Fantasy to Self-Knowledge - (5931)

The study of fantasy converts into self-knowledge.

This is because for every fantasy that we have there is a reason for it. The reason is mostly found in compensation.

Through studying any fantasy that we have we can find what it is compensating for. 

What the fantasy is compensating for tells us directly what we lack and what we need to develop within us.

The study of our fantasies are a guide to filling ourselves up with a real value.

Fantasy after all is an attempt at filling us up with something. 

Compensation works in duality. The fantasy will be the opposite of what we are.

A weak person will have fantasies of being powerful and dominant and vice versa.

The question to ask is what do my fantasies tell me about myself?

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Paint What You See and Put that to Dissolution - (5927)

When we are going to dissolve something in our psyche don't say anything about it, don't label it talk about it in your mind. Just present the feeling of it as you feel it and work on dissolving it with the Divine Mother.

That is where painting what we see comes into it instead of painting what we think.

The real thing is what we see and if we are presenting what we think no wonder why our dissolution is not too effective because there is no real target presented.

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Thank you for the Beautiful Comments About the Best Spiritual Image to Meditate on - (5923)

Here are the ideas from the readers:

• "There are so many beautiful paintings of the Divine Mother we can use as inspiration to reach the internal purity She embodies."

• "Jesus' death, the eclipse, entombment, earthquake, and union of his spirit with the earth's."

• "Roses blooming on the cross."

• "Our own Being."

• "Liquid water in whatever way one wants: a stream, a flow from a garden hose, rain on puddles, on glass, flowing over rocks; water as the thoughtful living medium of love and memory we exist in and sense everything through."

• "Paintings of Christ from the masters."

• "Recently the image of the Christ from the shroud of Turin has been helpful for me. Thanks."

• "Lovely post. I also enjoy the image of the sun, the Christ, milky way, of course Buddha, DM, kneeling in front of divinity."

Lovely suggestions and thank you very much for commenting.

Let's do them.

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Transformation from Things Come Up and Up from Deeper and Deeper - (5924)

When we focus on a project, obstacles are likely to appear. The interesting thing is to see the obstacles that come up from inside.

The obstacles come up from inside plentifully. One after the other. Thankfully, as we present them for dissolution the rate at which they come up slows down.

What is interesting to see, are the types of obstacles that come up.

They start off as very related to the project, and a bit later they still come up but apparently semi-related to the project. But with careful reflection these semi-related obstacles are deeply related. They are just more personal and intimate in nature.

The obstacles come up from deeper levels within us, and the deeper the level they appear from the more buried in time they are.

Choosing a project and seeing the obstacles one after the after, eventually brings obstacles from our past lives up to the surface for examination.

The way to cause them to appear is the dissolution mindset. Which goes like this: see them, understand them, and present them for dissolution. That is doing this with the determination to get past them quickly. 

When we get past the obstacles quickly there is space for others to appear.

If we don't dissolve the obstacles, the deeper ones can't rise up to be seen.

In summary, the keys are to take a worthwhile project focus on it, open up to see the obstacles from inside, dissolve them and open up again to see others, dissolve them, and repeat and repeat until there are less and less. By the time there are less, you will be focusing on obstacles related to the remote past.

Working on the remote past brings us all a lot of transformation.

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Encounter the Lacking in Ourselves from the Negative - (5926)

Knowing what we lack is an encounter with ourselves. Some may say it is an encounter with our shadow side. Either way it is to encounter ourselves.

Anyhow the point here is that what we lack will only come to our attention via the negative side of things.

Often the negative side of things could be a sarcastic comment, criticism, a reprimand, a fine, something not working out etc. etc.

All of those things are just helping us to encounter ourselves, that is, to see what we lack. At the end of the day it is all about ourselves and seeing ourselves.  

Whatever people say about ourselves is always reminding us of ourselves. The happier we are to meet ourselves and make some adjustments, the less and less of a problem it is.

The more we see that we are not perfect and we are working and working on ourselves, the less upset we will be about having to see ourselves and the more we will appreciate it.

(If we are forced to see ourselves, that shouldn't really a problem because it is our own selves. We see ourselves every waking minute. We could have a problem being forced to see someone else that we are not interested in. That is fair enough. The problem is that we don't really want to see ourselves and we are not really that interested in ourselves. To love ourselves consciously is the key to dissolve self-love.)

This bit of understanding can really help us to weaken self-love and anger. Be happy to see the lack in ourselves through the negative, is the start to transform the negative and the lack into a strength and the into the very positive.  

To see ourselves perfect is to love ourselves way too much in the impractical and painful sense. To see we are a huge work in progress is to love ourselves consciously.

To see others as a work in progress and we are all working towards fixing ourselves is to love other more consciously also. Expecting them to be perfect is insane and is a lack of maturity.

To see something as our fault when it truly is, is to see ourselves. Many of the lacks we have are our fault and the negative that comes our way is often our fault.

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Are We Giving in Every Area? - (5925)

The Divine is that as we give we will receive.

If we are not receiving what we need, it has to be that we are not giving.

But we usually all say: "But I am giving!".

We are giving, it could be though not in every area and especially not in some important areas that for some reason or another really count.

Often these areas that we are not giving in are blind spots and they really count more than we think and accept.

The best policy is to be giving in all areas and be giving more than receiving.

An simple audit of our giving and receiving balance in all areas of our life: spiritual work, health, physical work, home, family, relationships (friends), finances, environment, community, will reveal a lot to us.

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Rushing is a Very Negative State - (5922)

Rushing is a state that opens us up to many other negative states. Rushing is also something very characteristic of a low level of the Being.

I don't want to be judgmental. I so often see people in the city who are mentally unbalanced rushing here there and everywhere yelling this and that. Where are they going in such a hurry?

Generally people of a high level of being don't rush.  

Anyway getting back to ourselves when we are rushing it is because we have been irresponsible and we are worried, stressed and impatient. Such a combination leads to anger and an angry state leads to brash action.

Rushing also alters our nervous system and affects our energy levels and state of energy within our body. Especially our sexual energy.

Rushing leads to unwanted accidents at all levels, not just physically...

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Using Transparency to Die in Ourselves - (5866)

Introduction

Master Samael spoke to us about knowing how to die, how to suffer and I think about how to be silent.

To know how to die can mean to know the many ways that we can die, and when to apply those ways.

A really good way to die is to do practices that displace the whole 'myself'. Meaning to put aside the whole personal identity of myself.

A good way to do this is to be awareness, which is to embrace the following qualities: transparent, formless, invisible knowing.

This post lists some of the ways that we can die in ourselves by embracing some the qualities of awareness, namely transparency. 

If we know some of these ways we can apply them in the many different parts of our day and life.

Here is the list and some of the events in which they can be applied.

The key of this post is that for each of these situations there are particular attributes of the consciousness for us to embrace, and by being those attributes, we help ourselves to die with precision and to a very deep level within those events.

List

Listening

Listening with full attention brings much opportunity to die in ego-centric based distraction, and be only awareness with no personal interests.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Paying Attention

When consciously paying attention there is much that we can die in. 

Be like a still clear lake.

Essentially our attachment to ourselves and selfishness, which resists us giving over our full attention to the moment.

Focus on awareness, be formless in identity and be present. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Speaking

When speaking consciously we can observe much of our vested interests, much of our ill-will, much of our subjectivity (biases), much of our memory and much of the mechanical nature of our psyche.   

Be like a crystal knife cutting and shaping our words as they are being formulated. The knife of the consciousness.

Focus on alert awareness using it to see the consequences of what we are going to say and using it to correct to the process of forming our speech by formulating speech that adheres to reality.

Taking note of the ill-will, vested interests, applying on the spot letting go and taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Difficult Situations

Difficult situations as Master Samael said give us the best chance to die. That is totally true but we always have a tough time accepting that in the moment. 

Be like a river. The consciousness is like a clear river that flows ever onwards taking us to continuously through learning experiences and to experiences of new states of consciousness.

Focus on awareness, allowing ourselves to be like a river that flows, and flow with what we have to accept and do. Be consciousness repeatedly, helping ourselves to separate from the storm inside our centres.  

Taking note of what appears psychologically, repeatedly applying on the spot comprehension, and if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Walking

To walk like glass. Being only awareness, not attaching to anything and not giving attention to anything but that which is awareness. 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Social Events

There is so much that we avoid and get identified with in social events, 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Shopping

Be like a spotlight where we are focused on finding what we are there to buy, and where the impressions of all the interesting things in the shop do not enter our mind. 

Focus on a focused awareness, a line of light that illuminates essentially what we need. 

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension of need vs wanting as well as what is behind the sensation of having. If required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Praying

Be a fire, a source that radiates warmth which is life and light which is consciousness.

Focus on the heart as a source of light and love for the higher part of ourselves and others. Be the consciousness so that we can perceive all that comes into our awareness and not get distracted from continuing to direct our light and love inwards and upwards.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Remembering the Past

Be like air, something that is everywhere and something that does not get stuck. That sees yet does not become and does not get stuck.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and reacting.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Physical Job

Be focused awareness and caring for things done right. 

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Gnostic Class

Be awareness in its qualities of openness, inwardly explorative and transformative. Looking to bridge gaps and transform impressions through knowledge of ourselves.

Driving

Be both focused and peripheral awareness.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Eating

Be transparent transforming awareness. Extracting the best substances from the food we are eating and moving our awareness all through the body from the stomach to take the most advantage of the food being eaten.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate (eat less maybe).

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Meditating

Be a mobile light that moves in our interior and sees all that arises, witnessing it all and letting it pass while seeing into it to become more aware of what is in our mind and how our mind works.

Meditation gives us the model of what it is like to be our consciousness and what's more important is the way to repeat keep on being pour consciousness.

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Understanding It is Not Right is Enough to Start - (5921)

Just understanding that our reactions are not right is enough for us to die. 

I think we all have inroads into how our reactions work or don't work out for ourselves. 

If we focus on elimination that's all we need to start. Don't wait for more to start.

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Later We Reverse the Order - (5920)

Die first in all that we can and then go back to knowledge and comprehension to deepen death

The order has to be placed such that death is a priority and use all else to help the process of elimination along.

Often we follow the opposite order, and things can take so long and if things take a long time there is always the danger of stalling.

It's in the beginning when we are starting that the order of knowledge, comprehension and elimination is helpful but later this order has to be reversed.

If we focus on getting past those feelings and eliminating them, we will find this to be helpful.

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Loaned and Returned to Mother Earth - (5919)

Something that we could lose in nature was something that we were only ever loaning from Mother Earth. 

Mother Earth gives us the raw materials and we give those materials a form. We enjoy those materials for a while then as it was only ever a loan we must return them to Mother Earth.

Nature works that way with retribution. Mother Nature gives and later takes back. We are given a body and later it is taken back to return to the Earth from where it came.   

When we lose something to nature it is wonderful to say thankyou Mother Earth for loaning that object to us and may you take it back into your Earthly body. Then our part is to feel joy that Mother Earth has back what she loaned us.

This attitude transmutes the feelings of loss or anger at having lost the object.

It has been returned to the rightful owner. It has found its way home.

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Subtler Energetic Side of Money - (5918)

Money is not just a piece of thin coloured plastic it is a representation of a living law. Therefore it is has a reality on three levels: physical, psychological and esoteric.

Money can be seen to be energy. In fact when we think about it, it really does all boil down to be energy. 

If something is an energy, it naturally will have a particular feeling or quality. The quality of the energy of money is that of joy, happiness, abundance and freedom.

That is what people seek from money and that is essentially in many ways what money gives us.

We don't have to be degenerated to think that the energy of money is that of joy. If we had a lot of money look at all that we could do to help others. The true energy of money comes from the Sun out of the Cosmic Common Trogoautoegocrat Law, that is the continuous exchange or give and take of all things. 

The energy in the cosmos is infinitie and so the energy of money is also infinite. Hence it is related to abundance. 

Money is also related to the sexual energy as they both possess the quality of abundance. That is why when a couple practice Alchemy their economic situation can change as do many other things inside of themselves do before the external changes (finances).

Somehow we think money is evil yet if we relate to it correctly, that is relate to it with joy and flowing freedom (generosity) we can see that it is not really evil. Because we will use it to bring ourselves joy and others joy as well.

If we feel joy towards money we will magnetically attract money and opportunities to do with improving our financial situation, becasue we are of the right quality to serve the energy the energy of money which is to bring joy, happiness, freedom and abundance.  

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What is the Best Spiritual Image to Meditate On? - (5917)

Really good question. To know it would be great as that is what one can visualize and focus stable attention on and thus receive much internal benefit from. 

I don't know the absolute best, and maybe there is not an absolute best, it could vary between stages. I definitely know that a good start is to use the image of the Sun to meditate on.

Please do leave in the comments section what you think may be the best image for inner development to meditate on.

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Boomerang of Psychic Attack - (5916)

There is a principle in the world of psychic energies that when someone attacks knowingly or unknowingly a person who is stronger energetically, the energy of the attack bounces back clashing against the one who issued the attack.

That is why so often people who become negative and attack their spiritual master with gossip, judgement, slander and criticism in the end, become so negative that they wind up being very disappointed and upset and leave their spiritual studies.

This happens everywhere and all the time. It's good to know that just even scientifically energetically, that this is what is going to happen to us if we send negative waves to anyone who is more advanced than us. The negativity we issue will rebound and we will end up more negative.

End (5916).

Control Inner States Control Life - (5915)

If there be a method to change our inner states, with that method we will control our life.

It is always the wrong inner states that spin the events of our life out of balance.

If we can change our inner states to the right ones we will benefit from the better side of the events.

In the end if we can control our inner states we will be able to control our life.

There are methods and methods. Conscious breathing is the first method that we use to influence our inner world. 

It is the first method because it begins from the outside. 

Conscious breathing can definitely change our inner states which gives us access to our inner world which then helps us to approach the outer world from the centre of the inner world, and that is where we can control ourselves from within the events of our life.

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