The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
It’s a trap! A lot of people believe that this entire concept – consciousness creating reality, the law of attraction, the power of positive thinking, etcetera – is nothing more than hooky-spooky, crunchy hippy, new-agey bullshit. They think life happens, you cannot direct it, control it, you can only do your part, do your job, and get on with it. All this feel-good reality creationism is ludicrous drivel. This is the easiest trap to fall into. Especially when you are
Over the past several weeks I have explored many of the aspects that go into my Pathwalking concept. This week, let’s take a more in-depth look at a single, necessary aspect in successful pathwalking: Accountability. More than once, in writing entries on topical rants in this blog, I have touched on this topic. It is my belief that the single greatest problem in the world today comes down to accountability. No one seems to care if they take responsibility for
Distractions are everywhere. All sorts of things can distract you from your path. Some of these are good things – family, friends, fun activities…and some are less so – work, bills, anger, frustration. Accepting and balancing the distractions while remaining on the path can be really hard to do. I often suffer from something I refer to as ADOS – Attention Deficit “Ooooooooooooooooooooh, SHINY!” disorder (NOT my phrase, by the way – I have borrowed it from a friend or
I have long said that there are three ways to exist in this life. The first is to let life live YOU. You go about your day-to-day business, let the pattern carry you along, let life happen to you. No real control, you just go with what happens. This is REALLY easy – but not tremendously rewarding. The second is to curl up in a ball, and wait to die. This is not just a literal thing – I believe
When we are feeling defeated, and we can no longer conceive of the path, or find it at all – how do we let it go? As I mentioned in last week’s post, the first step is to acknowledge and accept this limitation. We are imperfect beings, and as such we are going to falter, we will lose the path completely. This is not a weakness – it is a part of our nature. So we have to accept the
Sometimes the path is nowhere to be seen. Sure, I might know the goal, I might have an idea of how I wish to walk the path…but that does not mean that the path will be clear, or even necessarily visible. Pathwalking is a tricky process, as you may have noticed. And one of the things that makes it tricky, beyond just identifying the desire to choose and walk your own path, is even locating a path in the first
One of the main keys to this entire process is feeling. It is necessary to start by thinking about how I want to walk my path. Thought is the beginning. But the real key to this is FEELING. If all I do is think about it – I cannot generate enough power to manifest it. To consciously create my reality, I cannot simply give it thought – it requires feeling. It demands feeling. If I cannot feel it, I cannot
Why do I believe that choosing my own path is possible? How can I think that conscious pathwalking can be realistic? Why do I so vehemently believe this? Because I have seen it in action. Because I have experienced it first hand. Because I have done it. As I stated in the last entry to this blog – Pathwalking is about finding the path, really experiencing the here and now of it, and understanding that we have the ability to
What IS pathwalking, specifically, anyhow? It occurs to me that I haven’t yet explained what this is, and why I think it is so very important. The Australian Aborigines use the term ‘Walkabout’ to denote an adolescent journey through the wilderness as a rite of passage. It has been borrowed in more common culture over the years to refer to a spiritual journey, often taking the form of some kind of physical adventure. Pathwalking, as I call it, is taking
Not only is the path not straight – neither does it run smoothly and evenly. There are hills, dips, twists, turns, ruts and potholes. There are points from which you can see the goal, only to be turned almost completely around. And sometimes the path seems to leap across incredible distances, defying all logic. This is part of the overall frustration in trying to choose one’s own path. I know what I want, I know how I want my life