No Time For Karma Stepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggle by © Paxton Robey
Chapter 3 "THE PRIME DIRECTIVE"
and other Cosmic Concepts
The transformation and the awakening of the planet that we
observe taking place when we see dictatorships falling, earth
days gaining in popularity and people openly discussing
relationships is not a random thing. It does not happen solely
because the calendar says that it is time for the Aquarian Age. It is happening because entities like yourself have taken on
bodies and immersed themselves in the telepathic pool of energy
that surrounds this planet. Let me explain.
Cosmic
Isolationism
This is a closed school system. As far as group consciousness
is concerned, it is isolated from the rest of our galaxy. Just as
any private school will have its own educational objectives and
its own board of directors and will aim at recruiting a certain
type of student, so does our earth school. In the schools that we
are familiar with, the general public is allowed to elect the
school board but they are not allowed to usurp the functions of
the teachers, the principal, or the school board members. If a
person desires to teach the students himself, he must apply for
the position of teacher and submit a resume. It is the same with
earth school.
To assist planet earth a person must respect the prime
directive. Perhaps you remember the prime directive from the Star
Trek series. It states that according to cosmic law, no
civilization or group of entities is allowed to come from outside
of a system and impose change upon that system, regardless of how
enlightened they may be. It is simply not possible to alter
consciousness in a closed system without joining and
participating in the system.
The prime directive prevents outsiders from interfering in a
process they aren't familiar with. It forces participation if one
wants to help. Why else would a master choose to incarnate on
this plane of reality? If a Buddha or a Sai Baba could sit on
some cosmic throne and dictate happiness and good will among men,
they certainly would do so. The reason that they are not allowed
to is because it would violate the free will of the individuals
whose collective consciousness has created the system in the
first place. So they put on bodies and drop in to planet earth
for an occasional visit. As participants in earth energy they can
help alter reality on behalf of their family.
The masters understand that all minds are one mind and all
hearts are one heart and that we all dwell in the same
"telepathic pool" of energy. Any incarnate person,
master or not, who possesses mental and emotional peace
impregnates group consciousness with peace. Therefore when we, as
incarnate beings, learn to be peaceful, loving and joyful, we
make that available to every other incarnated soul on the planet. That is all that any master teacher has ever been able to do -
make their consciousness available. And on the side they do a
little magic. They walk on water and raise the dead. It is just a
good show to attract attention so that people will say "I
want to learn how to do that too."
If change on earth cannot come from outside of the system then
who is going to heal this planet? Change must be initiated by
human beings who are presently living on earth. But it cannot
come from people who follow old patterns every day. People who
live within the framework of society's accepted limitations can't
bring peace and joy and unlimitedness into the third dimension. They don't know that those things even exist! They don't know
that there are unseen beings and parallel universes. Becoming a
master means to be willing to give up the programming of the
world in favor of a greater understanding. The only individuals
who can shift reality towards inner and outer peace are those
with awareness. That is why enlightened persons put on bodies. That is why Mozart, Michelangelo, and Einstein came here. And it
is why you are here.
Earth
School Drop-Ins
Not everyone uses the earth school as their primary path of
growth. Some people only come to this planet when it is at a
critical stage in history and needs help. These folks don't
really qualify as twelfth graders. They are more like
"drop-ins." When things get really sticky, this group
says, "Uh oh, they're stuck again. Let's descend on the
planet. We'll incarnate one more time to infuse that telepathic
pool with our energy." A sizable number of souls have
responded to that call in recent years. And many of us don't even
relate to past lives on the earth because we have not been here
enough times to have learned to walk across the street and chew
gum at the same time. Some have absolutely no concept of how to
be "successful" or how to be a part of the "in
group". We forget that the highly successful individuals in
the world are the ones who do earth all of the time. The ones
whose karma keeps them returning to earth over and over and over
are the ones who have figured out how to get along in this place. They know all of the worldly rules. This is the "in
group", the most envied individuals on the planet. Although
they are very adept at being earth, they are not yet ready for
being heaven. Those who incarnated to be spiritual teachers
(twelfth-graders and drop-ins) on the other hand, are ready to
step forth and walk hand in hand with every ascended master who
has ever touched this earth.
Heaviness
Does Not Negate Our Value
Being incarnate can feel very heavy and confusing. It doesn't
mean that we are not the light. We often have a tendency to
belittle ourselves by asking "Who me? I can't even make my
life work! How could I be a way-shower on this planet?" That
tendency to engage in self put down is part of the oppression and
confusion that has reigned over group consciousness for ages and
ages. We are ready to stop belittling ourselves.
We came here with a mission. Before incarnation there was a
radiance about each of us. Our chakras were balanced and open. We
thought that the purpose of an open heart center was to pour out
love. We said "We'll go in there and inundate them with
love, compassion, peace and good will. The planet will be
transformed when we leave." Then, immediately upon entering
the physical body, we were bombarded by the anger, fear, guilt,
doubt and anxiety that has turned this planet's telepathic pool
into a conglomerate of goopy, grayish green, yucky garbage. It is
a cesspool down here and when we come in with our chakras wide
open, all of the garbage just flows right in. Not yet
understanding how the system worked, most of us claimed all or
part of that yucky stuff as our own. We say, "I'm not
spiritual enough to stay balanced. I still have guilt so I must
be a bad person."
The garbage does not belong to us, we did not create it - we
simply forgot to close the door (our chakras) when we got here. When you enter a swimming pool you get wet. When you enter a
telepathic pool you get connected with average consciousness.
When highly evolved beings come into the earth they nearly
always crash and burn. They find out by the time that they are
three or four or five years old that this place hurts too much,
so they begin to withdraw and shut down. They ask, "Why the
hell didn't you give me an operating manual with the body when
you sent me in here? Why didn't you tell me that it was going to
be like this? I don't know what to do with this stuff."
Well, we did also opt to do a little learning while we were
here. Earth is the most expedient school in the universe. Even a
Jesus took an extra class or two before he switched into his
teaching mode. In order to take those extra credit courses, it is
not fair to have the operating manual in advance. If we did we
would know that it is all an illusion because page one of the
manual says "always remember that nothing you see is
real." Everyone who has come into the earth has forgotten
page one when they crashed and burned. But that period in our
lives is over now. It is time for us to recall how to control our
own realities.
Average
Consciousness
The twelfth graders and drop-ins are now ready to clean up
this cesspool of consciousness. If you worry that you are not
doing enough good simply by being here, I would suggest that you
review average group consciousness. You need only turn on your
television set. Ratings dictate that the programming be attuned
to the most average thought. Television is a perfect barometer of
the average consciousness. It is soap opera, drama, murder and
the evening news. Let me assure you that just by existing at the
level of understanding that you have right now, you are a savior
to this earth. You do enough sunset gazing and inspirational work
to ensure your usefulness. Your brain is the transmitter which
offers energy and thought patterns at a frequency that the masses
of humanity can pick up. Every lofty thought that we have
contributes to the uplifting of the planet. With our usefulness
ensured, we can focus on attaining a decent comfort level in
which to do our work.
Our comfort level has nothing to do with the size of our
house. Our comfort level in this incarnation is directly
proportional to our ability to recognize our level of awareness
as compared to average group consciousness. That may seem like a
separative way of thinking, but we must accept that we are
teachers to the younger students in this school. If we were to
survey the various classes we would see that there is a desperate
mass of humanity begging us to be true to ourselves and to share
our intuitive wisdom.
There are also those who are threatened by spiritual concepts. They may try to belittle our view of reality by saying that we
are naive. When those criticisms come, we always have the choice
to believe them or not. The critics speak out of their own fear
and uncertainty. We know that their words come from their
insecurity because if they were awake and thought someone were
mistaken they would merely flood them with light. Enlightened
beings do not attack, nor do they defend. The fact that people
react to any situation by expressing fear clearly indicates that
they are here to be students. They can't yet remember
experiencing unconditional love.
There is also the majority of humanity who are not our
students directly. Although the master teachers did come for
everybody, and each of us also came to help everyone, including
those who still believe in loss, tragedy and struggle, we did not
necessarily come to speak to them face to face. There is a
trickle down effect associated with any form of teaching. When
you teach folks, they in turn will teach and they will teach. The
message will eventually be felt by every individual who is
incarnated on the planet. We cannot speak to them directly
because, at their present level of understanding, they cannot
comprehend the simplicity of spiritual truth. We sometimes think
of Jesus as being discompassionate because when the woman came to
him and said "Master give to me of your teachings" he
replied "Hold it lady, I didn't come here for you. You are
only a seventh grader. I came for the children of Israel, the
most enlightened of seekers who have reverence for cosmic
law." Okay, its a paraphrase, but it makes an important
point. No master teacher came to earth to start a religion or a
mass movement or to evangelize. We too must choose who we can
communicate with and who does not have the reference points to
hear words which are devoid of fear.
The
Importance of Support Groups
There are many people on the planet now who are crying out for
teachers. Teachers today have plenty of opportunity to share
knowledge and understanding with those who are seekers, just as
Jesus did. But we have a much easier time than he did because
there are more awakened people on the planet now. We can surround
ourselves with a large support group. Every master teacher who
has ever come to the earth has gathered a support group. They
were aware of what the density of this telepathic pool can do to
you when you come in here wide open. Alone, nobody could enter
the earth and walk on water and raise the dead. It simply cannot
be done without a great deal of support.
Before Jesus would incarnate, he had a little discussion with
the hierarchy. They said to him "Hey, Jesus, you have to go
in there. It's the Piscean Age and every time that age arrives a
graduate of earth school volunteers to incarnate and restate the
spiritual teachings. That way all of the students in the tenth,
eleventh and twelfth grade can learn what it takes to graduate by
the time the Aquarian Age rolls around." Jesus finally
agreed to be born in Bethlehem for two reasons. First, he needed
to enter the earth so he could continue his mastership
training (do a little post graduate work) and, second, humanity
needed him to be here to hold in mind a picture of what the
planet could become.
Finding a support group for him was not easy. They had to dig
hard to come up with twelve who could form a sacred space for him
to do his work. They finally struck a deal and he said,
"Okay, I'll go in if you will create for me a
micro-environment of pink fuzzy light that I can crawl inside of
when the density begins to wear me down." Twelve disciples
and two or three hundred members of the Essene community
volunteered to be his support group and create a sacred space for
him.
We need to stay as close to the light as possible because when
we are immersed in group consciousness, it is entirely possible
for any one of us to be as mistaken and tyrannical as any entity
on the earth in any given moment. We are vulnerable when we come
in here open. Even Jesus who was overshadowed by the Christ
energy -- which is about as protected as you can get -- could
only spend a few days at a time in the crowd. Over and over again
in the Bible it says that he withdrew and went to the mountain
top to recharge his batteries. If someone of his evolution was
not able to remain immersed in this telepathic pool of energy
without retreating, then we will certainly have to do the same.
"Where two or more are gathered in my name, there you
will find good vibes." I believe that is also a paraphrase,
but the point is that all light workers must gather in groups and
play together, support one another and live in each other's auric
fields.
To Fix
Or Not To Fix, That Is The Question
Some of us get confused about our roles as way-showers on the
earth. We sometimes get bogged down in a sense of responsibility
that we have to save everybody on the planet, meaning that we
have to be with them and fix them and listen to their dramas. If
we truly love our family and friends, especially our children and
parents, we won't try to fix them, even if it is "for their
own good". Needing to fix people who are close to us is an
ego trip of the most painful kind. Believing that we can
fix anybody is an error in judgment. If it were possible for one
entity to fix another entity then God, or one of God's
representatives, would have surely fixed you and me by now. It
can't happen in that way.
We feel a need to control other people's behavior because
their behavior makes us uncomfortable, not because it
hurts them. We feel a need to control other people's behavior
because we don't understand the purpose of earth school. We don't
understand or believe that altering other peoples consciousness
is a job that belongs to the universe, not us. We don't believe
that God could be so powerful and so loving that everything,
including our family, could be okay just the way it is.
Attempting to modify the behavior of individuals or groups has
never worked on this planet for one simple reason - the law of
the cosmos states that consciousness creates reality in
three dimension time-space. One cannot create peace in a family
unless he has a consciousness of peace. That is not the
consciousness most of us are experiencing at the moment we are
trying to correct our family's unpeaceful ways.
Pointing out faults has never fixed a fault. There are no
faults, only perceptions. No master teacher ever told any
disciple to correct another person's behavior. Master teachers
told us to pray for each other and prayer is a non contact sport. A Course in Miracles says that all correction belongs to
Holy Spirit. It also says that when we perceive an error, it is
our perception that needs fixing, not the situation we are
perceiving. So when we believe someone is in error we send them
light. Hopefully we have learned to never again correct them or
commiserate with them.
Parables
It can be a miserable job to be a messiah. When masters or
master trainees go out into the world to do teaching and healing,
they usually find that the people with problems are not
interested in altering their belief systems which created the
problems in the first place. They want a miracle in their life or
they want someone else fixed.
There has never been more than a handful of people on the
earth who were ready to learn cosmic law from the master
teachers. The masters knew that there was no way to share with
people what they understood about the universe. They could not
possibly tell the truth so they made up stories. In religion we
call them parables. The fact that it is a parable means that it
is not literally true.
Isn't it interesting how hung up we are on honesty in our
lives? Jesus never worried about telling the truth. How many
times did he say "...and the kingdom of heaven is
like..." He knew that it was not like that at all, but he
was trying to say something useful. He could not come to the
earth and say "Now look folks, seven dimensions above this
plane in alternate reality Z of universe 927J, we have a
phenomenological event occurring..." It is not possible to
explain spiritual concepts in any language that has ever existed
on the planet. We do not have the reference points to comprehend
the infinite number of realities that house three dimension time
space. We can, however, say something that is useful.
How can we even conceive of multiple levels of existence?
Let's begin by imagining a two dimensional reality, which does
exist by the way. Imagine that folks are going to school there. They comprehend length and width, but they have no concept of
depth. Their entire existence takes place on a plane that is
thinner than an onion skin. Now imagine that you beam into their
plane of reality from our dimension (which they will probably
refer to as heaven.) You as their "savior" are going to
explain to them that there is a third dimensional reality of
which they are but a small subset. How are you going to do that?
You can draw lines that form boxes and rectangles and triangles
and circles, but these people have no reference points to
conceive of a cube with depth and volume. They cannot possibly
envision this third dimensional concept. Perhaps they could get a
notion of the cube if you were to draw a square and then move
their plane of reality just a little bit upward and draw another
square and then another and another, etc. If these beings could
then imagine that all time were simultaneous and that all of the
squares you just drew existed in the same instant, you would have
succeeded in giving them a concept of the cube.
Now imagine that a fourth dimensional being has come to the
earth to explain to us about his plane of reality. He would ask
us to recall when we were at home this morning and a little later
when we were in our car and then when we were at the office and
then after that when we were having lunch and then when we went
to the movies after which we were home again making love and then
we went to sleep. As you said to the two dimensional being, the
fourth dimensional being would say to us, "envision that all
time is simultaneous and that you did all of those things in the
same instant, and you will have a glimpse into the fourth
dimension." It is almost incomprehensible for human beings
to have an extra dimension in their reality. Therefore we tend to
call fourth dimensional beings god like because they can see that
which we have no reference points for. That makes about as much
sense as the two dimensional being calling you God because you
can see the cube -- it simply goes with the territory.
In the third dimension we perceive time as being a straight
line. It is linear to us and it seems like page thirty-three
comes after page thirty-two and that tomorrow comes after today. Well, in the fourth dimension time appears to be a circle and
fourth dimensional folks have the option to go either way around
that circle. They are free to get on and off at any point that
they choose and are therefore not limited to incarnating next
week or next year. They could incarnate into the year 1812 right
now or they could go back to the beginning of time in this
instant because their concept of time is simply not linear. If we
could inquire of a fifth dimensional being, we would be told that
time looks like a point instead of a circle, and that it is all
simultaneous. But in truth, from the perspective of God, there is
no time or space. These are concepts that were created for earth
school. All of the master teachers have played with these
concepts to help us push back the limits of the mind. The masters
have always told good stories about time and no-time and other
dimensions. The esoteric books that we enjoy (even revere) are
stories that somebody made up to get us one step further up the
ladder. While these books may be very useful, they are only
vaguely related to truth.
One of the most absurd stories that has ever been told in the
New Age community is the tale of reincarnation. It is a total
fabrication. We think that we have really understood something
when we comprehend the concept of reincarnation. "Oh yeah,
I've got it! You're born and you die and you're born again."
It all presupposes sequential time but the instant we die we are
outside the realm of linear time. What does that do to our
concept of reincarnation? At what point do we enter the circle
again to do another life. What if we slip up and enter at the
same point we did the last time around so there are two forms of
the same soul existing on the earth at the same time? There seems
to be a lot of that going on right now. What if someone lives all
of her future lives before she lives her past lives? Anything is
fair when you are outside the realm of linear time.
We have no possible way to even closely conceive of what is
meant by reincarnation, but the concept of the continuity of life
is essential, so we have made up a story about life without
beginning and without end. It is useful, it works. We have a
means of relating to eternity within a reference system that is
rooted in linear time. That is very helpful. We do not know
anything, but if we go from one useful story to another useful
story and hang on to concepts only until we get something that is
better, then we are making enormous progress.
The
Bible as Metaphor
The way I perceive it, Jesus went through three phases in his
life to prove the continuity of life. The first was a teaching
phase where he said to himself, "I'm going to tell them the
way that it really is." We all wish that we could do it that
way but it didn't work for Jesus any more than it works for us. Evangelizing has never won over a single person because awakening
is an inner experience, it is not something that we can be
convinced of. So he gave up on preaching. His second phase was,
"Hey, if they aren't going to believe what I say I'll show
them. I'll raise the dead and every time I do some magic I'll say
"what I can do you can do and greater things than
this." That ought to get them. It's bound to. If I go around
living my life in an exemplary manner then everyone that I
demonstrate the power of love for will become saint like as
well." That didn't work either. Then Jesus got down to the
last phase and said "Well if they still don't believe that
life is forever then I'll give them a physical demonstration. Bring me a cross please. Anybody got some nails?" If there
is no cross and nails, there can't be any resurrection. Or as
Jean Houston says, "no crucifixion, no upsy-daisy." If
there is no resurrection, there is no proof of the continuity of
life. In truth that way met with only limited success too,
because the only people who accepted the eternality of life were
the ones who believed anyway.
The Bible is an intriguing story because it contains so many
levels. This is true of most books of spiritual instruction. One
chapter talks to seventh graders and the next addresses eleventh
graders. The words mean entirely different things to different
people. When we read them, we want to be sure that we know who
was being spoken to. Nearly all of the Old Testament is comprised
of stories told around the campfire. These stories were handed
down from generation to generation until someone finally wrote
them down. If we start looking for the technical truth in
parables, we will be on a wild goose chase. If on the other hand
we are willing to look for the intent of telling the stories in
the first place, the meaning is still there. For people who have
difficulty correlating religious instruction in Christianity with
what they now consider to be spirituality, let me assure you that
there is more than one way to interpret the words that are in the
Bible. I highly recommend that you read Emmet Fox's books, The
Sermon on the Mount and The Ten Commandments.
We must keep in mind that the main function of the master
teachers was to impregnate the telepathic pool with their
consciousness. They understood the prime directive, so they came
to earth in physical bodies to share a bit of their wisdom. If
anyone wanted to hear what they had to say, they were glad to
tell stories over and over with infinite patience until they got
something out of it, but there was not an evangelist among them. They did not start religions and they did not start churches -
they simply told stories to people who wanted to get free. There
has never been a church on the planet that didn't evolve into
something that was dogmatic and guilt motivated. While some of
the New Age churches like Unity, Science of Mind, Divine Science,
and Christian Science offer their participants more freedom to
follow their inner guidance, and shift from believing that God is
going to get them to finding their inner teacher, they are still
subject to the distortions that human nature introduces.
My advice is always to go back to the original stories of
those who brought in the spirituality, for they are the only ones
which aren't distorted. That is where the power lies. The
original teachings did have some useful content. They were not
vindictive. They were not even authoritative! The Fillmores who
founded the Unity Church wrote a metaphysical bible dictionary to
help us understand a book that was almost totally beyond
comprehension. They suggested alternative interpre-tations. When
we call upon the Lord, they said, we are actually calling for law
for cosmic law to be revealed in our life.
Furthermore the original meaning of sin had nothing to do with
God being angry. It was an archery term that meant "to miss
the mark". "Oh well, I'll have to try again."
Sinning meant that we were headed where we did not want to go. Likewise repentance implied that a person should turn around and
go in the other direction, meaning what he was doing in the
present moment was probably not going to make him very happy so
he might want to pick another route. These words had no more
significance than that. They certainly had nothing to do with
heaven or hell or offended gods. God does not care what we do. Perhaps it was our parents who cared so we have probably been
repenting for their sake. The universe can only see us as
perfect. It has never imposed punishment upon us because it is
totally unbiased. Is not even capable of judgment. The universe
knows that we have never made a mistake.
One of the first messages that I received when I began doing
psychic work was that until I felt perfectly comfortable taking
my Course in Miracles or my Bible and
throwing them into the fireplace, I would never comprehend what
is in them. If we have made anything sacred or put anything on a
pedestal then we have declared that we are not equal with it. There is not one ascended master or avatar or archangel who wants
to be on our pedestal. They would much rather drink beer and eat
pizza with us, welcoming the opportunity for true communication. We have to look at our own sense of self worth and determine
whether or not we are willing to declare ourselves equal to a Sai
Baba or a Krishnamurti. Remember that they have never seen
themselves as being different from us. They may be playing a game
in one arena while we are playing in another, but that has
nothing to do with a hierarchical order.
The
Ten Commandments
When students believe themselves to be separate entities
disconnected from the infinite, when all of their gods are on
pedestals and they have no understanding that all minds, hearts
and souls are one, then it is appropriate to give them a set of
rules to follow. Christians and Jews often consider the ten
commandments to be the ultimate set of rules, but that is only
because they have not yet grasped cosmic law. Who was this guy
Moses who brought down the ten commandments anyway? Was he some
ignorant ninth or tenth grader trying to manipulate the system or
was he an entity who had an internal connection with the
absolute? I do not believe that he was the kind of man who needed
to be told not to go around sleeping with other people's wives
and killing people. He may have been known to wipe out a few
individuals in some of his incarnations but he was no longer
going to do that as a routine thing in life. So what were these
rules that he received?
Moses received truth as it related to his level of
understanding. The universe always reveals the truth to us
in a context that is appropriate for our present level of
understanding. This makes it difficult for one person to apply in
a literal way the insights received by a second person.
Moses went to the mountain top, which in the Bible always
means that he went into meditation. Then he heard "Moses,
Moses my friend, Moses my equal, I am going to tell you the way
that it really is. You cannot kill. It is an impossibility in
this universe to kill because life is eternal and nobody ever
dies. You cannot steal. You have created everything and you are
everything. Stealing is an illusion of the earth plane that says
you and your riches are not one. How can you steal that which you
are? It is not possible to steal. You cannot commit adultery. Adultery is the attempt to receive love from that which is
separate from yourself. Nothing is separate from you and love
doesn't exist outside of yourself." What Moses heard is that
there is no right or wrong and therefore there can be no
inappropriate behavior. God is love, and love doesn't judge. The
ten commandments were ten statements of cosmic law that were
intended to set men free and release us from guilt, not enslave
us to guilt. God says that we have never made a mistake and that
we are not capable of making a mistake.
When Moses went back to his students and said, "Listen up
guys, I just got this great stuff from God about the way it
really is", they could not hear the truth in his words. He
was talking to people who could not comprehend that the universe
is friendly and that God is love and everyone is guilt free. They
were the ones who passed the words on to the next generation as a
set of rules. When we speak to second, third and fourth graders
who don't yet understand karmic law, we may want to tell them,
"If you want to have the most pleasant and enjoyable life
span while you are here, don't go around shooting people. In the
long run you will probably be a little happier." Of course
we won't tell them that it is a sin to shoot anyone or that God
will be upset if they kill someone because we don't try to impose
guilt and God does not judge their behavior. We are the ones who
judge ourselves and each other.
Over a period of time true spiritual teachings become
misinterpreted by the church that wants to maintain control of
its congregation and keep its coffers full. Organizations
invariably progress to the point where they no longer offer
spiritual understanding. The teachings, now humanized, tell us
that the power and wisdom of the universe lies outside of us, not
within us. The masters, now deified, become essentially useless. Then we have to scrap the dogma and start all over again.
An
Expanded Perspective
The beginning of the Aquarian Age does not have the
incarnation of a Buddha or a Krishna or a Christ to interpret
cosmic law for us. In the astrological ages in which there were
few entities on the earth who could comprehend the teachings of a
master, one or two ascended beings were sufficient to teach all
of the seekers on the planet. There has never been a time when
the earth was abandoned. We have had at least a single avatar on
the planet at all times. As unlikely as it might be for an
individual in grades one through twelve to go directly to the
light, still they have always had someone to tune into and, if
they chose, follow home. In the Aquarian Age every entity
embodied on the planet must have available to them, not in India,
but in the next room, an avatarish type entity who can lead them
to the light.
It is time for a few individuals to step forth and shift from
following the programming of the world to functioning in purity. Do remove all religious connotations from that word please. Purity is understanding the simplicity and the perfection of the
system. You came to the earth partly for personal growth, but
also because the prime directive prohibited you from assisting
your loved ones, your class mates, unless you took physical form. Now you must live as if you were exempt from limitation.
I love a story told of Yogananda, a guru who came to the West
to be a spiritual ambassador by creating an acceptance for the
Eastern teachings. In doing so he accepted a number of
invitations to speak at various places. One evening he attended a
diplomatic cocktail party with a few of his students so that he
would have an opportunity to mingle with certain members of our
government. Yogananda had been teaching his students a lot about
purity, which on their level of understanding meant abstinence
and refraining from eating or drinking anything that might
traditionally be considered impure. So here he is at the cocktail
party drinking a martini, feasting on the appetizers and having a
marvelous time. His outraged students finally confronted him and
said "You hypocrite! You tell us that we must function in
purity. We can't have alcohol or junk food or sex and we can't do
anything fun, while you are here ..." Yogananda simply
walked over to the fireplace, held his hand in the flames and
said, "When you can do what I can do, then you can do what I
do."
The object of the spiritual life is always to get free. We
continue to remove limitations by focusing on the highest that we
can comprehend. Anything that dominates our thought processes,
whether it is our job, baseball, our spouse, or psychic
phenomenon, is delaying our joy if we are not constantly relating
our thoughts and experiences to our spiritual growth. Any human
being can learn to supersede the laws of the physical dimension
by functioning from a higher level of reality.
There are certain ways that we can see our world that will
help us see the unlimitedness of the universe and therefore the
potential unlimitedness of the self. We want to reach for the
really big picture and recognize that we are a part of something
that is far larger than three dimension time space reality or
anything else that we have ever seen with our eyes or heard with
our ears. We want to use everything that we encounter as a tool
for our growth.
Any time that we think we know something, we are straying from
our path. We can look at the stars and ask ourselves about those
civilizations and the universe's function for having them there
in the first place. That will bring us back to a humble place of
true learning and understanding.
Imagine, if you will, the principal of the earth school
journeying from classroom to classroom to ensure that all is
well. He may stop for a moment to listen to the lecture in each
class, check out which textbooks are being used and go out to see
that the children are playing in an orderly and constructive
manner. The principal never gets involved in teaching the
individual lessons because that would be much more work than he
has time to do, so he hires a lot of teachers. He employs a
school nurse, a gym teacher and a psychologist. You who are the
light bearers on the earth are very similar to that principal. You will see many things occurring in the economic, political,
military and humanitarian arenas, but it would be overwhelming to
try to get involved in each one. Your function is only to see the
big picture, see the earth as a benevolent school, and to work
with your family in the unseen worlds by directing energy. Truly,
this is the only effective way to speed the evolution of
the planet. Consciousness is the only thing that creates reality. We don't have the time or energy to try to promote change in
ineffective ways. The master teachers' ways are the most
expedient. Believe it or not.
The
Path of Service
There are many, many dimensions of reality above ours. There
is a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, twenty-fifth and one
hundredth dimensional reality. They continue to go on for as long
as we know. We have not yet found god, god, very god most high. But there really is a cherubim, seraphim, solar logos, father,
son and a holy ghost that are spoken of in the mystery school
teachings. They are all just folks doing the best that they can
to get through the school. And there is a community of space
brothers -- a federation of fifty or sixty civilizations that run
around our galaxy having a lot of fun. Most of these are here now
because they desire to be helpful in assisting other groups in
our universe. However, the prime directive still restricts their
contact with us.
There are billions of entities who are hanging around this
earth in the unseen realms waiting to be of service. The path to
enlightenment on every plane of reality is service. In a very
real sense there is no God out there who can fix things. There is
certainly no old man sitting on a throne with a long beard
saying, "Zap that one and now help this one over
here..." There has never been a God like that. There are
just layers and layers of folks doing their service. Part of the
angelic and spirit kingdoms decide of their own volition to be of
service to humanity as their path home. One way they can help is
to become guardian angels. If they are not allowed to help
because we are unwilling to ask for it, then they are forced to
go somewhere else. There is this prime directive, you know, so
they cannot bail us out unless we ask them to. Every time we call
upon them to assist us, their growth is expedited. They are
begging to be recognized. They are sitting up there saying
"Please give me something to do! If you don't I'll be stuck
up here for another million years! I want to grow too because I
want to get out of here! This is my chosen path of service, for
God's sake! Please ask me to bail you out every single day so
that I have permission to come into your life and create
synchronicity and magic!"
Take this opportunity to think of how many ways you can invoke
other kingdoms on your behalf. "I want the angel of the food
kingdom to tell me how much salt to put in my meals." The
more we give them to do, the faster they will grow. We have been
so afraid to ask for help from them. We say "Uh, God, I uh
don't want to bother you, but if you have just a minute could I
..." and meanwhile all of these angels are saying "What
are we doing wasting our time up here when nobody down there will
ask for help!"
Its
All No Big Deal
When we begin to perceive all the events of life as metaphors,
parables that resemble truth, it tends to take the drama out of
everything. As we get closer to the truth there are fewer big
deals. The hierarchy becomes ordinary. Some of us were members of
the hierarchy before we were born. Then when we came to earth and
learned about the existence of a hierarchy we built a huge
pedestal and put them all on it. If "as above so below"
is true, do you know what hierarchy means? Committees! Spirit
does not like them any more than you do. When it comes time to be
part of the hierarchy and the department head comes looking for
volunteers they squirm and say "It's his turn! It's his turn
to be the archangel so and so this time because I did it last
time!"
The hierarchy is commonplace. When we understand that, we can
begin to create equality between ourselves and the rest of the
universe. Believing that anything is a big deal is a separative
way of thinking. The hierarchy and the space brothers are all
just folks doing the best that they know how to make it through
the school just like everybody else. If we could comprehend the
true nature of the universe even UFO's would have no more
intrigue than a city bus.
Where do we dwell between lifetimes? If we are not in body,
then we must have been extra-terrestrials! Every human being is
an extra-terrestrial. We are all star children. Every one
of us has been through multiple layers of reality. If we can
remember just a little of our pre-birth, extra-terrestrial
condition, we can be very useful. We have enormous resources and
the power of our invisible friends and family at our disposal to
help us do our cosmic work. As the worldly folks would say
"we have old friends in high places".
We now know that the laws of the universe prohibit the
violation of the free will of any evolving entity in any
evolutionary system. Only those who are submerged in group
consciousness have the authority to alter the reality in which
they exist. The entities in other dimensions who are hanging
around by the billions are completely powerless unless we choose
to direct their energy. We do have the power to direct spaceships
and entire battalions of light workers in the unseen worlds and
give them permission to bring their light to bear upon this
earth.
There is a ton of stuff going on which is exciting. But we
must remember that the fact that there are entities here from
other galaxies and other universes is irrelevant if we have not
healed ourselves. If our lives don't work we can forget about
getting a ride. We can stand out in the fields and wave to the
space brothers for as long as we like but they are going to wait
for us to acquire inner peace. First things first.
This is the lesson - the essential material: physician heal
thyself! To thine own self be true. Only then can we work
efficiently with our invisible friends and pass on their
information and do all sorts of marvelous things. The master
teachers always said to "seek first the kingdom of heaven
and all else shall be added unto you." But we have this
human idiosyncrasy that demands to know what the all else is
first. Any true spiritual teacher has said to ignore the all else
until we have manifested the kingdom of heaven in our own life. If we are hooked on discovering the all else we will miss the
kingdom and then we aren't very useful.
The earth needs those individuals who are here to do their
teaching work to focus on awakening themselves fully in this very
moment before another minute of another day is gone. As we really
understand what the master teachers were saying, we comprehend
that we will probably not have instant enlightenment. They do
promise however, that every day in every way an aspect of our
lives will get better. We can see the light at the end of the
tunnel. We are moving directly towards it. And as we progress, we
also have group consciousness in tow. We are simply recognizing
that there is a plan of salvation and each and every one of us is
on our way to becoming infinitely powerful and eternally free.
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