James Maberly - Why Follow Rules?: Trust Your Intuition

Why Follow Rules?

Trust your Intuition

James Maberly

Published by James Maberly

www.cultivating-intuition.com

Why Follow Rules?

Copyright James Maberly

First published in 2014 by James Maberly

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN no. 978-0-9575826-3-7

To my family; Veronica, Ted, Harry, Jasper and JoJo.

Thank you for everything. You are amongst my greatest teachers.

I love you all.

Main donors towards publication costs

Fifty two people very generously contributed towards the cost of publication for this book. They are all listed on the website and I am most grateful to all of them for their vision and support.

In particular, I wish to mention two who gave extremely generously. Scott Russell and Ernie Patterson, thank you both so much for showing your confidence in this book. I offer you my very grateful thanks.

How easy it is to get covered over by all of the rules and the controls and the perceptions of life.

How easy it is to negotiate yourself away from your enlightenment.

Adamus St Germain

Preface

Writing this book has been an exciting and fascinating journey. When I started out I felt I already knew what to write. Little did I realise that in the process of writing it I would have learnt so much more about myself, others and the whole subject of Cultivating Intuition. Thank you as the reader for allowing me this privilege. If it were not for you I may never have taken the journey in quite the same way.

I believe we are our own best guides as to when we are ready to learn, even if we are not conscious of it. We learn some pretty good lessons early on from our teachers, parents, elders and books but we only learn the important lessons of life as and when we are ready to do so. Thus I assume that those who read this will do so because they are on a journey of exploration as I was (and still am). I hope you enjoy the experience.

I have several people to thank for their assistance in the writing of this book. I would like to thank my family for their patience and their constructive ideas that have assisted me along the way and for allowing me to use anecdotes about them and some of their art images throughout the book. To Binkie Andrews for her regular assistance with typing, proof reading, friendship and excellent advice; to Keir Wyatt, for his help in proof reading and his wise counsel; to Mandi Rukuni for his friendship, support and advice; to Josee Honeyball for her consistent support; to Alan Doyle for his scrupulous proof reading and questioning mind and for our camaraderie in the self-publishing arena; to Charles Boscawen for his important input; to Sam Passow for his considered and useful guidance; to Monique Drummond for her insight; to Seymour Jacklin for his clear vision and editorial eye; to Victorine Lieske for such a wonderful cover and to Jason Mathews for his continued responses to my many questions.

I have two friends whose work and wisdom have inspired me greatly over the years and have played a very important part in the formulation of this book. The first is Ken Anderson whom I have known for many years and the second is Charles Handy. His 'Thoughts for the day' audio tape remains one of my most treasured possessions. The website (detailed below) has been set up in order for those interested to find further information, links to books, talks and courses that encourage us to think and act differently and to remind us again of the extraordinary facility our intuition offers us in our everyday existence.

James Maberly

Suffolk, United Kingdom

June 2014

Visit www.cultivating-intuition.com for more background, links to talks, images, references and a regular blog of new ideas.

Table of Contents

Introduction

In the summer of 2011 I was visiting Zimbabwe and whilst there, chanced upon a workshop run by Francois Le Roux, a classical cellist, encouraging young advanced musicians to play their instruments intuitively; to improvise as he called it. Slowly but surely he coaxed a number of them up to play their instruments with him, without guidance, just listening to their own creative intuition and freeing themselves from the necessity of following a written score.

I watched, mesmerised as he drew from these youngsters the most magical sounds, all of their own creation. Tense with anxiety, their first few notes were jarred and awkward but once they realised that they could actually do it, their bodies began to weave with the music and they found a momentum and energy that was delightful to watch. What I was witnessing was each of these young players accessing their own intuitive genius, their own natural creativity unleashed.

So what was it that made this event so extraordinary? Was it the skill of the players? Was it their ability to play their instruments so beautifully? No. It was a lesson for each of them and for everyone watching that they do not have to follow other peoples music forever. If they so choose, they can create their own music. After all, all music is but the intuitive inspiration and creative work of another person. It all began with someone improvising and then writing it down, the start of a process of original creation.

Education systems around the world encourage us not to listen to our intuition. Intuition is considered unreliable and without foundation. If it hasnt been scientifically proven then it simply cant exist, or certainly it shouldnt be taken seriously. So much of education is based on simply learning what our forebears believed to be necessary for youngsters to get on in life, despite the fact that the majority of it will probably never be used again once they have left school. I have absolutely no recollection of anything but the basic Latin, Geography and Maths I was taught at school. Why? I simply dont use them and I am often completely befuddled by the homework my children bring home with them.

Yet if I listen to talks or read books about some of our most creative and original thinkers, they regularly refer to the value of their intuition. They understand without question that their link to creativity and original thought comes directly from this extraordinary quality that exists in all of us; our abundant, dynamic and remarkable intuition.

Visit www.cultivating-intuition.com for more background, links to talks, images, references and a regular blog of new ideas.

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