Well, it helps to find out that karmically , you embezzled a lot out of a lot of
people, a lot of lifetimes. And it’ s payback time. That makes it a little easier
to handle, right there, and to see that it doesn’ t really matter . So, the
willingness to let every instant be the past, of course, closes the door to all
regret about the past. And the way one’ s consciousness evolves, then, is the
willingness to surrender everything as it arises. To live in the absolute,
radical reality of the moment of “now” means, like listening to music, to let
go of the last note and make room for the next. Each thing as it arises, you
can let go wanting to change it. The willingness to surrender this instant to
God as it arises means you don’ t live on the front of the wave, trying to
anticipate the future; nor do you live on the back of the wave, trying to
cling to the past. As it is now , it is spoken. As it is now , it is done. As it is
now, it is acted upon. And you let it be the way it was, huh. Is that simple
enough? It’ s walking on the edge of the knife. To walk precisely on the
edge of the knife is what allows you to go through sur gery without
anesthesia, because the instant you begin to resist the pain, it becomes
excruciating. It’ s only when you completely and totally surrender to it, not
call it “pain,” stop resisting, you become one with whatever the sensation is
without any calling it anything—all of a sudden, one transcends it and the
pain disappears as though being transported by angels to a dif ferent realm. I wonder if that degree of surrender actually brings angels around, or
something. “That’ s what happened: resist” (T rue). Okay . It was a definite
sensation, as though one was being lifted out of the body by angelic beings. They’re angelic because the exquisite grace, gentleness, and radiance of
Love was profound. It was as if one was being lifted out of the physicality ,
and the physicality was going through all this sur gery, and chopping of f
your thumbs and various things were going on. And there was only a
feeling of infinite peace and joy . So, that surrendering, that intense
surrender , then . . . well, let’ s ask that again. “The intensity of the surrenderfinesses the Presence of God expressed as the angelic: resist” (T rue). Wow,
I didn’ t know that; suspected it but didn’ t know it for sure. So you see, kinesiology , as we use it, is a constant learning tool. It’ s just a
tool, that’ s all. It confirms, denies, tells you’re in the wrong direction. It’ s
like looking for Easter eggs—you’re warmer , you’re warmer , you’re
warmer—you know what I mean. You are warmer this way; no, this way ,
this way . And it sort of leads your investigation. Now karmically , you’re
beset by certain problems and questions in your life, so they tend to press
for expression and for awareness. The past lives that probably are of any
significance in one’ s life, most people already intuit them. They will start
out as a joke—“Oh, some lifetime, I must have so-and-so”—usually starts
out as a joke. They don’ t want anybody to think they believe in karma, so
they say , “Well, some lifetime I must have been a pickpocket.” I was a
pickpocket in France one time. Anyway . I sort of knew that all along. You’ll
find that you sort of intuit, or people will mention to you, you know ,
“You’re like an old farmer , for God’ s sake, the way you walk around and
look down at the ground.” You know , you just sort of knew you’d been a
farmer a lot of lifetimes, you know what I’m sayin’. It’s like one is very close to consciousness. What’ s the value and the
significance of it? The value and significance is that it may recontextualize
your spiritual work in this lifetime in a way that is less painful, facilitate it,
and broaden one’ s understanding of the evolution of consciousness itself. It’s unlikely that you just came out of the blue, out of some kind of
nothingness and appeared on this planet, calibrating at 430. I mean, it’ s just
not a likelihood. The other interesting observation is that without some kind of
understanding of karma, there is no explanation of why it is that various
individuals already have a calibrated level of consciousness at the moment
of birth. How come this baby is born at 230, this one’ s born at 540, this
one’s born at 70? How would you explain that? A fickle God or careless
God? I don’ t know . “I just roll the dice, and some fell of f the table”? Little
kids were born with AIDS and died of starvation by age of six months. What kind of karma is that, huh? Born with a calibrated ener gy of 30, which
is not far from death. They’re born half dead into a family with no
resources, no money , no food, and all of them have AIDS, and they are
terminal cases of tuberculosis—if the AIDS doesn’ t get them, the TB will. Or the nearest warlord will slaughter them anyway . How to explain this?How can you believe in a just God who determines all events as though
He’s arbitrary , and yet have people coming into the planet on all these
various, dif ferent levels? “Karma is the explanation why children come into this world calibrating
at dif ferent levels: resist” (T rue). So, you see, you intuit the next step in
your own spiritual evolution. And you use consciousness techniques such as
kinesiology to af firm or deny them. Why? Because you begin to trust your
own spiritual inspiration. The Presence of God within you expresses itself
as spiritual inspiration, which is what leads you into spiritual pathways and
attending lectures and studying books and doing mantras, and all that. That’ s coming from a spiritual intuition . . . inspiration. It’ s not personal, so
you can’ t compliment yourself that you’re spiritually oriented; nor can you
attack yourself that you aren’ t.
Consciousness itself is impersonal. Everybody has it. Awareness is
impersonal—everybody has it. The presence of the Self is ubiquitous in
everybody . So it’ s not something you can rate yourself one way or the other . It’s like you hear the call, and you become responsive to it. And now you
become curious about spiritual matters. You become interested in
overcoming defects, because your polarity is such in the gravity field of the
Universe of God that you are attracted to the Light. Once one is attracted to
the Light, one is attracted to the Light by virtue of all the spiritual decisions
that have been made in the past, so that your karmic propensity now is to be
attracted in this direction. Most people who are seriously spiritually devoted accept that as normal
and think, “W ell, isn’ t everybody that way? Doesn’ t everybody want to go
to church and give up sin and become a better person and go to heaven?”
No. That is naive altogether . We see that 78 percent of the population
prefers it the other way . They will consciously choose that which leads in
the other direction. If given a choice, they will consciously choose it. That
is also partly because of what they have been up to that point. So that you
can’t really berate anybody for what they are at this point, because what
they are now is a consequence of what they have been. To many people it
would seem that the option of a dif ferent choice is not open to them. If
you’re out at sea and shipwrecked at sea, it’ s not an option to drink pure
water , because there isn’ t any . Many of the adolescents I see who come of f
the streets, a better choice is not really an option to them. It’ s not within
their conscious options. You know , when you go to make a choice, you havea certain number of options. And these kids don’ t have these three options. You either fight and kill, or you’re a coward and go down. So they’ve got
one choice. They’ve got one choice. It doesn’ t dawn on them that they
could leave their present environment. It’ s not a possibility . So it’ s almost as
though the positive options themselves are earned. The positive option is
not there unless you’ve earned the positive option, you might say . The Spiritual Heart
According to Ramana Maharshi, the seat of the heart is in the right side of
the chest. He was talking about the various levels of the aura which have
different languaging, depending on the spiritual tradition from which you
are speaking—in the Far East, or the Near East, or wherever . Anyway , he’s
apparently talking about a heart within the heart chakra as expressed in one
of the sheaths. So I’m not aware of what he meant by it, and it puzzled
many of his followers. Many people asked, and I for got what his literal
answer was. Let’ s see. We’ll ask it today . I don’ t know what the answer is
either . “What he meant was the spiritual heart: resist” (T rue). “That the
spiritual heart is positioned in a certain way within the etheric body: resist”
(True). “He’ s talking about the position of the heart chakra within the
etheric body: resist” (T rue). “And that it’ s not concordant with the physical
body: resist” (T rue). All right. So, he’ s saying it’ s not concordant
anatomically with the physical body . I only saw auras briefly in my lifetime, and it was with a lady who knew
how to see auras. I said, “I can’ t see auras.” She said, “Oh, anybody can see
auras. Here, sit down.” She told me how you see auras. She said, “Look
right over the head there and don’ t focus on the head, and you’ll see . . .”
And then she showed me where to look and how to look, and by God, there
was one. Well, I didn’ t know if it was just suggestion. Don’ t forget, I’m
scientifically trained, you know , and I know a lot of suggestions. So I’m
saying to myself, “W ell, this is suggestion.” So I thought, I’ll test her out . For one thing, when I saw this aura, it was gray , like this, and it was very
lopsided. It was not auras like they are in pictures—they look like halos, or
something. This person’ s sitting there, and here’ s this gray aura, and it is
way over this way , over his right ear . And I said, “Where do you see the
aura?” She said, “It’ s way over his right ear .” “Okay , I am seeing them.”
Well, your fantasy would be that everybody’ s aura looks very neat, like anartist’ s drawing right around the body , you see. The ener gy field was way
over like that. I don’ t know . I’m just speculating on what Ramana meant by
that. I don’ t think it was anything important. I for get whether he said to
meditate on it or not, but I didn’ t get that it was of any critical importance. OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER 9
The Experience of One’ s Own
Existence Is Subjective
How can you verify the validity of your findings, such as, I suppose, in
kinesiology or whatever , or in one’ s work? That’ s sort of the hypothetical
asking the hypothetical, so it’ s not really answerable in a radical, logical
way. But the experience of one’ s existence is purely subjective, and there is
no escape from subjectivity . So, to ask somebody for what might be
considered objective—from a certain intellectual, hypothetical viewpoint—
doesn’ t really have any reality even if it was answerable. Because the
experience of myself, Susan, and the audience simultaneously is that we use
a certain technique to verify the yes or no of various things, but to some
degree, we already know the answer , and all we’re looking for is some
external verification for the purpose of demonstration, really , and for
showing how this technique can be used to further spiritual progress and
gain access to information. Don’ t forget that the information that we talk
about in these lectures and write about, et cetera—most of it has never been
known in the history of mankind. Not known, certainly , in a verifiable way . Maybe some shaman had a vision of it, or somebody had a hallucination of
it, but nobody has really contextualized it in a totally comprehensible way
so as to make it assimilable and verifiable. You see, if you get an answer
that’s outside of the expected realm or outside of possibility , it requires an
explanation. And occasionally we get an outrageous response. Well, that
doesn’ t mean the response is wrong; it means that you don’ t comprehend it. A lot of times, you have to completely rephrase the question. Sometimes the
question is already begging the answer and you’ll get a refusal. It’s funny , but Consciousness is extremely bright, and when you think
you outsmarted it, you find you didn’ t get away with it. Many a time—and
we did it one time in front of an audience, and I’ve cited this example
before; when we asked, “Carl Jung’ s ener gy is over 520,” we got a no. Well,we’d done it hundreds of times. I know what Carl Jung’ s ener gy is. And she
couldn’ t understand it, and I couldn’ t understand it. Well, we said, “It is.”
Well, he’ s dead, so it couldn’ t be, could it? It said no. We said, “It was,” and
we got a yes. So it’ s just phrasing one word. “Carl Jung is over 520,”
obviously the answer is no, but we were careless because we’ve asked that
question so many times. Now , the whole thing has to be internally
consistent. In other words, if you spent a few weeks with us and saw us do
hundreds and hundreds of things, you begin to see a fabric of truth form
itself which is internally consistent. “At this time I’ve done over 255,000
calibrations” (T rue); “260,000” (T rue); “265,000” (T rue); “270,000” (T rue);
“275,000” (T rue); “280,000” (T rue); “290,000” (T rue); “Over 300,000
calibrations” (Not true); “Over 290,000 calibrations” (T rue); “294,000”
(Not true). Two hundred and ninety-four thousand calibrations. Well, if
you’ve looked at 294,000 rocks and examined them under a microscope,
you begin to get a feeling for geology . When I first saw kinesiology , I had already gone into that infinite
paradigm we call “nonlinear” and which, religiously , is called “the Presence
of God.” So when I first saw it, I was already seeing it from a dif ferent
paradigm of reality . The whole audience was within the linear , Newtonian
domain. What they saw was a local phenomenon, and what I saw was a
nonlocal phenomenon. We both witnessed the same event. To me it was
obviously the nonlocal answer coming from the nature of consciousness
itself. And the rest of the audience saw it as the reaction of the body’ s
physiology to a turnip. Some people thought—well, you know , they
presumed—but it was very clearly a nonlinear , impersonal response. It has
nothing to do with the questioner; it has nothing to do with the person who
was being the subject. And it was obviously the connection between the
invisible, nonlinear domain and the consciousness of mankind as it
expresses itself through the nervous system. So instantly I saw what was
infinite, nonlocal, impersonal, and was a response of consciousness itself to
the presence of Truth. At first we called it “T rue versus False,” but that is
not correct. I think in Power vs. For ce, we said it was “T rue versus False,”
but in Eye of the I , we corrected that. It’ s not “T rue versus False”; it’ s “True
versus Not True.” There is no opposite to truth. Truth is either present or
not. If truth is present, then you go strong. If truth is not present because it
has no existence—so, that which is not real has no existence. Consciousness
therefore does not respond to it, because it is only a belief system in yourhead with no reality . So there is no such thing in the universe as “no-ness.”
There’ s either yes or the absence of yes. That’ s a very profound spiritual
understanding, because it destroys the artifact of the polarity of the
opposites. And we use as the analogy of that, when you throw the switch
on, electricity is present in the wire. Electricity is either present or not
present. There is no condition known as “of fness.” So the duality of the ego
is that “of f” and “on” are opposites. There is no opposite to God. There is
no opposite to truth. There is no opposite to existence. So when I hit the
duality at age three and got it literally resolved at maybe age 60, of
“existence versus nonexistence,” the fallacy of it made me laugh. There is
only existence. And you can see the absurdity of asking whether
“nonexistence” exists. Nonexistence is not an option just like absence is not
an option, you see. Something is either present or not present. There is no
condition called “absence.” You know what I mean? We can’ t send
“absence” into this room and fill it up. “After we all leave here, we will
send in ‘absence’”—“absence” has no existence. There is either “here-ness”
or “not-here-ness,” but there is no such thing as “absence.” But the ego’ s
belief in that which is unreal is the cause of the human dilemma: that there’ s
an opposite to God and that there’ s an opposite to existence. The nearest thing to nonexistence is oblivion. And to see that is to solve
the ancient dilemma of the Buddhic fallacies. There’ s errors in all religions,
and the one in Buddhism is the misunderstanding of the Absolute Infinite as
Void. And in its mistranslation, the Void becomes a state to be desired and
achieved by the pathway of negation. Actually , nonexistence is not a
possibility . Voidness as Nothingness is not a possibility . Voidness as
absence of form or content is the absolute reality . But if one believes that
the absolute reality to be achieved is the Buddha nature as Voidness, as
though Voidness is a reality condition, leads one into the state of the Void,
and when you leave the body , you go into oblivion. Then, because that’ s not
a reality , you cannot stay in it. Because you cannot stay in it, you find
yourself back at age three in a little wooden wagon, stunned by the fact that
you exist again. That’ s the fallacy of the Hinayana pathway , a certain
branch of the Hinayana pathway . The misunderstanding that that which has no existence can exist as
nonexistence—you see the fallacy of it, even within the realm of logic. But
when spoken by a guru with gongs, shaved head, incense, sitting on a tiger
skin, one assumes this is the ultimate authority . One worships it, deifies it,and now it becomes sought after: God as nonexistence. That’ s an impossible
koan. You cannot get past that one until—what did we say—850. At 850,
you pass the doorway . Hmm. The purpose of all that is to try to unhook the
power of positionality creating a duality , which is the block to
enlightenment. If you see that only existence exists, if you see that only heat exists, if
you see that in the supposed gradations between light and darkness, there is
only the one—and that is light, and that darkness has no independent
existence; then you’re halfway to enlightenment, because those are the great
obstacles. The Field of Awareness
If consciousness is not personal, what does it mean we earn the chance for
better opportunities or for better choices? It’ s like consciousness is the field,
the field; karma is still content. One has not escaped content yet. To go
beyond karma means to have escaped the limitation of content. Consciousness is infinite context. It has no form, like the sky . Karma would
be like a cloud. It still has form; it hangs loose within the sky; it’ s within the
sky. So, karma then would be the consequence of one’ s spiritual decisions
have an influence on the shape of the cloud, but consciousness is like the
sky. The field of consciousness which is impersonal is unaf fected by the
cloud. Where the cloud goes in the sky will depend on its shape, size,
consistency , humidity , barometric pressure, and many things, yes? You see,
in the meditative technique to realize the Presence of God, one goes back
from identifying with the content of consciousness to the field itself to
realize that I am not the content of the mind; I am that upon which the mind
is playing, see? It’ s like I am the receiver and not the notes of the music. The receiver remains the same no matter what music is playing on it. You
all of a sudden jump from identifying with the content—I am those
thoughts, words, images and memories—to I am That which empowers
them to become known. So, you become the knower of the field. You
become the witness. You become, at a certain level, the experiencer . Beyond the experiencer is the witness and the observer . The witness and the
observer and the experiencer arise out of an impersonal field. You can
realize these things are impersonal, because witnessing and observing is not
within—you cannot shut it on and of f at will. If it’ s who you were, youcould shut it on and of f, but it’ s not who you are. Behind the
witness/observer/experiencer is an impersonal, all-prevailing field of
Consciousness itself. Even consciousness is not aware of its own existence
except for the field of awareness. So you stop identifying with the movie,
and you begin to see one can witness the movie only because that upon
which it is being projected is formless. So you withdraw your investment in
identification of self as form and content of memory and experience. You
see yourself as that which is beyond form, that you are the field upon which
form reveals itself as form. You witness that the Self is impersonal because consciousness doesn’ t
shift, no matter what you think about it or say about it or try to do with it—
it’s just there. Throughout the day , if one is awake, you’re conscious. How
do you know you’re conscious? Because you’re aware that you’re
conscious. And awareness itself is also impersonal. Awareness itself is also
impersonal. So, you go back through the substratum, you’re going back to
God manifest as existence, the awareness of existence, and there you
transcend temporality , because that quality which you sense has no
beginning and no end. Eventually you get back to God not only as manifest
but as Unmanifest. Out of the manifest, Unmanifest arises. The Unmanifest is traditionally in Christianity called the “Godhead.” Out
of the Godhead of the Unmanifest arises God as Manifest, out of which
arises the universe. That all makes sense as you—in meditation, one can
withdraw from identification with the movie, to see that except for
Consciousness, there would be no awareness of the movie and that
Consciousness is what prevails. And the content of the movie is evanescent. Therefore, as one spiritually evolves, one is less and less prone to investing
in that which is transitory . Because the transitoriness of that which is
temporary becomes increasingly obvious. Every acquisition someday later
will be a problem in disposition. Everything you acquire, someday you will
now have the task of disposing of. So you spend all day acquiring it; it will
take you two weeks to dispose of it. All has to be reboxed, sold at garage
sales, transported, wholesaled, retailed, willed to somebody . In other words,
that which is transitory becomes less and less of value. Therefore, spiritual
work itself becomes more and more valued because one realizes its
permanency . Once you have made a certain spiritual decision and see
through certain spiritual illusions, that which you see is permanent. That
which you see has a profound ef fect on one’ s karma. There is a man whowrote a book called Omniology , and he gave, you might say , the anatomy of
that which is of the nonlinear , as paradoxical as that may sound: that the
spirit body has within it a sort of karma body . It would be like a computer
chip. So the spirit, then, is like a computer chip, but the computer chip of a
different domain in which everything leaves an imprint throughout all of
time. So when we do kinesiologic research, we can go anywhere in time,
anywhere in place, and we can pull out information that nobody has had
access to. Nobody has ever had access to most of the things we do. . . . In
fact, on this stage a lot of times, we have asked things that nobody’ s ever
asked and nobody has ever gotten an answer—nor , if they got an answer ,
would they have any way of verifying the truth of that answer . We asked,
“Did Jesus Christ ever have previous physical incarnations?” Anybody ever
ask that you ever hear of? I never heard of it myself. Came out of the blue. And it came out of the blue to ask it here and now . You know what I’m
sayin’? Never thought about it. I don’ t know that it necessarily means
anything, except it’ s another piece in a puzzle. When you put it all together
about your knowledge of Krishna and Buddha and Christ and all the Great
Ones, you begin to get a sense of what the spiritual reality of that entity is
and how it impacts your life and how it impacts all of society . The Infinite Potentiality of the Evolution of Humanity
Ken Wilber famously wrote The Holographic Paradigm and Other
Paradoxes . My guess is, he would be in the high 400s as a consequence. “Ken Wilber, we have permission in front of this audience: resist” (T rue). “He is over 460” (T rue); “470” (T rue); “480” (Not true). He would be in the
high 400s because that’ s very advanced understanding he has of the nature
of the universe and how it operates, that it is a holographic unity . He also
escapes the trap of causality . Because this is on this [right] side of the universe, therefore this is where
it is on this [left] side of the universe. But this [on the right] is not causing
that [on the left] to be over there. You understand that? In a holographic
universe, you see, things do not come about as a result of the ego’ s belief in
causality . They come about as a result of the manifestation of Creation as it
evolves into the providence of perception in what seems to be sequential. As Creation unfolds, nothing is causing anything. Understand? It’ s beyondcausality . Each thing is what it is. And that completely answers. There’ s no
questions to be answered. Each thing is totally that which it is and requires
no cause. So, cause is really a tautology—it’ s really a hypothetical absurdity
to say , “What is causing this?” It’ s the linear , Newtonian paradigm which
presumes an invisible thing called “cause,” just like it presumes behind
thinkingness there is a thinker , behind doingness there is a doer , behind
acting there is an actor . There is no actor behind the actor; nor is there a
doer behind doingness. There is no thinker behind the thinkingness. There
is no speaker behind the speakingness. Speaking is speaking of its own as
the unfoldment of the potentiality , the infinite potentiality of the evolution
of humanity , in consciousness as it is expressed in this entity . “That’ s a fact:
resist” (T rue). Whew , I would hate to have found out that was not right! And repeat it with a correction! I would have to recall what I said. That is a
fact, because each moment as speakingness is speaking itself—which is
what it’ s doing—there isn’ t any “speakerness” behind it. There is no
speaker behind the speakingness. The speakingness is speaking itself. Because the expression of life, then, at this instant in the gravity field of this
audience, manifesting through this entity , speaks back to you as this
speakingness because it’ s all happening spontaneously , you understand? Everything is happening of its own, as an expression of that which it is,
which is why I don’ t sound like a bell. Because the voice box is what
speakingness speaks through, see. But there is no fantasied, and therefore
there is no cause behind what you see as the unfoldment of God as form. I promised you I would unearth the fallacy behind Thomas Aquinas’ s
proof of the existence of God through tracing back cause to first cause, one
of the famous ar guments. There’ s four of them. One of the famous ones is
tracing back cause through a sequence of causes to find the prime cause. The idea is, if you trace back a bunch of billiard balls, you’ll find the
billiard ball that starts the whole bunch going. Except when you get there,
there ain’ t no billiard ball there. There’ s a cue; oh, a cue stick—you won’ t
find another billiard ball. So if you go from cause C, cause B, cause A, and
look for the primary cause, you’re not going to find any primary cause,
because there isn’ t any primary cause there. What you find is Source. So,
the fallacy of the ar gument is, if you think in an infinite sequence that
you’re also going to find another one of the same things. No. What happens
is, it changes quality , changes quality . Let’ s take water . We’ll use the
thermometer . You see, at 212, water is a gas. Below 212, water is a liquid.Below 32, water is a solid. Well, we’ve got solid, liquid, and gas, and yet at
the same time, it’ s all H2O. The essential nature of water has not changed at
all, but its quality has changed considerably . The significance of the calibrated levels of Consciousness is because it’ s
not just quantitative. It’ s true these are logarithms, but at each stage here,
these ener gy fields which dominate consciousness changed quality . And
therein lies both their blessing at the topside and their curse at the lower
side. Because this may be only two points lower than this, but this one will
kill you—changes its quality , changes its quality , changes its quality . It’s the
change of quality , not just the quantity . So the logarithmic numbers denote
levels of power , but as they change, they change quality . So the nonlinear
cannot be accurately described from the viewpoint of the linear . You cannot
compare lead with platinum by comparing their atomic weights, because the
quality of platinum and lead are completely dif ferent. Lead is relatively
inert, whereas a milligram of platinum can catalyze tons of ore. You can get
tons and tons of ore out of one milligram of platinum, because it doesn’ t get
used up in the process. Lead is inert. You can put lead someplace, and it
doesn’ t do anything for a few hundred years. Your Level of Consciousness Is Set by Spiritual Decision
People have often asked me, does the level of consciousness fluctuate
throughout the day? Well, we said that level of consciousness is set by
spiritual decision. It’ s really the Spiritual Will that sets it, so consciousness
is a little more stable than that. Emotions tend to come and go, but your
level of spiritual commitment hasn’ t really changed. You say , “Well, I’d like
to kill that guy , and he deserves to get beat up, and I hope he gets his.” And
then you say , “Well, would you do that?” “W ell, not really .” So, you were
spinning of f an emotion, but that’ s not who you really are. So we inherit an
emotional body which becomes known to the world as your persona—
personality , emotional body—but it’ s not the real you. It’ s sort of the
evanescent play-interaction with the world, making learned, appropriate
responses, et cetera. But it’ s not the real you, because the real you is when
your life depends on it—what would you say in a situation, and you’d say ,
“Thumbs up,” or “Thumbs down.” Well, whether you vote thumbs up or
thumbs down is going to make a big decision. So if the gladiator out there,
the crowd says, “Thumbs up,” or “Thumbs down,” if you vote with thethumbs down, you join the karma of the crowd who chose his death for the
sheer thrill of watching him bleed all over the sand. Done, thousands of
times. You, on the other hand, could be the one who puts his thumb up, huh. If you do, you may get the fury of the crowd, so you’re in a hell of a place. The crowd will kill you for putting thumbs up when they all put thumbs
down. But if you put thumbs down, you join their karma. So very often, not
infrequently , you’re up against a spiritual or moral decision like that. So that which interacts with the world is not intrinsically the Self, but it
certainly reflects it. That which is activated on the stage right here is the
persona. It’ s the learned part that knows how to verbalize, interact, express
appropriately to get ideas and thoughts across, and it is not innately the
same as the Reality of the Self which has no form and, frankly , doesn’ t say
anything. If I ask my inner self what it thinks about all this, it doesn’ t think
about it. Doesn’ t consider it thinkable, doesn’ t have thinkability . On the
other hand, if something varies somewhat from the absolute truth of
whatever this consciousness is here at the moment, it instantly lets you
know . And the dif ficulty , as we said, up to 600, the kundalini ener gy
pouring up your spine is exquisite and joy is exquisite; you’re surrounded
by infinite beauty and harmony; everything happens with synchronicity . When you think something, it appears. It’ s heavenly , and at 600, one is just
immobilized by it. All of a sudden, the sense of the Presence is so profound
that how the physicality persists is strictly up to the world, actually , because
at that point, there’ s no interest in it. It’ll stop breathing too. It stops all
activity , and the bliss is all-prevailing; even breathing stops. And life goes
right on if the universe—if the karma, I suppose, of the universe and the
karma of the individual so decide, then the breathing will start because
somebody comes by and stimulates it to breathe or gets you to eat again, or
something like this. Otherwise, you’d just leave it. And I think we’ve found
—what? Of those who hit 600, 50 percent do leave the body . Half of the
people just let it fall over , and it’ s wonderful. Whether it stays or it doesn’ t
stay is totally irrelevant. Then, beyond that, usually it stays there, but
sometimes it goes up to 700. Or sometimes it will start from down below
and then hit 700, and suddenly your consciousness is 700. That’ s Ramana
Maharshi and Nisar gadatta Maharaj, and, I presume, Muhammad. I don’ t
know the story of Muhammad. Muhammad was only 700, but 700 is the
world of the Sage and a profoundly enlightened state. Usually at 700, it just
stays there. At that point you don’ t leave the mountain and you don’ t havemany clothes. You can sit on a tiger skin and eat icky food of f a palm leaf. Or you can get a job back in New York City , I suppose, and get real. You know my sense of humor . It’s funny , you know . It just says the most
bizarre things. People will say , “You laugh at your own jokes.” I tell them,
“They’re not my jokes—I never heard ’em—they just come out of the
blue.” They hit me as hilarious, frankly . I don’ t know where they come
from. Some of the funniest things have just come out of the blue and they
just knock me over , because I have a sense of humor . It has nothing to do
with me—I didn’ t make it up. They’re not my jokes. They just came out of
the blue spontaneously . So everything happens spontaneously . And then, from around 700, it usually doesn’ t change. I don’ t know why
it continued to change in this instance. But from that point on, it is not
blissful. Frequently , it’s extremely painful. One’ s sensitivity to the slightest
out-ness is exquisite. And, in case it bypasses your notice, the aura reacts
with intense pain, which was quite distressing. And the pain often was
severe and lasted for many hours and days, sometimes, until you could find
what the out-ness was and correct it. And then it would go away . But the
next slightest thing, it would start it. I was lamenting that—one time, I was
lamenting and we were in Korea, and Susan pulled a Buddhist bible out. See, in Korea in the hotel room, you open the drawer and there’ s not just a
Holy Bible, Christian bible, but a Buddhist bible, you know . She pulled out
the Buddhist bible and flips it open. And the Buddha was saying that he was
wracked with pain and beset by demons, and his bones felt like they were
cracked. Instantly , I felt better when I heard that. See, even as I was speaking, even as I was speaking. We will share with
the audience the reality of how this all works, because there’ s nothing
mysterious about it. As I got near speaking this morning, I felt a twinge out. There was something. I could pick out . . . I could tell—sense it was the
third eye of the Atmic body . “There was something out in the third eye of
the Atmic body: resist” (True). “It was a Luciferic ener gy: resist” (T rue). “It
had to do with the spiritual ego seeing a gain: resist” (T rue). “The spiritual
ego was attracted to the power of absolute certainty: resist” (T rue). The
spiritual ego was attracted. It knew that the absolute power of absolute
certainty is considerable, and the spiritual ego instantly went for it. I felt it
go for it. It wants to seize the power inherent in being a transmitter of
absolute certainty . Like the remnant of some entity wants to hang on to that,
to come back through and reach out toward you from . . . from where, Idon’t know . Let’ s see. See, we learn instant by instant. I’m just showing
how it actually works. “That spiritual ego was personal: resist” (T rue). “That’ s the remnant of the personal ego: resist” (T rue). “Which is attracted
to the thought of power: resist” (T rue). So you see, the spiritual purification is continuous. The more you learn,
the more astute you become at perceiving its nooks and crannies. And you
are after it all the time. After a while it’ s like the princess sleeping on the
pea . . . you can feel the pea-under -the-mattress kind of a sensitivity . It’s
like the instant it comes up, you know there’ s something out about it. You
instantly look to see what it is about it. From your knowledge of the ego,
one could presume what is probably operating, and then with kinesiology ,
verify if that is so and choose the opposite—to be grateful for the
Absoluteness of Spiritual Certainty . To choose that as the ultimate option. That’ s the Luciferic ener gy I see. As you evolve, it’ s like some test comes
up with it, you see. Is there an end zone from all this? Is there an absolute end to spiritual
evolution? In my understanding of the nature of God, no—that the
evolution of consciousness is a foreverness. It’ s a foreverness. “W e have
permission to ask this: resist” (T rue). “It is a foreverness: resist” (T rue). Yes, it’ s a foreverness. So, there is no end in the sense of the limitation of
beginning and end, which are concepts. Beginning and end are concepts of
languaging and a definition; therefore, that which is Infinite would not be
compatible with that which has a beginning and an ending. So, within
Reality there are no endings because there are no beginnings. So, all
measurement, then, is an arbitrary positionality of the ego, which says
“this” is a beginning and “this” is an ending. It would just trigger the next
sequence. “The end times are a reality on this plane: resist” (Not true). No. “The
end times are a reality on certain astral planes: resist” (T rue). Yes. The end
times as seen in Revelation, as seen by many psychics, channelers, tarot
card readers, are a reality on certain astral realms because people who have
experienced it are very truthful when they’re telling you the reality of what
they experienced. They are very convincing. They did, indeed, experience
that reality . But it was not this realm. The error was to presume that it refers
to this planetary evolution, which it does not. It does, however , apply to
certain astral realms. So, John calibrates at 70—the source of the book of
Revelations. I think Revelations calibrates at 70. John was the originator ,and Revelations was a hallucination, a very elaborated hallucination. He
calibrated at 70, and the hallucination calibrates at 70. When you ask the
source of that hallucination, it was one of the lower astral realms. Now ,
what John envisioned and experienced as a potentiality and envisioned
reality for the future and all has been seen by lots of people. There are a
number of people in Sedona, some whom I knew personally , who actually
went to those astral realms, thought they were some kind of Divine heaven,
and came back with the message. Build under ground houses and wait for
the end times, and California will fall of f into the ocean, and Phoenix will
become a seaport. And so, many people did. The survivalists scattered to
the hills and waited for the end times. The year 2000 came and went, so
they packed up. Did they change their ways? No, they just changed the
date. I knew some of these people were telling the truth from their experiential. Experientially , that is what they experienced. And they did experience it. And they were telling the truth, because that is what they experienced, but it
was on an astral realm and it applies to an astral realm. It does not apply to
this realm. The karma of earthly existence is dif ferent than the astral. There is an infinite number of astral realms, each with their own
hierarchy . There’re semigods, there’re demigods, there’re chieftains,
there’re masters—spiritual masters. They all have strange names—usually
“Master Kokilula, he’ s in char ge of ‘this’; and then beyond him is Master
So-and-So.” And beyond him is another realm, and beyond him is another
—so there’ s a whole hierarchy within the astral domains, each one ruled by
a demigod. They think they’re “God” god, but they are actually demigods. They’re very common in history . Historical mythology is full of them. Anyway , the astral realms are current realities in certain dimensions. One
chooses those dimensions. In teaching students, I tell them to avoid them. Not that they’re not intriguing; they are quite intriguing. A lot of them are
quite clever , and they have their own hierarchy . Some of them even have
Jesus in the hierarchy . Jesus is a part of their domain, as far as they’re
concerned. But they’re diversions. And if you check with kinesiology and
say, “Should I go there?” you’ll always get a no. And you can be intrigued
by it and sucked in by it and become influenced by some entity on the other
side. So the way to handle entities on the other side is to ask what is their
calibrated level of consciousness, as if they were in a physical body , and
find out what is the level of consciousness that is being channeled, and whatis the consciousness level of the channeler; and what are the intentions of
both. First of all, you don’ t need any information that comes from out of body . All the information of spiritual truth that you ever need to hear in a lifetime
has already been spoken by those in bodies. There is no truth held by any
entity on the other side, channeled or otherwise, who holds some truth that
you need to know to reach salvation or enlightenment. There are no secrets
in the universe. There are no secrets. Nobody is holding any mystical,
ancient mystery knowledge that by manipulating certain symbols or
something that you’re going to accelerate, or you’re going to bypass karma,
or some of these outlandish promises they make. Transcend karma? Yeah,
right. Because you’re trying to transcend karma, you’ve just created new
karma called “trying to transcend karma.” You know what I’m saying. To
get away from these footprints in the snow , you’ve merely created some
new footprints in the snow . You haven’ t gotten away from leaving
footprints in the snow . So I say that everything you need to know spiritually
has been said, and it’ s being said in a live body . What’ s Important Is Integrity in a T eaching
There are certain things that were taken by inner dictation, and when you
calibrate the ener gy field, it’ s 600. Well, any teaching at 600 is worth
following, whatever its source. Generally , though, you’ll find they’re in the
high 200s. Most of the channelers and channeled entities are in the high
200s, no matter what titles they may tell you. It’ s always “Master
Somebody” or “Baba Somebody ,” but they are all in the high 200s. There’ s
nothing wrong with the high 200s, because what’ s important is integrity . Integrity is over 200. So it can be integrous ignorance. What is said is so,
but it is not a very high truth. So, unless you can verify the truth of a
teaching, I wouldn’ t bother following it; and what can be learned that you
need to know? So, you’ll find it’ s entertainment. If you realize it’ s entertainment—and it probably has a certain reality
within a certain narrow sense of what’ s real—then it’ s harmless, but I see
too many people swept aside by that which is not so harmless and its
purpose and intention is to deter you from the pathway . The dif ficulty with that which has denied God—which is called the lower
astral—is, it hates that which af firms God. You’ll notice that as you gobelow 200, you get into levels of that which hates holiness, purity , and spits
upon it. There’re certain neighborhoods that will take you there; you just try
being pure and see how long you last. It’ s despised. The leader of
Cambodia, Pol Pot, any kind of af fection or love was against the law . You
could be executed for any display of any kind of a positive feeling; it was
actually illegal to have a positive feeling or to express it. The Japanese in
Manchuria, the same thing. To bayonet an innocent baby in the arms of its
mother showed that you had achieved the ultimate: the hard, uncaring, cold-
killer consciousness of that which denies God. So, the lower astral is full of
entities who have made that kind of a decision. Wanting to adopt them as
your spiritual mentor is not really the best advice. Illnesses and Karma
When will a certain illness remit? In spiritual evolution, we said that karma
plays a very heavy component. Having strangled a lot of people to death
might delay your recovery from COPD in this lifetime—who knows? You
know what I’m saying? Don’ t forget, the evolution of consciousness
throughout time, it was at 190 for centuries, and before it was 190, it was
much lower than 190. It was way back at 50 or 60 or 70. It was normal in
those times to enslave or kill those you conquered. They weren’ t violating
any social standards or doing anything immoral. So, when you look back at
previous lifetimes, you’re going to discover what life was like in those
times. You can’ t contextualize it in terms of the year 2002. To execute one’ s
captives was normal, expected; in fact, you got executed for not executing
them! You understand? So, you have to have a certain context and
understanding when you begin to do any kind of karmic research and
realize what you’re talking about is the entity that lived in times when
living by your wits was the top of society . Royalty lived by their wits and
nipped each other in the purse as often as possible, and in the bed in
between. So you can hardly be surprised to find that the kinds of actions
that may have had unfortunate karmic consequences in this lifetime, if you
put ’em in the context of that time, weren’ t really all that bad, so as to
prevent yourself from attacking yourself spiritually . It can be that in this
particular lifetime, one won’ t allow a certain thing to heal until one feels
one has achieved the karmic purpose of that and sort of finished it, youmight say . So you might hang on to an illness—not consciously , but karmic
propensity may see to it that it persists for a while. “The pain in the nervous system from 800 and up is due to the fact that
the human nervous system hasn’ t evolved to that level yet: resist” (T rue). “But it does as a consequence of the spiritual work: resist” (T rue). Well,
questions arise constantly . People are growing and evolving and learning,
and we do the same thing, and so we are always asking questions. Somebody asked, “Why do you think the evolution of consciousness
becomes painful beyond a certain level?” It’ s great up to about 700; then
about 800 it gets painful. And I’ve always intuited that the nervous system
is not equipped for it and not evolved that far . It could be in a few thousand
years, but at this point, the nervous system is not that evolved. However , as
you progress in consciousness, the nervous system does begin to adapt to it. It actually strengthens; the nerves actually get thicker and capable of
handling more spiritual ener gy. Understanding Christ Consciousness
Has Jesus Christ ever physically reincarnated on the earth plane? “Jesus
Christ has reincarnated on the earth plane: resist” (Not true). No, my own
understanding of the second coming of Christ is that it occurred in 1986. The New Age people got really wild. There was a book, in fact, that Jesus
Christ was secretly living in Brooklyn somewhere! My understanding is that the human being, because he identifies himself
as a physicality , expects that the second coming of Christ is going to be a
physicality . My understanding of Christ Consciousness is that it’ s a level of
consciousness. And what reappears and dominates the planet is Christ
Consciousness and therefore, a physicality is really irrelevant and
immaterial. In 1986, the consciousness level of mankind—probably has to
do with the karma of human evolution—jumped from 180 to 207. When it
jumped from that which is negative to that which is positive, to me, that’ s
the real re-emer gence of the Christ Consciousness. When that which
represents Love, truth, and integrity prevails over that which is destructive
and nonintegrous, to me, that’ s the return or the emer gence of Christ
Consciousness in the form of Consciousness. I don’ t know that somebody at
the level of Christ would be interested in physicality . He might do it as ateaching tool. I myself wouldn’ t choose it, necessarily . I mean, you’d have
to appear on TV. You know what I’m sayin’, and all. When Certain Things in Your Life Keep Recurring
Is delving into past lives helpful? Yes. We’ve tried to demonstrate it up
here. You see, sometimes, mysteriously , strange things happen recurrently
in your life. There’ s no rational explanation. There was one series of rather
very strange kinds of events. They kept recurring . . . all were in dif ferent
countries and dif ferent circumstances, and the same kind of thing would
recur . I mean, I just knew there was something—I didn’ t believe in karma
in those days, but I knew it was something on some other level. And I
would tell my analyst about it, and he’d say , “It’s just your paranoia. You’re
connecting this all together as a logical sequence, because that’ s a quality of
the human mind.” I said, “That’ s true.” But statistically , that’ s very , very
unlikely , you know , that these strange things would recur . Of course, later
on when I did check it out karmically , then it just verified what I sort of
intuited as a fact. Then the question is, “Now what do you do about it?”
Well, you pray very intensely , and whatever the defect was in a past life that
accounts for this, you refute it—declare one’ s choice of the opposite,
dedicate one’ s life to the opposite. So, if you’ve been miserable toward little
dogs . . . Let’ s say this lifetime, you’re always getting bitten by dogs; you
know what I’m saying. You begin to wonder , “Is there something about me? Do dogs hate me, or what the hell is it?” You can be in the middle of
nowhere and a dog comes out of somebody’ s apartment and bites you in the
leg. You begin to wonder if you were once cruel to dogs and tortured them
to death, or something. It does make it more comprehensible. When we were talking about causality and overcoming the illusion of
causality , then I will just explain to you how I saw the universe when that
state came on. The most shocking thing initially was not only the
translucence and the Oneness of all things and the intensity of the Divinity
that shone forth through all of Creation, but the awareness that everything
was happening spontaneously as a result of its expression of its essence. Each thing is the perfect expression of its own essence as it manifests at this
moment of Creation. Everything is happening spontaneously of its own. And if you see that, you get transported to a dif ferent realm. In this realm
the illusion is that everything is creating something else from elsewhere.Everything is therefore dependent on something outside of itself. Everything is dependent on some external explanation for its existence,
which misses the essence of Reality: that each thing is being what it is
spontaneously because that’ s the way it expresses its essence at this moment
in the context of these conditions. You understand? Is that comprehensible? Each thing is being merely what it is. I looked at the cat, and there sits this
cat. And I was just struck with the profound perfection of its exquisite cat-
ness. It’ s sitting there, 101 percent radiating cat-ness and not anything else. And that cat-ness is not coming from elsewhere. It is not dependent on
anything outside of itself. But it’ s the unfoldment of its potentiality to be a
perfect kitty , and as it sits there and purrs, it’ s perfection at that moment. It
is being absolutely , 100 percent the infinite potentiality of kitty-ness at that
moment, right? It’ s not dependent on anything outside of itself to be what it
is. It’ s not dependent on anything outside of itself to be what it is. So, each
one of us is, in the same way , free then to express the potentiality of that
which we are as we are created in the context of our current karma and the
conditions of the world, you know? The Importance of Being over Level 200
The world went from 190 to the prevailing 207. That’ s extremely important,
because in a balance, if it’ s one feather to this way [A] or one feather to this
way [B], when you project out a laser beam an infinite number of millions
of miles, you are quite a way from here [A] over to here [B]. You
understand what I am saying? The slightest variation, when projected
throughout the consciousness of all of mankind over eons of time, so the
destiny of mankind is profoundly dif ferent than what it was. At 190, nuclear
wipeout was almost inevitable. Potentiality . Because it’ s below 200, it has
innate within itself the seeds of its own destruction. And in due time, it
would have brought about its own destruction. The only reason it had not
succeeded in totally destroying itself up to that time is that it did not have a
powerful-enough weapon. Once mankind invented a powerful-enough
weapon, 190 would have wiped us out. It would have wiped us out. And so, “At the height of the Cold War, left to its own devices, 190
would have brought about the destruction of mankind itself: resist” (T rue). Yeah, 190, left to its own devices, like a locomotive with no control, would
have run itself to death and run itself of f the tracks. To go from 190 to 207was already profoundly significant. Then we found, only very recently , that
between book one and book two—or between book one and book three, I
forget—that a percentage of people below 200 dropped from 85 percent to
78 percent. That’ s a huge drop; 7 percent, percent agewise, when you look
at it across all of humanity , means that what was tenable in the past is no
longer tenable to increasing proportions of the populace. For instance, we
see all of Europe now forbids capital punishment—all of Europe. The only
thing about capital punishment—aside from its spiritual obviousness—from
a practical viewpoint, is if you make a mistake, you can’ t undo it. And now ,
with . . . what do you call it, karma testing and blood . . . ? DNA, yeah. Now with DNA, how would you sleep knowing you put somebody to death,
and then you discover he was the wrong guy? I mean, I don’ t know . That
would be pretty hard to live with. So it gives you no chance to correct an
error , no chance to correct an error . All right. So the implication, then, is quite profound: that the consciousness level
of mankind is advancing. The number of people below 200 is diminishing. And the number of people over 600 has doubled or tripled. When we wrote
the book, there were very few over 600, I think. Now we’ve got over 30. So, the consciousness of mankind is advancing. It seemed to me, up to the
consciousness level of 190, that mankind was called Homo sapiens . Homo
sapiens . In the evolution of the humankind, there was Neanderthal man and
there was Cro-Magnon man. They all calibrated around 70. Then there was
Homo er ectus . And the hominid improved to where we now have Homo
sapiens . The Homo sapiens  calibrated at 190, up to the year 1986. And then
the consciousness level jumped to 207—very , very critical, because it
changes quality , just like water at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Here it’ s ice and
solid, and here it’ s liquid. So, consciousness at 190 changes quality  when it
goes over 200. Now it seems to me, this signals the birth of Homo spiritus . Homo
sapiens  has gone as far as he can go. World War II was pretty much the end
of that guy . We saw what Homo sapiens  could do. He could create great
inventions and great bombs and great bullets and great military machines. And what did he do with it? He used it to destroy innocent people. No, it
seems to me that the birth of spiritual awareness level over 200 means that
man, humankind, has now rebirthed as Homo spiritus . The spiritual
significance and meaning of life is now what is constantly being
questioned. It’ s even being questioned about, do we have the right to putpeople to death who are murderers? That’ s Homo spiritus —to even question
what is the right of the accused mass killer , who would never have come up
at the lower levels. You’d just execute the guy the next morning, and that
would be the end of the story , wouldn’ t it? No questions asked. Although
such a question can be taken to the political extreme of absurdity , the mere
fact that it is given countenance in today’ s society means the birth of a new ,
greater , and more intense spiritual awareness, in which we are almost
asking to be reborn from a moral viewpoint. What is the moral, responsible
action to take? What is the moral action to take with a prisoner of war—and
are they prisoners of war? It seems like the country is almost being
confronted by a re-estimation of its moral values and the degree to which it
is committed to moral values. So, it’ s almost like a rebirth of society . So, to
me, it’ s the birth of Homo spiritus . Spiritual Commitment Can Lead to Changes in One’ s Life
So, there are disruptions in one’ s personal life. Becoming spiritually
committed can lead to very major disruptions. You can walk away from a
very intense worldly commitment and just turn your back on it and drive of f
with an old truck full of a bunch of old tools, leaving it all behind—all the
Oriental rugs and the antiques, and all that. Just walk away from everything,
which leads some of your family members to decide that you’re mentally ill
or you’re in a middle-age crisis, or you have just had a nervous breakdown,
or you were always a little bit of f. “And now he’ s really of f.”
Why do they say that? Because we’ve said these are two dif ferent
paradigms of reality . The linear , Newtonian paradigm—the one of
supposed-rational world of science, logic, and the intellect and the
university—is one paradigm of reality . The nonlinear is not real, is not real
to the Newtonian dimension; is not real. So, a person whose awareness is
confined to being a one-eyed man thinks that the vision of a two-eyed man
is bizarre, right? So in the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But
in the world of the one-eyed, the two-eyed man, again, is strange. So, to the
person limited to the Newtonian paradigm of reality—they are like the one-
eyed man, and as you become spiritually aware, it’ s like you have two eyes
and now you see things in three dimensions, whereas they only see them in
two. So, you ask the family members. They can consider you’ve gone of fthe deep end, but that’ s all right, because how do you explain it to loved
ones? You really can’ t. “Ah,” they say , “he’ s found God.”
How do you develop tolerance for people as they are? See, everything
and everyone is in a point of evolution, including one’ s own perception and
spiritual growth, so compassion for the less fortunate—let us call the very
bottom of the barrel the “less fortunate”—you have to see their actions as
an impersonal manifestation of the human ego when it is unmodified by any
kind of spiritual awareness whatsoever . It seems to have escaped spiritual
awareness altogether . To do it in the name of God, of course, is what
outrages everybody from the pope on down. The pope, you know , who
calibrates about 570, which is perfect. The pope and the head of great
churches—the most ideal calibration is about 570. So, the head of a world church—you see, at 600, you’re not much good
as a head of a world church. You sit there blissed out, and you’re not too
functional. So, you’d be a nice figurehead to put someplace, and there are
people who go and light candles to you and get your blessing, but you can’ t
run a world church. Especially with the multiple decisions and implications
of the international political . . . and the very exquisite and delicate spiritual
decisions to be made. Because no matter what move you make, it influences
millions of people, either adversely or beneficially from multiple levels,
either economic or political or spiritual. So there’ s extremely dif ficult
decisions to be made, and you really need 570 to do it. You need that much
compassion, and you also need to be in the world to that degree. Now , at
700, people would say there is no such world; don’ t worry about it. The
world of your perception has no reality , so don’ t bother worrying about it. Just perfect yourself, and that’ s all you can do. And that also, on a certain
level, is true. The greatest gift you can give to the world is to perfect your
own degree of consciousness. Everything Is Perfect as It Is
When we say everything is perfect as it is, that has to be contextualized,
because you could say , “Well, isn’ t the ego perfect as it is?” Well, it’ s a
perfect expression of where it is at this point in time, based on this karmic
propensity under the current conditions. There’ s a mollusk at the bottom of the sea that’ s the most poisonous thing
on the planet. If you examine poisons, you will find some interesting things.The black mamba has 14 dif ferent poisonous enzymes; any one of them is
enough to kill you. There is a spider that has about 20 dif ferent poisonous
enzymes, any one of which will kill you. There is worse than that. There is a mollusk at the bottom of the sea who
bores a hole in its victim and injects it with a poison which includes 40
poisons. Every one of those poisons is enough to kill an elephant, and it’ s
got 40 of them. Now , would that serve any purpose from the viewpoint of
evolution? No, because one killer neuropeptide destroyer , or whatever it is,
is enough. It’ s got 40, so it’ s like a concentration of venom within one
specific life-form. We see that venom and that which is poisonous, then, is
present on the planet. It always causes pain. It doesn’ t just kill you. Even
the scorpion bite, you just don’ t go painlessly paralyzed; the pain is
agonizing. So, there is that which calibrates very low; which is poisonous,
instills pain, and its purpose is to kill; in contradistinction to that which is
dedicated to healing, the relief of pain; and they’re two contrasting ways to
go. Therefore, each thing is demonstrating the essence of that which it is. You say , “Does it have a purpose?” No, because purpose is teleological
thinking. Purpose is saying: because “this” seems to result in “that,” that is
the purpose  of “this”—to cause “that.” No, that is teleologic thinking,
which is a logical fallacy: the error of post hoc er go pr opter hoc —because a
thing follows, therefore it’ s caused by , or it’ s the purpose, of it. All we’re
saying is that each thing becomes the manifestation of that which it is. We’re up in a small town, and a workman came up with a truck, and
there in the back sat a little white dog. A little white dog got out of the truck
and came over to greet us. And it just wiggled all over with happiness. Its
tail was just going crazy , like this. It, like, falls in love with you instantly . It
just fell in love with us instantly . It just radiated love, lovingness. It
responded to love. It was looking for love. It seems to live in the world of
love. It looks for love, thrives on love, gives love, reflects love, and the tail
tells you. It just radiates that which it is. Now , isn’ t that strange that a dog at
500 is higher than a lot of human beings at 70? The dog kills nobody , kills
nothing, brings comfort, joy , and happiness, and reflects that. And therefore
I was surprised when I first calibrated the wag of a dog’ s tail and got it was
500. I said, “Whoa, that’ s higher than many of the people on the planet—
most of the people on the planet.” They won’ t approach you with trust,
love, caringness; nor do they respond to love. Most people are scared to
death of love, you know . You look at a person lovingly , with a prolonged,open glance, and a lot of people will shrink and get scared as ever . You try
that at a stop sign in the city of New York, you’ll get arrested. You look
over at the car next to you with love in your face, and they call the police on
the cell phone: “A  killer—he’ s staring in my windows, of ficer.” It would be
totally misinterpreted, wouldn’ t it? And I got the same kick when I noticed the kitty’ s purr . I calibrated the
kitty’ s purr , and it seemed to be interested in love, looking for love,
responsive to love, and seemed to live in a world of lovingness. So I can’ t
answer you why love comes through an animal, except that we think of
evolution in terms of intellect. We don’ t think in terms that lovingness could
be evolved without the presence of an intellect. In fact, that which has an
intellect is less likely to be loving than something that doesn’ t have an
intellect, a lot of times. Destiny Is Ultimately Perfect
When the soul manifests from the field of consciousness, does it carry a
charge, either negative or positive, that can be termed the “karma” of the
soul?
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        Well, it helps to find out that karmically, you embezzled a lot out of a lot of
people, a lot of lifetimes. And it’ s payback time. That makes it a little easier
to handle, right there, and to see that it doesn’ t really matter. So, the
willingness to let every instant be the past, of course, closes the door to all
regret about the past. And the way one’ s consciousness evolves, then, is the
willingness to surrender everything as it arises. To live in the absolute,
radical reality of the moment of “now” means, like listening to music, to let
go of the last note and make room for the next. Each thing as it arises, you
can let go wanting to change it. The willingness to surrender this instant to
God as it arises means you don’ t live on the front of the wave, trying to
anticipate the future; nor do you live on the back of the wave, trying to
cling to the past. As it is now, it is spoken. As it is now, it is done. As it is
now, it is acted upon. And you let it be the way it was, huh. Is that simple
enough. It’ s walking on the edge of the knife. To walk precisely on the
edge of the knife is what allows you to go through sur gery without
anesthesia, because the instant you begin to resist the pain, it becomes
excruciating. It’ s only when you completely and totally surrender to it, not
call it “pain,” stop resisting, you become one with whatever the sensation is
without any calling it anything—all of a sudden, one transcends it and the
pain disappears as though being transported by angels to a dif ferent realm. I wonder if that degree of surrender actually brings angels around, or
something. “That’ s what happened: resist” (T rue). Okay. It was a definite
sensation, as though one was being lifted out of the body by angelic beings. They’re angelic because the exquisite grace, gentleness, and radiance of
Love was profound. It was as if one was being lifted out of the physicality,
and the physicality was going through all this sur gery, and chopping of f
your thumbs and various things were going on. And there was only a
feeling of infinite peace and joy. So, that surrendering, that intense
surrender, then. well, let’ s ask that again. “The intensity of the surrenderfinesses the Presence of God expressed as the angelic: resist” (T rue). Wow,
I didn’ t know that; suspected it but didn’ t know it for sure. So you see, kinesiology, as we use it, is a constant learning tool. It’ s just a
tool, that’ s all. It confirms, denies, tells you’re in the wrong direction. It’ s
like looking for Easter eggs—you’re warmer, you’re warmer, you’re
warmer—you know what I mean. You are warmer this way; no, this way,
this way. And it sort of leads your investigation. Now karmically, you’re
beset by certain problems and questions in your life, so they tend to press
for expression and for awareness. The past lives that probably are of any
significance in one’ s life, most people already intuit them. They will start
out as a joke—“Oh, some lifetime, I must have so-and-so”—usually starts
out as a joke. They don’ t want anybody to think they believe in karma, so
they say, “Well, some lifetime I must have been a pickpocket. ” I was a
pickpocket in France one time. Anyway. I sort of knew that all along. You’ll
find that you sort of intuit, or people will mention to you, you know,
“You’re like an old farmer, for God’ s sake, the way you walk around and
look down at the ground. ” You know, you just sort of knew you’d been a
farmer a lot of lifetimes, you know what I’m sayin’. It’s like one is very close to consciousness. What’ s the value and the
significance of it. The value and significance is that it may recontextualize
your spiritual work in this lifetime in a way that is less painful, facilitate it,
and broaden one’ s understanding of the evolution of consciousness itself. It’s unlikely that you just came out of the blue, out of some kind of
nothingness and appeared on this planet, calibrating at 430. I mean, it’ s just
not a likelihood. The other interesting observation is that without some kind of
understanding of karma, there is no explanation of why it is that various
individuals already have a calibrated level of consciousness at the moment
of birth. How come this baby is born at 230, this one’ s born at 540, this
one’s born at 70. How would you explain that. A fickle God or careless
God. I don’ t know. “I just roll the dice, and some fell of f the table”. Little
kids were born with AIDS and died of starvation by age of six months. What kind of karma is that, huh. Born with a calibrated ener gy of 30, which
is not far from death. They’re born half dead into a family with no
resources, no money, no food, and all of them have AIDS, and they are
terminal cases of tuberculosis—if the AIDS doesn’ t get them, the TB will. Or the nearest warlord will slaughter them anyway. How to explain this. How can you believe in a just God who determines all events as though
He’s arbitrary, and yet have people coming into the planet on all these
various, dif ferent levels. “Karma is the explanation why children come into this world calibrating
at dif ferent levels: resist” (T rue). So, you see, you intuit the next step in
your own spiritual evolution. And you use consciousness techniques such as
kinesiology to af firm or deny them. Why. Because you begin to trust your
own spiritual inspiration. The Presence of God within you expresses itself
as spiritual inspiration, which is what leads you into spiritual pathways and
attending lectures and studying books and doing mantras, and all that. That’ s coming from a spiritual intuition. inspiration. It’ s not personal, so
you can’ t compliment yourself that you’re spiritually oriented; nor can you
attack yourself that you aren’ t. Consciousness itself is impersonal. Everybody has it. Awareness is
impersonal—everybody has it. The presence of the Self is ubiquitous in
everybody. So it’ s not something you can rate yourself one way or the other. It’s like you hear the call, and you become responsive to it. And now you
become curious about spiritual matters. You become interested in
overcoming defects, because your polarity is such in the gravity field of the
Universe of God that you are attracted to the Light. Once one is attracted to
the Light, one is attracted to the Light by virtue of all the spiritual decisions
that have been made in the past, so that your karmic propensity now is to be
attracted in this direction. Most people who are seriously spiritually devoted accept that as normal
and think, “W ell, isn’ t everybody that way. Doesn’ t everybody want to go
to church and give up sin and become a better person and go to heaven. ”
No. That is naive altogether. We see that 78 percent of the population
prefers it the other way. They will consciously choose that which leads in
the other direction. If given a choice, they will consciously choose it. That
is also partly because of what they have been up to that point. So that you
can’t really berate anybody for what they are at this point, because what
they are now is a consequence of what they have been. To many people it
would seem that the option of a dif ferent choice is not open to them. If
you’re out at sea and shipwrecked at sea, it’ s not an option to drink pure
water, because there isn’ t any. Many of the adolescents I see who come of f
the streets, a better choice is not really an option to them. It’ s not within
their conscious options. You know, when you go to make a choice, you havea certain number of options. And these kids don’ t have these three options. You either fight and kill, or you’re a coward and go down. So they’ve got
one choice. They’ve got one choice. It doesn’ t dawn on them that they
could leave their present environment. It’ s not a possibility. So it’ s almost as
though the positive options themselves are earned. The positive option is
not there unless you’ve earned the positive option, you might say. The Spiritual Heart
According to Ramana Maharshi, the seat of the heart is in the right side of
the chest. He was talking about the various levels of the aura which have
different languaging, depending on the spiritual tradition from which you
are speaking—in the Far East, or the Near East, or wherever. Anyway, he’s
apparently talking about a heart within the heart chakra as expressed in one
of the sheaths. So I’m not aware of what he meant by it, and it puzzled
many of his followers. Many people asked, and I for got what his literal
answer was. Let’ s see. We’ll ask it today. I don’ t know what the answer is
either. “What he meant was the spiritual heart: resist” (T rue). “That the
spiritual heart is positioned in a certain way within the etheric body: resist”
(True). “He’ s talking about the position of the heart chakra within the
etheric body: resist” (T rue). “And that it’ s not concordant with the physical
body: resist” (T rue). All right. So, he’ s saying it’ s not concordant
anatomically with the physical body. I only saw auras briefly in my lifetime, and it was with a lady who knew
how to see auras. I said, “I can’ t see auras. ” She said, “Oh, anybody can see
auras. Here, sit down. ” She told me how you see auras. She said, “Look
right over the head there and don’ t focus on the head, and you’ll see. ”
And then she showed me where to look and how to look, and by God, there
was one. Well, I didn’ t know if it was just suggestion. Don’ t forget, I’m
scientifically trained, you know, and I know a lot of suggestions. So I’m
saying to myself, “W ell, this is suggestion. ” So I thought, I’ll test her out. For one thing, when I saw this aura, it was gray, like this, and it was very
lopsided. It was not auras like they are in pictures—they look like halos, or
something. This person’ s sitting there, and here’ s this gray aura, and it is
way over this way, over his right ear. And I said, “Where do you see the
aura. ” She said, “It’ s way over his right ear. ” “Okay, I am seeing them. ”
Well, your fantasy would be that everybody’ s aura looks very neat, like anartist’ s drawing right around the body, you see. The ener gy field was way
over like that.
It helps to recontextualize one's spiritual work in this lifetime, facilitating spiritual progress and broadening one's understanding of the evolution of consciousness.
What is the significance of understanding karma and one's spiritual evolution?
It is a tool for verifying and confirming spiritual insights, not a means of determining one's moral character.
What is the purpose of kinesiology in spiritual growth?
Consciousness is impersonal, and everyone has it. It is not something that can be rated or judged.
What is the nature of consciousness, according to the speaker?
The speaker believes that a just God is not possible, as it would require a level of consciousness that is not yet achieved by humanity.
What is the speaker's perspective on the concept of a just God?
It allows one to transcend the illusion of causality and understand that each thing is an expression of the universe's unfolding, and not a product of personal choice.
What is the significance of the spiritual heart and the karmic propensity?