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Considerations 122 …
A Corner Must be Turned …
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There are two rock-solid principles that prevail within the Lower Psychic Worlds that each and all must learn and then deal with … but only after seemingly countless battles directed against these principles. Only when beginning to direct yourself against them will you find out just how much mind loves the habitual … that which you have relied upon for many, many lifetimes. I have mentioned these two principles before … yet they are so important and controlling that I will mention them once more … 1) … It is not what you have yet to learn that is so vital to working beyond the mental regions … but MUCH more in what we have left to give up … in terms of the “old ways” … and 2) … it is not that people are clueless … but that they believe in things to be true … that are not. The entire system of karma, reincarnation, and habit is the basis for the entire educational system here in the Lower Psychic Worlds because … it works. Couple that with the “safeguards” or the basic preconditions required to get beyond the mental worlds … it makes for a fail-safe schoolroom.
We become so complacent … so accepting of the perceptions we have about life around us that we don’t even inspect them anymore. We conclude … “I’ve got that issue figured out” … and we look elsewhere for advancement or continuation. Deep down inside … many of us have had whisperings that “this-or-that” needs to be addressed … needs to be revised … needs to be changes … but we find it is *much* easier to fall back on the old ways. “Why rock the boat … this works” … we ask ourselves.
And yes … maybe it does. We learn up to a level … say … a 6th grade level … and everything works to that level and will continue to do so … and while we are wholly acceptant of being in the 6th grade … why change? Admittedly … there is no need to change.
But if you are seeking the 7th grade … you cannot hold onto the 6th grade lessons and limitations and live from the more advanced view. There is a tendency to try and combine the two levels … but eventually … we move on. We can assist this move … or we can cater to the conflict.
Aristotle said … “Truth in itself is always obscure because it is usually behind intelligent and luminous things.” Consider that as a variation of the above.
We need to become aware of what mind is … and does … and when we get to the point where we wish to isolate the tool of mind so that we may better perceive as Soul Itself … then there is an entirely different way of approach. It is NOT done … mentally.
You will never understand until you get there … and getting beyond mind is not accomplished by claiming that we have done so. It is done by rebuilding our priorities … what we give our priority to … while taking full responsibility while here in the Lower Psychic Worlds.
Mind is always dubious, hesitant, skeptical … of moving beyond what it currently knows. What slowly becomes apparent is that it is not the gathering of information and data and wisdom that is important … but it is the freeing or liberation of Soul from the physical body. Soul Itself learns to step from the physical body and travel the inner worlds and then return to the current physical body to carry on ones responsibilities. Lucid dreaming is great first step in learning this process … and lifestyle.
Let’s just say … that you are in a familiar room or house at night … and the lights go out. Total darkness. You know the room … you know the house … but you have to use “other” senses to get around now … as you cautiously grope your way around. If this were to continue … you would certainly get better at it. If you went blind … why better way to learn? LUFE doesn’t care how one learns … only that one *does* learn.
This is how you approach going inside. You must begin to use senses that you have rarely used because they have been overridden by the physical body, the emotions, and the mind. Yes … you can sense with touch … but you begin to sense which direction to move … what is where … etc. You inwardly sense first … and finalize with physical touch. You are trying to learn a way beyond the entire Lower Psychic Worlds bodies.
When you settle for quietude … this is the moment when you are turning out the lights and being enveloped by darkness. Spiritually … Soul can begin to perceive Its way beyond the mental habits … this is when you become aware of just what and how extensive your mental habits are … so take broadening phrases and repeat them … hold to them … explore them … adventure into them … experiment with them … as you move more deeply into the invisible feeling of Life. Help mind become intrigued by your explorations. This is *your* game. Help mind become familiar with the new phrases and away from the habitual squawkings and chatterings. Make a list. Carry it with you. Find phrases that stimulate intrigue and broadening.
The quieting of the mind is still a step in the process … it is not an end result or ultimate goal.
There is no quick or immediate way to do this stuff. It must be done daily … and even better … a number of times a day … if you can find the time to be alone and quiet … with one or two periods being the primary times and the other times used for revision, etc.
Divine Spirit is invisible … and you are learning to work with that which is invisible within all of Existence … at the various levels … Divine Spirit and Spirit … within all of LIFE.
In the Lower Psychic Worlds … many teachers and “masters” can teach one basic math … or basic religion. A good number of them can help you move on to algebra … someone to teach you geometry can rather easily be found … fewer that will teach you calculus … fewer still that will teach you physics … even fewer that will teach quantum physics … yet to move beyond this into “universal equations and symbology” … and then beyond that … and on once again … the teachers are rare and hard to find.
As mentioned before … there *are* pre-conditions or requirements … but the finding of authentic Masters *is* possible … and the requirements of being an authentic Master demand that one has completed His training … so to speak … and can authentically lead others to complete their education … from the physical … which requires an authentic Master to be present on the physical … on to comprehending Self as Soul … and on to experiencing the true Core Creator God.
This can be … and has been done. Many times … faith that this is possible is what drives us on.
You cannot hope to take on the new while holding onto the old. You cannot hope to incorporate the new while promoting the old. You must turn the corner … recognize … and then build on the new … if you wish to move forward. Most all of us recognize where we hold to the old. One must learn to step into the new path … even if it is for “experimental” purposes. Try not to consider the new but still talk the old.
Many times mind will interpret stubbornness for strength. No one else can do all of this for you … you must choose to turn the corner and allow for the growth that is everywhere around you.
More next Monday.
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