Emotion for the Day has to be Profoundly Meaningful to be Effective - (5600)

To begin the day, in a driven and motivated way for our inner work, we need an emotion that is profound and meaningful to us.

Not an idea, or a motivating thought, but an emotion. A profound emotion at that.

Something like: "today I am going to work to free my soul!" or "Today I am going to work to really change for the benefit of all, mostly for myself that is my Inner Being.".

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Explained a Little: Subconscious, Unconscious and Infra-Conscious Notes - (5592)

Introduction

I would say human beings in a state of sleeping consciousness live their lives out of a combination of the three below types of consciousness.

Conscious

It is clear awareness, understanding and knowledge. It is objective and can be understood by all. There is control, logic, organization and order. All is above board, honest and transparent. Here the truth reigns and it is clearly seen.

Subconscious

It is a mixture of the known and unknown. There is a definite duality present. There exists a division, there is one part that is in the light and there is another part that is in the dark.

There is a mixture of two elements. There is a part that is aware and knows, and there is a part that is not aware and does not know. There is a honest part and a dishonest part. 

The part that is in the light is aware of the correct and honest thing to do, and there is some knowledge of the psychological processes involved, however that awareness and knowledge is limited. The rest of the awareness and knowledge resides in the dark part.

For example, the part in the light knows that we feel upset and knows what we want (compensation), yet the reason why we feel upset and want compensation is not known or understood and is in the dark.

Contradictions are an example of the subconscious. For instance, the classical subconscious is that we know something is not quite the correct or honest thing to do, yet we still do it.  

Other classical subconscious examples are: saying one thing and doing another, criticising others while being the same, not being able to do the thing that we know is right, doing the thing that we know is wrong, not being able to stop a desire and so on...  

I would say that currently human beings in the way in which they live, live mostly out of their subconscious, and relate in the subconscious way of relating. 

We often use the conscious part of ourselves to try and explain the subconscious part and that is where lies appear.

What happens when we are in the subsconscious all depends upon how much will is available to the consciousness and how much will is trapped in the dark aspect of the subconscious. 

As Master Samael said the 'sub' in subconscious is what is under or below. It is nearly always the case that the dark aspect of the subconscious is below the normal, that is something not entirely decent, appropriate or honest etc. 

 

The subconscious is what leads us into the infra-conscious. The more attention we put into the subconscious the sooner it will lead us into the infra-conscious which is not constructive in any way we can look at it.

The interaction with others shows us much of our subconscious.

Unconscious

There are two ways to see the unconscious. One is when we are deeply physically asleep and we are not dreaming, we are far away and we are not aware of anything or are not registering anything. That is we are not at all aware - unconscious.

The other way to look at it, is that one is awake, we are walking and talking yet one is unaware of certain movements or ways of speaking. There is much about ourselves that enters into the zone of unconscious.

When we are just not aware of something, have no knowledge of it or no understanding of it, we can safely say that that something is well within our unconscious.

For example, to not have even thought of giving our neighbour a Christmas present is unconscious. The subconscious may have thought of it but reasoned it way with inferior thinking such as: "they have never given us anything etc. etc.".

Many parts of our day slip into unconscious, where we can't remember what we did.

In the unconscious, one has no idea about what is going on. We don't even remotely suspect what we have in the unconscious.

There is also something interesting worth mentioning here as well. That to focus on something, something has to go into the unconscious for something else to come into the light of the conscious.

The interactions with others also shows us much about our unconscious.

Infra-Conscious 

There are degrees of infra-consciousness. The Kliphos represent accurately those degrees as does Dante's "Inferno".

In the infra-conscious one's consciousness becomes polarised and active in the negative. One's will is polarised into the negative and consciously pushes towards deeper negative states.

It is negative will, negative intelligence and negative creativity for the purposes of inferior desires.

Many crimes, organised crime, hatred, resentment, ill-will, obsessions and desires that are planned and executed are examples of the infraconsciosu at work.

War releases the infra-conscious and when under severe pressure, cracks can appear in a person's psyche which releases the infra-conscious.

It seems always to be the case that when the infra-conscious is released and one acts on it, one has little memory of what one did....

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Trusting Helps Open Up Progress in our Visualising Ability - (5599)

Just going with what you visualise, however the image of what you are trying to visualise in your mind's eye appears, helps us very much to further develop that ability to visualise. 

Whether that image be blurry, half an image, not quite the right colour or shape just continue with it. It will improve in quality, as you continue practicing, trust that.

Giving ourselves that trust, that it will improve, allows us to progress.

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A Few Different Perspectives on Karma - (5598)

Here are a few different ways to look at our karmic debts and karma in general.

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Power of Joy - (5396)

It is powerful!

It is helpful to enter more into our own Being, as the fabric of our own Being is joy. 

The natural feeling of the essence is the joy to be alive.

It is the power and the key to concentrate. We can concentrate so much more naturally if we find joy in what we are focussing on.

It is the key to overcome tiredness. Because we all have natural access to the massive reserves of energy put aside for joy and what makes us feel joyful.

It is the key to transform the boring and tedious into a smile and something meaningful.

It has the power to lift people up out of negative internal states.

It has the power to heal others and ourselves from many maladies that are psychological, and others that are psychosomatic, as well as even some physical ones.

The power to see the real, the objective and other perspectives of events and people. Reality is never all negative. 

The power to dispel the negative inside and out.

There is joy in our Intimate Christ...

"Life Is Beautiful" with Roberto Benigni showed us something of the transformative power of joy.

Gnostics can be at times unjoyful and so a bit of this conscious power can go a long way.

The key to meditate also. Because meditation is dark and lonely and unpleasant, but if we bring joy to be there with ourselves and to face ourselves, it transforms totally, to be a very pleasant and meaningful practice.

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A Life Secret: the Value of Joy - (5595)

Secret

A practical secret to life is to be able to find a way to make everything joyful and fun.

If we can do this, which we all can, we can make our life much happier.

Very true right?

As with all the virtues or values, they come to full bloom amidst their opposite. Their power always resides in being able to transform something mechanical and negative into something conscious and positive.

When we are tired, bored, fed up, miserable, sad and lazy, that is precisely when we need the value of joy.

When we bring joy, we give ourselves the power make what we are doing right now, fun and joyful.

Just imagine our boss doing that. It would be great, it would be so infectious making everyone happy. But that, alas is too childish for him or her to do.

It is pride that stops us from making something boring or tiring or humiliating fun or joyful...

Many people are miserable and unhappy only because they have never consciously engaged their power of joy.

Why do we love dogs so much? Because they are an animal that have a lot of innate joy, and that joy makes us feel the same - joyful.

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Tension is not Trust - Trust to Relax - (5394)

Tension is tightens our body and emotions. When we are apprehensive or having to face something we believe will be unpleasant we tighten up.

We tighten up to brace ourselves for the pain to come.

When we trust in the moment and in our Being that brings us each moment of our life, we have a reason to trust and relax.

We can trust whatever the moment brings, because our Inner Being is behind it. If it be pleasant, if it be unpleasant, if it be 'not as bad as we thought', if it 'be better than we expected', our Inner Being is behind it. 

If we analyse each moment, we can come to the conclusion that every moment that we live in life, could have been worse... 

If we think that about a unpleasant moment that is coming to us, we can trust and relax in what the moment will bring...

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Negative Critical Fascination with a Person for a Secret Reason - to Help them! - (5391)

Here is some knowledge from a mini revelation of the consciousness.

We all have contracts or debts with others that are present not at a human level but at an internal level. Such as an essence to essence level or a Mondad to Monad level. 

Where these contracts or debts come from we may not know. From the past I'd say, when a certain pact or agreement was made between souls or Monads.

Anyhow, we come to life with those contracts, and in time we meet those whom we have these contracts with physically. As we are asleep we don't become fully of aware of the contract we have internally to help that person.

We know something deep down that we must help them, yet we don't. We may totally avoid or ignore them, or help just a bit here and there, nothing special or substantial.

As mentioned before, we are asleep and what happens, is that in time, we develop a strange kind of obsession or a fascination with person that is critical and negative. Where we want to know what they are doing, why they do this and that and we may often criticise and analyse them.

We investigate within ourselves why we have that fascination and we find, yes that we have the same egos and we do our work on that and we get some inner light. Yet that fascination comes back, not as heavy or critical but it is back. 

One day a revelation comes, which says that because we are asleep or not fully awake, the Being within us uses those critical egos as a way to bring the person to our mind constantly, daily, so that we get the message that we need to help them. 

When we realise this we can then fulfil that internal contract or debt and truly help them and then the fascination or obsession will definitely disappear and turn into perhaps a friendship.

Even a person may keep giving us trouble wanting that we help them because deep down in their consciousness they know that we have a debt with them and they want that we pay it, so to set both of us free.

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Patience as Endurance - (5390)

There is a part of patience which can be called conscious endurance. 

Which means to endure some difficult reactions within ourselves for a greater good. A good greater than the ourselves, especially those vested or egoic interests. 

The type of conscious endurance that is needed that falls under patience, is the type where we observe the difficult reaction unfold within ourselves. and endure the difficult feelings and wait that they pass. We do this knowingly so to die and for the greater good. 

Here patience, is to endure the difficulty that arises within. The more we consciously endure the more we comprehend and the weaker the difficulty becomes.

In order to die within ourselves we all need this power at some point for some stage. But never for always...

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What Counts in Sacrifice for the Work is Higher Frequency, Duration and Intensity All Combined - (5389)

It seems the sacrifice that moves mountains in our spiritual work is really sacrifices sustained over the long term. As that is what is more difficult. 

Many can sacrifice something for a night, but to sustain that, higher energy, will and values such as love are needed.

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Why Does Everything have Consciousness? - (5388)

The answer is because everything has knowledge.

Consciousness is knowledge and being.

For anything to be what it is, it needs knowledge. That is knowledge of how to be what it is.

Even rocks have consciousness, because they know how to atomically be a rock.

This knowledge is precisely consciousness.

If there is no knowledge there is no thing.

If there is knowledge there also has to be a 'knower'. This 'knower' comes from being which comes from the consciousness.

The conclusion here is, that the more we expand our consciousness the more we can 'be'.

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Complicated and Intricate Equation of Recurrences - (5387)

To make recurrences happen a very complicated and intricate equation must be solved.

One day I experienced a one minute long recurrence with a gentlemen that I sold a watch to. He did not recognise me, but I recognised the watch as well as the gentlemen.

He was waiting to cross a busy city terrace and for some reason his watch caught my eye. I slowly  recognised the watch as the one I use to have and then I recognised the gentlemen. I thought my goodness to make this one minute happen (how long it took the lights to change) how many things had to happen in my day, how many small decisions and events were made to unknowingly to make this happen.

Maybe it would have happened in another way but it still was destined to happen. That equation of recurrence had to be solved somehow. 

I imagine such equations exist in life, our karma creates the variable in the equation as well as the structure of the equation and our decisions in time and space are the inputs into the variables and the constants. 

Who is the mathematician in charge of creating those equations? Partly ourselves and the intelligent law of Karma and Recurrence.

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Values Inside Fear - (5385)

This diagram shows how behind each facet of an ego there is a certain value that is lacking. That same value is the precious antidote.

This diagram also says that the lack of a value manifests in a way to compensate externally for the lacking value.

This diagram also says that there is a solution to that lacking of a value. I don't really agree with the resolutions listed, because the real resolution is the filling of the value lacking by giving that value (to oneself and others) and dissolving the "I" that conditions this value in the wrong direction.

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Work or Growth Principles - Interesting - (5384)

Many times in our Gnostic studies we stop making positive changes in ourselves. The main point of the teachings is for us to change.

Here are some ideas - even though superficial but still good that can help us to get our focus back onto changing ourselves and our nature.

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About Creating Boundaries - (4638)

Here are some ideas or concepts that may be useful to people who are working on themselves to be able to say 'no' to certain circumstances that are not benefiting them.

A 'no' to certain circumstances is a 'yes' at the same time to better circumstances.

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