Hello my name is Phillip Wilson
The name of this talk is "Pictures of the Mind"
The subtitle of the talk is "Freeing Yourself from Beliefs That No Longer Serve You."
Thank you for showing up. I've given hundreds uf talks in my lifetime, 100 to 200, on spiritual awareness, on far infrared saunas, on the changing body chemistry but this is the first talk that I've given on my book that is coming out in 2024, hopefully in a couple months. And so congratulations for being to my first real talk.
I had an out of body experience in 1970. My name is Phillip Wilson. I was a mathematician before that happened. I was passionate about doing math, on solving math problems. I finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the State of Indiana on national math exams. I published the solutions to problems proposed usually in magazines for brilliant high school students and my solutions appeared three or four times. I got a 419 in English on my SAT and an 800 in math. I prided myself on being English illiterate and math smart. I like to think that I set a record for the difference between the two scores.
I was sort of an intellectual. When I was in high school I was inspired by the beatniks in Berkeley. And my life goal was to go to Berkeley. So I have an Aquarius rising, an Aquarius moon and a Cancer Sun so I'm very attracted to anything that's weird, different like the Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian. Mork and Mindy. Those were all my favorite TV programs. There was Topper before then. I go back. I’m a 1948 model. I just became a diamond. You know the best thing about being 75 yers old?
“What?”
You don't have to take your shoes off at the airport. Nope. No shoes off, you don't have to and you don't have to raise your hand like this. Yeah and you can go through the other machine and it just checks for heavy metals and that's it. So that's the advantage and it's been wonderful. Now I don't like the idea, you know, they think that once you turn a certain age, you become decrepit. I mean this world is crazy. What, where in the hell, you know, I used to tell my dad as a kid, “it's not fair.” You know, I was 5, 6, “Well, whoever said that this world was fair?” They were lying through their teeth or they were totally ignorant.
Now in this world in the last three years, Oh my God! They are lying through their teeth! They are nefarious. I used to think they were stupid.
But anyway, it's like the title of my book, Pictures of the Mind. And the subtitle is the hook, Freeing Yourself From Beliefs That No Longer Serve You.
Now five years ago, I created the title of my book. You know, in meditating you just know. Pictures of the Mind, that's a weird title and you don't know what to expect. But again, why did I write the book? OK, I'm told I wrote the book because if I don't write it someone else will write something a little bit more diluted and the world won’t get the full message. And I don't want to be arrogant about it because, you know, being spiritually arrogant is a form of arrogance.
And there's five things that we can do that keep us out of balance. We can have fear. We can have greed. We can have gluttony, lust, vanity, attachment. All those things don't serve us, anger. So what we need to do is get all of the shenanigans of our mind, all the lies we tell ourselves, all the whatevers, we need to get that out of the way so we can see clearly. So we can be a clear vehicle for experiencing, seeing the process.
My definition of love is being in love with the process of how all life works, of how all things happen, of how things manifest, of the turns and the tops. You see, you can always tell God what and maybe you can tell It when. I've said, you know, it's like the mysterious hand of God works in mysterious ways.
In other words, you see, Paul Twitchell is one of my heroes, probably my greatest hero. He wrote a book called, The Tiger’s Fang in the 50s and it came out in the late 60s and I found the book in 72 and I read the book back then. And I can still remember the visualizations I to his journey into the center of God’s heart. And when he comes out of it they say, “Oh, he still doesn't know. You need this experience. “Do I really have to?” And he said yes. And then they put him in a state of consciousness where he was experiencing being like the creation of all this and all created were all these evil and wonderful beings and evil creatures that just did have occupy each other and they're all on on the fabric of his spiritual body, All of the, I think the fierce, fierce entities of light and darkness. And all that is you.
Oh my God. Everyone you hate, everyone who is doing all this crazy nefarious means, before COVID and after, and all these people who don't have good hearts aren't kind, they’re all you. So what does it say in the Bible? It says, “honor thy mother and father.” No, you honor everyone. See, you know, like the teacher, your parents. Well see, OK the old - you're a hippie and your parents are red necks and they don't approve of anything you do, sex. drugs or whatever because that's not, you know, they're hard core Christians and they don't approve of anything you know you have all these cults where they don't prove, everything is of God, everything is ordained of God.
You know, if it's a kind, loving God, would It want to punish you? You’re It. No, It wants to rehabilitate you. It just wants us to be in alignment with It. There is no time and space. There is no time and space, that's your mantra whenever you get into trouble in your mind. There is no time and space. OK, you know I had an experience in 1971 and I laughed and laughed and laughed and said that's all, that's what life's all about. And I thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
What was that experience? I saw a Daydream coming out of nowhere, out of a point. It's like around the clock, starting at 9:00 going all the way around, 12, 3, 6 and back to 9 and the Daydream was like “Wow.” And all of a sudden, it stopped because I got scared. It was like a line, an arrow. Boom. So I had to coax the fear back into its core and once I got it back into nothingness again the Daydream continued and completed itself in an ecstatic moment. Call it and orgasmic moment. And it's like oh my ecstasy that was an experience. And then I fell asleep. I got quiet. That's a rest point. And all of a sudden another Daydream started. I started awakening with a Daydream and it reached an ecstatic moment. And that happened over and over again. I laughed because that's all life is. I never realized it was true.
In the cosmology, the Hindu cosmology, that's called a day in the life of God.
And at night is the rest point. We fall asleep. Those souls who can handle the energy of being in the present moment, they're aware of the wonderfulness and those souls who can't, they fall asleep into a slumber. And then all these lower worlds are created with all these fascinations and all and all these galaxies. And that lasts according to Hindu cosmology, 4,302,000 years. But time, just don't get hung up about the time. But for the 1st 4/10th of that 400 of that 4,302,000 years of the Golden Age in these physical worlds. And then the next 3/10ths is the Silver Age and the nest 2/10ths is the Copper Age. And we are in the KaliYuga, right now, the Iron Age where it's the worst of the worst.
They say that the physical worlds are the ash can of this universe. But we here, we love it. We can have golden ages within the Iron Age. We have sub cycles and the whole idea of here is we're here to get experience so we can realize we are an atom in the body of God. We are a drop in the ocean. We are a piece of shattered mirror. And so if you are the infinite, the God of all gods, the All in the All, whatever you want to call it, No Time, No Space and you all of a sudden become aware that you exist and there's nothing else there. It's like, I mean it's the craziest thing in the world.
Because I was born into a Jewish family who was not religious and I was pretty much a Jewish atheist agnostic. I just didn't care. Someone 14 years old, 15, said, “Do you believe in reincarnation?” and I sloughed it off. As a matter of fact, I never thought about God. OK, here’s guy named Noel. I found this book in 1971. And he said it was a Christian book but he said if you believe there's good in all people then you believe in God.
If you don't believe there's good in all people, then you're basically an atheist. I always believed that there was good in all people but I never believed in an outside God because it made no sense. And I delighted in hearing proofs that God didn't exist even though I knew that they weren't really proved, you know. It’s just someone’s whatever. But certainly the space God, the two headed god of good and evil does not really exist. It's just an illusion.
The true God is I Am That I Am. See, when you listen to your heart. When you listen to inner guidance, some people call that God. I call it God listening. I abbreviate it. G – listening. Then I take the hyphen out. So when you listen to God, you start glistening. Isn't that beautiful? So now you know where the word glistening came from.
Now in 1997 I was meditating and they told me… Well OK, I was trying to create. my company's name was awareness and health unlimited. And it finally dawned on me because of what was happening in my business not having any limits, I was trying be everything to everyone, which is Hell. And so I had to find a new name for my company. And so I was trying to find a word like transformation, like a really cool word. And you know, for a couple months it just never, nothing ever came up. I came home one day early, around 3:30 in the afternoon, meditated in my house. I only lived about 1/2 a mile from my store, actually 3, no - was a mile.
And in my meditating, all of a sudden, I was awakened and I was outside of my body in my living room. And there was a thing there like a vortex, like the heart of God and the word transformation slowly went into that like a moth to the flame and dissipated. Next thing you know, I'm in my body. My third eye is wide open. I'm looking at this beautiful lake, just gorgeous. I call it a paradise, like a lake of paradise.
And inside of it was a mound. It looked like a volcano but it had this mud-gray-brown wrapping all around it to the vortex of it. And then I'm just looking at it, appreciating it, not judging it, just really appreciating and observing it and all of a sudden, out pops a little lottery ball with a word momentum on it.
And I heard the word momentum. “Oh, shit! That's the name of my new company? What a mundane word.”And well, you know, I'm not real happy. And then I hear a voice in the back of my head say, “taking advantage of the moment.” I said “Oh, damn, I never knew the word momentum came from the word moment. Moment is one of my favorite words.”
So, you know, I'm content and now trying to visualize my stationary, what else am I supposed to do? And I remembered that Wendy's commercial. Where's the beef? And I said, “OK something's missing” and as soon as I said that to myself, then the voice said, “propelling yourself into greatness. I said, “Wow!
And then the door slammed and I was in blackness again. So I got up shortly thereafter, found a database, put those words in, the word and the two sentences in and it took me 10 days to figure out, to find that database. I couldn't remember for the life of me what that phrase was. But that phrase, momentum, taking advantage of for the momentm spelling yourself into greatness, that’s magical/
There's a book by Brother Lawrence that's called Practicing the Presence of God, 80 pages long. Do you know the difference between taking advantage of the moment and living in the moment? It's profound. Living in the moment is a bull charging for a red flag. It ain't listening. Boom. Taking advantage of the moment is when you're listening and it said to turn right, you turn right. OK, when a corner is turned that's when you turn. You know, when the rules change. The purpose of rules is to get you somewhere. Once you are there, the rules change.
OK, you graduate from high school. Now all of a sudden, you're a freshman in college. All the rules are different. You've got to learn them all over again. See, beliefs that no longer serve you get in your way. So, it's a question of recognizing them. But to finish my train of thought, when you're living in the moment and you're listening. Remember listen? When you're listening to your inner guidance then you're taking advantage of the moment.
When you're taking advantage of the moment. It means you're living in the moment and you're listening so that wave comes through because you are listening. You hop in front of it. And that wave propels you into greatness. So this is a practical demonstration of how to practice the presence of God. It's taking advantage of the moment, propelling yourself into greatness.
And that was given to me in 1997 and I've been really blessed. You know, there is a reason that I trained in mathematics for all those years. And, you know, I have a third house north node which means I came to teach communication. There's nothing more joyful for me than to share the fruits of my discoveries to others because they help me a lot.
I've written a book that I've always wanted to wanted to read because it's got so much incredible information in it and these are Phil Wilson originals. And some, you know, I've read in books. I've got probably 100 of my favorite books/you know, the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, conversations with God, all of Paul Twitchell's books are fascinating/
I have a quasi definition of pain. Do you want to hear what it is?
“Yeah.” “Yeah.” “Yes.”
The awareness of time. Have you ever hurried? Have you ever worried? Have you ever waited? Have you ever grieved? All painful aren't they? They all involve time. So Paul Twitchell wrote a book called Talons of Time. That means time has talons. And in the book the evil ones were called the time takers.
So, this is why living in the present moment is your salvation. Because there's no time. I sell a sauna on that one, that activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the Relax Sauna that gets you into no-time and time doesn't even take place when there's no Time. So this is something that it is a treasure to me, somehow getting into no time, getting into no time, that sweet spot.
Now. the worst thing that we can do to ourselves is “judge ye not, less ye be judged.” OK, I don't understand why people don’t know judging isn't really a healthy thing to do.
“Exactly.”
And do you know what the antidote to judging is?
“What?”
Observing. The opposite of judging is observing. OK. Now, see when you're judging something you are picturing that. A friend of mine gave a talk. He saw the spiritual ladder as if whenever you see someone on the spiritual ladder, you are one step below them. So you can't afford but to see everyone as the highest of the high. Because if you see them in the dumps and you are judging them, guess what?”
“That's where you are.”
Yes. It means that, at least they've experienced it and they're realizing that it's not bad. It's just an experience and because you are judging it, you haven't realized that yet.
If you want to unfold spiritually, that's your goal, then you're setting yourself up to experience that until you realize it's not bad. Because nothing is bad, everything is. It's not whether something is true or false. Every belief is a lie. It's built that way. Be lie f. So, it's not whether something is true or false, it's HOW that it's true. Everything is a half truth, everything is a half lie. Nothing that you can say in this world is true except, “It is. I am.” It just IS. There's nothing else that you say… You can't even say that God is love. Because that's not true. God IS. OK? IT just IS.
Now who you are is “I am”
OK. Now see, you are essentially a coworker with God. Paul Twitchell introduced this to the world. There's a man named Ra out of New York who also uses that term and it's such a relief that someone else finally has used that term to describe what we are.
Because, you know, a coworker with God means, you throw the image out. You give it passion. See, feeling impregnates thought with action. That's a Paul Twitchell quote. “Feeling impregnates thought with action.” Now you know the Secret. the law of manifestation. See, everything is. I just thought the movie, the documentary, was great and some people criticized it a lot.
Well, I know it was limited because the secret is detachment. The secret is detachment. All the great spiritual masters are sometimes called the Masters of Detachment. Because you can't care. Because once you care you have to care, you have to give up caring. But we don't give up caring. You don't.
You give up the attachment to it. See, that's the subtle difference. In other words, so you, when you judge something and you say “bad”, you give it all this emotion.
And since you don't want it to happen, you don't care about making it happen, you are not trying to pull it toward you. So that's the perfect way to manifest something.
So, what do you do when you judge yourself? That's called feeling guilty. Whenever you feel guilty about doing something, you sentence yourself to do it again until you learn to embrace it, experience it in the fullest. If you're going to overrate will, then have a good time. Have a damn good time. And just enjoy it and know that it's the last time. But you're getting, you're letting yourself experience it to the fullest. In other words, you're doing it with joy.
So you do whatever you would think, whatever you feel guilty about, next time do it with joy. And you don't have to feel guilty about it. You experienced it. It's out of the way and you go on with your life. Because, otherwise you trap yourself into a vicious circle.
Now, why do we create businesses? The business schools got it backwards. You remember Superman Bizarro World? This is a bizarro world. Everything is backwards. So we call death insurance, life insurance. We call sickness insurance, health insurance.
You know, everything is backwards in this world. It's the way it's structured on purpose. it's been ordained by God because it's here for our Awakening. Nothing happens to us. That's the victim consciousness.
Everything happens for us because we are creatures. Creatures create. It's our nature to create. That's what we do.
You know, Frank Sinatra, frankly was a great Spiritual Master. He put it all together for the whole world. The question was, do we do or do we be? And he came up with a solution. Do be do, do be do.
I heard that like 50 years ago from someone else. It's not a Phil Wilson original, but it still is good.
Swami Beyond Ananda is one of my favorite heroes. He's great. He’s a comic, so funny. And another hero of mine is the Mad Hatter because he found a way to celebrate almost every day. You know, he celebrated his own birthday so I celebrate my own birthday every day. And when it's my birthday, I celebrate that too. Why the hell not? As a matter of fact, I think last year I celebrated my 56th birthday. Yeah. I'm 75 now by the way. But no one said I couldn't/
See, again, well you can't do that. I'm not a good doer. You know, Susie tells Joey the teacher says we're not supposed to play in the playground. Joey doesn't know any better, he's having fun.
So if you think you're not allowed to do something you become trapped. You know, you're a slave to every belief you have. It drives you. It's like you just have to laugh because it's funny. And you are the one that created this mess. That gives you the power to get out. Because if you didn't create it you're helpless and hopeless.
Hope. Hope. There's a chapter in my book called the Negativity of Hope. OK. Hope is a good thing for little kids I suppose. But, you know, when my girlfriend had another boyfriend and I had to break up, that's how I had my out of body experience. It was wonderful, the best thing that ever happened to me. This is when I was in high college. I was 21, 22 and about a year and two months later, they got engaged. Happiest day of my life because I let go of hope. Hope was driving me crazy.
As long as you have hope for something you know damn well it ain't ever going to happen. So I don't hope in God, I read the back of a $1.00 bill. I trust in God. And I also tie up my camel, too. Because that's what you want to do. A question an Arab asked a spiritual teacher, “Do I, when I go to the end at night, do I tie up my camel or trust in God? And the solution was you do both.
You know, it's like I was traveling in 1973 up Mount Lemon in Tucson. It was really, really hot. I had a jacket on. And so, OK, I realized if I left my jacket at the side of the road and I was going to be fearful for the next hour about whether it was stolen then I better not leave it. So I had to just, OK, if it's not there, I'm OK with it. So I went. I even forgot I left it there. And when I came back, it was there!
See. And that's the way we have to (we don't have to do anything), we don't even have to die or pay taxes. That’s all an illusion, too.
“That is good.”
Right, yes. You know, taxes are voluntary, but it doesn't matter whether you're following the law or not. They do what they want to do. But that's OK because they is us. And when we honor them and honor the world, you know, honor thy mother and father that means you honor everyone. You accept what they have and then when you do that you now have the freedom to respond. See, when you don't react you can respond and ability that you have. You can respond and that's why responsibility and the freedom are the exact same thing. They are different sides of the same coin, responsibility and freedom. You see how that works, because the more responsible you are, the more free you are. The more free you are, the more responsibility you have.
So basically I had a kundalini experience 1971 and a half in August and my whole body chemistry changed and all my rules changed. You know, again, the high school and college when the rules changed, I used to give talks on the changing body chemistry. My body chemistry has changed constantly. And if you're listening in the moment, and say, “Well, this food was good for me for all these years and it no no longer is good. It's really hard because it was your favorite food.
And so again, you get in the moment and, “is it good for men now?” “No.” OK. You reach for a food. You know, I used to reach for yogurt with a little bit of sugar in it. Or I don't know, maybe it was just the yogurt, no sugar. I used to reach for it and I get pain in my arm but I wanted it, so I ate it anyway. And it messed up my whole head. So a week later, I go reach for it, same pain, but I want it. I reach for it. It's delicious but it messes me up. The next time I reach for it, it ain't worth it. I ain't doing it. See. And that's the way life works.
Now, here's an example of a belief that no longer serves you. OK, it's just, oh my gosh, I think it’s the most brilliant analogy in the world.
It's a three-story ladder. The three-story ladder gets to the top, to the roof of a three-story building and you climb that ladder for like 17 years. And guess what's at the top of the building
“probably something on the top of the roof”
waiting for you? A helicopter, it's going to take you to a dream destination, the dream you've always wanted. And you're going to say to the helicopter driver, “Can I take my ladder with me?” Well that's a belief that no longer serves you because it won't fit in the helicopter so if you want to go to your dream destination you better let go of it. Now you have a choice we live in our choices.
According to Paul Twitchell's teacher, it's the first individual desire that sets everything in motion for the whole journey back into the heart of God.
You know comment there is no beginning and there is no ending. Who's heard that? Now that is true, but what's really true is the depth of the realization of that. See, mentally we know that and I mentally knew it for about 40 years. And about 10, 12, 15 years I'm standing in my big closet in my office in my house somehow I'm in the precipice of recognizing and experiencing that. And it was so subtle, you hardly knew it happened.
But the fact that there is no beginning and no ending his profoundly freeing. It's like there is no beginning and that's beautiful because everything just is. So, you have a goal. OK, you have a goal. And you send it out there, a picture. I
t's like have you ever seen The Quantum Leap TV program, the serial The Quantum Leap? I used to watch the reruns all the time at 11:30 in the 90s. I saw almost every single issue and at the, end… See, what he does, he leaps into a person's body, helps him out of trouble and then goes back into his body and leaps into another body. And the final issue, he was doing that. We couldn't get out of the loop. And I said, “Oh, this is terrible.” But no, it's beautiful. We never get out of the loop because it just is. And you fall in love with the process of being in the Now.
It's the momentum, again the word momentum, being in the now and the process. And so, the key in life, strange as it is, is getting into the present moment. OK, when we judge, there's a judge in an observation. Think of a child in awe of a playground or you in awe of a sunset. That's observation. You're not saying, “No, the red should be there and the purple should be there. This is all wrong. The sun should be blue.” No, that's judgment. Observation, appreciation, valuing, oh my gosh. Judgment, OK, what's the difference between a judgment and an observation
I had a friend who thought they were the same, could not tell the difference. And so, thinking about this about a month or two ago I said, “Ah, there's not a silver or a gold lining, there's a dark lining in every judgment. And I discovered it's a complaint. See? It's a complaint. Dale Carnegie's daughter wrote book for teenage girls. This girl was complaining about her boyfriend and she said you're doing the three C’s, complaining, criticizing and condemning. Three things you never ever want to do. And if you do it, don't feel guilty. Enjoy it. Enjoy, that's what we’re all about. Joy.
So, if the dark lining is a complaint and the antidote of judging is turn the switch from off to on. Switch it from judgment to observation. That’s the antidote.
And so, we step into the present moment, whenever we can. Bring yourself back into the present moment. And I discovered that every moment of my life since my out of body experience I have focused on centering. Right now putting all my attention, I'm sending all the energies into a point in my body and I’m centering and centering and centering.
And I'm chanting the word Hu all the time. A lot of times I don't know it consciously.
Paul Twitchell said that's a good word to chant because it's the sound of a whirlpool, it's the sound of the heart of God. Om is for the mental plane. Hu is like the soul plane. But you can chant whatever word you and it doesn't matter. Chant love. Chant your name. The self-image you have, the image yourself.
I had a couple girlfriends I was in love with and I used to send so much love to them and finally it dawned on me, send that love to me. See that's why I had that experience. I could learn how to give love.
OK, now I used to look at an old girlfriend’s picture all the time because she was away and I was wherever. And that was OK. At 6:30 I was going to go and look at all their pictures and love them. You know, and if you do this to yourself, look at all your pictures. And if there's one you don't love, damn it, love that picture also. And the self-image you have,
I used to be a mathematical eccentric, you know a mathematician. OK? And then I was a picture of a Bohemian type person, just hanging out, being in the now. You know, sort of walking like this. And then I had the picture of a mad scientist who is excitingly discovering the secrets of the universe. And then I had a picture of me as a Yogi. And then I had a picture of me as a dot, a point, no space, no time. That's my identity.
And the at the same time, I am in this world and I have to wear a mask. So I take this body on. OK and when I look at all the pictures of me, as a matter recently I got all my children pictures out when I was really cute and I put them on my walls. Yeah! All three or four of them. God, I was a cute little kid. I didn't realize that because, see, in high school I thought I was rather ugly. You know, because I was lucky in cards, but unlucky with women, because I was a mathematical, almost nerdy kind of person. My little brother thought I reminded of Mr. Spock, you know, real straight and rigid.
But you know, I was left brain. In my out of body experience told me, they showed me. They took me out of my body and they showed me. It's like in indoor handball courts about eight or ten of them, the equivalent size. All these women were doing music and the one third art and the other third dance. And the other, they said you need get involved in art, music and dance because you're too left brain.
And one of my favorite books is Narcissus and Goldman. That was like life changing by Herman Hess. He wrote Sidhartha, he wrote Steppenwolf. And it's all about the emergence of feeling and thinking. And my second favorite statement in the whole world is, it's a double statement, thinking without feeling brings about woe. Feeling without thinking brings grief.
Thinking without feeling brings about woe, Hamlet, “Oh, woe is me.” Consternated in thought, that’s Hell. . Feeling without thinking brings grief. You're grieving. Well, you have no structure to guide you. He didn't die, he just moved to another… If you develop your telepathy, you can talk to him every day. See? So, when you feel too much you need structure. I had discovered many years ago that all I needed to do was feel and I was telling a girlfriend of mine. I said, “All you need to is feel.” She ssid, “I don't think so. I'm a dancer. I think I need to think more.”
So it's the balance of the emotional and the mental, the anima and the animus. You want to merge those. When the two kids, the mind and the emotions, when the moon and Mercury are playing together, you're free. So, if you can learn, you know, to get those parts of you intertwined, integrated and harmonized, you’re free. That's what I've been doing all my life for the last 50 some years.
And my favorite statement is “being for or against anything exiles you from the God Consciousness state.” Sometimes I make it more palatable, I say “being for or against anything works you into duality.” And exiles you from the God Consciousness state.
So, by being aware of the pictures you're looking at, by looking at the picture of you, of your self-image and loving that self-image, why not? See, when you love others, it's teaching you your capacity to love. And if you can love someone with all your heart, why not love yourself? And I discovered a couple months ago, I hated part of myself but that's great. Because when that surfaces you can fix it.
When you are no longer the victim, when you don't believe in scarcity and you believe in abundance, you won't act like these assholes in this world. You know, they are. And it's not for me to decide to punish them because they're creating their own reality and they are setting themselves up to be rehabilitated. You know, and if they interfere with you, you have to protect yourself. That's your right. And you want to stand up and express yourself, but you do it appropriately because you honor them first and then you listen to inner guidance and you know what to do. And you do it with love and you everything you do you surround the background attitude of kindness. You can call someone a shithead but you're kind with them. Call them whatever you want but you love because Namaste, I honored the light within you and I see it as myself.
And the mailman came into our store when was there a couple of years ago and he said have a nice day. I said, “That sounds like Namaste.” See, it's the vibration in every society we have. In every culture they want to find a way to escape the mundane. And you honor all that. You don't say no, say no to drugs, except to drugs. yYu say no to drugs but I mean I had asthma and I had to take, I found a way to do herbs. I got rid of it. I listened to Doctor John Christopher. I took yarrow one day. I got rid of it. Certain other herbal formulas got rid of my asthma for the first seven or eight times and then I had asthma and nothing worked. So I went to the Health Center at Ohio State and got my tedral, stopped it immediately and I had the realization that drugs have their place. OK, so now I never needed a drug after that. Because if you're for or against anything you're going to set self up to experience something so you realize not to be against it because anytime you are against something you exile yourself from the God consciousness state.
So ,that’s why you honor. Honor thy parents, honor everyone. You let them believe whatever they want to believe and act and speak with kindness and with warmth. And with love in your heart towards everything that you do so it is colored that attitude. So this is what I do to sustain my happiness and joy.
See, they say no pain no gain. No. Yhat's true and that's the old law. Like Jesus said, I forget what he said, but you know it used to be the old rule was “an eye for an eye, a tooth or a tooth”. and Jesus brought the love of love. OK, so no pain no gain and the new law is you can with joy get the gain. You don't have to go through the pain. Ok, you can do it with joy. When people go into the Relax Sauna I say it brings joy because it connects them to the parasympathetic and connect. It feels like your grandma's giving you a loving hug.
So, we all want to give ourselves a loving hug. There’s a beautiful meme I saw. A lady’s in a mirror and then in the mirror it's like she's standing there like an Angel figure. And out of the mirror is coming herself and saying. “You're the one I've always loved. You're the one I've always loved.” See, we've always loved ourselves.
Rumi, I'm a fan of Rumi. Every time I read Rumi’s poetry it drives me into ecstasy. You know, it's like one of my favorite poems the world. It is, “I died as a mineral and became a plant. I died as a plant and rose to animal. I then became a human and even then, I shall become like Angels blessed. When have I ever been less by dying?”
The moth goes into the flame. You go through the vortex. The first experience I had way, way back, I'm clinging to the walls. And finally you let go and then all of a sudden, you're in a world of incredible beauty. And that's what we do when we go through the state of death you know, I love going on YouTube and reading all these near death experiences that people have. There's such wisdom that Danian Brinkley, I love, such a great friend. He was born two years after me but one day before so our birthdays were almost the same so we're Kindred Spirits.
There is so much, everyone brings a little bit of the truth to us and I really appreciate all nine of you. Nine of you, we have a baseball team! This is great! And I'm the referee. And so, my name is Phil. Phil means love and I appreciate every single one of you in here. It has been delightful for me. Again, Namaste. I see all of you as divine souls as without bodies and I recognize that’s what I am and I hope… I don't like the word hope. I trust that you all appreciated. I'm sure you did because I can feel it. And thanks for all the love you are sending to me.
And my book, OK, we got 2 websites, phillipawilson.com - My middle name is Anthony and there's too many Phillip Wilsons in the world. There’s two lls in Phillip. And phillipawilson.com - I think that's working now. And eventually picturesofthemind.com - that's my book. I don't know when it will be out. I thought it was going to be out two years ago. But it wasn't because I've been procrastinating. I've got my issues that I'm working with.
You know, there's never a time we're not going to have issues. It's just part of life and so if you live in the present moment and just enjoy it and accept and honor it and allow it. All of those are good words, you know, of being allowing yourself instead. You know again, it's no victim consciousness, no scarcity. You are the creator. You are a leader. You see, I've tried to be a savior to so many people and that's a no-ending situation. You have to be a leader. You know, because I can't save anyone.
But a friend of mine, this is really important. This was when I was about 15. He was in the back seat of my car and started singing a little jingle, a little song, “Jesus puts his money in the Chase Manhattan bank. Jesus puts his money in the Chase Manhattan bank.” He was Jewish. “Jesus puts his money in the Chase Manhattan bank! Jesus saves. Jesus saves. Jesus saves!” I thought that was so cute.
But anyway, I can't save anyone. I can't. It's not possible and it's not ordained by That Which Is or God. It's that I can only share my love and my warmth and you got to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. We all do. That’s our Challenge. That's our joy, The Challenge and the Joy are one. OK. So it's like, Life Is. You know you can't ever have what you want. Do you know why?
“Why?”
Because when you want something, you're picturing yourself not having.
“Yeah.”
And you're getting what you picture. What's the antidote? Gratefulness for having what you don't have, you step into the wish fulfilled. OK. In other words, instead of looking at the puppy in a cage at the pet shop, wanting it. The puppy is crawling all over you, hugging you and and kissing you all over your face. And you’re experiencing how wonderful it is. OK. That’s, see, you don’t want to ever want. Want not.
And doesn’t it say in the Bible, want not? That's what it means. You don't want to ever want. Just know that it's your birthright because you’ve desired it, you decreed it. Camelot, the movie Camelot, everything is the way because he decreed it. We decree it. We decide. We choose. Give it our love, our passion and then do what we need to do next and all of a sudden, it comes through the back door and we get to experience what we decreed.
That's divine law. That's The Law of Attraction. OK. The Secret is great but there is more to it. It's not What Is. It's the depth of understanding. It's all the depth of understanding and everything. Because I can give you a platitude. You know, you can't have what you want but until you contemplate that on and relax and get tuned in, and again, sometimes you have to have a near-death experience. Sometimes you have to get to that place because there is nothing worse than believing in God.
That to me, when I, after I experienced whatever I experienced and I was talking to a guy at a health food store who didn't know whether God believed or not, he was in hell. So I was fortunate. I never believed in God. I went from not believing in God to experiencing the hem of God's robe and not even knowing it. And then, a year and a half later, figuring out what the hell happened because I thought it was a realization. I thought it was a realization that I needed to get involved in music, art and dance. But no, three beings took me out of my body, showed me what I needed to do. Connected me with the spiritual current. And then it took me years to know it.
But anyway, I've shared a lot. I’ve loved a lot. And you guys have loved back and I thank you so very much.
(Applause) “Woo hoo!” “Thank you.” “Thank you.”