CALISTHENICS JUNE 1983
· REQUIREMENT TO WORK – POLARIZE THE BODY – HOLOGRAM VISION – SYMBOLIC AND HISTORICPERSPECTIVE – BREAKING PATTERNS – GROUP ACTION – TEAM QUALIFICATION – EFFECTIVENESS – POSSESSIVENESS – ACTING GROUP – GO WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY INVOLVED – REALLY LIVED –YOU ARE NEVER ALONE --
We have a lot to say today in preparation for resuming our activity this fall.
Up to now you have always thought that as long as you come to the groups when I am here to "teach you" that is sufficient. It's no longer so. Those who have not yet under-stood that work, and specific work, is needed will come to a point where they just cannot connect any longer with what we do. I remind you, this is an ongoing activity, we cannot wait.
This means that in addition to the newcomers, all participants in the group will have to participate in some kind of training. All of you. This training will be done a lot more systematically. How will you relate to this activity? Is it welcome? Will you be helpful in it? Or will you go to it reluctantly, making the work more difficult for everyone? In other words, this leads to a kind of necessity of a unity in the group that I have spoken of many times. Now the time comes when unity of action has to be. We are here to do something on earth.
I am 70 today. I intentionally tell you my age so that you begin to realize that we don't have that much time. We cannot wait long. Things have to be done, and for the first time in the group's history there is an endeavor, at least of part of the group, to go ahead and work. This does not mean that you won't make mistakes, but at least you will learn, you'll go ahead and start really working.
There are a lot of aspects: For instance, you have to be able to direct your mind. so that it becomes productive. You have to be able to do the same with your emotional awareness. You also have to be able to do it with your body -- and that's another story. You have no idea what is needed
The body is a product of "evolution". That means it's the part of you of which you have the least control. The centers of awareness in the basin do not function, or they function very, very little. If they don't function, you have no body awareness. Sensory awareness, as I've told you, is an etheric awareness, it does not belong to the physical body. I have an image. Seen, let us say, from the position I am in, the body is like a sponge cake. As the name implies it can be soaked with whatever you want. And that body is just so, fully soaked with emotions and thoughts. Completely soaked. What you might not be aware of is that once you have.learned to direct your thoughts and your emotions, you still haven't learned to allow the body to be free of that soaking so that -it can be directed also. If you have taken a position of creativeness, which, symbolically speaking, is the position of the sun, or one of giving out, this has to be done with the body too. Up to now you could not because you were not aware of how full that physical structure is of emotions and thoughts. Now what is needed is at hand, and that body condition has to be repolarized in a different way. But, as I told you, it's not second awakening.
Incidentally, in your experience of the transition from first awakening to second awakening, you may have noticed that aspects of the second awakening come into the first awakening. This will eventually result in the full second awakening. When you work, aspects of the third awakening come into the second awakening. Experiential clues, visions, always come to give you clues to what you have to bring out. Always. Either you have it when you live with us or you have it on your own as a fullness of vision that can last possibly a fraction of a second, but that is entirely sufficient to give you a very clear experience of what has to come out. If you have neither of the two you are still in second awakening.
So work, go ahead, clarify yourself and so on, until the vision comes. But that vision is experiential, not perceptive. It's not mediated, its immediate. And, as I've told you a few times, it can be extremely beautiful.
The hologram, for instance, is not the product of my mind. I had it in a vision. And I just don't know how to convey the beauty of that hologram in a two-dimensional image. I have no way to reproduce it. The way I lived it was three--dimensional. And it appeared out of nothing -- now that's something special, that nothingness. Very pure, very clear, and, for the consciousness, three-dimensional. It's one of the weird things that come. I've always told you we are not alone.
Sometimes I regret you don't have more education in the spiritual field. By this I mean some sort of background by which you know where you are going, and what is going on in the world. You have, for instance, big religious movements that rely on the Bible and most don't even know the symbolism of the Bible. And, unless you have been educated in the field, you don't know either. I'll give you a very simple example : Jesus has been called "The Lamb of God". He was also referred to as a Sheppard. Astrologically speaking, he was product of Aries, thus the reference to the lamb. His followers were a product of the Picean Age, and thus fishermen. People have forgotten.
The Chaldean civilization was very strongly astrological -- they were experts. So you still had expressions coming through from that period of time. It was not just haphazard. It was written down that way so that those who could might recognize.
When Jesus addressed Nicodemus and told him: "I saw you under the fig tree", Nicodemus first reaction was to say : "Master". Now Nicodemus was a Doctor of Israel, he was a knowledgeable man. Why did that educated man called Jesus "Master" ? You might have no idea, except if you remember that I told you that the tree is a symbol of initiation, even a certain degree of initiation. There is this language that has been forgotten. So, when you work, please make an effort to broaden your awareness. We are involved in an action uinvolving the whole solar system -- and that's just to make it small. This means you work in a given context. We have a historical context ---even what we do now. Things will begin to make sense if you are able to broaden your awareness and realize that to work for mankind without a historical context is just wishfulness.
This, just to give you an inkling, so that when you act you always give the broad surrounding in which the action has to take place, not just the local movement. Whatever exercise you do, put it in it's surrounding atmosphere. What are you working for ? And "working for" is not reaching up. With the Christ Impulse you work the other way around, in order to bridge the gap. Reaching up is an old remnant.
Incidentally, I spoke of that matter of the body, full of emotions and whatever awareness you have, so that when you begin to try to come out positively, actively, creatively, you notice that you have a body that still goes the other way around. Look for yourself right now. You will notice that the feeling of the body is always "toward" You want to change in-order-to-reach -- even physically. There's a lot of work to do, but it cannot be done unless you know what working means.
Sometime ago I told you we are ready for more. Now I have to tell you that we don't wait any longer. We cannot. I say this to put you into the context of what is going on. And it's not a matter of being adequate or not, of knowing or not knowing, it's just a matter of position.
There is one point you often forget. It's not your first incarnation. If you are in a certain position, more emotional than mental, or more mental than emotional, more sensory than mental and so on, this is as it is now. You cannot tell what the other components are. You cannot tell what you have already brought out in past incarnations. It's simply that you had to add something, let us say, another function to round it up and so on. As long as you work with the narrow side of your present incarnation, what you have developer from babyhood on, and which is the imprint of society around you, 'You will have difficulty. This cannot be your base. It's just incidental.
Of course, you have to work in this surrounding, but is this surrounding as you perceive it? You have to challenge this. A limited perception gives you a limited surrounding. The real you is not limited that way, and, I have to add, you know it perfectly well.
You are drawn to that so-called "higher" self, to the comedian in you, to Atman, to the "real" you. Call it whatever you want, you are drawn to it. At the same time, you know you are it, which means "being drawn" to it has no meaning.it's a bad reflection because, in fact, you are it already. You cannot become what you already are. It's a flaw in the mind -- trying to be what you already are. Sometimes I wonder why you trust a consciousness that is able to negate what you really are.
We work here according to what you are, whether your consciousness follows or not. Every time we meet it's your experience, so it's time to become sensible and act on it. All the hints are here, so why don't you act according to them?
... The need for a break comes always, symptomatically, when you are caught in a pattern. This means you must break the movement. Take a day off so that you can drop the pattern. If you are working and getting stuck, always in the same movement, take a break.
The kind of break we are speaking of here is to allow another position to come up. If you are very, very intent in one way of working, and if you haven't learned to discipline yourself to recognize patterning and change it constantly, then you put too much stress in one direction and you have to break it.
This can be done in many ways: You can shake yourself. You can take a fall. Whatever helps to you to loosen yourself. You can also just simply take a holiday and forget about the whole business completely for a few days. Then when you come back again you will realize that you are refreshed and you can take another position --this means that the unconscious side has modified some pattern.
….The group proposition also comes in a context. Historically speaking, animals live group-wise, meaning they are governed by what is called a "group spirit" that takes care of a certain number of them. The basic awareness is in the group spirit, not in the individual. Once man was forced to congregate in groups or tribes for strength and protection. He belonged to the tribe. He gave his strength to the tribe, and the tribe was strong, not the individual. And when an action had to be taken against a large predator, they went as a group to face it and try to handle it.
Little by little, man became individualized, so much so that they have forgotten the meaning of the word "individual" : (not divided), and they have come out with perfect division.
Now we come to the Aquarian Age in which group action is supposed to become effective., We already have symptoms of this working. For instance, in the scientific community, people no longer work as isolated individuals, they build teams. At the university you have a professor leading the research, but the body of the research is done by a team. And this team has a characteristic: each individual in the team is a full individual, highly qualified., Team does not mean persons coming together, it means qualifications coming together. Don't forget it. if you try to flock together like a tribal group, you will obtain a tribe, and nothing will happen. So within that context you begin to realize why we ask that you come out with qualifications. Team work is possible when the team is composed of different high qualities that are effective. In a real working team you don't have to teach anyone else his or her job -- they come fully qualified.
And to give you an inkling of what "qualification" means: When you do something, you do it. When you sound a note in a qualified group that note works, and you recognize it by seeing the whole room taking on that note. I say this for mature people, for the comedian. I don't say this to the persons here because a person cannot do it. But a person can take it the wrong way and say: "Okay, I will grow until I am able to sound the note that effects everyone so I am powerful". Now, if this happens you are missing the boat. When everyone in the group becomes skilled, the group becomes powerful. There is no possessiveness whatsoever. The point is not to teach you to have power over other people, and if it is understood that way, well, eventually your experience will show that this is not so.
What you must do is create a surrounding, an atmosphere, and then people respond. Honestly speaking, depending on what we are doing, we absolutely and completely forget about you. There is just plain no movement directed toward you (those bodies). We do not work that way. What we do is not addressed to persons. Still you respond.
So please realize when I say that when you sound a note it comes out and. you verify its effectiveness, I have to say it for a very good reason. We have seen many of you trying hard to sound a note until you really feel it, and we can recognize that you do really feel it, but it has no effect. Its only you that feels it. This means that the way it is sounded is reaching up or attempting to possess what is done.
Sometimes I've told you, but it's forgotten because its not in the frame of what you have learned in school, when you want to live or help someone live a so-called "higher" condition, you must create the surrounding in which it is possible. In the usual surrounding it won't work. You have to make it possible, and this means that the terrain in which it has to act has to be there. lost of the time when you act you have a tendency to just act and forget about the terrain needed. You have to give both. When you work as a group, you have to create the terrain in which the action will work and then introduce the action. But the action alone without the terrain will give something that you all know too well: you bring a higher element into a surrounding that is ignorant of it. Then you wonder why it doesn't work. Always give both. Always. Once you are used to it, you don't need to think about both because when you truly live the simple fact of living exudes the surrounding.
So, giving a reference about what we call effectiveness is not for you to develop power over others. It is for you to produce a sounding that is effective -- that you give out and that works. Possibly it will only work in a limited field, but it will work.
I'll give you another clue. When you work bodily, the awareness of body that exists in the person is obviously, by definition, an awareness that is separated from the whole, meaning it's a very limited awareness that concerns only what is called personality, and only in the realm of what personality conveys to you. Identification with the body. Identification with the instrument. Of course, you can tell yourself with your mind that you are not the instrument, that the instrument is the mask and you are the comedian, anyone can do that. But do you live it?
Okay, let's say I challenge you:
Your awareness of yourself is always, always linked to a form of body, be it subtle or gross. Check for yourself. You think "I", "me", "comedian", "higher self", "God-self", whatever, there is always a sense of instrumentality. It's obvious. Isn't it? Why? Because your sense of ego presides over the person, and your sense of yourself is according to the image of the ego.
Going to the practice of the hologram, try to live what the Pilot is. The Pilot cannot be defined by anything that is in the hologram, so that's a tough proposition. One day it becomes real. In the meantime, you begin to live a continuum and in continuum. you accept the person. This means you have a continuum of instrumentality that becomes, for all practical purposes, absolutely infinite. When you live that., you will be astonished that you will be completely unable to put any possessivenesss on instrumentality. It's just plain impossible. It's actual experience. It's very, very different from personal awareness. You know that you are not the instrument. You might even say it, but it doesn't prevent you from identifying with some form of instrumentality anyway. Until you begin to realize that some form of discipline is needed. Some form of training of the awareness. Some form of getting used to coming back to what you really live instead of to what you abstract. You have heard me saying these things, but the time has come when you have to do it -- not because I've said it, but because in this historical context it has to be done. There is no possessiveness.
Now, I hope to have helped you to understand a little of what it means to come together as a group: active, working people who take responsibility and are able to hold to it and perform accordingly. In a scientific team, if you are hired because of your abilities, you are supposed to perform according to those abilities, then you have a team , but simply coming together is not sufficient.
Socially speaking, if all of you were closer together, like real friends, it would ease many aspects. It's one reason why you could come closer together, but the real group action, according to the Aquarian Age, requires some form of mastery, something you can do. Then you come together and do it.
There is a well-known proposition that the strength of a group rises to the square of the people present. So if you have two people, it's the strength of four, if you have three, the strength of nine and so on. Knowing this, we have to be careful to come together qualified, because according to this same law, the dumbness of two people is four times the dumbness of two separate ones and so on. See where it could go?
So when you come together, please be aware of what you bring together. And bringing together is not "I do this" and. "you do that" -- meaning separation. It's bringing together. There is a tuning, an d you have to work on the tuning.
Another point: As I said before, to say "I am the comedian" is what you are striving for. As long as you affirm "I am the comedian", it means that you are not. When you are the comedian you are not aware of it, it's too self evident. You don't need to affirm it. As long as you need to affirm that you are the comedian, it means psychologically; that you feel you are not. Affirm it and you will prove that you are not it. Give it out, this is what is important.
Remember the psychological experience that I called "going to the sun". Experience shows that as long as you go toward the sun, even if you are in the center of the sun, you are not the sun. You have to turn around. Then you just happen to be the sun. You have not become the sun. You have just turned around. So the movement is not to become the sun, the movement is to turn around. You have to turn around on all. levels involved. That includes your mind, your emotions, your body. Otherwise you cannot say, I am the sun.
In the symbolism of the hologram, the Pilot is God, and the hologram is creation. Creation has, according to the picture itself, three orders of life, and, as you know, what is in one order is not in the other. Meaning, the understanding of the one system your consciousness knows belongs to the system symbolized by the greenhorn -- that's one system. Another order of life is something utterly, totally different. All the references of one system are not valid in the other ones. Now we have three of these. And, as I told you, three is a symbolic figure because "three" is not valid in another order of life. So we cannot know the number, because "number" is not valid in another order of life. But we express according to this order, so we make a symbol according to this order.
In the Bible it is written that man was created in the image and likeness of God, and it's true. It is also written: "Don't you know that you are Gods?" No, you don't. You desire to be. That's a desire. A desire is like going toward the sun, and, as you know, you cannot desire to be the sun. It's a very different proposition.
Another point that is linked closely, very closely to this is the "greater" you are the more responsibility you must assume. There is no escape. You cannot assume a so-called "higher" position without assuming the comedian's responsibility. When the comedian comes on the stage he has to perform. Now this translates into other words. In our language, the stage is earth. You have come to earth. You have a duty. A very serious duty. Suppose you are more than your picture of a comedian, so there is more responsibility than the comedian. Suppose you are God -- let's make it a limited God -- the one governing the solar system, that alone. You know it's already too much. Okay, let's make it smaller: the one governing the earth, all life on earth. That's just about the smallest we can go. Now, rise to the responsibility of that being, having in hand all life on earth. Do you realize the responsibility of a God? It is fine to want to be a God, but accept the implications. Then perhaps you will sober up and begin to accept the responsibilities you have. You can let the "you" be perfectly open-ended because very obviously your consciousness has a very poor inkling of what you really are. But go with the responsibility involved.
… I'd like you to observe one point. There are a few in the groups who have already had some training. This means they are not what they appear to be. _If you feel a movement inside, don't assess the value of that movement according to your consciousness, live it on the level of the movement itself. That's mandatory. don't expect your consciousness to follow the real movement. The real movement is going to teach consciousness to polarize differently. In what you tell, consciousness is still looking up. The movement is not looking up, it's pushing to come out. It needs to come out. There is responsibility involved, it's true, but it's a responsibility taken by the responsible one, and the person gets polarized accordingly. Consciousness makes the mistake of wanting to assume the responsibility without changing first. No, you have to live on the level of the responsible one, and when you are able to do that repeatedly, things begin to happen. It's simply that the usual pattern has to be modified. Instead of relating to known references on the conscious level, you relate systematically to what you really live.
It becomes further evident if you learn to -take all features of consciousness as the signals of an instrument. These signals are used by the one behind, the responsible one -- "he" is conscious. Or, let's use another word -- "he" is aware. The signals are not the awareness, they are signals only. If you learn to consistently come back to what you really live, you will clearly experience that what is called "consciousness" is only, a system of signals. But in the personality condition, separate from the whole, signals are taken as being the awareness. If you were consistent in looking at your life you would find those features that you master and those features you can predict. Then, also, you would always find reactions that are unpredictable, that prove that you live a lot more than what your consciousness handles. So you have the sense of responsibility. You also have the sense of "someone" else. Stay with this. Act directly from this point. There is an awareness that is a lot more encompassing at this level. Personality-wise you may still believe that this awareness has to be translated according to consciousness, but it does not. Little by little we have to speak another language.
I have in mind an example to convey to you that a real action is something other than the daydreaming of the personality. In Yogananda's book he speaks about Babaji. Babaji accepts disciples under one condition: that they have overcome death. Just to tell @@o-u that there are values in the world that are quite real and working. Just because our society is at an all-time low in terms of values does not mean that they do not exist. Sometimes I like to give you the shock of reality so that you might realize that IF spiritual" work is not a daydream. It implies specific requirements, specific abilities. In the case of Babaji it is overcoming death. -It's a strong proposition and it implies a lot, as you may ,suspect. Now look where you stand.
Now, do you have questions or specific suggestions?
Participant: You've mentioned several times that the physical awareness has an intelligence of it's own. Left to itself would it naturally express divinity? or does it require something? Also is there a danger to undermine the natural faculties of the body, to make it less capable of being what it can be, what it can contribute of its own intelligence?
Martin: Nothing is foolproof. If you ask if there is danger, I would say yes, because I've seen so many mistakes. When the mind starts pretending it's all-powerful, even over the body, it can lead the body into very serious situations. There is a balance required and there is a need for, let us say, purity of intention. A purity of intention, for instance, that signals of what the body needs will be accepted.
Participant: What's the proper way to proceed?
Martin: If you practice loving God in the first place, all else derives from that, and if it derives from that, it's quite simple. But if your Love is the last proposition, and all else comes first, then, of course, you have danger zones --- a lot more than otherwise.
If you live in Love, events works for you. Even the question of bodily health, body condition, tensions, and so on, can be helped by events. To give you a silly example: Every time I am sick it is always between sessions. I remember having failed only once because of a car accident -- in all these years. Consciousness does not dictate it, it just happens that way. Events work with, not against.
….But, when you deal with effectiveness, try to discipline yourself to stay with effectiveness, not more effectiveness. They are not the same proposition. More effectiveness means you have the relative ineffectiveness of the groups as a reference and you want more. No, your reference must be effectiveness, not the lack of it. It reminds me of what I said previously, the steps ahead are always shown. Act according to what is ahead, symbolically speaking, not according to the past. The reference is what you must bring out, not what you have done in the past.
…..it means you bring out the ability to initiate a movement, to generate. Once you generate a movement, you have generated it. It sounds silly, but,for consciousness, most of the time when you generate a movement, you are not sure you have done it. In the experience Daniel speaks of if you have started a movement,, you can just forget about it and it will remind you in time that you have something to do. Depending on what has to be done, you can generate a movement then forget the whole movement and events will take care of the rest. I wish you had some of these experiences.
I remember in the beginning when it happened to me. It was in Switzerland, in Geneva. Someone was asking for help in a certain direction. First I assessed it to see if it was valid or not. It was valid, so I said "yes", and that was it. I forgot about the person completely, but the help came. The movement was generated at that moment, and not according to a desire to help. As I said, the situation was assessed, but it was not assessed by consciousness. So the "yes" was not due to a conscious deduction, it was a true "yes", and it worked. You are never alone. The dichotomy of the personality separated from the whole makes you think and process as if you were alone, but it's not so. It's time for you to realize it.
…How about addressing the one that is behind, the one that is serious in ways the persons don't know, and relating to each according to that aspect. Actively relate in that way, in spite of the personality. See what I mean?
I have to remind you that your person acts according to the society around, according to what you have gathered in this incarnation, but this is not the experienced one behind. When we speak of working, it is that one who works. So it is with the one that you relate to. If you do this you will find that the proposition that Christina made is self-evident. What she is looking for will be there anyway, without any special effort of any kind.
Okay, time is flowing on. I want to show you something to help you on the way.
Daniel reminded me of an experience we have done in the past, many years ago, with a piece of music called "Kumbaya". This piece of music speaks of different relations with the Lord.
What I propose is that you live your Love of God, Christ, that open-ended whatever, as we play the music.
(music)
Look at how you live yourself. See how the room is. Now we are going to play it again, and this time we will play with you.
It's for you to register the difference in life. It's important that you have a reference of the difference so that next time you can come out accordingly.
So let's play it.
(Music)
If you look around in the room there is a limitation that is gone that can be expressed by what I call overcoming the confinement of planet earth. What we call the spaceship is at home in space. It's not planet-bound like the greenhorn. if you live space, suddenly you realize that you are at home, it is in this room.
One of the aspects that lie ahead of you, and why you need some serious training, is to overcome the limitation of planet earth. I've told you that the earth and personality are symbolically related. You overcome your own person, but then you have to overcome the planet -- it's another dimension of the same problem. The planet belongs to the solar system, and you cannot understand planet if you don't put it in this context. You can see that the field of Love can be very different from the concept of love within the person.
Kumbaya is a song that involves the plexus. The first time you looked around you could see it quite clearly. It still involves the plexus the second time around, but in a very different way. Don't you feel a lot cleaner? It does not mean the purpose was to clean the plexus, the proposition was Love, but, depending on the reality of that Love, you come out a lot clearer than you were. Do you have questions, pertaining to this practice?
Participant: You spoke previously of tuning into the zone of influence, can you say anything more about that?
Martin: I have no referential system to convey to you in words what is implied. Some of it you feel going on right now in the room. You already realize that the atmosphere, the workings, are very different from what you are used to.
You may remember that we, spoke of the Black Riders. It's the same. ' It's an activity effecting the whole solar system, not just earth, but on the earth everyone has to adjust, whatever the degree of initiation or rank. It's a new situation.
We can show it and we do show it, but not in words. We'll see it again when we play the music to end our session. it's present anyway. We can't help it. What else can I say?
(music)