The real battlefield is within the self. Externally a situation may demand involvement with the motions of physical battle, even if it is just speaking your mind externally, but nothing will change if that which is within the consciousness of the individual does not changes. Yet one person’s change can affect thousands, even millions, because his or her consciousness determines the responses of all around. Imagine then if a hundred people genuinely change their consciousness.

There are places and times where we are confronted with a physical manifestation of the internal conflicts in the consciousness of the mass mind of humanity. The individual wanting peace, wanting to live a spiritually founded life is in turmoil as there seems to be an attacker. What must he do? Gandhi taught us nonviolence. A non-violent battle is one where there is no violation, meaning the person engaged in it sees he is just acting out manifestations of unconsciousness in a field of illusions, yet created in oneness with all. He sees no otherness, thus is not violating other. There are no victims and no attackers. Yet at the same time he sees that those he attacks are his own self projected, and those who attack him are his self projected, and that the root of these manifestations is his own consciousness.

And so that is where he turns to make peace, and brings it forth in his words and actions wherever possible, seeing others not as other but as extensions of self into the world of manifestation. Where it seems he must fight externally he does so with wisdom, love and compassion, remembering the suffering of all “others” is his own. He strives to survive externally so that he may live another day to bring by intention yet more light and the dawn of awakening to himself and his fellows everywhere. He strives to have mercy on his brothers and sisters, to give them a chance to awaken, and in battling them do what he can merely to prevent their harm of others, remembering that all combatants are merely magnetized to each other’s inner issues, and that if it were not for those issues, peace would reign.

What goes around comes around. What you are will be reflected back to you in the world of manifestation. There is no escaping this, which is fortunate, or else you would never have any motivation to change and become a brighter light in the world. Ignorance is not bliss, it is hell. Just look around you. All the world’s troubles are born of ignorance of self, ignorance of others, ignorance of real value, ignorance of the price we pay for not caring, for not loving, for not forgiving. That is the core issue: worth. Outer conflict comes from inner conflict and ignorance of worth – of self and all. The battles it produces inevitably always diminish the world around us, manifesting that inner desolation outwardly.

Another distinction to make is how spirituality and materialism relate to this issue. When we blame others and material events and conditions we are being materialistic. When we take inner responsibility, heal and change with an uplifted spiritual position, we are basing our lives on spirit. This is the technical crux of the issue: what creates your reality, and what reality do you want. Either it’s someone else’s fault and a cost to you (materialism), or it can be to your (spiritual) credit and a gift to all.

Gandhi had it right. Just look at the most basic of human instruction: a little child, unhappy with something, will strike out physically. What do we teach them? “Use your words” to resolve it. Talk it out. Listen. Give and take. Don’t hit. God yes, Gandhi had it right. So did Mom. So simple, so basic.

Ultimately we come to a realization that even to think of others as separate is an act of violence. Non-violence thus must begin within the self, both spiritually and in one’s external actions wherever possible. Only then will violence be ended in the outer world. Only then will we bring the heaven that is available within our hearts into manifestation for ourselves and all.

© 2010, Eric J Tischler. All rights reserved.

There are those who believe it’s not appropriate to ask (manifest) for specific things, but this often just masks ego’s penchant for self denial, turning God into an ungenerous person. This is all just projection and denies the Unity of all that is. Yet the question remains as to what is right to manifest in life. Do we passively wait to see what the Creator brings us, or do we participate and explore? Should we ask for what we want?

The Bible tells us to ask and it will be given. That’s pretty clear. It doesn’t say ask but don’t ask. Other works say not to ask for your self but to give to others. There are countless saints and such who have “done without” and served others. Are they the example we should follow – completely? In this modern day? Is there a new way? I certainly think so, since there are resources we can avail ourselves of and things we can do that do greatly help others and which do require sufficient funds. And if the laws of manifesting are true – and they are – then there’s no reason for anyone to suffer lack.

Should we ask for what we want? What so you really want, in life, materially and experientially? And the rub is that we be aware of the line between unlimited supply the Creator offers and vain materialism. One of my early teachers of manifesting, a woman so able she had to be careful what she said because it would happen, said that if you are willing to manifest what you think you want you will eventually learn what you really want. When the meaning and power of manifesting is understood the delineation and solution becomes plain.

At the core, manifesting isn’t about getting and having things but about your consciousness as a person and about your self/world concept. What you attain in living by the laws of manifesting is an understanding that you and all are forgiven because the source of your experiences and fulfilled needs is within you, regardless of how those experiences and things were delivered to you externally. Thus you can end the tyranny of external sources, including your own petty tyranny over others that appears as grievances, expectations and desires, voiced or not. Guilt and blame vanish. Ending this struggle is really what you want. You want to be at peace with others and yourself. You want to love them and not make demands. This is the spiritual gift of manifesting. That is why it’s so important to understand and practice it.

It doesn’t matter so much what you manifest but that you understand what manifesting means about you and your world and everyone in it. As this understanding settles in and you see the source of all things in this world – consciousness – your true sentiment and perspective becomes clear. The din, chatter and struggles of the human marketplace become uninteresting, and you find that some of the external things and experiences you were attracted to no longer matter to you, and you have peace in the world. Fearless, your love for all comes forward, and you move with grace to create situations and draw on resources that support the expression of your own best interests for self and others. You become a builder of the world, not just a slave/slaver bargaining for his sustenance and security. You are free.

When you really get it, what you manifest will be secondary to the fact that you can, and what that means. This is the purpose of the practice of manifesting. It opens the door to brotherly love by removing the perceived cause for all conflict – obtainment through seemingly external means. You don’t have to convince anyone but yourself.

Note: “Selfishness” is a code word for separation and the struggle to get for self versus serving the well being of all without self-denial, relying on the Unity of all that is to provide through manifesting, either deliberately or vibrationally.

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