Sincerely with great respect

Geoffrey M Millner
(P.S If your Ever in Oregon Let me Know it would be a pleasure to meet you + we have a beautiful country side)

Blessings
Lucas

In waiting, you are not seeking out any truth, and your minds are becoming frustrated. They are becoming clouded. You can no longer see clearly.

Desire to be in the present. This is the “good fight.”

I am with you, not separate from you.

Thank you.

Sue

I have been blessed by Adventures into places where War has shown me the ugly side of man. I have felt rage so bad at atrocious injustices i too have wanted to kill with a rage i feel sad to have found in myself. Yet i have emerged stronger, richer for the experience of seeing War criminals, rapists, murderers, and yet so many more Angelic people, whose goodness and simple wisdom gives so much hope to one.
Don’t get caught up on exercises, don’t get caught up on the journey, don’t get caught up on the sword. The secret of the sword is what you do with it.
For me the reward has been and always be the job i do with the multitude of different people io have seen as Police Surgeon, overseas volunteer and now Plastic Surgeon, regardless of future material comfort, this is the living breathing reward.
That is the freedom to be the kind of person who you really are, that is the Sword.

Paulo- perhaps a novel on a Surgeon? I have some great material you could use.

I like the way you think! I am less concerned with the context of the specifics of the story about RAM and the Tradition and the Templars and the sword. I wanted to read the book because I am fascinated by El Camino de Santiago de Compestela and want desperately to make that journey myself. What I liked so much in Paulo’s books is that each person can find their own meanings and messages relevant to their needs, situations and life through his stories because they are so complex. The human existence -our spiritual essence and development is uniquely personal and ever dynamic. In reading, I realized I have much prep-work to do before I should endeavor that journey. Not doing so would cheat my experience.

The RAM exercises are universal- others have discussed origins in various disciplines, including psychology. It’s the process that matters.
One’s sword- a metaphor. “Wherever is your treasure, there will be your heart” (p48) describes our personal quest- for peace, for love,power, knowledge- for whatever reward we seek- what we will risk everything for- that is what we truly love. It is necessary to surrender the idea that we are in CONTROL, in order to receive the great gifts God wants to give us (our sword?) It isn’t necessary to know HOW we will achieve or have something happen. We must only ask with a pure heart and believe God will give us what is best for us. Even when I haven’t gotten what I wanted, in hindsight, I’ve usually seen that it was a good thing it worked out the way it did because something else happened that was better.
How much nicer it is to receive a gift, than to grab something for ourselves. When I take or force something to happen- it never really seems all that great once I’ve gotten it- as opposed to when I’ve received it unexpectedly as a gift. At least that’s my thought, anyway.

Love to all,
Ana

I am learning to reduce the inner “static” and listen to the voices and messages of God, mother Mary and the Universe to guide me. Learning patience is so difficult, but something Petrus teaches as well, in fact most of the “teachers” in his books communicate this lesson.

The truly amazing thing I have discovered through “The Pilgrimage”, is meeting my own messenger. I always described someone else (human) as my messenger from God- but about 2 days after reading that part of the book and having my home “blessed” in a specific Catholic ceremony by a priest friend, I had an amazing dream in which I met a loving Spanish woman whom, without any details here, was obviously my spiritual guide or an angel or a protector. Her name became clear to me and it was a name that is unusual but has popped up throughout my life in different ways.

Thanks to all the “posters” for indulging my little rant here…

Thank you, Paulo- I pray for you daily and Thank God for “accidentally” finding The Alchemist in the library sell-off bin for .25cents in 2007. You are a generous soul and wonderful teacher in my life.

Love,
Ana

I remember Paulo once said about secret societies, that there really are no secrets. Recently, I came over a book called; ‘The Templar Revelation. Secret guardians of the True Identity of Christ’ (1998) by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. It might give you some clarifications, as it did me. It’s a historical approach for the most part, more than giving real life insight. It draws lines back to Egyptian’s Isis and explains some of the controversies in how to understand several central biblical figures, including St. John the Baptist and St. Mary Magdalene.

Heart

Thanks ,

With love Roxana

I came across “I-Ching”, and the central concept is that in all situation, there exists the best and the worst way of conduct, and the “sage” discovers et adopts the best. Then it says that I-Ching is not an instrument to predict future, but a compilation of profound words that reflect the interior of the human spirit (mind), helping develop the intuitive capacity. I-Ching helps to find an answer to a question, helps to find the answer within one person. So at that moment, Petrus was referring to I-Ching. Well, his words are part of that.

I am now reading a book that is entitled “Platon not Prozac, Philosophy as a pill” by Lou Marinoff. And I see in words what I practice since well far away without knowing. You know, in my education, philosophy is a little moment of 3 months in Québec, and well then, at that age, I had my drug related problem and was like not all there and followed a path that was parallel. I realize that many today forgot or lost or were not brought to exploit their capacity of contemplating philosophically, of developing the ability to contemplate, of making, referring to create their own philosophical thoughts, to take the time to comprehend what is all there present at the moment, know oneself, discover the motives, form new convictions, act to attain goals and find serenity.

The Chinese philosophy tells that we are not entirely responsible of a situation, but that it is our obligation to find a better solution. For I-Ching, if we take the wrong path to accomplish what we aspire, we will undergo problems further ahead. To find the better solution permits then to not only benefit of a situation but also take profit of a false step.

So, if I understand what Petrus was telling, is that it is always good to see both, since learning will be acquired by visiting both. Visiting the wrongful decision brings to visit a place that I do not wish to be, but helps me to know things that I need to know to follow my path.

love
C.

would you mind elaborating on the faces of RAM and N. please, you saw during the dance exercise, who are they, whose spirits?

love
C.