Letter #44: Creating Human Magic and Marvels
2024 is on the left of the bridge, 2025 on the right hand side; will you cross with me?! Photo from Chiang Dao Hill Resort in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Dear Friend
When we consciously set about unblocking our mind, magical marvels and miracles happen.
And, be sure about it, every single human being’s mind needs unblocking from the materialistic society which has schooled and conditioned it to believe and accept conflict and division, hatred and war, scarcity and fighting for resources are inevitable, that they are part of the human condition, that they are human nature and the way of life.
I absolutely do not accept this, and I know it’s untrue, purely from my own experiences, but also from chatting with many fellow souls on my travels and in my teaching work. And from reading so many of the insights and wisdom from the masters of our shared human history.
Look, even 2500 years after Buddha and 2000 years after Jesus, their teachings are still being totally ignored by mainstream society. In fact, mainstream society appears hellbent on self-destruction.
We cannot escape from the unpalatable truth either: ‘society’ means a whole bunch of individual human beings, which means you and me.
Society IS the human being, and the human being IS society. What you see out there is in you. Doesn’t mean you act on it, but the seeds are in you for sure.
But available to all of us is the self-empowering nature of our conscious mind; using it leads to our liberation from living the ways of mainstream society.
Conflict and division, hatred and distrust are the consequence of NURTURE, not NATURE.
But when we choose to live consciously by taking the first step, a whole series of tremendous experiences keep arising for us. You see and feel your experience of life transforming right in front of your eyes. And with practice you become a master of change. This ability to make proactive change (without fear or resistance of consequences) frees you up to adapt, evolve and grow, and puts you in charge of your own life, health and destiny.
And that’s when we increasingly experience fun, joy, inner peace, camaraderie, love and freedom.
The first step is to UNBLOCK YOUR MIND.
Unblocking the mind means removing the power that IDEOLOGY (all and any _isms) has enslaved you with. Unblocking the mind comes from proactively resetting our mindset.
When the beliefs—which you previously subconsciously took to be self-evident truths—are exposed by the light of your conscious mind, their darkness is gone. You see them for the charlatans and wolves in sheep's clothing that they always were.
Now you are presented with your own personal golden key (give thanks to the universe!) to UNLOCK YOUR HEART. This is where the true miracles begin making themselves known to you.
From my experience I would say that you can only really unlock your heart once you have taken the steps to unblock your mind.
Be sure about it though, our conditioned ignorance about who we are and how life works runs so deep in our subconscious mind and our psyche, that the work to recondition ourselves into a heart-centred way of living requires plenty of practice and watchful observance. It’s like wellness, you have to do work to get it, and then you have to continue working on it forevermore. It’s not a one-off task!
But that's no problem, because when you unlock your heart, and no longer give a stuff about anybody's negative critical judgements of you, you now UNLEASH YOUR SPIRIT. You will never be the same again…
Freed from the shackles of ideology, the chains of peer fear (worrying what others think of you and say about you), and the binds of crippling self-doubt, and with your heart now wide open to receive the joys of life and to create those joys of life for others, your life is transformed. Your activated soul makes you whole.
Finally you can be you, the real true you, aligned with your true nature. It's joyous.
You are fully self-empowered, and quite simply you now engage with life through an entirely different mindset, heartset and outlook.
Now you are creative, productive, proactive, inquisitive, reflective, and you can actualise your potential, give expression to all your innate talents, cultivate a whole range of cognitive and life skills, and evolve with the magic of personal development and spiritual self-growth for the rest of your life.
It's a total game-changer.
This is what I'll be teaching during 2025. You can learn everything you need to know about who you are and how life works by reading my book, but being a student on any of my live learning courses will give you something you cannot get from reading books, and something that you can’t get anywhere else (unless you find a second needle in the haystack):
an emotionally supportive and spiritually uplifting learning environment with loads of practice in developing a whole range of learning, listening, communication and social skills.
Why is this so important?
We are social animals, and our relationships are our most precious resource and source of joy in our life - if we get them right, that is. But they can be so destructive to our mental wellbeing if we get them wrong.
The bedrock of strong healthy relationships?
Being an interactive listener and confident compassionate communicator. Deeply listening to others, expressing yourself and your ideas, and articulating your understandings are the unarguably the most important skills all human beings need.
And being a skilled learner (remember, schools block us from learning this skill) means opening your mind, expanding your heart and connecting with your soul.
Or, in our 2024 motto: Unblock your Mind >> Unlock your Heart >> Unleash your Spirit!
Consider this: Learning is ‘The Mother of All Skills’ and Communication is ‘The Father of All Skills’.
The fastest and most enjoyable and inspiring way to unblock your mind, unlock your heart and unleash your spirit is gaining plenty of communication practice with a group of fellow human soul explorers, thereby gaining your learner autonomy and individual sovereignty in collaboration with others... teamwork in an emotionally supportive spiritually-uplifting environment is true learning and a true human joy.
Are you ready for such a thing?
What happens to these Letters in 2025?
They will continue, but with a change to the content and objectives. I have become tremendously excited at my own idea and can’t wait to get started!
It will return me to the way I do things in my classrooms with my adult language students and language teachers. I’m not quite sure exactly how I will present the Letters to you yet, but here’s the basis of what you can expect to experience from your weekly hit of Philip…
Each week I’m going to take an extract—a paragraph or a page or so—from one of the many brilliant and insightful books on my bookshelf, include it in the Letter and add my own comments to the extract. I will be asking you to do your own reflections too.
Included in this list of books will be my own book, Menu For A Spiritual Revolution: Health Harmony & Happiness.
I need to work out how best to present it to you. I’m going to also set up a membership club for the ongoing development of members’ learning and language skills, which will work in parallel with the weekly Letters. The idea is that you can derive loads of benefits from the weekly Letters, but if you want to come together with fellow transformational souls and enjoy regular discussions with them on the topics and issues covered in the Letters, then you can become a member of the club. There will be some kind of monthly membership fee.
Then, most likely once a month, I’ll hold a live online ‘class’ using the Zoom platform. The basis of my teaching (Task-Based Learning) is that we all read about something or watch a video, and then I provide a few discussion questions relating to the reading or listening content. I then get members into small groups, usually groups of three, for you to enjoy exploring the issue or topic in greater depth, and to see what it all means to YOU in YOUR CONTEXT of life. At the end we come back together again to share and compare. At this point I then add my own thoughts. Then we have Qs and As.
Think of the 2025 Letters, if you like, as spiritual explorations and inquiry into what it means to be human. Club membership will then give you an excellent opportunity to practise and master your communication and learning skills.
Most likely we will discuss the content from one or more of the weekly Letters, and perhaps watch a shortish video together in the live lesson, discussing that too.
Something like this!
But one thing’s for sure: I’m always on my own path of evolution and self-growth, and I want 2025 to substantially build on these 2024 Letters. 2025 is very much going to be my year of action, after three really challenging years of building up my Academy. I cannot wait to really hit the world big time with solutions and spirituality!
Look out in your email inbox over the next week or two for news on a one-off course I will be running online. The plan is that it straddles the changeover from 2024 to 2025. I want to do something completely unique… you will never have done anything like this as one year gives way to the next!!
2025 is the Year of A Spiritual Revolution, and I hope you will enjoy the ride…
All the best
Philip
