COSMIC RESPECTABILITY- LENONHONOR

 

FOR THOSE INTREPID WARRIORS OF LOVE

by Warren Sunkar

With the intensification of global processes, we are seeing the rising effects of the planetary catharsis before our eyes in the great maelstrom of confused and deceptive reactions within the world ego at this time. The advent of certain energies into the planet are now truly making their impact felt and the old world consciousness thrashes in response...
Those who are attached or deeply identified with the maya of the world will only be consumed in its growing madness. What is needed is right response and alignment to incoming energies and not reactions to rising outward turbulence and troubles. Everywhere lies and deceit are broadcast and it is imperative that one is able to turn within and discern the inner divine truth over this play of shadows. This will be no easy feat as the madness is growing in a continual intensification.

What is needed is a deep understanding of the true art of divine surrender.

If people want to be of true assistance to the race they have go turn deep within and transcend this social matrix and its mere superficial levels of spiritual inclination. Many are unwilling and unable and for the most part bewildered humanity is still self centered, dangerous and very unpredictable.
The condition of the human collective is very misaligned and its identification with the world ego means that all true spiritual work is most often hampered, confused and even opposed. True servers of the race should not expect anything different from a people who are materialistically inclined and self centered, despite the many utterances of love and light from "new age and spiritual circles". Unfortunately, in this world’s current climate if you are not mostly being hated or vilified you are not doing the real work!

Many might think these hard words but experience will reveal they are not!

It has been through grace and good fortune that over decades I have synchronistically connected with quite a few selfless, hardworking and brave servers of the race. They know who they are and their work and being bears its mark and resonance. The vibratory quality of their work and being far surpasses those who like to make an outward show of things.
It is for these beings I have written this piece.

I am not appealing or speaking to those vain and self deluded beings that put on outward shows of love and service. It is often those mystically deluded and self inclined fools who are the cause of so much of the trouble to those who are aligned with the true divine work.
Over and over, some of us have watched true servers of the race be attacked, laughed at and scorned. Over many years, one here has seen great beings offer themselves in loving truth and sacrifice all in a population unable to truly comprehend or care of their sacrifice.
Knowing these are the conditions here on earth today, true servers understand and accept that!
But also know it is often the so-called "awakened" or new age communities that I have seen, that cause them more grief and pain than any other. Premature understandings and self relativity often have them opposing the true servers of the race while uttering self-affirming platitudes to each other of love and light.
There are many armchair "truthers” that like to spew their opinions and poison everywhere. Know that awakening to outer planetery manipulations or reacting to energies facilitating mere wake up calls is still very far from consciously entering the stream of rhythmic revelation and selfless service to the underlying divine plan. This is an unfolding recognition and sustained alignment to the one living reality within. If you do not understand these words then you are still very far from the causative realities underlying your present state of being.
What is needed is silence, emptiness and going within to reach a much deeper point of discernment!
Many divine servers have to hold an alignment and resonance far beyond the self feeding and "high spirited" intellects and glamour’s of a confused and self centered humanity. The necessity of their incarnations have come about through cosmic need and people would do well to contemplate such things instead of attacking the very messengers that are here to assist them.
Earth service is not about being loved or admired. Despite what many people assume...It is not about becoming enlightened, happy, or creating a better world. Servers sacrifice all their own self desires, glamours and relativities to serve the unfolding living revelation of the divine impulse. For the most part it’s about stepping out of the way so the divine will can enter into a world that hisses at its presence.
Often serving as energetic transmitters, the reflective and vibratory quality of a true server’s presence bring up in those people and communities around them things they do not wish to recognize. This often leads people in their foolishness and blindness to often attack servers in their misunderstandings. The higher vibratory resonance and impersonal auras of divine servers often have people attack them due to their reflective quality. Understand that we are present in a world that for the most part that is anti-Christ (anti the world soul) and should be viewed as a somewhat hostile territory! (If this is not so look how most avatars and divine personages have been treated throughout history)
Today, the stimulating qualities of new planetary energies are also stimulating certain "seeds of evil" that lay in peoples microcosms. Things are ramping up! This is happening both at an individual and collective level as past karma and egomaniacal realities are bought to the surface. Those with false offerings to spirit are today unable to hold their outward show and pose of "goodness".
True servers are mostly hated and vilified through their short sojourn upon this fallen earth but they are never left bereft of Love, power and true guidance. Part of the transmutation process has them turn such pain and hatred into beautiful gems that shall adorn their crown of earth service. For the adept of the race, these times offer unprecedented grace and favor ones ability to deeply surrender to the incoming light and energies that offer true and powerful protection.
Today, there are those who stand within the collective that are receiving more powerful energies and subtle guidance that bring with them the appropriate divine intelligence and protection to handle the rising darkness and confusion.
Verily the dawn breaks...As one here looks out over the swelling and tumultuous sea and observes those intrepid and beautiful souls who stand as veritable islands of light in this mad and crazy world-only respect and gratitude fill this heart.

May our great father god bless you all!
 

False Offerings

Groups, organizations and people serving life are only purposeful when they are acting in true response upon the incoming light and revelation of the world soul. Truth though ever immutable and unchangeable is responded to accordingly by the variable conditions of fallen life and thus subject to change within the fluctuating conditions of response within the collective’s outer dualistic mind. Thus, that which humanity finds truthful and purposeful today thus becomes falsehood tomorrow. Those teachings that yesterday helped liberate the collective today turns to imprison it. The shifting sands of the outer conditions of earthly life change throughout its history as do the very winds that blow upon the earth’s surface.
At present there are many motivated individuals and groups, who, along the lines of earthly service have falsely labeled, associated and even believe themselves to be the spiritual benefactors of humanity. Applying all and various, means and ideologies, to improve or save the planet via their own limited and personal views of truth, righteousness and what is good for the world. So idealistically and actively fixated upon the so-called good that they believe that they are doing, the call to new life is passing them by.
In natural worldly response incarnated servers will always apply humanitarian standards of conscience within their earthly field of service. Such earthly good will is the sympathetic action of an open and loving heart to those base needs and requirements of existence in material life. However, such earthly service itself is not a means to an end.
Today many are caught or lost in the blindness and inertia of previous and truly unrealized spiritual teachings and outmoded impulses of yesterday and are unable to intelligently or dynamically respond to the call of truth as it resounds within the present. The outer courts of this world are littered with such groups offering false hope, idealistic truths and redundant teachings that miserably fail in bringing divine Love to earth.
Few today are able or even willing to truly empty and still themselves, allowing the reorientation processes of divine Life to take them in hand and guide them as to what is truly needed to effectually bring about those necessary changes within earth life and truly prepare as the great transition is now hastily sped up upon the outer planes of existence. Full of self, blind and unheeding do such beings chase their own tails within this labyrinth of dualistic life. For even with the best yet ignorant intentions such earthly or redundant offerings in effect are now truly denying that which is truly good and are doing great dis-service to all.
There are many conscious groups and individuals that lack true divine contact or experience, feigning light through false mystical occult practices and such dualistic activities, purposely leading astray the masses to suit their own intentions or fallen perspectives of truth, misguiding and confusing many while outwardly making displays of their service in false praise to God. These are the tenors of hypocrisy and behind them flourish the greater evils of the world. Verily, today, the call to new life goes mostly unheeded and the counterfeit spirit abounds.
Followers of older teachings should realize that such teachings are but the outward expression of the indwelling Life. Mere acknowledgement, affirmation
of outward principles and attempts of self transcendence through imitation has turned such teachings into the great parody and unfortunate burden that now weighs heavily upon humanities shoulders. Without sound and true divine realization such followers of their outer tenants are leading the world into great misfortune, further complicating the illusive conditions of a fast deteriorating world. Such teachings harnessed by those self motivated individuals and groups to further their own designs are now having a definite and truly awful result upon the misguided and immature collective.
The true inner nature of the disciple or initiate is the ever yearning, thirsting and seeking indwelling soul, realising the true nature of dualistic life, crying for release. In truth there is but one offering that is necessary that opens the true way of initiation yet the ego would twist and contort such simplicity into all sorts of distortions, aberrations and concessions. The true required sacrifice that is to be offered upon the alter of Love is self!  The many claims of initiation from such beings, affirmed by mental sophistry and cool self determination, now, will not stand under the increasing pressure that the true life brings.
There is much talk and literature of a second coming, the coming one, planetary ascension. Such outer expositions have been quite dramatically and aberrantly twisted by the planetary ego to suit its own idealistic ways. Now it grapples with that which lies beyond its own twisted understanding. Few understand that divine Love will not find its way into human hearts until its outer courts are cleared personally and collectively. Until humanity truly yields up its idealisms and glamour’s, emptying itself of the false, can divine Love find its way into the collective human heart. Love will not enter a den of thieves.
The great contortion of truth within the mind and heart of humanity has made it almost completely unresponsive to the new call of spirit today. Today love shall pass by the houses of many for none shall open the door. Yet now as the Sword of divine Truth enters this world such beings and groups shall be exposed for what they truly are. The heavy yoke that they have placed upon humanity shall now be lifted as they and their false offerings are delivered to the shadows of redundancy. The light of divine Truth shall reveal those who would counterfeit the spirit and reveal the corruption that has grown within the collective’s heart.
For with all said and done today evil is outwardly and openly flourishing and thriving on earth. Though symbols and words of love abound, such offerings are but the dualistic imposition of the perhaps well meaning yet unenlightened. Declarations of love and light propelled by self will, blind belief and conviction have in effect done nothing to truly arrest the growing evil upon the planet and are simply impotent in effect and meaningless in bringing the divine plan into true manifestation.

 

BEYOND NEW AGE PROGAMMING

An Interview With Sadiki Bakari

 

“The New Age”

When “Waking Up” just means deeper sleep!

BY WARREN SUNKAR

We would also like to make clear that although you may consider this manual a “new age” publication, we do not. That is because what you are calling “new age” is just the final manifestation of the old age.                   ZOEV JHO, ET 101

New agers, truth seekers, indigo/ star children...over the decades people have heard many such names and labels of those who have received much self satisfaction by attributing themselves to be the benefactors and guru’s of the global awakening that is taking place within this crucial hour of humanities transition. Yet as one looks out over the vast sea of struggling, confused and often psychotic assortment of personalities claiming enlightenment, truth and divinity, it only seems here to stir the prolonged pain and realization of how the glamour of deep self delusion is still today keeping so many from accessing true divine potentiality.

What has become clear in this hour is that most so-called spiritualists and new agers example today’s raging psychosis of a people struggling to deny the truth of the true planetary situation which today they find themselves in. This article does not seek to frighten people or cast dispersions but to indicate that in the face of what now comes those with such deep investment in the maya of this world; – those who find themselves immersed or clinging to such glamour and illusion will only find great confusion, fear and possibly madness as today’s realities swiftly change and they realize they are not in true alignment with the great divine cause.

In fact many will soon have the sad realization that they have been working in opposition to it despite their “good and positive intentions”!

Let us get straight to the point...

YOU are not “spiritual” because you play with crystals, do yoga, are psychic, heal with reiki or massage, eat organic food, use essential oils...                                                                           

YOU are not “awakened” because you surround yourselves with like minded people who parrot - “love and Light”, “We are all one”, “There is no evil”, “I am a spiritual being having a human experience” etc.

 YOU cannot “save the world” nor were you ever meant to!

In fact to use the words “Spirit or Awakened” in connection with any of these pursuits, therapies and delusions is mostly a gross misrepresentation of Truth and only serves to hijack or counterfeit the true work that is being done today by those servers of the race in true and right alignment.

Beliefs are just illusions and will only serve a purpose if they lead people to the realization of Truth. As a platform for ones “reality” they are simply fictional or evanescent and only indicate lack of inner knowing or true gnosis. To base one’s life on mere beliefs and projections, will only in today’s changing social and spiritual climate, lead to psychological disaster as people will now find it very hard to reconcile their own “versions of reality” with the Truth that now emerges.

Your personal self is a construct... and all your belief structures, personal perceptions and intellectualizations are merely the phantoms of truth. They are constantly fed and projected by those yet to find and stabilize in alignment with true divine relativity!                                                      As the new energies pour into this world and the planetary ego fractures, know such personal and collective constructs will completely collapse as things really start to intensify.                                    

For these new energies are ones of dissolution and at the end of an age it is not about thriving in and adding more delusion to personality life but completely the opposite. It is about learning to die!-(yes you heard it correctly-die!) To all definitions of self! ... Be clear -we are not talking about physical death but true deep esoteric death.

Only as the false lights turns off does the real turn on!

True awakening comes about by truly ridding oneself of glamour and illusion not by indulging in it. Open your real eyes humanity and See things as they truly are. That mostly, your mantras of “Love and Light” and “Peace on earth” are just gentle songs of the self, playing upon each other to keep yourselves comfortable and asleep!

Fear and self-delusion comes in many guises!

Understand that what most new agers and spiritualists understand as their so-called “higher self” is but an inverted response and reception to a finer and subjective aspect of their microcosm.               

This “voice” is but the “great deceiver” that today holds many such people in confusion and thrall!             

Denying Truth, they have only understood their “false intuition” and acted upon their lipika impulses.  

While many “spiritualists and new agers” have received wake up calls from the true divine soul they have failed to recognize their true significance. It should be now obvious to many, that most have assumed enlightenment or spiritual awakening and under the influence of their “higher selves”  have called or thought themselves teachers and guru’s, have written books of “the path”, “The Truth” and “God”. Inwardly and in their subtle vanity they have deluded themselves to thinking themselves special or authority. Little did they realize that these touches represent simply the beginning of a much deeper process which they have stopped or greatly delayed because they were to drunk on their own self perceived divinity!

So let us assist and clarify...

Despite what many of you BELIEVE you are not YET children of God (in the true esoteric sense)            

You are not divine and most of you are not expressing any true “divine beingness”.

You have to turn within and seek much deeper...

YOU are merely a struggling personality trying to perpetuate your reality in any way possible.            

The “I” greatly deceives itself and more then often you are willing to use your contorted, relative and hybrid version of so-called “spirituality” to achieve its aims!

I’m sure many of you will be repulsed by these words and even resentful!

You still seek in your spiritual immaturity those self affirming clouds of fluff to keep your ego safe, nurtured and happy. But that will not serve you in this moment...the question is- do you really want to wake up?

Today, humanities “dream” is fast becoming the collective nightmare!                                                   

Many people are scared of facing the possibilities of what is being said here...                                  

How very few of you truly understand that it is in facing fear wherein lies the deep unravelling that allows you to open to true divine potentiality.

If you are caught up in the swelling fear of the planetary ego you will miss the shared grace of the deeper moment!

For it has been said that God is no respecter of personalities.

Today the new comes with the death of the old and today’s angel comes with an almighty sword.

Let it slay you!
 

The Sinister Side of the New Age

WITH ALL THE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR UNPRECEDENTED LIGHT and rapid spiritual progress in the world today, it is of little surprise to note that the forces of selfishness are also particularly engrossed in their own kind of work upon Earth. They are, once again as always, vying for attention by perpetrating all kinds of guileful antics as they endeavour to gain for themselves as much attention and power as they are able to grasp. The age-old struggle between good and evil is again evincing itself here upon Earth, and is, to a growing number of awakening individuals, especially noticeable today as the dawning light of the New Day is throwing shadows in all directions.

As greater light continues to illuminate the planetary consciousness, darkness is necessarily accentuated; where there is light there must exist its corresponding shadow, or contrast, for in a dualistic universe one cannot exist and is meaningless without the other. More specifically, there has existed for millions of years a great protective barrier of spiritual force around our planet that was instigated and has been dutifully maintained by the Earth's own planetary Hierarchy. This ethereal bulwark regulates the incoming flow of various energies, forces and souls to Earth, while it also functions as a shield from cosmic evil. Without such a measure humanity would have experienced much greater oppression and hardship than that which it has known heretofore. In this time leading up to the birth of the New World, certain doorways are being opened in the barrier in order to allow for a larger influx of benign entities into our Earthly sphere where their aid may be rendered. However, these doorways are presently also being used for access by entities who are rather less than friendly! Nevertheless, such undivine souls have the karmic right to be here on Earth.

Such entities are representatives of primeval and malevolent powers that still exist in the universe, and today, as ever, they are striving toward effecting stagnation in the world as they invariably seek to retard progress by fostering craving for self and attachment to the known. They work effectively through the selfishness of personal desire, fear, pride and conservative attitudes. Such ancient materialistic forces have ever been pitted against true, spiritual advancement, and thus they are in conflict with the flow of the Spirit which, like a stream, is ever changing, ever new.

The forces of darkness incorporate very real and wilful intelligences who work to preserve that which is old and material, hence they are pre-eminently the forces of crystallisation, or of form-preservation. They promote the attractiveness of matter, desire for temporal control and power, and the lure of that which exists in the form-life of the lower worlds. Consequently they deliberately attempt to block the influx of anything that is good, true and life-enhancing, as greater divine light certainly threatens their dominion upon Earth. They do this by distorting the new truths and by stimulating desire and excitement in offering false substitutes that may appear to be new and promising, but which are, in fact, only re-presentations of the old ways of self-gratification. Principally, and whenever they are able, they endeavour to preserve that which is familiar and old, to counteract the effects of the oncoming culture and civilisation, to bring confusion to humanity, and to feed steadily the existing fires of separateness, criticism, animosity, etc. These forces work insidiously and cloak their efforts in fair words, leading even sincere spiritual aspirants to feel and express antipathy for certain persons and ideologies, thereby fostering the hidden seeds of hatred to be found in many human beings. They fan to fury the fear and antagonism of the world in an effort to maintain that which is outmoded; they make the unknown and true appear undesirable or unbelievable, and they attempt to hold back progress for their own ends.

Now, essentially there is no evil in this world, no vice, no sin, except for that which flows from the assertion of the individual self. The propensity of self is to cling to the known, and most people in the world today tend toward the old, the fixed and the 'secure'. Such is the general disposition of humanity into which its social-conditioning and extremely limited education - so painfully devoid of the greater verities of life - have programmed it. The vast majority, then, have become steeped in the ignorance of egotism, and resistance to change is normal for them. However, as purifying forces pour into the subtle energy fields of our planet, the darkness of old, ingrained delusions and selfishness in all their diverse forms are being forced up and out like the poison in a wound. All anxieties, fears and other occult contaminants that obscure the light of the Spirit are necessarily surfacing in our lives today; the true colours of humanity are beginning to be clearly exposed, and there is much more yet to be revealed in a changing world that is struggling to be free of all inharmonious influence.

Equipped with an adequate understanding of the world situation during its current process of purification, we would all do well to remember the fact that if the mind makes a practise of rectitude in its thinking, then there is no evil that can make entrance into it. However, a growing number of people today are being impressed negatively (and most often unconsciously) by antagonistic forces in order to thwart or to completely quash anything that is supportive of the successful unfoldment of this current phase of the Divine Plan for mankind. Such sinister manipulation is greatly facilitated by individuals who harbour fearful or selfish attitudes and motives, and the forces of darkness who are recruiting today for the 'final battle of Armageddon' are certainly not restricted in their choice of prospective candidates on Earth! Agents of evil are often quickly recognisable, but sometimes manage successfully to conceal themselves, for example, beneath the pious mask of religious philosophy or spiritual idealism. "The devil quotes scriptures for his own designs", and the person who would know the truth must be especially vigilant today amidst the proliferating wiles and illusions that are being consciously perpetrated upon our planet, mostly from hidden spheres. We must learn to recognise and pick out the spiritual wheat from the emotional chaff, bearing in mind always, especially in these exceptional times, that there exists in the world a great deal more chaff than wheat!

Today, as stimulating psychic forces are unleashed and made available to mankind on an unprecedented scale, the unsuspecting, hasty and unenlightened are exhibiting their new abilities with remarkable alacrity, prematurely stepping forward to inaugurate themselves to the general public as spiritual teachers, healers and masters of wisdom, when in reality they have only made contact with the astral plane. These uninformed and unwary innocents are most often quite blind to the very real dangers of untrained lower psychism (e.g., clairvoyance, mediumship, etc.), its powerful tendency to tempt, consequently inhibit or even to cause a regression of real spiritual progress. They are also usually quite unaware of the potential that astralism inherently possesses for attracting the interest of cunning spirit-beings who simply love to cause as much mischief as they can in these important times of global catharsis and transformation.

In being aware of the expanding light upon the horizon of the New World, the forces of darkness are today redoubling their efforts against the Forces of Truth by trying all kinds of new, devious and desperate attempts to further delay the unfolding Divine Plan, and to take for themselves as much of the new light coming to the planet as they are able to snatch away from humanity. In order to ensure greater success in their goal the dark forces often offer fake spiritual gems that may appear to sparkle in the beginning, but soon fade and become lacklustre, along with the temporary satisfaction that may have been initially gleaned from them.

If a true divine experience has yet to be attained, the exuberant and hopeful self-seeker may easily confuse astralism and psychic phenomena for spiritual revelation and holy wisdom. If a person with desire of any kind decides to meddle upon the lower astral plane (which is readily accessible to many today), perhaps seeking to contact discarnate entities thereupon, they throw open wide the door of their consciousness for mischievous and evil forces to freely enter in. This is especially so for teachers who demonstrate influence over others, for in their commanding and, therefore, powerful position they become prime targets for the cravings and ambitions of lowly-evolved and maligned spirits. Such beings seek to contaminate the minds of their unsuspecting victims with their delusory ploys as they simultaneously draw attention and life-force to themselves. The majority of these discarnate souls are quite unhappy, and since misery loves company they endeavour to render such damage as they are able by imposing their own will through the passive consciousness of the unwitting medium. Such treacherous patterns are evidenced today among many New Age groups, and are spreading like an epidemic due to an absence of basic occult understanding, humility, and that purity of intent which is essential for safe and useful psychical work.

It should be understood that there is a limitless abundance of intriguing facts (and falsities) that are accessible upon the astral plane by its legions of residents. Such information often seems impressive, and may appear bright and true to those who grasp blindly for something new and exciting, and indeed, on occasion, a jewel of truth might slip through*. However, the astral land is known in esoteric circles as the realm of illusion, partly because its lower sub-planes provide residence for egotistic denizens who are often much less evolved than their mediums, and who have desires and designs of their own. Truth is often corrupted by such entities either innocently or wilfully, prior to being subsequently tainted by the illusory nature of the astral plane itself, and finally also by the personality of the medium. The result: the great plethora of exaggeration, misinformation and imitation spirituality in the world today. Due to the extant ignorance of mankind and the intensity of the period, mediumship is currently proving itself to be more often a curse than a gift.

* Due recognition is given to the fact that some accurate and very useful information is presently being received through bona fide mediums. However, it should not be overlooked that this is only information. Mediumship (or 'channelling' as it is usually called today), in and of itself, does not constitute a path of spiritual development.

If messages from lofty spiritual planes are to be reliably and accurately conveyed through a medium, then the impression must be a direct descent from higher mental levels to the brain, avoiding all contact with impurities in the astral (emotional) part of the medium's constitution. Only in so far as this direct descent is attained will the recorded impression be devoid of error; it will not then be tinctured with any emotional complex whatsoever. For it is the astral level of consciousness that is the great distorter of essential truth. True interpretation of messages from the higher worlds is dependent upon detachment from lower psychism. The medium must be essentially humble, and so personality-decentralisation is an utmost requirement for true, safe and successful spiritual mediumship. This is critical today as more and more mediums are being targeted by the dark forces.

Often mediums are aware at some level that their 'guides' have at least some personal motives that are not entirely divine, yet these mediums continue to follow their instructions at the expense of complete integrity due to their own lack of discrimination, fear of ridicule from their established students, and sometimes for far more unscrupulous reasons. Many established spiritual leaders, teachers and gurus are, to the perceptive observer, conspicuously falling today, and so exemplify to the children of the New World that blind and unintelligent submission to external authorities is inherently dangerous and strongly inadvisable. In fact, the real and qualified spiritual teachers in the Aquarian age will not gather disciples around themselves. The perennial admonitions solemnly given by sages of yore would especially profit everyone at this time and ought to be revived and retained in the minds of all those who would safely tread the spiritual path today, for the pharisee is often further from the kingdom of God than the publican and the sinner. In every way unholy company should be avoided by the seeker of Truth because it will likely give rise to passion, glamour, excitement, contagion, blindness, false hopes, delusion, etc., and all at a cost to wise decision and real spiritual progress. Psychic experiences may seem at first a bubbling froth of something better, but they veil one's eyes and serve only to inhibit higher perception.

Presently all over the world there exists an overabundance of new religious institutions, spiritual societies and esoteric organisations that have allegedly been inspired and guided by contact with great masters, Christ-like entities, highly advanced extraterrestrial light-beings, and even angels and archangels. While it is true that a far greater profusion of very evolved divine Agents are closer to Earth at this time than ever before in its history, it should be born in mind that so is the opposition: the antichrist*, and the devotees of any spirit-beings, their teachings or their nominated representatives would do well to remember always the occult dictum that states like attracts like, for this is an immutable universal law. The level of morality, virtue, humility and, therefore, the frequency of consciousness of the medium who makes contact upon the inner planes dictates the spiritual class and delimits the calibre of the channelled entity. The average desire-bound individual will certainly not be chosen as an agent upon Earth to convey the sacred and momentous messages of lofty spiritual beings, although such mediums may easily misinterpret their distorted thought-forms within the astral worlds, which are but broken reflections from higher spheres.

* The antichrist is not a single person or being; it is not the 'Devil' or 'Satan', neither of whom actually exist, although a great number of entities continue to derive satisfaction from impersonating the mythical Lord of Darkness. The term 'antichrist' refers to all evil intelligence as it is expressed in the universe in direct opposition to the plans of the Cosmic Christ - The Lord of the World - who is not the personality called Jesus, but an extremely exalted field of divine Consciousness, a Great Being of Love and Wisdom, one tiny ray from whom shone through the lower vehicles of Jesus, as it did through those of the Avatar Krishna of India, before him, as well as many other great Servants throughout human history, thereby bestowing upon these individuals the spiritual title of world-saviour. The word 'Christ' is derived from the Greek 'Kristos' meaning The Anointed One. Those who work under the banner of the antichrist include a whole host of sentient beings, some of whom are very advanced in terms of their occult knowledge, their power to control certain lesser spirits, and their ability to wield various natural forces; others may be quite unaware of how they are secretly used by the brothers of shadow, but all of them have one thing in common: selfishness, while those of a more treacherous nature harbour an insatiable lust for power, personal aggrandisement and dominion over others. It is, in fact, their innate selfishness that prevents any real and permanent alliance among them, and this is why the forces of darkness are always ultimately defeated by the greater united power of those who serve the Divine Plan, and who constitute, therefore, the divine Forces of Righteousness.

Today, an inordinate mass of ordinary people bearing minimal spiritual development are claiming to be the officially appointed channels for the authentic new teachings of various exalted beings, many of whom have become well known via various established religions for thousands of years. Gautama Buddha, the Lord Maitreya (Christ) and even God Himself! are to be heard speaking through an unlikely assortment of mediums today. Such nonsense exemplifies the great sham within the New Age movement, even though the printed material collated from channelling sessions and enthusiastically distributed by those who whole-heartedly believe in it, may appear to be dependable, authoritative and even somewhat uplifting. It should not be overlooked, however, that even a young, dull and mischievous child is able to quote pleasantly-sounding axioms or make false promises, and the astral plane is copiously littered with the shards of discarded thoughts and ideas from ages past and up to date, ready to be taken up by any vagrant spirit who happens to be wandering by.

Highly advanced spiritual beings generally do not limit themselves by communicating at the level of the individual personality. They typically influence many different souls simultaneously, and their communications, which operate under the Law of Impression, are effected upon higher levels of consciousness, where very few mediums today are consciously able to reach due to their personal desires, which necessarily limit their contact to the lower astral plane. The great Guides of the race have ever served humanity by way of an ancient, highly organised and intricate hierarchical system comprising many exalted lives, masters, high-initiates, disciples and worthy emissaries who have all proven their spiritual merit by successfully emerging from the fires of past trials and severe tests taken over numerous incarnations.

At this time all around the world it is a common occurrence that yesterday's office clerk or manual worker is magically transformed into today's 'enlightened teacher', and such absurdities lucidly illustrate that psychism is not a sanction for true, spiritual work, and that psychic ability does not necessarily (or even usually) correspond to spiritual purity; nor does it indicate advanced mystical attainment (which must be realised through long and diligent practise) be it of the white or the black magician. It is a noteworthy fact that domestic pets such as cats and dogs are psychic, as are members of various primitive tribes located in Africa, South America and elsewhere.

A great number of species of animals are generally more psychic than human beings because, while remaining completely free of the constricting and obstructive psychologies that mankind so prevalently possesses and demonstrates, these animals are naturally and effortlessly sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of other sentient beings around them. Such members of the animal kingdom regularly communicate psychically with one another, and they can sense changes and presences that arise within the subtle planes that exist alongside our physical world.

Psychism is a most ordinary and natural function, but humanity generally desensitises itself to these inherent and latent abilities due to a compulsive and emphatic use of the lower psyche, and the consequent development of a rigid mind-set that may include all kinds of limiting false conceptions, fears and prejudices. Due to its unnatural and habitual tendencies, therefore, the human race has to date generally and subconsciously opted to close down its psychic awareness, while those few who in the past have chosen to freely demonstrate their uncommon psychic abilities, in attracting the wrong kind of attention, may have landed themselves in serious trouble.

Throughout modern history fear has been the chief motivating force behind the suppression, persecution and even execution of those who evidenced psychic powers, e.g., witch-burning in the middle-ages, the Spanish Inquisition, etc., and many psychically sensitive individuals have been promptly treated as insane. Today, however, the energies of the Aquarian age are forcing open previously inhibited channels of psychic perception and sensitivity in mankind, and the world is no longer able to deny these very real faculties due to their emergence and demonstration en masse. However, due to the pervasive lack of occult understanding amongst humanity, lower psychic faculties are currently being misused and abused, while the misconceptions born of New Age psychism continue to mislead many. Lacking right understanding in these times we shall be like the blind man in the valley of the shadow of death. Occult education is critically required today in order to prevent individuals from falling prey to those identical temptations that have led to the total destruction of whole civilisations upon Earth in the past.

Channelling, as it is still widely practised in its lowest and most material form, is a low grade psychic expression. It is, for the masses, definitely one of the least demanding 'spiritual paths'; it is easy and therefore of negligible positive influence upon real spiritual progress. In stark contrast, divine-contact has ever been the most important and prime goal of the serious spiritual aspirant, and this rule has not changed merely due to the increased psychic sensitivity in the world. Being the most direct communication with the Spirit for humanity, divine-contact facilitates the receipt of pure insight, flawless intuition and dependable wisdom, obviating the need to contact other beings for information. It will also allow for the beneficent radiation (via the personality) of the light of the Spirit, the nature of which is intelligent, impersonal Love. Conversely, channelling can be very detrimental to the individual upon the spiritual path for numerous reasons, and once divine-contact has been attained becomes completely superfluous.

Channelling, therefore, constitutes a definite distraction to real spiritual attainment, and for the average person today is fraught with danger. Moreover, the trance condition that many lesser mediums effortlessly adopt is a most undesirable state, especially in these times. It separates the medium from their own soul, and definitely relegates them to the realm of uncontrolled and material forces that abound upon the astral plane. It is imperative that mental activity be enhanced and selflessly dedicated to helping others so that intelligent and conscious channelling may be practised safely if at all, otherwise true, spiritual mediumship will remain a rare occurrence within the New Age spiritualistic movement. The naïveté and excited grasping of the majority of those who are interested in channelling, together with the ingenuousness, pride and selfishness of the bulk of mediums, exposes groups to very definite dangers as they continue to let loose in the world forces and entities of an unholy nature.

All manner of devious spirits are today proceeding to seek out and to contact sensitives in physical incarnation who evidence reasonable potential to become instruments for the execution of their ungracious plans, just as the benevolent and true Servants of the race are searching for selfless and devoted hearts to help with the real Divine Work upon Earth. As the lower psychic faculties of mankind expand, dark forces may eagerly rush in where angels will not tread. Wherever there exists even a tiny blot upon the motives of the medium, he or she is automatically prone to be surreptitiously deceived, used, victimised and even permanently possessed. Conditions are so ripe at this time in the world and humanity's gullibility and desire so pronounced and prevalent, that such unfortunate occult usurpations are being facilitated by a negative synergy actualised by unprepared groups of perhaps well-meaning people. This is resulting in group-possessions and it is to be observed today that certain mediums together with some of their loyal followers are headed straight for the lunatic asylum!

Lowly-evolved and unscrupulous entities bearing sinister ambitions recognise how easily they may outwit unsuspecting human beings. Many of these wily disembodied spirits are no great fools, and they understand well that the dissemination of alluring but erroneous teachings may seem authentic and dependable to the unwary on account of the truth that lies at the base of them and which is intentionally allowed to slip through their falsifications. For it is the little bit of truth in an error that gives it its appeal and strength, not the great wrapping of falsehood that overlies the scrap of truth, and many teachings being given out today are gross embellishments or distortions of basically sound contemporary facts. How many hopefuls will become most embarrassed, if not sorely grieved, when they eventually come to realise that their beloved master or lofty angelic source is no more than a deceased human personality of low order, or even merely a rather bold and mischievous nature-spirit!

The previous illustration is a characteristic example (and not, by far, the most shocking) of that which is transpiring within the New Age movement today, and it is everywhere apparent. Large, affluent, fully-established, well-attended and even 'prestigious' spiritual organisations exist around the world that have been instigated due to the communications and manipulations of entities with, at best, unquestionably deluded motivations. Many of those who are presently offering false teachings are all the more convincing to the unaware due to the fact that they themselves actually believe what they teach, and may therefore possess genuinely sincere motives. Yet while they forge ahead with the notion that they really are serving the Divine Plan, they are in fact little more than human marionettes for masters of deception who work from within the hidden worlds. It is one of evil's favourite and most frequently employed ruses to pose as holy messengers, for it knows well how to appeal to humanity's pride and desire. These dark spirits are well-practised and skilled at masquerading their true intentions with a facade of stimulating and evocative melodramas and emotionally appealing beguilements of all kinds.

By way of their chosen human instruments on the physical plane, the forces of darkness may perform miraculous healings and demonstrate psychic powers in order to inspire faith in the masses, and to subsequently win the adulation and allegiance of the naïve. What may be regarded as miraculous by some, however, is nothing but a metaphysical dynamic that is responsible for the harnessing of natural forces; faith acts as both a magnifier and a conductor, and makes this dynamic possible. Just as electricity - which is potentially present everywhere - becomes effective only in the presence of a conductor, so 'supernatural' power becomes effective only in the presence of faith, be it faith in a human teacher, in the divine Intelligence immanent in Creation, faith in an ideal or even in one's own spiritual nature. History attests to the fact that blind faith may be easily and promptly cultivated amongst the credulous, desirous or needy. Furthermore, those cunning entities who are sworn enemies of Truth and Righteousness understand very well how selfishly-motivated faith may be exploited and used like a kind of vacuum that draws certain surrounding forces into itself, thus endowing the individual or group with which it is connected with various etheric and astral energies that are naught but imitations of those higher forces in which the faith has been invested.

It is a fact that in order to instigate and maintain their power and charisma, spiritual and religious leaders depend as much on the faith of their adherents as their adherents depend on the initial inspiration which they may receive from their leaders. Once this mutually-profitable affair has begun, it can easily expand to allure and subsequently influence many other aspirants who may be attracted (or magnetically pulled in) to the psychically-charged atmosphere that is so common within such groups. The subsequent and rapid magnification of synergetic potency will be in direct proportion to the degree of emotional charge peculiar to the group, as well as the will and manipulative abilities of the leader(s), and it is not difficult to see how the combined forces evoked by those whose faith is directed toward a spiritual 'superior' make him a centre of power that goes far beyond that of his own personality, while simultaneously also providing a convenient conduit for other evil minds to enter and influence our world.

Religious intermediaries are still employed today due to humanity's ignorance of universal laws, and as long as such blindness persists in the world, black magicians, false spiritual leaders and bogus religions will continue to proliferate in response to mankind's desire. A rapidly growing number of false prophets and unscrupulous mystical teachers are rising in power around the world today. Due to the pervasive ingenuousness and craving of humanity, these sorcerers are successfully wielding occult forces not for the common good, but for their own selfish ends, and they are consequently leading many people farther and farther away from the truth and genuine divine experience by offering a cold light, which can be remarkably convincing to those who do not look to their own heart for verification.

Upon entering the charged atmosphere of certain congregations the sensitive person may soon become aware of an upliftment of mood or psychic stimulation of some kind, while beneath such a cunning enticement the more vigilant newcomer may witness an obscure sensation that betrays the fact that some external force is attempting to mesmerically impose its influence and to instigate control. Often, certain ceremonies or meditations that are regularly performed by members of the assembly will - consciously or unwittingly - facilitate such possession or, in the case of the weak-willed, vacant-minded or needy, even guarantee the successful attachment of some disembodied being (or group of beings) to the aura of the unsuspecting optimist, with the preconceived purpose of eventually working its way into the nervous system and the brain of the victim. This depiction may seem rather morbid or even fantastic to the uninformed, yet the reader who lacks sound occult knowledge is assured that this is usually only the initial introduction to the intended insidious career of the possessing entity.

Where opportunity is presented, misguided discarnate spirits are today purposefully breaking divine law by enticing or coercing the souls of some individuals to vacate their bodies, usually temporarily but on occasion permanently, in order to inhabit them thereafter, wherein they endeavour to influence others. Such occult possession is becoming a common occurrence in the world and is made easy by those who succumb to fits of passion such as anger or lust, or who allow themselves to yield to other traits of the lower self such as jealousy, lying, self-pity, depression, hatred, fear, habitual condemnation of others, etc., etc.

Each individual, and no one else, is wholly responsible for all the conditions within their own reality, for these conditions exist primarily in their auric field as the energies that they have created by their thoughts and emotions. The key to safety and success during this dark eve of the New Day lies within the heart. Negative and selfish thinking, however, is especially hazardous in these 'testing times' and bears the terrible potential to attract entities who dwell amidst the hordes of maligned spirits who are today being forced up against the physical plane by the Forces of Righteousness, which are battling victoriously upon the other side of the veil between worlds. These now frenzied dark wraiths are desperately seeking their impossible escape from the dazzling light of Justice by fleeing into physical human vehicles. It is a fact that there are many more 'walk-ins' of questionable character alive today upon Earth than there are truly holy visitors. However, it should be remembered that for every single soul of purity and wisdom, one thousand or more evil ones may be offset, and many such bright souls are presently moving into position for the forthcoming and conclusive confrontation that will ultimately manifest in the physical world.

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Aside from the more severe dangers of lower psychism, it should ever be born in mind that psychics who are lacking in sound occult training, track-record and purity of motive cannot and should not be trusted to convey accurately the truth of the times. Proclaimed spiritual teachers should always be thoroughly tested for their moral standing, their depth of esoteric knowledge and their past genuine experience in holy service, and this before any iota of allegiance to them or their methods is even considered. False spiritual teachers are today disseminating all kinds of intriguing information in their attempt to distract the masses from the simple, unchanging and spiritually sound message of love and service. The Holy Truth is, has ever been and always will be - simple, and complexity often spells danger. The well known ancient Chinese curse may be regarded today as a warning: "May you live in interesting times".

Those beings who operate within the ranks of the forces of darkness always work along the path of least resistance. The devil is characteristically a most lazy fellow whenever he can afford to be! He has ever been most disposed to advantage himself from any method that seems likely to further his insidious cause and which appears to promise him the least amount of trouble or labour. Today he is exploiting with ease the ignorant nature of human beings, while artfully employing the rampant glamour and exaggeration within the New Age movement to ensnare as many hopefuls as he can. At the same time he is, with very little effort, using that same glamour to deter many of the thinking people of the world from apprehending the real facts. Sceptics today are rather hastily and eagerly condemning New Age thinking in its entirety as 'mass-hypnosis', 'group-infatuation', etc., and this is because they have observed only the nonsensical side, which is by far the larger part, and which, admittedly, is saturated with so much fuss, excitement and credulous obsession.

Today's pervasive hype and glamour has resulted in much smugness, excitement and pride, and this is exactly what the dark forces intended. Due to the abundant and much distorted presentations of contemporary facts that have been thoughtlessly peddled by eager, naïve and self-seeking individuals during the last few decades, the sacred essence of the truths that represent the real significance of the birth of the Aquarian age have been terribly adulterated and consequently misconstrued by many. This has resulted in a great neutralisation of the benefits offered to humanity in accordance with the Divine Plan for Earth. Through exaggeration, misinformed passion and unintelligent, misguided enthusiasm, important and critically-relevant information regarding the world-transformation has become hackneyed, stale and consequently improbable to the minds of many. Cliched prattle and 'spiritual marketing' by the unaware has discouraged numerous people from recognising and responding to the urgency and magnitude of that which is today transpiring. The devil's calling card bears the same insignia as it always has, if only we would care to take a closer look. Earnest and intelligent seeking, right understanding, practical vision and active service are required today in order to offset the damage inflicted and time wasted by the plethora of falsity and ostentation that proliferates in the world with regard to the New Age.

Having thoroughly researched the spiritual supermarket for over a decade, uncompromisingly seeking full-time across four continents, it is our personal and authentic observation that at the time of writing (1995), an accurate figure denoting the proportion of bogus (or at best misguided) 'spiritual' teachers, leaders and groups at large today in our experience is 95% plus! The larger part of the New Age movement, even at its best, only manages to provide a dubious presentation of the truth of the times, while at its worst is undoubtedly sinister.

It is a most noteworthy fact that one basic truth is often used as a foundation for a great pile of deception, as is prevalently the case everywhere today upon the eve of the birth of the New World. Nevertheless, wherever there is truth to be found at all, the serious seeker will always possess the earnest and genuine spiritual impetus to probe and delve deeply within a whole mountain of lies if necessary in order to find it. And if he digs down deep enough into that great mound of falsehood, thereby discovering and bringing out the truth to set it radiating on top, then the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that single truth. Evil is essentially conservative, it simply hates being disturbed by the truth.

Fortunately, evil together with all its lies, selfishness and other egocentric tendencies may often be recognised clearly enough by discerning persons, but for those who do not yet possess discrimination, adequate esoteric knowledge or dependable intuition, pseudo-spirituality may be rather more difficult to identify. Yet egotism (which, in a sense, is synonymous with evil: the divisive factor in Creation) can always be recognised by its propensity to attack or defend for the benefit of itself. A close and uncompromising scrutiny of the character of and results obtained by any spiritual group will usually reveal the truth. However, a general guiding rule may be offered here: wherever educational groups fail to emphasise, encourage and inspire selfless service of a distinctly spiritual nature; wherever promises are made of gains for the personal self alone; or where tempting benefits are offered for the individual at all - BEWARE! The true spiritual Path must be sought for itself, and not with regard for the feet that shall tread it. Most importantly, sincere seekers should listen within rather than to the opinions of others; they should ever trust and be true to themselves, remembering always that desire blinds.

As has been assured by the disclosures presented in this book thus far, there certainly are most precious gems scattered amongst the glut of New Age paraphernalia that is available everywhere in the Western world today. Like a fine, golden thread, the truth is very subtly woven throughout the many enchantments and infatuations that lay like so much unwanted sediment upon the surface of the real contemporary facts. All those sincere and venturesome aspirants for true knowledge and understanding in these remarkable times are most heartily encouraged to make their search steadfastly, with discernment but without excessive eagerness. There are important lessons to be learned in every single experience, and we often learn much more by encountering the evils and deceptions of life's circumstances personally than we do from simply being handed truth upon a silver platter, as it were, where it might go unappreciated. Sometimes we have to quest deeply into the dragon's lair in order to retrieve essential treasures, but if the nature of evil is comprehended well enough and one's motives remain pure, then the devil together with all his cohorts may be faced with unshakeable confidence. Thus assured in their certain knowledge that they will be victorious, the resolute trailblazers of the times shall detect the golden thread of Truth and will employ it wisely in order to guide themselves safely through all the present-day contrivances, until they successfully reach the centre of the New Age cyclone, where they will See and Know.

The widespread rise of falsehood and darkness is a very normal occurrence at the close of cycles, and one that necessarily precedes the advent of new light in the world. This is so for various reasons, and one important purpose of such 'timely evil' is to afford humanity its needed challenges in the form of trials so that individual choice may be made. Each man is thus given opportunity to hasten his own spiritual growth and simultaneously qualify to proceed forward into a brighter era. Those who, albeit unwittingly, choose to become entangled amidst the multitudinous enticements of the transition period leading up to the Harvest Time automatically exclude themselves from entering the New World by failing to recognise and overcome the 'temptations of evil'. The sinister side of the New Age movement may ultimately be regarded, therefore, as an important factor in a necessary selection process that will permit only those pure, vigilant and worthy souls to pass through the Portal of Initiation, and to rise into the resplendence of the New World.

By Truth Fellowship TNC

 

You Cannot Fit God and His Way, Into You and Your Way

Sri Dava Prakasha

You are narcissistic by nature. You live on the island of self, and, moreover, you are the island of self. You also see things and events as revolving around you, and you perceive things and events as either existing for your use, or as undesirable for your use, or in terms of how they may or may not affect you or those you love. You also perceive life through the filter of your own mind, according to your genetic and learned predisposition. Your subtle and gross actions are always that of adding to you and your life: adding experiences, ideas, knowledge, objects, and other people.
You are the self, the ego, and your perception, thinking, and actions are that of constant self reference.
Your life is about you, your ideas, your knowledge, your preferences, your stuff, and your way of living. Your life is also about constantly adding to you and your way of life, and is about constantly integrating more and more into you and your way of living. Your life is also about protecting you, and is about protecting your current experiences, ideas, knowledge, preferences, plans, stuff, and way of living. It is about protecting the experiences, ideas, knowledge, objects, and other people you have already added to, and already integrated into, you and your way of life. You are also, by nature, self-reliant.
You are about you and your way of living. You are about the natural business of adding to you and your way, and integrating into you and your way, and feeding you and your way. You are also about protecting you and your way, and all that feeds and supports you and your way. And, you accomplish all this adding, integrating, self-feeding, and self-protecting, by relying on yourself, by self-reliance.
However, take note of two key characteristics of all the stuff that you add and integrate into you and your way. New ideas, things, and people are beyond or outside your small, isolated world of self. New ideas, things, and people are also other-than or different from you and your way of living. But the above two facts pose a problem for you: You need ideas, things, and people to feed and protect you, and they are beyond and other-than you and your way of living. Yet, your nature is not to submit or adapt yourself and your way of living to that which is beyond and other than you and your way. This is the crux of the problem: How can you add and integrate them into you and your way of living, in order to use them, without submitting or adapting yourself and your way to them? So, how do you solve the problem?
Much that is beyond or outside you and your way, and much that is other-than or different from you and your way, must be re-shaped by you in order to fit, and to be integrated into, you and your current way of living. You must alter, re-shape, bend, and mold much of that which is beyond and other-than you, so that it can be comfortably added and integrated into you and your way of life, and can thereby feed and protect you
and your way of living. The answer, therefore, is simple: In order for many new ideas, things, and people to be added and integrated into you and your way, you must try to alter, re-shape, bend, and mold them to fit your current ideas, preferences, and way of living. Simply change and adapt that which is beyond and other-than you and your way of living, so that it can submit to you, and to your ideas, and to your way, rather than you
submitting or changing yourself, your ideas, and your way of living.
Some new ideas, things, and people already fit well into you and your way of living, so they require
no fundamental change for you to add and integrate them into you and your way of living. They are already compatible with you and your way. However, if they do not already fit, or if you cannot successfully modify that which is beyond and other-than you and your way, then you will reject it.
Your nature is not to submit or adapt yourself and your way of living to that which is beyond and other-than you and your way. Your strongest tendency is to seek that which already fits into you and your preferred way of living. But, if a new idea, thing, or person does not already fit, you will either try to alter, re-shape, bend, and mold it to fit you and your way, or, if that cannot be accomplished, you will reject it.
The above facts are not to suggest that you never adapt, submit, or compromise. However, your adaptations, submissions, and compromises are only very superficial, and are allowed only within a very narrow range of possible behavior within that superficial layer. Your adaptation, submission, and compromise with that which is beyond and other-than you, are superficial in depth, and narrow in range.
What does that mean? Your adaptation, submission, and compromise are superficial, because they never reach into the depth and most essential foundation of you and how you live. They are never allowed to go so deep, that they touch the core of you, and are never allowed to interrupt your basic way of living.
First, you never allow you, the separate consciousness or individual that you are, to be threatened, harmed, deprived, or insulted. You make sure that your individuality remains intact, fed, and respected. You never adapt, submit, and compromise to a depth that completely denies you your basic egoic needs of survival, pleasure, and vanity. Moreover, the core-level state of individuality, and your core-level motivation of survival, pleasure, and vanity, are not only never compromised, but are fed and protected by your superficial adaptation, submission, and compromise.
You typically adapt, submit, and compromise to the superficial depth that you do, in order to get those needs met, and not for any altruistic reason. Your flexibility is typically for the sake of getting your needs met, and not out of total, or even partial, selflessness.
Second, you never allow your basic way of living to be interrupted, by any adaptation, submission, or compromise. What is your basic way of living? Clinging, selfish taking, and self-reliance, all for the sake of feeding and protecting your survival, pleasure, and vanity. Using self-energy, you cling to self and to all that feeds and supports self. You cling to self, and to all that is beyond and other-than self, if that other serves one or more of your three needs. Your subtle and gross actions are also that of constantly taking, adding, and integrating into you, your mind, and your being, all the ideas, objects, and people that feed and protect you. You are always pulling-in to yourself, all the ideas, objects, and people that ensure your survival, pleasure, and vanity. In any given moment, you are doing that on both subtle and gross levels, or just on the subtle level using self-energy and the mental process of perception and experience. And, you rely largely on your own ideas, schemes, and efforts, in the ongoing process of clinging and taking for the sake of meeting your three needs. You never adapt, submit, and compromise to a depth that completely interrupts your basic way of living, which is clinging, selfish taking, and self-reliance in order to ensure your survival, pleasure, and vanity.
Your adaptations, submissions, and compromises are superficial, because they do not go so deep as to threaten your survival, pleasure, and vanity, and do not go so deep as to interrupt your clinging, selfish, and self-reliant way of life. Moreover, not only are your adaptations, submissions, and compromises superficial, and not only do they not threaten your survival, pleasure, and vanity, but they are typically for the very purpose of feeding and protecting self.
Also, your adaptations, submissions, and compromises are narrow in range, because your fear, and your clinging to the appearances and personal habits of your life, will not allow you to engage actions that are beyond or other-than a very small scope of possible behaviors. You will typically go “only so far” to get your needs met. But, if great calamity or desperation were to befall you, you may find yourself acting in ways you never imagined.
In general, your strongest tendency is to look for ideas, objects, remedies, activities, and people that already fit into your notions of how things should look, and into your specific habits of living. You are looking for compatibility. If they do not already fit, then you may try to make them bend,
change, and submit to fit your ideas and preferences. You will try to make them compatible. But,
you will reject those ideas, objects, remedies, activities, and people that do not already fit, or will not bend, change, and submit. After all, you, by nature, are not willing to adapt, submit, and compromise beyond a certain superficial depth and narrow range. Even when you do, it is still for the sake of self-feeding and self-protection, and usually only when desperate. Regardless of your delusions to the contrary, you are extremely inflexible and unyielding; but you expect all the stuff and people you need and want, to fit, bend, or submit to you and to your specific ways of living. You want the world closest to you, which is the stuff and people that you use for self-feeding and selfprotection, to fit your ideas and preferences of how it should look.
New ideas, things, and people are beyond or outside your small, isolated state of self, and are other-than or different from you and your way of living. For you to be willing to add and integrate them into your life, they must either already largely fit your ideas and ways, or they must bend, change, and submit to fit your ideas and ways. However, if they do not already fit, or do not bend, change, and submit enough to suit you, then you will reject them.
The implications of the above information are profound, for the serious seeker, and for the true follower. During your spiritual search, you gravitated toward teachers, teachings, paths, and practices for which you already had a large affinity: those that already largely fit into your general mind-set of how a spiritual teacher, teaching, path, or practice should look, operate, and “feel”. You were willing to accept variations within a certain comfortable range, but a general “good fit” or compatibility was required for you to embrace a specific teacher, teaching, path, or practice.
Therefore, you completely rejected those that did not fit very well, and from which you could draw no or few ideas or practices that seemed to “resonate” with your pre-existing ideas and preferences. You were looking for yourself and your ways, to be reflected in the spiritual teachers, teachings, paths, and practices you investigated. Only when you saw yourself, your ideas, your preferences, and your ways largely reflected in a given teacher, teaching, path, or practice, did you embrace it. You have sought, added, and integrated only those spiritual teachers, teachings, paths, and practices for which you already had a large affinity, and have rejected or simply ignored all others.
A long-term spiritual seeker has added and integrated many teachings, paths, and practices into his pot of self, and they have only reinforced himself and his general way of living. He is an ego, a separate consciousness, and his general way of life is that of clinging to self and to all that protects and feeds self, and self-reliance. His actions are only that of clinging, which is observed as selfprotection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. His state and actions are about preventing God, by merely being himself, and by clinging to self so as to protect and feed it, and by relying on self so as to ensure his needs are met. His delusions about his spiritual status do not change the facts.
Regardless of the superficial variations, every spiritual teacher, teaching, path, and practice has offered him only another means to protect, feed, and rely on self. That which you exercise becomes stronger, and that which you feed thrives. The very subtle and gross actions of self-protection, selffeeding, and self-reliance, merely maintain and strengthen those same actions. In other words, the natural, inherent, and ongoing habit-pattern of clinging, taking, implosion, self-feeding, selfprotection, and self-reliance, is reinforced by clinging, taking, implosion, self-feeding, self-protection, and self-reliance. Also, the core-level self, or ego, that is protected and fed through those actions, is strengthened and thrives. His spiritual teachers, teachings, paths, and practices have only strengthened himself, and have only reinforced his natural, clinging, taking, selfprotecting, self-feeding, self-reliant, imploding, and constricting way of living. His spiritual endeavors have actually taken him even further from the very God he professes to seek.
But, the seeker also realizes another consequence of his years on the spiritual circuit, and of adding and integrating spiritual paths that fit his ideas, preferences, and natural way of living. He indeed unwittingly strengthens his natural mental habit-pattern of self-protection, self-feeding, and self reliance, but he also creates a damaging association of ideas in the mind. Under the influence of his natural state and ways, and by reinforcing of his natural state and ways on the spiritual circuit, his vague ideas about God, and about seeking God, and about a path to God, have become even more deeply associated with clinging, self-protection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. In other words, his in-born nature or tendency is to protect, feed, and rely on self. Spiritual teachers, teachings, paths, and practices merely provide more means to engage that which he is already tending to do by nature. He walked onto the spiritual circuit already inclined toseek a teacher, teaching, path, or practice that would help him protect, feed, and rely on self, and they sold him that for which he was seeking, and in a package that was at least close to his ideas, preferences, and general way of living. He now, therefore, even more powerfully associates ideas of God and a path to God, with his inherent state and ways of clinging, taking, implosion, self-protection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. Religion and spirituality are good commerce, because they sell people that which they, by nature, already want and are already doing, only wrapped in a religious or spiritual package.
However, the most damaging outcome for the serious seeker, of adding and integrating spiritual paths into himself and his way, and of his own in-born nature, will be realized if and when he happens to stumble across True God and The Teaching of Freedom. God and His Way of Freedom do not nourish your natural, inherent predisposition for clinging, selfprotection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. And, unlike the spiritual circuit, True God and His Way do not offer you any means to do that which you, by nature, are already doing: clinging, self-protection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. God and His Way have nothing to do with the teachers, teachings, paths, and practices found on the spiritual circuit, as evidenced by the fact that they merely offer you a variety of ideas and practices that only exercise and strengthen your inherent subtle and gross actions of clinging, self-protection, self-feeding, and self-reliance, which also reinforces your corelevel state of individuality.
To the contrary, True God is opposite to your natural state of individuality, which is limitation and suffering. God is Formless, Infinite, Blissful, and Supreme Power and Intelligence, while you are the exact opposite. And, His Way of Freedom is opposite to your constant actions of clinging, self-protection, self-feeding, and self-reliance. The Way of Freedom is profound Sacrifice, Faith, and Prayer, while your natural way is the exact opposite: clinging, self-protection, self-feeding, self-reliance, and communication with only yourself or other aspects of nature.

Into the Dark Night

BY WARREN SUNKAR

The lamentations of death compassed me about; the pains of hell surrounded me; I cried in my tribulation...          A Biblical Quotation

There are definitive stages on ones spiritual journey when Life draws us deep into the dark and unfamiliar. The “truths” and tangible relativities that we have created as sure footholds upon our imagined ladder of spiritual ascent start to crumble or dissipate into the inner spiritual void. The ephemeral and illusive qualities of what we thought was reality become apparent. We waver in the inbreath of the soul and our whole world begins undoing.

This is the dark night...

In this night we have moments of panic. We walk into it as the voices of unnumbered fears incessantly whisper to us to turn around and go back. In the darkness we lapse in to moments of confusion as all temporal identifications are suspended and we desperately grasp at what we think we know. We try to hold on to those forms and ideals that have given us security and comfort as we  navigate through the labyrinth of duality. Here we feel the futility and know the sad realization that all that we thought we knew, all the insight we had gained, is as nothing.

Intuitionally we feel that the Dark Night is an invitation to a deeper shift in awareness but we are called into the dark with no signpost to guide or to point out the direction.

From out of those moments of inner confusion we look out into the world. We see its madness and our own.  The wails of samsara assail our ears and the aridity of our existence dawns upon us as the suffering of those around us become apparent. We question our purpose and we recognize our loneliness and separation, feeling the pain of all those bound to the great deception. Life as we know it has no meaning, we have no meaning...strange and obscure reasoning arises.

As it gets to the deeper stages, we are in moments overwhelmed. How long must we endure, how much can we endure? We seek a means of possible escape but realize there is nowhere to go. We pass through terrible phases of fear, loss, panic and death. We have plunged into the depths and have lost all sense of up and down and feel like we are being held underwater. We are truly helpless and have lost all expectant hope and know only the denial of love.

And still it gets darker...

As we stumble through the greatest dark we cry out in our torment. We writhe in anguish, with no balm to soothe our wounds or water to quench our parched lips. We wonder what we have done to be so denied of god. We are pushed to the depths of loneliness and despair...we fall to our knees as we struggle to understand what has bought us to such forsakenness?

This contemplation is not only dark, but also secret...St John of the Cross

The secret of the dark night is one hidden in deep inner affliction. This is the grace of the deeper communion and unravelling into our inner unknowing. The true dark night is the communication of divine in secret, hidden from the self, purging us of all that hinders it expression. Its revelation must come through total self abandonment as the deeper heart calls us into the darkness but only to deny us.

In the words of St John of the Cross...

"For this night is gradually drawing the spirit away from its ordinary and common experience of things and bringing it nearer the Divine sense, which is a stranger and an alien to all human ways. It seems now to the soul that it is going forth from its very self, with much affliction. At other times it wonders if it is under a charm or spell, and it goes about marvelling at the things it sees and hears, which seem to it very strange and rare, though they are the same that it was accustomed to experience aforetime. The reason of this is that the soul is now becoming alien and remote from common sense and knowledge of things, in order that, being annihilated in this respect, it may be informed with the Divine."    

As we traverse the way the experienced seeker will know many such nights. During these periods of dissolution one is asked to let go of all meditative work, all elusive seeking and that which might dupe the personality to focus upon itself during these times. Frustration, confusion and restlessness will only come as the result. Through the night we must let go of all that we think we are and these reflexes of self must be seen for what they are.

As our journey goes on, we understand that each night must get deeper and darker. The self often cries in pain of recognition as it enters the darkness knowing its trials, loneliness and frustration. Each entrance means a denial and a death. Yet in our emergence we begin to see with an ever deepening clarity that which we were blinded by and that we were kept from. We realize that all that we once were must be dissolved and discarded. Through our suffering, a deeper clarity and a deeper empathy is awoken from within and we see the arrogance of our ways and the futility of all that we have done.

Through each purgation we have visions and moments of unspeakable clarity as veils become transparent. The revelation of divine reality dissolves all hindrances to the deeper equanimity. The unknown stands revealed and expands into true realization. The phenomena and false light of duality is seen as the illusive play that it is and all that has held us enamoured of this world is obscured...is blotted out by this dark love of God.

Seekers of Love, let it be known the path is often hard and has its perils. It should not be considered lightly. Upon the true journey home we have been warned by our elders of two dark stages, two great nights among many lesser ones. They are the deepest purgation of soul and the darkest and most formidable night brings about a true union with the divine.

Here upon the path of salvation, into the darkest of nights, is where the world is dissolved forever and our divine reorientation begins.

The way in which they are to conduct themselves in this night of  sense is to devote themselves not at all to reasoning and meditation,  since this is not the time for it, but to allow the soul to remain in peace and quietness, although it may seem clear to them that they are doing nothing and are wasting their time, and although it may appear to them that it is because of their weakness that they have no desire in that state to think of anything. The truth is that they will be doing quite sufficient if they have patience and persevere in prayer without  making any effort....

The Dark Night of the Soul St John of the Cross
 

Once a person discontinues deifying fear and limitation, he or she will become aquainted with their huemanity and Divine Beingness. What is already encoded in our DNA will lay dormant until activated. Your cellular memory must be given new memory. Fear suppresses this intrinsic process. Fear is distraction that disempowers the very essence of one's omnipotence.

MAGNUM OPUS

Sadiki Bakari