Recurring Complexes and Far Reaches

Beyond the monolithic, all-solid clump that makes up the average personality is an astonishing array of energy and force-of-will intricately and intimately involved with the private and public spaces of universes.

The connections between these viewpoints and interactions make a map of ebbs, nuances, flows, channels, interconnections, efforts and energies. The map reflects territories never exposed to normal human exchange. It includes layers of possible reality, actual reality, views as self, views from others’ viewpoints, layers and arrays of decayed, sub-aware life energy embedded in various dramatizations, complete packages of organization, demand, noise, reflections and copies of reflections of both own and others, etc., etc., etc.

Addressing the current life, current identity, current responsibility of a human being is a shallow step but one that cannot be left out. It pays, though, to be aware that that surface we think of as Bubba Joe is being informed at conscious and ignored levels from here to Hades and back, a chorale of impressive weight in the background.
In a similar way, a PR man will present only the tip of what really goes on in a company and will pitch a product without talking about the internal politics, the feelings of the boss’ wife, the lawsuit filed by a competitor or the tragedy of James getting canned by a curmudgeonly boss in the marketing division. Similarly, we see, in an average human’s presentation, a layer of communication and consideration which is filtered and modulated in order to create some small positive effect on those around him. This does not mean that the real weight of his choices will align with what he seems to be.

There is a positive side to this story as well. When designing by intentional postulate how one will exist in the world, one can design and build a far more effective universe for oneself if he takes the farther reaches as much into account as the local present-time-only tip of the iceberg part of his persona. In other words, if you are going to create yourself, do it deep and far, and the presentation to the world will take care of itself. Trying to re-paint the persona on the surface, with nice affirmations, thinking right thoughts, or praying to anyone other than yourself, is likely to be a skin-deep sort of job at best, with little enduring gain in it for anyone.

Dead Energies

The current communications across the different facets of life including one’s internal dialog, chats with Gramps, love-letters from a sales trip, worries about the new Alsatian or a dripping faucet, etc., are all ebbing and flowing in our ordinary days, some more vivaciously than others, but all in a relatively alive sort of way. The deeper chasms of unknowing on which some of this superstructure is built contains energies which are not shifting and flowing but are moribund, rigid, solid, cold, black, unfeeling and hard to feel, unknowing and hard to know. Within these rigid clumps, ridges, trails of dead energy and the like one can find some very bizarre thoughts, if one bothers to pour enough energy into them to wake them from their moribund condition. While they are essentially re-creatable or reactivatable, their current condition is somewhat rock-like or tar-like, psychically speaking. But it will behoove the individual encountering these phenomena to remember that their tensions, their occluded emotions, and their bizarre irrationalities do in fact impinge on the individual and inform his more current sense of choice, information, affinity and action. Dead though these energies may appear they can still create considerable force of thought, feeling, sensation or pain on the totality known as a human being.

The technology for addressing these phenomena is under development and will be effective in releasing them.

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The Photon Riders

The use and the rôle of light in the exercise of awareness in the physical universe are of great interest. Historically, a great deal of strange practice has built up around “seeking the light”, “bathing in light”, or mythologizing certain phenomena that are called “light”. We use the word enlightening to describe new increases of awareness and say that someone very aware is enlightened, and so on. In some research evidence has been found that the use of light as a sort of imprisoning or hypnotizing factor (which fixates the attention and bonds consciousness to the electromagnetic spectrum range of frequency) has been recorded.

The pulse transfer rate of light itself appears to be a lock on the understanding of energy; it seems mystifying that radio pulses and gamma rays and different colors of light, all being different frequencies, should transfer from one space to another at something around 3x10^8 meters per second. It violates one’s sense that space is contiguous (which is a very deeply-held belief which keeps the universe from coming unglued).

Aside from the fact that light is a wonderful thing to fool around with and make shadow plays out of (oh ye gods, take note) the constant hammering of visual frequencies does take a toll. The price is habituation. We gradually identify light as the medium of all seeing; and in so doing we subscribe to our own captivation with this corner of Creation, and make homebodies of ourselves. Like old and tired folks unsure of their bladder control, we rock in the one corner we know is safe - the light-informed section, where the photon frequencies rule.

Another peculiarity of this habit is that light in the material universe, as a common energy, acts like awareness itself. It is a cliché to discuss “bright” ideas, and “the light going on” and “being in the dark about...” as though the energy and perception were closely allied things. There is a parallelism between light (as an energy) and enlightenment (awareness per se) in our language and our thinking that has some really odd roots. Either the material universe was designed as a poor copy of the blazing play of awareness in the spaces of Will; or we are captives of brain-waves from the start and the whole thing of seeking greater awareness is a silly game.

Which do you think?

Here is an experiment. Assume a sphere of Being greater than your body by expanding your awareness outward to a large area and imagining yourself occupying the entire space of that sphere. Then imagine yourself flooding light into the body from all directions simultaneously. Then imagine yourself receiving floods of light from the body, outward in all directions toward You. Try the ebb and flow and focus on whichever feels more comfortable (flowing in toward the body or receiving flow from it). When you are comfortable with that sphere, try making light floods in other dimensions beyond the sphere around the body, either in the material universe as you perceive it, or in any other space which shows up for consideration.

Another experiment: close your eyes and imagine streams of visual perception flowing from them to the world around you, as though you were emanating your own visual power, rather than simply receiving it from the physical universe.

These experiments and others like them produce changes in perception, oddly enough. They may be great or small, but there are changes in perception. So why do you think this is? What’s the relationship?

Ride the photons of the universe for a moment. Then find some other frequency to become addicted to. Find one you prefer. Ride it into the sunrise, laughing at the inadequacies of light itself. I offer you this with love from a being to a being. Enjoy.

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Laws of Spiritual Engineering

The business and goal of spiritual engineering is to reverse spiritual decline in individuals and groups and restore spiritual ability. Spiritual abilities include those abilities which cannot be emulated mechanically - they include such abilities as compassion, understanding, the power of will, the sense of justice, aesthetics, and creative power.

These abilities in an individual become suppressed through confusion, spiritual abuse, emotional abuse and physical abuse. These abuses can occur on many vectors, the most fundamental of them being self-to-self. The vectors of communication and action among beings such as others to self and self to others are similarly intimately intertwined with the stages of reduction in ability.

Spiritual engineering, then, is the body of knowledge which brings about improved dynamics of spiritual ability. It should be acknowledged from the outset that calling it “engineering”, which derives from the word “engine”, meaning a device of mechanical power. The implication is that some kind of collapse between mechanics and ability, machinery and spirituality, is occurring.

But engineering derives from an older and nobler concept. In Middle English the word engin originally meant skill, the talent which brought early machines into existence. And earlier still, in old French, the word meant innate ability. There is some etymological research indicating that the earlier root is found in an Indo-European form of gen-yo, which attaches to concepts of procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, and innate quality. So spiritual engineering has an appropriate claim to integrity by reference to its most fundamental origins. It is the subject of bringing out the strengths and restoring the sovereignty of the individual spirit.

Spiritual engineering is a subject that entails a great deal of understanding of the fundamental factors and basic mechanisms by which the individual spirit engineers himself into the more limited and mechanistic forms popular as identities today. The reason these fundamentals are vital is because there is an endless array of apparent form to people, and an infinite amount of content which varies from individual to individual. But the constants - the factors which can be used in engineering - are in most cases not obvious. If you did not have a concept of a law of gravity, for a simple example, you might think that every object that fell was behaving on the whim of the gods or out of some sort of individual choice. The ability to abstract from a wide array of apparent phenomena - things all over keep falling - and from them derive a workable conceptual framework that can be used in engineering - gravity is a field force which accelerates mass at approximately 10 meters per second squared - is a hard-won trick in Western history. It is easily misunderstood, resulting in rituals of science which meet public standards and are anemic as achievements.

The point, though, is that there are fundamentals on the issue of the human spirit, things which can be said to apply to all cases found as general laws. Some of them are known, and some of them are yet to be discovered. In this respect, spiritual engineering parallels any other kind of engineering, building from the knowledge we have and discovering the knowledge we do not yet have. Just as building engineers do not know, yet, how to put an anti-mass toque on a building to make it earthquake proof, but are using what they know about springs, levers, and other factors to make them more so, so with spiritual engineers and the human beings with whom they work. Note the preposition with, not “on”.

Spiritual engineering is the art of facilitating the liberation of the individual human spirit, bringing it from states of not-knowing, not-feeling, not-aware, and not-able, to states of awareness, knowingness, ability and feeling. It is primarily and predominantly an educational activity involving the examination of data, assumptions, individual ability to deal with data, and the understanding of how data is created. In addressing these issues it also has consequences in other fields, such as psychosomatic vulnerability and resistance, group sanity, the dynamics of society at large, and so on. This is a natural consequence of addressing the spiritual zone which other things essentially derive from.

But it is absolutely, in its origins and in its applications, a spiritual and educational activity.

It is of extreme importance to understand that it is not and should not be thought of in relation to any prior school of psychology, psychiatry, religion, medicine, or spiritism. It has nothing to do with Blavatsky, Freud, the American Psychological Association, Rogers, Piaget, Thor, wicca, God or the angels. It has to do with human men and women of good will seeking to learn, understand, discover and restore their own spiritual nature. If in the course of doing so they encounter some of the phenomena that have been previously contacted (and possibly mangled) by some earlier subject or research, that is natural enough in the nature of understanding more about human life and complexity.