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Clairvoyance Avon

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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

It means to inhabit your body fully. To always have some of your attention in the inner energy field of your body. To feel the body from within so to speak. Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see Chapter 6).

The Esoteric Meaning Of "Waiting"

In a sense the state of presence could be compared to waiting. Jesus used the analogy of waiting in some of his parables. This is not the usual bored or restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present and that I spoke about already. It is not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point in the future and the present is perceived as an undesirable obstacle that prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment and if you are not absolutely awake absolutely still you will miss it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about. In that state all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming thinking remembering anticipating. There is no tension in it no fear just alert presence. You are present with your whole Being with every cell of your body. In that state the "you' that has a past and a future the personality if you like is hardly there anymore. And yet nothing of value is lost. You are still essentially yourself. In fact you are more fully yourself than you ever were before or rather it is only now that you are truly yourself. "Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master says Jesus. The servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays awake alert poised still lest he miss the master's arrival. In another parable Jesus speaks of the five careless (unconscious) women who do not have enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so miss the bridegroom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast (enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have enough oil (stay conscious). Even the men who wrote the Gospels did not understand the meaning of these parables so the first misinterpretations and distortions crept in as they were written down. With subsequent erroneous interpretations the real meaning was completely lost. These are parables not about the end of the world but about the end of psychological time. They point to the transcendence of the egoic mind and the possibility of living in an entirely new state of consciousness.

Beauty Arises In The Stillness Of Your Presence

What you have just described is something that I occasionally experience for brief moments when I am alone and surrounded by nature. Yes. Zen masters use the word

satori to describe a flash of insight a moment of no-mind and total presence. Although satori is not a lasting transformation be grateful when it comes for it gives you a taste of enlightenment. You may indeed have experienced it many times without knowing what. it is and realizing its importance. Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty the majesty the sacredness of nature. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night Yes but only as seen from the limited perspective of the manifested universe. In the Bible God declares: I am the Alpha and the Omega and I am the living One." In the timeless realm where God dwells which is also your home the beginning and the end the Alpha and the Omega are one and the essence of everything that ever has been and ever will be is eternally present in an unmanifested state of oneness and perfection - totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or comprehend. In our world of seemingly separate forms however timeless perfection is an inconceivable concept. Here even consciousness which is the light emanating from the eternal Source seems to be subject to a process of development but this is due to our limited perception. It is not so in absolute terms. Nevertheless let me continue to speak for a moment about the evolution of consciousness in this world. Everything that exists has Being has God-essence has some degree of consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise it would not be and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun the earth plants animals humans - all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees consciousness manifesting as form. The world arises when consciousness takes on shapes and forms thought forms and material forms. Look at the millions of life forms on this planet alone. In the sea on land in the air - and then each life form is replicated millions of times. To what end? Is someone or something playing a game a game with form? This is what the ancient seers of India asked themselves. They saw the world as lila a kind of divine game that God is playing. The individual life forms are obviously not very important in this game. In the sea most life forms don't survive for more than a few minutes after being born. The human form turns to dust pretty quickly too and when it is gone it is as if it had never been. Is that tragic or cruel? Only if you create a separate identity for each form if you forget that its consciousness is God-essence expressing itself in form. But you don't truly know that until you realize your own God-essence as pure consciousness. Awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of' it? Have you listened truly listened to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest? Or to the song of a blackbird at dusk on a quiet summer evening? To become aware of such things the mind needs to be still. You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems of past and future as well as all your knowledge; otherwise you will see but not see hear but not hear. Your total presence is required. Beyond the beauty of the external forms there is more here: something that cannot be named something ineffable some deep inner holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself. When you experienced those moments of presence you likely didn't realize that you were briefly in a state of no-mind. This is because the gap between that state and the influx of thought was too narrow. Your satori may only have lasted for a few seconds before the mind came in but it was there; otherwise you would not have experienced the beauty. Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds while you were completely present was that beauty or that sacredness there. Because of the narrowness of that gap and a lack of vigilance and alertness on your part you were probably unable to see the fundamental difference between the perception the thought-less awareness of beauty and the naming and interpreting of it as thought: The time gap was so small that it seemed to be a single process. The truth is however that the moment thought came in all you had was a memory of it. The wider the time gap between perception and thought the more depth there is to you as a human being which is to say the more conscious you are. Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say What a pretty flower but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still not present they don't truly see the flower don't feel its essence its holiness - just as they don't know themselves don't feel their own essence their own holiness. Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture most modern art architecture music and literature are devoid of beauty of inner essence with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot - even for a moment - free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

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Let us then try to carry back our thoughts to the beginning of this solar system to which we belong. We are all familiar with the ordinary astronomical theory of its origin - that which is commonly called the nebular hypothesis - according to which it first came into existence as a gigantic glowing nebula of a diameter far exceeding that of the orbit of even the outermost of the planets and then as in the course of countless ages that enormous sphere gradually cooled and contracted the system as we know it was formed.

Occult science accepts that theory in its broad outline as correctly representing the purely physical side of the evolution of our system but it would add that if we confine our attention to this physical side only we shall have a very incomplete and incoherent idea of what really happened. It would postulate to begin with that the exalted Being who undertakes the formation of a system (whom we sometimes call the Logos of the system) first of all forms in his mind a complete conception of the whole of it with all its successive chains of worlds. By the very act of forming that conception He calls the whole into simultaneous objective existence on the plane of His thought - a plane of course far above all those of which we know anything - from which the various globes descend when required into whatever state of further objectivity may be respectively destined for them. Unless we constantly bear in mind this fact of the real existence of the whole system [Page 91] from the very beginning on a higher plane we shall be perpetually misunderstanding the physical evolution which we see taking place down here.

But Occultism has more than this to teach us on the subject. It tells us not only that all this wonderful system to which we belong is called into existence by the Logos both on lower and on higher planes but also that its relation to Him is closer even than that for it is absolutely a part of Him - a partial expression of Him upon the physical plane - and that the movement and energy of the whole system is his energy and is all carried on within the limits of his aura. Stupendous as this conception is it will yet not be wholly unthinkable to those of us who have made any study of the subject of the aura.

We are familiar with the idea that as a person progresses on the upward path his causal body which is the determining limit of his aura distinctly increases in size as well as in luminosity and purity of colour. Many of us know from experience that the aura of a pupil who has already made considerable advance on the Path is very much larger than that of one who is but just setting his foot upon its first step while in the case of an Adept the proportional increase is far greater still. We read in quite exoteric Oriental scriptures of the immense extension of the aura of the Buddha; I think that three miles is mentioned on one occasion as its limit but whatever the exact measurement may be it is obvious that we have here another record of this fact of the extremely rapid growth of the causal body as [Page 92] man passes on his upward way. There can be little doubt that the rate of this growth would itself increase in geometrical progression so that it need not surprise us to hear of an Adept on a still higher level whose aura is capable of including the entire world at once; and from this we may gradually lead our minds up to the conception that there is a Being so exalted as to comprehend within Himself the whole of our solar system. And we should remember that enormous as this seems to us it is but as the tiniest drop in the vast ocean of space.

So of the Logos (who has in Him all the capacities and qualities with which we can possibly endow the highest God we can imagine) it is literally true as was said of old that "of Him and through Him and to Him are all things" and "in Him we live and move and have our being".

Now if this be so it is clear that whatever happens within our system happens absolutely within the consciousness of its Logos and so we at once see that the true record must be His memory; and furthermore it is obvious that on whatever plane that wondrous memory exists it cannot but be far above anything that we know and consequently whatever records we may find ourselves able to read must be only a reflection of that great dominant fact mirrored in the denser media of the lower planes.

On the astral plane it is at once evident that this is so - that what we are dealing with is only a reflection of a reflection and an exceedingly imperfect one for such [Page 93] records as can be reached there are fragmentary in the extreme and often seriously distorted. We know how universally water is used as a symbol of the astral light and in this particular case it is a remarkably apt one. From the surface of still water we may get a clear reflection of the surrounding objects just as from a mirror; but at the best it is only a reflection - a representation in two dimensions of three-dimensional objects and therefore differing in all its qualities except colour from that which it represents; and in addition to this it is always reversed.

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