VII. TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION

[ - ] shows commentary by Scott Mandelker

Glossary

D = density / dimension

E = energy

R = ray / chakra / energy center

Seeking the Heart of Self

QUESTIONER: What is the best way to seek the heart of self?

RA: The basic material for your understanding is the self: the mind / body / spirit complex. The information we gave you on healing may also be seen as ways to understand the self. The understanding, experiencing, accepting, and merging of self with self, with other-self, and finally with the Creator, is the path to the heart of self. In each infinitesimal part of your Self resides the One in all of Its power.

Therefore, we can only encourage these lines of contemplation or prayer as a way to subjectively use or combine various understandings, all of which may enhance your spiritual seeking process. Without such a method of reversing the analytical process, you could not integrate into unity all the many understandings that are normally gained in such spiritual seeking. {v. I}

Accelerating Spiritual Growth

QUESTIONER: How can we accelerate our growth in the 3rd density physical world?

RA: One of the primary aspects of the Law of One is the Law of Free Will. According to this Law, each entity is free to accept, reject, or ignore all the souls around it or even ignore the Creation itself. Nevertheless, there are many souls on Earth who are engaged every day in some of the ways of love.

However, if this same entity, from the depths of their soul and seeking love/light, were to accept responsibility for [spiritual learning] each moment of their lives, that person could empower its progress according to the Law of Squares [with a tremendous multiplying effect]. {v. I}

QUESTIONER: What are some practices we can use to accelerate our spiritual growth?

RA: Exercise One: This is the most nearly centered and useable within 3D: The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this density. This exercise is to consciously see that love in awareness and understanding. If you continue to choose love, moment by moment, you can empower each moment of spiritual seeking. Of course, there will be some loss of power due to imperfect seeking [ex. insincerity]. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.

Exercise Two: The universe is one being. When you view another soul, see the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.

Exercise Three: Gaze within a mirror. See the Creator.

Exercise Four: Gaze at the creation which lies about you. See the Creator.

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is an appreciation of meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data [received from these four exercises] will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body, and touching the spirit. {v. I}

The Use of Dreaming

QUESTIONER: You have stated that dreaming, if made available to the conscious mind, will aid greatly in polarization. Could you define dreaming and tell us how it aids in polarization?

RA: Dreaming is an activity of communication through the veil of the unconscious mind and the conscious mind. The nature of this activity is wholly dependent upon the situation regarding the energy center blockages, activations, and crystallizations of any given entity, at any given time.

(1) In an entity who is blocked at two of the three lower E centers, dreaming is of value in the polarization process, in that there will be a repetition of those portions of recent catalyst as well as deeper held blockages -- thereby giving the waking mind clues as to the nature of these blockages and hints as to possible changes in perception which may lead to unblocking [psychological aid].

(2) This type of dreaming or communication through the veiled portions of the mind occurs also with those souls who are functioning with far less blockage, and who usually enjoy green-ray or higher-ray activation, during those times at which that soul is experiencing catalyst that has the effect of momentarily reblocking, baffling or otherwise distorting their normal flow of energy influx.

Therefore, in all cases it is useful to ponder the content and emotive resonance of dreams.

(3) For those whose green-ray E centers have been activated, as well as for those whose green-ray E centers are being offered an unusual unblockage due to extreme catalyst -- such as the physical death of the self or one which is beloved, occurring in the near future -- dreaming takes on another activity. This may loosely be termed precognition or "a knowing which is prior to that which shall occur" in physical 3D manifestation.

This [precognitive] property of the mind depends upon its placement, to a great extent, in the non-physical dimensions where the ideas of the "present, future and past" have no meaning. If the entity can make proper use of the pre-cognitive experience, this will enable an entity to enter more fully into the all-compassionate love of each and every circumstance -- including all of those circumstances against which an entity may have a strong feelings of unhappiness.

(4) As an entity consciously chooses the path of the adept and, with each E center balanced to a minimal degree, begins to open the indigo-ray E center, dreaming becomes the most efficient tool for polarization. This is because of the fact, that if it is known by the adept that work may be done in consciousness while the conscious mind rests, the adept may then call upon those which guide it, those presences which surround it, and, most of all, the magical personality (or Higher Self) as it moves into the sleeping mode of consciousness.

With these affirmations attended to [invoking the assistance of inner plane teachers and guides], the activity of dreaming reaches its greatest potential for learning, which is most helpful to increase the growth of the adept towards its chosen polarity.

There are other possibilities of the dreaming not so closely aligned with the increase in polarity, which we will not cover at this particular time. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: Is the dream designed or programmed by Higher Self?

RA: In all cases, the mind/body/spirit complex itself [the soul] makes what use it can of the faculty of dreaming. You, yourself [not Higher Self], are responsible for this activity. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: So the subconscious is responsible for the design or script of the dream?

RA: This is correct. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: Is the memory that we have upon waking from the dream usually accurate?

RA: You must realize that we are over-generalizing in order to answer your queries, as there are several sorts of dreams. However, in general, only a trained and disciplined observer will have a reasonably good recall of their dreaming. This faculty may also be learned or developed, by using the discipline of trying to record immediately upon awakening, each and every detail which you can recall. This training sharpens 's ability to recall the dream. The most common perception of most souls to their dreams is muddied, muddled, and quickly lost. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: So you are saying that in remembering dreams, one can find specific clues to current E center blockages and may, thereby, reduce or eliminate those blockages. Is this correct?

RA: This is so. {v. IV}

Additional Uses of Dreaming  

QUESTIONER: Are there other functions of dreaming, of value in the evolutionary process?

RA: Although there are many which are of some value, we would choose two to note, since these two, though not of value in polarization, may be of value in a more generalized sense.  

(1) The activity of dreaming is an activity in which there is made a finely wrought and excellently fashioned bridge from conscious to unconscious. In this state, the various distortions which have occurred in the E web of the body complex, due to the misprision with which E influxes have been received, are healed. With the proper amount of dreaming comes the healing of these distortions. Continued lack of this possibility can cause seriously distortion in the mind/body/spirit system.  

(2) The other function of dreaming which is of aid, is that type of dream which is visionary and which prophets and mystics have experienced from days of old. Their visions come through the roots of mind and speak to a hungry world. Thus, this type of dream is of service without being of a personally polarizing nature. However, in that mystic or prophet who desires to serve, such service will increase the entity's polarity. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: Is the REM state the portion of sleep in which there is dreaming?  

RA: This is correct. {v. IV}

QUESTIONER: This seems to occur in small units during the night with gaps in between. Why?  

RA: The portions of the dreaming process which are helpful for polarization, and also for the vision of the mystic, take place in time/space [the non-physical dimensions] and, consequently, use the bridge from metaphysical to physical for what seems to be a brief period of your time. However, the equivalent amount of experience in time/space is far greater.  

The bridge remains, however, and traduces each distortion of mind, body, and spirit and works upon the various distortions of E influxes so that healing may take place. This healing process does not occur with the incidence of rapid eye movement, but rather, occurs largely in the space/time [physical, embodied] portion of the mind/body/spirit, and uses the bridge to time/space for the process of healing to be enabled. {v. IV}

From Desire to Enlightenment

QUESTIONER: Does a person need to destroy the self and ignore the material world in order to reach enlightenment? What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities to aid them in growing more into the Law of One?  

RA: The proper role of the entity in 3rd density is to experience all things desired, and then to analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.  

Spiritual orientation then develops due to the analysis of one's desires. These desires eventually become more and more in harmony with making conscious use of love/light, as the soul furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to extremely inappropriate to encourage a person to try to overcome any desires. The only exception is for those desires that infringe on the free will of others [harming others], in which case we suggest that you use your imagination rather than try to carry them out in the physical plane.  

The reason that it is unwise to try to overcome your desires, is because the act of overcoming is an unbalanced action, creating difficulties in E balancing over a period of time. Trying to overcome desires actually creates the conditions of mind that lead to further holding on to that which you think you are overcoming [but which is actually only buried in the unconscious].  

All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with others, you will be able moving away from distortions of one kind to less distorted conditions of mind/body/spirit which are more in harmony with the Law of One.  

It is a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire [but it does not work beyond one lifetime]. Instead, the desire needs to be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and others. {v. I}

Working with the Unmanifest Self  

QUESTIONER: What are the body-polarities that are related to the balancing of the E centers of the various bodies of the unmanifested entity?  

RA: Each unmanifested self is unique. It's basic polarities have to do with the balanced vibratory rates and relationships between the first three E centers, and to a lesser extent, each of the other E centers. {v. III}

QUESTIONER: Please define the unmanifested being.  

RA: The unmanifested being is that being which exists and does its work without reference to or aid from others. Going deeper into this concept, you can see the inevitable connection between the unmanifested self and the metaphysical or time/space [non-physical] analog of the space/time [physical] self. Meditation, contemplation, and the internal balancing of thoughts and reactions are those activities of the unmanifested self more closely aligned with the metaphysical self. {v. III}

Balancing Wisdom and Compassion

QUESTIONER: "As we develop compassion, is it more appropriate to balance this compassion with wisdom, or to allow the compassion to develop as much as possible without being balanced"?  

RA: This query borders upon that type of question to which answers are unavailable, due to the free-will prohibitions upon information from teachers [thus infringing on the Law of Free Will].  

To the student of the balancing process we may suggest that the most stringent honesty be applied. As compassion is perceived it is suggested that, in balancing, this perception be analyzed. It may take many, many essays into compassion before true universal love [R4] is the product of the attempted opening and crystallization of this all-important springboard E center.  

Thus the student may discover many other components to what may seem to be all-embracing love. Each of these components may be balanced and accepted as part of the self and as transitional material, as the entity's seat of learning moves ever more clearly into the green ray.  

When it is perceived that universal love has been achieved, the next balancing may or may not be wisdom. If (1) the adept is balancing manifestations, it is indeed appropriate to balance universal love and wisdom. If (2) the balancing is of mind or spirit, there are many subtleties to which the adept may give careful consideration. Love and wisdom, like love and light, are not black and white, shall we say, but faces of the same coin. Therefore, it is not, in all cases, that balancing consists of a movement from compassion to wisdom.  

We may suggest at all times the constant remembrance of the density from which each adept desires to move. This density [3D] learns the lessons of love. In the case of Wanderers, there are half-forgotten overlays of other lessons and other densities. You can reflect on this further. {v. IV}

Time, Space, Enlightenment

QUESTIONER: Could you please explain the concept of space/time and time/space, how we can transcend this concept, and at what density level these concepts are no longer important?

RA: The space/time [s/t] and time/space [t/s] concepts describe as mathematically as possible the relationships of your 3D illusion, that which is seen [s/t] to that which is unseen [t/s]. These descriptive terms are clumsy, however, they are adequate for our description here. 

In the experiences of the mystical search for unity, these need never be considered, for they are only part of an illusory system. The seeker seeks the One. The One is to be sought, as we have said, by the balanced and self-accepting self aware, both of its apparent distortions and its total perfection. Resting in this balanced awareness, the entity then opens its self to the universe which it is. The light E of all things may then be attracted by this intense seeking, and wherever the inner seeking meets the attracted cosmic prana [up the chakras], realization of the One takes place.  

The purpose of clearing each E center is to allow that meeting place to occur at the indigo ray vibration, thus making contact with intelligent infinity and dissolving all illusions. Service-to-others is automatic at the released E generated by this state of consciousness [non-dual enlightenment].  

The space/time and time/space distinctions, as you understand them, do not hold sway except in 3rd density. However, 4th, 5th, and to some extent, 6th density also work within some system of polarized space/time and time/space [incarnate form, vs. disincarnate subtle]. {v. III}

Spiritual Energy Activation

QUESTIONER: During meditation, we often feel energy in different places on the head. What does this mean, and why is it happening?  

RA: Various in-streamings of E are felt and received by the different energy centers which need, and are prepared for, greater activation. Thus, those who feel the stimulation at violet-ray level [R7, crown chakra] are getting just that. Those feeling it within the forehead between the brows are experiencing indigo ray [R6] and so forth. If you experience tingling and visual images, it means that there is some blockage in the E center being activated -- thus the electrical [etheric] body spreads this E out and its effect is diffused.  

People who do not truly request this E may yet feel it, if they are not well-trained in psychic defense. Those who don't want to experience these sensations, E activations and changes upon even the subconscious level [from deep non-seeking] will not experience anything due to their abilities at defense and armoring against change. [In accordance with the Law of Free Will] {v. II}

QUESTIONER: Is it normal to get two simultaneous stimulations at once?  

RA: For the adept, it is most normal to experience indigo [R6] stimulation activating that great gateway [spirit shuttle] into healing, magical work, prayerful attention, and the radiance of being; and the stimulation of the violet ray [R7] which is the spiritual giving and taking from and to Creator, from Creator to Creator. This is a desirable configuration. {v. II}

QUESTIONER: What is happening if we feel a stimulation in meditation at the indigo center?  

RA: One who feels this activation is experiencing in-streamings at that E center [R6] to be used either for (1) the unblocking of this center, for (2) its tuning to match the harmonics of its other energy centers, or (3) to activate the gateway to intelligent infinity. We cannot be specific, for each of these workings may be occurring in the person who feels such physical sensations. {v. III}

Diet and Spiritual Growth

QUESTIONER: In terms of diet, what foods should be included, and what should be eliminated for the greatest care of one's own body?

RA: First of all, we must underline and emphasize that this information [on changing one's diet] is not to be understood literally but as a link or psychological nudge for the body, mind and spirit. The true issue of importance [in self-healing] is the increased care and respect for oneself.

Vegetables, fruits, grains, and to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism, the animal products are those substances that show respect for the self. In addition, souls who need to purge themselves of a "poisonous" thought-form or set of emotions, would do well to follow a program of careful fasting until the destructive thought-form has been purged -- which occurs along with the elimination of excess material from the physical vehicle. Again, you can see that the value of this [type of dietary change] is not simply for the body, but rather, is how it can be used as a link for the mind and spirit. In this way, self reveals self to self. {v. II}