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The Making of Wisdom by William Whitecloud
How to find the treasure that’s buried inside
What is it with interviewers? They all seem to ask the same question: “Which people in history do you admire?” or “Who are your heroes?”
I always have the same honest answer: “Parents.” Why not? The majority of parents I know fulfill the essential definition of a hero, which is someone who acts selflessly in favor of something beyond themselves. World leaders and famous people might be monuments of greatness, but parents are living embodiments of unconditional love, service and dedication. No one actually does more to make the world a better place for someone else. Parents are the grass roots of humanity.
Interviewers rarely appreciate my answer. That would require understanding me without comparison to someone else. The untalented journalist believes that they can define you by association, as if by expressing an appreciation for a certain painter’s work you are describing what your own paintings look like.
Having said all that, there are people that I admire enormously. Brandon Bays is one such person. I do not know Ms Bays personally, yet there is an aspect of her life story that really touches my soul and compels me ever forward on my true path in life. I have drawn strength and inspiration from her example almost daily for several years now.
In case you have not heard it, Brandon Bays’ story is that she was diagnosed with a tumor the size of a basketball on her ovary. Take a deep breath and imagine that! The medical prognosis, obviously, was that she should check in for surgery immediately and have it cut out or…probably die. Sensible advice you would think, only Brandon did not take it. Instead, she followed a voice inside of her that said, “There is another way.” From that point on Brandon was lead by that same voice on an incredible journey of discovery and healing.
Over a six week period, this heart-strong woman followed her gut feel from town to town across America, running into an eclectic mix of healers along the way who treated her with a variety of unique and powerful processes. By the end of that six weeks Brandon was cured, she was healed, but even more miraculously she had been given the pieces of a puzzle that when put together combined to form the astonishingly efficacious process now practiced all over the world as The Journey.
It is Brandon Bays’ wisdom that I admire more that anything else. Wisdom is the ability to hear your own inner voice, and, even more importantly, the ability to act on it. Look at the difference one person’s wisdom has made in the world, and then imagine if more of us had the will to claim our own wisdom.
The truth is we all have the same phenomenal wisdom that Ms Bays used to cure herself and bring healing to the world. I have never met her, but I am certain she will tell you that herself. We all have the potential to bring our unique gift into the world. Every one of us could make a quantum difference to the way we live and the quality of our own and other people’s lives.
That is the peculiar thing about wisdom. We all have it but not many people know how to access or apply it. Few people realize that it is something they have to create – that it does not just fall out of the sky. And of all the things we can learn in life, I doubt that there is anything more important or empowering than learning how to claim our inherent wisdom. I wonder how many people would know that this is what the art of Alchemy is actually about.
I learned most of what I know about creating wisdom from Robert Fritz, another person I admire and have never met. Mr. Fritz is the author of The Path of Least Resistance and founder of a worldwide movement called Technologies For Creating. Fritz’s contribution to the advancement of human consciousness follows his astute observation that tension always seeks resolution.
If you stretch a rubber band, the tendency of the rubber band is to pull back to resolve the tension in the structure. If you give someone a fright, their tendency is to either jump or cry out, sometimes both. Energy has to move. The tension will always be resolved. Once you understand this premise you see it at work everywhere in nature. Everything in life is operating according to this principle.
Way more exciting and profound, though, is Fritz’s realization that one can create structural tension in one’s own consciousness, and that this tension can be used to manifest desired outcomes. You only need know two things: where you want to be and where you currently are. The discrepancy between your vision and your current reality sets up a tension that must be resolved. As long as that conscious discrepancy exists, there will be a tension that can only be resolved by the vision manifesting.
It may sound too fanciful or too simplistic, but it works. I have used this technique to successfully create loving relationships, overcome substance abuse, develop workshops, find artistic expression, and generally live a healthier, happier life. Furthermore, I know hundreds of people who can say the same.
Not that everyone who comes across this technology uses it successfully. Many go backwards. This work is as tricky as it is simple. I struggled with it when I first came across it, I have to confess. The common mistake that most people make starting out is to use the manifesting structure as an egoic device. Their motivations are unenlightened, misguided. They want what they want for all the wrong reasons. They want lots of money because they do not feel important without it, or they want someone else’s love because they do not feel love in themselves, or they want to save the world because they do not feel safe in it.
Alchemists have always warned that knowing half the truth is much more dangerous than not knowing anything at all. They have a saying that goes: “The half wise shall be dashed against the rocks by reason of their own folly.” Not ones to mince their words, these wise fellows knew the deeper secret of manifestation, they knew the whole truth.
What they knew, and what anyone who wants to play with magic has to know, is that your motivations are the foundation for what you manifest in life, and if your motivations are based on fear and limitation, you are only going create more of that. If, on the other hand, what you go for is motivated by your heart, by your true inner power, then your flow towards what you love will be an effortless joy.
The hotheaded novice is always tempted to rush off and use the half truth to manipulate power and control. They want to set up their outer life as quick as possible with all the trappings they perceive make them safe. The more mature adept will want to know the deeper truth of what they would love to create. The first thing they will use the manifesting structure for is to create the wisdom by which to manifest their heart.
Not long after I came across Robert Fritz’s theories, I began studying the basic principles of Alchemy, and I was stunned by the correspondence between the two modalities. They absolutely confirmed one another. While Fritz was saying that the conscious discrepancy between where you are and where you want to be sets up a tension that manifests the end results you desire, the Alchemists were saying that when you have Truth and Love together then you will have Wisdom. This Alchemical precept is symbolized by the pyramid with the all-seeing eye.
The pyramid is a triangle representing Truth at the left hand corner of the base, Love at the right hand corner of the base, and Wisdom at the peak. In Alchemist speak, the Truth is where you are – current reality – and Love is where you want to be – your vision – and Wisdom is the quality you gain when you consciously focus on the first two points. While Fritz says that the tension created by that discrepancy compels an end result resembling the vision, the Alchemists hint that the discrepancy creates a tension that subconsciously stimulates the awareness and state of mind necessary to claim what you love.
The very first thing any true, initiated Alchemist will want to establish is their inherent wisdom, so that what they aspire to from there on is based on a soul inspired motivation. They know that once they have the right foundation everything will flow from that. Their direction will present itself clearly, and the enthusiasm to take the obvious steps will be there. They occupy a state of mind I call Creator Consciousness.
You can be taught all sorts of theories and concepts, but Creator Consciousness is something you have to create for yourself. All you have to do is know where you are, know where you want to be, and then wait. Wisdom will not be far behind.
William Whitecloud
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