The Creator of Your World

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What you are about to hear is excerpts of talks given by Syd and Elsie on Salt Spring Island in 1978.

All I’d like to say is that I’ve really honestly enjoyed this one. It’s about the most I’ve ever enjoyed what we call a seminar because I saw it as very peaceful. I saw it as quiet. I don’t think there’s a person here that hasn’t heard something. And you got that feeling of niceness? That’s it. That’s what you’re looking for. That’s the thing that holds the secret to the beautiful feelings and the secrets to life are in, within your beautiful feelings that you contact from within those new feelings, a feeling of sheer happiness, of sheer joy, just to be alive. I should be grateful of what you’ve got; it’s a feeling of gratefulness. It’s a feeling of love. It’s a feeling of understanding. It’s a feeling of all things beautiful that create the state of tranquillity. So always look for the beauty. Always look for the positive because only in the beauty and in the positive can you find the secret to life. Because eventually when you find the true secret, you’ll find yourself, your true self, the true mind. When you find this true mind, you’ll find what is called God and from then on for eternity. You’ll live in peace and tranquillity, in the world that you want because you’ll realise you’re the creator of your world, not you as body, as an ego, but you as divine identity.

I saw this coming to a lot of new people, the start, and as I say you can’t figure it out. To keep talking about it is a waste of time. Find that feeling again and just live. Just be ordinary and just live. Stop trying to figure it out and live with the feeling and everything you ever want will come to you via that beautiful, positive feeling. To memorise a word is useless. You must go beyond the word and see the fact which creates a feeling which in turn gives you everything you want. It actually takes you to the world within. It takes you to the spiritual reality. It shows you that life is nothing but one divine thought; this is how you break the pattern, going beyond the word, talking common sense. That’s all. Nothing else, I swear. Nothing else. Talk is your common sense.

You know what common sense is? Common sense is not common to the mind because the mind can’t agree that there’s common sense, so there’s no such thing as common sense in the mind. But true common sense is when you go beyond the mind, before the mind, before the game of life, and you find one common denominator which is everybody. And this one common denominator is called the game of life, so everybody plays exactly the same game, because we’re all one and we are all perfect, but we’re not perfect until we see the fact. When you start to see the perfection in yourself and in mankind, it breaks the barriers of the secret to life. It’s very simple and all you have to do is listen because you’re just listening to something beyond the word. When you find it, you begin to get power, power to control your own life, nobody else’s. You can’t do that. Just you–yours. You get the power to change your mind which is almost impossible from the mind itself, from the level of consciousness of humanity today.

Man has not evolved enough en masse to be able to change their mind; this is why the wars are still going on after thousands and thousands…well, since the beginning of time. This is why riots, this is why all the problems keep going on because we don’t know how to change our mind. We honestly don’t. You see we tend to hang on to the past. The past created us. We are the past, so you’ve got to put some light on the whole matter. So you’ve got to learn to change your mind, and the second you learn to change your mind, you’re truly in now. The past is nonexistent at that second. The second the past is nonexistent you’re in now, and when you’re in now, you’re in a state of meditation. When you’re in a state of meditation, you’re being what the church would call you’re being blessed. You’re being directed home and home is the most divine conscious state which is called heaven. The point you go home you realise what God is, what Christ is, what man is. They’re all one thing.

It was nice the way the people from Salt Spring shared with you people and you shared with them and very little was said but lots shared because you saw the beauty in each other. You got a feeling then. As I said, that’s when you become happy. You helped us greatly.

This is what you should always look at. You learn from both sides. You must. You learn from every experience every day and this is what I was talking about, being able to change your mind. You learn from a new experience. Unless you can change your mind, you’ll never get a new experience. I don’t mean just changing your mind saying “Shall I wear my slippers or my sandals?” We can do that. I mean it’s your conscious state, your outlook on life, your outlook in life, what you maybe think life is, how you see the Bible, how you see the words, how—just change your mind. That’s all. That change of mind is having the courage to look within. That’s what it is: changing your mind, having the courage to look within. And the second you change your mind you see a fact.

It’s a simple thing. If you go down to a restaurant and you’ve got in your head what you want to eat, you have this specific thing and it doesn’t appear and you get all upset about it. No matter how delicious the other thing is you still—you don’t care. I’ve paid for this and this is not really what I wanted instead of changing your mind. You just change your mind and all of a sudden probably that same dish, two days ago if somebody had handed it to you, you would have said it was delicious. It was just because your desire wasn’t fulfilled, and the desire not being fulfilled in actual fact is your ego getting a little zap. But it doesn’t like it, so it’s stopping you from getting enjoyment by saying “Don’t like that stuff.” Like a computer: “Don’t eat that.” “Don’t enjoy it.” Of course when you go to pay for it that’s even worse. So the game goes on and on, and two days later you’re in a low space and you want to get lots of energy and you want to get lots of negativity to feed all this insecurity. You bring it up in the mind again, and you say to your friend, “Two days ago I went to this restaurant.” It’s on again. Until you get fed up using it, so just you tuck it away. But you can bring it back anytime you want, but then you get a new one.

That’s because life—in our ignorance we’re controlled. You’ve got to clean the mind, and if you clean the mind, you find all these little neat tricks, the tricks of the mind, then you can go back to where you came from. Because it’s the tricks of the mind that got you lost. So if you can find the puzzle to this mind, and all its tricks, this connection to the ego etc., etc., then you reverse the whole procedure, and you go back to where you started, where it was pure. But the mind is directly linked to what is called the energy of all things: God. Then you’re free. Once you realise your connection to that divine mind, from then to eternity you’ll be guided. When mankind is in a state of meditation, he is fully awake. The deeper you are into the state of meditation the more awakened you are. The more awakened you are, the more you see the clarity of the universe as it is, how it functions, how to take people from sickness to health, how to guide people through life, and the way to guide them psychologically is to go beyond the mind. You must learn to be you; you’re not going be you via your ego. You’re going be the true you, beyond the ego, because it’s the ego that creates the sickness. The lost-ness is the creator of this sick ego, this image of self-importance.

We must learn to stop thinking about ourselves. Then all of a sudden comes into us. Because if you think about yourself too much, this is the ego. And it destroys you because you have to support it and this is where all the mental sicknesses start because it creates greed, envy, creates every negative thing known to mankind. And all you have to do is to see something nice, to get something nice, because when you hear truth it’s nice. It’s a feeling. It’s a feeling, as I said before, which will give you the necessary knowledge to guide you and guide your patients to a happy life. Once you hear and you start going inside you’re finding the spiritual reality that’s absolute total fact, then your life will change to positive, your luck will appear to change, but it’s not your luck that’s changing. It’s you, your world, your reality because you’ve changed the level of consciousness, and the level of consciousness is a separate reality. Each level of consciousness is a separate reality. Every living soul on earth lives in a separate reality. We belong beyond everybody else’s separate reality. There is one divine reality which takes in all realities making all things one. In here lies the simplicity to guide people home if they’re ready, and you can’t guide anybody unless they’re ready. They must want to go home. They must want happiness. They must want help. They must want to help others.

If you ever find it and you start to get cocky, watch it, watch what happens. You just down the way because you’ve got to start to realise that once you find truth, once you break through this divine truth, it is not you or the ego because truth is God. The more truth you find the more protection because it’s the more divine conscious state taking care of itself. It’s the mystery of life being unravelled, and it’s endless and that’s beautiful and seminal. Just think it can never come to an end. How beautiful a thought! That no matter how beautiful you feel or how much tremendous knowledge and tranquillity you find there’s always more. I swear that’s where it’s at because you can sit in your own living room safe and sound. You can switch it on. You can switch it off. You don’t have to apologise. You don’t have to walk out of the room. You just turn it on, and when you turn it on somewhere along the line if a beautiful feeling comes you might meet yourself. If you meet yourself, you can throw the tape out the window. Give a big kiss.

That’s what you’re trying to do is just find your true self, not yourself but the image of whatever are for the inner self, the soul, the super conscious state. It’s the answer to everything. It’s truth, but you must find it, only you, only you. Absolutely only you possess this power. You’re gifted with this power. You are this power because everything is this power. You just have to realise it and everything you ever wanted will be. I promise.

The one thing I feel is really missing on the Island, something really beautiful, is the feeling of gratitude and that’s where the goodies are, in that feeling of gratitude. It’s a beautiful feeling. That feeling of gratitude is what everybody is looking for. It’s what warms your heart. When you have what we have, to not feel an inner gratitude for it is really silly because we’re the only ones who are missing out, because it’s our feeling, our beautiful feeling. When you start to lose that feeling of gratitude, you’re losing the very essence of what we have. In that feeling of gratitude is knowledge, is clarity, is understanding. It lets you continue the evolution of our inner conscious state. I know that when Syd and Bar decided to go away for a holiday I felt gratitude at the opportunity of having this next three weeks to take a look at what we have. We have so much and we get so used to it that we lose that feeling, and you know that the people that are coming in now, people from all around the world are really coming in at a high level. Famous people, like world-renowned people, who are truly respected are coming here to the Island and are listening with respect, true respect, to what we have to say. They feel gratitude for what they’re finding.

It’s a time for us to truly look and find the feeling of gratitude for what we have because that’s the only feeling you can share with others. People don’t find gratitude just in trips, in ordinary trips because it’s not real; it’s a just a trip. So when you find gratitude with this for what we have, then you can truly share it with others. It’s the only way you can show people. You can show mankind what we’re talking about. It’s the only way because they’ve seen and done everything else. The only thing they haven’t seen is truth and we have that.

Not that we have it personally because that’s where we get into trouble. Our outside life changes and everything gets better. We get healthier and everything, and we think that somehow we have something to do with it. I don’t know why, but somehow we think we’re doing it and then it goes. It just goes. But the deeper you go into that feeling and understanding where it comes from that we really are spiritual beings, that it really is a spiritual universe, you’re safe because you surround yourself with fact, spiritual fact, feeling. When you really begin to perceive that inner reality, you have like an understanding of everything that goes on whether you know anything about it in the outer world like the mechanics of it or the workings of it. With that inner understanding, you just see how life works.

It gives you such ease in your life because wherever you go or whoever you meet you can talk with them. It doesn’t matter if you know what they’re talking about even; you just see where they’re coming from. It really makes your life so smooth. That’s really a nice thing to have. Not many people have that, and it’s nice to know that we can all have that. You know it’s funny that people even think of the words or what to say because it honestly doesn’t matter what’s being said; it’s the space. Like if nobody said anything and just enjoyed that beautiful higher state together, everybody would find what they are looking for because to have that space you have to have a quiet mind, and it’s in the quiet mind that the spiritual reality comes forth. It shows itself. It’s where all the understanding that everybody’s looking for comes.

You know everybody separates and itemises different things that people think they are looking for. When you talk to people at seminars they say, “I hear you. I know what you’re saying.” Not just at seminars but at any time, anybody “Yeah, I hear you,” and then they say, “Well, what about this?” and it’s the very thing you were saying. People honestly don’t believe, don’t realise that everything comes under the heading of truth. Like everything, every kind of understanding comes under one thing because once you tap that inner consciousness, you’re tapping that original mind, that one truth, the original mind and it knows everything. The very presence of that consciousness on the Island is drawing the rest of the world to look at it because there’s nothing else like it that we’ve ever seen. We’ve heard many talk the same way we talk about levels of consciousness and this kind of thing, but we’ve never yet seen anybody who has even a clue of what we’re talking about. That feeling of gratitude is where it’s at, without a doubt. Without that, it’s nothing. It’s just nothing.

I know when I lose that feeling of gratitude it’s nothing to me. Somehow that feeling comes back in again and it just wells up inside and you feel super, super grateful for it again and it gets deeper. It always, always gets deeper. We all know that by now because we’re still here and we’ve all changed and we keep changing; it’s a never-ending thing. Like what we see here is the illusion, and yet it’s very real to us and the spiritual side of life is intangible. You can’t see that, so like it’s one against the other and yet it’s from the spiritual that everything comes. We all know that as well to different degrees, even though a lot of us don’t want to acknowledge it because we see how the conscious level works and how our level goes up and down and that when our level rises everything gets better. Now that’s not something we’ve done. That’s something that the conscious level has done, so we all see that. It’s simply seeing that deeper and deeper so that you just give up the little ego trips or any self importance and you just let the conscious state do it.

I honestly know that the more I become aware of this the less I know. That’s what it feels like for sure. I think, “Golly, I don’t know anything. I haven’t got a clue about life,” and yet it’s beautiful to see life as an experience. That’s all. Whatever comes just as an experience. That’s what I felt these three weeks was going to be for sure was an experience. But I was super glad for it. I could hardly wait for tonight because I really want to experience this and just see what would happen. That’s a tremendous way to look at life, just to experience it, really experience it. Then you’re not missing it very much of it because you’re just right there, right now, and it leaves you free and open for you to see it. You don’t judge it; you just see it as an experience and you learn from it. Oh yes, you definitely have to want it for sure. Because even when you want it, sometimes it’s difficult. When your ego’s in there, it’s always difficult, but you’ve really got to want it. Lots of people say, “I want it, but it’s not happening.” That’s not true. If you really want it, really want it, you’ve got it without a doubt. You’ve got it.

If it’s not happening, there’s something going on. There’s something going wrong there someplace, a lack of honesty going on, but like you learn to click into that really fast because you get so used to that beautiful feeling and that beautiful space where your life is really smooth and a beautiful way to live and you just don’t want the other. As soon as it comes in, there’s something going on. Again you just see it. You don’t judge it or get in to it. You just see it and come out of it as fast as you can unless you want that feeling, but less and less you want that feeling. That used to be the other way around for sure. The time is so right like it has nothing to do with us. The time is so right for mankind to be further evolved, for it to really find some peace, some peace of mind. Just the fact that this is all happening to us shows that it’s time. It doesn’t take much. Like it took a one-second experience for Syd for all this to happen, and when he used to talk about it going out into the world I thought, “Humph.” I didn’t believe it.

Now, in such a short time, to see it going out like that—beautiful. You know it’s nice to watch in the next little while, like to catch yourself when your mind is becoming filled with all kinds of little tidbits of gossip and details and stuff. Have enough courage to put a stop to it. Honesty is the most precious thing you can have. With honesty, like you’re really looking at yourself with honesty, you’ve really got something. [unclear 29:34] freedom honesty does because dishonesty is used to defend the ego and honesty just cuts it all away. Really it gives you tremendous freedom. It’s hard defending that ego. It really is. What’s beautiful is we’ve taught psychologically for a long time and like with psychologists and psychiatrists and this whole thing and this is where a lot of people have stopped growing because they’ve gotten stuck in the details of that. They’ve forgotten where it’s come from in the first place. Like it’s really beautiful to take a look at that. Because when you take a look at where it’s coming from, it lets you use both of them because the psychological approach is really like the explaining of what’s going on in the inner reality. When you’re explaining workings of the mind, you’re explaining it from beyond the mind. But the most powerful is the spiritual because that’s where it comes from and that’s before the mind. It’s before the thought. It’s that space, so if you can keep going in there and showing them this is where it’s at then this is what they’ll pick up on. Otherwise it’s just like the explanation of the mind and that’s fascinating. That’s really fascinating, but if you get stuck in there it’s not good. You’ve always got to find out where it comes from and acknowledge that. That’s the hardest part to acknowledge. Everybody likes to talk about the mind and how it works and “Oh yes, and this thought and that thought and oh yes,” but to acknowledge a spiritual reality that’s what people shut out. What people are scared to acknowledge is that it is a spiritual reality. For sure, it is a spiritual reality. For any of this to be happening is the proof of that, and the more you acknowledge that the more proof you have. It’s only proof to ourselves that we have anyway. When we see that protection building up for us, and when we begin to feel safer and safer and safer, that’s where we’ll be coming from is that safe spot.

So don’t be scared to acknowledge that. At first when you start to do that and you start to talk about a spiritual reality, it might feel kind of funny, but then all of a sudden it starts to feel really incredible because that’s the strength. It’s funny isn’t it but it should be the intangible, the invisible that’s the strength, that’s the power. But that’s where the faith comes in, to get that first inkling, that first glimpse of what’s going on, is having faith in the intangible, the invisible, because like a feeling is intangible and yet people set great store by feelings. There have been many, many people who come to the Island who really see what’s going on and click in at a super high level to share like mad. The opportunity to share is always there. It’s just sharing with yourself, using your knowledge for your own benefit because when you know, when you use it for—it sounds selfish when you say you use it for your own benefit, but when you use it for your own benefit you’re using it for the benefit of mankind because in reality that’s what you’re doing. You’re using it for yourself, but because we’re all the same, when one person is doing it, or a few people are doing it then the rest of the world can see how it’s done just by example.