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WISDOMS SOFTWHISPER

A Manual for Sincere Wizards

Wizard Baldour


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Wisdoms Soft WhisperA Manual for Sincere Wizards

Trip Overholt and the Wizard @ WCOM

By Wizard Baldour


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Table of ContentsThe Dawn of Wisdom

Awakening From Illusion

Believe Not

Magic Assumes Doership

The Capacity of Now

Significance of the Wizards Staff

Put a Capital M on the MysteryMeditation is Not Something YouDo

Practice is Real

Every Action is Perfect

Unlocking ESP and the Sixth Sense

I-Dolls, Deifications & Role of Toto

Turning Inside Out

The Ultimate Paradigm ShiftSharing What Already Is

Bridge to the Unknown

Wizards Alchemy

Pure Stillness

The Narrator I in the Head

Everyone You Meet is a Godsend

Intense Grace

The Folk Fellowship at Large

A Wizards Re-Creation

The Cauldron

Wizard Baldours StoryLine


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Non Fiction

Spiritual, PhilosophyFree PDF Vook file for e-book readers

The Wizard LLCCedar Grove, NC 27231

John Troy aka Wizard Baldour

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The Dawn of Wisdomonsider the word, water. Is the word, water,

wet? Can that word quench thirst? Is the

word, water, really water? Of course not. Its

just a word, not real water.

Now consider the word, I. Is the word oreven the internal statement, I, floating in

your head really who you are? Again, of

course not. The silent speechless state that

witnesses the word, I, is who you really are.

That is Wisdom. The word, Wizard, comes

from the word, Wisdom. It is prior to the

bundle of alphabets and words called the

mind. Wizards have the ears to hear the

silent whisper from beyond alphabets. That

is Wisdom.

A Wizards Wisdom cannot be defined,known, contained or found. Thats because

knowledge is of the mind. Wisdom is that

which is prior to the mind. A Wizard dwells

in Wisdom, the domicile of the wise. A

Wizard re-cognizes the I, mind and

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knowledge as a useful tool and a servant,

effortlessly, perfectly. Knowledge is always

gained anewby the knower I, called the

mind. What is gained anew will certainly

disappear. Conversely, Wisdom is

transparent and eternal. Knowledge is but a

veneer of alphabets and concepts laid over

reality. Peel it off to reveal the true realm of

Being without the I notion. This is thedawn of Wisdom.

People come here with some profound

concept of spirituality. They think they have

spiritual knowledge and they want me to

give them a clean certificate. This I don't do.

I blast their concepts... All knowledge isignorance.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj~

"The only thing that interferes with my

learning is my education."

~ Albert Einstein~


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Prince: Where do you go when you so want

to know?

Where can you listen in silence?

When you are all alone in eternity looking

for Love?

Where do you seek

Wisdoms sweet peace

In a world thats going insane?And where do you hear


on a planet that crying in pain?

Wizard: Theres a cave which exists at the

center of life,

Where dwells the dream of creationIts threshold is flooded in sunlight,

Its halls are ten thousand mirrors

Reflecting the love

That lives in the soul

At the heart of the whole universe

To reach this quiet place

You must travel the road

That runs alongside this great river

And follow its voice

To the sounds own sweet source

And discover the Hearts pure existence.


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Listen in silence

To the streams laughing song

To the poem of its life-giving waters

And know you are One

With infinite Love

Your journeys begun when its over

The Prince & The WizardPhilip Rego~

Philip Rego


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Awakening from IllusionWizard has the eyes to see through the day-

dream of mortal existence as if it were an

illusory and transparent dream.

The building blocks of illusion are words,

concepts, imagination, relationships and

alphabets. Just information, memory andthoughts. Mind stuff. They make up the

belief systems and images of who you think

you are and what you think you see.

Words have meanings which breed even

more words that breed even far more words!

Where will thinking end? Soon the ever

growing bundle of thoughts becomes rather

large like someone who collects pieces of

string their whole life and ties each and every

new found piece to the end of the ever

growing ball of string. This ball of string is

like a busy full mind. Its shear gravitycommands attention. It obstructs your

outlook.

Herein lays the home of the ego-Narrator I

and the idea or statement of who you think


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you are. Its the imaginarynarrator I. It can

no more change the outcome of your life

than a narrator on the radio describing a

sports event can change the outcome of the

game they are narrating. It is only a belief.

An illusion. A phantom. A second guesser.

You are in for an awakening. The mind is not

who you are. Nor is your body. Dont take

anyones word for it. See for yourself. Youare pure non physical existence.

Prior to the mind and that within which the

mind arises and sets is a silent state (like

dreamless sleep), not a statement, but an

eternal, ever present state that witnesses the

I and its bundle of thoughts. That silent,still realm is who you really are. It is the

actual Here and Now your thoughts

manifest within.

To be that which you already are is to be a

Wizard. It is Wisdom. It is not dependent on

the thoughts, information and alphabets as

knowledge. It does not require a diploma.

Wisdom is simple being prior to knowledge.

Be wise. Take your rest in Wisdom prior to

the mind.


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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very

persistent one."

~ Albert Einstein~

The I am is nothingness. From nothingness

this "I-am-ness" has appeared ~

Nisargadatta Maharaj~

That which sees through the eye but whom

the eye sees not; that is the Atman.

Mundaka Upanishad~

Nisargadatta Maharaj


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Believe Notizards do not believe in believing. No need to

believe anything.

Consider a belief like reincarnation. With all

due respect, reincarnation is just a belief.

Beliefs are constructs of the mind. Whoreincarnates, anyway? Any image or concept

or idea about reincarnation from the bundle

of thoughts (the mind) is just more of the

same. Imagination. It is objective, insentient

and not true awareness. It is a belief. All

belief is temporary. Images, thoughts,

concepts, ideas and bodies arise and dissolve

in the pure awareness that is Wisdom.

Consider Wisdom, the domicile of the wise.

There are apparently as many belief systems

as there are people. Beliefs are of the

individual mind and constructed from wordsand thoughts rooted in mortal existence.

Belief, time and memory are thought-threads

in the tapestry of illusion and that includes

reincarnation, myths, theologies, ideas and

the like. Good is a belief. Evil is even a belief.


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Heaven is a belief. Hell is a belief. All after-

life scenarios are beliefs. Each just another

thought-thread woven in the tapestry of the

illusory storyline.

Beliefs and myths serve a multiplicity of

structural functions for a variety of cultures

and individuals. Some beneficial, some not.

Where would the antiquated caste system beif not for the belief in reincarnation? Why

the constant emergence of religious wars if

not for different belief systems? Race

prejudice? Gender inequalities?

Homophobia? Terror? Politics?

Imagine there's no HeavenIt's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

~ John Lennon~


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It is synchronicity. The common

denominator of all synchronicity is non-

doership, not doership. You have already

experienced it. It is a sign of graceful living.

It is miraculous. Keep the Faith. Renounce

doership. Allow synchronicity to enjoin you.

Synchronicity fosters ever more trust.

Synchronistic events provide an immediatereligious experience as a direct encounter

with the compensatory patterning of events

in nature as a whole, both inwardly and

outwardly.

Carl G. Jung ~


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The Capacity of Nowonder present awareness. Ponder just the

Now. Is it separable? Is it moving or still?

Can you be away from it? Ever? No way!

What is its capacity? Infinite. Ponder. What

is this Now? You?

You are synonymous with the Now. It cant

be missed. Just be here right now. Open your

eyes and empty the mind. Do nothing.

Ponder how the Now accepts every-thing and

attaches itself to no-thing. The Now is

immediate and ever present as the Self. That

means that the Now is actually you! Right

now! Ponder that limitless capacity. Be

empty! Be formless. Be in repose. Be

nameless. Allow yourself to Be That! That is

Wisdom.

The Now is the Ocean of awareness andbody-minds are like waves on the ocean of

awareness. Same stuff. From stillness to

becoming to returning to present stillness.

Ponder further. Is not all a direct incarnation

of this silent, still, infinite Ocean of

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Awareness? Can the Now ever be reduced to

be less than greater than what arises within

Now? Can Now ever reincarnate or is it, in

truth, ever present as infinite capacity? Can

the seen ever be greater than the witness?

When the glass is broken, what is apparently

inside is at once seamless with its

environment. Does the space inside ever re-

incarnate or is each and every created form anew incarnation of the ever pure space?

Open the mind and find its ground of Be-ing.

It is not about believing. It is the antithesis of

believing, Faith opens the door of discovery.

Surrender. Open the door. Now.


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"Any intelligent fool can make things

bigger, more complex, and more violent. It

takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of

courage -- to move in the opposite

direction."

Albert Einstein~

When you surrender to what is and so

become fully present, the past ceases to haveany power. The realm of Being, which had

been obscured by the mind, then opens up.

Suddenly, a great stillness arises within

you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And

within that peace, there is great joy. And

within that joy, there is love. And at the

innermost core, there is the sacred, theimmeasurable, That which cannot be

named.

Eckhart Tolle~


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Significance ofThe Wizards Staffn truth, are you really a linear story line

married to the concept of time? Are you

going through time on a moving now and

held captive in a body? It is true that thebody-mind carries memory in the form of a

DNA code that perpetuates the illusion of

birth-life-death of biology. But memory is

biology. And memory is an insentient and an

illusory trail and a seduction of the exquisite

illusion that holds your attention in the idea

of mortal time.

In fact, yesterday and tomorrow are always

nonexistent and make up the illusory

horizontal mindset of before and after.

History and future, ideas and concepts,

beliefs and notions. It all requires time andspace for its illusory mortal existence. Does

this illusory movie not play out in the theater

and on the screen of the ever present Now,

the move-less paradigm, like a dream? Of

course it does! A rainbow of shadows playing

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on a still screen. Movement is illusion.

Stillness is the truth. Be Stillness. Be in

repose. That is Wisdom.

Herein lays the significance of the Wizards

Staff. The Staff stands for Wisdom, the

vertical paradigm. That which is move-less

and invisible and indivisible. Pure Wisdom.

The Domicile of the Wise. Keep the Staffvertical. Remember its significance.

Yesterday is dead! Tomorrow is not here and

now and never will be. The Staff stands for

that enduring Faith in the present moment.

Witness the play of consciousness from the

standpoint of stillness. Keep the Staff

vertical.

E=MC2

Energy = Matter

Vertical = Horizontal

Verb = Noun

Nothing = Everything

Hang right, suffer mortality.

Stay on the left. There is no noun to be

identified with. You are immortal.


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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green

pastures: He leadeth me beside still waters.

He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the

paths of righteousness for his names sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the

shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for

Thou art with me Thy rod and Thy Staff

they comfort me. Thou preparest a tablebefore me in the presence of mine enemies:

Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup

runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy

will follow me all the days of my life: and I

shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

~ 23 Psalm~

"The 'Here' is everywhere and the 'Now' -

always. Go beyond 'I - am - the - body' idea

and will find that space and time are in you

and not you in space and time. Once you

have understood this, the main obstacle to

realization is removed"

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj~


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Put a Capital MOn the Mysteryow, consider Faith. True Faith. Faith as

surrender and total acceptance rather than a

theistmeaning or a specific religion.

This is a very important distinction.

Faith is actually Trusting the Mystery. It is

the antithesis of belief. Belief is made up of

words deeply impressed in the mind. Faith is

not. Faith is the invocation of perfection by

acceptance of the Now. Faith is the way of

the Wizard. Heres why.

True Faith disarms belief systems and

dogma. To put in plain words, Faith requires

no words, beliefs, ideas, concepts or

conditions. It does not even require religion

or theology!

Faith simply puts a capital M on the

Mystery and trusts it. Thats all! Faith is not

dependent on belief systems, thoughts or

learning. Faith holds no judgment, no

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punitive concepts, no limitations, and no

doership and allows everyone to see one

another as Thy Self and as a pure and equal

incarnation of the higher Truth. Faith is

always forgiving and accepting.

Faith literally transforms illusion into the

play of the consciousness that reveals the

true nature of Being. Faith gracefully divestsall holy icons and idols into the Peace of

eternal Now.

Accordingly, Faith allows the eventual

relinquishment of the idea of doership, itself.

Faith restores innocence, trust, love and

oneness. Faith is the mightiest prayer.

Faith allows you to truly Be. Faith, like Self

Inquiry, is universal and free of the

ownership of any religion or theology. Faith

inherently releases attention from doership

and leads to Self examination which

dissolves the illusion of separateness and you

awake from being identified with your

storyline. The true and only birth is the

waking up from the mortal birth-life-death

storyline concept to understand you are the


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eternal dreamer and not held captive within

the dream.

"Great spirits have always found violent

opposition from mediocrities. The latter

cannot understand it when a man does not

thoughtlessly submit to hereditary

prejudices but honestly and courageously

uses his intelligence."~ Albert Einstein~

The most beautiful thing we can experience

is the mysterious. It is the source of all true

art and science.

~Albert Einstein~

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

~ Albert Einstein~

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Meditation is NotSomething You Do editation is not something Wizards do.

Meditation is not a group sport. Being in

repose in the midst of all action,

unencumbered, is meditation. It has noform. The Wizards way is to surrender

doership. Meditation happens. Meditation is

Wisdom.

Put a capital M on the Mystery and trust it.

That will release attention that is addicted to

the narrator I. Naturally allowone's

attention to shift back to the silent witness or

ground of Being. There is no transmission or

even presumption of a separate self.

Just natural stillness as existence. Already

present. One is re-cognized as non

physical existence and the narrator Idissolves into the Witness or Self. Allow

yourself to do what comes naturally. Be

innocent. Everything appears and

disappears. That's your Sacred path. "See all

action as perfect". In relationships, that deep

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feeling of peace is contagious. That is sacred

Love. That is enough.

There are those who traverse the schools of

bodily yoga and mental manipulations.

There are countless such schools. The

extraordinary experiences and light shows

generated are fascinating and never ending.

Energy centers open and bloom like flowers.It is exciting and enticing. Experiences come.

Experiences go. Let go!

These experiences are laden with

burdensome doership. They create deep

impressions in memory that haunt your

attention. None of it is really permanent. It isonly the mind. It is a distraction for Wizards.

Wisdom says to take the bypass. Go directly

home. Renounce doership.

I feel within me peace above all earthly

dignities, a still and quiet conscience.~

William Shakespeare~


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Practice is Realf you practice throwing a ball to someone,

you really throw a real ball to someone real.

You dont pretend to throw the ball, you

actually do it. Practice makes perfect.

Spiritual practice is taking care of the here

and now. Allow tomorrow to take care of

itself.

Really put a capital M on the Mystery.

Trust it. Be presence. Be here now.

Transcend the narrator I and dwell in the

domicile of the Wise. No need to pretend.Relax. Be the real You. Practice makes

perfect.

Wisdom then is not a matter of seeking the

truth and gathering information but rather

of the practice of living from Wisdom. This is

the supreme challenge for Wizards. Practicemeans just that, practice. You practice the

real awareness of here and now. It is not

pretentious. Practice the paradigm shift to

vertical. Be here now. The practice of being

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the jewel. Not the activity of doing

something to find it.

A Wizard is watchful for the continued

tendencies of re-seeking after discovering

this jewel of Faith. It is just an old mental

tendency unwinding. When the jewel is

seen in an apparent other form, whether this

or any book, image, scripture, arts, music,nature, idol or any other, recognize that

jewel as a reflection of your own jewel of

enlightenment and remain in repose.

Practice makes perfect.

To know that there is no separation, there

are no limitations, and nothing is by chanceis to know inner peace. To illustrate this,

experience your innermost thoughts while

listening to the silence; for it is in the silence

that we will truly know the oneness that we

are. To accept the truth of this oneness is to

know that we are a magnificent expression

of Love, which is life's energy.

~ Laurie A. Monroe ~


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Every Action is Perfector Wizards, life is all the play of

consciousness. In other words, it is all Thy

Will Be Done. Thy Will is perfectly Free Will.

Critical insight says Thy Free Will does not

suffer the dilemma of apparent choice. Itsimply is. Without any obstruction,

whatsoever. That means that every action is

perfect. No exceptions. Ponder further.

That includes even ones own thoughts as

well as actions. This supreme Faith teaches

the Wizard that the best form to worship is

every form. A Wizard brings that Faith to

ordinary life. Live. Simply do what comes

naturally. Surrender. Relax. Be ordinary. Be

in repose. Be enterprising. Deal with money.

Allow intimacy. Drink and eat what you feel

is best. Let thoughts happen. Have fun andexperience sorrow, suffering and empathy

for others. Allow anger, failure and madness.

Stumble. Laugh. Cry. Live like you are

writing on water. Take no thought. Leave no

tracks. Take no credit. Dont look back. Allow

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life to unfold with a sense of awe, surrender

and grace, whatever that might look like or

be. Synchronicity will enjoin you and you

will discover Wisdom. Regrets vanish. All is

as it should be.

Awareness in the now is the state of Being

and every-thing you perceive is like a passing

dream in this awareness, the Peace of God.Everyone eventually wakes up to realize they

are the infinite dreamer. There is no other.

Wow! You are really It!

Harbor no real need or desire to seek or be

or look or act spiritual. There is no mask

any closer to the truth of who you are thanany other mask. No need to change

costumes. Be not a man or woman of the

cloth if it is not your natural inherent

destiny. It is mostly counterproductive.

Wizards understand that appearing ordinary

is just fine and in most cases, preferred.

Wizards have no models of behavior and

dont take themselves too seriously. They

love to disguise. They love to play. When you

dont judge yourself, then you see others in

the light of loving oneness. It is not wise to

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comparison and vanity by feeling superior to

another who is really your own Self in

another disguise. Be the highest common

denominator, whatever the mask and

costume. See one another in Spirit.

Many Wizards abide in the folk fellowship at

large. However, there are those who do

honestly wear the cloth and participate inorganized spiritual groups and some serve a

purpose in bringing attention to Thy Free

Will. It is their true destiny. Respect that.

They are other Wizards in disguise. Partake

in awakened company and enjoy the

playfulness, insights and joy that comes with

all good company wherever you find it, bothinside these organizations as well as

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'I exist' is the only permanent self-evident

experience of everyone. Nothing else is as

self-evident as 'I am'. What people call self-

evident, that is, the experience they get

through the senses is far from self-evident.

The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry

and be that 'I am' is the only thing to do. 'I

am' is reality. I am this or that is unreal. 'I

am' is truth, another name for Self.Ramana Maharshi~

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Unlocking ESP &The Sixth Sensevery Wizard has ESP. Extra Sensory

Perception (ESP) is the Sixth Sense, the

actual sense of existence.

The Sixth Sense is neither verb nor noun. It

is nonphysical. It is Wisdom. Not accounting

for the Sixth Sense is like the story of the

tenth man; the ten men crossing the river

in a boat and each counting only nine men

after crossing to the other side to verifyeverybody made it safely and each forgetting

to count their own self, the tenth man. The

discovery is simply counting the Self.

The same is so with the five senses, the Sixth

Sense is the Self. The Sixth Sense is the only

truly sentient sense. Like an unbroken

thread of intuition, the other senses are

strung on it.

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The Sixth Sense is the inherent, invisible

substratum of the mind & brain and

transcends the mind & brain at the same

time in a continuum. The Sixth Sense is

intangible awareness and the enlightened

sense of the senses. This pure sense of

existence is not dependent on the body,

brain and mind and the body, brain and

mind actually appear and disappear withinit, not the other way around. This is the big

illusion and why it is and always will be a

Mystery for the mind to comprehend. The

causeless, still background is ever aware and

reflective like the surface of a mirror and

ever-present like space.

Doership is absent. Wisdom, present. The

sixth sense is pure sentience. It is not

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Increasing evidence is demonstrating that

ESP does exist, but it cannot be explained or

quantified by physical laws; and

furthermore, that the mind (consciousness)

and the brain are two separate entities.

Simultaneously, research in quantum

physics points to the existence of a second,

nonmaterial universe. So, the time is fast

approaching when Western scientists mustcome to terms with the Eastern mystical

concept: that an extrasensory force exists in

another reality, and intersects and

integrates with the physical world".

~ Mystica~


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ESP does really exist. Does really occur, we

say. ESP is nonphysical. It shows that there

is something that man can do (be) that

extends beyond space/time. Thats

tremendous! Thats like discovering another

continent, a new world. First, take religion.

Most of the world is religious. What is the

greatest enemy to religion or the greatest

weakness in the position of religion? Thefact that it cannot successfully refute the

growing conception in the world of science

that man is a wholly physical being. That is,

its the position of materialism. If religion

could refute materialism, it would be in a

much firmer, sounder position because it

stands on the assumption that there issomething spiritual or extra physical about

man ~ J B Rhine~


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I-Dolls, Deification& Role of Totoeifications and I-Dolls are constantly sticking

their heads up in the Now. They appear in

many incredible forms. They are a part of the

mortal and mystical drama. Many are simplyego trips. They are projections from the

veneer of the mind. They can be awesomely

seductive and trap your attention. You may

even have a secret desire to be an I-Doll. This

is not to say that sincere saints and sages are

not worthy of veneration. The true sage,

however, will exhibit equality and expose

deification.

Many I-Dolls are situated around the very

well of our being. The water in the well is the

same for everyone. Some set up toll booths to

sell you, you. Usually it is in the form of asecret method or secret school of the esoteric

arts with hierarchies, vows, mantras,

memberships, God squads, wannabes they

are all the same. It is carrot stick quackery.

Dont be fooled! Drink freely from the Well.

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In the story of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothys

pet, Toto, pulls the curtain back on the

Wizard at just the perfect time to reveal an

extraordinarilyordinary Being. Toto is a fact

of life. Toto happens. A blessing.

We are all One. Toto is making sure equality

is recognized. We are all unmasked at theperfect time. Welcome Toto when he

appears. He comes in infinite forms to level

the playing field. Surrender. Allow Toto to

pull the curtain back. Understand how Totos

perfect action empowers Dorothy, the Tin

man, the Lion and the Scarecrow.

Empower others. Be extraordinarily

ordinary. Be transparent. Love is Oneness.

Nobody is a Wizard. Everyone is the

Wizard. This is the Truth. This is Wizardry.

This is Love.


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Oz never gave anything to the Tin Man,

that he didnt, didnt already have

~ America~

"Try and penetrate with our limited means

the secrets of nature and you will find that,

behind all the discernible laws and

connections, there remains something

subtle, intangible and inexplicable.Veneration for this force beyond anything

that we can comprehend is my religion. To

that extent I am, in fact, religious."

~ Albert Einstein~

Here the frailest leaves ofme and yet my

strongest lasting,Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself

do not expose them,

And yet they expose me more than all my

other poems.

~Walt Whitman~


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My spirit to yours dear brother,

Do not mind because many sounding your

name do not understand you, I do not sound

your name, but I understand you, I specify

you with joy O my comrade to salute you,

and to salute those who are with you, before

and since, and those to come also, That we

all labor together transmitting the samecharge and succession, We few equals

indifferent of lands, indifferent of times, We,

enclosures of all continents, all castes,

allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters,

perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent

among disputes and assertions, but reject

not the disputers nor any thing that isasserted, We hear the bawling and din, we

are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies,

recriminations on every side, They close

peremptorily upon us to surround us, my

comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the

whole earth over, journeying up and down

till we make our ineffaceable mar upon time

and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time

and eras, that the men and women of races,

ages to come, may prove brethren and

lovers as we are.

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Turning Inside-outhe WizardsWisdom is a profound paradigm

shift, turning Being, itself, inside out. That

is to say the body, mind, world and even the

I-thought arise and dissolve in the infinite,

eternal and inseparable NOW. Not the otherway around.

This silent theater of theaters, all inclusive,

birth less and death less pure spirit within

which State arises, I Am is Who you are

turned inside-out. It is Wisdom. It is

causeless. All are of it (Wisdom) but dont all

recognize it. Being actually nameless,

Wisdom goes by a lot of other names in

many cultures throughout history; Atman,

Tao, Christ, Bhagavan, Collective

Unconscious, Divine, Self, Guru, Spirit, Holy

Ghost, Rama, Now, God, Love, Intuition,Sixth Sense, Soul, Nirvana, Void, Heart,

Arunachala, Shiva, Peace, Wizard, The Zone,

Omkar, Great Spirit, etc.

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Being immaculately still, Wisdom exhibits no

name of its own and allows all names and

claims.

Be still and know this silent Truth for and as

ones nameless Self. It is re-cognition of non-

physical existence. It is simple, natural,

effortless, motionless, and Self affirming. It

is the very core and Heart of existence. Beingno-thing, it is ungraspable like trying to grab

a hand full of sky. It is perfect clarity and

intuition. Perfectly transparent, it allows

everything. Including and transcending the

body, brain and mind (including all

phenomena). This Wisdom, this Sixth Sense,

is Who you always already are, Stillness,the Peace that Passes Understanding.

Reaching the point of diminishing returns

and exhausting the search is the prerequisite

for turning inside-out. The focus needs only

to turn around 180 and observe the

searcher. Explore the nature of yourself to

the point the inner statement, I, dissolves

into the silent state of the Self, Wisdoms

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Now he has departed from this strange

world a little ahead of me. That means

nothing. People like us, who believe in

physics, know that the distinction between

past, present and future is only a stubbornly

persistent illusion."

~ Albert Einstein~

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The UltimateParadigm ShiftParadigm Shift is when a significant change

in perception happens from one

fundamental view to a completely different

view. Thomas Kuhn wrote about Paradigm

Shift during the sixties, and explained how

"series of peaceful interludes punctuated by

intellectually violent revolutions" caused

"one perceptual world view to be replaced by

another view." In lay terms, a Paradigm Shiftis a shift or transformation of the way we

perceive events, people, environment, and

life altogether.

Non physical existence is literally true and a

profound dis-covery for all Wizards. It is a

THE paradigm shift.

Ponder the notion that all phenomena is an

insentient light show like a hologram played

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objective. Perception is sentient. Find out

who is perceiving. Perception is of the

subjective. It is the Witness and real

awareness and who you are. Dis-cover it by

focusing attention on the little i which

constantly narrates your story line. The

silent listener and state of the real formless

I will become Self evident as that within

which all arises. It is always just behind theaudible little i thought. That is the ultimate

paradigm shift! The sense of Being, itself,

shifting from knowledge to Wisdom.

It is the most powerful paradigm shift. It is

unimaginable. True alchemy. A significant

change in perception. From physicalexistence to boundless non-physical

existence. It must be experienced

subjectively. It is genderless. It is formless. It

is free of the ownership of religions and yet

validates the essence of all religions. It is

That which messiahs point to, That which

poets sing to, That which sages proclaim the

Wisdom of, That which devotees bend the

knee to, That which inspires leaders, artists

and visionaries. That which Seers see. It is

the theater within which all appear and

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literally the Now, right now! The Tao. The

Way. The Truth. Wisdom. It knows no

boundaries.

Not being of the five senses and the mind

(extra sensory), the Truth cannot be known

by the mind. It is like putting the Pacific

Ocean in a quart container. It won't fit. The

proper tool of discovery is Being, notknowing. This is very important to Wizards.

This is what makes it so difficult for

academics to grasp. It is too simple and

natural. Being perfectly still, nobody can

grasp it but everyone is it and inheres in it.

Having infinite capacity, it accepts

everything. Being forever constant, it goesunnoticed.

Draw your conclusions of the diminishing

returns and the futility of seeking and

searching through objective fleeting

phenomena and turn attention around 180

degrees. Discard all the illusory elements of

the psychic world as noise and distraction

and focus on stillness and silence. This is the

Breakthrough as to the real nature of human

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We are not Beings having a sacred

experience; we are sacred Being having

human experiences. Allow the paradigm

shift.

The aim of the (Rhine) foundation, he said,

was to be non-doctrinaire, nonpolitical,

intended to be free of even philosophical

bias, by the increased illumination ofreliable knowledge. This search for truth

about the nature of man, he thought, would

profoundly affect those systems of belief

that now prevail. In a world so full of wide

ranging claims and confusing, even

conflicting, doctrines and creeds the need,

he said, is for strong independentinstitutions to which these great problems

can be referred.

Louisa Rhine~

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Sharing What Already Isne of the difficulties in communicating the

truth of our oneness is that the vertical

paradigm cannot be known by the mind. The

mind is the horizontal paradigm with past

and future images comprised of knowledge.

The paradigm shift to vertical does away

with the illusion of the mortal paradigm and

transforms your world into a benign play of

consciousness.

Although it cannot be known, "It" can be

experienced by anyone as the heart of Being.Extricate your sense of Self from knowledge

and be Wisdom. It is experienced deep

within your own Being as your Being,

headless and prior to thought. Share that.

One experiences nonphysical existence, first

hand. This is the paradigm shift that is so

liberating. Affirm that Oneness which isalready shared as the highest common

denominator.

To share Wisdom and the sixth sense is to

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Love authenticates non physical existence,

joyfully. This recognition frees

enlightenment from the ownership of

religions while at the same time, offer

religions a reason to be. It exposes dogma,

the charlatans, toll booths at the well of our

Being, the dead talking to the dead, and

carrot stick quackery. Be a wise Wizard.

Share the sincere Truth!

There is no greater mystery than this, that

we keep seeking reality though in fact we

are reality. We think that there is something

hiding reality and that this must be

destroyed before reality is gained. How

ridiculous! A day will dawn when you willlaugh at all your past efforts. That which

will be the day you laugh is also here and

now.

Ramana Maharshi~

The Kingdom of God is at hand

Jesus Christ~


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Bridge to the Unknownhe existing paradox of life is fraught with

confusion and contradiction. Words and

knowledge at best only point the way to the

unknown. Words are the tip of the finger.

Words do not constitute Wisdom. Enough

said. Stillness is reached by being still. It isall Wizardry when you are quiet enough to

listen. Bathe in the silence. Be not concerned

about how the storyline unfolds. Allow the

horizontal paradigm to dissolve away. Take

your stand in headless Being. The mind

cannot fathom the depth of who you are and

is not the proper tool to re-cognize who you

are as the unknown. Being is the girder and

strength in the bridge to the unknown. Allow

Being, itself, to fall to the heart. Paradigm

shifts. Wisdom dawns.

Faith is the antithesis of belief and/orconcepts. Faith abides in the heart and

requires no thought. Wizards peel the

veneer of words off reality and put a capital

M on Mystery. That is Faith. Trust the

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home beyond the mind to the thoughtless

and unknown. The thoughtless can never be

contained in the mind. What's left

is Wisdoms sweet Peace. The illusory doer

(and knower) is undone in the process. It

never existed! What is already the case is Self

evident. Being true, it is confirmed by the

Wisdom of the Ancients, the essence of the

arts and the spontaneous personalexperiences of many and intuition of many

more. Be the unknown. That is Wisdom.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me

as it did before, Or else I am awake for the

first time, and all before has been a mean

sleep.Walt Whitman

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The intellect has little to do on the road to

discovery. There comes a leap in

consciousness, call it Intuition or what you

will, the solution comes to you and you don't

know how or why.

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Wizards Alchemyncient lore has it that a Wizards alchemy

changes base metals into gold.

In Wizard speak, this means the translation

out of the physical paradigm into non

physical existence. This is bona fide alchemy.

It should get your attention. Anything else is

trickery!

Hold fast to the ever present paradigm of

Now. Allow the horizontal story line to be, as

it will, and your sense of Being will betransformed as the world becomes

transparent and sacred. Simple surrender

invokes non physical existence. This is true

for both theists and atheists alike. Wisdom is

not about what you believe; its about simply

putting a capital M on the mystery and

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"Any sort of survival (non-physical

existence) holds such significance for human

thinking and feeling as to dwarf almost all

other scientific discoveries."

J B Rhine~

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Pure Stillnesstillness is just that. Stillness. Stillness is

unmovable, omniscient and omnipresent.

Stillness is the Self, pure existence. Stillness

is ever present as the pristine and

inseparable Now. Stillness is peace, quiet,

invisible and undivided.

So-called past and future concepts emanate

spontaneously from the core or heart of the

Stillness creating the Mysterious horizontal

illusion of incarnation, time, past, future. It

is an illusion that the Now moves through

time. Now is still and everything moves.

Allow the movement as a benign apparition.

Thoughts are no more real than the dream is

real. That's all. Birth, life, doer, death and

reincarnation are time bound concepts

arising within the eternally still "Now". Alltemporary, but seductive story-lines

reaching back into the illusory past and

forward to the mysterious future. How can

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silence within which the story-line appears?

Hold to Wisdom! Be still.

The still and silent sense of being is truly

shared by all. No exceptions. Forms come

and go. Wisdom is what is left after the

forms become transparent.

Only ponder words. Words themselves willnot penetrate, they only point. Allow the

words and messages to fall away leaving the

residue of pure re-cognition and Wisdom.

It's the state rather than the statement that

attention abides. Mostly unnoticed. It's not

what is said and heard but rather what you

share in stillness that awakens.

Jesus was instructing, not bragging when he

shared:

Be still and know, I am God

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The Narrator IIn the Headhe narrator I in the middle of the skull-

bone cannot know the unknown with the

mind. The mind is simply an improper tool.It is like using arms to walk instead of using

legs. The narrator I is the individual

personality and seeker. The same seeker that

seeks/desires money, food and sex

ultimately seeks the truth and wants to know

or own it. The Narrator I is never, never,

ever enlightened and most likely a rascal. At

best, it can only bow its head.

If the narrator I cannot muster the Faith,

another efficient way is to use the mind for

self examination. It is using a thorn to

remove a thorn. Either way, mind is undone.

Being is the true and eternal sense of

existence, not thinking. When the mind is

quiet, that which is nonphysical, eternal and

unknown is inherently Self evident.

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Again, two ways are the simplest. Surrender

to Thy FreeWill and put the narrator I out

of a job or practice Self Inquiry to realize the

illusory nature of the bundle of thoughts

claiming to be "I". Both result in the stilling

and disappearing of the narrator I in the

mind.

Tendencies may continue to play out but

without doership and are benign. Life

becomes synchronistic and graceful. Be

patient and trust the Mystery, all is unfolding

as it should. You are blessed!

To the mind that is still, the whole universesurrenders.

Lao-tzu~

They (Synchronicities) demonstrate the

unity of psyche and matter, forcing us to

transcend our rational, scientific,

materialistic attitudes.

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Everyone You MeetIs a Godsendiew everyone you meet as a Godsend. Never

be too proud to do so. Treat every

circumstance the same way. Be humble. Bethe sculptor who sees that true image

embedded in that piece of granite.

Ponder "every action is perfect" and let it all

go. It is even prior to forgiveness. Trade

knowledge for pure innocence. Recognize

one another in God.

See all as grace, including some intense

grace. Pain and discomfort are not

necessarily suffering, but they are part of the

condition of the body-mind. Just biology.

Old age, sickness and death are inevitable forthe biological body-mind. Allow biology to

run its course. No need to judge the biology.

In the mean time, the subjective Being is no

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asleep. Who you are is ever present,

eternal and non physical. It issynonymous

with the now and omniscient. It is the screen

the movie is playing on and the true state of

your sentient Self.

Suffering starts with bodily identification

and "doership". True healing and alchemy

are the transcendence of bodily identificationrevealing the eternal God Self. Destiny will

unfold appropriately as your actions become

your dance with the divine and peace of

mind prevails. Wizard sees Wisdom, ego

sees ego. See God. Be God.

There are only two ways to live your life.One is as though nothing is a miracle. The

other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein~

Love One another as I have loved

you

Jesus Christ~


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The Folk FellowshipAt Largembrace the inspiration to communicate the

truth of our oneness in different ways and in

challenging cultures as fate will allow. Yourwork will undoubtedly break the role models

of the past and many traditionalists will

inevitably be shocked or offended as new

leaves and forms bud on the tree of life. This

alchemy of creation yields and reveals ever

new ways to express the truth of who you

really are. You will be using your present

unique human endowment and

circumstances to express the truth of your

oneness.

A Wizard sees the truth of oneness in the

dance of daily realities. This gift has thepower to bring out the truth in each and

every one and is the secret of good company.

The master sculptor sees the goddess in the

block of granite and goes about removing

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of the figurine. God sees God and ego sees

ego. When God sees God, it is holy

communion. When ego sees ego, it is a

reflection that teaches about your own

mental tendencies that prevent you from

recognizing that you are in the eternal Now.

It is where the sculptor goes next to chip

away. Allow.

Communicating this truth of oneness via a

variety of ways in both the Eastern culture as

well as in the Western culture is rapidly

emerging in the information age on a global

scale. This cross-cultural bridge is genuine

and the timing, auspicious. Some of the ways

manifested are at a variance of what isconsidered traditional Wisdom. This is grist

for the mill and invites relationship for those

involved resulting in edification for a work in

progress that is fitting in a new time and a

new generation. Like threads in the tapestry

that cant be compartmentalized. Together,

these relationships contribute to the healing

of nations, increased tolerance, deepened

spiritual understanding and reformation.

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China, they are referred to as Taoists. In

Japan, Shinto. In India, the Hindus, In the

British Isles, Pagan (means country or

natural). In Jamaica, Rasta. In South

America, Shamans. In America, Hippies and

New Agers. Now its Burning Man and a New

World with Eckhart and Oprah. All are a part

of the Folk Fellowship at large. These are not

organized religions but they are veryauthentic fellowships. There are also many

fellowships unknown and unrecognized. The

mark of authenticity is the love and equality.

Membership button, belly button.

A Wizard is just another name, form and

symbol for the formless, nameless universalSelf that is the foundation of everyone and

everything, and therefore represents the true

nameless and formless Being of all. Be Wise.

Be a Wizard, Be your Self.

Find a mythological microcosm of universal

Truth for all abiding in the Now. Find

artisans in every form living their own way of

expressing the inexpressible, making up

pieces of the patchwork that come together

to form the tapestry of our communities and

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around the Mountain of Peace. Some are

well cut and polished like diamonds and

others are very informal and natural like

diamonds in the rough waiting to be

discovered. Known or unknown, they are all

true gems. Altogether they make up the

wonderful garland that adorns the Truth of

our Oneness. The Folk Fellowship.

"It would be possible to describe everything

scientifically, but it would make no sense; it

would be without meaning, as if you

described a Beethoven symphony as a

variation of wave pressure."

Albert Einstein~

You must be the change you want to see in

the world.

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You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm

not the only one. I hope someday you'll join

us, and the world will be as one

John Lennon~

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A Wizards Re-Creationhe Wizards Vision is always present Peace

and clarity. It is the eyes to see the Now,

clearly. It is not an image of the future.

The Vision is one of responsive service, here

and now. The Vision is a recognition of

existing wholeness. It is the wholeness of the

mutual transcendent Self, our minds &

bodies, our planet, all within our current

reality. The Vision spontaneously supports

stewardship and mentorship. The Wizards

Vision is open-ended, open-minded, inrepose and allows for its own unique re-

creation.

An environment that fosters a Wizards re-

creation is mutual trust. Simply called good

company. Enjoy it! A Wizards re-creation is

natural and organic and aligned withMystery. A Wizards re-creation is to

nourish and heal, continually restoring

wholeness back to the environment. A re-

creation that is responding to the genuine

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Wizard, re-creation is to enjoy the good

company of apparent others. Everyone may

participate in the re-creation of a fresh,

wholesome and enlightened Planet Earth.

Membership of the fellowship is as big as all

outdoors. Aspire to make the Vision Real-I-

Zation.

"Great spirits have always found violentopposition from mediocrities. The latter

cannot understand it when a man does not

thoughtlessly submit to hereditary

prejudices but honestly and courageously

uses his intelligence."

~ Albert Einstein~


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Wizards Wizardshere is already a Wizard in your life. Most

Wizards are unknown. They are also known

as saints, sages and seers. Wizards manifest

in different forms, including animal and

nature forms. The Wizard also dwells within

you as you. There are precious few confessed

Wizards. Wizards have Wizards.

The author of this manual has many mentor

Wizards, both known and unknown. Ram

Dass, James Campbell, Swami Muktananda,

Ramana Maharshi, Nityananda, Neem KaroliBaba, K. Sridhar, V. Ganesan to name a few

of the known. A true Wizard is a friend and

will relieve you of your search. They will re-

cognize you as your sacred Self. A few other

confessed Wizards you may have heard

about are Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu,

Walt Whitman, Eckhart Tolle, Papa-ji,Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rama Krishna, Sai

Baba, Puppet-ji, Albert Einstein, John

Lennon, Carl G. Jung, Bob Marley, Deepak

Chopra, Ramana Baba, Stephen Covey et al.

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment:

that if one advances confidently in the

direction of his dreams, and endeavors to

live the life which he has imagined, he will

meet with a success unexpected in common

hours. He will put some things behind, will

pass an invisible boundary; new, universal,

and more liberal laws will begin to establish

themselves around and within him; or theold laws be expanded, and interpreted in his

favor in a more liberal sense, and he will

live with the license of a higher order of

beings. In proportion as he simplifies his

life, the laws of the universe will appear less

complex, and solitude will not be solitude,

nor poverty, nor weakness. If you have builtcastles in the air, your work need not be

lost; that is where they should be. Now put

the foundations under them.

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Hexagram 50 TingThe CauldronThe six lines construct the image of Ting,

THE CAULDRON; at the bottom are the

legs, over them the belly, then come the ears

(handles), and at the top the carrying rings.

At the same time, the image suggests the

idea of nourishment. The ting, cast of

bronze, was the vessel that held the cooked

viands in the temple of the ancestors and at

banquets. The head of the family served the

food from the ting into the bowls of theguests.

THE WELL (48) likewise has the secondary

meaning of giving nourishment, but rather

more in relation to the people. The ting, as a

utensil pertaining to a refined civilization,

suggests the fostering and nourishing ofable people, which redounded to the benefit

of the state.

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concrete, human-made objects. Yet here too

the thought has its abstract connotation.

Sun, below, is wood and wind; Li, above, is

flame. Thus together they stand for the

flame kindled by wood and wind, which

likewise suggests the idea of preparing food.

THE JUDGMENT

The CAULDRON.

Supreme good fortune. Success.

While THE WELL relates to the social

foundation of our life, and this foundation is

likened to the water that serves to nourish

growing wood, the present hexagram refers

to the cultural superstructure of society.

Here it is the wood that serves as

nourishment for the flame, the spirit. All

that is visible must grow beyond itself;

extend into the realm of the invisible.Thereby it receives its true consecration and

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Here we see civilization as it reaches its

culmination in religion. The ting serves in

offering sacrifice to God. The highest earthly

values must be sacrificed to the divine. But

the truly divine does not manifest itself

apart from man. The supreme revelation of

God appears in prophets and holy people.

To venerate them is true veneration of God.

The will of God, as revealed through them,should be accepted in humility; this brings

inner enlightenment and true

understanding of the world, and this leads

to great good fortune and success.

THE IMAGE

Fire over wood:

The image of THE CAULDRON.

Thus the superior man consolidates his fate

By making his position correct.

The fate of fire depends on wood; as long asthere is wood below, the fire burns above. It

is the same in human life; there is in man

likewise a fate that lends power to his life.

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two into harmony, he puts his fate on a firm

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The Story Line of theAuthorWizard Baldour aka John Troy

ohns friends as well as his business andprofessional associates call him The Wizard.

He says hes just doing what wants to

happen.

John Troy is a horizontal story line. As

such, it is written in third person. It is

imaginary in the sense it is not what youthink it is. Wizard Baldour is the ever-

present vertical paradigm. It is not

imaginary. It is

nameless. It always is.

The preceding portion

of this manual is

written from the

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The following is the illusory linear story-line

of Johns transition to Wizard and the

domicile of the wise, Wisdom. In the end,

accept the message as your own and reject

the messenger as just another temporary

story line. Let it fade away.

John Troy (Wizard Baldour) is a North

Carolina native, born and raised in thisgentle, southern state.

As a child, summertime found him at a farm

in the Blue Ridge Mountains where he began

to learn all about the natural world of foods,

forests and fellowship, firsthand. His

Grandmother was a wonderful mentor. Hespent his time harvesting strawberries,

shucking corn, collecting eggs from the

henhouse, churning butter and even milking

the cows. He helped his Grandmother

prepare lavish meals on a wood cook stove.

Mealtime was the highlight of the day at his

Grandmothers farm and he loved the notion

of feeding people. Mixing savory smells,

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John and his brother, Frank, loved to play in

the woods and climb the mountains.

Out of school, John started a stereo

component business that became a leading

retailer in the Southeast in the stereo

component business.

John, while still a young man, had aspontaneous event one evening at a friends

home that changed his life. It was a sudden

paradigm shift of profound magnitude. A

profound realization occurred while reading

a newly released book called, Be Here Now,

by Ram Dass. John was listening to a newly

released record album with stereoheadphones. It all happened spontaneously

and quickly.

Johns attention introverted. He was being

drawn upstream in a river of light towards its

source. Reaching its source, identity

imploded. Awareness was free from the body

and gravity. An awesome vibration-like

sound that was felt as a huge bell ringing.

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eternal unknown Divine realm. All

"otherness" was obliterated. Beyond

description. The ultimate experience of this

absorption proved unknowable and the only

recollection was through subtle intuition.

The fruit of this intuition was a perception of

oneness as Love and the maturing and

deepening of Faith. The thorn of death was

removed.

John later learned that the formal term used

in Hindu philosophy to describe this event is

Nirvikalpa Samadhi. This is a temporary but

total absorption in God, in which all bodily

awareness is dissolved along with all form to

reveal the formless nature of God or OnesTrue Self.

The experience of conventional reality upon

resuming bodily awareness was interpreted

by John as turning inside-out. Being was

non-local. The first eye contact after this

experience was with a small girl in the same

room. When John looked into her eyes, he

realized that he was looking at his Self! Not

as a reflection of a form in a mirror but the

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there existed a continuum. Reality was

transparent.

When the sun came up the next morning, he

recognized the sun within the same infinity

of his Self. Everything was within the infinity

of Self. He had turned inside-out.

John was stunned by this realization and hadlittle context in the world in which to frame

it. He had always thought he was literally the

voice in his head. He lacked the vocabulary

to express and articulate any insight. Shortly

afterwards, he began to lose touch with the

realization and started searching for a way

back to it. He had not the coaching orconviction to abide in this realization.

Then came a chance

meeting with a truly

remarkable man, James

Campbell. It was in

Jamaica.

Jamesy-Man, as he was

called, was the first

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being inside out. Jamesy, a little man in

the mountains of Jamaica with a heart as big

as all outdoors became Johns elder and

spiritual Godfather without any fanfare.

The meeting was quickly cut short in

synchronistic circumstances and the party

had to leave. Jamesy mentions to John, in

parting, that he (John) will return andpointed to a mountain on the horizon and

said to meet there, on top. He said he will

prepare a place.

John returned to North Carolina and his

domestic story-line totally fell apart. His

business was failing and his wife left him tobe with his best friend. His heart was

completely broken. In the midst of the

emotional turmoil, John could not get

Jamesy off his mind. Within a few months,

he sold his last possession, a Volkswagen,

and purchased an airplane ticket and

backpack and left family, home and garden

behind to go be with Jamesy in the

mountains of Jamaica. He had no money or

worldly possessions left to take with him. He

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He arrived at James (affectionately called

Jamesy-Man) camp, on top of the mountain

that had Jamesy pointed to, a few miles into

the wild mountain country of Jamaica,

outside of Cascades. It took several hours of

strenuous mountain hiking to reach his

campsite. When John finally reached the

camp, Jamesy was actually expecting him

and had built a grass hut for him to stay in.The hut or Gate as they would call it was

woven with bamboo and situated on a knoll

under a Mango tree. John could see the

Caribbean Sea in the far distance.

The camp was permeated with a deep and

profound stillness. He was introduced to theothers in the camp. There were several other

Caucasians in the camp with similar

circumstances as Johns. They all had very

interesting stories about how they were

drawn to be there with Jamesy.

John stayed with Jamesy in the mountains

for that entire winter. Jamesy began to teach

John the lessons of Love through

nourishment in every conceivable way.

Jamesy literally fed John out of the wild.

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mirrors, no running water, etc. There was no

money around as money was not used. The

huts were made of bamboo and straw with

dirt floors. There were no schedules, no

books, no names of days and months and no

watches or time references within the

environment. The veneer of words and

concepts was absent.

John was treated and respected like a God.

Jamesy mantra was I & I One Love Jah

Rastafari. The idea of you or "other" was

not in his mind or language. Jamesy never

asked for anything from anyone in return for

his profound generosity. He taught John not

to put his faith in money.

Jamesys way was totally natural and out of

the wild. Jamesy could not read or write. He

taught by example. John adapted the skills of

preparing healthy food with what the good

earth freely provided. Days were spent

gathering and preparing food from scratch

from the wild harvest. Jamesy taught John

the power of blending love, fellowship and

food.. naturally, gracefully and peacefully.


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as the Rasta would call it. It was timeless. It

was just happening.

John began to see this illiterate black man in

the mountains of Jamaica as one with a

profound saintly nature, similar to the sages

he had heard of from India; Neem Karoli

Baba, Ramakrishna and Swami Nityananda.

During that winter, several of his friendswere also drawn to Jamaica for varying

lengths of time. Everyone was treated with

equal love and respect. Others from different

parts of the world trickled in and out with

stories of remarkable synchronicity. The

local people would visit frequently. They

would bring gifts of food and always be goodcompany in the camp.

The environment was free of conventional

religious trappings. There was no

organization or hierarchy and nothing to

join. There was no politics. Everyone

enjoyed the simple company of Jamesy.

From time to time, Jamesy would share a

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still pool. Puppy forgets bone in mouth and

is attracted to bone in reflection. Puppy goes

for bone in said reflection. Jamesy says.

In a very animated way, as the story goes,

Jamesy then goes for the reflection of the

bone in the imaginary pool as if he did not

already have the bone in his mouth and

immediately the stick (bone) drops from hismouth. Now puppy dog not happy, lost

bone! Jamesy says as he starts acting like a

puppy that is fretting.

Jamesy starts looking for the bone again.

After another very fretful search, he finds the

stick (bone) and is once again happy.

Puppy quickly looks to same said still pool

with bone, Jamesy says, holding the stick in

his mouth. This time puppy looks very

carefully. Jamesy says slowly cocking his

head to the side Puppy sees its only a

reflection of bone already in mouth. Puppy

understands puppy has bone. Puppy holds

on to said bone with conviction. Jamesy

then swiftly departed and left the small

audience to ponder the teaching.


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And so it went with John that winter in

James camp. As winter turned into spring

and thinking about friends and family back

home, John returned from his sojourn to

Jamaica and Zion.

When John returned to the US, he became a

devotee of Swami Muktananda who initiatedhim with Shaktipat and an extensive

mystical awakening and tour through the

world of mystics and visions. John was in

and out of Muktanandas gracious company

for several years. Muktananda blessed him

and his work, consistently.

At Muktanandas last evening Darshan in

America before departing back to India and

discarding his physical form, Swami

Muktananda placed the Wizards hat on

Johns head and blessed him.

John co-founded The Lindenself Foundation

and began retreats and gatherings with

Muktanandas blessing. Here is where the

Wizard dimension becomes more self-

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The years pass. Johns Co-founder at

Lindenself, Philip Rego, asks John to help

develop the Wizard character for a musical

drama he was working on. The nick-name

sticks. The Wizard character continues to

develop out of the fellowship and motif of the

Lindenself Foundation and its community of

the arts.

John becomes one of the founding fathers of

the natural and organic food industry. They

get to know him as Wizard Baldour, like his

community at home. At first it was the first

power bar called Wizard Baldours Power

Pac. The Wizard becomes a folk Wizard.

The Wizard then

begins to build a

unique business that

manufactures and

bottles organic

sauces, dressings and

condiments. The

products are of very

high quality

ingredients with outstanding taste

characteristics. Organic food products that

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After some 20 years, John is, again, drawn to

James Campbell in Jamaica. The

synchronicity was just as intense as it ever

was twenty years earlier. Johns intimate

partner, Carol, his son, David, and a few

others go on a pilgrimage to Jamaica. John

meets Jamesy again and it is no different

than the first time. A profound sense of

peace is at hand. Jamesy recognizes John,seems to be expecting him, and they both

pick right up where they left off. The sense of

One Love was so pronounced, that all

seeking and questions were dissolved in the

stillness of the moment. John is humbled by

his reunion with Jamesy. They spend very

precious momentstogether. John is

left speechless.

When John returns

from Jamaica, an

Indian, K. Sridhar,

is introduced into

Johns story line.

Sridhar is a very

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musician. Sridhars mother was a devotee of

Swami Nityananda, a great saint in India,

and Muktanandas Guru. Sridhar had grown

up with Swami Nityananda in India as a

small boy. He played music for many

masters and other genuine spiritual

mahatmas, spent lots of time in seclusion,

had pilgrimages to the Himalayas, or at

Arunachala. A real yogi.

Like Jamesy, he understood Johns

experience of inside-out. He asks John

about his relationship with Adida, Jamesy,

Nityananda and Muktananda. He informs

John his guru in India sent him (Sridhar

gives all credit to his Guru); He notices aphotograph of Swami Nityananda on Johns

mantel over the fireplace and acknowledges

that as a sign from his guru. He begins

immediately to build confidence in Johns

own self-realization, just like Jamesy did.

Again, there are no money issues. You cant

give money to Sridhar. He wont take it. He

will give it away. He will only accept money

for concerts or CD sales. You may feed him

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seekers, formal organization, pictures, books

and religion trinket business.

Sridhar was teaching John what organized

religion business is all about, first hand. It

depended on the devotee dropping the bone.

It depended on devotees staying within the

confines of a religion or belief system.

Deification was always evident.

This was the turning point in his trip to

India. John felt he had totally transcended

any need for organized religion in all its

forms, once and for all. The whole world was

Johns spiritual community.

They rented a car with a driver and traveled

overland to the ancient city of Benares on the

Ganges River. This is a very holy city in

India. It was sunset. Sridhar leaves John in

the car at a round-a-bout at the edge of the

mystic maze that sprawls to the sacred

Ganges River. Sridhar is winding his way to

find the rooms by the Ganges River and will

return with help for luggage.

While sitting in the back seat of the car,

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All phenomena were literally E or energy,

simply a light show. Phenomenally, John is

looking over the Ganges River, next to the

burning Ghats with dead bodies being

cremated, watching candle lit flower pujas

float down the Ganges with a profound sense

of Dj vu. All was exquisite perfection. He

spent that night in Benares, India opening

and surrendering. Mortality was missing,even amidst the burning bodies.

The following morning Sridhar returns. He

affirmed the experience as a Darshan from

the sage. John is then instructed by Sridhar

to go down to the banks of the Ganges. A

Brahman Priest meets him and instructs himto take three complete dips in the river. He

does so. He then sits on a bamboo mat facing

the Ganges, while the priest applies Tiki to

his forehead and performs a series of Vedic

chants before dismissing him. The rest of the

day is spent spontaneously in bliss. The knot

of separateness was dissolved for John.

John finishes the India trip with a stay in

Southern India (Tamil Nadu) at Ramana

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separateness again dissolved so easily in this

ocean of silence.

What John was learning with Sridhar in

India is exactly what Jamesy was teaching.

You are the one you seek. You are the very

reflection you see in holy people, literature

and places. You are your own bone. You

are silence. John embraces the convictionneeded to not drop the bone of self-

awareness. He began to see everyone and

everything more seamlessly in God.

When John returned to Jamaica after being

in India with Sridhar, the same synchronistic

patterns emerged. Jamesy had moved to anew camp in the mountains. Nothing had

changed about Jamesy. John shared with

him about Sridhar and his journey to India.

They laughed, talked about earlier times on

the mountain, and reasoned as he would

call it about spiritual matters. The teaching

was always the same. I and I One Love.

He gifted John with a bowl he had hand-

fashioned from a calabash. The party bid

farewell and left, returning to their

accommodations on the cliffs of Negril.


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green jade egg before returning back to a

calabash bowl.

Still naked, he returns inside the one-room

bungalow and stood facing the Ocean

through an open door with lightening

flashing everywhere. Drops of rainwater

dripped steadily through the ceiling

anointing the very crown of his head. He feltthe presence of Jamesy. He moves forward

and takes a seat and is transfixed, staring at

the ocean flashing with lightening for some

time, deeply absorbed in the silence, within

which, was raging a great storm. Jamesy was

communing with Wizard Baldour at the most

profound depth of silence. At times theWizardwould rage back, Yes, I! Yes I! I and

I One Love! Wizard Baldour was God-

intoxicated and began dancing with the

lightning.

The next time the Wizard sees Sridhar,

Sridhar inquires about Jamesy. He said that

his guru in the Himalayas informed him

Jamesy was the Wizards guru. They were all

coaching the Wizard to not drop the bone of

Self Realization. The real teachers are all on

the same team. They empower. Jamesy,


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Nityananda, Neem Karoli, Sridhar, God,

Guru, Self and in truth, everyone, are all one

and the same in spirit.

The Wizard was being taught that Love is far

more gracious than a name and Love makes

no claim of its own.

The last time the Wizard saw Jamesy was thesummer of 1998. Carol and the Wizard

traveled with Carols daughter, Lisa, and the

Wizards son, David. David and Lisa brought

more of their friends who wanted to visit

with Jamesy. The party visited the market,

bought fruit, veggies and a rope of tobacco

and set off to visit Jamesy

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