

The simple process of observation, reflection, & acceptance will create a different energy for yourself & others.  If there is a time when you sense that you could make a difference, let the moment guide you.  Follow your intuition.

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Exercise 2.  More Preoccupying Ideas

I'd like to change
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I'd like more
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I keep thinking
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In six months I'd like
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The most important things in my life right now are
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The qualities in the people I admire most are
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I'd be delighted if my life included
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Exercise 3.  Where in My Life Am I Just Going through the Motions?

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Exercise 4.  Finding New-Paradigm Alternatives to Your Old Preoccupations

Turn intellectual accomplishment(old) into wisdom(new). ~ How can I begin to attract more of the new attribute into my life? 
Turn fear(old) into love(new).  ~ How can I begin to attract more of the new attribute into my life?
Turn addiction(old) into self-security(new). ~ How can I begin to attract more of the new attribute into my life?
Turn physical image(old) into intrinsic worth(new). ~ How can I begin to attract more of the new attribute into my life? 
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Exercise 5.  Constructing & Analyzing Your Personal Time Line

Part 1: Constructing a Time Line

Part 2: Analyzing Time Line

Step 1:
a.  What were turning points?

b.  Do you see a repeating pattern of experience, achievement, or lesson?

c.  What feels complete for you?  What feels unfinished?

d.  What were things that energized you?  What would you repeat?

e.  How have your values changed?

f.  What, if any, were the positive intentions of the negative events?

g.  What would you say you have been "in training" for?

h.  What does the purpose of your life seem to be so far?

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Optional: The Experimental Guide suggests to take a guess at what appears to be the logical next step for you right now.
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Exercise 6.  How to Get Answers to Your Questions

Step 1.  My Current Life Question:  

Step 2.  Be as specific as I can in my questions, as this will help me gain insight about myself & the situation. 

Step 3.  Be alert to some kind of message or intuition, daydream or night dream within the next 72 hours.  Jot down any coincidences or answers to my current questions & this will help to increase my sense of "hopeful expectancy", encouraging guidance from my higher self. 
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Exercise 7.  Centering & Energizing Meditation

Before you leave the house each day, stop & take 3 deep breaths.  Close your eyes for a second & remember back to a place of serene beauty that you feel especially close to.  Breathe in the beauty of that place.  Keep breathing in slowly & gently until you feel yourself starting to smile.  Notice how expanded your energy has become.  Now state your question to yourself & surround it with this expanded energy.  Try to maintain a connection to this loving feeling all day long.
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Exercise 8.  Have an Adventure

Step 1.  Make a date with someone to do something new or fun for both of you.
Step 2.  One the day of the adventure, spend a few minutes reminding yourself of your current life question & be in an expectant mood for possible answers.  Take a small notebook in case messages come in.  Notice what your intuition prompts you to do.  Be spontaneous & let go of the need to control.  Be bold!
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*Be aware that you have chosen to live at this crucial time in history.
*Ask support from your higher self to give you clear messages.
*Recognize the amount of time you spend trying to control events or people.
*Choose enjoyable activities.  Do less out of a sense of obligation (which is different from responsibility).  Choose one activity that you are willing & able to let go of right now with a clear conscience.  Having fun & creating more open time raises your energy level & increases your chances for coincidences.
*Acknowledge any support you receive with gratitude.

Ready for the Third Insight? It's the next post of this blog.