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    The Immigrant
    The Immigrant
    The Immigrant
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    The Immigrant

    By Peter Albion

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    Born into a family in East Germany, Peter Albion followed family tradition and became a butchers apprentice. This was not the path he wanted to follow. Two years later, his family had left for West Germany, but he remained with his paternal grandparents. Sadly, his grandmother took her own life, followed six month later by the suicide of his motherevents that would inform the rest of his life.

    At sixteen, he had no understanding of life, death, or being; religion had not given him peace or love. It took him twenty years to begin to heal from these devastating losses, and now he shares the lessons he learned in the process. To begin a new life, Peter immigrated alone to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There he found a Spiritual Occult school in eight years he dicovered truths that started to heal his wounds and helped him on the way that is also called "The Work" because as in any professin if you want to become a Master it takes at least ten years of intens work. Going to chirch on sunday will do litle. Jesus was a full time worker.
    Extraordinary life events that many experience can awaken one to the present and begin self remembering if ruthless honesty, integrity, and tenacity are applied to self-observation in the present.
    No one can breathe, eat, or be for you; Albion advises to be wary of anyone or any organization promising heavenly salvation and possibly enlightenment, especially if it proclaims exclusivity with conditions attached.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781426955051
    The Immigrant
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    Peter Albion

    Peter Albion trained to be an electrician after immigrating to Canada from East Germany in the 1960s. He currently works as a service technician and lives in Southern California.

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      The Immigrant - Peter Albion

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      Contents

      Prologue

      Germany

      Immigration

      British Columbia

      Why Capitalism Self-Destructs

      In the Name of National Security

      Is the Truth Hidden or Available?

      Communism and Other Confusions

      Self-Destruction in Disguise

      What Does Sex Have to Do with It?

      Are We Capable of Seeing the Big Picture

      Can We Stop Believing?

      Is Your Formless Self Stronger than Your Ego?

      Belief Sleep

      Nonresistance, the Strongest Power in the Universe

      Dying for the Ultimate Illusion

      Recommended Reading

      Prologue

      Travelers, shape shifters, actors of a kind? Fake it till you make it ,means as actors we are all practicing being present to our daily details, the actor knows when connection to space presents is in the play, he has made it. The diversity so complex, the play so perfect in its creation we forget, our birthright to Being. That which creates the macro and micro can’t be known by the ego. Is your evolution, your waking up out of the dream of thought, guaranteed?

      Civilizations have come and gone since Atlantis, possibly before, but humanity seems to make similar mistakes every time, destroying itself. What is this unconscious, destructive mechanism in the individual more dangerous in the collective? The atrocities committed by the collective are far greater than the ones committed by individuals.

      In the name of national security, religion, superiority, race, and nationality, governments have killed more than one hundred million men, women, and children in the last century alone; we are the government. Who are those civil servants pushing for war every time, again and again and again? Why are they hiding behind the president and House and Senate? Special interest groups are only messengers—from whom?

      Don’t believe anything; begin the journey of knowing.

      Formless being, space, silence, attention, present now, are words pointing to being. Observing without naming, participating without identification, be in this world but not of it, means you have made it, you are awake. Nobody reinforces your spirituality in your youth, speaks about your formless being self, who you really are. Special higher education made a contract with ego, form, and has forgotten your truth, Being!

      When I left Germany, I said to my brothers, Ask and you shall be given. It is a natural law, and I shall experience it.

      To be or not to be—what is its truth?

      I can say now, it is an instant answer in the present now, if I can be aware, silently present without identification of thoughts, pure awareness. That is Being, no answers can be found tomorrow. Be aware of your breathing, be alert, pay attention, be the observer and maintain ruthless honesty and seriousness with yourself; these are keys.

      Germany

      I was born in the agricultural region of East Germany. After 1945, East Germany was under Soviet control. It was supposedly a Communist state, but like its opposite, capitalism, it lacked humanistic, transparent, honest, uncorrupt, enlightened, nonviolent, united, loving leaders. Implementation of all for one and one for all was weak and, in the end, self-destructed, as any dogmatic system will self-destruct if it does not implement what is good for the whole, and for one, there is no separation. Capitalism is ego driven and on the path of self-destruction to this day.

      My upbringing in East Germany was, from my perception looking back, life changing—not because of communism, but because of walls in people’s hearts, identifications with form, pleasure, instant gratification, wanting more and more physical stuff. Where is Being in peoples life? Where is that meditative walk in nature, the silence, the looking without wanting, being where you are without complaining, being silently with your child, watching without telling what to do, or not. Being there with your nonresistant force guiding with your formless spirit, Love is in the detail.

      So West Germany was created to satisfy this hunger for more stuff, yes, fancy stuff, if you like.

      What you resist persists. What you fight you strengthen.

      That is why communism failed; first, it is in its core the humanist system, capitalism, being more ruthless and ego driven uses all possible disguises to survive its self-destructive course, so it survives a little longer.

      As a child and later as a young adult in East Germany, I had a good time at school, partially because the teachers loved their jobs. Yes, we had no Wall-mart, Play mart, Disney, shopping centers, and so on. But it was like heaven to go to the

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