INSIGHT REVEALED IN NEW BOOK

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My new book WORDS are TRAPS ENLIGHTENMENT MADE SIMPLE can be purchased now at store.bookbaby.com and pre-ordered at barnesandnoble.com. On 1/15/25 it will be available at Amazon and major book outlets.

The major groundfloor insight of the book is that honesty forms our conscience. This formation and reformation fosters heart-to-heart communication. It takes us out of our false sense of separation to know our interpersonal connection with each other that we are essentially the same inside and love each other as ourselves and grows us to know we are part of everything.

The book is a guide for high illumination, embodying the relief of natural inner peace that comes from awakening to a heart-to-heart connection with others, and enlightenment that stems from the extremely rare compound mystical experience I underwent explained in the feature article of the blog. Within the book and on the back cover, I list the important catalysts for high illumination: Complete Honesty + Character Development + Concentration + Meditation = Enlightenment.

The major catalyst that takes us out of the prison of our own minds or the illusion that we are separate from each other is honesty. Jesus simply said, “The truth will set you free.” John 8:32. Sensing the profundity in the honesty catalyst is of the higher mind or intuition. The heart knows. You get “on top” of your conscience. You become as honest as you can be with yourself and others. You make a commitment to never lie along with accepting your body with your looks and it is your surrender to God or the Universe. You stop your automatic lying responses. Being honest with yourself takes out your blind spots enabling you to see them in others. As honesty grows your character you will see your old self in others because we have the same model of self in each other that struggles to become one inside with the lower self uniting with the Higher Self – the Universal Self. You become better and better. This awakening fosters the deepest empathy. Your surrender to honesty graces you with the ability to notice dishonesty. You keep growing in this grace if you stay completely surrendered to honesty. In the Buddhist sense, we have no self because it is referred to as an illusion, it could be called The Universal no-self. The practice of contemplation takes in the virtue of honesty. Honesty with other character development including concentration and meditation are methods for knowing what goes on with our interior makeup and guides us to control ourselves.

When I went to Roman Catholic school in the 50s and 60s our consciences were improperly conditioned with strictures that were not properly explained by the clergy. It could be called brainwashing. We kids suffered greatly with warped neurotic consciences. If you did not go through an indoctrination like this you do not have experiential insight into it. Fortunately, we were able to learn about the behavior of holy people and saints. These strictures kept us from an expansive natural spiritual life like that of St. Francis and Nicholas Black Elk.

I simplified the whole thing within myself and it led me to know the Sacred Heart of Jesus or the Universal Heart. I threw out what did not make sense by becoming brave enough to be honest with myself as best as I could with constant revisions in understanding. I went against church doctrine where I felt it necessary and I eventually freed myself. I freed myself to know the hearts of others because I know my heart. I realized that we have the same self-makeup in our bodies. This is how we understand to love our neighbor as ourselves. I realized the Universal Self which is our mission. Committed honesty makes the spiritual energy of our bodies awaken. Christians call this grace. Yogis call it kundalini. As we become fully honest, never secretly believing we can lie, along with accepting ourselves the way we are, our bodies vivify with the purity of our shared Spirit. Committed honesty eventually takes us above the heart chakra to eventual Christ or Cosmic Consciousness. The cells of our bodies become glorified. The glorification process awakens us to the expanded awareness of our natural connection to each other and everything. A conscience formed in honesty naturally keeps us in the present because were are ever mindful of dishonesty. We combine the cognitive approach of honesty with further character development which includes different types of meditation and breathing and we become mystics.

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Published by Gary Hobbins

I was born in Wisconsin to a Roman Catholic family. My mother June was a talented writer and started her own service club. My father Joe was a Right-of-Way agent for Bell telephone. Joe was an avid golfer and overall sports enthusiast. Joe would play sports with me and I became a life-long athlete. I was known as a rebel and was expelled from the Catholic school I attended at the age of fourteen. I was arrested at nineteen for being a thief and was placed on probation. Around this time, not being happy, I turned inward. I worked at different jobs that did not satisfy my budding inner life. I traveled down south several times reading books trying to find myself. In 1980, at the age of twenty-seven, I enrolled at a local college. I was now in an interesting environment. I was curious about almost everything and I eventually majored in speech and psychology or speaking and thinking. Many people told me that I was funny. I was able to make them laugh about unusual subjects. In the summers of 1981 and 1982, while still a college student, I traveled to Minneapolis and pursued the art of stand-up comedy. During these summers I would write comedy, run twenty-five miles a week and perform comedy at night. I was also a juggler but did not juggle in my stand-up act. I took up Hatha yoga and studied nutrition. In Minneapolis, I interacted with the local up-and-coming comedians. Minneapolis at that time had a small close-knit comedy culture that produced a good number of comedians and some became quite famous. I was making audiences laugh shortly after I started. During this time I was also performing comedy in other cities. I planned on being a professional comedian. Catholicism conditioned me to have a clear inner voice. I had to make people laugh and the only way I could see to do it was to be brutally honest with myself. I thought honesty would align me with common reality. The Sisters of St. Agnes, who taught me, always told me to tell the truth. So I was continually examining myself and weeding out delusional thinking. This became my way of life. One day in 1983, I was alone at my parents house and all of a sudden I had a massive spontaneous kundalini awakening. The awakening of this spiritual energy made me realize my self. I achieved the ability, among others, to see through other peoples egos or read their hearts. I was forever changed. In 1983 there was no internet or otherwise easily accessible information for me to be able to find out what had happened to me. Because of the massive explosion of energy my nervous and digestive system had to rebuild. Due to what happened to me, I changed my plans and soon moved in with my best friend and her son. We lived together for many years. I hid out in college going on and off for thirteen years. I read one book after another to understand what happened to me. I eventually received an M.A. in Speech/Rhetoric and also amassed many extra college credits. Currently I am an investor and forever a student. I am repentant of the trouble I got into years ago and the embarrassment it brought to my parents. People that knew me when I was a kid remark that I sure changed my ways. I went through what I call psycho/spiritual/physical alchemy or I transformed myself by healing the past and living in the ongoing present.

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