Esoteric Whisperings

[zorkchop]

2-21-24 …

Most of you who are reading this post are doing so after starting the day’s activities … some perhaps during a break in the daily routine … and others maybe the evening after completing most of the day’s responsibilities and duties. Whatever that case may be … it may be to your benefit to consider the following …

Find those few moments of elusive quiet time … inner time … ten … twenty … maybe thirty minutes … when the outside noises are a bit more hushed than usual … when the noises of your household are the same … your mind is not clustered with active chatters … and you make your way to a favored chair, floor position, or prone condition.

Take some slow, other deep breaths … nothing forced … a slow in-breath … hold it for a few seconds … then a slow exhale. Calm the body down … slow the mind if you can.

Now … as you gently ponder … consider the following …

“I live beyond yesterday” … pause a few seconds … “I live into today” … pause a few seconds … “and I live on into Now.”

Slowly and gently repeat this to yourself … a few seconds ( whatever feels comfortable ) … in between … but do your best to *objectively* view or oversee your position as you take these few quiet moments. Can you get a sense of just what, where, and how you are living … now? Can you look at it as if watching a movie … or watching someone else’s life being viewed?

Can you find … during these latter moments … something that went right? Can you find … even a momentary quick glimpse … something that is growth-oriented … beneficial … something “enlightening” ?

And so tomorrow … when you do this same thing … now you have a memory to build upon … and enlarge that … build upon it … develop it … feel the *life* of it … see it growing as a seedling into a blossoming flower … nurture it.

*Live* the I-AM … see the small examples of strength or courage or tolerance … and build upon them … feel them during those moments … again and again … just small time increments ever expanding … start small … don’t shoot for the moon … find something that works … acknowledge that it is growing … expand into other aspects … *breathe* it … feel it filling you … use it anywhere and everywhere … from the infant to the adult … the small to the large … let … and make … it work for you.

“I live beyond yesterday … I live into today … I live on into the Now” … the courage … the tolerance … the release … the recognition … the confidence … the serenity … the rebirth … of the larger … of the Whole … each baby-step building into the greater awareness and realization.

Let go of the shortcomings … let go of the feuds with family members, relatives, others … not through ever-present denial and dismissal … but through resolution … deal with them … do something about them … see the growth of each step … and then tomorrow … build upon it … always forward … always learning … always listening to LIFE … always recognizing … always seeing … just for a short few moments each day … and then let it grow.

It’s not complicated … it’s not difficult … it’s not frightening … it’s not hopeless … it’s not “beyond” you … it’s not too time-consuming … it has nothing to do with anyone else but YoU.

Let it work.

More tomorrow.

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[lemex]

Great post. Thanks.

[zorkchop]

Thanks, lemex

It *does* work … and *can* work very well.

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[zorkchop]

2-22-24 …

Not too long ago I offered a post on “mansions” … or perhaps “houses” or “states” or or “rooms” that we can occupy within the whole of consciousness. Tis can be taken a bit further … turned a bit on the edge to gain another glimpse of the larger picture. All “states” of consciousness are lifeless unless and until we give them life … by our focus. Yes … someone else can give an “area” life … but we then have to step into it ourselves to give it our own livingness … via our focus, intention, effort.

And yes again someone an try to “force” us into acceptance … perhaps by coercion or threats or whatever … but *we* each must enter into the state of consciousness to give it life … and … many of us have spent so much time within the states we inhabit that we cannot remember what it would be like to be outside of it … let alone beyond it.

Admittedly … it is not easy to stay out of being caught up in many snares and traps. The best way “out” is to not enter in the first place. “Un-doing” … takes a lot of time and effort. Many times this is all done out of ignorance … we do not know better … and experience is the Great Teacher we all follow … until our degree of discernment grows to give us better insight on possibilities and opportunities.

Clearly … we become what we conceiver or believe ourselves to be … and when we “believe” in most anything … we will protect it at all costs … even to physical death … which more often than not … closes very few curtains.

All of this would be understood much more quickly if we were able to quickly turn corners and see instant results. Old habits do not give up easily … and so … we make some attempts … it does’t promptly reshape our lives … so we run off to someone or something else that “promises” to give more immediate results. We want cures … NoW.

Consciousness can be considered as a “law” unto IT-self … manifesting at our command. If we could truly start from scratch while retaining all we know now … things would go much more quickly. That … however … is not the design of the schoolroom.

Walking the path long enough to whee we enter and mostly remain at the level of the 5th Plane … Atma Lok … Sat Desha … other names may be used … then we have the perception acute enough to discern most anything we come across in the Lower Psychic / Metaphysical Worlds … although there are decided traps laid specifically for any at this level. To try to get anyone to “fall” back into the Lower Psychic / Metaphysical Worlds is one of the primary goals of the Negative Forces.

So … try to choose what “owns” you. Your specific beliefs … tends to “own” you … taking away true free will. Habitual patterns force the loss of freedom to choose. “Liberation” is often a word in the higher teachings as an overarching goal that must be built, found, and maintained.

Entering into the specifics of our own state of consciousness is becoming “one” with it … we enter a unity with it … we “live” it. No one else is doing this for us … we are the ones who choose. Others may put obstacles, situations, conditions, and tests in our way … we move into them or not … knowingly or unknowingly … as greater discernment assists in future decisions.

More tomorrow.

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[zorkchop]

2-23-24 …

A “game” or “technique” or “method” often taught in the more advanced teachings is to make a separate “country” or “village” or “street” out of some of our more troubling habitual patterns … give it recognition … give it a “location” … and then be aware when you walk into it during your daily activities.

An offshoot of this is the we can use the word “Brother” or “Sister” as a preliminary title to our habits … such as “Brother Greed” is visiting right now … or “Sister Impatience” has come for a visit.

This assists in drawing a certain distance between you and the prevailing habit or pattern. The limitation begins to be “there” … somewhere else … rather than having complete grip on you at all times. Soon … one finds the if an individual finds themself caught in the “grip” of a limiting habit or pattern … they can recognize that they have gone “there” … and with time … can catch themselves before they are completely consumed by it.

There are those who will find this approach beneficial … and others who will not. If it works for you … use it … when and where it is applicable.

Clearly … all of this is to help each of us realize that these *are* indeed recognizable patterns … and can be controlled … and even revised. Many habits lends themselves to being revised … which is simply tweaking them a bit so that they “flow” or “work” in a different way … which is vastly different than stopping the habit entirely … which so often takes a lot of effort … and then starting to form a new habit step-by-step. This too … is time-consuming.

Many believe that they should just be able to go in and change any habit or pattern they wish quickly … and with little effort … trying to raise once or twice and when it doesn’t work … they dismiss the approach of revision altogether.

Consider … just how long does it take to break a substance abuse habit … such as smoking, drinking, drugs, etc? How long does it take to break a habit of just going and buying something because it “feels good” ?

It takes a very long time … even after one begins to recognize it. Mind will accept any habitual pattern whether detrimental or beneficial. If it “likes” it … it will continue to prevail. If the plugged-in emotions provide some chosen feelings towards or about the habit … mind will continue its use. Obviously … mind, emotions, and the physical body can “like” destructive addictions to drugs and smoking … no matter what it is doing objectively to the physical body itself. “It feels good - I want it” runs more of our life than we might wish to believe.

It’s tough … I know. In many ways … the entire schoolroom is stacked against us … but we learn most by becoming immersed in the adventure and learning its detriments or benefits … and then revising more deeply into … or out of it.

I will be the very first to admit … the “not now” scenario can put off anything we simply wish to continue because we do not wish to take the time and effort to work our way out of it. Procrastination is fed by ego. We may believe ourselves to be “weak” in many areas of life … but try to break one of these habits or patterns and you will find out just how strong you are.

Start simply. Try not to take on the biggest issue as your first attempt. You might as well do your best to set yourself up to win.

Off to the weekend. More Monday.

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[zorkchop]

2-26-24 …

This planet is not designed to be one of peace … at least for long. We cannot “all” live together in peace when there are too many “grades” within the schoolroom that are so different and demanding. Yes … there are times of relative ceasefire … so to speak … but things are always smoldering. People control here by power over … groups gain strength … one prevails over the other.

The faction of war fulfills a lot of needs for reincarnation and the settlement of karmic implications … on both sides of the coin … and individual can “pay off” earlier implications and set others into motion.

Karmic implications do not necessarily *have* to be paid off specifically and directly … *only* between the two parties involved. There are a lot of repercussions that are paid off via diseases … especially with lingering illnesses.

A question often asked in the dimensional schools and universities is … if you could absolutely stop all wars on this planet by accepting upon yourself all involved karmic significances … individual and cultural and national and planetary … would you accept that “service” ?

Perhaps another way to look at it all … if war was completely banished … how many talents or abilities would have to be learned in another way? It’s not all about killing.

In my opinion … I doubt if anyone could … but if they did … they would be suffering consequences forever … simply because wars are necessary. The only difference between a war between nations, states, cities … and between individuals … is one of degree … and yes … the “tools” or “weapons” of resolution … although guns can be used to “resolve” both.

Another way to look at most any “warring” action … individual or otherwise … is that there are a *lot* of ways out of this world … a lot of ways to destroy the physical body … and some of them are a bit more dramatic than others. How we each “get out” of here carries its own lessons. It is the destruction of the physical body. Caught in the cycles of life within the Lower Psychic / Metaphysical Worlds … everything must be born, prevail for a while … and then die … whether physical or otherwise.

With hundreds of lifetimes involved within the wheel of life … again a very conservative statement … we have each been involved in more wars we wish to remember … or even consider … and this more than likely involves only wars on a national or international scale. The specific wars we carry on between individuals are different only by degree.

Even another way of understanding this … *growth* involves war. We battle … within ourselves.

Do people “evolve” during war? That would be quite difficult to answer for anyone specifically. One thing is for certain … if we dispose of one “Hitler” … there’s another in the shadows waiting for the chance to “try it their way.”

There is little to no war without an antagonist. In the Lower Psychic / Metaphysical Worlds … the “degree” of involvement is just a misdirect. Squabbles happen … between individuals, nations, and planets. It is another way to learn.

More tomorrow.

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[zorkchop]

2-27-24 …

It might help to understand … that our inner structure and world(s) are as “mobile” as the outer physical body. Our “inner perceptions” can move about freely … but find areas of preference … sometimes out of ignorance and sometimes out of knowing choice … and we stay there … just as we inhabit a house or apartment and we have an “address” that denotes our location.

If you back up and away from were you “are” … one can assist in uncovering just where one “is” … and as the old adage goes … “One can often determine where they are by where everyone else is.”

No … it’s not an either-or situation … but it can help.

Since the more beneficial stance is one of moderation … balance … harmony … one can get caught up in too much personal and internal inspection … and certainly too little. Many don’t care to look at all.

But it is interesting that we can “walk into and out of” most any area we believe to be of value … although a degree of personal effort … focus … will probably involved. Walking into and out of an “inner” room … or house … or neighborhood … or nation … or even planet … can be of assistive use. If you can perceive and accept yourself to be in an inner room of intense greed or jealously or weakness … you can “see” yourself walk out of that room ( etc ) and walk into its opposite. One can go into the new room ( etc ) and practice feeling and interacting with all kinds of inner scenarios to see how it “works” … practice sensing the success of it … and eventually … it will work its way into the outer.

Outer specifics that one runs into that don’t quite work … can be revised so they do.

Again … growth is a lifestyle … not just an action.

A good degree of objectivity or impersonality … or distant or uninvolved feeling towards the moving away from and the moving into can be beneficial. If one is doing to move their physical residence … what does one bring along … what does one discard … and after the move … where does everything go … what “rooms” in the house will be used for what … how will it be “decorated” … what will be the possible new purchases … etc.

You can use the same approach in revising into or out of old habits and patterns. In fact … if you acknowledge that there will be a bit of inner time and effort involved … it can be somewhat fun.

The more directly and deeply one “feels” the end result … not just emotionally … but the depth of the new action or pattern … the more quickly one will enter that room or pattern because of choice. The old replaces the new … the more interesting replaces the boring … the more beneficial replaces the damaging.

Since YoU are engaging with yourself … only YoU can give life to all of this. If you want “free will” in a certain area of your life … go in and practice it. SEE yourself getting out of your own way … the restricting patterns … put much more focus on the new rather than getting rid of the old. Become “involved” in the new … give it life … become curious … become interested … “pretend” if you must … and with time … the pendulum will swing.

More tomorrow.

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[lemex]

Very thoughtful. The many rooms are within not outside. Rooms are reality we create (build). A touch of the physical.

[zorkchop]

lemex …

Yes. We build … construct … give life to … move new furniture ( belief resonance or discord ) … light up … close the curtains … close the doors … on all our beliefs … and live from them. They “reflect” outside … into daily situations and conditions … but the foundation of “As the inner goes the outer” suggests … it’s all a matter of inner design … with a bit of past-life “cause and effect” thrown in for added color. ( LoL )

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[zorkchop]

2-28-24 …

I doubt if it would be a surprise to many … but the very strong, over-riding demand of most anyone and everyone is … to get the *other* person to change … to get Life to change to your preferences and passions … for everything to fall in line with the way you believe, feel, and physically experience. It’s more than just wishing to use ones ego or vanity in designing all life around the individual … it’s the entire “I’m offended … “ and the “I don’t feel safe … “ and “You’re causing me grief … “ or “Why do you act that way … “ … and on and on and on … always prevalent throughout the history of mankind … but much more heavily promoted in the media and written displays for the last twenty years or so.

I would be the first to admit … it would all be “easier” if everyone else thought according to what * I * wanted … this * I * being just about anyone you come into contact with … family member … casual or close friend … co-workers … bosses … strangers … etc.

For as long as you are in a position of control and power … this works. One learns to control all around them … from power or regulation over … much like the heads of government or business … or a king from his castle.

After eons of lifetimes … it becomes clear … the power over only lasts for a rather short time … and soon it is you that is being contained in some way, shape, or form. No matter the level of power over … there is always someone or something “over” you … beyond you … to which on must succumb … whether it is physical, some material feature … such as money or security … or some “God” from some level or another.

Sad to say … the world will not change for YoU. It can seem like it momentarily … while one stacks up karmic implications … but in the end … it is YoU that must become flexible … it is YoU that must be willing to adapt … tolerance, patience, and endurance is oh-so-slowly learned … until one learns to give their attention only to that which is truly important.

We’ve all come across those whose list of “must have’s” is extensive … food must be a certain way and just right … clothes, housing, transportation, movies … you name it … if it doesn’t fit their rigid list of “acceptable” … then it is criticized and dismissed … leading to some kind of agreement with only a very small and detailed list of compatible terms.

They are rarely happy. What “offends” or “clashes” with these individuals is exhausting.

Conflict is sent into this world to challenge everyone. There is always … or something … ready to push your buttons. When that happens … most just point their finger at the objective object, situation, or person … and it’s always their fault.

Tolerance and patience … etc … are attributes that few “like” to learn … but end up doing so anyway … until it is learned that it is one of the few avenues to contentment. Admittedly … it often comes about by unplugging from much of what happens around you … but … in a very real sense … this is not only necessary but growth-oriented. Most people will not change … and so your contentment depends upon how much YoU can … change … or adapt.

All of this demands the greater learning of discernment. It is easy to unplug from everyone and everything. We all pull back upon occasion. But LIFE demands that we learn to live with others … to a greater and greater extent.

More tomorrow.

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