I just finished the book " Master of Harmlessness" by Ingo Swann and i would like to share some information about the book and the author:
Ingo Swann (1933-2013) was an American Artist, writer and
subject in parapsychology experiments. He was the inventor of remote viewing, a
repeatable technique that allows people to see distant places and record
impressions, images, tastes, smells and other information.
He was
internationally known as an advocate and researcher of the exceptional powers
of the human mind and body, and as a leading figure in governmental and
scientific projects to investigate and identify the scope of subtle human
perceptions.
After his time with the covert US Government program known by
its last iteration, Star Gate, Ingo – who earned the title of Father of Remote
Viewing for his development of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV), a technique
used by psychic spies in the program – went back to his residence at 357 Bowery
in New York City's East Village.
This novel was published in 2020 after the publisher listened
to an interview from 1995 on 21st century radio with dr Bon Hieronimus, when
Ingo Swann talked about this novel that was written at the time of another one
called Purple Fables that was published.
The novel was a telepatic transmission received by Ingo Swann,
a sort of voice in his head. He wrote first the Purple Fables and then Tales of
the Master of Harmlessness 76 draft pages in length. He was told to work for
certain hours per day.
During the early part of the twentieth century, a very old
manuscript was found in what was then called Mongolia.
Mongolia became known as Area 15 of the Greater Asian
Republic. The manuscript appears to have been first found in 1910beneath the
floorboards of an ancient Buddhist monastery outside Urga, later called Ulaanbaatar,
the former capital city of Mongolia.
The manuscript aroused great interest at first, but then it remained
incompletely translated. After some scholars indicated that it was a clever
fake.
After the death of the Eighth Jebtusundamba Living Buddha in
1924 and with no discovered successor to take his place, Mongolia was cast into
destructive political to political turmoil.
First, the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party took hold,
followed by Mongolia’s occupation by the Japanese between 1932 and 1945. Next,
the country was largely destroyed by the Chinese civil war in the years leading
up to 1950 and then decimated by the Communist takeover.
It was through these upheavals that most religious centres
and precious artifacts were deliberately destroyed.
The manuscript somehow escaped and was later found in India.
The manuscript is a translation from another ancient language of a far older
manuscript, which was in the process of decomposing. The older manuscript was
first copied in its original language, then translated. The translated text was
found in 1910.
The text might have been inscribed on gold tablets at one
point.
Lessons from the Master
People see things in many different ways depending on what
they see and what they do in the first place. A lot exists that no one sees at
all and only rarely, and that people seldom worry about what they don’t see and
that this non-seeing has something to do with what they do see.
Love is not usually seen; it is felt but not seen. People don’t
see everything around them that lives and grows in an atmosphere of love, since
nothing grows in an atmosphere of hate.
Try to do as little harm as possible.
Everything, even halmessness, has its beginning, and when
there is no beginning, then nothing is begun, so it cannot grow.
How can you see what is not lit up so that you can see it?
Can you see things embedded in the dark or enveloped in darkness? There are
many ways of seeing and many ways of darkness. That which is not seen cannot be
talked about.
What do you think flowers are? Seed, earth, water, sunlight?
How can the seed, earth, water sunlight do anything by themselves to make
flowers? Because you believe that this is the reality of flowers, you think
that it is all the flowers are.
Think what is in the flower seed of its blueprint urges its
pattern and its energies for growing, which must be already in the seed and
which can’t be seen by the eyes until it has grown and bloomed.
There are wonderful energies needed to sprout their seeds
and then to grow, from nothing grows unless it is illuminated by its own
indwelling and patterning energies.
And when you talk of such, then the flowers in the park you
are, become illuminated, and those in the park aware of the fact will see this
illumination.
You can see an illuminated way to what you know to exist,
and it is only what you don’t think exists that remains dark to you and hidden
from your sight.
Once you understand it, you can see the energy of the
flowers. The flowers begin illuminating their inner energy lights and wonderful,
delicate hues, and the flowers themselves begin glowing.
Another lesson from the novel is the fact that the hardest
part of finding answers is asking the right question.
What are people? They are body and spirit that are the essence
of life itself. Body and spirit are drawn from the greater essence of life. How
can life be where the essence of life does not exist? Whenever the essence of
life does not first exist, then nothing of life is produced. First, there is
life, then there are units in this life, and then these life units become
spirit and then become bodies.
You know that if you touch and admire your skin, your face
and caress them with your hands and your eyes in the mirror, then they become
more beautiful. If you decide to see your bio-body ‘s beauty, it's the wonders
of form and function.
Demons neither are formed nor appear unless there is an
interest in them. For it is this interest essence they feed upon and grow from,
and not in the essence of love and life and marvellous miraculousness and harmless
ness.
