NOVEMBER 1983
· HISTORICAL BACKGROUND - – FIELD ACTIVITY - – NEW LANGUAGE -– YOU ARE ALREADY HERE –- IMPLICIT-EXPLICIT AWARENESS -–LIVE -– ABSTRACT WORK WITH MUSIC--
Lately I had the feedback that many of you experience pain with the exercise of Unfolding of Desires. I needed to know the nature of that pain, so I asked a few participants to come and express it.
As it turns out, the pain is due to something very basic, and, if we summarize, we can simply say that as a group you have come to a point where the "other condition" is so active that it begins to be painful for you to continue to act in the old way. This is felt especially when you come together as a group.
The Sixth Race
Today I want to give you a kind of historical background so that you may understand a little better what is going on.
If I take the Theosophical format, a system that continues today with the Arcane School, during an eternity, that is humanity's life on earth, humanity goes through seven races. We happen to be at the beginning of the sixth sub-race of the fifth race, or the beginning of the sixth race.
Each race has different characteristics, changes in awareness and so on, and there is an example at hand. The biggest part of the fifth race has been developed in Europe, and one of the characteristics is the kind of intellect they have. American minds do not function in the same way. For a European the American is a lot more emotional. Latin countries, of course, are highly emotional, but they are emotional in a different way. To give you a fifth race appreciation: When I came to this country I had a fifth race mind. I was appalled at the poor quality of education, and how easily one could go through the different grades and graduate with practically no knowledge. In Europe it's a lot tougher.
I have in mind another example, as far as professional training is concerned. I happen to know an aeronautical engineer who is American now, but who was trained in Germany. In his training he learned to deal with every aspect of an aircraft. He is working in a big company around here, and he is the only engineer there who is able to appreciate all parts of an aircraft. He says the knowledge is so divided that if you hire a specialist there is no one in the house who knows if the specialist is good or not. This indicates that there is a very big difference in the system of education.
Now, if we come to this country you notice that in the East they are a lot closer to the intellectualism of the European. In the West the European standard has the least influence -- meaning you are more yourself, with that emotional characteristic.
Now the question is how will the next step be taken. According to what I call "classical teaching," Theosophical style, your emotions belong to what is called the "astral world." You can have them heavy or clear, but they belong to the astral world, and, as you know, we have to go much further.
Now, if you work, really work, and begin to be aware of what is really going on, you will notice that something is building in you. For instance, you are a lot more at home with the sensing of fields than the usual. This means there is a kind of awareness, a finer sensitiveness, that is able to grasp, more and more naturally, an aspect that for ordinary people does not exist: field activity.
A very common word is "feeling." You would say: "I feel it." Now officially, a feeling condition belongs to the astral, but then you discover that this is no longer true. You have emotional feelings, but there is also something else present that you still call "feelings" for lack of a better word -- you are no longer emotional, and if you try to tune into the astral condition you realize it's no longer astral either.
Lately we spoke of a new language, and here you have an example. You begin to realize that in that "feeling" there is an awareness of a higher order that is new, and that belongs to the sixth race. It works differently and some of the pain you feel comes from the presence of that new condition and its lack of recognition by your ordinary fifth race awareness, an awareness that doesn't take into account that there is a different functioning.
You have to give that different functioning a chance.On the level of that different functioning, how you relate to yourself is very different from the way you live yourself with your fifth race awareness. You can check it right now, it's very obvious.
We do three things in this respect :
1. We help you to be aware of a different identity so that you are not always stuck with the usual ego image.
2. We make you aware of a different awareness that is implicit (includes everything) rather than explicit (which tends to itemize sequentially).
3. We structure you so that when you find that finer condition, you find it in working order.
Put all three aspects together as one and you have your new position. I give you the model of the sixth race. It's something that happens now. The change from the fifth to sixth sub-race is going on now. Historically you happen to be involved, and it is something that your mind can understand. Behind there is another aspect, historical also, but it goes a little bit beyond the mind. I tell you these things so that you may realize that there is a switch going on, and this means a switch in characteristics.
With my European experience I would say that Americans, and I would especially emphasize West Coast Americans because it's much stronger here, have developed a way of awaring that is so different from the European that the European does not understand it. And, of course, you don't understand the European either because you simply function differently. Your values are not the same.
Let's take another interesting aspect: European culture is based on tradition: the past. Symbolically, in this country, you don't have a past, and there is only one way to go and that is forward. You are heading for something different, and that "something different" you begin to feel. It has come to the point where you have to acknowledge it. Your fifth race awareness has to acknowledge that there is another aspect taking over. If you don't it's painful. Pain is a very good educator, it makes you take steps that otherwise you might not take. of course, you are not obliged to go through pain, you can begin to realize that you are already here.You Are Here
You are here aren't you? Obviously. You are sitting here. You have names . You have labels. You have activities you are involved in. You are incarnated. You are here.I still ask the question, because, as I see you work, in spite of everything that is going on right now, you are still looking for that higher self that is somewhere else. You are acting as if you are not here, when obviously you are. I wonder if you follow? This is what goes on in the consciousness, until there is that shock of reality and you realize that:
You are already here.
All the proceedings that you use in order to join the "you" that is somewhere else are outdated, terribly outdated, because you face an evidence that is different. You have lived with the gap for so long that when it begins to be bridged you don't realize it, and you continue to behave as if you are not whole. So we try to encourage you and tell you that if you don't see yourself whole, we do, but apparently this is not sufficient. It has never been sufficient to just say something, you have to go through it.
You realize that when you are with us you are a lot more whole. If you could relax enough to stop the striving toward, you would be aware of being here. You, the real one -- whole -- and this implies more than the personality. Some of this you feel right now -- that other awareness, that other language. We have come to a time when this becomes operative.
You are used to striving. You put your attention toward finding what you are, and, because of the tension, you cannot. It's time for you to realize that what you a re is the most simple, the most basic reality. There is nothing to become. You cannot become yourself.
You will notice that if you succeed in relaxing completely, and this means relaxing the desires, relaxing the thoughts, and simply face your situation right here in this room, you will see that you are here. You can say: "I am here." "We are here." "Here it is." Obviously. Very obviously.
Just live it. If you really do this a few times, you will begin to realize the huge difference between the new (implicit) awareness and the other (explicit, itemizing, building toward) awareness. And you might be shocked by the way the usual consciousness works. In spite of the evidence that you are here, your fifth race awareness denies it all the time. The fact is that you are here, and, further, you know it's true. How you know does not matter, but you do know. You happen to be here. What we do happens to be here too. And you begin to realize, with the new awareness, that the activity is going on now. It is real. There is no dream about it, and no place for a dream.
Train yourself to relax completely and accept the fact that you are here.
Accept means: live it, without the interference of consciousness. If you do this you will become aware of the difficulties consciousness has adjusting, and from there you train consciousness to adjust to the reality of the situation.
The other situation is here, it is already working. If it were not working you would not feel the pain. Pain is an awareness -- it is telling you something -- to accept it as pain only is terribly simplistic.
Look around. The group has never listened the way you listen today. The position is different. So obviously you do respond to what we speak of. Face it. See it. Live it. Have the courage to accept that you are here. The "you" has no label, but there is that fullness of presence. Possibly it might dawn on you what participation means. If that step is taken, you might realize that the activity we are involved in is going on now. of course you already know it intellectually, meaning you make pictures of it, but this does not mean that you know. It does not mean you know what is at work: the structuring going on, the purpose that is not limited to the group. But once you accept the fact that you are here, and I say "accept" because the mind has to accept, but actually you live it, and relate it to an all-encompassing awareness that doesn't have the features of the mind at all, or the emotions, or the senses, then you will be in a position to realize what is going on -- at least part of it -- but in the way of the "something going on" not in the way of looking at nice pictures, or hoping for something. There is no hope, there is just evidence.
Now it begins to dawn on you that you are here. You are not the only one, Christ is here too. And the meaning of Christ is very different, a lot more real -- definitely not an image.
But reality is very different from what consciousness dreams, and that includes the sensing of your body. Consciousness senses this in one way, and when you are here, you immediately sense it in a different way. There is a lot more to the body than shows for the usual eyes.
Do you have questions?
Participant: Martin, you said that the fifth race awareness denies you being here, did I hear you right?
Martin: Check in your own awareness.
Participant: I know it's in my own awareness.
Martin: You know you can't rely too much on what is said, you have to stick to what you are experiencing.
You have a mind that is fifth race, but you have something else too that is very different -- you might call it feeling. With that feeling you can begin to live the fact that you are here. With the mind you cannot. Try it, you cannot. You have learned to use that mind in a groping way, going toward. You cannot go toward if you are already here. But the mind continues stubbornly in its patterns, just pretending that reality is not here, so it can be satisfied with the idea that it can become it. Logically, you cannot become yourself, but this is what people try to do all the time.
We are coming into a period of time of which Jesus said: "I will make all things new." All things new. There is an action going on, and today you become a little more aware of it. It pops up just so. The mind doesn't know it, honestly it doesn't. You have to use a different type of awareness, and then the reality begins to bloom. You have to eventually face that the situation is different from what has been figured out. Just as when you face your usual life, whatever you figure out is always proven false at some point -- false or insufficient. There is more to life than what you can figure out.
To come back to your question of whether the fifth race denies your being here. Yes, psychologically speaking, it does. Look in all your minds, in spite of all your years of training with me you still have the mind going toward. We have given you the example of "going toward the sun." The law written in that example is: You have to turn around, and then you are the sun. It's not hard, but it implies that your groping toward has to go -- but you would prefer to keep it. or you might have a tendency to defend your emotional, sensory, or mind perceptions, but if you just stop a moment and relax, you will notice that something is going on in you that has an awareness that is different from the known mode.
Do you have questions?
Participant: I was talking to another person in this group, and we spoke of the experience of being more aware of a larger position that we can be in, and noticing that we have a tendency to relapse into the older position. We both had a sense of a fantasy that there are things that need to be done, but our older consciousness does not recognize in the newer one an ability to act, so when something needs to be done it goes to the older position. So she proposed an experiment that for the next week we try to trust the new position -- that it can function. And my immediate reaction was very telling, it was: "Not this week, there's too much to do."
So my question is: How do you train the older consciousness to trust the new one?
Martin: You will notice that in all your formulating, all your wording, everything is done according to the consciousness, and this obviously doesn't work very well.
Let's say you are in a small group, and you are mixed up in the usual position, and you realize that something else is needed. This realization is a realization of the mind. If you continue along that same line you will find the mind's idea of what has to be done so that ' the "something else" can be present. You try hard, but again it doesn't work. No. Something else acts on its own authority. The mind has to learn to respect that.
This why I said:
Relax completely, and accept that you are here -- the fullness of you. Man was created in the image and likeness of God. He was created. It's done, so relax the striving movement.
If you relax properly you will come to St. John of the Cross' symbolism of the night. The striving, which is a tension of consciousness wanting to reach that other position, being gone, the other position can become obvious. The big mistake the mind makes is pretending to build a new position that does not yet exist -- when we face a reality of life where the other position is already here. The "already here" expresses as evidence, not as a building process.
We speak of greater conditions. Look there at Georgette. Face it. Relax completely and accept being here. What you see there is here too, but it is something very different from what you are used to. Face it. I speak about the shock of reality. Face reality, it's going on now. It's not just the reality in front of you, it's the reality of the whole activity going on, and it includes you too.
You have an awareness that does not know a thing about your real training -- just plain nothing -- you might have dreams, but there is no knowledge. You come here again and again, and you change. You change because you participate. Which you? obviously not your mind, not your little ego. Something else is working. Face it. It's going on now, and it's enormously vaster than what you see if you look with your mind. The mind, as you know it, has a very small range of activity. obviously you live something going on here. Try to do whatever you want with your minds and you cannot. What is going on here has its own authority. It cannot be reduced by the mind to the size of that mind, so accept it as it is and live it.
Participant: Would it be accurate to say, in relation to the activity going on, that the mind can be trained to function differently?
Martin: Yes, it has to be trained. I am not saying that the mind is no good. I am actually saying the mind is misused. Let us say you have a receiver that catches frequencies from here to there, and you become aware of a higher frequency, if you try to use the same receiver, it just won't work. So you have to use another devise, another type of awareness.
Participant: Sometimes I don't remember things from one minute to the next. I get so involved in what I'm doing that if I don't write things down they're gone.
Martin: And what is the question?
Participant: I don't really know how to put it into a question.
Martin: Psychologically it's true, when you are, let us say, inhabited by something going on, but your mind is not tuned to it, it might still be felt somehow (here again we have that "feeling"), and the feeling distracts you, the you with the mind, and that distraction makes you lose connection.
You have to learn to recognize what is going on, and not in terms of consciousness. It sounds difficult at first. The usual question is: "How do we train the mind?" and the rule is always the same:
Live
Right now you live being here. You would be surprised how the mind would change if you do that steadily.
Do you have further questions?
What You Live Versus What You Abstract -- Some Examples
Okay, today we will train with music, and I will try to make you aware of the difference between what you live and what you say about what you live -- just to see how your consciousness functions.
We are going to play the beginning of what we call "the spaceship." In the beginning you have a kind of steady pattern that lasts for a while. During that time we will do what we call "structuring." Then you will have the melody, and the structuring will play like the melody, meaning it will move. So you have two aspects: the structuring itself, which for you is still a mystery, and then the movement with it. After that I will ask for two or three volunteers to tell what they experienced.
Okay, lets go.
(music)
Now we need someone to tell what they experienced. Who volunteers?
Participant: I first experienced a movement of the center of gravity to what I call a larger being. Then there was the noticing that it took place in the room. Then there was my experience of an action, an outgoing action, from the group, and with a joy moving with it.
Martin: Is that what you live?
What I am trying to do now is make you aware of the difference between what you see and what you live.
Participant: That's as far as I could see.
Martin: Now go back to what you live. Up to now, you have quoted abstractions of your mind. By abstractions I mean the kind of photograph the mind took. What is the experience proper?
For instance, you started with that awareness of going from the smaller self to the bigger one. You didn't experience that way, go back to the actual experience.
Participant: Well, perhaps a better description of what I saw would be that another position was here but a veil fell away.
Martin: Okay, describe again. In your experience there was "that," that other condition. Can't you recognize it? Because of that presence you feel that you are no longer the little self -- so you say you shifted from the little self to the other one. Do you see the mechanism? The actual experience was "that."
Participant: The only way I have of describing it is the language of mental images.
Martin: You can speak it instead of about it. What you don't fully realize is that I follow your experience exactly, and I do see what your mind does with it. So I say there was "that" -- you don't need to put a label on it, "that" implies experiencing the condition.
I hope you follow because it's a very important point. You are used to believing in what your mind says, and it is known that the mind reflects, that it makes abstractions. Here we have reflections of the mind about a situation, and I am trying to probe a little, push a little, so that you may come out with the total experience, and also so that you may learn to recognize what your own consciousness does with your genuine experience. It's very important for you to become aware of the different modes.
Participant: The difficult thing is that it usually seems like that other condition has to come from somewhere, so it seems like it's not here. Then when the music plays, it almost seems like it is coming from somewhere.
Martin: Now, you will notice something interesting. You say, "it seems," "it almost seems," which means you are not sure. This means it is not necessarily so, and obviously it is not so. There is no "somewhere." But this is how the consciousness interprets. it goes along the same pattern as believing you have to become that. So, in your imagery you have a choice: either it comes toward you, or you go toward it. But you have to face the reality that it's right here, not somewhere. The movement you see is the adjustment of consciousness to the fact that it is here. You are facing the situation right away, but it takes a while to settle down into consciousness. This is where you feel the movement.
Do you have other descriptions?
Participant: You just said it settles down into consciousness. What do you mean?
Martin: You live that condition, let us say, without awareness. You just simply live it. As you live it, the presence of that condition impresses awareness somewhere, so awareness tends to adjust and then become aware.
Now we need another description of what you just experienced with the music.
Participant: We lived, shared the Body Christ that we are.
Martin: I thank you very much. This is the first time someone speaks what is going on.I am always a little puzzled because we are in the service of the Christ, and if we don't insist on the Presence of Christ, no one speaks of it. Now we have someone speaking without being prodded, which symptomatically is very meaningful. Once again you face the fact that there is more going on than meets the eye. There is more to you than what shows.
Another Participant: Could I ask a question about that? My experience of what I guess happened when Rick said what he said was to a certain extent similar to my experience of the movement you started before we played the music, but was different than my experience during the music. So my questions is ... I don't know what the question is, it's just that my experience of the music is different than what I experienced of Rick.
Martin: There is technically one big difference. When we speak together as we do now, there is a kind of exchange that you are more or less used to. It goes more or less deep, which means you hear more or less. This is the usual situation. During the music it's not exactly usual. Something is going on that the mind cannot grasp, and that puts you in a position that is different from the usual one. So it's no wonder that you feel a difference. There is a difference. The activity, especially the structuring activity, or even the one related to so-called "being," is way beyond the usual mind, so there is no hope of "minding" it.
Participant: But it's kind of interesting about Rich because in a way he can mind it. There's some kind of facility, I don't know how to describe it ...
Martin: Yes, you have here something we go through all the time: the need to train the mind so that you can speak it instead of about it. It implies that you live it in the first place. Living it implies being it, so that when you express that life, you express down to the words. This gives you the speaking it.
If you saw him express you will have noticed that he does not look from the head up to "that," but his position is "that" in the first place and he expresses from there. The main difficulty, in the beginning, is that what you live is perceived by the head, you look at it and then you translate. You speak about it.
First Participant: When you speak the action doesn't/didn't stop. The change that is perceived is only a perception, the action living Christ, or being God doesn't/didn't stop. It's still here. It's still going on. But the mind takes over and shuts out the other awareness.
Martin: Here you have a very important point that I try to make everyone aware of all the time. Just because your mind shuts it off does not mean that it stops -- it's still here. It's here in the first place. It's present all the time, and it becomes more and more obvious.
You know the workings of the mind are kind of funny. If you realize that there is a non-mediated Christ Action going on, and you play with your minds: It's here. It's gone. It's here. It's gone. This is definitely not of the dimension of a Christ Action. Your mind has no power whatsoever over a Christ Action. You can't say: Come here. Be gone. These are just fantasies of your mind -- it's here anyway.
We are now going to play another piece of music. This time it will be reversed: the melody first and the structuring after. Then I will ask another question.
(music)
What we just did (and continue to do) is possibly the most important aspect of our working together, at least on the concrete side. So recognize it and stay with it. It's very, very important, all the words are nothing against that.
Now the question is: what is going on? How do you see it?
Who volunteers?
Participant: It seems lively, a lot of movement. And this time there was more of a feeling of becoming prepared, then the presence becoming more evident.
Martin: To you personally or in the room?
Participant: To me.
Martin: The question is: What is going on?
Another Participant: In my body, I guess I would say I feel a kind of lively fullness. It's like a different body. I don't know how to say it.
Martin: Well, you can say it, why not? Still the question is: What is going on?
To make things a little shorter, you just expressed symptoms, but you didn't express what is going on. I would like you to follow with your consciousness so that you may be aware that the trend of the consciousness is to play tricks all the time. It does not allow you to be aware of what is actually going on. If you want to be aware of what is going on, you have to use another kind of awareness.
Participant: Is it a matter of awareness or a matter of language?
Martin: It's definitely not a matter of language. It's a matter of how the consciousness functions relative to what is going on. This means a retraining is necessary. I don't say that it is hopeless. I do say that you have to become aware of how your awareness functions relative to what you actually live. obviously you felt, lived, went through something that is already going on, but you have an awfully hard time expressing it. You make pictures of it, you don't express it.
Another Participant: Well, I wanted to say something about the experience, and I'm wondering if it isn't probably true for a lot of people. We know we are not really shaping in the right way, so we don't speak.
Martin: Wait a minute. How can you decide with consciousness what the right way to speak is?
Participant: There is an elan to share the experience and then when you start you are just short of words.. It doesn't really shape right, and it stops me. I would like to speak and I can't.
Martin: Now suppose you just stop and express your experience.
Participant: Well, in a way, comparing the two, my experiences were very different. The second time was like the source of giving, or the giving of the presence that was in the first music. It was to me the closest experience that I have had of being the sun and giving in all directions. I don't know if it was even a movement. It was just so out, so giving that it was almost like a... It just crossed my mind at some point that it was like a black hole. I mean it was not this, but it was like a vacuum of giving. I don't know how to express that. And it was related to the first, it was the action of the first, of the presence of that. The first experience was like a bridge. It was like finally having feet and head connected, like sky and earth together and being the presence in the middle of the two. And the second one was really like the giving of that. I don't know.
Martin: Okay, let's come back to when you felt being like the sun. This is the image that popped up, what is the experience proper? The original situation?
The dynamics?
Participant: Then I was that body of giving, or part of that body of giving.
Martin: I venture to say that in the experience proper there was no word of giving. What is the experience proper? I'm pushing your awareness to realize that the proposition of expressing and the experience proper are two different aspects. Don't confuse the expressing with the experience proper.
Participant: The experience is unspeakable.
Martin: Right. Okay, that's a good start. Continue.
Participant: So I don't know. I want to say just see what's there.
Martin: To use words: You are in a situation. Psychologically speaking, that means you are facing it, you are confronted with it. It makes you feel like a sun. or it makes you feel the surrounding like that void of gift, that kind of immensity. But what touches you is not these points, what touches you is the facing. Do you realize? And the facing is more important than any of the words. The words can be accepted, but they are not the facing. See what I mean?
Participant: That's why I say it's unspeakable.
Martin: And this is an important point because in the facing your consciousness behaves differently, completely differently, because you face an evidence. Whereas in the description your consciousness is at home again. You could elaborate on the quality of the sun, or the quality of the gift, and so on, but in the facing you don't. Your mind stays quiet because there is something else that lives. Dimensions are so much bigger, so different... what can you say.
Participant: It's almost actually the experience, what you say about the mind wanting to explain. During the experience it's the same thing, but when the mind is quiet, it seems there is participation of the whole of the person, of the being with. And then there are experiences that want to be translated by the mind like: "Oh, a black hole."
Martin: Those experiences are already abstractions.
Participant: Right. it's like memories when I say these words. I drop them, and then some other position intensifies. It's not exactly intensifying, but it's more like swimming with it or ... It's not this, it's not the right word.
Martin: Now let's introduce another factor. Come back to what I call "facing." Accept that it happens here and now. This is where the ability is. It's a fact of life. Right now. Right here. All else is relative, and you know it. But you have to accept, consciousness-wise, that it is at work here and now. It is. It's not a vision. Do you see how your mind wants to transform it into a vision, when your experience is that it is a fact of life?
All of you have to come out of your childhood. Begin to realize what is going on, and stop working with that small awareness, using it as a base when we show you constantly that another awareness is working. We show it, but you have to come out with what we show too. It's not our private property. It's a condition of life. It is working in you too. The point is to realize it. Face it as a fact going on now.
Now let's face another fact. You haven't answered to the question of what is going on.
Another Participant: Freedom.
Martin: Freedom for me is just a word, it doesn't tell what is going on. I would rather hear it as being a feeling, this I can understand: In the surrounding involved in what is going on, you may feel a tremendous, unspeakable freedom, if you want, yes.
Participant: I mean freedom in a play between people here.
Martin: That freedom does not express what is going on. It does not express what you feel, and it might be one of the many symptoms of what is going on, but it is not what is going on.
Another Participant: The aligning of consciousness to divinity?
Martin: Again You express a symptom, an abstraction. To tell you the truth, there is no alignment toward divinity in what is going on. But you may see it that way. It's not "wrong" to say it that way, I'm simply trying to say that it is not what is going on. Even if your wording was correct, and the purpose of the action was exactly that, it still doesn't tell what is going on. It might possibly speak of a general principle, but it doesn't tell what is going on.
Another Participant: What is going on is an impulse to act. An impulse from that nothing, that featureless. It says: "Say something, express yourself."
Martin: Now wait a moment. Here is a problem of simple logic. Your expression,, an impulse to act," does not describe an ongoing action. During the structuring and the melody before, there was something going on, let's stick with that. You cannot say what is going on is the impulse to act. It does not describe what is going on. Again, you make an abstraction. There is no judgment of value. It simply is an abstraction.
Participant: But what is going on is behind that, it's delivering that.
Martin: Are you saying that what is going on is meant to deliver that, or are you saying that it is how you feel?
Participant: Well I'm saying that it's one of the things it does naturally. It has to.
Martin: On what basis can you say it has to?
Participant: Well, that's from my interpretation.
Martin: Okay, so we come to the point. This is your interpretation. Now please realize. The question is: What is going on? Not what you feel about it.
Another Participant: The overtaking of the usual condition with the new condition.
Martin: That does not express what is going on. In what is going on, you're to come out with at least aspects involved dynamically. Here, for instance, you quote a kind of a principle, a point of view, and you say: "This is what happens." Now if you ask me what the action is, it's another ball game entirely. I know what I do, and I'm not alone in this room doing it. It's simply that you are not aware of the others. We speak of a "we." That "we" is perfectly real.
Everyone please realize that what we have here is not a number of people expressing incorrectly, not at all. I want you to observe the trend of consciousness relating to a situation. Whatever way you try to express with your mind, you always come up with a point of view derived from yourself. You cannot express what is going oh because you are used to using the mind in an ego-centered way. So whether you want it or not, what you say is going to be ego-centered.
If you ask those who implement the "what is going on," none of-what you have said is implied. I don't say it's not implied in the symptoms, there are an infinity of symptoms possible.. What I would like you to realize is that you are not the consciousness, you are using the consciousness. As I said, you have a new language, a new condition, and this is more important than what the mind says. As of now, the mind is unable to translate what you really live.
The experience is non-possessive. Your ego has nothing to do with it. It is what is going on. You have to retrain the mind to acknowledge that you are established in the new position with another awareness that is all inclusive, and because of this the mind adjusts. But it is for you to realize the condition in which you work, the position of your consciousness, how it works relative to what you really experience and relative to what is going on.
You've heard me speaking very often about your having to adjust to what is going on, and then you try to do it with the mind. Today I want to show you that your mind cannot do it. The processing machinery is too inadequate. It has to be reshaped. You have to live.
Questions?
Participant: In the spaceship that was just lived, the structuring that you are doing, is that what we respond to as the joy, possibly the brightness or the rippling effect in the body, or are those personal again? Reactions?
Martin: Now you will notice that the joy that you speak of is not known on the level of the person. If you imagine yourself in a joyous personal situation and you recall what you just said, it's entirely different.
Participant: Is the structuring that's being done something that is noticeable in the body?
Martin: Yes.
Participant: So that kind of rippling effect ...
Martin: It is not only in the body. You will notice that when you start sensing it in'-:the body you start to simultaneously sense the continuum... Prior to that you have compartments: a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body. Once structuring comes down to the body you become aware of a continuum of body, we could say of instrumentality not different bodies, one body. A body that covers an unimagined field, a range that is unsuspected, and that was formerly attributed to different bodies. So it is accompanied by a different awareness of what body is, and some of it you feel already.
Participant: The consciousness is in that. It's no longer so graspy, or hanging on', it's-free within that condition.
Martin: You came out with an interesting word -- "graspy." This is very important because the usual consciousness is terribly graspy . And the proposition of relaxing rather than striving toward has the advantage of relinquishing that grasp. The grasp is a tension -- if you want to grasp something you use muscles, be they mental, emotional, or sensory.
Next time we have Calisthenics and then the Christmas Service which is dedicated to the Christ. As you know, we are in the service of the Christ. If you want to join in that service, the structuring of what St. John of the Cross called Corpus Christi, and that we call the spaceship is an absolute necessity. So don't take the matter of structuring lightly. The more you can be really here, the more Christ Presence there will be. Christmas is dedicated to the Christ, so up to Christmas learn to be here as much as possible according to what you really live, not according to what your mind says.
So now we are going to play three pieces of music: a melody to prepare, then the structuring, and then the play.
Again, you are here, and the "we" is here too.
(music)