IF GOD IS LOVE [AS MYSTICS TELL US], AND GOD IS INSIDE US, HOW MANY PEOPLE LOVE THEMSELVES?

 The reason I ask this question about loving oneself is that I can't help but notice how much anger, hostility, and even hatred people are exhibiting toward one another in the world today.  Do people not realize that hatred is generated "Within" oneself?  That is, to have hatred for another, one must have hatred "Within" oneself...which one then projects upon others almost as a "learned behavioral response"?  Or like we have been taught to do by parents and others.  I always thought that hate was due to fear of something.  Something unknown or unfamiliar to us, in other words.

A second question I am prompted to ask is how many people realize that the Soul is immortal?  That is, it does not die, along with one's physical body... at least this is what we are told by a great many people.   So, what happens to one's Soul...  if it does not die along with the physical body?  In the East, they say that the Soul is reincarnated into a new life form, based on a person's Karma?  Which brings up the question of what is Karma, or the Law of Karma?  How is it so many in the East seem to know about Karma, but in the West, we know almost nothing?

Finally, one last question is this:  I've been asking people since I was a little boy what the "Purpose of Life" is?  And, I have yet to receive a good answer to this question? And... based on my previous question... if one is born again based on one's previous lifetime, how come we don't remember this taking place, and what are we supposed to do in this new lifetime?

All these questions, it seems to me, are answered by the term "Reincarnation," if one accepts the premise of Reincarnation,  and the Law of Karma, which is, naturally based on the Law of Karma... which is largely ignored or discounted in the West, and yet, the rest of the world lives their lives based on the Law of Karma.

I hesitate to suggest a certain level of ignorance on the part of people in the West, but that seems to be present. In watching and listening to preachers, ministers, and others on television speak about religion, or the Bible, one cannot help but notice that the terms Karma, Reincarnation, and the Purpose of Life seem to be missing in what they are saying?  And, if a person only needs to act nice, and ask for forgiveness just before one dies, then that person will go to heaven and live there forever seems to be the gist of what people are saying on television.

Somehow, this message has always seemed a bit simplistic to me; that is, the idea that what one needs to say is:  "Jesus, forgive me my sins!", and one is fully forgiven by simply saying these words?  And then what, one goes to Heaven instead of Hell?  And one then stays there forever?  If this is the case, how is it that we don't know a great deal more about what Heaven is?  That is, as many people as have died in just my lifetime of 86 years, Heaven must be getting really crowded?  And the same goes for Hell as well.

I personally tend to believe in what people from the East are saying, and that the Law of Karma applies to every Soul on Earth.  And that the Law of Karma also controls who goes to heaven or to hell, and neither of these places are forever.  In other words, I do not believe that God went to the trouble of creating "Life," and then  would simply give Souls one choice for experiencing the entire Creation.   That is, a Soul that became a  criminal  then spends eternity in some lake of fire at the time of death.  With no chance for redemption?  Seems most unlikely to me, given that Mystics tell us continually that God is a God of Peace, Forgiveness, Tolerance, and Love.  One mistake equals eternity in Hell... sorry, don't buy it.

So, if you know someone who is filled with hate... have you noticed that he or she is a miserable person?  Hate is an emotion "Within" oneself.  It is not like a wrapper of a candy bar, and one gives that wrapper to someone... and in the wrapper you have put a substance called Hate.  If you hate, the emotion of hate is coming from you, and that bit of hate is from "Within" your own I-MIND [your own emotional content], that you are projecting it at some person, place or thing outside of yourself.  The origin of the Hate is from "Within" you, in other words.  This is no doubt a difficult reality to accept... but it is the only reality that applies.

Otherwise, you are investing some person with the ability to mysteriously place a body of Hateful emotion inside of you.  Sorry, that is not possible.  If you hate someone or some thing, that "Hateful emotion" is entirely "Within" you.  To be an honest person, a person really needs to "own" one's own emotions.

To blame one's own emotion on some other person... is to give that person an ability to mysteriously place that bit of Hate inside of you... and this is simply a denial of one's own emotions. It's a basic  bit of dishonesty.

Therefore, if you want God to forgive you, you must ask God for forgiveness.  And do not be a hypocrite about it.   Honestly ask for forgiveness, from your heart, and be willing to "pay" a "price" for that forgiveness.  The "price" is a bit of Karma, wherein you receive something of what you caused another to experience yourself. And that "price" is your "lesson" so that you resist doing the same thing again.  And this is not only "fair," it is also just. It is also "educational" and also serves the Purpose of Life.

That is what I have learned from "Within" myself over the last 86 years.

Peace, 1 Brother James

In my writing, what does the symbol "Within" mean?

  A number of years ago, I realized what the phrase "God is within Man" means, and when I  realized what this phrase means, it occurred to me that I needed a way to explain a very important element regarding the phrase "God is within Man".

Saying that God is within Man is like saying that Man has a Soul.  Yes, Man does have a Soul, however... if you cut Man open and search for the Soul that is said to exist within Man, you will not find a Soul.  How come?  Because the  Soul does exist in Man,  however the Soul consists of an Energy that is entirely separate from the physical body of Man. 

In other words, God does exist inside of Man, but the Energy of God is entirely Invisible to the brain and physical senses of Man!  So, although God exists "Within" Man [or more specifically,  God exists "simultaneously with" Man].  Look at the sketch, and it is an attempt to visually suggest what I am saying:

#1 is the physical body with a brain, and it is quite physical.  However, #4 is Pure Spiritual Energy (or what I refer to as Neutral Spiritual Energy, or NSgy) and NSgy is Invisible to everything except one's Soul, or an aspect of one's Soul, like Intuition. So, yes God is hidden "Within" Man, and is Invisible.

 And a strange aspect of this is that although elements of the Spiritual Realm can and do exist "Within" Man, these elements are not part of the Creation. Let's look at another sketch:  

 

The Creation exists "Within" Existence, however the whole of existence is much greater than Creation, which consists of the Causal Region, the Astral Region, and the Physical Universe... which includes the Earth.  But the Creation is but a small part of the Whole of Existence... which we  refer to as God.

Therefore, when I designate something as being "Within" Man, I am always referring to the fact that what is designated as "Within" Man does exists inside of Man, but if it is  designated by the symbol "Within"... this means that what I am referring to is in Man, but it is also part of the Pure Spiritual Realm.  This refers to elements like Truth, Consciousness, Reality, Spirituality, Soul, Spirit, Intuition, Conscious Awareness, and of course God.  Elements of Reality or Spirituality can exist wherever they want to exist... and wherever they exist, they are Invisible to the physical dimension of Man.

The Energy of God is entirely Invisible to the brain and physical senses of Man, and therefore... I needed a way to simply and readily indicate this absolute separation between that which is Spiritual [Reality], and that which is physical [Illusion].

"Within" refers to that which is Spiritual or Invisible to all of Man except the Soul. As one awakens one's Soul, one also awakens one's faculty of Intuition, which can see all dimensions of existence.

Peace, 1 Brother James

IF THE BODY DIES, BUT THE SOUL AND MIND REINCARNATE, BUT WE DON'T REMEMBER... HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE DONE, BEEN, OR HOW LONG WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS? OR...SHOULD WE WANT TO... HOW DO WE ESCAPE THIS PROCESS ?

 If this title does not catch your attention, then nothing I will write is likely to do so!

In the East, the Title I have just written refers to a phenomenon called "Awagawan," which means "coming and going"; and refers to the age-long cycles of births and deaths; transmigration and reincarnation that every Soul [regardless of the life-form a Soul may currently be inhabiting] continues to experience, lifetime after lifetime.

Another name for Awagawan  is "Chaurasi," which is defined as "Eighty-four," which refers to the "wheel of eight-four" [which refers to 8,400,000 different species into which the Soul may have to incarnate].  And this is common knowledge in most Eastern nations.  Well, about half the world is taught this as children as a part of the Reality of Life.  We in the West are not taught the whole Truth about the Esoteric nature of Spirituality due, I believe, to the influence of Christianity... which I believe substantially changed what the original scriptures of the Bible contained around the Fifth Century.   And this was done by several Catholic Popes, who were part of the church for fame, glory, and power... and not due to the Spiritual nature of their Souls.

The Reality of Life... is really quite different than what we in the West have been told, have been taught., or would guess... based on an intellectual interpretation of the Bible... which omits about three-quarters of the Reality of Life.

Who in the West would imagine, for instance,  that the Souls on the Earth today are the same Souls that first entered the Creation when it was first Created...  an estimate of which suggests a time  about 4.3 million years ago.  That's a very long time to be "visiting" the Creation, is it not?

Just in passing, so to speak... were you aware that a carrot has a Soul, just like your Soul... except less evolved?  Most people in the West are not aware of this fact of Life.

As regarding the topic of how one "escapes the Creation"...  That is a truly fascinating story, but not the story that Christians have been taught.  So, when the title of this blog suggests an explanation of how we can "escape" the Creation, I am speaking of material that is virtually unknown to most people in the West.

And when the Truth is Invisible to the brain, how does one think one's way to the Truth?

Requiring the loss of virtually all of oneself that the world holds as important, retaining only the most important element "Within" oneself, which is what one has   been seeking since entering the Creation.  Within Man lies Truth, which is also known as Reality... by Mystics.

The mystery rests in discovering that which is hidden in everything one can't imagine... since Man's Search is always in the wrong direction using a brain that is confined to the Physical Universe... the lowest level of Creation.

Peace, 1 Brother James  2, 2, 22  Isn't that interesting?  I should probably wait until 2:22 pm to publish... ha, ha, ha

The Difference Between Information and Knowledge...

Anyone can possess information as an abstract reference to something one's brain is exposed to.  And the person need not possess any actual experience of the thing one possesses information about, but can imagine one knows something because one's brain possesses the label, or name of something.  So, information is what one's brain can think about... even if one has never actually experienced what one thinks one knows.  So, information is quite often incorrect.

Knowledge, on the other hand, is what one KNOWS to be true because one has actually experienced what one Knows. 

Another difference between  information about something verses  Knowledge of something is that Knowledge of something means one actually experienced the reality of what one Knows to be true.   Whereas information about something need not be true at all.  

A bit of information that is True is when people say that Truth does not exist on the physical plane of existence.  This statement is True, although it cannot be proven to be True, simply because over a great expanse of time,  no one has demonstrated that Truth cannot be found on the Physical plane of existence.   But let us take a moment and define the term truth, using a [capital "T"] for "Truth"... as opposed to just true.

Truth is an absolute, which means that it never changes, and it is therefore always the same.  Death of the physical body is thought to be true.  However, is the physical body itself an example of Truth, since it both changes over time, and it dies?  So to say that the human body is an example of Truth of existence would not be True, because the human body dies... whereas Truth is permanent, and never changes. 

Therefore, what is True about a human being is that while that human being remains alive...  it is the Soul "Within" that human being  that gives that human being life.  Although this bit of Truth has not been proven... it is nonetheless True.

Do give some thought to this issue, because when one can accept the principle of the Soul being a bit of Truth, a number of other possibilities begin to manifest themselves to oneself.  And one begins to actively search for Truth by means other than one's brain and thinking. 

Peace, 1 Brother James 

The LAW OF KARMA...What is it, and why is it?

One thing you will not hear most people who believe themselves to be spiritual, or inclined toward Spirituality say... is that God is Invisible to Man.

And the reason they do not say this is... they do not actually realize what Spiritual Energy is?   Although Man is unable to find the Soul, Truth, Reality, or Spirituality, it seems beyond most people to imagine that in the Illusion of Creation, that which is Spiritual, or composed of Spiritual Energy, does not actually exist in the Creation!

Let us picture this phenomenon, or at least try to do so:
 

The Creation is... first of all, Created.  It exists, but it exists as an Illusion that we "think" is real, because our physical bodies relate to the phenomena of the physical Universe, and specifically the Earth plane.  And of course I am speaking of the physical brain and our physical senses.

The Causal Region is the Higher MIND.  The Astral Region is the Lower MIND. And together, these two form what we refer to as the MIND of Man.  Both are Invisible to the brain and one's physical senses.  Our eyes can "see" the Physical Universe, and we can also see everything that is part of the physical plane.  But, the Soul, and the MIND of Man are both non-physical, thus they are Invisible to the brain of Man.

So, three-quarters of the Whole of Man are Invisible to the physical structure of Man. Therefore, to experience the Invisible, one must use that which is itself Invisible, and the only part of Man that can do this is one's faculty of Intuition, which is a faculty of one's Soul, which is Pure Spiritual Energy, thus Invisible to one's physical senses.

The above is little known in the West.  It is widely known in the East, but the influence of Christianity in the West has all but eliminated study or research into the Invisible dimensions of Man.  Therefore, those who rely entirely on the Bible tend to ignore "Spiritual Truth"... which cannot be perceived by one's brain, or one's thinking.  Spiritual Truth is spoken of in the Bible as either Spirit, or the Word.  And both of these are accepted as "unknown"... although, Man tends to "think" that somehow the Spiritual unknown can be known... if one prays hard enough.

If, by "hard enough" one means slowly withdrawing of one's Attention out of the body and into what Mystics refer to as the "eye center" [a Mystical spot in the center of the forehead which is a "doorway" into one's faculty of Intuition, which is a means by which one can awaken to bits of Truth, stored "Within" one's Conscious Awareness [which is, I believe, what Philosophy refers to as the "Self"].  That is, one can by spending a long time [years] slowly withdrawing one's Attention [an aspect of one's Soul] from focusing outside of oneself, to begin to actually  focus one's Attention "Within" oneself and tap into one's Astral body, where one can begin to pick up bits of Truth, which are also bits of Reality that one's Soul has acquired by Completing bits of Karma.  And this requires some explanation, does it not?

But first... let us play catch-up with the concept of the Law of Karma, as a concept.

The Pure Spiritual Dimension [the square of the earlier sketch] is the Whole of Existence.  This Existence is Pure Spiritual Energy, or what we refer to as God.  And what we think of as Creation is that part of Existence we can see and think about, which is the Physical Universe.  A small speck of which is the Earth.

The entire Creation is based on a duality the ancient mystics referred to as the symbol of Yin and Yang:  The definition of Karma is:  As you sow, so shall you reap.

Let us view the dark area as the Yang part, and the While area as the Yin part.  Yang refers to Male energy in the sense of it being an action, or out-going energy.  And the Yin part would then be the female energy, which is the emotional experience of receiving one's own Yang energy being returned to oneself.

The problem is... one's MIND tends to cause one to "think" that all Karma being returned to oneself are accidents taking place, and we view ourselves as "victims".

So, when Christ advised Man to "turn the other cheek" in the Bible, Christ was speaking of the Law of Karma in action, where the person seeking to strike one on the cheek... is merely returning the blow you gave the person now seeking to return the exact same experience for your own education!  Truly is it stated:  As you sow, so shall you reap.  This is the Law of Karma, and it is an absolute Law devised by God, and it is the principal Law of Creation.  In physics it is expressed in this way:  For every action there is an  opposite and equal reaction.  And this is Newton's third law.

At least it is not applied to the Law of Karma very often.

The Creation is based on a duality of good and evil, so to speak.  As we have just discussed, it involves an absolute law that Newton discovered, and it applies to everything in the Creation.  But for some reason, intellectuals are resistant to making a connection between Newton and the Law of Karma.  Perhaps because the Law of Karma takes the thinking about part and renders it moot?

In other words, most people do not realize that although Mystics tell us that God exists in every person... I have only heard one Mystic say that the Creation is an Illusion that seems real.  I view the Energy of God as "NSgy" or "Neutral Spiritual Energy".   And what do you know that is "Neutral"?

Over a number of years, or several decades, I have searched for something that is Neutral?  The only thing I have found  that is Neutral Spiritual Energy, or the Energy of God, and we Souls,  is Pure Spiritual Energy, or NSgy.

The Law of Karma is the primary Law of Creation, and with it, all of us can rest assured that every Soul will receive precisely the same treatment that Soul has given to others.  And fortunately, we cannot remember our Karma.  That's the reason we are always surprised when we experience events in our lives... which we always "think" are either accidents, or it's the other person's fault.

We Souls began our exploration of the Creation as NSgy, which means we were lacking the experience we possess today.  We had to "learn" good and evil by experiencing good and evil.  And only one's own Soul can determine when it has had enough... of the "good" life?

Peace, 1 Brother James 

The LAW OF KARMA... or What is Wrong With American Education Today ???

 Many years ago, I was teaching Art at Lincoln High School, in San Diego, California. I noted that several students were very talented artists, and they were producing some marvelous pieces of Art  But I also noticed that none of these students were taking what they had produced home.

My curiosity get the  best of me, and I finally asked one of the students, when the opportunity arose that only he could hear my question:  Why do you not take your art work home?  And, because his answer could not be heard by other students, he answered me.  He said that "none of the students could take their art work home with them because it would be taken and destroyed by young people in their neighborhood".  He said that a large number of young people in his neighborhood believed that art was something what "White people did," and those young people hated anyone who did things that white people cared about".

I was shocked to hear this, and I was surprised, but mainly I was too much into my own life [involved in my own patterns of thinking, believing, and ways of relating to life] to be sufficiently conscious of the lives of my students.  What their lives were like, in other words.  What did I do with this information?  Well, I went to the district official responsible for Art Education in the district, and I suggested that I would like to hold a District-wide Art Exhibition at Lincoln High School.  Open  to all High Schools in the District, and that the work would be judged, and prizes would be presented for the best work in various categories.

Being a bright and helpful individual, he agreed that my idea was a good one, and he said the District would help in whatever way  possible.  So, I invited a number of my students to help in this endeavor, and they were very pleased to have an opportunity to participate.  So, we took on the challenge, and we spent the next two months putting together a System-wide Art Exhibition for all High Schools in the City of San Diego, California.

And we opened on a Thursday evening, and we were amazed at the number of people that attended.  We also arranged for District High School Art classes  to be bused to Lincoln High School to view the exhibition.  Art at Lincoln High School would never be the same again.  And I would never be quite as narrow, or closed to the needs of young people as I had been prior to this event.  That event took place in 1966, I believe.  Sadly, my own Fate Karma had a great many different avenues in store for me that I was meant to follow.  My point of this blog is to try and point out the fact that too few people do too little to help education actually expand how much it can do to help young people move beyond the barriers of prejudice, poverty, and harmful and habitual beliefs of human beings stuck in patterns of psychological stagnation.  Their fear is non-conscious, by the way!

There is a great deal wrong with education in America today.  The greatest flaw in education lies in the strangle-hold the "Malady of Intellectualism' has imposed upon education at all levels.  There is nothing worse that an adult who thinks that he knows more than he does... and is too fearful to admit otherwise!  As long as teaching is controlled by Union bosses who care ONLY for the money, education will reflect the illness of greed.  Wonder, the excitement of seeking Truth, and the discovery of the unknown... while abandoning oneself to developing one's faculty of Intuition has nothing in common with greed, or Intellectualism.

I have not forgotten about the Law of Karma... and the importance of Karma will be addressed in my next blog!

Peace, 1 Brother James

The Tendency of the I-MIND to develop the attributes or qualities of that which we focus upon.

 The I-MIND and its operations are invisible for the most part... or rather, we are unable to differentiate, isolate, or identify what is taking place "Within" the I-MIND that results in our acting out certain patterns of behavior... until we find ourselves acting out such behaviors... even when we do not wish to be doing so!

In other words, in certain instances, we experience ourselves engaging  in behaviors and various actions that we wish we could refrain from doing... although we seem somehow compelled to do what we  experience ourselves doing... even when such things would be damaging to us if they were to be discovered.  In fact, the person who is  caught "shop-lifting" or stealing small objects from a store, even after being punished for doing so... will repeat the same action over and over again.

The question is... how come?

Why do people risk doing such things?  Even after having been caught and punished for engaging in behaviors the person would prefer not doing?  Well, I'm going to explain a primary reason for this behavior,  although most readers may find my explanation hard to believe?

The operations, making decisions, and "reasons" for doing what the I-MIND does are all taking place on a level of existence no part of one's brain can perceive nor interact with.  And the reason for this "invisibility"  is because the brain is physical  and measurable by one's physical senses, whereas the energy of the I-MIND is comprised of a range of  vibrations ONLY discernible by the I-MIND itself, and a part of one's Soul I refer to as "Intuition".  Again, the I-MIND is invisible to Man... with one exception... which is Intuition, as far as I know.

This is how modern mental health views the I-MIND of Man today. Less than 1 % of those licensed in mental health today can tell you what the I-MIND is, where it is located, or how it works.  What kind of psychology is that?

The only part of Man  that can perceive or sense the involvement of the I-MIND in some thought or action  is one's faculty of "Intuition"... if one's faculty of Intuition is active "Within" oneself?  When I use the symbol "Within"... I do so to emphasize the fact that the origin of something is normally invisible to we human beings, and its operation is confined to a dimension of Man that is normally Invisible to the physical realm.

Most subtle motivations by one's I -MIND are only noticed when they are picked up by one's brain as thoughts.  I refer to such 'thoughts' as Delusional Thinking, or "D-Think," and this is the method by which one's I-MIND directs the brain and thinking.  But most people, most of the time, are unable to differentiate their regular thinking from thoughts fed to the Left-Hemisphere of the brain by the I-MIND.

And the only part of Man that can get a sense of the involvement of the I-MIND in one's thoughts is one's faculty of Intuition... which is a faculty of one's Soul that is pretty much limited to people who are "Enlightened".  And "Enlightened" is the term we use to identify people whose level of Consciousness [possession of bits of Knowledge] is more advanced than the normal person.  And  this involves the Law of Karma,  which is yet another layer of invisible operation taking place "Within" Man all the time.   And we will discuss the Law of Karma and its operations in the next blog.  THE LAW OF KARMA, AND HOW IT WORKS...

A portion of the above "SHOULD" be common instruction in graduate education of people in the field of Psychology who are studying for advanced degrees.  But "SHOULD be" is not what is taking place today.  In the early 1900s, the field of psychology allowed itself to be manipulated by an intellectual named B.F.  Skinner, who challenged the field of Psychology to either  "Prove" the existence of the MIND of Man... or allow he and his colleagues to be called 'behavioral psychologists' in recognition of [their watching the behavior of animals react to things they were doing to those animals], which they called "behavioral psychology".

Skinner was quite bright, however, he was quite ignorant of the I-MIND of Man. And his ignorance was [is still] wide spread across the Western world.

Well, no one can physically "prove" the existence of the I-MIND [this can only take place via one's own faculty of intuition... which has to be "awakened" as a consequence of a person undergoing a special form of Gestalt Psychotherapy... and the number of people capable of  facilitating this is rapidly declining!  In early 1900, the field of Psychology allowed behavioral scientist intellectuals to refer to themselves as "behavioral psychologists" and to be part of the field of "intellectual psychology".  They called this "behavioral psychology," which was an oxymoron.  

No part of what the Greeks gave the world as Psychology focused on the behavior of Man.  Psychology came from "Psyche," which is Greek, and is defined as "Self, Soul, and Mind".   All of which are Esoteric [non tangible].  Skinner, and his denial of the I-MIND of Man, was the beginning of the end of the Psychology given to the world by the ancient Greeks, and the Esoteric study of Psychology.

Since the early 1900s, the field of psychology has been aggressively removing all reference to the Esoteric [non-physical] elements of Man] to the point where today, no one in a thousand people in psychology even knows what the MIND is?

As a result of what happened in the early 1900s, mental illness and the practice of suicide have increased dramatically over the last century.  Today, a large number of mentally ill sexual perverts are being licensed each year to practice psychotherapy on people who seriously need the proper help for mental illness.  The movie called the Coo-Coo Nest has become a reality.   Sad, but I'm afraid it is also true.

Peace, 1 Brother James