A Practical Handbook For Unlimited Spiritual Ability: (Optimum Self-Government)

Donald A. Dahlin, a retired chiropractor, decided that people may be greatly helped by the knowledge he had acquired of natural healing and the use of life energy; from training and experience in psychotherapy and a system by Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff, that helped him resolve past hypnosis, and through insights he had gained from his psychic experiences as well as his challenge of the Christian faith.

Optimum Self-Government means becoming able to have greater spiritual awareness and control over one’s postulates: mind, health and behavior. You will also be guided to explore life energy and use it to examine and treat your body, to monitor your health with instant biofeedback, examine your spiritual mind and your animal mind (blue print of the body), to explore the world of extra-sensory perception to converse with people, plants and animals, the power of prayer, etc. You will find a new reality that is priceless!

Donald A. Dahlin, born of a Norwegian mother and a Swedish father into a family of three brothers was raised in the Baptist faith and resided in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

He graduated from the National College of Chiropractic, and practiced in Chicago for 32 years acquiring unique experience with life energy phenomena while using a new science of examination and treatment.

He worked as an orderly in the Chicago Cook County Psychopathic Hospital, augmenting his college course in psychiatry.

Dahlin received training and experience with hypnosis, and suffered as a result: introversion, amnesia, inner tension, stress, eyestrain, headaches, backaches and depression. He made a full recovery of these symptoms after being trained and assisted in a new form of psychotherapy. Donald A. Dahlin is married, had one son who died in infancy, and retired to Arizona with his wife Patricia, in 1995.

The welfare of the individual, our society and culture is dependent upon effective knowledge. For the past century we have had some advances in knowledge about man and his potentials but this information has been suppressed by the news media that is financed and controlled by the drug industry and psychiatry, as part of a conspiracy that had its roots in the late 1800s, becoming more active in the 1930s.

They have taught you that religion is a superstition, the soul of man is a delusion and that we are nothing but one step above a chimpanzee on the evolutionary scale.

The conspiracy of psychiatry is to gain prominence in the world and eventually control and dominate the lives of every human being. The National Education Association (NEA), whose goals are socialism, joined the conspiracy.

A privately stated goal was the eradication of the belief in morals of right and wrong, the destruction of religion, education, law (the courts) and the field of medicine. This also included the destruction of the family, the drugging of everyone from cradle to grave, etc;

Their formation of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) and membership in the World Health Organization (WHO) has been successful in spreading their influence worldwide.

Professor Emeritus Thomas Szasz, a lifelong critic of psychiatry has reported that we have begun entering "The Therapeutic State". where mental health care is enforced.

There is much more, but this information was presented in the appendix of the first edition of this book published in 2004, and was removed, revised and expanded into another book entitled – The Conspiracy, Fraud, Quackery and Death of Psychiatry © 2005.

That was yesterday. The death of psychiatry is imminent if you will learn more about it and help make it happen!

Today you are invited to learn the truth about your amazing mind, about your nature as a spiritual being (a soul), your potentials for a healthier, happier and rewarding life and how to attain it.

The information in this book is based on clinical studies, research and logic and is workable and valuable to the extent that it is used exactly as presented.

Unlike the practices of psychiatry and psychotherapy that are ineffective in the treatment of "mental illnesses" and "mental disorders" we are not dealing with the "treatment" or "cure" of any "mental illness" or "disorder" or any physical sickness.

The emphasis in this book is effective knowledge that you may use every day in your life to handle your stresses, emotional upsets and problems; to become the person you have wanted to be. In short, it’s placing the responsibility where it belongs, on you.

Is it possible to destroy a religion? Yes, psychiatry believes it has attacked religion successfully. The great number of myths presented as factual found in Christian writings had been under attack for centuries. Myths are unnecessary in our modern age and many biblical scholars testify to that through their books, and prefer truth as stable and indestructible. Should antiquity and ignorance rule over knowledge and rational thinking?

Ask any minister or priest to discuss with his congregation the infamous Inquisition, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, or Catholic history and its influence upon Christian theology and you will be met with a stonewall of silence and cover-up! We will cover that later.

To preserve Christianity and to de-emphasize mythology is to bring to everyone, regardless of race, creed or religion – the essence of what Jesus Christ taught that is essential for an understanding of one’s own spiritual growth.

Jesus declared, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." Read chapter 18 and get a good summation from biblical scholars of the Gnostic religion of Jesus Christ that could survive free of mythology, ritual and ceremony. Buddhism has done it; Christianity can do it too!

My ambition is not to destroy Christianity, but to give it strength to survive destruction from psychiatry, and the Papacy and hierarchy of the Christian religion that survives only through preserving mythology and avoiding obvious truth.

Understanding the true existence of the soul, its’ creation of the mind by postulates that determine one’s ethical and moral conscience as well as physiology and behavior is different from one individual to another. This puts a lie to the claim that "mental disorders" and "behavioral disorders" are "mental diseases" and due to abnormal brain chemistry!

The power of the postulate fits well into the observations of science and is used in mathematics. For our use, it may be said to be a decision, a self-evident truth that a person posts in the future for his own use.

More precisely, a postulate is a conclusion, decision or resolution made by one-self that resolves a problem of the past, decides on problems or observations of the present and sets a pattern for future behavior.

An individual unaware of the power of his postulates can haphazardly create his own hell for himself and for others in trying to undo his unusual behavior. It is simple to do this and it doesn’t require truth serums, drugs, hypnosis, shock treatment, psychosurgery, or anything so drastic.

The power of one’s own postulates as a form of self-hypnosis is the answer to understanding the modus operandi of the rehabilitative routines for Soul Guidance Counseling in chapter 7.

The message and practices found in this book are spiritually guaranteed to reveal your hidden potentials, develop them and change your life – to the degree that you read and apply its progressive and practical approach. This does not involve positive suggestion or hypnosis, but is a system devised to release a person’s natural abilities. It challenges and guides you to think, remember and find your own answers!

I trust that this book will serve as a spiritual sword into the utter complacency of the Christian orthodoxy to reform Christian practices and theology to provide with greater strength and enthusiasm the true message of Jesus.

The Soul Guidance Counseling and Rehabilitative Meditation system of G. I. Gurdjieff, were originally designed by me to be used in a religious stronghold under spiritual, moral and ethical guidance and protection. Realizing the extreme dedication to antiquity, dogma, and a religious hierarchy that some clergyman have, I have expanded the explanations so that any group, religious sect, denomination, or religious creed could adopt its practices, freely, adhering to the basic principles encompassed herein. It may also be done by one’s self, if necessary.

Much of the information research and discoveries in this book has been done and reported by others and appropriate acknowledgement is made. I have made some contributions and have compiled it so that it is linked by discoveries and life energy phenomena -– thus it is better for the reader to read the book in consecutive chapter sequences as each chapter builds on previous explanations.

The problem of not having a word that relates to both sexes and burdened by his/her and he/she references is resolved by using the male gender only, however, it is not the author’s intention or desire to exclude the female gender.

I invite the reader to challenge the material in this book, to discover for one’s self what is genuine and applicable in one’s life as well as in the lives of others, and finding it, to spread the knowledge around and use it!

The power of an idea to convert a barbaric society into a civilized society was the goal of earlier religions and it is the hope of this author that this book may assist in serving this same purpose, as it is needed.

May you have as much enjoyment and insight in reading this book as I have had in preparing and writing it.

Soul Guidance Counseling is the natural approach to mental health, handling the problems of life and of conscience and behavior to an optimum result. There may be quicker, more efficient practices available that may augment it, compete with it or replace it. Rehabilitative Meditation developed by G. I. Gurdjieff is separate and stands on its own merit.

The essence of this book is searching for spiritual perfection; "the kingdom of God is within you." Focus on knowing this as your main goal in life and let all other things be secondary. If everyone did this, we would have a heaven on earth. I believe this is the message Jesus wanted you to have!

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Science has discovered there are at least two ways of viewing space/time, in a physical universe and in a spiritual universe. What scientific evidence indicates the existence of the soul and a spiritual universe?

From the basis of studying the out-of-body-experience (OOBE) we will understand why the soul is totally responsible for the operation of the mind as well as physical behavior and psyche-somatic illness. What is the mind? Self-government versus governed by others.

The mind is described as a continual recording of one’s experience as mental sense photography created by the soul, recorded by the camcorder function of the brain as a hologram and functions as an energy field handled by the soul. How your postulates (decisions) affect your health and behavior. There are two separate minds: spiritual and animal, both easily contacted and viewable. An exciting discovery for researchers!

According to Russian mystic, G. I. Gurdjieff, there are an estimated four major levels of awareness, ability and beingness that a person may ascend toward greater spiritual awareness. Soul guidance counseling alternated with Gurdjieff’s progressive meditation appears to be the effective key to spiritual enlightenment

The power of persistent conscious observation is the secret key to greater awareness, the elimination of undesirable conditions, for healing, extra-sensory perception and spiritual enlightenment.

Four simple and powerful methods of meditation hidden from public usage and were restricted to Gurdjieff groups, that may produce astonishing and desirable changes in your consciousness, mind and body.

The first technique appears to be the unknown "placebo factor" in healing (without any therapeutic agents), but also "erases" past drug effects recorded on the mind that reduced consciousness, so that memories of a past experience (such as an operation) become easier to remember.

The second technique is for mental and physical rehabilitation.

The third technique is a valuable complementary aid to spiritual counseling.

The fourth technique is for exploring the animal mind of your body.

Unlike any other mediation techniques, these have unlimited value and may be used for a lifetime.

What is kept secret becomes powerful in the hands of the unscrupulous, but when widely known, it brings a freedom to the individual so that he need not be swayed against his own will by another’s attempt to deceive. Many hypnotists have committed suicide or been murdered once it was discovered how they had ruined people’s lives, therefore hypnosis is not a "fun-thing" to play around with. This knowledge can help you overcome as well as to guard against hypnosis, especially when all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis!

Emphasis is placed upon the rehabilitation of the soul through a simple Guide/Seeker system to be used under the ethical control of the religious stronghold. Based on effective psyche-therapy methods, it includes the help for resolution of one’s problems of coping with living, as well as recovery from multiple personality disorder, homosexual behavior and the recovery from and prevention of hypnosis. Codes of Conduct for the Guide and the Seeker are vitally important.

With the knowledge you have covered in these previous chapters, you can start in your self-improvement program.

The scientific reasons why magnetic healing works and what it actually does to the living body.

Important discoveries made by past observers regarding life energy

You will learn that the phrase "My body tells me so" is related to the physical reaction you will be observing daily to determine -- within seconds -- what is beneficial or harmful to your health in terms of kinds and quantities of a substance at any given time by using the amazing computer of your brain and nervous system as a diagnostic aid. The substance may be a nutrient, inorganic chemical, drug, infective agent, vaccine, allergen, etc. This diagnostic aid may-well provide you with a healthier and longer lifespan.

Learn the basics of the "laying on of the hands" that re-directs or sends life energy to a body part for diagnosis and for healing. It may be used as an "assist" for one’s own well being, or for healing others by a group. What other healers have done, and its most effective methods.

Use life energy as a tool of communication with radar-like capabilities for searching with extra-sensory perception the mysteries of chemistry, man, animal and vegetation.

Learn to search your mind for answers to your current concerns.

True life experiences with life energy by Edgar Cayce, Reverend Franklin Loehr, the people of Findhorn, Michaelle Small Wright, George Washington Carver, Luther Burbank, Amelia Kinkade and this author.

The out-of-body-experience, past lives and immortality of the soul explained by actual case examples and documentation. Also why a person may have selective amnesia of one’s present life, or of past lives

A list of 36 conditions of people cured at Lourdes. Why healing is prevented, and how it may be more predictable. How this poses a challenge to our clergy, the Soul Guidance counselors and the healing arts.

The Gnostic message of Jesus Christ is derived from the Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, The Dead Sea scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, The Lost Years of Jesus and other recognized works. The role of early-organized religion in altering and shaping Christian theology had two different avenues, one that has created diverse divisions, atheism, religious wars and fanaticism; the other one, Gnostic would not have these problems, would be readily accepted and could solve many of the problems we are facing today.

Does God really listen and answer prayer? Prayer and spiritual intervention. Research studies of prayer. The Law of Karma prayer. A miracle of prayer. Visions and miracles?

What the Christian Church has to offer in terms of reality and member benefits. The expansion and demand for services that enhance the promise of Jesus Christ, "And greater works than these shall ye do."

Basic principles in Buddhism preceding those taught by Jesus.