CALISTHENICS APRIL 1982 HEALING - - DEAL WITH THE “NOW” - - CHRIST LOGOS - - CREATOR SYMBOL - - FEEDBACKS - - GO BEHIND - - LIVE THE HIGHEST - - DUALITY - - WE WORK FOR THE CHRIST - - STRUCTURING - -
There have been several requests from participants to join the healing group, and I will use the opportunity to illustrate the situation in the entire group.
As you have noticed, there are changes going on and they go pretty fast. As we have seen last time, everything we have done previously is outdated. Some of you realize this pretty clearly, but then there is a step to take -- a new situation. So let's use the example of the healing group.
The way we work in the healing group has requirements. If you don't have what is needed, you cannot train this way; you can train in other ways, but not in this way. One of the requirements is: healing deals with wholeness, it's not just fixing something in the body. The primary point in healing is in making someone whole. Now, as you know, this means that the so-called Divine aspect, or using the Greek example, the comedian, has to be joined to the mask (the mask being your personality). These have to be brought together. Now, you need some awareness of what the comedian is, otherwise, how will you bring the two together? You cannot. Practically speaking, when you face someone you have to have a sense of what the comedian is. You also have to have an awareness of the action you perform, and this implies a field awareness; it implies your ability to see a field activity. If you cannot see, how will you check what you do? The action has to be the action of the Doer. There has to be the ability to center on the situation and live it, literally, and then see what kind of arrangement you can make in that.
You cannot work in the old way: "I feel I am doing this". "You" are not involved. It is not "I feel"; there is the situation and you live that situation. Some of you have abilities in this direction.
Beyond this, there is another point: Can your abilities be used in a given situation? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. You have to recognize where they can be used, and when it is your place to act. It requires a minimum of awareness and some training.
Healing is primarily a gift. So, we ought to begin with ,,the question: Are you in a position in which you can give? or more simply: Are you able to give? Give what? Your own life and your own substance. I mean it, it is literally true.
If you want to be a healer for the sake of having the label, forget it. Healing is a gift, and you don't start by wanting to be a healer. You might start healing because you have a real concern that might be called "love" for the other's condition; you feel like giving because they need it -- that's a lot better.
Participant: What about psychological healing, is it pretty much the same thing?
Martin: it's the same. Speaking of psychological healing, we have two examples of how the new ways work, and they work better than the old ways.
The more spectacular is one that S applied. S had a patient, a man, who for 18 years had been slowly wasting away . He was very thin and could not gain weight. Now she saw the being, in that situation, as a fullness of being and not just a person, and the man felt the difference. He felt it so much that he asked her to place her hand at certain points ,which she did, and from that point the 18 year pattern was broken. Now an 18 year pattern is rather set, this is why I find the example rather beautiful. She met him one week later and he had gained two pounds and felt a lot better.
W had a similar situation, less spectacular, but he also saw the whole being, not just the depressed person, and it changed a lot of things for that person.
So, about the psychological aspect, if what I have described is applied, and if it is lived sufficiently accurately for the other to realize that something is happening, it is very effective. And it is not done with words. W didn't speak, what was done wasn't done with speech. What S did wasn't done with speech either. But in both situations there was the ability to live/see/sense another condition. And not just a fantasy. In a fantasy you would perhaps see a higher being and make an image. This is not sufficient. The image has to be very close to the actual situation, then you can connect and then something happens.
You have to realize that we go into a movement that is related symbolically with the Doer in the hologram ,-- not the Knower. This means that when you touch, you do; and you know what you do in the way the Doer knows, i.e., as he acts. It's not theoretical knowledge. it's a knowledge that is derived from the situation -- in the now. This is the action of the Doer.
And there is something else that is very important: You assume the responsibility of the action. If you say that you succeeded in calling a higher energy and that it came through, I wouldn't accept it. I don't say that it is right or wrong, but I do say that in the training we give we need people who can assume responsibility. You can't say: "The higher energy has to do it" -- that's too easy. But the point is not whether channeling works or not, the point is that in channeling you don't assume the responsibility.
If you work with your hands you can't say you feel like your hands are doing it -- I don't accept that either. You have to assume the responsibility -- whatever "you" is -- I don't limit it to your person, of course not .
You also have to be able to check what you do; see the action ; stop the action; take a look and then change something if it has to be changed. The means you see and know what you are doing.
What I will accept is that in a given situation, at a certain time, you can only do so much. Okay then you stop there, it is useless to go further. it's fine with me, as long as you know what you are doing. This means abilities are required.
Now, the same applies for any activity you want to start in the group. I am involved in the healing group, so I can offer this practical example, but the same principle applies for everything. You have to know what you are doing and be able to assume the responsibility for it. And the knowledge is not a mental knowledge, it is something you live fully -- it might imply mental knowledge, but it is not derived from mental knowledge.
You have to learn to deal with the now. The situation is thus; even if you had the intention of doing something specific, when the situation arrives it might allow you to do just as you decided to do, but most often it does not. This means you have to readjust to the situation of the now. The now has this or that opportunity and it might be different than you expect, so you have to be ready for it. Don't approach any situation with a preconceived idea -- when you meet a person or a situation you meet dynamics and you deal dynamics. You might have been told this or that about the person or situation or you might believe this or that, and you might want to deal with the situation accordingly or you might want to deal differently. You have to have the freedom, not only in front of others, but also in front of yourself. You have be able to be able to overhaul your own person (the one with all the preconceived ideas) and do what is needed.
As you can see, the question is not what you desire, the question is what you can do -- it's a lot more pragmatic. And what you can do is not for your own benefit, it's for the benefit of the situation you work in. You have to remember that we live in a society that is essentially ego-centered. It is ego-centered (from school) on the so-called material side. It is ego-centered (from the teachings) on the so-called spiritual side. If you would be a little more aware of what is going on around, you would be surprised at just how ego-centered everything is, and how little related to the real world. It's kind of shocking. I don't know of any teaching that is not ego-centered. You, you, you. On the outside ,you want fame, you want money, you want this or that. on the inside, you want a higher rank, a higher initiation, higher and higher. People are much, much too childish. if you follow the simple division in the book, as long as you want to have, you are a child. An adult gives. It's as simple as that. And this applies in what we do.
We might bring something else in here. We work for what we call "The Christ". Another name is "Planetary Logos".Another name is the "Doer aspect" or "Creator aspect"of God. This is CREATOR with capital letters. Now all of these labels are borrowed from what is around us, and I am fully aware that these labels have drawbacks -- they are inaccurate, very inaccurate in their logic, spiritually speaking.
I'll give you an example. When you are too little trained, you take everything you read as true just because it is printed. You swallow everything. How do you deal with different symbols applying to the same situation? For instance, you have the Solar Logos and a minor Logos called the Planetary Logos, and still another kind of Logos, a Spirit linked to the nature aspect of the planet. Divisions, divisions, divisions. As a human being and an ordinary person, you cannot contact the Planetary Logos. We can't even speak of the Solar Logos. This you are told and this you believe. It's not true, because if we follow logic (not my actual experience which is still different): The earth is the body of the Planetary Logos, just as you are a spirit abiding in the person. Okay, now your bodies are planetary substance belonging to the planet, thus to the body of that Christ. So, the very substance of your personality is the body of the Christ. And you say you cannot approach the Christ because in order to do it you have to be at least on the level of Shamballa . It's not true, but you live according to that teaching, that "truth". Seen from a certain angle, yes, it is so, the trouble is you can see it from other angles in which it is no longer true. Now, if you want to see from an angle that has a limitation, you are free to do -- then you live that limitation.
Symbolically, earth is dependent on the life, the light, of the sun. Sun is spirit, earth is body. If you follow the symbol, the earth belongs to personality, thus, we could say you have an ego that rules your person. The Planetary Logos is the super-ego ruling the super-person, same symbol, and spirit is related to sun. This means that all the teaching going on that ends up with the Planetary Logos can be seen according to one symbol, the whole Hierarchy up to that point, according to the other symbol. Planetary Logos is an image of the ego, not the spirit. The sun is the image of the spirit.
Another aspect that is quite embarrassing. Has it occurred to you that you don't know at all how a spiritual master lives? You have no idea. Not only that, but if the master is incarnated you can not even recognize him. It's kind of shocking because it shows you how fragile, ineffective your spiritual knowledge is. I see it all the time. Knowledgeable people, completely unable to recognize a spiritual master. When they speak of spirituality they pretend to be someone, just because they have learned some things in books, just because they have bright minds. I don't say that bright minds are not useful, up to a point they are, but we are speaking of effectiveness. Some type of maturity is needed. How can you know how spirituality in general works if you are ego-centered. As I said, symbolically, spirit is the sun, it's not the planet. Planet belongs to the system ruled by the sun, and, as you can see, all teaching is always done personality-wise, not spirit-wise.
You always have images of what you live in personal consciousness. Now, this does make sense because, as you know, you have to be able to reach the minds of other people. These minds are personality tools, so you give shapes according to the personality . It's for you to mature and go beyond that.
And this makes me think of something that happens constantly. Let's refer to the healing group again. When you work with a patient (my definition of a patient is someone who is very patient), you do something and then you ask for feedback. Then the patient says: "Oh, now I have a headache," or, "I'm jittery," or "I don't know," or "Well, I feel better, rounder," or "My big toe doesn't throb anymore" -- it's always something like this. Ninety-nine percent of the time it is completely irrelevant. If the healer knows what he or she is doing he or she acts on the comedian level, and the patient reacts in the personal body consciousness by feeling something in the body when this was not what you did. of course you can have harmonics of the action in the body, but if you want a feedback, you want feedback about what you did to be sure that your awareness of what you did is correct -- so you want someone else to tell you if it worked or not. The feedback may be that the toe is throbbing or that the toe is not throbbing -- it's still completely irrelevant because it does not help you to know if you acted correctly. You still have a psychological problem: Is it a harmonic of your action down into the body, or is it something that the patient constructed out of his imagination.
Now, if you really know what you do, you can measure if the body reaction the patient is describing is a harmonic of what you did or not. Unless the patient is really trained in higher sensitiveness, he cannot tell.
The rule in calisthenics is: every minor aspect is always an expression of a major one. In healing it's the same. So you have a minor aspect, the big toe throbbing, it has to be an expression of a major action. If what you did on me makes my toe throb, is it an expression of the greater action? Most probably not.
When we play music, for instance, we hear reactions from people: "I felt the action around my feet," "I felt it up to my thighs," "I felt it around my head" -- Doer-wise this is not what we did. It's completely irrelevant. if this is what you gather from the experience -- poor you.
Now the question could be: "Do we train the sensitiveness until it is reliable? It can be done, but we won't do it. If we sound Christ an M is implied (for M the legs express) and you feel movement in the legs, symbolically it's absolutely correct, there is a relation, but if you take it for being the action, you are deeply wrong. So I have to remind you of a training that is found in the book (Desire Exercise).Go behind, find a deeper level, possibly go further behind and find something else -- maybe you, maybe God. In any case, go behind, automatically . You have to go to the root, the root is always on another level. So, if you feel something during the music, accept it as a symptom and automatically go behind. Don't reason with yourself, because if you start reasoning you won't go behind. Reasoning takes a lot of time, so stop reasoning and go behind.
Most of you agree that there is a change going on, there is a need for a new approach. Okay let's train beauty. What do we do ?The book says: "down-and-away". Now, let's each one of us find something ugly, very ugly, and let's do "down-and- away"with it. Now let's go to something a little less ugly because the ugliest is already gone, then we go on to the next one, and so on for as long as you want -- ten incarnations. Down-and-away. All that time to do "down-and-away" so that beauty can exist.
Now let's do it differently: Live beauty. During all that time, live beauty .
If you spend your time in doing "down-and-away" with whatever is available to do "down-and-away" with, you will be surprised at how much you find -- and during all that time, no beauty.
If you want to live beauty you enter beauty and that's it. I am not kidding, it's true. it is shocking for your mind because the mind says that we have to ... in order to ...So let's center on Christ... You spend all your life in centering, forgetting Christ. You find it all the time.
This might not be pragmatic enough for you so we are going to make an experience.
Will you all stand up. On one foot, just to experience how wobbly your ankle is supporting the weight of your body. Now do something with your foot like taking off your sock, or as if you were washing your foot -- just to experience how wobbly you are. With the side of your vision, take an impression of the wobbliness in the room, not only your own, but the collective wobbliness.
Now, we are going to apply something that is scientifically tested and is bound to work every time. Concentrate on your ankle, the wobbly ankle, and tell it to be perfectly balanced. Now, start moving with your other foot again, taking off your sock, putting it back on, and take the general impression. it's a little better, but only a little bit. There is still a kind of shakiness in the room. Can you feel it?
Now, forget about your body. Live balance . I mean balance not balance of the body, not balance of this or that. Just live balance.
When you just live balance you can feel that there is something overall in the room that wasn't there when you were concentrated on the body. When you concentrate you concentrate only physically, so what you gain is very small. When you live balance, you truly live balance, you feel the balance in the room -- field-wise -- and your body happens to be in that. It's by far the more effective of the three positions experienced.
It is contrary to everything you know and have learned. The higher the principle, the more effective it is. If you try to bring it down into the body you lose your balance, because you reduce it to the body, instead of living it full.
Just live balance -- no other labels attached. It's a principle. Balance. It's all over.
If you want beauty it's exactly the same.
If you are worried with your mind, making a lot of noise inside your head, live silence. Silence.
Want to live Christ? Christ. That's all. No label. No form whatever.
If you start ... in order to ... forget it! As soon as you make a form you can be sure, unless you are an Initiate of a pretty high rank and it comes slightly through the person, you will automatically project your own person into the image of Christ. Christ will be an image, a being.
Now if the image is vague, out of focus, you might say it has no shape, but it is a shape, it's simply out of focus.
You know the old image of God, the old man with the white beard, that you find in children's books? Who can pretend not to be a child?
The sense of duality. Earth/sun; mask/comedian; body/ spirit; having/being, these are called opposites or complementary aspects. If you want to deal with the Christ, there is no having and no being.
I see you all looking at me. if you look more closely you will notice that in what is here you have life aspects that respond to any one of you and obviously more than that. Look at me and then look at another person in the room, see if some qualities or the finer quality of that person is present here. It works for a very simple reason, there is no possessiveness. I cannot say "this belongs to me". When we act, we act as a "we", but you look at the appearance. Tune in whatever way you want, we cover all the levels you are able to reach -- up to the highest and beyond. You might never have realized, we always encourage you to check for yourself. I don't try to hide.
So, remember the trick with balance. The major aspect has no label, so when you live balance it's a major aspect. It also applies to the minor aspect, your body balance. Learn to do it.
When you practice flow, the point is not the hand flowing, the point is that you live-flow. It flows all over the whole body, but there is a specific expression that might come through the hands, your feet, etc., it might come out the ears -- you never think of that. All over the body is all over the body.
Actually what I told you about the healing group applies quite specifically to the whole of calisthenics. If someone is good in calisthenics and that someone is called to help in the case of healing, that someone will be able to do it. Of course , in a limited way, but that's okay. The label "healing" is only a direction applied to what is worked with in calisthenics.
Participant: So we all need to be healers in one way or another.
Martin: Obviously.
Now, as you say, in one way or another. The gap I speak of has to be bridged and this is the basic healing, and all of you need to do it now.
Society around is geared to personal benefit, so the pressure is on you too, and you drown in it. If you want to get rid of it consider this:
When you were a small child you learned prayers. "Dear God give me this, dear God give me that," and the next day the same. This is your relation with God.
Now you might believe it or not, I don't care, we work for that entity call the Christ or Planetary Logos. We do not work for you, we work for the Christ. I have always said it: Eighty percent of the work we do is not for you, but some is done with you. Now everything that is done with you is taken as being for you. Well, you are responsible for the assumption. Why don't you, for a change, instead of working for yourself, work for the Christ? I am very serious:
We work for the Christ.
You are going to be in calisthenics after this. What you "want" to do is irrelevant. You have this idea or that idea... I wonder how many are conscious that you don't help the work when you do that? We have to reestablish the balance. If you are ego-centered you are not work-centered.
That was the nice thing about W's experience, when he dealt with the person, suddenly he was in the situation, there was just the situation -- not healer/patient, not me/you -- the me was irrelevant and thus the opposite of me was irrelevant. I wish you would go into that very seriously. Get involved in the situation until you really live the situation not "What do I do," or "I would like to do this or that". What does the situation require? Really care for the work being done instead of caring for what you want.
I don't deny that you have made progress in that direction, but, I warn you, society around is entirely self-centered, and this is what you live in. There are spiritual masters at work, you might help them. The Christ needs help. We need help too.
We are going to play music you have possibly already heard, but I want to show you two modes of action we use. One is related to calisthenics, which is related to movement. Of course, it is related to the comedian and the person, but mainly from the comedian so that the comedian can take care of the person little by little. This is one aspect. It is unconscious, but you can be fully aware livance -wise. It's your freedom, if you don't interfere with your mind.
The mode is what I call "structuring". In structuring we do just that. I will go so far as to say you have never seen it on earth, it's the first time it's done. We happen to be incarnated and an: action goes on, visible and invisible both, that changes the structure of all of You , comedian and personality.
Every time there is a major change on earth, the structures of human beings are changed to some degree so that you can work more efficiently with the new trend.
Okay, let's play the first one. in this one you will have nothing to do, but you will notice that there is a movement in you up to the highest level. Rather I would say from the highest level in you.
( music )
Look around, get the overall impression. Tune to the movement you can see. It's not static, it's moving. There is a liveliness in you, around you. There is the same movement overall, the same quality in everyone. This means there is a movement of a higher order. It goes through all the personalities, this is why you see a sameness . Face it, it happens. Get the general feel of livance you have now, because with the next piece it will change. There will be another characteristic that pertains more to the structure from the most subtle to the most concrete, meaning it touches the instrumental aspect.
( music )
As you can see/sense/live, it gives a different feeling. It also gives more unity. The sameness we spoke of before is much greater now. You will also notice that in this position, when this becomes effective, you are a lot more sensitive to the "we" going on. You are more likely to join into the "we" action than is usual.
What we do now is pioneering. There will come a new generation in which this work does not need to be done because it has been done -- not just for you, for all mankind.
This is known, but little known, because you can't do a thing about it. It's not you doing it. It’s time for you to become a bit more adult and realize that in spiritual work there is a lot more involved than reading books. It's a lot more real than the dreams people make.