Insights To Reality : Recent Episodes
Ronan Rooney
Personal reflections, insights, revelations and meditations on Consciousness, Spirituality, Self Realisation and Enlightenment.
Here you can get all the help, inspiration and answers to the most fundamental questions we all have; Who Am I, What Is Life, What is my Life Purpose.
Ronan is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author and teacher. He is a Philosopher, Psychologist & Metaphysician with a BSc, a BA in Philosophy & Applied Mathematical Science and MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology.
He is also a Certified Authentic Self Facilitator, Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor and Transpersonal Psychology Coach.
An expert in Consciousness, Self-Mastery and Spiritual Realisation he has studied worldwide with some of the most influential people in consciousness, spirituality and human development.
He has published three books with numerous endorsements including Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Steve Taylor, Leslie Fieger and Dean Radin.
As a speaker he has presented in Ireland, UK, Spain, Germany, US and Australia and has been endorsed by both the Irish and UK presidents of the Professional Speakers Association.
In his writings, teachings and presentations he employs a combination of self-inquiry, mastery of consciousness & transpersonal psychology.
Why is it that we insist on having an intellectual meaning for everything we consider real in our lives.
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From the 12 Stages to Personal Enlightenment that make up the first book The Secret Of Life.
You really have to know yourself before you can do anything. Before you can carry out any soul-searching, before you can look at yourself and attempt to identify who you really are, you have to know who you have become.
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We have become intoxicated with the roles we play which are just parts to a play. Whats real is the authentic self the observer who is watching the play.
We need to stop focusing outside of ourselves and revert back in.
We need to evolve and develop to allow anything happen to us but remain in the state of grace.
You can be beyond the third dimension in the third dimension by shifting your state of consciousness.
We don’t have to change the world we change in the world
Our consciousness has become too focused on our individual consciousness and separation.
Now we are going from consciousness to awareness which is there before consciousness.
The state of pre consciousness is non thought or awareness.
Vedanta and Sri Ramana Maharshi teaches about self realisation directing thoughts beyond consciousness.
My Transformation through Transpersonal Psychology and a new understanding of consciousness.
Evolving to being able to have two states of consciousness at the same time. Be in the midst of turmoil and hold your state of grace.
It’s not about changing the world just about changing yourself.
The expression of the Divine through our expression of our authenticity and allowing others
Conditioning and those people who come into our lives as our teachers.
Change the future in the thought patterns of the present moment.
The true nature of who we are is beyond the intellect. We are our Authentic Higher Self that is who we really are beyond conditioned aspects of our psyche.
We are in good hands with the youth of today as our leaders of tomorrow.
Before we get to a state of awareness of the self we have to quieten the mind.
We need to deal with the mental capacities or experience an event of turmoil or other catalyst for awakening to our true authentic self.
We need to elevate our consciousness to be in a state of grace amidst the turmoil around us. This is the state of conscious awareness.
It is not just your purpose but your duty. You are an integral part of a greater plan and without you its is incomplete. The Divine plan needs you to embrace your individuality and express your Authentic Self.
So you have a duty not just to yourself to live life fully and become all you are capable of becoming...you owe it to the rest of us to ensure the success of the overall plan of which we are all part of.
How the divine breath of God can be explained as Involution and Evolution manifesting in our world.
How I arrived at the understanding that all we are here to do in this life is to find, identify and express our authentic self.
There are many levels of consciousness and to understand the nature of consciousness means to know pure consciousness. Consciousness can be explained as the conscious analytical thinking and the subconscious conditioned thought pattern, but the true essence of consciousness is pure consciousness.
We can intellectually study the conscious and the subconscious through logic, analytics and observation but pure consciousness is beyond the analytical or intellectual understanding.
Interview with my wonderful publishing representative Susan McKenna from Book Hub publishing.
Regulations justifiably emerged in many areas of our global systems but have in recent times gone into ‘overkill’ with a multiplicity of regulations being enacted in all areas. As a result of the financial crash of 2008 in the US, which then affected the entire world, we in Ireland and in many other countries in the western world introduced a spate of regulations which began reasonably but soon spiralled out of control. Under the pretence of developing the efficacy of the governing systems many countries have become highly over-regulated. The result is that we are now over-regulated in many areas like economics, law, financial and health which is strangling the systems altogether.
In other areas like education, the justice system and humanitarianism, we remain under-regulated with much work to be done. In economic terms this has in many cases stunted business and economic growth. Furthermore, in the case of the Covid-19 health pandemic the new regulations were varied, inconsistent and encroaching on human rights.
The spiralling of the intellect fuelled by fear is what has given rise to this over-regulation. Fearful of another financial crash we have introduced a myriad of compliancy regulations on businesses to the detriment of business success and profitability. There are so many regulations now in business in tender procurements, health and safety protocols, employment law rules, property planning and development that they are adversely affecting the viability of the very businesses that are sustaining employment and life.
The regulations in the employment sector for employers are such that they are a disincentive to employers to employ. The penalising taxes for profit making companies is such that most do all they can to hide their profits and are in fact disincentivized to make profits and consequential tax returns.
The new regulations for security in the US have been abused and used to validate inhumane treatment of political prisoners and suspected terrorists. While I accept the threat of terrorism is something we need to address I contend that much of what has been perpetrated under the guise of these security regulations has in fact deepened the resentment and worsened the situations in many cases.
New regulations for crowd control in Australia presented as a protection against terrorism once passed have been abused and used to control the people to comply with Covid protocols and guidelines authorising violence in many cases.
In Ireland and many other European countries, the legal system and justice departments have now so many new regulations that there are more loopholes for guilty crimes to secure unjustly light sentences and in many cases escape punishment altogether. Moreover, the prison service and justice system for incarceration has relaxed so that when the sentences are passed the perpetrators invariably never serve the entire sentence. White collar crime is dramatised and inflated while sex offence crimes are belittled in their sentencing.
Legal firms acting for Insurance companies agree to pay large sums of money to contentious claimants to avoid the legal fees and with the intention of passing on the costs to their customers in increased premiums. Invariably, the insurance companies base their premiums on their business model for profit margins regardless of the mismanagement in their system. Male teenagers pay a much higher premium than teenage girls for car insurance. Car insurance is supposed to be a mandatory enforced regulation and even though there is financial devastation if you are in an accident with an un-insured driver, the sentencing for them is so meek it is not a dissuasion.
We are the most amazing creatures capable of such majestic dreams and realities and the worst and most horrible nightmares and atrocities. We can consciously decide what we will manifest in the world around us. Even science through quantum mechanics is now admitting that we create the world around us and so if we do, why not create the perfect world of our dreams and not of our nightmares.
There have been polar shifts in world Religions, international politics and international markets. Evidence of this can be seen in the difference between the last two Popes in the Catholic Church, the last two presidents of the US and the shift reversal of profitability for the pharmaceuticals in treating many modern illnesses. Fuelling this further is the imbalances where human beings are both starving and burning food in the interest of “economic balance”. These are but a few indications of the re-alignment taking place towards a higher vibration and away from modern day systems.
The Global wealth is moving from west to east and spirituality is shifting from organized religious doctrine to an inner self contemporary spirituality based on Self Inquiry. It began in 2008 with the financial crash worldwide, then in my own country in Ireland we had the property crash. In recent years there have been major fluctuations in politics especially in the US and the Middle East. Our ecological system has been under threat for some time now and the Covid pandemic demonstrated the feeble nature of the health system.
There are so many signs of this systematic breakdown which I believe represents the imbalance between the intellect and the spirit as part of our evolution. These systems were developed as we evolved over the years but like many other aspects of life and our evolution, they have been adversely affected by the intellect spiralling out of control.
There is a shift away from the operational left side of the brain and the linear rational aspects of our reasoning for humanity in our world today. The problem is that we are using the past to figure out how to live in the present. The past has only brought us to here but we’re evolving so much further. If we keep using the past, our present is not going to change, and it must.
You know it’s not a coincidence that so many natural disasters are happening, so many new viruses, so much fighting. The emergence of natural disasters and viruses is the earth crying out to deal with the infective nature of our being like a wound or clot etc. The clot intensifies and escalates when we don’t listen. When we as a collective race are imbalanced on this earth, we experience some dis-eases at the surface level e.g., weather fluctuations and global conflicts etc. If we don’t listen and change back into balance, we get a stronger hint in the form of sporadic weather disasters and global pandemics. If we still don’t listen it will escalate into a full global assault.
With the external world that is the earth we live on, natural disasters are occurring because we are totally off-line, and it is a natural rebalancing affect by Mother Nature with an underlying Divine aspiration.
The way to avoid these aggressive natural disasters in the world is to become realigned ourselves back into balance with the earth. In so doing we avoid the necessity for a dramatic shift altogether. We don’t just treat the effects of the flood, forest fire, earthquake or tornado etc. we seek to rectify the imbalance that brought it about in the first place e.g., our erosion of the ozone layer, global warming and ecological abuse.
We are all different, but parents and teachers usually adopt the presupposition that the child will have the same experiences as they had. The reality is far from the truth. Because the world is changing so fast and so dramatically the assumption that our children will have similar worldly experiences to us is naïve. How could they? The world system is so far removed from generation to generation. The truly successful ones do not accept the inherited beliefs and faith of their predecessors but forge their own subject to their desired reality.
You just can’t apply the same interpretation of an experience to all, across the board. Everyone is different and may have very different experiences of a similar situation. The intellectual understanding derived from past experiences should be an indicating factor but not an ultimately defining one.
Even in the context of education we can see the inadequacies of the archaic educational systems from generation to generation. Ultimately, the educational system changes far more slowly than the changes in the real world and so is inadequate as an ultimate source of instruction or direction. It should be applied as a guide only with support for the youth of the next generation to express and embrace new thought patterns and skills. Much of the current educational system in the west stifles creativity and imaginative expression in support of a rigid formula of mental reasoning.
This is why many of the new generations are struggling in school. It’s not because there’s something wrong with them it’s because there’s something wrong with the system.
New technologies and developments come about by individuals thinking beyond the constraints of what has been and into the realm of what could be.
Educational systems should be encouraging expression, creativity and uniqueness of thought as opposed to following past guidelines and teachings.
Our parents condition us in a certain way - they believe they should bring us up with certain life values. They brought us up to be the type of person they think we should be. And we buy into that which is fine in most cases. Then we have teachers who tell us certain things about who they think we should be. Some we listen to others we don't and others still we do all in our power to ignore. Then we have experiences and our interpretation of them defines our world reality and who we believe we are. We make a judgment about the experience which turns into belief structures which then make us behave the way we behave.
Is it time to reevaluate your beliefs? Is this really me, my authentic self or am I reacting this way because of something somebody told me? Regardless, does it serve me to have this belief and behave or even think like this? Does it serve me to think the thoughts that I'm thinking and fuel the habitual patterns of thinking that I have developed and entrained into my psyche? We are all different, but parents and teachers usually adopt the presupposition that the child will have the same experiences as they had. The reality is far from the truth.
Because the world is changing so fast and so dramatically the assumption that our children will have similar worldly experiences to us is naïve. How could they? The world system is so far removed from generation to generation. The truly successful ones do not accept the inherited beliefs and faith of their predecessors but forge their own subject to their desired reality.
As a race humanity’s evolution is stuck at the mental intellectual level at the expense of the other facets of our being. We crave the search for meaning because it involves the greatest activity for the mind and there is no end to it. The journey towards finding meaning is a very stimulating and intoxicating feature for our mind. It also makes us feel more powerful by engaging our Ego, always having to unravel or analyze the meaning of something or some experience. We constantly trigger the intellect and stay in this continuous pattern of compulsive thought.
We are conditioned to understand and if we don’t understand something we are encouraged almost obsessively to seek the understanding. We must be able to fit our experiences into a labeled box in our storehouse memory in the brain which defines the experience and if we can’t, then we find it difficult to cope with it.
We are all through our growing lives constantly searching for meaning. All through early life we must see, touch, feel, smell, and taste for meaning. From the moment we arrive into this world we develop an obsessive need to gain understanding from every experience or potential experience we are faced with. This comes from the development and evolution of the intellect which has culminated over the years into a relative model of understanding. We just have to understand this or that and be able to label everything in our reasoned mind.
So many of our beliefs which determine our perception of the world and life come from the past experiences of our ancestors and parents and teachers. But the world is changing so fast that many of these could be archaic and disjointed from the lives we can live today.
All of our experiences of life and living are determined by either our past beliefs or our pre-conditioned interpretation. This means our life experience is pre-conditioned which is why many have the same repeated experiences. This is all very well if you are enjoying your life and living the life of your dreams but if you’re not then you have to break out of the conditioned responses.
We use the results of the past experiences to determine whether we are going to embrace, reject or cautiously experience it again and more often than not we adopt the same interpretation as we have in the past.
Can you see how your life is pre-conditioned? It’s your belief determines whether you embrace the experience or not. Yet our inherited beliefs can be misguided, and our past experiences don’t always mirror the previous one.
But you can control this and so control your life’s reality.
Know this - we may not have any control over the experiences we have in life, but we have total control over how we interpret them which instills our beliefs and then leads to our perceptive reality. If we have total control over our perceptive interpretation of experiences, we have total control over our life and reality.
We are not content to just enjoy the appreciation of life. We must dissect it. We must know it and yet the greatest secret of all is that you cannot know or intellectualize life in its truest form.
We are not a physical being, a mental being, an emotional being or a spiritual being. We are all of this and more – more than we will ever know in this life existence. And yet if I were to ask you the question you would have to admit that yes you know you are more than this but can’t quite understand, rationalize, or intellectualize it. You can’t define it and so because society would have you believe that if you cannot define it then it is not real it can’t form part of your reality.
Relax, sit back, stop over thinking things and enjoy this journey of life embracing all experiences as new and all within your control to interpret as you wish. In this way you control your life and reality.
I know from personal experience when in that depressed state nothing makes sense. Options to change one’s life, solutions to other challenges all fall on deaf ears and don’t penetrate the dampened intellectual mental reasoning to see the true nature and recoverability of the issue. There is a feeling of no way out no matter what solution is presented often described as a black cloud surrounding the head. The chemical imbalance in the brain is such that the brain cannot recognize the answers to the problem. It gets stuck on the immediate present imbalanced focus without being able to shift from this perspective to see the true light of reason.
In 2009, just after my father died, the business I had spent all my career in was being decimated by the property crash and things seemed very bleak. At the same time and as a result of the property crash in 2008 my wife and I were in debt personally to the tune off over €5m from various property investments. The banks were trying to repossess our family home and leverage off our business. I wasn’t coping very well and blamed the business for not allowing me to pursue my spiritual journey. I had always wanted to be a spiritual teacher and presenter and yet here I was stuck in this challenging business, and I blamed it for the depression I was developing.
I was prescribed anti-depressants and started attending sessions with a psychologist. Soon after the psychologist and I realized that the business was having an adverse effect on my mental health, and we discussed exit strategies. I couldn’t see a way out but began to scale the business back so that the responsibilities and associated stress levels were reduced.
I remember at the time having excruciating pains in my head and I was admitted to hospital for tests on my brain for any anomalies. After all the tests were completed, I was told that they found nothing out of the ordinary. In retrospect, I now know it was mental stress and anxiety.
By the end of 2018 we had agreed a settlement with the banks for our outstanding debt and were now free from the financial stress and bank pressure. I was still taking anti-depressants. It was still hard to make ends meet and I was suffering from the toll of the battle.
I remember the day it happened that I knew I couldn’t go on. I had been having dark thoughts and suicidal plans. I would drive to the harbour at the sea close to our house and spent hours procrastinating. I would write pages and pages about how useless I was, what a failure I was and how I had messed up things. I would gaze into the sea water before me and contemplate if I just walked out and kept walking, I could leave the pain behind.
What I am really concerned about is that fuelled initially by the pressure of the mental demands in the emerging modern world in recent times the disease of mental illness has spread to our youth. A large proportion are being prescribed anti-depressants and anxiety-based medicine like Xanax. While they may not be faced with the mental pressure the older generations experienced, they have faced an even greater mental adversity that has developed through social media and other mentally focused demands from modern technology.
The speed of life has escalated to such a degree that it has proven a challenge for this next generation to take a pause. The seriousness of this situation is understood when you consider that this is the next generation of leaders who will be burdened with the duty of the development of the world. How they perform will determination our global reality picture.
Mental illness and depression stunts creativity, frustrates sound reasoning and the impairs the ability to make proper choices all of which are required for the betterment of humanity.
Just as we were beginning to find a position of stability in our financial and economic lives, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged adversely affecting us all in the most profound ways. With the scars still fresh from the financial and property crash we began to question our security in life. The mental illness pandemic has threatened our ability to make the ‘right’ choices and we now are beginning to question our personal security, democratic rights, and freedom of choice in terms of the very fabric of our society.
The Covid pandemic and our reaction to it politically and socially has undermined the global confidence in systems of societal governance. By this I mean we are beginning to question the validity and effectiveness and justice of the global systems of governance that determine how society operates.
This could prove to be the biggest challenge humanity has faced with widespread adverse effects in multiple areas of society and living. It is becoming a catalyst for social reflection and a questioning of our global societal systems of law, order, and governance. This is then spilling over into the areas of health, justice, equality, ecology, sexuality, religion, and spirituality with many questioning the authenticity of our current mindset.
World health is acutely vulnerable as was proven by the pandemic which affected the health, financial, economic, political and democracy of the developed world. It also created a further divide between the developed and the under-developed world. And yet it had been foretold that the over population of the world would have to be addressed and rebalanced either by natural or unnatural forces. The Covid pandemic was one of the greatest challenges we as a global society faced for decades.
The initial question that has to be asked to which there is yet no answer is; “was this a natural or a manmade virus?”
If it was a naturally developed virus then the challenges it has presented are in keeping with the balance of nature on this planet. If it was engineered by man, then it is out of balance with nature and as such should be feared and of great concern.
If it was a natural virus then we should complement our global medical industry for developing a vaccine so quickly. If it was manmade then there is always the question of conspiracy and whether this was an exploitation for political or financial gain or other adverse motivations. It would also explain the speed at finding a vaccine and the new emergent strains could be yet another effort to exert further control over the masses!
We may never know the full story or realise the truth about this pandemic. One thing is certain if we were to be plagued with another one in the future that was substantially worse, then if the pattern of behaviour that resulted from this pandemic is anything to go by, the world could be a very scary place.
To finish on a positive, we have ridden the storm, passed the crucial point of the pandemic and now are beginning to return to some level of normality. Now is the opportunity for humanity to assess how we reacted and performed in the face of this adversity so that we can ensure a more efficient, competent, justified, and humane reaction to a potential next one!
I think we should demand that the World Health Organisation carries out an enquiry into the origins and source of the virus and to review the actions taken and agree set protocols for any future pandemics.
For now, enjoy the returned freedom to enjoy life fully without restraint.
Now as I am about to launch my second book The True Nature of our Reality, so much has happened to me and the world around me that it’s a challenge to know where to start.
I’ve changed and the world around me has followed suit. The changes to us both have been profound, challenging and dramatic.
In 2006, when I first launched The Secret of Life, the material world was a world of abundance for very many of us in the western world. While the undeveloped parts of the world continued to struggle we were becoming more and more affluent.
Financial abundance perceived at the time to represent success, fuelled further growth and expansion of our personal income, domestic and international economies. I was ambitious, healthy, happy and very well off financially. I was successful in my property career and as a personal development writer and speaker.
The depth of the teaching in me has expanded and intensified and I have been blessed by life experiences and with further growth in my personal and spiritual development.
In the years following the publishing of The Secret of LifeI presented what I called the Sirius teachings in the form of a one-day seminar called The Sirius Life Seminar but after two years the property crash in Ireland in 2008 forced me to redirect my focus back to the family property business and my career as a chartered surveyor and property arbitrator. When my father passed away suddenly in 2009, I had no choice but to take over the family property business putting a hold on my passion for spirituality.
The crash had a serious affect not only on my professional career in the property and real estate business but also personally having been one of the many caught out by the dramatic and immediate crash in the value of property. The property investments I had made were decimated in value almost overnight.
I spent the next eight or nine years struggling professionally to ensure the business survived and personally battling financial insolvency with two banks. There were some very dark days and mental, emotional and physical challenges but I emerged successfully with the property business intact and my personal financial solvency secured. I am not looking for sympathy for the challenges I had, and I know of many of my colleagues who had greater challenges than mine, but it took a lot out of me and left me battled, scarred and very imbalanced. I was physically exhausted, emotionally drained, mentally challenged and spiritually lost by the end of the battle.
In the summer of 2019, I had my deepest awakening yet triggered by a mental breakdown and culminating in being hospitalized for depression.
I was almost three months in hospital detached fully from everything and in the end when I was discharged, I had a new perspective on life and living.
Today, I am physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy and progressing well. I am financially comfortable. I now have a Masters Degree in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology to complement my BA in Philosophy. I continue to practice in property as a chartered surveyor and property arbitrator but am supported now by my daughter Rebecca who joined the company.
How I came to write my latest book - The True Nature of Our Reality. My search for a new meaning to life and the true nature of reality. The dichotomy between me living the life of a chartered surveyor and property arbitrator and my life of spiritual reflection, study and teaching.
The highs of publishing my first book The Secret of Life, having it endorsed by Deepak Chopra and Robin Sharma, producing audio mediation CDs and DVDs and presenting seminars all over the world and then crashing to insolvency and depression.
I want to share the inspirations and enlightenment I have experienced on my journey with you. There, is so much more to reality than we have been led to believe. You create your world and reality, and you are so much more than you would let yourself believe. In this podcast I want to help you to experience a shift in perspective that will enable you to see the world as it really is and you as you really are.
The past is memory, the future is imagination and all that is real is the present moment.Our thinking has a big part to play in determining how we experience reality. The quality of our thinking then reflects the quality of our life experience.
You are a unique and integral part of a greater whole with a specific purpose to play your part in the greater plan by expressing your true Authentic Self.
Enjoy a new perspective, live your best life, express your true Authentic Self, see the world as you would want to create it and watch it all unfold as if by magic.
Welcome to the Reality podcast where I present explanations and share some new ideas about the true nature of our reality including who we really are, why we are here, how the world works.
Drawing on some of the latest theories of consciousness and universal reality from personal development, science, philosophy and psychology sources I provide the opportunity for a new perspective on life and living.
So let’s discover the true nature of reality, the meaning of life and the true authentic Self that is the real you and your true reality.