Exit 'Spirituality' - Enter 'Clear-mindedness'
-- An Important Explanation About This Site

Until early October 2007 this site's title was Self Realization & Spirituality. Nothing wrong about 'Spirituality', you might well think. Evidently I'd been thinking so too - otherwise I wouldn't have used that title in the first place!

However, Have you ever paused to get asking the core of your own consciousness - your own deepest essence - questions about the nature of what everyone is calling 'spirituality', and why, if 'spirituality' is so widespread, it's still the case that vanishingly few people actually become enlightened, let alone anything like optimally self realized / self actualized? -- And also, why it is that in EVERY spiritual tradition, if you look with real clarity you see that power hierarchies and control agendas on the one hand and beliefs / illusory realities on the other are always involved, even if they are relatively subtle?

Even if you have got questioning yourself so, unless you were very exceptionally advanced in your self actualization process - and well beyond just crossing the enlightenment threshold - it would not be your own deepest essence whose answers you'd hear, for any answers from that source would not be 'heard' directly but would be relayed to you in adulterated form by the dark force (often thought of as astral or 'dark' entities or indeed even demons, but also actually presenting itself as guides, ascended masters, angels and any other type of supposed 'higher being'). The dark force has a seriously harmful agenda for all humans, and it is unrelentingly seeking to lure and divert people away from simple, direct self actualization and to prevent them from 'going home' ('recombining with Source')* when they die, for a very troublesome reason that I explain on various of my pages of original writings but particularly in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

* These are commonly used expressions, but it is necessary for me to emphasize that I myself am using those expressions only in a figurative sense, for actually when a person dies healthily, 'as Nature intended', without dark force interference, the consciousness does NOT go anywhere at all, because it has no physical location in the first place. Rather, its experience of Earthly or physical life simply dissolves, and it reverts to its more or less non-dual state as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness (also known as universal consciousness). My preferred expression for what happens in a fully healthy death is that the person's consciousness reverts to fundamental consciousness.

The major point here is that I myself have been asking myself these questions - and at a time when circumstances have directed me to be clearing out all my old interferences and influences from the dark force (the so-called 'dark side') in a way and to an extent that few people indeed are doing. This has resulted in all manner of new insights coming to me, at last clear of the almost universal confusions that the dark force has brought to people through the dark force sourced concept of 'spirituality'.

Indeed, at the beginning of 1997, when I'd gained what I am calling fundamental clarity (i.e. I'd "crossed the threshold of enlightenment" in more normal but also less appropriate terminology) and subsequently started getting into healing activities, at once I found myself continually being slightly bugged by an apparent schism or discrepancy between the following viewpoints that I had been holding onto:

• My innate, natural perception of reality through that fundamental clarity ('enlightened state') of mine, which perceived all experience as arising from naked awareness or fundamental consciousness (with no levels of supposed higher reality interposed between my physical experiences and fundamental consciousness itself), and no 'story' concerning any supposed past lives of mine. I was simply 'the Ultimate' or at least an aspect of it.
• The supposed higher realities that were almost universally being postulated by healers and people in mystical traditions, even though they appeared to overlap with my view in an intellectual way in thinking that 'we are all Spirit [or God]'. Clearly none of these people was actually enlightened and therefore they could not have been perceiving things in the way that I was.

Now, because I'm getting my awareness so much more grounded, I can see clearly what that schism represented, and have cut right through my fairly long-standing confusion over that, to arrive at unequivocal clear-mindedness, having jettisoned so-called 'spirituality' altogether without in any way having become more materialistic. Now I see, more clearly than ever before, why it was that I gained my fundamental clarity ('became enlightened') so easily and naturally. It was not "in spite of" my not having been on a spiritual path, as I'd been half-believing, but, in good part, because I'd not been on one!

Now I shall explain...

Why 'self realization' / 'self actualization'?

Much is made of spirituality in a plethora of varieties and 'paths' in cultures and traditions throughout the world - but one thing all those versions and paths of so-called spirituality are universally not directly focused upon is simple and direct self actualization or self realization*. Indeed, most spiritual traditions actively take your focus away from it and, if they acknowledge such a need at all, they hold it away from you and put a lengthy and usually convoluted 'path' in front of you to supposedly 'get there' (but somehow hardly anyone does 'get there'). It's treated as some sort of 'Holy Grail' which, if you follow your 'path' with sufficient diligence (and, I'd be inclined to add, long-sufferingness), you might sometime in the future actually attain.

* As I explain in various locations on this site, I use these two terms interchangeably. They both have their respective different unfortunate connotations because of the way they are used in particular traditions or disciplines, but they both fundamentally mean the same thing - the opening up or uncovering of one's full potential so that progressively one becomes manifest as one's full self, without any of the blocks, distortions or limitations that are the norm today even among people who are generally regarded as extremely well functioning and doing really well.

Self actualization is simply the uncovering and unobscuring of your true, deepest nature, which is a 'part' (or, more correctly, a micro-aspect) of the all-pervading consciousness of which we are all manifestations (what I call fundamental consciousness, so as to be as unambiguous as possible), so that you then function in a full and undistorted way as a manifestation of that all-pervading fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate'), and live a life of vibrant awareness, happiness, love, positivity, free choice and a resulting great flexibility.

Like that you are in a state of total clear-mindedness, and there is no concept of 'spirituality', for you perceive that things are simply as they are and you yourself are simply as you are. When you are functioning in that sort of way, when you die your earthly experience ceases, but you persist as a unique micro-aspect of the all-pervading fundamental consciousness, and are in a state of harmony and awareness, with further, non-sequential, non-karmic, incarnations (what I call no-soul incarnations) being possible.

Self actualization incorporates (but is more than) what is widely known as enlightenment - the recognition, through direct perception, of your deepest, non-dual, levels of consciousness as being your true nature and identity. Self actualization is a simple process that requires no ritual and no beliefs (and indeed would be obstructed or completely stopped by them), but does require consistent clearance of the issues that prevent you from functioning as a full and undistorted manifestation of your true, deepest nature, which, as I have indicated, is effectively 'the Ultimate'.

On this site I am in the process of showing just how direct and simple that process is - especially when you keep your focus on clear-mindedness and don't get lured and sidetracked by the 'spirituality' phenomenon.

The trouble with 'spirituality'

The very notion of 'spirituality' or 'spirit' implies movement - spatial movement. Implicit in spatial movement is separateness. The force of delusion, power / control agendas, fear and negativity (commonly referred to as the dark forces, plural, but actually the dark force, singular, if my own understanding is correct), brought in the concepts of 'spirituality' and 'spirit' as a potent device to ensnare and sidetrack everyone who has aspirations for self actualization, so as to bring the people progressively more under its control and domination. 

The dark force interferes with us ALL, usually covertly, using all manner of deceits, ploys and lures, to get us perceiving our life experience in terms of separation - specifically, separation from fundamental consciousness, which latter is actually our own deepest essence and true nature. And so the dark force has covertly manipulated or controlled people into setting up countless religions and 'spiritual' paths in which people's true core essence is misinterpreted as something separate from oneself. In many cases it is deified in a gross and really quite materialistic way as 'God' or equivalent, as in many religions, while in others various much more subtle and 'sneaky' deceptions are used. In the more mystical traditions it is normal to regard us all as being 'Spirit' (or some equivalent name, which in some cases is 'God', so nicely confusing people).

The all-pervading fundamental consciousness has thus been (mis)interpreted as Spirit (or God), which implies something that can move about and indeed think and speak to you. In fact, whatever that 'Spirit' or 'God' is (if indeed it existed), it would be something less than 'the Ultimate', which fundamental consciousness is (i.e. as far as anyone can tell), because the latter is all-pervading and so there is no sense of movement and the implied separation. It is thus not 'spirit' nor 'Spirit' nor 'God', in any actually used sense of the word.

Once you've lost or distorted the perception of yourself as being actually fundamental consciousness itself, and have at least an implicit sense of separateness from it, you have lost your direction for true self actualization, and then you find yourself following one of the myriad variations of 'spiritual path' that the dark force has put into people's minds to follow. Along with a sense of separation comes power and control agendas. In religions these agendas are usually very obvious, but in the more mystical or apparently purer spiritual paths the control agendas tend to manifest more subtly, such as in the use of rituals, initiations / attunements, mantra chanting, use of esoteric symbols, treating particular objects, people or locations as sacred, prescribing particular ways of going about your life or indeed of following your 'spiritual path'. Indeed, The very concept of a 'spiritual path' or 'spiritual journey' incorporates a sense of separation and obfuscates the simple fact that self actualization is right here, in the 'now'.

On other pages on this site I expand on this scenario, but the important point I'm making here is that the dark force has been covertly manipulating everyone who has at least underlying self actualization aspirations into 'spirituality' in its countless forms, for the purpose of taking them away from their true self actualization - away from true clear-mindedness, and away from what we really need to happen when we die. So, in a nutshell, The whole concept of spirituality is actually given to us by the dark force to divert us from the self actualization and clear-mindedness that is our true natural, and thus 'right', way to be living.

In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks I describe how the dark force is interfering with us and how we can get clear of its interference and influence, and in The Guide to Complete Self Actualization and the related pages linked to therein I point readers towards a direct and indeed clear-minded strategy and methodology for self actualization. As will become clear (sic) if you read the relevant pages, my insights relating to these matters are not a matter of belief, but stem from hard personal experience. It is not just from the hardships that the dark force imposed upon me, but more particularly from my experiences of progressively clearing out its influence that I have been able to gain such deep and challenging insights.

The great hoo-hah in Sudan in November 2007 all because somebody perfectly innocently called a teddy bear Muhammad - the same name that many Muslims very happily bestow upon their male offspring - is symptomatic of the agenda of the dark force, in throwing all love, all reason, out of the window, and controlling humans into the most debased and inhuman outlooks and behaviours in which power, control, confused thinking and living on the basis of rigid rules is everything and love is distorted out of all recognition.

According to the logic of those strict Muslims, we might as well all have the person who called that teddy bear Muhammad sent to some delectable form of death because the very concept of the teddy bear has been insulted by calling one of them by the name of a messenger of the dark force, which Muhammad was, just like ALL other so-called prophets - as evidenced by the brazen rantings of power / control agenda that fill the primary scripture of the religion that followed on from him (yes, I have read it - a stomach-churning, horrifying experience!).

The red herring of 'no-self'

One of the particularly sneaky and troublesome distortions of the actual situation, which comes to us particularly from the various Eastern religions and 'spiritual' traditions, is the notion that in order for you to become enlightened and especially fully self realized / self actualized, you need to relinquish all sense of 'self' in your life experience. According to that sort of outlook, you are supposed to be striving towards a rarefied and much sought after (or indeed feared!) state of 'no-self'.

Yes, it is true that almost everyone has a deluded sense of 'self' that they do need to let go of (or, more realistically, progressively dissolve), but it is the delusions and attachment that need clearing - NOT the sense of 'self' in itself. In other words your sense of your own uniqueness and your own abundance and variety of experiences in your own unique combination, and experienced from your own unique viewpoint, is very much at the core of your whole raison d'être / purpose of incarnation in the first place. To seek to minimize that is actually to point right away from genuine self actualization and into subtle illusory realities and indeed astral realms in which people believe that they have achieved 'no-self' (assumed by them to reflect a sort of terminal self realization), actually through a process of self denial, and are actually thus covertly ensnared by the dark force - and also are failing miserably with regard to their underlying primary life purpose.

The delusions of 'self' include everything that makes up one's self image - except for actual physical observations of genuinely positive aspects of one's functioning. A cherished or cultivated self image is necessarily a false image, so that one poses to everyone with a false ID. It is thus intrinsically a deception, a dishonesty. The only thing you can (sort of) know about yourself is that you are what you are - whatever that is. But the catch is that there is no means by which you can ever genuinely know 'what that is' - i.e. actually what you are! You can only know what you appear to be, or what is helpful for you to assume that you are (i.e. for practical purposes), neither of which are at all the same as what you actually are. The nearest that I've been able to get towards knowing what I am or anyone is, is described in On the Nature of Reality and Truth - but even that view is still conceptual and thus within 'relative truth', and so is still about how things appear to be, rather than how they actually are (which latter we have no means of knowing - i.e. as far as I can tell! ).

It is thus genuinely a crucial part of our self actualization process, to let go of all attachment to or cherishing of a self image, but it is actually equally important to cultivate our genuine underlying sense of 'self' - i.e. our awareness of our own uniqueness and abundance - but without actually getting attached to anything. It's a matter of observing clearly and being completely open minded and clear-thinking about yourself and how you interact with your (apparent) surroundings.

Some would claim that the latter approach requires a very great humility, but I would take issue on that. Yes, in one sense it could be seen as involving humility, in the eschewing of 'ego' - the attachment to some sort of self image - BUT it also involves uncompromising self honesty, and that involves standing one's full height and being prepared to speak out at times with uncomfortable or at least challenging 'truths', which paradoxically then get one accused of being arrogant and having an enormous ego. That is, indeed, what has been tending to happen for me. Basically, if we're serious about our own self actualization process we need to let go of such concepts as humility, pride, modesty and 'ego', and simply be open-minded, clear-thinking, well focused observers of all that we experience, and to dissolve attachments as we come to notice them - and always to stand our full height, in every meaning of that expression. (er, well, perhaps not actually physically if you're on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm! )

The red herring of choosing a 'right hand path' or 'path of the Light'

It may bring some people up with a bit of a wrench for me to say it, but I myself am NOT following a figurative 'right hand path' or 'path of the Light' at all! However, before you throw up your hands in horror, let's make it clear that neither am I following a 'left hand path' or 'path of the Dark (or of Satan)' at all. These polarities of non-physical or metaphysical left / right and dark / light all come to us from the dark force for the purpose of keeping us diverted well away from simply tuning into our own deeper levels and living as manifestations of fundamental consciousness. You don't need, and are far better off without, a 'path' for that - for the very notion of being on a 'path' or 'journey' helps keep you from the 'simply being' of genuine self actualization, and leads you by one means or another into the clutches of the dark force.

It appears that Satanists typically dismiss those who are on what they call a 'right hand path' as living impoverished lives*, just because they are not indulging in the massive convolutions of awfulness and (often) depravity and suffering that their own lifestyles bring about. However, even those who are on so-called 'right hand paths' or 'paths of the Light' (i.e. what most people would call 'spiritual paths') are themselves in a captivity of the dark force, albeit a much more covert and maybe subtle captivity -  believing that they are heading for some sort of self actualization, when actually they are keeping themselves firmly away from the real thing.

* This is strongly reminiscent of the drug addict who seeks to convince himself and others that people without that addiction and all the problems it causes in one's life are themselves living impoverished lives, and he's the real wise one who is living a full life.

When I myself cut caffeine out of my life, it was amazing what other people (all caffeine addicts, though few would ever admit to their addiction) came out with when I refused offers of a cup of tea or coffee. "What on Earth will you drink, then?", was the most common amazed and mystified protesting response, as though anything without caffeine, including plain water, was poisonous. I even had the odd individual protest that "You can't drink water, because it's got lots of fluoride in it!" - a real 'own goal', because tea itself actually contains some fluoride and so adds to any that may be in the drinking water from which the tea is made.

What all these silly people were unable to recognise, because of their addiction, was that once you cut out your addiction you open the doorway to all sorts of much more healthy and enjoyable things that the addiction was keeping you away from. Thus in my case, once I stopped abusing myself by taking caffeine-containing beverages I could then enjoy drinking a wide range and variety of other beverages such as the so-called herbal teas (i.e. non-tea infusions, not different varieties of actual tea).

And just look through all five of my websites to get some idea of the abundance and freedom of my own life and lifestyle, and then ask yourself how much of all that abundance and variety I'd have had if I had the almost universal addiction to watching the television. Indeed, not having a TV at all in my flat means that I have that extra bit of space for other, healthier, uses - so my lack of a TV actually represents in meaningful terms a gain rather than a lack.

Thus an important aspect of coming out of any addiction, fixation or attachment is to recognise that when you let go of it you are not just 'giving it up' and thereafter living an impoverished life without something you were enjoying, but rather, you see the addiction as something of a ball-and-chain that you've managed to get free from, so that you have more freedom and can live a more varied and abundant life.

So, the real choice is not between 'left' or 'right', nor between 'dark' and 'light' but between (a) following a 'path' (whether 'dark' or 'light'), which necessarily incorporates following rules and illusions and cultivates the occlusion of one's deepest awareness, and one's at least ultimate captivity at the hands of the dark force, and (b) opening to the simplicity of your own deepest aspects, the core of which is fundamental consciousness or 'What Is' itself, and gaining the freedom and happiness of having the deepest and broadest possible awareness, and becoming immune to all attempts by the dark force to bring you under its control.

Clear-mindedness - the (simple) way forward

The whole concept of clear-mindedness ties up in all manner of ways with straightforward manifestation of yourself as fundamental consciousness incarnate. You don't have to wait till you are 'fully' self actualized in order to start using and experiencing at least a basic level of clear-mindedness - you can start right now. If you go to The Complete Guide to Self Actualization, and follow that through also to Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way and other relevant pages that they link to, you have a succinct and potent set of pointers for speedy and direct self actualization, all based on clear-mindedness.

When you cultivate and open up your awareness in a well grounded manner, without beliefs, preconceptions and dark force sourced preoccupations or influences, then you are operating at least in some degree in clear minded mode. Paradoxically, on the one hand, through cultivating and increasing your grounding (i.e. your connectedness with the physical level of reality or consciousness) you progressively increase your manifestation of your true nature - 'the Ultimate', while on the other hand, if you seek to cultivate 'higher' awareness you progressively further open yourself to the astral sub-reality and all its problems, while actually obstructing any opening to your deepest aspects and core essence. So, if you try to point 'high', you get 'low' (which usually pretends to be 'high' or even 'Divine'), and if you get connecting really well with the physical level with an open and clear mind, you get 'the Ultimate', which actually transcends the concepts of 'high' and 'low'.

In clear minded mode you live without 'story' about yourself outside this lifetime, for you can never truly know any of that, and any such 'information' you do pick up is almost certain to be dark force sourced and distorted if not wholly fiction in order to try to divert you from self actualization. Similarly you live your life without 'story' about supposed.higher realities. I'm not saying there aren't any higher realities (whatever 'higher' would really mean!) - simply that we can never know about any because, as far as I can ascertain, anything of the sort that actually appears to us is simulations presented to us by the dark force.

You are NOT 'Light'! You are consciousness or awareness! Thus self actualization and clear-mindedness are not about light nor Light as so many healers and mystics claim, but are about vivid clarity of awareness and perception. It is the dark force that has led us into the fiction that we or indeed our so-called source (which term itself implies separateness) are 'Light' and we will 'go to the Light' when we die. By equating consciousness or awareness with light, the dark force has lured countless people away from true self actualization - the manifestation of their clear-minded natural state.

Similarly, you are NOT, and indeed there's no such thing as, a 'being of Light'. You are a being of clarity, of vibrant awareness - not of Light. 'Light', and indeed the whole light / dark polarity (apart from actual physical light) is solely of the astral illusion given to us by the dark force.

In a nutshell, then...

This site is about how you can be truly you - fully you - natural you - as a being of vibrant awareness and clarity, living a free and flexibly and creatively happy life, with the great personal stature and power that manifests naturally once all the dark force influences (including attachment to personal status and control agendas) have been cleared out or dissipated.

One thing that this site is NOT about is meditation, which all manner of traditions have seriously mistakenly associated with self actualization, so severely unbalancing and distorting the notions of self actualization that they embrace and promote. I do, however, show on this site what people can most usefully take up instead of standard meditation, to bring them forward into genuine, balanced and grounded self actualization. (Try Self-Power Walking, for example!)