What’s New

Ten Vernon Howard Books Reprinted
     We now have 10 beautiful new editions available. Most of them have spectacular new covers and all have been carefully proofed and corrected to eliminate any errors. They are printed on bright white paper and the print is a nice size to make it easier to read. Because of production, paper, ink and freight costs we had to raise prices a bit. However they are still very affordable. Below is the list of books with links to each one.
Your Power of Natural Knowing … 700 Inspiring Guides to a New Life … The Power of Esoterics …
Cosmic Command … Esoteric Mind Power … Treasury of Positive Answers … Solved — The Mystery of Life …
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge … Pathways to Perfect Living … Inspire Yourself

How to End Suffering — Cynicism

     The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or  state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
CYNICISM by Richard Wooldridge
     I recently had an interaction with a person who hoped for a desired outcome in a particular situation but was quite skeptical it would happen that way. In the tone of the voice, you could hear a resigned but angry sort of cynicism and an anticipation that the outcome would probably be unfavorable. In these teachings we learn that if someone projects a cynical attitude, that negativity will reproduce itself in the outer world. A pessimistic belief that bad things will happen often attract those very things to you. That the inner determines the outer is a higher spiritual law that is always in operation whether we’re aware of it or not.
     We can observe that human beings are untrustworthy, but we don’t have to have a negative reaction to any event that comes our way.  In 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, Vernon Howard puts it this way, “We can rise above cynicism, for to be cynical is to be still chained to the follies of other people. It is quite possible to see people as they are without shaking with self-reference.”
     The whole point of our life here on earth is to transcend the human mind and human suffering. To rise above them. To actually see that there is a higher way to live free of all animosity. We have failed to contact a higher element that God has placed inside of us, an element that presently remains undeveloped.
     As long as we are apart from God, separated from our higher nature, we will suffer. I have a choice, but I must see that I have a choice. I can choose to be miserable, or I can reject all the persistent thoughts and feelings that insist I must embrace suffering. I was recently on a telephone call with a senior computer technician trying to get help solving a wi-fi problem. The technician eventually came up with a resolution but at a certain point in the conversation she was basically compelled to say that I was stupid for having set up something incorrectly within the system.
     It was something I didn’t know about, but I have a choice as to whether or not the remark offended me. I could see that because of the position this person held, her competitive human nature dictated that she unconsciously feel superior to those who don’t have as much technical knowledge and training as she does. Now, did I have a reaction in which I was wrongly tied to her? One indication of letting this incident fall on a wrong place inside is that I can’t or won’t let the whole thing go. I keep running it over and over again in my mind. Truth says to simply drop it; let it go.
     Human beings believe that the intellect is at the top of the pyramid of life. Society says that those who are considered to be the smartest are to be revered. But there is something above the mind which is way smarter and wiser than the intellectual center. It is something we can take with us when we leave this earth. It is something we can feel, realize and live from while we’re still on this planet. But there is one condition. We must give up being cynical, pessimistic or negative in any way. Truth tells us it can be done.