The Pendulum Principle

2000-8-29 11:17:00

JJ writes:

Good to have you back again, Benjamin. You asked about Benjamin Creme. I have written about him in the archives. If you do a search then you should find some writings on him. I think he is pulling his supposed communications with Christ out of his subconscious.

You further ask:

"A question for JJ in particular, but also for anyone who wants to comment:
What can one do to become more open to the guidance from the unseen realms, from the 'higher lives'? It has always been a great desire on my part to be more and more open to guidance, both for greater personal evolution and for greater ability to serve humanity. My greatest frustration is what I call 'the veil', that apparent barrier to full awakening that bars a human being from being, in actual fact, like the Christ. I try not to focus on this barrier and move forward in the faith that all things are working for the greatest good, in ultimate perfection. But there is nonetheless the continual hunger for more AWARENESS. So, what more can/should the student do to embrace ever-greater awareness?"

Perhaps the best answer I can give you on this is from a previous post I made in April which reads:

"If you follow the highest you know there will come a time when you will be visited by a Presence, either visible or invisible. It will come at a time that you least expect it and a time when perhaps you feel the least prepared spiritually, but it will come.

"To dream and wish for the experience will only delay the happening. But if you take the highest you know and go forward in the vineyard of the Master and serve with no end in sight, in season and out of season, in good times and bad. If you serve with love in the dark of night with the same strength as in the light of day, if you continue with loving service through the fiery darts of hate, malice and betrayal and above all if it appears that even your Master and your God seem to completely ignore you as if you do not exist . . . Through all this you will continue to serve with the highest you know. You continue even if God himself seems to be your enemy putting every obstacle possible in your path and laughing at you as you stumble and fall. You rise up and continue. The time comes that it will not seem to matter to you any more if friends, God or the Masters approve of you or not. It matters not if you are some great chosen one or are looked upon by the Master as the least and most needy of the brethren. You will now serve for the sake of selfless love alone because the need is out there and you sense the need. When this stage is reached in your being one of the Great Ones will take notice and speak: 'Behold, the servant! He has become as one of us. Let us invite him into the circle of higher friendship, brotherhood and service.'

"But even here the invitation comes not as you expected. All your expectations are shattered and soon replaced by newer ones and the groping in the dark is replaced by walking the path with vision. The reward for your selfless service is sight; and as you see the path ahead your heart is filled with joy for that which you see is not what you imagined, but more than you imagined."

The Assignment:

Contemplate these three words -- "The Pendulum Principle" -- as a seed thought and see what comes to you. What do you suppose this principle is, and how can it be used in the discovery of truth?

Kay made an interesting statement:

"The first thing that comes to mind is the scientific fact that a pendulum swings equal distance both ways."

JJ:

Now, this is true if you have a balancing force applied as in a grandfather clock, but if such applied force is removed then each swing of the pendulum is less than the one before.

See the path as the central point where the pendulum would be if at rest. When it is in motion it swings across the path to the left and then back over the path to the right, but with a little less swing than before. This cycle is repeated until it comes to rest in the center.

How are people like the swinging of the pendulum? How can we find the center even as we live in the midst of the swinging masses? What corresponds to the diminishing swing?