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Ride the Wave of a Retreat to a Result – (1750)

Retreats Very Helpful

Gnostic retreats can be a helpful experience. They are also an awesome opportunity to receive a lot of help. That help can come in the form of a lecture or practice or even a conversation. At a retreat a lot of people gather who are working on themselves and so there is a lot of wisdom available to help people. So, if we get talking to people we can receive a surprising amount of help.


If Struggling Retreats Help not Make Thing Worse!

Usually if people are struggling they think that a retreat will make things worse for them or make them even more upset or angrier etc. But that is not so. A retreat acts to pull people out of the state where an ego or egos are filling a person up with so much resistance. Once a person is out of that negative state things change completely.


Help Through the Pleasant and Unpleasant

You know help comes through the good and through the unpleasant. Sometimes what has helped me most in some retreats has been a derogatory or out of the ordinary comment. The effort to transform it or and the determination to not be the cause of having to receive that comment has made me work on myself for quite a well.

So, help comes through both hands, left and the right. If it is help that we want be ready to receive it via both hands, not just one.


Use the Retreat

The smart thing to do with any retreat is to use what you accumulated during the retreat towards a certain result. It could be that you want to use the new energy and understanding that you have to take a step further in dissolving an ego. This is really great! Do it!


Don’t Waste the Retreat

To go to a Gnostic retreat is not easy most of the time, you made the effort to go, to attend and to even work for it to pay for it. IT was your money, your time, your attention, your life please don’t waste it.

If you attended a Gnostic retreat, use it to pay for some advancement or channel the light, force, new hope, new trust, new resolution etc. that you received into a renewed effort to die or to do something esoteric.

It just does not makes sense to go into some identification or fascination with a boosted and renewed energy and strength that came from the retreat! But being unaware we often do that sort of thing! So I am writing this post just to for us to be a bit more aware of these things and for us to make the most out our beautiful efforts, time and energy which is our life.

End (1750).

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