The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Quatrain XXXII

There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil past which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE
There seem'd- and then no more of THEE and ME.

Spiritual interpretation - Paramahansa Yogananda

I stood at the door of Infinity
unable to find the key to its mysteries.
My soul, (me) reaching even this high state of attainment
could not penetrate the veil of the inner light,
beyond which lay the holy of holies,
the abode of the Unmanifested Beloved -
the Absolute. Spirit (Thee).
(At this point known only
to the seeker intuitively).
There was a conscious intuitional exchange
between soul (me) and Spirit (Thee).

In the progressive states of Spiritual awakening,
the first experience is superconsciousness,
the realization of the self as soul, individualized Spirit.
In deeper ecstasy, the consciousness enters
Universal consciousness, oneness with the
consciousness of God that is manifested in all creation.
Returning to everyday existence in the physical world
however, this state of union is difficult to maintian
and is sought through the practice of meditation.

The Superconscious Mind

Superconscious awareness constitutes a new state of existence. This shift in awareness begins with a single individual experiencing a singular focal point. Ultimately the transformation is cosmic, not just or merely for the benefit of the individual. It is the collective goal of All That Is.  The Divinization of matter.

It almost always takes an exceptional experience to bring about a glimpse into the Superconscious realm. This may take the form of a tragic loss, a physical illness, accident or near death experience. On occasion it happens spontaneously.   At some point during the experience the mind slips through a portal into the Superconscious realm leaving you with the impression that there is more to life than you originally thought. Once you have had a glimpse of this Superconscious realm you begin to yearn for answers of a different kind. There is a Spiritual hunger now that was not present before. This hunger drives you and seems never to be satisfied.

After years of existing subconsciously you are now aware of another reality - which even a tiny glimpse of is enough to bring about a "knowing" not a belief. This "knowing" is difficult to put into words, almost impossible to describe accurately and meaningless to the uninitiated.

Energy follows intent . . .

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination . . . . . Albert Einstein

Energy follows intent.
Energy arranges matter.
It follows then that when we focus our intent (mental energy) and use our imagination, we have the ability to create as well as arrange matter.

Einstein formulated his famous equation - E = Mc2 - which indicates that matter (M) is but an expression of energy (E).

The surrendering of ego . . . . .

The Ego has no insight, it is nothing more than mind disconnected from Spirit. What the ego thinks it sees, is taking the place of real vision.

When operating from the perspective of ego we lose sight of the perspective of Spirit. This changes how we experience the world on every level. The ego sees the world through the physical eyes and the perspective of seeing or sensing with the heart is lost.

The purpose of Spiritual practice is to realize that ego is what keeps us from experiencing Spirit. Spirit is that aspect of the Self we encounter when fear is conquered. This requires a surrendering, complete trust and absolute faith.

The ego is afraid of Spirit. Once the ego surrenders, power is shared, all control is lost and this is frightening to the ego.

The formation of the universe . . . .

Quantum physics sees everything in terms of being made up of the basic building blocks of nature.
The ultimate insight of quantum physics is that ALL diversity of Nature emerges from one unified field.
Solid objects are simply stable light waves - they are energy molecules vibrating so slowly that they have become solid. Think of a stationary propeller - you can see it, but when it spins at high speed it becomes invisible.

There are only so many building blocks in nature and they constitute everything we see as well as everything we cannot see.
Essentially, the same building blocks are used to create a human form as those used to create a rock or a flower. The only difference being the way the molecules hang together and the speed at which their energy molecules vibrate.
Christians call this unified field God, Hindus call it Brahma. The religious belief of Hindu's hold in reverence each of the manifestations from this unified field. According to Hindu philosophy everything is sacred! Vishnu, the protector, Brahma the creator, and Shiva the destroyer, are three Gods revered as the SUPREME TRINITY by Hindus. Christians believe in a HOLY TRINITY, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

According to Ayurvedic philosophy, which comes from the Vedic Rishis who were spiritually enlightened beings existing more than five thousand years ago, man is a microcosm, a universe within himself. This supports the holographic principal. The Rishis perceived that in the beginning the world existed in an unmanifested state of consciousness, the unified field, otherwise known as God or Brahma.
From this state of unified consciousness, the subtle vibrations of the cosmic soundless "Aum" manifested. This is what our modern day scientists refer to as the reverberation still audible from the "Big Bang". Some followers of the Hindu religion believe that amen from the Christian religion shares roots with the Sanskrit word, aum.
From this vibration of AUM there first appeared the ETHER element. This ether element began to vibrate, to move. Its subtle movements created the AIR element, which is ether in action. John 1:1 Christian Bible - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Similarities can be found between "the word or the sound of God" and the sound Aum which was the movement or vibration from which the material universe manifested from the one unified field according to Ayurvedic philosophy?
The movement of ETHER produced friction and through that friction heat was generated. Particles of heat energy combined to form intense light and from this light the FIRE element manifested.
Through the heat of the fire, certain etheral elements dissolved and liquified, manifesting in the WATER element. The water element then solidified to form the molecules of the EARTH as well as all other solid structures in our universe.

Therefore ETHER manifested into the four elements of AIR, FIRE, WATER and EARTH.
Everything in nature, human beings, the Earth, the planets and everything that God or Brahma (depending on your culture) and we have created is made up of these basic building blocks. THE FIVE ELEMENTS.

This is the basis of Quantum Physics.

The Mantra OM

The mantra OM (AUM) has been handed down to us by the Himalayan sages. It is the most important mantra of Yoga. According to tradition, every "thing" manifest comes from primordial vibration, which is symbolized by OM: All material objects, all living beings, including each of us, all Spiritual teachings, all languages, all scriptures, everything. Everything has come out of primordial vibration which is represented by OM.

This concurs with modern scientific thinking which says that everything - every atom and molecule in every nook and corner of this universe - is formed out of energy vibration. Einstein formulated his famous equation that E = Mc2 - which indicates that matter (M) is but an expression of energy (E).

OM symbolizes the fact that all material objects, all phenomena and all thought patterns, both on a microscopic and macroscopic level, are states of energy vibration.

The Quantum Mechanical Body

The Quantum mechanical body is our connection to heaven while on earth, to the expansive abilities of mind while in a body and to the multi dimensional layers of Spirit while in matter.

We can manifest our desires, heal ourselves as well as others and experience the subtle higher worlds. We can do all this by tapping into the different layers of the quantum mechanical body.

The higher frequencies . . . . . .

"The Etheric template level. The Fifth layer of the human energy field. It is the level at which sound creates matter. These forms exist in negative space. To a medical intuitive these forms appear as clear or transparent lines on a cobalt blue background". B.A. Brennan, A guide to healing through the human energy field.

I was reading about light and colour recently and came across something that made me realize intuitively how ascension actually works at a scientific level. Here is my theory:

Light is produced by the excitation and de-excitation of electrons within the atom. This is how electrons lose or gain energy - by leaping from one energy level to another. This leap is called a “quantum jump”. An electron can only jump to a higher level by absorbing a certain amount of energy. When the electron falls back again towards the nucleus the energy gained in the jump is released as a photon of light. This is how light is produced. An electron falling back through two levels releases more energy than an electron falling back through only one level. This is how light is emitted at a higher frequency, the colours of indigo and violet.

It follows then that since our physical body channels energy (in the form of light) through our light bodies (the chakra system) then the more energy we are able to absorb and release through conscious intention, the sooner we would reach the “quantum jump” atoms achieve, which would move us further "into the light", vibrating at a higher frequency. This demonstrates the holographic principal. That which is achieved at one level is achievable at all levels.
The yogis (the spiritually aware) men and women of India have been telling us for a long time that in order to ascend into higher levels of awareness we need to learn how to consciously channel energy. This is done through meditation, breath control, visualization etc. All these practices have the ability to expand our awareness into higher frequencies and ultimately different dimensions.

Is it not strange however that when someone explains to us what is required in order to access the higher frequencies, if we have had no personal experience of it, we think they are crazy. But when we read about how scientists have studied the behaviour of an electron and know they need to raise their energy levels in order to produce light, we are happy to believe them.

Spiritual sight . . . . . .

When you believe that what you cannot see with your physical eyes does not exist, you deny yourself Spiritual sight.

Therefore, use your body to help you develop your perception to the point of achieving real vision - of which the physical eye is incapable.

Mind is the medium connecting Heaven and earth. When man is conscious of his body he experiences earth. When man is conscious of his Soul, he experiences Heaven. When man is conscious of the workings of the mind he is experiencing that which connects Heaven and Earth.

"We are led to believe a lie when we see with not through the eye,

which was born in a night, to perish in a night, while the Soul slept in beams of light". William Blake - Auguries of innocence.

In the Sufi teachings we read . . . . .

"The message is a call to those whose hour has come to awaken, and it is a lullaby to those who are still meant to sleep.

The Cosmic Mind speaks to the messenger in His divine tongue, and the messenger interprets it in the language of man."

The existence of the Soul . . .

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"I first believed without any hesitation

in the existence of the soul, and then

I wondered about the secret of its nature.

I persevered and strove in search of the soul,

and found at last that I myself

was the cover over my soul.

I realized that in me which believed

and that in me which wondered,

that which persevered in me,

and that which found,

and that which was found at last,

was no other than my soul.

I thanked the darkness

that brought me to the light,

and I valued the veil which prepared for me

the vision in which I saw myself reflected,

the vision produced in the mirror of my soul.

Since then I have seen all souls as my soul,

and realized my soul as the soul of all;

and what bewilderment it was when I realized

that I alone was,

if there were anyone;

that I am whatever and whoever exists, and

that I shall be whoever there will be in the future.

and there was no end to my happiness and joy."

From, The Bowl of Saki by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Death - the return to expanded awareness!

A week ago a friend on mine died in a plane crash in the Congo. Death is so final in the third dimension. The connection to our loved one is severed and we are not equipped to tune into the higher frequencies.

According to Heyoan, the spirit guide of Barbara Ann Brennan “Death is not what we have understood, but a transition from one state of consciousness to another. We have already died in forgetting who we really are.” So in the physical world, although we fear death, we have in fact already died. Forgetting who you really are, that is what death is. The process of death as we know it would be better described as “a transition to greater awareness”. Once your memory is restored you are connected to your Higher Self and cosmic consciousness is experienced. Death is no more than a release of the constricting blanket of consciousness experienced in the physical world. Without the limiting affects of a physical body our consciousness is elevated to a higher frequency and our experience is one of expanded awareness.

Hands of light!

If you were able to experience the high frequency energies around your body this is what your hands would look like. Imagine what you could do with that light/energy? Its Source has created the Cosmos and the supply is never ending!

Symbols - the language of the sub conscious

The language of the conscious mind is a series of images, this differs from the language of the subconscious mind which communicates with the conscious mind by using symbols.

Let me give you an example. I was waiting anxiously to hear whether or not a close family member and her husband would be granted a bond for the house they had made an offer on. After a good nights sleep and on waking I saw the symbol ✓clearly in my mind. At first I did not understand the meaning of the symbol. However, with a little concentration and by examining the content of my mind on waking, I realized I had woken in the middle of a dream about applying for a bond and all that the process entails. The symbol ✓ was the way my subconscious mind was telling me not to worry as the bond would be granted. And sure enough it was a few days later. The conscious mind is subject to the laws of the dimension it is aware of. Since we live in a three dimensional world we experience our thoughts as three dimensional which are subject to time and space. The subconscious mind is not limited by three dimensions and therefore is able to experience the bigger picture.

Start by becoming aware of the images present in your mind on a daily basis. How does your mind process the physical world you are experiencing? Did you even know that you think by visualizing images in your mind. The spoken or written language is a means of expressing or describing the images you are experiencing in your minds eye. We live in a physical world and we are led to believe that we experience our lives through our physical bodies. That is not so. We experience life most vividly through the mental images in our mind as well as the physical sensations we experience in the body.

Living on a Planet of energy

"I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research". . . Albert Einstein

The Cosmic Mind

Slip into the gap, have the desire, release your attachment to the outcome and let the Universe take care of the details. . . . . . Deepak Chopra

Since all minds are joined at the deepest level and since each mind reflects as a mirror what it is focussed on then it follows that if you do not know what you want, how can the Cosmic Mind help you? When your mind reflects exactly what you want the Cosmic Mind gets the picture and begins to set things in motion to help you move toward what you are focused on!

It is that simple! You don't believe me?

Look around you at those people who are successful in one field or another and you will see that they are totally foccussed on what they do! You will also see that most times they really love what they do. This means their focus is coming from the heart which is a much more powerful reflection than that which is centered in the mind alone.

Personality - ego or Real Self, pleasure or joy?

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein

The physical body experiences sensation while the Real Self experiences exaltation. Through sensation one experiences pleasure. Through exaltation one experiences joy. There is a difference between joy and pleasure. Through sensation we experience the pleasure of eating, drinking, seeing beautiful things, hearing beautiful music and touching one another. All the comforts of the physical world are experienced as a physical sensation.

Exaltation or joy is not dependant upon the senses, it is dependant upon tranquility. When the condition of tranquility can be brought about at will the personality or ego self is set free from the addiction to the pleasures of sensation and the Real Self is experienced as joy.

The mind is more the being of the man than the body. The senses experience the outer life while the mind reflects the inner life. This is how we experience one another, not by what we say or do, or by what we look like, but by the atmosphere our presence creates. The mind is like a lantern within the body. It spreads its light wherever it goes. An agitated mind will shed an agitated light or strobe light which is very uncomfortable to experience. The tranquil mind will shed a warm constant glow which is very pleasant when experienced.

Feeling is such an important part of our lives. Our whole life depends upon our feelings. Feeling is a vibration and the heart is the instrument strumming this vibration. If your heart is strumming the vibration of pain, then that pain is experienced by yourself as well as others. If one gives love to someone, the feeling or vibration of love is strummed by the instrument of the heart and experienced by the other person as well as yourself. Once released, all vibrations have the tendency to return in one form or another. It is therefore far better to strum the vibration of love than hatred. Feelings and vibrations are the basis of all our interactions with fellow humans.

Some interactions bring out the best in our personality and some the very worst. We all have had the experience of interacting badly when in the presence of or being confronted by someone whose personality is apposed to our own. The interaction usually leaves us feeling uncomfortable and may even damage our self image. This experience is the opposite to attraction, it is repulsion and this too is based upon the sensation of energy vibration.

When we lose someone we have had a successful and happy long standing interaction with, especially in the case of a parent or partner who we have been close to, we also lose a part of ourselves. This part is the part of our personality which interacted in a unique and special way with the one who is lost. This loss will leave us feeling lonely and may also have us wondering about who we really are? What has happened is that we are no longer receiving the vibration of love being strummed by the heart of the person we have lost. In its place we are experiencing the feeling of grief being strummed by our own hearts.

The Inner Life and the outer life

There are two rhythms in life which we experience, the outer life and the Inner Life. These can also be termed the life of sensation and the life of peace.

The outer life is based upon sensation, disturbance and movement and gives rise to experiences which captivate our attention and focus. We become absorbed in the outer life which is experienced by the “ego self“ and we lose touch with the Inner Life where peace is found.

Those continually seeking to experience life as a sensation want more of that experience. When the “ego self” born of the outer life, becomes dependent upon movement and sensation the inner life, experienced by the Real Self as peace, is lost.

Absorption in the outer life robs us of the peace which is our Divine right. The one who lives absorbed in the outer life, with only intellectual and worldly wisdom remains captivated by the outer world and longs for peace.

A life lived in continual movement and activity is a life lived only on the surface. And a life lived on the surface is a life lived in fear as nothing on the surface lasts. It is all transitory!

It is not the excited, motivated or energetic one who conquers in this continual battle of life. It is the peaceful one who tolerates all, forgives all and understands that a life lived on the surface is a life without depth, a life without trust and a life lived in fear.

The natural rhythm of the Soul is peace. This peace can be experienced deep within the Self. This is the Inner Life. Peace is experienced independently within the Self and is not dependent upon the outer life. This peace is constant and unchanging. It is with us when we come into this world of outer manifestation and it will be with us when we leave our outer world of disturbance.

Peace is experienced by the Real Self in the Inner Life. It is the peaceful one who uncovers the wisdom of the Soul. The peaceful one observes keenly, contemplates and assimilates knowledge and experience until wisdom is earned. Wisdom is found in the peaceful, for peace is the sign of wisdom.

All Spiritual progress in life is dependent upon peace!

The mind as a mirror . . . . .

The “Mind World” is referred to as Aina Khana by some Sufi Poets meaning Palace of Mirrors.

This can be noted more clearly in animals as everything they see takes the form of mirrored reflection. Sight for them is not vision, imagination or thought. It is simply reflection.
This tells us that the language of the animal kingdom is a more natural intuitive form of expression when compared to the language of man. When you look at animal training this becomes obvious. Elephants working with their masters reflect the thoughts of the person who trains them. This is how they know what to do.

When Daniel entered the lions den, it was the calm loving mirrored reflection of his heart that tamed the lions. Animals are very intuitive and reflect their environment. In the presence of love and peace animals cease to be aggressive. Indian Holy men sit for years in caves in the Himalayas with cobras wrapped lovingly around their limbs! This is reflection!

Remember being told not to show fear when facing an aggressive dog. The reflection of fear being mirrored by you makes the dog even more aggressive. The dog does not like to intuitively sense fear. And he senses it in the mirror being reflected by you. The emotion of fear makes the dog even more protective resulting in further aggression or even attack.

Animals know when their owners are dying as the condition is mirrored by their owner and reflected upon them! They experience intuitively the thoughts emotions and feelings of their owner as well as everyone else around them. They are sensing intuitively the reflections being mirrored by these people. To animals this natural means of communication is mirrored and reflected from one to the other. A universal language understood by the animal kingdom.

For humans, the understanding of this subtle language requires a greater awareness of intuitive impulses and promptings.

The mind is like a lake. If there are any disturbances on the surface then what is being mirrored and reflected is distorted. That is why it is so important for man to still the mind. Once his mind is still, man is capable of receiving the reflection being mirrored by other minds.

The mind capable of focus and concentration is a very powerful mirror. Holding the clear picture of a thought in ones mind creates a clear reflection which is mirrored outwards. Other minds will quickly receive the mirrored reflection and sense what the person is thinking. Sometimes they may even start thinking along the same lines.

Does the heart reflect the mind or does the mind reflect the heart? Again, like a mirror, the mind is the surface and the heart is its depth. They are therefore one and the same. If the reflection in the mind comes from the depths of the heart it has more power. Intuitively people sense this. That which is reflected from the depths of the heart reaches greater depth. Where as, that which is reflected from the surface, remains on the surface.

In humans our thoughts turn into pictures and these pictures are mirrored by the thinker. This is what is reflected. Reflection is not like a conversation. In a conversation words are used to convey ideas. This is open to interpretation. In reflection, the idea is reflected in an instant because the idea is present in the form of a picture and this picture is mirrored by the mind receiving it.

Think again before trying to fool anyone! Your thoughts are being reflected outwards from your mind like a mirror.

When the going gets tough . . .

. . . . . the tough start counting their blessings! They also realize, intuitively, that forgiveness removes the invisible wall that separates them from others.

They don't gripe about their lot, no matter how unpleasant. They focus on the positive. They eke out as much good from their situation and dwell upon it!

A shift in how we think releases the power of the mind bringing about a correction in our perception. As our perception changes so does our world, literally! All creation is expressed by the mind. Our greatest asset for changing the world is our mind!

As we change our mind about the world around us we bring about a change in the world around us!

In the presence of forgiveness we change the laws that govern how we think. We transcend ourselves - go beyond our limits. Miracles occur!

As we let go of the fear and embrace love and forgiveness all blockages in our energy body, holding back our personal power, are released. Positive energy floods our lives changing our world and all those who come into it.

Since minds are connected, the correction of any one persons perception, adds to the collective growth of our species.

This puts the challenges we all face into a new perspective! We draw them to ourselves in order to help change the world through our acceptance, love and forgiveness!

Look at what Nelson Mandela achieved.

You have created yourself (your body, not your Soul) in order to help transform the world.

The end of the world is not its destruction but its transformation! The Oxford dictionary defines the word "transformation" as a complete change.

And we are the "transformers", defined in the Oxford dictionary as: a device used to reduce or increase a power supply. We are transformers. We are powerful beyond measure!

Previously scientists toyed with the idea that our physical body somehow learned how to think. They are now coming to the conclusion with the help of quantum physics, that we are our thoughts and that we have created our physical body!

You are what you think!

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the power that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others".

The paragraph above was taken from Marianne Williamson's book A return to love. Reflections on the principles of A Course in Miracles.

The extract was also included in Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech as the first black President of South Africa, after his release from prison in 1994.

We are One!

Forgiveness is an energy dynamic that takes place in the mind and is the ultimate preventative medicine! The mind is the greatest healer!

Negative energy in the form of anger, self doubt, self hatred, etc. as well as negative emotions brought into our lives by the challenges we face are an opportununity to transform our world and ultimately "the world" through forgiveness.

Energy cannot be destroyed it can however be miraculously transformed by the mind!

That is why we were born! That is why we are here! We are energy transformers!

Now, is that not a highly responsible job? It is the job we all share and are equally responsible for in order to help our species evolve.

Changing negative energy into a positive form is automatically and immediately shared.

Transforming negative energy into positive energy will assist the evolution of our species into the higher realms of existence!

All minds are joined at a deep level. This explains why we are able to sense the discomfort or danger others are facing, even though they may be thousands of miles away. This sense of awareness is usually more evident when involving those we know personally.

Scientists are beginning to discover the oneness that lies beyond our perceived reality.

It is the arrogance of the ego that would have us believe that we are separate and alone and what we cannot perceive does not exist. We must not allow ourselves to be fooled!

Listen to the small voice from within - it is the Intuitive Self guiding you! The intuitive self will not try to deceive you, it has your own as well as everyone elses interests at heart.

The greatest service we can do for anyone in pain is to hold them in our mind!

We are not alone,

Minds are joined,

We are One!

More about the false center or ego self . . .

“We all sit around in a ring and suppose, while the secret lies in the middle and knows.” Robert Frost.

The ego self or false self, is always looking for attention, for recognition and for validation.

The ego self thrives on attention. It is totally dependant on others for the attention it needs and when positive attention is lacking, negative attention will do. No attention at all is totally unacceptable to the ego self!

For the person who has lost touch with the Real Self or Intuitive Self, they identify fully with the ego self and these people become slaves to and totally dependent on the attention of others!

This is how some people exist. Even when people are abusive towards them it is better than not having any attention being paid to them at all!

The real beggar is the one who begs for attention! The real King is the one who lives from within, sensing his connection to the Real Self.

Whenever you feel miserable, close your eyes and try to find out where your misery is coming from.

You will find it is coming from the ego self, which has somehow been shaken.

Egos are always in conflict with other egos as every ego is unsure of itself.

The more unsure some egos are, the more these egos will try to fool others by appearing confident!

The path towards the Intuitive Self is a path passing through the territory of the ego self, where, very often intuitive nudges are hijacked!

It is very easy to identify the ego in others. But that is not the point. The point is to be able to identify when YOUR ego is in control.

Start looking out for your own ego, not the ego in others, as that is really none of your business.

A Zen master was walking down a street one day when a man running in the opposite direction knocked him down. The Zen master got up and continued walking in the same direction as before without even turning around.

A passing man was shocked by what had happened and asked the master. “Who was that man? Are you not angered by the way he has treated you?” The master answered, “I am not angry, his behaviour is his problem, not mine!”

Ego or intuitive nudge?

Several distinctive qualities make your intuition different from your imagination. The most important being: Intuition does not explain itself! All you get is an idea and the urge to act!

Your logical rational mind on the other hand, needs to reason everything! Herein lies the difference, as intuition does not! In other words ... if there is no reasoning, it's your intuition guiding you.

Your mind, which is really the ego, is going to resist your intuition every step of the way. This is why so many intuitive nudges are ignored!

What then is ego? Your ego is a reflected version of how society and those closest to you actually see you. The ego is established and develops as we do. Babies and young children have no ego. Their awareness is of the real Self (the inner self) looking outwards at a world outside of themselves.

As children grow up however and begin to interact more and more with their parents, peers, and society, they begin to identify with who they are, in relation to what others think of them. At this early age we lose touch with our sense of Self and begin to identify with our ego which is established through what is being reflected back at us by those around us. This is how we lose our sense of the real Self, which is the inner Self, the real immortal Self and the Source of all intuitive nudges. When you trust in yourself, you trust in the wisdom that created you!

The ego is totally dependent upon others and being accepted by the society we live in. This is why a poor self image, results from the way other people see and treat us. A poor self image establishes itself when we do not have a strong intuitive link to the real Self, the true Self or what is sometimes referred to as the Soul Self.

The collective unconscious

"No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses the great treasure of a thing that has provided him with a source of life, meaning and beauty and that has given a new splendour to the world and to mankind." C.G. JUNG

Through lack of scientific proof our culture does not recognize a dimension of reality beyond the physical universe and labels any reference to one as “taboo.” Nor does our culture acknowledge any form of consciousness transcendant to our own. This leaves us with nothing to connect us to something beyond ourselves. There is a growing need within the human psyche to bridge the gap between the physical reality we know and the unseen reality referred to as Soul or Spirit or God.

Carl Jung’s contribution to our understanding of the human psyche is that he found it to be accessible through what he referred to as the “collective unconscious.”

Carl Jung realized that man knew of and understood very little of this “other side”, man’s deeper ground. He diagnosed neurosis as a state of incompleteness and realized that real health represented a state of wholeness. This wholeness was brought about through reconnection of the left hemispheric mind, the logical rational side, with the unrecognized and essential counterpart of itself, the intuitive side. Jung wrote, “In the end the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world interrupted into this transitory one”.

Jung’s theories have re-awakened a curiosity in man to discover this concept of Soul.

Normal waking consciousness is but one type of consciousness. Parted from it by the most delicate of screens, lie other forms of consciousness entirely different. Most of us go through life without ever discovering their existence but when we apply the required stimulus whether by choice or by accident they appear to our wonder and amazement.

The problems facing modern man are rooted in the increasing polarization between the conscious mind and the unconscious, between thinking and feeling, mind and Soul. The disassociation of the rational mind from the primordial or instinctual one is a growing danger to humanity. The more dependent we are upon reason and the rational logical mind, the more our instinctual side appears to drive and overwhelm us. We need to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious elements of man’s psyche. We need to convey a sense of wholeness through the acknowledgement of the multifaceted nature of man. In separating nature from Spirit and excluding Soul from physical matter an essential part of man’s wholeness has been lost.

The wholeness of mans nature is available to us through the founding of a relationship with a deeper center of consciousness. By establishing a dialogue with the unconscious, we are able to develop Spiritual insight.

More and more people are finding that our belief system of the past no longer serves us. What we need is a pathway to Spirituality grounded in introspection, self-knowledge, and intuitive insight. This belief system should include an ethical responsibility to life in all its forms - both the seen and the unseen.

The evolution of man’s psyche has brought about the gradual differentiation of consciousness from the purely instinctual and unconscious drive of an animal, to the development of the capacity for reflection through a highly skilled intellect. Through the process of evolution however our most fundamental aspects have been shattered. We have separated mind from body and spirit from nature. We have lost our sense of interdependency and our participation in a sacred universal contract.

As with all species living on planet earth at the deepest level we are connected. In addition to holding instinctual drives, the collective unconscious pools all intellectual experience. The collective unconscious is the heritage of our species and what each individual does affects the whole.

Self-awareness grounded in Soul is our connection to a new Spirituality.

The psyche of modern man is once again awakening to the fact that the Spirit is not something separate from the body but is the life force itself. Man is not something separate from nature. Man is a part of nature, a part of this universal intelligence. We are only now beginning to awaken to our interdependency - to the necessity of the interconnectedness of all aspects of life.

Einstein understood this as he wrote “A human being is part of the whole we call universe. A part limited in time and space. Man experiences himself as something separate from the whole, a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This delusion has imprisoned us. We are restricting ourselves to our personal desires and to the affection of only a few persons who are nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this illusion by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Body and mind, or matter and psyche are two aspects of an underlying intelligence using them as vehicles of expression. The psyche of man extends into a dimension beyond time and space and there is a continuity between the physical world and this other dimension. An awareness of the connection between ourselves and the infinite, is an essential part of the development and evolution of our individual psyche as well as for the collective benefit to our species.

Every thought we have affects every cell in our body in turn affecting the whole of nature. Human consciousness is at the very heart of our universe. Since the nature of consciousness is the key to our awareness of this other dimension then a study which welcomes the experiences of each and every one of us including our feelings, insights, intuitive promptings and imagination is long overdue.

Wisdom

“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom, through the grace of God.” . . . Eascalus

Wisdom is not anything that can be learned – the only way to acquire wisdom is to earn it.

The ability to accept and grow from life’s lessons is the beginning of wisdom. Sometimes when we cry out to life for the answers we receive wisdom through a life challenging lesson. It is through wisdom that a tragedy becomes a teaching. This is the way of wisdom. It teaches us how to understand and learn through acceptance.

Sometimes we have no control over the life situations we face. Our control lies in how we react to the life situations we face.

The way to take control of your life is by beginning to live it consciously, compassionately, joyously and with love. We were not born to live in pain. We can choose to learn through pain or joy. We were born to learn how to transform our lives through a greater understanding of the Divine and the way to do that is through developing Self-knowledge.

Learning to listen

Intuition is Soul guidance appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is quiet.





The trick is learning to listen to the silence. There is nothing mysterious about meditation and anyone who has thought deeply about any one idea or focused intently on a personal problem has unconsciously been meditating. As a tool of the mind however, meditation is much more effective if you are able to consciously turn it on and off at will.
There are a number of fears and misconceptions surrounding meditation. One such misconception is that it is very difficult and great efforts of concentration are needed. Others believe that they may lose control or float away and yet another objection is that meditation is some form of religious practice.
So, what exactly is meditation and how does one learn to turn it on and off at will?
Perception, conscious choice and intuition are all employed on the path of meditation, creating the awareness of our thoughts and emotions as being the disturbance separating us from our profound peaceful selves and the wisdom within. The goal of meditation therefore is to calm the mind so that it may hear, without distortion, the infallible counsel of the inner voice or Soul. It is the simple process of reversing the outward flow of energy in the form of thoughts until the mind, no longer dependent upon sensory perception, becomes the dynamic receptor of energy in the form of “pure awareness” which is the experience of Truth.

Meditation, sometimes referred to as the “royal path of yoga” (yoga being the science of Self-realization) involves working towards mastering consciousness by stilling the flow of thoughts and emotions passing through our conscious awareness. By doing this, we seek alignment with an overriding state of serenity beyond the disturbance of our thoughts and emotions.

The first step towards reaching this state of serenity beyond our thoughts and emotions is to recognize that our emotions are the false layers often referred to as “veils”, which obscure the True Self. We are not trying to deny our emotions their reality, we are seeing them for what they are, temporary ripples of disturbance. Once we become aware of our thoughts and emotions as they arise we can learn how to dismantle and dissolve them.

What we are aiming at in doing this, is the opening of the subconscious mind. Through the subconscious, we are able to reach the highest “super conscious experience” or what is sometimes termed universal consciousness. In order to get from the conscious state of “ego” to the state of higher awareness via the subconscious, we use the mind as a bridge to cross the expanse dividing the two.

Meditation is therefore not forcing the mind to be quiet it is finding the quiet that is already there. It is allowing the waking, conscious, thinking mind to stop thinking. When we permit this to happen our attention focuses on the peaceful, unchanging level we call the Self. When we become consciously aware on this deeper level of Self, we infuse our mind with the same peace and silence. In this silence the mind has transcended the activity of thinking. At first this will only happen very briefly. With regular practice however the waking mind will begin to let go of any thoughts and emotions resting peacefully in this gentle state of pure awareness.

Each time you go into a state of meditation it will take you deeper and deeper inside yourself where you will experience a place untouched by fear or negativity. This place is a very real part of you.

Why is this connection to the silent deeper level of Self so important? Because silence is the birthplace of happiness! In this silence we receive our bursts of creative inspiration, intuitive insights, tender feelings of compassion and empathy and a total sense of joy. These delicate feelings, emotions and intuitive flashes are easily drowned out by the chaotic roar of our internal dialogue or ego and never reach our conscious awareness.

There are many different meditative techniques but the basic requirements of all forms are :

· breath control

· a relaxed body

· a quiet mind

Find a quiet place somewhere in your home where you will not be disturbed. It need not be a large space - a comfortable chair in one corner of your bedroom will be all you need. Try to meditate in the same place and at the same time everyday. This will assist your mind in letting go as it will associate the time and place with relaxation. Meditation in the morning will help prepare your mind for the day and meditation in the evening will help rid your body of tension and your mind of mental activity before sleep.
Begin your meditative session by making yourself comfortable either sitting erect or lying flat. It is important to keep your spine straight in either position. Close your eyes and focus your attention on your breath. Do not try to alter it in any way. Just observe your breath as it enters and leaves your body. Sense a letting go of thoughts, emotions and any tensions with each exhalation. Do this for five or six minutes.

Awareness of the breath is one of the most basic and widely practiced forms of meditation. It is particularly effective for calming the mind and releasing the body from tension arising from anxiety and confusion. It helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which exerts a calming influence on the muscles of the body. Focusing your attention on the breath also helps disengage thought and leads the mind effortlessly and naturally to more subtle levels of awareness. As the breath comes and goes in one’s awareness, the mind begins to seek more subtle levels of thought until eventually all thought is left behind. At this point we say the mind has transcended. The mind is now in touch with its own deepest nature – pure awareness.

When your mind begins to wander or you experience distracting thoughts permit these thoughts to pass on through your conscious awareness without allowing them to hold your attention. Experience every new thought that enters your mind as something you have the conscious choice to focus on or not. When you do not focus on the content of the thought it will pass on through your mind without causing too much of a disturbance to your growing awareness of inner peace.

Mental exercise is no different from physical exercise and it will take perseverance and regular practice in order to see results. Sessions should not be too long to begin with as you may find yourself becoming bored or falling asleep. Start with five or ten minutes and build up your mental stamina slowly. Work towards a forty-five minute session at least three times a week. With regular practice it will become easier, your concentration will improve and your nervous system will benefit from the periods of relaxation and stillness.

"The beautuful things in life cannot be seen or heard, they must be felt with the heart." . . . . Helen Keller

The human energy system

"Not only is the universe more complicated than we suppose but it is more complicated that we can suppose." Albert Einstein

Light or energy is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Light visible to the human eye, occupies that part of the electromagnetic spectrum from a wavelength of 0.000038 cm to 0.000076 cm. There is nothing sacred about light that occupies that part of the electromagnetic spectrum outside of this range, it is just that for practical purposes we cannot see it.

When dispersed by a prism, light is seen to be composed of various colours ranging from red, having the longest wavelength through to orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet having the shortest wavelength. Just beyond the range of human vision at either end of the light spectrum, are the higher frequency colours of ultraviolet and the lower (?) frequency colours of infrared.

It was thought by many around the end of the 19^th century that a medium was necessary for light to travel through, just as sound waves must have a medium. This medium was called the “ether.”

Einstein’s theory of relativity postulates that the speed of light is dependent upon the motion of its source. In layman’s terms this means simply that the wavelength or colour of light is dependent upon the density or vibrational frequency of its source during refraction.

When light enters a glass prism, it’s vibrational frequency is slowed down by the density of the glass. Inside the prism the light is split into different frequencies or colours. Since each frequency or colour has a different wavelength they are each bent at slightly different angles. Those colours with the shorter wavelengths are bent at a greater angle than those colours with longer wavelengths.

Not only do colours have different wavelengths, they also have different temperatures. This was discovered by the scientist William Herschel, in 1800. The difference in the temperature of colour is due to the fact that each colour is vibrating at a different frequency and producing a different wavelength.

This was brought home to me when I was told the following story by a chemistry teacher. She had been a volunteer caring for disabled children. One day, one of the children a little girl aged about twelve, who was born blind, turned to her excitedly and said “ OOOH you are wearing my favourite colour!” My teacher was astonished! She looked at her in amazement. The child could sense the vibrational frequency of the colour she was wearing and knew exactly what it “felt” like. In fact it was her favourite “feeling” but she called it colour as that was how she had learned to interpret it.

Life is a sensory experience! Sometimes when our sense perception is compromised our sensory experience is heightened as in the case of the blind child.

According to the quantum theory of light, developed by Albert Einstein and Max Planck, at the beginning of the 20^th century, light is emitted and absorbed into tiny bundles of energy called quanta. Light quanta or photons as they are sometimes called, provided the first example of particle-wave duality. This is important to what I am building up to, so please bear with me. When interacting with matter, the tiny bundles of light energy, known as photons or quanta, behave like particles. When travelling through space however they behave like waves.

So, what has all this to do with the human energy field and our intuitive experiences?

The physical body is exactly like a glass prism. It absorbs light waves turning them into tiny bundles of energy particles and refracts these tiny bundles of energy particles back into the ether in the form of light waves. We have all met someone we did not like and could not understand why. It is because the tiny bundles of light energy being refracted by their body did not “feel” good when they passed through ours.

Just as a glass prism breaks up white light into separate colours so does the human body break up white light or energy into separate colours through a system known as the chakra system. When white light (energy) enters one of the seven major chakra’s, its vibrational frequency is slowed down by the density of physical matter. Each chakra is responsible for intercepting and transforming energy and refracting it back into the ether as a wavelength or frequency displaying a distinctive colour.

These colours emanating from the body are not seen by the human eye as their frequency wavelength lies outside the normal range of human perception.

We are truly beings of light. Through the medium of a physical body we absorb and transform energy (light) into different frequencies and refract it back into the ether.

For centuries, it has been claimed that all living creatures have a life force or energy (light) body surrounding them. This vital life force, which psychics call the aura, is now known to create order in living systems. This energy is able to influence cellular patterns of growth in both positive and negative directions and it is constantly building and re-building the cellular structure of our bodies. Life-force flows through the body as if it were following an invisible circulatory system, charging every cell in its path. With the help of Kirlian photography, modern science now has empirical proof of its existence and that every living cell is surrounded and nourished by it.

The seven major energy centers in the human body namely the chakras are where the life force, (light or energy whatever you prefer to call it) is transformed, slowing it down to a frequency level where energy sustains and becomes matter, giving us our life experience.

The following information about the chakra system will help you understand how the transformation of energy into matter takes place when creating the human life experience.

The chakras, exist within the energy body interpenetrating the physical body. The energy body can be measured as an electromagnetic force field composed of light or energy. The word chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning “wheel” or “disk” and denotes a point of intersection between energy and matter - or, consciousness and body.

The chakras are where the energy of our emotions and thoughts meet and interact with our physical body. The emotion of love for example related to the fourth chakra is felt in the center of the chest. As the heart chakra opens to receiving love, it fills with the life force. We experience the physical sensation of swelling or bursting with happiness. When our hearts are broken however, a physical pain is felt in the same area, as our heart chakra shuts down repelling energy and losing power as though it were punctured, leaving us feeling powerless and depleted.

Energy entering each chakra is associated with a form of consciousness and we experience this exchange of energy as sight, sound, sensory experience and intuitive knowledge.

Any blockage in the bodies energy system distorts our perception, numbs our feeling and sensory experience and generally dampens our experience of life.

As a human being grows from a baby into adulthood, the chakras develop according to the psychological pattern unfolding in the individual’s life.

Whenever we experience anything unpleasant our natural instinct is to try to block or numb our feelings. This inhibits the natural flow of energy though our system causing blockages. Someone who is continually rejected when trying to give or receive love, will eventually try to stop the energy flow from the fourth or heart chakra resulting in emotional withdrawal and the possibility of the physical manifestation of disease in that area.

When functioning normally the chakras are fully “open’ and spin in a clockwise direction drawing the life force needed into the energy field.

When the chakra s are spinning counterclockwise however, the life force is repelled eventually compromising the metabolic process at cellular level. This chakra is then seen to be “closed” to incoming energies.

This is how we create our individual life experience. Everything has a vibrational frequency. Love has a certain vibration, fear has a different vibration to love. Money has a vibration, generosity has a vibration, anger has a vibration, jealousy has a vibration etc, etc.

The vibrational frequencies entering your energy field are dependent upon those of your chakras, which are open and spinning in a clockwise direction. Those chakras spinning in an anti clockwise direction are repelling vibrational frequencies away from you, sending them out into the cosmos for someone else who is “open” to absorb and transform.

The following is a brief description of each of the seven major chakras, where they are located in the energy body and their psychological and energic function in relation to the physical body.

Chakra One: Located at the base of the spine, it faces downwards. The base chakra is red in colour therefore having the longest wavelength. In Sanskrit it is called Muladhara, meaning root support. The vibrational frequency being slower and it’s density heavier than the other chakras. Energy transformed by this chakra is associated with the adrenal glands and is responsible for our physical survival. E.g. The flight or fight response.

Chakra Two: Located in the lower abdomen halfway between the sex organs and the navel. Having the colour orange, it is known as Svadhisthana in Sanskrit, meaning sweetness. Energy transformed by this chakra is associated with the male and female sex organs, sexuality and our emotions.

Chakra Three: Located in the solar plexus. It’s colour is yellow. In Sanskrit it is known as Manipura meaning lustrous gem, is associated with the adrenal glands as well as the pancreas. Energy transformed by this chakra is responsible for our feelings of personal power, mental activity, self will and self esteem.

Chakra Four: Located in front of the sternum. It’s colour is green. Known in Sanskrit as Anahata meaning unstruck it is associated with the thymus gland. Energy transformed by this chakra is responsible for our feelings of love.

It is worth noting here that the first three chakras are largely associated with the phycial body, whereas chakra’s five, six and seven are connected to and associated with our Spiritual aspect. Chakra number four, the heart chakra, is seen as the bridge uniting these two aspects of our nature.

Chakra Five: Located in the throat area, it’s colour is cobalt blue. Known in Sanskrit as Visuddha meaning purification. Energy transformed by this chakra is responsible for communication and how we express ourselves both verbally and creatively.

Chakra Six: Located in the center of the forehead. Sometimes known as the “third eye” it’s colour being indigo. The Sanskrit name is Ajna meaning to perceive. It is associated with the pineal gland and energy transformed by this chakra is responsible for our imagination, visualization, vision, intuition and clairvoyance.

Chakra Seven: Located at the top of the head it faces upwards, The colour of this chakra is violet and in Sanskrit it is known as Sahasrara, meaning thousandfold. Energy transformed by this chakra is associated with the pituitary gland and is responsible for our spiritual knowledge, wisdom, understanding and transcendent consciousness.

You will have noted by now, that the colours of the chakras in the human energy field correspond to those seen in the colour spectrum of light when it is passed through a glass prism!

We really are beings of light. Our bodies refract light. Consciousness enters our body in the form of energy or light where it is transformed and sent back out into the cosmos. In other words, you create your own reality through how you transform or refract consciousness in the form of light or energy.

The sixth chakra, situated in the middle of the forehead, is responsible for transforming energy associated with telepathy or intuitive knowledge. Frequencies associated with this chakra are known as higher vibrational frequencies as they are coming from a higher source of awareness or consciousness - i.e. they have a faster vibration. When the sixth chakra is open and fully functional we are able to tune into and intercept information on a vibrational frequency at this Higher level of awareness.

My very first experience of knowingly receiving intuitive knowledge came to me in a dream many years ago. I was worried about someone close to me who was about to embark on a business trip to China. He had been invited to attend an international conference on global energy. It was during the latter half of the eighties and there was a lot of unrest in China after the Tiananmen square incident. This particular night I had gone to bed feeling very unsettled about the impending trip. A few hours later I awoke from a dream in which I had seen a rainbow. The strange thing about the rainbow was that it was only three or four inches long. Stranger still was the message conveyed to me by the rainbow. Intuitively I knew it was symbolic of a safe passage and return journey from China for my partner.

Now I know what you are thinking, “that sounds silly” and I agree with you it does. The profound thing about the dream was the “feeling” I experienced on seeing the rainbow. It was a feeling of ABSOLUTE certainty. Not even the tiniest hint of a doubt was in my mind. I was one hundred percent sure of the significance of the “four inch” rainbow. It meant a safe passage to China for my partner. Simply that, there was no maybe, perhaps or possibly. In fact I could say with confidence that the entire journey would run exactly as planned. There were to be no delayed flights, no lost luggage or any hitches along the way.

It is very difficult to convey an experience like this to someone who has never had one. Those of you who have had similar experiences will know what they “feel” like and understand why there is no room for doubt? This is intuitive knowledge and it comes from an aspect of the Self, rooted in Higher consciousness or awareness.

Information coming from this source is transformed by the sixth chakra or the “third eye. “ It is not uncommon for it to be presented symbolically as this seems to be the universal language of the human psyche. Most importantly though, is the “feeling” attached to the symbol or symbols as they are presented.