Part 2 - Vadim Zeland's "Reality Transurfing" Notes and Summaries, Chapter 18

People create the layer of their reality with their mental outlook.  

It’s a closed feedback loop:  Reality is created as a reflection of an individual’s thoughtforms, and those thoughtforms are greatly determined by the reflection itself.  

When people look into a mirror, they don’t look inside themselves.  They are mesmerized by their own copy.  It doesn’t occur to them that they can change the original.  Because we obsessively focus on the reflection, we don’t get what we want.  People are usually absorbed by thoughts of what they want to be different.  We think about the things we do not want.

What happens when a person feels hate:  They pour their entire heart and mind into the feeling.  The sharp image is perfectly reflected in the mirror, filling the layer of that person’s world.  What someone hates is what they will encounter in abundance.  This causes more irritability, which in turn embellishes the intensity of the feeling.  Mentally, a person reaches a point of being ready to tell everyone to get lost.  “Bugger off!”  The mirror then returns this like a boomerang.  You told everyone to get lost, and they did the same to you.  This causes the number of problems to escalate.  

If you stand in front of a mirror and shout, “Go to hell, the lot of you!,” the reflection you will see in the mirror is yourself going to hell along with the rest of your world.  

If a person is sharply averse to those who drink alcohol, they will encounter people drinking at every turn.  A wife who is married to an alcoholic husband:  The more averse the wife is to drinking, the more the husband will turn to the bottle.  Insistence will be made by the wife, “You will never give it up!”  This becomes a layer that goes into the husband’s world, making the alcoholism worse.  

The pessimist gets a certain pleasure from reveling in their sorry lot.  “The world is so bad, it cannot get any worse.  It’s going to hell and taking me along with it.”  The pathological habit of getting a kick out of negativity develops alongside a tendency to bear grudges.  “I’m such a nice person.  You just don’t value me.  Soon I’ll be dead, and you’ll be sorry.”  The picture of fatal misery is not only reflected in the mirror, but is firmly consolidated.  The bitter individual orders a script for failure and then celebrates.  

All the mirror is does is deliver orders.  “I need to lose weight.”  The mirror agrees.  “I’m worthless.”  The mirror agrees.  “I’m valued.”  The mirror agrees.

It is because of their own negative attitude that people paint the layers of their world black.  Any attitude that is fueled passionately by the heart and with the conviction of the mind will be reflected in reality.  Moreover, the attitude will be replicated to perfection irrespective of what a person is actually trying to express – attraction or aversion.  

End the chase after your own reflection.  Drag your gaze away from the mirror, and let go of the inner intention of trying to shift the world in the direction you want it to go.  If you do this, something incredible will happen – the world will come to meet you.  

The greater your feelings, the more powerful the attachment to the mirror.  Whether you like the reflection or not, you are still focusing on it.  People’s thoughts keep them tied to reality.  This reality could be gloomy or joyous.  

When letting go, solutions can present themselves.  

To transform reality, break the circle.  There is nothing outer intention cannot do.  There are alternatives on the other side of the mirror that the human mind cannot conceive.  

Switch your attention from the reflection to the image.  In other words, take control of your thoughts.  Think about what you want instead of what you’re trying to avoid.  Rather than habitually expressing dissatisfaction at what you see in the mirror, begin to create an image of what you would like to see – this is the way out of the mirror maze.  No more running.  Stand still, and watch your reality come to you.  You’ll encounter a different wind – the wind of outer intention.  

Cease the futile chase after your own reflection.  Let go of the world, and let it turn by itself in accordance with your thoughts.  The circle spins by itself, driven by the power of outer intention.

Change a negative attitude into a positive attitude.  Dissatisfaction, reluctance, disapproval, hate, lack in belief in success, etc – all these emotions have to be shoved into a rubbish sack and disposed of at the dump.  Your thoughts should be attuned to what you want and like.  Then, only pleasant things will be reflected in the mirror.  

What is better?  To be the victim of circumstances, or to determine your own fate as you see fit?

You can use music and other positive influences to enhance your mood and positively change your attitude.

If you remain resolute and are not distracted, sooner or later, the mirror will have to reflect the images you create with your thoughts.

When looking in a mirror, search only for the wanted traits in yourself, and simultaneously create a picture in your thoughts of a desired image.  If you practice this technique regularly, your jaw will drop from surprise.   

Create the relationship first, and then glance in the mirror.  Don’t do this the other way around.  This make take some getting used to, but the game is worth the candle.  A job worth doing is worth doing well.  Now reality will not control you.  You will control reality.  Very gradually, the reflection will be transformed into a positive one.  The layer of your world will be so filled with good things that you will not have to convince yourself to have fun.

If you would like to believe this but do not, belief is not required.  You don’t need to believe.  Just practice the recommended technique, and you will see the consequences for yourself.  

There are no miracles here.  This does require work though.  It’s just that it’s work with the head instead of the hands.

There’s nothing new about the idea that the world is a reflection of our thoughts.  Everyone understands this idea implicitly, but at the same time it remains vague and ambiguous, so there is not much practical benefit from such knowledge.  Few people have the time to work toward spiritual enlightenment, comprehend the secrets of the forces of nature, or develop their own.  Now though, you have a specific technique at your disposal.  

The idea is deeply rooted in our consciousness that reality is either instantly obedient as if we are holding a stick to it, or that reality cannot be controlled at all.  We tend to believe that if a desire is not fulfilled right at this moment, it’s not possible for it to be realized at all.  People then resign themselves to believe that all they can do is dream, and that magic is something inaccessible or transcendental.  It’s believed that the world of fantasy is ‘out there’ and only in our imagination, while ‘real life’ is here.  It’s believed that real life cannot be escaped or changed.  

Magicians and people with extrasensory abilities live in a special separate world while we ‘ordinary people,’ with our ‘ordinary problems,’ are left to trudge through this ‘grave reality.’  

In truth, there is no such thing as magic.  There is just knowledge of the principles of the dual mirror.  This knowledge is not hard to access.  It’s actually so transparent and unsophisticated that it could never be known as magical.  Everything that has greatness is inconceivably simple, having no need of decoration and secrecy.  In contrast, it is always the things that are empty and useless that are hidden under a veil of magnitude and mystery.  

Once magic has been integrated into the mundane and relieved of its fairy tale attributes, it ceases to be associated with the realms of the mystical and the secret, losing its mystery.  When magic takes its place in everyday life, everyday reality ceases to be everyday reality, and is transformed into an unknown reality which can be controlled as an awakening dream as long as the mirror principles are observed.  

When the mind sees no immediate results, it believes that the action taken is ineffective or incorrect.  The mirror then reflects the same.  This can sabotage manifestation.  Wanting to have something instantaneously creates excess potential, which distorts the mirror.  

Desire is essential, because without desire there would be no striving, but doubt and fear of failure results in longing.  This is why importance has to be consciously reduced.  Desire only becomes a problem when fear and doubt cause you to try to take the world ‘by the neck.’

Many people often think, “I want to, but I’m afraid it won’t work.”  

Carrying the self-imposed responsibility of success or failure is a heavy load, and causes people to place harsh conditions for themselves and the world around them.  They make excessive demands of themselves, and have high expectations of life.  As a result, the mirror is distorted threefold:  “I want.  I fear.  I can’t let go.”  

Demanding and requesting do not yield positive results.  All you have to do is make an order and allow the world to carry it out for you.  People often don’t permit the world to do so because of their demands, requests, fears, and doubts.  In response, the world also demands, requests, fears, and doubts, perfectly reflecting their conditions, for the world is just a mirror.  

Let the world go, allowing it to be a comfortable place for you.  Allow yourself to be happy, and trust the world.  It knows how to take care of everything.