Keeping Your Distance: How To Think, Feel & Act Like A Genius - Paperback

by William F. McLaughlin (Author)

The Way of GeniusThough it often "appears" otherwise, nothing in the universe works haphazardly, but according to certain principles and laws. If you don't know, for instance, the law that applies to what you're thinking, feeling, desiring or doing, chances are there's going to be something wrong with those activities, causing the eventual outcome to be negative. On the other hand, if you know and apply the pertinent law, the outcome is positive. That's just the way "it" is - the way the law is. This book is about how to live that way. "Keeping Your Distance" is not pop psychology or a new fad; it's as old as humanity itself, taught by some of the greatest spiritual teachers in history. Only my interpretation and teaching of it here is new and different. I discovered it by accident over 30-years ago. It was an experience so blissful, enlightening and empowering, that all the rest of life paled in comparison, and I've been studying, practicing and teaching it ever since. Seekers of this knowledge and method go through many books, teachers and years of painful and expensive trial and error before they finally "get it." It's my ambitious intention here, that "Keeping Your Distance" will be the vehicle by which you finally "get it!" PureMeditation.org.

Author Biography

My formal training was in electronics engineering, a field I abandoned after a certain "spiritual awakening" experience led me to an intense, 30-year study of human potential development. I researched comparative religion, philosophy and psychology with Eastern and Western teachers, gurus and mystics worldwide, and learned that what I'd discovered and directly experienced, was the law of detachment. It happened in 1976, quite accidently and dramatically. I was a young electronics prodigy working at Lab for Electronics in Natick, Massachusetts, on a secret, aircraft navigation system for the U.S. Air Force. My job was to design an integrated circuit through which high frequency radio waves could pass with minimal resistance. I succeeded in designing a perfectly "balanced" circuit in which the friction or resistance was virtually immeasurable. The circuit was, in effect, invisible, allowing radio waves to flow at maximum efficiency. I then saw a correlation between this phenomenon and how the mind works: In a balanced circuit there's no resistance; in a balanced mind there must also be no resistance, no blockage, no limitation. Mind, body and spirit must connect, unify, integrate. With this revelation, my awareness spontaneously "detached" from the thoughts, feelings and activities that I was aware of. I drew back to a position of being neutral or centered - between my personal self and my aware or "spiritual" self. This backward movement extricated my awareness from its entanglement with the lower mental, emotional and sensual faculties. I became both a witness to life and a participant at the same time. I was at once on the outside looking in and the inside looking out. I could see people, places and situations as they really are rather than as I thought, felt or believed they are. I experienced the definition of reality to be - that which exists before we personalize it. In other words, I saw that the whole secret of life is to not take anything personally, and is achieved by "keeping a distance" from all internal and external experience. This unprecedented ability to see from a distance was a virtual heaven-on-earth experience - too wonderful for words to describe; so joyful, enlightening and empowering, that all the rest of life became worthless in comparison, and I've devoted my life to the continued study, practice and teaching of it. Visit my website for more information and articles on this subject: KeepingYourDistance.com