The Avatar Project

In my life-long quest to unleash my Unlimited Self, I have applied an ever-evolving array of techniques and ideas, practices and philosophies, and recently I came unto a great realization: Effort is counter-productive. Now, what does this mean? Does this mean that we should not practice yoga? Is meditation a waste of time? No, no, no, of course not. These practices have worked for thousands of years, and continue to prove valuable today. What I've realized is simply that the soul exists in a permanent state of effortlessness, or stillness, and until we have learned to bring ourselves into stillness, the light of the soul cannot shine through us. My experience of stillness has deepened immensely recently, and I will describe it here. Our existence has many, many layers, and each successive layer can only be perceived from a deeper level of relaxation. True stillness exists within us at all times, but we do not experience it because we always have something "goin...

           I love praying. I pray every day. Many people do. But how do we know that we are doing it correctly? What if all of our unanswered prayers were simply prayers that had been offered incorrectly? Would you be willing to make the effort of learning the proper technique? As it is commonly practiced, prayer is a means of stating a desire to God, and asking for help in accomplishing it. We are attempting to utilize prayer as a tool with which we can convince God to direct his Power as we would like. This is both ineffective AND unnecessary. God is aware of us at all times, in more ways than we have ever imagined. God is also aware of every desire we have, and God knows EXACTLY how to make our desires come true. Plan A is ready to go, and it WILL succeed, unless we are unable to hold ourselves in the 'receptive mode'. Since we have not learned how to do this consciously, Plan A often fails. Without a proper understandi...