Anakosha
Awakening the divine feminine in everyone
The heart is the new baseline
The heart is the new baseline
A Class on Personal Power
by Master Djwhal Khul
by Master Djwhal Khul
(Prologue: These writings were received around 1981, 1982. I didn't realize that DK was dictating. After kundalini awakened I was on fire to start giving classes in Costa Rica, and was having bouts of whirling craziness. Episodes of extremely high energy, and words flowing through me out onto paper. I didn't know I was channeling. High thoughts were constantly pouring through my mind. There were no dates on the original paper work but they refer to a "course" or "class", so I have assumed they were meant to be contiguous, which is why I am posting them as a separate book by the Master Djwahl Khul who made himself known to me around this time. I added the titles at the time I posted this.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 - The power of becoming consciously awake
2 - The power of love
3 - The power behind your Self
4 - Your consciousness is God consciousness
5 - What is power?
6 - The power of goodness
7 - The power of letting go
8 - The real power is in your sexual organs
9 - This power is like another personality
10 - The power as an inner wind
11 - The power of life
12 - The power can be turned up
13 - The difference between consciousness and mind
14 - Two paths to awaken the power
15 - Make peace with sexuality and the world
1 - THE POWER OF BECOMING CONSCIOUSLY AWAKE
The power and energy of a consciously awake individual and spiritual master may jump across space and time and matter to another individual who is not yet awake. Such is the power of spiritual awareness. It is a light of profound ability which extends beyond the laws of cause and effect that we know. There is nothing through which it cannot penetrate. It can dissolve barriers of heavy negation, such as centuries of wrong doing. It can melt disbelief in an instant. It can restore limbs in the twinkling of an eye. It has no limits.
When such a transmission is given to another it is given as a gift, for it has not been generated from within, but from without, from another person who has more than the one receiving. This is what is meant by the "grace of the guru", and upon such transmissions of spiritual energy which is in reality an awareness, has been built the entire structure of religious systems. From master to disciple who becomes a master to new disciples. From heart to heart the power is passed as from a father to a son, as a spark leaps from one live wire to another at the space of several millimeters.
However, this transmission may also be received without the help of a physical guru or master. It may be transmitted through the spiritual ethers from higher beings in more refined layers who are no longer present in the world, but who constitute the "heavenly hosts and angelic choirs". It is far more difficult to do it oneself, but it is a far more valuable and rewarding way, for the grunginess of earth's atmosphere is like a sticky, clinging mud to the spirit of the individual who must lead a life of involvement with the affairs of the world. In order to tap this source of power which is felt as love, one must learn how to reach up with one's entire being, instead of allowing oneself to continue to be dragged down. This is the only way to reach high enough into the spacious realms of refinement to touch the subtle glory of love and pull it down and out into the form of one's life and circumstance.
It is through conscious effort and will power to do good for oneself, to think good about oneself, and to worship the good that is in oneself, that one taps the higher powers. It is done through devotion to the highest in oneself. And to begin, one holds a steady, consistent attitude of reverence for one's own goodness, and begins to take action to amend the wrong that has been done to the sacredness of the inner heart of one's own self. If one cannot love oneself, then it is an impossibility to love another and do good to another. The task begins with oneself.
One may use an outside form of good if one wishes, to get started in the right direction, such as using the model of Jesus in one's mind and heart continuously, or the Buddha or a saint, or Muhammed or Zoroaster. Or one may do it all alone, by simple devotion to virtue, through the praise of that virtue known as love. But such an action of inner changes in attitude eventually makes itself known in the outer actions of the individual - and the transformation begins. And so it is that we direct our attention to the shifting of our conscious thought to virtuous ends.
2 - THE POWER OF LOVE
The sea of universal energy is in reality a sea of love, and everything we do either adds to or subtracts from that universal storehouse. When we enhance the joy of life, whether in ourselves or in another through encouragement and recognition, we increase the reservoir of that energy. But every time we put someone down, including ourselves, we sap the energy from that ebullient sea of joy and allow it to drain away, losing a portion of ourselves in the process. No different than blood is wasted through an open wound. Each action that we perform, each thought and word we give out, shifts the balance of love energy allotted to the whole world, as our intentions permeate the sea of love intelligence in which we live and draw our breath, changing the balance in our account to a plus or a minus. Occult knowledge is knowledge pertaining to the right use of this love energy which is all that is uplifting to the spirit of man, while the wrong use of love is all that pulls down, thwarts opportunity at every pass, discourages and connives to usurp the happy heart of man. Right use of energy comes down to us in our modern terminology as the word Righteous, which tells us that righteousness is not a moral act, but an act of efficiency and wisdom, conserving or adding to the store of energy which has been allotted to each human being to do with as he sees fit. He alone is responsible for his life and his destiny.
3 - THE POWER BEHIND YOUR SELF
Before you rise in spirit, you must first re-unite with this spirit, for it is the light from which you originally descended. This is the light of love which is the spirit of man. It is the light of happiness, and supreme ecstasy and bliss and self knowledge. It is the power behind your self. You are but a shadow of this light self, a shadow lying prone upon the ground in a one-dimensional world of physical matter. But as you raise your hopes, your vision, your understanding, you will become absorbed once more into the light of this unlimited love which is the fire of your breath and your life.
Why is it so difficult, you may ask, for individuals to merge with the inner light of love? Why is it that more people don't succeed? The answer is simple, dear ones, before you can re-unite with the spirit of love and become as one with that pure love, you must first make your peace with this world, the world of matter, emotion and psychic manipulation. The problem is rejection which turns to hate and anger. The problem is that no one understands how to love and absorb the ugly one into the light, to transform the features of ugliness. The problem is here, dear ones, in your ability to accept the ugliness, or rather, your lack of ability to accept. Your world is a mere reflection of the struggles going on in the hearts of the people who live in it. It should have no hold on you. You are free. You have no responsibility for the struggles of others, if you could but realize it. Your only duty is to raise yourself. So begin to put your own life in order, pull yourself together and make plans to organize your life.
How do you make peace with your world? This is the meaning of this course. We will travel down the road of education - education in the ways of THIS world, not the next. You already know the ways of the spirit. This part is innate in you,. What you DON'T know is the ways of the world, nor do you understand the meaning of your struggles here. It is a problem of THIS world, not a problem of the pure flame of love energy that beats your heart.
4 - YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
We are going to begin this course in meditation with a very simple visualization and we are going to do this because meditation is getting back to God and your consciousness is God consciousness – that is underneath the layers that cover you. But it makes no difference how many layers cover you, your consciousness is still a spark of God and when you say “I Am” God is pronouncing a divine statement – or at least he is trying to pronounce it underneath the doubts and inadequacies that you think you have. Still your consciousness is God consciousness, the consciousness of the supreme creator and everything you visualize and make a habit out of in your mind becomes a living creation of yours.
Not knowing this you have created some unpleasant habits and gotten into some unpleasant problems but they are easy enough to get out of if you will give the effort for yourself. You are a portion of God consciousness covered up by seven veils which are in reality seven densities which hold you down and through which you have to work to get back to the Godhead out of which you were thrown. And the only way to get through those densities is to burn your way through and dissolve those densities. And the only way to burn your way through is by activating the holy principles of God. That’s what human life is all about – experimenting with those God qualities on earth. God qualities mean good qualities, because God means good. Let it be on Earth the same as it is in heaven. That’s what we have to do – make them active and useful on Earth.
So to burn through those densities that hold you back you have to activate the six powers of God: which are freedom, peace, love, will, truth and knowledge. The seventh quality which is purity or holiness will come automatically when those six are practiced and used every day in every aspect of your life on a permanent and consistent basis. This isn’t impossible at all, it’s not only possible, it’s desirable, and it’s fun, too. Because contrary to popular opinion meditation is not a wish-washy art, nor is God a mamby-pamby power. All power comes from God and you have seen a bit of what kind of powers we have in the world. There’s a lot more where that came from but we first have to know what we’re doing or we’ll blow the whole world to smithereens.
So, whatever you can imagine or conjure up in your mind is going to become a reality, so let’s begin. We have to begin with the simple idea of visualization. And how powerful it is. Lots of people don’t understand the reason for ritual. They think it’s better to be spontaneous, but ritual is simply a habit. And in this course we’re going to form some new habits in order to break out of the rut of the old habits. That’s why in order to bring about changes in your life you’re going to have to do these meditation visualizations every day, three times a day – for only five to ten minutes each time. That’s not a lot. That’s only fifteen minutes at the least and thirty minutes at the most. This is all it takes to change your life around and put some of the original spark of radiation or power that comes out of the original creation. You are the original creator of your life and your problems. Now you are going to learn some techniques that will jar you loose from the rut so you can realize your creativity again. This is not wish-washy. Meditation is not going to put you into a trance, but rather it’s going to make you feel more alert, more alive, more eager to get back out into the world. If your meditation doesn’t do that, then you’re falling into a trance. And although there’s nothing wrong with falling into a trance, you’re not going to become more powerful that way. So let’s get started by putting some dynamic habits into your life – rituals that follow the same pattern every day. When you get bored with that ritual, then it’s time to move on and get a new ritual. If you’re bored from the first day, then you’re not giving it a chance and you shouldn’t even be thinking of meditation.
5 - WHAT IS POWER?
What is power? You may say that there are many different kinds of power, such as the power of confidence, the power of mechanical force, the power of the spoken word, the power of speech, the power of nature, wind, water, fire, the power of brute strength, the power of electrical energy, the power of gasoline, and so on. But when it all comes right down to the bottom line, all power, all forms of power, come from one source, and one source alone. All true teachings, no matter which category they may fall under, science, religion, business, art, politics or whatever, if they are true teachings they will dissolve the confusion and complexities and reveal the simplicity of the matter behind it. All teachings of the occult, those essential doctrines heretofore known as spiritual doctrines because they exist before their time in the material world, all have their roots in knowledge of this one power which forms the base of the world’s religions, and transcends this physical world for it is not of this world.
A true teacher will remind you of your connection to this one power and your inherent right to use it as you see fit, and further they will teach you how to dissolve your differences in a peaceable manner which follows the principles of cosmic order. A false teacher will be secretive and lead you to believe that you are missing something and only they have the answer and will try to get you to follow them. A false teacher will remind you of your lacks and your failures and will lead you down the path of division, separation, rumor, confusion and war. Yet the power remains undisturbed.
The power of life, which is the power behind your conscious awareness, has never been missing from you since the day you were born and, if the truth were known, since before you were born into this world. It has always been present on a low-activity level, and glimpses of its reality have been vouchsafed you on special occasions so that you do not forget. No one human being has all of the answers concerning this power, for its energy has been cut up out of necessity into portions and distributed by bits and pieces to the many human beings that live in the world and who have ever lived in either this world or the others, and among the many plants, animals, insects, fish and the elements of existence. The power has been reduced and diminished so that it may not be tapped in all its glory, and used wrongly by an unwise individual. Proper training in the right use of the power must take place before the power can be activated, since it is only through right use of the power that obstacles are dissolved and the veils that shroud reality, dispersed. No one teacher has all of the answers.
6 - THE POWER OF GOODNESS
This one power is universally concerned with the whole of creation, not with just one segment of it, because it is the one power which fires the furnace of each entity. It is one power, one mind which urges movement and activity. The fact that one man can turn around and do harm to another man is evidence that we are not in tune with this one power, for no one mind would turn on itself. This one power, this one mind, is the sole source of energy for the good and the bad, the just and the unjust, because it is vastly superior than both. And the good and the bad are not really good or bad at all , but poor vision from a badly located window on the part of the judger. And it is ignorance of the one law, the one power that governs all, that causes us our discomfort and our suffering, our faults and our failures.
There is a science involved in learning how to live in respect of the one power, a science which we do not yet know very much about obviously, for when we fail to consider the whole of life when we make our decisions to act (at least the immediate whole insofar as we an see it) then we remove ourselves from its protection. In our ignorance we have assumed that we, ourselves, are the power. And we have developed great teachings to convince ourselves that this is true – yet it is all illusory as evidenced by our continued distress. Peace, harmony, happiness, exquisite joy, and a love for humanity, desire for justice, are the signs of a compatible relationship with the one power, no matter what is said to the contrary. For a close relationship and a close understanding of one mind with another mind will naturally align the two minds together so they act and perform and desire the same things.
It is really rather simple to know which way to go, which way is right and which way is wrong, when certain signs are pointed out. We have gotten quite lost in the maze of human thinking which is less than perfect because it is less than whole. Each human being thinks partially and separates himself and his loved ones from the whole, and therefore does not receive proper input. For example, the one power of life that enlightens our conscious mind to goodness, is the same power which enlightens us of danger in the presence of a person, act or situation. It is our own fault if we listen to the good and we ignore the warnings. The power that the saints have tapped and brought forth into their lives is the same power that is used by the man who kills a dozen people in cold blood. It is to our detriment that we praise the signs that signify the passing of a saint and ignore the signs that precede the violent outburst of a killer, for there are signs. There are always signs and so long as we ignore those intelligently wrought evidences, we will suffer.
If we were to trace down the meaning of the word “ignorance” we would find at its root the verb, “to ignore”, and the definition of ignorance is to be destitute of knowledge or education. We are lacking in knowledge of the power behind life because we ignore the input and the signs. Now, it is time to learn about this one power, and to learn about its methods of operation so that we can identify them in our daily lives. It is time to evolve a science that will lay down the principles of action and reaction on a more universal level than what we are accustomed to, and to begin our basic training in the science of life for our own personal happiness is deeply suffering. Wise spiritual teachers are, by and large, aloof of material cravings and have no desire to live in the world of the average person. But this need not be so today. There is a new age and a new mass consciousness moving across the earth, bringing with it a consciousness of a larger order of life. It is no longer a teaching that affects the minority who live in retreat on mountaintops, for it is awakening the hearts and minds of the majority who hold positions in politics, in science, in business, in medicine, in labor, and in the slums. The average mind is a part of this elevation of the mass consciousness, and the whole race is moving forward into a new depth of understanding. The science that would explain this new dimension of awareness is yet in its infancy, and this course is one of many, for I would remind you that no one human being has all of the answers.
It is only when all of us put forth our ideas and begin to activate private and secret knowledge, that the desired picture will materialize and become real in a world of real people. It is only then that the race will move on to become an enlightened race, one freed from ignorance and misinformation. There is only one power behind all manifestation. It is only one power that feeds all creation. It is only one mind that gives us messages and urges us to action, not to kill one another or to inhibit one another, but to cooperate with one another, to blend ideas, and integrate the power of the many to become one wave rolling forward through life, to manifest on one shore called the earth. Harmony is the order of the day. It has always been the order and it always will be the order to humankind, as it is in the other realms of creation.
Because this is hard to understand, let us look again at an example. It is one power that feeds two men. One man turns inward and studies himself, his actions, his feelings. The other turns outward and studies the world, its complexities, its injustices. The first man sings his message to the world in the form of beautiful poetry and song. The second man sings his message to the world in the form of posters calling for war. It is not difficult to know which one is closer to the truth. Men clamor to know the truth, but few there are who see it when it is before them.
7 - THE POWER OF LETTING GO
Our main job is to integrate goodness into our lives and into actions of our days. This course attempts to explain how to do it. We will not waste time in deploring the ignorance of mankind nor its sins, but rather get down to the point How do we do it? How does one shove aside centuries of ignoble tradition in favor of goodness? Thus we need to explore the how's and perhaps the why's for we do not know that power comes out of reuniting with goodness. We do not understand the cosmic laws. Why does reuniting with goodness create power? Because goodness is the original spirit of man. If he is evil today, then he has left his goodness behind and chosen another path. He has created an artificial offshoot which is neither noble, just or compassionate. He has created an offshoot of another color, darker and more prone to misuse others for his own perpetration of self. Yet that pure spark still exists and has yet to be recalled into life and action. This is why we are here - to reignite and rediscover the secret key that turns in the lock that opens the door to the powers of the self. Reuniting with goodness is just such a key. There is no other way. One may attempt to steal that power by force without turning to goodness, but all attempts in the end have failed and will forever fail.
Human life is full of forces, man-made forces generated over a lifetime, and the lifetimes of parents, and the centuries of lifetimes of tradition that weigh heavy on the soul in a newborn baby’s form. Letting go is a cosmic principle that we have yet to learn how to use. It is a law that if you let go while looking up to the greater forces above you, you call into service those higher powers. It is a law that never fails.
When the heavy human forces become too great to handle, when you are torn between two huge grinding wheels that threaten to grind you back into dust, then it is time to use the great principle of “letting go”. In calling upon this cosmic law, you must never look down, but up. You are jumping blind-folded and the force of your thoughts become your direction in which you travel. To land safely in the arms of the higher powers, look up with faith, hope, love and trust, as you would look to a wise and loving father or mother, and then let go. Disperse all doubts and thoughts of darkness or negativity.
Why does the principle work? Because when you give up you make a vacuum in your mental mind, and it is your mental mind that carries you through your days, through your decisions, and through your life’s work. When you stop thinking and stop trying you make a vacuum and, since nature abhors a vacuum, into that vacuum flows the magnetic participles that are closest in affinity to you. If you are sad and down, you will call these to you. If you are happy and joyful, you will call these to you. And if you are asking for help from the infinite powers of goodness, you will call these to you. It is a matter of chemistry. You can imagine what kind of results you would get by saying, “Well, I believe there is a higher power that could help, but, oh hell, I don’t know how to contact it. What’s the use? Fuck life! I’m going to go down and get drunk.”
That’s hardly the way to call upon the radiant and life-giving source of all power. Instead of getting help, you’ll call forth in your mental state of hopelessness all the influences that have tormented the drunkards and the hopeless men and women throughout all of time. If you are going to create a vacuum, create it in a positive light, with a note of hope and encouragement. And read something inspirational. There’s a lot of power in the written word, and read silently. Anything that makes you feel up and happy is good for you. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. There is no good in the universe except that which is yours by your own nature.
8 - THE REAL POWER IS IN YOUR SEXUAL ORGANS
Your consciousness - the real power of life - is in your lower parts, in your sexual organs. It has to go UP to your mind before it can activate your brain and your thinking processes. Babies don't think until they begin to grow and experience things. Then they begin to think. They literally begin to pull the power up to the head and because we aren't taught about the real power of life and where it comes from, we let it stay there in the brain all during our life, even when we sleep through dreams. But the power - the real power of consciousness doesn't live in the brain alone, although it passes through the brain. It lives in your lower regions and it is known to you as gut instinct.
It is really not in one place at all, but it's anchored there in the lower regions. The power comes THROUGH that point in your lower regions to spread out and be distributed throughout your body. So if you're going to accumulate power, you are going to have to accumulate it through the lower regions. How? That's what a lot of the yoga disciplines are all about. That's also why you have so much feeling in your sexual organs. That's why when you have a hunch, you say, "I feel it in my guts." Or, "I feel it in my bones." Anywhere but in the head. Yogis tell you that energy travels up the spine. Gurus tell you that you have to raise the energy. All spiritual disciplines are geared to elevate the energy, but they never tell you what that energy really is.
When you meditate, you stop the wheels of the mind, and when you stop the wheels of your mind you stop using that power that is being sucked up, pulled up to the head through constant activity and constant thinking. Stop thinking and that power starts backing down, settling down, and coming to rest deep down in your lower regions and all over your body. It finds its more natural level in your nervous system because that's how it circulates - through the nervous system. That's why, when you meditate or relax, you feel peaceful because you are momentarily experiencing the real condition of yourself. More real than the thinking state. The thinking state is an unnatural state even though you might not agree with me. It is more natural not to think but to just observe.
When you just observe, the power is distributed evenly through your body, and is not overloaded through the weighty consideration of one idea over another. It is not so much in your head because you're not thinking so much. When you think, you pull the power up and away from the center, away from the source of your real being, and that's why you feel separated from yourself. Loneliness comes from this separation. If we are going to eliminate the problems that plague mankind we are going to have to give our minds more of a rest during the day, learn how to relax, learn how to let go and not be so aggressive and ambitious and competitive, and feel better than the next person. Back off a little. The scriptures call it "having faith". By letting up a little, we can have a better glimpse of the whole thing. We can get a better feeling of our real identity. We can't see the truth of this from the vantage point of the mind because our minds are not the real thing. They are the computers of the body, mechanical things that have no conscience. Plus it is always moving. You can't get a clear perspective from a moving train. You have to stop and look around on all sides to let the whole situation sink in. You can't do this when the mind is whirling.
9 - THIS POWER IS ANOTHER PERSONALITY
We as human beings have two jobs to do. The first job is to learn how to let go of our aggressiveness and relax for some small portion in our days. As we do, we will allow our minds to become still and transparent like the pool of water so we can see down into the depths and perceive what lies there, in truth, the real person. And the being who always exists in the background behind the aggressive personality.
The second job is to learn how to work with that power as a partner. It is going to be like working with another personality because its desires are different from your desires. Its goals are different, its taste is different, its outlook is different, its opinions are different. While you may be trying to achieve a degree at the university and you postpone all other activities in favor of this priority in your life, the real power of yourself is not even interested in a degree. Its only interest is in the whole being functioning in balance. It is interested in the proper circulation of your blood flow, in the proper distribution of power through the nervous system, in a sufficient night's sleep, in enough exercise, in our eating habits and whether you get the proper food to eat. And it is also interested in your relationships with the various people in your life.
If your relationships are suffering, your whole being is going to suffer, including your university studies. And to carry this a bit further, this inner power is not only interested in your personal relationships, but in your impersonal relationships, too, such as how you treat your neighbor and the storekeeper and the animals you might meet. Because if you do something to mistreat anyone, no matter who it is, you are a disturbance in the flow of energy that goes through your body. This happens because of the nature of this inner power. It is connected to the whole sea of power. And because it is an intelligent sea of power it does not rob Peter to pay Paul, nor does it rob your neighbor to pay you. So you can see that its aims, goals and objectives and manner of doing things is quite contrary to yours.
Its interest is in the whole system of the planet. It does not think of itself as separate from the whole. It thinks of another person as much as it thinks of itself, and it applies the same laws that it applies to itself, while you think of yourself alone as a being separate and apart. And you have been trained to maintain yourself as a separatist. This creates a sense of division with your inner nature - the true identity of your being. So you have to learn how to correct this division and make adjustments in small increments so that you do not greatly disturb your sense of balance, yet still be able to bring yourself closer and closer to your inner self, the higher self, and be able to work compatibly with your higher self - the instinct behind the mind. This must be done because the gap does exist and one aspect must change. Since the real self cannot change its nature, then your conditioned self must be changed. You are the real self. Your discomforts come from your conditioned self which are erroneous to your real nature.
To undergo such a change is to go against everything that you believe in - or think you believe in. For you are a product of a culture and a tradition that has its foundation in generations of family ties and religious beliefs and social and cultural beliefs. Your real sparkling self has been buried beneath this outer training, which is dead and it can scarcely rouse itself sufficiently to accomplish even one spontaneous act of refreshing change to give life and hope and renewal to the outer personality. Instinct is the key. Intuition is the golden spark of life. The world does not like nor understand this spontaneous freshness. It does not trust it. Its manner is the manner of one who is concerned for one's fellow man, and who wants to give help and encouragement and support. Its tendency is to love and forgive, and to do good to those who would use you and misuse you.
This is the nature of the real self, the higher self, and you know what would happen if you were to suddenly start following these urges. You would be immediately suspect, either of flipping your lid or of having an ulterior selfish motive, and their doubt would cause you to doubt yourself. It is not the expected way for you to act and so you don't. Sometimes you would like to, you are often tingled by a desire to do good but you dare not act upon it because it is not the way of the world. And so you say to yourself, "I am in the world so I must act the way of the world." You live in the system so you abide by the laws of the system, and the inner self remains buried and hidden. So you can see that it is not going to be an easy task to blend your ways with the ways of the higher power within you. The real self.
10 - THE POWER AS AN INNER WIND
All of the occult literature, all of the teachings of the mystery schools, all of the advice of wise spiritual masters, and all spiritual teachings are concerned with how to do this without upsetting the applecart of personal and professional relationships, because it's not an easy thing to do. It requires great wisdom and sometimes critical timing. It is, in essence, a genuine science. And an art. And those who are secretly trying to accomplish this blend are often called "initiates" or "disciples", whether they have a teacher or whether they follow their own inner guidance. This is the beginning of a great undertaking. It will affect great changes in your mind and in your life and body, and it will bring you to heights of experience that you would not be able to imagine.
The ecstasies of the saints and the mystics are not illusions. The garden of Eden and paradise are not fairy tales for children but promises of things to come - a permanent state of mind to those who achieve it whether in this body or the next. And all religions are manmade efforts to explain the way to get there. Once a sufficient blend has been made between the outer self and the inner self, there is a unique physiological change that takes place in the body, which marks the opening of the floodgates that separated the higher power from the lower power, and an inrush of something akin to a wind occurs. It affects the nervous system and the metabolic system, the glandular system of the body, and odd things begin to take place. Irregular breathing may break out in an instant, quite unbecoming to the outer man, such as quick, short and fast breaths like the cleansing breath of the yogi. Or a sudden desire to get up and stretch and move the arms, the legs, the belly, the head. But the most pronounced effect of all is in the brain. There is a distinct speeding up of the brain processes and there is a danger here unless there is understanding of what is happening.
One may have a deep urge to get up from a conference with one or several people and leave, feeling a desperate need for fresh air. This is due to the fact that the new and tender power that is now at work in the body cannot abide falseness or turmoil, and though such falseness or turmoil may go unnoticed by the personality, the need is felt in the sudden urge to leave. One must leave or suffer unpleasant reactions. But one who has sufficiently trained himself to follow his urges without question, will be able to handle the increase in vigor that his instincts take on. When the wind comes he is in a new phase. He is in the process of making over his old self with a new and fresh vitality and the help of this strange new inner power, which he is forced to admit is more powerful than he himself. This exotic and strange phenomena that strikes the body when the person is ready, is called in the Bible the inrushing of the holy spirit. And the unusual body reactions that take place, the renewal of the body, is called the second birth. The descent of the holy spirit in the form of a dove is the descent of peace, which takes place over the outer man for he is finally put to rest from struggling with the outer world. He has prepared himself to follow his inner urges sufficiently so that the power can take over and make decisions for him. There is an uncanny acceptance of world conditions.
Where once he fought the systems of the world, now he sees that it must be. He is at peace, yet he has an even greater job to do now than he had before. Because he must protect his new-found state of consciousness for it is possible to backtrack and make wrong decisions and allow himself to succumb to wrong influences that would hurt him. He must have the capacity to say "No!" when he feels he cannot do a certain task. But this wind does not come alive until a person has established a deep and consistent association with his instincts. His instincts are merely the mellow tricklings of the wind as it works quietly in the body to maintain it in the physical capacities. It cannot increase until the person himself starts using his instincts and following up on its urges. This is the actual training, just like therapy for an atrophied arm is to use it with a disciplined program daily. Otherwise the arm remains lifeless and withered up. This is the way of the power that burns within just sufficiently to allow the physical body to operate.
11 - THE POWER OF LIFE
We have all taken the power of life for granted. We think to ourselves, "I did not ask to come here. I have no responsibility to this world." Yet, anyone who says this is gravely mistaken, for he DID ask to come and deep in the depths of his self he knows that he asked to come. And further, he knows that he has a job to do, and that he will keep coming back, again and again, until he accomplishes that job which is his destiny and the reason he is here. It is no accident that he is here. There is a highly intelligent reasoning to life. And the fact that we do not remember or understand is an indication of how separated we are from the real self. For once we move closer to the source we begin to have memory of this in the form of feelings.
We do not see how valuable this body is. We would know if one day we would find ourselves standing outside of our body and looking down at it, lying asleep on a bed, or sprawled on the floor after a heart attack and trying desperately to move back into it again. When the body does not respond when you tell it to respond, then you begin to appreciate the value of a physical body For we will outlive this body and we will outlive the next body, and the next one and the next. We will outlive all the bodies because we are greater than the body and the mind put together. We are not confined to a body or a mind, any more than we are confined to a suit of clothing. We are the intelligence that puts it on and takes it off, and that seeks to practice what we know to be true in the physical world of matter, form and clay.
And until we do practice what we know to be true - instinctively know to be true - we will remain dissatisfied with ourselves. That is our job to do: to keep on experimenting with ourselves. Try out this concept and that concept until we get it right, and then move on to a new concept and try it out in real life to see if it really works. We are experimenters, playing with chemistry and mechanics, trying to build a perfect form and a perfect life. Trying to become masters of our lives, and we are destined to make it. There is no one who will not make it in the end.
The power of life is consciousness. Consciousness is the power of life. When it leaves us we have no power. When we increase it we have more power. It is within the normal person in a steady and consistent state. It moves neither down nor up. It remains stationary and static. You may think it goes down when you become confused or old or tired through the aging process. But it is only the body and the functioning of the brain that deteriorates. Your awareness of yourself and of life remains consistent.
12 - THE POWER CAN BE TURNED UP
The power CAN be turned up and you can become more aware, more conscious of yourself and who you are and where you come from. This is experienced in those rare inspirational moments when one feels in tune with the cosmos - or God. This is a temporary shift in consciousness where one momentarily realizes the truth of his inner nature. But until he learns to maintain that consciousness he will fall back down again to the normal human consciousness of a separate existence. It is a glimpse and a promise of what is to come. If you want to enhance consciousness, you must use consciousness. Again, it is like the proverbial atrophied muscle. If you are conscious of a wrong motive in yourself, you must stop trying to ignore it and pretend you never saw. Instead you must learn to correct your wrong motive, either by admitting it to the person you are dealing with, or by making the proper adjustment in your actions. By ignoring a conscious spark of awareness you are putting the lid on your potential power, keeping it in check.
If you are conscious of a person getting ready to make a wrong action, you must act on that awareness and tell him. If you pretend that you didn't see it, or that you are not responsible for what another person does, you are again putting the lid on a great power that is trying to alert you and thereby help you to live in this world a little bit better and to make this world a little bit better. Consciousness IS the power of life, and if you put a lid on that power you put a lid on life so that it cannot expand. But, we must learn how to do this without creating traumas. We must learn to do this gently, and with wisdom so that we enhance situations rather than hinder. Recognition that someone else is going to do the wrong thing truly may not be your responsibility, but if you were given the insight it is your responsibility to pass it on. That's all the responsibility you have. You don't have any responsibility to see that he carries out your advice. He has to make up his own mind. But having someone else tell him may help him out of a difficult quandary that he has been having a hard time deciding all by himself.
Learn to follow your instincts more than your rational mind. Your rational mind has its place. It must follow through with your instructions and implement your mechanics. But the spark of creativity, the main spark of life, the fire of life comes from the instinct behind the rational mind. Learn to trust it more. Let's look at an example for a moment to understand what we mean.
A man who owns a going restaurant in a side road in the suburbs of a large city becomes aware that an expressway is going to be laid between this city and the one to the north of the city. He happens to know a man in city government who has a pretty fair sized influence around town. The man holds a high office himself. So the restaurant owner has dinner with him and suggests that if the freeway is laid near him his business would increase and he would pay him a cash sum for getting the expressway laid down. The politician goes home to think about it and to weigh the consequences. He knows that the road would save the city a lot of money if it were laid about ten miles west of the restaurant because that would be the shortest and easiest route to take, but the cash offer would enable him to send his son to Europe to attend university at Oxford. His son has always wanted to go to Oxford. His rational mind tells him that the city has plenty of money for these things and his son is a bright young man and an Oxford education would not only enrich him personally but he would be an asset to his world wherever he chose to live. His rational mind decides there is no harm in taking the money from the restaurant owner and seeing that the freeway is laid down close to the restaurant. It would be an easy enough thing to do since he knows the fellows over in the planning department. And he goes to sleep convinced that he made the right decision, without ever giving his instincts a chance to speak up.
Instinct would have told him, if it had a chance to speak, that such a choice was not to the benefit of the whole. That, weighed against one man - the welfare of his son's education - two whole cities were being sacrificed, meaning two cities full of individuals who must pay extra. Instinct doesn't deal in logic. It simply knows what is best. It doesn't get bogged down with facts. It moves under sheer force of will. When the politician accepts the bribe he clamps the lid a little tighter on to his instincts, making it even harder to hear than it was before. And when the restaurant owner completes his end of the bargain, he not only shuts the lid tighter on his instincts, but he bears the weight of a wrong action which is chalked up against him. This he must undo one day for he influenced another individual to do a wrong act. The tender childlike innocence has been perverted once more. The inner knowing of what is right and what is wrong, was put down and ignored by both parties. The lessening of the power resulted in confusion and further ignorance to the detriment of both men.
13 - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND MIND
The difference between the mind and the consciousness, which is the inner power, is that the mind thinks only of itself. It is selfish, while the inner power thinks of the good of the whole which includes himself. The inner power has a broader perspective and a broader vision than the mind. Not until individuals learn how to follow the inner power, the gut-level instinct, will peace begin to be felt and seen in the society as a whole. For the real individual knows instinctively that in order to function properly he needs a well-oiled, smooth-running environment in which to operate. Very few individuals pay attention to their inner instinct. Conscience is another word for it. Most people are trying to BETTER the mind instead of lessen it. They try to make it stronger, and by so doing they go in the wrong direction. If they want to bring forth real power, the real nature of the individual within, they are going in the wrong direction to find it.
Peace comes from blending with the instinct within. Peace comes from putting the mind at rest from fighting, and letting the inner urges come out. The genuine urge is childlike in its efforts. It seeks for an avenue, a smooth way to flow. It does not fight. It is simple, it is straightforward. It is small compared to the giant industry of the outer world. And it does not know how to come out. It speaks in a whisper. It does not fight the system. It merely looks for a moment in which to whisper when it can be heard. The only real responsibility that we have is to listen and to allow it expression. We must make room for it to express. That is our job. And once it has expressed, to protect it so it doesn't get stamped out for all efforts made by the childlike whispers of instincts are for the good of the individual and for the good of the world. We must learn to protect it and nourish it and maintain its existence within our lives. This is where power comes from. Very few people understand how powerful this power is and how far-reaching. But it is a different kind of power from aggression.
It is the power behind the tender little blade of grass that pierces the hard crust of the dried earth. It will even move a rock aside to push its way through to express. It is the power of a baby to master the giant of a man and peel the hardness from his heart. It is the power of love to turn violence into peace. This is not an earthly power. It is not an aggressive power. It is a power that we know very little about. The scriptures call it the power of faith but we have not been trained in how to use it. But when it is activated things happen all around you and when you want something it comes to you in the form of a person or book or opportunity and even knocks on your door so you don't have to go further than your front doorstep to find it. But one must stop struggling and feeling desperate so that it can come. It needs a smooth way over which to flow. Objects, people, opportunities - anything you want - comes to you. It is that kind of power.
It is that kind of power. It does not depend upon your mental exertion or your lifting of even a finger. It doesn't depend on long hours of meditation or prayer. It depends upon your ability to call forth this power in a noble manner. That's what this course is all about. It doesn't depend on money. In fact, it will bring you money if you want it for noble reasons. That is, to better your position in the world not to harm others. This is the power that is not only inherent as a potential in you, it IS you. And it is YOU that you want to bring forth into action.
14 - TWO PATHS TO AWAKEN THE POWER
There are people out there today who are teaching others how to awaken the wind, the holy spirit, through body disciplines, mental disciplines or prayer. These are not sufficient for those who choose to live in the world and work and play with other people. They are the paths taken by those who have denounced the world. There are two formulas for bringing the power forth: One is to transcend the world by rising up to find the power, the other is to bring the power down into the world. The yogic and mental body disciplines as they came out of the Eastern retreats were used by solitary initiates to be elevated out of the physical world, not into it. There is a higher plane of existence beyond this physical plane of matter, and it is by using these techniques, including celibacy, or the giving up of all sexual activities, that individuals were able to etherealize their bodies beyond what is practical for living a normal life. The yogic disciplines were originally used for the preparation of passing out of this life into another. Hardly the type of activity for a person who is dynamically involved with living in the physical world! Sex should be used with gusto, and with authority, not to be abstained from IF one wants to work compatibly and efficiently and peacefully within the world.
Otherwise he will transcend his neighbors and not be able to communicate with them. Sex is the great paver of the way, the soother of the wounds, the healer of atrocities. If it is done between two consenting adults it allows the inflow of love and gentleness. It is reduced to sin only when one of the parties is forced into the act or pressured into performing instead of submitting out of love and desire. We in this 21st century need to understand how to bring forth the inner power in a way that will enhance our lives in the world, not create friction between ourselves and the world. We need to apply different disciplines and we need to understand why there are differences between the two paths. One path helps you out of the world, the other helps you into the world. This is the great modification that we have been lacking to the great teachings of the East of yoga and meditation. Without this modification one will create a great deal of confusion and not know what he is doing wrong.
The wind known by the ancients as the holy spirit will not awaken if the body and person has not prepared himself to receive it. Sometimes it awakens by accident, prematurely, but he is the one who will have troubles with it. The body must be prepared to receive it and the only way it can be prepared is by training oneself to follow instinct. It behooves all of us to pay attention to instinct by heeding those inner urges, for one does not know when it will come, on what day or at what hour. This is the meaning of the handmaidens who let the oil lamps go down and out. And one night the lord came home and they were unprepared. It does indeed come with out warning. Western yoga teachers teach you that the energy comes up through the spinal column and they teach you to pull it up, to force it up, to work it up, to visualize it rising. But they fail to tell you that you must go down first. This is a secret step that only the wise old sages knew and they did not pass it on. One must learn this instinctively. You have to go down first! Not up. And make your peace with the body force, the sexual force.
15 - MAKE PEACE WITH SEXUALITY AND THE WORLD
The only way to go down is by not pulling away from the sexual force within, but by embracing it as a natural body function and using it with respect. One cannot become a master of cookery without experimenting with cookery. And one cannot become a master of sexuality without experimenting with one's own sex prowess which is consciousness as well as physical. You must learn to ground yourself and give yourself to the powers in your body. They are holy powers and will not harm you. It is the instinctive maternal force that desires to protect, nourish and keep the body healthy through the implosion of the sexual climax, the shedding of the golden sparkle of euphoric life directly into the nervous system and endocrine system of the body.
The sexual force is a natural function, as natural as eating, urinating, having a bladder or bowel movement, sleeping and exercising. And you must make your peace with it and not reject it. It is the inner force that keeps your body systems healthy and normal. How can you increase your power if you refuse to accept the source of power? Through the sex act, love, mercy and compassion enters your body to keep it healthy. And in the process it blows out the accumulation of repressed energy. You know how good you feel after a good lovemaking session. How can one reject this process?
Once you have accepted the sexuality of your body, you will know how to use it. You will have developed a sufficient wisdom pertaining to it. And you will develop that wisdom even further as you experiment with it. Contrary to popular opinion, one does not go down hill by embracing sex. One begins to accumulate understanding because one opens up the power forces of life - that power which is not of t his world. By using this power to better one's life is the anachronism of the Eastern yogi who wants to leave this life. As you use your sexuality with respect and knowledge, you become more stable, gain more insight, become more powerful, more healthy, more grounded. You are working with it instead of against it. You develop more respect for it and raise your regard for it instead of thinking that it belongs in the gutter. How can you awaken the power that is not born of the world so that it courses through your physical nerves and veins and endocrine system unless you rid yourself of degrading thoughts concerning it?
This is the the biggest single change you must make if you want to develop your whole self and your whole power. Practice by following your inner urges and your instinct, but follow the guidelines of cosmic law. Do good, respect yourself and love your real nature. Reject that which is false in you and in error, and respect the ways of other people. Your training is on yourself, not on anyone else. Each man and woman must follow their own inner clock which is a law for them laid down at the beginning of time. Each has his own set of guidelines which is not cultural but cosmic and individual. Practice following the humane part of you. This is the real nature of your being. It knows nothing of business or money or religious doctrine. Those are creations of the outer man. The real nature of your being knows only about giving love, giving support, enriching the spirit, encouraging the expression and outflow of that which is not of this world.
Respect your moods. They are messages from that power. And respect the moods of others. It does not weigh good against evil. It does not know evil. That is the creation of the outer man, just as all other systems of the world have been created by the outer man. The real power, the genuine power of yourself does not weigh one thing against another. It acts upon an incessant need to act. There is no condition imposed or qualification laid over it. There is no bargaining, no greed, no pent-up resentment to taint its purity of power. It does not need recognition. It does not need to control others. Its nature is to do a job and timing is important for it must get through the inconsistencies of human nature, and when it is time, it is time. Then the rush comes forth, but never to harm. Never to violate the being of others.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 - The power of becoming consciously awake
2 - The power of love
3 - The power behind your Self
4 - Your consciousness is God consciousness
5 - What is power?
6 - The power of goodness
7 - The power of letting go
8 - The real power is in your sexual organs
9 - This power is like another personality
10 - The power as an inner wind
11 - The power of life
12 - The power can be turned up
13 - The difference between consciousness and mind
14 - Two paths to awaken the power
15 - Make peace with sexuality and the world
1 - THE POWER OF BECOMING CONSCIOUSLY AWAKE
The power and energy of a consciously awake individual and spiritual master may jump across space and time and matter to another individual who is not yet awake. Such is the power of spiritual awareness. It is a light of profound ability which extends beyond the laws of cause and effect that we know. There is nothing through which it cannot penetrate. It can dissolve barriers of heavy negation, such as centuries of wrong doing. It can melt disbelief in an instant. It can restore limbs in the twinkling of an eye. It has no limits.
When such a transmission is given to another it is given as a gift, for it has not been generated from within, but from without, from another person who has more than the one receiving. This is what is meant by the "grace of the guru", and upon such transmissions of spiritual energy which is in reality an awareness, has been built the entire structure of religious systems. From master to disciple who becomes a master to new disciples. From heart to heart the power is passed as from a father to a son, as a spark leaps from one live wire to another at the space of several millimeters.
However, this transmission may also be received without the help of a physical guru or master. It may be transmitted through the spiritual ethers from higher beings in more refined layers who are no longer present in the world, but who constitute the "heavenly hosts and angelic choirs". It is far more difficult to do it oneself, but it is a far more valuable and rewarding way, for the grunginess of earth's atmosphere is like a sticky, clinging mud to the spirit of the individual who must lead a life of involvement with the affairs of the world. In order to tap this source of power which is felt as love, one must learn how to reach up with one's entire being, instead of allowing oneself to continue to be dragged down. This is the only way to reach high enough into the spacious realms of refinement to touch the subtle glory of love and pull it down and out into the form of one's life and circumstance.
It is through conscious effort and will power to do good for oneself, to think good about oneself, and to worship the good that is in oneself, that one taps the higher powers. It is done through devotion to the highest in oneself. And to begin, one holds a steady, consistent attitude of reverence for one's own goodness, and begins to take action to amend the wrong that has been done to the sacredness of the inner heart of one's own self. If one cannot love oneself, then it is an impossibility to love another and do good to another. The task begins with oneself.
One may use an outside form of good if one wishes, to get started in the right direction, such as using the model of Jesus in one's mind and heart continuously, or the Buddha or a saint, or Muhammed or Zoroaster. Or one may do it all alone, by simple devotion to virtue, through the praise of that virtue known as love. But such an action of inner changes in attitude eventually makes itself known in the outer actions of the individual - and the transformation begins. And so it is that we direct our attention to the shifting of our conscious thought to virtuous ends.
2 - THE POWER OF LOVE
The sea of universal energy is in reality a sea of love, and everything we do either adds to or subtracts from that universal storehouse. When we enhance the joy of life, whether in ourselves or in another through encouragement and recognition, we increase the reservoir of that energy. But every time we put someone down, including ourselves, we sap the energy from that ebullient sea of joy and allow it to drain away, losing a portion of ourselves in the process. No different than blood is wasted through an open wound. Each action that we perform, each thought and word we give out, shifts the balance of love energy allotted to the whole world, as our intentions permeate the sea of love intelligence in which we live and draw our breath, changing the balance in our account to a plus or a minus. Occult knowledge is knowledge pertaining to the right use of this love energy which is all that is uplifting to the spirit of man, while the wrong use of love is all that pulls down, thwarts opportunity at every pass, discourages and connives to usurp the happy heart of man. Right use of energy comes down to us in our modern terminology as the word Righteous, which tells us that righteousness is not a moral act, but an act of efficiency and wisdom, conserving or adding to the store of energy which has been allotted to each human being to do with as he sees fit. He alone is responsible for his life and his destiny.
3 - THE POWER BEHIND YOUR SELF
Before you rise in spirit, you must first re-unite with this spirit, for it is the light from which you originally descended. This is the light of love which is the spirit of man. It is the light of happiness, and supreme ecstasy and bliss and self knowledge. It is the power behind your self. You are but a shadow of this light self, a shadow lying prone upon the ground in a one-dimensional world of physical matter. But as you raise your hopes, your vision, your understanding, you will become absorbed once more into the light of this unlimited love which is the fire of your breath and your life.
Why is it so difficult, you may ask, for individuals to merge with the inner light of love? Why is it that more people don't succeed? The answer is simple, dear ones, before you can re-unite with the spirit of love and become as one with that pure love, you must first make your peace with this world, the world of matter, emotion and psychic manipulation. The problem is rejection which turns to hate and anger. The problem is that no one understands how to love and absorb the ugly one into the light, to transform the features of ugliness. The problem is here, dear ones, in your ability to accept the ugliness, or rather, your lack of ability to accept. Your world is a mere reflection of the struggles going on in the hearts of the people who live in it. It should have no hold on you. You are free. You have no responsibility for the struggles of others, if you could but realize it. Your only duty is to raise yourself. So begin to put your own life in order, pull yourself together and make plans to organize your life.
How do you make peace with your world? This is the meaning of this course. We will travel down the road of education - education in the ways of THIS world, not the next. You already know the ways of the spirit. This part is innate in you,. What you DON'T know is the ways of the world, nor do you understand the meaning of your struggles here. It is a problem of THIS world, not a problem of the pure flame of love energy that beats your heart.
4 - YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
We are going to begin this course in meditation with a very simple visualization and we are going to do this because meditation is getting back to God and your consciousness is God consciousness – that is underneath the layers that cover you. But it makes no difference how many layers cover you, your consciousness is still a spark of God and when you say “I Am” God is pronouncing a divine statement – or at least he is trying to pronounce it underneath the doubts and inadequacies that you think you have. Still your consciousness is God consciousness, the consciousness of the supreme creator and everything you visualize and make a habit out of in your mind becomes a living creation of yours.
Not knowing this you have created some unpleasant habits and gotten into some unpleasant problems but they are easy enough to get out of if you will give the effort for yourself. You are a portion of God consciousness covered up by seven veils which are in reality seven densities which hold you down and through which you have to work to get back to the Godhead out of which you were thrown. And the only way to get through those densities is to burn your way through and dissolve those densities. And the only way to burn your way through is by activating the holy principles of God. That’s what human life is all about – experimenting with those God qualities on earth. God qualities mean good qualities, because God means good. Let it be on Earth the same as it is in heaven. That’s what we have to do – make them active and useful on Earth.
So to burn through those densities that hold you back you have to activate the six powers of God: which are freedom, peace, love, will, truth and knowledge. The seventh quality which is purity or holiness will come automatically when those six are practiced and used every day in every aspect of your life on a permanent and consistent basis. This isn’t impossible at all, it’s not only possible, it’s desirable, and it’s fun, too. Because contrary to popular opinion meditation is not a wish-washy art, nor is God a mamby-pamby power. All power comes from God and you have seen a bit of what kind of powers we have in the world. There’s a lot more where that came from but we first have to know what we’re doing or we’ll blow the whole world to smithereens.
So, whatever you can imagine or conjure up in your mind is going to become a reality, so let’s begin. We have to begin with the simple idea of visualization. And how powerful it is. Lots of people don’t understand the reason for ritual. They think it’s better to be spontaneous, but ritual is simply a habit. And in this course we’re going to form some new habits in order to break out of the rut of the old habits. That’s why in order to bring about changes in your life you’re going to have to do these meditation visualizations every day, three times a day – for only five to ten minutes each time. That’s not a lot. That’s only fifteen minutes at the least and thirty minutes at the most. This is all it takes to change your life around and put some of the original spark of radiation or power that comes out of the original creation. You are the original creator of your life and your problems. Now you are going to learn some techniques that will jar you loose from the rut so you can realize your creativity again. This is not wish-washy. Meditation is not going to put you into a trance, but rather it’s going to make you feel more alert, more alive, more eager to get back out into the world. If your meditation doesn’t do that, then you’re falling into a trance. And although there’s nothing wrong with falling into a trance, you’re not going to become more powerful that way. So let’s get started by putting some dynamic habits into your life – rituals that follow the same pattern every day. When you get bored with that ritual, then it’s time to move on and get a new ritual. If you’re bored from the first day, then you’re not giving it a chance and you shouldn’t even be thinking of meditation.
5 - WHAT IS POWER?
What is power? You may say that there are many different kinds of power, such as the power of confidence, the power of mechanical force, the power of the spoken word, the power of speech, the power of nature, wind, water, fire, the power of brute strength, the power of electrical energy, the power of gasoline, and so on. But when it all comes right down to the bottom line, all power, all forms of power, come from one source, and one source alone. All true teachings, no matter which category they may fall under, science, religion, business, art, politics or whatever, if they are true teachings they will dissolve the confusion and complexities and reveal the simplicity of the matter behind it. All teachings of the occult, those essential doctrines heretofore known as spiritual doctrines because they exist before their time in the material world, all have their roots in knowledge of this one power which forms the base of the world’s religions, and transcends this physical world for it is not of this world.
A true teacher will remind you of your connection to this one power and your inherent right to use it as you see fit, and further they will teach you how to dissolve your differences in a peaceable manner which follows the principles of cosmic order. A false teacher will be secretive and lead you to believe that you are missing something and only they have the answer and will try to get you to follow them. A false teacher will remind you of your lacks and your failures and will lead you down the path of division, separation, rumor, confusion and war. Yet the power remains undisturbed.
The power of life, which is the power behind your conscious awareness, has never been missing from you since the day you were born and, if the truth were known, since before you were born into this world. It has always been present on a low-activity level, and glimpses of its reality have been vouchsafed you on special occasions so that you do not forget. No one human being has all of the answers concerning this power, for its energy has been cut up out of necessity into portions and distributed by bits and pieces to the many human beings that live in the world and who have ever lived in either this world or the others, and among the many plants, animals, insects, fish and the elements of existence. The power has been reduced and diminished so that it may not be tapped in all its glory, and used wrongly by an unwise individual. Proper training in the right use of the power must take place before the power can be activated, since it is only through right use of the power that obstacles are dissolved and the veils that shroud reality, dispersed. No one teacher has all of the answers.
6 - THE POWER OF GOODNESS
This one power is universally concerned with the whole of creation, not with just one segment of it, because it is the one power which fires the furnace of each entity. It is one power, one mind which urges movement and activity. The fact that one man can turn around and do harm to another man is evidence that we are not in tune with this one power, for no one mind would turn on itself. This one power, this one mind, is the sole source of energy for the good and the bad, the just and the unjust, because it is vastly superior than both. And the good and the bad are not really good or bad at all , but poor vision from a badly located window on the part of the judger. And it is ignorance of the one law, the one power that governs all, that causes us our discomfort and our suffering, our faults and our failures.
There is a science involved in learning how to live in respect of the one power, a science which we do not yet know very much about obviously, for when we fail to consider the whole of life when we make our decisions to act (at least the immediate whole insofar as we an see it) then we remove ourselves from its protection. In our ignorance we have assumed that we, ourselves, are the power. And we have developed great teachings to convince ourselves that this is true – yet it is all illusory as evidenced by our continued distress. Peace, harmony, happiness, exquisite joy, and a love for humanity, desire for justice, are the signs of a compatible relationship with the one power, no matter what is said to the contrary. For a close relationship and a close understanding of one mind with another mind will naturally align the two minds together so they act and perform and desire the same things.
It is really rather simple to know which way to go, which way is right and which way is wrong, when certain signs are pointed out. We have gotten quite lost in the maze of human thinking which is less than perfect because it is less than whole. Each human being thinks partially and separates himself and his loved ones from the whole, and therefore does not receive proper input. For example, the one power of life that enlightens our conscious mind to goodness, is the same power which enlightens us of danger in the presence of a person, act or situation. It is our own fault if we listen to the good and we ignore the warnings. The power that the saints have tapped and brought forth into their lives is the same power that is used by the man who kills a dozen people in cold blood. It is to our detriment that we praise the signs that signify the passing of a saint and ignore the signs that precede the violent outburst of a killer, for there are signs. There are always signs and so long as we ignore those intelligently wrought evidences, we will suffer.
If we were to trace down the meaning of the word “ignorance” we would find at its root the verb, “to ignore”, and the definition of ignorance is to be destitute of knowledge or education. We are lacking in knowledge of the power behind life because we ignore the input and the signs. Now, it is time to learn about this one power, and to learn about its methods of operation so that we can identify them in our daily lives. It is time to evolve a science that will lay down the principles of action and reaction on a more universal level than what we are accustomed to, and to begin our basic training in the science of life for our own personal happiness is deeply suffering. Wise spiritual teachers are, by and large, aloof of material cravings and have no desire to live in the world of the average person. But this need not be so today. There is a new age and a new mass consciousness moving across the earth, bringing with it a consciousness of a larger order of life. It is no longer a teaching that affects the minority who live in retreat on mountaintops, for it is awakening the hearts and minds of the majority who hold positions in politics, in science, in business, in medicine, in labor, and in the slums. The average mind is a part of this elevation of the mass consciousness, and the whole race is moving forward into a new depth of understanding. The science that would explain this new dimension of awareness is yet in its infancy, and this course is one of many, for I would remind you that no one human being has all of the answers.
It is only when all of us put forth our ideas and begin to activate private and secret knowledge, that the desired picture will materialize and become real in a world of real people. It is only then that the race will move on to become an enlightened race, one freed from ignorance and misinformation. There is only one power behind all manifestation. It is only one power that feeds all creation. It is only one mind that gives us messages and urges us to action, not to kill one another or to inhibit one another, but to cooperate with one another, to blend ideas, and integrate the power of the many to become one wave rolling forward through life, to manifest on one shore called the earth. Harmony is the order of the day. It has always been the order and it always will be the order to humankind, as it is in the other realms of creation.
Because this is hard to understand, let us look again at an example. It is one power that feeds two men. One man turns inward and studies himself, his actions, his feelings. The other turns outward and studies the world, its complexities, its injustices. The first man sings his message to the world in the form of beautiful poetry and song. The second man sings his message to the world in the form of posters calling for war. It is not difficult to know which one is closer to the truth. Men clamor to know the truth, but few there are who see it when it is before them.
7 - THE POWER OF LETTING GO
Our main job is to integrate goodness into our lives and into actions of our days. This course attempts to explain how to do it. We will not waste time in deploring the ignorance of mankind nor its sins, but rather get down to the point How do we do it? How does one shove aside centuries of ignoble tradition in favor of goodness? Thus we need to explore the how's and perhaps the why's for we do not know that power comes out of reuniting with goodness. We do not understand the cosmic laws. Why does reuniting with goodness create power? Because goodness is the original spirit of man. If he is evil today, then he has left his goodness behind and chosen another path. He has created an artificial offshoot which is neither noble, just or compassionate. He has created an offshoot of another color, darker and more prone to misuse others for his own perpetration of self. Yet that pure spark still exists and has yet to be recalled into life and action. This is why we are here - to reignite and rediscover the secret key that turns in the lock that opens the door to the powers of the self. Reuniting with goodness is just such a key. There is no other way. One may attempt to steal that power by force without turning to goodness, but all attempts in the end have failed and will forever fail.
Human life is full of forces, man-made forces generated over a lifetime, and the lifetimes of parents, and the centuries of lifetimes of tradition that weigh heavy on the soul in a newborn baby’s form. Letting go is a cosmic principle that we have yet to learn how to use. It is a law that if you let go while looking up to the greater forces above you, you call into service those higher powers. It is a law that never fails.
When the heavy human forces become too great to handle, when you are torn between two huge grinding wheels that threaten to grind you back into dust, then it is time to use the great principle of “letting go”. In calling upon this cosmic law, you must never look down, but up. You are jumping blind-folded and the force of your thoughts become your direction in which you travel. To land safely in the arms of the higher powers, look up with faith, hope, love and trust, as you would look to a wise and loving father or mother, and then let go. Disperse all doubts and thoughts of darkness or negativity.
Why does the principle work? Because when you give up you make a vacuum in your mental mind, and it is your mental mind that carries you through your days, through your decisions, and through your life’s work. When you stop thinking and stop trying you make a vacuum and, since nature abhors a vacuum, into that vacuum flows the magnetic participles that are closest in affinity to you. If you are sad and down, you will call these to you. If you are happy and joyful, you will call these to you. And if you are asking for help from the infinite powers of goodness, you will call these to you. It is a matter of chemistry. You can imagine what kind of results you would get by saying, “Well, I believe there is a higher power that could help, but, oh hell, I don’t know how to contact it. What’s the use? Fuck life! I’m going to go down and get drunk.”
That’s hardly the way to call upon the radiant and life-giving source of all power. Instead of getting help, you’ll call forth in your mental state of hopelessness all the influences that have tormented the drunkards and the hopeless men and women throughout all of time. If you are going to create a vacuum, create it in a positive light, with a note of hope and encouragement. And read something inspirational. There’s a lot of power in the written word, and read silently. Anything that makes you feel up and happy is good for you. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. There is no good in the universe except that which is yours by your own nature.
8 - THE REAL POWER IS IN YOUR SEXUAL ORGANS
Your consciousness - the real power of life - is in your lower parts, in your sexual organs. It has to go UP to your mind before it can activate your brain and your thinking processes. Babies don't think until they begin to grow and experience things. Then they begin to think. They literally begin to pull the power up to the head and because we aren't taught about the real power of life and where it comes from, we let it stay there in the brain all during our life, even when we sleep through dreams. But the power - the real power of consciousness doesn't live in the brain alone, although it passes through the brain. It lives in your lower regions and it is known to you as gut instinct.
It is really not in one place at all, but it's anchored there in the lower regions. The power comes THROUGH that point in your lower regions to spread out and be distributed throughout your body. So if you're going to accumulate power, you are going to have to accumulate it through the lower regions. How? That's what a lot of the yoga disciplines are all about. That's also why you have so much feeling in your sexual organs. That's why when you have a hunch, you say, "I feel it in my guts." Or, "I feel it in my bones." Anywhere but in the head. Yogis tell you that energy travels up the spine. Gurus tell you that you have to raise the energy. All spiritual disciplines are geared to elevate the energy, but they never tell you what that energy really is.
When you meditate, you stop the wheels of the mind, and when you stop the wheels of your mind you stop using that power that is being sucked up, pulled up to the head through constant activity and constant thinking. Stop thinking and that power starts backing down, settling down, and coming to rest deep down in your lower regions and all over your body. It finds its more natural level in your nervous system because that's how it circulates - through the nervous system. That's why, when you meditate or relax, you feel peaceful because you are momentarily experiencing the real condition of yourself. More real than the thinking state. The thinking state is an unnatural state even though you might not agree with me. It is more natural not to think but to just observe.
When you just observe, the power is distributed evenly through your body, and is not overloaded through the weighty consideration of one idea over another. It is not so much in your head because you're not thinking so much. When you think, you pull the power up and away from the center, away from the source of your real being, and that's why you feel separated from yourself. Loneliness comes from this separation. If we are going to eliminate the problems that plague mankind we are going to have to give our minds more of a rest during the day, learn how to relax, learn how to let go and not be so aggressive and ambitious and competitive, and feel better than the next person. Back off a little. The scriptures call it "having faith". By letting up a little, we can have a better glimpse of the whole thing. We can get a better feeling of our real identity. We can't see the truth of this from the vantage point of the mind because our minds are not the real thing. They are the computers of the body, mechanical things that have no conscience. Plus it is always moving. You can't get a clear perspective from a moving train. You have to stop and look around on all sides to let the whole situation sink in. You can't do this when the mind is whirling.
9 - THIS POWER IS ANOTHER PERSONALITY
We as human beings have two jobs to do. The first job is to learn how to let go of our aggressiveness and relax for some small portion in our days. As we do, we will allow our minds to become still and transparent like the pool of water so we can see down into the depths and perceive what lies there, in truth, the real person. And the being who always exists in the background behind the aggressive personality.
The second job is to learn how to work with that power as a partner. It is going to be like working with another personality because its desires are different from your desires. Its goals are different, its taste is different, its outlook is different, its opinions are different. While you may be trying to achieve a degree at the university and you postpone all other activities in favor of this priority in your life, the real power of yourself is not even interested in a degree. Its only interest is in the whole being functioning in balance. It is interested in the proper circulation of your blood flow, in the proper distribution of power through the nervous system, in a sufficient night's sleep, in enough exercise, in our eating habits and whether you get the proper food to eat. And it is also interested in your relationships with the various people in your life.
If your relationships are suffering, your whole being is going to suffer, including your university studies. And to carry this a bit further, this inner power is not only interested in your personal relationships, but in your impersonal relationships, too, such as how you treat your neighbor and the storekeeper and the animals you might meet. Because if you do something to mistreat anyone, no matter who it is, you are a disturbance in the flow of energy that goes through your body. This happens because of the nature of this inner power. It is connected to the whole sea of power. And because it is an intelligent sea of power it does not rob Peter to pay Paul, nor does it rob your neighbor to pay you. So you can see that its aims, goals and objectives and manner of doing things is quite contrary to yours.
Its interest is in the whole system of the planet. It does not think of itself as separate from the whole. It thinks of another person as much as it thinks of itself, and it applies the same laws that it applies to itself, while you think of yourself alone as a being separate and apart. And you have been trained to maintain yourself as a separatist. This creates a sense of division with your inner nature - the true identity of your being. So you have to learn how to correct this division and make adjustments in small increments so that you do not greatly disturb your sense of balance, yet still be able to bring yourself closer and closer to your inner self, the higher self, and be able to work compatibly with your higher self - the instinct behind the mind. This must be done because the gap does exist and one aspect must change. Since the real self cannot change its nature, then your conditioned self must be changed. You are the real self. Your discomforts come from your conditioned self which are erroneous to your real nature.
To undergo such a change is to go against everything that you believe in - or think you believe in. For you are a product of a culture and a tradition that has its foundation in generations of family ties and religious beliefs and social and cultural beliefs. Your real sparkling self has been buried beneath this outer training, which is dead and it can scarcely rouse itself sufficiently to accomplish even one spontaneous act of refreshing change to give life and hope and renewal to the outer personality. Instinct is the key. Intuition is the golden spark of life. The world does not like nor understand this spontaneous freshness. It does not trust it. Its manner is the manner of one who is concerned for one's fellow man, and who wants to give help and encouragement and support. Its tendency is to love and forgive, and to do good to those who would use you and misuse you.
This is the nature of the real self, the higher self, and you know what would happen if you were to suddenly start following these urges. You would be immediately suspect, either of flipping your lid or of having an ulterior selfish motive, and their doubt would cause you to doubt yourself. It is not the expected way for you to act and so you don't. Sometimes you would like to, you are often tingled by a desire to do good but you dare not act upon it because it is not the way of the world. And so you say to yourself, "I am in the world so I must act the way of the world." You live in the system so you abide by the laws of the system, and the inner self remains buried and hidden. So you can see that it is not going to be an easy task to blend your ways with the ways of the higher power within you. The real self.
10 - THE POWER AS AN INNER WIND
All of the occult literature, all of the teachings of the mystery schools, all of the advice of wise spiritual masters, and all spiritual teachings are concerned with how to do this without upsetting the applecart of personal and professional relationships, because it's not an easy thing to do. It requires great wisdom and sometimes critical timing. It is, in essence, a genuine science. And an art. And those who are secretly trying to accomplish this blend are often called "initiates" or "disciples", whether they have a teacher or whether they follow their own inner guidance. This is the beginning of a great undertaking. It will affect great changes in your mind and in your life and body, and it will bring you to heights of experience that you would not be able to imagine.
The ecstasies of the saints and the mystics are not illusions. The garden of Eden and paradise are not fairy tales for children but promises of things to come - a permanent state of mind to those who achieve it whether in this body or the next. And all religions are manmade efforts to explain the way to get there. Once a sufficient blend has been made between the outer self and the inner self, there is a unique physiological change that takes place in the body, which marks the opening of the floodgates that separated the higher power from the lower power, and an inrush of something akin to a wind occurs. It affects the nervous system and the metabolic system, the glandular system of the body, and odd things begin to take place. Irregular breathing may break out in an instant, quite unbecoming to the outer man, such as quick, short and fast breaths like the cleansing breath of the yogi. Or a sudden desire to get up and stretch and move the arms, the legs, the belly, the head. But the most pronounced effect of all is in the brain. There is a distinct speeding up of the brain processes and there is a danger here unless there is understanding of what is happening.
One may have a deep urge to get up from a conference with one or several people and leave, feeling a desperate need for fresh air. This is due to the fact that the new and tender power that is now at work in the body cannot abide falseness or turmoil, and though such falseness or turmoil may go unnoticed by the personality, the need is felt in the sudden urge to leave. One must leave or suffer unpleasant reactions. But one who has sufficiently trained himself to follow his urges without question, will be able to handle the increase in vigor that his instincts take on. When the wind comes he is in a new phase. He is in the process of making over his old self with a new and fresh vitality and the help of this strange new inner power, which he is forced to admit is more powerful than he himself. This exotic and strange phenomena that strikes the body when the person is ready, is called in the Bible the inrushing of the holy spirit. And the unusual body reactions that take place, the renewal of the body, is called the second birth. The descent of the holy spirit in the form of a dove is the descent of peace, which takes place over the outer man for he is finally put to rest from struggling with the outer world. He has prepared himself to follow his inner urges sufficiently so that the power can take over and make decisions for him. There is an uncanny acceptance of world conditions.
Where once he fought the systems of the world, now he sees that it must be. He is at peace, yet he has an even greater job to do now than he had before. Because he must protect his new-found state of consciousness for it is possible to backtrack and make wrong decisions and allow himself to succumb to wrong influences that would hurt him. He must have the capacity to say "No!" when he feels he cannot do a certain task. But this wind does not come alive until a person has established a deep and consistent association with his instincts. His instincts are merely the mellow tricklings of the wind as it works quietly in the body to maintain it in the physical capacities. It cannot increase until the person himself starts using his instincts and following up on its urges. This is the actual training, just like therapy for an atrophied arm is to use it with a disciplined program daily. Otherwise the arm remains lifeless and withered up. This is the way of the power that burns within just sufficiently to allow the physical body to operate.
11 - THE POWER OF LIFE
We have all taken the power of life for granted. We think to ourselves, "I did not ask to come here. I have no responsibility to this world." Yet, anyone who says this is gravely mistaken, for he DID ask to come and deep in the depths of his self he knows that he asked to come. And further, he knows that he has a job to do, and that he will keep coming back, again and again, until he accomplishes that job which is his destiny and the reason he is here. It is no accident that he is here. There is a highly intelligent reasoning to life. And the fact that we do not remember or understand is an indication of how separated we are from the real self. For once we move closer to the source we begin to have memory of this in the form of feelings.
We do not see how valuable this body is. We would know if one day we would find ourselves standing outside of our body and looking down at it, lying asleep on a bed, or sprawled on the floor after a heart attack and trying desperately to move back into it again. When the body does not respond when you tell it to respond, then you begin to appreciate the value of a physical body For we will outlive this body and we will outlive the next body, and the next one and the next. We will outlive all the bodies because we are greater than the body and the mind put together. We are not confined to a body or a mind, any more than we are confined to a suit of clothing. We are the intelligence that puts it on and takes it off, and that seeks to practice what we know to be true in the physical world of matter, form and clay.
And until we do practice what we know to be true - instinctively know to be true - we will remain dissatisfied with ourselves. That is our job to do: to keep on experimenting with ourselves. Try out this concept and that concept until we get it right, and then move on to a new concept and try it out in real life to see if it really works. We are experimenters, playing with chemistry and mechanics, trying to build a perfect form and a perfect life. Trying to become masters of our lives, and we are destined to make it. There is no one who will not make it in the end.
The power of life is consciousness. Consciousness is the power of life. When it leaves us we have no power. When we increase it we have more power. It is within the normal person in a steady and consistent state. It moves neither down nor up. It remains stationary and static. You may think it goes down when you become confused or old or tired through the aging process. But it is only the body and the functioning of the brain that deteriorates. Your awareness of yourself and of life remains consistent.
12 - THE POWER CAN BE TURNED UP
The power CAN be turned up and you can become more aware, more conscious of yourself and who you are and where you come from. This is experienced in those rare inspirational moments when one feels in tune with the cosmos - or God. This is a temporary shift in consciousness where one momentarily realizes the truth of his inner nature. But until he learns to maintain that consciousness he will fall back down again to the normal human consciousness of a separate existence. It is a glimpse and a promise of what is to come. If you want to enhance consciousness, you must use consciousness. Again, it is like the proverbial atrophied muscle. If you are conscious of a wrong motive in yourself, you must stop trying to ignore it and pretend you never saw. Instead you must learn to correct your wrong motive, either by admitting it to the person you are dealing with, or by making the proper adjustment in your actions. By ignoring a conscious spark of awareness you are putting the lid on your potential power, keeping it in check.
If you are conscious of a person getting ready to make a wrong action, you must act on that awareness and tell him. If you pretend that you didn't see it, or that you are not responsible for what another person does, you are again putting the lid on a great power that is trying to alert you and thereby help you to live in this world a little bit better and to make this world a little bit better. Consciousness IS the power of life, and if you put a lid on that power you put a lid on life so that it cannot expand. But, we must learn how to do this without creating traumas. We must learn to do this gently, and with wisdom so that we enhance situations rather than hinder. Recognition that someone else is going to do the wrong thing truly may not be your responsibility, but if you were given the insight it is your responsibility to pass it on. That's all the responsibility you have. You don't have any responsibility to see that he carries out your advice. He has to make up his own mind. But having someone else tell him may help him out of a difficult quandary that he has been having a hard time deciding all by himself.
Learn to follow your instincts more than your rational mind. Your rational mind has its place. It must follow through with your instructions and implement your mechanics. But the spark of creativity, the main spark of life, the fire of life comes from the instinct behind the rational mind. Learn to trust it more. Let's look at an example for a moment to understand what we mean.
A man who owns a going restaurant in a side road in the suburbs of a large city becomes aware that an expressway is going to be laid between this city and the one to the north of the city. He happens to know a man in city government who has a pretty fair sized influence around town. The man holds a high office himself. So the restaurant owner has dinner with him and suggests that if the freeway is laid near him his business would increase and he would pay him a cash sum for getting the expressway laid down. The politician goes home to think about it and to weigh the consequences. He knows that the road would save the city a lot of money if it were laid about ten miles west of the restaurant because that would be the shortest and easiest route to take, but the cash offer would enable him to send his son to Europe to attend university at Oxford. His son has always wanted to go to Oxford. His rational mind tells him that the city has plenty of money for these things and his son is a bright young man and an Oxford education would not only enrich him personally but he would be an asset to his world wherever he chose to live. His rational mind decides there is no harm in taking the money from the restaurant owner and seeing that the freeway is laid down close to the restaurant. It would be an easy enough thing to do since he knows the fellows over in the planning department. And he goes to sleep convinced that he made the right decision, without ever giving his instincts a chance to speak up.
Instinct would have told him, if it had a chance to speak, that such a choice was not to the benefit of the whole. That, weighed against one man - the welfare of his son's education - two whole cities were being sacrificed, meaning two cities full of individuals who must pay extra. Instinct doesn't deal in logic. It simply knows what is best. It doesn't get bogged down with facts. It moves under sheer force of will. When the politician accepts the bribe he clamps the lid a little tighter on to his instincts, making it even harder to hear than it was before. And when the restaurant owner completes his end of the bargain, he not only shuts the lid tighter on his instincts, but he bears the weight of a wrong action which is chalked up against him. This he must undo one day for he influenced another individual to do a wrong act. The tender childlike innocence has been perverted once more. The inner knowing of what is right and what is wrong, was put down and ignored by both parties. The lessening of the power resulted in confusion and further ignorance to the detriment of both men.
13 - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND MIND
The difference between the mind and the consciousness, which is the inner power, is that the mind thinks only of itself. It is selfish, while the inner power thinks of the good of the whole which includes himself. The inner power has a broader perspective and a broader vision than the mind. Not until individuals learn how to follow the inner power, the gut-level instinct, will peace begin to be felt and seen in the society as a whole. For the real individual knows instinctively that in order to function properly he needs a well-oiled, smooth-running environment in which to operate. Very few individuals pay attention to their inner instinct. Conscience is another word for it. Most people are trying to BETTER the mind instead of lessen it. They try to make it stronger, and by so doing they go in the wrong direction. If they want to bring forth real power, the real nature of the individual within, they are going in the wrong direction to find it.
Peace comes from blending with the instinct within. Peace comes from putting the mind at rest from fighting, and letting the inner urges come out. The genuine urge is childlike in its efforts. It seeks for an avenue, a smooth way to flow. It does not fight. It is simple, it is straightforward. It is small compared to the giant industry of the outer world. And it does not know how to come out. It speaks in a whisper. It does not fight the system. It merely looks for a moment in which to whisper when it can be heard. The only real responsibility that we have is to listen and to allow it expression. We must make room for it to express. That is our job. And once it has expressed, to protect it so it doesn't get stamped out for all efforts made by the childlike whispers of instincts are for the good of the individual and for the good of the world. We must learn to protect it and nourish it and maintain its existence within our lives. This is where power comes from. Very few people understand how powerful this power is and how far-reaching. But it is a different kind of power from aggression.
It is the power behind the tender little blade of grass that pierces the hard crust of the dried earth. It will even move a rock aside to push its way through to express. It is the power of a baby to master the giant of a man and peel the hardness from his heart. It is the power of love to turn violence into peace. This is not an earthly power. It is not an aggressive power. It is a power that we know very little about. The scriptures call it the power of faith but we have not been trained in how to use it. But when it is activated things happen all around you and when you want something it comes to you in the form of a person or book or opportunity and even knocks on your door so you don't have to go further than your front doorstep to find it. But one must stop struggling and feeling desperate so that it can come. It needs a smooth way over which to flow. Objects, people, opportunities - anything you want - comes to you. It is that kind of power.
It is that kind of power. It does not depend upon your mental exertion or your lifting of even a finger. It doesn't depend on long hours of meditation or prayer. It depends upon your ability to call forth this power in a noble manner. That's what this course is all about. It doesn't depend on money. In fact, it will bring you money if you want it for noble reasons. That is, to better your position in the world not to harm others. This is the power that is not only inherent as a potential in you, it IS you. And it is YOU that you want to bring forth into action.
14 - TWO PATHS TO AWAKEN THE POWER
There are people out there today who are teaching others how to awaken the wind, the holy spirit, through body disciplines, mental disciplines or prayer. These are not sufficient for those who choose to live in the world and work and play with other people. They are the paths taken by those who have denounced the world. There are two formulas for bringing the power forth: One is to transcend the world by rising up to find the power, the other is to bring the power down into the world. The yogic and mental body disciplines as they came out of the Eastern retreats were used by solitary initiates to be elevated out of the physical world, not into it. There is a higher plane of existence beyond this physical plane of matter, and it is by using these techniques, including celibacy, or the giving up of all sexual activities, that individuals were able to etherealize their bodies beyond what is practical for living a normal life. The yogic disciplines were originally used for the preparation of passing out of this life into another. Hardly the type of activity for a person who is dynamically involved with living in the physical world! Sex should be used with gusto, and with authority, not to be abstained from IF one wants to work compatibly and efficiently and peacefully within the world.
Otherwise he will transcend his neighbors and not be able to communicate with them. Sex is the great paver of the way, the soother of the wounds, the healer of atrocities. If it is done between two consenting adults it allows the inflow of love and gentleness. It is reduced to sin only when one of the parties is forced into the act or pressured into performing instead of submitting out of love and desire. We in this 21st century need to understand how to bring forth the inner power in a way that will enhance our lives in the world, not create friction between ourselves and the world. We need to apply different disciplines and we need to understand why there are differences between the two paths. One path helps you out of the world, the other helps you into the world. This is the great modification that we have been lacking to the great teachings of the East of yoga and meditation. Without this modification one will create a great deal of confusion and not know what he is doing wrong.
The wind known by the ancients as the holy spirit will not awaken if the body and person has not prepared himself to receive it. Sometimes it awakens by accident, prematurely, but he is the one who will have troubles with it. The body must be prepared to receive it and the only way it can be prepared is by training oneself to follow instinct. It behooves all of us to pay attention to instinct by heeding those inner urges, for one does not know when it will come, on what day or at what hour. This is the meaning of the handmaidens who let the oil lamps go down and out. And one night the lord came home and they were unprepared. It does indeed come with out warning. Western yoga teachers teach you that the energy comes up through the spinal column and they teach you to pull it up, to force it up, to work it up, to visualize it rising. But they fail to tell you that you must go down first. This is a secret step that only the wise old sages knew and they did not pass it on. One must learn this instinctively. You have to go down first! Not up. And make your peace with the body force, the sexual force.
15 - MAKE PEACE WITH SEXUALITY AND THE WORLD
The only way to go down is by not pulling away from the sexual force within, but by embracing it as a natural body function and using it with respect. One cannot become a master of cookery without experimenting with cookery. And one cannot become a master of sexuality without experimenting with one's own sex prowess which is consciousness as well as physical. You must learn to ground yourself and give yourself to the powers in your body. They are holy powers and will not harm you. It is the instinctive maternal force that desires to protect, nourish and keep the body healthy through the implosion of the sexual climax, the shedding of the golden sparkle of euphoric life directly into the nervous system and endocrine system of the body.
The sexual force is a natural function, as natural as eating, urinating, having a bladder or bowel movement, sleeping and exercising. And you must make your peace with it and not reject it. It is the inner force that keeps your body systems healthy and normal. How can you increase your power if you refuse to accept the source of power? Through the sex act, love, mercy and compassion enters your body to keep it healthy. And in the process it blows out the accumulation of repressed energy. You know how good you feel after a good lovemaking session. How can one reject this process?
Once you have accepted the sexuality of your body, you will know how to use it. You will have developed a sufficient wisdom pertaining to it. And you will develop that wisdom even further as you experiment with it. Contrary to popular opinion, one does not go down hill by embracing sex. One begins to accumulate understanding because one opens up the power forces of life - that power which is not of t his world. By using this power to better one's life is the anachronism of the Eastern yogi who wants to leave this life. As you use your sexuality with respect and knowledge, you become more stable, gain more insight, become more powerful, more healthy, more grounded. You are working with it instead of against it. You develop more respect for it and raise your regard for it instead of thinking that it belongs in the gutter. How can you awaken the power that is not born of the world so that it courses through your physical nerves and veins and endocrine system unless you rid yourself of degrading thoughts concerning it?
This is the the biggest single change you must make if you want to develop your whole self and your whole power. Practice by following your inner urges and your instinct, but follow the guidelines of cosmic law. Do good, respect yourself and love your real nature. Reject that which is false in you and in error, and respect the ways of other people. Your training is on yourself, not on anyone else. Each man and woman must follow their own inner clock which is a law for them laid down at the beginning of time. Each has his own set of guidelines which is not cultural but cosmic and individual. Practice following the humane part of you. This is the real nature of your being. It knows nothing of business or money or religious doctrine. Those are creations of the outer man. The real nature of your being knows only about giving love, giving support, enriching the spirit, encouraging the expression and outflow of that which is not of this world.
Respect your moods. They are messages from that power. And respect the moods of others. It does not weigh good against evil. It does not know evil. That is the creation of the outer man, just as all other systems of the world have been created by the outer man. The real power, the genuine power of yourself does not weigh one thing against another. It acts upon an incessant need to act. There is no condition imposed or qualification laid over it. There is no bargaining, no greed, no pent-up resentment to taint its purity of power. It does not need recognition. It does not need to control others. Its nature is to do a job and timing is important for it must get through the inconsistencies of human nature, and when it is time, it is time. Then the rush comes forth, but never to harm. Never to violate the being of others.
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