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JOHN TROY
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Wisdom’s Soft Whisper
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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 Wizard‟s 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
Wizard‟s Alchemy
Pure Stillness
The Narrator “I” in the Head
Everyone You Meet is a Godsend
Intense Grace
The Folk Fellowship at Large
A Wizard‟s Re-Creation
The Cauldron
John Troy‟s Story Line
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Non Fiction
Spiritual, Philosophy, Advaita
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Third Edition, revised and edited, 2011
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our decades ago, a poet friend, Philip Rego,
shared a poem that asked for Truth so
confessed, it required decades for an honest
heart-felt response to match the poetic
response. Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper is the
answer to the question raised by the young
prince in the poem. This manuscript is
dedicated to that prince, Philip Rego. The
question in the poetry called forth a Wizard.
Prince:
“Where do you go when you so want to
know?
Where can you listen in silence?
What do you do when you're lost and alone
In eternity searching for love?
Where do you hear wisdom's soft whisper
On a planet that's crying in pain?
Where do seek wisdom's sweet peace
In a world that's going insane?”
Wizard:
“There‟s 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
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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 Heart‟s pure existence.
Listen in silence…
To the stream‟s laughing song
To the poem of its life-giving waters
Know you are One
With infinite Love
Your journey‟s begun when it‟s over”
Philip Rego~
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The Dawn of Wisdom
C
onsider the word, water. Is the very word,
water, itself, wet? Can that word quench
thirst? Is the word, water, really water? Of
course it‟s not. It‟s just a word, not real
water. It only refers to water which itself
makes no claim of its own.
Now consider the word, “I”. Is the word or
even the internal statement, “I”, habitually
arising in your head really who you are?
Again, of course not; it is only a letter in the
alphabet that refers to the silent speechless
state that witnesses that word, “I”. The silent
state, not the statement, is who you really
are. Truth is not a thought.
Simply put, this is Wisdom. The word,
Wizard, comes from the word, Wisdom. It
refers to the domicile of the wise. The state
that is prior to the bundle of alphabets and
words called the mind. Wizards, by a stroke
of grace, have the ears to hear the silent
whisper prior to the form of alphabets. That
is Wisdom. In Eastern traditions, a Wizard is
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referred to as a Jnani or Sage. A Wizard is
not a Guru or a messiah.
A Wizard‟s Wisdom cannot be defined,
known, contained or found. That‟s because
knowledge is of the mind. Wisdom is that
which is prior to the movement of the mind.
A Wizard is one who fundamentally dwells
in Wisdom, the domicile of the wise. A
Wizard re-cognizes the „I‟ thought, mind and
knowledge as useful tools of language and
finds such as a biological servant,
effortlessly, perfectly. Wisdom is not
knowledge. Knowledge is always gained
anew by the knower “I” thought, called the
mind; one thought tied to another to create a
bundle of thoughts that in turn create a
story-line from birth to death. What is
gained anew will certainly disappear
eventually in time. Conversely, Wisdom is
empty, transparent and eternal stillness.
Wisdom is birth-less and death-less, having
no form. Knowledge is but a veneer of
alphabets and concepts projected into reality
to the point of distraction. It is learned
ignorance. Peel the veneer of words off and
free that attention to reveal the true realm of
Being without the “I” notion. This is the
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dawn and dis-covery of Wisdom; the heart of
sentience.
“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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Awakening from Illusion
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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 or the mortal
paradigm are words, concepts, beliefs,
imagination, relationships and alphabets.
The apparition is just information, memory
and thoughts. It is merely mind stuff. They
make up the belief systems and images of
who you think you are and what you think
you see; just benign thoughts and
imagination.
Words have countless 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 found 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 native outlook.
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Herein lays the home of the ego-Narrator “I”
and the idea or statement of who you think
you are. It‟s the imaginary narrator “I”. The
“I” thought 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 amazing
awakening. The mind is not who you are; nor
is your body. Don‟t take anyone‟s word for it.
See for yourself. It is a simple change of
outlook. You are pure non physical existence.
Prior to the mind and that within which the
mind arises and sets is a silent state (like
deep dreamless sleep), not a statement, but
an eternal, ever present state that is aware of
the “I” and it‟s bundle of thoughts. That
silent, still realm is who you really are. It is
like a movie screen the movie is viewed
upon. It is the actual “Here” and “Now” your
thoughts manifest and dissolve within. The
quiet here and now effortlessly shared by
everyone, already.
To be that which you already are is to be a
Wizard. It is Wisdom. It is not dependent on
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the thoughts, information and alphabets as
knowledge. It does not require a diploma. It
does not require religion. Wisdom is simple
being prior to knowledge. Be wise. Take rest
in Wisdom prior to the mind and its
imaginings.
“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~
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
Believe Not
izards do not believe in believing. There is 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; alphabets.
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 and retire the story line.
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, distance and memory are
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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. Heaven is a belief.
Hell is a belief. All after-life scenarios are
beliefs. God is a belief. Who you think you
are is a belief. Each one is just another
thought-thread woven in the tapestry of the
illusory storyline. Eastern philosophy calls it
Maya. Revelations refers to it as the
“fornicating whore”.
Beliefs and myths serve a multiplicity of
structural functions for a variety of cultures
and individuals. Some are 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? What is the root of race prejudice,
gender inequalities, hatred, homophobia,
terror, or politics?
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“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 Don’t
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izards don‟t do magic. Magicians, Conjurers,
Warlocks, Necromancers, Sorcerers and the
like take credit for doing magic. Wizards do
not do magic; magic from doership is for
attention and entertainment. Wizards simply
abide in innocence as the magic naturally
happens. The Wisdom of the Wizard is in
recognizing the current mysterious quality of
synchronicity and going with what wants to
happen; seeing the miracle continuously
unfolding. A Wizard has a very light hand
and does little. Life happens of its own
accord. The whole seen/scene is already a
miracle for a Wizard. No doership required.
Be forewarned by another point of view
where an “I” thought notices extraordinary
coincidences and calls it magic and assumes
mortal doership in the apparent other and
assigns that person‟s name the role of master
or magician. They say that such and such a
person does magic or miracles because
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coincidences are commonplace in their
presence. It is often projected into so-called
messiahs and holy people. It is a power
projection. It is not true. Absolutely not true!
No one‟s doing anything. It is your own
Faith.
It is simply synchronicity. The common
denominator of all synchronicity is nondoership,
not doership. Everyone has already
experienced it. It is a sign of graceful living;
of letting go. It is miraculous. Keep the Faith.
Renounce doership. Allow synchronicity to
enjoin you. Synchronicity fosters ever more
trust and establishes one in peace and magic
blossoms naturally in your life.
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“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
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onder present awareness right now. Ponder
just the “Now” only. Is it divisible? Is it
moving or still? Can you be separated from
it, ever? No way! What is its capacity? It is
Infinite; accepting all things. Does anything
stick? Ponder this great Host. What is this all
inclusive “Now”? Might it be what you really
are? You bet!
You are actually synonymous with the very
Now. It can‟t 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
like the sky. The Now is immediate and ever
present as the Self. That means that the Now
is actually you without form or attributes!
Right now! Ponder this limitless capacity. Be
empty! Be formless. Be in repose. Be
nameless. Allow yourself to be that! That is
Wisdom.
The Now is an infinite Ocean of awareness
and body-minds are like waves of form on
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the ocean of awareness. It is all the same
stuff. The cycle goes from stillness to
becoming to returning to present stillness.
Ponder further. Is not all a direct incarnation
of this silent, still, infinite Ocean of
Awareness? Can the “Now” ever be reduced
to be less than greater than what arises
within this “Now”? Can the “Now” ever
reincarnate or move or is it, in truth, ever
present and still as infinite capacity? Can the
form ever be greater than that within which
it appears? 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 discover it‟s perfectly
still ground of Be-ing. It is not about
believing. It is the antithesis of believing,
Faith opens the door of discovery; innocent
Faith like a child, not faith in something.
Surrender. Allow the door to open, 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 Wizard’s Staff
I
n truth, are you really a linear “story line”
married to the concept of time? Are you
going through time in a moving “now”
bubble and held captive inside a body? While
it is relatively true that the body-mind
carries memory in the form of a DNA code
that perpetuates the illusion of birth-lifedeath
of biology, it is a mirage. Memory is
biology. And memory is an insentient and an
illusory energy trail and a seduction of the
exquisite illusion that holds your attention in
the idea of moving in mortal time to meet an
imaginary death.
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, all require 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 still
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“Now”, the move-less host, like a dream? Of
course it does! Just a rainbow of shadows
projected on a still screen of peace.
Movement is illusion; a play of
consciousness. Stillness is the truth. Be
Stillness. Be in repose. Be one with Wisdom
and allow motion to take its own coarse. It is
just a benign dream.
Herein lays the significance of the Wizard‟s
Staff. The vertical Staff stands for Wisdom,
the vertical everpresent paradigm. Truth is
that which is move-less and invisible and
indivisible. That which is still and has no
form is pure Wisdom. This is the Domicile of
the Wise. Keep the Staff of Wisdom vertical.
Remember its significance. Be rid of time.
Yesterday is dead! Tomorrow is not here or
now and never will be. The Vertical Staff
stands for that enduring Faith in the present
moment. All hope is useless; just a mantra of
doubt. Witness the play of consciousness
from the standpoint of stillness. Keep the
Staff vertical and the nightmare turns into
heaven on earth.
You will discover that matter is just energy.
You take your stand in the move-less “Now”.
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Nouns transform into verbs. This is no
longer a noun for you to hold on to or be
identified with as existence and sentience
naturally falls to infinity. You find you are
immortal and have always been. You now
understand Einstein.
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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 name‟s 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
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ow, consider Faith. True Faith is innocence.
Faith is surrender and total acceptance
rather than a theist meaning or a specific
religion. Faith in something is an oxymoron.
This is a very important distinction.
Faith completely trusts the Mystery. Faith is
the antithesis of belief. Belief is made up of
words deeply and stubbornly impressed in
the mind. Faith is not. Faith is the invocation
of perfection by acceptance of the “Now”, as
is, without beliefs. Faith is the way of the
Wizard and children. Here‟s 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 puts the imaginary “I” out
of a job. Faith sees every action as perfect. It
even trumps forgiveness since there is never
a sin to begin with.
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Mystery
Faith simply puts a capital “M” on the
Mystery and trusts it. That‟s all! Faith is not
dependent on belief systems, thoughts or
learning. Faith holds no judgment, no
punitive concepts, no limitations, and no
doership and allows everyone equality of
vision, seeing one another as Thy Self and as
a pure and equal Truth. Faith is always
accepting.
Faith literally transforms carnal illusion into
a benign play of consciousness that reveals
the true nature of One Being. Faith gracefully
divests all holy icons, deifications and idols
into the Peace of eternal “Now”, that is your
very Self.
Accordingly, Faith allows the eventual
relinquishment of the idea of doership, itself.
Faith restores innocence, trust, love and
oneness. Faith is the mightiest prayer.
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Faith allows you to truly be happy like a
child. 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 inquiry
which dissolves the illusion of separateness
and you awake from being identified with
your brittle little storyline. The true and only
birth is the waking up from the mortal birthlife-death
storyline to understand you are the
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
Something You Do
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editation is not something Wizards do.
Meditation is not a group sport. Being in
simple repose in the midst of any and all
action, unencumbered, is meditation. It has
no form. The Wizard‟s way is to surrender
doership; surrender reaction. 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” thought. Naturally allow
attention to shift to one‟s simple ground of
prior Being. There is no transmission or even
presumption of a separate self; just natural
seamless stillness as existence. Already
present. One is re-cognized as non
physical existence and the narrator “I”
becomes transparent. 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 feeling of peace is
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contagious. That is sacred Love. True Love is
choice-less. That is enough.
There are those who traverse the schools of
bodily yoga and mental and energy
manipulations and form guru-disciple
relationships. There are countless such
carrot stick schools. The extraordinary
experiences and light shows generated are
fascinating and never ending. The divinity
seen is only a reflection. Energy centers open
and bloom like flowers. It is exciting and
enticing. Experiences come. Experiences go.
You will never get it. You will never
“graduate” The more you seek these
experiences, the more you will suffer.
These experiences are laden with
burdensome doership and
inferiority/superiority complexes. They
create deep impressions in memory where
their grandeur haunts your attention and
holds you captive. None of it is really
permanent. None of it is real. That is the
downside of psychedelics. Super Maya is
even more of an obstacle. It is only the mind
on steroids. It is a distraction for Wizards.
Wisdom says to take the bypass. Come
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directly home. Renounce doership and all
paths. Leave the Yellow Brick Road and Oz
behind.
“I feel within me peace above all earthly
dignities, a still and quiet conscience.” ~
William Shakespeare~
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Practice is Real
I
f you practice throwing a ball to someone,
you really throw a real ball to someone real.
You don‟t 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. Practice that. Practice bringing
attention back to the here and now from the
imaginings of past and future. You are not
pretending. You are being here and now.
Being the here and now is the ultimate
Truth. It is not a thought! It is practice.
Really put a capital “M” on the Mystery.
Trust it without letting it lure you and it will
transform into the dance of the Goddess. Be
pure presence. Be here now. Transcend the
narrator “I” and dwell as the domicile of the
Wise. No need to pretend. Relax. Be the real
Truth that you already are. Practice makes
perfect. You are already home.
Wisdom then is not a matter of seeking the
truth and gathering information to “know”
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about the Truth but rather of the practice of
living as and from the here and now. This is
the supreme trial for Wizards. Practice
means just that, practice. You practice the
real awareness of here and now as what you
are prior to bodily identification. It is not
pretentious. Practice the paradigm shift to
vertical. Simply be here now. Forget
yesterday and tomorrow. What you need will
unfold for you. It is the practice of being the
“jewel”. Not the activity of doing something
to find it.
A Wizard is watchful for the continued
tendencies of re-seeking after discovering
one‟s own simple “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, deification or any
apparent other, recognize that “jewel” as a
reflection of your own ”jewel” of
enlightenment and remain in repose.
Practice makes perfect.
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“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
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or Wizards, unfolding life is all the exquisite
play of consciousness. In other words, it is all
Thy Will happening. Thy Will is perfectly
Free Will. Critical insight reveals 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 one‟s 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. Don‟t look back. Allow
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life to unfold with a sense of awe, surrender
and grace, whatever that might look like or
be. There are no models. Synchronicity will
enjoin you and you will discover inherent
Wisdom. Regrets vanish. The doctrine of sin
falls away. All is simply as it should be. Not
one thing is avoided.
Awareness in the “now” is the true state of
simple “Being” and every-thing you perceive
is like a passing cloud in this awareness, the
sky of sentience. Everyone eventually wakes
up to realize they are the infinite sky, not the
passing cloud. There is no other. You are It,
alone as the sky is alone!
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 and
pretentious. Wizards understand that
appearing ordinary is just fine and in most
cases, preferred. Wizards have no models of
behavior and don‟t take themselves too
seriously. They love their disguise. They love
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to play. They are playful rascals. When you
don‟t judge yourself, then you see others in
the light of playful loving oneness. It is not
wise to bring on yourself the burden of
spiritual 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. That
is equality of vision; the mark of Love.
Many Wizards abide hidden 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. Venerate that. They are
Wizards, too, in that particular disguise.
Partake in awakened company and enjoy the
playfulness, insights and joy that come with
all good company wherever you find it, both
inside these organizations as well as
anywhere else it avails itself. Religions and
Institutions never contain Truth as they so
often claim.
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That does not mean that deification and
idolatry are wise or sacred. They are ego
traps. Equality of vision is Love and it begins
with you. Why assign it to another and then
worship it? It is inherently divisive.
“'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 and
The Sixth Sense
E
very Wizard is steeped in ESP. Extra Sensory
Perception (ESP) is the Sixth Sense, the
actual sense of existence. It is omniscient
sentience.
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 transient
senses are strung on it.
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The Sixth Sense is the inherent, invisible
substratum of the world, mind & brain and
transcends the world, mind & brain at the
same time in a continuum. The Sixth Sense
is intangible awareness and the only
enlightened sense of the senses. This pure
sense of existence is not dependent on the
world, body, brain and if fact, mind and the
world, 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 limited
mind to comprehend. The causeless, still
background is ever aware and reflective like
the surface of a mirror and ever-present like
space.
When doership and the five senses are
released; Wisdom is present. The sixth sense
is pure sentience. There is no doership in
sentience. It is not dependent on the bodymind
or world. The five bodily senses are not
sentient. They are transient. Doership is the
illusion of movement.
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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. That‟s
tremendous! That‟s 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,
it‟s 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
D
eifications and I-Dolls (Idolatry) are
constantly sticking their heads up in the Now
saying “Look at me! I am the holy one!”
Sometimes we do it for them and they buy
into it. 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 and project it
onto to another. This is not to say that
sincere saints and sages are not worthy of
veneration. The true sage, however, will
exhibit equality of vision and expose
deification and idolatry for what it is.
Deification robs love every time. It is
inherently divisive.
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
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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.
Don‟t be fooled! Drink freely from the Well.
In the story of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy‟s
pet, Toto, pulls the curtain back covering the
Wizard at just the perfect time to reveal an
extraordinarily ordinary being. Toto is a fact
of life. Toto happens when idolatry reaches
the breaking point. Toto is a blessing.
We are all One. Toto is making sure equality
of vision 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 by pulling the curtain back.
Surrender. Allow Toto to pull the curtain
back and reveal the ordinary. Understand
how Toto‟s perfect action empowers
Dorothy, the Tin man, the Lion and the
Scarecrow and restores Love to the Wizard.
Empower others by being extraordinarily
ordinary. Be transparent. Love is Oneness.
Nobody is a Wizard. Everyone is the Wizard.
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This is the Truth. This is Wizardry. This is
Love.
Dorothy and Toto
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“Oz never gave anything to the Tin Man,
that he didn‟t, didn‟t 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~
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Turning Inside-Out
T
he Wizard‟s Wisdom is a profound paradigm
shift, turning the sense of “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.
Sentience is not exclusively in your head. It
is the other way around. You head is
appearing in your formless sentience.
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. Spirit is always singular. It
is Wisdom. It is causeless. All are of it
(Wisdom) but don‟t 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, Buddha, Divine,
Self, Guru, Spirit, Holy Ghost, Rama, Now,
God, Love, Intuition, Sixth Sense, Soul,
Nirvana, Void, Heart, Arunachala, Shiva,
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Peace, Wizard, The Zone, Omkar, Great
Spirit, etc.
Being immaculately still, Wisdom exhibits no
name of its own, makes no claim of its own
and allows all names and claims. No need to
be confused by this or that name. A rose is
still a rose regardless of what we call it.
Be still and know this silent Truth for and as
one‟s 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 through
phenomena is the prerequisite for turning
inside-out. The focus needs only to turn
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around 180° and observe the searcher.
Explore the nature of yourself to the point
the inner statement, “I”, dissolves or
becomes transparent to the silent pervasive
state of the Self, Wisdom‟s sweet Peace. You
are totally inside-out, already.
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
A
Paradigm Shift is when a significant change
in perception happens from one
fundamental view to a completely different
view. One perceptual world view is 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 phenomena is but an
insentient light show like a hologram played
in the theater of the transcendent and
transparent Self. All phenomena are
objective. Perception is sentience. Find out
what perceives. Perception is of the
subjective. It is the Witness and real
awareness and who you are. Dis-cover it by
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focusing attention on the little word-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 the omniscient
screen within which the audible little “I”
word thought occurs. That is the ultimate
paradigm shift! The sense of Being, itself,
shifting from limited knowledge held captive
in a bundle of thoughts to pure omniscient
Wisdom.
It is the most powerful paradigm shift. It is
unimaginable and unknowable. True
alchemy changes everything; a change in
outlook from mortal physical existence to
boundless non-physical existence. It must be
experienced directly, free from distracting
thought. It is genderless. It is formless. It is
choice-less. 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. It is the host-theater
within which all appear and disappear; the
vertical paradigm. It is literally the “Now”,
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right now! It is the Tao, the Way and the
Truth. Wisdom knows no boundaries or
labels.
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 for some kind of answer and
turn attention around 180 degrees. Discard
all the illusory elements of the psychic world
as noise and distraction and focus on your
own stillness and silence. This is the
breakthrough as to the real nature of human
beings, Wisdom.
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We are not Beings having a sacred
experience; we are sacred Being having
human experiences. Allow the paradigm
shift. The image remains the same.
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“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
O
ne of the difficulties in communicating the
truth of our oneness is that the vertical
paradigm cannot be grasped by the mind.
The mind is the horizontal paradigm with
past and future images comprised of socalled
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 within
the still “Now”.
Although it cannot be “known”, "It" can be
experienced by anyone as their own heart of
existence. Extricate your sense of personality
from knowledge and be pure Wisdom. It is
experienced deep within your own Being as
Being, headless and prior to thought. Share
that. Truth is not a thought. One is
nonphysical existence, first hand. This is the
paradigm shift that is so liberating. Confess
and affirm that Oneness which is already
shared as the highest common denominator.
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To share Wisdom and the sixth sense is to
commune. It affirms Oneness and Love. This
Love authenticates non physical existence,
joyfully. This recognition frees
enlightenment from the ownership of
religions and orthodoxy 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 with equality of
vision!
"Sadashiva, who is ever present in the
hearts of all human beings, is the unifying
factor. Unity liberates. Freedom unites.
Ultimately nothing is mine or yours;
everything is ours. Just be one with yourself
and you will be one with all, at home in the
entire universe."
Nisargadatta Maharaj~
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“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
T
he existing paradox of life is fraught with
confusion and contradiction. Words and
knowledge, at best, only point an imaginary
way to the unknown. There is no way. Words
are the tip of the finger. Words do not
constitute Wisdom. Truth is not a thought.
Enough said. Stillness is discovered by being
still. It is Wizardry when you are quiet
enough to truly listen. Bathe in the silence.
Be not concerned about how the storyline
unfolds. Allow the horizontal paradigm to
dissolve away or become transparent. 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, not
the mind. Allow sentience, itself, to fall to the
heart of existence. Paradigm shifts; Wisdom
and Peace prevail. Let the mind do as it
pleases and don‟t worry about it.
Faith is the antithesis of belief. Belief is
nothing but concepts. Faith abides in the
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heart sky 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
home sans mind to the thoughtless and
unknown in a perfect way. It does not need
your help. The thoughtless can never be
contained in the mind. What's left
is Wisdom‟s 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
discoveries confessed by many.
“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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Wizard’s Alchemy
ncient lore has it that a Wizard‟s alchemy
changes base metals into gold.
In Wizard speak, this means the
transformation and translation out of the
carnal physical paradigm into non physical
immortal existence. This is bona fide
alchemy. It should get your attention.
Anything else is just trickery!
Hold fast to the ever present paradigm of
Now. Allow the horizontal story line to be, as
it will, and your sense of sentience 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. Theology
has nothing to do with it. Wisdom is not
about what you believe; it‟s 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
S
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 indivisible.
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 only
apparently moves. Allow all movement as a
benign apparition in the stillness. If it moves,
it‟s the movie. Be the still screen. It will not
be effected by the movie.
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
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forward to the captivating future. How can
"stillness" be otherwise than move-less
silence within which the story-line appears?
Be natural stillness. This is Wisdom.
The still and silent sense of being is truly
shared by all. It is obvious. No exceptions.
Forms come and go. Wisdom is what is left
after the forms become a transparent and
benign play.
Only ponder words. Words themselves will
not penetrate, they only point or refer to an
apparition. Allow the words and messages to
fall away leaving the residue of pure recognition
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
T
he narrator “I” appearing in the middle of
the skull-bone cannot know the unknown
with the mind. The mind is simply an
improper tool. It is like using arms to walk
instead of using legs. The narrator “I” is the
individual personality and seeker. It is a lie.
The same seeker that seeks and desires
money, food and sex ultimately seeks the
truth with the same tools 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 imaginary 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 as they say. Put the “I”
thought to work by finding itself. Either way,
mind is undone and seen through.
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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.
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
bundle of thoughts claiming to be "I" is false,
an apparition only. Both result in the stilling
and disappearance of the permanence of the
narrator “I” in the mind. The I-thought is the
root of all fear because it is identified with a
mortal body.
Inherent tendencies may continue to play
out but without doership. They are benign
playful. Life becomes synchronistic and
graceful. Be patient and trust the Mystery, all
is unfolding as it should. You are blessed!
The play of consciousness will now serve you
as who you really are. This is called your
Dharma.
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“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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Everyone You Meet
Is a Godsend
V
iew everyone you meet as a Godsend. Never
be too proud to recognize this. Treat every
circumstance the same way. Be humble. Be
the sculptor who sees that true image of the
goddess embedded in that piece of granite.
Ponder "every action is perfect" and let it all
go. It is even prior to forgiveness. Trade your
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. It is 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.
The sculptor is chipping away to reveal the
Truth. In the mean time, the transcendent
Being is no more affected than the surface of
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a mirror reflecting an image. Just like a
dream when 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 Divine Self. Destiny will
unfold appropriately as your actions become
your dance of the divine and peace of mind
prevails. Wizard sees Wisdom, ego sees ego.
See Divinity. Be Divinity.
That does not mean that your sacrifice
courage. Have the courage to speak your
truth under any condition. Courage is not
demeaning, it is affirming.
“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
E
mbrace the inspiration to share the truth of
our oneness in different ways and in
challenging cultures as fate will allow. Your
spontaneous 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. Have the courage to be your truth.
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
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of the figurine. God sees God and ego sees
ego. When God sees God, it is Holy
Communion. When ego sees ego, it is a
reflection that teaches about your own
mental tendencies that prevent you from
recognizing that you are the eternal “Now”.
It is where the sculptor goes next to chip
away. Allow the chipping away.
Sharing 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 radical relationship
for those involved resulting in edification for
a sharing in progress that is fitting in a new
time and a new generation; like threads in
the tapestry that can‟t be
compartmentalized. Together, these
relationships contribute to the healing of
nations, increased tolerance, deepened
spiritual understanding and reformation.
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Folk Fellowships go by a number of different
names spread across far distant places. In
China, they are referred to as Taoists. In
Japan, Shinto; in India, the Hindus; in the
British Isles, it is the Pagans (means country
or natural). In Jamaica, it‟s the Rasta; in
South America, Shamans; in America,
Hippies, Burners and New Agers; and so it
goes. All are a part of the Folk Fellowship at
large. The neo Advaita movement is such a
fellowship. These are not organized religions
but they are very authentic fellowships.
There are also many fellowships even more
encompassing that are unknown and
unrecognized. The mark of authenticity is
the love and equality of vision. Membership
button is your belly button.
Find a natural mythological microcosm of
universal Truth for all abiding in the “Now”.
You will 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. All
are countless gems in a sacred necklace
around the supreme mantle of Peace. Some
are well cut and polished like diamonds and
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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 Nameless 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~
“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great
multitude, which no man can number, of all
nations, and kindred, and people, and
tongues, stood before the throne, and before
the lamb [peace] clothed with white robes
[bright auras], and Palms [flowers] in their
hands; [the inclusive global fellowship of
non-dual wisdom, Oneness, that requires
not a religion or organization or dogma or
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belief yet is the true essence of all religion.
Gees! Us! Without the “I” thought]
And cried out with a loud voice, saying,
Salvation to Our God which sitteth upon the
throne [our highest mutual Spirit or Love],
and unto the lamb [sacrifice of “I” thought
and thus peace].
And all the angels stood round about the
throne, and about the elders and the four
beasts [the “fornicating whore” is the Ma
Kali mask in Hindu mythology and the
dragons represent the play of consciousness
that seduces us into a fearful carnal and
mortal outlook believing the dream is real.
That beast that “is, but never was, but still
is” like a dream that fools us until we wake
up], and fell upon their faces [renunciation
of the “I” thought and personality] and
worshiped God [Oneness],
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and Glory, and
Wisdom, and Thanksgiving, and Honor,
and Power, and might, be unto our God
[Oneness] forever and ever. Amen.
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And one of the elders answered, saying unto
me, What are these which are arrayed in
white robes? And whence they came? [Those
unrecognized by any religion, doctrine,
orthodoxy or creed. Those free of the
ownership of religion and death of forms]
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. They
are they which came out of great tribulation
[the struggle between the carnal outlook
and paradigm of mortal existence
characterized as the “I am the body notion”,
and the paradigm of non physical or eternal
seamless existence as Spirit, characterized
by peace and love. This struggle begins only
after the “marriage feast” where one is
caught up by Grace in the heavens and
made One with Christ or God or Spirit
which is really nameless. One returns to
“earth” with the bride and the tribulation
begins between the two paradigms] and
have washed their robes [karma, mortal
tendencies], and made them white [pure] in
the blood of the Lamb [sacrifice of the “I”
thought and peace].
Therefore are they before the throne of God
[the kingdom of God is at hand right Now],
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and serve him [the Father or Siva, the
sentient formless aspect] day and night in
his temple [the infinite omniscient Here &
Now and great Host and cathedral of All]:
and he that sitteth upon the throne shall
dwell among them [literally as them in
formless existence].
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
anymore; neither shall the sun light on them
nor any heat [as non physical existence].
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them
unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
Revelations, Chapter 7~
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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 Wizard’s Re-Creation
T
he Wizard‟s Vision is always present Peace
and clarity. It is the eyes to see the Now,
clearly. It is not an imagining of otherness or
a fantastic light show.
The Vision is one of responsive service, here
and now, as fate allows. The Vision is
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
Wizard‟s Vision is open-ended, openminded,
in repose and allows for its own
unique “re-creation”.
An environment that fosters a Wizard‟s recreation
is mutual trust; simply called good
company. Enjoy it! A Wizard‟s re-creation is
natural and organic and aligned with
Mystery. A Wizard‟s re-creation is to nourish
and heal, continually restoring wholeness
back to the environment. A re-creation that
is responding to the genuine needs of one
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another and those served. As a Wizard, recreation
is to enjoy the good company of
apparent others. Everyone may participate in
the re-creation of a fresh, wholesome and
enlightened Planet Earth freely floating in
the Heavens. Membership of the fellowship
is as big as all outdoors. Aspire to make the
Vision Real-I-Zation.
"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
T
here is already a Wizard in your life. Most
Wizards are unknown. They are also known
as shaman, sages and seers; even rascals.
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 of affirmation that
assist in the establishment of the paradigm
shift.
The writer has many mentor Wizards, both
known and unknown. Ram Dass, James
Campbell, Swami Muktananda, Ramana
Maharshi, Nityananda, Neem Karoli Baba, K.
Sridhar to name a few of the better known. A
true Wizard is a friend and will relieve you
of your search. They will not pick your
pocket. They will re-cognize you as your
sacred Self. A few other famous classic
confessed Wizards you may have heard
about are Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu,
Walt Whitman, Eckhart Tolle, Papa-ji,
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rama Krishna, Sai
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Baba, Puppet-ji, Albert Einstein, John
Lennon, Carl G. Jung, Bob Marley, Deepak
Chopra, Ramana Baba, Stephen Covey et al.
“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
Thirty years ago, this ancient Chinese
Divination emerged twice in a row,
describing the destiny of John Troy, aka
Wizard Baldour. The Wizard accordingly
named his enterprise and livelihood, The
Wizard‟s 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.
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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
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
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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.
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:
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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
two into harmony, he puts his fate on a firm
footing.
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The Story Line of John
Troy aka the Wizard
J
ohn‟s family and friends as well as his
business and professional associates call him
The Wizard. He says he‟s 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 really
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.
The following is the
illusory linear story-line of John‟s
recognition of the Wizard and the domicile of
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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. It is not important.
John Troy (Wizard Baldour) is a North
Carolina native, born and raised in this
gentle, southern state. A Sagittarius born on
November 26, 1939 at sunset on a full moon
rising in Gemini. John is a fraternal twin.
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
Grandmother‟s farm and he loved the notion
of feeding people. Mixing savory smells,
good times and mighty fine eating became
dear to his heart.
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John and his twin brother, Frank, loved to
play in the woods and climb the mountains.
John was not suited to be an academic even
though he came from a family of academics.
It was a great struggle. He loved to work,
play and share fellowship.
Out of school, John started a stereo
component business from the love of music
that became a leading retailer in the
Southeast in the stereo component business.
His wife at the time left him to be with his
best friend and partner. Alcohol played a
role. This was the crushing blow.
Shortly afterwards, John‟s sojourn to
“Wizard” begins one evening at a friend‟s
home 40 years ago. It is a sudden paradigm
shift that completely changes his outlook on
life. A direct Self realization happened while
glancing through a book called, “Be Here
Now” by Ram Dass. It all happened so
spontaneously. John‟s 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 as it merged with the
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universe. An awesome vibration was felt like
a gigantic low resonate bell ringing that was
emerging from the face of the deep.
The sound releases the last vestige of
identification of John as sentience became a
state of total egoic absence; the absolute
unknowable. He implodes. All "otherness"
was utterly obliterated beyond description.
The ultimate experience of this absorption
proved unknowable and the only recollection
was through subtle intuition of eternal Joy.
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 had lost his wife and business and now
he had lost his mind.
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John later learns that
the formal term used
in Hindu philosophy
for this experience is
Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
John later intuits the
event as a Darshan
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from Neem Karoli Baba, mentioned in the
book he was reading. He begins reading every
book listed in the glossary and eventually meets
Ram Dass, who called him an overaged hippie.
The experience of conventional reality upon
resuming bodily awareness was more like an
apparition and interpreted by John as
“turning inside-out”. Being was non-local.
Time stood still. 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
there existed a continuum without egoic
points. Reality was transparent and the great
host of an unfolding apparition.
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 his Self. He had turned inside-out without
an “I” thought anchoring sentience to a
bodily form.
John was stunned by this realization and had
little context in the world in which to frame
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it. He had always thought he was literally the
voice in his head. He lacked the vocabulary
to express and articulate any insight.
Afterwards, he slowly began to lose touch
with the realization and started searching for
a way back to it through phenomena. He had
not the mentoring, affirmation or conviction
to abide in this profound realization.
Fortunately, this event is followed with
several months of budding affirmation by his
close friends and his new father in law, who
was a Baptist minister, Milan Gowing. The
close friend who offered so much affirmation
and support was a former employee of his,
Barry Drill. As John began to look at religion
as a source of affirmation, Barry was hanging
tough on the trap of deification and kept
John focusing back to his Self. John had
already enjoyed sharing psychedelics with
Barry not realizing what Barry seemed to
understand. John was most intrigued with
Barry and his lady friend, Virginia Graham.
They both turn him onto Eastern thought
and authors like Alan Watts and other folks
who were waking up. This led him to the
discovery of the book Be Here Now through
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a mutual friend, Rosalie Macklin, and the
eventual awakening.
On the other hand, Reverend Gowing framed
the experience in the pages of the Book of
Revelation. John now had the ears to hear
what had previously made no sense to him.
The scripture accurately, in its historic
nomenclature, described what had
happened. Rapture (Nirvikalpa Samadhi),
marriage with Christ (Oneness) and
tribulation (the struggle between the carnal
paradigm and the immortal awakening). The
illusion was depicted as “the fornicating
whore” or Kali in Eastern traditions.
Later, there is a chance
meeting with a Shamanlike
elder in Jamaica
while on vacation on the
island. Jamesy-Man, as
this Rasta man is called,
is the first person with no
previous relationship
baggage who truly shares
a mutual inside-out paradigm with John.
Nothing but the here and now. No story
lines. This is a Darshan of profound
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affirmation as the forms melted into
Oneness. Jamesy becomes John‟s spiritual
God-father without any fanfare. He refers to
their mutual outlook as “I & I, One Love”; an
affirmation by grace.
This initial meeting in the Rasta camp is cut
short by synchronistic events. Jamesy
mentions to John that he will be returning to
Jamaica and for him to follow the path from
that camp to a camp on top of a mountain on
the horizon. He points to the path at their
feet and then to a mountain ridge on the
horizon. He says, “I & I will meet there.”
John returned to North Carolina and his
domestic “story-line” totally fell apart. His
small business was failing and his new wife,
Linda, left him to be with his best spiritual
pal, Barry Drill. This was the second time.
His heart was completely shattered. In the
midst of the emotional turmoil, John could
not get Jamesy off his mind. All motivation
was gone. Within a few months, he sold his
last possession, a Volkswagen, and
purchased an airplane ticket and backpack.
He left behind his toddler son, David, his
home and garden to go be with Jamesy in the
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mountains of Jamaica. He had no money or
worldly possessions left to take with him. He
had no choice but to trust his newly
discovered intuition.
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. John was introduced to
the others in the camp. There were several
other Caucasians in the camp with similar
circumstances as John‟s. They all had very
interesting stories about how they were
drawn to be there with Jamesy.
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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
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. No rules, regulations,
schedules or hierarchy. The veneer of words
and concepts was absent.
John was treated and respected like a God.
James‟ 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 to
never put his faith in money.
Jamesy‟s way of sharing was totally natural
and out of the wild. Jamesy could not read or
write. He taught by living example. John
adapted the skills of preparing healthy food
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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. The silence had its
own way.
There was such a profound sense of peace
about Jamesy. As John spent time hanging
with Jamesy, he noticed something unique.
In a nonverbal way with subtle nuances,
Jamesy seemed to continually 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, herbs, coconuts and wild
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
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became commonplace as “accidents” became
extinct.
John‟s 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 deep
green tropical background, bathing in the
waterfalls, carrying water, tending to
biological needs and hanging with Jamesy.
John was in Zion, as the Rasta would call it.
It was timeless. It was just happening. It was
graceful and peaceful.
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.
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The environment was
free of conventional
religious trappings.
There was no
organization or
hierarchy and nothing to
“join”. There was no
political agenda.
Everyone enjoyed the simple company of
Jamesy.
From time to time, Jamesy would share a
little story that he would make up on the
spot. One story, in particular, has been a
profound teaching for John from beginning
to the end of his spiritual pilgrimage.
On one occasion, when a friend left the camp
to go see the young Guru Maharaj-ji from
India 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 the puppy
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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
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.
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Jamesy starts searching again for the lost
bone. After another very fretful search, he
finds the stick (bone) and is once again
happy.
“Puppy quickly returns to the stream and
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 it‟s only a reflection of bone
already in mouth. Puppy understands puppy
has bone. Puppy holds on to said bone with
conviction. Puppy is happy again but wiser.”
Jamesy then swiftly departed and left the
small audience to ponder the story.
And so it went with John that winter in
James‟ camp. Slowly the line between “Zion”
and “Babylon” melt as John yearns to share
with his family and friends. Winter is over
and John takes leave of Jamesy and returns
home to North Carolina to be with friends
and family.
It didn‟t take long for John to drop the
“bone” and start searching again. He actually
liked the camaraderie and adventure of it.
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But it all left him longing and still searching
for spiritual experiences.
He becomes a devotee of
Swami Muktananda who
initiates him with full
blown yogic Shaktipat.
John takes a seven year
walk on the yellow brick
road with all the
mysticism and visions
unfolding; exhausting his
tendency to have “spiritual
experiences”. John spends a good bit of time
in Muktananda‟s company. Muktananda
blessed him and his work, consistently. John
was blessed to start an ashram in North
Carolina called the Maha Siddha Yoga
Ashram and to teach there.
Instead of a Hindu motif,
John co-founded The
Lindenself Foundation and
began retreats and
gatherings with
Muktananda‟s blessing.
Here is where the Wizard dimension
becomes more self-evident.
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The years pass. John‟s 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 was not fond of passing the
plate for money. Jamesy has cautioned him
about the trap of money and the beauty of
freely receiving and freely sharing.
John becomes one of the founding fathers of
the natural and organic food industry as a
right livelihood. The natural food trade gets
to know him as Wizard Baldour, like his
community at home. He meets and marries
Carol Ellis, who became his steadfast partner
and put the sweat of her brow with John‟s to
practice right livelihood and then to share
the fruits of their actions. At first it was the
first power bar called Wizard Baldour‟s
Power Pac followed by a miso hot sauce
called Wizard Baldour‟s Hot Stuff. The
Wizard becomes a folk Wizard with Carol
silently supporting him all the way.
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On Muktananda‟s last
evening in America, in
upper New York State,
John and a friend,
Stewart Griffith, visit
the Mystic Swami. John
brought the Wizard‟s hat
as a gift for Muktananda,
knowing he likes hats and
that Muktananda is the true Wizard. John
approaches Muktananda and goes blank
prior to giving the hat to the Swami.
Muktananda places the Wizard‟s hat on
John‟s head and blesses him. John remained
in a swoon. This Darshan is different. There
was absolutely nothing! Nothing happened;
nothing to remember. John resumes bodily
awareness across the room with the hat on
the floor beside him under a statue of Ganesa
pouring riches over it in apparent blessing.
Roberta Flack, who had just dedicated and
sung “Killing Me Softly” with her band to the
Swami, walks over to John and firmly says,
“Put that hat back on. The Master put it on
your head and you are to wear it!”
The next day, Muktananda returns to India
and then after telling the staff to prepare for
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a large gathering, goes to his bed, pulls the
sheet over his head and drops the body. John
felt as if he had lost a father.
The Wizard and Carol then
begin 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 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 first came across Ramana
Maharshi‟s teachings originally
through a book by Bubba Free
John, Knee of Listening. John
then purchased a text of Talks
With Ramana Maharshi from
Bubba Free John‟s bookstore in
California. Here again in this text of Ramana
Maharshi was someone who seemed to
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articulate and understand John‟s own
experience of “inside-out”. It became a
source text he always treasured. John had
intuited but had not been able to articulate
his Wisdom to this degree and simplicity.
Ramana Maharshi understands and
expresses Advaita Vedanta (non dual
wisdom) to his devotees in conversation. It
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. Ramana
Maharshi, too, awakened without any
forgoing theology, religious tendencies,
practices or methodology. He simply had a
panic attack as an ordinary teenager and
accepted the fate rather than reacting to it as
confessed in his own words.
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. John‟s intimate
partner, Carol, his son from
the previous wife, David, and
a few others go on a pilgrimage to Jamaica.
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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 and affirmed. John takes the
photographs of his spiritual God-father you
see in this manuscript that he never did 20
years before. It was the Ethiopian New Year
and many bands were making their way into
the back country to provide Jamesy with a
free concert.
When John returns
from Jamaica,
blessings poured in.
One was an Indian,
K. Sridhar, who is
introduced into
John‟s story line.
Sridhar is a very
accomplished Indian classical musician.
Sridhar‟s mother was a devotee of Swami
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Nityananda, a great saint in India, and
Muktananda‟s Guru. Sridhar had grown up
with Swami Nityananda in India as a small
boy. He played music for many Indian
Advaita masters and other genuine spiritual
mahatmas, spent lots of time in seclusion,
had pilgrimages to the Himalayas to be with
his guru, or at Arunachala. Sridhar is a real
yogi and well versed in the yogic and Hindu
traditions and mythologies.
Like Jamesy, he understood and shared
John‟s experience of “inside-out”. He asks
John about his relationship with Bubba Free
John, 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 John‟s mantel over the fireplace and
acknowledges that as a sign from his guru.
He begins immediately to build confidence
in John‟s own self-realization, just like Barry,
Jamesy and Muktananda did. He
particularly took John to task for any
lingering tendencies to deify so-called holy
people, especially Da Free John at that time.
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Again, there are no money issues. You can‟t
give money to Sridhar. He won‟t 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
Jamesy and Nityananda never went to a
formal school.
Sridhar began spending informal time with
John. He offered constructive criticism about
hierarchal 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 re-seek for what he already has. He had a
“fire puja” with his objects of worship and
burned them up.
On a subsequent visit,
Sridhar‟s Guru in the
Himalayas suggests
that he might invite
John to India for a
month and stipulates
an itinerary. John
accepts the invitation in
full faith. The sojourn
begins in Bombay visiting the ashrams of the
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deceased Muktananda and Nityananda.
Then it is off to Lucknow and a meeting with
Papaji prior to his dropping the body. At
these places, there is an awareness of a
growing tendency towards deification in all
these seekers‟ havens; budding religion
businesses attracting westerners with all the
trappings.
Sridhar was teaching John what politically
organized religion business is all about, first
hand. It depended on the devotee dropping
the bone, every time. It depended on
devotees staying within the confines of a
religion or belief system. Sometimes literally
in the physical confines! Idolatry and
deification were always evident as pockets
were emptied.
This was the turning point in his trip to
India. John felt he had once again
transcended any need for organized religion
and deification in all its forms. The whole
world was John‟s spiritual community.
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After the meeting and
Darshan with Papaji, the
troupe secures a car and
driver and set off to the
ancient and sacred city of
Benares on the Ganges
River. They arrive at
sunset. Sridhar leaves John in the car while
he makes his way through the mystic maze to
find their room and to get help with luggage.
While waiting in the car for Sridhar to
return, an Indian gentleman
approaches. The gentleman looks just like
the pictures that John has seen of Ramana
Maharshi, who dropped his body in 1950.
John gets out of the car. The Indian
gentleman, with a walking stick in his hand,
strikes several postures and remains
comfortably still in each pose. John is awe
struck and fixated. Is he hallucinating?
Sridhar returns
with help for
luggage. John
turns around to
notice Sridhar who
is waving to get his
attention and when he looks back for the
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Indian gentleman, there is no one there. The
sky is a classic Red Indian sunset. Candle
pujas are floating along with the Ganges
river. John is suddenly on the E side of
E=MC2. All perception is now just a light
show. There is no noun left to identify with
as his sense of being is left standing at
formless infinity.
They quickly and
gracefully find
themselves making
their way to their
room on the Ganges
next to the cremation
grounds. All is unfolding exquisite
perfection. Synchronicity is driving events.
Mortality is missing. Doership is
missing. Sridhar mysteriously leaves John
for the rest of the evening. John is left with
his awakening for the night. The following
morning, Sridhar returns to their
accommodations. He acknowledges John‟s
Darshan with Ramana Maharshi and
instructs John to go to the Ganges to meet a
priest there at the edge of the Sacred Ganges.
The priest instructs John to take three dips
in the river and then asks him to sit on a
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bamboo mat while the he applies “Tiki” to
his forehead while chanting Vedic chants.
The rest of the day is spent in bliss with
Sridhar. The knot of separateness was
dissolved, once again, for John.
The final leg of the
India sojourn
takes them to
southern India
and the Ashram of
Ramana Maharshi
at the foot of a sacred mountain called
Arunachala. Upon arriving, the troupe is
taken to the dining hall and graciously fed.
The campus is very peaceful. No
loudspeakers, no rules, no religion business.
There is nothing to join and no belief system
to follow. When they are taken to their
accommodations, John is stunned again. On
the wall in the room is a picture of Ramana
Maharshi as he had appeared in Benares.
Here, again, it is effortless for the mind to be
quiet.
There was stillness throughout the campus.
Money was never mentioned or even
expected. There was not a set of rules or
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anything to join. It seemed free of the
religious trappings found in the Guru
Ashrams of Northern India. The sense of
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 once
again embraces the conviction needed to not
drop the bone of self-awareness by
projecting it on to others. He began to see
everyone and everything more seamlessly in
God.
John returns home, profoundly reaffirmed.
John then returns to Jamaica to visit Jamesy
and shares with Jamesy about his trip to
India. On departing from Jamesy‟s camp,
Jamesy offers John a calabash bowl, just like
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the one he had used decades ago in the camp
when living with Jamesy.
John returns to his rented bungalow on the
western cliffs of Jamaica with his family. It
has been a dry season and water is scarce.
Dark clouds start rolling in and a tropical
storm lets loose with lightening everywhere.
John removes his clothes to have a shower in
the tropical rain. On the way out, he grabs
the calabash bowl.
After his shower,
John takes the bowl
in outreached hands
to collect rain water
to drink. He begins to hallucinate that the
bowl is changing into a female breast from
which he drinks. As he is putting the bowl
aside, it changes into a large green jade egg
before returning to an ordinary calabash
bowl.
Back inside the
bungalow, he stands,
transfixed, gazing at
the dark horizon
over the ocean as a
great storm and lightening is raging within
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the profound stillness of One Self. The
communion with Jamesy and ALL is so deep
and still where all are One Love. Rain leaked
through the roof dripping on John‟s head as
he was anointed and baptized, dead to the
body idea, and resurrected as that great host
of everything and everyone; and it all seemed
ordinary to him.
All the shamans, teachers, authors and gurus
are affirming the same Truth of peaceful non
physical existence to John. All are a part of
the Masterpiece mosaic. All are enumerable
mirrors and are encouraging John to not
drop the bone of realization; to be more
firmly established in the Truth of being the
state of, not just the statement; I Am.
The next time the
Wizard sees
Sridhar, Sridhar
inquires about
Jamesy. He said
that his guru in the
Himalayas
informed him
Jamesy was the Wizard‟s most true
reflection. They were all serving the Wizard
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encouraging him to not drop the bone of Self
Realization. The real teachers all affirm the
same Truth. They empower. Jamesy,
Nityananda, Neem Karoli, Sridhar, Ramana
Maharshi, God, Guru, Self and in truth,
everyone, are all one and the same in spirit.
Just different names, that is all.
The Wizard was being taught that Love is far
more gracious than a name and Love makes
no claim of its own. A name is like a veneer
and not to be worshiped as an exclusive
form.
The last time the Wizard saw Jamesy was the
summer of 1998. Carol and the Wizard
traveled with Carol‟s daughter, Lisa, and the
Wizard‟s 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
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Man Rasta Man, John Man Rasta Man, I & I
One Love”. He asserted, “Color doesn‟t
matter, dreadlock hair doesn‟t matter, John
Man Rasta Man”. At the same time he
insisted that he was just an ordinary person.
As Sridhar says, “an elephant knows not its
own weight”. Jamesy started “reasoning”
about the environment, organic practices
and the use of corrupted seeds. 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 as
an organic ecopreneur. 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
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a love that was completely free of the
ownership of any religion and the death of
forms. Simply, “I & I, One Love; there is no
other.
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, Wizard‟s Cauldron, flourished.
A year later, while John was
being The Wizard character at
an organic 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.
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With an organic strategy, the Wizard was
able to invest in and build a company with a
bottling plant in North Carolina; The
Wizard‟s Cauldron. He began to assemble a
larger team of skilled and energetic people
with shared principles. The company began
an enterprise in proprietary branding for
folks who were looking for a qualified
outsource 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.
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
Ginger, Lemon Tahini, Balsamic dressings to
mention a few.
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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 Wizard‟s consulting business
also took him to Japan where he learned
about the wonderful world of Asian cuisine.
He was the owner CEO and Coach at The
Wizard‟s Cauldron where he championed the
company‟s marketing strategy as “The
Wizard of Oz” strategy.
The company currently supplies over three
hundred different products for the organic
food trade, nationwide. Customers and
brands include The Wizard‟s, Whole Foods
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Market, 365 Organic, Wild Oats, Central
Market, Full Circle, Premier Japan, Simply
Delicious, Spectrum, Rainforest Organic,
Garlic Gold, OrganicVille, Redbone Alley,
Real Wasabi, Annie‟s and Kraft. You‟ve
probably already had a taste of Wizard
Baldour‟s 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 this Heart Brother, V.
Ganesan. They recognize one another.
Ganesan is skilled, educated, articulate,
bright, alert, peaceful, and responsive. His
assistant, Anuradha was like-wise most
responsive. They were very curious about my
relationship with Jamesy and offered great
respect for him. He drew a lot of
comparisons with his great uncle, Ramana
Maharshi and stated them publically.
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Ganesan had grown 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
returned for good to Sri Ramanasramam at
Tiruvannamalai. His guru, Mother Krishna
Bai, had given him his sadhana along with a
note of caution. The first was to find and to
look after the Old Devotees of Sri Bhagavan
as his spiritual practice. To bring them back
to Ramanashram. As a result, he was able to
absorb very personal reminiscences of
Bhagavan Ramana. In addition to this, close
contacts with Sages, like Yogi
Ramsuratkumari, Swami Ramdas,
Nisargadatta Maharaj and J. Krishnamurti,
helped him to deepen and widen his
understanding of the essence of the
Maharshi's direct teaching of Self-Enquiry.
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The second was a caution of
the “golden chain” of being
a relative of Ramana
Maharshi who had gained
so much recognition and
fame. Guru Bai pointed out
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that Ganesan‟s sadhana would be much
more difficult because of the genealogy link.
That he would need to “earn” his own
realization.
For 35 years Ganesan was
also Manager of
Ramanasramam,
Bhagavan's Ashram,
India, for his father, and
for 25 years the Managing
Editor of The Mountain
Path, the Ashram's newsletter. For many of
those years, Anuradha was his loyal
assistant. Ganesan‟s expansive collection and
recording of the reminiscences have allowed
him an incredible ability to present the
Master in his own words. His materials
originally seen 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.
For five years Ganesan and John took many
trips together in India and elsewhere, spent
much time traveling together in North
Carolina and hanging out at the Wizard‟s
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abode, plus time at AHAM attending his
sharings as well as sharings at AHAM in
India. They played in the ocean in Kerala,
wandered the woods in western North
Carolina, and even went on a cruise together
to Bermuda. They were best friends.
Ganesan and his attendant, Anuradha,
shared many, many deep conversations
about the human side of the life of Ramana
Maharshi. They all had much fun together
and laughed a lot. Both Ganesan and
Anuradha introduce the Wizard to many of
the old devotees and sages in India and
invite him to share in the good company.
They walk hand in hand and share many
personal stories.
This intimate sharing with Ganesan
enhanced the Wizard‟s Wisdom with more
insight along with the intellectual skills
helpful in offering this manuscript. Ganesan
was sincerely a Wizard‟s friend.
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The time and stories shared
together along with stories
shared at AHAM under the
title of Rock and Boulders of
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Arunachala eventually were all brought
together as a sharing to be shared in the west
called The Human Gospel of Ramana
Maharshi, a suggestion by John when
Ganesan was apprehensive about the
censoring that might occur if AHAM or
Ramanashram did any of the publishing.
John also suggested using a portrait he had
purchased from Wendel Field for his son as a
cover. The Human Gospel of Ramana
Maharshi required extensive editing in
Chicago style western English to create an
interpretation as a new western version of all
the stories and sharings that Ganesan shared
with the Wizard in so many different ways. It
is a cross cultural sharing with difficult
translation points around cultural nuances.
The unique aspect of the sharings was that
this revered sage, Ramana Maharshi, was an
extraordinarily ordinary human being. The
curtain was pulled back just as in the Wizard
of Oz, divesting the sage of power, idolatry
and deification and further affirming a true
equality of vision; Love. Ganesan was
initially enthused at the Wizard‟s
opportunity to share this interpretation in
the “western” world in “western”
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nomenclature with complete trust. It was
Ganesan‟s heart‟s desire to share the simple
truth, although he had some lingering fear of
the repercussions from those who deified the
Maharshi which Ganesan openly disclosed at
the conclusion of the work. There are many
superstitions in Indian culture the Wizard
still does not comprehend.
There were others in India and elsewhere
that absolutely did not want that curtain
pulled back by the Wizard to reveal the true
ordinary man and a riff occurred over its
disclosure. It seemed unfortunate but it is
within divine providence, as that confession
is the key to true empowerment and love.
The arrow had left the bow and the
cornerstone agreement was to not retrieve it
after the arrow left the bow. This was the
primary agreement upon putting it all
together as The Human Gospel of Ramana
Maharshi. The Wizard moved forward in
good faith until finished and the work was
very synchronistic and remains so. The
Wizard was certain that the confession
divests political power structures and
restores Love; it affirms Truth for ordinary
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human beings. Humanity does not need
another messiah.
John had no doubt that lessons are at play in
every action until there is only a play of
consciousness. He knew religion business
well and saw god squads ever at work around
the well of being, each claiming the ground
as their own; tending to set up hierarchal
political power structures. The Wizard had
learned firsthand how the perception of
inequality holds an aspirant in subjugation
and robs Love every time. Power and fear are
first cousins in this paradigm. Control is the
primary symptom. The paradigm has no
heart; it is insentient. Jamesy, Muktananda,
Sridhar, Ramana Maharshi and even
Ganesan along with many more wise sages
had driven that point of affirmation home to
the Wizard and he was never to return to the
hierarchal paradigm of idolatry and
deification as true spiritual life except in
exhausting those tendencies as a remedy for
a divisive or carnal outlook. He was free of
the ownership of any religion or messiah and
free of the death of form. Any form of
divinity observed was only in the eye of the
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beholder and was just a play of
consciousness to be ultimately released.
Avoidance of relationship was the first sign
for John that there was a riff. The trials and
tests became larger than life as the
pontification and attempted cover-up grew
in intensity and touched his friends. The
communications were the antithesis of the
former affirmations that served John so well.
John was dumfounded and could not believe
it was happening! The insight of deification
robbing Love was exquisitely revealed and
affirmed as extreme measures were
employed by the “god squad” to intimidate
and frighten John into submission. It cost
him at least two dear friendships. It didn‟t
work, though. Courage blossomed. The bone
gracefully held steady as John peered into
the still pool and, with total compassion and
empathy, understood the reflection as such.
The bone remained as IS, well established.
The journey of chasing a reflection was
clearly over. There is no messiah; just
reflections. We are all only ordinary. No need
to chase mirages of our own making. The
substratum remained peaceful. Everything
was still unfolding as it should.
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Now John is retired. He prizes free speech,
unencumbered, as a human right. He shares
his stories and what was shared with him,
uncensored, for free on his website and in
person at gatherings. This manuscript and
others are offered free in the spirit of sharing
as his many mentors shared freely with him
during his blessed life. His sharings are for
affirmation, not pontification. John accepts no
money for any communication, counsel or
fellowship.
He also co-hosts a cybercast radio program on
WCOM with his friend, Trip Overholt, called
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages, and
facilitates various gatherings and satsang.
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The Wizard
currently abides in
the forest in Cedar
Grove, North
Carolina with his
dear wife of 35
years, Carol, and
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Now, just like Dorothy finally discovered in
The Wizard of Oz, John dwells only in the
ordinary with equality of vision. This is the gift
of human love. The Wizard is real but still a
rascal. He is certainly not a
saint.
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“The appearance of god will happen inside us
only. It is not something external to your
internal force. When the mind is turned
towards inside, then God will appear as pure
consciousness for you. The vision of God
happens in mind only. In what form that God
will come into sight depends on one‟s
perception of mind only. Anyhow, it is not the
ultimate stage. In that state, still the duality is
there. It is just like seeing God in dream. After
the appearance of God, the inquiry starts
within and it will lead to experiencing the
power of true Self. The final destination is self
inquiry only.”
~Sri Ramana Maharshi~
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Reviews of Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper
“A very wise book;
you don‟t meditate,
you just ARE. Your
book reveals you as
very practical in
your approach to
Reality. In fact, sages are the most practical
people. They are not dreamers. They come
out of sleep and dream. They are wide awake,
totally alert and attentive. In that attention,
the myth that we call samsara ceases to exist.
You strike a deep chord in my heart and evoke
fellow-feeling, when you come clean as a selfconfessed
rascal. This is true self-knowledge.
There are two kinds of people, one the
hypocrite, the other a rascal. Many have called
me a rascal in my life, and I felt fulfilled.”
~KVS~
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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 non-reality of
„moving‟ movie frames! A true seeker rejoices
in the ‟NOW‟ of the reality of movementlessness
– 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 „I AM‟-
Eternity!” ~V. Ganesan~
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Dear John, just had the
impulse to share this one
with you…Wisdom‟s Soft
Whisper… the book (beyond
book) touched me to the depth of heart, I felt a
Yes within, to every whisper shared, and a
recognition… and was touched beyond words
when I saw V.Ganesan in the book… As he
appeared unexpectedly in „my story line‟ twice
in Jan 2009 after I had been invited to Tiru
after the French-subtitling of Blueprints for
Awakening after Ramana had been appearing
in my life too… unexpectedly.
The first time, I met his eyes and Heart
immense, while he was waiting for us to enter
his dining hall at Ramanashram then two
weeks later at his home, where tears were
rolling in hearing his words of wisdom. A gift
of Grace, that never left me. Also, the Wizard
of Oz has never left me, ever since I was a
child…like an invisible thread in the heart… So
I laughed when I also saw that in your gem of a
Book, so felt, within the gratitude of meeting
you and reading you that this picture was to be
shared…A Loving Embrace dear Wz… And
many Blessings of Gratitude. Your book is on
my night-table… and whispers often….
~Hélène Lalaire~
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“I am so happy that you
recorded your wisdom
for posterity. It is not
hyperbole to say it is a
gift to humanity. Few
have been blessed with
the capacity to abide in
the truth AND express
it so well. I am incredibly blessed by your
friendship and spiritual wisdom. Everything
you have shared with me has become part of
me and brought peace. I have paid attention to
NOTHING in this life like I‟ve paid attention to
your teachings. I recognize that peace is an
individual matter and not a competition;
however, I must say that when I look around
me I don‟t see very many people as ensconced
in the truth as I am. I credit you with most of
that as you have taken your precious time to
edify me with powerful, penetrating words and
images that provided a window into that which
can never be expressed in words. And your sat
sang has been the direct experience. All of this
you have given freely.
“First and foremost you are my friend. While
you may have more spiritual experiences than
I, more business acumen, and greater financial
resources you have not let that go to your head
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and placed yourself above me or anyone else.
You have modeled the truth that we are all
one. Your transparency is the living proof that
you walk your talk. You take no offense to any
question – no matter how personal. I have
known you for seventeen years now and I have
not found a single inconsistency in your walk
and your talk. That is rare. You are an utterly
confessed realized being and I will cherish you
always. The non contractual love that you
share with Carol has also been a model for me.
Carol‟s steady, simple, generous loving ways
have given me an appreciation for living
quietly in the truth without a lot of fanfare.
And of course, you are both rascals,
misbehaving with sufficient regularity to
guarantee that I may also be completely
human without apology. What more beautiful,
generous, complete, awakened “pair” of
sweetie pies could there be?!!!”
~Trip Overholt~
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I downloaded the book,
“Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper” and
read the whole thing „in one
go‟. The book is a beautiful
expression that takes one
straight to Jamesy Man,
showers us in the torrential
downpour, fills us to the brim with the manna
that John ever enjoys and leaves in our mouths
a never-ending taste of the nutritious healthy
gastronomic cuisine of Oneness that John‟s
company‟s ferret out.
Heartfelt thanks to you [Jerry Katz] for
bringing it to the notice of your readers and
thanks also to John for melding us all in that
One Calabash. Truly Remarkable and I wish
everyone will read the book. Good things are
really priceless – no price, just free!!!
~Ramesam~
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Words may be able to truly
reflect knowledge, but not
wisdom. Wisdom dawns
suddenly and results in
awareness that renders
redundant all words. Rather
than any statement, it is a
„state‟ that builds its own vocabulary and
expressions. This state leads to true
understanding. This is when a person becomes
a sage. Not the one who gives up everything
and heads to the hills and forests, but one who
has an unusually practical approach to
Reality. Such sages may appear out-of-touch
with the real world; they are always wide
awake, totally alert, and very aware. Not that
they have broken away from samsara. They
Are Wizards.
These sages, saints and seers are not magicians
or tricksters. They are aptly depicted as
wizards of whatever tradition. Thus, Moses,
Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Buddha and other ancients
were wizards and sages who dropped pearls of
wisdom in their own time and way. Wizards
understand that insight is essential in
revealing who we are.
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In Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper, a modern day sage,
Wizard Baldour, lays out the roadmap to the
land of the wise. Extracting wisdom from
knowledge, the Wizard provides a path to
enlightenment. His way of introspection
reveals the inherent peace of one‟s true Self.
The Wizard delves into the usually mistaken
ideas associated with wisdom and those
dwelling in that state. For instance, the
commonly interchanged terms– wisdom and
knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom, for it is
of the mind, while wisdom is prior to the mind.
In Two Parts
Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper is set in two parts. The
first is here and now –a vertical paradigm, as it
were. It is deep and paradoxical. It assumes
and affirms the reader‟s awakening from the
mortal storyline. The second part is the
Wizard‟s own horizontal growing to be Wizard
Baldour. Tending towards the mysterious,
Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper says with words that
which is beyond the word; pure wisdom, after
all, transcends the capacity of language,
concepts and the mind even. Softly, but firmly,
whispers challenge long-held beliefs and
everything else that a person has grown
accustomed to as being real. The Wizard urges
the reader to open his mind to the very
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foundation of his own being and thus realize
wisdom. Baldour, along with other Wizards,
believes that this wisdom is the key to peace.
John‟s Transformation
The second part that constitutes John Troy‟s
storyline is more a shifting paradigm, and
written appropriately enough in the third
person. In the haze can be traced John‟s
transformation into the sage, Wizard Baldour.
The realization, when it came, was
spontaneous and rapid–what the Hindu
philosophy calls Nirvikalpa Samadhi. But John
terms it quite simply “turned inside out”. For
John, the full-fledged yogic experience came
with initiation by Swami Muktananda, though
that did not stop his destiny of pioneering a
natural and organic food business.
Following was an introduction to Sri Ramana
Maharshi‟s teachings, and then a vision of the
sage, too. From there to meeting V. Ganesan,
who had grown up in the presence of the
Maharshi, was but destined. And the pilgrim
progressed…
Each page of Wisdom‟s Soft Whisper demands
time to reflect and ponder, and not be just
read. For, the Wizard does not want to just
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pass on knowledge as much as he wants the
reader to pursue and attain Wisdom.
Depending on one‟s state of awareness, the
words may make sense, or they may not. Nonunderstanding
should be no cause for
frustration, but a challenge to open one‟s mind
to the wisdom behind what one knows now.
The true seeker rejoices in the „now‟ of the
reality of „movement-lessness‟.
In response to a prevalent longing for peace
and wisdom, the folk wizard of North Carolina
offers a means of discovering our inherent
wisdom.
~J. Srinivasan, Book Critic for Tattvaloka
Spiritual Magazine, India~
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