Initiation Clarified

2006-6-29 05:48:00

Woody:

Is your intent to have a small comfortable group, or to facilitate the development of those seeking to initiate?

For this group, neither.

Woody:

This answer is disturbing to me, brother.

You've chosen to do something: to teach the principles of the New Age and to raise the banner of the brother I AM BECOMING. The result of this choice is that a few might not just believe you but actually become these things.

The result of becoming a becomer is initiation. Becoming as a principle implies (1) the ability to increase choice and (2) to become more capable in implementing the choice. In its basic sense, this is what initiation is: a vehicle (i.e. a framework, a personal plan) of becoming more.

You can't blame a student for becoming something that you teach. It is a natural result that your "best" students will do it. The question is how do you intend to handle these upstarts. Explaining it this way, I think you see that responsibility is involved.

First, let me clarify the purpose of this list. Simply put, it is this. It is to raise a beacon of light and in doing so attract or gather the lights.

This list is a classroom. A classroom is not a place conducive for students to initiate. It is a place to learn, to be inspired and in the process some may initiate outside the classroom situation.

Let us look at initiates in history.

Jesus: Any attempt to initiate in a classroom for him? No.

The apostles? They did not initiate while they were students. They initiated when they became teachers in their own right.

Buddha: He learned under many teachers and never initiated a thing until he became a teacher himself.

Lincoln: Did he initiate anything of consequence while attending school? Not hardly.

Churchill: He initiated through his writings, speeches and his bold actions during and after the war.

What is there for a student to initiate while learning in a class? Very little. It is a time of preparation. Agreeing or disagreeing with the teacher has nothing to do with initiating. One has to create something to initiate. If one has not created something or assisted in it then nothing has been initiated.

Is everyone here just twiddling their thumbs then with no initiating going on?

No. For one thing if one is a good student he has accomplished a lot right there. One must master receiving before he can give through initiating.

In addition many here are working to initiate different things.

Larry initiated the archives as they are now, but he did this outside the classroom.

John Wayne Kline is always busy working on getting something going locally and internationally.

John Crane is working on a book.

Rick initiated the Keys list.

Scott, a Keys student in prison is initiating new teaching ideas there that the prison system may use nationwide.

Marilyn initiated the editing and storage of all the Keys writings and this task has been taken over by Chrissie.

Glenys started her own forum and has been successful in spreading the Ancient Wisdom.

Anni initiated translating my books into Danish and publishing them.

Dan and Adam are initiating a project to use computer programs to translate my works into other languages.

Susan, Sharon and Mindy volunteered to edit my writings.

Robert initiated his own podcast.

Perhaps the closest work directly related to this forum was Bryan initiating the daily quotes, which has been continued by Ruth.

There are other good members working at initiating projects but this list should present the general idea--that initiating is going on and the sign of it is that something is being created that benefits others.

Arguing with the teacher has nothing to do with initiating anything. Now if a student thinks the teacher is out to lunch and moves on and creates his own teaching that draws a significant audience and changes them for the better then he could lay claim to initiating something.

Woody:

Keysters is your choice (and the choice of your membership) but what you can't choose is students becoming. Becoming is a self-choice. You teach it, the effect is a few will choose it. When they choose it, an energy source will appear. It will have an effect on you and others. I am observing that the effect on JJ is what I have described.

As I said, this is happening with quite a few in this group. And it may be that Dean will initiate something worthwhile, but arguing with the teacher will lay no claim to the initiating of anything. It's just arguing with the teacher.

Woody:

An initiate...may choose whatever path he chooses. I also agree that there are many destabilizing influences that are not the result of initiation.

However, initiation is by definition about change and change infers destablization (where I AM infers stabilization, Love and order when in balance, crystallization when out of balance. Conversely I AM BECOMING is Light in balance, but chaos when out of balance).

Yes, initiating is about change, but Dean made no change in this classroom, nor was one desired.

Plato was an initiate, but while a student of Socrates he did not try and introduce a whole new brand of doctrine or teaching method. He was extremely respectful and cooperative in his classes and began initiating only after Socrates was gone.

Dean is an intelligent soul with lots of potential to initiate. I hope he is successful in some good work. I have gone out of my way to assist him and answer his questions, but now he has moved on. Even so, I believe he will be attracted back here again either as an observer or again as a member.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Sam Ewing