Like (a) God

The Irrepressible Genie is Will :

“Your Wish is My Command.”

Will is Here!

A.: 

A Marshal of France? Ridiculous!

Q: 

One takes what jobs he can get. 

For example, 

Star log entry, Stardate Today. 

This is Q, speaking for Captain Jean-Luc Picard, 

who we consider too bound by Starfleet customs and traditions to be useful to us. 

The Enterprise is now helpless, stuck like an Earth insect in amber while its bridge crew plays out A Game whose real intent 

is to test whether the First Officer is worthy of the greatest gift the Q can offer.

A. : 

So you're taking on Riker this time. Excellent. He'll defeat you just as I did.

Q: 

Shall we wager on that, Captain? 

Your starship command against?

A. : 

Against your keeping out of humanity's path for ever. Done?

Q: 

Done! You've already lost, Picard. 

Riker will be offered something impossible to refuse.

[Ready Room]

PICARD: 

Listen to me, Q. 

You seem to have some need for humans.

Q: 

Concern regarding them.

PICARD: 

Whatever it is, why do you demonstrate it through this confrontation? 

Why not a simple, direct explanation, a statement of what you seek? 

Why these games?

Q: 

Why these Games? 

Why, The Play's The Thing. 

And I'm surprised you have to ask when your human Shakespeare explained it all so well.

PICARD: 

So he did, but don't depend too much on any single viewpoint

Q: 

It's a pity you don't know the content of your own library. 

Hear this, Picard, and reflect. 

All the galaxy's a stage.

PICARD: 

World, not galaxy. 

All the world's a stage.

Q: 

Oh, you know that one? 

Well, if he were living now he would have said galaxy. 

How about this? 

Life is but a walking shadow, 

a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage 

and then is heard no more. 

It is a tale told by an idiot, 

full of sound and fury, 

signifying nothing.

PICARD: 

I see. So how we respond to a game tells you more about us than our real life, 

this tale told by an idiot? 

Interesting, Q.

Q: 

Oh, thank you very much. 

I'm glad you enjoyed it. 

Perhaps maybe a little Hamlet?

A. : 

Oh, no. I know Hamlet. 

And what he might said with irony, 

I say with conviction. 

What a piece of work is man. 

How noble in reason. 

How infinite in faculty. 

In form, in moving, how express and admirable. 

In action, how like an angel. 

In apprehension, how like a god.

Q: 

(appalled)

Surely you don't really see your species like that, do you?

A. : 

I see us one day becoming that, Q. 

Is it that what concerns you?

Aladdin’s Cave

“Life can be absolutely phenomenal and it should be and it will be when you start using The Secret. 

Well a lot of people ask me what Their Job is in The Creative Process, and what The Job of The Universe is. 

So let's look at that for a moment. 

Let's use this metaphor if you think about Aladdin and His Lamp. 

You've probably heard of that one. 

I mean, Aladdin picks up The Lamp and he Dusts it Off and out pops The Genie. 

The Genie always says one thing, 

"Your wish is my command." 

If you trace the story back to its origins, you know we now think that there' s Three Wishes, but if you trace the story back to its origins there's absolutely no limit whatsoever to the wishes. 

Think about that one. Now, let's take this metaphor and blow it out and apply it to You and Your Life. 

Remember Aladdin is The One Who Always Asks for What He Wants. 

Then you've got The Universe at large, which is This Grand Genie, and Traditions you know have called it so many different things. Your Holy Guardian Angel, your Higher Self. I mean we can put any label on it, and you chose the one that works best for you. But every Tradition has told us there's something Bigger Than Us. 

And The Genie always Says one thing... 

"Your wish is my command." 

So we like to say to you that The Creative Process is a three step process. 

Step One is, You must Ask for What You Want. 

You Do Not Need to Use Words to Ask, in fact, The Universe is not even hearing Words from You. 

The Universe is responding completely 

to Your Thought. 

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in The Present Tense. 

You might begin by Writing, "I am so happy and grateful now that... ' 

And then explain How You Want Your Life to Be. 

In every area. 

And this is really fun. This is like having The Universe as Your Catalogue, and You flip through it and You go, "Well, I'd like to have this experience and I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that.' 

It is You just Placing Your Order with The Universe. 

It's really that easy. 

The Second Step is Answer. 

An Answer to What You're Asking. 

And that is Not-Your Work in Your Physical Form. 

The Universe will do that step for you. 

All of the universal forces are responding 

to The Thoughts that you have set into motion.

Genie: 

And The Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you. 

Most of us have never allowed ourselves 

to want What We Truly Want, 

because we can't see 

how it's going to manifest. 

If you do just a little research it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, 

did not know how they were going to do it. 

They only knew they were going to do it. 

You don't need to know how it's going to come about. 

You don't need to know how the universe will rearrange itself. 

You don't know how, it'll be shown to you. 

You will attract The Way. 

So then Our Friends Say, 'Something must be going terribly wrong, because I know I am asking so where' s my stuff? ' 

And We Say, "You are Asking. You are completing step one, you can't help but do that. 

And The Universe is answering every time, no exception. 

But there is another step that you must understand, and it is called Step Three, which is The Receiving Step. Which means, You must bring yourself into alignment with what you're asking for. When you are in alignment with What You Want, you feel wonderful. 

That's what Enthusiasm is, that's what Joy is, that's what Appreciation is, that's what that Feeling of Passion is. But when you are feeling despair or fear or anger, those are strong indicators that you are not right now in alignment with What You're Asking-for. 

And so, when you begin to realise that the way you feel is everything, and you begin to direct your thoughts based upon how they feel, little by little you can find the feeling place of it and now you are one with it, and now it must manifest into Your Experience. 

And when you turn that Fantasy into A Fact, you're in the position to build bigger and better fantasies. 

And that My Friend, 

is The Creative Process. 

So, The Law of Attraction, The Study and Practice of The Law of Attraction, is just figuring out what will help you generate The Feelings of Having it Now. 

Go test drive that car, 

go shop for that home, 

get in the house. 

Do whatever you have to do to generate the feelings of having it now, and remember them. 

Whatever you can do to do that will help you to literally attract it. It could be you wake up and it's just there, it' s manifest. 

Or, you might get some inspired idea of some action to take. 

You certainly shouldn't be going, 

"Well, I could do it this way, 

but man I would hate that.' 

Because you're not on the right track if that' s the case. 

Action will sometimes be required, 

but if you're really doing it in line with what The Universe is trying to deliver, 

it's going to feel joyous, 

you're going to feel so alive, 

time will just stop, 

you could do it all day. 

The Universe Likes Speed, 

Don't Delay 

Don't Second-Guess, 

Don't Doubt. 

When The Opportunity's there, 

when The Impulse is there, 

when The Intuitive-nudge from Within is there, act -- That's your job. 

And that's all you have to do. 

You will attract everything that you require. 

If it's money you need you will attract it, 

if it's people you need you'll attract it. 

If it's a certain book you need you'll attract it. 

You've gotta pay attention to what you're attracted-to, 

because as you hold images of what you want, 

you're gonna be attracted to things 

and they're gonna be attracted to you. 

But it literally moves into physical reality 

with and through you. 

And it does that By Law. 

You can start with nothing, 

and out of nothing 

and out of no way, 

A Way will be made. 

Think of this : 

A car driving through the night, the headlights only go a hundred to two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York, driving, through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. And if we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that that and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. 

And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it. Well another thing people wonder about is, how long is this gonna take? 

How long will it take to manifest the car, the relationship, the money, or whatever it happens to be. Well, I don't have any rule book that says it's gonna take you thirty minutes or three days or thirty days. I think its more a matter of you being in alignment with the Universe itself. 

Size is nothing to The Universe. 

It is no more difficult to attract on a scientific level something that we consider huge to something that we consider infinitesimally small... 

The Universe does everything it does with zero effort. 

The grass doesn't strain to grow, it's effortless. 

It' s just this great design. 

It's all about what' s going on up here. 

It's about what we put in place saying 

"This is big, it' s going to take some time' 

and "This is small, oh I'll give it an hour.' 

You know, those are Our Rules that we define. 

There are No Rules according to The Universe. 

You provide the feelings of Having it Now. 

It will respond. 

Some people have an easier time with little things and so we sometimes say, "Well, start with something small like a cup of coffee." 

Make it Your Intention to attract A Cup of Coffee today.' 

Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time. 

Somehow or another somebody's going to start talking to you about that person. That person's going to phone you or you'll get a letter from them. 

People are amazed at how I line up car parks, and I've done this right from when I first understood The Secret. I would visualise a car space exactly where I wanted it and 95% of the time it would be there for me, and I would just pull straight in. 5% of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two and the person would pull out and I'd pull in. So I do that all that time. 

A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances, and I'm trying to point out that whatever your circumstances right now that is only your current reality and current reality will begin to change as a result of watching this and beginning to use The Secret. 

And sometimes it feels like you're stuck, because you continue to think the same thoughts over and over again. And so you tend to get the same results over and over again. 

And the reason is because, You see if you're just looking at What Is, then you're just thinking about What Is. 

And when you think about What Is, 

Law of Attraction gives you more of it. 

And then if you just observe What Is then you're just thinking about What Is and Law of Attraction gives you more of What Is. And then if you just observe what-we've been over this haven't we. 

You have to find a way that you are 

approaching What Is through 

a different vantage point. 

Most people look at their current state of affairs 

and they say "This is Who I Am". 

That's not Who You Are 

that's Who You Were. 

The Sixth Segment

 

 

“Don’t Give up....

You Mustn’t Give Up....”

MULDER:

Scully? Why would he say that - 

"Don't give up"? 

Why would he say such a thing to you?

SCULLY:

I think that was clearly meant for you, Mulder.

MULDER:

He didn't say it to me. 

He said it to you. 

If Father Joe were The Devil, why would he say 

the opposite of what The Devil might say? 

Maybe that's The Answer. 

The Larger Answer.

SCULLY: 

What do you mean?

MULDER: 

Don't give up.

Personality as Hierarchy — 

and Capacity for Transformation

 

  How, then, is the personality that balances respect for social institutions and, equally, creative transformation to be understood? It is not so easy to determine, given the complexity of the problem. 

 

For that reason, we turn to stories. 

 

Stories provide us with a broad template. They outline a pattern specific enough to be of tremendous value, if we can imitate it, but general enough (unlike a particular rule or set of rules) to apply even to new situations. 

 

In stories, we capture observations of the ideal personality. 

 

We tell tales about success and failure in adventure and romance. 

 

Across our narrative universes, success moves us forward to what is better, to the promised land; failure dooms us, and those who become entangled with us, to the abyss. 

 

The Good moves us upward and ahead, and Evil drags us backward and down. 

 

Great stories are about characters in action, and so they mirror the unconscious structures and processes that help us translate the intransigent world of facts into the sustainable, functional, reciprocal social world of values.*

 

  The properly embodied hierarchy of values — including the value of conservatism and its twin, creative transformation — finds its expression as a personality, in narrative — an ideal personality. Every hierarchy has something at its pinnacle. 

 

It is for this reason that a story, which is a description of the action of a personality, has A Hero (and even if that someone is The Antihero, it does not matter : The Antihero serves the function of identifying The Hero through contrast, as The Hero is what The Antihero is most decidedly not). 

 

The Hero is The Individual at The Peak, The Victor, The Champion, The Wit, The Eventually Successful and DeservingUnderdog, The Speaker of Truth Under Perilous Circumstances, and more. 

 

[Cyberlab] 

(The Chess Board is in place.) 

Mr. CLEVER : 

There. That was easy. 

The Game has just started.

Doctor, why is there NO record of You 

ANYWHERE in the databanks of 

The Cyberiad? 

Oh, you're good.

Oh, you've been eliminating 

Yourself from History. 

You know you could 

be reconstructed by 

The HOLE YOU’VE LEFT.

[Ten Forward]

(Data is about to speak, then changes his mind) 

 

WORF:

Wait. What is it, Commander? 

 

DATA:

I am sorry to bother you,

but I have a question of a personal nature.

 

Do you have a moment? 

 

WORF:

...A Moment.

 
DATA:

I have heard you mention that you once experienced A Vision.

 

 

WORF:

Yes. When I was young my adoptive parents

arranged for me to partake in 

The Rite of MajQa. 

 

DATA:

I understand it involves deep meditation

in the lava caves of No'Mat.

 

That prolonged exposure to the heat

induces a hallucinatory effect. 

 

WORF:

Why are you asking me about this? 

 

 

DATA:

I have recently had an unusual experience,

which might be described as A Vision. 

 

WORF:

What happened? 

 

 

DATA:

An accident in Engineering shut down my cognitive functions

for a short period of time, 

yet I seemed to remain conscious.

 

I saw My Father. 

 

WORF:

You are very fortunate.

That is a powerful vision. 

 

 

DATA:

If it was A Vision,

I do not know how to proceed. 

 

WORF:

You must find its Meaning.

If it has anything to do with Your Father, 

you must learn all you can about it.

 

In the Klingon MajQa ritual,

there is nothing more important

than receiving a revelation 

about Your Father.

 

Your Father is a Part of You, always.

Learning about him 

teaches you about yourself.

 

That is why no matter

Where He Is or What He Has Done,

you must find him. 

 

DATA:

....but I am not looking for My Father(?) 

 

WORF:

.....Yes, of course.

 

Do not stop until you have

The Answer. 

 

DATA :

Thank you, Worf.

 

 

We know what it looks like -- 

We can make one.

 

 

[Zeos computer room]

 

(M.E.N.T.A.L.I.S. is a wreck of molten plastic.)

 

DOCTOR:

That was close.

 

ROMANA:

How did they manage to miss?

 

DOCTOR:

They weren't aiming at me,

they were aiming at that, the control centre,

like a scorpion stinging itself to death.

As soon as it sensed I was trying to interfere with the sequence,

it destroyed its own control centre.

 

It's mindless now,

clicking toward oblivion.

 

How long, K9?

 

K9:

Damage renders data unavailable.

 

DOCTOR:

(Thinks….)

The TARDIS!

 

ROMANA:

Come on, K9!

 

(They run for their lives.)

 

[Marshal's module]

 

PILOT: 

Within range, sir.

MARSHAL: 

Go in closer. As close as you dare.

(The Doctor, Romana and K9 enter the Shadow's lair and enter The TARDIS.)

 

[TARDIS]

 

The Doctor enters with 

Five of The Six Pieces of The Key to Time.

DOCTOR: 

Here, take a look at this.

ROMANA: 

Ah, you put the five pieces together. Good.

DOCTOR: 

Have you got the tracer?

ROMANA: 

Yes.

DOCTOR: 

Lock it in. Lock it.

 

ROMANA: 

Now what?

 

DOCTOR: 

Well, it was just an idea -- 

I thought if we had Five-Sixths 

of the pieces it might give us 

some power —

Obviously Guardian Technology 

doesn't work that way.

ROMANA: 

If only we had The Sixth Piece.

DOCTOR: 

Yeah — !!

Or a Sixth Piece...!!

ROMANA: 

What do you mean?

Pointing --

DOCTOR: 

What do you see there?

ROMANA: 

A Gap.

DOCTOR: 

Exactly. A GAP —  

The exact shape of The Sixth Piece.

 

ROMANA: 

Oh!

 

DOCTOR: 

We know what it looks like —

We can make one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Necessity of Balance

 

  Because doing what others do and have always done so often works, and because, sometimes, radical action can produce success beyond measure, the conservative and the creative attitudes and actions constantly propagate themselves. 

 

A functional social institution — a hierarchy devoted to producing something of value, beyond the mere insurance of its own survival — can utilize the conservative types to carefully implement processes of tried-and-true value, and the creative, liberal types to determine how what is old and out of date might be replaced by something new and more valuable. 

 

The balance between conservatism and originality might therefore be properly struck, socially, by bringing the two types of persons together. But someone must determine how best to do that, and that requires a wisdom that transcends mere temperamental proclivity. 

Because the traits associated with creativity, on the one hand, and comfort with the status quo, on the other, tend to be mutually exclusive, it is difficult to find a single person who has balanced both properly, who is therefore comfortable working with each type, and who can attend, in an unbiased manner, to the necessity for capitalizing on the respective forms of talent and proclivity. But the development of that ability can at least begin with an expansion of conscious wisdom: the articulated realization that conservatism is good (with a set of associated dangers), and that creative transformation—even of the radical sort—is also good (with a set of associated dangers). 

Learning this deeply—truly appreciating the need for both viewpoints—means at least the possibility of valuing what truly diverse people have to offer, and of being able to recognize when the balance has swung too far in one direction. 

The same is true of the knowledge of the shadow side of both. To manage complex affairs properly, it is necessary to be cold enough in vision to separate the power hungry and self-serving pseudoadvocate of the status quo from the genuine conservative; and the self-deceptive, irresponsible rebel without a cause from the truly creative. And to manage this means to separate those factors within the confines of one’s own soul, as well as among other people.

 

  And how might this be accomplished? First, we might come to understand consciously that these two modes of being are integrally interdependent. One cannot truly exist without the other, although they exist in genuine tension. This means, first, for example, that discipline—subordination to the status quo, in one form or another—needs to be understood as a necessary precursor to creative transformation, rather than its enemy. Thus, just as the hierarchy of assumptions that make up the structure that organizes society and individual perceptions is shaped by, and integrally dependent on, restrictions, so too is creative transformation. It must strain against limits. It has no use and cannot be called forth unless it is struggling against something. 

 

It is for this reason that The Great Genie, The Granter of Wishes — God, in a microcosm — is archetypally trapped in the tiny confines of a lamp and subject, as well, to the will of The Lamp’s current holder. Genie — genius — is the combination of possibility and potential, and extreme constraint.

 

  Limitations, constraints, arbitrary boundaries — rules, dread rules, themselves — therefore not only ensure social harmony and psychological stability, they make the creativity that renews order possible. What lurks, therefore, under the explicitly stated desire for complete freedom — as expressed, say, by the anarchist, or the nihilist — is not a positive desire, striving for enhanced creative expression, as in the romanticized caricature of the artist. It is instead a negative desire — a desire for the complete absence of responsibility, which is simply not commensurate with genuine freedom. 

 

This is the lie of objections to the rules. 

 

But “Down with Responsibility” does not make for a compelling slogan — being sufficiently narcissistic to negate itself self-evidently — while the corresponding “Down with the Rules” can be dressed up like a heroic corpse.

 

  Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited. Alongside the brilliance of creative endeavor is the false heroism of the resentful ideologue, who wears the clothes of the original rebel while undeservedly claiming the upper moral hand and rejecting all genuine responsibility. Intelligent and cautious conservatism and careful and incisive change keep the world in order. 

 

But each has its dark aspect, and it is crucial, once this has been realized, to pose the question to yourself: 

Are you the real thing, or its opposite? 

 

And the answer is, inevitably, that you are some of both — and perhaps far more of what is shadowy than you might like to realize. 

 

That is all part of understanding the complexity we each carry within us.