From the book "Gods About Us", Max Rempel
This little book has been ripening for a long time. About eleven years ago I created an online community called "the theory of happiness," and that title captures the theme of the book fairly well. Now that we have sketched out, in broad strokes, the architecture of the universe, I will continue the conversation about the meaning of life, about happiness and good fortune. Because the philosophy of the new times allows us to look at this eternal question in a new way, and unexpectedly it moves to center stage.
Accepting the philosophy of the new times is by no means easy. Personally, it took me a great deal of time and inner work to come to terms with this philosophy that was so new to me. The hardest thing of all for me was to part with the sense of being chosen, with the pride of a pioneer. For the chief delusion, the most pleasant and sweetest one, arising from the materialistic view of the world, is the feeling of one's own responsibility for what happens and the feeling of individual and collective solitude. For many years I was warmed by the thought that, together with other scientists, I was engaged in research at the cutting edge of science. And only at the beginning of 2009 did I finally realize that the aliens not only exist but, to a substantial degree, manipulate our affairs, that they breed us like domestic or experimental animals. And that our technological progress is artificially held back at a level low enough that we do not destroy the planet and do not harm neighboring civilizations. So the ground slipped out from under my feet, and it took me time and labor to feel out new ground.
The main thing I learned was the understanding that we are not alone here, that our guardian angels and other higher beings and entities are actively helping us. And so the feeling of loneliness, of fear, and of responsibility for every step dissolves and is gradually replaced by a sense of creativity, of play, of cooperation with the angels. It finally dawned on me to understand the limits of technological progress and the importance of inner work. That our traditional striving for outer progress is mistaken, and that inner growth is far more important. Or rather, a balance between inner work and outer communion with the world and, above all, with people. The most important skill I learned is the ability to let go and to part with things, people, ideas, and memories. Like most of us, I lived the greater part of my life in a state of accumulation - of things, experiences, emotions, friends, acquaintances, contacts, books, knowledge, skills, published articles, and so on. At some point I began to understand that I cannot hold on to the old, that it simply, in a mystical, supernatural way, slips out of my hands, blurs, and vanishes. We were raised on museums, biographies, a careful regard for the past, and it seemed that one's personal past could and should be preserved. It was an astonishing discovery for me that many children, as they grow up, do not value their childhood photographs at all, that the albums we assemble are needed only by us, and that no one in the future will want to write our biographies and keep our material achievements in museums. It is worth looking at the old and at how descendants regard inheritances to understand that the idea of accumulation is mistaken. Even with respect to the accumulation of knowledge.
Nothing accumulates; what changes is the level of consciousness, the mood, the bearing; children grow up prouder, freer; humanity unites and a remarkable intermingling of cultures takes place, and even their synthesis, but only a small part of the old is retained, and it is retained in the form of living ideas, and in no other way.
On the other hand, by parting with the old, by consciously letting go, by archiving, by writing off into the archive that for which you have lost interest, that which has served its purpose and no longer warms you, you free yourself of a burden, you lighten your soul, you free your hands, and in a metaphysical sense, you free up space for new events, lessons, and gifts of fate.
In our culture it is customary to cling to youth. With age, people begin to make themselves up to look younger, to be embarrassed by a growing belly, by wrinkles and gray hair. I want to point out in particular that an enlarged belly of an unhealthy shape comes not only from an unhealthy way of life but, first and foremost, from unhealthy energetics (by energetics here I mean not the balance of physical energy but the nonphysical, bioenergetic body). And this typical disturbance of the energy balance arises first of all from a disturbance of inner health, the health of the soul. Therefore, to heal and to lose weight, one should first of all treat the soul, and this work a person can do only by himself. The reason fat builds up on the belly is that a person accumulates within himself too much negative energy. Above all this is fear and stress. The modern way of life involves the race, the rush, the schedule, and the constant stream of negative information that a person passes through himself. Negative energy accumulates at the same time as the fat builds up; the fat takes it upon itself. That is why healing should first of all begin with limiting the inflow of negative information and with cleansing the soul. This is precisely why travel and a change of place have such a beneficial effect on health. A person breaks free of the information streams that clog his energetic body. These streams include two main components: information from the mass media and daily communication. I strongly recommend replacing the traditional mass media, which amount to entertainment garbage, with more modern, more individual means. For example, on the internet there are ways of obtaining and channels offering especially purified, especially meaningful information. For the health of the soul, try to rid yourself of all information in response to which you are powerless to do anything. If information does not lead you to action, you do not need it; it poisons you.
Therefore, to improve your well-being and lose weight, I recommend getting rid of television and instead taking up communion with friends, animals, and nature. Because the soul is poisoned not simply by information, but by inaction and powerlessness with respect to the information received. The same applies to negative information received in living communication. In modern life a person is forced to be exposed to hostility. What is to be done with it? What can one do so that it does not poison one's life?
The first approach is to forgive. It is important to understand the motives of those who offend you. It is important to understand that people are bad, as a rule, out of fear; they are products of the system. It is important to understand that it is impossible to offend a person who does not agree to react with offense to what is happening. It is impossible to offend a person who has forgiven the offenders in advance. I am not speaking of giving in to offenders and allowing them to do harm; I am speaking of emotions. It is very useful to separate emotions from actions, and to defend yourself emotionally - through understanding and forgiveness - and practically, through actions that provide practical protection. That is, to separate fear from caution. Fear nothing on the level of emotions, but continue to be cautious on the level of practical actions.