5 GOLD KEYS

FOR PRACTICAL LIFE MAGIC

SHAFIN DE ZANE

SHAFIN DE ZANE

5 GOLD KEYS
FOR PRACTICAL LIFE MAGIC
"Life is suffering" - Buddha said that. But what does that mean? When we look
around without our usual 6ilters of desires, fantasies or preprogrammed
prejudices, we see a world that is very carefully structured to perpetuate slav-
ery, but more importantly we see a world 6illed with people who are more
than willing to commit to slavery. This is strange, but true. Why is that?
Humans in their current state of evolution are stuck between two states:
madman and superman. The problem is further complicated by the pressures
of exponentially growing technologies, as well the fast expanding gap be-
tween the vast majority who are stuck in their dream worlds of "Me and My
story" and those who have broken free from the inertia of this very common
psychological dysfunction.
Add to that people are multiplying faster than ever before and children are
being born to parents who have no clear understanding whatsoever about
how to live in this super fast changing world designed by people who posses
a level of intelligence that is far beyond their abilities of comprehension. En-
tire lives pass by without ever suspecting that one is living the insane life of a
slave who isn't even aware that he or she is a slave.
So what is the solution? That is what this message is about. The solution is
simple; in fact it is so simple, I am afraid you might fail to appreciate the as-
tounding power that comes with it. What follows is a formula that took me
nearly twenty years to 6ine tune. During these twenty years, I started off my
own journey of self-discovery fuelled by an absolute dissatisfaction of the life
I was born into, spent my every last dollar trying to 6ind a solution, eventually
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went through a process of radical healing, established myself as a profes-

sional hypnotherapist, then gained some fame and respect in about 100 coun-
tries across the planet as a teacher of spirituality and metaphysics and
through a book I wrote called Rede.ine Your Reality, touched over 100,000
lives directly and virtually, and today still continuing my journey discovering
ever deeper secrets that lay hidden and pervade our everyday reality.
The reason I shared with you that nutshell of an autobiography is to tell
you this: I have some experience in teaching people and in my experience its
extremely easy to get people excited about a life changing idea (especially if
you know a thing or two about how the mind works), but devilishly dif6icult
to make them continue to remember and follow it. (Remember all the new
years resolutions you didn't follow, all the promises about jogging three times
a week, and to meditate?)
Generally speaking, people love shortcuts and quick 6ixes, especially ones
that hint at solving all of ones life problems without having to do any hard
work about it. The idea that most humans somehow just cannot grasp is that
doing the same things over and over expecting different results is a sign of insan-
ity. Again and again people fall for the illusion that there exists some magic
pill that can change their life experience without any need to change their be-
havior. It's silly, downright juvenile, but its so predictable that nearly every
advertisement and marketing campaigns in the world revolve around it. What
I am reminding you, before I go on to introduce my own "magic formula", is
that there is no magic that works unless you practice, practice, and practice
some more. Even Harry Potter needed 7 years of practice before he could do
some interesting magic.
In other words: the secret is not in the formula, but what happens to your
brain when you keep using the formula. When you change, when your neural
patterns change, when your subconscious 6ilters of beliefs change, your world
changes - this is the great secret. The magic formula is a pattern of behavior
you follow to speed up that process of transformation and cement that
change. Like any roads, our neural pathways also take time to change. The se-
cret is repetition and practice: practice and repeat, repeat and practice. If
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you are willing to do that, what follows here will teach you how to gain the
most elusive privilege of all in this overcrowded and superbly predatory hu-
man society: total freedom.
Ready?
Here goes
The very 6irst thing you need to decide before you can unleash any magic
is what do you want? Simple right? Its not. Everyone says they want a better
life, but if you ask them what do you want speci6ically, they have no idea. Or
they say something like I want a million dollars!, without realizing another
mind numbing obvious:
Dollars are agreements between people, they come to you when you offer
something of value to someone else; they are a replacement for our old sys-
tem of barter: Ill give you my goat in exchange of ten pairs of those nice shoes
you made. Since carrying goats and 6iguring out who wants your goat in the
6irst place got very cumbersome in our large societies, now we use dollars,
which are simply agreements that if you 6lash one or two of them in your near-
est 7-Eleven store, they will give you a bag of cookies. Everyone wants dollars,
not everyone wants goats, so now we use dollars instead of goats. But the
idea is same: you get it in exchange of something else. You dont get it because
you visualize dollars all day.
So let me ask you again, what do you want speci6ically? Give it couple of
minutes to consider the question, and then read the rest of this.
Got it? Good. Now throw it out the window. Unfortunately that was a trick
question. It really doesn't matter what little fantasy goodie you have on mind
because ultimately what you are looking for is freedom, inner and outer, total
and complete. And if you are not, you should be, because without freedom,
nothing else matters. (You could also say love, but love is impossible for some-
one without freedom, at best it is a self-deluding fantasy.)
So if there is one goal that is truly worthy of your human existence, it is
freedom, primarily for yourself, which the only way you can ever offer it to
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others. Only a free being can respect, celebrate and share freedom; all else is
some perpetuation of madness.
Freedom, however, is not an easy thing to handle. First of all and most im-
portantly, embracing freedom necessitates healing. Only after healing can one
embrace and sustain total freedom. Without healing the magnetic wounds of
our unconscious, everything is a trap. Freedom is not something you can hope
for or get lucky with; its attainment requires strategic, careful, fearless, single
minded and above all systematic intervention for healing the unconscious in-
sanity of the animalistic mind and body.
So now we have something to begin our training. Our goal is freedom. Spe-
ci6ically inner freedom: which means freedom from our unconscious repeti-
tive patterns of self-limiting behavior.
Why is inner freedom our speci6ic goal, instead of outer freedom? Because
outer freedom is a meaningless concept for someone who has no inner free-
dom. In fact unless you have inner freedom 6irst, outer freedom is a perfectly
good formula for disaster. Look at the lives of countless Hollywood celebrities
and people who suddenly inherit a lot of money, and you will see what hap-
pens when you get a lot of outer freedom without inner freedom: what you
get is endless trips to divorce lawyers and rehabs, and occasionally a self-
in6licted drug overdose or a bullet in the head.
So the freedom we are interested in primarily is freedom from the myriad
psychological prisons we 6ind ourselves living life: the prison of marriage
without love, the prison of a job without heart, prison of a family without
growth, prison of children who keep us bound each of which are examples
and symptoms of our own unconscious patterns of behavior that require
healing. In other words, they are prisons of our own creation, even if we were
born into it.
On the other hand, when you have inner freedom, outer freedom always
follows. The inside always creates the outside. The outside is always a re6lec-
tion of the inside. This is the magic component here. You can 6ight with it, run
away from it, try to forget it, convince yourself that its not true, try to device
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ever cleverer shortcuts to dollars and happiness until the cows come home,
but the fact remains this:
Until you have healed your congenital madness that comes with being hu-
man, you will not 6ind happiness. At best you can become like what the Chi-
nese people call hungry ghosts: you can be surrounded by more dollars
than you can count and you will only drown in it without ever experiencing
the authentic freedom and ful6illment that you were originally looking for.
With that in mind, here is your magic formula. Its simple. Its easy to re-
member. Its easy to practice, well easier that many other things at least.
Fir! Gold Key: Remember
This is the very 6irst component of our magic formula. Its so simple most
people never follow it. Remember your goal! What is it? What do you want?
Unless you remember your goal, you will be like a 6loating boat, drifting from
this whirlpool to that whirlpool, in river of life. Your goal is your radar, it is
your GPS system, it is your guiding light, it is your northern star, and your
goal is INNER FREEDOM. (Now, one day when you have already achieved the
level of freedom you want, you can use this formula for anything else in life.
But until you have inner freedom, everything else is a snare, a trap, a distrac-
tion that will only delay the one thing that truly matters: freedom.)
So once again, remember to remember. Remember your goal. This should
be on the foreground of your consciousness at all times and in every single de-
cision you make in life. Whatever you do, or consider doing, or plan on pursu-
ing, or spend time focusing upon, ask yourself this 6irst: is this going to take
me closer or away from my chosen goal? The answer will always bring you
clarity and save you days, years or even decades of meaningless pursuit of
chasing your own tail.

Second Gold Key: Observe

The second part of the formula is the dif6icult part. Its also subtle, so pay
close attention.
Whenever you want to radically change your life, or follow your inner call-
ing, or bring your true dreams to reality, you will embark upon what Joseph
Campbell used to call the heros journey. In a nutshell, the heros journey in-
volves awakening that hero archetype within you, which then compels you to
embark upon the journey of total transformation towards wholeness: to-
wards reaching your full potential as a being capable of in6inite expansion. All
the great stories, mythologies, movies, biographies of the world invariably re-
6lect this same theme over and over: an ordinary everyday man or woman an-
swers his or her inner calling, is compelled to undertake a journey that chal-
lenges the very fabric of his being, often faces death, literally and metaphori-
cally, then eventually awakens to some wisdom that they bring back to the
world as a boon for the entire society.
Mans search for freedom is really another name of the heros journey. It is
the great archetypal story of awakening. If you wish to attain the powers to re-
de6ine your reality, radically change your life and experience total and com-
plete freedom from slavery, you, too, will have to embark upon this journey.
There are no shortcuts on the road to awakening.
So what do you have to do? Nothing really, except make a genuine commit-
ment within the depths of your heart to follow your chosen goal no matter
what. The moment you make that de6inite decision, a whole web of in6initely
connected events will begin to unfold your moment of de6inite commitment
is the beginning of your journey.
One of the very 6irst signs that your journey has begun is the encounter
with the dragon; the dragon is the guardian of the inner secrets. This is the
6irst obstacle, the dragon, the dark knight on a black horse breathing 6ire, say-
ing: Turn back little one, go back to your village where each day is the same as
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every other day, that is where you belong, this path is not for you! In more eve-
ryday modern life words, its some obstacle or limitation or 6ire-breathing par-
ents or spouse or boss who will try to turn you away from your chosen path.
You will have to overcome this obstacle to continue your journey. But, they
will keep coming and coming and coming, again and again, in many forms and
with many clever ways to keep you from going forward. Sometimes they will
try to kill you, sometimes scare you, sometimes coax you, and sometimes fall
in love with you (and then try to kill you metaphorically speaking of
course). But the idea is the same: the dragon is here to weed out the unwor-
thy from the worthy. And until all your insecurities, impurities, self-deceiving
patterns of behavior are weeded out, the dragons will keep coming at you; its
just part of the game. And its for your own bene6it, thats the important part
to remember.
So how do you deal with the dragon? That is what this golden key is all
about.
Usually, what people do is either quickly give up their high hopes immedi-
ately upon encountering the dragon (because that was the last thing they
were ready to encounter, everyone thinks freedom should be easy), or they
try to 6ight the dragon with brute force, which is a terrible idea, to say the
very least. Even if you are able to subdue the dragon with pure force, you
have robbed yourself the lesson that the dragon was carrying, and therefore
on the way to an even more powerful dragon somewhere very soon down the
road.
What you do is this: you observe, especially when the dragon is pounding
on your face. Read the last line again. However dif6icult it is, you train yourself
to look directly, you train yourself to observe.
What do you observe? Two things:
First you observe the dragon itself, which helps you to gather very valu-
able information about how the dragon operates, its psychology, its strengths,
weaknesses and strategies. Most people get so blinded by rage and fear that
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they learn nothing about the dragon and come out sorely defeated giving
away all sorts of clues about their own weaknesses.
But more importantly, and this is the most important and valuable exer-
cise out of this entire formula: you train yourself to observe your own brain
response, your automatic patterns of behavior, especially when the dragon is
breathing 6ire on your face. Read the last line as many times as necessary un-
til you really get it.
What you will 6ind is this: everyone feels like the Buddha when things are
going right, when you are in the arms of your beloved, when you just got a
truckload of money, when you are full of energy, when you have no problems.
But since life never remains that way forever, only when the dragon is threat-
ening to kill you is when you 6ind out what you truly are.
You discover what is your dominant self limiting archetypal pattern:
The child? (I cannot take responsibility)
The victim? (Its their fault, entirely; I am helpless, clueless, and innocent)
The prostitute? (When the price is right, Ill abandon my deepest truth)
The saboteur? (Ill ruin my own game because I dont believe I deserve it)
In other words, you 6ind out which archetypal patterns of behavior are
dominant in your brain, which ones take you over when stress is high and
there is no time to think (something called a neural hijacking).
This is the core of this initiation: Training your brain to observe your
own behavior.
In a little more technical term (close your eyes if you are scared of scien-
ti6ic terms and read the next paragraph): training your executive center of the
brain (the prefrontal cortex) to observe the workings of the emotional brain
(the activation of amygdala and its associated drama).
With the power of observation comes power to take control. In other
words, you can control and reprogram your unconscious behavior only if you
are aware of it. Whatever you are unaware of is what will control you from
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the shadows and you will forever remain a slave to its automatic reactive acti-
vation processes.
When you develop the ability to observe your unconscious repetitive be-
havior, you discover one of the most powerful insights that both ancient spiri-
tuality and modern neurosciences agree upon:
Who you think you are, the ego, the me, is nothing but a synergistic effect
of many brain components functioning; its a dynamically arising, constantly
changing phenomenon. The illusion of me, the individual entity that some-
how lives in the body is just that an illusion of brain.
This discovery of course has profound implications that can turn your life
upside down (if it doesnt, you really didnt think about it deeply), but for this
context here is the most important part:
This means you can reprogram your self into whatever you want. It all
begins with the ability to observe the patterns that combine to make you; es-
pecially those patterns that lay hidden below ordinary waking consciousness,
only to surface when there is con6lict. (Read the last line again.) This ability to
observe is the beginning of freedom: the freedom to rede6ine your reality.
If this sounds intimidating or complicated already, well thats because it is.
The ability to observe the dragon and gathering information while its tram-
pling your face takes time to muster; training yourself to observe your own be-
havior under stress takes even more diligent training. But if you think about
it, there is nothing more important in life if you want to be free.
Nobody said it was going to be easy, its simple as simple gets, but not
easy; yet all that is necessary is your willingness to look no matter how tempt-
ing it is to look away. Thats all there is to it: train yourself to look! Train your-
self to observe.

"ird Gold Key: Be Patient

Be patient these two simple words carry so much weight that many
books have been written and entire religions have been founded around it. Be-
ing patient in its essence means: stop :idgeting mentally! Stop craving for
something else in some other future moment, accept this moment as it is, be-
cause this is the ONLY point of contact with reality you will EVER have. If you
cannot master this skill, no matter how ef6icient you get in making money, or
seducing women, or controlling your family, or discovering miraculous cures
for incurable diseases, you personally will never 6ind ful6illment because you
never learned the most important skill of all in this reality: learning to be pre-
sent; which is the same as learning to be patient.
Being patient is of course intimately connected with the ability to observe
and remembering your goal. Unless you can remember your goal (inner free-
dom), you cannot understand the signi6icance of your reactions and behav-
iors which you begin to see when you start observing; and if you cannot ob-
serve your own emotional patterns, you cannot be patient because the very
meaning of emotion is to move (from Latin emotere, which means energy in
motion), emotions make you move, makes you not still, which makes you un-
able to observe. The power of observation brings with it the ability to be still,
which illuminates another profound truth:
Our emotions are always in :lux: they are always changing, no matter
what we do, what we have, what happens to us, or what we achieve. An anal-
ogy sometimes used is that our level of ful6illment and happiness is like an air
conditioner set at a certain point that we are born with, lets say 25 degrees
Celsius. No matter what we do externally, our brain chemistry is pre-
programmed to keep it at that set temperature. We can startle it to a cool 19
degrees by earning a million dollars but soon enough it will climb back to 25
degrees. Or we can suddenly lose all our money and experience a sweating 32
degrees, but even then soon enough we will come back to experiencing 25 de-
grees. This doesnt intuitively 6it very well with what we want to believe
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about life, but all studies in psychology and neurology shows this to be cor-
rect. This explains why people who win the jackpot million dollar lottery es-
sentially remains the same people as who they were before they won the lot-
tery; (after the initial excitement) if they were sunny and happy they remain
still sunny and happy, if they were lonely and gloomy, they remain still lonely
and gloomy.
So what does that mean for us in search of inner freedom? It means no mat-
ter what you do externally, there is no such thing as permanently one emo-
tion: happiness. What there is, ironically, is one permanent state you can im-
prison yourself in: craving happiness.
This is why the very 6irst line of the Buddhist scripture is: life is suffering.
Life is suffering because we are forever chasing the illusion of trying to retain
something that cannot be retained. This is what the Lords prayer teaches us
too saying lead us not to temptation. The temptation is forever chasing that il-
lusion of I want to be happy forever! - which in essence means a steady
doses of happy chemicals in the brain: serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin. Our
entire lives go by as we keep groping, and chasing one temptation after the
other, forever hoping the next thing is what will 6inally make us happy forever.
Learning to observe teaches us to look directly at this craving, this mental
6idgeting, and learn about the myriad ways we go about trying to alleviate
this permanent psychological itch.
Patience teaches us to remain quiet and calm when inevitably the stress
hormones are released; bored, lonely, angry, hungry, frustrated, sleepy, tired,
pessimistic these are all the states we all go through no matter what our life
circumstance is. Everyone experiences them, and even if you are married, bil-
lionaire, bestselling author, owner of a villa in Tuscany, travel twice monthly
it doesnt matter, you will still feel all of those things. And depending on your
pre-set brain chemistry, you will also experience periodically the same level
of happiness and ful6illment that you generally feel, with some 6luctuations of
up and down, here and there.

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Inner freedom is the freedom to act smartly, rationally, with clarity and wis-
dom, even when these inevitable down states come to pass. Inner freedom is
the freedom from forever being dissatis6ied because nothing you ever do
brings you that illusion of permanent happiness into reality. Inner freedom is
freedom from craving. And that, Buddha says, is the beginning of enlighten-
ment.
Which brings us to the deeper wisdom of being patient: surrender.
Stop .idgeting mentally! This means you allow the present moment to be as
it is, how it is, because it is perfect (even when the dragon is pounding your
face). This means you surrender your pre-programmed prejudices, your pre-
conceived ideas about how things should be, your fantasies about what will
make you happy, and you live this present moment with acceptance and seren-
ity. You remind yourself that there is an intelligent force that is beating your
heart, controlling your breath when you are not thinking about it, executing
liver functions and 6iring the 100 billion neurons of your brain that is allow-
ing you to think. None of this is within your control right now, and your worry-
ing egoic self didnt control any of it while the universe evolved for about 13.8
billion years before becoming you.
Patience is another name for surrender. But since surrender is an illusion
(surrender to what? That which is already you?), I use the term patience. But
I like to use the expression stop .idgeting mentally even more. Patience is the
high wisdom usually gained after spending a lot of the most expensive cur-
rency in the world: time. It teaches us one of the most profound secrets of life:
this moment is perfect.
If you can only stop to 6idget, if you can stop 6ighting, if you can stop saying
all those clever or hurtful things that you are saying, one day you will look
back and realize with profound gratitude how perfectly this moment was
weaved, personally for you, from the eternal fabric of space and time, cause
and effect.
Patience means waiting without waiting for the inevitable to occur. If you re-
member your ultimate goal, if you have dedicated yourself to healing your hu-
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man madness, if you have committed yourself to the heros journey, the guid-
ing force of life will bring you exactly those situations, people and challenges
that will help you achieve your goal in the shortest possible time.
Patience means trusting that the intelligence that knows how to beat your
heart and synchronize trillions of cells of your body, keeps the sun and moon
and galaxies in perfect order for you to exist, also knows what is best for you
at this present moment. When you are able to accept this, you can relax, no
matter what is happening, and when you relax, you can begin to pay attention
(Gold Key #2), and when you pay attention, you learn, you evolve to the next
stage of your personal evolution. Idiots 6ight; remember that, for all things are
One. When you 6ight, you are 6ighting against the very fabric of life itself, only
profound ignorance and stupidity, or pure greed and willful cancer like behav-
ior, can explain the craving to 6ight.
Finally, when you embark upon an adventure that has no end, when you
align yourself with the heartbeat of life, which is evolution, when you commit
yourself to the heros journey, patience is the critical ingredient for maintain-
ing sanity. This journey dissolves all the way to in6inity and even contemplat-
ing such a prospect is enough make a human brain unstable. Looking at in6in-
ity is the similar to looking at the sun, only in6initely more powerful. To accom-
modate such a vision, and you will encounter the vision once in a while on the
journey towards total freedom, you will need depth, and patience. The jour-
ney to in6inity involves all eternity.
In practical everyday circumstances, patience is the magic that you use to
transform obstacles and grievances into miracles. You simply allow things to
be; more than that, you learn to 6low with whatever that arises. You suspend
judgment and prejudice.
If what is arising is bringing you pain, you have two choices:
a. Take action, only if you are full energy.
b. Be patient, observe, learn and realize that this discomfort has been de-
signed precisely and personally for you: so you can overcome your laziness
and move ahead in full speed. And you discover that maybe, just maybe, its
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really not about them, its entirely about you, because somewhere along
the way you made a commitment, a commitment to become completely
free. This is just part of that training.

F#$h Gold Key: Feel Time

When you are truly clear about what is your chosen goal (for us, for now,
its complete inner freedom), when you have developed the ability to observe
yourself in con6lict (observe the automatic patterns of behavior) and also ob-
serve the dragon in the middle of the con6lict (paying attention to what the
source of the con6lict is requesting of you), and when you have developed the
wisdom of being patient without mentally 6idgeting you gather enough en-
ergy to sense the movement of providence, the way the river of life 6lows,
which is another way of saying you begin to feel time.
Feeling time means, above all, you are able to surf the ocean of life, and
have lost all interest in even entertaining the hilarious notion of 6ighting with
life. Well, how do you learn to surf? The 6irst thing is, of course, you have to
stop 6ighting, stop struggling, start accepting and start paying attention to the
movement of the waves, forget about how you want the ocean to behave and
start preparing for the next wave you want to ride. As you can probably sense,
this is a subtle art, but more than that let me assure you this is a practical deci-
sion that requires full sanity.
Our brains are full of behavior patterns that we inherited from the animal
kingdom: our aggressive behaviors, instinctive love for only that which we
can accommodate within our circle of me and my, total indifference towards
everything else, and our impulses to 6ight, are all patterns of behavior we are
hardwired with. These patterns are part of what make us the top predators of
planet earth, the godlike rulers on top of the food chain; they worked very
well for us till now. But they wont help us very much if we want to graduate
to the next level of evolution. When beings capable of in6inite magic act like
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monkeys, we get the world we are living in today: we are more prosperous
and powerful than ever before, yet we are also more worried and stressed
than ever before.
So what is the solution? The solution is being truly sick and tired of mind-
lessly suffering, of doing the same things over and over and expecting different
results, of making the same mistakes over and over again. In other words, the
solution is truly stop playing games with yourself and making a real decision
to follow the deepest truth within your heart, at all times, without exception.
The solution is following the previous three gold keys: know your ultimate
goal, pay attention to your stored neurological patterns of behavior, stop 6idg-
eting mentally and be patient when you do that, you can practice this fourth
gold key: feel time.
Feeling time means knowing what to do, and when to do it. It means being
so attuned with the dance of life that your entire being merges with it. When
you are One with the 6low of life, with the information 6low that connects all
things and beings, you begin to move with it, and then when the time is right,
you begin to move it - this is the essence of life magic. Time is key. But more
importantly than that, a completely lack of sel6ishness is absolute prerequi-
site for anyone whose ultimate goal is freedom.
Here is another way of understanding the profound magic that is time:
The willingness to follow the deepest truth of the present moment no matter
how dif.icult it may seem. Like all magic, this too requires a keyword to acti-
vate its awesome powers, remember this carefully: love. When you use this
magic, the structure of reality itself will change, causing a rupture in the fab-
ric of cause and effect by transcending time, making this the most powerful
magic imaginable. In that sense, this is not really magic, but a miracle. Like all
miracles, this, too, is not subject to limits of size or orders of dif6iculty. But re-
member the keyword: love, for without it, the magic destroys the one who un-
leashes it.
Feeling time means knowing when to be still and when to take effortless
action with absolute elegance. This only becomes possible when you have
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gained substantial energy by practicing the previous three gold keys. Without
enough energy, you will never be able to tell time. Without transcending sel6-
ish desires, all that is visible are mirages and scenes from ones own stored
patterns of nightmares.

Fif% Gold Key: Silent Will

This is where the circle closes upon itself. Life is of course meaningless if
you have no desires, no dreams, no hopes, no overwhelming urge to attempt
the impossible. But there is a right way of going about it and a dysfunctional
way of going about it. Once you have mastered the previous four keys, you are
ready to learn the most coveted secret of all: how to rede6ine your reality and
live in your own dreams.
Once again, the secret is quite simple really all you have to do is remem-
ber what you want and actually truly want it. You dont start talking about it,
you dont start jumping up and down, you dont run around pushing things to
hurry up, you do nothing but simply remember at all times what is it that you
want. This is silent will.
When you are not divided, when you have truly decided upon that which
you want, the great wheel of providence immediately begins to move and all
things unforeseen start to come together. Usually, however, when we make
our decision initially, we are far from ready, and further transformation is nec-
essary.
As it says in the Bible
Figs do not grow on thistles, nor grapes on thorns.
We have to be ready to receive that which we so desire in our reality. And
that usually involves a journey of transformation, the heros journey, of meet-
ing the dragons and slaying our inner demons, fears and dysfunctional pat-
terns of behavior. In other words, we have to learn to observe: our own behav-
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ioral patterns primarily, and the way the dragon (life itself) moves secondar-
ily, especially in moments of con6lict.
Next we have to remember that (in the words of King Solomon)
For everything there is a time and season for all occasions under the heaven.
This means being patient and having absolute conviction (faith if you like
that word more) that once you follow this formula, it is inevitable that what
you seek will come to reality. But there is a time and a season for all things un-
der the heaven. You remain calm and wait without waiting. You gain energy.
When you have enough energy, the time will soon be ripe enough to act,
and it will be time to do what needs to be done. This is the time to take that
step, make that move, and do what is necessary to do. It seems like after all
the preparation, this step should be easy, but its not. Usually we are terri6ied
when that moment of truth arrives and we hesitate to take action, because its
one thing to fantasize great things and quite another thing to seize the mo-
ment and actually make those great things happen. And if in our hesitation
that moment passes us by, everything is lost. The great bird of freedom comes
to us all but it has no patience for hesitation.
When you use this simple formula again and again, you begin to appreciate
the astounding power and elegance of silent will, and you begin to live life as
the fantastic magical being that you really are.

"ats it...

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