Armageddon
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The exquisitely beautiful rice terraces of Bali survive century after century on their precariously perched mountain slopes by the careful allocation of rainfall water ensuring that each farmer at each level has an equal share. Wisely, each year, the man appointed to oversee this will be one of the farmers who live at the lowest level.
In the rest of the world it has become those at the top who have commandeered all the resources and to be damned to the rest of us.
How can we have allowed this parlous situation to arise?
Fear.
Fear is the currency of change. To the wise, change generated by fear can be a powerful friend. But, left to its own devices, fear arises in the mind and masks all other human emotions. It is the way whole populations are controlled physically, economically, mentally and more importantly, spiritually. A good horror story, detailed with endless suffering, is ripe for subversive propaganda.
Bird flu pandemic? Anthrax in everybody’s mailbox? Exploding shoes on every aeroplane? Another cancer scare?
Look at the photo above. It looks innocent enough. That is me in the blue shirt directing a film sequence of a group of people brought together from all parts of the world on August the 12th 1983 to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima. It seemed entirely appropriate to me that this ceremony should take place at Ground Zero of the Biblical battle of Armageddon in the valley of Megiddo in Israel.
Even though you see that this is a real valley, the weapons of mass destruction arraigned between the powers of God and the devilish Satan should be understood as the expression of the battle between the logical mind and the spirit. It’s a parable, right? A teaching story.
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Yet the mention of Armageddon, the battle to end the earth, has always been enough to drive spears between believers and infidels.
Can’t we see it like this…if God went ahead with his favoured project to populate his recently completed world with humans, would he also risk creating an equal opportunity Adversary? No, no. Our role is to do the fine-tuning. But, unlike Him, we are a lazy bunch. Instead of getting off the couch, we prefer to have media moguls feed us endless violence, tragedy and fear, generated with vicious intent.
Other cultures have similar stories of the battle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’. to bolster their courage when facing change. The Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, describes a battle equally as destructive as Armageddon. The sensitive royal Prince Arjuna must decide whether to go to war against his own family or accept submission to their invalid claims to the crown. This is a truly home-and-away battle cry between his logical mind and his spirit self. His adviser in untangling the web of confusion is the Lord Krishna who is really talking to us about our own courage to take up arms against the wayward mind.
In today’s world, however, dilly-dallying (hesitating, procrastinating) is no longer acceptable.
While the end of the world is not coming, the battle of Armageddon is on your screens right now. However, do not climb to the mountaintop for there is no escape there. Go, instead, to the deepest valley of your soul. There we can gather the precious resources and share the crystal clear waters of abundant life.
Oh! By the way, do you think God made this beautiful place just to be destroyed by a few ungrateful humans? The coalition of the willing comprises you and me combining our determination to use our energies through service to others and encouraging conscious respect for the environment. It is time |
Growing Deep Field Relaxation
As you can see, in line with our philosophy, DFR keeps on moving on. First it was known as Spiritual Healing, and then it became Intentional Healing, Intention In Action and now Deep Field Relaxation.
The irregularly published newsletter stayed as ClifNotes until it sort of died and now a new life has arisen as the monthly ClifsNews! Please do feel free to pass it on to friends and, as always, email with stories of fun, fellowship and fantasy.
The web page which had slowly fell behind the times has been given a new breath of life by wonderful webmaster Frank Woolf and you can see that it now has returned in abundant joy. |
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International Exposure of DFR
Our latest news: on May 11-13th during the International Congress on Complementary Medicine in Munchen (Germany) Professor Harald Walach (www2.northhampton.ac.uk/portal) will introduce the research project on the affect of DFR on quality of life in cancer patients. The research was a collaborative project between Freiburg University Clinic and the Institute of Tumorbiology (Freiburg) in 2006. Professor Walach is considered to be one of the most distinguished European researchers in the field of complementary medicine. He is the head of the European branch of the Samueli Institute (SIIB), president-elect of the International Society for Complementary Medical Research, and editor of the CAM research journal ‘Research in Complementary and Classical Natural Medicine'.
We feel that this is a good exposure of DFR to the international medical community and it should lead to further investigation of the affects of DFR on the emotional and physical state of people experiencing different chronic problems. |
"Distant Healing"
Modern science has finally let us loose from the ideas that we cannot directly communicate outside the copper and brass wires. We exist, bravo, in a field which is so vast that even Star Trek diminishes into oblivion. Within our new perspective the old idea of sending healing to another person at a specific time with the burden of expected change is no longer sensible. The true connection is immediate and spans the entire universe. No single person can pretend responsibility for directing the flow of information; none can declare themselves masters of the cosmos.
"Channelling energy" to another person is simply not how it works.
In fact there is an infinitely larger, more skilful, approach. Instead of getting our hands in the cement mixer, we acknowledge the request for help and file it in our consciousness which then does the rest.
"But", I hear you say, "when I call Clif, he tells me that he will put me on the healing list for Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 pm my own time."
Let me explain: What is true is that everyone is good at making appointments with doctors, dentists, accountants etc, but seldom ever makes an appointment with themselves – the most important person in their life. But to receive the healing energy you have to find times and places where you know you can relax, put on the "Mind Music" CD and let your mind open to change.
My participation in your improving health begins immediately after you confirm your wish to receive the energy. Then I personally enter your name in my ‘healing list’ which creates a connection and the transference takes place. All that remains is for you to realise that I will be depositing energy in your spiritual bank account waiting for you to draw it to yourself. No pin number or password is needed!! |
"Knowing Nothing, Living Happy"
The title of my new book is already extremely popular, since the concept of being happy without knowing all the reasons and causes of different events has been accepted for a long time among indigenous people of the world. The American philosopher William James in one of his works recounts the story in which a white man meets an Indian chief. The chief says to his white guest "you will never know the happiness of both thinking of nothing and doing nothing. This, next to sleep, is the most enchanting of all things."
‘Nothing’ which, of course comes from a Daoist concept of wu wei, or non-doing, inaction is the name of one of the chapters in a new book by the revolutionary American physician Larry Dossey (http://www.dosseydossey.com). In ‘The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things’ Dr. Dossey confirms that by doing nothing in difficult medical cases certain miraculous things happen on their own. They happen despite the drive of medical community to immediately interfere with high-tech procedures and drawing the worst-case scenarios as a first resort. He reveals the potential power of 14 readily accessible sources of well-being, optimism, forgetting, music, miracles, plants, risk taking, digging in the dirt and even unhappiness. Dossey ‘takes readers on a poetic, well-researched journey into the many paradoxes that are inherent in the human condition and how they relate to healing the body, mind and soul’.
‘Knowing Nothing, Living Happy’ tells, with a little humour and easy reading, stories from the practice of DFR and how to find your own soul path to happiness and joy through discovering the power of learning the truth of the statement, ‘I do not know’, which leads to amazing freedom from pre-conceived and implanted thoughts.
To set you off on the journey, here is a brief story from my book of Sasha and his twinkling eyes and freedom from a life of pain…….
Three-year-old Sasha lived with his mother, alcoholic father and about 150 other relatives crowded into a tiny apartment in an industrial slum in Moscow.
He suffered from cerebral palsy and had never had the power in his muscles to sit up, let alone walk. In all other ways he was an intelligent, happy boy.
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When his mother came into the room where I was seeing patients, she glanced around and started to leave, discouraged by the heat, the smell of the open sewer outside the window and the depressing view of the nearby oil refinery.
‘All I have left is hope,’ she said with a hopeless sigh, ‘because I have tried everything I could and nothing has worked’.
But Sasha wasn’t having any of it. He lay down with a big bright smile as though the sun had been created just for him.
His little round face and intense blue eyes watched everything I did. He couldn’t speak English and I only had a few Russian words so we nodded a lot and made silly faces and slowly drifted into quietness.
Then I heard him quietly talking to himself. At first I could only just hear him but I did know the word he was repeating over and over, ‘Khoroshò, Khoroshò’, ‘so good, so goooood, sooo goooood’.
He and his mother came several times over the next few weeks. Slowly there was a change until the day when we saw that his mum’s fears had been replaced by tears of joy that day as he proudly sat up then stood by the edge of the bed. The delighted look on his face was a picture - like a crawling baby who suddenly finds himself walking.
She even had another great story to tell. One time when they got home from the clinic he told his grandmother, ‘Babushka, I am Clif, lie down and I will heal your aches and pains.’
What is clear is that together we had given nature a chance to do what She is best at doing. Nature likes everything to work out for the best.
When we begin to understand that immutable Law we can let miracles happen without bothering our ego or troubling our conditioned mind.
For Sasha then, nobody did anything unusual! Nobody was a special person! The time, the place and the surroundings for Sasha’s change came together to create a totally appropriate outcome. |
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The news is all bad!! It looks as though we are facing a big BOOM in Real Estate – volcanic explosions, earthquakes, tornados, more tsunamis, floods, television blackouts and Monday mornings.
With loving thoughts in our hearts we have prepared some notes to help you through the
coming extinction of life on the planet.
This is the ClifsNews ‘End of the World’ supplement.
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'The following test has been prepared by a selected group of eminent psychiatrists, prison wardens, pre-school teachers and zoologists. Parameters for defining the results of extensive on-site tests were strictly drawn and adhered to - following a pattern created by Joseph T. Burpmeister Jr. in his famous treatise on the mating calls of the South London crested turtle-neck.
The panel have taken great care to arrange the questions so that the reader's feelings of rising panic will be generally allayed by strategically placed calming, or ridiculously simple, and therefore useless questions. No points at all are awarded for any of these placebos - so where you find a question less than serious just ignore it and proceed with the important disasters. |
1.) You have just done your entire weeks shopping and you discover the traffic hold-up was to allow the fire engines through in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent your house burning to the ground . . . .
DO YOU
2.) You are about to leave on a much needed, medically advised vacation when you overhear a news-flash that the travel company you have booked with has gone bankrupt, the airline has had three crashes in the last two days, your destination city is presently under a chlorine gas scare and you've forgotten to cancel the mail . . . . .
DO YOU
3.) Faced with the eggs boiling over on the stove, the phone ringing, one of the children screaming over a broken arm and the simultaneous appearance of the bailiff serving an eviction notice . . . . .
DO YOU
4.) While sitting in your bank manager's office on the 49th floor listening to his reasons for refusing the loan you need to send Johnny to University, Clara to dancing lessons and to cover the overdue instalments on the second television, you notice the building opposite is collapsing from an earthquake. Before the tremor hits . . . . .
DO YOU
5.) As you wrap the garbage from a family dinner of Tuna casserole and mashed potatoes you notice an article in the newspaper warning people that a batch of tinned fish has been found to be dangerously contaminated. The little numbers on your empty tin match up ...
DO YOU
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6.) Washed out on a camping trip you are travelling home at high speed on a turnpike with no emergency stopping lane. The kids and dogs are fighting in the rear seat, the thermos of boiling coffee has just exploded all over your leg, the caravan begins to sway dangerously and a strange noise has developed in the suspension just as your wife reads aloud an article from your motoring magazine declaring your make of car unsafe for towing . . . . .
DO YOU
7.) Expecting a day of peace and pleasure you have accepted an invitation to go deep-sea fishing - not knowing you were expected to bring the emergency rations, the life jackets and a 40 gallon drum of fuel. As a summer storm tosses the boat on twenty foot waves, the skipper turns to you, hands you a bailing bucket and politely tells you that there is no food, no fuel, no flares and very little fun left .....
DO YOU
8.) Delayed in the city by a blizzard followed by three days and two hours of torrential downpour you are driving home to your country property when you are held up by a bridge washed out on the boundary to your farm. The roof of your four-wheel drive vehicle starts leaking just as you notice the pigsty floating past in the roaring water. This is quickly followed by the cow barn, the tractor, assorted farm implements and your house .....
DO YOU
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If you've answered these questions honestly turn to page 213 and discover your Disaster Quotient.
One man didn't and two days later his bicycle had a puncture!
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