We learn the ropes of life by untying their knots – Toomes
If you’re looking for a good way to handle life’s problems (because we all have them), check out the Lemurian Philosophy. From an engineer’s perspective, it has straightforward lessons to study and time-tested principles to apply in your life.
I recommend it to anyone because it’s helped me be a better person, especially in my relationships with others.
The Philosophy teaches you how to use principles that really work
From an ex-Army, businessman’s and engineer’s perspective, I’m more about numbers than people. Numbers and physical laws are consistent, predictable, rational, and don’t yell back. In comparison, people can be fuzzy, unreliable, even irritating. On the other hand, numbers are not joyful, happy, or loving, but people can be. Studying the Lemurian Philosophy helps me recognize and appreciate the priceless value of people I encounter, work with, and live with.
There is also a practical reward in addition to the enjoyment of others’ company. As a husband, father, or manager in government agencies, using what I study in the Philosophy helps me work better with others. Whether as subordinate or boss, I’ve been more successful in earning others’ trust and respect over time by using the Philosophy in difficult work situations and at home. It helps me be more effective whether with an employee, company president, an aggressive driver, or the guy next door.
Here are a couple of everyday examples:
While on the road, I’ve caught myself getting irritated at other drivers. I think just about everyone does this. I’ve practiced just stopping thinking about the other drivers, and experienced a sense of peace.
Emotional reactions to a husband or wife are something every married person understands, and I’m no exception. I decided to temper my reactions by just accepting what my wife was saying. One morning when I found the door unlocked, I asked my wife if she’d gone out and forgotten to lock it. When she said no, at first I couldn’t believe it, but just accepted that I forgot to lock it and let it go. Rather than argue with her, I accepted what she said and felt a sense of peace. It was a new kind of connection that I haven’t felt before. It’s a terrific feeling that I don’t have the words to describe, except that it’s something anyone would want.
These solutions sound very easy until you try them. Actually, these successes are the result of many years of using the Lemurian Philosophy to work with myself. Countless self-help books offer hundreds of ideas of what to do to be happier. The Philosophy teaches you how to use time-tested principles that really work, and Lemurian Fellowship teachers are always there to guide you through the hard spots and help you keep improving your techniques.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds. – Albert Schweitzer
Change Your Mind/Change Your Life
What could you accomplish if you had the Midas touch of Warren Buffet, the selflessness of Mother Teresa, the entrepreneurial genius of Bill Gates, the dedication to a cause of Aung San Suu Kyi? If you could change your mind to think like any of these people, have their single pointedness of purpose, self-discipline, and drive, you could gradually become more like any of them.
When you can change your mind — not in the usual sense of reversing a decision, but fundamentally change your thinking — you change yourself and ultimately, your environment. We hear of people doing this in dramatic ways, like the former gang member who is mentoring young boys and men in his old neighborhood; the woman who was homeless, pregnant, and addicted at sixteen, now inspirationally helping girls at risk.
Paul the Apostle is probably one of the best known of those who have radically turned their lives around. Until his unforgettable religious conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul was a feared scourge of Christians who admitted that he “violently persecuted” this new religion. Yet, after he became convinced that Christ was really the long-promised Messiah, there was nothing he wouldn’t do to help advance the Christian movement.
Few of us have the unusual devotion, the humility to admit we are on the wrong track, or the courage to completely change the course of our lives that Paul displayed. At least we probably think we lack these virtues, especially if we’ve never been in a situation where they were needed. But most of us have some devotion, courage, and humility. We can build on these beginnings, and strengthen them. So why don’t we?
You know the answer to that. Changing ourselves is hard. Anyone who has quit smoking, alcohol, or drugs knows this. For most of us, it takes many tries, a lot of talking to ourselves, and some agonizing effort, and even then we may relapse a few or many times before we finally make this profound turnaround in our lives. Often, there’s a catalyst, like discovering you are pre-diabetic, before you can get serious about losing weight. In some fundamental way, we have to be deeply committed to changing ourselves to change our habits. But once we are, there are many boosts and supports to help us, much like having a personal trainer for weight loss.
This is where the Lemurian Philosophy comes in. If we have good reasons for changing our minds, the Philosophy can help us do it. When we understand the laws governing all life and human interaction, and start working with these eternal principles instead of against them, our problems begin working out. Not all at once, but gradually. Most of us won’t face the dramatic and momentous changes Paul or the other Disciples were called on to make. The changes we need to and can make are more modest, but potentially just as significant to us and those around us in our lives and environments.
Steadily, as we keep moving toward the good, the right, and the true, we experience in greater and greater measure that more abundant life Christ promised all of us so long ago.
