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PART II Wise DadsThe Divine dwells within the whole of creation, but most obviously in human beings. So, we are more likely to recognize Genius in the guise of other human beings as Kiyosaki did in encountering his Rich Dad as well as Buckminster Fuller.  Since this book is about Dads, the author has decided to tell about the ones he has considered his own – in first person. So, my birth father was neither rich nor poor, growing up on a farm in South Dakota. He worked after serving the US Army in World War II for over thirty years as a clerk at the United States Post Office in Mitchell, SD.  Albert McNary married Helen Colvin and had three sons. The family had small town amenities, but little more – community, school and church experiences as well as a warm home and food on the table. Both Dad and Mom were smart in their own ways. They learned by working and living not by reading or study. Dad exemplified integrity for me; he was known by friends and neighbors as Honest Abe. Mom radiated and shared love in her own way. My brothers were jocks, but I was not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination. I was the “odd cob” in the family. I read books with more ardor than playing ball.  Edgar Cayce, the first Wise Dad, appeared in my life thanks to my younger brother, who has one of the smallest libraries on the South Dakota prairie. During a college break, Tom passed on a biography of Edgar Cayce to me which someone had handed him recently. Cayce lived from 1877 to 1945, growing up in Kentucky in a humble setting. Even though he had little education, Edgar was known early on for having unusual talents and of being called to do works of service and significance. Cayce saw, experienced, and knew things of which others were unaware. On one occasion prodded by his father to do better in school, he literally “slept on his books” to learn the material within them. Edgar eventually developed the ability to go into a trance at will. Then, his “Source” spoke through him with authority on a wide range of subjects. He went on to give forth valuable information especially to ill and injured people through over 14,000 “readings” in his altered state of consciousness. In most of the readings, he acted as a psychic diagnostician with high accuracy and large benefit to people who solicited his help. Cayce went on to “read” on inventions and business affairs, astrology and Atlantis, past lives and the Book of Revelation, and other fields of interest. The Readings made no claim to perfection, but gave extraordinary material the value of which has been proven over the decades. Edgar Cayce has been the subject of several biographies and his work is perpetuated to this day through the Association for Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Within a few years of my introduction to his Work, Cayce became my frequent evening companion during medical school. Lectures and standard texts during the day and Cayce readings at night passed before my eyes. To those who might understand, I would say, “I learned more from studying Cayce at night than sitting for lectures several hours a day in classrooms.” I took notes on 3 X 5 cards as I studied his readings during much of my med school passage. Cayce would “examine” the people who were presented to his entranced mind and review findings from a multi-dimensional perspective. The major things which I gathered from those studies and still remain is that human beings are just that: beings and not bodies. We are spiritual beings having physical experiences. That we “meet ourselves” constantly and quite pointedly in our illnesses and injuries. Those episodes do not happen by chance but are the effects of our souls endeavoring to make us more complete – whole beings. While the sick and injured have things to learn from their ills, they can also be aided according to their consciousness and needs. Cayce might say that, “There are pill-conscious folks and knife-conscious ones; some are suited for castor oil packs and others for herbs. Healing can come in a host of ways, but it can be avoided or evaded in even more ways. Lifetimes are meant to be adventures in healing. Pursuing wholeness as consciously as possible is key.”  The Tibetan was my second Wise Dad. Djwhal Khul, also known as the Tibetan Master D.K., came into my life at the recommendation of a wonderful man in Houston. I was always trying to learn more, often outside of the medical school setting. As in spending an afternoon a week at the Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena and later with a seasoned osteopath, Dr. Reginald Platt, whose office was located a few blocks north of the Texas Medical Center. I eventually found the Esoteric Philosophy Center and William David in downtown Houston. Mr. David was a warm and jovial man who taught classes on Sound, Color and Vibration – quite outside usual medical fare. He also shared his extraordinary ability to read the Akashic Records in consultations with curious persons. I was one of them. I sat with him twice prior to graduating from medical school. He consulted the “records of your time” and also predicted a number things which would happen to me in coming years. The most valuable thing he gave me was the suggestion to study the writings of the Tibetan given through his amanuensis, Alice Bailey. I eventually read the twenty-plus books on which the two collaborated over the course of 30 years. Later on, I followed the same thread which had begun with the earlier books of Helena Blavatsky. The Tibetan is a member of the Hierarchy which oversees planet Earth and keeps the world turning despite all kinds of human interference. Neither do kings and potentates nor oligarchs and billionaires nor the United Nations control our small planet, but rather the Masters who once walked and worked and slaved in bodies like the rest of us do now. They live in subtler forms in remote enclaves from which they impress humans individually and collectively at great physical – but nonexistent mental – distances. Studying the writings of the Tibetan for over forty years has given me growing understanding of how humans fit into the grand equation of spiritual evolution, of how we live and learn ever so slowly from lifetime to lifetime, how order governs the whole as well as the tidbits of our passing existences. Every event has meaning; every being is really an idea manifested; and every thing is a symbol of a deeper life.  Anton Mesmer then became my third Wise Dad. He first came to my awareness via the lips of William David at the Esoteric Philosophy Center in Houston, Texas, while I was finishing medical school. David pointed me in the direction of Mesmer, but it was another 30 years before I began to understand what Dr. Mesmer had to teach me and other open-minded humans. While researching and writing a book on Helena Blavatsky called PHENOMENON: Thirteen Lives of the Millennium Man, I encountered (Franz) Anton Mesmer and his mesmerism many times. Blavatsky was keen on his magnetic work and that got my attention. “Mesmerism is the most important branch of magic; and its phenomena are the effects of the universal agent which underlies all magic and has produced at all ages the so‐called miracles,” she wrote in Isis Unveiled. On Blavatsky’s glowing remarks, I took on another long study, picked up my past-life admiration for the great magnetist, and wrote Mesmer Eyes: The Life and Healing Magic of Anton Mesmer. Thus were opened up all sorts of doors into essential yet practical information. Basically, Mesmer taught that Nature has provided us with a “universal fluid” which circulates in, around and through us, and can be used to heal and preserve our fellows. He taught how to heal by focusing and transmitting the fluid as “animal magnetism” to those in need. Universal fluid is also known as life force, vitality, prana, mana, chi, etc. Details on Mesmer and his mesmerism will be shared in the last few pages of this book.  Paracelsus is my fourth Wise Dad. He was born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim in 1493 a few months after Columbus discovered America. That truly extraordinary man crossed my path a number of times, especially appearing in the Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus written by the theosophist physician Franz Hartmann. Paracelsus, like Mesmer, was far ahead of their times. Paracelsus grew up in a medical family. His mother was a hospital matron and father a physician with whom he apprenticed prior to “sitting” in medical schools and traveling a “strolling life” for many years in Europe and Asia. Along the way, he collected information “not only from physicians, surgeons, and alchemists, but also by his intercourse with executioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gipsies, midwives, and fortune-tellers.” He was not content to absorb medical dogmas which had persisted for centuries. Paracelsus was most particularly a student of Nature who took on many researches eventually becoming a very gifted healer and also one who drew many and vocal detractors. His bombastic nature brought power to his works and alienation from the orthodox medics of the day. Paracelsus, like the Great Physician before him, used whatever methods were required for the patients and the times. He treated patients in high and low classes, and healed the dying in the midst of plagues when the regular doctors were ineffective. The cornerstones of his practice and life were Prayer, Faith, and Imagination. Prayer – “a strong desire and aspiration for that which is good,” Faith – “based upon soul-knowledge, an unwavering confidence, a faith that may move mountains,” Imagination – “knowing a great deal more of God’s mysteries than all those that receive their superficial learning through the avenues of the senses.” “It
is for us, by becoming holy, to recognise the
holiness of God in all things.”
In his short 25-year career, Paracelsus wrote and dictated hundreds of books, articles, and works on Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology, Philosophy and Magic. Along the way, he discovered zinc, initiated the discipline of toxicology, and pointed his fellows towards body-mind relationships. Interestingly despite his unorthodoxies, Paracelsus is revered to this day by standard medicine for his early works with metals and chemicals. Modern day readers and students – including this writer – generally miss much of his wisdom because so much of it is couched in terminology to veil secrets from the profane and at the same time open doors for the righteous and persistent. His mind, heart and soul stirred his patients through his touch and his presence above and beyond the potions and prescriptions he may have offered them. Details of his particular mode of magnetic work are lacking, but it is clear that Paracelsus drew upon the vital forces of Nature in his healing practices. Paracelsus always returned to Nature for aid, inspiration and answers. “Paracelsus,
not Mesmer, was the original discoverer of so-called
Mesmerism.”
Franz Hartmann  He was the first fruit in this epoch of those that sleep – the apparent dead. We all must awake and arise that the Christ Force – the ultimate Inner Genius – may touch us. The Christ in you and me is the Hope of Glory. Whence we are now all heading, however slowly and unconsciously. Jesus Christ is the True Wise One, the Holy Child of God who is Love, the Whole Man, the Elder Brother who shows us the Way. He would remind us that, “To follow the Path, you must become the Path,” which can be found within, in our very midst – and only within. We may all one day – one lifetime be Christed and then bear the same last name. We must not forget that Jesus Christ did a three-fold work, then commissioned his disciples to continue the same, and expects all who follow to Preach, to Teach and to Heal. We are to preach the Kingdom within, to teach and live the Christ Consciousness – not merely recite the story of Jesus, and to heal and help our brothers and sisters who are ultimately but parts of our very own Self. “Tend my lambs, feed my sheep.” John 21 Jesus was wise beyond all measure because he had the Mind of Christ. Health and Healing, Wholeness and Oneness were and are fundamental to the Wisdom taught – in however different ways – by all the Wise Dads named. We can and must – eventually – follow in their footsteps. To learn and then teach wherever we are and whatever we do. Share the Health – and the Wealth
Like those whom I teach, I am learning and growing, too. I recognize that finding true happiness means expanding beyond a mission of financial well-being to a mission of complete well-being: in health and wellness, spiritual awakening, philanthropy, and purpose. In essence, a Rich Life. For Robert Kiyosaki, it seems that traveling from the road to riches to the one to a Rich Life was not an obvious and easy shift. It apparently required his encountering some obstacles in his health and possibly in other personal areas of his life. Sooner or later, we all will seek to expand our horizons of true riches which goes beyond any one avenue to the path to wholeness. It is a daunting task for any human being regardless of wealth and intelligence, power and station. Money can only do so much. It can bring us opportunities, if we are ready and willing. Kiyosaki surely has made good use of those which came to him. But we all have opportunities, hard as it may be to recognize them. Wherever we are, whoever we are. Each human meets the opportunities AND lessons which are perfect for his/her passage on planet Earth. Then once we have found our way, it is our responsibility to teach and tend those following a few steps behind us. Love is the key – not money or wealth in the usual sense of the words. We can have empty pockets and flat tires, and still be richer than Midas. We may own nothing, but possess the whole world. Believe it or not! It should be no surprise to be reminded that Love is the Great Healer. But, modernity has turned from the simple and subtle to the bold and technical for answers. The era of intellectual, specialized and monetary interests must turn about toward the flow of goodwill and abundance present in all humans. As Utopian as it may sound, giving as well as receiving are natural riches to humanity. Some day, we will share freely of health as well as some do with wealth. Both are manifestations of vital energy. We also must turn – at least to a degree – from our isolated and independent ways of living. Wonders which have been wrought in the past in communal experience stand ready to be repeated and even exceeded. That will be so when we fulfill the potentials the Aquarian Age which lay before the inner eye. We will do the “greater things” to which we are called. Those being in the realm of group endeavor and conscious action. The priesthood of all believers, a doctrine of the churchman John Wesley, will some day be emulated in the world of healing by every man, woman and child. We need simply to share love for neighbors as well as the powers of nature which are within our grasp. We ought to be frequently reminded that, “loving attention is often the best medicine that anyone can offer. Every man and woman alive already possesses the 'greatest medicine' within them.” (Elena Avila) “A healing consciousness” is potential within all, as we all have life, love and light naturally pouring in and through our very beings. Taking time and opportunity to direct them consciously can make for gifts beyond imagining. “When one enters this state of consciousness, a healing virtue pours out of the soul that reduces all discord to harmony.” (Charles Fillmore) How
Much Is Enough – for You, Me and the USA
It Ain’t Easy Being Rich Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote long ago – circa 1875 –that, “The motto of the Headquarters of the T.S. should be – ‘rigid justice to all.’ If it is right to care for the poor and those who suffer, it is as right to care for the rich and all those who will unavoidably be brought to far greater sufferings, unless warned and shown the true cause of all such Karmic sorrows. The poorer a man, the more sad his life, the nearer he is to the end of his punitive Karma; the richer his neighbour, the more full of pleasures his life, the nearer he is – unless he acts in the right path – [to] his Karmic doom. Help the poor, but pity the ignorant rich.” Help
the poor, but pity the rich.
These are thoughts quite worth pondering. Madame Blavatsky seemed to be saying that the more we revel in the physical riches and pleasures of earth, the further we are from the goal of life. Pleasures distract us from real Truth, Love and Beauty: the simple Joys of human existence. Most of us would agree that material riches are not the key to Happiness – the End-All Be-All. We might also look at the millionaires and billionaires spread about the world – and wonder about all the desires and temptations that monetary wealth can bring them. Today, there are regular examples of the rich falling from on high through lust and power and greed. Fortunately, we can count many wealthy among us who appear to have tamed their desires and use their fortunes to benefit the poor and thus the whole of humanity. But, there are a host of humans – often the richest – who, passing through many lives, are presented in this lifetime with immense karmic challenges. Many of them fail as they reap what they have sown in lives past as well as the present one. An old friend used to say, “Some’s good, more’s better.” He did so with a grin on his face. More and more of a good thing can create huge problems – and negate assets on our karmic balance sheet. Then, we have to turn around and start over. At the same time, it may be worth considering for the moment the question: “Who are the rich?” It seems to this observer that those who live in America and the modern West have been born into riches. Living in the USA in the 21st century, we are much wealthier than all but a tiny percentage of humans who have lived throughout history. And even today compared in so many ways to billions living around the world, WE are by far the richer. At least by material standards. We should throw in that often the very young, the poorest of the poor, and the simplest of humans can find Joy and Magic in small and worthless things. Maybe they have eyes and senses which many of us have lost along the way. Or maybe we are too busy to appreciate Nature and Wonder, like they do. Should we not rank ourselves as being Rich? If so, then maybe we are to be pitied as we face constant temptations of plush, comfy, easy living. How
much do we bow to the material things which surround
us?
Do we yield to temptation and bend our ways for physical comfort? Do we forget to first seek the kingdom out of which all things come? Are we ready to give our riches to the poor and take up the Cross? It ain’t easy being human. Rich or poor. Still, it must be better and healthier and happier than to be Rich in Spirit than Rich in dollars.
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