Personal gain is not a factor, when it is done AT NO ONE ELSE'S Expense. What you can create through your own imagination & effort, is perfectly fine. If your personal gain just happens to enrich other people at the same time, that's even better. Two things to keep in mind are Intent, and the method of Manefestation. There are always consequences in action. That's Cause & Effect. Karma is neither a Reward, nor a Punishment. It is merely the results of action, and has no more emotional import than a cue ball feels when you do a bank shot to sink the eight ball.
The trick is to figure out what the results most likely will be in advance... not just personally, but universally. That's a skill which can be developed through careful observation. We gravitate conditions to us in the Material World, that match what is going on inside us. That's why the Ancients taught this lesson : Know Thyself! The better you know yourself, the more understanding you will have about the true nature of your own appetites & desires. Rid yourself of that which is unworthy within yourself, and circumstances in the Material World, will alter themselves accordingly.
Considering the barbaric past of the human species, can there be any question as to why circumstances on this planet are, shall we say, less than harmonious? Now of course, since we are all co-creators of the conditions that prevail on Earth, none of us is entirely responsible for what is going on in the world, AND none of us is entirely innocent either. We have to take responsibility for that, before we can move on.
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These experiments in lucid dreaming are intended to be used in combination with my Mental Yoga Exercises.
Conscious Dreaming 101
If you have been using these exercises for about a month, then this experiment should be pretty easy. When you are asleep, try to take control of your dream. At first, you may try too hard & wake up. Go back to sleep & try again. To begin with, just steer the dream in minor ways, & with practice work up towards complete control. If you don't like the way in which a dream is progressing, steer it in a different direction: if a dream is getting dark, go towards some light; if you are being dragged down, find stairs that go up. When you get good at this, you can set yourself tasks to do while you are sleeping.
Meditation 101
Volumes have been written on the benefits of meditation. Here is the simplest & most effective method I have found. It was taught by Ramana Maharshi. Sit in a comfortable posture (either a Yoga posture or in a chair with your legs out, & your hands draped near your knees) with your eyes open. Now focus your consciousness on your consciousness. That's it. That's all there is to it. Ignore what you see & hear around you; focus your consciousness on that part of you which is aware, & not upon the objects of your awareness. Words & thoughts will stream through your mind; ignore them: focus your consciousness on your consciousness. Images & even emotions will come to distract you; pay them no heed : remain calm & concentrate on only one thing, your consciousness itself. When you are meditating, do not become distracted by external or internal phenomena. It is so simple, & yet it is quite hard.
Conscious Dreaming 102
After you have been using the exercises for about two months, or have learned how to steer your dreams, you should be ready to put this to a practical use: setting yourself tasks to do while you are asleep. We all have projects we are working on or situations we are dealing with. Pick one that is either most dear to you or the most vexing. Now just before you go to sleep, think about the one you have chosen for a minute, & then put it out of your mind, & go to sleep. You may or may not remember dreaming about it when you get up, but ideas & insights will come, that will enable you greatly in whatever you have chosen to deal with. Now isn't that nice? You just got some work done while you were asleep. And you thought all of this metaphysical stuff had no practical value! *lol*
Sensitivity Training 101
After you have used the exercises for about three months, & have been meditating regularly, & have learned to use conscious dreaming to do tasks at night, you should be more than ready for this next step. Go outside to a place where you will be alone, & not be bothered by people. Find a pretty spot, & lean up against a big beautiful tree. Now use the concentration you have developed from meditation to feel the life in the tree. Let yourself experience what the tree is experiencing. Listen externally to what is happening around you. Listen internally to what the tree will tell you. The tree will not be speaking in English, but it will direct your attention towards things that interest it. You will learn many things in this way that words cannot express.
Sensitivity Training 102
After you have had success with Sensitivity Training 101, you may try something a bit harder: inanimate objects. In a quiet place hold somebody else's ring or keys or some other small object in your hands. Immerse yourself in it, as you have learned to do with a tree, & let the images come. Events that occurred around the object personal to the owner should come into your mind. With practice you will become an expert in psychometry. This can be used as a parlor trick, if you must, but I find it of greater value when I want to know what somebody I am dealing with is really like....
Conscious Dreaming 103
After five months using the exercises & meditation, & some success with Sensitivity Training 102, you should be ready for the next step in Conscious Dreaming. Plan, before you go to sleep, to visit a quiet & beautiful place, like where your tree is, for instance. When you get there, float to a comfortable spot either on the ground or near it. Now practice meditation or one of the exercises, if you prefer. Up until now, you have been practicing the exercises & meditation on the physical plane to increase coordination between your conscious & subconscious minds, & to make yourself more sensitive to the Astral, Mental, & Spiritual planes of reality. Now you will be on the Astral plane doing the meditation or one of the exercises, to further increase your sensitivity to the Mental & Spiritual planes, & to increase the coordination between your mind & your spirit.
Conscious dreaming is a big step, but it is the easiest way to learn how to focus your consciousness on the Astral Plane. Before you go to sleep, push aside all negative thoughts, worries & concerns. Put your mind at rest, thinking thoughts of harmony & peace. Visualize places that bring you joy, places of beauty & tranquility. This will make the conscious dreaming come easier, and make a note to yourself, that when you dream, that you will KNOW that you are in a dream. Then you can move on to practicing meditatation or the first exercises while you are "asleep".
Conscious Dreaming 104
After six months using the exercises & meditation, and some success with Conscious Dreaming 103, you are in for a little treat. There is a wonderful place just above the Astral plane, I call the Great Library. It contains the records of everything that has ever happened, & much, much more. There are Librarian Guides there who will be happy to assist you in learning anything you might want to know about, & meeting places where people like us (or nicer) gather to confer, & listen to Enlightened Beings who teach what cannot be expressed in words. You are hereby invited to join in. While you are asleep, go to your special place to meditate. After a period of meditation, think of this Great Library, & ease yourself up into this higher vibration. Realize that all of the phenomena you see here are merely symbols for your mind to hold onto as a reference. Now be as receptive as you were to your tree to the principles that the symbols you see represent. Welcome. You are here!
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Many people know that plants respond well, when you speak to them, but it is also true that we benefit, when we listen to what the Plant World has to say to us
Monday night I parked my car on the hill above the Comedy Store, (the only free parking around there), and walked down the hill. I stopped for a few minutes, as I always do, to commune with a favorite Jacaranda tree.
Trees usually don't attempt to communicate with me using the mental impressions of our words, but that night it did. The tree said, "Move over into the driveway now!" I wondered what was up, but also stepped over into the driveway on the narrow street on the steep hill. Ten seconds later two cars zoomed by with only inches between them & the curb.
Anyone else would have been dead on the spot.
I made friends with this tree a couple of years ago, when one of its major trunks broke off. I always stopped there to comfort it, as best I could. See what unconditional Love can bring? This Jaracanda is up the hill on Queen's Road, which is very steep, and dangerous when fools are driving on it. Further up along the way there's a connecting street between King's Rd, & Queen's Rd. That's about the only free parking around there. BTW, I perform every Monday night with the Ding Dong Show, in the Belly Room of the Comedy Store... 10pm
I just realized that I've been talking with trees for a good 30 years now. In 1975 I was in New Hampster, hanging out in the woods. I sat down leaning against an Oak, just to meditate. After awhile I began to feel this Life in the tree, and then I started getting mental images from it.
First the tree directed my attention to a hole in the ground, and a few moments later, a groundhog emerged from it. Then the tree directed my attention to a bird's nest it was carrying. It was very pleased that a new generation of singers was hatching, and growing up.
By that time I was very much in tune with the tree's thoughts. So much so, that a skunk walked by & didn't notice me there at all. I hadn't brought any water with me, and since I was getting thirsty, the tree planted an image of a bit of water flowing out of the hill just about 200 yards off to my right. I walked over there, and found this spot, exactly as the tree had imaged it to me, and dranks some. It was very, very good.
A few weeks ago, I am certain that somebody was near this place in the Muir Woods, was talking on their cellphone to get the latest scores on their favorite sports team. The parent tree would have died thousands of years ago, but from it sprang a circle of new redwoods. These were quite old when I encountered them... perhaps several thousand years old themselves. The ancientness pervades that place, a perspective on Time few generally regard. They grow there observing the passing of days, seasons, years. Millennia come & go, and they know all the doings of the creatures of the forest. They know every visible stars in the sky, marking the flare-ups of supernovas, and even the positions of far off galaxies...
Sometimes I get out the clippers & remove dead branches from my trees. They love the hair cuts They regard it as solon treatments. Of course, then I have a prob with all of the trees in my neighborhood requesting that they get treatments, too... The trick I use in trimming trees & bushes works like this. First I take the time to observe what's going on, and listen for any input. When you cut something off, realize that it's just a failed experiment, and the tree doesn't want to pursue it. Without ambulatory creatures like us to tend these matters, the trees get stuck with their failed experiments, and that can lead to other problems. When you've determined that something needs to be cut off, you should make the cut in a way that will make it look like it never happened. Nice & smooth, blending in with the whole pattern the tree is doing with its growth.
The trick to this sort of communication, is just to try it. The trees are there. They want to talk. It just takes some practice to establish the link. Trees are individuals, but they are also a collective. The Jacaranda on that hill, knows about the Jacaranda in my front yard. They pass information to each other. There might be a root network involved, even though they are 17 miles away from each other.
The network that connects the Jacarandas, seems to have an overlap with the other tree species. I'll give you an example. A few weeks ago I was visiting a friend in Long Beach. It was a very hot day, and we were doing errands with her friend. When we were done, we all had had a bit of heat prostration. I took a nap on her couch, but her friend rode his bike home. He didn't call us when he got home, which he had promised to do. She got worried.
So I went out to her back porch & asked the row of cedars about her friend. They said that he had ridden his bike home & went inside. They didn't know what he did once he got in there. What I didn't know about her friend, was that he is very good with plants. Most people aren't very much noticed by plants, because they never speak with them or really have much to do with their lives. BUT, this guy is very much on the tree's radar, so to speak. They know he travels a lot on his bike, and keep track of his comings & goings.
So when I asked about him, they already had a clear image of him, and knew what he had done. An hour or so later, he called after taking a long nap, but it was nice to know sooner that he had gotten home OK, since the trees there consider him a friend.
Perhaps it is my Egalitarian & Progressive political attitude, but I regard us all as essentially equal beings. I have ongoing communications with Intelligences that Pagans, & Shamans, etc would refer to as Goddesses & Gods, but I treat them like powerful friends. They seem to appreciate my attitude, and perhaps that is why they speak to me, and tell me things. I can communicate in this way with any living thing. Usually that's trees, or plants in my garden, but I also have several friends who are cactuses. Occassionally, I'll go mountain climbing. By listening to what a mountain has to say, I discover beautiful, out of the way things, plus easier routes to get around. There is great Wisdom in trees, but they have a rather mundane side, too. Sometimes, all they want to talk about is the weather. The Key to all of this, is to Pay Attention. Unfortunately, many people will pay anything, except attention. Just don't be hasty... (somehow I think Tolkien understood that).
And like I said in the the beginning, trees seldom think in ways that translate directly vibration-wise as the sort of words we use. Primarily, plants emote their feelings. Secondarily, they use images. Most importantly, (and only after you've developed the habit of listening to them), they can transmit the experience of their consciousness. Plants were here for a few billions years before there were any truly ambulatory lifeforms, and plants created the conditions that allow ambulatory lifeforms to exist. We exist, because they allow it, and it would do us good to recognize our true place in the scheme of things.
Plants are not ambulatory, but they can & do move. It's just not a big thing for them. Mostly, plants simply grow and observe. They have lots of time to think. They have been doing this for billions of years on this planet, and they know a great deal more than most people would suspect. Since plants sustain and nourish all of the other lifeforms here, they could be considered superior to us. I suspect that they regard us as their pets, and in exchange for admiring their beauty, and properly tending them, they are willing to give us some fruit & veggies...
Consider merely on the physical level, how the shapes of leaves are ideal as sonic detectors. A tree is a vast array, and it hears everything, both far and near. I've found that trees can communicate with each other over great distances, and sometimes, when I listen carefully in an empathic way, they tell me things. The trees know all of the stars in the sky, have witnessed the deaths and births of stars, and know the placements of all of the galaxies in the Universe. It is truly awesome... The mechanism for all this lies in the fact that like all living things, trees have auras. The xylem and phloem which extend from their roots, through their skin, and up through their leaves, possesses electrical conductivity, and functions as a nervous system.
Not many things will impress a tree, more than sharing your water... (girls are said to prefer diamonds ;) ) It's something that very much will get their attention, and make them want to reach out to you. At mountain tops, I've given water to whoever happened to be growing there, and every time, have felt a rush of energy well up from the mountain, and the plant that got water, that was as refreshing as drinking the water, myself.
Establishing this kind of report, is simply something that takes practice. You have to adjust the vibrations of your mind to match those of the living thing you wish to communicate with. When similarity of vibration is achieved, information can be passed back and forth both ways.
Life speaks to Life, and sings itself through all of its Forms. Life sings in Light, Wind, Water, and arises from the Earth. Life is Pure, and Virtuous. Life is Joyous, and Transcendent. Life is all there is, and this is what you are! Sing your Life in the Grand Chorus of the Universe!
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Reflect upon what you have done. Be open for Change. Take the Family into account. Return to basics. Rid yourself of mental Blocks. Meet your mistakes
Preparation is everything. Bite through the problem. Move towards Success. Decrease to restore order. Proceed with proper Conduct. Limit the use of Control
Make Opposition complementary rather than polarizing
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