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Addiction: The Illusion of Immortality
The Sufis, also known as the Whirling Dervishes, believe that everything about living is intoxicating and prevents us from knowing our true Higher Self. They believe that especially intoxicating is one's name, what one does for a living, and what one's senses are telling them.
There's a lot of truth in what they say. I know because I've used their method of meditation for a long time. But you have to be careful because it is the best way to fall asleep that I know of. In fact, I've shared it with my friends who have trouble sleeping and, when they actually try it, they fall asleep. If you want to try the meditation, it's at the bottom of this blog.
But I disagree with the Sufis a bit. I don't think that everything is intoxication, I think everything is addiction. As someone who was addicted to drugs from the time I was kicked out of my house in 1967 up until 1981, as detailed in our autobiographical self-help relationshipbook "Love, Light, and Laughter," I've thought a lot about addiction. I used to think that I was just part of the population that has an addictive personality until I realized that EVERYONE is addicted to something and the common denominator of what all people are addicted to is this: We're all addicted to whatever helps us forget that we're going to die or whatever helps us feel immortal.
Let's start with young people and their video games. In a lot of video games there is the chance that your character is going to get injured or killed but, lo and behold, you can get killed twenty times and come back twenty one times for more. The same holds true for all addictions. The drug addict forgets about dying (and living) and focuses on getting drugs and using them. The same is true for an alcoholic, but since its legal its easier for them to get much higher and simply drug themselves into oblivion.
Less obvious addictions are to work - I can't think about anything other than reaching this goal, nothing else matters. And of course, religions that promise life after death are not obvious addictions, but unless you cling to this faith like and addict clings to the need for drugs you are going to have doubts. Addicts will risk their lives and your live and the lives of everyone they love and who loves them to get what they are addicted to. But addicts are cowards when it comes to doubt or pain or the realization that we and everyone we love is always at risk of dying and leaving and oblivion. When we addicts are high on whatever it is that we are addicted to, may it be food, wine, nicotine, drugs, adrenaline, work, parenting, or the word of "God," to name only a few, we live in the moment and forget that we're going to die and, just as important, we don't have doubts. Addicts who are high don't have doubts because they are afraid to have doubts and that is what made us run to our addictions.
When my beloved mother-in-law, Jessie Spicer Zerner, passed over to wherever it is that truly spiritual people liker her pass over to back in 1996, one of my first dedicated channeling sessions in which Amy and I felt truly connected to her included Amy's very important question: What is it like where you are?
Her answer, through me, was "Here there is no doubt." We were both stunned at the simplicity and power of those words because isn't so much of our suffering caused by our doubts? This was shortly before Gwen Stefani's band, "No Doubt," became popular and when we became aware of them we knew that they had chosen a very powerful name.
Despite my communications with the other side, I have doubts and I am always checking myself for signs of addiction. I'm trying to get addicted to gratitude - to be grateful for my life, my body, my level of health, what I do in the world, what I have, and for what I don't have. The enemy of addiction to gratitude is complaining and ingratitude and I'm trying to root them out in me.
I don't have to worry about being addicted to being grateful for being with and loving Amy and Zane because I am fortunate enough to be totally addicted to that. That's why we've created our life so that we can be together as much as possible. Life is short, though I think that we are genetically programmed to be able to live for hundreds of years, if our genetic scientists can just find and activate the genetic switch built into our genes by our creator, and if you want to learn about the Annunaki who created us, read the work of Zecharia Sitchin. I suggest that you start with "Genesis Revisted." I have no doubt that his work and his words are correct.
I believe in life after death but I also face the fact and the fear that I might be kidding myself or, if my psychic communications with the dead are indeed accurate, then perhaps I may not like the place we go after dying. Maybe I'll spend eternity longing to be alive again, a very disturbing thought.
Life takes courage. Courage to know that you're going to die and yet to say, OK, even so, I'm going to live and be kind to the other people I encounter because we're all in the same boat and I'm going to make my time useful and meaningful in some way. We define ourselves by what we do with our lives. We also define ourselves by what we're willing to kill. But that's for the next blog!
HOW TO FALL ASLEEP: If you're having
trouble sleeping and want to use the Sufi meditation technique as a sleep aid, here's what to do. First, remember that this was originally intended as a meditation so if you want to sleep, set your intention that you are not meditating but want to fall asleep. Believe it or not, you do have power over yourself and setting your intention to change something about yourself is the first step. Whether or not you take any more steps is also up to you.
While lying down with your eyes closed you first say to yourself, "I am
not my name, I'm a soul moving onward." Say that for about a six times
as you breath slowly and evenly. Next, say to yourself "I am not my
job, I am a soul moving onward." Once again, say that about six times
or so as you allow your breathing to become as relaxed as possible. By
this time, most people are asleep, but if you're not, then turn your
senses off one at a time. Don't concentrate to much on whether or not
they really turn off, just make the effort. Sweet dreams. |
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