Gathering 2005 Sun Valley, Part 21
The Power of Focus
JJ: So, He [the Avatar of Synthesis] will come again if he is invoked and he has been invoked and if we continue to invoke the Christ, the Masters and the higher lives that will speed up the coming. So this Avatar invocation is a good thing to say. It starts out, “From the center where the will of God is known let purpose guide the little wills of men.”
Does anybody know what that’s from? Right, “The Great Invocation” given out by Alice A. Bailey. We use that line because that line already has a lot of power because it’s been said for sixty years now, but we’re putting it in this invocation and using it as the beginning. These are strong words of power to begin with.
Now, the Song of the 144,000 is also powerful because it is designed to protect the Lights in this age. In every age, in recorded history at least, when the Lights have been taught, they have been overcome by the forces of evil. Every single time. They fought valiantly, they fought for the light and gave their lives but eventually their work has been destroyed. Then it has to be restored. This has happened over and over again through the centuries.
The purpose of this Song is to follow the same principle — energy follows thought, so we bring down a protective energy to the Lights of the earth. When you say this, you don’t just think of light and love and power surrounding yourself but you think of it surrounding everyone else who is saying The Song. It accumulates a group energy.
So when it comes time that we have to battle the forces of darkness on the physical plane, because energy follows thought, all this accumulation of energy will come to our aid so that this time the work will not be destroyed.
It will be the first time lights have prevailed since, well the time of Enoch perhaps. Enoch is the only biblical character that we know of that has stories written about him saying he overcame the forces of darkness. Even Christ, a short time after the church was established, everything was converted and taken over by orthodoxy. The doctrines were changed, the teachings of Christ himself were changed.
The teachers began to assume the position of God, the interpreters of God, the outside God that people looked to for approval. This altered and took away the spirit within the church, as it always does. Instead of teaching the kingdom of God within, they teach the outward God who is in charge of things and tells you what to do.
The true teaching of the kingdom of God within must be restored. Even among many New Age groups, they teach the kingdom of God within but they still set up their authorities to tell everybody what to do. Both sides have their cults where they have their leaders telling people how to think, what to believe, what to do if they’re going to be approved by a master or God or somebody up there. Let’s go ahead and say the Song then we’re going to have some meditations later where we’ll get together in some group circles. Everybody enjoys that.
First of all sound the “AUM.”
Together, the audience and JJ say:
“A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M”
“We thank you Father that you surround us with your protective universal light. That within that light is complete protection from all destructive forces.
“That the Holy Spirit of your presence permeates us in the light, and wherever we will the light to descend.”
JJ: Now we’ll pause and concentrate on what we just said. Visualize the light surrounding us.
Together, the audience and JJ say:
“We thank you Father that you fill us with your protective fires of love. That within this love is complete protection from all destructive thoughts and feelings, That the consciousness of Christ is lifted up in us in this love and wherever we will the love to be enflamed.
“We thank you Father that you are in us and we are in you. That through us your will is sent forth on wings of power; That your purpose is accomplished on earth as it is in heaven.
“That through us your Light and Love and Power Is manifest to all the Sons and Daughters of Mankind.”
“A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M”
“AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM – AUM”
“A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M”
JJ: That usually produces a very peaceful feeling inside.
What does it mean to meditate?
Audience: “Clear the mind.”
JJ: Okay, what else?
Audience: “To be receptive.”
JJ: Okay.
Audience: “It is said that meditation is not just opening your mind to what’s out there. Meditation is not that. It is deciding on a point then putting all your energy and force and thought toward that point with as much concentration as you can muster. Focus.”
JJ: Good. So when you meditate you probably focus. Right Cindy?
Audience: “Putting your personality aside and listening to the will of the Father, which would be through the Holy Spirit, for guidance and direction to assist you in whatever you need to do.”
JJ: Okay.
Audience: “To be the observer with detachment.”
JJ: To be successful you must observe.
Audience: “I try to approach God with the intention of allowing Him to act through me. That’s a big part of meditation for me.”
JJ: Wayne did a good job of summing up the principle of meditation which is to focus on an objective and then bring it to pass. Was that your basic idea Wayne? What’s interesting about that is when you look up the Greek word for “faith” which is PISTOS it means the same thing. When you look it up in the Greek it is a very interesting word. It basically means to formulate something in your mind and focus upon it until you prove whether it is true or false. So if you have faith in God, according to the way it is used in the Greek, it means you’ll prove to yourself whether or not there is a God. I guess in a roundabout way an atheist has faith because he thinks he has proved there isn’t one but you can’t prove there isn’t one. Even an atheist will admit that. But you can prove there is one so true faith would be to prove to yourself there is a God or a higher power of some type out there.
That principle of meditation that you brought forth Wayne is very comparable to the New Testament word for “faith.” The principle is that you focus on something that you want to either be closer to or to achieve and this is a form of meditation. Now Cindy practices spiritual meditation and she focuses on a state of consciousness she wants to achieve but what about the business man who is focusing on his business? Is that a form of meditation?
This something DK talks about and Wayne was just talking about. He expands upon the idea of meditation. He points out that the East and the West are a lot different. In the East they go into the inner world and in the West we go into the outer world. They both take a point of focus and they both require the principle of meditation itself. If you’re a runner and want to break a four-minute mile or whatever, it’s going to take a tremendous meditation on your part to perfect yourself. The same applies if you want to be the best basketball player or football player.
They did a study that I read way back when I was in college. They took a group of people and divided them into three groups. They had all of them shoot free throws with the basketball and they tabulated how good they were. Then they had each group do something different. The first group was to practice twenty minutes each day shooting actual free shots. The second group didn’t do anything. The last group practiced in their mind shooting free throws and visualizing making the throws but they didn’t shoot any actual basketball. They did this for something like six weeks. After the end of the six weeks the group that physically practices improved something like 21%. What do you think the rate was for the group that didn’t practice at all?
Audience: “60 percent (laughing) — Zero.”
JJ: Zero. They were pretty much where they were before. What do you think was the outcome with the group that visualized shooting the ball and making it but didn’t actually practice physically?
Audience: “60 per cent? — 35 per cent?”
JJ: The first group improved 21%. The group that visualized practicing was short about one point. They improved 20%. As I remember, it was a one point difference. So the group that physically practiced did just a hair better than those who just visualized shooting the free throws. I don’t know if you could learn how to play a guitar that way though.
Audience: Laughter.
JJ: Mike is our guitar player here. You’ll have to bring the guitar when we do our Karaoke and we’ll give you a chance to become rich and famous.
So, what does this tell us about meditation and the principle behind it? It tells us that the star football player, the time he spends when he isn’t really practicing or playing but is sitting around thinking about it is in part what is making him a better player.
The players who go to practice and go through the moves then afterwards are out partying or having fun but aren’t thinking about football, they don’t improve nearly as much as the guy who goes to the practices and then when he isn’t practicing physically he is still practicing in his mind. He is still visualizing making that catch or having that opening come up where he can score the touchdown. This is the person who really begins to excel. It’s the same with business. It’s not only the guy who does the right things but also thinks the right things. He’s got his focus on it.
I found this out in real estate. When I was in real estate I found that when I put my entire focus on what I was doing I did pretty good. Then towards the end of my career in real estate I went into selling mobile home parks. I figured if I sold some mobile home parks I could retire and write some books and to my delight, within the period of one month, I sold three mobile home parks. I was going to make a whopper of a commission off these three parks. I thought, “This is my dream come true. I can take a couple of years off and write these books.”
Well, you’ve heard the phrase, ‘Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” I counted my chickens before they were hatched. I figured at least 2 out of 3 would go through even if my luck was bad. So I started writing a book. After 4 or 5 weeks the book was coming along great but the energy was completely released from my business. My energy was on the book.
All three mobile home park sales fell through. Not only did all the mobile home parks fall through but all of my real estate customers seemed to disappear. It was like starting completely fresh. I had to go back to work again and let the book go. It took tremendous focus to get back and make money in real estate again. I about starved to death over the next 6 months and here I thought I’d have enough money to take some time off to write.
But I learned an important lesson. I really learned how the principle of energy follows thought works. After that happened I reflected back on my life as to how that has really been true on other things but it didn’t sink in. But when I lost the commission off those three mobile home parks it really sunk in and I did a lot of reflecting on my life and I saw that a lot of failures in my life was because I didn’t maintain that meditation or focus.
One must maintain the thought until the goal is consummated. I should’ve kept my attention on those deals until they were closed. When the signatures were there and I had my commission, then I should’ve started to write a book but I dropped everything early because I thought it looked like a sure deal. I released my focus on it, the energy was released and everything fell apart. Like I said, when I examined the rest of my life I found this was a bad quality that I had that I was repeating over and over.
This experience really made it sink in. So I determined not to let it happen again.
I have several goals myself that I focus on. One of the goals I have is the Gathering of Lights. This is a really tough goal that nobody has done since Moses. (chuckles) So it’s going to take tremendous focus of not only me, not only Artie but of a lot of people. We need to get this concept into as many minds as we can so the Lights can be gathered. As I’ve said many times the gathering principle is this: When the Lights gather out they create a better form of teaching within themselves, a better form of government then they can move ahead in evolution. When they move ahead in evolution other people will say, “We want that too” and that will end up changing the world.
This is what happened in America. The Lights were gathered out of Europe. The most independent advanced thinking people came to America. They wanted to make a better life. They gathered together in one land. There were men like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and when men of this quality got together in one spot the old ways weren’t good enough. They wanted to create a new way. When they created it even the mother country who fought against them wound up adopting a lot of the ideas. Now they have a constitutional monarchy. This is what happens with the gathering of Lights. It’s very powerful.
So that’s where my focus is right now and I’m determined to keep my focus there until there is a major gathering of Lights. Sooner or later, because our focus is there, something significant will happen. I don’t know how long it will be. When I married Artie I told her it may be 20 years before there is a significant breakthrough and it’s been 18 years since I said that. I figured that the focus I was putting on this would take a significant amount of time till it matures. So we’ll see if the 20 year mark is a mark of accomplishment.
Let’s suppose I was able to write a book that became as popular as the “Celestine Prophecy” or “The DaVinci Code” or something like that, something that could really permeate society. I was hoping The Immortal series might do it. I have two more books in the mix. One will be “Eternal Words” which is the next book coming out. Then I’m going to write a book expounding on the Book of Revelation which we’re posting on the Internet now. So the next two books will come out fairly close together. If neither one of them takes off I’m going to write a book totally different. I’m going to keep my focus on writing books until I really get one that strikes the public consciousness.
“The Da Vinci Code” is interesting because Dan Brown wrote three or four books that were not very big hits. Then when he wrote the “Da Vinci Code” it became a such a big hit that now people are going back to buy his other books that nobody bought before. “The Da Vinci Code” was number one and “Angels and Demons” was number one or two on other lists. “Deception Point” became very popular also but these other books were not very popular until the Da Vinci Code came up or became popular. Sooner or later my idea is that I will write something that will really strike the public consciousness and when that happens people will go back to read the others. Sooner or later something is going to happen. Something has to happen because to create the gathering we have to have many times the interest that we have now. But that day will come when we have millions of people paying attention to the words that we’re learning right now.
If it doesn’t happen in this life I’ll come back and continue. I’m determined to do it. My meditation is on this until it is consummated. If somebody comes and shoots me tonight, I’ll come back and still work on finishing the job, unless somebody does it ahead of me. That’s the type of meditation you’re going to have to have and the focus upon it. And consequently, because my focus is on that so strong a lot of other things in my life get ignored. That’s where Artie steps in and crosses the t’s and dots the i’s in my life to keep things organized.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. —English proverb
Nov 19, 2009
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