2000-4-15 11:30:00
I am glad you liked my last post and am especially honored by Paul's comment: "This is an enlightening and encouraging post, JJ. Soul's message touches souls indeed."
I do not have time to comment on Paul's last few comments and questions but plan to more thoroughly cover the subject of the void in the future. I was impressed to attempt to understand Paul's thinking a little better for without understanding two can never become one.
It has been difficult for us to pin down Paul's line of thought to any particular philosophy, but he has mentioned Lao-Tze several times - the originator of yin-yang. Since I had never read his writings I thought I'd check him out on the web and I believe I hit pay dirt. Lao-Tze sounds like he could have been Paul in a past life (I'm sure Paul will see that as a compliment).
A good summary of his teachings are at:
http://www.thetemple.com/TheShrineOfWisdom/TheSimpleWay.html
I would guess here that reading the writings on this web page will give us insight to understand Paul's thinking process, and hence give us a better ability to respond to him intelligently in the future.
I'm going to attempt here to steer us back to our topic. I think it is not good to be too strict about following our curriculum. Some of the most interesting posts we have had have been items that have taken us off topic. On the other hand, neither is it good to go to the other extreme and deviate again and again on a subject that comes up repeatedly to the extent that we sometimes get so far off course that we can't remember what the current lesson is even about.
We approached this subject of health with the intent of helping members of the list who were having problems. I feel that we need to do what we can to insure that all of us are in reasonable health for it is difficult to serve when all that is on one's mind is one's own survival or release from pain.
After we finish this subject we shall return and finish the principles of discovery. This is another very important subject for if we know not how to discern truth we will "be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine" as the apostle Paul worded it.
A good portion of Book III of The Immortal will be on the Lost Key of Buddha's Middle Way and hopefully it will shed some light on this oneness concept. I do not want to tell you everything that is in the book, but if there is interest from the group we will talk about the zero point and oneness in more detail in the not too distant future.
To achieve some unification on this, I believe we need to have a beginning, middle and end to the topic. Our trouble so far is that we have always found ourselves in the middle of the subject and there has been no linkage of ideas, or definitions of terms to make sure we all speak the same language.
So let us put this subject on the shelf for now and return to it at a time when we can put our full attention on it without interrupting the flow of the course.
The Question:
"Taking reincarnation and karma into account why do you suppose it is that some people can he healed and others not? Is it possible for one to be healed when his disease is connected with his karma? If one learns his karma is it possible to accelerate payment and thus free himself from unfortunate circumstance?"
Many diseases are caused because of past karma. If nothing is attempted beyond an act of faith, in some cases, the healer will be attempting to cancel out certain lessons that are to be administered through the soul.
Someone recently asked how we can discover our past karma, especially if you cannot remember your past.
The first thing to realize is that your soul does not expect you to pay off all your karma in this one life; but in any one life where the debt of negative karma still exists, there will be a certain amount allocated that you will be expected to pay off. If this karma is linked to a disease (as I believe it was with my uncle) then the karma (or the lesson to be learned) must be lifted or redirected before the person can be healed.
Since the understanding of karma is important in the attainment of freedom from disease, it is necessary to discover how it may be affecting our lives. The most popular way of discovering karma is to review past lives. The trouble with this is that unless the disciple is relatively free from illusion, his discernment of the past is likely to be incorrect.
Hypnosis and guided meditation, sometimes reveals the true past, but other times it brings forth an imaginary past for a variety of reasons. Only through soul confirmation can one know if such a revealed past is correct.
A second way to discover the past is through dreams, but there is also much distortion in this and the soul must be used again. You can enhance the power to discover the past through dreams by giving yourself suggestions to remember as you are going to sleep. This will not produce immediate results, but will bear fruit over a period of time.
Do not trust someone who claims to be a great one from the past because of supposed synchronicity. Relating oneself to a historical figure because he sees similarities is often very misleading as vision is filtered through a multitude of glamours.
Another problem is that even several revealed past lives do not give the full story of karma you may be facing. For instance, you may know about your last past life, but your Higher Self may have karma arranged for you from a more distant past with which you may be unfamiliar.
One of the best ways to determine areas where one needs to put attention is to study the law of cycles. The adage "history repeats itself" is based on this principle.
Saturn largely governs the energies of karma in this solar system and its orbit around the sun takes about 28 years. This period of time is called a "Saturn Cycle" by astrologers. The first fourteen years are polarized female/receiving/negative, and the second fourteen are male/sending/positive.
The first twenty-eight years of your life are like a mini incarnation. If you have solved your problems and learned the lessons assigned to you, then the next twenty-eight will be like a new birth or an advanced incarnation. If the needed lessons are not learned, then the second twenty-eight year period will bring you face to face with the same problems you had in the first twenty-eight. If the pilgrim ignores the solving of these problems, he will just coast along the line of least resistance; and he will become crystallized by the second Saturn Cycle at age 56 or earlier. He is also likely to suffer ill health.
Then there are those who pass their first cycle successfully, but follow the line of least resistance in their second and also crystallize in their third. Only about 10% of humanity successfully navigates into their third Saturn Cycle where they will learn new principles, solve new problems and essentially live three lives in experience and progression.
It is therefore beneficial to examine your life in seven, fourteen and twenty-eight year cycles. The first question to ask yourself is can you see that you made major changes or that major events happened to you around the end of these cycles? What was going on in your life and what was your internal makeup at age fourteen, twenty-eight, forty-two, and fifty-six?
If major changes were taking place around these periods, this is a sign that you were progressing as you should. If no major changes have occurred since age twenty-eight, this is a sign that you have been coasting. Be careful to not coast too long because as you near the third Saturn Cycle at age fifty-six, you will find the energies within you crystallizing.
When honey crystallizes it gets thicker and thicker so it will no longer pour easily. This is what happens with the human in incarnation. If he follows the line of least resistance and does not work on his progression, he will find his movement forward at a stand- still by the time he reaches his mid fifties.
What the disciple needs to do is to look at these seven, fourteen and twenty-eight year cycles, and watch for different circumstances that seem to be repeating themselves.
Does it seem that a lover or friend betrays you cyclically? This would indicate that you have betrayed others in past lives. To complete and move beyond that cycle you must reach a state of mind where you have a resolve to be true to others in relationship.
Does it seem that you get stolen from regularly, not only materially, but in other ways? Then this indicates that this was a problem for you in the past and it is time to incorporate the lesson of not seeking for that which you have not earned.
Do you have a problem with dominating people? Then you created a problem for others in the past.
And so on it goes for every recurring problem we find.
If you have periodic illness it is helpful to examine repeating problems and see if they correspond. All illness is caused or enhanced by some type of resistance to spiritual flow. If the person can hone into the problem he needs to solve; and starts making progression with it, then his health and vitality will increase. The part of the body the physical distress is located in is also an indicator of the cause of the physical problem.
For today's assignment I will name several problems. Using the Law of Correspondences tell me what you think the spiritual cause is.
(1) Heart Disease
(2) Skin rashes and inflammation.
(3) Constipation
(4) Throat Cancer
(5) Backache
(6) Neck problems
(7) Alzheimer's
(8) A major accident
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