The Owner's Manual

Spiritual Purification

A spiritual purification technique is a simple practice that we can do every day that cleans our energy body and makes us feel better. It gives us better energy and enables us to feel peace, youth and love and to be more creative. It also keeps the physical healthy and makes the body a responsive and pleasurable place to be.

Mind

Judging the quality of every thought as it flows through our consciousness. The Buddha called it the supreme technique of enlightenment. Learning to transform our negative thoughts and feelings into positive  thoughts ad feelings is a part of this technique. Reading and memorizing the Scriptures and great ideas is also a part of this mind mastery.

Mantra Yoga/Chanting is a great way to master our thoughts and feelings. A mantra is a high quality word or thought. Mantra yoga means to repeat and meditate on this thought. Mantra yoga means to repeat and meditate on this thought until we have mastered it. Most people have already absorbed  so much garbage from their parents and culture that it might take them 50 to 100 years to heal our emotional minds. So it is best to start now. It is a great spiritual journey to understand and master our own mind.

The great mantra the Creator gave us is “Aum Namaha Shivaiya,” and He also gave it to Moses in the burning bush. But all we have left of it in the current Bible is “Ya Va” and “Amen” or “Omen.” “Aum” or “Om” means Infinite Being. “Sivaya,” means Infinite Intelligence. “Namaha,” means Infinite Manifestation. “Aum Namaha Shivay,” is a high quality thought. Remembering and meditating on it brings us into the Presence of God and bring God into our mind and body. The mind is a powerful goal achieving mechanism. We must always consciously select a goal for our mind to work on. Reaching one worthwhile goal after another is success consciousness.

Negative thoughts and feelings create misery, failure and ill health. Wholesome thoughts and feelings have a tendency to create happiness and a beautiful successful life. It takes time and effort sometimes to change our thoughts and feelings. The Bible says, “God is not willing for anyone to perish, but for all to come to a knowledge of repentance,” (see Peter 3:9). the knowledge of repentance is the science of changing our mind – our habits of thinking, feeling and behavior. Repentance means to constantly improve our lifestyle. It is possible for us to conquer disease and death, senility and aging. We can become One with the God and realize practical Everlasting Life in Spirit, Mind and Body.

People can get away with negative thinking for a while, but sooner or later it manifests in some destructive way and the punishment continues until our thoughts are changed or we die.

The Love of Life is that thought is creative. All thoughts produce results and the thoughts we indulge in – good or bad – produce the most results. We are imprisoned by negative thoughts until we change them – until we forgive them. The science of building or destroying thought structure is the Science of Life.

Earth

Earth purification is basically food mastery and exercise. Food mastery means to learn what our body actually needs, how much and how often. Earth means good nutrition and it means to fast regularly to give our internal organs a rest. Fasting is an important rule in the Owners Manual. Leonard Orr advocated to fast once per week on liquids only. But you have to experiment to discover what works and is good for your body and mind.

Vegetarianism is a basic requirement for mental and physical health. Leonard got sick once per year until he became a vegetarian. The Shiva Purana which records millions of years of human history, no only says that eating meat is a sin, it tells us that only demons ate meat. The popularity of humans eating meat is synonymous with the popularity of physical death. Vegetarian cultures produce more immortal yogi master and meat-eating countries produce more violence, diseases and crime.

If the wages of sin is death, then eating dead animals is the basic mortal sin that produces death by heart disease, cancer and other popular terminal diseases. Studies show that giving up eating meat can heal heart disease in only one to three months.

During the Ramayana times 130,000 years ago everyone knew that physical death was optional. The culture of Ram and Sita was based on spiritual purification and it was common for people to live 5,000 years or longer. The Bible history begins with people living 500 to 1,000 years and records the end of the great spiritual culture established by Ram and Sita.

God has started many new cultures throughout the millions of years of human history by creating new people like Adam and Eve. God has created people out of light, water and other ways as well as earth like he created Adam and Eve out of Adam. Creating a woman out of a man is quite rare.

The Earth changes that are prophesied – if they happen – will wipe out the coils or materialistic-deathist culture and give humanity a new start. We don’t have to wait for this destruction, we can begin to build a new civilization now and implement spiritual purification practices in our community.

Everybody needs a good personal exercise system such as the 5 Tibetan Rites, Hatha Yoga, Tai Chi or Chi Gung for instance.

There are many other ways of doing earth purification including; using crystals, flower essences, hiking, drumming, dancing, receiving body work/massage, manual labour or simply sitting in a forest.

Earth also includes our daily work and having a career that we love, winning at the money game and how we relate to the world.

Fasting and exercise not only heal the body, but also the emotional mind. A day of fasting can make our depression more intense but continual fasting usually produces a breakthrough by the end of the day and also dissolves the feeling depression, anger and many other emotional problems. We have to learn patience, balance and safety while fasting. It is better to do short fasts regularly than long fasts. Fasting cleans the soul as well as the body and fills us with Divine Energy.

Experimenting with nutrition fasting and exercise is a basic principle of the Owner’s Manual.

Air

Breathing energy as well as air is a fantastically valuable ability. Leonard discovered the secrets of the human breath in 1974 and spread it around the world.

Most people can learn this powerful and miraculous breathing ability in ten one to two hour lessons with a Rebirther who has been properly trained. Energy breathing is fun and pleasurable to do. When done properly conscious breathing produces ecstasy. This simple method of spiritual breathing normally takes us directly and instantly into the Presence of God.

You don’t have to die to feel God. The body is the Temple of God. To feel God in your body is the best place to feel Him/Her. Conscious energy breathing is often called a biological experience of God. It is easy to practice when you learn connected breathing and learn to breathe from the Breath itself.

Conscious breathing or energy breathing is a healing ability that makes people more spiritually self-sufficient. Intuitive breathing energizes the body and mind. It cleans the blood and the nervous system. Doing it daily or regularly is a basic rule of the Owner’s Manual. You can heal your mind and body by consciously breathing Divine Energy. It is a wonderful tool. It is an ability you can use forever, once you have learned it.

Connecting inhale to exhale in a relaxed rhythm purifies and nourishes the mind and body. Breathing cleans the energy body. It gives us fresh pure life energy that makes us feel good, creative and productive and well as peaceful. We can breathe away bad feelings with the technique. It is possible to breathe away depression, sadness, anger, jealousy, hate, tension and also physical pain. Newborn babies naturally breathe this way, but we lose this ability as a result of our negative thoughts and experiences. All the tension and emotional energy pollution we collect, inhibits our breathing ability more every year, until we master energy breathing and enough other spiritual purification practices to keep our energy body clean and balanced.

Energy breathing is our birth-right. It is a gift of our natural divinity, but we have to learn how to consciously master it and do it regularly. People who have learned it routinely heal diseases like asthma, epilepsy, migraine headaches, the common cold, AIDS and many other diseases. Conscious breathing sounds so simple and natural that no one believes in its miraculous healing power until it is experienced. Most people experience this power in less than 10 2 hour sessions with a good Rebirther. This ability can be yours. To select a good Rebirther it is recommended to interview 3 or 4 before choosing one to do your 10 sessions with.

Intuitive breathing, while our body is immersed and relaxed in warm bath, is especially valuable and powerful. Jesus said, “Until we are born of water and the breath we cannot enter the Kingdom of God,” (John 3).

Rebirthing Breathwork is learning to breathe from the Breath itself. Conscious breathing is the Breath of Life, the Breath of God for our own healing, happiness and success. It is very simple and very powerful.

Conscious Energy Breathing is an essential recommendation of our Owner’s Manual.

Water

Bathing twice a day is a marvelous spiritual purification practice that cleans and balances our energy body, physical body and emotional body. It is best to bathe immediately after getting out of bed and it is valuable to bathe before sleeping.

Leonard noticed that all the immortal yogis he had met bathe before sunrise and and before sunset. There is a special value to this practice, buy you should try it when you can and discover for yourself what it does for you.

Warm water opens and cleans our chakras. Cold water cleans and closes them, which is important when we enter the world.

Showers work but the Baptists are right, soaking our bodies in a warm bath cleans the energy body (our spiritual body – our soul) more thoroughly. Warm water relaxes us.

The Sacrament of Baptism is the symbol for water purification. Bathing twice per day is the reality of that symbol Water has spiritual power and can heal both mind and body.

Sometimes it’s great to breathe through a snorkel whilst in the bathtub. Only do it for a short amount of time, so you don’t get into an energy cycle if you haven’t had a warm water rebirthing session with a Rebirther. This is because connected breathing in warm water can bring up womb or birth memories. If you have warm water rebirthing experience then of course you can breathe yourself through whatever arises.

Knowing the quality of the water you drink it also important. Drinking enough contributes to good health. Drink plenty of pure water each day and check your water quality. Natural mineral water from source is always the best. If you don’t have your own borehole or spring then you’ll probably need to purify your drinking water. When water has gone through the reverse osmosis process not only are the impurities taken out but also all of the minerals. It’s best to remineralize RO water with natural rock salt and trace mineral drops.

Having indoor plumbing and warm water may be the greatest spiritual virtue of our modern civilization. It could be one contributing factor to longer life spans!

The conscious use of water is an essential part of our Owner’s Manual instructions. It is the power of God for practical daily relaxation and productive activity.

Fire

Understand and using the spiritual power of fire to clean out our energy body is as important to mental and physical health as food. Fire is the polar opposite of water. Fire purification means to sit near an open flame. Sometimes we may need only a few minutes with fire. Other times we may need to live with fire 24 hours per day in order to heal ourselves. Fire can burn away the causes o many diseases out of our energy body – our aura. Fire helps to clean our aura. The human aura is the electromagnetic field around and penetrating the body. It is also called the rainbow body. Many people have the ability to see the shapes and colors of the aura. When we sit near a fire our aura turns through the flames. The fire burns away negative emotional energy pollution. Sitting with fire can lift depression, tension and pain right out of our mind and body. Fire can give us energy, healing, relaxation and peace.

Fire also nourishes our energy body with fresh, powerful life energy – prana.

The most important value of fire is not to keep us warm but to clean and nourish our emotional body. Fire can bury away the death urge and persistent negative emotions faster than anything.

The fire ceremony was the basis of Biblical religion as well as Indian and many other religions, but the true spiritual and healing power of ire was only understood by yogis.

Fire purification and bathing work well together as a powerful self-healing system.

Spending a day meditating with the fire and soaking in water two or more times for a few hours while breathing in a relaxing bath can help heal most mental and physical diseases. When you combine these practices with good thoughts proper nutrition and regular exercise, you have a fundamental servicing system for the human mind and body. It can keep you healthy and happy.

Why not construct your own fire temple? Also know in India as a dhuni. A fire temple is simply a roof over a fire pit so that it can be used during all weather types. Build one is a public place so that other people can use it.

“Earth, Air, Water ad Fire are the physical quality of God – the Eternal Vehicle of Grace.” Leonard Orr.

The principles of our Owner’s Manual are built into the universe. These simple spiritual practices can clean our mind more efficiently than the mind and clean the mind.

The first six principles are Mind, Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Love.

The spiritual purification practices are like the four wheels of a car, if you don’t have one of the wheels the care doesn’t drive well. To continue the analogy – the mind is like the driver of the car and Love is the body that keep us safe and warm and may contain a stereo to comfort us with beautiful music.

Most religions are based upon only one or two of these practices. Therefore, they have all failed for thousands of years to produce salvation as well as lasting success and happiness.

Without all of these practices used all together in our lives people become stiff.

According to the Shiva Purana, in the beginning of human history people did all the practices and lived for thousands of years. Human degradation and the popularity of death is a recent phenomena – only 5,000 years old.

This is when the culture of spiritual practices that we are teaching here was lost. Abraham expected that he or his sons would resurrect the religion of his patriarchs but instead his sons’ life spans became shorter. Abraham lived to be 175 and Sarah 127 their son Isaac lived to 180 and his sons Jacob to 139 and Joseph to 110.

We are now living in the age when we will experience Heaven on earth or total destruction, depending on our lifestyle.  Mahavatar Babaji said that most people are heading towards destruction.

Whenever you see a major “natural” disaster you can suspect that it is the mass death urge present, caused by a degraded quality of life. “The punishment for abusing life is death.”

It is good to have the belief and understand the philosophy of physical immortality to motivate yourself to do the practices. Read ‘Breaking the Death Habit: The Science of Everlasting Life,’ by Leonard Orr.

The unconscious death urge is responsible for self-sabotage and failure of business, marriages, or mental and physical health and all kinds of human suffering and misery. It is the source of depression, victim-consciousness, fear hate and prejudice, violence, war, disease, hopelessness, homicide as well as suicide. All death is suicide, but we don’t see it because we look at world through the perspective of the death urge. Most people don’t question their belief systems about it. They go to the grave willingly… and even organize their burial ceremony. Breaking free to open your mind to other possibilities is up to you and you can choose to live longer.

Each of the practices by itself can heal the death urge temporarily but it takes using them all to give us enough aliveness and joy of life to maintain sustainable victory.

Traditionally, most people do surrender to the negative thoughts and feelings in their own mind and surrender to the death urge of their family tradition or that of others in their environment, unless they build a spiritual community based upon the practices we are describing here.

“Death has not power except what we give to it in our own mind.” Leonard Orr.

The purpose of this Owner’s Manual is to liberate us from the ignorance and delusion of our deathist culture.

Love

Maintaining love and fun in all our human relationships is an important part of our Owner’s Manual. If feels good to be an honest and ethical person living in harmony.

Love not only includes kindness, it also includes community participation and political responsibility. Democracy is in serious danger of disappearing in all countries around the world.

Neighborhood representation – having an elected full-time leader for every thousand people – can restore the power and enlightenment of republican democracy. It is our responsibility to see that government of people, by the people and for the people does not perish from the Earth. We can do it, but we have to do it now! Ten dollars per month per person from 1,000 people can supply to salary for a full-time presentative for everyone and a budget for a year-round grass roots organization for everyone and both are always serving US. This is a way we can free ourselves from oppressive government bureaucracies, stupid laws and taxes that drive us into poverty.

Love means spiritual community and spiritual family in which we give and receive support for spiritual growth and personal healing. Within the Rebirthing community you can find this in ‘One Year Seminars.’  Spiritual family is the best form of therapy we can experience. Everyone should have a monthly local meeting available to them for their support, education and social enrichment.

Loving relationships and citizen responsibility is an instruction in the Owner’s manual that makes it easier for everyone to realize their natural divinity.

Grace

Grace means that we have an abundant Life Force – God – who takes care of us whether we deserve it or not. To practice grace means to be always thankful for life and its lessons even when they are unpleasant. The kicks in life are for the purpose of teaching us something. When we learn the lesson, then we deserve grace and we can enjoy God’s love for us

Grace is the ground of our being, but we cannot receive it or God’s love as long as we are invalidating it, denying and running away from it. When we learn from this mistake and surrender to God’s love and grace, then we deserve it because it is a quality of our divine nature. It is a sin to be trapped in our messed up, self-degrading thinking and indulge in low self-esteem. Romans 8 says: “sufferings in this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us when we are delivered from the bondage of corruption to the glorious liberty of God when we experience the redemption of our body.” This has been the gospel of Christianity and most other religions for thousands of years; when are we going to accept it and live it?

Grace means practicing the Presence of God. It means to realize that God is always present in the space between our thoughts as well as in our thoughts. We are always the Eternal Spirit, thinking and living.

Practicing grace should make us a gracious person. Devotion to God earns grace.

Grace is when our love for God meets God’s love for us. Grace means falling in love with God.

Grace is the power of forgiveness that sometimes prevents our mistakes sometimes prevents our mistakes from harming us and sometimes heals the damage done by our mistakes. The paradox is that the more grace we have, the more we trust grace and the more perfect we are. Grace is the power and energy of Infinite Being.

Earth, Air, Water and Fire practices are the Eternal Vehicles of Grace. They work for us whether we believe in them or not. Taking a shower or a bath removes spiritual dirt – sin – automatically. Exposing our aura to an open flame removes pain and tension automatically and nourishes us with fresh life energy. Energy breathing is pure grace. Fasting heals whether we believe it does or not. These simple practices restore Peach, our Life Energy, our Joy of Life and induce creativity and productivity.

Saints and Teachers

Sometimes we discover a very wise or good person. It is wise to spend time with these people and honor them and learn as much as we can from them. Learning from people may be the fastest way to learn. We learned negative emotions and habits from our parents and others as well as positive thoughts and patterns. Now that we are becoming aware of truth, we can consciously choose high quality friends. We choose friends and then our friends largely control the quality of our life. Environment can be stronger than willpower, but we can also transform our environment.

We also need to realize that some people in teaching positions are not wise and don’t really understand life. Some people in the position of authority don’t deserve to be there. We can replace them. We should always question authority and think for ourselves because we have to live with the consequences. Also it is possible that we are more intelligent and enlightened than we realize because our Divine Nature is always the biggest aspect of our personality whether we are aware of it or not.

Leonard Orr met Babaji who is the Eternal Father in human form. He is called the Angel of the Lord in the Bible. Babaji appears to thousands of people all over the world everyday. He cann appear to you. He has other names in other scriptures. He is called Shiva Yogi in the Shiva Purana. He is called Khadir in the Koran. Jesus called him Abba in the chapter of Mark in the Bible. Abba is a Sanskrit word, which is the intimate form of the word Babaji. The word Babaji means Ruling Father.

Leonard Orr also met several immortal yogis who are hundreds and some thousands of years in the same body. They are very wise and deserve to be called Saints. Being with them is an enlightening experience.

It really is beneficial for a person to look for saintly and wise people so that they can learn from them. Unless you have accessed “authentic” guides in your meditations. It is good to have many spiritual teachers, even if they are only our children! Leonard accepted his daughter as his guru, therapist and healer. It was one of the best decisions he made. Our children are the mirrors of our unconscious minds.

Having enough pure people in our life makes life easy and more pleasurable. It is an intelligent thing to give ourselves enough support. We should not limit ourselves to one guru or teacher, but almost everyone needs an enlightened person to impose a little discipline. Having at least one enlightened spiritual teacher in our life makes the school of hard knocks less bumpy. We have to have one guru before we can have two.

God, the Conscious Self, our personal connection to Infinite Intelligence, is the ultimate guru for all of us.

The is a basic principle in the Owner’s Manual for all of us.

Rest

The Sabbath day principle is a good practice, but it doesn’t have to be a certain day because you can choose when to do it.

Sometimes resting one day is not enough. Sometimes you may need to rest and heal for a week, a month or even longer than a year. To rest means to listen, to do nothing and to practice silence.

To rest at least one day per week enables us to enjoy the other six days at least twice as much and to accomplish more. Knowing when to take rest and practice relaxation is an important point on our Owner’s Manual.

Neglecting these principles leads to career burnout and non-functional behavior, which can lead to hopelessness. When we use up the life energy we were given at birth, we have to learn how to resurrect it in our Mind and Body or become non-functional. The practices in this book leads to conscious rejuvenation and renewal of our life force.

Are we living in an age when people have enough self-esteem to become spiritual adults? Are you yet capable of true self-knowledge and being responsible for your own health and healing processes. So keep reading this material, study it until you master it. After you’ve mastered the basics, God will start speaking with you directly and begin playing with you and even appearing to you on a regular basis. Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Babaji personally told Leonard that “Earth, Air, Water and Fire are the Eternal sadhana.” Sadhana is the path of spiritual practices that lead to self-mastery, which includes the body. Many immortal yogis also these practices with Earth, Air, Water and Fire.

The Shiva Purana teaches that Earth, Air, Water and Fire are incarnations of God. As such they have intelligence: they reveal God to us and in us! They can speak to us and teach us more than the mind can imagine. They can do much more – they can clean and balance the Energy Body – our eternal soul. For a mind to acknowledge this – this is the supreme wisdom of the mind.

Energy becomes what it thinks about and when our thoughts are materialized – manifested into physical reality – they tend to take on the eternal nature of the Energy out of which they are made.

An intelligent mind bows respectfully to these truths. An intelligent mind honors the power of Earth, Air, Water and Fire. An intelligent mind bows to the relative supremacy of the body and the physical universe over the mind itself, who created them.

You now know the basic principles of the Owner’s Manual

You can learn more by practicing them and by studying the scriptures. Jesus said “if any one keep my sayings, he or she will never see death.”

In the Essene Gospel of Peace, Jesus presents a similar program of spiritual purification.

We lear the secret of breathing from the breath itself, we can only learn the secrets of fasting from doing fasting, we can only learn the secrets of Fire from the fire itself, we learn the secrets of Water from bathing, we learn Grace through devotion to God, we learn the secrets of the Saints by spending time with them, we learn the secrets of Rest by resting and we learn the secrets of the Mind by thinking.

We can only know life by participating and it is important to be able to just be!

We can choose ignorance or wisdom. To choose wisdom brings purification, pleasure and personal aliveness. The cause and effect relationship of our thoughts and actions are not always obvious. Good habits produce a beautiful and productive life.

Bad habits make us more and more miserable.

The results of our habits are not always instantaneous. Sometimes they are gradual. Sometimes we must persist in a good habit for a year or longer before it produces the desired effect. To do this is wisdom.

We often need support and encouragement from others.

It is recommended that you read or listen to this message regularly, even daily until you have mastered it.

We have to constantly examine all the activities and people in our daily life until we know which ones contribute to our health and wellbeing. Eventually we reap what we sow.

Those acts which are in harmony with our Divine Nature usually make us feel good and more alive. Some acts feel good when we are doing them but produce bad effects later. To know which is which is wisdom.

If some of these simple spiritual practices are new to you, but you experiment with them, you will soon understand why the world doesn’t work and why there is crime and unhappiness.

They may take a little effort to do, but they are simple and will not produce results for you unless you actually do them. To persist in misery takes self-discipline, which is discipline with punishment attached.

Meditate on your energy body the next time you shower or take a bath and notice how different you feel before and after.

Build a fire in your fireplace or campfire in your garden and notice how it changes your feelings. Just sitting with a campfire for one to two hours energizes you and eases depression. Fire is the hidden secret to weight control and the guru belly syndrome.

Fast on liquids for a day.

Do enough exercise to enjoy your body and notice that you have a body. Get yourself in good physical condition.

Read a page of scripture every day or experiment with a mantra.

Reach out to your neighbors with love and participate in a community meeting. Be a responsible citizen.

Try resting in the presence of Go until it becomes a reality for you.