Martin Muller

CALISTHENICS SEPTEMBER 23-24 ,1980          STATEMENT OF PURPOSE --SPECIFICITY OF MARTIN'S ACTION ---ACTIVATE WHAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT  ---NEW MODE TO CHANGE THE OLD ---BE CONCRETE --HIGHER MIND --SKILL TO RECOGNIZE EXPERIENTIALLY --EXTRA SENSORY --FIELD IN THE FIRST PLACE---

Always remember , the point, in calisthenics, is not what you achieve for yourself, but what you produce, what you can bring out, what you can do.

To help situate your position, I'm going to read the Statement of Purpose again

The reason to be of the groups is to participate in the Christ Impulse that was launched into humanity's conscious level about 2,000 years ago. The task is two-fold: one aspect is the adjusting to human level of that part of the impulse already working on so-called higher levels and now intended for human expression as well. The other aspect is to render this aspect operative within mankind. This implies the participation of unseen as well as seen "Beings". The groups being a small but needed part of the whole action.

Little by little, as you work, you will notice that this statement is a statement of fact, not a projection of a desire. You have to make the samestep with your own awareness -- going from the projection of desires to the factual situation.

Within the action of the groups one can distinguish three aspects:

The Logoic action which comprises the sounding of the Word, the opening of new avenues in the human time-space related life, the generating of the basic directive life energy within which all participants cooperation is taking place.

The Brotherhood Aspect that develops the avenues means, and shapes, as well as the dynamics which allow the Impulse and impulses to be operative within mankind.

This is the level at which some of you might be able to work.

The Participants Aspect whose task it is to operate the action within humankind. This implies the self-less and still difficult task of incarnating the principle/principles in the specific way that will al

low others to follow wherever they are.

This is calisthenics.

Depending on soul maturity, degree of initiation and development, a participant may be engaged in one, two or the three aspects, which implies the ability to handle more and more responsibility.

It might be a situation, a person, or a group, but you meet something in front of you that has a demand of some sort, and you meet that demand. You meet the situation. The question is not what to give, how to give, or whether you can do it. The question is: What is the situation? And according to the situation you act. Sometimes you wonder what makes effectiveness. One of the aspects is the ability to meet the situation. Because if you meet the situation, you adjust yourself to the situation. There is a symbiosis. That means your way of life is adjusted to the other one, be it a group, an individual, or both at the same time.

One thing I have to say that you should know. When we are gone, the action is gone too. So, if the group continues to work, it will not be according to our line. Difficulties arise in nearly all groups because people think it has to continue in the same way. I'm afraid you can't. We have a way of working that, if you are a little bit conscious, you will realize that you don't know how what we do is done. We can explain, but there is always something that is not said, and it is this something that makes it work. This is due to the work we have to do -- bring something new -- so we are based differently.

After we are gone, if you want to work, what has been brought has to be cycled into mankind -- made active. And this you can do in as many ways as there are people here. Each one in his own way. That means you can apply all sorts of methods if you want. The active principle is never a method. The method is only the carrier of what you do.

Don't tell yourself you must first get rid of something. If you want a psychological suggestion: First let the new mode install itself, and then, because of the new mode, change the old one in your consciousness -- from the new position. If you first try to satisfy all your desires in order to be free of desires, for instance, you just continue to cultivate desires. Even the desire of having no desires. Now if you can understand this example, that wanting to live with no desire is still a desire, then you might realize what I mean by adopting another mode. if you want to live without desires, you live with something else. Simply that. If you want to bring out whatever abilities you have -- bring them out. You are used to putting things in between; in the new mode there is no in between. The carrier will refine itself as you do it, but the first movement is to do it. You have to free yourself of thinking things out, and putting things in between with your thoughts, possibly with your desires too.

In down-and-away it is said that when you do it efficiently you have moments where everything is gone. But this happens when down-and-away is done from deeper than the mind -- whatever deeper is. When you do it purposefully, that usually means it's directed by the mind. Well you can, but it's still a mind activity. The mind becomes clearer, less turmoil, it quiets down, but it's still mind. Now a deeper step is for that exercise to be done from deeper, livance level for instance, and then everything goes. I mean the mind itself can go completely --even if it's only a second. It's still an experience, so it's significant. So we make a difference between quieting the mind and shutting off the mind. The latter you cannot do from the mind --the mind can not shut itself off. You can shut down the mind because you live something different. If you need to be quiet at that level you shut off consciousness as a whole. All this is included in down-and-away -- on different levels. When you come to the deeper level you become able to face very really something totally different.

Always remember, go toward something that is very concrete, very evident -- not toward some sort of wish of happiness or bliss or whatever. We are involved in an action which implies an action and not wallowing in some sort of bliss because it's written about in a book. I've told you very often that I don't care about evolving, reaching this or that initiation, I have work to do, I do that work -- that's all. If you happen to work with me, I suggest you do the same. But that means dropping all those expectancies, all those desires to reach. You will be much more efficient.

For those who noticed, his situation is interesting because his consciousness denies that anything is happening not fully,there is a hint of something else -- but still it happens anyway. Remember that, it happens often. When you join into this kind of action, it goes from the more subtle to the more concrete -- at least what sensory awareness calls concrete -- always. So when you build up something, the consciousness is the last to share the situation.

And incidentally you can notice that if you look at the quality emanating from you as a group, that quality has become much more consistent. I doubt that if we tested your understanding (of the mind or feelings) that it has evolved so much as to produce that consistency. I'm afraid it's something else that is coming through in spite of your consciousness, and you might want to listen twice in spite of your consciousness. There is another awareness at work.

.. It doesn't matter at all. What's needed is to connect at will. So sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. When you relax you do it again and so on. Because the ability to connect at will teaches your mind to realize that all you have to do is to stop your imagery about the field. Your so-called inability is simply due to some imagery: "If I do some concrete work I cannot be focused on the abstract?" "If I do some material work how can concentrate on the spirit?" And so on. These are only images, they have no reality. I told you, and you always forget, that if the spirit weren't here you would be dead. So when you concentrate very hard on something very concrete and the field and spirit and all that seems gone -- well, it's not as gone as you think, because you would be dead. As long as you are not dead, it's not gone.So if something has to change it's your own imagery -- face reality . Field is here in-the-first-place. If you take a snapshot of yourself at work on something very concrete when you've forgotten completely about the field, we will see the field anyway. It shows even in a photograph. What changes is the field-personality relation. If you connect, there is something much more obvious.

So, don't worry if you cannot be field-in-the-first-place all the time, we don't expect it, because we know you cannot.

If you are truly field-aware, and only that, human consciousness as you know it is gone -- utterly and completely gone. The awareness is functioning very differently. When we speak of field in relation to the human personality, we speak of a separation because minds are still separating things, not because it is separated -- separation does not exist. If you have an awareness of the body field-wise, the body is fully transparent. You don't experience it as you experience it sensorily -- not at all.

For instance, the mind with the brain support (the one you know) functions differently than the mind without the brain support. It doesn't have the same quality. So, if we don't speak technically, we are kind of stuck because it's not that easy. It's much easier for me to say "field-awareness", "field-in-the-first-place" because it's a kind of all-encompassing awareness. Whereas the consciousness within the body is centered on the thingness . Now basically the thingness does not exist. But this is how you live. Now we cannot use a basic principle for your minds because they are brain supported and they wouldn't understand. The same when we speak of different bodies: physical, etherical , astral and so on. We don't live them that way. There is a continuum. There is just one body and that one body cannot even be called body. So what do we do with that? There is the need to convey something to the usual consciousness until it makes the next step.

....the ability to recognize experientially, that means practically the differences that are symbolized by sensory-sensory, sensory-emotional, sensory-mind, or emotional- senory , emotional-emotional, emotional-mind, or mind-sensory.

Now we heard sensory-mind. Sensory-mind is not mind-sensory. Mind is an aspect of the sensory whereas mind-sensory is an aspect of the mind. Mind-emotional and mind-mind. If you want to work, really, and a bit more technically, these differences ought to be clear. Experientially. I encourage you to work with these divisions until the shades become apparent. This is done with the consciousness. It relates to the same shades you have with the functions A, U and M. And I also encourage you to work with the book and those functions. Not as information, but as working tools.

Participant: Would you explain something more about if a person is functioning from a total-field-awareness the physical body is transparent?

Martin: It simply means that the body looks the way it looks for you because of the type of awareness you use. If you use a different type it looks different. It's definitely not the only aspect of the body, and you might remember that Physics long ago established that solid matter was mainly nothing -- a kind of void with a tiny amount of particles in it. For the sensory awareness the body is big, but what you see is mainly nothing.

It's basically very simple: You have sensory-emotional, emotional-sensory. You live the feeling emotional-sensory. Then you tip the scale toward sensory, then toward emotional and watch the difference. Little by little you will know. You produce a condition you can call sensory-emotional.

Participant: so, if I heard you right what you are saying: the training is so you can be aware of what you are offering.

Martin: So that you can be aware of what is facing you first, and you adjust your offering accordingly. If you are aware of what you are offering it does not necessarily imply that you are aware of the situation in front of you.

Participant: I can see how looking at whether you are mental-emotional or sensory-emotional seems to relate to what you are offering but that seems distinct from what the situation is.

Martin: Any condition you live, any, you find it in lots of other people too. If you are able to live a condition you are able to perceive it in someone else. If if's truly lived you recognize it in someone else. That means your perception becomes more definite. When you are able to synchronize what you live with the other one's living there is an exchange -- something happens. It's a form of symbiosis through which you can act --symbiosis being the tool. If you are separate from the other -- you don't meet -- the action is poor. It's always much stronger when there is a symbiosis.

The divisions we made in sensory, emotional, and mental awareness are kind of artificial but we use it in a way that doesn't seem to be plain tonight. When you use it, the tendency of today's awareness is to put the accent on the sensory aspect of everything. In emotions, for instance, what touches you, what churns inside you is very well recognized, but the pure emotion is practically ignored. The concrete side of the mind (mind-sensory) is relatively well-known. The mind-emotional is pretty well known too. I challenge you to find the mind-mind, which is absolutely clear and sharp; you have yet to discover it. So don't underestimate the three classifications. There are aspects you don't know yet. The range is much broader than it looks. Don't equate mind-mind with the mind you know --any psychologist can tell you that it's mainly emotional.

Participant: Is there some kind symmetry with the way the A, U, M functions and the sensory, emotional, mental etc. that we have been working with?

Martin: Yes, in my perspective, it's simply another way to deal with the functions A, U,  M. Let us say, in a minor way that is accessible for consciousness. I notice that most people don't know how their consciousness works. They are not aware of the relation between those different aspects. So I use sensory, emotional, and mental, because everyone is familiar with these, and I tell you to play with it. Become aware of what is working in yourself and in other people around you and see the workings. If you can do that efficiently you will be much better equipped for the more abstract aspects of A, U, and M. Now, some people are abstract-minded and are better off doing the reverse. There is the choice. But later on you will work with A, U, and M and they don't have a limit, whereas with sensory awareness there is a limit.

You know, if you follow what's in the book, you will realize that three centers are active consciously -- the three of the thorax, which is a U function. The U function is related to the emotions. Actually what is known as mind is an emotional function, the true mind is not known on the average level.

So when you play with those three types of awareness you become much more familiar with the workings and you can see much more obviously how people limit themselves in certain sectors. And how things that can be very obvious for you can simply not exist for others because their consciousness functions in more limited ways, for instance, only sensory on all three levels. Then you find people a bit more refined and they are closer to emotional-emotional. You find very few responding to real mind.

But you cannot really equate A, U, M and the three modes because the sensory-sensory is still a U function, it's not an M function. The real M is still different --with the three modes you have an m of the U and pretty superficial by itself . One of the reasons to play with these things is to become familiar, and, becoming familiar ,to discover much more shades. You realize that in the beginning you take it very grossly. There is much more to itthan it looks like. The range goes much further than people are conscious of.

We speak of awareness and extra-sensory awareness. For us extra-sensory is typically sensory. It is something that has simply escaped people because they have not been educated in the field, but it is a range of the sensory level. If you want extra-sensory it's another story. Once you make the difference between body-supported or personality-supported or not supported then you see that extra-sensory perception is not only personality-supported it is physically-supported. Functions in the body allow it to be, so it is sensory. And so on ...

It's a way to discover a whole world. It allows you to discover fine points, and then when you start acting you are much more aware of what to do. You have to know what you are doing. You have to be able to synchronize what you are doing with the situation.

....We could do away with all that I said about exercising, if you were really working field-in-the-first-place. With field-in-the-first-place all types of awareness, even conscious awareness, become enormously richer. So why train them otherwise? The trouble is that field-in-the-first-place is not that easy, unless you have some real training from past lives (many lives). In the mean time we have to provide some exercises for brains that are not trained. They are not used to considering all sorts of angles. We have to provide some way of making the functions more limber, more open. It can be done differently it's true, but to do it the right way would be terribly frustrating, unless you had the ability to control the way your mind works. You would not only question, but do away with, every mode  you usually use.

In order to do this you have to... This is what you believe. This has to go. You just do. With the training you have from school on you cannot, because you were taught that in order to do you must first learn.