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The Fear of Life
- The Fear of Life and The Simple Act of Inward Looking That Snuffs It Out
If you will try, with your whole heart, to bring the beam of your attention in direct contact with the reality of your nature, you will snuff out the fear of life, which is the first cause of all human misery. I call this action "looking at yourself." If you will just try to look at yourself, the disease will go away, and with it the perception of your life as a problem to be solved, a threat to be destroyed, or the hiding place of a secret treasure that will bring fulfillment and satisfaction. It's that simple.
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The Way Forward
- The Way Forward
We can see now the way forward to bring the miracle of inward looking to all of humanity. Our experience of our own lives has shown us directly what is possible for all human beings: an end to fearfulness and alienation from life that can easily be accomplished by anyone willing to try one simple act of inward looking. This is like nothing you have ever heard before; this is a revolution in the making for all of humanity.
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- Just One Look
An experiment in the power of human consciousness to free itself from the fear of life.
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Our work, our purpose, and the goal of all our efforts is to make one simple insight and one simple act of inward looking as universally available and accessible within the entire human community as is life itself.
Biography
A two-bit hustler in the sixties morphs into a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary bank robber and bomber. After being captured and breaking out twice, and several years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, he is caught and spends the next eighteen and a half years in federal prison. Three years before his release, he stumbles on an esoteric Eastern spiritual teaching, and awakens to reality. He is released three years later, marries well, he and his wife Carla stumble upon the actual secret of eternal happiness, and live happily ever after.
1966: two-bit hustler;
1969: revolutionary bankrobber/bomber;
1976: Ten Most Wanted;
1994: esoteric teaching - awakening;
1998: released from prison;
1999: marries well;
... happily ever after ... here with you ...
Interests
Many things interest me: music, astrophysics, human history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, spiritual aspiration and attainment, movies, TV, fiction of all sorts ... many things. But pertaining to the perplexing matter of the nearly universal human dissatisfaction with life, only two things hold my interest: the fear of life, and the simple act of inward looking that snuffs it out.
