The Process of the Middle Way, Part II

In The Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, The Mysterious Dr. M. states that each of us comes into the world with a Destiny Mandate. He describes the Destiny Mandate as that evocative energy that drives you to fulfill some purpose in your life, whether large or small, distinguished primarily by a sense of personal fulfillment. We don’t need to continue using the language of Bollinger Bands because now you understand (from our previous Post) that Bollinger Bands are to stocks what Path is to you. What defines your Path is your Destiny Mandate, the reasons you chose to come into the world, that is, the things you came to do (large or small), to learn, and to experience. Your Destiny Mandate generates the gravitational force that pulls you to your Middle Way, your most direct route to personal fulfillment and self-actualization, your innate way of being in the world. But of course, the world challenges you!

Dr. M. also explains that your Fate is the consequences of your choices. Your choices are like the individual movements of a stock’s price, sometimes moving up (forward), sometimes moving down (backward), and sometimes remaining unchanged. Dr. M. states that we live the consequence of our choices, and that the only way to escape the backward swing of the pendulum (that is, to escape the negative consequences of our bad choices) is to rise to a higher plane or higher energy signature. How do you know when you are making choices that will tend to take you Off-Path? What are the signs and can you see them in other people? We were talking about sudden upward movement in our last Post so lets finish that discussion.

Lets call our hypothetical young lady, U! What are some of the negative shifts in U’s energy signature that might be predictive of a future fall? Just think about some of the movie stars, television personalities, athletes, and other successful people who have gone off-path and precipitated a fall. I think a good current example of the negative consequences of being unprepared for sudden upward movement is Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the first African American to become head of the RNC. Success, especially success in the form of sudden upward movements, brings with it a host of trials and temptations. In the Handbook, the Mysterious Dr. M. mentions the Instinct of Pugnacity (L. pugnax – to fight) and states, this instinct is called forth from the internal interpretation of a feeling or an experience, like being challenged, threatened, constrained, or deceived. The condition of its excitement is rather any opposition to the free exercise of any impulse, any obstruction to the activity to which the creature is impelled by any one of any such instincts. Pugnacity brings with it the Emotion of Anger. One of the first signs that U is going off-path is that she will experience the Instinct of Pugnacity and the Emotion of Anger that are both inconsistent with her success. U might also experience either Self-Abasement or Self-Assertion as described in the Handbook and manifest these instincts in ways that alienate the very people she needs to help stabilize and sustain her sudden upward movement.

Dr. M. talks about cracks in the Handbook and we have discussed them in our Posts. In the last Post we said, the Process of the Middle Way is about being sensitive and responsive to the signals and signs that indicate when you are approaching an extreme (going off-path). Those signals are both internal and external because the way we change inside affects the way the world response to us. When success creates cracks in your energy signature it opens the way for negative energies like arrogance, narcissism, greed, egotism, haughtiness, pugnacity, anger, hostility, paranoia, and an obsessive need for power and control over others. When these feelings, emotions, instincts, and dispositions begin emerging in your thoughts, they are in the process of shaping your view of the world and your energy signature is shifting to the negative. As your energy signature shifts your attitudes and choices will also shift and you are inclined to lose all of the benefits that Dr. M. outlines in 10 Selfish And Unselfish Reasons For You To Create Peaceful Space. As your energy signature is depleted of positive energy the potential for a fall increases. As Dr. M. states in the Handbook, Your power emerges in Peaceful Space! If your path is unfulfilling to you, you are not in Peaceful Space! …You decide whether your world is full of potential enemies or potential friends! …Shape yourself into a being you can love and give others a chance to love you too!

The Pataki Aiye (the material world) and the material consciousness that we have internalized about it cause us to focus our attention on a superficial level of our existence. This is an energy-based reality, everything is connected, and you are capable of feeling, sensing, knowing when significant changes are coming into your life. You have an inner guide that tells you when you are going off your Path. The Fight-or-Flight Response is not our normal state of being. It is a reaction to internal and external stimuli and forces. Our normal and ideal state is Peaceful Space! Even your physical body signals to you when you are going off your Path. If you observe, listen, and response to those signals you will know when your choices are consistent or inconsistent with your Destiny Mandate.

You may also experience sudden downward movements in your life journey. Sometimes you make a choice even after you get that certain feeling inside that it’s not the right choice to make. Your Ori speaks to you and you don’t listen. Not listening can sometimes cause sudden downward movements that take you off-path.
To be continued:

Living in alignment with the Prime Directive

is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!

Create Peaceful Space! 
Trust Your Process!

Peace, Love, and Health!

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