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Mark Ty-Wharton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:01:14 +0000

I am on a path of discovery and as I start to write my book on enlightenment, I realise as a race of beings, we have an agreement with our gurus which totally negates our experience.

We also negate the gurus experience (for them).

Enlightenment, as far as I can tell, only exists in agreement, or language.

Agreements about reality, the way things are – languaging experience, negates experience.

Each judgement or comparison, every assessment, each lesson about what enlightenment is and what it is not takes the seeker further from the truth.

So can I teach you the truth?

What stands between me, you and the truth is language.

For me to express my experience, I need to language it while being an example of that which I wish to express.

My “style” of communication is “I am brilliant and I am going to prove it to you”. And “question me and I will defend my position”.

My commitment is to give up this way of being with you.

The knowledge I wish to impart to you is, you have already had an experience that humans have an agreement in language for called enlightenment.

Listening to the directions of spiritual teachers won’t help you, or them.

Don’t listen to me either. My expression of enlightenment will negate your experience of it such that you could follow me forever trying to find an answer.

The only thing between me and your wallet is my integrity.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

Mark Ty-Wharton

15% off MY BOOK for Presidents Day!

Mark Ty-Wharton — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:22:21 +0000

Here is what I have for you today.

We are all born into a conversation called Good/Bad. We have no say in
it. It is in part culture, in part society and in part the opinions
and beliefs of the people who bring you up. By this I mean family,
extended family, teachers, friends.

These conversations create who you are. You get to be someone in the
face of them. You make decisions based on them. You run life by them.

I am in the middle of a self-development seminar.

I have distinguished so much about my beliefs and the way I perceive
the World, there is little left to distinguish or disappear.

Or have I?

Underneath all these, life just is. It really is that way. We live by
agreements we haven’t even made and yet we don’t do anything to undo
them, in fact we go on to make even more agreements we don’t want to
live by.

“Will you make the tea Mark?” “sure” and underneath that “I don’t want
to” and underneath that “I ought to because she did last night” and
underneath that “I want to earn enough money to get a cook” and “it
ought to be another way”.

All the shoulds and ought to’s in life. All the supposed to be’s. All
hooks into not accepting the world the way it is. And all choices you
haven’t chosen that lead to unhappiness.

Consider for a moment if your life stood for something more important
than merely being conscious.

I mean, we are all conscious right. Why make that your lifes purpose?

Spiritual leaders like Christ and Buddha tell us we should rise above
petty arguments and find spiritual peace, love.

Okay great, I no longer think my neighbour is annoying when his dog
barks at 05:00 am and I don’t want to poison the little bugger. We can
live in harmony. So what!

What if you had a conversation about yourself that made all that stuff
insignificant?

What if you took on something big? Real big?

Want to know where to start?

Today, Lulu.com (who publish my book) have 15% off any order for
President’s Day!

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See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty wharton

The Present

Mark Ty-Wharton — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:38:28 +0000

Somewhere inside I am alive. I am switched on, a being with boundless and infinite energy.

It is called spirit, we all have one and we kill it, then in turn we search for life eternal.

That ancient metaphor, the riddle of self since time (or language) began.

What turns you on? Lights you up? Rocks your boat?

There are moments in life when your true nature is revealed to you, the good life, the moments you wish you could live forever, if only.

If there were a way to permanently tap into this energy source without having to be in one of those moments would you take it?

If you could have the boundless energy of being even in your darkest moments would you choose it?

If the answer were simple and I could tell you what to do in one sentence would you do it?

the logic of attraction

Mark Ty-Wharton — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:47:56 +0000

A year or so after publication I am interested to see what I think and feel about my book and any subsequent book I may write.

The book, The Logic Of Attraction is a pointer in a direction. And really is a much deeper spiritual teaching than the simpler message the cover conveys. It is not the complete journey perhaps, but at least it is the taxi ride to the airport? Step in…

Everything I wrote in this book was valid (for me) when I wrote it and will be equally valid for you if you are travelling in the same spiritual direction I am, yet incomplete on that voyage.

I have no desire to be a guru. I am done with that. Enlightenment was the booby prize. Beyond enlightenment there is something else. The something else is simply a place to stand which neither validates nor invalidates enlightement, yet allows enlightenment to show up for you, like an occurance if you choose to be enlightened.

Enlightened is an interesting paradox in language. I am not saying I am or I am not enlightened. I am saying I can choose enlightenment and I personally think being enlightened about enlightenment is a good place to start out from, I don’t see it as a goal.

I choose something more ordinary than enlightenment and the place I choose to stand in is nothing. From the space of nothing (for me) true magic shows up.

If I define self as nothing, I can be, do, or have anything as a possibility.

If you read my book you’ll come part of the way.

If you want the rest of the puzzle revealed, then I am itching to reveal my next book!

Though, perhaps there really is nothing to convey,

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty wharton

Death

Mark Ty-Wharton — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:48:57 +0000

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

You Think This Is Real

Mark Ty-Wharton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:33:21 +0000

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

I Hate Money I Love L s d

Mark Ty-Wharton — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:34:13 +0000

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,

The Ogre

Mark Ty-Wharton — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:25:26 +0000

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

Werner Erhard Blew My Mind

Mark Ty-Wharton — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:11:45 +0000

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,

mark ty wharton