We are all a part of ‘God’s’ creation. In order to be a part of it, we must be connected with the creative force that not only determines the “structure” of existence but what is going to happen in that existence. Because you exist in this creation you are as such composed of those things which determine the nature of it. The problem is that you simply have not been trained to be aware of these greater forms. Either this or perhaps you are just simply not ready to make the step into this greater awareness. What ever the case whether you are aware of it or not every living thing is in touch with or has the faculties to perceive the greater scope of how the future is created.
Perhaps the most universal experience with regard to having a vision of the future is Deja Vu. A person may feel as though they are experiencing something they have done before, because, they have already 'seen' this event in a previous vision. And, these visions could have come to you years before the experience. It is simply, that most people have not been trained to remember their visions. Instead they generally pass them off as an aberration of the sleep state and thus these “dreams” don’t have any significance in real life.
In the eastern teachings it is said that the dream state is the reality and the physical form is the dream. If you should attain to achieving the ability to “see” how the Maya is being manipulated you will come to understand why the Sages say to pay more attention to your dreams than to your physical condition. If you will make the suggestion to yourself before you go to sleep that you want to remember your dreams, eventually this should happen. If you will pay attention to those dreams that are the most vivid and realistic, you might be able to remember one of your visions of a future event.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Divine Power
Edgar Cayce, Reading 3976-8 1/15/32
11. Man’s answer to everything has been POWER - power of money, Power of position, Power of wealth, Power of this, that or the other. This has NEVER been GOD’S way, will never be God’s way. Rather little by little, line upon line, here a little, there a little, each thinking rather of the other fellow ...
The fact is that in order to exist in the physical form a certain amount of “power” is required. Be this physical, mental and spiritual. Obviously, everyone is using this kind of power to some degree or other all of the time. But, what Cayce is talking about and what developing power through meditation is about is something different. The key to this kind of power lay in the fact that you will not be allowed to destroy God’s creation and there is a distinct possibility that you might do this if you have not developed the capacity to use the “higher power” responsibly.
The catch 22 of using this kind of power is that you will only be allowed to use it if you are doing so for the betterment of the Creation. If you attempt to use it solely for personal gain it will not be allowed. Anything you do which is for personal gain where the use of power is involved would be called “personal power”. Some people including many spiritual leaders have developed a substantial amount of personal power. The only problem with using personal power is that it has karmic consequences.
Karmic consequences is in effect the greater nature of using any kind of energy in the lower worlds which inevitably follows the law of physics; by which for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On a personal level, if you initiate any kind of energy towards anything or anyone, there will be an equal and opposite response which can come in some uncomfortable forms. In the use of the “higher powers” they are used in response to this law and not initiated. Thus, there are no consequences.
In addition, to know the power of the Father for instance you must merge with the Father. Since His power is so much greater than yours you cannot attain to it without being in complicity with it. What his means is that you have to give up any personal notions about how things are supposed to be or what is the right or wrong thing to do. This state can be difficult to but it should also be quite obvious that His Wisdom is very much greater than yours. And whatever it is That shall be done by His Will, it will always be way beyond anything you could ever come up with.
Thus, another aspect of meditation is to reach a state and be able to summon a state whereby you are totally clear of all thought, fear, and conceptions about what reality is supposed to be like, what God is supposed to be like, or what is needed in this world.
11. Man’s answer to everything has been POWER - power of money, Power of position, Power of wealth, Power of this, that or the other. This has NEVER been GOD’S way, will never be God’s way. Rather little by little, line upon line, here a little, there a little, each thinking rather of the other fellow ...
The fact is that in order to exist in the physical form a certain amount of “power” is required. Be this physical, mental and spiritual. Obviously, everyone is using this kind of power to some degree or other all of the time. But, what Cayce is talking about and what developing power through meditation is about is something different. The key to this kind of power lay in the fact that you will not be allowed to destroy God’s creation and there is a distinct possibility that you might do this if you have not developed the capacity to use the “higher power” responsibly.
The catch 22 of using this kind of power is that you will only be allowed to use it if you are doing so for the betterment of the Creation. If you attempt to use it solely for personal gain it will not be allowed. Anything you do which is for personal gain where the use of power is involved would be called “personal power”. Some people including many spiritual leaders have developed a substantial amount of personal power. The only problem with using personal power is that it has karmic consequences.
Karmic consequences is in effect the greater nature of using any kind of energy in the lower worlds which inevitably follows the law of physics; by which for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On a personal level, if you initiate any kind of energy towards anything or anyone, there will be an equal and opposite response which can come in some uncomfortable forms. In the use of the “higher powers” they are used in response to this law and not initiated. Thus, there are no consequences.
In addition, to know the power of the Father for instance you must merge with the Father. Since His power is so much greater than yours you cannot attain to it without being in complicity with it. What his means is that you have to give up any personal notions about how things are supposed to be or what is the right or wrong thing to do. This state can be difficult to but it should also be quite obvious that His Wisdom is very much greater than yours. And whatever it is That shall be done by His Will, it will always be way beyond anything you could ever come up with.
Thus, another aspect of meditation is to reach a state and be able to summon a state whereby you are totally clear of all thought, fear, and conceptions about what reality is supposed to be like, what God is supposed to be like, or what is needed in this world.
Monday, August 6, 2007
The Ego and God
In the beginning, if you should come in contact with any greater soul who is in union with the Divine the ego will immediately begin to protect itself. A number of interesting things will happen. You will not be able to ask this person any of the questions about the Divine that have been burning within you. You will find yourself attempting to manipulate them in a manner that you know to be misguided but you have nothing else to draw on. You will find that you can never gain the upper hand on this individual regardless of what you might attempt to do. All of what you believe to be wise revelations on your part will amount to nothing before them.
We are living in a culture where we want everything right now. And this is the way the ego approaches the divine as well. Our egos think we can handle it. The ego will always say that it is not afraid but, the ego is basically suicidal before God. This is the inevitable result of the ego discovering that it can not compete with God. Thus, it comes to the conclusion that the ego must be vanquished in order to perceive God. So, you become faced with the ridiculous situation of the ego trying to vanquish itself. Besides the fact that this is impossible, the ultimate conclusion of the ego to deal with this problem is self sacrifice, which is an aspect of martyrdom, which in effect is suicide. Of course in the end this is not what it is all about.
The ego is primarily interested in serving itself. It will want the Wisdom for its own sake. It will want to use the powers for its own benefit. It believes that the Higher Knowledge is owed to it. It believes that it is the duty of all of those in the service of the Father to save them. It believes that anger is power. It believes that you must fear God even though it will claim that it is not afraid. It believes it knows the only way to heaven. It will rationalize everything to its own advantage. And yet, as long as we are here in the body we cannot do without this thing we have come to call the ego.
So, how do we deal with this thing? For those who are younger in the spiritual sense, and this has nothing to do with age, position, wealth or any other social measure, without the ego they probably would not survive in the physical. So, for them it is a necessary evil. For those who are more mature as souls, whereby these people have a higher purpose to fulfill on Earth, they must come to the point of teaching the ego how to be of service. The ego is supposed to serve the Angel, it is not supposed to be the other way around.
The first step in this process is simply to become aware of which part of you is the ego and which part is the Angel. This is what the disciplines are all about. Discipline is a derivative of discipleship, thus, if your Self cannot discipline your self then it is a good idea to find a Wiser person to “serve.” The disciplines generally used to control the ego are; silent repetitions, vows of silence, fasting, or any vow you make and hold to no matter what, sitting in meditation, breath control, not doing, etc.
The idea of all of these disciplines is to try to control at least some if not all of those things which compel you to act and are motivated by the ego. If you can do this while “watching” from the “center” you will be able to discern which of those things that compel you to move are coming from the ego or the soul. You should be able to find this “center” during your meditations. The intention is never really to eliminate ego, just learn how to manage it in a way that it serves the body and the Angel. But, also know that this is a never ending battle between the Self and the self.
We are living in a culture where we want everything right now. And this is the way the ego approaches the divine as well. Our egos think we can handle it. The ego will always say that it is not afraid but, the ego is basically suicidal before God. This is the inevitable result of the ego discovering that it can not compete with God. Thus, it comes to the conclusion that the ego must be vanquished in order to perceive God. So, you become faced with the ridiculous situation of the ego trying to vanquish itself. Besides the fact that this is impossible, the ultimate conclusion of the ego to deal with this problem is self sacrifice, which is an aspect of martyrdom, which in effect is suicide. Of course in the end this is not what it is all about.
The ego is primarily interested in serving itself. It will want the Wisdom for its own sake. It will want to use the powers for its own benefit. It believes that the Higher Knowledge is owed to it. It believes that it is the duty of all of those in the service of the Father to save them. It believes that anger is power. It believes that you must fear God even though it will claim that it is not afraid. It believes it knows the only way to heaven. It will rationalize everything to its own advantage. And yet, as long as we are here in the body we cannot do without this thing we have come to call the ego.
So, how do we deal with this thing? For those who are younger in the spiritual sense, and this has nothing to do with age, position, wealth or any other social measure, without the ego they probably would not survive in the physical. So, for them it is a necessary evil. For those who are more mature as souls, whereby these people have a higher purpose to fulfill on Earth, they must come to the point of teaching the ego how to be of service. The ego is supposed to serve the Angel, it is not supposed to be the other way around.
The first step in this process is simply to become aware of which part of you is the ego and which part is the Angel. This is what the disciplines are all about. Discipline is a derivative of discipleship, thus, if your Self cannot discipline your self then it is a good idea to find a Wiser person to “serve.” The disciplines generally used to control the ego are; silent repetitions, vows of silence, fasting, or any vow you make and hold to no matter what, sitting in meditation, breath control, not doing, etc.
The idea of all of these disciplines is to try to control at least some if not all of those things which compel you to act and are motivated by the ego. If you can do this while “watching” from the “center” you will be able to discern which of those things that compel you to move are coming from the ego or the soul. You should be able to find this “center” during your meditations. The intention is never really to eliminate ego, just learn how to manage it in a way that it serves the body and the Angel. But, also know that this is a never ending battle between the Self and the self.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
About Love
LOVE has nothing to do with hanging on or controlling anyone or anything. This is not the selflessness of true LOVE but the selfishness of possession.
LOVE has nothing do to with abuse or stifling. This is about power and/or martyrdom.
LOVE knows no fools, it only it is only foolish not to want to know it.
LOVE has no expectations it is always given freely.
LOVE may not appear to be macho, but it is never a weakness.
LOVE will always heal you and lift you up because it is the force of the Creation.
Always give the highest form of LOVE you can conceive of.
LOVE is not about competition it is about the desire to find it within your Self.
Never be the one who tries to LOVE the most. You will always win, and you will always
be disappointed.
LOVE is an essence within itself. Be That Essence and don’t worry about the effects of it.
LOVE yourself first. If you cannot LOVE yourself, you will never allow anyone else to
Love you either.
Seek to LOVE Yourself as God LOVES You.
LOVE is our connection to where we came from.
Never look outwards to find LOVE. It isn't there.
LOVE and fear don’t mix very well.
LOVE is not the freedom to do anything you want, but your guide to the things you are meant to do.
LOVE is hard to sustain in this world there are so many around you who need it.
LOVE has nothing to do with anger, frustration, deprivation, depression or any other type of debilitating mental state of being. It is the cure for these afflictions.
LOVE cannot be taught, but you can show someone what its like.
LOVE has nothing to do with emotions. In fact, it is the only force which can heal you
from emotional sorrows.
If you should feel threatened, run to LOVE first.
LOVE is a fire which burns in the heart. It must be stoked constantly to protect you from those other things that are called love but really are not.
LOVE has nothing do to with abuse or stifling. This is about power and/or martyrdom.
LOVE knows no fools, it only it is only foolish not to want to know it.
LOVE has no expectations it is always given freely.
LOVE may not appear to be macho, but it is never a weakness.
LOVE will always heal you and lift you up because it is the force of the Creation.
Always give the highest form of LOVE you can conceive of.
LOVE is not about competition it is about the desire to find it within your Self.
Never be the one who tries to LOVE the most. You will always win, and you will always
be disappointed.
LOVE is an essence within itself. Be That Essence and don’t worry about the effects of it.
LOVE yourself first. If you cannot LOVE yourself, you will never allow anyone else to
Love you either.
Seek to LOVE Yourself as God LOVES You.
LOVE is our connection to where we came from.
Never look outwards to find LOVE. It isn't there.
LOVE and fear don’t mix very well.
LOVE is not the freedom to do anything you want, but your guide to the things you are meant to do.
LOVE is hard to sustain in this world there are so many around you who need it.
LOVE has nothing to do with anger, frustration, deprivation, depression or any other type of debilitating mental state of being. It is the cure for these afflictions.
LOVE cannot be taught, but you can show someone what its like.
LOVE has nothing to do with emotions. In fact, it is the only force which can heal you
from emotional sorrows.
If you should feel threatened, run to LOVE first.
LOVE is a fire which burns in the heart. It must be stoked constantly to protect you from those other things that are called love but really are not.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Discipleship
Early, on in my spiritual quest I read the Bible completely through. Two things became apparent to me. One was that the message of Jesus was being twisted in some perverted way and that He obviously passed on a greater Wisdom to His Apostles than to the general public. What I wanted was what He gave to the Apostles not the run of the mill stuff preached in the church. I also concluded that In order to learn these lessons I would probably need to experience discipleship. So, I sought out teachers who could demonstrate things that were comparable to what Jesus did and strove to learn what discipleship was from them.
I soon found out that our culture has no foundation for what discipleship really is. It is not and never was a part of our spiritual system. This is one of the main reasons I went to India was to live in a place where this tradition still exists and is the accepted way to learn the nature of the divine and found those teachers who knew how to do it properly.
There are several things that are basic to achieving a meaningful relationship with the divine that are part of what discipleship is all about. One of these is about how to receive and give the “gifts.” I have come to call the Wisdom and the Power of the higher teachings as “gifts,” because in essence that is what they are. They are transferred or given to the student by the teacher at the appropriate time whereby he is capable of appreciating them. And they are like the more precious “gifts” anyone could ever give to another.
Although you might think that the act of giving and receiving is so very simple and basic you would be quite surprised as to the difference between how these acts are done in the common world and how they are done in the True spiritual context. There is also the need to be able to submit to the teacher through learning “Service” in order for you to even allow him to "give" the gifts. But, the teacher in the Wisdom is very careful that you come to “understanding” without losing your own integrity. The key to achieving this is to come to the realization that you are a "Child" of God. You Angel is this "Child" and you have to come to an "Awareness" of this Child within you.
In addition, the True Teachers of the Wisdom are very careful not to allow you to become dependent on them. There is a very delicate balance of trying to show someone how to attain to a state of "Service" while also moving them to a place where they are in the "Service" of the Father and the Mother. Only then will you come to know the true nature of our "reality" and your true place in this amazing universe.
If the “gifts” are given without this kind of training it is like giving a very expensive and complicated toy to a very young child. The challenge for them is getting the toy out of the box. If this is allowed, they will wave it around and play with it in a way that has nothing to do with its functionality. After a few moments they will grow tired of it and start to play with the box it came in. They will have absolutely no appreciation for what the toy can do nor any idea of how to give it to another. In the spiritual context they will not even be consciously aware they have the toy. They will try to show the teacher that they know all about it but only he can appreciate that they even have it.
The net result is that attempting to give these most precious “gifts” to one who is untrained with no discipline is a complete waste of time.
I soon found out that our culture has no foundation for what discipleship really is. It is not and never was a part of our spiritual system. This is one of the main reasons I went to India was to live in a place where this tradition still exists and is the accepted way to learn the nature of the divine and found those teachers who knew how to do it properly.
There are several things that are basic to achieving a meaningful relationship with the divine that are part of what discipleship is all about. One of these is about how to receive and give the “gifts.” I have come to call the Wisdom and the Power of the higher teachings as “gifts,” because in essence that is what they are. They are transferred or given to the student by the teacher at the appropriate time whereby he is capable of appreciating them. And they are like the more precious “gifts” anyone could ever give to another.
Although you might think that the act of giving and receiving is so very simple and basic you would be quite surprised as to the difference between how these acts are done in the common world and how they are done in the True spiritual context. There is also the need to be able to submit to the teacher through learning “Service” in order for you to even allow him to "give" the gifts. But, the teacher in the Wisdom is very careful that you come to “understanding” without losing your own integrity. The key to achieving this is to come to the realization that you are a "Child" of God. You Angel is this "Child" and you have to come to an "Awareness" of this Child within you.
In addition, the True Teachers of the Wisdom are very careful not to allow you to become dependent on them. There is a very delicate balance of trying to show someone how to attain to a state of "Service" while also moving them to a place where they are in the "Service" of the Father and the Mother. Only then will you come to know the true nature of our "reality" and your true place in this amazing universe.
If the “gifts” are given without this kind of training it is like giving a very expensive and complicated toy to a very young child. The challenge for them is getting the toy out of the box. If this is allowed, they will wave it around and play with it in a way that has nothing to do with its functionality. After a few moments they will grow tired of it and start to play with the box it came in. They will have absolutely no appreciation for what the toy can do nor any idea of how to give it to another. In the spiritual context they will not even be consciously aware they have the toy. They will try to show the teacher that they know all about it but only he can appreciate that they even have it.
The net result is that attempting to give these most precious “gifts” to one who is untrained with no discipline is a complete waste of time.
The Powers
Whether you choose to acknowledge or not, the spiritual journey as I have taken it inherently involves learning about personal and divine power. In fact certain powers must be mastered before moving to a higher level. Although the use of power usually has negative connotations and is usually associated with the dark side of things, it is also a part of the Light as well.
Also, oddly enough everyone is using many of these powers all of the time. They simply reject the notion that they are doing it. This is mostly the result of conditioning and fear. It is far better in fact if you are consciously aware of the fact that you are using these powers. At least this way you some chance of controlling them and thus, not creating bad Karma.
Although most of these powers become available in specific situations you can “ask for them,” facilitate the use of them, or become aware of them through meditation.
The Personal Powers
See the future
Read Minds
Put your awareness in another body
Sustain the body without food water or air
Move beyond physical sensations
"See" anything, anyone, anywhere at anytime
Change your size or appearance
Modify Maya to your personal needs
Overcome the cycle of rebirth
Reanimate the dead
Modify a physical form to another form
Become invisible
Manifest physical objects from the ether
Speak and hear in Tongues (this is probably not what you think it is)
Levitate
Heal any disease
Direct "rays" of energy"
See" all of the worlds that exist at different vibration levels.
Translocation - project yourself anywhere or in multiple places at the same time.
Astral Travel
The Higher Powers
There are three levels of this kind of power that I am aware of. This kind of power however cannot be described in the context of words. So, I will offer a couple of stories that you might be able to use to get the jest of it.
Knowledge
If you use the personal powers for the sake of knowledge instead of for the sake of power you will gain a certain knowledge of existence which is symbolized in the Hindu stories as the escapades of Hanuman.
Power over Nature
At some point after mastering the powers and the Knowledge you will be approached by the Lord of Nature. Shiva in the Hindu context, Satan in the Christian context. And He will offer you His Bow. If you are able to string the bow He will give you dominion over His domain which includes that of all of the elements, Wind, Earth, Water and Fire as well as all of the elementals nature spirits, and basically all forms of elemental life on the planet. If you should be able to string the bow you would be invincible on this planet. In Hindu lore only Rama could string the bow and He became the Messiah of the last age. In this age there were kings who were also considered as gods. This was the case for Rama.In order to string this bow you have to sacrifice something. It is something most priests, Shamans, Yogis, are not whiling to sacrifice.
Power over Heaven
When Krishna was young, Shiva came to him and presented his bow. Krishna took it, tried to string it and broke it. When Shiva asked Him why he did that, Krishna responded "because this is my destiny". Essentially, this happened to Jesus as well. Satan offered his bow to Him and Jesus just refused it. He didn't need it. God had created these beings to be the beginning of a new generation that would transcend the elemental world. I will leave to you consider how the power over heaven manifests on Earth and what is possible if you can do this.
Also, oddly enough everyone is using many of these powers all of the time. They simply reject the notion that they are doing it. This is mostly the result of conditioning and fear. It is far better in fact if you are consciously aware of the fact that you are using these powers. At least this way you some chance of controlling them and thus, not creating bad Karma.
Although most of these powers become available in specific situations you can “ask for them,” facilitate the use of them, or become aware of them through meditation.
The Personal Powers
See the future
Read Minds
Put your awareness in another body
Sustain the body without food water or air
Move beyond physical sensations
"See" anything, anyone, anywhere at anytime
Change your size or appearance
Modify Maya to your personal needs
Overcome the cycle of rebirth
Reanimate the dead
Modify a physical form to another form
Become invisible
Manifest physical objects from the ether
Speak and hear in Tongues (this is probably not what you think it is)
Levitate
Heal any disease
Direct "rays" of energy"
See" all of the worlds that exist at different vibration levels.
Translocation - project yourself anywhere or in multiple places at the same time.
Astral Travel
The Higher Powers
There are three levels of this kind of power that I am aware of. This kind of power however cannot be described in the context of words. So, I will offer a couple of stories that you might be able to use to get the jest of it.
Knowledge
If you use the personal powers for the sake of knowledge instead of for the sake of power you will gain a certain knowledge of existence which is symbolized in the Hindu stories as the escapades of Hanuman.
Power over Nature
At some point after mastering the powers and the Knowledge you will be approached by the Lord of Nature. Shiva in the Hindu context, Satan in the Christian context. And He will offer you His Bow. If you are able to string the bow He will give you dominion over His domain which includes that of all of the elements, Wind, Earth, Water and Fire as well as all of the elementals nature spirits, and basically all forms of elemental life on the planet. If you should be able to string the bow you would be invincible on this planet. In Hindu lore only Rama could string the bow and He became the Messiah of the last age. In this age there were kings who were also considered as gods. This was the case for Rama.In order to string this bow you have to sacrifice something. It is something most priests, Shamans, Yogis, are not whiling to sacrifice.
Power over Heaven
When Krishna was young, Shiva came to him and presented his bow. Krishna took it, tried to string it and broke it. When Shiva asked Him why he did that, Krishna responded "because this is my destiny". Essentially, this happened to Jesus as well. Satan offered his bow to Him and Jesus just refused it. He didn't need it. God had created these beings to be the beginning of a new generation that would transcend the elemental world. I will leave to you consider how the power over heaven manifests on Earth and what is possible if you can do this.
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