Session 872

Mass Events, Session 872

It may seem to some readers that the subject matter of this book is far divorced from any discussion of the specific development of psychic abilities.

Many people write requesting that I outline the proper methods for achieving astral projection, for example, or psychic advancement, or spiritual understanding.  In its fashion, however, this book is geared to bring about the development of such abilities, for it is not a lack of methods that inhibits such activities.  Instead, “psychic progress” is hampered by those very negative beliefs that we have tried to bring to our attention.

Many of you keep searching for some seemingly remote spiritual inner self that you can trust and look to for help and support, but all the while you distrust the familiar self with which you have such intimate contact.  Yous set up divisions between portions of the self that are unnecessary.

Some correspondents write: “I realize that I am too egotistical”.  There are many schools for spiritual advancement that teach you to “get rid of the clutter of your impulses and desires”, to shove aside the self that you are in search of a greater idealized version.  First of all, the self that you are is ever-changing and never static.  There is an inner self in terms of those definitions, but that inner self, which is the source for your present being, speaks through your impulses.  They provide in-built spiritual and biological impetuses toward your most ideal development.  You must trust the self that you are, now.

If you would know yourself in deepest terms, you must start with your own feelings, emotions, desires, intents and impulses.  Spiritual knowledge and psychic wisdom are the natural result of a sense of self-unity.

Again, impulses are inherently good, both spiritually and biologically.  They emerge from Framework 2, from the inner self, and they are based on the great inner webwork of communication that exists among all species on your planet.  Impulses also provide the natural impetus toward those patterns of behavior that serve you best, so that while certain impulses may bunch up toward physical activity, say, others, seemingly contradictory, will lead toward quiet contemplation, so that overall certain balances are maintained.

Some people are only aware of – or largely aware of – impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive desires.  When you begin trusting yourselves, you start by taking it for granted that to some extent at least you have not trusted yourself or your impulses in the past: You have thought that impulses were dangerous, disruptive, or even evil.  So, as you begin to learn self-trust, you acknowledge your impulses.  You try them on for size.  You see where they lead you by allowing them some freedom.  You do not follow urges through that would hurt others physically, or that seem in direct contradiction to your present beliefs – but you do acknowledge them.  You do try to discover their source.  Behind them you will almost always find an inhibited impulse – or many of them – that motivated you to move in some ideal direction, to seek a love or understanding so idealized in your mind that it seemed impossible to achieve.  You are left with the impulse to strike out.

If you examine such troublesome stimuli, you will always find that they originally rose after a long process, a process in which you were afraid to take small positive steps toward some ideal.  Your own impulses naturally lead you to seek creative fulfillment, the expansion of your consciousness, psychic excursions, and the conscious knowledge and manipulation of your dreams.

No methods will work if you are afraid of your own impulses, or of the nature of your own being.  Most of you understand that All That Is is within you, that God is within creation, within physical matter, and that “He” does not simply operate as some cosmic director on the outside of reality.  You must understand that the spiritual self also exists within the physical self in the same fashion.  The inner self is not remote, either – not divorced from your most intimate desires and affairs, but instead communicates through your own smallest gesture, through your smallest idea.

This sense of division within the self forces you to think that there is a remote, spiritual, wise, intuitive inner self, and a bewildered, put-upon, spiritually ignorant, inferior physical self, which happens to be the one you identify with. Many of you believe, moreover, that the physical self’s very nature is evil, that its impulses, left alone, will run in direct opposition to the good of the physical world and society, and fly in the face of the deeper spiritual truths of inner reality.  The inner self then becomes so idealized and so remote that by contrast the physical self seems only the more ignorant and flawed.  In the face of such beliefs the ideal of psychic development, or astral travel, or spiritual knowledge, or even of sane living, seems so remote as to be impossible.  You must, therefore, begin to celebrate your own beings, to look to your own impulses as being the natural connectors between the physical and the nonphysical self.  Children trusting their impulses learn to walk, and trusting your impulses, you can find yourself again.

Aside: Origin of the Physical Universe

Consciousness predates physical forms.  Consciousness predates the physical universe.  Consciousness predates all of its manifestations.

The impulse to be, in any terms that you can understand, is without beginning or end.  What you have in your physical species are the manifestations of inner species of being, or creative groupings originated by consciousness as material patterns into which consciousness then flows.  In those terms, the world came into being and the species appeared in a completely different framework of activity than is imagined, and one that cannot be scientifically established – particularly within those boundaries with which science has protected itself.

The patterns for the earth and for its creatures were as real before their physical appearances, and far more real than, say, the plan for a painting that you might have in your mind.  The universe always was innately objective in your terms, with its planets and creatures.  The patterns for all of the species always existed without any before or after arrangement.

I am not pleased with those analogies, but sometimes they are all I can use to express issues so outside of normal channels of knowledge.  It is as if, then, the earth, with all of its species, existed in complete form as a fully dimensioned cosmic underpainting, which gradually came alive all at once.  Birds did not come from reptiles.  They were always birds.  They expressed a certain kind of consciousness that sought a certain kind of form.  Physically the species appeared – all species appeared – in the same way that you might imagine all of the elements of a highly complicated dream suddenly coming alive with physical properties.  Mental images – in those terms, now – existed that “in a flash of cosmic inspiration” were suddenly endowed with full physical manifestation.

To that extent, the Bible’s interpretation is correct.  Life was given, was free to develop according to its characteristic conditions.  The planet was prepared, and endowed with life.  Consciousness built the forms, so life existed within consciousness for all eternity.  There was no point in which chemicals or atoms suddenly acquired life, for they always possessed consciousness, which is life’s requirement.

In the terms that you can understand, all species that you are aware of appeared more or less at once, because the mental patterns had peaked.  Their vitality was strong enough to form differentiation and cooperation within the framework of matter.

I understand that it appears that species have vanished, and that those species simply “developed” along the patterns of probable earths.  You are not just dealing with a one-line development of matter, but of an unimaginable creativity, in which all versions of your physical world exist, each one quite convinced of its physical nature.  There are ramifications quite unspeakable, although in certain states of trance, or with the aid of educated dreaming, you might be able to glimpse the inner complications, the webworks of communications that connect your official earth with other probable ones.  You choose your time and focus in physical reality again and again, and the mind holds an inner comprehension of many seemingly mysterious developments involving the species.

Even the cells are free enough of time and space to hold an intimate framework of being within the present, while being surrounded by this greater knowledge of what you think of as the earth’s past.  In greater terms, the earth and all of its species are created in each moment.  You wonder what gave life to the first egg or seed, or whatever, and think that an answer to that question would answer most others; for life, you say, was simply passed on from that point.

But what gives life to the egg or the seed now, keeps it going, provides that energy? Imagining some great big-bang theory gives you an immense explosion of energy, that somehow turns into life but must wear out somewhere along the line – and if that were the case, life would be getting weaker all the time, but it is not.  The child is as new and fresh today as a child was 5,000 years ago, and each spring is as new.

What gives life to chemicals now?  That is the more proper question.  All energy is not only aware-ized but the source of all organizations of consciousness, and all physical forms.  These represent frameworks of consciousness.  There was a day when the dreaming world, in your terms, suddenly awakened to full reality as far as physical materialization is concerned.  The planet was visited by desire.  There were ghost excursions there – mental buildings, dream civilizations which then became actualized.