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THE PRIME DIRECTIVE

and other Cosmic Concepts

This is chapter three in the book No Time for Karma, stepping off the wheel of pain and struggle.

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 godlike 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 interpretations. 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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