And people do, “On
a pain scale of 1 to 10, this pain is what?” So, people have been using this
map generally , you know , in reference to this scale, or they have a
permanent intention that on a scale of 1 to 1,000, this calibrates at such and
such as compared to this scale. So, let’ s do it again. “As compared to this
scale, there are an infinite number of universes: resist”—okay (T rue). “There is that which could be called an angelic domain: resist” (T rue). “There are, within the angelic domain, beings who calibrate less than 600:
resist” (T rue). Yes. There are very good spirits that calibrate in the 500s. You know , the angelic domain is not all just super angelic. If you get run
over on a motorcycle and go out of body , you really want a friend, you
know what I’m saying? You don’ t need a great guru there to say , “You
realize that you are the source of the ultimate truth of the universe,” you
know? Right then you need a pal, I tell you. I mean, my jaw just got torn
off, and I got a wife and kids, you know what I mean? You need a pal. So,
“A lot of people are just good pals: resist” (T rue). “A  lot of them are just the
same as good pals on this level: resist” (T rue). Okay . All right. But then
when we start getting into real power , real power in relationship to this
scale, an archangel is over 25,000, 40,000, 45,000, 49,000. In relationship
to this scale, we would calibrate an archangel at 500,000, over 500,000. All
right, calibrate this scale. Yeah, compared to this scale. Now , this is a
logarithmic scale. So the greatest beings who ever walked the earth
calibrate 1,000. Now you’re not talking about log 1,000, you’re talking
about log 50,000. Generally , the paths to God are described as through the heart and
through the mind. You can see that they are combined. You have to love the
way of the mind enough to go through the sacrifice, because once you get
on the edge of the knife, you cannot stop. The other thing about spiritualwork that people don’ t understand is, it’ s not just a sporadic thing you do
now and then. When you decide to “go for it,” you are on the edge of the
knife, and you cannot stop. This is it. You let go and surrender everything. Every tone as it arises is let go of. You’re not going to sit back and enjoy the
melody of the symphony , because as the note arises, you’ve already let it
go, you see. You would have to hold it to compare it to the other notes in
order to get music out of it. You hear the sound of the music, but you’re not
going to hear the music. You hear the sound, but you’re not going to hear
the music. You’re going to hear the tone. Can it be done? Yes, it can be
done, you see, because the real ener gy behind the Love is joy . It isn’ t just
the Love of God; it’ s the joy—which is the Love of God manifest within
yourself as the joy of spiritual work. So, the real ener gy that gets you going
and keeps you going is the joy of spiritual work itself. Each instant is the
source of its own joy , so you have no need for anything out in the world. Joy arises from the awareness of the Divinity of your existence in this
moment. Therefore, as you walk the edge of the knife, you are outside of
time. Time is irrelevant when you’re on a tightrope. Time, space, all the
stuff that the mind usually plays with is no longer relevant. The other analogy I use for it is like the prow of a ship. See, the prow of
the ship is consistent, no matter what the wave, no matter how high the
wave, no matter what the wind. It’ s called “one-pointedness of mind.” So,
that one-pointedness of mind is a fixity of intention. It gets its ener gy from
the surrender , the devotion to the joy of the presence of God which you
intuit, but which does not become a stunning awareness until the mind
disappears. In theta, the background being that which you are, stands out, and the
form is sort of translated. It’ s when somebody speaks—see, what prevails is
the silence; then this form comes about. Somebody’ s mouth opens, and all
this form comes out—I don’ t know what they’re talking about—and there’ s
a slight delay , and then there’ s a knowingness of what is said. The Holy
Spirit acts as a translator . “That’ s a fact: resist” (T rue). You are, like, hard of
hearing and absent-minded. And you’re not always sure where your body is
in space, but with practice, you get better at maneuvering it. So, there are
physiologic changes. There’ s no need to eat. There’ s no need to eat at all. Today I didn’ t eat anything and I didn’ t even notice it, but I tell myself that
for the survival of the body , at five o’clock, you should eat something, or
thereabouts. Frankly , I could do without it.So, there’ s no desiringness for things. Everything is complete and total at
this instant. Therefore, because every instant is completely fulfilled and
completely total, if something stops right there, there’ s no loss, because it
is, at all times, continuously complete, you understand? If the doorbell
rings, you can drop the piece of pie and never go back to it and don’ t miss
the last half of the piece of the pie, because every bite of the pie is equally
fulfilling; there’ s no better or worse. So, there’ s physiologic changes. There’ s a loss of startle response. A ton of cement could drop right behind
this body , and it wouldn’ t even notice. Well, it would hear it, but it wouldn’ t
react to it. The lack of the startle response is a slowing down of the brain
waves. There is not being run by physiologic processes. And there’ s a long
period of adjustment which required leaving New York City , where the life
was quite complex, and moving to a very quiet place and getting adjusted
and used to it all. OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER 4
The Greatest Resistance to Spiritual
Progress
What holds up spiritual progress is resistance. You can presume that it’ s
going to go on its way , because the ego, as I have explained before, has a
vested interest in positions: I mean the vested interest in being right. Do you
know what I mean? “Hey , I’m right.” People are willing to die for being
right, so you’re not talking about something that’ s mild. The ego would just
as soon see you dead as long as it remains right. It kills people right and left
every day , doesn’ t it? Rather die than say you’re wrong. The investment
that the ego has is its own survival. The ego is not interested in your
survival. Did you know your own mind is not even interested in your own
survival? It would put you over the clif f anytime it wants to, to prove a
point. It’ s not your friend; it is interested in its own narcissistic self-
satisfactions. Its prime satisfaction, its prime delusion—the main resistance
is—the narcissistic core of the ego is its belief in its own sovereignty . Becoming enlightened is really overcoming the claim and the domination of
the ego to maintain its sovereignty . It will maintain its sovereignty at the
price of your physical life. It will put you to death anytime rather than let
you become enlightened. The refusal to accept that God is the sole source of
all that is, is the ego’ s—the ego would like to tell you that it is the originator
of your movements and actions. If we look at the ego—I think in the last book, I did a pretty good job of
describing the ego. The ego maintains the illusion of sovereignty . What do I
mean by that? Well, the ego’ s functions are very complex. The ego has to
sort millions of bits of data continuously , in milliseconds. It’ s processing all
that you’ve ever known, all your perceptions, all your belief systems,
comparing it with past calculating, and it’ s an extremely complex and
incredible mechanism. The ego presumes that there is a central of fice to its
functions. The ego has all these complex capacities, memory , comparisons.You look at a zebra; instantly , your mind compares it with every other zebra
you’ve ever seen. A TV thing about zebras comes up—the camouflage
value of black and white, and the fact you think it’ s BS. All this passes
through your mind; it’ s all sorted. The ego is a very complex operation,
extremely complex. No way a computer can even get near imitating it. Artificial intelligence can only take a small strand of it, which you can
follow with logic and within dif ferential calculus, but it cannot go to the
nonlinear domain, because the nonlinear domain, by definition, is not
knowable in a sequential way . This complex ego function presumes a
central control of fice. This central control, with all its massive functions,
like the central command, is presumed to be the “I.” Hmm. At all times, the
ego claims to be the author of all these phenomena. When a person says,
“I,” what they’re talking about is the central or ganizing core of the ego. This central or ganizing core, like the Wizard of Oz, is behind the screen and
manipulating all this stuf f and claims to be sovereign, sovereign. It is God. So, the person then claims credit and takes the blame because it’ s claimed
that the “I” is responsible. The giving up that illusion is what the ego fights
to the death. And it’ s really: “Who is sovereign, God or the ego?”
The resistance is surrendering this illusion of sovereignty of the
narcissistic “I” of the ego and realizing that your survival from moment to
moment, everything you do and think, is a result of the presence of the Self
with a capital S. The small self claims credit, but it’ s the greater Self that is
the great sustainer of your life. I caught the ego doing that. I caught it. One
time a rabbit ran in front of the car . Instantly , the brakes stopped, and I
caught the ego claiming credit for saving the life of the rabbit. It claimed
that it made the decision to put the brake on and save the rabbit’ s life, but it
had happened already—I caught it. It was that split second the Buddha was
talking about. Let’ s see how long that split second is. “That split second is 1/10,000th of a second: resist” (T rue). “It’ s more
than 1/10,000th of a second: resist” (T rue). “It’ s 1/20,000th of a second:
resist” (T rue). I can’ t follow my words. “It’ s 1/5th of a second: resist” (Not
true). Hahaha, “1/10th of a second: resist” (Not true). Anyway , it’s a small
fraction; the hell with it. I told you, the days when I had read about the
Buddha and enlightenment was the space between two thoughts. I was
trying to catch that 1/10,000th of a second. Well, no matter how fast you
are, you can’ t catch that 1/10th second, because it left. Just as you are
reaching for it, it’ s gone already .So, the essence of resistance is the ego’ s insistence that it is the arbiter ,
the arbitrator , the source. Yes. This had to do with why we were talking
about eliminating causality as a basic structure of the ego, because the ego
is always claiming that there is an “I,” this ego claims that it is the author of
all your thoughts, et cetera. If you meditate the way I was explaining, you
will notice that there’ s no author at all. This is all happening of its own. There’ s no author of your thoughts. They’re just going by themselves, like a
computer that’ s gone crazy . There isn’ t any “I” behind the thinking. There
isn’t any decider behind the deciding. The actions are happening of their
own. We’ve said that everything is merely that which it is, expressing its
potentiality as it comes out of creation. Was there an “I” that just decided to
make up that sentence? No. The sentence spoke itself in response to the
energy in the room and the prevailing electromagnetic gravity of the
Presence of God. In response to somebody’ s thought, comes forth as those
words. It has nothing to do with this person. There’ s no person that’ s here. There’ s no doer behind the doings. There’ s no thinker behind the thought. There’ s no speaker behind the thought; the thoughts are thinking
themselves; the thinking is speaking of its own, you understand? There is nobody “deciding” to breathe. Nobody in this room is deciding
to breathe at all. That breathing is happening of its own, is it not? All these
phenomena occur of their own. A person says, “W ell, without an ego, how
would I survive?” You would survive very well, because you survive in
spite of the ego and not because of it. We’re all alive in spite of the ego. The
ego would have you think, “If it wasn’ t for me, you wouldn’ t be alive, man. You wouldn’ t get your flu shots or anything. I’m the one who is saving your
life.” No, because our survival comes out of inspiration, and that inspiration
comes out of the Divine Presence, which automatically selects that which is
necessary . All of that is happening of its own. It’ s all happening of its own. There’ s no thinker behind the thoughts; there’ s no doer behind the actions. A Helpful T ool: The Thymus Thump When in a Panicked
State
If you’re caught in an emotional emer gency , the best way to do is to breathe
the ener gy up from—usually , it’s your solar plexus that’ s in a panic. Breathe
the ener gy of your solar plexus up to the crown chakra, and while you do
that, go, “hahaha, hahaha,” while thumping the thymus, and the sound of“mm.” As you breathe the ener gy up, you’re out of the panic right away;
you’re out of the upset. I am going to do this with the microphone. You
thump over the thymus gland. The thymus gland is the controller of the
acupuncture system and the immune system. It’ s right behind the
breastbone. The sound “ah” makes you go strong with kinesiology , as does
Love. So if you want to come out of a bad ener gy state, you think of
somebody you love and you go, “hahaha, hahaha, hahaha,” as you thump
the chest. Now , if I test you with kinesiology , you’ll go strong. So, in the book I that I’m just finishing, the next-to-the-last chapter is
called “ Homo spiritus .” So, man came up Homo er ectus  that calibrates only
at 70. Then we come into Homo sapiens . Homo sapiens  for many millennia
were the Mongol hordes; everybody was savaging everybody else. So, all
that Homo sapiens  did was sort of a refined dragon themselves. Whether a
Mongol horde or Tyrannosaurus rex is your preference, it wouldn’ t make
much dif ference, would it? They were pretty much the same. Then, we see the evolution of Love and progressive elevation of the level
of consciousness. The presumption is that the destiny of consciousness
itself as it expresses itself in man, man becomes born spiritually , and he is
no longer Homo er ectus , he is no longer Homo sapiens ; he’s now Homo
spiritus . Homo spiritus  is a dif ferent animal than Homo sapiens  or Cro-
Magnon man. He’ s a dif ferent person altogether—not the same at all. There’ s an awakening of reality on a completely dif ferent level. The
nonlinear , the ener gy of the Spirit now begins to prevail as a motivator , as a
goal, as a destiny , as a guide. The Neanderthal was not guided by that;
there’ s no spiritual awareness in our definition of spiritual. So, once you cross over 200, it seems that a new era has dawned upon the
planet. The evolution of consciousness—you cannot predict the future, but
we can predict what is the nature of consciousness itself. “Consciousness is
created in such a manner that of its own ‘what it is,’  it evolves: resist”
(True). So the progression of consciousness is not due to mankind. God
doesn’ t need you as co-creator of what’ s happening on the planet at all. It’ s
the nature of consciousness itself, and the common view is to return to its
source. I want to clarify the explanation we had before about co-cr eator . Co-
creator  indicates “two”: there’ s this, and there’ s that. Co means “two.”
Mankind is not really a co-creator in the meaning of two dif ferent entities. God doesn’ t need you as a co-creator at all. What it means is that theessence of that which you are, because you are created as a seed of God,
you contain the same seeds as God and have the power of creation. So you
are not co-creating with God, you know , like in tandem. Do you know what
I’m saying? God doesn’ t say, “Gee, I need help here,” to take something to
his planet—no. You are, because of the Divinity of your source, the
extension of the lineage of that out of which you’re created, and therefore
you have the same powers, depending upon how spiritually advanced you
are. What You Hold in Mind T ends to Manifest
Somebody once asked me about the severity of menopause. You see, the
mind is so powerful that what you hold in mind tends to manifest. That’ s a
pretty well-known generality . The whole A Course in Miracles  is based
upon transcending that illusion that you are at the ef fect of anything out
there. So, the persons having severe symptoms of anything, menopause
being one of them . . . the prevailing belief systems about menopausal
systems are suf ficiently strong as to guarantee your developing menopausal
symptoms, just out of the fact that you automatically will pick up that belief
system from our culture. There’ s no way to avoid it. You turn on the TV,
and there is somebody pitching something for menopause. So even if you
don’t believe in menopause, you sure will if you hang on to our society . That prevailing thought form, then, you give belief to it. The truth is, and I
think the Course  is very excellent in that, once you get beyond about
Lesson 76, you realize that you are not at the ef fect of anything out there. Nothing out there has any power over you. Unless you believe in
menopause, you cannot get menopausal symptoms. You say , “Well, I don’ t
believe in that.” Yes, you do. Unconsciously , you’re holding that, or some
aspect within yourself is holding that, as the truth. Because of that, it’ s
manifesting. I always tell people who have illnesses of one kind or another
to do A Course in Miracles  and hope for the best. Hahaha. Because you do
not know what your karma is. But if you advance to a high degree, you can
transcend that karma and you won’ t even be subject to that. Karma is a whole area for investigation. In kinesiology one of the neatest
things about it is, you can ask questions about whether you got it in this
lifetime, or did it come from elsewhere. “Everybody is mean to me.” Why
do you suppose everybody is mean to you? Well, because if you were oncemean to lots of people, they’ve just been hanging out on the other side
waiting for you, and now they’re getting even. So all you can do is try to
correct that karmic propensity . Those are only propensities; karma is only
propensities. Sometimes it’ s so exact in its manifestation that you wonder—
it seems like more than a propensity . In the middle of that sur gery I had on
the groin, they did a hernia operation with no anesthesia. I knew , and in
fact, I saw the guy and know exactly what I did. I saw what the error was,
and I saw this was the undoing of it. In my strict superego conscience, only
by experiencing what he experienced could I right the karmic wrong that I
had done. Out of what I took against myself as spiritual cowardice—I didn’ t
have the courage to finish the job. Now , is there a physiological response when an angel comes into your aura? In the earlier stages, the experience I had was a tingling, like a tingling—
no, it was like a flow of ener gy going up the spine, going up your whole
back. It was exquisite. It was a sweet—like a low-ener gy—or gasm, almost. It was exquisite, and it just was continuous, and it went up the back, and it
seemed to go up the spine into the brain. And in the brain, it created a
sweet, incredible sensation. And if you focused over on this side, the
sensation would focus to this side of the brain and this other side of the
brain. And then it came down, and the experience was that when you went
by something that needed some kind of spiritual help—probably a group of
people praying, or something—this ener gy was so exquisite, it would go out
the heart and go to that automobile accident, or people about to have a fight,
or a couple ar guing in the subway train, or something. It would go there and
then sort of accomplish its purpose, and the people—the ar gument would
stop, and all of a sudden, the ener gy would stop. So, that was that kind of
energy. That kind of ener gy disappeared eventually . And, so long as
consciousness remained stationary , there was no problem, but I think you
can get tingling and all kinds of sensations. And as I told you, as it got
further , any kind of error within the aura was exquisitely painful. The Power of God’ s GraceWhat about grace, the power of grace? Grace is—it’ s almost like the letting
go of the sovereignty allows that which is sovereign to intercede. We call
that intervention via the Holy Spirit, generally , right? That through
contrition, through undoingness, through surrender and willingness that we
create the space for the miraculous, which occurs as termed as “grace.”
Enlightenment itself is by God’ s grace, because all you can do is remove
the impediments. You can only remove the impediments to higher
consciousness; you cannot cause higher consciousness to happen. You can
remove the impediments to Love, and then Love takes over . Love, having a
higher ener gy, tends to transform the event itself. So, we can remove the
impediments, but the final step is by God alone, you know . God only . That,
we call “Grace.” “Grace” means that, to our degree of knowingness, we
could not possibly justify within any kind of reason the reprieve at the last
instant, even though you know you committed the crime, and yet suddenly
the reprieve comes through. Some people say it’ s the earned good karma
from other lifetimes. OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER 5
Intention Is Very Powerful
What is the function of wanting something better in life? If we feel that
something which somehow gives us the notion of the things that would be
better , it’s not necessarily a high spiritual thing, but just something we seem
to naturally want, and then it brings that wanting: focus on it. It often brings
with it, I find, also then the higher vibration, even though it’ s something
that is not necessarily spiritual. Isn’ t it those vibrations which push us
along? It isn’ t necessarily following a higher vibration. Intention is very
powerful. If you remove all the blocks to intention, it’ s possible to manifest
things that would not otherwise be manifest. That was one of the basic
teachings of EST  [Erhard Seminars Training]. EST  was very big as a
weekend workshop training back in the ’70s. EST  would never allow you to
have an excuse to be late. If the class started at 8:00 and you showed up at
8:02, you had to stand there until you admitted that you chose to be late. So
the person would say , “Well, there’ s traf fic, and there was this and that.” All
these excuses. Until you finally accepted that the reason you were late was
because you chose to be late, they wouldn’ t let you in the door . Hahaha. Why? Because you rated something higher than being on time. So, you
actually chose that you would rather sleep late than leave early enough to
make sure that no delay would get in your way . Responsibility . So, intention: if you remove all the blocks—the ifs, ands, and buts—in
there, and if you remove all the excuses, intention can be very , very
powerful. It’ s not that it’ s a dif ferent ener gy or vibration; it doesn’ t show
necessarily a move up the scale of consciousness, but it’ s much more likely
to accomplish its objective. That’ s what prevails when I catch chickens. Nothing stands between me and catching the chicken. It’ s like a clear
channel opens between me and the chicken, and this ener gy shoots through
that opening. That’ s why I would never engage in karate again or any of
those things, because once you’ve got that space, you would just kill theother person in an instant. There’ s no way they can stop it, because all
considerations are removed; therefore, the power shoots through you, and
it’s the power itself that accomplishes it. Death in one blow would be a
snap. So intention, then, is what accomplishes the seeming impossible—
dedication. That intention, that dedication, is what I was talking about when
you walk the razor ’s edge. When you let every thought go as it begins to
come up—the willingness to surrender it. Those of you that are in 12-step
programs, it would feel like you take the third step on every single impulse,
thought, feeling, as it arises: the willingness to surrender everything to God. And that is coming out of the heart. Somebody’ s been diagnosed as having an illness. Well, in this case, it has
to do with attention deficit disorder . I’ll give you a practical clinician’ s
diagnosis of—definition of how to diagnose ADD and ADHD. I’ve had 50
years of clinical experience, and right now , I’ve probably got three or four
hundred patients with these disorders. As a pragmatist, ADD or ADHD is
whatever gets better with Ritalin. They’ll have all kinds of fancy things they
want to do—psychological testing; it’ s usually an attempt to milk the
parents. There’re therapists for ADHD—good luck. It’ s a neurologic
condition; it’ s genetic. It’ s due to the fact that in the precentral gyrus, we
have suppressor strips. When you cut a chicken’ s head of f, it goes crazy ,
right? So the motor neurons automatically respond via the spinal reflex,
except that there’re descending tracts that suppress it. These are coming
from suppressor strips in the precentral gyrus in the brain, the premotor
gyrus. The suppressor strips—if it wasn’ t for the suppressor strips, your
bodies would all be going in every which way , see, because you’re just
dealing with a spinal reflex. It’ s only because of the suppressor strip that
this doesn’ t jerk every time I touch it; every little breeze that goes by would
cause a spasm in response. So, the ADHD person is responding constantly to stimuli that our
suppressor strips hold down, see. They’re always restless, they’re always
jumping around, they can’ t keep their mind on one thing because of their
distractibility . What Ritalin or some medication like that does is stimulate
the precentral gyrus so it activates the suppressor strip. So, what would be a
stimulant to a normal person is a sedative to them. It’ s also used in old
folks’  homes. A lot of old folks’  homes, black cof fee puts them to sleep
because the suppressors—the sleep center of the brain is underactive. So
you stimulate the sleep center , and wham , they go to sleep. So, anybodywho has ADHD, you use what is a trial dose of Ritalin. Instantly they get
better within an hour . They’ll tell you: “I can sit still; I can focus; I can
think; I can behave. I can mind when you say , ‘Don’ t slam the door .’ I can
remember to not slam the door .” That diagnoses it. Whether there’ s better
treatments or conditions, I don’ t know . The kinesiologic test, you know , is a tentative test. I would test it and say
whether or not this person has it or they don’ t have it. If they have all the
symptoms, though, I would certainly do a trial of it. Why? Because an
untreated case of ADHD then compounds itself. The child can’ t behave, so
they begin to get a self-concept that they’re bad, other people don’ t like
them. They feel the school is against them. They lose their interest in
learning. They drop out and hang out in the streets and do drugs and start
robbing ministores. So, untreated ADHD is worse than misdiagnosing it. The worst thing that can happen is—if you don’ t have ADHD—is, if you
take Ritalin, you will be nervous for about an hour or two, like you drank
too many cof fees. It’ s better to diagnose it and treat it. And then, if there’ s
behavioral means of overcoming it, God bless them. I’ve never seen it
happen, but they could. Everything’ s possible to God, right? I’ve never seen
it. It’ s more of a political position than a clinical reality . There’ s nothing
wrong with having ADHD, except if it’ s untreated, you get all kinds of
negative feedback from society , and that has the worst ef fect. A Call for Help
There is a great variety of healing techniques as there are spiritual
techniques that calibrate within the 200s. That doesn’ t mean they’re not as
good as something that calibrates higher . It means that it is addressing a
different domain. Reiki, I think, and many of those things calibrate in the
high 200s. What’ s important is whether a thing is integrous or nonintegrous. Reiki doesn’ t promise to take you to Enlightenment. They don’ t make that
promise. They just tell you, “W e’re going to put positive ener gies in place
of negative ener gies,” or whether there’ s absent ener gies, or whatever . I
would just say , you know , if I had this disorder , I would say , “Is this Reiki
therapist over 200?” Yeah. “This is helpful, or Reiki is helpful to my
condition, yes or no?” The hoped-for progression is to go from a lower level
of consciousness to a higher level. We presume that almost everybody
involved in spiritual work has that design in their mind that all religion has.Well, historically that is not always a fact, due to errors. Can a person
make a mistake and go down? Yes, just like the miraculous can occur and
you can go up. When I got hit in 1965, it was “ kcck,” like that, it was just in
one instant—total transformation. The mind was dead, the ego was gone,
the person was no longer there, and there was only the startling
magnificence of all of creation. Yes, in one instant. The touch from the archangel which was the modus of the transformation
of consciousness came as a response from the pits of hell. Just as you move
up toward the heavens, form becomes less and less dominant and finally
becomes formless. The descent into hell was similar . The descent into hell
came after a long period of hopeless illness despondency . I’d been an
atheist for years. I’d looked to philosophy; I’d looked to all kinds of things
for the meaning and significance and the truth to the core of life. And was
unable to overcome the illness or find any kind of meaningful spiritual
truth. I’d already gone through theology , and I saw its intellectual
dimensions and limitations. Anyway , there came a period of slow descent
into hell. There were all these tormented beings and, I suppose, torture
chambers and screamings and agony and dismemberments, and it was
horrific. That’ s what everybody thinks hell is—whoa, man. That’ s just jacks, for
openers. This is just game playing. It gets far worse. It becomes
progressively formless. The despair now comes from such powerful depths
that they were never suspected—that the depths were that deep, that
profound and pitiless, and hopelessness and despair , and in leaving the
world of form, I remembered, just like in Dante’ s Inferno , I saw a sign (it
wasn’ t like a painted visual sign), but a knowingness. It said: “Give up all
hope, ye who pass here,” or something. Because there’ s no coming back. And the descent became worse and worse. And the agony became the agony
of no hope throughout all of infinity . You understand, in the timelessness it
was nonlinear , but like the negative side of nonlinear: beyond form, and
again, purely subjective . . . it was a radical subjectivity of the other end of
what the nonlinear domain of Enlightenment would be. In this pitch-
blackness of hopeless despair , the agony was indescribable because it was
of the spirit. And it was in the domain of . . . just like the highest level is
beyond all time, it was beyond all time. Because it’ s beyond all time, there
is no time in which it could come to an end, and therefore it was forever . That was the foreverness of hell. It isn’ t hell; it’ s foreverness. There was nohope of ever—and at the depth of all that, the atheist said—something in
the atheist said, “If there is a God, I ask him to help me.” I didn’ t hold my
breath. Then everything went blank. Then, a day or two, a day later when I came to, there was everything
transformed. So, that call came out of the depths of hell. I think I did warn
of that. The level was so deep, it took an archangel at 50,000 to go there—
you would have to have very enormous spiritual power to persist and walk
in and walk out of that—and took me with it. I for get what that was an
answer to; it was something. There’ s a curiosity that we’ve noticed, and it’ s only in the last year that
we’ve really been looking at it: that people will calibrate higher early in
their life than later , or vice versa. People make a profound jump, and jump
hundreds of points in a vertical direction. I noticed some extremely well-
known gurus, and when I would calibrate their level, they were like 200 and
something; some even below 200. I said, “How can a well-known guru,
worldwide fame, calibrate at that?” It’ s not believable. Sometimes the
writings would be in the high 500s, and yet the being was only 190 or . . . I
couldn’ t understand it. Then I saw , and I knew then from my own
experience, what had happened. In a very advanced state, there came
suddenly a knowingness—it’ s what I call a confrontation with the opposite. It’s like when you reach a certain level, the power of that on the planet is a
challenge to the satanic, Luciferic ener gies. And one almost summons forth
one’s opposite. It once happened through a teacher who had been in high space and now
came down. He wanted to char ge for a certain teaching. I said, “T eachings
are gifts from God; you can’ t char ge for teaching. You can char ge for the
hall; you can char ge for the food.” I said I would like to teach this to all the
priests—think of all the monasteries and seminaries where people are
battling sin, and sin is nothing but an attachment. If you let go of the
attachment, the sin disappears, because it’ s only an attachment to begin
with. I wanted to give it away . All of a sudden, it’ s like the person was
swept aside and the doors of hell opened up, and this horrid ener gy came
through and started to talk in this crazy way that Jesus was just an astral and
Buddha was just an astral, and it’ s no good unless people pay for it. It was
bizarre, and the talking got even dumber . So, there’ s suddenly a
confrontation with the opposite of wherever you’re at. One time the ener gy
came through—not through a person, not as an entity—through a person.Oh yes. That was at a point where one had transcended personal karma. What was the ener gy of that field? Okay . “That was at, maybe oh, what,
700” (T rue). Yeah, around 700. The consciousness had advanced to a level
where you calibrate around 700. Suddenly there was like a confrontation, but not with an entity , because
in the higher realms there are no entities, there’ s no angels, there’ s no
spiritual guides; all that stuf f doesn’ t exist there. But there was a presence. This presence was a knowingness saying through the knowingness, “Now
that you have transcended personal karma, you are no longer answerable. There’ s no consequence to anything that you do. You have infinite power
over all.” One could then choose that power or not. There’ s like a rarefied . . . it’d be like being in a high pass in the
Himalayas, sort of, visually speaking. But it was a temptation. I saw who’d
been through there. I saw that Christ had been there and said no. I saw a
couple of people who you would call “fallen” gurus—I saw they’d said yes. It’s like I saw everybody who had ever been through that pass, and I saw
their choice. And I said, it cannot be used for personal gain and refused. “You mean, refuse all that power? You’re going to refuse all that power , all
that dominion over . . . ?” Anyway , so it appeared that a number of the
famous ones—it also happens to nonspiritual people. It happened to
Napoleon. Calibrate the level of Napoleon during his heyday when he was a
military genius and on the rise. Napoleon calibrated about 450, right? Let’s see what Napoleon calibrates. “Napoleon, when he became
emperor , the great conqueror of Europe, was over 450” (T rue); “455” (Not
true). He was 455. All right. “Napoleon, by the time he was on Elba,
calibrated over 200: resist” (Not true); “He calibrated over 170” (T rue);
“175” (Not true). He dropped from 450, which is enough to be the president
of the United States, to 175. Why? Because his success had brought a
megalomaniac power over others. And so, what happens to some of these
gurus, which—I don’ t want to mention their names; some of them are
world-famous, I tell you—and you calibrate their writings. Their writings
may be 540, but that entity is now 190. Many of the highest gurus now
calibrate in the low 200s. What it means is fame, fortune, power over others, having many
followers, becoming famous, having fancy titles, dressing in fancy garb,
being called Baba “this” or “that”; eventually it summons forth the ego
again, the temptation to spiritual vanity . So, it means in the beginning,they’d let go of enough personal ego to reach a good high personal spiritual
state. That attracted many people. The person then still had unsuspected
spiritual ego within themselves. My guess is they were unaware,
unconscious that it was happening. It would be like you would begin to
believe your own . . . ahhh, PR, yeah. Because there’re well-known gurus
still around Sedona—you mention their names, and everybody’ s, “Ooh, aah,
ooh aah. Get outta here! Ooh, aah.” So, you calibrate that entity now , and
you see there’ s nothing to “ooh” and “aah” about. So, it happens. It’ s a temptation. So, success happens like that. It can
happen with Napoleon. It happens to movie stars. It happens to rock stars. People start out naively , but the wolf comes described in sheep’ s clothing,
drugs, and immorality , that kind of thing. Luciferic is power over others,
power over their minds, having many followers . . . Luciferic is the ener gy
that destroyed Enron. They’re not satanic; they don’ t want to cause anybody
to suf fer, you know , but, they have unprincipled greed for power . So, the person as they evolve spiritually should be watchful of the
spiritual ego. If one does it out of one’ s Love for God, you see—because of
your Love of God, your consciousness grows. As your consciousness
grows, it benefits all of mankind. Every living entity on this planet benefits
from every single degree that your consciousness advances. So, you
sacrifice personal gain. The Achilles heel of these fallen gurus is, they
themselves were not trained by somebody suf ficiently advanced to guard
them against the attack from their own spiritual ego. A good spiritual
teacher should warn the student. As you advance, your spiritual ego is
naturally going to come in there, because that’ s the way it’ s designed. It’ s
not that you are doing that. Therefore, you don’ t have to bother with guilt;
you can just assume. If you write a good book and it becomes popular , your
ego’s going to come right in there. It’ s automatic. You just know it. Every
time you win a game, your ego is going to come in there and say , “Boy ,
aren’ t you something!” You see, because the idea of a personal self still
persists. A truly enlightened guru is not subject to that, because there is no
personal self there to claim any gain. There ain’ t anybody there, nobody
there that claims to be the funnyman when the jokes come up, you know
what I mean? So, the spiritual knowingness arises of its own essence. There’ s no
personal self to take credit or for any gain; therefore, a person is safe if they
no longer have any interest in gain, followers, money , wealth, influence.There was one guru that had, what was it, 99 Rolls Royces, or something? Anyway , he went down in flames. But if you test him out, that particular
one—because he’ s so famous in Oregon—in the beginning, his teachings
were quite high, and then he crashed down to a level. It was from having
many followers, and . . . You see, the seduction of the Luciferic is very
subtle. It’ s very clever too; it’ s very clever , and it deceives even the guru of
that level: “For the good of your followers, you should really have all these
to display the power of God manifesting as abundance.” You know what I
mean? You’ve heard that kind of crap on every spiritual street corner , right? How many workshops have you gone to since I told you that? So, the dif ficulty with what I call the “false guru” is that the error is one
of context, not content. They sound very erudite because the content  is
correct. However , the context  in which this is presented is fallacious. The
student is not that advanced. The student is not that advanced. The student
is impressed with the content. And the level of the spiritual error is outside
the level of the student’ s awareness. Very often it’ s out of the level of
awareness of the guru. Even the guru is not aware that he’ s been taken in. Just got suckered in and is now serving Luciferic ener gies from other
domains who are threatened by unconditional Love, unconditional Love. See, the wanting to give away a spiritual technique which would unhook all
these—all these, um, monastic people—who struggle with sin and all that
kind of stuf f. I mean, this would have relieved them of all that suf fering,
and that would be a great threat to the Luciferic domain in this planet. Consciousness Is Beyond Form
There are two dif ferent domains. One is consciousness, which has nothing
to do with form. Consciousness is beyond form. The other is subject to
form. The nature of the essence is like an acorn. Its innate essence is to
grow and to prevail. If we calibrate the ener gy field of the consciousness
level of mankind over the centuries, it prevailed at 190, century after
century after century . See, one thing that kinesiology in spiritual research
does is, it lends itself to research teams. If you have a particular interest,
you can get together . We used to do this every Saturday morning, four or
five people. We’d choose up teams, and we’d each one research a specific
area. All I’ve done in Power vs. For ce is to present, really , a new science,
you might say . In each one of these, a change of even one point is verysignificant. But I had no time to do all that. All I’ve given is broad areas. You could go back century after century and see if there were any
variations, and if there were, how much variation. And if so, associated with
what, et cetera, and do other very specific research on that. I did not get the
feeling, in going back over the centuries—but it was limited to the ones I
did—that it was cyclic. I got it that it was progressive, that it constantly
progresses, you see, but like a scale. One feather on this side tips you from
this side of zero, and one feather over here tips you on this side of zero. You
say, “Well, that’ s only one feather .” Yes, but that’ s all the dif ference in the
world, right? A laser beam being shot of f a million miles of f this corridor
would pass some universes dif ferent than this, and it’ s only one feather . But
that one feather is what our karma rests on, right? It’ s the one feather of,
“Ah, let it go.” Instantly , the feather went over on the other side. The sharp
retort, you could have gotten even and hurt their feelings back, but you say ,
“Oh, the heck with it.” That’ s the feather that makes the dif ference, yeah. So, you might say consciousness progresses at the rate of feathers. Every
feather you let go af fects all of mankind. Let’ s see if that’ s true, and then
we’re going to take a break again and then afterward, we’re going to do
kinesiology with the questions and answers, and we’ll do interviews with
people that traveled distances to see. “Every iota of spiritual gain, of
spiritual progress, on the part of any individual af fects the totality of
mankind: resist” (T rue). Yes. Every single, minute little feather that you put in benefits many
elsewhere. Some child’ s lying there suf fering in agony , and suddenly a
feeling of hope comes in. That was your work that impinges on that child,
who’ s now karmically earned the right to it. Without karma, there would be
no explaining how it is, you see. Everybody has a calibratable level of consciousness at birth. At the
moment of birth, you’re born at 300; you’re born at 200; you’re born at
600. How could that be, you see? Without understanding that consciousness
prevails over huge eons of time, there would be no accounting for why it is
that some are born with a calibratable ener gy of 45 and will probably not
live more than six weeks and they will expire of starvation. And another
comes in with a genius—Einstein—born that way . Usually , the
consciousness does not advance much in a lifetime. People that become
spiritually committed can go very rapidly . The average lifetime is maybe
five points. You know , through trial and error , you learn the hard way not tomake enemies. Maybe for a couple of lifetimes, all you learn is “don’ t make
enemies.” Nobody needs enemies in this world, let me tell you. Nobody
needs enemies in this world. But it may take lifetimes just to learn that little
thing, and here you just jumped five points, right? But even when you do,
lots of people now feel pretty good that it’ s not smart to have ener gy in this
world. They thought it came from them. No, it came because of you, that
you put that out there, that that really works. So you help all of mankind
with every spiritual movement you make. Can a person use kinesiology all by themselves? Yes, there’ s this so-called
method which is described in a book called MAP , written by a nurse. People
who are interested in kinesiology , there are sources that they can contact for
much greater information. I’m not a kinesiologist. Kinesiologists are very
often holistic health practitioners. Chiropractors are usually the best holistic
chiropractors. We have a friend who does it constantly using this ring
method. Does everybody know this method? Yeah, you hold it as strong as
you can. Now you picture Jesus and try to pull it. Now you picture Bin
Laden and try and pull it. You’ll notice there’ s a dif ference in strength. So,
kinesiology is really a dif ference in strength. That which is pro-life tends to
make you go strong. That which is anti-life makes you go weak. Again, that
sounds like a polarity . In these gradations of consciousness, we start out from the Infinite. If you
calibrate what is the ener gy—I’m doing this for the book I’m doing now—
the various names for God. What does this name for God—what is the
energy, the reality behind it? And it will say , “Infinite.” The true names for
God all calibrate out there as Infinite. There’ s a book that describes this
particular technique. Then there are people who are professional
kinesiologists, and they put out very excellent teaching tapes. They’re much
better at demonstrating it than I am. We have a friend who is a chiropractor ,
holistic practitioner , and as you’re talking to him, he’ s checking out the
calibrations of the ener gies of everything you’re saying as you say it. And
he’s checking out your past karma about that. His fingers are going like this. He’s, like, tracking everything you’re saying and doing. “I think in one
lifetime, you probably pulled your grandmother ’s arm almost out of the
socket. That could have something to do with the guilt about that.” And he’ sgoing on and on: “And here’ s what you can do—press these acupuncture
points. And here’ s the af firmation I’ll give you: ‘I for give myself for losing
my temper and injuring somebody I love,’” and et cetera. That’ s one
approach to kinesiology . Mine is only to do research in spiritual truth and
spiritual reality and try to devise an understanding of the whole evolution of
consciousness throughout all of time. We ran across the fact that there are multiple dimensions. This is only
one dimension. There’ s an infinite number of dimensions. Each one of them
has their own reality . Each one has its own hierarchy . The astral domains—
you can go to any spiritual bookstore, and there’ s all kinds of books
channeled from all dif ferent domains. Within that astral domain, you’ll see
there’ s a whole hierarchy of beings and titles and they have their own gods,
and these are by choice. These are by choice. Many people are repelled by
Love and goodness and God and for giveness. There are countries where it’ s
actually illegal. In Cambodia, after Pol Pot executed anybody who was
everybody , any public exhibition of Love or lovingness or for giveness or
mercy was illegal. It would get you put in prison. The Nazis trained their soldiers to be totally immune to Love and
tenderness and any consideration. You remember this famous incident
where the Japanese soldier bayoneted the baby being held in the arms of its
mother and felt victorious that he had perfected this satanic ener gy. So, the
negative (what we would consider from a spiritual viewpoint), nonintegrous
realms have their own integrity , where your status depends on your capacity
to be unfeelingly cruel. The Japanese certainly exhibited that in Manchuria
in the early ’30s. They exhibited it in their treatment of the prisoners in
World War II. There are domains which are the opposite of ours. To have
compassion toward another is a weakness, and you are laughed at as a fool. You understand? The mirror image of ours. You see this in the Mafia, where
you’re not a “made” guy until you murder somebody with a witness. You
have to, in other words, choose hell. Choose hell. Now , you have rank in
hell. Um-hum. So, Adolph Hitler and Stalin and all those fellows probably
have a high rank in the domains where they are, you know what I mean? To
kill 70 million innocent people without feeling a thing, then commit suicide
at the end. All right, that’ s how you get to be head of the Mafia in those
realms. I don’ t know , it’s probably choice. Choice. Why is it that life can express itself in such a way? A couple of questions
refer to that. There is no opposite  to God. That which is not God is merelythe refusal of God, but not its opposite. Now , we’ve said that those levels
have to do with Love, so at the very top you have that which is infinitely
loving. And as you come down, life just doesn’ t disappear; it takes a
different form. Below 32 degrees, water turns to ice. Below 200, life turns
into a dif ferent expression. That mollusk who stands for the most venomous
thing I know of on the planet makes a black mamba go scared. You know , a
black mamba is scared of that mollusk. It calibrates about 5 or something. Should we call that “evil”? I don’ t know . Maybe that which chooses that
lifestyle thrives and feels good about it. It’ s choice. One can see then—
don’t forget, you’re trying to escape the trap of duality—what you’re seeing
is the gradation of one . . . Just like there’ s light, and less and less light,
there’ s Love and less and less Love. If you remove Love, then you have the
self-servingness which we would call, from a psychological viewpoint,
narcissism: the concern only for oneself and nothing else other than one’ s
own desire. One way of understanding the ego and a way that gets you out
of duality and the “make wrong” of the ego. The reason I don’ t like the
textbook in A Course in Miracles  is, it lapses. . . . The workbook is very
good, and I tell people, do the workbook and ignore the textbook. Why? I
used to be a spiritual teacher . I brought it to Sedona. I knew Helen
[Schucman] and all the people involved. The textbook gets into a
polarization with the ego, like the ego is the bad guy and you’re the good
guy, and your job is to conquer the ego. That’ s getting polarized with the
ego, and that’ s going to strengthen the ego. There is that which is loving. All right. Because one chooses a spiritual
pathway . . . Don’ t forget, you’ve already made a decision based on a
positionality . You’ve already come to a conclusion—a positionality that
spiritual is better , right? Spiritual is better for you; that’ s your choice. Spiritual is not better for a black mamba. If a black mamba decides not to
bite and kill you, he don’ t last long as a black mamba. So, life takes its
various forms. We could say that That Which Creates Life gives life complete freedom. “Life is created completely and totally free. We have permission to ask that:
resist” (Not true); “Life is created completely and totally free. We have
permission to ask that: resist” (Not true). We do not have permission to ask
that. Once in a while, you get a no. Stay with the Knowable, Not the HypotheticalDo I give myself permission to have the freedom to live my life as I
choose? Let’ s stay within the realm of the knowable, because some of the
questions really deal with the hypothetical. Why is it that things that seem
ungodly or devoid of Love, they seem to exist, and the answer is, “I don’ t
know!” It would seem that one has a choice within one’s own experience. You see that you’re presented with possibilities to choose one way or the
other . So, that’ s all we can say , is that by choice, one advances in this
direction, or one chooses the other direction. The “why” of that, let’ s just
get a definite answer on that one. “The why of it is because of the audience:
resist” (T rue). “The why of it is because of the question: resist” (T rue). “The why of it is because of the intention: resist” (T rue). Something’ s very
out about it, the intention. Oh, I know . “What I’m thinking is so: resist”
(True). Okay . All right. So, it isn’ t something we need to discuss. You don’ t
need to know it. You can become enlightened without answering the
question. It’ s a hypothetical question. I’ll get that into the next book. Answering the question to what seems to be the polarities of good and
evil is quite a conundrum. I mean, it has bothered man since the beginning
of time, right? Because Eve didn’ t know kinesiology , we’ve all had a tough
time. Had she calibrated the ener gy of that viper , life might be dif ferent,
right? And so, there are unanswered questions. There are unanswered
questions; why that should be, huh? Why that should be that way , we’ll
leave that for another book. Now , can certain drugs cause people to go suicide? I can’ t say that a drug
has the power to cause anybody to do anything. There are certain drugs that
are alleged to have certain side ef fects and the exact reasons are not exactly
known. Sometimes the clinical reason for it does occur later . There is a
dermatologic drug that is alleged to drive people into depression and into
suicide. But, you see, every step along the way , you have a choice. If you’re
depressed, you can go see a doctor about it. You can take an antidepressant
about it. You can see a psychiatrist if you feel so depressed you think of
suicide. So, you’ve got your freedom of choice. Usually out of pride, the
person won’ t go see a psychiatrist and they kill themselves, but it’ s not
really due to the medicine; it’ s due to the fact that they’re too prideful to go
and consult another human being about what their problem is. He probably
could have cured him with Prozac. There are drugs that do have ef fects on
the brain’ s neurotransmitter systems and can create quite a depression.There’ s two kinds of depression. There’ s depression which is just
serotonin and maybe noradrenaline in the brain, and then there’ s bipolar
depression. Chemically , they are two dif ferent items in the brain. So, if the
doctor thinks it is just plain depression and it’ s really a bipolar depression,
if you put him on Prozac, you take him out of the bipolar depression and
throw him into bipolar mania. The Prozac doesn’ t cause the mania. What it
does is, it removed the depression, and now the mania. So, every patient
that has to do with depression, I suspect they’re bipolar depressed; they are
possibly that, and if you just put them on an antidepressant, they may go
into a manic state, see. So, it wasn’ t that Prozac drove people into mania;
it’s that it uncovered an undiagnosed bipolar condition. So, anyway , it
doesn’ t cause you to do it, but it would present you with a situation where
you might choose that. Well, when we talk about the unfolding of the universe, this
understanding of it is that intrinsic to creation is the power of creativity , so
that that which is created has within it the essence of God, which may then
continue to manifest as further creativity . In other words, it’ s innate to the
universe by virtue of its creator . Now , what seems to be an unfoldment of
the universe, you’re talking about perception. From the viewpoint of
Radical Reality , nothing is unfolding. That probably sounds like nonsense. From That Which Is, nothing is unfolding. There is nothing to be explained. An unfoldment would be a change, a moment; these are all selections of
perception, which then seem to beg for an answer only if they’re perceived
as such. Inasmuch as, in the realm of the Absolute, none of that is
happening, there is nothing to be explained. That probably doesn’ t make
any sense. The Supreme Being is Unmanifest, unmoving, unchanging. There’ s nothing unfolding, nothing being revealed; it is as it is. Out of that
Unmanifest arises the manifest in which perception, because it’ s sequential,
sees things as happening and then looks for an explanation of the
happening. There is nothing happening. Everything is just is as it is, huh? Even when I say “unfolding,” what I’m really saying is, from the viewpoint
of perception, it seems  to be unfolding. From the viewpoint of a more
Radical Reality , everything merely is what it is, because each instant is
complete and total within itself and is outside of time. So, many of these
questions only make sense from the viewpoint of time. I don’ t think that’ s a
very good answer for the listener , because it cannot be explained. So, many
things cannot really be verbalized. It’ s just the Reality as it is, and it’ s notexplicable. Those are attempts by verbiage to address the question, but it
doesn’ t answer the question, because there is no question—so there is no
answer . That is not comprehensible, but it is so. Let’ s see, for our own sake. “That is so” (T rue). That is so. That which seems like a question is a positionality languaged in the
viewpoint of the ego, and because it makes semantic sense, it presumes
there is an answer . From the viewpoint of Radical Reality , no construct
within form is real, and therefore it is not actually answerable. Every
question is unreal. It seems to be answerable at a certain level, but as you
transcend that level, no question is possible, and therefore no answer is
necessary; nor is it possible either . The best way I can answer that question
is with a bit of nonsense doggerel, which probably originated in the 1800s
in England: “Why is a whirling mouse? Because the more it spins, and then
some.” That, to my ear , is the sound of all questions. But they get translated
into what I understand the human is saying by that, and therefore it’ s
answerable. All questions are in the form of “Why is a whirling mouse?”
when you examine them and take them to their roots. “Why is a whirling
mouse? Because the more it spins, and then some.”
Some things are not answerable. And if they are not answerable, one is
not to decide that one doesn’ t know the answer . One is to decide that the
question is not answerable. “Why is a whirling mouse?” I got the answer
after 50 years of meditating on that koan: because it isn’ t! A lot of people ask about specific spiritual or ganizations, techniques,
workshops. The best thing to do with them is . . . Most of them are going to
run in the 200s. Most of them are quite useful. Most of them lead to a
greater understanding of human psychology and motivation along the way . Most of them provide the broad educational training that a person needs. To
become spiritually evolved requires, really , in a way , a certain
sophistication in our society at this time—in this lifetime. So, one is sort of
getting a general education about the whole spiritual domain: what are its
dimensions; what are the various avenues that people follow; sort of an
understanding of humanity in its desire to know itself and to know the
highest truth. One comes out from looking at all of it with a certain degree
of compassion for all of humanity . The incredible lengths to which people
go to reach God—prayer wheels that they go tens of thousands of time,
people that sit decades reciting the same mantra over and over—the
dedication, the profound commitment, is awesome in a way .In the book I’m working on now , we calibrated a lot of these techniques:
the Jesus Prayer , Om Namah Shivaya, Om Mani Padme Hum. They mainly
are quite high—they are in the 500s. There’ s no doubt that if you recite a
mantra that’ s in the high 500s, then the motivation behind doing such a
thing is suf ficient to drive one the whole way . In other words, there’ s no
magic in the mantra. There’ s no magic in the mantra. A lot of these spiritual
things get to be held in a magical way . No, the intention behind the prayer
wheel, whether there’ s a prayer in the canon or not, as it rolls around and
around probably has nothing to do with it—but the fact that anybody is
willing to sit there and rotate that thing 10 thousand times for the good of
mankind, that’ s enough to get you all the way into heaven, if I were the
doorkeeper! A spiritual mesomorph has got all the muscle to rotate that
prayer wheel. And the things that people do, you know , brings great
compassion that man would be that interested in the Ultimate Reality and
the desire to reach God; to do all the strange and what sometimes seem
almost horrific things to reach the Truth is probably that which contributes
to the salvation of mankind and brought Christ down to earth as a Savior to
manifest the ener gy of the Savior . Mankind, in a way , let’s say , earned it. Let’s say , mankind earned the right to have the Buddha here and Jesus
Christ and all the Great Teachers that have been here, by its own karmic
merit and earned the right to salvation, huh. Mankind en masse , the totality
of mankind. Are we all for that? Everybody? Vote for that? I vote for it. Relationships and Levels of Consciousness
Is there a dif ference in the calibration in regard to relationships, perhaps
between an individual that may calibrate above 310 and one that may
calibrate just below or above about 200? Those levels there denote the
general realms. The 300s have to do with willingness—310 is Willingness,
a different ener gy altogether , than the ones below it. The ones below it are
integrous. Willingness is already the beginning of Joy . To be asked to help
with a project and to feel the joy of contributing to that project; to know that
you are part of humanity by doing so, that you’re assisting the people you
love; it’ s almost like you acknowledge the family love of mankind. The
willingness to be of service to others is already a very good advance. People
in the 300s are great to be around. They’re helpful, they’re cheerful, they
take responsibility for their own actions, they don’ t tend to blame things onyou, and therefore they’re very strong, very strong. They really build the
nation, but they build it, you might say , to the degree on the willingness of
the 200s to put forth the ef fort. The joy isn’ t there yet. In the 200s you don’ t
experience the Joy . There’ s satisfaction, however , and there’ s a feeling of
freedom. The level of Neutrality is 250. Neutral is a very comfortable place
to be. For one thing, you’ve escaped the Fear and Negativity of the lower
dimensions. With Neutral, it’ s okay if you get the raise and it’ s okay if you
don’t, so you don’ t worry . Down lower , you don’ t get the raise, you think of
suicide or you go into a rage and go postal. “Go postal” is down near the
bottom, there. Neutral, if you don’ t get the raise, you’d say , “Screw it. I lost
a lot of money . What the hell, I’ll make it back some other way .” Whatever
your financial karma is, you’ll get it back. Neutral people are easy people to be around. They’re not vindictive; they
go with the flow . Neutral is “you go with the flow .” In Neutral, you’re
pretty self-suf ficient and you’re comfortable with yourself. Because you’re
comfortable with yourself, other people are comfortable with you. People
are about as comfortable with you as you are accepting of yourself. The
person who’ s totally self-honest and self-accepting never gets resentments,
and they don’ t get their feelings hurt. There isn’ t anything that you can say
about them that they don’ t know already , and it’ s okay with them. The way
to disarm your opponent is to agree with everything negative he says about
you and tell him that not only are you the best liar , but you’re the best liar in
town and you’re worth a fortune. “Y ou want to hire me? I can sell more
Buicks in a day than you’ll sell all month.” Anyway , no matter what they
say, you insist that you are a high degree of that. And immediately your
opponent becomes disarmed. You understand that? It’ s like martial arts. As
he comes with you this way , you go with him that way , and now his attack
is weakened because he can only attack you if you resist him. So if they tell
you you’re selfish, tell them, “Selfishness is good. This world was built on
selfishness. And when it comes to being perfectly selfish, I’m the king.”
Well, what can they say? You’ve already agreed with them, you’ve
disarmed them. You know what I mean? You see, in Neutral, they’re out of Denial; 200 is the level of integrity . Integrity is the level of truth.
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        And people do, “On
a pain scale of 1 to 10, this pain is what. ” So, people have been using this
map generally, you know, in reference to this scale, or they have a
permanent intention that on a scale of 1 to 1,000, this calibrates at such and
such as compared to this scale. So, let’ s do it again. “As compared to this
scale, there are an infinite number of universes: resist”—okay (T rue). “There is that which could be called an angelic domain: resist” (T rue). “There are, within the angelic domain, beings who calibrate less than 600:
resist” (T rue). Yes. There are very good spirits that calibrate in the 500s. You know, the angelic domain is not all just super angelic. If you get run
over on a motorcycle and go out of body, you really want a friend, you
know what I’m saying. You don’ t need a great guru there to say, “You
realize that you are the source of the ultimate truth of the universe,” you
know. Right then you need a pal, I tell you. I mean, my jaw just got torn
off, and I got a wife and kids, you know what I mean. You need a pal. So,
“A lot of people are just good pals: resist” (T rue). “A  lot of them are just the
same as good pals on this level: resist” (T rue). Okay. All right. But then
when we start getting into real power, real power in relationship to this
scale, an archangel is over 25,000, 40,000, 45,000, 49,000. In relationship
to this scale, we would calibrate an archangel at 500,000, over 500,000. All
right, calibrate this scale. Yeah, compared to this scale. Now, this is a
logarithmic scale. So the greatest beings who ever walked the earth
calibrate 1,000. Now you’re not talking about log 1,000, you’re talking
about log 50,000. Generally, the paths to God are described as through the heart and
through the mind. You can see that they are combined. You have to love the
way of the mind enough to go through the sacrifice, because once you get
on the edge of the knife, you cannot stop. The other thing about spiritualwork that people don’ t understand is, it’ s not just a sporadic thing you do
now and then. When you decide to “go for it,” you are on the edge of the
knife, and you cannot stop. This is it. You let go and surrender everything. Every tone as it arises is let go of. You’re not going to sit back and enjoy the
melody of the symphony, because as the note arises, you’ve already let it
go, you see. You would have to hold it to compare it to the other notes in
order to get music out of it. You hear the sound of the music, but you’re not
going to hear the music. You hear the sound, but you’re not going to hear
the music. You’re going to hear the tone. Can it be done. Yes, it can be
done, you see, because the real ener gy behind the Love is joy. It isn’ t just
the Love of God; it’ s the joy—which is the Love of God manifest within
yourself as the joy of spiritual work. So, the real ener gy that gets you going
and keeps you going is the joy of spiritual work itself. Each instant is the
source of its own joy, so you have no need for anything out in the world. Joy arises from the awareness of the Divinity of your existence in this
moment. Therefore, as you walk the edge of the knife, you are outside of
time. Time is irrelevant when you’re on a tightrope. Time, space, all the
stuff that the mind usually plays with is no longer relevant. The other analogy I use for it is like the prow of a ship. See, the prow of
the ship is consistent, no matter what the wave, no matter how high the
wave, no matter what the wind. It’ s called “one-pointedness of mind. ” So,
that one-pointedness of mind is a fixity of intention. It gets its ener gy from
the surrender, the devotion to the joy of the presence of God which you
intuit, but which does not become a stunning awareness until the mind
disappears. In theta, the background being that which you are, stands out, and the
form is sort of translated. It’ s when somebody speaks—see, what prevails is
the silence; then this form comes about. Somebody’ s mouth opens, and all
this form comes out—I don’ t know what they’re talking about—and there’ s
a slight delay, and then there’ s a knowingness of what is said. The Holy
Spirit acts as a translator. “That’ s a fact: resist” (T rue). You are, like, hard of
hearing and absent-minded. And you’re not always sure where your body is
in space, but with practice, you get better at maneuvering it. So, there are
physiologic changes. There’ s no need to eat. There’ s no need to eat at all. Today I didn’ t eat anything and I didn’ t even notice it, but I tell myself that
for the survival of the body, at five o’clock, you should eat something, or
thereabouts. Frankly, I could do without it. So, there’ s no desiringness for things. Everything is complete and total at
this instant. Therefore, because every instant is completely fulfilled and
completely total, if something stops right there, there’ s no loss, because it
is, at all times, continuously complete, you understand. If the doorbell
rings, you can drop the piece of pie and never go back to it and don’ t miss
the last half of the piece of the pie, because every bite of the pie is equally
fulfilling; there’ s no better or worse. So, there’ s physiologic changes. There’ s a loss of startle response. A ton of cement could drop right behind
this body, and it wouldn’ t even notice. Well, it would hear it, but it wouldn’ t
react to it. The lack of the startle response is a slowing down of the brain
waves. There is not being run by physiologic processes. And there’ s a long
period of adjustment which required leaving New York City, where the life
was quite complex, and moving to a very quiet place and getting adjusted
and used to it all. OceanofPDF. comCHAPTER 4
The Greatest Resistance to Spiritual
Progress
What holds up spiritual progress is resistance. You can presume that it’ s
going to go on its way, because the ego, as I have explained before, has a
vested interest in positions: I mean the vested interest in being right. Do you
know what I mean. “Hey, I’m right. ” People are willing to die for being
right, so you’re not talking about something that’ s mild. The ego would just
as soon see you dead as long as it remains right. It kills people right and left
every day, doesn’ t it. Rather die than say you’re wrong. The investment
that the ego has is its own survival. The ego is not interested in your
survival. Did you know your own mind is not even interested in your own
survival. It would put you over the clif f anytime it wants to, to prove a
point. It’ s not your friend; it is interested in its own narcissistic self-
satisfactions. Its prime satisfaction, its prime delusion—the main resistance
is—the narcissistic core of the ego is its belief in its own sovereignty. Becoming enlightened is really overcoming the claim and the domination of
the ego to maintain its sovereignty. It will maintain its sovereignty at the
price of your physical life. It will put you to death anytime rather than let
you become enlightened. The refusal to accept that God is the sole source of
all that is, is the ego’ s—the ego would like to tell you that it is the originator
of your movements and actions. If we look at the ego—I think in the last book, I did a pretty good job of
describing the ego. The ego maintains the illusion of sovereignty. What do I
mean by that. Well, the ego’ s functions are very complex. The ego has to
sort millions of bits of data continuously, in milliseconds. It’ s processing all
that you’ve ever known, all your perceptions, all your belief systems,
comparing it with past calculating, and it’ s an extremely complex and
incredible mechanism. The ego presumes that there is a central of fice to its
functions. The ego has all these complex capacities, memory, comparisons. You look at a zebra; instantly, your mind compares it with every other zebra
you’ve ever seen. A TV thing about zebras comes up—the camouflage
value of black and white, and the fact you think it’ s BS. All this passes
through your mind; it’ s all sorted. The ego is a very complex operation,
extremely complex. No way a computer can even get near imitating it. Artificial intelligence can only take a small strand of it, which you can
follow with logic and within dif ferential calculus, but it cannot go to the
nonlinear domain, because the nonlinear domain, by definition, is not
knowable in a sequential way. This complex ego function presumes a
central control of fice. This central control, with all its massive functions,
like the central command, is presumed to be the “I. ” Hmm. At all times, the
ego claims to be the author of all these phenomena. When a person says,
“I,” what they’re talking about is the central or ganizing core of the ego. This central or ganizing core, like the Wizard of Oz, is behind the screen and
manipulating all this stuf f and claims to be sovereign, sovereign. It is God. So, the person then claims credit and takes the blame because it’ s claimed
that the “I” is responsible. The giving up that illusion is what the ego fights
to the death. And it’ s really: “Who is sovereign, God or the ego. ”
The resistance is surrendering this illusion of sovereignty of the
narcissistic “I” of the ego and realizing that your survival from moment to
moment, everything you do and think, is a result of the presence of the Self
with a capital S. The small self claims credit, but it’ s the greater Self that is
the great sustainer of your life. I caught the ego doing that. I caught it. One
time a rabbit ran in front of the car. Instantly, the brakes stopped, and I
caught the ego claiming credit for saving the life of the rabbit. It claimed
that it made the decision to put the brake on and save the rabbit’ s life, but it
had happened already—I caught it. It was that split second the Buddha was
talking about. Let’ s see how long that split second is. “That split second is 1/10,000th of a second: resist” (T rue). “It’ s more
than 1/10,000th of a second: resist” (T rue). “It’ s 1/20,000th of a second:
resist” (T rue). I can’ t follow my words. “It’ s 1/5th of a second: resist” (Not
true). Hahaha, “1/10th of a second: resist” (Not true). Anyway, it’s a small
fraction; the hell with it. I told you, the days when I had read about the
Buddha and enlightenment was the space between two thoughts. I was
trying to catch that 1/10,000th of a second. Well, no matter how fast you
are, you can’ t catch that 1/10th second, because it left. Just as you are
reaching for it, it’ s gone already. So, the essence of resistance is the ego’ s insistence that it is the arbiter,
the arbitrator, the source.
Not mentioned in the text.
What is the purpose of the scale used to measure pain?
Not the ego, but the Divine Presence.
According to the speaker, what is the source of spiritual growth and progress?
To maintain its own sovereignty and illusion of control.
What is the primary motivation of the ego, according to the speaker?
The ego fights to maintain its own sovereignty and illusion of control, and is the primary resistance to spiritual growth and enlightenment.
What is the role of the ego in spiritual growth and progress?
No, according to the speaker, it's not recommended to use kinesiology without proper guidance and understanding.
Can a person use kinesiology all by themselves?