Monday, February 07, 2011

Channeling "eliminating the weight on my heart"

The last note I made during my previous channeling session of "paying off karmic debt" was about the necessity of eliminating the weight (the "lead) on my heart. The "weight" is some type of obstruction.

As soon as I began this new session I became acutely aware of this weight, which I experienced as a great pain. I didn't want to continue the session as I experienced this, but I decided to press on. I started to identify with my heart, writing that "eliminating the weight on my heart is eliminating the weight on me," and that "the pain is at the center of myself."

Then I thought that "mind must comply with heart; mind must agree with heart." I further wrote "I am currently 'out of Eden'" (Eden being the heart). I am in my mind -- quite literally because the heart is within the etheric body, which is within the emotion body, which in turn is in the mind body. I am within a mental structure, within a formative structure, created by my mind. But there is a seed of life within the form. This seed of life is my immortal nature that dwells within my heart. I began to wonder what type of thoughts I need to have in order to comply mentally with my heart. The "I" (the being) is "trapped" within a mental structure. I wrote that abstract thoughts not concrete thoughts were what was most important in getting the mind to comply with the heart. The "stones" in my belly (second and third chakras) are symbolic of my concrete thinking. I wrote that it's necessary to completely shift my life away from concreteness and towards abstraction. "One cannot escape from the mind, one must ascend to mind's highest rung." I concluded that "negative" karma is actually synonymous with "concrete thought" because it's thought based upon illusion. In a way I must end my mental existence, or wake from the illusion of mental existence. I got the sense that my mental existence is actually encroaching on my heart, pushing at it from each direction (like a bully) and attempting to usurp its place. (Compare this with my Jan. 27 blog entry on the nature of the Demiurgus). Then I wrote "Liberation is determined by the quality of thinking."

Then I got to one of the most important realizations of the session, that each incarnation is actually a mental existence. "Mortal existence is mental existence." Further "A mental existence is an incarnation. A mental existence has many desires attached to it. The problem with desire is that it drags the mind down into a pattern of concrete thought. This is a problem because liberation cannot be achieved while thoughts remain concrete, tangible, objective. All life on Earth is an aspect of mental existence ( and desires associated with that existence). The lower self is the mental existence." What's necessary to alleviate the burden on my heart is to eliminate all desire within me for a concrete existence, to think abstract thoughts and not concrete thoughts. "The stones in my belly represent concretion, objectivity." "The Demiurgus is my mental existence, my personal existence." The last note I wrote for the session was that I must "think only abstract thoughts, no more concrete thoughts."

Channeling session on paying off karmic debt

These are some notes I took, together with some commentary, during my session; the notes may not be entirely coherent.

I did a "channeling" session on how to pay off karmic debt this morning. I concluded, more or less, that karmic debt can only be paid off by no longer believing in illusion -- living from the Monad (the heart) rather than the Duad, the mind and body. Eternity, after all dwells in the heart. I got the sense, during the session, of "lead" (the metal) on my heart. Paying off karmic debt amounts to purifying the etheric body (the linga sarira). It is the heart (our true, immortal self) that communicates to me through my karma. The obstructions in my chakras are the way my heart communicates to me regarding my own karma (past actions that have gone against the heart -- the heart which is truth, purity and love).

Illusion is mental, emotional, or etheric existence. One can only pay off karmic debt by living inside the heart, not the head. But, I found, while "channeling" that there is something not letting me in my heart. My true desire is to beat the Demiurgus (mental existence) and achieve heart consciousness. I began to believe that thoughts must be refined into pure abstraction -- away from concreteness; and that true karma is thought because thought shapes the astral light. One must leave the objective world forever and enter into the heart (subjectivity) in order to achieve liberation. One must pay off karmic debt by approaching the heart and moving away from the mind.

Trapped in a Block of Concrete


concrete
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: actual, factual
Synonyms: accurate, corporeal, definite, detailed, explicit, material, objective, particular, precise, real, sensible, solid, specific, substantial, tangible
Notes: cement comes from Latin caementum 'chips of stone'; cement is an ingredient of concrete , but is not a synonym; cement should be pronounced suh-MENT
Antonyms: abstract, ideal, immaterial, intangible

Main Entry: concrete
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hardened
Synonyms: caked, calcified, cemented, compact, compressed, congealed, conglomerated, consolidated, dried, firm, indurate, monolithic, petrified, poured, precast, set, set in stone, solid, solidified, steeled, strong, unyielding
Antonyms: bending, flexible, pliable

Saturday, February 05, 2011

The Voice of the Silence

Wow! (link to online version of Blavatsky's book)

Here is a quote from early on in the book. N.B. This quote reflects exactly the "communications", or general sentiments, I received from my new guides following my initiation last October:

"Having become indifferent to objects of perception, the pupil must seek out the rajah of the senses, the Thought-Producer, he who awakes illusion.

The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.

Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.

For: --

When to himself his form appears unreal, as do on waking all the forms he sees in dreams;

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the ONE -- the inner sound which kills the outer.

Then only, not till then, shall he forsake the region of Asat, the false, to come unto the realm of Sat, the true.

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

Before the Soul can hear, the image (man) has to become as deaf to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly.

Before the soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker be united just as the form to which the clay is modelled, is first united with the potter's mind.

For then the soul will hear, and will remember.

And then to the inner ear will speak --

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE"


Thus ends the quote. Interestingly, Blavatsky refers to the state of Dharana as "the intense and perfect concentration of the mind upon some one interior object, accompanied by complete abstraction from everything pertaining to the external Universe, or the world of the senses." This is exactly what I was alluding to in my Jan. 27 blog entry, "The Ideal of Concentration". I wish also to state that achieving illumination is an extremely difficult process because we are immersed in an illusionary world. I believe it requires not only supreme effort and desire but supreme understanding, so that effort is not misdirected. The "rajah" referred to above dwells, I believe, in the heart. The requisite understanding pertains to fact that the mind is, in a sense, the enemy of the heart. Mental consciousness is focused on the objective (world), whereas heart consciousness is focused on the subjective (world).

"The Mind (Manas) which follows the rambling senses, makes the Soul (Buddhi) as helpless as the boat which the wind leads astray upon the waters." (Bhagavatgita II. 70)



Here are some other notes by Nils A. Amneus:

"Every individual Monad must, in the course of its evolutionary pilgrimage, inhabit all the various forms of Nature beginning with the lowest, gradually advancing through eternities of time and the various kingdoms, until it is ready to inhabit the higher forms. In each embodiment the Monad gains the experience and learns the lessons which that particular embodiment has to offer. When the lessons of that embodiment have been learned and there is no longer any need for experience in that type of body, the upward urge within the Monad causes it to seek higher forms in order to continue its evolution. In its new embodiment with its altered environment, the Monad has different experiences and develops different faculties, until these faculties operate in relative perfection. Then another forward step is taken, and so on, ad infinitum.

The various forms of Nature in which the Monad embodies itself may be likened to the rungs of a ladder, up which the evolving Monad climbs. Figuratively, the highest rung of one ladder takes the climber to an imaginary platform, a temporary goal, where he may rest and recuperate from his effort. But the urge from within allows him no long respite and he soon discovers that his platform supports another "evolutionary ladder" which he now begins to climb to reach the greater heights he dimly perceives above him.

We see below us on the Ladder of Life, Monads in an ever ascending scale of Evolution, reaching from the atom and the minerals to Man. All these Monads are heading towards the Human stage in an upward march that embraces time periods of incomprehensible duration. The Ancient Teachings tell us that there are above Man other Ladders, leading to heights inconceivable, which some day, in ages to come, Man shall begin to climb. The possibilities for growth are infinite, and Man's destiny is far greater than he can picture.

Evolution, then, is endless, but it is not one continuous, uninterrupted climb. There are temporary stopping places, relative beginnings and relative endings, but there never was a first beginning and there never will be a final end.

It will be noted that the subject of Evolution as presented by the Ancient Wisdom differs from the Darwinian Theory. According to the latter it is the forms of Nature that change, through a process of "natural selection" and "the survival of the fittest," by imperceptible degrees from one form into another. The Ancient Wisdom, on the other hand, states that the forms of Nature are relatively stable, although they do undergo some exceeding slow changes. But the real actor in the drama of Evolution is the indwelling Monad, and a distinction is made between this Monad and the vehicle or body it inhabits.

The Monad "migrates" through the ages, from lower to higher forms, up through the Kingdoms of Nature, until after aeons it reaches the Human Kingdom."

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Vernal Equinox Precession

In terms of normal, casual, everyday observation, the Vernal Equinox is a point among the stars that doesn't move. Its location isn't affected by the earth's rotation or revolution. It's just a point.

Taking into account the 26,000 year cycle of precession, however, the celestial poles and equinoxes drift one degree in about 72 years.

Don Juan Demarco Quotes

These are quotes from the movie Don Juan Demarco -- what a great script.

Don Juan: There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

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Don Juan: By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it's true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the-the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect, because, I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it. So, to answer your question, I see as clear as day that this great edifice in which we find ourselves is your villa. It is your home. And as for you, Don Octavio DeFlores, you are a great lover like myself, even though you may have lost your way and your accent. Shall I continue?

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Don Juan: I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation. Look, you want to know if I understand that this is a mental hospital? Yes, I understand that. But, then how can I say that you are Don Octavio and I am a guest at your villa? Correct?

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Dr. Jack Michler: Don Juan, this young woman Dona Ana, must be very special. I would like so much to hear about her.
Don Juan: Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.
Dr. Jack Michler: I have no doubt that losing a love like this can be very painful. But, why lose hope along with life? Why lose everything? You must not forget, my friend, that the power of your love, the power of love of Don Juan, is eternal and will not be denied.

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Dr. Paul Showalter: I'm giving him to Bill.
Dr. Jack Michler: This kid is going to do a flamenco number on Bill's head until it looks like a tortilla, and it's going to be on your watch.

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[Don Juan does a flamenco dance at the beginning of his session with Bill]
Bill: [Clears throat] Would you, um, would you like to talk about why you attempted to kill yourself?
Don Juan: You want Don Juan de Marco, the world's greatest lover, to talk to you? What do you know of great love? Have you ever loved a woman until milk leaked from her as though she had just given birth to love itself, and now must feed it or burst? Have you ever tasted a woman until she believed that she could be satisfied only by consuming the tongue that had devoured her? Have you ever loved a woman so completely that the sound of your voice in her ear could cause her body to shudder and explode with such intense pleasure that only weeping could bring her full release?

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Don Juan: No woman has ever left my arms unsatisfied.

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Don Juan: Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.

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Don Juan: Every woman is a mystery to be solved.

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Don Juan: I give women pleasure, if they desire, it is of course the greatest pleasure they will ever experience.

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Donna Ana: Very well, my love. I will accept that I'm not the first if you will tell me, with the same... honesty, how many others there have been.
Don Juan: [voiceover] This would have been a very good time for me to lie. But truth is a terrible habit.
[to Donna Ana]
Don Juan: Including you... there have been... exactly... one... thousand, five hundred and two.

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Don Juan: There are those that do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But, how else to explain love at first sight? We were convinced that there was no other life beneath the sky but ours. We believed that we would never die.

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Dr. Jack Michler: Sadly, I must report that the last patient I ever treated, the great lover Don Juan DeMarco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable, and even worse, highly contagious.

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Don Juan: Where is Don Octavio del Flores?
Bill: Wh-who?
Don Juan: My host at this villa.
Bill: Via? Via?
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via? Villa.
Don Juan: Si, villa.
Bill: Villa.
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via.
Don Juan: Where is Don Octavio?
Bill: Y-you mean Dr. Mickler?
Don Juan: Who?
Bill: Um,
[clears throat]
Bill: ... why do you think that, um, Dr. Mickler is, um, Don Octavio del Flores?
Don Juan: Why do you think Don Octavio del Flores is Dr. Mickler?

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Don Juan: You know, my friend, until this afternoon, I had always believed that a man could love only one woman. I have been badly misled. It is absolutely incredible to me that just a few hours ago, Dona Julia was the only woman who existed, and now, now, there is the magnificent Sultana Gulbeyaz.

from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112883/quotes

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Ideal of Concentration

In the chapter "The Disciplines of Salvation" in his book "Lectures on Ancient ..." Hall talks about the three methods of the Pythagorean school used in achieving illumination; namely, observation, discrimination, and lastly, concentration. This blurb is about the latter.

"Having discovered the purpose of life through observation and discrimination, man consummates that purpose through concentration of his faculties upon that single end. To concentrate means simply to focalize all the energies upon an appointed task. The mental activities of most people are scattered like spray when they are confronted by the solid wall of that which is to be known ....

Philosophy assures its disciples that when man through discrimination has discovered the desired end and is willing to sacrifice every other interest to the attainment of that end, he will ultimately arrive at indissoluble union with the object of his desire ....

If the mind can be deflected from its goal by the phantasm of surroundings, it is incapable of concentration ....

We should never concentrate upon any desired end until discrimination has revealed it to be the supreme ideal; for the universe avenges itself for the misuse of its agencies .... The ultimate ideal of concentration is attained when all the external parts are turned inward toward the contemplation of Self."

The Demiurge

The leader of the archons, a second-rate deity who falsely imagines himself to be the true God and claims creation of the world of appearances.

N.B. The world of appearances is the world of images, which exist in the astral light (the lower atmosphere of the Earth).

Monday, January 24, 2011

Affirmations

I wrote these affirmations while trying to decide how to remove the entities in my second and third chakras. I decided, more or less, that I can get rid of them only by not focusing on the objective world and my objective existence but rather "going into myself", achieving a purely subjective state of existence.

I have the capacity to achieve a state of absolute subjective existence so that I no longer have any focus whatsoever on the objective world, on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to experience total reunion with my own subjective nature as opposed to my objective nature.
I am not an objective being, I am a subjective being.
I have the capacity to live in the subjective world, not the objective world.
I have the capacity to completely let go of the objective world of existence and live only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to experience myself only subjectively, not objectively.
I have the capacity to experience only subjective existence, not objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that my "fallen nature" is my objective nature.
I have the capacity to let go of my objective nature and experience myself purely subjectively, to experience only my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to or react to the objective world but to experience myself only subjectively, to experience a state of pure subjectivity.
No matter what the circumstances I am experiencing objectively, I have the capacity to not respond to the objective world but to only live and exist in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have no focus whatsoever on the objective existence -- to completely let go of my objective existence and focus only on my subjective existence and experience only my subjective existence.
I have the capacity to know that objective existence stands outside of being, while subjective existence is being.
I have the capacity to experience myself subjectively and not objectively.
No matter what the circumstances in the objective world, I have the capacity to focus only on my subjective existence and not on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that I have a dual nature, an objective nature and a subjective nature -- but only one is real -- only my subjective nature is real, my objective nature is pure illusion.
I have the capacity to experience the fact that my objective nature is pure illusion and that only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to not respond to my objective nature because only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to rise up out of my objective nature and experience myself only subjectively.
I have the capacity to not respond anymore to the objective world because I know it is pure illusion. I have the capacity to exist only in the subjective world and in my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to not longer be a servant to my objective nature but to exist only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have a purely subjective existence rather than an objective existence.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to the objective world because it is not real.
I have the capacity to no longer believe in the illusion of the objective world but to only believe in the reality of the subjective world.
I have the capacity to focus completely on my subjective nature and not on my objective nature.
I have the capacity to know that the objective world is complete illusion.
I have the capacity to achieve a completely subjective state of existence.
I am no longer attached to the objective world or to objective existence. I exist in a state of complete subjectivity.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Resetting Your Brains Sodium/Potassium Ratio In Theta

Your brain cells reset their sodium & potassium ratios when the brain is in Theta state. The sodium & potassium levels are involved in osmosis which is the chemical process that transports chemicals into and out of your brain cells. After an extended period in the Beta state the ratio between potassium and sodium is out of balance. This the main cause of what is known as "mental fatigue". A brief period in Theta (about 5 - 15min) can restore the ratio to normal resulting in mental refreshment.

http://www.web-us.com/thescience.htm

Seven Affirmations

  • I have the capacity to wake up from the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence.
  • I have the capacity to know that the truth of who I am dwells in my heart and not in my head.
  • I am a star being. I am a solar being. I am not an Earthly being.
  • I dwell in the heart of each of my incarnations.
  • I dwell in the heart of the Tony incarnation.
  • I have the capacity to be very kind to myself because I am the immortal fallen third of my own solar nature.
  • I have the capacity to re-emerge into my solar nature.
These are extra affirmations or confirmations of what I've said:

I am not an Earthly being. I am a star being. I am a solar being. There is no such thing as "Earth-being", the Earth is filled with forms, not beings.
Love is my true nature, but I have taken on the phantasmagoria of other emotions; they are not real, however, they are forms.
I know that my true goal and objective is to return to my solar nature and to rise up out of the illusion of Earthly existence and to return to the stars.
I know that I am a star being. I have been tricked into believing I am an Earthly being.
One third of our immortal nature has fallen into non-being (form), this is what we call the "I".
I have the capacity to be very kind to myself because I am the one third of my solar nature, my immortal nature, that has fallen into the illusion of form.
I have the capacity to return to my star or solar state of being.
I have the capacity to re-emerge out of the illusion of Earthly existence and back into my natural state of star or solar existence.
I have the capacity to re-emerge out of the illusion of Earthly existence.
I am not longer trapped within the confines of Earthly existence.
I am freed from the illusion of Earthly existence and I am returned to my solar state of being.
I see through the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence. I see into my true nature, which is solar, not Earthly.
I am no longer fooled into believing that I am an Earthly being.
I have left the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence forever.
My heart chakra is the center of my being.
My solar nature is my true nature.
I have the capacity to fully wake up from the dream of Earthly existence.
I have the capacity to desire only to return to the stars and leave the illusional world of Earthly existence forever.
I live from my heart and not from my head.
I have the capacity to get to know my solar nature very well.
I have the capacity to leave the illusional world of Earthly existence and return to solar or star existence.

Quote from Tony

"Earthly existence is the experience of the phantasmagoria of forms."

Tony

N.B. Phantasmagoria is defined "as a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)"

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

AGH, The Astral Light

This is a term for an occult energy field that comprises the astral material. Astral light, according to many occultists, is the substance that forms images from thoughts or thought-forms. Anything entering astral light stimulates it to form around the catalyst. In performing this process it creates a replica of the object, or a conceptual image of the thought or idea. Afterwards such images can be transmitted into the physical dimension where they are manifested as material objects or situations. Astral light possesses sentience that is derived from the primal imprint of the divine consciousness within the astral dimension. A.G.H.

Friday, January 07, 2011

Edge's The Astral Light

The astral light has been well called the world's memory and the cosmic picture gallery. It is nature's storehouse of forms. Everything in the physical world preexists in the astral world as an image or type or form. Besides this, it is a great memory, nature's memory; for it retains impressions of objects and events on the physical plane. Thus it is a great record.

Le Diable, the Astral Light, Baphomet


The fifteenth numbered major trump is called Le Diable, the Devil, and portrays a creature resembling Pan with the horns of a ram or deer, the arms and body of a man, and the legs and feet of a goat or dragon. The figure stands upon a cubic stone, to a ring in the front of which are chained two satyrs. For a scepter this so-called demon carries a lighted torch or candle. The entire figure is symbolic of the magic powers of the astral light, or universal mirror, in which the divine forces are reflected in an inverted, or infernal, state. The demon is winged like a bar, showing that it pertains to the nocturnal, or shadow inferior sphere. The animal natures of man, in the form of a male and a female elemental, are chained to its footstool. The torch is the false light which guides unillumined souls to their own undoing. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot appears Typhon--a winged creature composed of a hog, a man, a bat, a crocodile, and a hippopotamus--standing in the midst of its own destructiveness and holding aloft the firebrand of the incendiary. Typhon is created by man's own misdeeds, which, turning upon their maker, destroy him.

From Hall's Secret Teachings

WQ Judge, Echoes from the Orient

Body, as a gross vehicle.
Vitality, or Prana.
Astral Body, or Linga Sarira.
Astral Soul, or Kama Rupa.
Human Soul, or Manas.
Spiritual Soul, or Buddhi.

Incidentally, Blavatsky and Hall talk about a lower quaternary and an upper triad in the being called "Man", i.e., the human. The former is the "animal man", subject to mortality and reincarnation, the latter is the spiritual man, immortal. The "animal man" is planetary -- the spiritual man is solar. There are, I believe three higher aspects to ourselves than these because we are not from the solar system but we fell into it from a higher plane of existence.

The following are "essential reading:"

Sinnet's "Esoteric Buddhism"
Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine," "Key to Theosophy," "Isis Unveiled."

There are two aspects of consciousness -- stasis (equilibrium, stability) on the one hand, and change (disequilibrium, instability) on the other hand. The former is called "Memory" and the latter is called "Imagination". These two aspects are universal -- macrocosmic and microcosmic. Included in the memory aspect of the microcosm (man) is instinct -- the impulse towards "sameness".

In a Seinfeld episode, George tells this to Jerry in Monk's Cafe, who convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right”. This is kind of what it takes to finally become illuminated.

Very interesting book on the astral light.