#9: T ruth Is Non-Controlling
This differentiates it from what is peddled by cults in which the leader
wants to control  everybody down to the most minute details: their sex lives,
how they should dress, whether they should have a beard or not, whether tohave a hat. Wha t would God care about whether you wear a hat or have a
beard? Cults are characterized by not only control, but almost slavery . #10: T ruth Is Free of Force or Intimidation
The downside of cults is that there is progressive brainwashing. All kinds
of adulation of leaders: “Oh, master so-and-so, Baba, Baba.” All kinds of
rituals, indoctrinations. These people are really programmed scientifically . And you say, “How could peopl e seeking the truth be programm ed to do the
things they do?” People don’t realize how powerful programmin g is. That’ s
why there are professional deprogrammers out there—because once you’ve
been programmed, you’re blind  and deaf. People who are caught in cults
are in a desperate situation and can do dangerous things from force and
intimidation. #11: Truth Is Non-Binding
Spiritual truth is complete and total in itself. It has nothing to gain, so it
doesn’ t have any regulations. It doesn’ t have any laws, no contracts. You
don’t have to sign anything. The wisdom says never go along with an oath
or pledge. Why? Because you’re binding yourself in more than this lifetime. All kinds of horrible things happ en to people and if you research the karmic
propensity , they took an oath in a lifetime. They took an oath, and the oath
usually ends up, “Oh, I made the reverse be my fate.” The minute you hear
that, watch out, because you know what? Karmically , the reverse  is going to
be your fate because you just took an oath. #12: Freedom Is Innate to Divinity
Karmically , we are the only ones who paddle our canoe; it moves by our
choice and our options. So spiritual truth, then, would exhibit the quality of
divinity itself, of freedom. Ever ything is voluntary . There’ s no adulation of
people: people who serve spirit ual organizations are the servants, and they
do what they do, and there’ s no point in adulation and that kind of thing. #13: CommonalityThat means recognition is dependent on what you are. Your reality comes
out of what you have become and what you are now, not as a result of some
external additio n, a title or a trapping or an office or some  extraneous
power . Recognition is a consequence of what you have actually become. We give people credence becau se we are believing in their integrity , not
because they have some title. That’ s in contrast to the cult leaders. The only power they have is their
title, but their knowledge of truth, if you calibrate it, is usually less than
200. #14: T ruth Is Inspirational
Inspiration is different than glamorization. Many people are impressed
because a teacher is called a great avatar and has millions of followers
worldwide. And yet, when you calibrate that avatar , he or she calibrates at
about 300. You need to look past the followers, the title, and the theatrics. There’ s so much costuming and posturing, and it’s always popul ar to wear a
robe and sandals and have long hair and a staf f. That’ s the old Jesus symbol. I’m sure Jesus didn’ t even look like that. #15: T ruth Is Non-Materialistic
Spiritual truth is not interested in financial gain, wealth, pomp, et cetera. There are many cults. They’re not rare. They’re common, and they will
fleece you financially and work you for money . It’s really horrendous. Think about it like this: if you’re complete and total within yourself, of
what good would worldly wealth be? Well, what happens is the cult leader
or the religion justifies it. They say, “If we have lots of money , then we can
spread the good word and save the world.” Sure, you and everybody else
who’ s screwed religion out of its integrity has said exactly the same thing. “For the sake of the good Lord , you can sign over all your goods to us.”
And in the mean time, your wife can work for free in the kitchen and we’ll
take over your kids at a certain age and you can sign your property over to
us right here—and now you’ve just saved your life. That’ s such thin
rationalization. You wonder how anybody can say, “For the good of the
faith, we need your wealth.” Why is it always your wealth that they need?#16: T ruth Is Self-Fulfilling
It’s already total and complete. It doesn’ t need to sell. So this is the
counter to proselytization, propagation, advertising, and promotion. A lot of these groups, they’re peddling some simple spiritual technique. It’s a simple technique, which you can, frankly , read about in any spiritual
book. They’ll take two sentenc es and build a whole program around that. And now they charge you $450 for a training weekend. In the meantime,
they put out some very slick -looking advertising. You know , it’s like
investing in the gold market or something. These great big things that come
in the mail. Then they have celebrities in there, actresses and famous
names, who swear by how wonderful this particular technique is. For
which, of course, there is a charge. And many of these are even marketing
systems. Whether they’re selling vacuum cleaners or a specific spiritual
technique, the marketing is exactly the same. The strategy is the same and
the advertising is the same. And they have a picture of the great leader . And
then they have celebrities telling you how wonderful their lives are now . I don’t charge anything for my workshops. Now , there are the legitimate
costs for publications, rental space, employees, et cetera. But what often
happens is people get into the necessity of constantly peddling,
commercializing, promoting, and proselytizing—and lose sight of the
intention. What is the intention? It’s impo rtant to understand the difference between making a living and
making a profit. Profit is a different concept. Every minister needs to make
a living so that he can spend his time and energy helping his flock. An
integrous minister obviously is supported by the congregatio n. To profit
means he goes out to his congregation now and begins to exploit them. #17: T ruth Is Detached
Truth itself is detached from worldly affairs because truth doesn’ t have
any depe ndency on worldly affairs. The degree of truth that is exhibited by
worldly af fairs is known, but there’ s no human involvement. In other words,
you don’t hear me saying I want to save the world. As Sri Ramana
Maharishi said, surrender the world to God and keep up your egoistic
intentions for what you perceive, because what you perceive doesn’ t even
exist. That’s only your perception. What you see as disaster is somebodyelse’s salvation, for God’ s sake. So, if you want to turn this world into a
Nirvana, it would lose its purpose. You would then have to create a whole
other planet where evolving souls can come on—where there’ s a whole
mixture of options, both positive and negative—so they can undo their
negative karma and gain positive karma. If you turn this into a celestial realm, there wouldn’ t be any reason for a
celestial realm. It would be the celestial realm. So, if you envision that the
purpose of this world is for the evolution of consciousness,  then it’s a
perfect world. This world is perfect just the way it is. There’ s nothing to
improve. If people didn’ t hit bottom, they wouldn’ t turn around, would
they? So you’re going to deprive them of the opportunity of hitting bottom? My understandi ng of the inten tion of human life is it’s the maximum
opportunity for karmic gain. After all, the Buddha said, “rare it is to be born
a human .” It is extremely rare to be born a human. It is a karm ic gift to be
born a human. Why would we want to negate the gift of being born a
human? Human  life has its downsides—poverty , sickness, old age, death,
grief, and loss— but in human life, you learn that. So, you keep coming
back until you stop being attached to human life. #18: T ruth Is Benign
Truth is benign, because truth is identifiable along the whole calibrated
level. Its opposite doesn’ t exist unless you demonize it. People who are
fighting the absence of truth by personalizing it as the devil or evil or
something are at war against an invisible enemy . How can you be the
enemy of God? How can you be the enemy of the sky? That which prevails
beyond all time-space locality and is not linear is not vulnerable to
anything. How could it have an enemy? Does the sky have an enemy? Tell
me, who’ s the enemy? Is it sunlight? No, truth has no enemies. #19: T ruth Is Unintentional
Truth does not intervene. It’s not trying to promulgate or promote
anything. Spiritu al integrity is invitational but not promotional. We tell you
how it is, how it was, and how it is now . . . those are the famous words. And if you wish  to join us, you will be welcomed with open arms, but we
have nothing to gain by promoting your participation or your belief of oursystems. Nothin g to promote or nothing to gain, because at that point,
you’ve comprom ised yourself. Truth does not compromise itself or make
itself conditional. It doesn’ t have anything to peddle or sell. It has nothing
to gain. It is not interested in power over others. #20: T ruth Is Non-Dualistic
Everything comes about by virtue of potentiality becoming actuality
when the propensities are there, when conditions are right. You see the
emer gence of potential being realized and coming into actuality , which is
really the unmanifest becoming  manifest. What you’re really seeing is the
unfolding of creation. #21: T ruth Is T ranquility and Peace
This is sort of a development from what we’ve said before—t ranquility
and peace, to have peace of mind. In other words, you cannot make your
peace of mind dependent on consequences. You can lead them, but you
can’t make them drink, because otherwise you would have no peace of
mind. What you can bring people is the truth. And then the effect is up to
their karmic propensity because that’ s their purpose of being in this world—
because people who are really  aligned with truth and have arisen to a
certain point are electrified the minute they hear it. The minute you hear it,
you say , “That’ s it. Just got it.”
Tranquility and peace means you’re not trying to force others. You’re not
trying to control  God. Everybody wants to help God. God doesn’ t need help
any more than gravity needs help. The infinite field of consciousness itself
is infinitely powerful. #22: T ruth Is Equality
In Chapter 1, we learned that if you like chocolate, you don’t have to
vilify vanilla, because all of life has its intrinsic value. And therefore, it’s
not a matter of being for this and against that; it’s a matter of preference. You can prefer chocolate over vanilla, but that doesn’ t mean you have to be
anti-vanilla. You see this play out in politics, and it is often so emotionallydisturbing. People don’t just say, “I prefer this candidate because . . . “ and
then tell you the wonderful things about the candidate. They vilify the
opponent. And the villifiers, ironically , I think, tend to win votes for the
other side. #23: T ruth Is Non-T emporal
Truth is not based in the physical. And the basic truth of all this is that
life is not subject to death. Life cannot be destroyed; it can only change
form. The minute you leave this body , you look down, and the body has
nothing to do with you. In fact, you have to be sort of convinced to go back
in it. There it lays in bed, and the body looks sick in a hospital bed or
something like that. And here you are at peace and tranquility , about 20 feet
away from the body . #24: T ruth Is Beyond Proof
Spiritual reality is nonlinear . That which is provable is linear . Therefore,
you cannot prove spiritual truth . It’s a complete subject of realization and
needs no agreem ent, needs no verification. It needs nothing at all. It stands
on its own. It can be corrobora ted, verified, testified to, but it cannot be
proven. So that’s why there’ s a diversity between science and spirituality . Science goes up to the door, but it can’t go through the door, because to go
through the door, you have to shift the paradigm. You go from the linear to
the nonlinear , and in the nonlinear , which is a different paradigm of reality ,
it’s the context instead of the content. So provability is within the content,
but context is something different. And of course, the context  of spiritual
reality is infinite. #25: T ruth Is Mystical
Truth is mystical because it’s beyond logical. It can’t be intelle ctualized
or ment alized. People go, “Oh, that’s mystical.” Mystical means in a
different dimens ion, a different paradigm. Spiritual truth emer ges on its
own when the obstructions to it are removed. It isn’t something that’s
constructed; therefore, it’s not provable. When you remove the clouds fromthe sky, the sun shines forth—that’ s it. And removing the clouds does not
cause the sun to shine. #26: T ruth Is Ineffable
Truth is not capable of linear definition. Psychologist William James
wrote a very famous book, and he was the one who really introduced the
term ineffable to describe religious and spiritual experiences. It’s purely
subjective. And what happens is the content diminishes and is replaced by
pure context with no linearity . That is not describable. So, the problem with
trying to describe spiritual reality is if you try to language it, the language is
based on different premises, and then it’s pure subjectivity . If you feel that
you love something, appreciate something, et cetera, the best you can do is
a sort of superficial explanation, but you can’t really recreate the
experience. Y ou can’ t recreate it. It’ s inef fable. #27: T ruth Is Simplistic
Truth is simplistic because it’s nonlinear . Linearity leads to complexity . Simplicity: the sky just is what  it is. The sunlight is what it is. Nature is
what it is. And you see the perfection of all that exists. And for a person
who can’t see the perfection, it’s impossible to have them see it. At a certain
level, you see the intrinsic, stunn ing beauty of all that exists. Of course, one
function of the artist is to select something, some small part of life, and
bring it to our attention. Take it out of the context in which it occurred,
represent it in a different context. And now you can see its uniqueness and
its stunning beauty . But until the artist pointed it out to you, you were
oblivious to it. Edgar Degas showed the ballet dancers, resting their feet and
massaging their ballet slippers. That was just the back of the theater, kind of
a nothing event. When he brought that moment forth, then we saw the
incredible desig n, and of course, he created some of the most famous
paintings in the world. #28: T ruth Is AffirmativeIt’s beyo nd provability . Therefor e, it’s beyond opinion, and it can only be
confirmed by being it. You can only be that. You can’t confirm it or prove
it. You can only know what it is to be a cat by being a cat. So you can read
all the encyclop edias you want about cat-ness. When you ask the cat, “Is
that describing you?” the cat says, “It’s got nothing to do with who I am.”
You say to the cat, “Well, who are you?” and the cat says, “Me.”
Subjectively , we all just identify with our own existence. #29: T ruth Is Non-Operative
This is a little difficult to understand. Because it’s nonlinear there’ s no
this nor that. It’s non-dualistic . Truth stands on its own. It doesn’ t do
anything. You might say it’s the stage, you know , like the sky doesn’ t do
anything, it just is. So, the ultim ate reality , which is the subject of
realization, is everything’ s meaning is what it is. The meaning of this table
is comp letely explained by what it is. And any mentalization  about it is
unnecessary . Everything means what it is. What it is, is what it means. When you say, “Who are you?” and then you say, “I’m me,” that’s because,
you see, that is a complete and total statement. It needs no amplification. #30: T ruth Is Invitational
Spiritual truth attracts because of the power of its integrity . Cults that use
coercion and intimidation and such are using force. Spiritu al truth comes
from power . And it attracts; it has a magnetic attraction to people who
calibrate over 200. To people who are under 200, it may have the opposite
effect, and they avoid truth because it’s a different domain in which they
can’t survive. If your survival is based on falsehood, the last thing you want
is to face ultimate truth. #31: T ruth Is Non-Predictive
Just on the physical level, we saw from the Heisenber g principle that the
state of the universe, as it is now, which we can define by the Schrödinger
equation, is changed by merely observing it. Because what happens is you
collapse the wave function from  potentiality to actuality . You now have anew reality. In fact, you have to use different mathematical formulas, like
the Dirac equation. So, you’ve gone from potential into actuality . That
transformation does not occur without interjection of consciousness. Consequently , a thing could stand as a potentiality for thousan ds of years. Along comes somebody who looks at it differently , and bang, it becomes an
actuality . So the unmanifest then becomes the manifest as the consequence
of creation. Therefore, predict ing the future is impossible because you
would have to know the mind of God, because creation is the unfolding of
potentiality , depending on local conditions and intention. You have no idea
what intention is. Intention can change one second from now. If the future
was predictable,  there would be no point to human existence because there
would be no karmic benefit, no gain or capacity to undo that which is
negative. It would be confined to what is called predestination. Predestination and predictions of the future miss the whole purpose of
existence and jump the whole understanding of the evolution of
consciousness. There would be no karmic merit nor demerit. There would
be no salvation. There would be no heavens. There would be no
stratifications of levels of consciousness. We would all just emer ge
perfectly in a perfect realm. And therefore, there would be no purpose to
this life at all. It’s an absurdity —all of these predictions about the future are absurdities. And if you calibrate them, they’re all way below 200. “Beings from the
future who don’t even exist yet are going to enter your realm and tell you
all this and that.” And, you know , it’s all poppycock. #32: T ruth Is Non-Sentimental
A lot of people  confuse spirituality with sentimentalism. “Oh, if we’re
nice to them, they’re going to be nice to us,” they say. I’ll tell you, if you’re
nice to them, they’re going to behead you slowly . They are not going to be
nice to you. Why? Because to them, you’re a nonbeliever . To them, you’re a
heretic, and as a heretic, you deserve to die. Sentimentalism gets mistaken
for spiritual compassion. It is hand-wringing, weepy , wimpish behavior ,
peddled as spiritual. It’s not spiritual at all. It’s self-indulgent, narcissistic
emotionalism. It’ s really childish, to be honest with you. There is a difference between compassion and sentim entality . Compassion sees the essence of things. Sentimentality is hanging on towhat it means to you. It’s projecting your perception onto what’ s happening
out there and then going into an emotional spasm about it. When you
witness death, you witness death . There’ s no point in worrying. You should
be sufficiently non-attached. It’s inevitable. Tomorrow is going to come. Everybody’ s wringing their hands, saying, “Oh, tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is coming.” It’s self-indulgent. Sentimentality means
emotionalizing, because the ego loves the drama of emotionalizing. The ego
loves to be center stage in the Greek tragedy , cast as the hero. And so it’s a
way of being center stage in your inner make-believe theater of what your
life is and what it means. The spiritual reality doesn’ t get any payof f from
egoistic positions. Sentimentalism is melodrama. It belongs on the stage. It’s making a
theater out of life. I tell people this to prevent the pain of going in a direction that is going
to bring them further pain. I know people who are still grieving the loss of a
family member from 40, 50 years ago. Why? Because the payo ff is so big. They want sympathy , but they’ re pulling energy out of everyb ody around
them. People at that level are pulling energy out of your solar plexus. Anything under 200 is pulling your energy, and that which is over 200 is
adding to your ener gy. Sentimentalism is being an energy vampire. I had a person who worked
at my clinic, and once she got off the phone with a client and told me, “She
wants to rip out my guts with her story .” I thought that was the best
description of it. Compassion has a completely different attitude. You can have sympathy
for that which suf fers, but you find you give that up after a while. Later , you
have empathy for it. Yes, I know how you actually feel. And then you end up
with compassion, where you don’t try to influence what the other person is
going through. It’s theirs to suffer out, learn from, and complete the karmic
lesson in it. You can have compassion, but you don’t take it on yourself. That’ s it. Because if you take on the responsibility , you’ve just joined the karmic
obligation of it and the karmic consequences of it. Think about the crowds
of people in the 1700s who used to watch beheadings at the guillotine. “Oh,
it’s only the person up there, the hangman that’s getting bad karma out of
doing this,” we might say. No, the spectators are assuming karmic
obligation. So with sympathetic participation, large numbers of people arewiped out periodically by tsunamis or floods or volcanoes. We used to
attribute that to God. “God is angry or jealous.” What you’re actually
seeing by group participation is the consequences of group karma. Well, I hate to break it to you, but you have an obligation now. You’ve
participated in action. The infinite field of consciousness is, like I said, a
giant electromagnetic field. So within your little iron-filing magnetic body
is the code for that event. That little code pulls you into a certain maelstrom
of ener gy and you get drowned along with the rest of the crowd. Nothing happens by accident. Universal justice. All happ ens as a
consequence of that which it is, that which it is. So every decision then
influences that which you are. The consequences that come about are a
consequence of what you are. That’ s why God’ s justice is perfect and
absolute. It doesn’ t need man’ s help at all. As a consequence of that which
it has become, you are where you are, and you are where you are because of
the energy of that field—you’re attracted to it. You don’t know why you
were attracted to go there when you did, because it’s not within the
conscious recall, but the infinite power of the universe is such that if I take
a magne tic field of infinite power and you have even one hair of energy on
you, you’re going to get sucked right over. The field is so powerful. So if
you’re cheering in the crowd as the guillotine falls, you have just put a hair
on your karmic inheritance, and it’s not by accident that you then re-
experience the same thing, but in reverse. People are attracted by the gruesome and the spectacular . That’ s the
emotionalism, which below 200 has a powerful influence. And the more
you’re above 200, the less it has an influence. Car crashes are routine. “So
what?” It sounds hard-hearted. It’s because you’ve become non-attached. When you’re attached, you sentimentalize. So non-attached means it can be
or not be: it’s irrelevant. Detached means indifferent. You don’t care if
they’re suffering—they’re in the car, and it has turned over. Non-attached
means you can stop because you don’t have any fear of getting sucked in. You can call 911, make sure somebody is on their way, and hang out and
then leave, but you’re not sucked into it. So emotionalism means getting
sucked into it now ener gy-wise, and, of course, karmic-wise. #33: T ruth Is Not AuthoritarianOne of the reasons for the emergence of secularism, the increasing
popularity of secularism, especi ally in Europe, was because Europe had its
day with ecclesiastic authoritarianism. Everybody was slaughte red because
they were Protestant or because  they were not Protestant. Our culture has
sort of had it with authoritaria nism. And one of the main reasons is it
confuses authority with autho ritarianism; they’re two different things. Authoritarianism is the abuse of authority . Authority is a legitimate position
by virtue that you’ve earned it. Authoritarianism doesn’ t require
authenticity . Anybody can adopt authoritarianism as a style. To be an
authority , people usually even stop being authoritarian. As a physician, I know what’ s going to cure a patient. In my authority , I
say, take this, because the likelihood is about 90 percent that you’re going
to be better in a matter of days. Now what they do about it is their problem. I don’t need to take on the
karmic responsibility for their acquiescence or their disagreem ents. If they
disagree, I will explain everything. But it’s allowing others the freedom of
being who they are. See, because when you intervene, you’re now pulling
into your own karmic energy fields, you might say. By participation, the
minute you get involved in somebody else’s affair, now you’re taking on
some karmic responsibility . We advise our children, and because of their love for us, we hope that
that will win in the end. On the other hand, everyone has lesso ns to learn,
and it may be more important that they learn the mistake of that pathway
than please their parents. #34: T ruth Is Non-Egoistic
This is counter to all the ceremo nial pomp of religion, the accou trements
and the vestments and all the whole thing. I think a teache r should be
respected. Stude nts will ask, “What do you want from us?” Just respect for
the truth of what I’m saying and the energy and commitment to it, to try and
drive it and express it in the best way possible. That’ s all. The only thing I
want is the same that any other integrous endeavor would bring forth. If
you’re a carpenter and make a good piece of furniture that will last a couple
hundred years, it’ s good carpentry . So, all we want is acknowledgment. That’ s just a matter of respect, but adulation is a play. It’s really a play by
the adulator . The adulator is trying to play off that which it adulates,thinking it’s going to have some gain. Plus, what they’re adulating is the
image and the magic associated with that image and all the pomp and the
ceremony . This avatar had millions of followers worldwide, and if you
calibrate him, he would hardly break level 200. But he knows how to put on
a show . #35: T ruth Is Educational
You try to provid e the means by which any interested person can arrive at
the truth  on their own. You try to describe it, verbalize it, have  it recorded,
printed, whatever . You try to make the information available. If you
discover E=mc2, you want the whole world to know what the mathematics
are, what the physics are, what the subparticle physics world is like, how
it’s designed, how it thinks. Because that’s how the world grows—by each
person learning about that. That’ s the purpose of the encyclopedia. For
learning and growing. W e contribute to that. All the teacher does is contribute to the knowledge of the world and try
to provide inspiration and the integrity of witnessing. So, the state itself,
which replaces what was the mind, is not an occasion for grandiosity . On
the other hand, neither can it be ignored. So, you give testimon y to the fact
that when the clouds are remove d, the sun shines forth. And also that when
winter hits you, you may not be able to function for quite a while at the
time. So the integrous, spiritual  student, should be prepared in advance for
the state of immobilization. When you sit at 600 and bliss, frankly, you’re
going to sit on the rock and you might just fall over there. Because it’s
irrelevant whether the body sits there or doesn’ t sit there. The reason we discussed also the pitfalls, the seduction of the innocent
into a non-integrous cult and things like that, is because I think a teacher
should also forewarn students of the downside. “If you’re going to visit a
dangerous area, hold your purse  tightly to your body and don’t lend it to a
stranger to borrow your lipstick.” It’ s a lot like being a parent. Y ou forewarn
them of the traps that come up, because each level of consciousness has its
trap on the downside. #36: T ruth Is Self-SupportingTruth is neither mercenary nor materialistic. Self-supporting means it
charges for whatever the expenses are. If you’re going to put on a
conference, it is going to cost you money , and you divide it up and try to
figure out what’ s going to make it work and whether there’ s a surplus left
over to pay the office staff until the next one. So, it’s self-propagating, and
you don’t have to solicit funds or do fundraising. You don’t have to work
people over. I hear all the time how people have been worked for the good
of the cause and this and that. And they’ve really been worke d over and
exploited by salesmanship. #37: T ruth Is Freestanding
Truth's credibilit y does not depend on any external. Why is that? Because
its authority comes from the reality of that which it is, which is purely
subjective and experiential. So you don’t have to quote authorities. For
instance, in the books that I’ve written, I practically never quote an
authority . You read any books on spirituality and they’re just endless quotes
of some other author elsewhere in time and place. Well, why don’t they
speak for themselves? You can mention that Socrates agrees with the same
thing to give a little historical context, but quoting Socrates is not to give it
authenticity , but for clarificatio n. So you see a trend going throughout
human history . The truth at that level was already available in 400 BC and
hasn’ t really changed, and that its applicability to current spiritual life is as
timely as it was then. So don’t depend on making a statement by quoting an
outside authority . The only reason E=mc2 is because Professor
Schmooglemaurer said so, and Clockenbur ger, you know , in 1922. It’s
based on his own understanding and realization. It’s self-standing, so it
stands on its own. So I’ve tried to make this work stand on its own and be
reaffirmable by anybody who wishes to track it. #38: T ruth Is Natural
Because of that which you have become, the Kundalini energy flows
automatically based on the level of consciousness through the appropriate
chakra system, the acupuncture system, and it alters the brain physiology as
a consequence of that which it is. Remember that from 200 and up, brainphysiology shifts the left brain to the right brain. And the whole sequence
of proce ssing is completely different. This is natural. It’s a consequence of
that which you have become. If you turn your life into devotion to become
that, and you be that, as a matter of being that, then when you can see the
beauty and divinity of all that exists and the sacredness of all of life, et
cetera, and you see the divinity that shines forth through all of creation, you
try to imitate it. So altered. You see a lot of these strange energy
manipulation systems. I saw one on television the other night; it was
supposed to be levitation or something like that. I mean, it was ridiculous. If
you calibrate, it’s got nothing to do with levitation. Levitation, having gone
through the siddhis myself, I can tell you, it has nothing to do with what
you do whatsoever . It has nothing to do with how you breathe, or whether
you picture lights flowing around you, recite peculiar things, or breathe
through one nostril or the other . The siddhis, which can happen  at a certain
level of conscio usness, flow up your back, like an exquisite energy. This
energy spontaneously in and of that which it is flows into the world. And all
the so-called paranormal phenomena happen automatic ally as a
consequence of their own. It has nothing to do with you personally . To try
and force these things unnaturally can be catastrophic. And you may have read about Kundalini psychosis, or the students
whose energy went up one side and not the other and they were lopsided
and staggered over and were sick for years, et cetera. And this is trying to
force the Kundalini energy. The spiritual energy is divine energy. What
you’re trying to do is force God’ s hand: “I’ll just breathe this energy up into
this chakra and then I’ll be such and such.” Why don’t you just be such and
such and then the energy will fill up to that chakra? It’s like trying to drive
the horse with the buggy . No, that which you’ve become automatically pulls
to itself that which is concordan t with that, which it is. To try and force it
unnaturally , I don’ t advise. You can go the whole gamut, the evolution of consciousness, and along
the way, there are no others, no angels that speak to you or archangels. No
visions, no voices coming out of trees. No whisperings from the grass, no
monkeys suddenly beginning to talk. There’ s no master on the other side. There’ s no other entity , even at the
very highest level where you have to surrender your life itself—there’ s no
other  there. When you have to make  the most major decision possi ble, in
the evolution of consciousness, there’ s no other to guide you. No other , noguardian angel, no Baba. There ’s nobody there. You’re absolutely all by
yourself. The only thing that accompanies you is a frequency and an energy
in the aura. That’ s the grace of the guru, the traditional grace of the master . So, the high spiritual teaching shines forth as a frequency vibration, a very
high frequency vibration in your aura. That’ s the silent transmission, but it’s
not a personage. It is a frequency and an energy of the knowing ness, which
comes forth, not from elsewhere , but from within oneself as a knowingness,
because all spiritual evolution is a revelation. All fear is an illusion. Walk
through it. And that knowingness, because you’re giving your life itself,
comes with a very high frequency vibration. The power of it has to be
greater than the power of the ego. The ego’s been around a long, long time. Millennia. Long  before mankind was even thought of. The ego ruled in the
energy of that energy. There better be a knowingness on the most profound
level. T urn over your life to the unknown and walk through a gate. With truth, there ’s no reliance on externals. You can’t turn your life over
to an unseen entity on the other side, either calibrated or not calibrated. Most of them on the other side are into holding power over you—why
would they be hanging out instead of going on into celestial realms? You
don’t suddenly hear a voice saying, “I’m Master Hookah. I’m 35,000 years
old. Follow me.” No, doesn’ t happen that way. Because it is tricky . On the
other hand, it’ s so simple. OceanofPDF .comChapter 7
THE 9 FUNDAMENTALS 
OF CONSCIOUS
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
In the last few chapters, we clear ed out the obstacles to spiritua l growth,
the tentacles of the ego, and the false ideas that some try to disguise as
spiritual truths. Now, we’re going to, as great educators or athletic coaches
say, go back to basics. The section that follows, taken from Dr. Hawkins’ s
audio program,  In the World But Not Of It, will outline the nine
fundamentals of conscious spiritual growth. Focus on and apply these
fundamentals to your life, and if you do nothing else, you’ll be well on your
way to the highest levels of enlightenment. To begin, Dr. Hawkins gives us a frame of reference as to the history of
our country’ s calibration. He will also address how and why there are dips
and raises in these levels of consciousness and what types of things affect
them. I don’t know that I can explain the why, other than that’s the pattern of the
evolution of consciousness on this planet at this time. But we noted that the
consciousness level of mankind generally has risen over time. As we
learned in Chapter 1, at the time of the birth of the Buddha, the
consciousness of mankind overall was 90, and at the time of Jesus’ s birth, it
was up to 100. And during the Middle Ages, it was about 180. It graduallycame up to 190. Then the consciousness level of mankind staye d at 190 for
many centuries. It didn’ t change at all. Suddenly , in the year 1988, I think it
was, it suddenly  jumped from 190 to 205. It not only crossed over 200, it
went beyond  200. It suddenly  jumped and there’ s no logical explanation for
it except maybe that was the destiny of mankind. I always joke about it. I think, Well, God probably noticed Earth and had
a kindly  thought. Bang, it went from 190 to 205. Or the archangels said,
“What is that crazy planet down there,” and had a kindly though t—a loving
thought would be suf ficient to do it. I’d say it was the accumulated good karma of mankind—p ractically
speaking, the effort toward goodness, which even though it wasn’ t
instantaneously accomplished, was a design toward goodness—that lifted
the level of consciousness. During World War II, with all the bombing that went on—like the blitz of
London, 24 hours a day, month in and month out—most of the great
cathedrals escaped unscathed. In 1971, I spoke at some places in Europe,
and I noticed how all these buildings survived. Chartres Cathedral in
France, and all these other great cathedrals, were somehow spared; mankind
on both sides respected what was of great meaning and value. So, it’s just
an action like that—the decisio n by both sides to sacrifice gain for the
recognition of divinity—that can contribute karmically . We could even
calibrate that if we wanted to stop and do research on it. The joint
agreement on both sides to spare great cathedrals that go back to antiquity ,
which took 1,000 years to build , were made for goodness. A massive joint
agreement towa rd some kind of goodness could have a profoun d influence. It’s just like when you raise the level of the sea, you lift all the ships at sea. And what I see mankind general ly tries to do is run around from one ship to
another and lift first this ship and then that ship, instead of promoting that
which would prevail for the common good. That which prevails for the
common good would then, of its own goodness, lift everyone up to that
level of answerability and responsibility . The alteration in the level of consciousness is also ascribed to the fact
that evolution is not a linear event, that it’s like the fermentation process
and then it goes quiet for a little bit. It’s more like nature where you have a
year of great winters and then a year of great summers, and then the various
ice ages and all. So, it’s more that it’s evanescent. I naively thought that
once it began going up in the late 1980s, it would continue that way. No,suddenly it took a downturn . It went from 207 down to 204—it’ s
evanescent. It’s like a pulse that ebbs and flows. There are periods of great
progression, and then there are periods of temporary regression. But I think the overall destiny of mankind is for consciousness to evolve
to the level that physical incarna tion is no longer of any particular benefit. I
think that 15 percent of the people are above 200, 85 percent are below in
the world at large. In America, it’s 55 percent are below 200 and I think 45
percent above. So periodically we check the calibration just to see, because
you turn on the radio or the television and ask yourself, Well, how could
anybody be attracted to this, or impressed by this, or want to join this, or
applaud it, or support it? Well, if 55 percent of the people are below 200,
you can see why that which is sadistic, and lascivious, and dishonest, et
cetera, has a very lar ge following. You can get on a famous television program with a big following and do
nothing but spout hatred, paranoid delusions, and conspiracy theories, and
rant and rave like a lunatic, and you’re going to get a fascinated audience,
because for half the people out there, that’s where they live: malice, anger ,
lying, deception. THE 9 FUNDAMENT ALS OF CONSCIOUS SPIRITUAL
GROWTH
#1: Developing a sense of truth and integrity
You have to respect truth and integrity . Let’s say you’re a doctor. You
can’t go operating on somebody out of an opinion. You’ve got to have an
X-ray; you’ve got to have a diagnostic test. Your first impression may be
completely wron g. You have to be willing to change it. So, you have an
obligation that is beyond your own personal opinion. Therefo re, to grow
spiritually , you have to have respect for the fact that there are many people
who have evolved far past where you’re at and you respect what they have
to say until you can verify it for yourself. So you have to be an expert
clinician with yourself and hold off on the final diagnosis until you have all
the data in. I almost  died a half-dozen times in my life from the wrong diagnosis. The person had an impression because of what I said in the first paragraph,and it turned out to be completely erroneous. They completely  missed the
diagnosis. I was in practice for 50 years, and I tell you, you cannot be a
successful clinician if you just go with your opinion. You have an inkling
when the patient walks in the door, and you could be right 90 percent of the
time—but that means 10 percent of the time, you’re going to be wrong. So
you have to have the humility to realize that your opinions are subject to
verification by truth, reality , and facts. #2: Attaining humility
There’ s a certain sense you get when you’re just being self-servingly
narcissistic inste ad of being clinically detached and really wanting to know
what the truth is. If you watch the news, you’ll see there’ s an inclination in
your own self to want the story  to go in a certain direction: that so-and-so
was lying or so-and-so wasn’ t lying. So, you see that inclination and then
you say to yourself, “Where’ s that inclination coming from? Why would I
want to change what the story is to satisfy some opinion I have in myself?”
You begin to monitor yourself. Spirituality is a certain self-awareness and self-monitoring in which you
can’t just blindly and naively stumble along, falling into this and falling out
of that, from one enthusiasm to the next, or one aversion to one attachment. The disciplined spiritual endeavor then is that there is a higher truth, and
your dedication is to arrive at it one way or the other . So you ask God to
reveal the truth to you. You ask the Holy Spirit for a miracle to allow you to
see it as it really is and not as your opinion or your perception is framing it
because you begin to realize that your mind makes its selections via
framing things, and you frame  out what you don’t want to have as an
option. Then you reach a certain degree of humility . The essence of spiritual
growth is humil ity that you could be wrong, so you don’t have a stake in
any outcome, because if you have a stake then it doesn’ t allow you to learn
through experie nce that you could be wrong. There’ s an old joke, “I may
have a lot of character defects, but being wrong ain’t one of them.” That’ s
the narcissistic ego speaking. #3: Self-awareness and self-masteryThis pathway to conscious spiritual growth is through self-awareness. You begin to realize that you’re attaching great importance to things out
there and that you’re projecting value onto them in and of itself. I remember
being in London  where they have the crown jewels at the Tower of London. I’m standing there looking at the fabulous, wonderful, world-renowned
Koh-i-Noor diamond, and it’s nothing but a shiny little piece of stone,
which would appeal to a child because, of course, it sparkles. When you
think of what people went through to get this little glassy spark le—they’re
willing to give up empires. The biggest diamond on the planet—there it is
and all what people are willing to go through to get it. What would you do
with it if you got it? Hide it under your pillow? You couldn’ t sell it. You
couldn’ t display it. So you’d get great narcissistic satisfaction out of realizing that you have
the most valuable diamond in the world. If somebody finds out you’ve got
it, they’d kill you in an instant, you see, because they want the biggest
diamond in the world. So the core of narcissism is really pomposity . The
pomposity of being right, and the biggest pomposity in today ’s world is
moral superiority . #4: Accountability
There’ s an ethical morality , and the basic realization is that you’re
answerable, and accountable, and responsible. So, if you don’t think you’re
accountable, and you have no responsibility , then you have no ethical
obligation, because there is no divinity and there’ s no one to be accountable
to. Strangely , we discovered accidentally that the consciousness calibration
technique, whic h is so simple, was not possible for a good percentage of
people. As we mentioned in Chapter 2, an atheist can’t use it. People ask,
“What’ s atheism got to do with it?” That which refutes the source and the
core of truth is denied the benefit of it. There have been some famous
personalities, they’re usually professionals who would pooh-pooh the
technique and couldn’ t get it to work. It took me some time to detect what it
is and then I finally figured it out. Those who deny the truth of God are
denied its benef its. It’s not judgmentalism, it’s just that the quality of that
energy is such that you can’t get it to work. Some people just have zero
musical talent. They’re tone deaf. They can’t tell one tone from another on
a scale. And then there are other people who are gifted and can tell if youare a quarter tone off. You either have the gift of musicality or you don’t
have the gift of musicality , and it’s probably karmically determined. If
you’ve cursed God and denied God, you can’t really expect to get the truth
of God at the flick of a switch. You may have to earn it back. So, I think
spiritual progress is earned. Accountability is responsibility , and this is really central to all spiritual
evolution. You’re either accountable for your answers or you’re not. If you
consider yoursel f not accountable, you cannot do the muscle test for truth. If you’r e not accountable, that negates the value of truth. So those who
negate the truth cannot do the test. People below 200 are unable to do it. At
the mid- 400s is where people are intelligent, integrous, accountable, take
responsibility , and are consciously evolving. So, accountability then is
necessary . We realize there are two major classifications of falsehood. The satanic,
which is basically evil, violence, et cetera, and the Luciferic, which is the
substitution of falsehood for truth. Those that are most evil demonstrate
both. They reverse truth to begin with and then have a satanic depiction of
God. So, how could it be so prevalent? The Native American Indians saw
God as the divinity of nature. But the story of God the great  punisher is
prevalent, with God depicted in anthropomorphic terms, vengeful and
angry . This makes a lot of peopl e turn away from religion. They don’t want
to face a God that’s as bad as a human being. We all have jealousy, anger ,
and vengefulnes s, so how do you get to be God with the same character
traits? Then it dawned on me, and I thought, Why is such a negative depiction of
God recurring over millennia and in differ ent parts of the world? It’s
because of natural disasters. Earthquakes, and floods, and fire—that’ s how
the gods must be angry . The big mine collapses and there are earthquakes
and tsunamis and great plagues. The gods must be angry . That’ s all it is,
isn’t it? You have a natural human disaster . The whole principle of karma. You say, “How can that be? How can that be?” There’ s no explaining it
logically why you happened to be there at the time of the tsunami or the
earthquake or the flood, why you were in San Francisco during the great
earthquake. The angry God would be the obvious conclusion and now
you’re going to try to assuage this God. You can please him by killing all
infidels. Therefo re, you see, the negative arises from man’ s experience anda primiti ve interpretation based on natural disasters. We have to please this
angry God so that he doesn’ t strike us dead. We share the fate of mankind, and that’s one thing that instead  of being
divisive can bond us together—that like ourselves, the people who we view
as enem ies are subject to the same vicissitudes. Account ability and
responsibility are critical. #5: Simplifying your life
The spiritual pathway is not a straight-and-narrow , cut-and-dried pathway
at all. It’s very erratic. There are periods of great intense spiritual passion
and devotion, and in those states you’re willing to sacrifice anything, and
then there are periods of dryness where nothing seems to be going on. The
great saints, of course, in their autobiographies wrote that there are periods
when spiritual change is so rapid  you’re barely able to keep up with it: it’s a
whole new paradigm of reality replaced by a greater paradigm, replaced by
a greater paradigm. Then there are periods of spiritual dryness. The great saint, Mother
Teresa, spoke of these. I context ualized them as periods of dryness, because
in a certain state of consciousness, the presence of the divinity of Christ is
apparent, but then in another period, you’re getting dependent on that and
you have to discover the divinity  within yourself and not be hanging on just
waiting to be inspired by spiritua l visions. It’s very nice to have the spiritual
visions of saints and divinities visiting you, but then at a certa in level you
have to give up your dependence on that, because there’ s still an out-there-
ness about it. The spiritual vision is still an out-there-ness. And the
realization of the Self with a capital S is not an out-there-ness; it’s an
allness  of the reality of the totality . Periods of great excitement, I’ve been
through all of them. I’ve been through periods of great drivenness, periods
of great  ecstasy , periods of enormous calm. Satchitananda , that’s 600. I
remember when  I hit that. At that point, you have permission to leave the
world. I remember sitting on a rock. I went into the divine state, and I had
invitational permission to leave. I could either leave or not leave, because
there was no real purpose of maintaining physicality . I wasn’ t driven in that
direction. On the other hand , there wasn’ t any gain in leaving the
physicality . There was neither loss nor gain no matter which way I went. It
didn’ t really matter, so I though t, Well, I’ll just leave things as they are andnot really care about it, and eventually after a number  of hours, the body
got up and walked away , and that’ s the way it was. It’s both a choice and a natural state. Each of those states may be
sequential or they may alternate at various periods of life. There’ s a time of
spiritual learning. You read all the books, you go to all the lectures, et
cetera. Y ou’re in acquisition of knowledge and understanding. Then there are quiet periods when you may withdraw from the world for
10 years and move out of New York City and move out to the sticks to a
little town nobody ever heard of and not watch television. For years, I never
read the newspaper or a magazine. I had no idea what was going on in the
world. I didn’ t own a televisio n set. If I’d owned one, I wouldn’ t have
turned it on anyway . So that was, let’s say, a decade of detachment from the
world. You know , I went to town one time and went into a coffee shop and I
heard that Presid ent Reagan had been shot. I hadn’ t heard. I had no radio,
no television. I wasn’ t talking with other people, and I was living a very
simple monastic  lifestyle. There was a whole decade of living a monastic
lifestyle. I had a can of soda and a piece of cheese in the refrigerator and
that was it. I didn’ t go anywhere, I didn’ t need anything, and life was
complete and total from instant to instant. In the unenlightened state, life goes from incomplete to complete, then
from incomplete to complete. In the enlightened state, life goes from
complete, to complete, to complete. Each instant is already complete. T o the
average person, incomplete means they have to change this, move that, turn
the therm ostat up. They’re constantly going from incomplete to the next
moment. So in the state of completion—I can remember when I finally
realized it—you’re in the middle of a meal and the doorbell rings and it
doesn’ t bother you that you can’t finish your meal. You’re already
complete. Y ou ate half the meal, and you’re already complete. Being incomplete is thinking, I can’t wait ‘til I chew this up and swallow
it, and then I will be full and then I will do it again. You go from
incomplete to a greater state of completion. Completion is when  everything
is complete and satisfied at this moment. As I think of it, everything is
complete up to this moment. If we stop now, I’m satisfied that everything is
complete. I can fall over right now, lie on the floor , and leave. There’ s no
reason not to, except it would be tacky . You’d have to call an ambulance
and the whole rigmarole. You don’t want to put that on a friend; you know ,
he’s got to call the medics, and get someone to haul the body  away . Thewhole thing’s a drag. So you wouldn’ t want to do that to a frien d. If you’re
out in the middl e of the forest all by yourself and don’t have anyb ody else
in your life, you could just lie down and leave, and the bacteria will eat you
up over time. No rush. #6: Having a sense of purpose
We contextualize our lives, giving them significance and meaning, and
labeling them. The level of the 300s is a very useful and profound level. That’ s the level of volunteer firemen, policemen, and mega churches. There’ s enthusiasm: music, cheering, dancing, and clapping. There’ s a sur ge
of life energy, and when a whol e group gets a surge of life energy like that,
it’s very invigor ating and uplifting, and it certainly brings you above level
200. Getting above level 200 is the most significant part. Peopl e under 200
get into the enthusiasm, the contagion, and the spiritual energy of a group
like that, and it lifts them up, and they say, “Wow! Here I was ridiculing
God, Jesus, and spirituality . This is incredible.” They experience joy. So,
you lift a group like that with enthusiasm and encouragement, lending them
strength and their power . One classic teaching is to stay with holy company . Only when you
yourself have evolved to that level, can you maintain that level without  the
holy company . There is a belief in AA, for instance, that says that if you
leave the group and stop going to meetings, you relapse because it wasn’ t
your ener gy, it was the group’ s ener gy. The AA group was calibrated at 540. Staying with holy company is another thing you can do to further your
spiritual evolutio n. Holy company gives you the energy, the motivation, and
the back ing. As you get more spiritually evolved, you don’t need it. It isn’t
just a matter of needing the support; it’s a matter of taking advantage of it. Taking advantage of it to avail yourself of holy company , because it’s
something our society does of fer. Certainly , when you go into a great cathedral, you’re instantly  brought
into a different frame of mind. I’ve been in great cathedrals in Europe, and I
even spent one night meditatin g in the great pyramids of Egypt. It’s the
atmosphere that is contributing  a certain amount to you, see? Don’ t just
assume it’s either you or it’s just the pyramid; it’s the interaction between
you and the pyramid. It’s the interaction between you and the Cathedral at
Chartres. When you walk the labyrinth in the cathedral, you learn how tofall into the state of conscio usness of walking the labyrinth without
necessarily going through the mechanics of walking through the labyrinth,
but you begin to value that energy field of peace and sense of inner
presence that arises. I had to laugh the last time I was in Chartres cathedral; they’ve got chairs
all over the floor so that people don’t start walking the labyrin th. You just
do it as a meditative style, and in fact you get the same effect if you have a
photograph of it and trace the pattern. There’ s something unique about that
design, and the monks discover ed over the years that to merely traverse it
mentally , even if it’s just with a pencil over the design, puts you into a
meditative state. That’ s a pretty advanced level of consciousness, though. Most people
think they’re deficient and have to do something special in order to reach
that state, and I say, “How can you reach a divine higher state if you’ve
bought it at the cost of the suffering and death of others? I mean, how do
you justify karm ically that you’re going to go to heaven, and the only way
you’re going to go to heaven is by killing others?” That seems to be very
convoluted, or at least it’s not aligned with my own understanding of
divinity and universal love. People always say, “What can I do about the world?” Ramana Maharshi
says the world you see doesn’ t even exist. It’s actually just your perception
of the world. You think the world needs you, but it needs you like a hole in
the head, actually . Each person ’s evolution contributes to the level of the
sea; each person, by making your life a prayer . When I give sermons
occasionally , the sermon is always about converting your life into a prayer . Become that about which you talk and learn and read and sing hymns—
become that. Because by being that, just your existence already transforms
the world. Each one of us raises the level of the sea not by what we do and
say, but by what we have become. The great kings and emperors and
conquerors have come and gone. They’ve all come and gone and made all
kinds of waves. And what did that do? Nothing. You realize it has nothing
to do with your perception, nothing to do with your judgmentalism. #7: Lovingness
There are various phases where loving others is wonderful, but you don’t
love yourself. And then there’ s the narcissistic love for yourself and notothers. Then you might give that up, and you love all life and all its
expressions. With this lovingness, you see the intrinsic value of all that
exists, and you see the divinity of all that exists. The inner source of
existence is divinity itself, which is formless, but then it takes form:
window , wall, door, tree, microphone, carpet. But it is the nonlinear
presence of divinity within that allows for linear existence in the first place. Without divinity as the source of existence, nothing would exist, much less
the linear form. There is a realization then of the divinity of all that exists, including
one’s own self. There’ s an obligation to God to become all that you can be,
and there’ s how you serve God:  Not by money in the plate, although that’s
helpful at a certain phase. Not by good works, not by giving to the poor, not
by picnics for the handicapped. Your obligation to divinity is to perfect your
own self to the greatest degree  possible, to be thankful for the gifts, and
then to pursue those gifts to see how you can best use them for mankind. I
mean in my own life, you see, I was gifted in many ways. It was like a
burden, actually . There was a sense of moral obligation, a pressure, which
partially led to my becoming a physician. I thought devoting myself to the
relief of human suffering was the ultimate calling. Then I saw that suffering
on the physical level was bad enough, but on the mental level it was even
worse, because at least on the physical level, you could do something
tangible. You could operate, give an injection, anesthesia, antibiotics. The
suffering within , which was really a state of consciousness, and the relief of
human suffering was what I knew I was very attracted to as a physician,
psychiatrist, and spiritual teacher . And the motivation that I have now is to
share what from the highest level I think relieves human suffering:
advancing your own consciousness just by its own nature automatically
relieves suf fering and increases the level of happiness. I went from physician, to psychiatrist, to spiritual teacher . And the
research that I do is to increase that eventual development. You don’t try to
change other people. Some people are motivated to change others. If you
realize that becoming all that you can be to the best of your capacity fulfills
your obligation, then the consequences of that are no longer in your hands
—they’re up to divinity . #8: Overcoming the darknessHatred is infectious, and a lynch mob demonstrates it. Look at what
happened after the Civil War among the various sections of society , the Ku
Klux Klan, and all the various political groups that circulated. Mankind is
constantly evolving, and it does so in an irregular , fragmented  fashion. A
path that leads one person down a bad road is uplifting to another, and it
depends on what your motivation is to walk that path and what your level of
consciousness was at the time. Your need to understand purpose and your
goal, and to own the downside of yourself. The levels of consciousness are calibrated from 200 up, and then there’ s
200 down. To transcend them, you then have to own them without going
into moralistic judgmentalism. For one thing, each negative feeling is not
by itself. All the negative feelings occur at the same time, actually . The one
most prominent at times may be anger , but underneath the anger was envy ,
and underneath the envy was a feeling of being depressed, and underneath
feeling depressed was resentment. And so this shadow would be just the
whole collective, everything that calibrates below 200. Now most peop le with spiritual honesty admit when they’re annoyed,
admit when they’re angry , admit when they feel guilty , and they explore it. They explore to see where that leads, and where that arises from. And you
discover that each negative feeling is stacked upon the one below it. You’re
prideful. Why are you prideful ? Because you feel deficient. Why do you
feel deficient? Because your wantingness is not satisfied. And why is your
wantingness not satisfied? Because you’re angry . And why are you angry? The shadow is really the collect ive. All of them usually happen at the same
time. You’re angry—why are you angry? Because somebody  hurt your
pride. Pride is egotism inflated. Your problem is not that you think too little of yourself, but that you
think too much of yourself. The world should cater to you. Your
indignation, and your anger , and your pride, and your resentment all collect
together . Eventu ally they all end up at the bottom, which is hopelessness
and despair , when you give up all together and just rock back and forth in
your chair and say, “There’ s nothing I can do about it. I’m a hopeless
failure.”
It’s the hated enemy that is the projection of their own dark side. They
see the Communist as the ultimate evil, or the fascists, or the Republicans,
or the Democrats, or Black s, or women. There’ s racism, sexism,
religionism, ageism.• • •
I’ve told you about my own inner experiences of letting go and
surrendering everything until I came to and there was nothing left to
surrender to God and everythin g was silent. And then came the awareness
out of nowhere—I had not surrendered my life to God. I had surrendered
everything else, but not life. And then came the knowingness that this too
must be surrendered. I’d surren dered joy, ecstasy , peace, serenity , all kinds
of things to God. All was gone and all was silent. I was in a very high
space. There was no one there, no other entities. In the high spaces there are no other entities talking to you or giving you
instructions or giving you dictations. Nothing but the knowingness that
came out of nowhere, the knowingness that that which I am is beyond life
and death. Clinging to life was the last thing. The tenacity of hanging on to
life. I surrendered life. “All fear is illusion,” came the knowingness. The voice of the teacher that radiates forth from the aura has to come
from absolutism . It cannot come from relativism or thinkingism. It has to
come from the absolutism of absolute knowingness of having been there
and done that. So the absolutism of the knowingness was that I would
surrender this to God. I surrendered life itself. Lifetime after lifetime you
don’t surrender the source of life itself, because this is the very core of the
narcissistic ego that thinks it is the author of life, the center and the core of
life. In surrende ring what the mind has believed for eons, up came a great
terror . It was a severe terror , and fortunately , it only lasted  for a few
moments. If you surrender to the terror , the terror disappears and the fear is gone
forever . The fear, which had been there forever , is now gone forever . The
mortality , then, is first the mortality of the physicality , of this particular
incarnation. And eventually as you keep letting go of things, the fears all
disappear . Whatever happens to you is irrelevant. Why is it irrelevant? Because it’s God’ s problem. If the ceiling falls on us all now, it’s God’ s
problem, isn’t it? We’re just going to sit and wait and see what God’ s going
to do about it.
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        #9: T ruth Is Non-Controlling
This differentiates it from what is peddled by cults in which the leader
wants to control  everybody down to the most minute details: their sex lives,
how they should dress, whether they should have a beard or not, whether tohave a hat. Wha t would God care about whether you wear a hat or have a
beard. Cults are characterized by not only control, but almost slavery. #10: T ruth Is Free of Force or Intimidation
The downside of cults is that there is progressive brainwashing. All kinds
of adulation of leaders: “Oh, master so-and-so, Baba, Baba. ” All kinds of
rituals, indoctrinations. These people are really programmed scientifically. And you say, “How could peopl e seeking the truth be programm ed to do the
things they do. ” People don’t realize how powerful programmin g is. That’ s
why there are professional deprogrammers out there—because once you’ve
been programmed, you’re blind  and deaf. People who are caught in cults
are in a desperate situation and can do dangerous things from force and
intimidation. #11: Truth Is Non-Binding
Spiritual truth is complete and total in itself. It has nothing to gain, so it
doesn’ t have any regulations. It doesn’ t have any laws, no contracts. You
don’t have to sign anything. The wisdom says never go along with an oath
or pledge. Why. Because you’re binding yourself in more than this lifetime. All kinds of horrible things happ en to people and if you research the karmic
propensity, they took an oath in a lifetime. They took an oath, and the oath
usually ends up, “Oh, I made the reverse be my fate. ” The minute you hear
that, watch out, because you know what. Karmically, the reverse  is going to
be your fate because you just took an oath. #12: Freedom Is Innate to Divinity
Karmically, we are the only ones who paddle our canoe; it moves by our
choice and our options. So spiritual truth, then, would exhibit the quality of
divinity itself, of freedom. Ever ything is voluntary. There’ s no adulation of
people: people who serve spirit ual organizations are the servants, and they
do what they do, and there’ s no point in adulation and that kind of thing. #13: CommonalityThat means recognition is dependent on what you are. Your reality comes
out of what you have become and what you are now, not as a result of some
external additio n, a title or a trapping or an office or some  extraneous
power. Recognition is a consequence of what you have actually become. We give people credence becau se we are believing in their integrity, not
because they have some title. That’ s in contrast to the cult leaders. The only power they have is their
title, but their knowledge of truth, if you calibrate it, is usually less than
200. #14: T ruth Is Inspirational
Inspiration is different than glamorization. Many people are impressed
because a teacher is called a great avatar and has millions of followers
worldwide. And yet, when you calibrate that avatar, he or she calibrates at
about 300. You need to look past the followers, the title, and the theatrics. There’ s so much costuming and posturing, and it’s always popul ar to wear a
robe and sandals and have long hair and a staf f. That’ s the old Jesus symbol. I’m sure Jesus didn’ t even look like that. #15: T ruth Is Non-Materialistic
Spiritual truth is not interested in financial gain, wealth, pomp, et cetera. There are many cults. They’re not rare. They’re common, and they will
fleece you financially and work you for money. It’s really horrendous. Think about it like this: if you’re complete and total within yourself, of
what good would worldly wealth be. Well, what happens is the cult leader
or the religion justifies it. They say, “If we have lots of money, then we can
spread the good word and save the world. ” Sure, you and everybody else
who’ s screwed religion out of its integrity has said exactly the same thing. “For the sake of the good Lord, you can sign over all your goods to us. ”
And in the mean time, your wife can work for free in the kitchen and we’ll
take over your kids at a certain age and you can sign your property over to
us right here—and now you’ve just saved your life. That’ s such thin
rationalization. You wonder how anybody can say, “For the good of the
faith, we need your wealth. ” Why is it always your wealth that they need. #16: T ruth Is Self-Fulfilling
It’s already total and complete. It doesn’ t need to sell. So this is the
counter to proselytization, propagation, advertising, and promotion. A lot of these groups, they’re peddling some simple spiritual technique. It’s a simple technique, which you can, frankly, read about in any spiritual
book. They’ll take two sentenc es and build a whole program around that. And now they charge you $450 for a training weekend. In the meantime,
they put out some very slick -looking advertising. You know, it’s like
investing in the gold market or something. These great big things that come
in the mail. Then they have celebrities in there, actresses and famous
names, who swear by how wonderful this particular technique is. For
which, of course, there is a charge. And many of these are even marketing
systems. Whether they’re selling vacuum cleaners or a specific spiritual
technique, the marketing is exactly the same. The strategy is the same and
the advertising is the same. And they have a picture of the great leader. And
then they have celebrities telling you how wonderful their lives are now. I don’t charge anything for my workshops. Now, there are the legitimate
costs for publications, rental space, employees, et cetera. But what often
happens is people get into the necessity of constantly peddling,
commercializing, promoting, and proselytizing—and lose sight of the
intention. What is the intention. It’s impo rtant to understand the difference between making a living and
making a profit. Profit is a different concept. Every minister needs to make
a living so that he can spend his time and energy helping his flock. An
integrous minister obviously is supported by the congregatio n. To profit
means he goes out to his congregation now and begins to exploit them. #17: T ruth Is Detached
Truth itself is detached from worldly affairs because truth doesn’ t have
any depe ndency on worldly affairs. The degree of truth that is exhibited by
worldly af fairs is known, but there’ s no human involvement. In other words,
you don’t hear me saying I want to save the world. As Sri Ramana
Maharishi said, surrender the world to God and keep up your egoistic
intentions for what you perceive, because what you perceive doesn’ t even
exist. That’s only your perception. What you see as disaster is somebodyelse’s salvation, for God’ s sake. So, if you want to turn this world into a
Nirvana, it would lose its purpose. You would then have to create a whole
other planet where evolving souls can come on—where there’ s a whole
mixture of options, both positive and negative—so they can undo their
negative karma and gain positive karma. If you turn this into a celestial realm, there wouldn’ t be any reason for a
celestial realm. It would be the celestial realm. So, if you envision that the
purpose of this world is for the evolution of consciousness,  then it’s a
perfect world. This world is perfect just the way it is. There’ s nothing to
improve. If people didn’ t hit bottom, they wouldn’ t turn around, would
they. So you’re going to deprive them of the opportunity of hitting bottom. My understandi ng of the inten tion of human life is it’s the maximum
opportunity for karmic gain. After all, the Buddha said, “rare it is to be born
a human. ” It is extremely rare to be born a human. It is a karm ic gift to be
born a human. Why would we want to negate the gift of being born a
human. Human  life has its downsides—poverty, sickness, old age, death,
grief, and loss— but in human life, you learn that. So, you keep coming
back until you stop being attached to human life. #18: T ruth Is Benign
Truth is benign, because truth is identifiable along the whole calibrated
level. Its opposite doesn’ t exist unless you demonize it. People who are
fighting the absence of truth by personalizing it as the devil or evil or
something are at war against an invisible enemy. How can you be the
enemy of God. How can you be the enemy of the sky. That which prevails
beyond all time-space locality and is not linear is not vulnerable to
anything. How could it have an enemy. Does the sky have an enemy. Tell
me, who’ s the enemy. Is it sunlight. No, truth has no enemies. #19: T ruth Is Unintentional
Truth does not intervene. It’s not trying to promulgate or promote
anything. Spiritu al integrity is invitational but not promotional. We tell you
how it is, how it was, and how it is now. those are the famous words. And if you wish  to join us, you will be welcomed with open arms, but we
have nothing to gain by promoting your participation or your belief of oursystems. Nothin g to promote or nothing to gain, because at that point,
you’ve comprom ised yourself. Truth does not compromise itself or make
itself conditional. It doesn’ t have anything to peddle or sell. It has nothing
to gain. It is not interested in power over others. #20: T ruth Is Non-Dualistic
Everything comes about by virtue of potentiality becoming actuality
when the propensities are there, when conditions are right. You see the
emer gence of potential being realized and coming into actuality, which is
really the unmanifest becoming  manifest. What you’re really seeing is the
unfolding of creation. #21: T ruth Is T ranquility and Peace
This is sort of a development from what we’ve said before—t ranquility
and peace, to have peace of mind. In other words, you cannot make your
peace of mind dependent on consequences. You can lead them, but you
can’t make them drink, because otherwise you would have no peace of
mind. What you can bring people is the truth. And then the effect is up to
their karmic propensity because that’ s their purpose of being in this world—
because people who are really  aligned with truth and have arisen to a
certain point are electrified the minute they hear it. The minute you hear it,
you say, “That’ s it. Just got it. ”
Tranquility and peace means you’re not trying to force others. You’re not
trying to control  God. Everybody wants to help God. God doesn’ t need help
any more than gravity needs help. The infinite field of consciousness itself
is infinitely powerful. #22: T ruth Is Equality
In Chapter 1, we learned that if you like chocolate, you don’t have to
vilify vanilla, because all of life has its intrinsic value. And therefore, it’s
not a matter of being for this and against that; it’s a matter of preference. You can prefer chocolate over vanilla, but that doesn’ t mean you have to be
anti-vanilla. You see this play out in politics, and it is often so emotionallydisturbing. People don’t just say, “I prefer this candidate because. “ and
then tell you the wonderful things about the candidate. They vilify the
opponent. And the villifiers, ironically, I think, tend to win votes for the
other side. #23: T ruth Is Non-T emporal
Truth is not based in the physical. And the basic truth of all this is that
life is not subject to death. Life cannot be destroyed; it can only change
form. The minute you leave this body, you look down, and the body has
nothing to do with you. In fact, you have to be sort of convinced to go back
in it. There it lays in bed, and the body looks sick in a hospital bed or
something like that. And here you are at peace and tranquility, about 20 feet
away from the body. #24: T ruth Is Beyond Proof
Spiritual reality is nonlinear. That which is provable is linear. Therefore,
you cannot prove spiritual truth. It’s a complete subject of realization and
needs no agreem ent, needs no verification. It needs nothing at all. It stands
on its own. It can be corrobora ted, verified, testified to, but it cannot be
proven. So that’s why there’ s a diversity between science and spirituality. Science goes up to the door, but it can’t go through the door, because to go
through the door, you have to shift the paradigm. You go from the linear to
the nonlinear, and in the nonlinear, which is a different paradigm of reality,
it’s the context instead of the content. So provability is within the content,
but context is something different. And of course, the context  of spiritual
reality is infinite. #25: T ruth Is Mystical
Truth is mystical because it’s beyond logical. It can’t be intelle ctualized
or ment alized. People go, “Oh, that’s mystical. ” Mystical means in a
different dimens ion, a different paradigm. Spiritual truth emer ges on its
own when the obstructions to it are removed. It isn’t something that’s
constructed; therefore, it’s not provable. When you remove the clouds fromthe sky, the sun shines forth—that’ s it. And removing the clouds does not
cause the sun to shine. #26: T ruth Is Ineffable
Truth is not capable of linear definition. Psychologist William James
wrote a very famous book, and he was the one who really introduced the
term ineffable to describe religious and spiritual experiences. It’s purely
subjective. And what happens is the content diminishes and is replaced by
pure context with no linearity. That is not describable. So, the problem with
trying to describe spiritual reality is if you try to language it, the language is
based on different premises, and then it’s pure subjectivity. If you feel that
you love something, appreciate something, et cetera, the best you can do is
a sort of superficial explanation, but you can’t really recreate the
experience. Y ou can’ t recreate it. It’ s inef fable. #27: T ruth Is Simplistic
Truth is simplistic because it’s nonlinear. Linearity leads to complexity. Simplicity: the sky just is what  it is. The sunlight is what it is. Nature is
what it is. And you see the perfection of all that exists. And for a person
who can’t see the perfection, it’s impossible to have them see it. At a certain
level, you see the intrinsic, stunn ing beauty of all that exists. Of course, one
function of the artist is to select something, some small part of life, and
bring it to our attention. Take it out of the context in which it occurred,
represent it in a different context. And now you can see its uniqueness and
its stunning beauty. But until the artist pointed it out to you, you were
oblivious to it. Edgar Degas showed the ballet dancers, resting their feet and
massaging their ballet slippers. That was just the back of the theater, kind of
a nothing event. When he brought that moment forth, then we saw the
incredible desig n, and of course, he created some of the most famous
paintings in the world. #28: T ruth Is AffirmativeIt’s beyo nd provability. Therefor e, it’s beyond opinion, and it can only be
confirmed by being it. You can only be that. You can’t confirm it or prove
it. You can only know what it is to be a cat by being a cat. So you can read
all the encyclop edias you want about cat-ness. When you ask the cat, “Is
that describing you. ” the cat says, “It’s got nothing to do with who I am. ”
You say to the cat, “Well, who are you. ” and the cat says, “Me. ”
Subjectively, we all just identify with our own existence. #29: T ruth Is Non-Operative
This is a little difficult to understand. Because it’s nonlinear there’ s no
this nor that. It’s non-dualistic. Truth stands on its own. It doesn’ t do
anything. You might say it’s the stage, you know, like the sky doesn’ t do
anything, it just is. So, the ultim ate reality, which is the subject of
realization, is everything’ s meaning is what it is. The meaning of this table
is comp letely explained by what it is. And any mentalization  about it is
unnecessary. Everything means what it is. What it is, is what it means. When you say, “Who are you. ” and then you say, “I’m me,” that’s because,
you see, that is a complete and total statement. It needs no amplification. #30: T ruth Is Invitational
Spiritual truth attracts because of the power of its integrity. Cults that use
coercion and intimidation and such are using force. Spiritu al truth comes
from power. And it attracts; it has a magnetic attraction to people who
calibrate over 200. To people who are under 200, it may have the opposite
effect, and they avoid truth because it’s a different domain in which they
can’t survive. If your survival is based on falsehood, the last thing you want
is to face ultimate truth. #31: T ruth Is Non-Predictive
Just on the physical level, we saw from the Heisenber g principle that the
state of the universe, as it is now, which we can define by the Schrödinger
equation, is changed by merely observing it. Because what happens is you
collapse the wave function from  potentiality to actuality. You now have anew reality. In fact, you have to use different mathematical formulas, like
the Dirac equation. So, you’ve gone from potential into actuality. That
transformation does not occur without interjection of consciousness. Consequently, a thing could stand as a potentiality for thousan ds of years. Along comes somebody who looks at it differently, and bang, it becomes an
actuality. So the unmanifest then becomes the manifest as the consequence
of creation. Therefore, predict ing the future is impossible because you
would have to know the mind of God, because creation is the unfolding of
potentiality, depending on local conditions and intention. You have no idea
what intention is. Intention can change one second from now. If the future
was predictable,  there would be no point to human existence because there
would be no karmic benefit, no gain or capacity to undo that which is
negative. It would be confined to what is called predestination. Predestination and predictions of the future miss the whole purpose of
existence and jump the whole understanding of the evolution of
consciousness. There would be no karmic merit nor demerit. There would
be no salvation. There would be no heavens. There would be no
stratifications of levels of consciousness. We would all just emer ge
perfectly in a perfect realm. And therefore, there would be no purpose to
this life at all. It’s an absurdity —all of these predictions about the future are absurdities. And if you calibrate them, they’re all way below 200. “Beings from the
future who don’t even exist yet are going to enter your realm and tell you
all this and that. ” And, you know, it’s all poppycock. #32: T ruth Is Non-Sentimental
A lot of people  confuse spirituality with sentimentalism. “Oh, if we’re
nice to them, they’re going to be nice to us,” they say. I’ll tell you, if you’re
nice to them, they’re going to behead you slowly. They are not going to be
nice to you.
Cults are characterized by control, brainwashing, and force, whereas truth is non-controlling and non-forcing.
What is the difference between truth and what is peddled by cults?
The purpose of a spiritual teacher is to provide the means by which anyone can arrive at the truth on their own, without needing to be controlled or manipulated.
What is the purpose of a spiritual teacher?
Truth is detached from worldly affairs and does not depend on them; it is not interested in financial gain, wealth, or power.
What is the relationship between truth and worldly affairs?
Spiritual truth is not based on external authorities or opinions, but is a subjective, experiential reality that cannot be proven or described.
What is the nature of spiritual truth?
A teacher's purpose is to provide the means for students to learn and grow, and to help them realize their own integrity and authenticity.
What is the purpose of a teacher in the spiritual path?