Wisdom's Soft Whisper

Wisdoms Soft Whisper
WISDOMS SOFT WHISPER

A Manual for Sincere Wizards
Wizard Baldour
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A Manual for Sincere Wizards
Trip Overholt and the Wizard @ WCOM
By Wizard Baldour
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Table of Contents
The 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 Mystery Meditation is Not Something You Do 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 Shift Sharing 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 Story Line 4.
Non Fiction Spiritual, Philosophy Free PDF Vook file for e-book readers The Wizard LLC Cedar Grove, NC 27231 John Troy aka Wizard Baldour 336-562-3225 Wisdom's Soft Whisper www.TheWizardLLC.com Listen to Wisdom's Soft Whisper with Wizard Baldour & Trip Overholt WCOM-FM Every Tuesday at Noon until 1 PM ~ Call in @ 919-929-9601 Local FM 103.5 ~ Podcast ~ Global Webcast ~ Archives Attic ~ Free e-Library Streaming webcast go to http://www.thewizardllc.com/turn.htm Facebook.com/WizardBaldour Wizard@TheWizardLLC.com This book may disturb deeply held beliefs. No copyrights implied 5.
The Dawn of Wisdom
onsider 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 or even 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 6.

knowledge as a useful tool and a servant, effortlessly, perfectly. Knowledge is always gained anew by 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 the dawn 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 is ignorance. ~ 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 Wisdoms Soft Whisper on a planet that crying in pain? Wizard: Theres a cave which exists at the center of life, Where dwells the dream of creation Its 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. 8.

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 Wizard Philip Rego~
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Awakening from Illusion
Wizard has the eyes to see through the daydream 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 and thoughts. 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 gravity commands attention. It obstructs your outlook. Herein lays the home of the ego-Narrator I and the idea or statement of who you think 10.

you are. Its the imaginary narrator 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. You are 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. 11.

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~
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Believe Not
izards 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. Who reincarnates, 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 words and 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. 13.

Heaven is a belief. Hell is a belief. All afterlife 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 be if 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 Heaven It'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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Magic Requires Doership, Miracles Dont
izards dont do magic. Magicians, Conjurers, Warlocks, Necromancers, Sorcerers and the like do magic. Wizards do not do magic. Magic is for entertainment. Wizards express Wisdom. The Wisdom of the Wizard is in recognizing the current mysterious quality of synchronicity and going with what wants to happen. The Wizard has a very light hand and does little. Life happens of its own accord. The whole seen is a miracle for a Wizard. No doership required. Another point of view is narrators I notices extraordinary coincidences and calls it magic and assumes mortal doership in the apparent other and assigns that persons name the role of magician. They say that such and such a person does magic because coincidences are commonplace in their presence. Not true. Absolutely not true! Horizontal paradigm. 15.

It is synchronicity. The common denominator of all synchronicity is nondoership, 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 immediate religious 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 Now
onder 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 and body-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 17.

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 reincarnate or is each and every created form a new 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 have any 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, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named. Eckhart Tolle~
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Significance of The Wizards Staff
n 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 the body-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 and space 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 20.

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 Staff vertical. 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 table before 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 M On the Mystery
ow, consider Faith. True Faith. Faith as surrender and total acceptance rather than a theist meaning 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 23.

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 divests all 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 24.

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 Not
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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 no form. 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 allow one'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 I dissolves 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 26.

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 is only 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 Real
f 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. Practice means 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 28.

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 chance is 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 Perfect
or 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. It simply 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 and experience 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 30.

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 than any 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 bring on yourself the burden of spiritual 31.

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 in organized 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, both inside these organizations as well as anywhere else it avails itself
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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 selfevident, 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 Sense
very 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 verify everybody 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 within it, 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 dependent on the body-mind.
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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 must come 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? The fact 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 is something spiritual or extra physical about man ~ J B Rhine~
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I-Dolls, Deification & Role of Toto
eifications 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 simply ego 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 a secret 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. 38.

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 extraordinarily ordinary 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 the perfect 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 of me 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 same charge 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 is asserted, 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. Walt Whitman~ 41.
Walt Whitman
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Turning Inside-out
he Wizards Wisdom 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 other way 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 nonphysical existence. It is simple, natural, effortless, motionless, and Self affirming. It is the very core and Heart of existence. Being no-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 sweet Peace. You are inside-out. Totally.
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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~
Albert Einstein
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The Ultimate Paradigm Shift
Paradigm 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 Shift is 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 in the theater of the transcendent and transparent Self. All phenomena are 46.

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 the audible 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 physical existence 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 disappear. The vertical paradigm. It is 47.

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, not knowing. 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 goes unnoticed. 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 beings, Wisdom. 48.

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 of reliable 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 independent institutions to which these great problems can be referred. Louisa Rhine~
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Sharing What Already Is
ne 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 is already shared as the highest common denominator. To share Wisdom and the sixth sense is to commune. It affirms Oneness and Love. This 50.

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 will laugh 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 Unknown
he 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 is all 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/or concepts. 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 Mystery as Thy Free Will. It will take you 52.

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 personal experiences 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 . 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. Albert Einstein
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Wizards Alchemy
ncient 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 be transformed 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 trusting it. Alchemy will take it from there. No doubt.
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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 Stillness
tillness 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". All temporary, but seductive story-lines reaching back into the illusory past and forward to the mysterious future. How can "stillness" be otherwise than move-less 56.

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 will not 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 ~ Jesus Christ~
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The Narrator I In the Head
he narrator I in the middle of the skullbone 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. 58.

Again, two ways are the simplest. Surrender to Thy Free Will 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 universe surrenders. Lao-tzu~ They (Synchronicities) demonstrate the unity of psyche and matter, forcing us to transcend our rational, scientific, materialistic attitudes. Mansfield~
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iew everyone you meet as a Godsend. Never be too proud to do so. Treat every circumstance the same way. Be humble. Be the 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 for the biological body-mind. Allow biology to run its course. No need to judge the biology. In the mean time, the subjective Being is no more affected than the surface of a mirror reflecting an image. Just like a dream when 60.

asleep. Who you are is ever present, eternal and non physical. It is synonymous 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 identification revealing 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 Fellowship At Large
mbrace the inspiration to communicate the truth of our oneness in different ways and in challenging cultures as fate will allow. Your work 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 the power 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 what is not the goddess to reveal the beauty 62.

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 is considered 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. Folk Fellowships go by a number of different names spread across far distant places. In 63.

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 very authentic 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 universal Self 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 world. Countless gems in a sacred necklace 64.

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. Mahatma Gandhi~
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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-Creation
he 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, in repose and allows for its own unique recreation. An environment that fosters a Wizards recreation is mutual trust. Simply called good company. Enjoy it! A Wizards re-creation is natural and organic and aligned with Mystery. A Wizards re-creation is to nourish and heal, continually restoring wholeness back to the environment. A recreation that is responding to the genuine needs of one another and those served. As a 67.

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-IZation. "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~
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Wizards Wizards
here 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 Karoli Baba, 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 recognize 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. 69.

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 the old 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 built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau~
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Hexagram 50 Ting The Cauldron

The 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 the guests. 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 of able people, which redounded to the benefit of the state. This hexagram and THE WELL are the only two in the Book of Changes that represent 82.

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 clarity and takes firm root in the cosmic order.
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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 as there 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. And if he succeeds in assigning the right place to life and to fate, thus bringing the 84.

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The Story Line of the Author

Wizard Baldour aka John Troy
ohns friends as well as his business and professional 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 you think it is. Wizard Baldour is the everpresent vertical paradigm. It is not imaginary. It is nameless. It always is. The preceding portion of this manual is written from the stance of the vertical paradigm of existence, the here and now.
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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 this gentle, 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. He spent 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, good times and mighty fine eating became dear to his heart. 87.

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 a spontaneous 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 stereo headphones. 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. Formless existence was very briefly cognized before completely being Self absorbed as the 88.

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 Ones True 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 very essence of both were really one and 89.

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 had little 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 or conviction 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 person that John met that truly shared that deep understanding of 90.

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 and pointed 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 to be 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 trusted his newly discovered intuition. 91.

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 the others 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. There were no roads, no electricity, no 92.

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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There was a such a profound sense of peace about Jamesy. As John spent time hanging with Jamesy, he noticed something special. In a nonverbal way with subtle nuances, Jamesy seemed to share this understanding of turning inside-out. He was constantly affirming the awakened paradigm for John. He constantly referred to it as I & I One Love. John was in awe of Jamesy. When he would awake in the morning, Jamesy would be returning from the wild loaded with wild yams, veggies and fruits to feed everyone. He prepared herbal teas and nursed peoples sores. At nights his laughter would ring through the mountains and brighten hearts. His actions always appeared to be so graceful. Coincidence became commonplace as accidents became extinct. Johns conventional time paradigm melted away into the eternal Now. Days were spent preparing food, time alone in the wild, watching white birds fly against the tropical background, bathing in the waterfalls, carrying water, tending to biological needs and hanging with Jamesy. John was in Zion, 94.

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 friends were 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 good company 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.
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spot. One story, in particular, has been a profound teaching for John. On one occasion, when a friend left the camp to go see a young Guru in the US, Jamesy appeared at the door of the grass hut where several people were spending their morning. He was very animated and playful. He started acting like a puppy dog as he started telling the story. There was once said puppy dog who wanted so bad to find said bone. It was all puppy could think about. James started saying. So, puppy looked and looked and looked. Jamesy started ransacking the place like a puppy looking for something. He became obsessed with looking for the bone. He saw a stick on the dirt floor and grabbed the stick with his mouth just like a puppy dog would. He acted so happy to find the bone, holding the stick in his mouth! Puppy dog has bone. Puppy dog happy Jamesy kept saying. He was strutting all over the place being proud of his new bone (stick). Puppy dog comes to pool of water in stream. Puppy dog sees reflection of bone in 96.

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 his mouth. 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. 97.

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 initiated him 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 selfevident. 98.

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 function as delicious delivery systems loaded 99.

with healthy nutrients, nutriceuticles and antioxidants that enhance good health like miso, garlic, honey, ginger, apple cider and balsamic vinegars, exotic chilies, herbs, etc. It was a fulfilling livelihood. John came across Ramana Maharshis teachings originally through the literature of Bubba Free John. John then purchased a text of Talks With Ramana Maharshi from a bookstore in California. Here again in this text of Ramana Maharshi was someone who seemed to articulate and understand Johns experience of inside-out. It became a source text he truly treasures. John had intuited but had not been able to articulate his Wisdom. Ramana Maharshis understanding and expression of Advaita Vedanta (non dual understanding) to his devotees was the key that opened that door of the intellect. It provided a simple language as well as insight into the powerful paradigm shift that John had experienced.
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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 moments together. John is left speechless. When John returns from Jamaica, an Indian, K. Sridhar, is introduced into Johns story line. Sridhar is a very accomplished Indian classical 101.

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 a photograph 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 and offer a place to sleep. Sridhar, like 102.

Jamesy and Nityananda never went to a formal school. Sridhar began spending informal time with John. He offered constructive criticism about relationships with Gurus. Sridhar became an authentic Knee of Listening (Upanishad) for John. John is left with a refreshed understanding of his own tendency to reseek for what he already has. On a subsequent visit, Sridhar said he was instructed by his guru to accompany John on a sojourn to India for a month, with specific dates and places. John agrees to go. The sojourn began after a short stay in Bombay visiting Swami Muktanandas and Swami Nityanandas ashrams in Ganeshpuri and then spending a short time with Papa-Ji in Lucknow just before he died. For the most part they all looked like a model of other new age communities with 103.

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, waiting for Sridhar to return, John has an 104.

apparent sighting with Sri Ramana Maharshi, an Indian Sage who died in 1950. An Indian gentleman approaches the car. The gentleman looks just like Ramana Maharshi. He speaks to John. John gets out of the car and stands next to him. He strikes certain classic still poses as John gazes in his deep eyes. He appears indistinguishable from Ramana Maharshi, walking stick and all. John is awe struck. Sridhar returns and is talking and waving at John to get his attention through the crowd. John turns around to see Sridhar and when he turns back, there in no one there. The moments that follow are filled with the same stillness and perfection John experienced at Jamess camp. John was suddenly and effortlessly on the E side of E=Mc2. That is to say that for John, there was no longer solid matter or any "noun" to be separately identified with or to hold on to. The only resort for his sense of being was the infinite, eternal and silent expanse of consciousness that is ever and all pervading. 105.

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 him to 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.
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Arunachala, they were welcomed, fed and given a place to stay for no charge. When John entered his assigned room, he was stunned! There was a photograph on the wall facing him directly. It was of Ramana Maharshi exactly as he had appeared to John in Benares a week earlier. There was stillness throughout the campus. Money was never mentioned or even expected. There was not a set of rules or anything to join. It seemed free of the religious trappings found in the Guru Ashrams of Northern India. The sense of
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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 conviction needed to not drop the bone of selfawareness. 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 a new 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 handfashioned from a calabash. The party bid farewell and left, returning to their accommodations on the cliffs of Negril. 108.

It had been very dry in Jamaica that year. It was the rainy season and there had not been enough rain. Water was scarce everywhere. John and his wife, Carol, were staying in a small bungalow on the cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea, facing west. John and Carol had just returned from visiting Jamesy in Cascades. It was sunset. Large dark clouds started rolling in. Lightening is striking everywhere. It grows dark fast and the torrential showers begin. John takes off his clothes to take a shower in the storm. On the way out of the bungalow, he grabs the calabash bowl that Jamesy had given him earlier. He takes a wonderful shower naked outdoors in the heavy tropical rain. Upon finishing his shower in the storm, John offers the calabash bowl in outreached hands to receive the rain for a drink of rainwater. He takes the bowl to his lips and begins hallucinating that the bowl has become a female breast and he is drinking from the breast of the great Mother. The stillness was profound. He drank from the breast and then the calabash transformed into a large 109.

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 felt the 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 the Wizard would rage back, Yes, I! Yes I! I and I One Love! Wizard Baldour was Godintoxicated 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, 110.

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 the summer 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 outside Cascades. As always, the synchronicity increased. Jamesy was thrilled to see everyone and began fixing a meal for the group in his primitive outdoor kitchen. The fellowship, as always, was sublime. He was saying Jamesy Man Rasta Man, John Man Rasta Man, I & I One Love. He asserted, Color doesnt matter, dreadlock hair doesnt matter, John Man Rasta Man. At the same time he insisted that he was just an ordinary person. 111.

As Sridhar says, an elephant knows not its own weight. Jamesy started reasoning about the environment, organic practices and the use of GMOs in his own way of communicating. He referred to the abuses that were even destroying our precious oceans. He spoke of the nourishing power of the seed. How important it is to protect it. The Wizard understood exactly what he was speaking of. He was coaching in right livelihood. The Wizard made the decision right there to implement and integrate these changes into his personal and business life. He heard Jamesy, once again. It turned out to be the last reasoning he had with Jamesy. When the party left, the Wizard kissed Jamesy all over his head and told him how much he loved him. Jamesy was repeating I & I One Love, Praise Jah! I & I One Love, Praise Jah! The Wizard knew he had found a love that was free of the ownership of religion and the death of forms. His true Self. 112.

The following year, the Wizard implements an overall organic strategy for the company. He shares his feelings about his relationship with Jamesy more openly. The silence and peace continue to emerge as the common denominator of all his experiences. The company, Wizards Cauldron, flourished. A year later, while John was being The Wizard character at a natural food trade show, he felt so powerfully the silence and peace, even amidst the trade show noise and traffic. He actually started talking like Jamesy, saying Yes, I, Yes I, I & I. Little did he know, that Jamesy had just discarded his physical form. When the Wizard returns home he hears from Jamaica that Jamesy dropped the body. The Wizards organic enterprise did indeed flourish under enlightened leadership and a commitment to high quality organic offerings. Jamesys teachings were put to practice in business life on all fronts! Utilizing the consulting fees that he had earned, the Wizard was able to invest in and 113.

build a company with a bottling plant in North Carolina. The Wizards Cauldron. He began to assemble a skilled and energetic team of people with shared principles. The company began an enterprise in proprietary branding for folks who were looking for a qualified team who understood the need for a natural and organic way of providing delicious food products. In addition, The Wizard coached an artisan food company in the UK where they developed and formulated organic dressings for Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury. He continued to work with many small food artisans, coaching them to be organic and how to scale up for larger demand. Inspired by the advent of a first traditional soy facility in North Carolina, Wizard Baldour concocted his first bottled sauce. Wizard Baldours Hot Stuff. This miso based hot sauce is still popular today. This was the beginning of the prolific storm of sauces, dressings and condiments that were to follow. Many became worldwide flavor profiles; Honey Mustard Dressing, Soy 114.

Ginger, Lemon Tahini, Balsamic dressings to mention a few. From his growing reputation, the Wizard received an invitation from the prime minister of Grenada to consult on how to best utilize their small truck farms in reaching the culinary markets of the world. The following year, the governor of Vermont asked The Wizard to consult with the State of Vermont, helping small food artisans develop and re-formulate products and scale up for entry into the natural foods industry. He worked with this coalition of Vermont food artisans and, today, many of these companies that the Wizard coached are successful national gourmet and natural food companies. The Wizards consulting business also took him to Japan where he learned about the wonderful world of Asian cuisine. Today, The Wizard is a cosmic consultant. He is the former CEO and Coach at The Wizards Cauldron where he championed the companys marketing strategy as The Wizard of Oz strategy. 115.

The company currently supplies over three hundred different products for the organic food trade, nationwide. Customers and brands include The Wizards, Whole Foods Market, 365 Organic, Wild Oats, Central Market, Full Circle, Premier Japan, Simply Delicious, Spectrum, Rainforest Organic, Garlic Gold, OrganicVille, Redbone Alley, Real Wasabi, Annies and Kraft. Youve probably already had a taste of Wizard Baldours organic saucery and never knew it. The Wizard was putting in place a succession strategy as his business grew more and more successful when he encountered yet another chance meeting. It was in North Carolina at AHAM. This time it was with V. Ganesan, the great grand-nephew of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. The Wizard meets his Heart Brother. V. Ganesan. They recognize one another. Like with Jamesy, Ganesan enters the relationship in a synchronistic fashion. He is skilled, educated, articulate, bright, alert, peaceful, enlightened and profoundly responsive. 116.

Ganesan grew up until the age of fourteen, in the Presence of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. After the death of the Maharshi in 1950, Ganesan went on to get a master's degree in philosophy. Then, he came for good to Sri Ramanasramam at Tiruvannamalai to look after the Old Devotees of Sri Bhagavan as his spiritual practice. As a result, he was able to absorb reminiscences of Bhagavan Ramana that had not ever been recorded before. In addition to this, close contacts with Sages, like Yogi Ramsuratkumari, Swami Ramdas, Mother Krishna Bai, Nisargadatta Maharaj and J. Krishnamurti, helped Him to deepen and widen His understanding of the essence of the Maharshi's direct teaching of SelfEnquiry. For 35 years Ganesan was also Manager of Ramanasramam, Bhagavan's Ashram, India, and for 25 years the Managing Editor of The Mountain Path, the Ashram's newsletter. His expansive collection and recording of the reminiscences as well as His own deep Enlightenment have allowed Him an incredible ability to present the Master in His own words. His materials originally seen 117.

in The Mountain Path and still other recordings from His files have been the basis for a number of other books written about the Maharshi by authors who came later to the Hill. He is the best of editors for the Maharshi, as He comes also from His own direct experience to verify the exact meaning of the Maharshi's utterances and Presence. The gentle humility and the Lion's voice of Vedanta that Ganesan exudes is worthy of a Sage and an honor to His Guru, Sri Ramana Maharshi. During several trips together in India and elsewhere, time together in North Carolina at the Wizards abode, time at AHAM, Ganesan gently begins to polish the diamond in the rough into the smooth surface that clearly reflects the One we are. He introduces the Wizard to many of the old devotees and sages in India and invites him to share in the good company. They walk hand in hand. 118.

This intimate sharing with Ganesan has enhanced the Wizards Wisdom with clarity as well as honing the communication skills needed to offer this manual for sincere Wizards. Ganesan is sincerely a Wizards Wizard. This manual is offered in that sincerity.
Wizard Baldour currently abides in the forest at the Wizards Den at the end of Boone Village Trail in Cedar Grove, North Carolina, 27231. The Wizard is real. You may communicate with Wizard@TheWizardLLC.com
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"'WISDOM' in words" - is a paradox that Sages and Saints alone could successfully tackle! Fortunate is a seeker that drowns himself in this "Pool of Wisdom" and survives 'headless' happily re-established in the unseen Heart! The world labels him: 'mad', 'beggar', Wizard; thereby unsuccessfully attempting to identify him, push him into the nonreality of 'moving' movie frames! A true seeker rejoices in the 'NOW' of the reality of movement-lessness -that a 'madman', a 'beggar', a 'Wizard' is portraying only the non-noticed 'Screen' in every projected moving movies. "Millions of body'I'-s dissolved in one silent 'I AM'-Eternity!
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