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    Sharing the Journey
    Sharing the Journey
    Sharing the Journey
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    Sharing the Journey

    By Peter Mulraney

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    You are on a journey. The nature or purpose of that journey comes down to what you choose or refuse to believe.

    If you’re at that point in life where you’re noticing that things are not working out the way you thought they would, and you’re questioning the beliefs underpinning it all, you’ll find some refreshing insights in this book of reflections.

    In Sharing the Journey, self-confessed reluctant mystic, Peter Mulraney, invites you to reconsider the journey you think you’re on and lets you know that you are not alone.

    If you’re not ready to examine your beliefs and push the boundaries of your mental comfort zone, this is not the book for you. If you are ready to take a look at your beliefs and start living consciously, you’ve found a friend for the journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Mulraney
    Release dateNov 29, 2014
    ISBN9780992426972
    Sharing the Journey
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    Peter Mulraney

    Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he’s married and has two grown children.He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant. Now, he gets to write every day instead.He is the author of the Inspector West and Stella Bruno Investigates crime series; the Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship; and the Everyday Business Skills series for people looking to take advantage of his knowledge and skills.As a mystic, he has written several books which explores some of life's deeper questions, including Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, and My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living.

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      Sharing the Journey - Peter Mulraney

      The journey

      A few thoughts you might like to ponder about life, the universe and the journey you’re on. If you’re game.

      Most of us are aware of the journey that starts with birth and ends with death. If you identify yourself with your body, death is the end of the road.

      This is what we could refer to as the surface journey. The one you experience if you don’t ask questions like:

      Who am I?

      What’s my purpose?

      Why was I born?

      What’s the meaning of life?

      Is there a God?

      Is there life after death?

      What if your journey doesn’t end when your body does? Maybe you believe you and your body are the same thing, and that you end when the body does. What if that’s not true?

      What if your journey started with the Big Bang? You know, that cosmic thing the astronomers and physicists think birthed the universe. Puts age into a different frame of reference, doesn’t it? Have you ever wondered where you were before you were born, this time?

      How we see the journey comes down to what we choose to believe, and we can believe whatever we want to believe. Sure, there are people out there that want to tell us what to believe. That’s their problem. Let them worry about it.

      What we believe determines how we see things. Changing our beliefs can change the way we see things. You don’t have to take my word for it, just ask a recent convert to any cause.

      I invite you to re-consider the journey you think you’re on. What might it mean if there is more to it than you first thought?

      Start from where you are

      It’s mind blowing to contemplate the vastness of a journey across the cosmos that began before time. So mind blowing as to be incredible, and possibly so far removed from your present reality as to be meaningless. Yet such a picture can offer you a much larger canvas to play on, if you can entertain the possibility that there is more to your life than what you have so far been led to believe.

      Okay, we’ve opened a portal that leads onto the field of possibilities. It all sounds exciting but how do you get through that portal? You need to start from where you are.

      So, where are you? What sort of journey do you believe you’re on? Is it a journey you have control over or are you a victim of your circumstances or of some whimsical God? Maybe you believe in destiny?

      Maybe it’s all written in the stars. Maybe it isn’t.

      If you’re interested in things written in the stars, you might enjoy, Fractal Time by Gregg Braden. Seems the ancients saw a thing or two in the night sky that might help our climate scientists. I’m not saying it’s the answer, what I am saying is it’s another perspective, and unless you’re prepared to consider other perspectives you’ll stay right where your are.

      To move from where you are, first of all you need to work out where you are and how you got there.

      If you’re like the rest of us, you have a story. The story of your life that you tell yourself, and anybody else that will listen. Start by questioning your story.

      How much of what you tell yourself is the story of your life is actually true? How much of it is simply what someone else told you?

      Ever wondered why programs like ‘Who do you think you are?’ are so popular or why so many people are spending hours on ‘ancestry.com’?

      People want to know the truth in their stories.

      What’s the truth in your story?

      What’s the truth in your story?

      A story

      We all have a story that we use to describe ourselves to ourselves and to each other. If you know my story you know me, right?

      You already know my name. If I tell you that I was born in Booleroo Centre, a small town in, what the locals call, the mid-north of South Australia, and spent the first three years of this lifetime living, with my parents and their expanding family, in the school house of a tiny rural hamlet on the edge of the Flinders Ranges, does that tell you anything about who I am?

      You can probably come up with a few words that you think describe me; for example, Australian, son of a school teacher, rural background. At times I think of myself as being those things, but am I? Aren’t they just labels that describe experiences or circumstances or relationships?

      Consider this. If you watch Leonardo DiCaprio performing as Gatsby or Hoover or whoever, do you know anything about Leonardo at the end of the performance? What you saw was the presentation of a story with someone playing the role of the main character in the story. Someone who didn’t write the script and followed someone else’s directions. Sound anything like your life?

      If your story doesn’t really describe who you are, what does it do?

      It gives you a persona or a role to play in this lifetime, and it gives you a source of questions most of us don’t think to ask. Maybe we don’t want to know the answers.

      Question like:

      Why did I choose those particular parents?

      Why did I choose to be born in that place within the socio-economic circumstances of those times?

      Why parents with that particular set of religious or political beliefs?

      Why did I choose to be on the planet now?

      Why did I choose this set of circumstances?

      Why have I chosen the experiences I refer to as my story or my life?

      I invite you to explore these questions, and any others that come into focus while you’re pondering them.

      Who's driving your car?

      If you’re like me, you have a voice inside your head. A voice that sometimes tells you that you’re dumb or stupid or wrong, that you’re not good at anything. At other times, that same voice tells you that you’re better than others, that you deserve it, that you’re a genius. Ever wondered where all those opinions come from? Are any of them actually your opinion of yourself?

      If you want to find the answer, listen to the voice. I don’t mean listen in the sense of following instructions but listen with the intention of identifying the source of the words. Who else has described you that way?

      Before you start going down the blame path, the point of the exercise is not to blame anyone but simply to realize that we all carry around other people’s opinions, and often mistake them for our own. If you pay attention to what’s passing through your mind you’ll recognize some of those opinions, and who owns them. If you don’t pay any attention, you could very well be letting someone else drive your car.

      In the world of choice theory, counsellors use the analogy of a car for your life or life situation. When discussing what’s going on in your life or a particular situation that you’re upset of anxious about, a choice theory counsellor may show you a diagram of a car and ask you where you’re sitting in the car. Are you behind the wheel or is someone else driving? Are you in control or have you handed control over to someone else?

      Choice theory, as the name suggests is about the power of choice. Choice Theory tells us we all have the power to choose what we think, say or do. The challenge is whether you will accept the responsibility of exercising that power.

      Once you accept the responsibility there is no-one else to blame.

      You also come to realize that the only person whose behaviour you can change is the person you see in the mirror – you.

      For an easy to understand overview of choice theory see: www.brucedavenport.com

      Think or Sink

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