CALISTHENICS FEBRUARY 1983
· CHRIST FACTOR – LIVING WITH ALL THE CELLS OF THE BODY –FACE UTTERLY DIFFERENT –THE BOOK – MASTERY – ‘DECIDE TO DO’ –EXERCISE –LEARN TO LIVE – HEALING – THE NOW – HANDLING THE TOOL – CHALLENGE –A – U --BE OF SERVICE---
To begin I want to remind you of what we did at Christmas, and make you a little more aware of what I have called the Christ factor. I also want you to be aware that the introduction of the Christ factor in humankind changes humanity. After a while, you will begin to observe this change.
One part of humankind will make it according to the change and one part will follow the old trend. This is why, when we speak according to the hologram, we speak of the spaceship, which is not a continuation of the greenhorn. As far as imagination goes, you can understand that kind of picture, but can you live it? That's another story. And we are confronted with a very serious situation in this respect. You have to learn to be absolutely able to make the difference between understanding, seeing, conceptualizing, and, on the other side, living. If you look at the public in general, you would be surprised at how few people know what living means, experientially. The great majority of people, and that includes those in the groups, think that when they have a vivid picture it is living. So I will try to give you a very simple way to help, but like most simple things, you might have a hard time coming to it. The procedure is simply this:
When you live a condition, allow all the cells of the body to live it too -- all the cells, not just the shape of your hands, or the shape of your feet.
Now this sounds fairly simple, except those who know might say it's fairly difficult. Now basically it's not difficult at all. The difficulty comes from the mind directing the body to do it. We have already seen that any part of the body, and that includes each single cell, has an intelligence of its own. Allow this to play.
In order to double check if you are living or not, you have to learn to see -- livance -wise. It's very easy to see, and I have an idea of a training you can do in order to learn to see:
Ask a person to sit in front of you and focus their mind's eye on some part of the body, then you tell which part it is. The person can even try to trick you by looking up at the ceiling with the eyes and focusing the attention on the feet.
In this way you will learn to see where the attention goes, that is, where the real movement of the head is. It's a fairly easy exercise, and I think you can learn quite quickly. But, it has to be done.
We come to a point where we have to face something that is utterly different. Symbolically, the book is an introduction that allows you to face something utterly different. What you might not have realized is that the ability to face something totally different implies the abilities "developed" in the book -- according to the exercises found there, or according to your own invention. It's not the exercise, it's the faculty that is used that's important.
We've had a chronic situation in which you do an exercise for a time and then you get bored because it's always the same. You don't realize that you have to go beyond established limits. I have in mind one of the exercises in the book: the unfolding of desires. You may have worked with the exercise and found the need behind the desire. Okay. Possibly you may have felt the soul behind the desire. Okay. No, not okay at all. if you had really mastered the exercise you could tune into a desire, live it so the others could see it, then tune to the need behind the desire , and, if you had learned to see what is going on in the head, not the thoughts, but the dynamics, you would see a broadening and the soul would appear. This is the level involved. Otherwise you have just followed "understanding". It's better than nothing, but as the word says, at least for my French ears, it is under-standing -- you're not even level with the situation.
How can we bring you to be able to act? One conclusion that has come to us is: You must learn to do small things. When you are able to do small things, then you can do greater ones as well. If you have failed to do the small things, because your desire is to tackle "great" things, then you suddenly realize that the basics are missing. You don't know how to handle your person. You don't know what changing the center of gravity means. Of, if you want, you don't know what changing identity means. Or, less difficult, you haven't discovered the real activity of the mind, the senses, or the emotions. This means you have some work to do, otherwise you will continue to see things, but not live them. And, as you probably know, the way we work is entirely along the line of living. When we play together there is a change in the whole room. The life of the room changes. You live differently. If you haven't made your whole consciousness relative, what happens? As soon as it is finished, you come back to the old position, and you look at what you have lived according to the rules of the old condition.
I'd like to take a live example of something that happened to someone in the groups. In the music session, this person was struggling with feelings, emotions, and realized that handling those emotions was not easy. What this person had failed to recognize was that the emotions were stirred up because of an action of the soul behind. So the problem was not one of bringing the emotions under control but of recognizing the presence and action of soul.
If you don't recognize soul, you will try to put your emotions in order and say to yourself: "Why was, I that way? or : "Emotions should be calm, so I can enjoy the situation", etc. Suppose that person, or any person here, had gone through the training of the unfoldment of desires, then the action of the soul would have been recognized immediately. What I try to convey is not criticism but a simple, average human situation. You are not different other humans. What I'm stressing is that every movement you make is meant to bring along some real ability to act. In the instance I described the soul was showing its presence a bit. Suppose soul had been recognized at that moment, then what? The center of gravity would have gone from person to soul, and you would have had soul presence. The emotions would have been immediately beautiful. There would have been no problem whatsoever. Some people call this mastery.
You need a certain mastery, an ability to do something. You have heard me say very often, it's not what you understand but what you can do that's important. With the spaceship we have to deal with the Doer. What can you do? According to the situation, not according to yourself . When you confront a practical situation and you have the idea to do something, is it according to the situation? Not always. Even if what is given helps, that help can really stand in the way if it is not given according to the situation.
I want to offer another practical exercise. We have an expression in French: Begin with the A, B, C's, and then go on from there -- and you go on only when you have mastered the situation.
One of the problems in the groups is the ability to decide to do something and then do it. That's one of the first things you have to learn. So, I came across this idea from a psychologist who has applied it with some remarkable results.
The technique is as follows:
Every evening, decide on something you are going to do the following day and write it down, leaving space for checking whether you have done it or not. If you are the type who wants to make comments, leave space for that.
The task to be done has to be simple, very simple. You can for instance decide: "Tomorrow I will breathe". Then check if you have done it.
You must do this for 21 consecutive days. If you skip a day you must start over, and continue until you have 21 consecutive days.
I propose this so that you may train your will power. If you want to do something and you don't have the will power , you are going to dream it instead of doing it. So, I propose this very seriously. If the first 21 days are too easy for you, you can always start over on another series with things that are a bit more difficult -- but always on things that you can do. Don't start with the difficult things first.
And I have to repeat, it must be for 21 days. The psychologist said he didn't know what kind of cycle it was, but he was sure it had to be at least 21 -- or else it didn't work. Quite interesting. You can try for yourself.
….There is a lot more involved in the ability to decide than there appears to be. For instance, you can decide in advance to do something, let us say, a week from then, and shape everything during that week so that all events converge on that. But this implies that you have a consciousness that is more than superficial. Will power actually polarizes things in a given direction. If you try this type of exercise later, you will realize that when you do it you will have a fully different atmosphere --because you have polarized the whole week in that direction. But this applies to worthwhile things , otherwise that much polarization is not needed.
I don't ask you to watch what the directive power is, simply begin with the A, B, C's. Later on, when you are more trained, you can make it more interesting, giving you time to watch the directive power. Then.you can also possibly watch how will power can be misinterpreted. For most people the will power is emotional: "I will". This is not the will power we speak of. It might be interesting, later on, to just observe how much "I will" stands in the way of what you want to lo. "I will" separates you from the whole. The true will power is an action in and of the whole.
So we have two propositions. The first is something you Is can really do, You don't need to dream about it, you can do it. So what about really doing it. It's a very concrete one which will give you some discipline for at least 21 days -- but don't stop before you reach 21 consecutive days, even if it takes a year.
The other proposition is to learn to live and make the difference between what you think you live and what you live. You might remember how often I've told you that it has to come out, the whole of you has to live it. We see what you give out, what you radiate.
The physical body is, of course, part of the structure you know, but what I say applies to all the bodies, not just the physical. It pertains to the instrumentality, and this includes all sense of body, either heavy or light. You would be surprised how the feeling within the body can change. If you work with this steadily you will notice that you begin to have some sort of control over the bodily functions. Of course, this is expressed in a very ego-centered say: benefit for you. if I want to be straight, I would simply say: Don't dream of helping someone else if you are not able to live another's condition, and this implies the whole body. Technically, this is what is required. Practically, you seldom can do it. Sometimes you can and sometimes you cannot, depending on the situation. You have more affinity with some situations. Maybe you have gone through a certain type of situation yourself so you are more familiar with it, but, be careful, it's not because you are familiar with a situation that you are able to tune to it. Maybe you can tune into "that type" of situation, but "that type" of situation is not the situation.
Do you have questions about living? About learning to make the difference between living and seeing the situation?
Participant: I've been involved in physical training or body work and there have been a number of time when I would feel the condition that the person is having in my body, but I feel somewhat untrained as to maintaining the observer clearly enough so that it doesn't have repercussions in my body.
Martin: It is a good question because on the level you speak of some people are naturally sensitive, and they pick up the condition of the other. There are many known examples of the healer becoming sick and not being able to clear it out.
Participant: I can add some things that I've learned: if the condition is similar to issues that I have not worked through in myself, I find that's one of the things that gets stuck. The other would be if I try to take on a sense of needing to help or take responsibility, then it doesn't process out as clearly. But I still have a lot of confusion about that.
Martin: To work with someone on issues you haven't cleared yourself usually doesn't work. it applies for anyone. I would say especially in the healing field, with psychologists, because they use, let us say, an approved method, but there is no one behind.
This brings us back to the main point. The effectiveness is not in the therapy, it is in the one behind. And the one behind is not a person either. Sometimes when someone is practicing healing, and they are too much in their head, too self-conscious, deciding too much, or whatever, I have been compelled to cut off the soul input, or more technically, a kind of life input. Then they realize that they are acting and nothing is happening. Nothing is happening, in spite of all that the consciousness is doing -- and this is a hard lesson.
The healer is not the person. This is why we put the emphasis, for instance in the desire exercise, on coming out with soul presence. You might come out with spirit presence, you can come out in many ways, but we need something that is not the person.
Participant: Sometimes after I've been with a person ... my person looks back and says: "Oh my goodness, what happened here?" At that point there is another clearing or another bit of garbage to deal with.... Again, Thy will be done ... and not try to understand with the head or something.
Martin: Handling life itself is not known by the head at all. In your position, there's one point that might be interesting for you. When you heal someone and you suddenly feel something in you, strongly, you have to make the difference between the condition of the person in front of you or possibly a preconceived idea in yourself about what the person has. You might follow the track of your preconceived ideas rather than the actual situation, then you can feel things that do not exist in the other person. You have to be sure that the other person is living that. Better double check with the person. If you say to the person: "You must have a terrible headache" and the person says "No, not at all", then double check in yourself. This is what I encourage all of you to do. You already know some possible ways. Invent what you can, but deal with situations in which you really handle something.
Participant: Can you say there is no danger what with magnetic energy and all, to allow yourself to feel the condition....
Martin : There is a definite danger. As I said, you can pick up the sickness of the person and really become sick in the same way. I've heard many people complaining about the problem of picking up the other's condition and not being able to get rid of it, both in the type of work you describe and also with psychologists. It exists, you cannot ignore it. This means you have to be able to control your sensitiveness. Now, who controls it? Definitely not the ego-image you have of yourself. If you act, not because you have learned to heal, but because of real compassion, there isn't much problem. But if you are self-reflexive, and you start admiring what you do, or deciding it works beautifully, or that it doesn't work. at all, then you can be in trouble.
"Thy will be done" is a kind of security. It helps you get out of "I am doing it", but it has its drawbacks too.
Technically you have to assume the responsibility for what you do --this implies that the you is the healer, not the person.
Then you have to be ready for something else. Forget about healing magnetically. If you decide to give that way, you will give that way. Maybe you are skilled in another way, but have learned to conform to some method. It's making the method powerful instead of your coming out. See what I mean?
Participant: I don't really understand. I've heard about magnetic energy, but I relate more to the compassion you speak of. There is no question at that point, there is a knowing of what to do.
Martin: Okay, if you come to the point where is no question, hen don't come in with formulations either. Do what you have to do. Period. At that point the biggest difficulty is self- reflexiveness .
Okay, let's come back to living. Do you have questions about that?
Maybe sometimes you think you are ready to be professionals and then I look around. You would be surprised if I were to point out the ones who are living and how much, and the ones who are not. Reality is without pity. I know some of you complain that I put you down. It's not my intention, but this is how it is taken. Therefore I have to wait until you are of professional size and able to take the situation as is instead of how you would like it to be.
There is another point: the now. Learning to live now is fantastically difficult for the mind. Your mind works linearly, coming from the past, going to the future. There is no now. The only now that the mind knows is a kind of interruption somewhere between the past and the future. If you live now there is the wholeness of what is lived, with no becoming whatsoever. You do not change one condition into another in the now. Now is not a decision of the mind. As I said, the mind is used to working linearly, you haven't yet trained it to work differently. And don't tell me you have. You might have thought about it, but not lived it. The now implies the whole of you, not just your ego-image. The whole of you is not the image you have of yourself, it cannot be.
I want you to realize that the image you have of yourself is a product of your sensations, emotions, and mind, with a little intuition of something else added to make the picture nicer, and a great deal of dream. A good recipe, no?
When you are whole there is no self-awareness. There is a presence. You don't need self-awareness for presence. Self-awareness is the self- reflectiveness that you know at the level of your usual personality. Don't think that self- reflectiveftess is going to spread over the whole of you. Definitely not. Learn to face the now as an utterly unknown situation, meaning without references from the becoming part of your consciousness. The situation as of now is this, and "this" is a dynamic situation, not a picture.
When you tune to someone to help in the now, you are not a person. The other one is not either. You might take care of the person, but according to the whole. Now that sounds like striving toward a greater whole. When you live the now it's the reverse. You are whole in the first place anyway, and whatever gap exists tends to be bridged at that moment. The whole of you means most of the acting part is utterly unknown by consciousness, and for this you are not prepared. Please realize. The sensory functions belong to the person. Emotional functions as well. Mind functions as you know them too. Don't try to project that over the whole universe. Accept that there other functions working differently. Learn to face the now as being very, very different. The three functions you know are only three functions among many functions within the person and that person is only a small part of you.
Think of the hologram. The greenhorn is not even in the mainstream that produces the spaceship. Relatively speaking it's a side product. I say this for the pride of your consciousness that thinks it encompasses the whole world.
Suppose you train to dwell in all- encompassingness . I have nothing against this, it will help. But I have to warn you that the all- encompassingness you will dwell in is a product of the greenhorn. In the hologram, it's another order of life for which consciousness has no reference whatsoever. It's simple discipline for the consciousness. Even the part that is not yet seen has to be quiet. As I said, I have nothing against your doing it, but don't pretend it is the proposition of the hologram.
One more warning pertaining to higher trainings: Living now belongs to a higher training. I have to speak of it because it's involved in what we do. We show it and we do it. If several. of you come together and decide to live now, forget it. Living now is now. It's not mediated by an action of the mind that decides to do it. You happen to land in the now and that's it. Or it's a "decision" of the dweller in the now, which is not a person. If your person decides to sit down and live now, your person blocks the way of the dweller in the now, which is you not an image of you.
Participant: So, are you saying not to try to train in the sense of making a decision to work with the now?
Martin: In the usual sense of training, don't. You cannot.
Participant: But respect it if that's what happens?
Martin: You said "do it". You cannot do it, but you can live it. If you are used to the now, there is a flip that happens. It is not the usual condition that revolves into the other one. There is an abrupt change and what you know as identity is immediately different -- completely. Being different it gives that kind of flip over.
Another point: In the idea of training you go from one condition, through development, into another. This does not exist in the now. There is no development. So you cannot take the movement of training and apply it to the now. This is why I said a moment ago that you happen to land in the now. Suddenly it's there, it's obvious. At that moment you are not the same person.
Participant: So you're saying it's something that may happen spontaneously.
Martin: Absolutely. But there is a prerequisite. I mean if you want to do it consistently then there is a point that I haven't approached yet that is mandatory, and it's hard to swallow for the consciousness. Everything has to be done according to the Christ factor, not according to yourself doing something. The direction of what has to be brought along is in service to the Christ. The Christ situation requires that this or that be done and so you do it --and there is no awareness whatsoever of possessiveness. This is a human situation in which-many things are tested, there is no possessiveness in it.
Now, we face a problem. I say "I" and I am aware that you are hearing it as the person you possess. one day you will realize that you don't possess it, but at least for now you think so. So, if I say "I do this or that" you miss entirely that it is done according to what is involved in the work, not according to personality. It's work with human samples, which implies mankind, with no possessiveness at all. If there is no possessiveness, then there is no urge to reach a certain condition, We work for the Christ. There is no reward and none is expected. There is simply work to be done and we do it. Participating in the work requires this ability --and this in a world that is always asking for benefits.
Listen to the preachers, psychologists, doctors, you name it. "If you do this you will gain that." "If you train you will reach initiation". Gain, gain, gain. And we are in a work where none of this exists
The problem for us is to bring you to the point where you can possibly participate in a task to be done. You can decide with your mind to let go of everything, to participate and ask nothing in return, but it's not that simple. In that position you are still the person deciding. The one who has decided to come and help is definitely not the person it's a full-fledged being that decides to incarnate. Well, some of you are in that position, and you persist in seeing yourself as small persons wanting to reach something.
We are asking for help. I'm speaking professionally. The one who has decided to come in order to participate can not be just a person. That kind of identity, your ego-image, has to be dropped. Seriously. Purposefully.
Participant: Martin, I wish you'd comment on a common misunderstanding on the kind of statement you just made. When you say that the ego-image has to be dropped a lot of people take that to mean that anything that has to do with the personality , thought or movement or desire, is something that they should repress or try to down-and-away with a kind of disconnecting fantasy. It's very dishonoring of the function of that instrument.
Martin: Right. I agree with you. There is a deep tendency to To-so. If any one of you has that tendency, accept it as being an utter misunderstanding of the situation. I heard you say "dishonoring"; you are right. It means you are dumb enough to negate the existence of faculties or functions that are meant to be used. Simply because of a misunderstanding.
I remember reading a teaching that said you have to kill all desire. Well obviously if you are able to kill all desire you are able to discover other functions. But symbolically speaking this is going to the sun, and, as we have seen, as long as you are going to the sun you cannot be the sun. You have to turn around, and when you turn around you are the sun. When you are the sun your personality is a tool with different functions needed to perform in a certain surrounding.
When you try to kill your desires, psychologically speaking, you desire to kill the desires. As you know perfectly well this does not work. A desire cannot kill itself. Psychologically you can block a movement, but if somehow there is too much pressure the dam will burst, or it will overflow somewhere else in you.
When I say you are not the person, understand this to mean not a negation of the person but as a greater whole. When you experience the now there is the whole of you.
I might come back to the image of Steiner when he tells about the evolution of man through three and one-half eternities until now. What has been developed (as a tool) over three and one-half eternities is present in the now. The whole of you is here, and the whole of you includes the person. Perhaps you can begin-to understand why you have to master the personal functions, not block them or discard them. They are meant to bring heaven on earth. Forgetting all the personal functions is not pushing back or discarding, it is the ability to use or not to use at will -- which is a proposition that is entirely different.
Why do you think that you have spent nearly one-half an eternity on earth learning to handle that tool. Only to discard it as being not valuable? It's very simple: Cut your throat, then see how much you can do among humankind. Even if you are trained as an initiate and can work from the other side, the action is not the same as if you are incarnated. You need the tool, but you have to be able to handle it.
Participant: That brings the next level of questions. Most people can't handle the tool and they have parts.of the tool that they consider ugly, destructive, wrong, immature, all those kinds of things. They are more than willing to honor and make available the good parts, but when it comes to the ugly emotions, desires, the immature aspects, that's a different story.
Martin: Let's present a practical picture. When you come here you try, as much as possible, to bring nice vibrations, even if you are down. You have your ideal picture of the work to be done and yourself in that work -- and then you have your everyday condition. There is a real dichotomy. But when you come here you don't leave your everyday condition behind, it follows you, whether you like it or not. You bring your bad side, your ugliness, whatever you don't like in yourself, our judgment of your condition -- you bring all of this right here.
Now how do we deal with all that? Do you think we do what you do with yourselves? You judge yourselves. And according to what? What's the use of the judgment? We deal with a situation that is a whole. There is no judgment of value -- the situation is so and with that we deal. It's the same for you. If you put labels on the situation it does not change the situation. It might even become more sticky because of the glue on the label. I'm very serious.
When you learn to deal with a situation, you deal with a situation not with qualities you find good or bad., nor do you deal with it to correct bad habits and transform them into good ones. You bring new dynamics into the situation.
It's like when you take a hike, let us say, in the Sierras. Some stretches are even and easy, some slope down so it's even easier, and some are very rugged and you sweat. Do you say they're bad? Experience shows that the nicest memories you have are of the hardest parts. You don't remember the stretch that was easy. So apparently as time passes your judgment of value changes. I"m not kidding, it's true. It has happened to many, many people.
But the serious part in it is that your judgment of values has no value, because it comes according an image you have in your mind and not according to the situation.
When you have a difficult situation it is a challenge. Let's see what can be done with it! Something difficult can be very attractive because here you can do something. You're even asked to do something by events.
When I was climbing mountains, we looked for ways that hadn't been done, that was what was interesting. The last mountain my brother and I did together was considered as utterly impossible at the time, but it was a challenge so we did it.
People do this in sports all the time. How come in private life, as soon as there is a difficulty, you resent it, instead of taking it as a challenge? It's a human situation, let's do something with it! The worse the situation, the more interesting it is. You have to find new combinations or inject new dynamics into a situation that"s nearly impossible. Suddenly you realize that it resolved itself -- something new and you come out different.
Now, again, this is the usual talk about dealing, not with your dreams about the quality of life, but the actual situation that you are in, and some things you might want to do in that situation. Some mastery is needed, but service and participation the real ones - that is an utterly different story. If you're afraid of your own situation, don't dream of being of service.
You can, of course, forget your ego-image and come out as what you are. It's time for you to realize that your personal faculties are only small faculties that you have right in front of your eyes so you can take care of them -- because they are the least developed you have.
Some of you incarnated knowing that you would join in the work-. You cannot join unless you drop your ego-image. Your ego-image is not the one who decided to come. I'm serious about that -- the time has come.
We are going to play some music, and we are going to play the three pieces without interruption.
With the first piece you come out as what you are, and show the Christ factor. Now, I know that in your mind you cannot do it, it's much too soon. I'll give you one advice: If you have the sense of "I" doing it, it won't work. So it's a kind of challenge. What about picking up the challenge?
Then, in the next piece you relax completely. Don't put any movement of will in any direction. Let the Christ factor play. You are not passive either, just fully open and fully relaxed. It's simply that you are not full of movement of the person, deciding that something must be done. Drop all that kind of movement .
Then with the third piece we will play. Stay in the same relaxed movement. The only awareness that you need is possibly that something else is at work, and the real you belongs to that something else. But the person is just attentive, as if you are, let us say , at a concert. Listen to the music but don't play it. Here listening means learning to live with what is going on and allowing your whole structure to reflect it. Don't direct it. Simply don't interfere.
As I told you, every part of the body is intelligent, and that includes each cell.
Okay, let's go.
(Music)
I want you to observe one point. When you played in the first piece, many of you did not live fully throughout . And, as a general impression of the group goes, the life in the body was not really living that. As soon as you relaxed with the second piece the body became a lot more sensitive, a lot more responsive. Did anyone observe that?
This is important. You kept that responsiveness in the third part to some degree. You can still feel it. Even the feet. But you don't direct it. It happens. If you look at the life in the feet, for instance, which is usually where you have the least life, the life relates to the life throughout the body as a whole -- it's not separate.
Now that you put your attention on it, the head interferes and you are lost -- right away. In the relaxed condition you perform a lot better. This ought to be a lesson. The work is not dependent on the doingness of your mind. Life is something else. Your mind can participate, but you might have observed something quite amusing: -- You constantly allow your body to respond to all the modalities of the music, but not your head because the head is directing. The director, of course, is not included in the performance. So you see the change in the whole body, for instance, but not in the head. This is silly, but it is the way it is, until you decide that what you live pertains to the head as well, and you allow it to play throughout the brain. I wish you would observe keenly, and often how much your brain awareness does not include itself in the procedure. Now physically the brain is just a part of the body, so be careful. The brain condition has to change.
It's getting late so to make the session shorter, I'd like you to just bring out an A, without music. Give it out sufficiently relaxed so you can observe what's going on in the room.
(Group attempts to bring out A)
You might observe that it needs training. Some of you don't come out with an A. You might have the idea but not the ability.
Now, as you know, in the hologram the all-encompassing condition reflects itself at the greenhorn level in A, so if you come out with a good A, you live all- encompassingness , relatively speaking.
Now, what I want you to do is observe the condition you give out, then relax as we start playing Paganini , just as you did with the other piece of music before. Start relaxing now and see what happens.
(Music)
You might notice that everyone shows an A. Even those who didn't before. But then you also show something else which could be described as a lot less limitation, much more freedom --which joins with the idea of all- encompassingness . As you notice it's quite different from the A you produced. Now, I'm not trying to put you down, I'm trying to show you that when you begin training you produce an A from the consciousness out. Later on you play the function A, and, because the function plays, the center of awareness relater to that A steps in -- meaning you don't go from the center out, you go from the function to the center. Now the center is in-between personality and something else, because the center is used by the something else to deal with the personality. This means that you have to allow yourself to live the function A fully and completely, which implies an all- encompassingness . It might not be all-encompassing technically, but still it's in that direction. What I'm trying to say is that the A function you play is played by the real you, and this awakens the A. Now you have to learn to make the difference between the A produced by consciousness and the A produced by something else.
These contrasts are needed. We deal with a situation, and if you are able to live through the different contrasts, then you have a choice, and you can operate the choice. As you notice, we are very demanding, technically, and you haven't seen much yet.
The time being late, I will.play one more, Chopin. Chopin pertains to the U. It also pertains, in the hologram, to dwelling in all-encompassing love, which awakens a U. So I ask you right now to come out with a U -- I mean The U of the head, not of the heart. Come out with it in whatever way you can, simply to make a contrast with what happens after.
(Group attempts to bring out U)
Incidentally, we spoke of coming to earth to do something. If you sound the A or the U, as the one coming to participate in the work, we will have a strong A and a strong U every time. If it does not show it simply means that you interfere with your personality. Some of you have the real ability but don't use it.
Okay, let's play Chopin.
(Music)
You might realize that it awakens the U. We did not play the U. You might also realize that we touched something else that is called soul. It's deeper than your person and you can feel it. It's very different from the first U you came out with. This is just to give you an inkling, a hint, an encouragement to deal very concretely with each aspect. It has to be mastered, and the mastery is definitely not a matter of opinion but a matter of fact.
When you work in a group, for instance, if you do not live fully then you don't communicate it. So the training implies learning to live, live.live . There are many ways of living, but do learn to allow the whole structure, the whole personality, even the parts you don't know, to live it and not interfere or impose the will over everything . If you live these contrasts between one way of doing it and another, then, little ,by little you will learn to handle the situation -- and by handling it I mean make something of it, direct a balance in one way or another at will. After that you will be in a much better position to be of service.