Our Future with RBI and the World
by Leonard Orr October 1999

After developing and perfecting Rebirthing-Intuitive Conscious Breathing in 1974 and spreading it all over the world for 25 years, I feel like I am just at the beginning of my success. The foundation is there!

But I am amazed at how superficial the Rebirthing-Breathwork is on the levels of the rational mind and the emotional mind in spite of the fantastic power and integrity Rebirthing embodies on the spiritual level. Rebirthing is and always has been working with Divine Energy. Our innocence and perhaps ignorance might be an asset in working for God with this Infinite Healing Energy.

However, as a result of our ignorance at the rational mind level and especially at the emotional mind level, most Rebirthers in the last 25 years have failed and are no longer working. They took a few dozen or less people through ten sessions and failed.They failed because they didn't understand business and money, but most of all because they didn't understand and couldn't confront the complexities of their own emotional mind. Everyone needs the support of a One Year Seminar, especially Rebirthers.

Self sabotage patterns coming from feelings of self hate, hopelessness, and helplessness that seem to be formed as a result of womb consciousness, infancy consciousness, living with unconscious parents, being raised in an unbalanced school system, living in a culture based upon the death urge, scarcity about spiritual enlightenment, religious poverty, and short term economic greed, have set the stage for superficial Rebirthers that betray their own success and also are dedicated to sabotage the success of others, including me and RBI.

Ultimately, success has to come from our personal dependence upon Infinite Being and Infinite Intelligence. But this dependence upon God can constantly be fed by our friends who are also connected to this same Source. However, when we are dominated by patterns of self sabotage, we automatically sabotage our friends and our relationship to them that could lead to cooperation and greater productivity - superficial criticism. We run away from our feelings into struggle, alienation, loneliness, and perpetual failure. Or we succeed too easily and too rapidly, but instant success often is temporary and this very success feeds our eventual disillusionment.

There is no intellectual sophistication without a thorough knowledge of and meditative integration of the great Scriptures of the world - especially The Shiva Purana which covers millions of years of human history in all its ups and downs. This should also include the great philosophers and the more recent Scriptures of Babaji in all His beautiful and enigmatic bodies. I have studied the Bible for over 40 years. It always inspired me and gives me nourishing and practical ideas.

It seems to take us 50 to 100 years to heal the emotional mind, so without embodying the idea of physical immortality and the simple practices of the immortal yogis with mantra yoga, earth, air, water, fire, and supreme loving patience, the human condition seems locked into superficiality and failure. The betrayal syndrome leading to political frustration if not oppression, seems inevitable and perpetual.

Democracy is not just in its infancy after 200 years, it seems to be on its way out. Democracy is dying and no one is willing to do anything about it. We are all waiting for someone else to solve the problems of society and most people seem to be dependent upon wages - being dependent upon someone to solve our economic problems. Meanwhile, farmers are going out of business, the money system and tax systems are hopelessly corrupt and getting worse, and we seem to be headed for massive economic collapse and starvation.

Running away from our feelings and the facts into positive thinking just makes the situation worse and accelerates it into the manifestation of the fears we desire not to face.

Rebirthers-Breathworkers have a key to peace, energy, and our personal connection to Infinite Intelligence, but without the conscious daily use of fire, mantra yoga, water purification, and earth mastery with proper nutrition, fasting, and exercising, this key is inadequate and produces temporary results. Humans are composed of mind, earth, air, water, fire, and love, and without a conscious relationship to these elements of our divine nature in balance, we are like a car trying to run on only one wheel. I won't go very far.

Career burn out is an international problem. It leads to disease - mental as well as physical, to failure, and to death. Unfortunately, most Rebirthers reach money burn out before they ever experience enough success to experience energetic burn out which is a much more chronic problem. But self employed or even corporate leaders and managers are experiencing this energetic burn out all over the world. (This is a big market of eager clients for Rebirthers with enough self esteem to go for it.) When career burn out happens, most people are unprepared for it and the corporate world of motivation and self improvement has no real solution for it. Only the personal spiritual purification technology of the immortal yogis works. It is so simple and obvious when you learn it, but who will teach it to them? So far, I seem to be the first to even consciously verbalize it and teach it.

It is a very simple system, but it is not superficial. It takes a few months or years to really learn it. It is not theoretical, the verbal knowledge doesn't help with the experiential self realization. To have the inner realization and certainty about the cause and effect relationship, we have to do enough experiments with the practices and evaluate the results. When we develop a practical belief in the principles and spiritual purification practices, we then are motivated to develop enough discipline to do the practices continually and build a life style that makes them conveniently, effortlessly, and culturally supported and available. We have the resources already prepared for us in our civilization - prepared by God working behind the scenes. But we have to be enlightened enough to use these resources.

We also have the political structure and bureaucratic services to create heaven on earth, but we have to participate as citizens. We have to exercise our citizenship responsibilities and participate in local, state, national, and international governments. Rebirthers-Breathworkers and spiritual healers have to descend out of their world of any fairy woo woo and participate in the real world regularly. Otherwise the quality of our environment degenerates to the point of sucking away our joy of life.

Everyone likes the benefits of the organization. With a little discipline and participation, you can have them all.

Many Rebirthers have been working in the Rebirthing Movement for 20 years - more or less. They have been around. We have worked together from time to time. We always love and support each other and yet without proper form in our relationship, our love and mutual support doesn't make the relationship work. Without a form - meeting in time and place - I just don't see my favorite friends very often. Decades can go by without contact.

I think over ten million people have received ten Rebirthing sessions since 1974. Probably close to 100,000 people have received enough training to give meaningful - if not the best - sessions. Yet I think there are only about 1000 full time Rebirthers worldwide that have earned their living as full time Rebirthers for over ten years. You can add to this over 1000 psychotherapists, body workers, healers, etc., that do Rebirthing part time. Then of course there are many thousands of Conscious Breathers that give sessions occasionally.

One thousand Rebirthers is a lot of energy and power. If we start working together and just do the minimum of meeting together once a year at the RBI Annual Rebirthers Convention, if we all contribute articles to the Conscious Connection newsletter, and if we all contribute $10 per month or $108 per year, RBI can fly and accomplish great things. I'm committed. The question is: Are You?

If you commit and join me, others will follow. Together we have a fantastic future. But alone, you know what to expect. Things will continue as they are.

Our dues have to be paid in an orderly manner that gets them properly recorded in our computer. Attendance at the Annual Rebirthers Convention makes the organization sing. Reading the newsletter, which means that your address has to be up to date, works great. Pooling our healing research and statistics is powerful.

The organization and my books produce a continuous flows of client referrals. But if the clients can't find you because I have no phone number for you in the computer, they get frustrated. I could multiply this simple benefit a thousand times, but it requires enough cash flow to have office personnel to handle the calls. We only list Rebirthers who pay their dues on time.

Having an RBI State Coordinator in every state can create all kinds of business for good Rebirthers. I'm in the process of appointing State Coordinators temporarily, then they will have to get themselves elected at the next Convention.

The new RBI business plan contains a way for these State Coordinators to get paid so they can afford to put some time into RBI business as well as their personal clients.

Having high quality trainings in every state is a fabulous benefit to Conscious Breathers who desire to experience deeper healing or become healing professionals.

Universities and public schools are getting desperately interested in Rebirthing. The interest is too much for me to handle. Getting Rebirthing into University curriculum is a long term project that takes intelligent consistent effort. Local Rebirthers in each state have to be coordinated to fill this demand for more space. University hospitals now have a budget for Rebirthers with enough self esteem to get the job.

Some Rebirthers work primarily in the corporate market. I can train Rebirthers to do this, but it takes more than one week of training.

If you understand what I'm talking about I'd like you to communicate with me and become an intimate part of my life.Please communicate now and keep communicating and participating until our spiritual family is real and powerful and effective. Producing results in the world gives satisfaction and the quality of our contribution creates high quality feed back in our community environment that can last a long time. Ram and Sita created a spiritual civilization that lasted over ten thousand years.

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