Wilde - The Quickening

T HE
Q UICKENING

The world of the common man is about to

unravel, like never before. I seek the attention

of those who are strong and getting stronger. It

is only through the power of these individuals

that the spirituality of the world will

survive the hurricanes of change.

There is little time.

ALSO BY STUART WILDE

BOOKS

THE TAOS QUINTET:

Affirmations

The Force

Miracles

The Trick to Money Is Having Some

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Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power

Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle

The Secrets of Life

Silent Power

Simply Wilde

Sixth Sense

Weight Loss for the Mind

Whispering Winds of Change

AUDIOCASSETTES

The Art of Meditation Silent Power (audio book)

The Force (audio book)

Miracles (audio book)

Happiness Is Your Destiny

Intuition

Loving Relationships

Available at your local bookstore, or call (800) 654-5126

Please visit the Hay House Website at: www.hayhouse.com
and Stuart Wildes Website at: www.stuartwilde.com

Copyright 1988 by Stuart Wilde

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Book design by Jenny Richards

Cover Art by Ronsaville, Wood & Harlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilde, Stuart,
The Quickening / Stuart Wilde.
p. cm.
Originally published: Taos, N.M., USA: White Dove International, 1988
ISBN 1-56170-165-3 (tradepaper)
1. Occultism I. Title.
[BF1999.W5585 1995
131dc20

94-45490

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-1-56170-165-0
ISBN 10: 1-56170-165-3

10 09 08 07 23 22 21 20

First Published in 1983 by Nacson & Sons, Pty., Sydney, Australia

20th printing by Hay House, Inc., February 2007

Printed in the United States of America

To Robyne and Sebastien.

Please put the royalties in the

sitting-on-the-beach retirement fund.

Come to the cliff, he said.

They said, we are afraid.

Come to the cliff, he said.

They came.

He pushed them.

And they flew.

HURTLING PAST
HOCUS-POCUS

T HE QUICKENING is a series of perceptions and Life Force (etheric) exercises that allow you to consolidate and accelerate your energy. It grants you the charisma and power to break out of the sluggish collective destiny of mankind, into a more glorious, heightened, individualized destiny of your own.

No doubt you have worked on yourself; in doing so, you have been exposed to every trick in the book. You have meditated, affirmed, visualized, wired two crystals up your nose, stuffed alfalfa sprouts in your ear, jogged around the block, and kissed swami on the toe. Here you find yourself, knowing that your inner reality is the only reality, and yet perhaps wondering why you do not have all your hopes and dreams at your fingertips.

You have reached what I call the plateau of comfort. Things are okay, but you intuit that there is more. Now is the time for the Quickening, the personalized, internal aggression that says, I can achieve more. I have to become more; if not, Ill drift backwards.

As we look at the evolution of mankind, we see in its history the rise and fall of societies mirrored in the ebb and flow of greatness. Within those cycles, I believe, every so often the earth creates a cataclysm in which it cleanses itself of the imbalance of mans presence, and humanity is wiped out for the most part. In order for the human species to survive that cataclysm, there comes, near the end-time, a teaching from the inner worldsor the collective unconscious of manthat shows him how to step from his logical-thinking evolution into a higher spirit-man evolution, from which he can later progress into the safety of the etheric dimensionmore of that later.

The Life Force (etheric) permeates all things. Once man develops the ability to be a part of that, meaning he can see the Life Force and understand it, it becomes possible for a few individuals to survive. This is not so much because they use their intuition to be in the right place at the right time, but more because they are able to step outside the collective destiny of man while still being a part of the physical.

This book talks of that inner teaching and of the Quickening that follows, and it shows you the doorway into the etheric world. If you become interested and want to know more, there is follow-up information at the back of the book.

Browsing in your local bookstore, you would not find many books on this subject, for the etheric is a hidden world. In order for us to penetrate that world, weve had to move to a different level of operation, and that took time.

At the beginning of this century, most esoteric, spiritual, and occult thought was dominated by the Theosophists, a society formed in the United States and later expanded to Britain and India. Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand. Since then, little new has been added.

If, say, you read A. E. Powells book The Etheric Double, you would see how he was influenced by the Big Five, and from his language you would understand that he wrote for his audience and his times, not ours. His book contains diagrams of prana bubbles heading back and forth through the chakra system. Yet once you read this, you will be little the wiser. The difficulty is that those writers wrote from concept, not necessarily from personal experience, and they were not ready, perhaps, to take concept into reality. Furthermore, their wisdom, which must have been very great given their point in history, was often couched in misleading terms. They talked to the reader as if he were as thick as two planks, which he probably was. Much of the real information was either hidden or not known. Practical ideas and methodology were omitted or wrapped in highfalutin terms and couched with a caveat to the reader not to get involved without a Master or an expert occultistthe name and address of whom was, of course, not offered.