ahhh the flaming heart and the song from the center i love
ahhh for you i sing and
ahhh for you i lift the melodic chant
to you
ahhh to you
i sound the melodic chant
david barnes
December 05, 2016
Power of the Individual
Alan Hammond November 19, 2000
As the
creative cycle moves on, it is useful if our conscious paradigm of life changes
so that we can be more effective in the evolving situation. One of the most
important subjects that we could consider is consciousness itself. This
mysterious creation is where we experience life. No one has ever seen it, but
everything we think, feel, and observe all comes to focus in our conscious
minds. The consciousness is a wonderful part of the divine technology, so it is
useful to have a closer look at it.
The current
western paradigm that we have about consciousness suggests that there are three
basic levels. There's the conscious
level of mind in which we have all our experiences. Then there's the range
which is subconscious, and in this
range there are various mechanisms which we know something about. For example
all the physical body's processes are governed by intelligence which is
unconscious to the conscious mind, but this level of mind is controlling such
processes as digestion, body chemistry and so on. The subconscious mind allows
one to drive hundreds of miles without giving it a conscious thought. There are
also other mechanisms to which I'll just allude—telepathy for example, where we
have evidence of being psychically connected with other people. Then there's
the aspect of the subconscious mind which is involved with the radiation from a
person, which interacts with their environment beyond their conscious
perception. This is responsible for drawing certain things or people towards
them and repelling others. These are just a few examples of the subconscious
mind at work. Then there's the supraconsciousness
which we conceive to be the level of mind which connects the undimensional
levels of Being with our conscious minds. Through this level of mind we are
connected with what Spirit is doing in the undimensional levels of Being, and
so our part in the outworking processes of life may be coordinated in what is
happening in the Whole. So here is a commonly held paradigm relative to
consciousness.
Each
individual is a focus point in these three levels of mind. In other words each
conscious mind is a focus point in the middle band of vibrational substance in
which conscious minds are operational. This spreads throughout the body of
mankind so it's quite a large band. It's the same with the subconscious level
of mind. Each of us is a focus point in that band of vibrational substance: and
likewise with the supraconsciousness. So each of us is a point of focus in
these three bands of consciousness. Now this is a very general concept and
there are probably other levels of substance and consciousness of which at the
moment we know nothing.
Our interest
is how to function effectively utilizing this triune mechanism even though we
are confined in consciousness to the middle band of substance. How do we engage
with the subconscious and the supraconscious and let them be coordinated at the
conscious level where we do all our thinking? The key to this relates to what
we've called feelings. Living in the conscious level we are aware of many
feelings that come from the subconscious levels. We have many connections into
the body of mankind, to the planet itself and to many of the processes therein.
We have all sorts of feelings which come along those connective lines. Some of
them are jangled, vague, uncomfortable; some of them are quite pleasant. We
also have feeling connections with the supraconsciousness and these relate more
predominantly to such feelings as joy, the ecstatic state, and the adventure of
living. Fundamentally our responsibility is to establish in the conscious level
a focus of the sense of Identity,
which is the divine Self, the divine character, and then to creatively interact
with the vibratory patterns represented by the feelings which emerge through
the subconscious levels of mind.
One might
say that our overall purpose for being alive on Earth is to re-create the
experience of heaven in the conscious level of mind so that this becomes the
conscious experience. The starting point for this creative accomplishment is to
establish in the conscious mind an awareness of true Identity—who I am. I am
actually in the undimensional levels of Being as well as having a human body.
To bring this awareness out of the undimensional levels and establish it in the
conscious levels of substance is the starting point for one's expanded creative
activity in the consciousness of mankind, of which one is an integral part.
This is so important because if you have a focus point within this conscious
band of substance, the radiation coming through that instrument from the
supraconscious can have rather dramatic effects in the common band of conscious
mind substance. It's rather like when a particular note is bowed on a violin
and if there are other violins around, they will all start resonating to that
bowed tone. There are even more dramatic examples in the field of chemistry. If
one spot of chemical is dropped into certain solutions the whole solution
changes instantly. Well so is it with this process of transforming the
vibrational bands of consciousness in the body of mankind.
I want to
leave that line of thought for a moment and tell you about a television program
I saw yesterday. A speaker was addressing some government officials in
Washington, D.C., the subject was: factors in the changing world. He was
pointing out that twenty years ago the major power centers in the world were
nations. He said
that over the last twenty years since the expansion of the Internet, some
rather radical changes have taken place and today he could identify three major
power centers now operational in the global processes. One was still national.
But the second one, which was becoming increasingly significant largely because
of electronic technologies, was the global commercial conglomerates which were
transcending national boundaries and policies and beginning to control much of
the movement of financial capital regardless of what the nations felt about it.
Their resources were often far in excess of many national budgets.
The third
emerging power center related to the individual and he gave three examples. One
was Osama bin Laden, the Islamic activist who, by utilizing the Internet is
able to mastermind international guerilla warfare against the United States. Here is an
interesting example of the emerging power of an individual. Another
example was the two Philippino students who, from their home, created and
issued their computer virus, which disrupted the business of
several large American corporations, causing tens of billions of dollars of
damage. And one last example was a
lady who utilized the Internet for more apparently
creative endeavors. She contacted and organized several hundred international,
non-government organizations to neutralize land mines in various countries.
This enterprise transcended and even went against various governments'
policies. She was very successful and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
These are
examples of individuals who have had considerable impact on the global
experience and with technology developing exponentially such incidents will
undoubtedly increase. We could look at the current American election process
and it might well be that it could come down to the decision of just one
person, a judge perhaps, who will change the history of the world (at a certain
level) by whatever he or she decides.
Human
experience and technology invariably reflects in a distorted way what is
happening at the spiritual level. And in the human world we see an exponential
rise in the power of the individual. This relates to what I was saying earlier
about correctly utilizing the divine technology, which is obviously far
superior to any human derivation thereof. The changing paradigm to which I
referred in the beginning is, that although we have for years emphasized the
significance of the individual, the creative processes themselves are beginning
to bring this truth much more vividly to consciousness. We are considering it,
so presumably we have some responsibility in it. We can either accept that
responsibility and take it seriously, or to us it's just another theory, which
might indicate we don't have enough substance to appreciate the situation we're
in.
Many people
consider their lives to be involved with external things, people, and
situations of various kinds, but if we consider it, the real meat of life
relates to thinking and feeling. No matter what goes on externally, in the end
we have to deal with it all in our own consciousness. Here is where the work is
done. What is the work? The work is to let all feelings and thoughts be attuned
to and governed by the feelings emerging out of the supraconsciousness, which
are caused by the lines of force radiating from the undimensional levels of
Being into the finest levels of substance in the human mechanism. These
feelings of honor, nobility, beauty and the like, can dissipate the feelings
which may arise from “below” we say.
In days of
yore, in the Bible for example, people were often told to deal with their
feelings in certain ways. Sometimes this advice was offered in a negative way,
it was presented thus because the negative feelings were uppermost in peoples'
experience—for example, Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your feelings
be troubled—don't let them dominate your experience. But that's a bit difficult
to do in a sense. It's rather like saying “Don't think of a white elephant!”
It's almost impossible not to think of the white elephant. It is easier to
banish the elephant from consciousness if it is suggested to the person that
they think of a beautiful peacock instead. Thus it is really more helpful to
say “Express nobility, magnanimity, spaciousness, and love the opportunity of
the moment,” rather than “Let not your heart be troubled.” In this way we
exercise control in our consciousness.
In the human
Internet nobody's in charge. It's an interesting situation. In the “Internet”
of the Archangelic Body on Earth, what is needed is a conscious focus of
government relative to feelings—and ultimately, government of feelings would
result in government of everything else. People often get confused when they
discuss control of feelings. For example, I've been suggesting that one assert
the divine qualities of character no matter what one is feeling. But “Oh,” some
would say, “we mustn't deny our feelings”—our feelings of resentment perhaps.
Well we don't deny that we have such feelings, so we're not denying them, but
we do deny them the power to control us. We do deny them that, and we assert
the creative expression of true character.
From the
divine standpoint everything is absolutely under control. It has never been
anything else. It is only in the very narrow band of consciousness in which
human beings have resided that things seem to be out of control. If, in our
conscious experience, there seem to be incomplete, unwholesome experiences, the
answer is very simple. It is to intensify the radiation of the heavenly
character at the level where the unsatisfactory experience meets who I Am. So
we assert our Presence more fully in this level of substance and that produces
an increased conscious experience of our character, which is heavenly.
So this is
our conscious purpose and it is exciting to let the creative cycle move on and
to play our parts moment by moment, knowing our character and being true to
that. Simple. We've heard this virtually all our lives now, that this is what
is required. The difference today is that we can more consciously see the
potential effect this individual function has in the creative cycle, and
there's plenty of evidence appearing in the world all around us. As individuals
we have an integral part to play in the divine machinery exactly where we are.
And what else is there to do? Well nothing. This is exactly why we're here, and
we're doing it!
and now I know my spirit glowing makes this light.
I come into power with the sun for I am the sun.
I am my own light.
Here at the center I see the meaning of things, all things.
And now I know that I am the meaning.
The whole meaning.
The four directions come together in me.
I am the center
and everything flows from me, returns to me.
I am that which they call Great Mystery.
I am that which each one calls Wakantanka before coming here,
before seeing the light.
I am here and so I know.
Here I know everything.
Here I know myself.
I am thought and will.
And nothing sits above my will.
I am pride and joy.
And nothing sits above my joy.
I own my life.
And only mine.
And so I shall appreciate my person.
And so I shall make proper use of myself.
I stand here in the light of my own presence
and I recognize my power.
I am reason.
And nothing sits above my choice.
I am truth.
And so I live in the spirit.
And so I live forever.
I am the oneness of the whole.
And whatever happens, happens in me.
I am Ahbleza.
I own the earth.
November 04, 2016
The Robe
by
Lloyd C. Douglas
an excerpt
They were on the way from Cana to Capernaum. All day their narrow
road had been gaining altitude, not without occasional dips into shallow
valleys, but tending upwards toward a lofty plateau where the olive-green
terrain met an azure sky set with masses of motionless white clouds.
It had been a fatiguing journey, with many pauses for rest, and as
the shadows slanted farther to the east, the two men trudged the steepening
track in silence, leaving the little pack-train far behind. They were nearing the
top now. Justus had promised that they would make camp in the lee of the great
rock they had sighted two hours ago. There was a cool spring, he said, and
plenty of forage. He hoped they would find the spot untenanted. Yes, he knew
the place well. He had camped there many times. There was a splendid view.
Jesus had loved it.
Throughout this tour of Galilee, Marcellus had paid very little
attention to the physical characteristics of the province. Until now the
landscape had been unremarkable, and he had been fully preoccupied by the
strange business that had brought him here. Marcellus had but one interest in
this otherwise undistinguished land of rock-strewn fields, tiny vineyards, and
apathetic villages drowsing in the dust around an ancient well. He was
concerned only about a mysterious man who had walked these winding roads, a
little while ago, with crowds of thousands surging about him.
It was not easy to-day, on this sleepy old highway, to picture
either the number or the temper of that multitude. The people must have come
from long distances, most of them, for this country was not thickly populated.
Nor was it easy to imagine the confusion, the jostling, the shouting. Such
Galileans as Marcellus had seen were not emotional, not responsive; rather stolid,
indeed.
That weary, weather-beaten woman, leaning on her hoe, in the
frowsy little garden they had just passed—had she, too, bounded out of her
kitchen, leaving their noonday pottage on the fire, to join in that curious
throng? This bearded man in the meadows—her husband, obviously; now sluggishly
mowing wisps of grass with his great-grandfather's scythe—had he run panting to
the edge of the crowd, trying to scramble through the sweating pack for a
glimpse of the face of Jesus?It was almost incredible that this silent, solemn, stodgy province
could ever have been haled out of its age-long lethargy and stirred to such a
pitch of excitement.
Even Justus, looking back upon it all, could only shake
his shaggy head and mutter that the whole affair was quite beyond
comprehension. You could think what you liked about the miracles, reflected
Justus, soberly: many of the people were hysterical and had reported all manner
of strange occurrences, some of which had never been satisfactorily confirmed.
The air had been full of wild rumours, Justus said. A few Nazarenes had been
quoted as remembering that when Jesus was a lad, at play with them, he had
fashioned birds of clay, and the birds had come to life and had flown away. You
could hear such tales by the score, and they had confused the public's estimate
of Jesus, making him seem a mountebank in the opinion of many intelligent
people.
But these passionate throngs of thousands who followed, day after
day, indifferent to their hunger and discomfort—all Galilee knew that this was
true because all Galilee had participated. You might have good reasons for
doubting the validity of some of these miracle stories, but you couldn't doubt
this one! Obscure little Galilee, so slow and stupid that its bucolic habits
and uncouth dialect were stock jokes in Judea, had suddenly come alive! Its
dull work was abandoned. Everybody talking at once! Everybody shouting
questions which nobody tried to answer! Camels were left standing in their
harness, hitched to water-wheels. Shuttles were left, midway of the open warp.
Tools lay scattered on the floor of the carpenter shop. Ploughs stopped in the
furrow. Fires burned out in the brick-kiln. Everybody took to the road, on
foot, on donkeys, on carts, on crutches. Helpless invalids who couldn't be left
were bundled up on stretchers and carried along. Nothing mattered but to follow
the young man who looked into your eyes and made you well—or ashamed—or
tightened your throat with longing for his calm strength and flower-like
purity.
Now the bright light had gone out. The great crowds had scattered.
The inspired young man was dead. Galilee had gone back to sleep. It was a
lonely land. Perhaps the Galileans themselves were now conscious of its
loneliness, after having briefly experienced this unprecedented activity.
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe was published in
1942. It is a sweeping, visionary, historical novel about the crucifixion of Jesus
— written by Lloyd. C. Douglas. It was one of the best-selling titles of the
1940’s, and was released as a movie, starring Richard Burton, in 1953. Lloyd C.
Douglas began his literary career after leaving the ministry at the age of 52.
All of his novels drew from his spiritual background for thematic inspiration.
You can read the book on-line at Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400561h.html
First published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,
1942
