2002.07.D.06 Mind And Will Part 2 - 4 Pages On The Will - Pages 13 - 16 Created by James3 on 8/13/2019 9:39:48 PM Mind And Will Part 2 - 4 Pages On The Will - Pages 13 - 16
Greetings
The last few articles on the list have addressed the subject of the hurts, wrong beliefs, etc that give rise to the condition Scripture refers to as "hardening of the heart".
This is a subject on which we have encountered very little practical teaching within the body of believers but is also a subject of great importance.
As we have gained understanding in this area over the past couple of years we have come to understand that every one of us has experienced events during their lives, some call them "life shocks", which result in specific sub-conscious learned responses which thereafter filter and condition the flow of information from our spirits (the "heart") to the conscious mind and vice versa.
Reference was made in the article 1AD.02.07.04 "Cleansing from hardening of the heart, inner vows, etc" posted on 25 July to two instances of people who in their childhood were subject to negative experiences which seriously affected their ability to relate to others and to relate to Yah throughout their adult life.
Yah has shown us that Satan makes a point of trying to ensure that every single human being is subjected to AT LEAST one such event round about the age of 5 years old - this is the stage at which we are most impressionable, as indicated by the graph of adaptability on page 12 of the article 1AD.02.07.03 "Marriage Strategy Headlines".
These "soulish" "objects" fall into the second category "soul" of the human factors identified on page 4 of the marriage strategy document and have an enormous bearing on our capacity to hear Yah clearly and on our capacity to receive revelation, teaching, etc and to serve Him faithfully to the end of our lives.
If an authority figure has told one at the age of five years old that "no one will ever love you" this filter makes it exceptionally difficult for that person to EVER believe that Yah or any human being could ever love them in adult life. This can lead to subconscious choice of abusive marriage partners, inability to make a real committment in marriage, work or in the faith, etc.
As a consequence of these factors and their cummulative effect as people mature, it becomes increasingly difficult for older people to make a really solid conversion to faith in Yah UNLESS something happens to break the strangle hold of these subconcious lies (some call it "mind talk") which trigger programmed responses which we come to believe are just "the way we are".
To counter this we have also encountered situations where Yah has permitted strongly positive experiences which have embedded faith in Yah into the same subconcious learning, even when subsequently the person concerned has ended up in very dark situations. By way of example, i was once given a vision of a little five year old girl in a Catholic church holding a candle and saying time and time again "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" - Yah showed me that at that time she invited Him into her heart and was "born again". That little girl had been dedicated to Satan and subsequently went on to become a Satanist High Priestess but eventually, when she was in her forties, Yah was able to use that deep seated love for Yahshua to bring that woman out of Satanism into a powerful witness for the saving power of faith in Yah through the covenant sacrifice of Yahshua.
Through various experiences we have had in ministering to people, we are profoundly convinced that these deep seated positive and negative events have a profound impact on the ability of an individual firstly to accept Yah and secondly on their ability to serve Him faithfully.
This same phenomenon results in a situation where false doctrines can become deeply embedded in the subconcious, particularly when they are strongly enforced in childhood.
Insofar as these things are subconcious and we are not aware of them unless they are exposed in some way they have the potential to dramatically influence and control our lives and thereby dramatically affect our eternal destiny. Yet very few people are aware of this phenomenon and even fewer people know how to deal with it effectively.
We have been able to be of assistance to some people through prophetic revelation followed by the prayers published in the articles preceding this but have observed that these prayers alone are not always sufficient to overcome psychological programming that goes back decades and affects every aspect of a person's behaviour. It is not enough to simply recognize that the event happened, it is necessary to learn a new programme of behaviour and beliefs to substitute for the wrong behaviour and beliefs!
This has a bearing in the area of deliverance as well. Demonic oppression will frequently be a major factor in instilling these wrong beliefs and behaviours with the result that someone can be delivered from the demons but still continue to manifest behaviour and mannerisms, etc that suggest that they are still demonized. This can result in situations where a sincerely delivered person is branded as demonized and branded as being unwilling to let go of the demons or as unteachable when, in fact, they are simply trapped in learned responses associated with the oppression that may have been with them virtually their entire lives.
As at this writing we have not encountered a single ministry within the body of believers who have developed robust and effective procedures for dealing with these phenomena. At the same time, we have encountered numerous believers who are to a greater or lesser extent having their lives disrupted by these factors. In fact, i would go so far as to suggest that i have yet to meet a believer whose life is not to some extent adversely impacted by these factors. For that matter, the same applies to unbelievers.
The essence of this phenomenon is that it is globally pervasive and has an enormous negative impact both by preventing decisions to accept faith in Yah through the covenant sacrifice of Yahshua AND by hindering the spiritual growth in the faith of those who DO accept faith in Yah through the covenant of Yahshua.
These factors played a significant role in my own walk such that they were almost certainly factors in the backsliding that took place in my twenties and thirties. However, i was priviledged in 1993, to undergo a process which helped me to deal with these issues. This took place at the HEIGHT of my backslidden condition, struggling to deal with the consequences of two years of adultery and with every aspect of my life in a shambles and in the fast lane, headed for hell and about to pass the last off ramp, Yah, in His great mercy, reached down and arranged matters that i attended a programme called "The Life Training". During an intense weekend of confronting my life shocks and my mind talk i discovered things about myself dating back to my childhood which had been dictating my behaviour in diverse ways all my life.
With those subconcious beliefs exposed and dealt with i came to a position where, a few days later, staring the gates of death and hades in the face, Yah was able to reach down, speak to me and lead me back to His service. I profoundly believe that if it had not been for "The Life Training" weekend which softened my heart sufficiently to permit me to hear the still small voice of the Almighty when He spoke to me, i would not be here to write this article today but would be in the grave awaiting a sentence of eternity in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone on the Day of Judgment!
Over nine years later, wrestling with some issues in my life where subconscious responses were hindering my marriage and dragging me down emotionally and psychologically, i decided to return to the Life Training.
This required that i confront religious prejudice about resorting to a "secular" organization for help but, after prayer, and strengthened by deep conviction that this WAS Yah's will, i set about making contact with the Kairos Foundation who are the originators and sponsors of "The Life Training". As i revisited the processes and started to deal with the "life shocks" and "mind talk" relating to various events in my childhood but, more importantly in my adult life since doing the training in 1993, i was able to clearly see the hand of Yah using these people and the processes they had developed, to assist me.
The founders of the Life Training have drawn on diverse sources. One was an ordained priest in an ecumenical church before leaving his denomination and there are regular scriptural references in the material. They have also drawn on the psychological theories of Victor Frankel, theories grounded in his years as a Jewish inmate of Nazi concentration camps. The processes have a secular component and a spiritual component some of which will rattle the paradigm of most conventional believers. However, if one approaches the Life Training with a perspective of SEEK TRUTH NOT ERROR, one will find an enormous amount of value.
We have been extremely positively impacted by our renewed acquaintance with "The Life Training" programme and i strongly recommend it. Anyone who feels that they are not walking victoriously in their lives as believers, or who finds that there are constant negative impacts in their life or simply feels there is a void in their life should seriously consider it.
For those of you on the list who are in Gauteng, there is a Life Training weekend coming up from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September in Johannesburg and there is a guest event at our house on 6 August where you can find out more.
For those of you elsewhere in South Africa, you can contact Mandy at the Life Training Center in Johannesburg to find out about weekends elsewhere in the country. Email
jhbltc@intekom.co.za or phone 011-728-5215.
For those elsewhere in the world, visit the web site at
http://www.lifetraining.org/default.htm or search on the Internet for "The Life Training", there may well be a Life Training Weekend in the next year to be held in a location that you can reach.
Attached please find a copy of the Life Training home page, the notice for the weekend in Johannesburg in August and a personal testimony from an individual who is a devout Jew and who has found the programme very beneficial. Also please find an invitation to the guest event at our home on 6 August.
I strongly recommend The Life Training as a secular event that has the potential to greatly deepen your relationship with Yah and improve your overall quality of life.
Warm regards and blessings
The Life Training Weekend
Have you ever wondered if life was trying to tell you something?
The Life Training Weekend is based on the principle that in every event of our lives, no matter how apparently inconsequential, life has something significant to teach us.
Most of the time, we simply fail to read the signs until it is too late. But there is a state of mind, involving a kind of openness to life and receptivity to others, in which we are able to discern the guidance that is being offered to us by life at every moment.
When we are in a state of alienation from ourselves and distance from one another, we tend to miss the cues. But when we are truly awake to things as they are and fully responsive to the flow of events as they happen, we find that almost miraculous connections occur, and keep occurring.
The Life Training Weekend teaches tools, techniques and disciplines designed to allow you to gain access to this state of awareness, whenever you choose.
What the course is like
The Life Training Weekend is a whole weekend set aside for your learning and development. There is time to talk, time to reflect, time to share with others, and time simply to listen. You will have the chance to think thoughts feel feelings you may not have for years.
You will discover new qualities in yourself, and new trust in others. And you will let go of old beliefs and old hurts that may have been bothering you for a lifetime.
The support of the trainers will be available to you in everything you do. You will be able to call upon a whole team of people who have taken the course themselves and know how to facilitate your work, whenever you want personal support.
By the end of the weekend, you will have acquired an extraordinary new skill you can use in every life situation: A way of being in life that will deepen your relationships, enhance your ability to lead and influence others, accelerate your personal effectiveness, and help you get more out of life than you may have ever imagined was possible.
What it costs
The Life Training Weekend is sponsored by the Kairos Foundation, a non-profit educational charity, whose aim is to make this work available to people in all walks of life at the lowest possible cost. Over 1000 graduates currently support the Kairos Foundation by making regular sponsorship donations.
In South Africa the course fee is R1850, discounted to R1700 for registrations received up to the specified Early Bird date, and a special scholarship fund is available that supports those suffering financial disadvantage.
What you can gain
This work continues to generate results over time, in all the circumstances of our lives. Among the many results that have been reported are the following themes:
• Living the life you always wanted - In the Life Training Weekend you find out what it is like to move beyond conflicting intentions that normally pull us in different directions.
• You learn to touch that part of you that knows the right way for you, and find out how to trust your deepest purposes to set your direction in life.
• Developing a new power to create - As you continue to take your stand on the ground of your true authority, you will access a state of mind that sees new possibilities in every situation. As you trust this part of you more and more, creativity seems more natural and accessing it will become easier.
• Increasing your impact on the world - You learn how to combine truth-telling with a profound respect and compassion for other people. With this comes a new authenticity which increases your capacity to touch people and call out the best in them. Over time, the relationships and partnerships in your life can be radically transformed.
What people have said
"The Life Training Weekend I attended during the summer of 1984 was the first and only such weekend I had ever signed up for, and I did so with grave reservations. I was suspicious of 'quick fix' self help courses, and anxious about committing my time and money to an unknown process, but I had met one of the Trainers for the Weekend and found him both kind and insightful.
"On a mutual dare, my husband and I both registered and have not regretted our decision. The experience rearranged our lives and provided us with skills we have continued to use in our marriage, our work, our friendships and our faith.
"The Weekend is a hard, challenging one, that I recommend to anyone seeking more clarity about the forces that shape his or her life."
Barbara Taylor, Anglican Minister
"It was after doing the Life Training that I got in touch with the vision I had as a writer: it's like the opposite of cynicism, whatever that is. It wasn't enough just to write, just to make an intellectual statement. The success of the novel came from the fact that it really moved people, that it said something worth saying. I think a book should be something that's worth cutting a tree down for."
Nigel Watts, 1989 Betty Trask New Novelist of the Year
"In addition to transforming the quality of my personal and family life, the skills I learned in the Training have been of direct practical value in my work as an investment manager. Not only have they helped me overcome the whipsaw of fear and greed of the marketplace, but they have also enabled me to take effective responsibility for difficult staff management problems, which hitherto I would have ducked."
Robert Stephens, Vice-president, Mellon Pictet
"I see the Life Training as a response to the various psychological courses available in America, which fostered the 'Me' generation. It demonstrated how much we excuse ourselves, how much we take the easy option by 'economy with the truth'. It taught the absolute value, not just of telling the truth but of 'living within the truth'."
Patrick Reyntiens, O.B.E., stained glass artist and advisor to Westminster Abbey
"Early this month, I managed to slip away for an unforgettable life-changing experience with an old imagined antagonist: The Life Training. It was an intense 35-hour training session, familiar to many of our laity but unfortunately known to few clergy. I can say now it ought to be on our required experience list. It has profoundly touched my life with the most ingenious and creative application of truth and spirituality I have ever experienced. One need have no fears about its 'orthodoxy': it's all about truth-telling to ourselves and others - and wow, did I realize how badly we need more of that!"
Bishop Shannon Mallory, Diocese of El Camino Real, California
"I've taken a whole range of seminars and Life Training is the strongest and the most life-affirming course in which I've participated. It gave me back my courage and joy! Thank you, thank you!"
Calence Silver, Knoxville, Tennessee
"I learned more on that weekend than I had in years of reading about psychology. Not only was it educational, it was friendly, exciting, entertaining and moving: both an intellectual and an emotional experience. There is no area of my life which has not benefited from this."
Phiroze Neemuchwala, Blackheath, England
"During this course I found what I've been searching for: a sense of purpose about my life, a desire to make a difference in the world, and the conviction that my contribution really counts. Being involved with this work continually inspires me to give of myself, and live life to the full."
Michael Tuchman, London, England
My Story
My good friend, Ray and I study Talmud every Tuesday and a Thursday evening. I would often bemoan my situation to him in our frequent discussions around our own lives, in between the Talmud learning.
I want to Change but I Can’t
“I want to change but I can’t. Every time I try, I land up making the same mistakes all over again. I know I have exceptional talents but they are getting wasted because I am stuck in a mediocre life style. There must be more to life but maybe I’m too lazy to break out of my fixed habits. Everyone else seems to be making money and I am not. It’s because you have to be selfish and dishonest to make money - look! I drive the worst car on the road. Life’s a bitch and then you die. OK, I enjoy life, I love it in my own little way but I’m never going to make anything big of it.” These were some of the problems plaguing me and still, I did nothing about it. I felt I could do nothing about it. I could do nothing about other people either and life was too big and too fixed for puny me to expect to make any dent in it. I was consigning myself to the junk heap, where I would live out my small life until I died.
It’s for Ordinary People
Ray said to me “These are exactly the type of things where Life Training can help.” I pricked up my ears, but I was sceptical. Don’t bring me miracle cures, they are all cuckoo, loony toons, but I respected Ray’s opinion, especially as a good friend who knew me well. So I listened as he described what Life Training could do for me.
“It’s for ordinary people. It’s not ‘Rah! Rah! Motivation! Positive Thinking!!’ It deals with the reality of an ordinary life. It helps you to uproot long held negative perceptions by facing them squarely with the light of truth that comes from common sense. It’s not a religious program but has an exceptionally spiritual, moral and uplifting quality about it. It’s not a quick fix, you will have work to do, but after experiencing the weekend, I think you will want to.”
I was still a cynic. But Ray’s conviction and enthusiasm impressed me, especially as he knew me as a good friend. I decided to lash out the approximately R1500 to demonstrate a conviction that I wanted to Change My Life (capitalised in my mind).
The Weekend, I was Still Cynical
I arrived at the Wanderers Long Room, where the course was being held, on Friday afternoon with all my Shabbos things, having had some preparation of some of the written work with Wendy the previous week. (“I’m so jealous of you!” She bubbled over. “This is your first time and you are going to have an awesome experience.” Which planet did she get off? She seemed a little hysterical. Oh well, excited female overstatement). I had also attended the Life Talk with the trainer who was going to be leading our training. Impressive. But I was still sceptical.
I was ready with my bum in the seat at 7 pm. Thirty five hours of training. It was all experiential. We didn’t take notes. Somehow, I never got tired. By late Saturday afternoon, I said to myself: “This can work” but I was still a sceptic. By late Sunday afternoon I figured “This can definitely work” but I was only convinced intellectually.
By midnight Sunday, I was totally bowled over. My heart was overflowing. Massive emotions were unlocked for me. I was high! The whole of the next day I spent assimilating my experience, experiencing again and again those wonderful happy/sad/profound feelings - Wendy - you were right, if a bit understated. This is my experience. Different people have differing reactions. Some people have a delayed reaction, but nearly everyone (I’m being cautious with my statistics) has a valuable experience that they feel the investment in changing their own lives was definitely worth it!
I Definitely Learned Valuable Lessons
We came away with five processes, tools with which to change our lives as well as a set of tapes, revising the processes at the end of the weekend. The following Tuesday evening was the completion evening where guests were welcome and we all learned another process. One of the main things I learned was that we all have an internal dialogue going on almost twenty four hours a day (even throughout most of our sleep). This internal dialogue keeps repeating things to us about ourselves - 95% (approximately) of these things are just not true! However, we believe them to be true because this little devil telling us these things is already inside the innermost of our defences and has been for years. Also by sharing our experiences on the weekend we came to see how common our problems are and not that I am unique, the only one with these problems - no one can understand me. I clearly empathised with other people’s problems. They are common therefore a solution is available.
Opportunities to Carry on the Life Training
I went on from there to mastery, which is a series of six sessions, three hours each, once a week for a total cost of just R90 to cover the tea and materials. At Mastery you again cover the six processes you learned on the Weekend and Completion Evening. From there I went on to being on Team, where you get to experience the weekend from a new perspective - for free. There are other courses and other opportunities to carry the work further. There is always someone in the Life Training community available to help and support you.
Unique Money-Back Guarantee
There is a money back guarantee. Provided that you attend the entire weekend and that you ask within 7 days of completion of the course, you can ask for every cent of your money back - no questions asked. After I completed my weekend, I actually met someone who asked for his money back. He said “Look, it is good stuff, but not for me.” He had no problem getting his money back - no questions asked. I heard of someone in America who got his money back. Six months later he said ”Oh, I get it!” and decided to pay the money in again.
Social Commitment
The organisation, The Kairos Foundation, which runs the Life Training courses is a non-profit organisation with a social commitment, especially to South Africa. One in four trainees is a subsidised attendee, chosen for his or her position of social responsibility and leadership in society. In this way, the Kairos Foundation has been demonstrating it’s commitment to change in South Africa since the late eighties.
A Vision of Humanity Going to the Next Level
This program is not a religious one. The proof of this is the fact that it is attended by people from all religions. It is a Spiritual/Moral program connecting all humanity at a deeper level. I definitely experienced a deeper connection with the people in my group as well as a greater feeling of connection just with the ordinary person in the street. This has persisted with me and is one of the ways my life has changed from doing the weekend. I have a greater hope for humanity and a more universal appreciation for all of it’s members. People who have done Life Training have a vision of Humanity going to the Next Level of consciousness like the conclusion in the famous story “2001, A Space Odyssey” because we have experienced it in our training. I want this vision for anyone who wishes to listen. I want this vision for me and for you.
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