WAYNE'S ANSWERS TO SPIRITUAL QUESTIONAIRE

12 Jan 94

Well, what next? The answer that came was to fill out my own questionnaire to get firsthand experience of what it is asking for and how easy/difficult it will be to fill out.

1. What are your strongest abilities?

.....a. What things do you do the best?

.....b. What things have come most naturally to you?

ABSTRACT THINKING, WRITING, PHILOSOPHY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL COORDINATION.

2. What activities do you enjoy doing the most and why?

.....ABSTRACT THINKING because it has always been extremely fun for me.

.....WRITING because it is creative and I'm good at it.

.....GOLF because it's a challenge and involves an outdoor setting.

3. Identify the five strongest beliefs that you have about yourself.

.....I can do anything I set my mind to.

.....I am consciousness currently occupying a physical body.

.....My true nature is eternal, immortal, universal, and infinite.

.....I am awake, and my self-awareness increases daily.

.....I am in the world, but not of the world.

4. Identify the five strongest beliefs that you have about the world.

.....We create our own reality.

.....The world reflects back to us what we need to see about ourselves.

.....Life is a Play that proceeds in accord with an overall Plan.

.....The world is illusion -- but an engaging one.

.....The United States has a unique destiny among nations.

5. What are the ten quotes that move you the most?

List as many as you have if less than ten.

Also identify why they are important to you.

.....(1) The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive... We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. (Thoreau)

This is the battle cry. I feel myself to be one in a million. This is the key staying truly alive. Existence is not enough. We must remain awake to see how glorious life truly is.

.....(2) A simple and independent man does not toil at the bidding of any prince. (Thoreau)

Here, too, Thoreau provides us with marching orders. The goal is to be simple and independent. The only means is to not have to toil at the bidding of another regardless of the loftiness of his station.

.....(3) We create our own reality through our beliefs. (Seth)

On this much of the nature of personal reality is founded. Seth also adds that it is through our conscious beliefs.

.....(4) I call that mind free which jealously guards the intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from heaven, which, whilst consulting others, inquires still more of the oracle within itself, and uses instructions from abroad not to supersede, but to quicken and exalt, it's own energies. (Channing)

Channing expresses great truths about what constitutes a free mind. I fashion myself to be in the process of becoming a free mind and much of how this unfolds is via doing exactly those things that Channing identifies above and in the quote to follow as well.

.....(5) I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects itself too much to be the slave or tool of the many or the few. (Channing)

For a long time, I've felt myself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's. I've known that truth spoke to me through my Heart. In this center was my sense of right and wrong. As to freeing myself from being the slave or tool or the many or the few, this is in line with Thoreau's simple and independent man.

.....(6) To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. (Stevenson)

Obviously. However, it is up to us to put in the effort to make it so. Many may be capable, but it is via our own efforts that we grow into what we can become.

.....(7) It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Emerson)

One must live by one's own principles and march to the beat of one's own drummer. We are not one of a flock -- but an independent being infused with soul.

.....(8) Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. (Emerson)

This expresses a great truth, one that should be a guiding principle for all men who aspire to greatness, which all beings can and should choose to do.

.....(9) I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of art. (Thoreau)

This gets to the art of conscious reality creation, and it truly is "the highest of art".

.....(10) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Mozart)

Each of us has genius inside of us. Love is the soul of that genius -- the very key that can unleash its expression in our lives.

6. What ten books have had the most impact in your life?

List titles and identify the category or nature of each book.

.....Which book is number one and why?

Number 1 would have to be Seth Speaks. It was the one book that completely blew out the cobwebs and allowed an open framework to be built that all the others could fill. The ideas from Seth Speaks were expansive enough that I have yet to find any boundaries that get in the way of any other constructs or concepts that I have found in my search. Further, I have literally read Seth Speaks 6-10 times. I lost count. No other book has had this level of impact on me. The Nature of Personal Reality comes a close second, but it, too, is from Seth.

7. What is reality to you?

Reality is my conscious experience of myself and the world in which much of my experience appears to occur. Reality is primarily an inner experience that happens consciously within my head.

8. How is your reality created? How is external reality created?

I create my own reality through my beliefs. A host of unconscious parts of myself are working to make physical reality match or conform to my beliefs.

9. When was the last time you had a spiritual awakening or self-realization experience?

How did that experience change your understanding and/or experience of reality?

The last major awakening was at the end of Sep 93. Many smaller awakenings have continued during the four months since them.

These experiences have changed nearly everything that I believe about myself and my reality. The bottom line change is that there is nearly always a watcher part of myself that is consciously monitoring all that I am doing and everything that I experience so that it can determine if there is any higher level meaning apparent. I don't know exactly when this watcher became such an integral part of me. I don't remember experiencing it in this way prior to Sep 93. During that month I was seeing a lot of symbolic meaning in my reality, but I don't really remember being an observer watching it happen. I was more aware of being the doer who experienced. Now, my sense is that the watching is more important than the doing. It's as if this part of me woke up sometime between the end of Sep 93 and mid Nov 93. Interesting, I hadn't realized this before. The watcher is another part of my conscious that was asleep nearly all of my life. Actually, it was awake on and off during Sep 93 because of my experiences with the spiritual videotapes.

10. What is your purpose? How did you come to know it?

To convey my Vision for the establishment of a New World Order necessary to carry the world into the Age of Aquarius.

I came to know it through my excitement, intuition, and inner knowing. Parts of which have been confirmed through various psychic sources as well.

11. How would you describe your level of awareness?

I experience being the watcher much of the time. I believe I am awake, but not yet fully awake. Then perhaps we are never fully awake so long as we operate within these physical dimensions of reality.

12. What do you think you need to increase your awareness of your true nature?

To be aware of the signs that come to me. Every part of my reality brings to me information that can prompt me to increased awareness if I pay attention to it and realize what it means for me.

A physical teacher might help as well, though one on an inner level might be just as valuable if not more so, It would be helpful to have a greater understanding of the various states of consciousness that I experience.

13. What questions do you have about the nature of yourself and your reality?

Well, that's one filled in. Now, does it provide enough to give me a picture of where a person is at and what they need to start doing things to increase their level of awareness? Overall, I think there is enough information to start from, but I need some sort of map of consciousness levels that allows me to translate the information into a place on the map.

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