Modern Alchemy with James & Bersabeh Ray

What is success?

Many believe it's a certain size of business, bank account, notoriety, fame, or fortune.

While those things might be present, they are not in and of themselves success. They're the by-product of success.

Earl Nightingale stated, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."

This is about as good as it gets for a definition.

Success is progressive. It's not an end point.

And it's realizing something that's worthy. Worthy of what? Worthy of YOU and investing your life in its pursuit.

Success is not an end game, it's a journey and adventure.

Properly understood, you never fully achieve success; and yet you do... when you're pursuing it correctly.

Secondly, if Nightingale is right (which I believe he is) you must pursue something worthy to be successful.

Something word trading your life for.

We all trade our life for something... make sure you trade your life for something worthy of your life.

Here's something to ponder…anything that can be lost or taken away has no true value. It has a USE value but no intrinsic true value.

The only thing that's of true and lasting value is that which is eternal.

What are you trading your life for?

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Jeremy Ryan Slate is the host of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, as well as holding a Master's in Early Roman Empire Propaganda from Seton Hall University. His podcast was named the #1 Podcast to Listen To by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as Top 40 Under 40 by Podcast Magazine in 2022.

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We've been discussing attention in the last two episodes and the fact that most have very poor attention muscles. Let's finish this topic up for now in this episode.

To have focused attention takes a tremendous amount of will.

Will is defined as the ability to give yourself a command and then follow it.

How many people make promises they don't keep to themselves?

I'm going to get up early.

I'm going to workout 3 days a week.

I'm going to meditate daily.

The list is endless.

The greatest promise you'll ever keep is a promise to yourself.

Your own personal test of integrity.

When we can't keep promises to ourselves how can we expect the Universe, or anyone for that matter, to keep promises to us?

One of the greatest challenges to your will is your unresolved emotional issues.

These emotional issues knock you off track and course.

And the challenge is that they're completely out of your awareness.

Think of these issues as screaming children that will do nearly anything to get your attention away from your intention and onto them.

Until these children are corralled, they'll continue in an unruly fashion to jump up and down on your furniture, break things, and basically create chaos.

That's why we've stated many times that the most important and powerful thing that you and I can do for our own healing and empowerment is to make the unconscious conscious.

Remember, 95% of what you do on a daily basis is driven by your unconscious mind.

When you make these issues conscious you can heal them, integrate them, and set yourself AND your attention free.

It's time to take your power back.

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Last episode we began discussing the power of attention.

This is not just a metaphysical or alchemical principle; this is backed up by quantum physics as well.

Most are really good at articulating their intention—I want this or I want that—but when it comes to keeping their attention locked upon the thing they say they choose to create, this is where they fall short.

Let's face it, there are many things happening in the world that can seduce your attention to the dark side so to speak.

Yet, energy flows where attention goes.

In physics they speak of the quantum field and how EVERYTHING exists there in quantum superposition.

Energy only exists in two forms: waves or particles.

Waves are the spiritual non-physical state of energy. Particles are where energy begins to come into formation.

The moment you put your attention on a chosen point of focus, the wave form collapses, and it begins to particulate, come into the form of your intention.

ONLY as long as you keep your attention upon it.

You see, order is an unnatural state for energy so therefore it takes tremendous effort and willpower to hold your attention upon this new particle until it comes into formation.

Most fall short through the seduction of the apparent. Let that not be you.

Concentrated attention is the marshalling of Power upon a chosen point of focus.

What are you focusing on continuously? Where's your attention?

Energy flows where attention goes.

It's time to take your power back.

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We talked in the last two episodes about Alchemy and Intention

In this episode we'll discuss Attention

Most are really good at stating what they intend to create, but when it comes to keeping their attention upon it, they're ADD

Energy flows where attention goes.

What are you attending to?

Attention from the Latin means "to reach out."

Whatever you're attending to is what you're reaching out for.

Children/attention? Mate/attention? Business/attention? Attention equals love.

Some are in love with their misery. Because they're attending to it...

You ALWAYS get what you want... you always get what you love the most.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

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Intention is a point on the active side of Infinity ~ don Juan Matus

We began our discussion of intention and how it must be specific last episode, we also talked about how Words are powerful.

"And God said, Let there be light." ~ Genesis 1:3

There're many things we can explore from this passage but let's talk briefly about one of the major causes of failure in our life, relationship, and business.

Talking and verbalizing what you don't want.

What do you want? Broke, alone, fat.

Energy flows where attention goes. You move toward what you focus on.

Attention in Latin means to "reach out" what are you reaching out for.

The mind can't process a negative. Don't think about ice cream right now... you have to think about what not to think about before you know what not to think about.

Martin Seligman's research on pessimism and optimism. Optimistic people talk about what things are and what they want.

Pessimistic people talk about and focus on what's not there.

For an intention to be powerful enough to come into form you must state clearly what you choose, make it specific and measurable and then there's another step that's vitally important.

And that's the hardest part; and requires the most discipline and work...

We'll discuss attention next week, but for now, clearly define, the more specific the better, what you choose for your life, relationship, and business and then we'll go to step two.

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"Intention is a point on the active side of Infinity" ~ don Juan Matus

Words have power. Would you rather "have a goal" or "intend to create something?"

Modern science tells us that everything in this universe is within a spectrum of vibration between a couple CPS and 10BB CPS. Let's call 10BB Spirit; and 2 CPS Form.

Spirit is the realm of all possibilities and form is the realm of specificity.

To bring something into the world of form you must take the One Power and you must slow it down.

You slow it down by making it more specific, measurable, timed and tangible.

A non-measurable and non-timed intention is nothing more than a fantasy.

Vague intentions produce vague results. "I'll do better."

Specific intentions create specific results.

Your intention must be specific, measurable, and timed. "I intend to be successful" versus "I intend to create a healthy, energetic life weighing X pounds, having a loving and connected relationship and a business generating a minimum of XX"."

If you can't measure it you'll never hold it.

The mysteries tell us that concentration is the first step to becoming a powerful and truly mystical person (one who has direct experience of God).

Concentration is the ability to willfully focus on your intention to the exclusion of all else.

This is the tough part.

Intention sets universal energies into motion. What is your intention?

Make sure it's specific, measurable, tangible and timed.

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Genpo Roshi, born Dennis Paul Merzel, is a Zen Master, the founder of Kanzeon International Community and the creator of Big Mind Zen. In 1980 he became the second Dharma successor of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, one of the leading pioneers of Zen in the U.S., along with Nyogen Senzaki Sensei, Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Dainin Katagiri Roshi and Kobun Chino Roshi.

Genpo Roshi was one of the pioneers in spreading Zen throughout Europe in the early 1980s, including Great Britain, France, Poland, Germany and The Netherlands. He received final seal of approval as a Zen Master from his Dharma brother Bernie Glassman Roshi in 1996, becoming Glassman's first Inka successor, the second to receive Inka in the Maezumi Roshi lineage. In the same year he became President of the White Plum Community, composed of successors of Maezumi Roshi, after Roshi Bernie Glassman stepped down. Merzel served in that position until 2007. Today he serves as the head of Big Mind Zen and as Abbot of Kanzeon Inc.

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Over the last few episodes, we've been discussing the frequency of your Mind and Emotions and how they impact your life. You'll recall that science tells us that everything is energy and energy vibrates.

So today let's discuss what it takes to increase your Spiritual frequency.

So first let's discuss the ancient concept that you actually have more than one body. Stick with us.

While the physical body is the only body that's obviously tangible, the others, while intangible, are just as real and important. And in fact, they have a very powerful impact on your physical body. Many so-called physical illnesses, not all, are the result of the mental and emotional body.

It's important to understand that these "bodies" are energy fields. In fact, we mentioned Harold Saxon Burr's research in a previous episode, the professor at Yale, and his research found that memories don't reside in the brain. They reside in the field outside the brain. So, this is not just some esoteric thought without scientific foundation.

That being stated, we've already discussed mind and emotion in previous conversations, in addition to these bodies you have a spiritual body as well.

Certainly, traditional spiritual practices can help you become a more spiritual person; and being a spiritual person is defined as "unified mind."

Things like prayer, meditation, yoga (when done properly with the proper intention), and other like-similar practices can assist you in raising your spiritual frequency.

The greatest practice you can engage to increase the frequency of your spiritual body is to see the interrelationships of all things. To see yourself in "the other" and to realize that all apparent separation is an illusion.

"Separation is illusion" ~ Esoteric Axiom

The fact is, that if you look hard enough at anything you'll see everything...

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