Post No. 239 - Random thoughts ...

Just a few more random thoughts - on asceticism, art, getting to know one's parallels/subconscious, forgiveness, the benefits of passing over, change vs. learning, and leavening civilisations ...

Asceticism
One of the things which used to be portrayed about Eastern spirituality when I was growing up was that it allegedly favoured asceticism - "denial of the body" through discipline, and forcing the body to endure rigours such as protracted fasting, and living with very little. Well, I now know better - there are those who choose to practise austerity and a rigorous asceticism (e.g. saddhus) - and possibly that is exactly what they need, but they are not the be-all and end-all of the matter: many Eastern people genuinely practise a spiritual life whilst living their equivalent of a "normal" lifestyle.

Where I think a relative form of asceticism has a place is in the lifestyles of us in the West, in the First World. Many of us seem to want "things", and our houses are now much bigger than those of our grandparents, and all of us consumes the limited resources that the Earth has. My opinion is that, as part of being a spiritual being, we should seek to live as materially simple a life as we can. That shows respect and caring (dare I say "love") for the world we live on.

In the four years I was at University, I moved 33 times. As a result, for some decades I had a rule that I would only own enough to fit into a single trailer so I could move easily and readily. That is a rule which is harder to follow here in Victoria, as in Queensland many places are rented furnished, which is not so in Victoria (so I also have to fit fridge and bed, for example, on the trailer). It is also harder with a family, cats, reference books, and my crystals and other magical tools ... but I still try to follow the principle of not consuming unnecessarily out of love for this planet as a spiritual act.

Also, there is an element of choice here: if asceticism is forced because one is living in poverty, then it will not be of any spiritual value. See Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, which I have mentioned in previous posts (here, and in here).

Art
This speculation was spurred by watching The L-Word. What is the purpose of art? I've heard in recent years the view that the purpose of art is to provoke a response. I disagree - especially musical art.

I used to think that art is about appreciating beauty more - not in the sense of portraying those who the media claim are beautiful people, but things like being able to portray the beauty in everyday people, or the beauty of spirit inside one who has been disfigured (perhaps by an explosion, for instance).

Now, I tend to phrase it a little more broadly, and say that art is about increasing our appreciation of life. To me, much of that is about being shown a beauty I had not seen before, but it may, from time to time, also include something which is challenging or provocative.

I also consider that the opinion of what is art to be subjective, not objective. That means something may be considered by most of the billions of other people on this planet but not by me, and we are both right :)

Getting to know one's parallels/unconscious
It might be useful to describe how to go about this from the point of view of being a totally raw novice, with little experience or development of skill. If I found myself back in that situation, I would probably do something along the lines of the following:

1. Ask, every night before going to sleep for at least a month, to practise in sleep state for the exercises I was about to try (this request goes to your Guides/Higher Self (Overself)/Patron Deities).
2. For the last week of that month, add to the request by also lighting a candle where it will not cause a fire (make sure there are no candles, that it is on/in fireproof containers, is a small candle, etc).
3. In the first fortnight after the month of preparation, begin by focusing my attention on all the sensations, emotions and thoughts I was encountering, with a view to developing my awareness and sensitivity (see this post). I would increase this from an initial 5 minutes to an hour, gradually.
4. During the second fortnight, I would set up a protective circle before doing this, and open the circle at the end. In the second week, I would also add doing a ritual to invoke the energies of the Qabbalistic Sphere of Yesod.
5. During the third fortnight, I would add to the ritual, invocation of Yesod and a shortened check of awareness (say 10 to 20 minutes) by then playing various guided meditation tapes (that I had pre-listened to in a normal state of consciousness so I knew what they contained, to make sure there were no suggestion that were disharmonious to me or my principles), again aiming to get this up to around an hour long session. In the second week of this fortnight, I would also experiment with various incenses to see which ones seemed to me to be giving a heightened state of awareness or increased sensitivity. (All the while during these fortnights I would be continuing the request and candle when going to bed.)
6. Finally, I would aim to either meditate, or pre-tape a guided meditation, with a view to changing my awareness and becoming aware of influences and interactions from my subconscious/my parallels.

Of course, for that to be meaningful I also need to post more about the invocation rituals and guided meditation - which doesn't fit into this post. The Qabbalistic ritual is an adaptation of the fuller version of the "Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram" which I posted here (for simplicity, I left out the visualisation of the Archangels).

Finding out more about your parallels can be useful, as many past lives that we look at may actually be of our parallels, who are, effectively, another part of us and, via our shared unconscious, influence us as we influence them.

Lobsang Rampa has some good comments on the unconscious in "Candlelight".

Forgiveness
Further to my recent post on this, the film "Red Dust", which covers the Truth and Reconcialiation Commission in South Africa, is worth looking at.

Dying can lead to resolution of mysteries ...
One of the things about dying is that one views one's life. In the course of this, and by dint of the greater psychic awareness one has inherently as a result of being in the astral, it may be quite possible for one to find out what is behind mysteries that one was plagued by in the physical. Say, for instance, someone lost their child to a violent crime and the criminal was never found, nor the body found (as has happened in one case here in the 80s): when the grieving parents die, they will be reunited with the child, and they will have a chance to resolve the mystery (unless they have some truly extraordinarily bad karmic debt).

So .. if you find yourself thinking "it's a shame so-and-so didn't find out about X before she/he/ze died", don't - they will find out :)

Is change a better word than learning?
In the field of spirituality, one often is told that one's purpose here is to learn: could a better word be "change" - as in, "change for the better"?

If I think about something such as ... say, helping to organise an LGBTIQ spirituality conference (as I have done in the past, and hope to do so again for MidSumma 2013), I can say that I guess I have learned things like trusting myself more, I have acquired more experience, etc - but if I was to try writing a list of what I had learned, I would struggle. If, on the other hand, I was to try writing a list of how I had changed, I would fly through it - I am stronger, I am more experienced at X, Y and Z, I know more about A, B and C, etc, etc, etc.

So ... is "change for the better" more appropriate than "learning"?

I think it is for me - how about you, dear Reader? :)

One other thought comes to mind here: the issue of balance. Often this is thought of in terms of karmic balance, but there is also the issue of seeing "both sides of the coin", so to speak. You MUST have lives as male and female, for example, to enable you to evolve; you must also have lives of poverty and riches, before you can evolve.

There are other personal sequences where people often try to seek a balance by, more or less, going from one form of extremism to another. Hence, for instance, I have read (and don't actually agree with) a suggestion that Hitler would come back as a vehement preacher in the next life ...

In my case, I have tended to try to balance a life in the military by a life in a religious order. I have tried to balance out a hedonistic lifestyles in one century and piratical life the century before with a disciplined British navy life in the 1800s (I was no-one known or famous, by the way). I tried to balance some lives where I was a compliant, obediant female in the 1700s with a more wilful life in the early 1900s - a bit like teenagers as they are stereotypically thought of today, perhaps :) Unfortunately, going against my father's wishes led to a path that I regret and am still paying for to this day [1] ... so, there is a time, a place and a way to seek to ba;ance things out: better yet, do not fall into the trap of being extremist in the first place :)

Leavening civilisations
Something I am thinking about at the moment is Rampa's comments (in "The Hermit" and "Tibetan Sage") that the "Gardeners of the Earth" (i.e. benevolent aliens seeking to help the evolution of spiritual life on Earth - see the notes in this post) occasionally try to "leaven" the quality of sentient life on the Earth by introducing new civilisations. I have not reached any conclusions about this yet, just mentioning that it is something I am cogitating upon - especially when I see people like an ex's son have six kids, who he is raising in an alcoholic, criminal (well, formerly criminal - I don't know if he still is), violent (again - formerly) environment. The last time I had contact with him, he had a new girlfriend who appeared to be sorting him out ...

but then I compare this with the people who are wonderful parents, and note that they inevitably have fewer kids. Will the world evolve to be a better place under these circumstances? Maybe that depends on whether or not the education system will pick up the slack ...

As I said, I don't know one way or the other ... it is just one of the things currently occupying my mind and my meditations - along with things such as should I try to improve my ability to channel names, which I tend to block because of the expectations that get put on mediums to channel such details instead of the person being helped getting metaphorically off their backside and sharing the responsibility for a good reading by doing their part (such as preparing ... ).

Greed = glamour
One of the main ills of the world, in my opinion, is greed - wanting more than one needs. This is something I also refer to as materialism or being materialistic (probably the more precise reference!), or consumerism. One aspect of this is being sucked in by advertising (including the portrayal of lifestyles on TV), which Alice Bailey refers to as "glamour", being caught like a moth to the glitzy lights of what appears glamorous. (Bailey even wrote a book about the problem ... )

Control through phone messages
Something which struck me as my partner and I continued watching the L Word (which I posted some initial impressions of - not changed as yet! - here) was the control exerted over people by leaving short, useless messages.

A couple of times towards the end of Season One Tina left messages for Bette where she was clearly upset asking here to call, but not saying what could have happened. That left Bette the potential to think Tina could have miscarried, which could have caused Bette to panic or have unnecessary stress. A better approach would have been to say something along the lines of "I have been threatened by a sperm donor's current girlfriend" - which is something Tina didn't do even when Bette did ring. It is important to get emotions out and expressed, yes, but it is also important to have consideration for partners. Did Tina fear Bette would not interrupt her work to call her? Given the unbalanced attitudes Bette had, that could have been the case - but better to know that and deal with it, than to try to exert a form of control over one's partner.

This sort of consideration applies more broadly: I detest getting short, useless messages "call me" from work colleagues, when if they said something useful such as "call me about a potential bid X", I can assess that against my other work priorities, and call it in the order that is best for the company - which is not necessarily best for the ego of the person leaving the message. They think that, by being vague, I will call to find out what it is all about, whereas I generally choose to ignore such messages or put them down at the bottom of the pile. It doesn't take much effort to have some basic manners and consideration.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:

1. An ex-partner and my current partner were on the opposite side to me in the Second World War, by the way: there are some interesting dynamics in these situations, as well some - in these cases - karmic balancing, as well as love and continuation of relationships from past lives.

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Tags: lifestyles, asceticism, art, Qabbalah, Yesod, unconscious, forgiveness, death, growth, evolution, greed, glamour, materialism, consumerism, Alice A Bailey, Maslow,

First published: Thorsdagr, 3rd March, 2011

Last edited: Sunday, 6th March, 2011

Post No. 203 - The problem of deification

On pages 160 and 161 of "The Only Planet of Choice" by Phyllis V. Schlemmer is a description of some (extraterrestrial) entities who allegedly were deified into the Egyptian Gods. This concept, the concept that advanced humans subsequently are transformed into gods/goddesses by less advanced humans is one I have come across elsewhere (e.g., in Lobsang Rampa's books).

This time, however, it struck home. What if the Patron Deities I work with are really just very advanced humans?

Well, we all have the potential in us (at the level of our Higher Self) to do deity-like things, and there are lots of very advanced entities between us and Deity - including "the Nine" who are channelled in this book and Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth ... Sanat Kumara (who, according to Alice Bailey, is the entity who enables life on Earth and heads the guiding hierarchy) and the Kumaras of the other planets, the Manu's who head up each nation/culture (according to Lobsang Rampa, which is different to the definition of Manu in Hinduism), etc.

But this time, the Aussie in me jacked up at the thought that things might not be as fair dinkum as they seem! (Crikey! Better have a Bex and a lie down after that Aussie colloquialism ... :) ) What if, instead of anthropomorphising the energies/influences we put into the form of these various Patron Deities, we just call upon the what it is we actually want?

So ... for example, instead of calling on the Lord and the Lady, we could say something like:
"We call upon all sentience, energies, deeds, things, places, cultures and other units that bring, sustain and nurture life ..."

Instead of invoking Gyhldeptis, who represents integration and synthesis, I could perhaps say:
"I call upon all sentience, energies, deeds, things, places, cultures and other units that create, manifest, increase or use beneficially the spirit of integration and synthesis ..."

I'll do some more thinking on this, and see if I can work up a ritual example based on this post.

For this to be successful, the people using it must be capable of relating to energies as if they were other people: many people switch off and assume a certain lack of awareness/lack of interactivity if they are told to invoke an energy that is absent when they invoke the image of a person. That "dumbing down" of how they view energies is, in my opinion, a flaw - after all, I have had considerable benefit from starting to view the runes as sentient energies, as suggested by Galina Krasskova in "Runes - Theory and Practice" (pub. 2010 by Career Press, ISBN-13 978-1-60163-085-8, see here and here).

In my case, I would continue to work with the energies as I outlined here, but without giving them personifications.

And yet I am also continuing to practise the projection and personification of my chakras ... :)

Hmmm.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

 

 

 

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Tags: ET/UFO/UAP, deities, Patron Deity, rituals, energy, chakras, Lobsang Rampa, Alice A Bailey,

First published: Manadagr, 3rd January, 2011

Last edited: Monday 3rd January, 2011

Post No. 196 - The Only Planet of Choice, Star Wars and Kung Fu [Content Warning: taking things for granted, irresponsibility, selfishness, competition, violence]

Some time ago I did a rave review on Stuart Holroyd's magnificent book "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth". Well, there is a follow up book which I have finally (courtesy of some gift money) bought: "The Only Planet of Choice", published under the name of the medium from Briefing and subsequently, Phyllis V. Schlemmer.

I'm going to do a more comprehensive review of that book later (meaning, with apologies, it will get added to my draft posts for some time ... there is a downside to being busy :( ), but some of the themes from it tie in with other things I am doing as I try to laze around doing nothing (well ... almost nothing ... ) on my end of year break.

Now, the theme that has been coming through fairly strongly so far is:

• this world is acting as a bottleneck on the evolution of the Universe, and our negativity could contaminate the whole rest of the Universe;
• the reason for the bottleneck effect is the addiction to physicality, and lack of connection with Deity/the Universe of people on this planet (apparently we get mired in the density of the planet);
• to fix things, we need to acknowledge that there is no death, and hence all actions will have consequences which must be paid for, and "[i]f they also knew that each of them had the quality of greatness in them" (p. 91).

Now, while I am perfectly prepared to admit that we can and do influence others, and that this planet has got itself into somewhat of a negative state (e.g. see here), I have trouble with the concept that we are the only form of a compulsory evolution. I'm an engineer, not a deity, and yet I know that critical systems need redundancy (i.e., back ups). In fact, if you look at the patterns in a leaf, the vessels that transport fluids around the leak have multiple redundancy in them, and in fact have been used to inspire designs of failure-resistant piping systems. To think, after ensuring back up occurs in something such as a leaf, the Universe has made such a fundamental flaw is a bit ... doubtful, to me. [8]

Still, who am I to say? I could be wrong :)

I have less problem accepting that negative psychic energy from this planet could lead to a snowball effect throughout much of the rest of creation (I'm glad the emphasis seems to be off physical [nuclear] radiation poisoning all the rest of creation: I suspect that message may have been an ... error, on the part of the transmission units [mediums :) ] who channelled it). In many situations in life, the stronger influence tends to win:

• in evolution, the more appropriate survive;
• in a court case, those with better evidence and legal resources tend to win;
• in the physical world of Nature, the stronger force tends to win (determining which is stronger tends to be related to our perspective of time [1]);
• in the case of a group of women living together, one will tend to dominate and all the women's periods set into unison with her period (that doesn't necessarily refer to the alpha female, by the way!) - see here;
• in interpersonal interactions that are not aware of social/cultural/emotional/spiritual factors (and I recommend activism/social study, personal growth/counselling and studying polyamory to develop such awareness), the stronger person (again, not necessarily the loudest/pushiest/most obnoxious/"alpha" type personality) may tend to dominate those who are weaker;
• in psychic terms, stronger (which is time-related, but also subject to changing factors such as how many other sources of energy will help [2]) energy will tend to dominate the weaker.

The solution, according to Phyllis Schlemmer's book (which is reporting the chanelled advice from "The Nine" [3]), is for people to clear the clouds of negative energy (and I also read an implication suggesting spirit rescue could be useful, but that is not stated explicitly) and accelerate the development of this planet, largely around doing 9 to 18 minutes of meditation [4] daily (or possibly at least weekly - I haven't finished the book yet).

(One thing I quite like about the meditation is a suggestion to cleanse initially using three of my favourite colours: emerald green [although I prefer a darker shade], royal blue and purple - p. 271.)

This ties in well, for me, with my recent resumption of meditation, and the increased calmness I have been feeling as a result of it (I have a rather stressful job). It is also interesting that I have been looking for films with meditation in them, without much success other than some episodes of Kung Fu and the Star Wars series of films.

In fact, I find it quite fascinating how life will often pop up with the answers to things I am looking for. For instance, I wondered how, if I had not had access to the books I have had, I could have learned the things I have ... and got the answer in two ways:

1. Charmaine Wilson's lifestory (see here and here [5]), and
2. the general sequence of events at the moment, where I am often finding validation of information I have received from my Guides/Higher Self/helpers, including some of what I have read in The Only Planet of Choice.

Going back to the meditation, one thing I disagree with is the preference of The Nine for doing their meditations at the same time. I agree with the use of colour to cleanse, having three or more people together in a state of harmony, but I don't agree with trying to have everyone around the globe synchronise to do their meditations at the same chronological time. I am fully aware of the problems this creates for some (especially for us here in Australia, if the thing is set for a time that suits people in the USA, as was often the case when I worked for a US-owned company), including flow-on effects on family, work and health, but, more importantly, I am aware that having a group of people around the globe who do their work at the same clock time in their timezone means that it is possible to build up a wave of energy running around the planet. (That is something we worked out in an online Correllian shrine I used to help co-run.)

Now, in terms of addiction to this world, just after I'd read that part of Phyllis' book, I watched the episode "An Eye for an Eye" (episode 4, season one - see here), with it's portrayal of the effects of the theme of revenge (getting even, as many here would call it). I think these effects are best summed up by the saying I attribute to Gandhi (although it quite possibly comes from others) "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind" ... and makes the whole world trapped in a cycle of karmic returns and rebirths.

It was interesting to me that comments were made about the character Caine in this episode that he seemed calmer than his brother, and there is quite a bit on the theme of being at peace in this TV series.

That's a comment I have sometimes had made about me, but I have never felt it was particularly true. I have, of course, been meditating since I was 14 or so, so it may be that I am - or seem to be - calmer or more at peace than others, but that is simply a matter of relativity (non-Einsteinian, if you'll pardon the science joke :) ). All things are relative - in fact, a saying I first came across in one of Rampa's books is "the more you know, the more you know there is to know". As another example, I was quite successful as a kid (a teenager) at my local sailing club in central-Queensland, and was praised by others for it - in fact, my first skipper once - wrongly - predicted that I would be on the first Australian team to win the America's Cup ... although I was cruising through the Whitsundays at the time :) . One of the reasons I wasn't was that I knew the competition increased as you went further "up the chain" - a National championship, for instance, had lots of people like me, people who were all good at a local level; a World championship had lots of people who were good at a national level, and so on, and the work to be succesful at higher levels was phenomenal (and I would rather put that amount of energy into making this world a better place, rather than seeking personal glamour). My results in competitive sailing have shown that I can win at a local, regional and State level, come in the top 10% of a National championship, and come in the top 30% of a World level championship. So ... to the people who think i am good at anything, keep in mind that it is all relative, and others are better than me, and that we are all, given the time (possibly more than one lifetime), practise and guidance, capable of achieving the same as anyone else.

Now, let's consider the Star Wars series of films (and, by the way, I consider Bablyon 5 infinitely better, and Star Trek much, much better [6]). In one of those films, Yoda says something along the lines of "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side". Now, forgetting about the "dark side" stuff for a moment, I've previously posted that I do not consider either fear or anger to actually be emotions - fear is, in my view, a sometimes inappropriate survival mechanism (see here) and anger a way that some mother emotion is being expressed (see here).

The Wikipedia review on Yoda (see here, accessed on 2nd January, 2011) includes the following:

Yoda makes his first film appearance in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) arrives on Dagobah to seek his guidance, having been instructed to do so by the Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness).

Rather than immediately identifying himself, Yoda tests Luke by initially presenting himself as a comical, backwater individual, deliberately provoking both Luke and R2-D2 (voiced by Kenny Baker). Finding that Luke exhibits many of the flaws that led to his father's downfall, Yoda is reluctant to teach him in the ways of the Force, but agrees to do so at the spectral Obi-Wan's behest.

In my opinion, the prequel film sequence actually shows Anakin going bung because of possessiveness of Padme, manifesting as fear of loss, which in turn could perhaps be attributed to personal insecurity or lack of self confidence/esteem - which takes us back to the second part of the "cure" mentioned in "The Only Plant of Choice": "[i]f they also knew that each of them had the quality of greatness in them". (It also is yet another argument for either being polyamorous, or at least using the techniques of polyamory to deal with problems such as jealousy. We all have a shadow side; we need to acknowledge that, change what can be changed, and accept and manage what cannot - or what will take time to change. ) [7] Getting in touch with our innermost, truest selves, our Higher Self, that part of ourself which may seem almost god-like to us, is one of the aims of meditation, according to Rampa, and certainly is one of the benefits I've found. That form of meditation (which is not the "relaxation" approach to meditation, nor transcendental Meditation or similar techniques) has certainly led to increased calmness and an inner strength for me.

Have a look at my post and please consider :)

If, sadly, you won't consider doing that for yourself, please consider doing it for others, for this planet, our home, Earth.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:

1. In the case of a bushfire, at the time of the fire, fire is stronger, but, in the long term, life will generally lead the bush to regenerate. In the case of tectonic movement, the uplift is initially stronger than erosive forces when it creates a mountain range; but then, over time, the wind and rain are stronger than the mountain. ... Can you tell I've been watching the TV series Kung Fu, dear Grasshopper? :)
2. The most obvious sources of energies are people. On your side will (generally) be Guides, your Higher Self, friends, etc. (The qualification here is that if you are seeking to harm others, your Guides and Higher Self will be opposing what you do!) However, other sources of energy can be from crystals, sacred places, etc - and YOUR energy levels are subject to your psychic health (which can be affected by your physical state of being), your psychic skills (which comes down to practise!) and your psychic strength (which depends on things such as ... practise and usage).
3. There are some interesting parallels between the information on "The Nine" and the books of Lobsang Rampa and Alice A Bailey.
4. See here, and here.
5. Charmaine developed directly from guidance she received.
6. Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, is reported to have sat in on quite a few of the communication sessions with The Nine. Actually, I am more personally impressed by his flying experience ... :)
7. There is also the issue of the attitude of the Jedi that their knights must be single to deal with: that runs a whole gamut of potential problems, and is based on a whole set of (wrong) assumptions that I will be posting about in due course. In the interim, note that Tibetan monasteries included one sect where monks and nuns were married, and that even Rampa has commented that sex can lead to spiritual ecstasy.
8. Another example pof the multiple options thing is the introduction of new ideas to this world. I believe that ideas are channelled into this world by "inventers", "thinkers", "philosophers", etc - John Denver once wrote about how he felt that his ideas for songs came from outside himself, for example. (The best I can find to support this - given that I cannot find the actual quote - is the following, from here: "The songs would just come from him, as if he was a vehicle from God that the songs flowed through," Annie Denver was quoted as saying in the Denver Post after Denver's death.)
   
   As a small example of this, in my younger days I had an idea for a type of sail which would be more like an airfoil, and which would change as you tacked. I never progressed that (I chose to focus in other areas of my life) but I subsequently saw a programe on TV where someone in Western Australia had actually developed and patented that idea - and good for them: they hadn't pinched "my" idea any more than I had theirs. It was simply a case of this relatively minor invention having come in to this world through at least two portals ...
   
   A possibly better known case was the development of the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. Darwin's work was (arguably) somewhat paralleled by that of Alfred Wallace. It appears to me that neither based their work on that of the other, they were genuinely independently developing the same idea.
   
   I've read other examples, but must apologise as I haven't kept references to them (largely because I consider this idea so self evident). All I can offer at the moment is that Edgar Cayce reportedly channelled a comment that each person could happily and succesfully marry any of around 40 people on planet Earth at any one time (so much for "the one" - bring on polyamory, I say! :) ).
   
   Where we know of only one person who has developed an idea, I consider that the others who were channelling that idea into this world may either have failed, thus proving the benefit of multiple channels, or simply not be known.
   
   Also, in relation to this topic, Chapter Three of Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth contains a statement from "The Nine" that only 2% of those who make a commitment to serve for "good" on the Earth actually follow through and succeed in that commitment (p. 97 of my copy). This was in the context of discussing the original channel for The Nine, who pulled out from the work and was replaced by Phyllis - oh wait: was that a case of back-up? Or ... the original possible author of Briefing was actually Lyall Watson, who decided not to undertake that role and was replaced by Stuart Holroyd ... oh, was that another case of back-up? In fact, on page 85, an entity being channelled by Phyllis specifically states that, if the original channel fails, there were two more from the group who could take on that role.
   
   (It is interesting - to me! - to speculate on the differences between the response of a spiritually immature and a spiritually mature soul to the 98% failure/2% success rate. An immature soul would either say "oh that won't be me" or "what's wrong with all those others that they failed so much", whereas a spiritually mature soul would be more inclined to say "I too have probably 'failed' 49 times, learning something constructive each time, before I finally succeeded. I wonder what I can learn from that borader overview?", and would be more likely to be (a) sympathetic, and (b) useful, to those in the 49 failure part ... )
   
   Very importantly, NONE of this means we should write off or take casually our Planet, or any of the valuable individuals who has tried to take on a role for the service of the "greater good" and struggled or even "failed". All are INHERENTLY valuable, and our Plant is valuable in its own right. I'm just suggesting that THAT is enough reason, and expressing doubts that the Planet has a sole, CRITICAL function in the Universe ...

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Tags: Alice A Bailey, energy, evolution, Lobsang Rampa, negative energy, Stuart Holroyd, Charmaine Wilson, personal characteristics, responsibility,

First published: Sunnudagr, 2nd January, 2011

Last edited: Monday, 3rd January, 2011 (added comment 8) 

 

 

Post No. 188 - Meditation: first output

Well, I've resumed meditating, and had some interesting insights from yesterday's session.

Now, Alice A Bailey's books (which I hope to write a review of - in part! [1]) mention "permanent atoms" which exist on each level. These are not the atoms we know of in the physical: the term, is used in the sense (I think ancient Greek) of the smallest, essential component of something. In the Bailey sense, they are defined as follows (from the glossary of Initiation, Human and Solar):
Those five atoms, with the mental unit, one on each of the five planes of human evolution (the mental unit being also on the mental plane) which the monad appropriates for purposes of manifestation. They form a stable centre and are relatively permanent. Around them the various sheaths or bodies are built. They are literally small force centres.

So ... the Bailey perspective - to simplify grossly! - on evolution could be said to be that, in order to evolve, we have to manifest more fully our higher bodies. We don't "create" them, as that credit belongs to the source of the "permanent atoms".

Lobsang Rampa talks about this as well. From pages 11 and 12 of "Twilight":
... on each stage our body will be absolutely as solid as all those other bodies which are around us. We build up energy for a new astral body from what we are doing on what is at that moment our “Earth”, or the world of our physical existence, so that eventually when you get to the - oh, what shall I say? - eighth dimension, you will have to live in the eighth dimensional physical body while your actions and your life force will generate the ninth physical body which then, of course, will be your astral.

Now, this is all very interesting, but how does it relate to the cycle of involution and evolution of Wicca - or, more accurately, the Descent of the Goddess into Matter?

For those who may not be familiar with that, the concept is that we were all created as sparks from the Goddess and descend into matter (involution), after which we find our way back to unity with the Goddess (evolution - by the way, do you know that the word "Yoga" literally means "union", and this is most often interpreted as Union with Deity?).

So ... the permanent atoms of which Bailey writes would presumably have been created as part of the original Descent into Matter. But what of this creation of higher bodies?

Well, first, let's consider a couple of other matters.

Firstly, on page 286 of Stuart Holroyd's brilliant book "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth", the following definition is given of Deity:
"A unified infinite intelligence supported by pure love and which grows with pure love"

Next, in the books written by the controversial Carlos Castenada, I think in either The Eagle's Gift, 1981 (ISBN 0-671-73251-X or The Fire From Within, 1984 (ISBN 0-671-73250-1), but possibly The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan, 1987 (ISBN 0-671-73248-X) - my indexing hasn't got that far, I'm afraid, there is a comment to the effect that, upon death of the physical, we fly up and are swallowed by The Eagle, at which point our experiences become part of that greater whole.

So ... perhaps what is happening when we build our higher frequency bodies, is that, effectively, we are integrating our experience and knowledge into our higher selves in much the same way that our DNA apparently records past infections with various viruses [2].

This is a little creating a piece of art: your essence suffuses through every part of what you are creating. All that you have been through, all that you have acknowledged and integrated or overcome, all that you have achieved or left undone, all of that makes you what you are now, and, because of that, all your learning and experience are an integral part of the higher frequency bodies you create now and inhabit later, as you evolve, so on until eventually all your life story becomes part of the Universe.

Hmm. I like that. Do you?

Why? :)

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:

1. I'm currently re-reading Initiation, Human and Solar
2. See here, for instance, although that's not actually the link I am trying to find.
   

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Tags: Alice A Bailey, meditation, permanent atoms, creation, evolution, levels, Castenada, Lobsang Rampa,

First published: Tysdagr 14th December, 2010

Last edited: Tysdagr 14th December, 2010