Coming Soon : The Wake Up Book by Carlo Ami
After two and a half months of reorienting, I am back, and nearly ready to release the retitled and reworked book now called "The Wake Up Book" (formerly "The Wake Up Book." The book asks the reader to do something many are unwilling to do: go within themselves for answers to the most important questions. As we are being readied for a major shift in how the world functions, now is the time for us to further understand who we are and why we are here. This book provides a framework for your own understanding of these questions, and for how to find your won answers to them. This new book, introducing an entirely new genre of self-exploratory spiritual writing, is designed to enhance the spiritual empowerment of those who read and ponder it in small segments as provided. Do you have the courage to go within yourself for the real answers to life's most important questions?
Here are the first pages from that book.
The Wake Up Book
Opening thought to ponder:
This book is for those of us who are ready to get our minds out of the gutter. It is for people who are ready to at least start considering to point themselves consciously in the direction of living a fully heart-based life.
The gutter is anywhere that is not apparently loving.
The heart of the enlightened one sees the Love---and the opportunity to exercise it—in each experience.
To move intelligently in the Loving direction requires the reconditioning of the mind by the heart. By surrendering to the will of the heart, we become fully loving and free. Why would we want to do anything else?
To move beyond old, tired, destructive patterns, we are quested to use the same method by which we were falsely conditioned.
This book is about reconditioning your head by the will of your heart.
You can make the choice to do this. Are you willing? Are you ready to wake up?
Preface
Worldly and Heart Propaganda
Do the same kinds of challenging things keep happening to you over and over?
Do you keep on responding to these challenges in basically the same way?
If so, there is only one reason that your life is the way it is: Conditioning. You are conditioned to look at the world in the ways you have been seeing it and you are conditioned to respond from the imaginary part of you that does not really exist, your ego.
If you are dedicated to empowering your own life, consider using this book as a heart propaganda tool. So what does that mean?
Many people tend to associate the term “propaganda” with that which is negative and political. Propaganda goes far beyond the political arena and into advertising, religion, news buzzwords, the parent-child relationship (“don’t” , “stop”, “no”) and much more.
The mechanism by which propaganda conditions us is repetition. If one sees or hears the same words spoken over and over, after a certain point those words tend to be accepted as truth whether they are true or not.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. -- Harold Evans
Could it be that what makes heart propaganda different from the propaganda promoted by the apparently corrupt or ignorant is that heart propaganda speaks only the complete truth. Please ponder this:
The wisdom and will of my heart is complete in its Love.
More and more, I trust the wisdom of my heart to guide me.
As I write this book in 2010, the world appears to be teetering on the brink of oblivion. Our religions, our governments, corporate interests and our media all seem to be out of kilter, often appearing to do the opposite of fulfilling the roles we may have envisioned for them.
"When people decry civilian deaths caused by the U.S government, they're aiding propaganda efforts. In sharp contrast, when civilian deaths are caused by bombers who hate America, the perpetrators are evil and those deaths are tragedies. When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror.
--- Norman Solomon
We look at this and we see the mirror of our ego in the apparently bigger world. What other response could possibly be as appropriate as kissing that imaginary part of ourselves goodbye? It is the petulant, spoiled brat. It exists only as we feed it. Such stopping is a natural by-product of the choice to live life with the central recognition of Self and world and all inhabitants of this Earthly home as equals infused with Love, nothing but Love.
Yes, to you that may seem like a radical thought. How well has your way of thinking so far in this lifetime served your sense of happiness, contentment, and trust?
Times of radical change require radical change in the way we have been living.
Before the European settlers arrived in what is now the United States, many Native Americans had a very wonderful set of beliefs about what religion and spirituality can be. The settlers from Europe wiped them out, wouldn’t allow them to practice their religion, and imposed upon them a schizophrenic, dangerous God. Our government, the one so many support without question, has found ways to break nearly every treaty it has made with America’s original inhabitants whose land and way of life was stolen from them.
Are you willing to consider the notion that our government has broken---and continues to break---its basic agreements with us?
From your head, ask yourself if this is acceptable to you as a way of life.
Ask your heart to reveal to you the solution right now.
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We have been witnessing our collective decline for centuries. We watch anxiously as our religions preach to us in ways that divide, persecute, anger, belittle and disrespect us. As our governments foment war and pander to the wealthy elite, we sit silently as they withdraw our liberties, deplete more of our income, torture their enemies, and withhold life-saving medical knowledge as a way of protecting the wealthy. To serve the corporate interests, our government allows brain-toxic chemicals to be added to processed foods. They allow livestock to be abused., While the government poisons our land, air and water, we collectively look the other way, as if to say that there is nothing we can do about it.
Still, if you care to do even a small amount of research, you will learn that all of the above allegations are true. Most would rather not know this or even look to see if these assertions are valid, because to recognize them as true might bring the deeper pain of realizing that we are in a virtual prison created by our unwillingness to see what is in front of us.
We have allowed our religions and our governments to abuse us. Let’s take a deeper look at how these institutions show us the ignorant destructiveness of the human ego on a macro level.
How Most Religions and Our Governments are Mirrored by the Human Ego
(I am observing the following about false religions that feature a harsh God, eternal damnation or dogma that suggests belief makes the believer better or more worthy than others. Only some of the so-called “minor” religions may be seen as uniting and empowering, so the following would not be referring to them.)
- They give the illusion of freedom and choice while removing both
- They refuse to take responsibility for their actions, blaming something outside
- They take simple topics like Love and make them appear complicated.
- Their dogma and books (like governments’ laws) are purposefully self-contradictory and misleading
- They foster a brand of ignorance that they call the truth
- They are willing to suppress obvious truth in order to maintain their version of power
- Their number one weapon is deceit. They are imposters.
- They are centered in creating fear of condemning judgment by God or other “superior”, “more worthy” beings/authority figures
- All have stories that justify their existence. Most of the stories, upon rational observation, are either simple fabrication or clever lies.
- So far in our history, their apparent motto has been “Order Though Chaos.” Internal facets of each of these---government, religion, and ego---appear to fight with each other, fanning the flames of our inner battles as we engage in both inner and outer debate. Much of the message contradicts itself, discouraging our reliance on reason and common sense as it encourages division and feelings of weakness or powerlessness.
With the passing of time, the lessons---the wake up calls concerning the state of our world---have increased in intensity and clarity. Our religions and governments display what appears to be expanding willingness to betray us. Yet, collectively we have remained largely asleep. We see our religions and our governments as representing us---just as we have seen ego as who we are---when, in fact, they all do the exact opposite of representing us truly.
We have not wanted to see the truth because accepting the truth is perceived as being more painful than pretending stupidity.
Consider the words of a heroic African American who, in 1955 refused a bus drivers’ demand that she give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
“I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time... there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
- Rosa Parks
Ponder, please:
What similarities does my own life situation today have to the position she found herself in? Am I willing to to wake up to what is in front of me to see?
How is our collective situation today similar to the one she found herself in back then? What can you do about this collective situation?
