Namaste and Welcome back my friends.  Today we are exploring Part 2 of Path of  the Five Pillars of Real Spiritual Empowerment.
I’m going to tell you a story about two women, a case of mistaken identity and what transpires as a result. An intriguing story that will give you a deep insight.
I love this story. I hope you do as well.
this lesson we will discuss how to free yourself of the illusion that anyone else wield some sort of power or oppression over you and how you choose to feel.
Janessa  was a beautiful young girl who lived on the west coast. Her sister Teresa had through good fortune traveled to New York to become an actress on Broadway. Teresa hadn’t made it yet, but she had become a standing for a powerful and successful actress. Janessa was making a journey west to go see her sister and go have a meal with her sister at a bistro near by that was frequented by two or three different broadway production casts.
She was really excited to go because when you watch as many plays and grown up watching as many movie and television shows as she has you come to believe that the people you see performing in those roles must be sheerly magnificent creatures. So Janessa was dying to rub elbows with all these very successful and creative people. People she and her sister both had long held in such high esteem.
Janessa and Teresa were almost twins. They looked a great deal alike. When Janessa walked into the bistro there was a maitre’d there and he looked up and he smiled and said. “Well, you must be Janessa.” he recognized her because of her sister who also frequently visited the bistro for lunches. She smiled and thought, “wow, my sister must be really recognizable.” she smiled and nodded. The maitre’d continued. “Your sister called, she said she was running late and asked that I sit you at a table where you could wait for her to join you in a few minutes. So come on, please.”
Now there’s all these fancy leather booths and floor to ceiling mirrors and soft glowing lights and beautiful dark woods, and in the booths were famous broadway actors and actresses and directors and writers all sorts of known people eating and drinking together. There we many hollywood types there as well. This after all being New York and many hollywood stars and others come and go on Broadway.
Needless to say, Janessa wasn’t the least bit comfortable walking in there. All she could do is obsess about her looks, she just worried about how she was walking what she was wearing if her hair was ok, was she slouching, was she too stiff. She’s fully self-conscious. And it shows.
Whatever people are supposed to do when they are trying to make an impression, she’s desperately trying to do. She’s so nervous in fact, she bumps into a table and knocks over a drink. Now she starts sweating and she is certain everyone is staring at her.
The maitre notices her nervousness and he takes her hand and comforts her telling her, “now darling, you just come with me.” He sits her down in a nice corner booth where she can look out and see all the celebrities that are sitting there. She thanks him kindly and gives him a warm smile and he walks away.
she’s trying so hard not to be noticed while she’s also trying to surreptitiously stare at everyone around her. In fact she’s so distracted she didn’t notice a certain silence come over the whole bistro. what had happened while she was so consumed with what was going on in her corner of the bistro, was Mannie McGenius, the world famous broadway director, who had a reputation of being the most angry so-called creative genius had walked in. Janessa hear about Mannie being a real fireball from her sister. To complicate matters Teresa had just started dating him when he cast her as a stand-in for his latest broadway hit play that was abou...