11/7/2013 0 Comments 3 Steps to InspirationWhen we are inspired in the morning, the world is brighter. Life becomes more valuable and each moment provides more opportunities for joy. At the highest levels, each breath is an invitation to a smile. When I am in this kind of a space, I can also do service to others in the truest way. My smile can spread to people I've never met before. And I might just touch their day in a meaningful way. So what do I do to get into this state of mind and being? Now: I wish I could tell you I have a secret formula. Well, actually, I do. But those sacred tools are only part of the process. I might share some basic versions to give you a taste in these blog pages. But that is not the point of what I'm sharing today. What I am sharing is about living a miraculous life. Yes, there are tools. But our mindset and our prayers and our questions are perhaps waaaay more important. Our questions? What kind of questions are you asking in your life? Are they inspiring questions? What does that even mean to you? What are your inspirations? Are you thinking that your inspirations might actually be possible? If not, I can almost guarantee you that you aren't asking the right questions to allow the universe to deliver an amazing life to you. Step 1: Know that you are an eternal spiritual being and you literally can do anything. All the great masters that have walked the Earth have told us we are capable of even more than they are. Spirit wants you to fulfill your spiritual mission here on Earth because EVERYBODY benefits from you doing your life work. Step 2: Questions. Knowing that EVEN MORE than what you can imagine is possible, now you have laid the first foundation to ask a better set of questions. So what would you ask? Step 3: Continuously refining your questions about your life. Being curious and interested in your relationships, your work, your finances, your health, your spiritual growth and your highest service (also called your life purpose or your contracts with God). Service is your key to your own joy, AND bringing joy to others! As you refine your questions, and use a regular meditation practice plus a journal to do this, you will automatically begin to pray for what you need. Not down on your knees religious prayer (although that is fine if you're into it) -- prayer that comes naturally through the mind and heart when you have more awareness and are asking the right questions that will unlock your destiny. Extra Tips: All of these 3 steps must have intuition as a strong foundation. Contact with your emotional, feeling senses is so important in being able to engage with your life work and this process of getting inspired. Go take a walk in nature, and use your senses to REALLY see all the details around you. Close your eyes and smell the range of smells in the air. Listen to the birds, the insects, the sound of the wind, the sound of your own breath. Enjoy and have fun with your senses! You will clear your mind and get into your emotions more easily this way. Sometimes emotions can be misleading because they are filtered through your subconscious programming. But more often than not, your emotions will have clues to your inspiration. Like, share and discuss :)
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10/17/2013 3 Comments Natural Born Leaders?I was talking with someone the other day and they said to me: "you can do the kind of work you do because you are a natural born leader."
While I might take this praise as a compliment, and in a certain sense I do, it's just not true. When I was a kid in kindergarten, I spent the first semester of the year in the corner of the classroom all day, building fortresses of wooden blocks around myself because I was so sensitive to the other kids and couldn't handle the simplest social interactions. I was essentially on the autism spectrum with pretty severe ADHD, and every schoolteacher I ever had beginning that kindergarten year and continuing throughout high school strongly encouraged my parents to put me on Ritalin. Growing up, I had almost no friends, lived in a dream world, and was so disconnected from my body and the physical world that if you put me on a sports team I would just stand in the field gazing into the sky until the ball hit me in the head. I had zero percent self-confidence and refused to talk to girls I was interested in until I was almost done with high school. I was also extremely self-absorbed and wasn't really a nice person to be around because I cared nothing for anyone else. This is NOT the profile of a natural born leader. So what the heck happened to me? I became driven and passionate about healing. Period. I've written about this before, how something woke up inside me at age 11 when I had medical hypnosis. I realized somehow that holistic healing was why I had been born, and I felt like I could suddenly feel my body for the first time. I had a purpose which I didn't previously know existed. This propelled me forward to learn everything I could about healing over the next 14 years, devoting myself to spiritual studies and practices almost full time beginning at age 19 when I was in college. This journey evolved and I slowly healed myself into a leader. Yes. Through healing I was able to reveal the natural qualities of leadership and all that is involved in helping others live their highest purpose as well. Upon finding the Modern Mystery School, everything that I'd always been seeking was all under one roof, and in a lineage unlike anything else I'd found. I knew my life would change the first day I had my life activation session. Walking my path using this set of tools has allowed me to open to my highest potential, while giving me a system which, if followed, reliably does the same for everyone who carries this work forward in their lives. It has allowed me to carry the highest energies possible to help others overcome whatever is holding them back in their lives from their own greatness. People become natural born leaders through this work if they take it seriously. This means being committed to facing who they really are. Stepping into their fulfillment in their own unique way. Carving a path that is both familiar and totally new. It is a remembering process, because each individual is already innately complete. The lineage of the Modern Mystery School simply provides a proven, scientific, systematic approach to reveal the true self. Everything done is for that one purpose. Because within who we really each are is a core of purpose and a plan unique to us, which will unfold if we clear the blockages within. Modern Mystery School calls to those who desire it, and who wish to utilize a system that has worked for thousands of years for countless initiates. It must be chosen with free will and each initiate will be tested by the universe in various ways -- mentally, financially, emotionally, or otherwise -- to determine if they really desire to know their true self using such a direct, proven set if tools. It is not easy (sorry, it will not make anyone's problems disappear!) but if followed it is reliable and delivers results. So, if you sense there is something more for you to be doing in your life, and you're not sure what it is, Modern Mystery School may help remind you how to walk your own unique path. 9/13/2013 2 Comments Thoughts on being an initiate"How did you realize this is what you wanted to do?"
I get this question all the time, from a majority of new clients and students. It's a very natural question --- I think we all wonder how another person found their passion and true calling, and we love to hear a bit of their story to help us access that same passion and calling in ourselves. I'll tell a part of it today. I first opened my healing practice in 2004 with an office at a Yoga Studio. After a year, my business was booming and things were good. But I longed to really help my clients take charge of their spiritual growth and move forward with joy. I saw that I took on energies from my clients and they from me. I knew I could do much more to serve them. I also couldn't find the right tools for this despite years and years of searching (since age 11). I had trained as a shaman, a reiki therapist, an angelic healer, a psychic, a massage therapist, and serious yoga and meditation student, an esoteric healer, and more...but none of the things I'd learned were helping me be in the light 100% of the time and show up fully for my client's highest good. Sure! THE CLIENTS felt the healing work I did was awesome and referred their friends. But I knew something was missing, big time. I also saw that a person could have 10 healing sessions with me and rather than get empowered and clear within themselves, would turn me into their teacher, someone who "had great energy" or was supposed to know things about them, like the answers to their innermost questions. This was a big warning sign for me that I needed a system that would allow me to remind people of what they already know, to activate their potential as SELF-healers, and not just talk nicely about doing this as a concept. It needed to be real and I had not found it amidst all the literature, classes, drum circles, yoga, meditations, religions, therapy, shamanism, acupuncture and...whew. The list went on. And I was only 24. I saw the lives of those who sought spiritual growth marked with milestones of hardship and disappointment. I was the first victim of my own thirst to know myself. And I secretly was scared for anyone who stepped onto the path of self-realization, because I knew how much I had suffered in seeking my own inner being and truth. I have no idea if others could sense this in me, this fear or hesitation to work with them because I knew what might happen to their lives if they got in deep with themselves. That hardship and disappointment, I knew, was not a "natural" product of living a spiritual life! Instead, I knew it came from not being in tune with my true self. But WHY wasn't I in tune after a decade of sincere seeking, meditation, and devoting my life to service?!? Was I THAT messed up?!? I meditated in nature, outdoors, regardless of the season of year, 3-4 hours per day. I did yoga almost everyday. Sufi dancing. Native American chants. Sanskrit Mantras daily. Esoteric and angelic healing. Reiki on myself everyday. I got healings from other healers. Massage. Acupuncture. Kirtans. Running 3-4 days per week. I barely had time to hold a job. I didn't just look for a spiritual "high". I longed to understand the true nature of whom I am, live this, and help other help people find and live this for themselves. I wanted to make a big difference in the world. Living in a Himalayan cave is not my life path to enlightenment. The "cave" method of austerity seemed to be the primary, most visible method being published about and experienced...by a select few who seemed blessed enough to be able to afford (with time, money, and energy) to go live in a cave with a guru for 25+ years. And I knew it was thoroughly unrealistic for 99+% of humanity to undergo such grueling austerity just to attain an ephemeral feeling. I was better off dying and getting into the light that way! After my first year of these intense prayers and questions to the universe, I was shown a mystery school guide. I had my first life activation, and that day the veils which stood between me and my dreams dissolved enough that I could finally reach through them and touch my destiny. I got initiated (Empower Thyself Initiation) a few months later. That night I went to talk with my spirit guides (having been trained as a shaman for several years). I asked them a question. Instead a very different voice came back than what I was used to: "No. Masters of Light." This was a shock. My entire spiritual guidance system had undergone an enormous shift, instantly, through initiation. During the next few months of my life everything changed. I had tremendous clarity coming seemingly out of nowhere, on everything I could bring my attention to. My vision changed. I saw more in myself and in others. I felt feelings I never let myself feel before. I cried and I let go. Many years of change and transformation followed, and I grew into myself. Finally. By 2008-2009, I opened my healing practice full time, and in 2010, started offering only the tools I was learning through the Modern Mystery School. I realized they did more than all the other things I'd learned combined, with grace and ease, and I was not the do-er. The lives of my clients began to change and they, too got empowered and grounded in themselves. They did not have hardship and disappointment as the result of their evolution. Yes, they went through hard challenges. But they came out of each challenge with greater light, simplicity, and grace. They were alchemically transmuting themselves: remembering their spiritual inner being, but still remaining grounded and whole as humans. This is pure magick (in this lineage, we use the word "magick" with a "k" to signify the work of divine transformation). Modern Mystery School has given me the ability and tools to do all this and still grow in quantum leaps every day. It is truly a universal lineage --- I have seen it help people who are radically different from me in life experiences and backgrounds. I am so blessed to be bringing this work to Boston, and I get to share it and my highest self with others every day. I invite you to look at Modern Mystery School and consider if this story resonates with you. Perhaps we will talk soon! Give me a call or email if you want to do a free consultation. With love, Jordan By Jack Morad
My Path and the Modern Mystery School It has almost been a year ago since I had the privilege of being introduced to the Modern Mystery School (MMS) – a school of empowerment and spiritual training. One evening we had dinner with a very spiritual Teacher and friend who had come to Israel for teachings from abroad, and during the last five minutes, she mentioned a call she was going to have with a Guide from the MMS. Immediately we felt a calling and contacted the Guide the following day. Within a week we connected with the Guide, Dr. Rita van den Berg, and started to put the work in motion. A peculiar string of coincidences... and then again, there are no such things as coincidences !!! I had no idea what journey I was getting into... The first step that each member of our family received was the Life Activation. This healing, as I learned later, is one of the core healing techniques of the MMS and has been handed down for over 3,000 years. The Life Activation had a tremendous impact on me and my family and things started to change very rapidly. The Life Activation allowed for a lot of accumulated issues and emotions over a life-time to dissolve and exit the body. And another door allowed for all the light and healing to enter the body. Within a year, Rita came to Israel several times, bringing more ancient healings and teachings to Israel. She has taught many more classes here bringing more and more empowerment to the people which will allow for healing in our region. Since I have taken the first class, Empower Thyself, I have walked the path further and become a Life Activation Practitioner myself. Empower Thyself did exactly what the name states. It provided information and tools which empower the person. The beauty of the course (and all courses and healings) is that it is taught without any reference to religion, race or gender. I was born and raised in Germany to Persian Jewish immigrants. I now live in Israel with my wife and four children. And I know that the information I received in Empower Thyself was very relevant to me and is also very relevant to my Arab neighbours. At the very core and at the very end we all come from the same place and we all go to the same place ! Life Activation, Empower Thyself and other healings and teachings from the Modern Mystery School, will bring empowerment and healing to our region. And this will become the basis for peace !!! Within this very short period of time, 42 people here in Israel, from various cultural backgrounds, both religious and secular, have participated in Empower Thyself and 5 have become Life Activation Practitioners. With Love and Light Jack Morad Jack @ ShamballahIsrael.co.il August 2013 6/27/2013 5 Comments The Will of SpiritI often receive messages from clients and students who are considering getting initiated which read something like this:
"Hi Jordan! Thanks for your invite! I am doing _____________ that weekend. Spirit / my Guides keep/s this just at a distance from me, huh? Once again, please let me know of the next one..." The real emphasis here is: "Spirit/Guidance doesn't seem to want me to get initiated right now." With love, may I offer a reality check: It isn't really "Spirit" keeping a person from initiation. Nor is it their "Spirit Guides". Spirit and Spirit Guides are cheering for anybody to get Initiated into one of the 7 Ancient Mystery Schools. These schools have never been open to the general public EVER before on Earth, and we are in a very special age of humanity that now allows for this! Rather, it is the HUMAN part of us that gets in the way. And the human part that will be strongly challenged by getting initiated. Guaranteed. No exceptions. Some people will be so challenged they don't even notice they're being challenged --- that is the strongest challenge. When a person is born and takes their first breath, their personal/human will begins to flow counterclockwise. Why? So they can have a strong experience of duality, and thereby learn what is NOT the light. Only by seeing the dark can we know what the light really is. So we have a planet with a lot of suffering and which is quite good at providing us with what seem like dark experiences - what Buddha called suffering. Of course within every experience is the light, but if our personal human will didn't spin counterclockwise we would have an easier time seeing the light always and staying positive at all times. The counterclockwise/negative flow of human will means we are programmed to operate in duality and therefore learn a LOT while we are alive. All of this is for an evolutionary, bigger picture spiritual purpose and is ultimately Good. What makes Empower Thyself Initiation so unique is that it is the only thing on the planet which permanently changes the baseline human flow of personal will energy from negative (counterclockwise) to positive (clockwise)...while a person is still alive! We decide we have learned enough from negative flow in our lives and we desire strongly enough to know ourselves as God-Goddess that we decide to get initiated. SEEING or temporarily experiencing spiritual will flowing positively (clockwise) using meditation, yoga, prayer, or other spiritual practices is NOT the same as getting initiated and having your baseline be positive at all times. This is so radical that we cannot grasp what it would really be like. Nothing in this physical, Earthly experience can really prepare us for Empower Thyself Initiation. The only way we can really even know if it's for us is if we feel called to it, and there is no magic formula to predict who will be called. And to be totally up front: having a baseline of positive human will is an enormous challenge while still alive, because we have an entire world that is spinning negatively. It takes an inner determination which is strong enough to overcome the counterclockwise flow we all have had since birth; an inner voice that calls out and says "I will never understand what Initiation is but I know I need to do it." It is often said that if you want results you've never had before, you must be willing to do things you've never done before. A lot of spiritually-inclined people have learned to "go with the flow". They often think Mystery School is just another system of the same vein. Mystery School is NOT "New Age". It is as old as humans in an unbroken lineage and has now been taught the same way for 3,000 years. It gives a person the real ability to KNOW they are God-Goddess having a human experience, and live that way in each moment. It is not an easy road but it is so rewarding to "Know Thyself". Life will always present us with challenges and roadblocks to getting initiated. Time and money are the two biggest reasons for most people, and some others think perhaps it is a new religion or something like that (also incorrect). Your life circumstances are NOT in charge of you. You are in charge of your life! And nothing on Earth will teach you how much you are truly in charge of your life like becoming an Initiate. You learn the true flow of aligning your will with the will of God-Goddess-Source and completing your life's purpose, which most people never even discover. If this is valuable to you, you will make it work. Don't wait to "go with the flow" or "let spirit decide". YOU are calling the shots in this decision. Be honest, and say YES or NO. You will be giving yourself a gift of clarity either way. "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl Modern Mystery school is... A University for the Soul A proven set of spiritual training for your life's purpose A way of resolving the deepest questions and paradoxes of existence A drive to be fully and passionately engaged as a human being A set of powerful, simple tools that have been proven to work over thousands of years and for countless initiates A community of individuals who are dedicated to facing themselves honestly and compassionately A path of being constantly and lovingly guided by spiritual forces to eliminate sabotaging aspects of your ego and shine your light even brighter A big boost to make real progress in places where you're "stuck" A way to "have it all" in the highest good Mystery school is NOT: A religion A cult A new belief system An escape A guru or spiritual teacher A new age or channeled thing. A magic pill I hope you'll join me for a free information session or a free personalized consultation. 6/13/2013 0 Comments Training the Will - a must for anyone who wishes to accomplish their aspirationsSo you want to accomplish something? The Mystery Schools have a teaching that every other thing is moved by one thing: Will.
Let's back off of that for a minute. What do we mean, "Will"? In our society we don't always have a good relationship with this term. "Will" is perhaps conceived of as a forceful, aggressive direction of intention. Perhaps we have been on a (negative) receiving end of somebody or something else's "will", so we might have an unpleasant association with this word. As used in the Mystery Schools, "Will" is understood as a primary moving force behind all creation. When we discuss Will, we are discussing it in relation to a higher consciousness/source, and the entire endeavor of an initiate is to bring the personal will into greater alignment with that greater, divine will. This is not a religious experience, nor is a dogma prescribed to delineate that divine will. The will we are discussing is not written somewhere in a scripture or holy book. It is not even something we can really put into words. When a person develops a sincerity and focus in their life sufficient to awaken them to the fact that there is more to life than just the physical, then the existence of an invisible higher force of Will becomes a reality in their life. It cannot be stressed enough in a World like ours which is still gripped in the throes of sectarian violence that DIVINE WILL IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN BE RIGHT ABOUT. It is NOT something you can force on another person, nor even speak to another person successfully. It is impossible. We try to outline and codify divine will in religion, and we end up with certain behavioral and mental/emotional restrictions which in actuality have a strong tendency to block the light and the spontaneity of who and what we really are as human beings. Instead of discovering the beauty and simplicity and harmlessness and joy of who we really are, we restrict the life out of ourselves and then blame our unhappiness on others. This is all a massive misdirection of Will. If we wish to awaken from this nightmare of misdirected will, both personally and collectively, we must begin with the only sphere of influence we have: the self. Secondly, we don't have much hope of using the will correctly if we don't have higher aspirations and goals. So, if you haven't awoken those dreams within yourself, or if they've been slumbering for a while, probably best to stop reading right here and go do that. I recommend Life Activation and some Intuitive Coaching. Finally, using the will correctly is going to be associated with certain other qualities in a person. This is just a short list (it could be much longer): *Passion *Motivation *Desire to Serve *Desire for self-knowledge *Desire to be connected with a greater Source *Discipline *Courage *Humility *An Empty Cup Scanning this list, where could each of us improve? These are not easily teachable qualities -- they are something that we specialize in awakening and cultivating in the Modern Mystery School. They are intrinsic to every human being, and seem the strongest in those people who have decided they are alive to create something of value. So we should add self-worth to this list, because we will need that to believe we DESERVE to create something of value. With this basic outline, we have now looked at some prerequisites for training the will, and for what will IS and IS NOT. I'd love to hear your comments on this initial phase of work. Without judgment, where are you at in this preliminary training? How are you perhaps already laying the foundations for training the will? What are your specific dreams and goals? Don't be afraid to set the goals. Without them training the will is going to be impossible. Talk with you soon! I was talking with a friend and colleague of mine, Gunther, who lives and practices in South Africa. A client of his wrote this article to help explain some of the experience of life activation. Enjoy!
http://thenewage.co.za/51352-12-53-New_way_to_activate_your_life Modern Mystery School training teaches a person how to create in the actual structures of the universe -- the true flows of creative energy that are a subtle part of our everyday life. If everyone had this training at a young age, towards the end of high school for example, we would live in a world where everybody knew how to create a meaningful life for themselves.
What this might look like on short order would be an entire society of people never entering or living in the matrix of expectations, programming, repetitive dramas and habits of mind. Modern Mystery School Initiation is a first definitive stage of training to do this. Through Empower Thyself (first step) Initiation, a person begins a new way of processing their issues and eliminating their negative ego. They begin to flow their personal will in a positive, creative way; whereas prior to initiation the human will flows negatively -- we observe this in knowing that something is good for us ("I should really stop smoking"; "I really need to express my creative / artistic side"; "I really need to find a new relationship and stop abusing myself in my current one", etc...) -- but we don't take action on it. Possibilities are often seen by us on a level of what we know is true but we simply don't act and we stay in the same patterns over and over again. We often don't even realize this is happening. Indeed, when we are most in the dark about our issues we don't think we have them. By changing the flow of the personal will (the aspect of us which makes the decisions and takes the actions) to positive -- permanently, as only this initiation can do -- we begin to see everything in our life as a challenge and lesson to be learned so we can step into more joy. We become stronger and more in tune with what we really need. From this increased place of strength and inner knowing, we are progressively over time more and more empowered to know what is right for us without making another person or thing wrong, and to stand up for what we know is right for us. This is a big shift in human behavior from the norm we currently witness running our world. Too many people do what they are told or what is expected of them, rather than live their passion. Empower Thyself Initiation would be an incredible blessing, therefore, to receive in the late teenage years -- when a person is mature enough to decide what they want with their own free will, and yet hasn't become jaded with the difficulties of living with the human negative flow of will. Nonetheless, we must begin from where we are, and if you are 30, 40, 50, or 60+ years old it is never too late to begin a new and positive creative flow and attunement in your life. Initiation has helped thousands and thousands of initiates over the past 3,000 years (and many more in the past 16 years since becoming accessible to the public in 1997) to live with greater purpose, passion, and joy. 1/24/2013 0 Comments Saying YESWhat if: every time you weren't sure something potentially amazing was possible, you taught yourself a new habit: saying "yes!"?
What would happen in your life? If you don't set amazing goals based on your truest of heart's desires, you can almost guarantee yourself something less than bliss. Less than bliss is not always suffering horribly -- though that is possible too if you say no to what could be incredibly amazing for you too many times. Did doubt creep in? Fear? Past experiences clouding your present perception? Where do you stop at less than totally, 110% completely and divinely fulfilling? if you fail to vision and dream AND ACT on it, you will live in somebody else's shadows. What if you said yes right now to your highest potentials? What if this became a systemic habit in the best ways possible? I'm willing to bet you haven't even begun to imagine how awesome your life would be. We are trained for "less-than", lowered-expectations thinking; we are trained to be slaves of our own minds. What will it take for you to desire freedom and break out of your box? Become a box-breaker by habit and watch the results! Here's to the habit of wildly believing in and ACTING UPON "yes!" |
AuthorJordan Bain is a Senior Guide, Healer and Teacher with the Modern Mystery School. He works tirelessly to assist others in their self-knowledge, healing, and life purpose. "If everything were to suddenly stop in your life tomorrow, where would you be? Would you be living in your joy? Would you be able to create a brand new life for yourself from scratch? Do you know yourself and your purpose enough to guide yourself on the right path for you?" These are essentials Jordan helps people move into and answer for themselves. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and two french bulldogs. |