Day: January 19, 2016

The Beaver Principle

Odd name for a principle you say? Indeed it is, but an appropriate one. Here it is in a nutshell.

There are many grades of lives in the universe and humanity is just one of them. The higher lives cannot do all things. The so-called lower lives can do many things the higher cannot or will not do and the higher can do things that is beyond the consciousness of the lower. All life is interdependent and in need of each other.

The beaver is an example of this principle. He knows how to build a beaver damn from scratch and we humans do not. A dog is said to smell hundreds of times better than humans. Some say they can even smell fear, worry or other emotions. Ants and bees work with more united group effort than we do. Birds use the sun, position of the stars, sounds, landmarks and a sense of the magnetic north to guide them in their migrations.

Plants can turn dirt and sunshine into beautiful flowers and food to sustain the higher kingdoms. Humans cannot do this.

In one living cell you have computers more advanced than anything humans have made, communications systems, waste disposal, and a whole city of activity going on. The cell can reproduce itself and no machine humans have made has been able to do this with such a complex creation.

The atoms composing the elements have an amazing balance of energies within them that allows all physical creation to exist.

Yes, we humans think we are pretty smart, but most of what we have learned has been by observing that which is called less than human, the animals, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. We would not exist on this planet without them.

That which must be garnered from this principle is this. Each life has its limitations and is not able to focus on all things, but must concentrate on that which lies behind the purpose of its existence. The focus of the lesser lives allow the greater lives freedom to explore in a higher realm

Consider your body. Do you have to tell your heart to beat, your lungs to breath or your cells to produce energy? No. All kinds of super intelligent processes are going on in your body that require no attention from you. This frees up your consciousness so you can focus on human endeavors.

This also applies to lives higher than us clear up to the One Great Life we call God. The masters, angels and gods may have abilities beyond our imagination, but that doesn’t mean they do not need us. We have a special place in the universe and have abilities peculiar to ourselves that are needed to make universe function as it should.

There is a lot of truth in the truism

A place for everything and everything in its place.

How can he (the Son of God) enter, to rest and to remember, without you? Except you be there, he is not complete. And it is his completion that he remembers there. … Think you when this has been achieved that you will rest without them? You could no more leave one of them outside than I could leave you, and forget part of myself.

From A Course in Miracles

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The Principle of Experience

Few have considered that experience is a principle or explained it as such, but indeed it is.

Why?

Because the understanding of what experience actually is leads to the unfolding of many other truths.

What exactly is the Principle of Experience?

Experience is consciousness interacting with creation on some level and registering meaning therefrom. Exact repetition is not usually counted as experience for true experience leads us to new situations and understandings.

This is an important principle because it explains so much. It even explains why God created the universe. The universe is merely a vehicle for the One Great Life, and all lives contained within, to gain experience.

And why does all life crave experience?

Because life is pretty dull without it. If a life is not having new experiences it will stagnate until something drives it forward into something new again.

We are in the image of God and here is what God says he does to have new experiences:

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Revelation 21:5

He said: “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the days of old. Behold, I will do a NEW thing; now it shall spring forth….” (Isa 43:18-19)

God continually makes “new covenants” and says: “I create NEW heavens and a NEW earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to mind.” (Isa 65:17) He creates the city of the New Jerusalem and commands us to sing a “new song.”

We shall live in a new heaven, a new earth and a new city, but this is just the beginning. Creation has provided for us a vehicle that allows us to have an unlimited number of new and unique experiences. The experiences we can have are only limited by our imagination and our imagination is unlimited. This is true because the imagination of God, in whose image we are, is also unlimited. If you want to see the imagination of God at work just take a look at pictures taken by the Hubble telescope for the macrocosm, or an electron microscope for the microcosm.

Experience is the reason for existence and all life needs it like it needs air, food and water. After we are deprived of it for any length of time we begin to desire it and move toward it. If nothing new is available we will manufacture it. This is what we do in our dreams. There we are asleep lying perfectly still, recharging our batteries and even in this situation we crave experience. We need it so much that our imagination takes over and creates silly dreams for us.

When we wake up we realize that the dream was not real as far as physical reality is concerned, but something was real.

And what is that?

Even in the dream state the dreamer has a real experience. If you dream you are fishing you have a real experience just as you have a real experience when fishing while awake. The two experiences may be different in degree, but they are both real experiences nevertheless.

Philosophers have argued for centuries as to whether this life is an illusion like a dream, but as far as experience goes it does not matter. Whether we are in illusion or not we are having an experience.

If you race a make believe car in a video game and then a real one on a track you are having an experience in both cases and it matters not if the ingredients are illusion or real. The experience is always real

Spinoza said that the one thing he knew that was real was thought and made the famous statement, “I think, therefore, I am.”

Thought, life and experience are all interrelated for without experience thought alone is meaningless. We could indeed reword his statement as follows:

“I experience, therefore, I am.”

The fascinating thing about experience is that each one is somewhat new and different. If there is not some newness or some change then it is not registered as an experience.

Every life in the universe is a part of the universal mind of God and each life is going through a unique experience, different from every other life. Our job is to have a new experience that the mind of God can savor and relish. Then when the trillions of lives experience all that can practically be experienced the universe will fold up and God will rest and dream which will lead to a new and more diverse universe where we will yet experience new and fascinating things beyond what we can now imagine.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

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The Gathering Principle

The gathering principle has had a powerful effect on all evolution in the universe since creation began, yet few give acknowledgement to this important principle.

In addition, many of the writings of the Bible deal with this principle, yet it is rarely taught in any church.

The Gathering principle is basically this:

All evolution in the universe is driven forward through gathering. Small units gather together and create greater units more complex with greater powers than themselves alone. This process will continue until the body of God is completed and all lives see themselves gathered into The One Great Life, of which they are a part, yet see the whole.

Our knowledge of creation verifies this principle. In the beginning subatomic particles gathered together and created atoms. Later atoms gathered together and created molecules. Molecules gathered and created all kinds of beautiful geometric forms and compounds. Later these particles gathered and created living cells. Cells gathered and created all kinds of living things. The living things gathered and created greater life forms.

Humans, being the most advanced lives known to us, gathered into families. The families gathered and created tribes that offered more advantages to secure survival. Later tribes gathered and created kingdoms which offered more advanced civilization. More recently we have had a gathering of freedom loving people throughout the world to America which created a government more advanced than one ruled by an authoritarian king. A new system of representative democracy was created that greatly advanced free market competitive enterprise, freedom of speech and freedom in general.

We are now in an age where the speed of human evolution is accelerating and we are already approaching the next great advance by the human kingdom. The next great gathering will be the gathering of lights. Those aware of the inner light will seek each other and gather together and create societies with cooperation as the keynote rather than competition. The new system will incorporate the best of those of the past.

There will be a sense of family

They will cooperate on a higher level than the tribes.

They will exercise a right use of authority while securing freedom.

Competition will still be used, but in a friendly, constructive way, rather than dog eat dog as it often exists today.

To comprehend the gathering principle as it applies to humanity at this time visualize numerous scattered seekers of wisdom living in a blackened night separated by considerable distance, and each is holding a lighted candle. Their candles are not that bright, but they allow these individuals to see a little in the dark, unlike their neighbors with unlit candles.

Now visualize those with candles gathering together and uniting their candlelight. Now that which was a dim light becomes like the light of the sun and all the surrounding area is well lighted. The blended light allows the group to see further in the darkness than ever before.

We also see that those outside the gathering are dwelling in greater darkness than ever because the lights have been gathered from their midst. Many begin to seek for light and the gathered ones take their candles and light the candles of those wanting to see.

Thus light is added to light until the earth is full of light and love and brotherhood.

“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”

Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

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Detachment

When many students come across the metaphysical teaching on detachment, which is necessary to apply the principle of being the observer, many get discouraged because they mistakenly think one would have to be a cold person with no empathy to be detached.

Fortunately, this is a mistaken notion.

Right now in Casper Wyoming there is a child being abused. Has this been bothering you? Then again, in Tallahassee Florida there are a number of children going to bed hungry. Has this caused you to lose any sleep? Unknown to you there is another planet in this galaxy, similar to earth where a civilization is fighting for its existence and millions are suffering. Has this problem caused you any pause?

Probably not.

What causes one to be distressed about the abuse or pain of another?

It is not the event that does this but the knowledge of the event entering into your consciousness – and then how it is registered by your consciousness.

Before creation of the worlds of form we were all embraced in the Life of God. Because there was no pain or suffering we were able to access all other lives and realize a oneness with them. There was no pain to share, but only light, love and bliss.

When it was decided that we would descend way down to physical matter we realized that a major problem had to be solved. Even though the material world indeed offered many opportunities for growth, it was also going to be the source of untold pain and suffering for the descending spirits. If all the entities were allowed to share in consciousness life would be completely unbearable. Just imagine feeling the suffering of millions of other souls. Even one or two others besides yourself would be bad enough, but universal sharing of pain would be unfathomable.

To overcome this problem a causal body was designed for each incarnating soul. This is the vehicle the soul uses to create its own individual identity, which also creates a barrier between it and all other souls. In a higher reality all souls are one, but through the use of the causal body, those who participated in the One Life became the many.

The causal body makes it possible for us to incarnate as a separate entity in the physical and only have full access to our own pain. Even if a loved one has a backache, and cannot sleep, and this fact is in your consciousness, you may be very concerned, but you still do not feel the pain and are able to get your work done and sleep well.

I may stub my toe and let out a howl and my wife may find my discomfort somewhat amusing.

Why? Because her toe does not hurt and she feels no pain from my toe. Her consciousness is more on watching my reaction with amusement.

New souls entering incarnation are so shielded from other souls that they can do great harm to others with little or no concern for the pain they cause. Then after many lifetimes of learning the nine outer energy petals of the causal body vibrate and unfold revealing the inner three and the central point of energy that is linked to pure spirit. As this occurs over a long period of time, the person slowly reacquires the ability to tune in to other souls.

As this evolution proceeds we become increasingly in tune with the thoughts, feelings and pain of others. The only way to be able to handle this return to the qualities of our spiritual self and yet remain in incarnation is to understand the principle of detachment, for without detachment intelligently applied, spiritual advancement could be unbearable.

To understand how to use the Principle of Detachment one should ask this question. Why are those in higher realms able to exist engulfed in great joy when there is so much suffering on the physical plane? Are they not aware of us?

Yes, they are aware, but our suffering does not disturb their peace.

Why?

They are aware, but detached.

How can they be detached?

Because their attention is not on this plane, but on a higher one.

And this is the key for us to achieve detachment. We must follow the advice of Christ and be in the world, but not of the world. In other words, as we make progress on the path and become more sensitive and able to tune into the feelings of others we must, at the same time move our center of consciousness to the soul. In doing this we may be aware of the pain that is out there, but not adversely affected by it because this world is not where the focus of our consciousness is. By centering oneself on the Christ Within one can be aware of need and lovingly serve the need, but not be controlled by it or share in the misery.

He who is aware of the need and serves the need, but detached enough to be free of the pain behind the need can serve with the greatest of warmth and love.

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

Abraham Lincoln

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The Satellite Principle

The placing of a satellite in orbit illustrates a great principle that can be applied to practical work here on earth.

Consider what it takes to place a satellite in orbit. The satellite is usually set atop a rocket consisting of several stages. The first stage is the booster rocket. This gives the satellite its initial thrust and here is where the greatest energy expenditure is required. The second stage is smaller and requires less thrust and the third is smaller still and requires sill less thrust because the weight of the first two stages is left behind.

Even so, the thrust required is that which is necessary to keep the satellite increasing in speed until it reaches orbital velocity which is around 17,000 miles per hour. Then when orbital velocity is reached a strange thing occurs. The satellite continues to speed around the earth at this same high speed of 17,000 MPH without the need of any additional thrust or power.

To understand how this works take a ball on a string and twirl it around. You will feel the ball pulling away from you and the faster you spin the ball the more force there is pulling tight against the string.

When a satellite reaches 17,000 MPH its circles the earth like a ball on a string, but the string holding on to it is the invisible gravity. Gravity is balanced off by the centrifugal force of the satellite pulling the other direction. When balance is achieved then the satellite will go on virtually forever if it is in a perfect vacuum.

If the satellite is supplied with additional power and speed is increased it will move to a higher orbit and if its speed is increased to 25,000 MPH it then reaches what is called “escape velocity” and moves free from the earth’s gravity and can be sent to Mars, Venus or wherever directed.

This concept nicely encapsulates what we must do as individuals who tackle a significant goal to accomplish.

For instance, let us say you want to start a business. To get it started you need to apply tremendous initial thrust. You have to sink significant money and concentrated effort toward the goal. You have to rent a place, put up signs and run a lot of initial ads so consumers will know about you etc.

Then, after you get the first stage off the ground you still have to apply effort, but not as much. A lot of the start up expenses are no longer needed and if your ads worked you will not have to run so many. Even so, you still have to put in significant effort to keep the project moving ahead.

Then, as your business succeeds and you hire a few people you will have to put less effort into it. Finally, you can take a vacation or two without worrying about things falling apart.

Then, after a period of continual thrust (effort), you reach a point where the business can be managed without you. You can appoint someone to replace you and it will just continue with no effort on your part. Your goal has reached a comparable to orbital velocity.

But there’s more. If you really want to accomplish something then you’ll want to add even more thrust to the business and take it to escape velocity. If you place even more attention on the project you can increase its size and scope until you have enough personal power ands wealth to escape all the gravity pulls of every day life and do whatever you want to do. Final success frees your hands so you correspond to a rocket that has escaped the pull of the earth and head toward any direction the universe has to offer.

The satellite Principle can be summarized as follows:

A significant goal requires great energy and attention, especially at first, and continued energy is required until it seems to take on a life of its own and continues with a minimal amount of attention. Further attention may give even increased freedom, allowing you to navigate to many new vistas of accomplishment.

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

Horace Mann

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The Butterfly Principle

We’ve all heard the story of the good-hearted guy who noticed the butterfly struggling to break out of its cocoon and decided to help. After giving his assistance and breaking open the cocoon, instead of flying away, the butterfly whimpered and died. Disappointed, the poor guy did not understand what just happened.

The truth is that the emerging life needs the strength gained from the struggle to emerge as a healthy and strong butterfly.

The same principle applies to the little chick struggling to break out of its hard eggshell. The struggle gives the baby chicken the additional strength it needs to survive and thrive in the world.

This principle also applies to us and is illustrated in the popular story about Socrates.

There was once a student that came to Socrates saying, “Socrates I want wisdom and knowledge like you have; what do I have to do?”

Socrates said to the student, “Come out with me and wade in this lake about waist high and I will show you.” The student agreed and they wandered out into the lake about waist high. Suddenly, Socrates grabs him by the head and pushes him under water and holds him there about a couple minutes and then brings his head up.

The student asks, “What in the world did you do that for?”

Socrates replies, “When I had your head in the water what did you want more than anything else in the world?”

He said, “Air and the longer I was down there the more I wanted it!”

Socrates replied, “When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air you will have all the wisdom you need.”

Now if Socrates just assisted the guy and gave him a few wise sayings very little would have been done to aid the student. He would have made the same mistake as the guy who assisted the butterfly. Instead he gave the student the greatest lesson of them all which is the Butterfly Principle which could be stated as follows:

Personal power and strength is gained through encountering those energies, forces and obstacles in the way of the goal in mind and overcoming them through the power of will, persistence and struggle until success is achieved.

The principle was seen by Maimonides who said:

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

It is human nature to desire the easy path, to sit back and let others do the hard work. Some call this the good life. Others think that heaven will consist of just taking it easy and being served by virgins or angels for eternity.

Few realize how unsatisfactory heaven would become if there were no new goals in the future that would require struggle to achieve.

Think back to the happiest moments of your life. The chances are some type of intense struggle preceded them.

Examples of happy moments following struggle are.

The athlete winning a crucial match or game after much struggle.

The person who wins the love of his life after numerous failures.

A graduate obtaining his degree.

A writer getting published after many rejections.

A worker getting the promotion he sought.

A businessperson making the business a success after many setbacks.

A seeker obtaining inner confirmation that he is on the right path after passing through a dark night of the soul.

Periods of rest are fine, but after obtaining sufficient rest the wise seeker will desire a new achievement of some kind. He will be wise to take full responsibility for his success and tackle with gusto the hurdles that lie before him and master them so he may have joy.

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,           

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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Change

Few have considered that change is a principle, but it is an important one indeed, for without it, none of us would be here. In fact, nothing would be here. Without change there would be no universe, no creation and not even the life of God could exist for without change there could be no life.

After all, what is life, but a conscious striving, evolving, moving force that requires change to even exist?

Now some say that there is no change in the higher realms and that God also does not change, but does this dogma fit the reality?

Not really. Maybe this dialog would help.

Thinker: So you think that God does not change – Why?

True Believer: That’s what the Bible says in Malachi 3:6, “I am the LORD, I change not.”

Thinker: In the context there He was speaking of his relationship to Israel. As far as other types of changes, the God of the Bible underwent a number of them.

True Believer: How so?

Thinker: In the days of Moses God was going to destroy Israel and Moses talked him out of it. So God changed his mind.

Then in the days of Noah it is written:

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Genesis 6:6

These are two obvious changes within God’s mind. But there’s more.

True Believer: Like what?

Thinker: I assume you are familiar with the creation story.

True Believer: Of course.

Thinker: As you recall God worked for six days and then on the seventh He made a change. What was that?

True Believer: He rested.

Thinker: So God made a definite change. He changed from the working mode to the resting mode.

True Believer: Okay, maybe an unchangeable God isn’t black and white as far as the Bible is concerned. On the other hand, we have some metaphysical teachings that say that there is a hierarchy of Gods and levels of existence and the originating One God and other high beings exist in a changeless state on some type of unchangeable plane. What about that?

Thinker: Yes, some promote the idea that in the beginning God was all alone in an eternal changeless state. But then something happened

True Believer: Which was?

Thinker: Creation. Now for creation to occur do you think that some change had to happen within the mind of God?

True Believer: It would seem so.

Thinker: So even though the pure essence of God may exist within some formless pure state, beyond our imagination, something had to change there in order to cause the universe to manifest. Would you agree?

True Believer: That seems logical. But what about the idea presented that this is not the real world, but just an illusion? Change happens in this illusion but not in the real world.

Thinker: That is indeed a popular idea. Let us suppose this is correct that we live in an illusion. Who created this illusion?

True Believer: I’m not sure.

Thinker: Haven’t all things come from God on some level?

True Believer: I suppose.

Thinker: Those who believe in the illusion think there was a time when the illusion did not exist. Who created this illusion?

True Believer: Some say that we did somehow.

Thinker: And what is our Source?

True Believer: God

Thinker: So God is responsible for the creation of the illusion then?

True Believer: I suppose.

Thinker: So was the moment that God decided to create or allow the illusion a point of change of some kind that occurred?

True Believer: I guess there would have had to have been a change if it one time there was no illusion and then at another there was one.

Thinker: Most would call a dream an illusion, but would you agree that change happens within our dreams?

True Believer: Yes

Thinker: And what change happens to you to cause you to dream?

True Believer: I go to sleep.

Thinker: So perhaps God goes to sleep and dreams up creation?

True Believer: Possibly.

Thinker: So, however you look at it creation of that which is real or illusion tells us that change is happening in the mind of God.

True Believer: It would seem so.

This dialog should supply some food for thought. Change is eternal and always happening from eternity to eternity. Creation cannot happen without change. Motion cannot exist without change. And then, life itself cannot exist without change for if there is no change there is no life. Life itself is a struggle to create positive change.

To summarize, the Principle of Change is this: Change is the eternal motion of life, thought, spirit, energy and form. If one appears to be still or at rest, others will be in motion or change. Change and motion circulates in a spiral. One point activates another so nothing can stay still or unchangeable forever.

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” Winston Churchill

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