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Expanding the Consciousness Through Golf It's been said that the mystical journey is like playing golf. The first time you play you have no idea what you're doing and get a hole in one. As you play more your playing deteriorates and you spend the rest of you life trying to regain the hole in one experience. When you first play you are relaxed and with no idea what to do, your body performs in a natural way. You are guided by your unconscious mind as there is nothing else to tell you any different. After a few attempts, however, you develop certain ideas and you listen to these rather than your unconscious mind. Eventually, after years of practice and training you are able to play like a novice again but now you have full understanding of what you're doing. This is the key to mysticism as the mystical journey is about expanding your consciousness so that what is usually unconscious activity becomes within the conscious realm. Some mystics are able to slow their breathing or heart rate. Some Tibetan Buddhists are able to stay out in extreme cold with just a thin blanket by producing inner heat. I've mentioned before ('Professional Incompetence') about how people can be unconsciously competent, and playing golf is an example of this. We live in a dream and we have to become aware of what we are doing and of what is going on around us. We must also raise our energy levels as this makes us more vibrant so that experiences become sharper. Then the impressions can move from the unconscious realm into the conscious realm.