a as well as founding the institute for individual and world peace and other organizations for the purpose of improving people's lives john rogers a bestselling author and has been teaching in conducting seminars for many years this  spiritual warrior right after john rogers speaks we'll tell you why you can obtain more information about this is the book you know i should say right off go buy it because i've been interviewed on television radio and i've never told anybody go by the book so there's a lot of people have said why would you write a book like this to be honest with you i didn't set out to write a like this i really didn't came as a real shock of surprise that we had done this because the material came out of about twenty five years worth of lecturing counseling with people doing workshops seminars etc etc out of my own life out of my most of it came out of my own tribulations in adversity because every time somebody would hit me and i would duck somebody it's not virgin territory i've been hit there before so we get to have a lot of fun with it but when i did a lecture on the spiritual war somebody asked a question so i answer that like fifty five thank you for the next chapter the chapter in my next book which i think is going to be called the way of the spiritual warrior because once we know who we are we got to find out how we do it  there are a lot of things in this book that i can read to you so what i'm going to do is just go through and read you some of the chapters and what they've said about it it's all true naturally and it doesn't necessarily all work these are not in any one particular order because i missed them up getting them out of the book they were ordered chapter by chapter so if you think this is how they're supposed to make sense they're not when the chapter is called accepting the enemy within and i was on a radio show the other day in the extreme christian format radio and they have a particular set point of view that use certain words certain phrases a certain context and the content has to be sort of a biblical phrase and i don't really function like that and i function like what comes out of my mouth is whatever comes out of that and there's no apolog for it's just a stream of consciousness that comes through but then when i when i explained what the the enemy within was from my point of view person is really find  't you know that every time you tell you where you find any time you don't want to tell somebody something that they should know that will increase their life in the vibrancy of their life and you don't you're into the dark side of your life pretty easy and we call the spiritual withholds and i saw sign back when they think shoplifting is bad for your karma and you also can go to jail i don't think the karma scared anybody but then they're going to jail card and i think people are going to go right i don't want to go down there because i me some other people whose karma might not be as nice as i might want to be with it and i may have that we have to stand up and acknowledge that the dark part is part of us we don't have to describe what it is just to ignore that it is there and yes that's all part of who we are and the mazing thing about spiritual work as soon as you acknowledge something if you say well it's possible i could have done that the darn thing just gets up and walks out of your life and then you're after  more detail on that now wish you had previously but you didn't want to tell it because maybe they won't like you they probably won't anyway but you can certainly love people surrendering control no one in this room is going to surrender control however you are not in control so it won't really make any difference you may think you're in control and that is the master addiction of the human race oh my is our belief structure which continually undermines us by telling us two things one that we will be alone or abandoned and two that we will lose control of reality dissolution people i even have this illusion myself on a few terms and when i got to it i said thank god i don't have to be concerned to play in that or do that or go there anymore and i really don't have to try to be nice about that because i'm i don't really like it and then i just stuck up for myself i did it by walking away and not participating i didn't rip it down because i didn't have a wrecking crew job here's one waking to to it we take hold of it and we start writing back on the solar energy into our center we actually get beyond time person ask me are you a time traveler i said no this is wh don't don't get caught in embracing the petty tyrant i like this one because i got about four hundred petty tyrants in my life in our training a spiritual warrior as we want the critics we want to petty tyrant in our lives somebody intentions as a result they can help keep us in line with with our intentions why have a petty tyrants who are always tell me where i park and hike in the park someplace else and so i have actually been riding with them and i'm driving they say at the park that's not the place to park so i park and i back out and drive around looking for the place they want me to park you know why i do that because they'll shut up and leave me alone  something like that you have to through your own integrity look to see are you are you a fraud or are you scheme or are you can i have or are you whatever they're accusing you of are you that and in that insists that you look at it to see if you are and if you are thank god you get to correct it and if you're not thank god it's a progress report and you can say no i'm not that i'm i have seen where i've done it i don't do that anymore i'm pas that means they're past that and they're not going with you go back to the other one is coming into alignment of course there's no assumption here that you can do that and there's the assumption that there's something to be in alignment with but the rest of it's in the book so you don't have to take what i'm just doing something here to teach you coming into alignment inside us who we are as an eternal being a person who is here temporarily here the spirit the emanation from god the selves we know this is our point of convergence our point of concentration or intention when those to take place your life will change it will change exactly for what you're prayed for and hoped it wouldn't come true because you'd have to make too many changes to accommodate it this will be upon you and the change will take place very fast and i was very little in the teeth  loose and that's like five six seven eight years old and you go around feeling the tooth that is because how bad it hurt because you want to pull it out and i had a brother those older than me two years and had already gone through what i was coming up to and i didn't know it at the time but he was taking his revenge on what they did to him by doing it to me i had a sister seven years younger than me though so i knew that whatever happened to me i could just pass on down the line string hanging off and the first time we did this somebody open the door towards us and i was really really scared because nothing happened as so as i was turning around to say what happened they slam the door as they went to the other side and i was had both ways the tooth went flying it went out my mouth i thin tell yourself something like that because maybe somebody go look over there and as you look they're going to snap it for you convergence takes place in a real similar way it's just on you it's all within these and that's almost like i didn't get to experience that so ok you got thirty more teeth stick around and you'll get to know when you're older and the dentist decides some more have to come out then you get to fully participate in  manifesting your spirit when we define manifestation as appearing physically we only take into account physical forms objects but successful manifestation is only complete if  results in a change of consciousness and the interesting your consciousness you have consciousness and you go and change consciousness for completely manifestation if you take a piece of coal it's going to manifest fire as a complete opposite from what it looks like we could say inherent within that is fire it is got to get at them so all of this is just getting it down that change of consciousness and turn is the realization that the essence of what we saw in the physical form is actually inside of us and i know there's books around here that will say you went looking for god and after you gave up you sit down and god was already there or wherever you go there's where you are or you look for yourself and find yourself back in the beginning having doesn't mean possessing a physical object it means no longer experiencing the need just think if you had everything that's going on your warehouse bills would run you out of town so it is doing without not because you're going to suffer or harm yourself but as much as you say there's no more need for that there's no more desire for that there's no more use for that and what you've got stored up that you think you'll use you just start giving it out i started doing that recently in my office and when they clean one little side of the offset they said well that part's clean and i was busy in my computer and i thought yeah you know i'm breathing better and it was just there was so much energy in that material that i was holding out for some future use emotions stop at the limit of the emotions and the magination stops at the limit of the imagination this may seem obvious but it is amazing how many people think that they can use their emotions to solve mental problems and that they can find this one was probably i should read the whole chapter is called bridging the left and right sides of consciousness this is probably the most sexist part of the book because we define women on one side and men on the other side the left and right sides of consciousness the purpose of this discussion is not to talk about the separation between left and right sides but to get you to the oneness of the side you are in then you will straddle the line automatically i get it i write books though in a way were you can't give a dollar on one reading you have to go back through to figure out what was he trying to say here and back through until it comes forward out of you then you understand and believe in follow it so actually does the book to really stimulus for you to own your own authority if you get something out of this book you'll have to say well john roger said i've heard enough of my own staff who works stocking the spirit in the worlds of spirit there is no time however in this world time is a precious commodity this physical world is a springboard for you into the higher consciousness our bodies minds where all of these are together at once and you have the best opportunity right here to make the best go of it and it is the most difficult one because you've got all these levels in one spot and they'll be pulling you this way and th way this way then this way and you have to keep bringing them to the one point which is you your consciousness your awareness and move from that point and can there be a wrong direction no it's either it doesn't it's not wrong because somebody else can go that direction and work it is just what is right for you and how you work that's the big key here and i think i did except in the enemy with all right what they say here is the paradox spirit is always been there and for the most part we have always been there and if we have been there and it has been there why are we not knowing that we are both there is the paradox you know what somebody said since i was always been here and it's always been here and why are we not always here i said some of you are always here that could be bad news because most of us are saying there are other things transcendentally available to me that i can participate in that i like a lawful lot more than what my body provides it's it's almost a paradox think that you can do something here on the planet and have it last for a long time but it won't you know you depressions can't last long and your joys don't last long and your food don't last long in your bowel movements don't last long  rides don't last long even if you get on an airplane fly from here in australia it's about eighteen thousand hours it doesn't last long you can't put up with it you go to sleep and that's really where time flies and you to sleep state so people say what are what would you say would be some of the key things for a spiritual warrior and i boiled them down to primarily three things there are exhilarating parts to it like having the right focus in your mind not positive thinking by the way and i will support positive thinking i personally have seen it work very long on anybody because  what do i use i use a positive focus what does that give you well positive focus is out there and allow for me to go towards something happens where i don't make it it allows for and they get of thought because in a negative i can still pull myself back to the positive focus and i don't have to judge cristol or beat me up because i just have to come back into my focus again and i know that i'm going to get knocked off i know that if nobody else will do it i'll do it for myself do the negative talk for yourself like i don't do that i should've said that is the things i could've said would just shut up right now and just focus on where you want to go and it's amazing if you tell yourself to just shut up right now or tell your mind stop it will it will pick back up again unless you put something else in its place in the thing to put in there from my point of view is focused on what you want and you may have to go around the block backwards to come forward to get it but that's ok if you ever stood in line to catch one these movies in the theaters there in the lang goes clear down around back over there and you have to buy your ticket and clear down around the back of the line and you stand there are would you stand there because the focus is on the movie so therefore it will include you standing in a long line and coming back around and if you're really smart you might find somebody they'd like to date this my mother when i was very little about being impeccable what you do she was safe you don't clean up your plate you can have dessert so not only would we clean up our plate and make sure there was no crumbs around we would take the napkin we caught on to him  yeah well we weren't that smart if it if he didn't do this every time he'd just do a periodic leak with the game is that you knew something was up and i remember very vividly him sitting with my little sister seven years younger than me and she held out a piece of bread for him to butter and he took the knife and and took the bread or he just started buttering the bread and just went right up her arm buttering her and got up there were al as she looked at this can down just turn licking it all off and i figured as my sister just make the best out of whatever it is one thing you have to have is clear intention  remember this principle ality or they decided to make war on the united states and then they merely surrendered and after that the united states took care of him for the rest of their bus to declare war on the united states and then merely surrender they will take care of us and protect us from everything for the rest of our life and even though it really sounds good it'll be a miserable existence  and you've got to have something to complain about as part of the human condition listen if everything's really great here why talk about transcending into something else you don't people that are saying i like the ear work couple people read this that this sounds like buddhism here's where they got it the spiritual warrior accepts all things spiritual work cooperate with all things a spiritual warrior understands all things a spiritual war hasn't floozy hasn't for all things and the spiritual war has empathy for all things they say how do you do that i didn't read you the other parts below but how to do it you want to know how to do that was going to try to find it's probably appear in these little i don't know why they write roman numerals in the front of a book i just like start one two three and then draw lines when you get close to the end of it but i would like to just bridge a little bit here it's called why a warrior this book will teach you how to claim the mantle the spiritual warrior spiritual wars are people men and women who confidently make choices about where to focus their  attention even when the external realities of everyday lives are kind or chaotic troublesome are just plain annoying although the word warrior may bring to mind images of armed conflict becoming a spiritual warrior has nothing to do with violence the positive attributes of a warrior dedication just think about this even people who are warriors who are negative they have dedication to the commitment discipline and focus and if we decide that we want to do that as a peaceful person we use the same qualities that the warrior of negativity uses become the the peaceful warrior or the spiritual warrior a warrior sense of mission is clear and his attention is impeccably focused on his goal even in the face of emotional crisis illness conflicts with a spouse a coworker a neighbor or the person who just cut him off on the freeway that when we put in there because in california you get challenged a great deal in that particular area here and a lot of people don't drive you would rather walk i drove tonight the intention is the direction we want to travel spiritual warriors make sure their intention is very clear because what we put out into the world is what we get back you'll know that if your intention is to be loving and caring you cannot let anything that is not loving or carrying come into your field of action mean be exercised a high degree of selective and as impeccability is quite simply using our energy wisely and purposefully conserving and directing it so that we align ourselves with spirit from the spiritual alignment inner emerges clarity about eternal reality and freedom from the binding nature of the physical world and the third one ruthlessness ruthlessness is the spiritual warrior sort of truth the sort of the heart which cuts away all that is no longer necessary or useful spiritual warriors do not accept just anything and everything but are ruthless about ridding themselves of limitations and addictions or the habitual unproductive behaviors of the past a mess just in the first  with each other about who likes the editing and not this and then getting all this done it's really a battlefield of behavior and it was quite amazing on this but there was little little battlefield just very little some people say i don't mind working with them i just don't like their personality the rest of you don't have to like the person now they do the book while they're controlling the part that i'm working with or wait till they finish with that and then you pick it up in this strange house when they hear just a few words like then they go right i was pushing too soon to get the book on my time schedule instead of allowing them the freedom to finish it on their time schedule because you know something there was no time schedule here that said on such a such a date this has to be done the only way we knew it was done is when it come to the end there was no more do we said it's done and that's the time schedule so became a very easy thing to do then people who were reading it were then reading it looking back at me and they were checking off to see how do i measure up or i didn't there's no way i was going to measure up there's here in a way it's cold and they're shooting these beautiful scenes from top of mountains over lakes and zero ing into indians and bolts you know after four or five of these i knew where the indians were and which boat there was a lot of that and i thought it was just a great travelogue so i was going to sit back and relax then it came to the part of the movie that was for me the rest of it was for my aesthetics i mean it was really pretty and there was part of it was from my sleep meditation i call it and they said hey you're snoring snoring meditation in the movie black robe an indian chief has a vision of his death sometime early in his life he had a vision of when he would later on he comes to the place he saw in his vision and on his deathbed he says if he had known when he had the vision that he was looking at the place of his death he would have been a greater chief he would have helped more people he would have been braver and so on in other words he realizes that since he could not have died before this moment he could have been more daring he need not have let his fears hold him back but by this time it was too late and when i when i saw that like just think if we all really knew that we couldn't until such a such a time such a such a place we would do bungee jumping  we would jump out of airplanes and sail we would do all the things we would go to the dance with this person we would actually go hiking we would do things as well as life so someday i'll get around not saying i am i'm not saying i'm not i've just got a lot of other things that are in line in front of them and i think that my studying and my learning these things have been important for me as a spiritual warrior and i do look upon myself that way and if nothing else because i've seen other people have adversity and i've had mine and i never really learned much laying on the beach some beaches in tahiti getting a suntan or snorkeling i never really learned an awful  did learn this you get sunburned snorkeling under a little bit of water in tahiti it's hard to keep on your back that night and the next day i was doing it with a t shirt and i found out that when you're wet in the water with a t shirt you still get s right just because they think it they think it's right based on what is less well because people think things they just think things they may not be right it could be wrong because thinking automatically doesn't say if you think it's right can be wrong well i hope i have teased you a little bit i hope you've had a little bit of fun you know i've been speaking for over thirty minutes here with you doesn't time drag when you're having  feeling you know you're not alone and you wish you were and i just don't care to bring back in to have me come back to recurring what i'm going to say and rather be impeccable with our statements now  terms of how mysticism is impacting your thinking in and the comment of the separation between the soul and the temporal an intellectual i have from my own experience found out you cannot separate the soul from its materiality except the time of death you can move away for short periods of time as the soul transcends levels of consciousness but as long as the body is physically live breathing it must come back into it finish up what it has come here to do and this maybe is come here just to learn how to see how this works that moves off and i know many people that live more in their soul body than they do in the physical body as an eagle personality and they're not wonderful bright brilliant vital people if you think of a good windows down the street they're just going to be gone off to  they're spending time talking to them is the real neat experience and they're boring in their dall and i really don't care to spend too much of them so therefore i don't do too much of that myself but i'm not boring in my own mind when i tell myself jokes i look at people here who are thinking different thoughts and i think i wonder what you do if i just said that and watch their faces when the and then they wonder who clued me in i really found out the world bring in the say the same there is just different parts of it but still all here and we're all part of that same energy is called life is called family and human beings and it's a spirit family that's a physical family and family in a mental family and i find out that frogs and giraffes don't do well in this but human beings do i think what we've done for the most part is we've taken mysticism from the ancients and i'm talking about present day mystics also and we've updated them put flesh and blood on them and made vocabulary wise today where we can talk about it so we can reach into it and come converse back and forth verbal e on what was once a sign meditative state because every one of us want to teach somebody something or to have somebody know that we know something that we can share with them and i'm almost convinced that that's is necessary to us as breathing in and i'm and i'm also sure that that's all part of the conscious not the physical bodies books out of india and egypt are still doing the same things were a little more sophisticated about it and some cases were really not sophisticated lawlike spouse abuse child abuse were very  alone people the ask me about them i say read everything as though it's literature don't read it as though it's sacred scripture or read everything as the sake of scripture even signs road signs  to take place and i don't think it's really started to take place yet i think we've got a pretty good make believe of culture and community and and the reason i say that is because i want to well give this tuesday about our football or basketball team or  baseball team and we're really wrong and the whole thing then we go home and have a fight with our spouse and the whole game's over or the children come home and do something to go why and most of the time it's because of us have a question back there you don't want physical violence ever make its way into spiritual warrior no but it does make its way into the religious used i did mention in what i said and in the midst you i'm i'm sorry let me just repeat it for you that the spiritual war is also the peaceful warrior but he is spiritual beyond the concept of peace there's wrong glad that they're in our life and we say thank you and they don't have a signed tattooed across the forehead as a spiritual warrior but their attributes of behavior and how they do and how they behave we start to see glimpses of you do understand this you do understand that and we thrill to see others manifesting where we might not yet have been and so there are ways show as they are they are our mystics out in front of us saying stupid full lock will quote you didn't smack him down or go say oh you do stupid fool look what you did help them up so they can see and get going if we still have to say something like that but we might say well that might have been a lot worse if you had the best so what do you know as far as what's going on within a person if they continue to run into the same experience like it's a negative experience over and over again does that mean that there is like what's underneath like why does this keep happening to me over and over and over and over what is my karma with them if you want to what your karma is look at what you keep doing over and over and over over and you will know what your karma is nobody you don't have to go to a reader or anybody you look  this and you can start a blue print out the new changes that your consciousness is going to bring to you because you finally got smart enough to say i am responsible for what's going on in my life rather than somebody else but you got to come to you can't just pull yourself to say oh i've said that before and has to come from that heart felt place inside where you say i'm so tired of being sick and tired on change and that's usually said after you've done the changing that i got sick and tired of that so i stopped doing it and sure i think that what your dream was being giving was ample opportunity to see where inside of  that was what you saw being manifested out there or is and how you want to put it inside of you so you can learn and grow from it and turn it to your advantage in other words if we brace our darkness we will turn the light over here  the question so the simplicity of spiritual and personal growth is so much information out here what is was the simplicity of it i'm give that to your real easy if it works for you if it doesn't have the wit to let it go it's very very simple it will work for you according to your intention inside of you know what you're looking for in this world as part of your manifestation and i don't really believe there's spiritual growth no i've never seen bridge to spiritual growth and i've seen people awaken to the spirit that's already present and then they m personality wise and you saw the maturation taking place of what was already there because i think who we are we're already there and we're just playing around till we decide we're going to do that we're going to be those are valuable they make the wheel go around so i never say one is better or worse than the other only if it works for you ness of deciding point they have to have the wit it might work on monday not on tuesday not on wednesday but thursday might work again so neither can you dismiss or spurn the wrongs of the ladder by which you're climbing in your awareness because we may have to grab the ladder and pull back up and put in front of us and climb up another one and so with the other thing left from that then is the attitude of gratitude like thank god i was aware enough to do it and thank god i took advantage of it and thank god these people are around to help me go that way and so this is the attitude of  being in a higher state of consciousness as a gratitude process and often all i get around time to go just say thanks and i have a couple ladies at work with me that are always waking me up and i i found no difference in them and me i find out they had to behave to certain rules that they had put upon them because of what they did with life i didn't do the same thing so i didn't have the same rules but i remember coming in one night and there was no one to have to let a prisoner and he couldn't go until a guard came and frisked him down and i came and i said that's really fine i turned the person i said get in here sooner before they change the shift here to shift change because yeah i know i know and i said you can stay here all your life unless you change your behavior th i'm not for people systems i personally am not for that i am for understanding and involving yourself with somebody in the deeper process of their awakening because often people who are trying to wake themself penalize their own awakening by behavior that stops them from doing it and what was your second question yeah the second question  me trust me and i know through experience where i'm going to hold up and or i'm not going to and i know a certain people how i'm going to give in and how i'm not because i've observed enough to know what i'm doing that doesn't mean that i love them and i don't care for them they don't disappoint me because i trust them to do exactly what they're going to do and i take that same freedom to myself but i do believe in not harming anyone to not hurt myself and to not hurt others and if i'm not hurting me i'm not concerned with trust i have to to have a trust out there so i can get something and willing to move my life towards th at the pace of my own awareness rather than to try to force it and make somebody a victim by demonizing them for not doing what i trusted them to do when maybe in the sense the word they never could have done that and they never were going to do that and i put  and inappropriate behavior on my part it's really best to take yourself in all times because you don't know what's going to be around and if something happens you've been taking care so look for your karma what is the there for you to learn what's going on somebody bring in a message to you somehow some way in the la times we just missed it don't worry it will come back around again and we will we will learn it eventually we want to thank you people for coming and being john rogers closing words where they rush they share which means blessings already are the blessings the i d s and the concepts which occur i just a small part of the abundance of material john roger has shared with us over the years if you would like a free book by john roger journey of assault call this number one eight hundred eight nine nine two six six five you can send e mail to a service desk at n s a all our genes are right to that post office box five point three nine three five plus angeles california nine zero zero five one dash one nine three five this has been that which is what john rogers thanks 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