Gerald G Jampolsky

Gerald G Jampolsky Introduction

Jampolsky studied and received his Ph.D. from Stanford Medical School and then worked as a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. A meeting in 1974 with Swami Muktananda, let him experience previously unknown states of consciousness which brought him closer to God.  This encounter was a turning point in his life. He was professionally very successful but experienced the loss of his first wife through divorce and serious alcohol abuse.

In 1975, he founded the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon ( California ), where children and young people with disabilities or aggravated diseases were helped. The center was based on the idea that people from all cultures who deal with illnesses, disasters, or challenges in their lives can find support. Following his example, more than 130 centers have been established throughout the world.   In 1978 Dr. Jampolsky established the international scale project “Children as Teachers for Peace”, which gives children the opportunity to express their own ideas for shaping the future of humanity.  Wikipedia

Many of my recommended authors did have issues with Alcohol abuse. There is a lot of fear in our lives at the moment. The COVID-19 virus, radicalised terrorism, racism, religious persecution, and global political infighting are straining relations around the world.

Does anyone remember “The Law of Attraction” – ‘That which is like unto itself is drawn” vibrations are always matched. We focus our energy and attention on what we manifest in our lives. Wouldn’t we prefer to be on the Love roundabout?

Love is Letting Go of Fear

Love is about freedom, a release of the negativity of fear and its aspects. Remember fear comes in so many different forms that it can be confusing. The scary part is that it creeps in unconsciously. There are only two feelings, Love and Fear. When we are in love the whole world opens up for us. We need first to love ourselves with all our imperfections.

Is fear holding you back from the things you desire to achieve in life? Would you like better relationships that are filled with love and joy? Would you like to rid yourself of toxic emotions that are preventing you from being what God has meant you to be?

In Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Dr. Jampolsky gives you 12 easy steps to follow that will allow you to attain a life without unrealistic fear. You’ll find new creative energy through forgiveness, a powerful emotion that cannot be ignored. And you’ll discover how people can actually overcome serious illnesses or disabilities through a change in mental perspective. You’ll also learn:

• What it really means to be free.
• How guilt and fear become ingrained in someone.
• The importance of shifting your perception to get through difficult circumstances.
• What frightened people really want.
• How to enrich others with their own potential.
• And much more.

People who have practised Dr. Jampolsky’s steps have experienced and enjoyed inner serenity and felt newfound unshakable confidence in themselves. This newfound confidence has then emanated to those around them, and the world in general.

The 12 Lessons

The book is broken up into twelve lessons that lead us on the path to peace. Isn’t that what we all want?

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
― Gerald G. Jampolsky,

This book has a simple message just like the title. Don’t complicate it because that’s what we do. Our thoughts create our reality and this book helps us to repurpose our thoughts. It talks about, how what we give, is what we receive. A show of compassion and respect for a brother is reflected. This is love in all its splendour, it is unconditional, it doesn’t ask for anything in return. It tells us that the key to happiness is forgiveness. We unconsciously make judgments and judgments are a form of attack. Attack results in defense and so on it goes on and on and on, so boring.

Lesson six starts us off on a new pathway. lesson seven tells us not to judge (watch our thoughts like a hawk) and to live in the present. Steps eight and nine deal with time, there is only this instant. Now peace arrives and we elect to change all thoughts that hurt (Attack or Defense). When you move up to a higher level of awareness or tune in to the oneness of our spiritual frequency, it’s a moment of joy. The power of now is the only time there is. I am responsible for my thoughts. Amen.  

Goodbye to Guilt

Here is another great book by Dr. Jampolsky. Do you believe you have an EGO? I particularly don’t like the word so I call it some other words like “dark side” or “false self” (Split mind). It’s really, resistance to love. There is a real fear of that word and the only thing that stops us from fully experiencing love is guilt. Guilt is part of our psychic, pseudo-personality, or false self-mind. Good name for it right!! So this false self believes it has to protect you against your holy self. You’re holy self, your true identity as a child of God. All triggers are a call for self-love as we believe that guilt and fear are real. Well, they are not, and if you think they are then your ego gotta by the short and curly’s 😂. In clear and beautiful prose Dr. Jampolsky tells us that peace is a conscious choice. Saying goodbye to guilt is a vital step in making that choice.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when fearful. When we release the fearful past through forgiveness, we experience total love and oneness with all. – Gerald Jampolsky

From my experience, if I find myself in an altercation with another it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong or who forgives. What remains on a human level is resentment and guilt. Human emotions. In this book, Dr. Jampolsky takes us to a higher level of awareness to address these negative emotions. If we are willing to see a call for love and answer it. We are choosing love and healing, both for ourselves and our brother. We are talking now about the spiritual, a higher level of consciousness. At this level, we move above the dark side of our minds and experience true unconditional love without judgment. At that level, we look past your brother’s dark side and see the light within, pure unadulterated perfect love.

Guilt.

Do I experience guilt, yes of course I do, I’m just human after all 😂. ACIM states that you have but two emotions, love and fear. Love is changeless but continually exchanged. In this exchange, it is extended for it increases as it is given. Guilt is just another aspect of fear and fear in any form when you think about it, is insane. Attack thoughts hurt both the giver and the receiver. There are no winners. Guilt is triggered by just one dark thought and it expands to cause us great discomfort. You feel this through the body, our communication device. So we are looking past what the body’s senses tell us to a higher level of intelligence. Look past the dark side to the all-encompassing blinding bright side.

A Course in Miracles.

A Course in Miracles is a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches that the way to universal love and peace is by undoing guilt through forgiving others1. The book was written by Helen Schucman in 19762. The underlying premise is that the greatest “miracle” is the act of simply gaining a full “awareness of love’s presence” in a person’s life. The teaching aims at completely changing how we view the world, ourselves, and God. It offers us a way of correcting our distorted perception so that we can see ourselves and the world more clearly.

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