Lesson 35 – Shifting Your Center Of Seeing
“Intuition is the whisper of the soul.”
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
Your Center Of “Seeing”
Due to the turn’s emergence, you need to shift your center of “seeing” from your mind to your heart.
Today, almost everything we know about life has become mentalized and categorized within a robust knowledge base created chiefly through logic and reason. This mental approach to life is sterile and cannot nurture us using the fundamental but invisible forces of qualities like love, compassion, and concern for all of life surrounding us.
It is time to move away from leading life primarily from the level of our mind. The mind can order and forecast our future based on observable activity. Still, the mind can only render a fragmented view of life through its ignorance of the interconnectedness and source of phenomena and the oneness of the multiple dimensions of life and their method of interrelation. A proper understanding can only come to a person who lives in the consciousness of unity and has reached this level through specific methods designed for this purpose.
Suppose there are an infinite number of possible future directions that humanity could traverse. Wouldn’t it be best to pick the one that is the most authentic and best aligned with the underlying Purpose that propels evolution itself? Given the limited state of our almost wholly mentally oriented consciousness, is there a way for us to locate and uncover this best and most authentic path for our future?
When we realize that all matter and all form is a condensation of the energy of Time, knowledge of the operation of the essence of time within the manifested world becomes a prime component for the success of such an undertaking.
Our ancient civilizations had access to this authentic knowledge, understood the importance of the hidden key of time, and incorporated it into their monuments. These monuments remain a mystery to modern man because the deeper meaning that is hidden can be revealed only when the structure is properly placed within the movement of time.
Modern man no longer possesses a language or methodology to “see” and appreciate the deeper movement of time. He has lost his ability to uncover necessary knowledge through the underlying universal laws, which initially might seem esoteric but ultimately reveal what we need to know to move forward.
These architectural monuments of the olden days are much like cosmic clocks that can be read if their geometry was related to the movement of the whole. The study of sacred geometry (when placed within the light of the understanding of its inherent time element) can reveal the truth of that form and anything related to it using the law of correspondence, which tells us that our current reality is a mirror of what is going on inside us. When we see this
clearly, we will also find that time IS the force within which God makes his appearance in the world. By understanding the movement of life through time, we can see God’s footprints in our physically manifested reality.
This hidden and revealing knowledge has been well represented within our old cosmologies of the universe, which have been incorporated in the pyramids, temples, and other structures. These structures contain representations of universal principles relative to our life on Earth through the law of correspondence.
Such structures can reveal all they contain through the design and knowledge endowed by their creators and can possess actual power—the power to influence, shape, and mold consciousness in the realm of existence each structure embodies. For a person who has reached the proper level of consciousness of unity, a structure can “speak” to him through the law of correspondence and pass on the knowledge possessed by generations who no longer live on Earth.
When communication becomes possible, it occurs through the inherent energy of Time because all form is the condensation of Time’s energy, which, when analyzed, reveals the history of that of which it is a product. Time is the power behind the movement of consciousness. It allows for the creation of the stuff of our manifested world, which is its motor. Time is consciousness in motion or what may more accurately be described as sequence. Consciousness cannot exist without Time. Time is only knowable in the realm of Consciousness.
Religious leaders have erroneously tried to convince us that spiritual experience transports us to a level of existence beyond Time and Space, both through the concept of meditation and by telling us that heaven only exists after the death of our physical body. They have taught us that if we quiet our minds, we can, with practice, reach a position of Bliss or a position that reflects a more ideal approach to life than our everyday lives.
However, if we should reach that place, it is not because we have arrived somewhere significant. Still, somewhat, because we have successfully negated the voice of our mind as an instrument, we move into a position of negation—there is no time, and there is no space—not this nor that.
For a while, this position may be helpful in catching our balance and allowing our brain waves to become balanced through their disengagement, but the real outcome is that consciousness is forced into a negation of positive and dynamic existence. We become temporarily trapped in a void until a release occurs that allows movement once again, and our consciousness recovers cognition of itself.
Such a state of being is like a plunge into a black hole. Our entire purpose and reason for existence is to use our embodied carbon-based organic containers to “see” and to become conscious. We have been working on developing our consciousness for a very long time. We are getting to a point where we are acquiring a greater capacity to hold a fuller vibratory experience without the risk of falling into this opposite position of non-being – emptiness – the void.
In reality, we are moving closer to creating heaven upon Earth while still conscious and physically alive, not having to negate our bodies and souls to escape somewhere else.
We are just beginning to be able to do this and move beyond our minds. Mind is a tool of the lower hemisphere of our being and can only be used within that range of activity (survival, pleasure, sex, and physical well-being). When attempts are made to bring the mind into the higher realms of existence, the result can easily be the negation of our lower being.
On the other hand, when the physical begins to participate consciously, the whole body and all levels of its existence are able to find a direct connection to the Source of all existence, and the mind is not needed as the bridge. When the physical is awakened, a power emerges that allows us to remain conscious as greater heights and corresponding depths emerge and become available through our own activity.
It is our task to bring these higher levels of existence down into the physical world and ground them as real and complementary energies along with the energies of our lower desires and needs. This is the next stage of human development. Our real task, however, is to eventually hold a fuller vibratory force so that we can divinize our material world and the entire Earth around us.
Heaven does not exist in a state beyond the death of our body, only accessible upon the end of our individual life. It is meant to exist here on Earth while we’re living. That is our destiny and one of our most important discoveries and adventures that will accompany the transition we are making from living life at the level of mind (it’s no wonder we call this the Information Age, a truly mental existence) to living life at the level of the heart, our very soul existence.
The Mental Emotional Balancing Program that I share (without charge) in Section 3 of this course is one of the few disciplines I know of that efficiently helps quiet the mind, but not by emptying it. Instead, we fill it with archetypal symbols and shapes (that contain meaningful primal foundational relationships) that, on their own, hold the essence of true power and can awaken latent positive energies within our own lives.
This is how we begin to quickly create a bridge to take us where the mind cannot go. This is how we transition from mind to heart and allow our inner voice to emerge within our daily surface lives and to help us gain the emotional strength needed to listen to and have total faith in the guidance of this inner voice. More about the Mental Emotional Balancing Program will be shared later in this material. For now, I would like you to consider the limitations involved with leading your life mainly from the level of mind and be willing to consider opening first your heart and then your voice of intuition and inner knowledge.
The physical vessel and the state of organic matter are the objects of our future evolution. The physical is the container of consciousness, the chalice that must hold both the descent of force from above and the ascent of power from the three-dimensional, physically manifested world we live in daily.
As Arthur Young shares in his cosmology, the Reflexive Universe, the universe is a Process put in motion by Purpose. This process involves the descent of Spirit into the depth of matter, one kingdom at a time, until it reaches the singular bifurcation point of the Turn and then begins a climb (after a revelationary awakening), an ascent out of matter and back toward Spirit, carrying with it the history, the memories, and the experience of its full exploration within Time.
Because matter is a crystallization within the time of Consciousness, and if Consciousness were to express itself at its’ highest and most authentic potential level, our material creations would truly become those of heaven upon Earth instead of the cheap, acidic, dead, throw-away forms of today’s consumer-oriented economy. This is the ultimate destiny of humanity, and at present, we are located at the crossroads of the critical components of this transitional Process:
We are currently at the very depth of the descent of Spirit into the matter. If this were described graphically, the following arc shape would describe this experience:
We see all around us evidence of the peak and height of the rational logical mind, which “sees life” filled with separate objects and activities whose current purpose is to satisfy the temporary delights of man’s lower nature.
At the same time, we begin to observe the destruction of life that is selfishly occurring because we’ve lost our position of Oneness with all things that surround us and only see our self as the center of our universe (motivated mostly by greed and sexual and sensual gratification – all lower levels of consciousness). This is the actual social condition of modern man as we begin the 21st century. It is also the position in time of a turning point, a literal awakening, where a new way of seeing is required to stop any further descending and to shift direction to begin our ascent.
We are at the singular bifurcation point in Time, The Turn, where we are individually being challenged to surrender the hold of our ego and its use of the mind as its primary instrument for “seeing life.” We are encouraged to make a grand surrender, one person at a time, and to move our perceptual center away from the mind and instead into the heart.
We have experienced firsthand what our self-centered greed and sensual gratification-oriented approach to life create for us, and the results are not good or sustainable. The shift that is required is one of moving away from approaching life from the left side of the brain (that of rational, logical thought) and into the realm of the right side of the brain (intuitive knowing and connectedness with all of creation).
It is our center that must shift, and for the moment, before anything else. When I use Arthur Young’s cosmology as a foundation for this work, I introduce the idea of moving out of the Age of Reason (the Information Age) and into the Age of Creative Genius (the Age of Intuition and Creativity), our next exciting phase of human development.
We are at the fourth kingdom or level of evolution today, and it is the laboratory of the third kingdom. The law of cause and effect affords the opportunity for the recognition of truth, for the enlightenment that is the goal of evolution—the new way of “seeing.”
Our old way of “seeing life,” which currently supports capitalism as its primary ideology, is a viewpoint that exists from the position of the individual personality, the ego. The ego sees everything as separate from all others and its own influence occurring at the center of the entire world. Right next to this old center lies a witness, another point of view that most people are fully asleep and inactive.
This is referred to as our soul, a center within space/time that forms our direct connection with the Spirit and is capable of permeating all of Creation. We have arrived at a point in the evolution of human consciousness where the ego must take a back seat to the inner promptings of our intuition, the realm of our inner voice waiting to guide us and help us form a new and better approach to life.
The universe is an expression of the soul of the Supreme Creator, our Source. The Manifest, in its infinitude of dimensions, and the Unmanifest (the Zero Plane Accretion Disk or the ZPAD), is to the Supreme what the soul center is to man. The soul is a spark of the Spirit in its plunge into the most profound depth of total being, the three-dimensional physically manifested universe (what I call the 3DPMU).
In the evolutionary process, humans inhabit one of seven kingdoms of existence whose ultimate goal is the evolution of the individual soul, the evolution of the ultimate being, and ultimately, a return to the position of the Supreme.
We must be careful, however, not to overemphasize the soul. Not only is it subordinate to the Spirit (the soul is the second and sixth level while the spirit is the first and seventh level – more about that when we get into the Arc of Creation), but in a sense, it does not yet exist consciously within most people. Man is not very far along in his evolution. He is only now crossing the halfway mark of his development and is moving into the transition period of The Turn (more about this later in this material). In his evolution, his soul connection is unconscious and involuntary.
It is not only not visible in the creation of his outer world, but he is awaiting what is called in Christianity the Virgin Birth—an actual awakening, a new way of seeing, and a movement from his old ego-governed mind-governed center to his intuitively guided heart center. This new position, this new center, must be sought out and discovered by each person before humanity collectively can move into a Golden Age.
There is a coming Golden Age, but its full manifestation is far off in our future, even though the moment of its birth and unfolding in the world is now occurring in our present time. We first must make it through The Turn (an extremely challenging transitional period) one person at a time.
It is here that our greatest surrender is made, and the prior descent of Spirit can then become an ascent. It is here at The Turn that our evolution quits being unconscious and subject to the play and randomness of nature. We are able to truly “see” and gain a glimpse of our ultimate destination and individual and collective future paths. It is here that we move toward what might be described as the Divine Light.
The Light of Recognition can guide us through the Turn of this new consciousness and the corresponding understanding it requires to be made known. When we make it through the Turn, our shift becomes instantaneous and can occur only in the present moment. The present is not a part of time because it is always the present.
Time is the shadow of the present, and it is derived from it. Consequently, the particular potency of The Turn primarily is recognition – recognition of a principle, realization of a truth, reconciliation of duality – satori! It is here where the connection is made, and an approach to life based upon duality can give way to a conception of Oneness. This is the goal, the privilege, and the next step in the evolution of man. The formative principle enables us to evolve so that our evolution ultimately leads to our potential divinity.
A new Gnostic race is emerging, and its successful birth during our present time depends entirely on man (not God) to make it through The Turn. How many times have we reached a similar bifurcation point in space/time and failed, and has evolution had to start all over? We will never know as the challenging aspects of such a Grand Surrender face us now at the beginning of the 21st century, and our ability to make the necessary surrender will ultimately decide the success or failure of our collectivity.
The very survival of the human race depends on our making it through this transitional period. The only question remaining (whose answer depends on how quickly and easily we surrender and go through the Turn requirements) is how many of us will survive? The odds are that when we reach the end of the 21st century, our 6.5 to 10 billion population will dwindle due to many adverse forces, and we will be left with only a billion or fewer people walking the face of the earth.
Through our old tools of destruction and dissolution, we have unleashed many global problems that will soon force us to shift or perish. The only problem with making such a shift will be figuring out what we need to do and how we should do it. As a society, we do not possess an authentic cosmology that has been reduced to a sustainable approach to life that can become a roadmap for our future. Without that, how would we be able to begin the journey and get there if we didn’t know where our ideal destination was?
It is time for the seeds of a new realization, a new way of “seeing.” This must manifest now if the larger collective experiences are to come forth in our far future. It is the time for the birth of the first cell of this new consciousness, and when it emerges, it will be the seed for a new creation. The new way of “seeing” will first be accomplished within consciousness, and through time, it will spread and encompass the entire planet, making it the home for a new divine life.
The unfortunate result of this process is that a much smaller group of people located in a particular geographic location on Earth will be the ones to survive and thrive. All others will perish or suffer the most grueling conditions of life. I’ll share that location after the Mother’s Temple lessons in this course.