A new approach to life, freedom & spirituality

What is it that we are really searching for? Is it an ultimate high? A sense of belonging? The joy of loving and being loved? Spiritual enlightenment? Happiness?

I’m certain now that we are all searching for something different to our neighbours. There’s no blueprint for what we all want; we are complex creatures with different needs, values, dreams and inspirations, and there is no black and white approach to man’s search for …. whatever it is he/she is searching for. But beyond our unique desires and dreams for our own ultimate reality, there is something universal that will take us to our next stage of evolution, and I call it freedom in motion.

What is freedom in motion? In essence, it’s a profound sense of inner freedom, fulfillment, inspiration, gratitude and love that we tap into, harness, and embrace on a daily basis. You would have at least glimpsed this feeling in peak experiences in your life; the birth of a child, the feeling of being loved unconditionally, or the inspiration that comes from a movie that touches your soul, as a few examples. Have you ever had a clear feeling that everything in your life, (in that particular moment) is perfect, that nothing can stop you, that you are blessed and guided by something greater than yourself? Most of us glimpse these states throughout our lives. Other people live for it and find ways to make it more frequent. Some achieve levels of mastery; they build their life around their inspirations and usually teach about it.

But most of us oscillate between highs and lows, elation and depression, infatuation and resentment, reaching and falling. We get caught up in drama, meeting our needs in unfulfilling ways, distracted by what we call instant gratification, and constantly playing out self sabotaging patterns of behaviour that we set up for ourselves many years ago.

So what’s the difference between the people that harness this force, and those who don’t? First of all, we are all here as students; we’re all learning the long and hard way, and no one’s judging us for our unique set of strenghts and challenges that we carry through life. Still, some people seem to be able to step outside themselves, to see their circumstances in a new light. These people consciously break free from their conditioning, overcoming fear and walking through the doors to new levels of freedom, not only internally, but also by building the life around them that supports their dreams.

Some of the great teachers today who teach this stuff are Tony Robbins, Dr John Demartini, Deepak Chopra, Ken Wilber, just to name a few. These guys are like the heavy weights of wisdom who have fully immersed themselves in learning and teaching the secrets to freedom. Although I have learned a great deal from these teachers and more, I have still found a lack of practical teachings that can be applied to all areas of our life, at a price that most people can afford. As much as I would love to spend my time studying with the best, I can’t exactly afford $3000 for an introductory course, and another $10, 000 or more to become qualified in their methodologies.

I consider myself a real person who doesn’t get caught up in the lofty, profitable heights of guru-consciousness. I have a real love for people in all walks of society, and if anyone deserves the chance to learn some great tools for life, it’s the young people, and the people who’ve been down the hard road, but are genuinely committed to transforming their lives. I noticed that I was one of the only guys in his early 20’s attending spiritual and self development seminars, and really questioned this middle aged, middle class phenomenon. I decided to invest all of my time and energy into understanding freedom in motion, and mapping out real, tangible and practical ways that we can create change, take our lives to a new level and to actually live this sense of inner freedom. I’ve been working on this for seven years now, and I’m currently writing my first book to introduce myself and the essence of these teachings or ‘life tools.’

So how do we live it?

I think alot of the gurus hold back on this part because it makes it harder to suck you into paying huge amounts of money for one on one and group training. Don’t get me wrong, good training involves immersion, and this is the ultimate environment to learn and create change ~ but if you want some tools to start breaking through right now, I want them to be available to you. This is why I’m writing the book and packing it full of so much practical stuff.

Inner freedom arises from living according to certain principles; some of these are totally based on the individual’s needs, values, inspirations, and the rest are universal principles that apply to all of us. Here is a quick overview of freedom in motion

* Live according to your highest values, link purpose to and get creative with your lower ones.

* Do what you love with your life. Take daily steps towards the life that you truly want to live. Do what’s in your heart, follow your dreams. Immerse yourself in your inspirations.

* Presence – step out of the egocentric mind that lives in the past and future, and spend some time in the now.

* Express gratitude for your experience of life.

* Growth/progress – Face your fears & break limiting patterns. Express, purge, heal unresolved issues. Get clear on where you are navigating to in life. Step forward with courage.

* Unconditional love – Love and accept people for who they are, without boundaries and conditions.

* Reflection – Let go, surrender, see beyond yourself.

* Conscious relationships – Be present with your loved ones, break through to new levels of freedom and bliss in your relationships.

* Social dynamics – Get out there and mingle with humanity, learn and grow through interactions with diverse people who challenge, support and inspire you.

* Culture – Explore world culture and make a contribution to your society through your own form of activism. Learn to appreciate, embrace & accept other cultures as they are and work together with them for a more integral, sustainable future.

* Creativity – Allow the universe to express itself through you. Purge your fears and express yourself through your own form of creativity.

* Awareness – Go beyond yourself, seek the ever expanding perspective by looking at situations from many angles. Learn about the world from many perspectives, sociological, astrological, political, spiritual, ecological, etc. Go beyond discriminationa and judgement by seeing the greatness in all people and all cultures.

* Fitness & Diet – A healthy body facilitates a strong and balanced mind. A healthy body-mind facilitates the soul and our mystical connection. Poor foods and lifestyle make us sluggish, lethargic, weighed down and susceptible to toxic emotions.

* Spiritual practice – To be in contact with the timeless, mystical source of your being transforms your experience of life on earth by constantly opening you up to new levels of consciousness, awareness, creativity, inspiration and more.

* Education/Self education – We really do need to learn. Don’t give up once you leave the educational system; the learning process is empowering and essential for all evolving souls.

* Conditioning practices – Combine different areas of importance into daily routines that bring you into alignment with your inspirations and your soul. The conditioning effect of this immersion makes you more integrated, congruent and in touch with the person you truly want to be.

We all have access to heightened experiences, moments of bliss, epiphany, awareness and presence, where we feel that everything is perfect, that we’re plugged into something greater than ourselves, those moments when we’re filled with inspiration and goosebumps. These heightened experiences often become the strongest reference points of our personal history, our most potent memories, because in those states we are closest to our soul, and we are truly present. Everything is clearer and more memorable when you are present.

Sadly, it’s not the heightened experiences or the things you do occasionally that define who you are and how you feel on a daily basis. It’s what you do consistently that defines you. Why? Because there is an incredibly powerful conditioning effect to repetitive thoughts, feelings and actions. The more you think, feel, do something, the more it becomes an integrated, unconscious, natural part of your everyday self. People often feel frustrated in their spiritual quest, because they have occasional heightened experiences, but continue to oscillate through the lower scale emotions, and higher end fantasies that perpetuate the bi-polar problems most people suffer these days. It’s when those people are present, grateful, embracing of mystery and inspired when they have the ’spiritual’ experiences. So they get mad and beat themselves up for getting caught up in the common ‘polarities syndrome’ on the daily basis. The only reason this happens is because they allow themselves to keep doing the same thing and getting the same results. If you keep meeting your needs in the same ways, reacting to the same stuff, and doing the same things ~ you won’t experience lasting change. Freedom comes from facing our fears, interrupting our patterns, questioning why we meet our needs in the ways we do, and trying new things, or meeting our needs in more sustainable, balanced, inspiring ways.

This whole freedom in motion thing is what I’m really passionate about. I’ve transformed myself from being an empty wreck to an inspired, creative and balanced individual. Ontop of sharing an overview of my life story, this is what my book is all about. LIVING your inner freedom, doing what you love, facing and overcoming fear, taking life to a new level. I’m doing my best to do it in a way that’s real, authentic, unique and refreshing the younger generation, and people who generally don’t buy into the commercialised, mainstream kind of books that flood the shelves.

This blog is intended as an introduction, the real practical stuff and more indepth philosophies are in the book. I hope this blog serves to ignite your interests in ‘freedom in motion’ and your passion for life in this exciting and turbulent modern world. My intention is to release the book and follow it up with workshops, online videos and multimedia enhanced seminars.

If you are interested in trying some of the freedom in motion practices and workouts and can’t wait for the book to be released, leave some comments, or drop me an email at manny@mannymolecular.com and I’ll post some here on the website. I apologise for holding back on the blogs, but I am consumed by my book, work and a myriad of projects right now. I aim to release plenty of blogs once the book is released and interest is growing in freedom in motion.

With love and respect

Manny 2010

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a silhouette image that portrayed emotion, but of all the dangerous addictive substances out there, I would say that emotions are the root cause of them all. I’m of the very unconventional persuasion that drugs and alcohol are evolutionary tools, in that they can open you up to incredible experiences, epiphanies and glimpses of your mystical nature and greatest human potentials. But substances are like friends; you experience so much with them and learn so much from them, and then you just seem to move on to new things. It’s hard to find friends that stick around for your whole life. Perhaps alcohol in moderation is the friend that sticks around for life and doesn’t bring too much chaos and pain. The main problem with substances comes from allowing them to become an addiction instead of an evolutionary tool. (In the grand scheme of things, overcoming addiction and using your experience to further your life IS a massive evolutionary tool, don’t get me wrong on that.)

I think that there’s a lack of inspiring mentors in the mainstream media, and an often gloomy outlook on life that drives us toward addiction. There is a lack of attractive models of living available to us, so many of us naturally gravitate towards drugs because it provides us with creativity, insight, euphoria, comfort, bliss, confidence power, etc. Again, addiction and long term (or bingeing) usage is the problem as it creates massive imbalance in not only our mind and body, but also in our bodily energy system. Substances drain our organs of vitality and chi, and this leaves us in states of frustration and emptiness, where we struggle to find our way back to bliss, or even just a sense of balance.

I learned this the ‘hard’ way after hammering my organs with hydroponic dope smoking and a cocktail of chemical stimulant experiments over a period of four years or so. At first it all felt magical, creative, life affirming, but over time I burned out fast and crashed into a breakdown. If it wasn’t for my discovery of the mystical, creative and self development path in life, I may have never bounced back from the breakdown. I met a man name Jost Sauer, who’s a specialist in Traditional Chinese Medicine and holistic drug repair. His non judgmental approach, his relativistic and integral philosophy and post drug training methods have helped hundreds to thousands of people on the path of recapturing their highs the natural way and overcoming the imbalances the addictions cause. His methods certainly helped me; the blend of yoga, chi gung, balanced diet, weight training and meditation (was already practicing meditation though) helped me to regain balance, focus, health and happiness in my day to day life.

I see no reason for us to feel shame or guilt for past or present drug and alcohol usage or addiction. My questions are: So where can I go from here? What can I make from this? How can I apply what I’ve learned and use it to create a magical life for myself? How can I serve others with what I’ve learned? You can certainly recapture those highs and live an incredible life after addiction, it just takes time, focus and discipline. In the process you really get to know yourself and build a strong bridge to your core or soul.

In conclusion, I believe that all addictions  begin with the emotions, and can be broken through an emotional and spiritual breakthrough; and by engaging in a range of practices such as Jost’s post drug programs or even the freedom in motion practices (found in my upcoming book) we can overcome, transcend and include what we’ve learned. “Pain is your friend if you use it for drive.” – Tony Robbins.

Jost’s website: www.jostsauer.com

With love
- Manny

Where would you rather be? (Culture & Cohesion)

Is it true that we simply have ‘country people’ and ‘city people’? I’m fascinated at people’s reasons for living in either the city or country. As a generalisation, you notice alot of country and small town people are less educated, less inspired, not as well spoken and hardly articulate. City people are often more educated, savvy, creative, socially involved, and very articulate. Of course there are so many city people who haven’t found their own rhythm yet in any way yet, and lots of friendly, open minded country people who leave the city because it cramps their creativity.

I personally found it difficult to find friends and mentors in a country town that were inspiring to me in an integral kinda way. In the city I’ve met countless people who have such well rounded personalities and great talents, while also remaining down to earth. I’ve observed that friends and families in small towns can be really disjointed, disconnected and caught up in rather ‘petty’ rivalries. I see that as such a shame, for if I had to live in a small community, the most important thing to me would be to be a part of a strong community culture, and to have good lines of communication with people. I guess it’s the same with the city and country; people live to meet their own needs, and often forget the beauty of people culture ~ community culture. I was hoping and praying for most of my childhood life to escape the small town life and embrace the city. There is alot of culture in the city, but for the most part there is a massive lack of connection and cohesion amongst people in Australian, and dare I say western society.

If only we could all be grounded in a collective understanding.

Knowing that we are all brothers and sisters and treating eachother accordingly.

If only we all had a huge leap in perspective to find that mystical place in us that reinforces that global sense of brotherhood and non violence… that we’re all in this together.

Personally, I can’t just live for myself, my family and my immediate social network. I’m not on a matyr quest to save the world, but I know what personal freedom is, and I know what culture feels like, and I’ll do my best to share that flame of inspiration through my creative endeavours, for as long as I grace the earth with my quirky presence

With love,

- Manny

Good and Bad ~ Right and Wrong

Whatever you are thinking or doing is neither right nor wrong. You are free to choose your own mode of integrity and set your own moral compass. Nothing is better or worse than anything else. There is no good or bad, and nothing has any meaning except the meaning we give to it. We live in a universe of neutrality, the universe does not take sides, but simply gives us the resources we need to empower ourselves as individuals and communities in our journey through life.

We are so conditioned to filter our experience by labeling, judging, measuring the worth of people and events around us, but this constant cycle only reinforces our disconnection from the world around us and our internal suffering. What we all want is to be loved, accepted and appreciated for who we are, right now in this moment. By extending that to the people around you, you become the change we need to make a better, or more free, balanced, integral, fulfilled world. People may not exactly extend that form of love to you right now, but if you nurture yourself with love, acceptance and appreciation, you will be more empowered, and free from the voices on the outside that dictate and limit so much of our lives.

I’m sure you have a dream for your life; a vision that inspires you and gives you a sense of purpose and enthusiasm for your future. Don’t let other people impose their limitations upon you, because what you desire is your own unique blueprint and you deserve to take the risk to go out and live it. You may be judged and criticised, but you can learn the communication skills to overcome those outside challenges. Just know that whatever it is you are dreaming, thinking, doing or planning to do; it’s not good or bad, right or wrong; it just is what it is. Like everything else that comes up in our life experience, it’s there to challenge and bless you, to encourage you to keep growing and evolving. It’s perfect, and it’s yours.

There are no victims: It’s not what happens to you, It’s how you perceive it.

Nothing is good or bad, wrong or right unless you subjectively label it as being so. By using slightly different language we can break out of the constant judgment pattern that only causes us inner turbulence.

So when you ask “Is that good or bad?”…all we can say is “it simply is what it is!”

Hitler. Good or Bad?

McDonalds. Good or Bad?

Injuries and health challenges. Good or Bad?

My conclusion is this: (This is the inspiring part)

People are always saying that ‘everything happens for a reason.’ I am convinced that everything happens to help us grow. Why? Because everything in this world is growing and being transformed into something else, and it’s simply the nature of life for us to grow and evolve (will go into this more in another post). So although we label people and events as being good or bad as we swing between the emotions or resentment and infatuation ~ nothing is actually good or bad, but all the people in our lives and the experiences we endure actually give us opportunities to grow, to become more whole, complete, fulfilled. So we’re talking about an invisible intelligence here that equilibrates our extremes and beckons us into wholeness by shaking us out of our patterns and reminding us to be balanced. Reflect back on your life, and I am sure that you can see the interconnectedness and the way all the pain (and pleasure) you’ve endured has helped you to grow, or can help you to breakthrough and evolve now and in the future.

We’ll continue to explore these ideas in further blogs, but for now I really need to keep writing my book. Hopefully you can get your hands on a copy when it’s published and we’ll explore together in greater depth. Also stay tuned for video blogs and other upcoming mediums of expression.

With love

- Manny

Destructive, reckless living is fun and sexy, & plays a good role in the game of life, but doesn’t last. You can be the coolest motherfucker alive, & still be healthy. All the old bad asses are doing it now; Trent Reznor, David Bowie, Billy Corgan, Jost Sauer. Embracing reality is the new cool. Escaping reality was old school. You can recapture & exceed your past highs by riding the spiral of your integral evolution.

Integral evolution – Steady progressive development in all areas of your life. Meditation. Relationships. Education/Self eduction/Research. Cardio. Weight training. Social life. Time management. Self management. Finances. Creativity. Sex.

For some of the leading cutting edge teachers in this field check out: Ken Wilber, Jost Sauer, Dr John Demartini.

Welcome to The Manny Molecular Project, and to my page,

At this point, you may know very little about me, and I understand that you could be a little mystified or confused about the project, and my relationship with it. This is my opportunity to clarify everything for you, and introduce you to my work.

I was Born as Shane James Cole, and changed my first name to Manny when I was twenty (more…)

As an integral part of my passion and project, I am now interviewing people who have something that they’d love to share with the world. The first interview was with Jost Sauer, a lecturer in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Author who has created a unique approach to post drug healing and “the art of living”. Secondly is Emily Gowor, a 21 year old prodigy in the field of self development, with philosophical wisdom that goes way beyond her years. Today I interviewed Gede Parma, an internationally published Pagan author and priest, who’s a very passionate, active and insightful young guy. I believe he’s actually 21 years old too, the same as Emily. I will work the interview and have it for you soon.

Here is a link to the interviews page on The Spiral Community http://mannymolecular.com/community/articles/category/Interviews-on-the-cutting-edge

Check out their websites!

www.jostsauer.com

www.emilygowor.com

www.gedeparma.com

Stay tuned for some articles and updates on this space. Right now I’m working on a range of projects and writing my first book, so I’ll keep you updated on that. Please join The Spiral Community and interact with me there. Here’s a link to my community profile where you’ll find other articles written by me http://mannymolecular.com/community/manny_m – - – Also check out the “Articles” section on the main page of the community where you’ll find interviews I’m doing with interesting and unique individuals.

I’ve always been drawn to, and affected by the power of symbols. I’m certainly no Tom Hanks from the Davinci Code series though, and as matter of fact, you could say I really know shit about symbolism! Nonetheless I do know that people (more…)