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I Promise to Stop Procrastinating, Sooner or Later: New Year’s Resolution #1

A. The Historical Problem

Maybe you’re familiar with my “sad condition”. It’s called “procrastination” by some, and “a sure sign of genius at work” by more enlightened critics.



As a Master Procrastinator, or The Procrastinator King, any excuses I invent for my own slack behavior are far more clever and self deceptive than any my supporters might concoct for me.

“We know you have a lot of stress”–
“Everybody is too busy these days to finish everything”–
“It’s just because you’re artistic and you meditate a lot!”
etc. etc.

(Amateurs! Well meaning, but amateurs. They probably never goofed off a day in their virtuous lives, so they don’t realize they’re being played. Or, they’re compensating for me because they secretly wish they could be as slack–but that’s another story.)

Fact: I am far too diligent in my slothfulness for anyone else’ kind alibis to work.

Fact: Only the master of his own jail cell may convincingly portray himself as a prisoner…

Lounging comfortably on his tattered bunk, with unlaced scruffy boot he pushes his prison door key out of sight under threadbare rug when sympathetic visitors come to his cell.

B. Some Brutal Solutions

Probably the most compassionately brutal thing you can do for the self-educated & self-imprisoned man:

Use tough love.

Like a Sherlockian psychologist, deduce his weak point, find the key to his deception.

Threaten to uncover & steal that key.

Convince him of your sincerity, at least he’ll lose his crocodile-like torpor for a second. Leap up in half-hearted defense of his right to waste his life…on his own terms.

Why?

Without the comforting fact of his capacity for self-escape, his confinement would soon prove intolerable!

So if you want someone to get off his or her lazy butt, just find a way to threaten to make his self-confinement WORSE or IRREVERSIBLE.

Or, refuse to visit his jail cell.
Refuse to send monthly care packages reminding him how nice life would be if he were free.
Refuse to make sympathetic excuses for his procrastination.
Refuse to accept his apologies for not following up on his dreams.

Eventually, he might creep mouse-like out of his cell when he thinks no one’s looking…just to sneak a fresh breath of that strange new air called “life” coming in from beyond the jail.

C. The Shocking Results

Who really knows? That’s why life is a freedom and freedom is life.

But one thing you know–
tough love works.

Just be careful how much you use it for others–
they might catch on & use it for YOU.
Because nobody’s perfect, you know!

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My Post Script & Pre Script–
What YOU Get Out of This:

I promise to post more regularly in 2012.

Twice a week. Shorter posts.

With more of my philosophical & political views,
more of more quirky sense of humor,
& more of my wild-eyed creative knee-jerk responses to the events of the day that concern us.

I’ll invite you to get more out of this blog & its growing community–
including surveys & contests,
& share special inspirational secrets.

Why? Because I believe you have special qualities–
you have special potential you WANT to tap into THIS very exciting year of 2012.
God knows these gifts are waiting inside you.

When you tap into your uniqueness with daring & with hope–
miracles can happen.

And I want to help.

Promise!

Sincerely,
Rev. Scott Ufford
The Psychic Philosopher

Copyright 2012

Maitreya the World Teacher: Words of Peace 2012: Love in Action

We know 2012 is supposedly the final year–a date of ultimate encounter with destiny–on the ancient Mayan calendar.

We also know 2012 marks Earth’s onrushing collision of unprecedented economic cannibalism of the “99%” by the “1%”–

its worldwide governmental looting of human rights–

its exponentially increasing military addictions–

fundamentalist religious delusions–

and massive-to-the-point-of-near-suicidal global environmental destruction.

But for every spiritual medical symptom that supports a diagnosis of “incurable insanity” for the human race, other symptoms suggest an accelerating viral rebirth of our humanity, our hopes and our futures.

Ask any woman who’s endured childbirth:
She’ll say, It’s rarely easy, never any fun but the reward is completely worth it!

So, what better way to help jump-start birth of The Power of Our Love in 2012 than share selected wisdom quotes from one of Earth’s most controversial and hopeful speakers: Benjamin Creme, tireless advocate for the coming of a great spiritual leader called Maitreya, The World Teacher.

I leave it to you to investigate the website and decide for yourself about the nature of Maitreya. However, it’s easy to appreciate the spiritual eloquence of his words, excerpted from “Love in Action–A Compilation” at www.share-international.org.

LOVE IN ACTION

“…Simple lack of Love is the root of man’s suffering today. Nothing but this holds him from the manifestation of his divine potential. All of Godhead exists in man, but without Love nothing but suffering ensues. For long, My friends, have you known this…

I come to show you the simple Path to God through Love, to teach you the techniques of Love, the way forward through Love and Justice, correct relationship of man to man and thus to God.” (Maitreya, from Message No.101)

“By His release of the Christ Principle, [Maitreya] establishes in the world the ability to love. He galvanizes humanity through the power of that love to transform the world. This is precisely what He is doing now, from behind the scenes, and what He will do openly as He appears before the world.

Love is an active force which transforms…” (Benjamin Creme, Maitreya’s Mission Volume Three)

“Consider a world without love; such hideousness appalls the imagination. Why? Instinctively, man recognizes the need for love and soon will understand the need to love. He will come to know that love links him to all others in an endless chain. Tentatively, perhaps, at first, he will begin to trust. Step by step, he will conquer his fear. Then will he enter into that blessed state where fear has no place, where love sits calmly on its throne, bestowing its grace on all who come near.” (Benjamin Creme’s Master, from ‘The Need to Love’)

“Goodwill is attainable. It is the level of the energy of love that should not be too difficult for humanity to express. In fact, many millions of people do indeed feel and express goodwill. That is not just being nice, tolerant and decent; all of these are the result. Goodwill is an active force. It is the will aspect allied with the love aspect. When the love aspect informs the will aspect, you get goodwill.

If you think “good”, meaning love, and “will”, meaning purpose, you get good purpose, loving purpose. That loving purpose has to imbue our lives and create right human relations. Right human relations will free us from guilt and fear, will share the resources in the world and create peace. Right human relations is a priority of humanity, and Maitreya will make that one of His major concerns.” (Benjamin Creme, Maitreya’s Mission Volume Three)

“All change is preceded by tension and tension brings fear. However, fear has no place in the heart activated by service and love.” (Benjamin Creme’s Master, from ‘A Time of Change’)

“The reappearance of the Christ in relation to humanity is fundamentally about the birth of the Christ Principle in the hearts of all humanity. That awakens the love aspect. Therefore sharing and justice, right relationship in a word, is guaranteed in this coming age. Right relationship does not happen by itself. Humanity has to make it happen.

The awakening by Maitreya of the Christ Principle in the hearts of all humanity is the method by which His major work, which is on the astral plane, is carried out. This will galvanize the heart response of humanity and awaken them not only to the need for brotherhood but also to the actual expression of brotherhood, and therefore sharing, justice, peace and freedom for all people everywhere.” (Benjamin Creme, The Great Approach)

“[Maitreya] wants you to give your love to the world, and He comes to inspire you to do it, to awaken in you the love which is inherent in the heart of every human being, but which is frustrated in its expression, largely by the unjust political, economic and social conditions with which we surround ourselves. When these conditions are changed, the love of humanity, inspired by Maitreya, will demonstrate in a way which today you probably could not imagine, and will transform the world.” (Benjamin Creme, The Great Approach)

“Here, then, is the cure for all the ills of men: demonstrate love that every man may share the Earth’s abundance. Demonstrate love that wars be seen no more. Demonstrate your soul’s love and bring that day forward when man will be united with man and God.

However he may try, man cannot live without love. This fact will soon establish itself in the consciousness of the race, and lead to events unparalleled in history. Shortly will begin a process of transformation unlike aught seen before: gone for ever the sight of millions starving, the daily heartache of the dispossessed, the everlasting travail of the world’s poor.

Gone, from sight and mind, the threat of self-destruction, the unholy terror which has humanity in thrall. Gone, too, the lack of trust which curbs and limits man’s every action and sets him against his neighbour and himself. All of this shall man achieve by demonstrating Love.” (Benjamin Creme’s Master, from Love – The Way Forward)

Welcome my friend to 2012 as your Year of Hope. Thank you for loving your self, loving your Creator, loving your one human family–and for your courage to give birth to your love!

Rev. Scott Ufford,
The Psychic Philosopher

Ignore Negative 2012 Prophecies & Break Through to Real Love

All of us are probably quite a bit alike, when it comes to feelings about love.

Like me,
you have a sincere desire to break through to Real Love in 2012–

You desire deeper fulfillment, no matter what the gloom & doom prophecies say–

You know you have a capacity for love & you want to USE it.

Like me,
you might love your dream lover,
you might love your unseen soul mate,
you might love your future lover,
you might love your lover from the past.

But like me, your most valuable love is for the most difficult person to love in your life.

That difficult, even terrible, person in your life is the KEY.

Can you feel even the tiniest drop of love for that vile person, for just a split second?
Then your tight shackles start to fall away my friend,

That’s when the angels start to softly hum in your heart:

Where before,
you heard only notes of rage,
you trembled with the drumbeat for revenge,
you suffered the stings of your high-pitched jealousies,
your low-pitched resentments,
your ill-concealed fears,
your cleverly vicious schemes to triumph over the unkind enemy…

Can you feel the slightest drop of compassion, of toleration, of acceptance for that other person who has tortured you with their imperfections?

The answer is YES.

But how?

In the bowels of these timeless, intense inner struggles
a new key starts to slowly click through the tumblers in the lock of your destiny.

It’s during these gritted-teeth moments of agony when a new light raises itself up inside you

In these gritty moments when destiny’s battle seems impossible to win,
when tense prophecies of gloom spread their black wings over your head,
when all the hoped-for advance and peace you prayed your heart out for seems lost,

In these moments a glimmer of gold can and will shoot through your shut door,
your locked vault,
your painfully closed mind…

In these stressful moments, all the cacophony of worldly predictions and expert proclamations fall away into meaninglessness.

From the dread apocalyptic wintry hours that withered away the Year of our Lord 999 AD into the Year of our Doom, 1000 AD,

when all of Europe beat itself into a fearful frenzy, piously expecting the end of all civilization,
fearing the very worst of horrific, supposedly deserved judgments & punishment by Christ,

down through the nonstop centuries of scurrilous fear mongers’ proclaiming another, and yet another and ANOTHER, unavoidable End Times date with global destruction,

we find these simple words still challenge us to the best possibilities inside us:

(Wake up to) love God with all your heart,
and (find a way to) love your neighbor–
(even the very WORST–)
as much as you do your self.

In this ancient challenge, issued boldly to our yawning egos by our Spirits every morning, awaits our answer to every 2012 Mayan oracle, every gloomy “guru” proclamation, every Internet superstition running rampant at the Speed of Gossip…

Find your worst enemy in the world.
Face your worst enemy, in your heart.
Decide to boldly apply God’s Change Energy to the situation, any way you can.

Upon this Law hangs all the prophecies and all the prophets,
all the so-called sinners and all the so-called saints.

Upon this Law of Love, Reciprocal Love–
no matter how your enemy responds to your personal times of breakthrough–
upon this Law all the sad 999, 1987, 1999, and 2012 prophecies CAN collapse into relative dusty oblivion–
for YOU.

Upon this Law, when you band together as two or more in homage to an unbending,
all-seeing,
unrelenting dedication to–
(in this simplest Word of universal alchemy)–
LOVE–

You gain everything.

You can lose nothing
because you have claimed nothing that can be lost.

Instead, you have claimed your birthright power to the Soul that you ARE.
You will have opened the lock to the Door of Destiny that you are.

Just as no door can hopelessly lock itself against itself,
no Love can un-Love itself.

Not for long, certainly not for forever.

If you believe you have un-Loved your Self that is by nature, Love,
take your magnificent 2012 and your sacred 2013 and your humbly brave 2014–
and your brief infinity of the rest of your years to be spent upon this Beloved Earth–
as your partners in discovery of how to re-Love the Love that you are,
that your neighbor, knowingly or not, also is,
and that your G-d by Every Known and Unknown True Name,
ALWAYS IS and ALWAYS WILL BE.

Your Question is:
Will you choose to apply this Law & receive the results, or not?
Will you do this bold, patient experiment?

Will you choose to find out how applying the Law of Love in the WORST parts of your life
can dramatically change your results in the desired BEST parts of your life?

Peace, Happiness and the Pleasures of True Love to you, and me, and the world
in this Beautiful New Year of 2012!

Rev. Scott Ufford
The Psychic Philosopher
Copyright 2011-2012