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Inspired by a conversation with Laurence Platt.

I have been thinking about death.

As a context, a basis for the creation of everything that exists, language is an interesting tool. It sets us apart from animals.

Without it, existence would have a different quality. Our experience of ourselves and our awareness of our awareness would not be the same.

As an autistic adult, I have a self-conscious nature. Though, I am not sure I agree with Dr Temple Grandin, that I am like an animal.

I would say I am further from animal in my noticing, with more extranious language, while retaining a connection to my animal self. I would say I have an over awareness of my animalness. It actually detracts somewhat from human social interaction. In otherwords, most human beings don’t notice themselves.

Like other autistic people, I do some of my thinking in pictures. I am going to use *language* as a verb here to describe the process.

If I am thinking about things I will *language* images into my thought processes. Thinking “I’ll collect Gina from the station” puts images of Gina, car and station onto an internal movie screen.

I visualise the outcome. It is a very natural process I am actually self aware of. It includes still images and movies of different aspects and outcomes and the best solution is presented back to me conversationally. It makes creative visualisation and vision boards easy conceptually and almost impossible to put into practice.

And language appears to be at the root of the process. So what does language have to do with death?

I would like to create something for you based on a recent experience.

Last Saturday, I went to see spiritualist medium, Philip Kinsella. For the purposes of this blog, it does not matter if you believe in mediumship or not. For a moment however, accept there is something the medium connects to, even if it is cold reading, the following holds true.

If you are a spiritualist, you will have to excuse my non-spiritualist use of the word dead. For me the terms passed and other side hold death at arms length.

However, Philip gave the audience messages from those crossed over to the other side. Very specific and very accurate messages, with very descriptive details and accurate names.

Interestingly for me, Philip worked with pictures and feelings. He then interpreted the information he was receiving and literally *languaged* the person he was channeling into being.

What do I mean by that?

The person being *given* arrived in the room as a concept or idea in Philip’s mind. A person who is dead, no longer has a physical presence. Assuming they exist, the only way for us to have awareness of their being, is for Philip to *language* their being into existence.

The only place they continue to exist past death is our conversation about them. Their existence is in language. Nowhere else… So langauge is their being?

And is that true of us? When I stop thinking in words and think in pictures, do I cease to be?

If I do, my existence is a paradox!

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty wharton

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You don’t know that you don’t know what is going on out there in the world.
And you don’t know that you make it up.
You and 6.8 billion other human beings are going round inventing stuff to provide themselves with explanations of what is happening in the world.
And then, teaching it to one another.
We are teaching it to one another in the form of beliefs.
And once we believe something to be true, our perception of it being true becomes distorted and it appears that it is true even when it is not.
This story is in everything.
It is a Chinese whisper waiting in the park.
It is in every baby’s first kiss.
It is the story of who we are and who we are not.
Take everything away and what have we got?
Nothing!

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty-wharton

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My interest in self development has always been about finding inner peace.

Then a couple of years back, I started to get frustrated about the way I handle money.

I looked at money and money gurus.

I realised I hated people with money. They were bad people. Then I looked at a list of the richest people and found out the people I hated were doing a lot of good in the world. It was a nice thing to find out, though nothing changed in my personal circumstances.

I was in the bath earlier listening to an audio book. The author suggested we form our opinions when we are little children (by the time we are six) and they stay with us for life.

Great, I thought. So how could I apply that to money?

As I lay there in the bath an image popped into my head of me sitting on a swing in my childhood garden with a tin box on my knees. I am six years old. It is an image I have often recalled when trying to decode money issues.

In the box I have some money. A ten shilling note and a fifty pence piece. I am wondering over the shape of the freshly minted coin. It is not a hexagon or an octagon, it has seven sides. I often tell people the story. It’s quite a magical memory. But wait, I have left something out.

In the box is a book. The book has printed columns and I have carefully worked out how much money is in the box. The columns relate to pounds, shillings and pennies. I am the ONLY boy in my class who can do this.

There are twelve pennies in a shilling and twenty shillings in one pound. I had also finally figured out the meaning of a guinea, twenty one shillings. It had taken a long time to learn all this and it is very complicated. I even knew the relationship between crowns, half crowns, florins, sixpences and threepenny bits.

As I recall all this I am aware of a huge and overwhelming disappointment. It lives in me now like a “what’s the point” an absolute hatred, like a “have to” do. And I don’t want to, it ruins everything!

With pounds, shillings and pennies (L s d) I got to be brilliant. And here was a new shiny fifty pence piece. And with it, a new system. A hundred pence in a pound. Ten shillings (one hundred and twenty pennies) equals fifty pence. No more “If Tom buys five apples for threepence and Mary has a shilling, how much change will Jack have from a crown?”

I hated the new system, plain and simple. I had spent hours on the old system and now it seemed I had completely wasted my time. What was the point?

I was a very clever boy and could show how clever I was with money. Nobody else understood it. And THEY had ruined it!

Any idiot can add up base 10. Really!

What’s the point!!!

THAT feeling, associated with money?

I got…

I HATE MONEY

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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On February the second last year, I received an email from Dr Joe Vitales company Hypnotic Marketing, inviting me to purchase the BOOK OF est

I was curious, but somewhat annoyed that Dr Joe Vitale and Mark J Ryan had simply taken a 1976 publication and repackaged it as an eBook, which they were charging $19.95 for.

A quick look on Amazon and I discovered the book was a collectors item and I could buy an original copy for around $200.

Not wanting to do that and being an avid user of eBay I decided I would run a search for ‘Werner Erhard’ and then forgot all about it.

Little did I know, that search would lead me on a journey which would end with a new understanding of enlightenment experience. An enlightened about being enlightened experience. An experience of now.

On my personal journey of self discovery, one of my more profound experiences was as a participant on Landmark Education’s Forum.

I completed the 3 day course in 1999, followed up with the Advanced Course and the Self Expression and Leadership Program, as well as a number of seminars.

I touch briefly on the experience in my book. And while I understood that this isn’t a place to get to, what I had yet to learn was, the foundation of reality is always a good place to start out from.

Because I already know Werner Erhard’s material as the corner stone of Landmark Education’s programs, my curiosity is always aroused when his name is mentioned.

So… I had now programmed my InBox to receive messages about Werner each time he was mentioned on eBay.

I discovered and purchased a film about him, bought it, watched it and enjoyed my opinions about it.

On the recommendation of my friend Amy, I also signed up for Laurence Platt’s Essays.

I bought another book about Werner by William Warren Bartley III and put it to one side.

All very interesting, but no BOOK OF est

Then in October or November, for some inexplicable reason, I suddenly crashed into a horrible depression.

Struggling to find a way back to my usual positive self, I started to read about Werner.

I took a very long walk and something shifted in me. I escaped the black hole.

Then at the start of December I finally found the book and $54.98 later it was mine.

On 9th December my book was shipped from the USA.

I realised that while I have attended some brilliant courses over the years, Landmark provided me with the tools to make the biggest and longest lasting changes I have yet made in my life.

I suddenly wondered why I was reading a book and not doing the forum. A quick call to the Landmark offices in London and I was signed up for the next course.

On completing the course, what I got about myself and this book is, I always do things the hard way.

Yes, the eBook costs $19.95 but buying it would have saved me ten months, some dollars and a depression.

The original author also would have benefited in the process. I am forever angry that I am not paid my dues for the music I have created in the past, file sharing and so on, so how does buying a second hand book benefit Luke Rhinehart.

I visited Dr Joe Vitale’s blog.

I bought him a $19.95 Amazon book token and wrote him a letter of apology.

After what seems like an eternal search for this rare book on the Internet, I am eventually reading Luke Rhinehart’s BOOK OF est

I am present to the genius of the man and my own experience of the Forum.

And on reflection, reading through Joe’s sales pitch I noticed something I missed before. Dr Joe Vitale is a Landmark Forum graduate and endorses the program.

No wonder he is so keen to publish this book.

He calls it the best self help book of all time, which coming from a man who has written and published many books on the best seller lists is humble praise in itself.

Reading a book is not like watching a movie. It is an experience that requires imagination. Luke Rhinehart has somehow captured the est experience in a way that is both believable and sits you on a chair in an est training.

the BOOK OF est provides the experience for those who cannot or do not wish to participate.

For me, the Landmark experience is clearly not the est experience.

The est training ceased to exist when I was a teenager, so the closest thing I can have to the est experience is to read this book.

My recommendation, for anyone who wishes to add depth to their experience of Landmark, would be, read this book.

My recommendation, for anyone who wishes to add depth to their experience of this book, would be, do the Forum.

I’ll leave it at that.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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My new years resolution and my personal mission statement for the coming decade:

I promise to personally employ 100 people with autistic spectrum disorders over the coming decade and to impact thousands of others, by creating a community based charity which runs a transport museum in Biggleswade.

I am creating the possibility of autistic think tanks becoming a standard way of problem solving for humanity.

These will be in the form of mastermind groups.

To make my motivation completely transparent.

I love the simplicity of communicating with other autistic people and their brilliance, their mindset.

I want to create a world I LOVE that makes THEM matter.

Mark Ty-Wharton

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It’s A Wonderful Life is now considered the most inspirational American movie of all time, yet when it was released it was considered a box office flop.

It took around forty years for people to really “get it”.

As Christmas rolls around the globe, I want you to consider an opportunity.

The opportunity for each and every person on the planet to have an enlightenment experience.

The kind of experience people trek thousands of miles to Tibet for. The moment an experienced yogi would cite as profound. An awakening. And all available from a single weekend experience.

And a prediction…

Sooner or later, what I am about to tell you will be considered the most inspirational material of all time.

In 1971 a man named Werner Erhard created a seminar based large group awareness training called EST.

What you may not be aware of some thirty eight years later, the experience is still available in a similar training offered by Landmark Education.

The impact of the lives of the people who participate is profound.

Having recently reviewed the course, I now realise the huge positive impact originally participating in 1999 had on my life.

Apart from being born, 4:52pm on day three of the Landmark Forum is ongoingly the most important moment in my life.

I have access to living a life I love. And I love my life because I love my life.

My own book is based on principles I learned indirectly from Werner Erhard.

More interesting, my entire life is influenced by him and so is yours.

As the originator of the conversation about transformation and making a difference, almost everything these days hinges on these premises.

Virtually every conversation inside personal development and self-realisation lives in the idea we are perfect the way we are, when we remove our issues.

The way we are, AND the way we are not…

But how do we remove issues which would take a life time to evolve beyond?

Simply by removing our sense of self. The Ogre. Like Yoga. There be monsters between you and God!

So here is a Christmas gift to you. Let me take you in a direction by inviting you into a conversation.

For the twelve days of Christmas, I am giving away a free eBook download of my book The Logic Of Attraction (normally £9).

You can download it here:

http://LogicOfAttraction.com/MerryChristmas/LOA_XMASFREE.pdf

The password is: XMASFREE

And to accompany the book I am giving away an audio meditation, recorded by the fabulous Rich Hilton, which compliments an exercise in consciousness in the book.

All you have to do is sign up for the newsletter to receive it.

If you like what you get, comment below.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty wharton

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In a recent phone call I explained “before I did the Landmark Forum my thoughts occurred like I was walking down Oxford Street with a crowd bustling around me.

Now I have done the Landmark Forum I have an experience of thoughts occurring as if in a vast cavernous library”.

It is silent in my head right now.

From time to time I have a thought and it’s like “whoa, who was that?” or just “shhhhhhhhhhhh, you’re spoiling the silence”.

It’s so much fun in my head right now, in sharp contrast to the racing negative thoughts that were dominating my life just weeks ago.

If you attend an introduction evening for the Landmark Forum, you will learn an exercise. The seminar leader will draw a big pie on a whiteboard and divide it up. He talks about “What you don’t know, you don’t know”.

If I turn that on its head for a moment, I have learned I didn’t know that I didn’t know what other people are thinking.

I would have opinions about why other people did stuff. A whole managery of information about reasons for this and that buzzing in my head. Reasons for reasons for reasons.

Having realised it serves no purpose whatever to do it, my brain just switched the function off. Gone!

The result, almost total silence.

I guess in the seventies, the East would have sold this “state” or “space” to LSD culture as enlightenment.

In 2010 Landmark’s upsell of Werner Erhard’s original EST delivers something else.

If Bhudda were alive today

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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In Law Of Attraction, we created a rule for the Universe with two meanings.

An idea which can be empowering or destructive, depending on how you perceive and apply it.

One occurs as the final desperate act of a dying animal. The expectation that magic should be present, because the proponent of the law projects need into the future, as a solution for something seen as broken in life.

The other occurs like magic. When one is free of desire one automatically becomes an instrument of the Universe.

It becomes possible to take actions consistent with a future that truly leaves you satisfied.

And therein lies the paradox.

How is it possible to attain ones goals without striving to achieve them?

The key is in stepping up to a new level of responsibilty. A place where one chooses which thoughts are thoughts and which thoughts will dictate reality.

The proof lies in our noticing. What we see is what we get. Getting what we see is a bigger matter.

Did John manifest a new car, or did he just buy one? Did Lucy manifest a large sum of money, or did she just retire early and ask for a payoff?

The mind will always get proof of something without a predefined specific measurable result.

It is like a parlour psychic corroborating petty predictions to appease a difficult child.

So how does one perform the real magic?

By loving your life as it is now.

When you are truly satisfied with this moment and it occurs to you like “nothing wrong here” you have the key to the Universe. Anything is possible.

This is true enlightenment. True perfection. The ultimate expression of reality.

And from reality you can create anything you can think of.

Seek not material wealth as an end on to a journey. The journey is always complete.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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Something I have learned about myself in the past week or so.

Life is about possibility. Without me, there may never be a Transport
Museum in Biggleswade. In fact at the moment there is no museum at
all. Sure lots of people are having conversations about it, yet nobody
is really doing anything. The focus seems to be on what is not
possible rather than creating a possible outcome then taking actions
consistent with having such a place become a reality.

So what am I doing?

I am introducing myself as a new conversation about museums in
Biggleswade. I have captured the interest of a friend with an
engineering works who can also see it’s possible.

And as the man with the idea, I am the first point of contact. While I
see myself as the founder not the owner, I actually want to create it
so it lives on without me, way beyond my lifetime.

At this present point in time, there is nothing. The museum exists in
my mind and in a conversation I had with a friend. Unless my friend
sees it as possible, the conversation will die. I need to be
responsible for creating the museum in conversation such that my
friend “gets it” and continues to see its potential. Right here, right
now, “I” am the museum.

By making my life work, I am making the museum work. So coming from a
place where there is a museum, what steps do I need to take to get
there?

I recognise I need to operate from a solid base. If my life is in
chaos, I will occur to others as chaotic. People, out there in the
world need to get that this is happening.

So, in doing the housework I am taking the first steps towards
creating a solid foundation for a transport museum.

By managing my breathing, anxiety, panic attacks and subsequent
depression, I am creating the possibility of exemplary customer
service.

I see the world winding down for Christmas and realise I am starting
this project at the perfect time of year.

By the time I have my presentations ready, the local community will be
saying their New Year resolutions and being positive.

Launching ideas on a wave of enthusiasm can only serve the autistic
community I wish to provide employment opportunities for more fully.

This is where the true magic starts, right here, right now!

Visit http://transportarcheum.com to find out more about it.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty wharton

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