Pollyanna Publishing Co.
John Grandfield
Copyright 2010 all rights reserved
Version 1.6 $ 1.50
The little handbook of life
-a work in progress-
A simple guide
for life on Earth
What
were we thinking ?
Some of us just happened to
hear via word of mouth, so to speak, of a fun place with lots of action.
You know how it is, nothing
like a crowd to attract a bigger crowd, and we thought we’d give it a try.
A fun time, lot’s of laughs,
with a few scary rides. The earth as Amusement park. Well, it does get one
started, and that’s what counts.
The problem is after a few
turns of the wheel, one forgets how they came to be here. (1)
Think of spirits hanging out
in all eternity …..playing the same old games over and over,
I’ll bet some of them are
looking for new things to do.
Some of us were created just
for the further education of the ones who created them.
Does this seem like a raw
deal ? who can say. I don’t know about
you, but I wouldn’t go back.
I have a feeling some were
sent here for remedial education….we all know a few candidates for this
category.
So lots of fun with almost unlimited variables. Who could ask for more. and what rides, breathtaking and beautiful.
Tell me my friend
What is this place, here a different name and a different face.
Where the action never ends.
Chapter 1 recap Reasons for signing up:
Curiosity
Boredom
Life is good, such light, sharpness & clarity, good friends and
lovers, family & children, hey, being a child has a lot to be said for it,
such a place to test out ideas and see if they work, and when they do….ahh, the
satisfaction. Not to mention good food
! music and art, conversation & laughter ! what a place.
The list does go on & on, happily and as endlessly as the people on Earth & more so.
A place, so it would seem, more solid than a dream
Wait just a minute,
what about war, crime and
cruelty, all those viscous abusive people.
Not to mention pain,
suffering and death, with all that loss and lamenting going on.
This list too, goes for a
long time, however it’s not as long as the prior chapter, else why sign up ?
What is this all about ?
Well ?
The Earth is a School
A very challenging
school…with lessons that are not meant to be forgotten
Who graduates ? absolutely
everyone........
In this life
This
crazy ride, with
your friends by
your side
On the edge of the
dark
and deep
we wring our hands and we weep……… A tear or two for everyone
Tools
for better living
Laughter
A sense of the absurd, well,
it sure helps
Imagination - use it - it’s fun - and it works
Take action now, small
forward progress is the key
Take action, pay attention
to your thoughts and see when your ideas manifest
Knowing it all works out in
the end. We all have plenty of time to succeed
(2)
…..For advanced credit….
A Meditation practice of
some sort
Affirmations
Asking for help
A friendly introspection
What you focus your awareness on tends to come to
pass, it’s one of your most important tools.
One may argue “Well no it
doesn’t”
However many of us are a
heady mix of conflicting emotions and ideas, these tend to cancel each other
out, making for slow going.
Listen to your inner voices.
One is the Ego
One is the inner you, and
often shows up as Inspiration. Images. Insight
The Ego is kind of a
loudmouth
Sometimes they are at odds
To hear more, practice being
quiet,
paying attention to what
each is saying.
Is one saying “no I can’t,
or maybe later” ?
It was all so clear a moment ago
For best results, making an
effort is a good idea
Even small steps count
Waiting for everything to
fall into your lap is seldom a good idea
Life is about you….not what
everyone else can do for you.
.
The whole place is bigger and more
wonderful than most of us give it credit for,
there is room in Heaven (3) for all of us….All of us ! imagine that ! every religion, Every belief system and style of living that ever existed and ever will, Everyone is included, and every one graduates in the end.
Everyone !
Let’s not display our
ignorance by short changing the Big Fellow’s capacities (4)
….see notes on Heaven.
Since the big plan includes
us all
Then we can all work together here
Other
chapters include
Not necessarily in order of appearance
.
That’s what we are here for
Learning to recognize it
It’s not always about money
Sometimes it’s what comes
after the “Aha” moment
Sometimes what you need for
the next thing will come along at just the right time
Pay attention and see it
work
If you believe in these ways
of living you will see them happen
If not, well you can blame
cruel fate, bad luck or someone else
Life works anyways
It’s just more fun to feel the magic
.
When you find a nice method
to calm yourself, a meditative practice or whatever form works for you
And when you ask for
guidance, say from your “higher” self,
you may find everything falling into place,
what you need to know just
shows up, via a conversation with someone new,
a book you find by accident, or just being in the right place at the
right time.
It feels a bit just like
magic
Fun and it works
a bit spooky too
Life isn’t supposed to be that easy, right ?
.
Working with emotions - Learning to express emotion - learning to control emotions
Some of us are here to learn
how to express ourselves emotionally ..to let it out
Some have no problem letting
it all flow, but need to learn to control the intensity
Some want fine-tuning,
they’re mostly pretty good but need a few finishing touches
What is this stuff that
seems to take over at times ?
Emotions linked with a
hormonal system, it’s wild
It helps if ones gives a bit
of oversight to one’s process
Using the intellect to
double check the validity of the emotional drive
That’s a good step
And using the emotional pull
to check the intellect’s conclusions
Self-government
No one said it was easy
Asking for help
Is prayer OK ?
You could call it prayer or
just asking your higher self for help
Your higher self is interested in helping you
However you do need to ask first
It works in strange ways
Pay attention after you ask
for help and see when the answer comes
You can imagine a question
and think strongly about it and then push it out into space…so to speak,
your answer will come back soon, as an insight, a dream, or a connecting moment with someone who will further the idea into the next phase
.
personal responsibility
I’ve been avoiding this
chapter.
Blaming others for your
problems
is just the willful child
within pointing the finger at everyone else
“I didn’t do it”
only works when you don’t
know any better
Now you do
Once you understand a bit
more about this place and how it works, you can’t pass the buck anymore,
It’s your beliefs at work
You may say “I didn’t sign
up for this”
I’m not so sure that is so
We do take on many adverse
situations
Simply to overcome them
Thereby learning that we can
.
Sounds like crime &
punishment to me
I’d rather look at it this
way
If you haven’t got the point of a certain lesson, by let’s say,
mistreating someone else
you will sooner or later
in a way that will not be
forgotten
Can you redeem yourself now
?
yes, by truly understanding what went astray
.
In the darkest hour, when
you make a deal to change some bad habit,
Keep your promise
.
Stranger than fiction
The higher self
on and on
all the way to all that is
this is a tough one to
fathom
We are connected to more
than this body and this life
We are connected to
(and here’s where words
fail)
A higher self
This higher self is
connected to another higher self
And that one also connects
Go on & on for a little
while and you are God
One of the things we can do
here is start to re-connect back to the source
Another way of putting it,
you are part of a group being
Without being any less by
being part of a whole
The whole is greater then
the sum
It’s true
In fact you have a very
large, very knowledgeable built in cheering section
That will insist that you
succeed
In your own way
You are not separate from
this higher self
You are one and the same
Just having a life
.
It is quite possible that
all of us are connected to everything (5)
.
You & I and everyone
else
We are all teachers and
students of each other
with a fantastic classroom
You can use a teacher for
motivation, as inspiration.
Ultimately they will lead
you back to knowing that it is you
And your inner knowing that
is the path
.
The other teachers that
claim to have the only way
Are ego driven
It may be best to walk away from these ones
Does it
matter what we think ?
Manifestation, it’s not for everyone, or is it ?
.
Learning
the hard way
It does not matter which way
you want to go
it’s the experience that
counts
The higher self only cares
that you learn the lesson
Perhaps In the form of a
long pleasant vacation
or manifesting lots of
trouble in life
It is beliefs at work
It’s your choice how you do
it
Therein lays freewill
Looking around I suspect
that learning the hard way may be a tad quicker
It seems to be the popular
choice
Where’s the incentive to
change, when life is a long walk on a sunny beach
So to speak
.
I can’t do it
is the main one
The other is to be so caught up in some fascinating here now interest
So much so that there is no
room for the quiet knowing
.
We are all here for a good
reason
All of us
We are all immortal
Truly (6)
.
Things are going along nicely
.
Keep you anchored in the
here now
Which is fine if you like
your situation
and life is working well for
you…..
If not
you can discard those things
When the time is right
When you decide you’re the
boss of yourself
.
remedial education
Well this is a great school.
It even has room for late bloomers. (7)
.
The problem you say, is that
everything changes
Well that is true
We do like to keep those
things we like
However you are not the
person you were 10 years ago
Or 5
You’re not exactly the same
as you were yesterday
The good news
That is what is important
The connections from all
these different states of being
Once you feel that changes
are Ok, good even,
then the whole process is
easier
A big sigh of relief
Then the fun begins
.
The ego thinks it’s all that
is, and doesn’t like what would seem to be outside influences calling any shots, and is usually very resistant to any
rapid change
Sometimes any change at all
When using the idea of
manifestation, the ego can play a bit and this helps loosen up the resistance
Take steps forward, even
small ones, that gets things to move
The more you take action the
easier it becomes to get where you want to be
Many people would rather rail against life’s injustices than take steps to change their ways
.
-inner
ones that is-
Have
you ever, while falling asleep say, felt or heard a buzzing or rushing noise ?
Usually
while extremely relaxed
This
feeling is important, one I think of as the gateway signal
If you relax just a bit further, out of the body you may go, and soon will be verifying all these outrageous things I’ve been talking about
paths to awareness
Everyone
has a path, some like to run, some like to run around in circles, until that
gets boring.
Everyone’s path is a path to greater awareness
.
It works, it’s fun, give it
a try…..you’re doing it anyway
When you shift to
consciously working with manifestation, it makes a great system to check your
ideas and beliefs against the outer world, imagine something you would like and
see how it comes about.
Key, is just paying
attention.
.
Sorry - no such luck (8)
all is meaningful and for a
reason
Many would not like to hear
they are in charge of their luck
Then you can’t complain and
have to be responsible
It’s so unfair
Survivable accidents can be
viewed as obvious turning points in ones life
Often a good time to
re-asses and change one’s ways (9)
Non survivable ones, just
means it was definitely time for a change
.
Coincidence it would seem,
it a way for spirit to get your attention
you noticed something funny
going on
.
It would seem that very bad
things happen to people all the time. Why ?
A possible answer:
With infinite time and all
the chances you need
Some of us will take on very
difficult things
Very intense lives used as
an accelerant to awareness
These lessons will not be
forgotten
People pulling together in
accident or storm, even war
learning to bond with each
other under extreme circumstances
not to be forgotten
.
The Earth it would seem, is
a popular and interesting place
Many people may re-enlist
under marginal circumstances
You got
to move
Well don’t you ?
Aging, the reasons for;
At this point how many of us
would voluntarily leave this life ?
See changes, resistance to (10)
Very few at this point is my
guess
Aging has several functions.
When we think of aging, we usually think of getting older or old.
Aging does one thing for
certain, it absolutely forces the issue of when to exit.
At some point in the race’s
evolution of consciousness you get to the ego centered state, which doesn’t
like change, and then asking it to jump into the complete unknown, you must be
joking.
What were they thinking ?
Aging as a learning
experience, Rather seamlessly as you grow , your attention focuses on different
areas
Learning to live and operate
in the world.
Play
Working with others
Attraction and Sex (even
more reason to work with others)
Love
Work (it’s not all bad)
Family & more love
Retirement with lots of time
to think & take a second chance on
doing certain things left by the wayside earlier in life.
Then things might not be
working so well with the ol’ bod and then it’s time to go !
.
-Thinking about
probabilities-
In quantum physics there are
some who say everything, and I do mean everything, is happening all at once.
Every time a decision point
was reached, and you chose one way, in the many parallel universe you also take
the other path to.
It’s our focus of attention
that gives us the linear perspective
-Thinking about Time-
It’s likely a consensus
reality
or an illusion, if you will
that is needed at our stage
of evolution
We just can’t handle
everything happening all at once right now
So we filter in a linear fashion
.
.
Learning to live together
Bonding beyond the self
Fine tuning and clearing mistaken assumptions
.
Everything
.
That all those things that
you worried about all your life, turned out to not be a problem
At all
What a joy !
What a relief !
and maybe feeling a bit foolish too ?
.
all will be revealed - not
to worry
.
notes
(1)
Is that really a problem ?
more likely rather by design.
(2)
Immortality - means no limits to success , not license
to run around all reckless and crazy, you’ll just end up starting up all over
again
(3)
Heaven - It’s not a finished
product either, all final, polished and static, that’s the fun of it…..and
Earth too
(4)
God, that is - What can you
say about God , an entity that is so all encompassing, that what one can say
will likely fall so far short and be so distorted by beliefs, that it is almost
pointless to try……the good news is that we all get to know the truth - eventually
(5)
The big picture….returning
to God
(6)
I didn’t say unchanging
(7)
Some of them are here so we
can learn more about ourselves. What we are fearful of. Learning via others bad examples.
(8)
Luck good or bad, just
reflects the person’s belief system at the time, this is easier to see in
others, watch them and learn, then apply to yourself
(9)
Also Illness
(10)
The Ego likes things to stay the same, or be very controlled by the
very self same ego
*
Under
the circling sky
warm
winds blow moonlight and shadows
through
whispering grass
high on
a hilltop
we look
down on dreamlands
another
world
of
mystery and magic
waits
for us
*
Tell me my friend
What is this place, here a different name and a different face.
Where the action never ends.
*
A place, so it would seem, more solid than a dream
*
In this
life
This crazy ride, with your friends by your side
On the
edge of the
dark and deep
we wring
our hands and we
weep……… A tear or two for everyone
*
I imagine how it may be
Taking action is the key
in a quiet place
yes I say
to receive help
would make my day
*
It was all so clear a moment ago
*
Because
we can
we will
go forth
one step
at a time
until
the way is certain
and the
path clear
*
Probable Me, Probable You
probable things
that we just might do
.
At the Crossroads
both ways look good
do as you want
do as you should
.
Probable You, Probable Me
one way for the other
another for me
.
The Way Not Taken
Is Taken for You
The Crossroad is Seamless
leading to Others
with stories for you
.
Probable Laughter, Probable Tears
probable lives
over probable years
.
Sit at Possible Tables on Probable
Chairs
built by alternate carpenters
with alternate glue
so many choices
strange, but it's true
.
Alternate Husbands, Probable Wives
drinking drinks strange and mellow
during alternate lives
.
Sing Songs Slightly Different
tell tales very strange
at different places
somewhat rearranged
.
Probable Me, Probable You
probable Things
that we just might do
.
*
.
Walk on the stones
the river has gone
a smell of dusty moss
hot winds rattle and whisper
through the Cottonwoods
the cicada's song
sends us dreaming
thoughts of ancient times
civilizations turned to dust
as we go
heat waves dance on far hills
in the end
the last pool
with earthy river smells
green moss and cattail
turtles and half seen fishes
dive in
down into the cold and dark
break the surface
ripples sparkle in the sun
mesmerizing
sunning on stones
quiet for hours
listen to the river
We live today
.
*.
*.
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