Is not a special gift.
There are no gifted or chosen ones. There are only Choosing Ones.
What I mean is that, the spiritual world is experienced by anyone and everyone, all the time. We simply mostly make the mistake of identifying with these experiences as part of us- or worse- we identify them as ourselves.
The Mistake
When we feel resentment, we say “I am resenting”. It is a mistake to claim that we are resenting. Instead, to simply say “I feel a sensation resembling the emotion that I have been trained to call resentment.” is a far more true and accurate statement, puts the ‘I’ in it’s proper state of recognition and perception of having an experience.
As Steiner pointed out; our time is full of clever people. People’s cleverness has only become more and more pronounced since his observations in the last century. People are full of explanations for every single phenomenon that can be observed. They say bacteria is the cause of disease. That refraction of light is the cause of color. That the croaking of frogs is the cause of rain.
[Insert cynical grin]
Obviously, the last one is false. Each of these are all equally false, however.
And so when we as human beings experienced everyday emotions and thoughts, we cleverly have explanations for them. “I resent you because you’re a selfish prick!” Obviously, the judgement that someone else is a selfish prick is false. That “I resent ” is equally false.
This mistake is not just a personal mistake, but a mistake that is demanded of people in our culture. We are held responsible for our thoughts and our feelings from infancy and on into adulthood- throughout society - it is an ingrained fact that people are expected to take full and complete ownership of their thoughts and emotions. They even feel shame or guilt for “having” certain emotions! So it is a comfort to claim them in society- to press our advantage if we claim a “good” feeling and to ignore or keep secret our “bad” feelings. This is a deliberate training of the human ‘I’ to forget what the ‘I’ really is.
This mistake is acknowledged and often validated by society; that “it’s okay to ‘be’ sad; there is probably a very good reason for it”. When, as an empiricist, one may observe that no other perceptions are claimed by the individual as ‘their own’. What do I mean? I mean that to stake a claim over personal or ‘subjective’ experiences is a purely cultural construct. Such as the fact that ‘my’ computer exists and that I ‘am’ typing on a keyboard right now; this statement is only comprehensible in society, specifically in relation to materialists. These lies are subtly inserted, and accepted or acquiesced to. When in objective fact, ‘I’ am observing this specific physical body and I feel sensations through it- or in relation to it as a focal point in the physical world- and ‘I’ even observe the actions taken by this small self by this physical body! It would be nonsensical to claim this computer as ‘mine’- for why would ‘I’ want to do such a thing? Embedded in the claim of ownership is a denunciation that ‘I’ am pure awareness.
Placing a hand on a hot stove, one does not see or observe anyone claiming the act of burning. This is in contradistinction to the claim of “I am being burned!”. It is exclaimed outwardly- as a observational experience of something outside oneself. Nor can we observe anyone claiming, as if their own, the act of being beautiful. Discarding the obvious judgement about whether or not a body is beautiful- the lie is buried behind these controversies to distract from the falsity that we readily accept; that ‘I’ can ‘be’ beautiful.
Instead the ‘I’, as awareness, acknowledges that emotions and feelings are perceptions which enter into the ‘I’ as experiences. This happens naturally in the way the one says ‘I feel warmth’- acknowledging that one is not the warmth, but that one perceives it as a separate phenomenon from oneself, and has no ownership over the fact that the warmth is there, or that one is perceiving it.
There is likewise the mistake of believing we are our thoughts- although this is far more accepted today to examine thought-forms. It is far less common today to examine our emotional bodies.
It is comforting to have clever explanations for everything- even if they are patently false. This the direct result of the training humanity has undergone in order to forget that we are not, in fact, a brain encased in a skull-prison that “has” emotions and thoughts; but instead pure conscious awareness. And a pure conscious awareness does not “have” anything- not even a body. It has only a certain resonance with the brain, body, organs, etc. It’s not particularly unknown that many people have Out of Body Experiences, have awareness of times and places they physically have never been, etc etc. We simply have an ‘I’ that has incredible capacities to enter into resonance with an experience to such depth that it forgets what it is from time to time.
Dreaming and Sleeping Consciousness
There is nothing more obviously contradictory to- and maddeningly resistant to clever explanations- as sleeping consciousness and dreaming. Clever explanations try desperately to marry the opposing and altogether opposite ideas that we are a brain consciousness and “have” feelings and thoughts, and that the brain’s consciousness together with those feelings and thoughts cease to be meaningful when asleep. Instead, it is far more tenable even from a rational perspective, to accept that sleep consciousness is proof that human consciousness is in fact very flexible, and has the capacity to be associated with a physical body and also without it.
If we are to accept that the human ‘I’ is a natural capacity of the human being- and that it is; it exists and is an awareness regardless of a current association with a physical body- well. We enter into a realm that patently cannot exist for materialists. We begin to wonder about and understand how imperative it is for a materialist mindset to “own” and to “have” thoughts and emotions. It is a devastating blow for the materialist mindset to begin to observe emotional feeling and thoughts for what they are; an experience that ‘I’ am aware of.
We begin as well to recognize that our ‘I’ can as easily disengage from, or change resonance with, one physical body. The ‘I’ becomes aware that regardless of association with a physical body, the ‘I’ nevertheless still experiences thoughts and emotions. Not in the same way, granted. The next revelation, naturally, after discovering that our physical body is not the ‘I’, nor even the seat of the ‘I’, or necessary for it, but that thoughts and emotions are also a kind of body that the ‘I’ can resonate with. That the ‘I’ may begin to enter into resonance with, or to leave behind just as the ‘I’ might with the physical body.
There is also a knowledge that is associated with these bodies of emotional-thought forms. A kind of consciousness that the ‘I’ may interact with shows up; almost as soon as the ‘I’ is aware of itself as an awareness, and that the emotional-thought experience is something else, a relationship instantaneously forms. Whether the consciousness is borrowed from the ‘I’-power of the human being, I’m not quite sure of, yet. Actually I believe that is the case almost as a self evident fact.
Elementals and Elemental Beings
An elemental is a thought-form holding emotional energy. Human beings can create elementals, and often do. An Elemental Being is an elemental that exists in nature. Only Angels or higher spiritual beings have the requisite capacities as yet to create Elemental Beings. Both work on the physical. In fairy tales, Elemental Beings are referred to as gnomes, fairies, salamanders, dragons, sylphs, mermaids, etc. They are often depicted for the physical element that they are associated with; fairies have wings, so naturally they are Air Elemental Beings, and so forth.
In their clever way, contemporary people look ahead in time (in their higher consciousness whether they are physically conscious of this or not) and select from their thought-form elemental arsenal that elemental which will manifest for them the physical outcome they want. This is really done through resonance. And in their exceeding cleverness, they claim that the physical outcome caused their having this emotion thought-form.
Human beings really are quite remarkable. We have skills and talents we are not consciously aware of; the chief among them the ability to create our own experiences. We are master creators. We come from the Most High spiritual realms. We are Beings of Love and Freedom.
In more exceeding cleverness, our partner humans often choose to entertain our elementals. We receive them, experiencing the thought-form and emotional qualities sent to us. And, we choose to participate! We cleverly assign ownership, take ownership ourselves, and identify to whom this one belongs. One can sense that there is no end to this particular game, except to simply stop playing.
It is not exactly forgiveness which allows the little self to release all the weight and ownership of these “good” and “bad” feelings- but it is something like it. It’s also not exactly humility which empowers the little self to let go of all the “stuff” or to disidentify with accomplishments or prowess, but it is close to it.
Much of these revelations and fact were, for me, only possible because of the Christ. Not exactly the Christ that most people think of- but the Christ that exists as an objective Cosmic Being- the same one that can be approached by anyone, anytime, anywhere, and receive the Heavenly gifts that Christ embodies. Chief among these was, for me, Equanimity. This equanimity paved my way to discovering the fallacious attitude we have as contemporary people about what feelings and thoughts actually are.
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