André Hofer - Heaven and Earth - 1 - Now

You do not have to find your place within the existing hierarchy, and you certainly do not need to become a member of any ‘men-gang’, male society or confederation in order to become a “true man”. There has been enough bawling, poaching and looting.

Assume responsibility for your perception, your truth, your well-being, your equilibrium. Be brave! Now!

Excursion

Human Psyche can be compared with the various layers of the earth within a mine. In the same way as humus, sand, loam, clay, coal etc. are arranged in different stratifications, there are also different strata in our Psyche. At the surface we find the layer of so-called everyday life and awakened awareness. Below that resides the stratum of the individual subconsciousness, in which all past experiences are recorded and stored. The next stratum comprises biographical memories, including those of ones’ own childhood years, and further down there are the memories during birth or during the time of pregnancy. Going down deeper still, one touches an individually-spiritual time- and memory-stratum beyond biography, and again way deeper we arrive at the collective unconscious, where events from the entire human history are stored in a data bank.

The Lindwalls (cf. “The fundamental stuff” Part B, page 15) developed a computer model, which depicts in a graphic way how the human being “functions” as a Body-Soul-Spirit-entity. It indicates the following:

The Soul brings with it all memories of the individually-spiritual and collective stratum and decides, which experiences it intends to make in the life ahead, before amalgamating itself with the body. In that way, the Soul (as “user/programmer”) programmes the brain (the “hard disk”) with the corresponding “Software” which is, of course, already present at the time of birth. During lifetime, the individual accumulates further experiences, stores them in the memory and perceives the world accordingly. The body characteristics, as well as actions performed and experiences in the outer world are “hard copies/print-outs” of the stored data.

When complications arise in the outer world stratum, there must be corresponding “files” available in the inner stratum; and that is where the Releasing -method begins to take effect:

“Files” are being sought, as it were, which are responsible for causing complications in the outer world, and when they are found, they are deleted, i.e. respectively released. By formulating sentences, starting with the “deleting”-command “I release /let go”, all superfluous, or now “undesirable Software”, is being deleted from the “hard disk”.

My dear brother, do you know what would be, in my view, really brave for you to do as a modern man?

If you could get engaged with the depth of your Soul!

(Beyond all ancient and learned rational lessons and principles).

At this point I would like, as an introduction, to offer you a set of Releasing -sentences, which you may just simply read through. However, if you like, you may also take the time to speak out aloud to yourself each sentence, and afterwards breathe deeply in and out. And you may feel and sense for yourself whether any of these sentences touches you in some way or perhaps just makes you think… That would be a great step forward!

Even if, at the start, you may think it funny, just do it, you have nothing to lose!

So, here we go:

I release/I let go of…

- all consequences of having surrendered the responsibility of my life to public authorities

- all consequences of having not listened to my inner voice, my feelings and my body

- all consequences of having seen rivals, opponents or adversaries in other men (brothers)

- all consequences of having degraded my body to act like a “machine”, and to having pushed myself time and again to the forefront

- the entire old, corresponding and related, stress and the fight against fatigue and weariness

- all old programmes suggesting that my soft, feminine, sentimental side of my character is debilitating or counterproductive in the struggle of life

- the fear that I am unprotected and defenseless without my old armour

- my old habit of always scenting some potential danger in everything and not to trust calmness and peace

- all consequences of having denied my own truth within the realm of clubs and societies for men in order to belong to them

- all consequences of having spoken and acted against my own inner voice in the patriarchy

- all programmes suggesting that I, as a man, must act in a hard, cool, calculating and power-orientated manner

- the whole old strictness against myself

- all old destroying and self-destructive tendencies

IT IS TIME FOR OVERCOMING NOW

A while ago, a business man conveyed to me his inner feelings, using quite a colourful image. He told me that he felt like a frog that had jumped into a pot filled with cold water. The pot was placed on a stove and the water, getting hotter and hotter, began to boil. The frog, although realising that the water was getting hotter with the pressure rising, patiently remained, without moving. We can imagine how this story is going to end if the frog sticks to its original plan. But, do we really want to do that?

“Further and further still”, “Men as hard as steel” or “as tough as leather”, “An Indian never knows pain”, or “Man never cries”, were and still are widespread slogans, and this self-conception is still prevelant in many of our Brothers in respect of their ‘Being a Man’. They are fighting for a certain idea; they go to the utmost limits, sacrificing themselves in the cause for the sake of an enterprise or their family.

The point here is the question of how to overcome this persisting old belief. In the ‘frog-story’ cited above it would mean that, as soon as the frog feels the water getting intolerably hot, it decides to jump out of the pot, thus saving its own life.

Many small as well as great achievements were accomplished with that old inner attitude; obstacles and opponents were removed out of one’s way, huge turnovers were generated, monumental buildings were erected and much more undertaken besides. And after a planned undertaking had been completed, it was honoured appropriately, celebrated and one’s ‘Ego massaged’. And above all, one could be mighty proud of the achievement.

This masculine Ego still dominates all major events of the Western (economy) life. Nations, enterprises, political parties, sports clubs, families and ‘lone warriors’ in this world have set goals for themselves, developed strategies and leave no stone unturned to adhere to the set parameters and, thus, be successful. One concentrates and keeps a focus, one puts on ‘blinkers’, neither looking left nor right. One calculates, analyses, speculates, guesses and values in Euro or Dollars, one half of a pig’s carcass is traded at the market rate on the stock exchange and, which is most important, the stock must be at the correct, acceptable value. One remains as long as it takes in the “tunnel of success” to reach the set goal; only then can one treat onself to a short holiday, party and other excesses, after which the rat race starts again with the tread mill of new, revised forecast figures, higher, faster, further, more and more.

It is highly interesting from a psychological point of view to set these human activities in correlation to Dr. Hawkins’ scale of awareness. Noticeable is that the majority of daily dealings in the Western world happen in the strata between greediness and pride. There is the craving for certain things or objects (money, car, house, holiday), or for economic growth, and these goals are consequently pursued, either more or less aggressively, or even with a strategy like “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Whenever opponents are blocking one’s way or problems arise, anger, enragement or even hatred begin to show their ugly heads, leading to even more reserves being mobilised. Once the goal has been reached, pride reigns again. The trade laws of the market prevail, as can be seen in the media day after day, repeated like a mantra. The logic of offer and demand dictates the entire activities, the “Big” devour the “Small”, the economic cycle must function, so the ‘lesser’ heart-circuit-system of the individual can be neglected. The pursuit of these market-economic goals is, in the true sense of the word, robbing energy. This is true for the individual person and her/his body as well as for the “Big Body” on which we live – our Mother Earth. And if we do not tread carefully and keep an eye on it, it may end fatally!