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Saturday, January 01, 2022

My Guru; Ram Dass

Disclaimer: In my Journey to self Awareness in this incarnation, as a part of my waking, the first person I was led to, who introduced me to this whole gig I now find myself in was Richard Alpert. My Guru, Ram Dass. I am not a believer or proponent of psychedelics, for the record. As did Maharaji Neem Karoli Baba, I believe that we can achieve enlightenment without resorting to chemical means.

Richard Alpert / Ram Dass


Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since. Ram Dass’ spirit has been a guiding light for three generations, carrying along millions on the journey, helping to free them from their bonds as he works through his own.

Since 1968, Ram Dass has pursued a panoramic array of spiritual methods and practices from potent ancient wisdom traditions, including bhakti or devotional yoga focused on the Hindu deity Hanuman; Buddhist meditation in the Theravadin, Mahayana Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist schools, and Sufi and Jewish mystical studies. Perhaps most significantly, his practice of karma yoga or spiritual service has opened up millions of other souls to their deep, yet individuated spiritual practice and path. Ram Dass continues to uphold the boddhisatva ideal for others through his compassionate sharing of true knowledge and vision. His unique skill in getting people to cut through and feel divine love without dogma is still a positive influence on many people from all over the planet.

In 1961, while at Harvard, explorations of human consciousness led him, in collaboration with Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Aldous Huxley, and Allen Ginsberg, to pursue intensive research with psilocybin, LSD-25, and other psychedelic chemicals. Out of this research came two books: The Psychedelic Experience (co-authored with Leary and Metzner, and based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, published by University Books); and LSD (with Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller, published by New American Library). Because of the highly controversial nature of their research, Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary became personae non-grata and were dismissed from Harvard in 1963. Tim Leary and Alpert then went to Mexico, ate mushrooms, and went from being academics to counter-culture icons, legends in their own time, and young at that. For Ram Dass psychedelic work turned out to be a prelude to the mystical country of the spirit and the source of consciousness itself. Mind expansion via chemical substances became a catalyst for the spiritual seeking. This naturally led him eastward to the traditional headwater of mystical rivers, India. Once there, a series of seeming coincidences led him to Neem Karoli Baba and the transformation from Richard Alpert to Ram Dass.

In 1974, Ram Dass created the Hanuman Foundation, a non-profit foundation meant to embody the spirit of service inspired his Guru. The Hanuman Foundation developed the Prison-Ashram Project, directed by Bo and Sita Lozoff, which helped prison inmates grow spiritually during their incarceration and the Dying Project, conceived with Stephen Levine, which helped many bring awareness and compassion to the encounter with death. Also as part of the Hanuman Foundation, Dale Borglum founded and directed the Dying Center in Santa Fe, the first residential facility in the United States whose purpose was to support conscious dying. The Prison-Ashram Project, now called the Human Kindness Foundation, continues under Sita Lozoff in North Carolina and the Living/Dying Project, now a separate non-profit headed by Dale Borglum in the Bay Area, provides support for transforming the encounter with life-threatening illness into an opportunity for spiritual awakening.

Be Here Now, Ram Dass’s monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live joyously a hundred percent of the time in the present, luminous or mundane. Be Here Now continues to be the instruction manual of choice for generations of spiritual seekers. Forty years later, it’s still part of the timeless present. Being here now is still being here now.

Ram Dass was a co-founder and advisory board member of the Seva Foundation (“seva” means “spiritual service” in Sanskrit), an international service organization. Seva supports programs designed to help wipe out curable blindness in India and Nepal, restore the agricultural life of impoverished villagers in Guatemala, assist in primary health care for American Indians, and to bring attention to the issues of homelessness and environmental degradation in the United States, along with other nations.

In 1996, Ram Dass began a talk radio program called “Here and Now with Ram Dass.” Seven pilot programs were aired in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, and Ram Dass planned to launch the show on a nationwide basis the following year, but it was not to be. On February 19th 1997, Ram Dass suffered a near-fatal stroke, which left him paralyzed on the right side of his body and expressive aphasia limiting his ability to speak, along with other challenging ailments. Though the radio show did not last, his Here and Now podcast (over 100 episodes) lives on today at Ram Dass’ Be Here Now Network.

The after-effects of the stroke once again changed his life, but he was able to resume teaching, writing and sharing his heart. In 2004, following a life-threatening infection, Ram Dass was forced to curtail travel and focus on recovering his health.

Ram Dass moved to Maui in 2004, and began hosting personal and public retreats and events for spiritual seekers, continuing his long-standing legacy of sharing his heart and life with anyone who wanted to access his teachings and his heart. He accessed people through weekly Skype sessions and through a vast library of his teachings hosted on RamDass.org and through social media, books, online courses and podcasts. 


For all Ram's Books and teachings, please visit Ram Dass BOOKS AND MEDIA

My Favorite Ram Dass 
THE VEIL


REINCARNATION, THE LAW OF ONE & BEING A (SOUL) HAVING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

BEING FREE TOGETHER  

BHAKTI: DEVOTION AND THE GURU

THE MIRACLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

BEYOND SUCCESS

FIERCE GRACE

BECOMING NOBODY


Q'uo Channeling: February 20, 2016 (including the original video.)

Channeling disclaimer: 
This telepathic channeling has been taken from transcriptions of the weekly study and meditation meetings of the Rock Creek Research & Development Laboratories and L/L Research. It is offered in the hope that it may be useful to you. As the Confederation entities always make a point of saying, please use your discrimination and judgment in assessing this material. If something rings true to you, fine. If something does not resonate, please leave it behind, for neither we nor those of the Confederation would wish to be a stumbling block for any.




"Our question today has to do with the Creator’s will and individual free will. How do we reconcile the idea that we are individual portions of the Creator, imbued with free will when, as crystallized beings of positive polarity, we are said to be performing the Creator’s will? (Jim channeling)
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo, and we greet you in love and in light this day. As always, it is our great honor and privilege to be able to join your circle of seeking. We thank you for inviting our presence. We would, as always, ask that you use your discrimination for each word that we speak so that we may speak freely without worry that we shall infringe upon your free will, for indeed free will is that which we are here to discuss today, and we wish that your free will remain intact.

As you consider the concept of the One Creator, before creation was begun, before it was, you have neither light nor dark, shape nor shadow, time or space, you have infinity. This infinity is all that there is—there is nothing else.

Within this infinity—a vastness in every respect that you could consider describing infinity—there is somehow that first movement into a state of beingness which you could describe as being aware. This infinity then has begun to differentiate itself in a manner which is beyond understanding.

However, it is impressed upon us by our teachers that this infinity became aware of what you would call a desire, or a will. A concept was born then, that became what you would call a paradox or a distortion; a movement away from the completely unified nature of intelligent infinity. This concept of the will, that is exercised freely, then became interested in what it would be like to become more than it was. This was a contemplation of self; a determination by an intelligence within this infinity that there could be more than there was at this moment; that there could be an exploration of the nature of this infinity that is aware, that has a will, and may exercise it freely.

Thus, there was the creation of what you would call the one infinite creation; a reflection of the Creator, and yet different from the Creator in that there was many, an infinity of many; because of the Creator’s ability to consider the many, and to create the many, and to imbue each portion of the many with the same will, freely given and able to be freely exercised; that each portion of this Infinite Creator, this intelligent infinity, thus the creation, in its most primal form, was born; so that throughout what you would call the infinity of universes or creations, there were those entities that reflected the nature of the Creator.

These entities were what you would call stars or Logoi. Each Logos then had the ability to reflect the Creator’s infinite nature, and to pursue an investigation of the nature of the Creator as being infinite, as being intelligent, and as exercising that intelligence to discover more about itself—more than it was.

Each Logos then was also free in a similar fashion to create further extensions of the nature of intelligent infinity, and further extensions of each Logos’ self. The quality of being contained the unity of all within each portion of itself, so that throughout this infinite universe of Logoi there continued the exercise of free will to discover more and more the nature of the one creation, so that each Logos was able to create about it the equivalent or analog of itself in the form of what you would call planets revolving about each Logos in a certain circumscribed orbit—or relationship to the Logos and to each other planet, and in a less discernable fashion to all other Logoi and planets, and indeed the One Infinite Creator, or intelligent infinity, for we are still in an unified creation.

Further individualization of creation occurred. There were, upon each planetary sphere, the entities of earth, wind, fire and water, imbued with similar consciousness of self and the accompanying freedom of will. These being foundation characteristics of each portion of the one creation in its individualization to what you would call smaller and smaller reproductions of intelligent infinity. Thus, the process of evolution began to take place as the consciousness of the smallest amount of earth, wind, fire and water began to teach each other how to become sea, river, mountain, land, air that blows and burns incandescently in an untimed or timeless state. Thus the creation has begun, and within this creation, then, there is the movement of consciousness along an upward spiraling line of light from one level of vibration to the next.

At this time we would transfer this contact to the one known as Steve. We are those of Q’uo.

(Steve channeling)

I am Q’uo and am with this instrument. We would begin our communication through this instrument by asking this instrument and those here in attendance to place themselves within this upwardly spiraling light and to ask themselves who it is that is the one thus spiraling, and also to whom the spiral tends or goes.

My friends, the answer to the question in both instances is that it is you. It is you whose seeking enlivens the spiral with its livingness, its intention, its desire; and it is you who receives this intention, this desire as a gift. It is the gift of that which you call life, it is the gift of that primal movement which, coming through you, has its origin at a point beyond you, and has its destination at a point that also seems to be beyond you.

But you are constituted, both as whence and whither, within this bifurcated beyond. So it is true to say that you are both the created and the Creator. It is true to say that as the created you bear that which is your own, and if you wish you may call this your will. But it is also true that as the Creator you participate in that unlimited condition we have referred to as infinity, and infinity has to it intrinsically no limit that one would call a specific will. Yet, will that constitutes itself in the vast complexity of the creation, and that sees itself in distinction from other wills beyond count, wants always something more, wants always something unified, wants always something beyond limit, beyond count: wants infinity.

The point of difficulty for creatures aspiring to advance along the line of spiritual evolution is the question of discernment in which a determination must be made concerning: what of the desire to evolve belongs to mere creatureliness, the mere circumstances of the seeking of the individual, and what belongs to that which calls to the seeking creature, that which calls forth from the seeking creature, that which will fulfill the terms of the seeking.

Now, to put the matter in this way seems at first glance to be not very helpful because one does, after all, want to seek better, and one cannot begin to conceive what “seeking better” would be without a clearer conception of the criteria according to which better may be discriminated from worse. That would seem to imply a judgment about what is worse, and dependent upon that judgment a conception of what might be, by contrast, the better. Lacking any clear conception of what the better would be, one is merely left with a sense of the inadequacy of the present state of one’s being. Thus, the great spiritual aspiration continues and, my friends, we would say that it continues well beyond the level of third-density seeking into fourth, into fifth, into sixth, and, we are increasingly aware, beyond.

One does not have a perfectly clear conception of the destination of spiritual seeking. And lacking that one cannot say what it would mean to satisfy the criterion of clarity in seeking such that one could put a concept to the notion of what the Creator’s will in itself might be.

However, when you reflect upon all those many desires you have experienced in your lives, and when you have come to realize that desire upon desire has issued in more desire and more desire yet—and in such a way that it sometimes becomes clear to you that there is within the life of desire a distinction that emerges, cloudy at first but clearer as it goes, that some desires are more capable of eloquently expressing your beingness, more capable of finding pathways to creative expressions of that beingness—you can feel the beingness you are learning to express is less and less limited, more and more inclusive. You can begin to think of a trajectory of seeking that allows the will you are learning to channel from those root sources of your being to find a home or a destination that seems to converge with more eloquent expressions of what it means to be will.

And one finds joy when will learns to converge with other strands of will it finds in its immediate proximity. And one finds in this joy that one is spurred on to higher and higher aspiration. At some point it becomes possible to think a thought that seems to suggest a will that would embrace all possible wills: that is a thought, we would suggest to you, that one may call the Creator’s will, or, if you prefer, creative will itself, or perfect creativity in will.

And so one may then reflect back on all of the loose strands of willing—all of the stray and often lost desires that collectively mark out the life experience as you live it in this particular opportunity for living that has been afforded you in the incarnation—and you may give to yourself the gift of realizing that there is unity possible.

There is, my friends, in desire itself, a nisus 1, or an instinctual striving for unity. Love may enjoy the name of this unity at the point at which desire has found its direction. In many cases it would seem as if this direction takes the form of a specific object of that love, takes the form of the beloved. There are many things to love, and it is easy for the soul which is learning to find its way, to flit from flower to flower, so to speak, somewhat harder to discover that there is within a single flower enough reflection of the infinite to occupy a lifetime. One looks into the eyes of the beloved and what does one see but the Creator looking back at one. When the Creator looks back at the creature, the creature may begin to look creatively back at the Creator.

My friends, we would suggest to you that this is the golden moment. To the best of our ability to state the matter, this is the purpose of the creation: that the Creator be given the opportunity to gaze upon itself from a point of view that seems to be not originally present to the self. There is in this thought a depth that we have not plumbed, but there is in this thought a profundity that we have found most inspiring. Therefore, we will say to you that the question that you have posed today is one which is inexhaustible and which must be seen as relevant to the mystery to its very core.

The will of the Creator, the will of the creature, are, from the standpoint of the creation, ultimately not just two, but one; not just one, but two. We are aware that this is likely to be not a completely satisfactory answer, but we are also aware that when it comes to explaining the mystery of the creation, no answer can be completely satisfactory.

We are those of Q’uo and we would return to the one known as Jim in order to further address any queries that may remain upon the minds of those here. Adonai, my friends, Adonai.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo and am with this instrument once again. We thank the one known as Steve for his fine service this afternoon and we would ask those gathered here if there might be a further query to which we might speak.
[New Speaker]Gary

Q’uo, you said of infinity that it discerned a concept which included the notion that there was more than it was, or that it could explore more than it was, and that it could engage in a contemplation of self. Thus was born through free will the creation.

A metaphor struck me that might help this situation make sense to our third-density minds and I would like you to comment on that metaphor. It’s almost as if creation is a daydream, or an act of imagination in the mind, so to speak, of infinity. Not precisely imagination or daydream as we might perceive it, but a self-animated daydream where each part within the daydream is invested with free will to choose its manner of exploration of many-ness, and its manner of awakening from the daydream to the truth.

In other words infinity initiates the daydream, and the daydream itself runs its own show, with each of its parts ending the daydream when it is ready and able to do so. Maybe similar to authors who write fiction where their characters kind of come alive and take on their own personality and their own course within the imagination of the author writing the fiction. Can you comment on this metaphor?
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo and we can, my brother, and would be glad to do so. We find it is an apt metaphor that indeed the creation can be seen as a kind of dream. However, it is not that which fades or dissolves with the coming of the day and the night in the cycles of both. For there is within all the creation—whether the entities of which we speak are large, such as the Logoi; smaller, such as yourselves; or even microscopic in your reality—each energy essence has not only free will, but has a duration of, shall we say, time through which the energy it has been invested with may be expended upon its own particular journey of seeking the One Creator from which it sprang.

Thus, each portion of the infinite creation moves in a cyclical fashion, a kind of rhythm, if you will, so that there is the ability and opportunity to expend the given energies in the process of expressing its own individuality, and then in blending that individuality ultimately with the One Creator once again, so that it is offered the opportunity to exercise its free will in any fashion which it chooses.

However, it is also the case that as an infinity of expressions are created by the infinity of entities in the creation, there is a pattern that is traveled through the densities so that when the spirit complex is added to the mind and the body in the third density experience, it is at this point that what you have called the giving up of the freewill of the small self to do the will of the Creator becomes a possibility.

And each entity which moves beyond the third density has, in some fashion, made this, shall we call it a trade, or an exchange, or an amplification, or a differentiation of the individual will given to it by the One Creator to once again then travel back to the Creator in a fashion which could be seen as an exercise of the will of the Creator.

Paradoxically, is there any other will to exercise? Thus all does begin and end in mystery.

Is there a further query, my brother?
[New Speaker]Gary

That was excellent, thank you, there is a further query, probably one of the single-most impossible questions to answer, and that’s the question of why.

There is this infinity which can’t be defined because it is everything, there is nothing outside of this infinity against which to compare it. This infinity discerns a concept and decides to create this vast illusion—intricate beyond our understanding, with its own internal systems and rules and illusions of space and time and entities, and yet it is an illusion; the infinity is [in actuality] whole, complete and perfect. It cannot be enhanced; it cannot be diminished; yet it creates this dream.

Mystics say of the reason for the dream is that it is sort of play, or pretend, even. Ra says that the Creator desires to know itself. Can we plumb any more deeply into the why of creation?
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother, and we appreciate the thoughtfulness which has gone into it, for you are, indeed, delving deeply into the very fiber of the One Creator, and the creation. We would take somewhat of a small issue with you, however, in that when the creation was made, it was made in order that the Creator could know itself, could have an enjoyment in doing such, being playful as it is, but also with the hope that it could be enhanced, for this is the great desire of the free will within the Creator and within all of its portion in the Infinite creation. It wishes to know what free will can be able to produce, shall we say, by each of the portions it has created.

How can it become more differentiated when free will is given to an infinite array of entities? For if there were no creation, and only the intelligent infinity remained, and it was unwilling to do more than be, perhaps it would be infinitely bored. But, being playful and curious and intelligent, the One Creator made that which we call the infinite creation in order that there might be, as you say, the Maya, the game, the play; and in this play, all would be actors upon the stage at all times, and there would be many storylines, many experiences beyond imagination; and thus the Creator would learn, being the curious being as it is.

Is there a further query to which we may speak, my brother?
[New Speaker]Gary

When one attempts to think about intelligent infinity, there aren’t really positive concepts that can be applied; one runs up [against] the need to speak in negative terms about intelligent infinity. Intelligent infinity has no space to it, it is nowhere; it has no time to it, it is not young or old, it is no when; has no boundaries, it has no limits; it has no beginning, no end; it has no qualities; it has no subject and object. There is thusly no way to know it, for to know something is to compare it against something else. 2

Is there anything meaningful that can be said about what this thing, this intelligent infinity, is; what it was doing, so to speak, prior to its discerning of a concept of free will?
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother. It is true, as you say, that the Creator, the One intelligent infinity has none of those qualities, but, paradoxically, it is also true that it has all of those qualities, for it creates them, and what was it doing before it created them? Nothing but being.

Is there a further query, my brother?
[New Speaker]Gary

A final query, Q’uo. This has been most illuminating, thank you. About being, you said: “What was it doing? It was being.”

Of what Ra calls intelligent infinity, mystics say that it is the I AM, and that is really all that can [ultimately] be said about it: it is is-ness, it is being-ness. Is there anything more meaningful that might be said about what beingness and isness is?
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo, my brother, and we would suggest that each entity, be it the mystic or the simple seeker within third density that has yet to expand its mind to include such queries of which you ask, may at some point approach an understanding of the One Infinite Creator. At some point, each individualized portion of creation shall experience the sacrament of the fully experienced presence of the One Infinite Creator and then shall be able to answer all of these questions for itself. That is the mysterious journey upon which each of you, and all entities, are engaged at all times, whether consciously or subconsciously. This is the play, this is the game, this is the one seeking the One through infinity and finding the One within the self.

Is there a final query at this time?
[New Speaker]Gary

Q’uo, I will take this opportunity then and ask: is it possible that the intelligent infinity may end, or conclude this particular experiment that started with three distortions—free will, love and light—and move on, so to speak, to a new experiment with new distortions that may be beyond any possible conceptualization of our minds?
[New Speaker]Q’uo

I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother. Indeed, there are portions of the One Creator, various Logoi throughout the Infinite creation which, as the various densities or octave of densities condense into what you would call the “black hole” have done just as you have supposed would be possible, and further creations differing from your own are in motion, shall we say, at this time, and are enough at variance from what you’ve experienced that the intellect and the imagination would be staggered at their experience.

We thank each entity here within this circle for partaking in this wonderfully robust and exciting series of queries and questioning, and sharing and extending the self beyond the normal limits which has occurred this afternoon. We are most grateful to you for requesting our presence. We find these times of joining our energies with yours to be most exhilarating and meaningful for us, for this is our way of being of service to the One Creator in each of you.

At this time, we shall take our leave of this instrument. We greet each of you in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends, Adonai Vasu Borragus.



Q'uo Channeling; December 31st, 1989. (original videos included)

"We come to you in gratitude and greet you in the love and light of one infinite creator. I am Q'uo. This tantalizing prospect to us a marvelous avenue of service that you offer us, and we offer to you our humble thanks and our abiding love, that you who struggle in the darkness still see and have faith in the light within.

The question offered this evening has to do with the magical personality. But, but before we speak upon that subject, we must speak upon a subject which is fundamental to an understanding of the magical personality. That understanding the simultaneity of all time, all space, all action. this present moment is eternal.The past the future, the feeling of being in the river of time , are part of an illusion which gives you who seek an enormously powerful opportunity, consciously to accelerate the rate of your spiritual growth.

It happens to be the last day of san old year and and old decade among your peoples who count by your calendar. Tomorrow it will be next year. Shall it feel like a different time? Shall it seem transformed? For the most part, no, because you are the same. You have always been, you are, and you will always be.


The choices you make in this density are predisposed by the biases and polarities that you have picked up in lifetime long ago, and more recent. When biases of love and peace and gentleness and humbleness of heart become your rest and your confidence, then perhaps you may release time and spac, allowing it to be a useful and extremely potent offerer of catalyst, to those who wish to learn lessons of love. You see you are at the beginning of self consciousness. You have almost finished this year of school of eternity, this illusory time. however, the choices that you make are made in time/space and speak not to the outer world and its mundane concerns , but to the heart and vital feelings of each.

In this way, we may say to you more simply, that the magical personality is an artifact of the one who has been able to focus the heart and mind upon the infinite One. It is, in a way, possible to think of the higher self as being separate from you. But, just as you were yesterday and will be tomorrow in a new year and a new decade, so the I AM that is the core of you learns of love, wisdom and of loving, wise compassion. When these lessons have been learned, to the extent that they are without significant distortion, you turn, and reaching through time, offer yourself as a gift. You offer the biases, decisions and choices that have been made, not up to this point alone in your illusion of time, but all the choices that allowed each of you to graduate into fourth density, perfect lessons of love and learn the lessons of light, to fifth density, when you manifest light and learn the true meaning of winsome. 

In sixth density, there is eventually, in mid-density, a point in which there is no longer any polarity, for if all is one polarity, there is no polarity. It is when the spirit has reached this point, full of unity, wisdom and compassion, that the sixth density self places within the third density self, in the deep mind, the biases which are to come, the destiny which has been fulfilled, the beauty, the exactitude of service to others. 

therefore , the magical personality , or our higher self, is the last vestige of self which contains polarity. And as you deal in a world of illusion grounded in polarity, this gift can be extremely helpful. many many times one is faced with dilemmas and enigmas that cannot be rationally discerned. there is no logical answer. There is only the wisdom of the heart and the compassion of the mind. For this is what the sixth density of unity provides: the realization that compassionisa not only of the heart but of the mind , that wisdom is not only of the mind but of the heart. 

How many times do your people turn from their heart, refusing to ask, refusing to open the door to that helper or comforter which waits patiently to be asked to aid in decision-making of various kinds. Our message is simple. We ask each to love the Creator with adoration worship as one would normally feel for one's father for you are truly the sons and daughters of the infinite One and within yourself infinite in your own being.

The process of accessing the deep mind, and especially the higher self, may be accomplished best, as we have often said, by repetitious, persistent and daily meditation. Not lasting so long, but lasting as long as it feels as though you are in a holy place with the infinite Creator. Thus mediation is always the key to opening the shuttle from the subconscious or deep mind to the conscious mind. The higher self does not operate by giving instructions, for that would be an infringement of free will and would cause paradoxes withing the universe that are not desired. However, the call must go forward within meditation that you may be visited strengthened and renewed by a longer point of view, a vaster field of incarnations and of incarnational decisions. For as each knows there are no things upon your planet which is as it seems. You are the energy fields the complexes of energy fields, with energy holding you together, carrying you through life. 

It is well and kindly toward this physical vehicle for it is the by means by which the computer of the mind, may gently enter data from the deeper self, the self unperceived even when praying or asking. Perhaps one day one awakens and knows the proper or appropriate answer to a question may be. Perhaps it comes all of a sudden within meditation. There are many ways to use the higher self as there are entities. 

Now how does one make use of the higher self sixth density portion of you? The first thing that you must do is give up your physical reality. you are an illusion within an illusion; mystery surrounds you. Consequently, as one asks for guidance from a deeper self,the higher self within, one opens a door that can only be opened by the seeker since the higher self is a far more clear , lucid and defined product of your thinking. yet, still you find it most helpful to blend the conscious and the rational mind with the deep mind, for they give you the feelings and biases that are far more a part of whom---we correct this instrument---of who you are, what your essence is, than you may have by any other amount of consideration of these matters within this illusion. 

Now as each sits here , we shall attempt to give the process by which the higher self may be contacted. this is one way; there are many others. this is a way which we feel is simple and therefore easier to grasp. The first step is the acceptance and forgiveness of the self within this illusion. It must be clear to each one that cannot live purely in a world polluted by constant negative thoughts and perceptions, cynicism and the ugly emotions of fear, terror, and triumph of those who delight in terrorizing others. This is not the personality that you wish to use for that special time you are working within consciousness, to accelerate the rate of your spiritual growth, to heighten your polarity and to move, shall we say, forward.  You dod not have to gaze at the higher self as a part of self unless you wish. However, it is well to know that the higher self and you are timeless and whole and one. 

Now to obtain the magical personality there is much which one can do, indeed, must do to create the appropriate atmosphere for the gentle lovers touch of the rational mind into the deep mind. This is a slow process for many and infinitely worth it. Once one has been able to contact that part of the self that is sixth density and which has given the gift back to you within the deep recesses of your mind, you may then have a much wider perspective, a much more clear vantage point from which to view the life experiences which your incarnation brings to you.

We caution each against attempting to live in the higher self mode for any length of time past which one cannot hold the concentration and clarity the tuning, the praying, and the singing brings about. You cannot plunder your own higher self without doing damage to the quality of information which you receive. Consequently, in putting on the whole armor of light, as this instrument would say, and accepting the self which seems in the future, but is indeed yourself, as a good advisor you are moving toward a centered position which will be most advantageous to you in using this deep and lovely resource of the mind. We say lovely because it is considerable effort, a labor of love, for the sixth density to create a thoughtform that of all that it has experienced. 

It (the higher self or magical personality) is placed deep within you.It is not played without you. it is not placed within your teacher or your student or your colleague. the magical p[erdsonality is an artifact of the self, the mystery-clad being whose entire experience is recognized to be mystery, we correct this instrument, mysterious.

In preparation for this magical personality's development, the first thing which one needs to accomplish ia a full and completes examination of conscience. Not that you as an entity may judge you as an entity, not at all. But rather, that you may forgive yourself, for you have forgive all others, have you not? Yet, still you hold yourself unworthy. This is not helpful spiritual point of view, for the magical personality is based upon the fact tht the spark of the Creator within is the true self of each entity. Therefore, to begin working with the magical personality one must first go through much searching of the mind, the intellect, the emotional biases that constitute that which you are at this time. This is not for the purpose of judgement, but for the purpose of grasping your essence at this time. Perhaps you wish to make chanfgeds;perhaps you do not. But, to come into contact with yourself as a self is the beginning of the magical personality.

The day to day personality waivers. It is happy; it is sad; it is active ;it is passive. Life is easy or difficult. All of this is within this illusion. The more attention paid to the difficulties of this illusion, the less likely it is that one will be able to have access to the deeper mind of the magical personality. So, we suggest to each that the table be cleared, the table of prejudice, any unfairness, stinginess, desire to manipulate others, and all those artifacts whos bias is not helpful in gaining polarity toward service to others in the name of the infinite One. This preparation takes a different amount of time for different entities, and at the end of it,itis still possible to live within the higher self at all times. However, it is possible to clear the self for the special and sacred door to the self to be opened. 

We suggest that each begin a magical personality meditation with that which has been the call of white , or positive magician from time immemorial; " I desire to know in order to serve. I desire to use my subconscious mind to enrich, enliven, enable and engage this third-density mind and heart" It is impossible for most to keep this clarity over an extended period of time and there is a danger in attempting to do so.

Consider yourselves as toddlers, just learning to walk, the spirit so young, so lovely, so strong, and yet so vulnerable. This is how the magical personality sees the other portion of your behavior and thinking. It is perceived as that of a child who knows not what he does. When one turns one's will and faith to the quest for the philosophers gold of greater wisdom, then you may begin to see gradually a change within you. But, first you must accept that the magical personality is already your own personality for all time is simultaneous. 

One good way to prepare oneself for mediation upon the magical personality is to visualize each chakra in turn, beginning with the red root chakra and moving carefully upwards clearing energies, carefully seeing your chakra centers glowing, orange yellow, green, blue indigo and violet. when you have reached sufficient humility to be able to listen to advice from the higher self that is not easily understood to be other than the self, then we suggest that you begin with this clearing if the chakras, so that you feel the light streaming from your head for you have opened all your chakras, you have become vulnerable, you are ready to take a risk. 

Firstly, there is a tremendous amount of protection of the body, by the the body, and we recommend to each that this be observed. For instance, the instrument blends violet of the crown and the red of the root chakra to cover the self with an energy that is completely personal and denotes that which one is. Upon completing this encapsulation of yourself in the red/violet of body protection, you will then put on the garment of light. That is the Creators protection, impersonal, loving and infinite. 

During the meditations, it is helpful for those who call upon guides and angelic presences to do so, for that work which you are doing is work in which you are vulnerable, for you are open to learning and you do not always have the truly appropriate vibrations for this energy. This must be seen to carefully. The self must be gotten in order, cleared of the small change of life's miseries, cleared even of laughter of good times, clear to listen to what has been called in your holy works 'the still small voice" That is your magical personality. It is well to call any whom you wish to call to aid in your protection. This is not an illusion anymore than you are an illusion within. 

The instrument, for instance, evokes, we correct this instrument, invokes the archangels, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Auriel, and with these four pillars standing in the corners of the room there is an over aching golden dome, for these principles of love called the archangels are most powerful and protective. When you have prepared yourself for the meditation upon the magical personality, it is well to sink into self with no pressure, no thought, now worry and no wonder. But rather simply open to the door and invite wisdom and compassion of the ultimately learned balanced being, which you shall have become, to self as it is. 

It is well, when one wishes to work in consciousness with another by communication to make these same preparation, for by far the majority of those who channel are channeling their own magical personality, their own higher self, their uniqueness. And it is well, when it is finished, that mentally one acknowledges that one slips off the garment of light and moves back into the illusion of energy fields and the experiences that challenge you to love. 

The magical personality is one which is grounded in the deepest humility and in the strongest sense, paradoxical though it may seem, of the worth of self. Like a string or a ribbon, this unrolling behind you gives you the information at each present moment as you request it. Those who wish to maintain a magical personality outside the discipline of meditation may indeed work with the visualizations. It is well for those who with to maintain the spiritual magical personality for longer time than a meditation to work with visualizations. The first visualizations are simply shapes, the square the circle the triangle. The discipline it requires to hold this image in consciousness is the same kind of discipline that an artist employs as it studies its techniques that it may , in the end, be a better instrument through which music, or communication or healing or living may use to allow you to be the shining metaphysical being you truly are.

It is not advisable, in our (Q'uo) opinion, to keep the magical personality any longer than one is able to remain completely clear within. This normally limits that which the magical personality may do in the brief moments with the waking hours and to enspiriting dreams during those hours when the subconscious and the conscious move together in play, in ritual and in meaning. for woe betide those who act as if they were acting out of the magical personality when they are less than clear. may we say, this is extremely inadvisable and that the student of the magical personality who does not wish to study the TREE of LIFE, the KABALLAH and all those things which would inform one of the history of this concept, content with the self knowing that the magical personality lies within you fallow and ready to bloom.

When you call upon it, may you do so in humility. We hope you may call upon it often but always protect the self before you open to vulnerable spirits to that which though it is you, appears within the illusion of another. (see Core Protection Practices) For those who do not clear themselves excellently may receive any number of guides which would purport to be the magical personality, but which instead are means by which positive polarity is gradually lessened. 

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