The Benefits of a Balanced Name

The following is a transcript of the answer given in our Life Analysis Training course to the question, "Why does everyone have to have a balanced Name?"

Question: Haven't most of the great people in history, Mozart, Givinci etc., have unbalanced names? Don't these people give to the world progress and great works of art etc?

Well, certainly there have been many intelligent accomplished people throughout history. In more recent times we see the contribution of Albert Einstein. You can go back down through history to the ancients.

First of all, what is the purpose of a balanced name? The purpose of a balanced name is not to produce great geniuses, not to produce individuals that necessarily give some special and unusual work of art or contribute to some expression of that nature. The purpose of a balanced name is primarily to allow the universal intelligent forces of life to have a natural, harmonious, constructive and balanced expression through the channel, through the vehicle, through the physical body.

A balanced mind does not necessarily create mental greatness. It is just like a piano. If the piano is out of tune, even the greatest pianist of the world can't play anything of any value on it. Because the piano is not capable of playing good music, or being an instrument through which good music can be played. But if you balanced the piano, tuned the piano, then we may have someone come along and play chopsticks, which sounds fine, or you may have some very, very accomplished pianist play the most wonderful rendition of some musical composition. Without the balanced, tuned piano, you wouldn't have either the chopsticks, or the great musical composition.

Now a balanced name is like that tuned piano. It is a channel through which accomplishment can be achieved. A balanced, or tuned, piano sits there dormant, silent, only a potential. Now, if you get up and play, if you have taken a few lessons, you play something, if you play nothing, bang, bong, bang. If you have developed a training, a technique, you have a skill then you can play. Now the same with your balanced name. Your name has been balanced, now it is up to you. The name isn't going to make you great. It is whether or not you are going to use your intelligent potential and develop it.

Now any of those people who become accomplished pianists, and have developed that ability on their own, they have practised hours and hours and hours, scales, arpeggios and practising and practising and practising just to develop that wonderful ability. Now if we did the same thing with our balanced minds, and we studied and we studied and we studied, and we analyzed and we thought and we disciplined ourselves, maybe we could be one of those great minds in history. But then again, you know, we may not choose to be. How many here are concert pianists? How many of you wanted to be one? Maybe some, maybe none. Those of you who wanted to, why aren't you? Likely because you either didn't have the piano, the money, or the mother cracking the whip, or somebody getting you to practice long enough. Others are not concert pianist because they don't really want to be. And so the same with a balanced name, some are not really too concerned about mental greatness. They like a happy life, where they get up in the morning and they are happy, there body is healthy, they go through the day and everything goes along relatively smoothly. They are happy at the end of day, and the end of the year, and the end of the cycle, even the end of their life time. Nothing great, but they have had a pleasant experience.

So a balanced name is not necessarily the sign of greatness. Now if we take Mozart, he was a little youngster that even at such a very, very early age not only was playing the piano, composing, but conducting musical groups. We recognize that is such an advanced expression of understanding, an unnatural intelligent understanding, an unnatural intelligent awareness.

It is like having planted an apple seed, and you have a little apple plant about that big, it is just very small, and suddenly it is bursting with apples. You go out to pick a box of apples of this little tree. You know that it couldn't even hold the weight of one big apple, because it hasn't grown naturally to be able to produce such a thing. So Mozart, in being able to do what he did at such an age, exemplified what we call a mental interference. Something mentally, was working through him, which interfered with his own natural, spontaneous development. It is the same as these youngsters that have some unique ability. It may be to come up with mathematical answers that used to take people with calculators and comptrometers, what do you call those chinese, abacus, you know hours to come up with it, but you know, they would (click, click) and they would have the answer. And they wouldn't know how they did it, they just had this sort of awareness, that the answers were there. Now we recognise that this is not conducive to the natural development of that spark within.

One of the realizations of life is that when a baby is born, it takes the breath of life, and there is a power that comes to that child, and starts expressing as long as that person breathes. When they stop breathing, then life is over. That power, that spark of life, that energy of awareness ceases. But in the meantime, between the first and the last breath, then this power goes through the process of growth, change, development, evolvement and fulfilment. Now if man lives in harmony with the natural laws, then he can grow naturally, harmoniously, constructively, and a beautiful life unfolds. If he does not live in accordance with the laws, he can be sick, he can be mentally distorted, in other words have various phobias, afraid of the dark, very, very self conscious, afraid of heights, all kinds of different mental barriers that imprison that person in a little world of self. And their life becomes an expression of torment, confusion, they hate life, they think of killing themselves, committing suicide, to escape from all this terrible mental awareness.

Well, a balanced name creates the channel between this spark that came with the first breath of life, this awakening of awareness and the creativity of mind. It is through the name that mind is created. It is through the balance of the name that the harmonious forces of intelligence are related from the inner to the outer, and to the spark working through the physical body. And so the three bodies, the physical, mental, and spiritual bodies are united in harmonious relationship. This allows them the unfoldment. In today's times where there is so much pressure upon people to conform to the mass minded styles, habits, music, entertainment, the crush of pressure upon the individual minds, is to limit them, to imprison them, so that they have to dress like everyone else dresses, to use the same words that everyone else uses, be so much like everybody else that they are not an individual, they are just a one of a flock of sheep. And the name, a balanced name, should provide this chance to be individual, to be different, to be yourself, to be truly a clear, natural channel of this power within.

Now, the question sort of intimates that great accomplishments, or individuals who have contributed great things with unbalanced names are examples of constructive expression of unbalance. And yet as we look at any of those outstanding people, such as Mozart, how old was he when he died? What were some of the experiences that Mozart had in his twenties, well, all of his life? Did he die contented? Was he, you know, living a happy, constructive life? How about Beethoven, many of the others, they were either deaf, they went mad--is that something that you say, "Boy, that was a great person, they wrote great music. That unbalanced name was wonderful." I don't think so.

I mean a balanced name is meant to bring balance and happiness, constructiveness, and it is up to us to make it a worthwhile expression of accomplishment. It is like a person taking music lessons. Week after week, month after month, year after year and they just dilly dally around and they learn to play for themselves and maybe a party or two, but they never become an accomplished pianist, because there, sort of, heart isn't in it. Because they are, you know, just not really interested. But if they really, like some people, you know, they just can't wait to get at the piano to play, and they play and they practice and they just love it. With a balanced name, with that initiative and effort, they can be wonderful musicians and be accomplished musicians.

So it is up to the individual, not up to the balanced name, to do you might say. That spark within is the power, and the balanced name is only the vehicle.
So, why does everyone have to have a balanced name? It is not that everyone has to have a balanced name, they don't. But everyone should have a balanced name. Why? Because it is the means by which that spark that came with that first breath of life has the opportunity to find happiness, naturalness, freedom. To be able to express its full range of conscious awareness.

One of the greatest problems in life today are the mental qualities of tension, greed, selfishness, and envy. Those emotional qualities are primarily the driving forces behind life today. Here's Calgary, the city of oilmen and millionaires, and billionaires, and what have you. What is the motivation behind those businessmen? They are businessmen, businesswoman, it is to become successful. How do they measure success? In getting ahead, becoming either one of the corporate leaders, presidents, chairmen of the boards, to receive substantial profits in the way of either high wages, bonuses, or to see their company piling up huge profits. This motivation usually drives them to the point of giving there all, to make themselves successful. And they have the money to buy this, go there, do things, and that is measured as a mark of success. But so often the cost is an unhappy life. There home life is often not happy. There health fails after a period of time, maybe sooner, maybe later.

I was talking to a fellow who had been dealing with a Peter in New York. This individual had so much money--just all kinds of money. He had several million dollars locked up in some African countries that he could not get out because they would not let him take the money out. He had been in the plastic business etc. Here was this fellow, he had so much money and every time this chap talked to him he was in the hospital for that, then out, then back in the hospital. He had all this money and he was so tied that he could not get out of New York city. It must have been six or eight times that he had everything set up to come to Vancouver to do some dealing and every time his health failed. Just the day before yesterday, just on the eve of another big deal, his sister came home and found that he was dead.

So, what drove that man? What accomplishments of his life? All kinds of money but he suffered and he paid and now that he is dead, what? In a short time his heirs will squander his money likely, they'll have a nice big tombstone, you know, in loving memory etc. With his unbalanced name and his unbalanced drives and desires, while he has accomplished much on one hand, he has accomplished nothing on the other. And when the time comes, when the time has come for him to sort of measure up, he's got all this money, but he has nothing in the way of conscious development to offset and create any degree of balance. And so the balanced name takes away much of that unbalanced drive.

And that is one of the complaints that I sometimes get from people who have balanced their names and have been a student for two or three years, they say, you know, golly, I sometimes wish that I had my old name back because I just haven't got the get up and go. I used to be able to get up and drive, and he used to tell me about the deals he used to wring out, you know, and he says, you know, I can't do that any more. And they just don't have that same intensity that they had. Now, life is much more pleasant. They don't have the constant tension driving them.

And so, on one hand, a balanced name can sort of tamper down a lot of this aggressiveness that is out there in the unbalanced world, but if we were able to create enough balance, then out of the balance would come greater creativity. Not the grasping, greedy, taking, assuming and amassing, but more of the creative giving. Where people would work better together on a more harmonious level. And so, if everyone did have, as they should have, a balanced name, then the world wouldn't be troubled with the same fighting and discords and competitions as there is now.

If you have had a balanced name for any length of time, and you can compare before and after, you recognize how now the incentive has to be of a different nature. You have got to find within your own mind the reason to bring about the effort to accomplish whatever you want to accomplish. You don't feel it as much because you are not living in the same feelings of tensions, and aggressiveness, and you don't feel the desires of greed and so forth as strongly. You sense the beauty of balance to a greater degree. But that has to come from within to say, alright, this is necessary, this is what I want to do, I want to reach for that, and to bring the incentive through your mind as a power of reasoning for accomplishment.

Don't these people give the world progress and great works of art etc? Certainly, they give accomplishments. They give, some of the works of art, you sometimes wonder, there are some wonderful masterpieces in the field of art, there is also some hideous representation of discord. Picasso, great artist, and all the rest of it, but from what I've seen of it, you know, it isn't what I would consider to be a great contribution to the advancement of mankind. Certainly, he had a technique, a flair, something that I could never do. I admit. But it is not that I want to. So as I say I don't think it contributes, really, to the advancement of life. It's a different facet, a comparison, but for those who have given great works, there are far more that have given what shall we say, discordant works.

We are talking about great works and contributions, in the long run, what could be the greatest contribution to the benefit of mankind? If you look at the writings of Alfred J. Parker, what more could anyone ask but the knowledge of the principle of how to create that balance and harmony, and how to channel the effort, and the steps of growth, for personal attainment. There is no greater contribution to mankind then what Mr. Parker did.
And the other thing, while they give the world progress, such as Einstein gave his theories, but in many of those scientific theories that were developed, the first use they were put to was destruction--the atom bomb, all kinds of various destructive things and later, well after the fact, it is maybe applied toward certain benefits to mankind.

And finally, in the case of unbalanced names, there is created unbalanced minds. And in the disposition of mind, there must be a principle. We can take the silkworm as an example. How it goes through the successive stages of life. It is born, it grows, it consumes these leaves, spins itself a cocoon, it goes through the transformation, and comes out of the cocoon as a moth, flies away to lay some more eggs, and the cocoon is left to rot and decay. And so the cycle goes on. In man, the seed, the egg, you might say, is that power that is brought into the body with the first breath of life.

Man goes through his stages too. Initially, he lives in the physical world of self, want, and desire, and greed and all of those things. Just like that worm that gobbles up everything. But as mans mind is balanced and harmonized, he then transforms himself from just a selfish, self-centred being, into a more, what shall we say, broader, into, with a broader concept, with a greater ideal, and as he then finds the spiritual principle and changes his mind from the material, world of materiality and self, into the world of universality and service, then he goes through the transformation. And so, where the unbalanced minds do not discover the truth of the principle and therefore never spin the cocoon, or if they do spin the cocoon, they never evolve into the moth or butterfly, then we have that cocoon, or the worm, that is left to decay and rot and go back into the cycle.
In theory, and in reality, the mind then should leave the physical plane and enter into a conscious state of understanding and evolve into a state of spiritual awareness. And in so doing leaves the personality and the self and all the physical behind. In so doing, the transition, you might say, frees the world of the left overs, of the dross. But where the minds are not able to free themselves, and reach that butterfly state, or the moth stage, then you end up with a greater degree of left over mental forces.

And this is what is often termed the psychic world, the mental world, the astro world, there is a lot of terminology describing this influence. And so those without the principle add to the pressure of mind. As you go back into all the native cultures, they have a great deal of folklore about the spirits of their ancestors, of the ancestors appearing to them, speaking to them, guiding them, etc. Be it the Eskimos, the Indians, tribes of Africa, South America, New Guini, they all have this awareness of these thoughts, personalities, ghostly images, and they have striven to both show respect of them and also to in a sense, almost deify them.The Eskimos had there fear of how people were properly buried etc., otherwise their spirits would roam the tundra for always, type of thing, and they had to be buried and stones put over them so the coyotes or the wolves didn't get at them, the different phobias or standards in order to do that. The Indians, they say, wouldn't fight at night because they were afraid that if someone was killed during the nighttime, that the spirits couldn't get into the happy hunting grounds, and they would be cursed with this forever roaming the nighttime, the, you know, land etc.

Well, those are, you might say, examples of mans awareness that there is a residue to mind. Man can see the physical quite readily, he can see the body, and he can see the disposition of the body, and the theories about what he can't see, the spirit, and he really doesn't know the difference between the spirit and the minds. And so there are different concepts of how the spirits are taken off to a place, maybe called heaven, nirvana, all different religions have there own sort of happy hunting grounds, and so the point is that the philosophy, in understanding how mind is created in the first place, how mind can be, how mind expressed through the channel of language, be it an unbalanced name or a balanced name, and understands how, through the development of concept, universal concept, and the development of consciousness, how the mind can be lifted from the mental state to the spiritual state so that the mind becomes the expression of the spirit. The mind and the spirit become as one. And at that point there is no residue, there is nothing left over. So that at that point the disposition is clear, the physical to the physical, the spirit to the spirit, and the mind is no longer in existence in between. Where that is not understood, there is this confusion about what happens to mind, and the philosophy.
Mr. Parker discovered what happens to mind and gave many demonstrations and wrote many books on the problems related to mind. Schizophrenia, Mental Tension, etc., and tells us of the importance of creating that balance between the mind and the body and the spirit within, so that the inner potential can express naturally through a balanced mind, disciplining and controlling the physical instrument, so the physical instrument allows the natural free expression of that inner potential. Where the name in unbalanced, it causes intense reactions throughout the body, creating unnatural desires, unnatural tension, all kinds of problems, and the mind can't be free, and the mind is a prisoner to those physical emotions and physical feelings, and terrible tempers, and moods and all those things. And that mind is held in that prison through out its lifetime, never to get free. But a balanced name can allow that mind to find freedom, and that is the reason why everyone should have a balanced name. It is part of the principle of life.

It is like saying, why does two and two have to equal four. Well, why should two and two always equal four? Because that is the principle. If it wasn't consistent, two and two made five, then our whole system wouldn't work. And in the same way, if the symbols of the alphabet are the means through which the energies of consciousness have their symbolized expressions, a,b,c,d,e,f,g, 1,2,3,4,5,6, qualities or positions creating the qualities of intelligent expression if, you know, that is the principle. It has to be. It just can't change, and so, that is why, because it is a consistent principle, that a balanced name is a part of the basic principle of life.