Month: December 2022

In seeking solutions to complex and even abstract situations, generally we seek through the same plateau of shallow intelligence, which, by default, limits in-sight of advance nature. Conversely, functioning through a level of brain activity which promotes intelligence growth, is surly the wisest route. The question arises: how do we access and develop this potential of enhanced brain function for everyday use?

Growth of human intelligence is said to “level off” on reaching around age twenty. This age is generally when our stored or conditioned environmental mind-sets and indoctrinated belief patterns become the dominating thought force – when crystalized mental images have imprinted in our brain as personality and range of limitation or ability.Thus, by experiential association, these subjective templates join-up to comprise accepted life-style behaviour, perceptions and mood-anxiety states.

Due to this “levelling off” of intelligence growth, our life feels as if running on fixed mental programming over which we have no control. But, such “levelling-off” of intelligence production need not be the continuing situation. The reality is, through the brain’s reorganizing ability, we can reactivate this stalled intelligence process at any time, regardless of age, for, consciousness development adheres to no limitation or age determinant, for its expression.

Known also as human growth hormone, this innate intelligence lies in abundance within the Pineal gland in the centre of the brain awaiting reactivation. I say reactivation, because, it is this gland – through non activity — which is responsible for halting production of the intelligence hormone on our reaching late adolescence. To off-set this creative intelligence deficit, a natural remedying technique, of putting the Pineal gland back to work for maximum brain potential, is the obvious solution.

The practicalities of reactivation should therefore be a means of realigning the brain with a restructuring dynamic, whereby, through the plasticity of brain stretching, new neural pathways are formed, thus bringing about expansion of consciousness and greater ability of comprehension, through advance intelligence.

While the term transcending has been with mankind for centuries, science, relatively recently, is now putting this phenomenon into relatable language, calling it neuroplasticity through neurogenesis.

Neuroplasticity is a natural brain stretching function to facilitate production of new intelligence, and, neurogenesis is the term to describe formation of new nerve cells, referred to as neurotransmitters – brain links or triggers for clicking into the dormant wealth of natural creative happiness or genius-status.

In creating new neural pathways, the brain is then in the process of bringing about general body healing and well-being restoration, plus, creating coherence or enhanced communication throughout the entire brain.

Known colloquially as “use it or lose it”, scientifically this expression is termed synaptic pruning: a process where some neural connections or past experiences, become strengthened through use — through conscious living familiarity — while others die, through non use. The imperative being: creating new neural pathways in the brain for on-going consciousness or intelligence development by means of focused awareness or mindfulness.

The Remedy

In meditation, what some regard as a problem — the inability of staying focused – is actually a blessing in disguise. For, such is the progress dynamic, the modus operandi of initiating neroplasticity, neurogenesis, in the brain.

It works like this. Unable to place a physical weight on the brain like on a gymnasium bar, to exercise the brain, we use instead the mind’s habit of drifting in meditation as the weight. Each aware drift followed by a subtle conscious coming back to our focal point of attention for restart — such as a mantra — is thus pushing the brain weight.

Putting this into further meditational context, it is an established fact, that, the secret of learning a musical instrument – or anything new — is spaced repetition. In meditational terms, this spaced repetition of starting and restarting after each wandering, initiates neuroplasticity activity, thereby, neurogenesis capacity. In other words, by regular restarts in meditation, the brain’s ability of becoming focus-familiar creates the impetus for new neural pathways to establish in the brain.

Here, the “instrument” can be a new language, project, hobby, sporting achievement or even a relationship – something or someone we give ourselves to totally. So long as our “new” whatever involves daily spaced repetition, or attention, then the brain is creating new neural pathways of a creative nature, in this area.

This is why having as many happy, pleasant personal experiences as possible, is pivotal. The more pleasant the mental imprint of the experienced moment, the greater does our happiness bank swell. In this context, regular engagement of happiness is what brings about a natural integration or elimination of unpleasant memories, or, synaptic pruning. In other words, through non use, the imprint of engraved non desirable habits, become erased. Thus, by establishing natural happiness within consciousness, inner and outer happiness is lived spontaneously.

If we never take up music or a new project or language, meditation therefore becomes the easily available instrument of retraining the brain, of opening the Pineal gland whereby neuroplasticity and neurogenesis become active dynamics. This is the process of producing more gray matter, hence, new creative channels in the brain.

Think of a pebble dropped in to a still lake and the ensuing ripples. Such is the mantra effect in meditation for initiating neuroplasticty in the brain, and for the transformation of consciousness.

On first reading these biblical words, they can come across as negative and condescending.

But, a closer visual study of “the crucifixion” — as depicted by those spiritually qualified artists such as, Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci — reveal a series of coded messages, other than the obvious statement.

The portraits show Jesus with head bowed, [surrendered within] eyes glancing upwards, [symbolic of activation of the pineal gland in the brain], an empty stomach cavity [depicting emptiness of thought – without ego], the Cross, [symbolizing the dual nature of Man], and, finally, a crown of thorns.

The crown of thorns — comprising of inward pointing barbs — symbolizes victory over the carnal mind. It denotes, dominion over oneself – mind and senses — as separate from, dominion over the world, which crown may present as a glittering golden crown.

The crown barbs also denote the emotional suffering attaching to the process of integration, of witnessing our past as it surfaces in to conscious awareness, as we awaken spiritually.

As wonderful as scripture is, not all its writings are meant to be taken literally.

For instance, in Hebrew — like so many pivotal biblical words — the word “hidden” translates as “perfect” or “higher”, therefore, what we read literally, is not always the author’s original intention.

Similarly, the hidden or higher meaning behind the biblical word “Jew” is not in any way referring to the Jewish people, their religion, nation or traditions, but, to one seeking higher spiritual realization, by inward means. The word “Jew”, in this context thus is referring to a meditator, or, a yogi – one who engages silence AS prayer, for, at transcendental consciousness level, silence-prayer are both one and the same vibration.

The importance, therefore, of “hail, king of the Jews” is to highlight, that, when ego is crucified – by inward endeavour: i.e. meditational silence – the practitioner, whatever our religious status, biblically, is termed [a] “Jew”.

“King” is referring to one who has transcended ego, gained mastery over the subconscious aspect of mind. Similarly, in Hindu, Govinda is termed: master of the senses.

What is prayer-silence?

With biblical crucifixion-narrative essentially about crucifying ego — thereby awakening higher Self or Christ consciousness — the subliminal message is, that, this crucifixion, through our own mental faculties, takes place within our own minds.

To this end, periods of prayer-silence or, no mental activity leading to soul quietude, are required, thus leading to crucifixion of our deep-rooted, lower-self nature.

Jesus, as we know, was crucified on Mount Calvary. The Latin for Calvary is Calvaria, in Hebrew, it translates, “Golgotha”, meaning, place of the skull John: 19-17.

Thus, with Mount referring to highest point of inner awareness, crucifixion, therefore, takes place within the mind.

When, through meditation, this highest point of inner awareness is reached, Golgotha is reached — when ego, by way of meditational transcendence, is deemed “crucified”.

What is the purpose of crucifying ego?

Because ego primarily comprises a collection of thoughts, and, thinking that these thoughts are us, we become emotionally attached to them, and even governed by them, when, in reality, we are not our thoughts, for, they have no permanency, whereas, You-Spirit, are eternal.

To achieve dominion over illusory ego, scripture puts it: God said: “Let there be Light” Genesis: 1-3.

In scripture, “Light” means consciousness, therefore, the purpose of crucifixion is to ignite our spiritual or soul Light, therefore, by way of inner silence, let there be raised consciousness, let there be Light awareness within.

“Inner”, in this context, means within the Gap created when ego becomes stilled — crucified by means of reaching Golgotha — place of awakening — or, inner Mount Calvary.

Many repeat endless words as a method of prayer, and, to an extent, this is good, for it represents, God-seeking. But, usually, that which is doing the “praying” is the very thing which needs silencing — thus biblical Pharisees and Scribes are representative of the voice of ego.

To this end, a good prayer is that instrument which enables the mind experience raised consciousness – come into the Light. In this case, the instrument is wordless prayer, such as mantra meditation — a mantra is for the sole purpose of stilling the conscious mind, the chattering ego, thereby, our hidden or higher nature — the Light of Christ — is revealed unto consciousness, as Love, hence, biblical “Revelation”, within.

The mantra vibration is a means of creating a point or Gap in ego’s incessant thought production flow — the fixed tramlines which our habitual thoughts seem to be running on. Consequent of this silence Gap in meditation, bliss becomes infused into the conscious mind, thereby, raised consciousness or Light, becomes experiential at the practical transcendental level.

Each meditation resumes from the purified level gained in our previous session. Beginners, therefore, can rest assured that previous meditational progress, is not lost — even, if restarting the practice after an extended lapse of time.

Having found the bliss-natured Gap, the question arises, through what medium do we experience bliss — how does it reach the mind?

We may say, through the heart (meaning consciousness), yes, but, more precisely, we experience initially through the nervous system and senses, which serve the mind, thus, is how bliss becomes established within consciousness. In this context, putting our “heart” into prayer takes on a newer dimension — our life becoming a divine prayer by way of living Christ consciousness.

Many ignore this crucial aspect of God-experiencing. We may say: my belief or faith is strong, yes, but, such can sometimes be an intellectual accommodation, and not the direct experiencing that scripture is calling for.

In essence, “faith” has a nature – unconditional love – and, when such nature is realized within consciousness, then, the object of faith, is outgrown – we have become as One with [thy] God.

Palm 46:10 puts it: “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exaulted among the heathen, I will be exaulted in the earth”.

This single scripture, I feel, qualifies the entire Bible.

Here, “heathen” is referring to our negative subconscious thought patterns of fear, anger, resentment, worry – or, conditioned ego. “Earth” is referring to man’s ordinary human consciousness, into which, divine nature becomes as “Presence” — lower-self, or “earth”, becoming transformed into divine standard — as in: “Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven” — the Lord’s Prayer.

Here, biblical stillness represents not only mental stillness, but stillness of the nervous system. In other words, for bliss to vibrate optimally, the nervous system should become inactive, but not passive. Rather, a state of restful alertness, which is the perfect equilibrium dynamic through which eternal Being reflects.

Biblically Enlightened

Becoming the biblically enlightened soul — which scripture is highlighting — is simply to become fully conscious. To this end, becoming fully conscious is to have no subconscious mind content. For, it is this suppressed content which deprives our soul knowing its true nature. Such content needs integration, made conscious through awareness, hence mindfulness of our immediate inner and outer environment or, being in the present moment.

Thus, in meditation, lower-self egoic nature gradually becomes integrated, crucified, thereby, Enlightenment.

The silence meditational process stills and purifies the nervous system. In this way our medium of experience is made pure to reflect God-nature – thereby meriting the title “king of the [inward seeking] Jews”.

We read: “Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor, condemned Christ to death, at the desire of the Jews”.

“Roman Governor” here symbolizes the subconscious mind — the compulsive thought patterns which govern and dominate our thought processes, thereby feeding and maintaining the ego. The Roman soldiers are the individual negative thoughts.

While, at first, this may seem contradictory to the earlier definition of “Jews” as God-seeking souls, it is not.

“Jews”, here, still mean a moral, upright soul desiring his/her daily life to be lived through one’s own awakened inner Christ, as separate from imposed, conditioned mind-sets or indoctrinations.

Similar to Herod, Pilate saw nothing wrong [with ego] for both generally represent the same dynamic — lower-self nature spiritually blind to its higher dimension.

“The crowds — “the Jews” — shouted: crucify him, crucify him” Matthew 27:23, meaning, the incessant demand of the soul for spiritual evolution – for realization in Christ consciousness — becomes unstoppable. For, we are each of Christ Potential, or, Son of Man in waiting to becoming, Son of God. Therefore, such a soul sees the crucifixion as resurrection of life in Christ nature, and, not physical death; she sees crucifixion as necessary, and inevitable to bringing about death of the illusory individual ego, thereby know eternal status within our own consciousness.

Thus, the inward crucifixion represents Glory of our soul – hence, “at the desire of the [God-seeking] Jews” – the soul comes into eternal Divine Love.

If we had never heard a word of scripture, we would still find a means of ego crucifixion. We would still achieve Enlightenment through our soul mate, Nature. For, by being totally in her presence, would bring about the Gap whereby kundalini — divine life force — would rise from the spinal column. The soul would naturally be drawn to union with Nature’s pulse of 7.83htz per second, the transcendental vibration — achieved in meditation — our soul yearns.

Ark symbolizes the mind, and, Noah symbolizes a soul seeking divine rest or inner peace. Thus, Noah’s Ark depicts a soul in process of becoming spiritually realized – a soul journeying to know unconditional love through creating peace within the mind.

The Ark, we’re told, came to rest upon a mountain — mountain, biblically, means highest point of inner awareness.

Practically speaking, how do we BUILD this inner Ark?

Scripture reminds us, Noah first sent forth a Raven [sea-bird of prey, or, aspect of soul not yet ready for soul awakening] which did not return [purified unto the soul]. In other words, Noah, the individual soul, through spiritual ignorance, initially expressed Raven or lower nature.

Noah then sent forth a first Dove, which did not return. But, seven days later (meaning, after a period of purifying meditation) sent forth a second Dove — a humbled soul in search of peace [in Christ] which returned with an Olive leaf, symbolizing inner peace as a means of developing spiritual awareness within [consciousness]. A land bird, the Dove found land, meaning, came upon higher “mountain” consciousness – Noah, the individual soul, through meditation, transformed from Raven nature into divine Dove peace.

In meditation, when thought stops, Ark-building or unity awareness begins; thus, while engaging mental silence, we’re building an Ark of soul quietude. In this state, with the brain becoming familiar in focused attention, inner well-being becomes a tangible mind state. For, although the soul is uncreated – always was, always will be — we need to create stillness, inner space, thereby achieve conscious contact for peace-nature to reflect in our lives. Moving beyond intellectualizing on divine love to experience directly, thus, is the human imperative. To this end, the stiller the lake [mind], the clearer is the reflection of the Moon [soul-love].

The Flood

Known in Yoga as kundalini, the “flood” associated with Noah’s Ark symbolizes the surge of spiritual energy, consequent of daily silence meditation, which rises from the base of the spine — root chakra — to the top of the head – crown chakra.

Scripture further states: two of each entered the Ark: “two of each” represents duality — good/bad, like/dislike and the multitude of prejudices and egoic mind-sets that make up man’s lower nature – biblically termed, [the] Gentile but, here symbolized as the Raven. These “opposites” are not to be challenged directly, rather, consciously witnessed in meditation, thereby integrating as they surface in to mind. Although this duality dynamic is responsible for distorting reality into illusion, it is also the matrix, which, upon passing through calmly, delivers transcendental nature.

Thus, in transmuting recurring subconscious thoughts patterns, man’s destiny lies within our own mentality.

This Ark process, of creating mental calm within, facilitates peace-nature becoming established in mind, thus our becoming mentally and spiritually attuned with the soul’s divine aspect.

In Yoga It is said: God is everything I don’t “think” God is.

As duality exists only in the relative [world] state of mind, the imperative is creating space to facilitate reflection of transcendental nature, where duality does not exist.

Therefore, becoming non-dual [within mind] is the vital catalyst of becoming aware in transcendental or Unity consciousness. In this state — for the period of our meditation — individual ego does not exist. Instead, rather like a single rain drop merging with the sea, its nature transforms into ocean status. It is this constant familiarization with transcendental mental silence which brings about inner transformation.

So long as duality or opposites exists within the mind, we’re functioning in the realm of divided awareness — through subconscious judgmentalism — which scripture reminds — lest we be judged by our own thoughts — violates Law. This is how, when unconditional love becomes established consciousness, compassion and natural happiness become immediately present in heart.

With “compassion” being the soul’s treasured attribute, it is the great spiritual nugget awaiting soul-awakening, and is why God tells Noah to build an Ark of inner peace.

To this end, development of transcendental consciousness facilitates the soul’s instantaneous capacity of knowing its own creative, non-judgemental love nature for manifestation of good only in the world.

With Zero being the great multiplier, building the Ark therefore commences with becoming Zero in mind – no deliberate thought consumption — when intellect reduces to point, when concentrated silence becomes the All: You/God as One unified state.

In Yoga this is termed, Samadhi – the mind directly knowing transcendental bliss, the unified field of intelligence which underlies all Creation. Zeroing, therefore, is about creating point awareness where love-silence can flourish abundantly, thus, point and infinity, are equal.

Crucifixion In Relation to Ark

We remember at Jesus’ crucifixion, two others were also crucified. These two biblical characters symbolize the two voices of the world: humility and arrogance. The voice of humility said: “remember me, Jesus, when you enter your kingdom” Luke 23:42 – a soul intent on re-consecrating with God. A soul intent on the inward journey of creating mental Ark space or point awareness, whereby crucifixion [of ego] can happen at individual level, transcendentally.

Jesus entered biblical Jerusalem — Uru-salem — meaning, entered “[the] City of Peace” — state of raised consciousness — the donkey symbolizing ego-humility, in meditation.

Other scriptures put it: Jesus entered “the Holy City”, meaning, the meditator entered virgin consciousness thereby giving birth to, or, awakening of, the Christ consciousness.

Again, Jesus puts it: “No one can get to the Father except by me”: John 14:6. In other words, the soul, “Me”, is the intermediary between you and God – all goes through soul first. Therefore, when thought-free space is created — and expressed creatively as love through heart and mind — divine nature takes root and becomes our spiritual domain through which all our actions return as Doves – the Raven is no more.

“Promised Land” And the Ark

A biblical “Promise” is referring to an already existing state within, and, “Land” is referring to consciousness awaiting conscious contact and spiritual direction. Therefore, “promised Land” is consequent of building our Ark. Such enables the soul gain freedom of cyclical re-births into Gentile or lower-self Raven nature — the soul finds eternal Unity AS the Transcendent.

Having listened with heart, and reflected upon God through mental silence, gaining conscious contact with the higher regions of soul becomes automatic: thus, the THOUGHT of God becoming extinct in its realization. In other words, there comes a point in meditation when the conscious mind slips from mental reflection into transcendental soul-love. In this context, the goal of human life lies not in phenomenal existence, but in transcendental nature, where the whole dynamic of Noah’s Ark leads [our] ego to becoming crucified in the Promised Land, in the present moment of meditation.

Fulfilling Our Purpose on Earth

Scripture puts it: “On the seventh day he rested”: Geneses 2:1–3. Seven symbolizes completion, gaining higher states [of mind] beyond ordinary human consciousness. To this end, Psalm 23 also puts it: “He leadeth me beside the still waters” [of the soul] — the act of meditation or, building or establishing Ark consciousness. Noah, we’re reminded, sent forth his Doves every seventh day: meaning, divine-nature is the natural activity following meditation.

In India, the word Yoga translates as unity consciousness, but, when translated into English means Yoke or wooden beam, which Jesus asks his followers to place on their shoulders – take into our minds as a dynamic of awakening dormant spiritual love. The Yoke symbolizes man’s inherent duality nature – biblically termed original sin. Scripture is informing, to enter into states of Ark consciousness whereby the subconscious “yoke” mind [the Raven] becomes transformed, gains “completion” into Dove nature.

In this context, our spiritual purpose is to morph, caterpillar-like, out of the cocoon of Lower law of opposites – (rule of the world) into higher law (Unity or, rule of the Spirit). Thus, our Ark of inner solace, upon “completion” through regular stilling of the conscious mind, translates as experiential eternity.

In practical terms, the allegory of Noah’s Ark is about culturing the brain and nervous system in experiential fourth state of consciousness – transcendental nature.

Presently our brains are familiar ONLY in the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states. The fourth state, transcendental consciousness, requires a “set-up” at practical level within the nervous system. To this end, through repeated meditation, gradually, over time, the practice cultures the nervous system in withstanding [the fourth state of] bliss consciousness, even in our busy day-to-day lives.

Although initiated in the brain, for the mind to experience transcendentally, there must be a setup within the nervous system – hence, building our peace Ark through mental stillness and silence, establishes this set-up effortlessly.

[1] “I Am the Lord [Law] they God, thou shall not have strange God’s before me.”

“I” (AM) is un-created eternal present-moment consciousness — always was-always will be. “Strange Gods” is living life through either past or future mind-enslaved states. God is Love therefore, “strange Gods” are lower-self mind-sets or belief systems — to include addictions — which anchor the heart in fear, which is to live untruth when our true nature is Truth or Love.

Raised “I” is the means of conscious resurrection into eternal Love, the goal of human life. In other words, divine awareness is our soul’s single yearning of re-uniting with the empowering organizational Intelligence of Nature, of Source — soul’s optimal functioning state. Non-divine life denies soul its Christ-nature expression resulting in activity alien to Truth, to You the eternal I Am.

[2] Do not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain

“Name” — meaning nature of something — at soul level is bliss consciousness, or potential evolution, which, without conscious contact [in our meditation], remains dormant or “vain.” “Name” becomes “vain” when expressed negatively against our soul’s desire for evolution, for such automatically rebounds against the expresser — in other words, self-inflicted suffering. “The Lord” means cosmic law, by which law our lives are governed, which can be used for either good or bad or, “vain”. “Thy God” is our personal connection with Love’s nature, the eternally-existing state yearning for conscious “I am”-knowing and expression.

Lord, Law, God, and Love may be taken to mean the same and termed by whatever titles we wish, BUT, “vain”, or negative law-misuse results in the same suffering reality. Cosmic law works in perfect proportion to one’s subjective conditioning — reflections of our positive or negative heart/mind attitudes. Depending on our conscious intentions or subjective conditioning, the laws of Nature always produce reaction or karmic response — known as “cause and effect” — thus action and reaction are of equal proportion. Meditation is the surest method of gaining soul freedom — gaining spiritual harmony with all the cosmic laws of Nature, thus neutralizing karmic responses.

This answers the age-old question of why God is said to allow so many nasty things happen in the world; rather, it’s violation of cosmic law at personal, national or global level which is causal. Thus, it’s we, individually or collectively, who are responsible for invoking the law of “cause and effect” for good or for bad, in the world.

Our purpose on earth, therefore, is to awaken from such devastating ignorance, thereby come into harmony with “thy Lord/Law” within. Without conscious contact with Bliss or Love, we live “Name… in vain.”

[3] Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day

In its literal format we can see this as attending church one [rest] day per week. But, esoterically, the commandment is proclaiming soul development through Sabbath or raised “I” consciousness thus consciously establishing permanent Christ consciousness.

Biblical Saul had his “flash” conversion-moment on the road to Damascus. But “flash” represents only the dawn of spiritual growth. Keeping “Holy” the Sabbath, therefore, is to live that “flash” experience every moment of every day through a Christ-developing consciousness.

Post “flash”, it takes some hours longer for the “Midday Sun” experience. Through our daily consciousness development work in meditation, such is how we “keep Holy the Sabbath” — soul becoming acclimatized in “Midday Sun” evolution.

At the Last Supper Jesus said: “Do this in memory of me” meaning, practice of meditation or Sabbath nourishment leading to transcendence — “memory of me” is referring to direct experiencing of our own Higher Self nature, “Me”, meaning You.

As soul citizens of the kingdom of heaven, regardless of religion (or none), expressing transformed consciousness is our daily “Holy” duty and not simply ritual reserved for church-going days. In the grand scheme of the Creator, no person, whatever our social status or creed, is exempt from “keeping Holy within” [gaining cosmic consciousness] for the greater service and well-being of humanity.

[4] Honour thy Father and they Mother

Throughout my formative years, I took this Commandment to mean ‘love my biological mother and father.’ But, when esoterically interpreted, the emphasis shifts dramatically. “Mother” represents feminine energy (present within both male and female body), while, “father” represents masculine energy (Yin/Yang, again in both male and female). Both mother/father dynamic are needed simultaneously for creation, for conscious awakening unto Unity or God consciousness.

“Honour thy mother”, therefore, is referring to our own physical body or tabernacle-mechanism, which births “thy father,” — divine awareness — experientially. In other words, through our intention, the “mother/father” dynamic conceives and births the Christ-nature into the human psyche, thus awakening and validating our higher soul aspect, which, in turn, heals separation from God — causal of the human condition (Adam/Eve or “the fall of man”).

The body-tabernacle is the facilitating dynamic, the birthing womb of innate mother/father — the modes operandi to experiential eternity, Heaven, or, [our] Higher Self. “Honouring” transpires with the commencement of crucifying or transmuting the realm of opposites: love/hate, good/bad, like/dislike, and so on) through our selected meditation.

We’re born physically in order to activate the mother/father, Yin/Yang energy, thereby honouring our soul’s encoded duty of re-birthing spiritually (of Spirit), thus fulfilling our purpose on earth: Divine consciousness getting to know itself consciously as, I Am, or, eternal You.

[5] Thou Shall Not Kill

The story of “Cain and Able” fits perfectly here. The ego or lower-self (Cain) kills his brother, higher nature (Abel) “in the field” — in the mind. By lower-self is meant, the non-redeemed or subconscious aspect of deeper mind running on auto negative programming — biblically termed, “Jacob”.

We’re reminded, not to extinguish the seed of Life, love — our indwelling Christ – which is endeavouring to birth and multiply within the soul’s virgin consciousness. “Killing” is when ego is allowed dominate and control every thought and outer activity to the detriment of Spirit nature expression, thereby, unwittingly, is spirit-will handed over unto its captures, negative thought — biblical Roman soldiers.

In life, occasions present when inner guidance is attempting “revelation” through insightful wisdom or, change of heart in a given situation etc. The ego will want to “kill” these soul-sourced prompts, for such represents ego’s demise. Therefore, where ego flourishes, spiritual death is happening — termed the wages of sin.

“Killing” is also with regards to others’ indwelling Christ seed and their awakening creative process, which we should not “kill” through condemnation.

[6] Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery

Biblical adultery is referring to: cheating on God. It is when we’re consciously partaking in non soul-serving mind-sets which deny Christ within.

Exposure of virgin consciousness to soul-destroying conditioning represents “adultery” — meaning, “adulterous” against our own soul or, higher self nature.

Our true nature is bliss-consciousness. In this regard, heart fulfilment through a non-purified spiritual system is biblically deemed adulterous or prostitution. In other words, impregnation of virgin consciousness for lower self-gratification is defilement of our inner Christ, or, cheating on God.

As brides in Christ, both male and female, natural fulfilment is designed to be through the natural contentment of bliss. When bliss is realized “within consciousness” then God-Nature becomes our un-denying fulfilment. In this context, lower-self adulterous substitution does not arise.

[7] Thou Shall Not Steal

In reality, common sense informs that we don’t require a Commandment to tell us it is wrong to steal.

Therefore, it is deemed “stealing”, biblically, to knowingly experience a nature which does not belong to the nature of our own indwelling Christ. “Stealing” is experiencing through lower-ego for sense gratification only — to include power and greed. The ego always manipulates to obtain, by non-spiritual means, that which is not our soul’s true nature. We’re deemed “stealing” when contentment is filtered through animalistic nature, or non-developed consciousness — where “the illusion” of the phenomenal world deepens, rather than growth of our soul’s love potential. “Stealing” is when partaking of life’s bounties through a non-spiritual mind, senses, and nervous system, biblically termed [a]”tax collector”.

[8] Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbour

The first point to remember here is, “neighbour” in this context, and in the next two commandments, are not referring to our next-door neighbour or, societal people in general, rather, to our subconscious or subjective mind. There are two dynamical aspects of the full mind: conscious and subconscious. “Neighbour”, here, is referring to the subconscious aspect which hears our every prayer, wish and mental intention.

The subconscious “hears” through emotions and feelings — this is its communicative medium.

“Bearing false witness” is to pray, wish or intend negatively through anger or fear-laden thoughts. If these emotive qualities are charged negatively, then the subconscious accepts these as our prayer-wish and supplies abundance of anger and fear, the emotion in which such was “sent”. The repercussions of which, is suffering. “Bear false witness” is to consciously misuse divinely designed inner mechanisms to Christ-consciousness, for egoism proliferation.

To eliminate suffering potential through misuse of Commandment law, harmonization of left/right brain, or integration of higher and lower-self — to include the five senses of perception — is necessary. The imperative is not to bear falsely — via the non purified five senses — unto the subjective mind, for, such is “bearing” negatively unto the Creative faculty or, the Christ within. As the five senses are duty-bound (either heightened or asleep) to serve the mind creatively and, the heart lovingly, they will serve to either imprison through addiction, suffering, or, vibrate experiential bliss through heightened spiritual awareness.

Therefore, the Lord says: “love thy neighbour (lower-self) as thy (higher) self” Luke 10:29. Thus, when praying, our intentions are made known through love, thereby healing the duality which exists within each human from birth, symbolized by the Cross.

[9] Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Wife

Of all the Commandments, this surly is one of the most misunderstood. Biblical “wife” is not representative of a marriage partner as we know the term. “Wife” symbolizes a mind-set, a belief system or non soul-serving dynamic. Because of generational mis-praying, we have each inherited false indoctrinations, non soul-serving mind-sets or addictive thought patterns. Here, “thy neighbour” represents the malfunctioning aspects of the subjective mind which over-sees “neighbour’s wife” or mind-sets. As these are non soul-serving, the commandment is reminding that such programming must become integrated, thereby, cease automatically “coveting” lower life.

With lower-self rooted in spiritual ignorance, we can see “neighbour’s wife” as potential for suffering. Here, we’re reminded to awaken unto purification of the contaminated five senses, thereby, is our life-expression, divinely.

Each faculty of our spiritual nature needs to be functioning in harmony with the laws of nature, otherwise that soul is prone to taking on a “wife” — a mind-set, not a person — a belief system with potential for emotional, physical and mental disharmony.

If the intellect is stalled in left brain only, then we’re most likely coveting through egoism — fostering negativity, thy neighbour’s “wife” — rather than through left/right brain coherence.

When bliss is established in consciousness, our spiritual mechanisms become divinely attuned; no longer are we coveting through ignorance.

[10] Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Goods

Once understood that “neighbour” is an inner subjective/mental dynamic then “neighbour’s goods” is here referring to material manifestation through the non life-serving CONTENTS of the subconscious mind.

The Commandment is reminding of not desiring a life-standard sourced through conditioned, dehumanizing sub-conscious content, the unredeemed aspect of soul; not to misuse the eternal “laws of nature” through a mind state not compatible with our soul’s desire for spiritual evolution.

With ignorance-conditioning being another form of biblical “stoning”, we’re to avoid inflicting wrong spiritual values onto our soul.

“Coveting ” is when we’re consciously out of direct influence of higher-self — when our lives automatically function out of generational conditioning and its after-effect: suppressed emotions through inner conflict, which, together, form sub-conscious content.

Sub-consciousness ensures soul-slavery in lower-self experiencing, such as, destructive, anger-laden thoughts, chronic stress, compulsive worry, ground-less fear and market-place stimulation for life-contentment.

“Before this day is out [period of meditation] You [higher self] will be with Me [as Christ] in Paradise” [bliss consciousness]: Luke 23:43 — lower ego mind-sets transmuting into higher Me, the Christ within, thereby OUR Fulfilling of the Ten Commandments through the single act of meditation.

Is this THE most profound question in the entire Bible?

When contemplated through an open, silence-infused mind this question brings about soul feed-back which is truly revelatory. Stirring the deeper consciousness, it addresses natural spiritual curiosity of who and what we really are at core level, and how we can integrate such in more meaningful and loving ways in our day-to-day life, thus progressing our soul into greater realms of spiritual awareness and experiencing.

For now, let us relax and explore this wonderful Jesus composed question: “Who do you say I am?”

Jesus, a true soul psychologist, evaluates wisely then puts the question succinctly, thus making each person responsible for its answer: in which orientation is our heart/soul set — to which inner frequency is our consciousness attuned — love born of Spirit or existence rooted in egoistic lower-self nature? To whom, or what, do we attribute Love, Healing and Forgiveness? What outer conditioning are we dependent on for Christ nature validation? What do we consider our true reality to be?

A simple set of inquiries, I hear you say.

Initially “Who do you say that I am?” sounds relating to a previous era, meant only for the historical disciples and nothing now to do with you/me in this twenty-first century. But, until we pose this question of ourselves now, then that’s how it will always be: other-era relating only.

The reality is, YOU are the single soul this question is being addressed to now in real time.

Similarly, as with biblical Peter — symbolizing lower-self ego, which scripture reminds us denied Christ three times, meaning denied Christ [within] in mind, body, spirit — sooner or later a time comes when we begin questioning words pertaining to eternal life, immortality and ascension, as spoken by Jesus. We begin questioning our purpose for being here: about God, Heaven, biblical names, titles and stories; the universe, pain, suffering, the after-life and everything we’re finitely capable of asking or fearing. As we mature in soul indeed many such profound questions arise, for, many non-clarified scriptural teachings, as the above, constantly emerge into the Truth-seeking mind.

While questioning is normal to a developing consciousness, such usually originates out of lower ego’s concern for its preservation orchestrated through fear-driven mind-sets. Thus Jesus reminds: “Be not afraid, it is I.” But, in relatable terms, who is this “I” we’re not to be afraid of? In other words, “who do you say I am?”

For instance — apart from imposed religious belief systems — how do we perceive biblical Jesus Christ in practical terms. Is it as a historical man, a two millennium ago person to be reverenced BECAUSE of his heroic status then — his healings, miracles and crucifixion — or do we acknowledge the biblical message of Christ [within] as You, a present day inner Potential, a Higher Self presence to be birthed tangibly within our own consciousness? Do we consider or ignore the biblical term/title “Jesus” as the Way — process of Enlightenment [in Christ nature] — or are we, as with most of the major religions, fixated primarily on the outer historical images and stories? Such is the enormity of the above Christ-sponsored question.

Here it may help if we clarify the word “religion.” It stems from the Latin root “Religire” meaning to join back. The purpose of religion, therefore, is to bind the soul back to its divine source. In today’s world of physical violence, power-grabbing, corruption and destruction, is religion achieving this? For some, maybe, but, for countless others, respectfully, no.

Finding Out For Ourselves

When put to the disciples: who do the people (conditioning, indoctrination dogmas) say Christ is, they replied: “some say Elijah, John the Baptist, Jeremiah or some other prophet.” Matthew 16:14

Jesus replied: “[but] what about you, who do you say I am?”

Peter responded: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus replied: “You are blessed, for this truth did not come to you from any human being (flesh and blood, or man) but it was given to you directly by my Father in Heaven”- Matthew 16:17. The emphasis here is: coming into direct experience of unconditional love or Christ nature.

As mentioned earlier, biblical “Peter” symbolizes lower egoic nature, thus, this was ego’s challenged or commencement moment toward Christ realization — ready to enter the process of soul purification [biblically titled “the Way” or “Jesus”].

Without Peter answering as such — ego surrendering — then the rest of the Bible’s story loses the personally-relating aspect: “Who do YOU say I am?”, for, the Bible is all about YOU, not others. Compiled in coded-wisdom format Scripture represents symbolized word-dynamics for soul evolution, consciousness development, not chronicled history of places, people or events.

Referencing “John the Baptist” – ‘who some people said Christ was’ – is to qualify the difference between the birthing process of rising kundalini from the base chakra leading to Awakening and establishing Christ nature within consciousness. In other words, rising kundalini is the process-conduit of YOU becoming the Christ — pollinating Christ as conscious awareness [Matthew 16-17 above] — biblically termed “John the Baptist”: the level before Christ-coming or, “the One [Christ] who follows [soul Awakening]”.

Born Spiritually Ignorant

Later in Matthew 16-20, Jesus ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah: “Tell no man what you have heard today.” In other words, in the early stages of inner Christ discovering, our newly-sprouting positive soul seeds can be easy prey for “the crows of the earth” (negative thoughts, our own and others’).

It could also be interpreted: don’t push OUR version of Christ onto others who may not be as ready as we are, for, initially we’re each born spiritually ignorant — gentile. Jesus puts it: Lazarus, [you/me pre soul awakening] come forth” John: 11-43 — meaning, roll back the tombstone of subconscious generational soul ignorance, rise above the mire of lower ego dominance — raise our consciousness [through meditational/prayer-silence practice] come into the Light or consciousness of Christ within, now!

Desist from ego-pontificating on Christ until we’re personally experiencing unconditional love born of “water and the spirit”: “water” meaning that level of consciousness initiated through meditation, otherwise, ego maintains a controlling influence over the awakening process, thus, a tethered freedom, if you will.

While beneficial to a certain point, sermonized words, written or spoken, do not validate Christ nature. Here, each must witness personally to direct realization of Unconditional Love.

Acts: 12:16 states: “Peter kept knocking”. Although Peter acknowledged Christ as the Messiah, it was an intellectual reply only, it wasn’t a Heart experiential reply as could be expected from “John” — symbolizing Higher Heart nature.

Peter, we’re reminded, asked the Lord: “where are you going”? Jesus answered: “you cannot follow me now where I am going, but later you will follow me” John 13:36 – meaning, post [our] ego crucifixion we will know Christ within.

Peter’s reply: “Lord, I am ready to die [ego crucifying] for you” [John 13: 37] doesn’t signify full integration of mind, body, spirit: the Re-ligire state; rather only the “ready” or intentional moment to Full Humanity.

Like with Peter, to internalize the Messiah — Christ — we too must “keep on knocking” by regular daily performance of our selected meditation: “he motioned with his hind (commanded his intellect) be still” – Acts 12:17

But also in Acts: 12:17, notwithstanding Jesus’ earlier ordering “tell no one”, Peter says: “tell this to James and the rest of the believers”, which seems contradictory.

But, we remember in: “Transfiguration on the Mount” Matthew 17:1-13: Jesus took Peter (ego), James (mental aspect of soul) and John (higher soul nature) apart [within] up a high mountain [meditation], meaning mind, body, spirit of man attaining highest point [Mount] of inner Christ awareness, coming upon Christ status through meditational or inner Mount silence.

While Peter “acknowledged” Christ as the Messiah, he wasn’t a fully committed [to practice] believer, hence, it was only after persistent “kept on knocking”, of repeated meditation, that, “at last, they opened the door”: his thoughts calmed and he was allowed in — transformational process into Christ consciousness.

Thus, as an integrated believer — “allowed in” — qualifies Peter to tell the rest of the believers, meaning awaken the other inner apostles [in the brain], the spiritual qualities of the soul. In other words, by our own meditational endeavour we initiate the already in-place spiritual mechanisms of awakening kundalini in the base chakra — lower ego is now alchemising into higher spiritual personality.

Rising kundalini from the base of the spine is the practical initiating process of birthing the Christ nature at experiential well-being level.

As sure as midday-sun follows dawn, once our mental processes become familiarized in transcendental silence, transformation establishes automatically thereby achieving inner Christ awakening. Thus are “rest of believers” or the 12 disciples [12 Cranial nerves in the brain] becoming cosmically active — establishing of Christ nature in consciousness.

Who Am “I” – Who Is “You”?

Due to unrelenting addictive thought patterns, the seeming authentic nature of conditioned illusion makes identification with such compelling.

Thus, the transmutation journey of illusion into Christ Consciousness is primarily integration of small [illusory] “I” into Higher [Reality] “I” awareness.

Due to previous lifetime inheritances leaving each of us functioning at different levels of spiritual evolution, different vibration levels of ignorance, understanding and perceptions, we’re not all seeing the same green, blue or yellow through our standard red, green, yellow life-glasses. As such, until a degree of conscious integration is made, perceptions through the small “I” are somewhat blurred, out of sync when relating spiritually to, or identifying with, higher “You” as in “who do YOU say Higher “I” (Christ) am?”. In other words, consciousness assimilation through the small “I” gives a false or illusory perception of now reality, therefore, integration of the programmed mind — the subconscious or biblical “swaddling clothes” — is required by way of our selected inward meditation.

Conditioned mind will say: I am Catholic, I am Protestant, I am Muslim, Hindu or, I am no religion — which also qualifies as egoic labelling. We may say: I am Irish, I am American, she is Canadian, he is English, they are French, Australian, African, Asian etc or, we’re all one — until it comes to the emotionality of our imposed national/societal identities. But, does this labelling TRULY define us — give added spiritual status to our soul? Does it define higher “You?” No, not in the slightest! Then, who is defining or asserting on “You/spirit” identity?

The answer is, the reflection of the illusion, “the world hypnosis”, and the captured mind’s identification with living such untruth — the real rejected for the fake. The accumulations of faulty understanding [from birth] of society, parents and peers; the indoctrinations and dogma buy-ins of both political and religious establishments, to include sections of “corporate”.

Formal conditioning as such of the subconscious mind and the resultant contaminated thought prism through which it reflects, is THE single major barrier to experiential Christ consciousness. Many, as we see in the world today, act out this labelling (as belief systems), resulting in a fictitious “You”, thereby creating a self-identity crises where inner turmoil and rebellious anger overflow to devastating proportions, all to justify, at any cost, the programmed mind-sets and birthplace identity of the illusory small “I”.

Those who’ve worked at lower “I”/higher “I” integration – resurrection of spiritual/compassionate nature – pay little attention to such false labelling. Authentically-endorsed souls are almost incapable of violence against their neighbor. Think Mahatma Gandhi, for such is the benchmark approach of Christ realization: Unity through peaceful means within and without – “as above so below”.

Ask ourselves: to what end is MY Christ nature Potential being channelled daily – creatively or destructively, selfishly or Heart-cantered, wisely or through ignorance. The difference, on a personal/national/global level, is only to scale.

Of course, proclaiming status unto ourselves through the ego only defines our ignorance. Thus our mental state becomes overpoweringly left brain only driven, rendering spirit-nature-relating primarily intellectual rather than soul integrated left/right brain functioning.

Thankfully, from a practical perspective, remedying “the world” hypnosis is no more difficult then entering into the deep silence of meditation, where Transcendent “I” is directly experienced — the inner dynamic-status which crucifies lower ego, the illusion. It’s then, when small “I” is fully surrendered unto all-encompassing cosmic divine love nature that OUR answer to “who do you say I am?” becomes loud and clear. We discover, at the non-physical spirit level, that you are the eternally-existing “I”, the Risen Christ within our own transformed consciousness.

God told Moses, (ethical man/woman): “take up thy rod”: raise our spiritual vibration, activate the chakric centres in the body through daily meditation.

Beneath life’s fleeting pleasures there’s a yearning for something permanent beyond ordinary human consciousness, beyond physicality, time, space and automatically-recurring suffering.

The above scripture — when esoterically understood — provides instruction to such an outcome: a way out of repetitive human misery. When grasped and applied, the hidden message within this scripture — “take up thy rod” — will change our life dramatically for the good. For, like so many scriptures, until we delve beneath their literal interpretations, such life-changing wisdom can remain beyond practical everyday benefit.

Another scripture says “know (experience) ye the Truth (transcendental silence) and this Truth shall set ye (soul) free. In other words, we’re to “know or experience Immortality consciousness now as reality within, for, “Truth” is that state which never changes; Truth is permanent, eternal, joyful — always in Heaven. Here we can see the importance of why God told Moses — you/me — “take up thy rod” or, awaken the spiritual mechanisms along the spinal column through meditational practices thereby “know” our own inner Truth.

Similarly: “take up thy Cross” — “Cross” meaning duality — bring awareness to the duality of good and bad which exists within the egoic mind in need of meditational crucifixion.

Instinctively, we’re each driven to “know” this level of unified divine nature, but “world” conditioning prevents such direct “knowing”.

But, you may well ask, isn’t reading and hearing scripture sufficient? No, it’s not, for, scriptures are presented in symbolised format, they’re not intended to be taken literally, for, scripture doesn’t spell out its hidden meaning — we must seek this wisdom for ourselves. As reading scripture alone doesn’t infuse experiential Truth into consciousness — meaning, intellectual knowledge alone doesn’t alter the state of the soul — individual effort, through one of the various meditational disciplines, is required.

Non-experiencing of soul consciousness — biblical Light — is the single scourge of humanity on the planet today. It’s the single cause of almost every disease known to our species, resulting in depression, alcohol and pharmaceutical drug dependency, etc, not to mention the low-life mind-sets associated with such involuntary spiritual ignorance — involuntary because it’s sub-conscious activity.

How, then, at a practical level, do we “take up thy [our] rod” and “know this Truth which sets us (soul light) free”? Let us examine these last two scriptures more closely with regards to their biblically intended meaning, which is, expansion or transformation of consciousness into Truth, or, suffering into bliss.

Although decoding of scripture’s wisdom is vital in gaining spiritual understanding and guidance, a time comes when we need to put down the books for a period each day — including the Bible — and commence a practical home/closet-based application of scripture: that of knowing our own soul-nature directly. Here, daily meditation is the certain way of knowing such divine status — coming upon our own indwelling Christ Presence thereby purely knowing our Truth essence.

God’s Greatest Creation

When we consider, that, the body is the end organ of the nervous system, which is the end organ of the mind, which is the end organ of God or, the Creator, it sure makes perfect sense the need to acknowledge and nourish the mind/heart daily as the gateway to our Christ Nature, Love, thereby establishing Heart-centred consciousness as our permanent state.

The human nervous system is God’s greatest creation: our brain/chakras/nervous system are the most advanced in the universe – wow, let us honour that!

The chakras act as receivers for universal energy, each operating at its own frequency of sound and colour and each associated with a specific gland.

Interestingly, the Pope’s Crosier or Staff symbolizes this greatest creation. The Crosier represents “thy rod” or the seven chakras (spinal column) and, the crook, the brain. Scripture therefore is guiding to awaken this divine endocrine structure in the body thus fulfilling “take up thy rod” — scripture is highlighting the Way of Christ consciousness, of conscious immortality.

We’re reminded that Moses threw down his rod in the desert, meaning, let his/her awareness fall from divine to low-life standard — “desert” meaning our lowest or ego-driven periods in life (biblical Egypt or, unredeemed aspect of soul).

The mountain which Mosses ascends in the Bible symbolises [our] highest point of inner awareness in meditation — it’s not a physical mountain. In other words, meditation is the means of “taking up thy rod” thereby receive the Nature of God, Love, on the inner Mount of divine silence. Remember, Moses symbolises you/me, and “thy rod” equates to the seven chakras in the body which, when activated or “taken up” secrete vital growth hormones for the spiritual awakening of the brain and nervous system. Known biblically as [sending of] the Holy spirit or, John the Baptist — meaning, the process of birthing inner Christ nature through our highest point of meditational awareness.

The Pineal gland in relation to “take up thy rod”

The Pineal gland is a mid-brain corridor linking left/right brain hemispheres. Known as the third eye [of the mind], it’s also the third ear [of the heart] which “hears” our mantra in meditation, which, in turn, activates the master Pituitary gland also in the brain, which in turn awakens the 12 Cranial nervous also in the brain — biblically known as the 12 Tribes of Israel, or, 12 qualities of the soul, or, the 12 Apostles.

When Jesus heals the deaf/blind it’s these two vital glands in the brain which become activated allowing us to hear/see spiritually, live heart-centred awareness.

Thus, through meditation, all of scripture’s symbolism is revealed “within” naturally at the practical experiential level through expanded capacity of revelatory understanding.

The Pineal gland is also symbolized as a Pine on the attire of the Swiss guards: the Pope’s dedicated minders. There’s also a bust statue of a Pine in the grounds of the Vatican — I wonder why, for such is never spoken about publicly?

For the mind to have a particular experience, a corresponding set-up must be in place within the nervous system. In other words, for the mind to experience bliss, the nervous system/senses must be cultured in bliss, thus, by watering the root — the mind — we nourish or culture the whole tree [of our life] in bliss blossoming.

The imperative of mankind now is to move beyond sermonizing on fixed historical mind-sets and persuasive belief systems and come into Authentic present time experiential witnessing. Once we know the direction in which the mind must travel for Christ “knowing”, then we should cease behaving as spiritual tourists in our own divine landscape and become Masters of our Promised Land — bliss or Christ consciousness. Realizing such, we come upon a “within” universe of timeless joy, an unending reservoir of peace and creativity awaiting “emergence” into consciousness — the Will of God revealing unto our spiritually awakening Hearts.

What Happens in Meditation:

Meditation techniques generally fall into the following three categories: contemplation (“con”, meaning to join with a “template”: reflect/review), concentration and mantra meditation — inner sound vibration leading to tangible transcendent Truth, which this article is primarily dealing with.

Meditation initially is about deepening the mind’s silence-awareness capacity thus expansion to withstanding greater mental stillness and bliss presence.

At first, on encountering inner silence, incoming thoughts become more noticeable. This is normal. The secret here is in knowing we’re not trying to become thought-less. This cannot be achieved by mental effort — which would be a contradiction — for thought production is a natural function of mind. Rather, no matter what their nature, we simply witness incoming thoughts without engaging their nature, without clicking the links. To this end we use a mantra – a word sound – used simply to still the conscious mind. In other words, when the lake is calm the moon reflects perfectly, when the mind is still Christ or inner Being reflects experientially.

Similar to electricity making the whole ocean “live” on contact, consciousness, on contact with the inner silence of mental stillness awakens the Christ within.

To achieve this status in meditation the respiratory system reduces to a minimum and the mind/nervous system attain natural equilibrium. Being neither active nor passive, the nervous system comes to a state of restful alertness — the vibrational nature of Being. In other words, the whole brain is adapting to its new functioning role of simultaneous existence in relativity and eternality – acclimatization in cosmic consciousness or “full stature” of Christ capacity. A state [of Being] which cannot be experienced through any nature other than Itself, hence, Jesus said: “where I go, you (conditioned ego) cannot come, but I (meditation consciousness) go before thee and prepare the way” (healing of generational conditioning leading to Christ nature).

In meditation we’re not attempting to conquer the senses by effort, rather they surrender willingly to silence, beginning when we close the master sense, the eyes and placing the awareness between the eyebrows.

Like the tortoise, when the five senses of lower-self perception gradually begin withdrawing from the objective, physical world, stress begins to dissolve and the conscious mind assumes a peaceful, calm status. This is how the physiology/nervous system/senses gradually acclimatize to withstand the resulting bliss consciousness in and after meditation and transcendence. It’s this culturing of the nervous system in bliss which transforms our human consciousness into divine nature — the subconscious generational thought patterns or, original sin, encountering healing-forgiveness.

Awakening the Spiritual Brain

In practical terms, soul evolution is sped up consequent of lowering the brain’s oscillations: our spiritual vibration attuning divinely, or, awakening of the spiritual brain. It works like this:

The brain, in meditation, goes from active Beta 14-22 cycles per second, through calming Alpha 7-14 cps to restful Theta brain speed of 4-7 cps. Theta is deeper than normal sleep hence we feel invigorated, renewed and calm after meditation. While Alpha also brings relaxation and healing (the morning waking state and, the play state of children) it’s Theta which vibrates the deep trance state needed for left/right brain harmonization. With regular daily meditation the brain gains the transcendental Delta speed state of 1-3 cps thus representing established Christ or cosmic consciousness.

Initially meditation is noticing when we’ve drifted from our mantra, and, restarting. Every restart is deeper and commences from the drifted level – nothing is lost and benefits are cumulative. Restarting interrupts the ego’s cycle of habitual memory referencing — wanderings in search of sense gratification and verification of its false identity. Like a bee buzzing from flower to flower in search of honey, so too, the lower-self ego wanders in search of happiness of any nature. In this regard, the conditioned ego refuses to entertain silence/stillness, for such represents its demise — its crucifixion on the Mount of meditational Silence.

What the mind is seeking outwardly already exists “within”: bliss, and, bliss lies BETWEEN thoughts – the Gap between one thought and the next. But, the undisciplined mind, in its search for worldly happiness, does not recognize this Gap – Jesus said: “and the world (ego) did not know Him”. This is why, because of ego’s never-challenged dominance some find themselves giving up meditation, saying: “I cannot still the mind” — but, as mentioned earlier, with regular practice, such comes about naturally.

It’s this alternating experience of meditational silence then normal activity after meditation which cultures the physiology: infuses permanent unconditional love/bliss into the conscious mind/nervous system thereby establishing heightened sensory perception in divine awareness. Thus, the mind wanders no more through the junkyard of subconscious conditioning for its pittance of worldly pleasure for such is incompatible with the pure consciousness of our awakening soul.

As spiritual beings, we’re not our thoughts, not the brain rather Spirit enters the brain via [the resurrection] of kundalini life force through the spinal chakra system. As sap is to the tree for growth, so too is kundalini life force to the human anatomy. On flow, kundalini life force prepares the physiology for spiritual Christ healing — biblical John the Baptist.

It’s been said we use about 1/5th of our available mind/brain capacity, thus meditation reclaims this lost subconscious 4/5ths aspect of mind by making it fully conscious. Scripture puts it: “that we come into our full stature” meaning experiential Promised Land or Christ consciousness.

Jesus states: “and the prince of this world calleth and findeth nothing in me”. In other words, His [yours/mine] subconscious/generational conditioning becomes integrated, rendered harmless for future sin-nature activity. Our sins (lower-self conditioning) are forgiven (integrated) — higher and lower-self functioning in total harmony with Divine Cosmic Law.

Non awareness of embedded non life-serving thought patterns can be the single barrier on our journey of personal “success in life”. This hardly ever spoken about realm is entirely responsible for the functioning state of our mental and physical well-being — including goal achieving — thus making consciousness development a life-priority for humanity.

In this regard it’s necessary to explore the “bigger picture” — the cosmic nature of the unconscious mind — for this is the realm of our latent mental faculties, home of our vital assets such as perfect health, creativity, love peace and happiness — the spiritual “Fort Knox” or paradise of our souls.

If we’re familiar only in literal interpretation of scripture, we tend to see the Bible merely as a religious book, as separate from the consciousness development compilation which it is. In this regard, it can at first be a struggle opening our minds / hearts to the symbolism phraseology which scripture is presented in.

“Christ Within”

For instance, when the Bible says: “Christ within” the question immediately arises at subconscious level, “where within, and, within what”? This would be considered a normal subjective response to this profoundly abstract statement. And, on not receiving a mature response, we suppress the cries of the soul’s yearning for expression, evolution — for consciousness development – accepting instead crafted interpretation [of scripture] without knowing the purest intention of the original authors.

Of course [the] “where” within is within raised, or, developing consciousness. In other words, scripture is highlighting that the status of “Christ-within” — awakening of the soul’s latent or untapped levels of happiness, creativity and love– is to be brought from the un-manifest, or, unconscious transcendental level [of Being] to the conscious experiential level of heart / mind.

Similarly, we hear, “heaven is within”, and, again, esoterically understood, this is absolutely true. But, this “within”-consciousness is accessed through an inner-created space by way of personal endeavour such as meditational mind-calming techniques. In other words, “heaven is within” requires daily culturing of the mind in transcendental silence. This can be as simple as, focusing totally on whatever we’re actually doing in any given moment without our thoughts dribbling into past or future “thinking-about” episodes. Often referred to as “being in the now” this single daily practice will reveal our “heaven is within” nature, beautifully thus to unfolding of Christ-consciousness.

Stilling the Conscious Mind

Achieving this level of soul-consciousness development simply involves commitment to stilling the conscious mind of thought activity, whereby we’re not deliberately re-experiencing past — pleasant or unpleasant — moments or, snared into anxiety-ridden future events. This practice allows the mind’s silence nature expand into and ignite the deeper faculty-laden unconscious; it’s also the brain frequency realm of 7-14 cycles per second to which scripture is guiding. Also known as the Alpha brain state, this level of vibrating consciousness is gained through being totally present [in mind] to the happening [present] moment and to our immediate environment without thought distraction or being judgemental.

So many load their “life-prayer” from a time-based or conditioned mind state when the reverse is spiritually more beneficial. In other words, the Power [of higher consciousness] which we’re seeking to invoke in formal prayer requires meeting such in ITS unconditional love nature, hence daily purification of lower ego — mind, body, spirit made fertile for divine harvesting. To this end, mental silence is a way of culturing divine consciousness — the approach the Bible is heralding.

Subconscious Conditioning

The following two paraphrased scriptures may serve to highlight practical everyday understanding on subconscious conditioning – the snare which keeps us spiritually retarded until severed or de-conditioned through meditational silence.

Luke 2:7 “she [soul] wrapped Him (Unconscious Christ potential) in swaddling clothes… ” — subconscious generational conditioning or, non life-serving mind-sets.

John 14:30, “The prince of the world calleth (temptation to perpetual wrong-doing) and findeth nothing in me” (absence of lower-ego content), meaning, our deeper mind would have no dynamic in place whereby lower-ego or illusory mind-sets can exist thereby maintain the status quo by controlling our lives at subconscious level.

This subconscious content is referred to biblically as “original sin” or [the] “fall of man”.

To counter this “darkness” epidemic of humanity, Psalm 46:10 reminds us: “Be still (in mind) and know that I [Higher You or eternally-existing consciousness] am [off] God” [nature]. In other words, in knowing our Higher Heart or Christ nature through inner-centering practices, we become AS expanded bliss consciousness – we become the Christ — the goal of human evolution.

“Faith in Action”

Once we’ve progressed somewhat in consciousness development the shift of awareness in higher spiritual perception becomes acutely obvious — divine fulfilment becoming our normal experiential standard. Thus, our outward expression of spontaneous happiness resonates as “faith in action” demonstrating ourselves actively engaged in Christ-consciousness expression.

The Good Lord in His wisdom situated His nature within raised consciousness or, transcendentally. In this way, gaining access to such exalted state would require each of us journeying into unconditional stillness [within] thus exposing lower-ego content to divine purification. This process is referred to biblically as entering through “the narrow gate” of converged meditational thought — focussed non-thinking-about awareness — as separate from scattered illusory-driven mind-sets. Scripture reminds us: “Cain rose up against Abel in the field” (in the mind) – meaning, lower-ego’s attempted domination over our soul’s higher spiritual nature.

It’s this daily process of entering into meditational silence, of present moment experiencing or, being in the now, which ensures victory over biblical “darkness” or, non developed consciousness. Thus, present-moment consciousness is the crucifying dynamic of egoism “darkness”, thus de-potentialzing the “loop feed” maintaining suppressed ignorance of our latent mental-spiritual faculties.

When the conscious mind is experiencing daily transcendental silence thus the process of consciousness development has commenced — when realized “Christ-Within” or, developed consciousness becomes our spontaneous life expression.

Many of us, I’m sure, were taught the Lord’s Prayer or, “the Our Father” as a means of penitence after the confessional — aimlessly repeating set-piece words without basic instructional insight or understanding as to their non-literal dynamical value.

The Lord’s Prayer, when esoterically understood — as intended by its author — is more powerful than the sum of its words. But merely repeating the words isn’t sufficient in bringing about the level of consciousness intended in the prayer.

The word “Lord” refers to Law, and more specifically, cosmic law, while “Prayer” refers to a standard of [expressed] consciousness. Taken together, the Lord’s Prayer is referring to correct use of mind — living a specific level of consciousness, i.e. cosmic or Christ consciousness; thus the Lord’s Prayer –when applied — represents instructional detail in consciousness development.

We read in scripture that the Apostles (symbolizing the 12 qualities of the soul) went (conscious direction) to Jesus (Way or process of attaining Christ-consciousness) and said: “Master, (Transcendent all-knowing Awareness) teach us how to pray” (how to live divine standard).

“Life is a Prayer”

Every thought, word and deed assimilated through the mind is a life-prayer — a statement or barometer level of our present state of consciousness — a request to the Law, Lord or Master for such to be re-experienced either consciously or subconsciously. In this regard, it’s vital we’re awake to the possibility that we may automatically be reaffirming life-patterns through lower consciousness, through non life-serving mindsets and belief systems rather than through a developed standard of Master consciousness.

To counteract this potential, the Apostles, as mentioned, (inner spiritual mechanisms to higher soul awakening) sought a standard of eternal principles whereby such divine cosmic nature would be realized within [consciousness].

Scripture puts it: “Jesus (process) taketh Peter (ego) James (mental aspect of soul) and John (love or nature of higher Self) up a high mountain (meditation) apart (within)” — Matthew 17:1

In practical terms, this represents a method of mind, body, spirit awakening; a process of crucifying the blockage — ego — Matthew 16:23 — through an inner Calvary meditative state whereby inner Christ or Heart Ascension becomes experiential. “Mount” in scripture means highest point of inner awareness, or, transcendence – not a physical mountain.

Many misunderstand the Apostles’ request to mean: Master, teach us a better way of squeezing more “goodies” out of God – thus reducing prayer to material begging — thus confusing the prayer’s words with the process of gaining higher understanding through cosmic-consciousness in meditation. Merely repeating the words isn’t the intended “praying”.

Seven, in biblical terms, refers to completion. Thus the Lord’s Prayer — crafted in PRESENT tense — contains seven metaphysical clauses or psychological / spiritual seed dynamics, which, when germinated within lead to experiential completion or maturity in cosmic or Christ-consciousness.

The seven clauses as written:

Our Father.

Which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

This last section, “for thine is the kingdom… ” did not form part of the original text but was added later.

Let us decode each clause for its deeper spiritual value.

[Our Father]: Establishes Omnipotent status of God: father/son relationship: total dependency for all our needs: our unending Source of receiving. God is God to every soul regardless of formal religious affiliation, or none.

[Which art in heaven]: God is always in heaven, always perfect and perfecting. Heaven is the term scripture uses for Presence [of God / Love]. Without conscious Presence there can be no acknowledged divine expression. Divine nature is latent within each of us as yin / yang or male / female dynamic.

[Hallowed be thy Name]: “Name” in scripture relates to the “nature” of that being referred to. “Name” of God is referring to the “Nature” of God which, in manifestation and expressional terms, is unconditional love, happiness, health, healing, prosperity, creativity and abundance. “Name” or Nature is both relative and absolute simultaneously. In other words, similarly as a spoonful of (relative) ocean contains the ingredients of the entire ocean (absolute), so too is eternal God-Nature innately present in each soul’s DNA.

[Thy kingdom come]: Whenever and wherever we express Love or Presence we’re affirming “thy kingdom come” unto [our] consciousness. Through its expression, we’re declaring divine nature IS our now experience, IS our guiding wisdom in all our presenting inner / outer circumstances.

[Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven]: Biblical “earth” is not referring to the planet earth, but, to our body, personal affairs, work, family, health, creativity, relationships etc. We’re declaring God-Nature is manifest in every area / situation of our life-expression – even if such is not visibly present, as yet.

[Give us this day our daily bread]: All our spiritual needs are included in “bread”. To receive daily bread (Manna or soul nourishment), meditational silence is pivotal, it’s the foundational work of our “bread” becoming manifest in consciousness. Whenever lack is reflecting in our life, check if we’re Heart-declaring through outer dependency. Divine receiving requires us to be inner viberationally attuned, for, God works through us, not to us.

[And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us]: Surely the Master’s greatest teaching. It’s the number one “trial” we each face on a momentary inner / outer basis. Simply put: If we’re expecting forgiveness, we must unequivocally forgive others and ourselves. In reality, we can only receive what we’re capable of giving [in consciousness]. It’s not possible to know forgiveness unless there’s an inner “setup” of such. To be non-forgiving — for whatever reason — keeps the soul in bondage to lower ego, thus stifling spiritual growth. Instead, we use past hurts as ego-crucifying opportunities.

[And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil]: In “awakening” spiritually we become hugely sensitive to the hurts inflicted by others, ourselves and life’s situations. Little things which previously wouldn’t have bothered us, now — post awakening — pose potential for hurt, thus, tempting the ego back into conditioned ways – (similarly as Peter (ego) when he drew his sword in Gethsemane). As anger and provocation are never more than a “temptation” away, Jesus is warning against dealing with life-matters in reactionary ways — through a non crucified “fatted calf” ego mentality — thus, Awareness “delivers” [from evil].

[For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen]. God is the underlying Power / Cause / Glory within all creation. One Power, One Spirit.

The Bible, as we may know, represents symbolised analogies as a means of Self-realization; biblically phrased, this means coming upon [our] full humanity or developing expanded consciousness. By internalizing scriptural “Jesus” as an inward process rather that an outward, we eternalize Christ Nature as our everyday functioning consciousness — facilitating conscious awareness of our soul’s unbounded eternal status.

For example, when decoded beyond their literal interpretation, the following two verses are indicative of the process of soul disentanglement from generational conditioning thereby allow experiencing through expanded or cosmic consciousness.

For, in their literal dogmatized format — and associated understandings — these and similar scriptures, from an instructional standpoint, make absolutely no sense whatsoever. But, when decoded esoterically – non-literally – their kernel revelation, spiritually speaking, is truly life-changing. The pivotal point in both these scriptures is the vital interpretive understanding formulated around the two “I”s, for they are not one and the same as presented:

“And I, if I be lifted up from this earth, shall draw all men unto me”. John 12.32 KJV – and,

“Where I go you cannot come, but I go to prepare a place for you”. John 13.36.

Now compare the same two scriptures paraphrased (in brackets).

“And I, (eternally-existing consciousness) shall draw all men (divine manifestation) unto me (Christ consciousness lived spontaneously”), [on condition that] if I (lower-self ego) be lifted up from this earth (raising our consciousness from the quagmire of “sin” nature).

“Where I go (Transcendence) you (material world / conditioned lower ego / duality) cannot come, [due to] (non-purified aspect of soul) but I go (process of ego becoming crucified) to prepare (integration or neutralizing of past karmic patterns) a place (state of purified consciousness) for you (experiential eternal Christ nature”).

In both scriptures, John is saying: if [our] lower “I” ego conditioning becomes integrated by means of [our] higher “I” thus, [our] consciousness, on becoming raised — rather than the recurring lower suffering nature — shall manifest (live / create) from that Higher spiritual domain of love, peace and spiritual abundance.

Like so many of scripture’s coded verses, the previous two are indicative of an inner process: that of raising lower-self “I” by means of Higher Self “I” [in meditation] thus leading to purification of embedded subconscious “sin” content; in other words, residual karmic patterns becoming neutralized forever resulting in pure or expanded consciousness.

It should be emphasised that the Higher Christ “I” which raises our consciousness already exists within each person, but, that, we come upon it consciously.

Crucifying the Ego

The Bible’s coded message is primarily of journeying within [consciousness] through personal daily meditation, which, at practical level, is about ego Crucifixion — surrendering identification with the false ego persona unto inner transmutational silence.

In this stillness, we’re not looking or asking for something materially, rather, becoming empty of such; for, intuitively we sense that we’ve each incurred varying amounts of subconscious emotional baggage — attachments to the material world (false gods) — which necessary detachment purification is impossible for lower-ego to perform, hence — by way of stillness-silence — the introduction of light or awareness into the deeper mind.

Psalm 46-10 puts it: “be still and know that I (eternally-existing consciousness or Christ within) am God”- scripture is reminding us to achieve this divine status within our own consciousness through conscious inward endeavour as opposed to persuasive outer conditioning.

Like a line drawn in water as opposed to stone, on gaining purity of expanded consciousness, new or subsequent sensory impressions — on the surface mind and nervous system — fail to cling for future re-enactment, fail to register as compulsive desire-seeds. Thus the soul’s eternal Christ nature is lived in unbounded bliss-consciousness.

Transcendence and Altered States of Consciousness

Scriptural readings indeed feed the mind beautifully, but, primarily intellectually. Thus, it’s vital we mature into comprehension of scriptures’ message non-literally otherwise we remain anchored in static historical narrative without authentic understanding of the transcendental nature of direct perception of eternal Being within our own consciousness – as intended by scriptures’ enlightened authors.

While left-side brain thrives on facts, figures and historical analysis and analogies, (that’s its job) fulfillment of the Heart transcendentally requires entering into naturally-induced altered states of consciousness by way of right brain activity. Such journeying from left to right side brain facilitates — through opening the pineal gland in the brain — direct experience of our divine or cosmic nature. Here “cosmic” simply means all-inclusive, universal, unbounded or expanded consciousness – full humanity.

Biblical compositions are not intended as precise chronological history of people and events of distant eras, rather instructional [to the reader] of going within our deeper consciousness whereby “revelation” [of the divine] becomes actual reality.

Awakening the [biblical] inner Christ

Biblical “Jesus” esoterically means “process” or Way of knowing transcendental Christ [nature] within [our] consciousness. In practical terms, the title “Jesus” refers to stilling the conscious mind (as in “Jesus” calms the lake) by way of personal meditation, thereby preparing the consciousness (“I go before you”) for the coming [of Christ nature], or, direct realization of eternality-awareness within our own expanded cosmic consciousness, while on earth.

In this regard, when the lake is calm the moon reflects perfectly. Similarly, when the nervous system is calmed — functioning through the state of restful alertness – the innately present Christ-nature reflects blissfully. Thus, calming the inner lake [mental turmoil] allows the soul “hear” echoing of its own eternal transcendental love-silence.

Coming upon and retaining natural happiness can seem unattainable at first, particularly when residual unhappiness can leave us feeling helpless to do anything other than endure such. But, with commitment of decision to dealing with this ongoing debilitating state once and forever, our life can change dramatically for the good.

Despite material success, societal status and general positive financial good fortune, there can remain an ocean of soul emptiness, constant discontent — a distinct absence of free-flowing love, optimism and fulfilment over which we seem to have no control. It feels like being stuck in a downward depressive spiral with only fleeting momentary happiness. The temptation to mood altering products such as alcohol, nicotine and other such dependence potential substances, become real.

Confused and bewildered by not knowing what to do, our life seems governed by this unrelenting cycle, this compulsive behavioural pattern of indecision and self-doubt. Moods of depression, fuelled by ongoing stress and fatigue remain a constant – an overpowering dynamic which can place natural alleviation means beyond our perceived practical reach.

Deep down we yearn for naturally recurring happiness to replace this prison-like mood-swing state of mind and come upon that ever-present flow of contentment and well-being.

Even though, from a materialistic point, there isn’t a single thing, which, if we had, would change our mind-state to natural happiness. Yet, for some reason, we seem stuck in a ‘searching for that elusive happiness’ groove — the ‘carrot and stick’ mentality which seems to maintain the status quo unabatedly. We say: one day I’ll find that missing jigsaw piece, that magical over the rainbow state of mind, then, all will be well.

At first, in our anxiety-driven struggle to be free of this fatiguing, stress-filled life pattern, our thinking becomes irrational, clouded. We rush to panic conclusions, like, maybe it’s down to this reason or that condition, consequently, in our attempt to deflect from self-responsibility, “blaming” and procrastinating become easy choices.Thus, in our struggle to be free of deep-seeded unhappiness, we become exteriorly focused on chemically based products and unnatural lifestyles for solutions, but, which invariably help only to maintain, and even worsen the situation.

So, what’s the suggested solution of dispersing this unrelenting mood-cloud which overshadows our inner sunshine and blights our personal well-being? What’s this scourge which sabotages our flow of unconditional love, ebullient self-expression and fun-partaking in life — how do we rid of it permanently?

To grasp answers to these pivotal questions, some basic understanding of how our deeper mind operates is desirable – nothing complicated — just simple insights on how our everyday mental dynamic functions.

In a nutshell, there is a level of mind known as sub-consciousness – a level of imposed conditioning by parents, society, schooling, peers, religion and nation; a collection of mental imprints which go to frame our self-image, beliefs systems, perceived abilities and self value. These automatically recurring though-feeds to the conscious mind are primarily generational; a programmed inheritance which, should we remain in ignorance of, increases as we go through life. Being subconscious — outside of conscious awareness — these embedded thought patterns remain silently active in deeper consciousness — acted out in our daily life automatically – until, of course, we consciously interrupt the cycle, the loop-feed to the conscious mind.

This sub-consciousness is not a separate mind rather a submerged aspect of our full mind — the storage chip which contains every nuance of learned behaviour. Housing all our convictions, phobias, fears and addictions, this subconscious content exists in a perfectly mastered CD-like state.

Known also as subconscious reactive thought patterns, this suppressed conditioning depends on mental tension, physical stress, life-fears, low self-esteem but, most important of all, ignorance of its existence, for its survival. In other words, mental stress / physical tension are prerequisite energy dynamics for prolonging this involuntary influencing of our conscious mind, resulting possibly in unnatural or addiction-driven lifestyles which ultimately can lead to further unhappiness and even depression. In other words, through non awareness of the subconscious content and its live activity, we’re unwittingly blocking our own sunshine, strangling our own bliss at source.

To rid of these subconscious thought patterns our first port of call, even responsibility is to recognise our self-ignorance in this regard: that such life-influencing activity is happening subconsciously without our conscious consent, and, that, intellectual awareness alone of such isn’t sufficient for its eradication.

It’s estimated we use only about 1/5th of our total mind. Thus, to reclaim the submerged 4/5th aspect, it’s necessary to neutralize the automatically recurring subconscious thought patterns, thereby allow the body’s inner mechanisms produce and assimilate optimal health and natural well-being into consciousness – as in mind so in body — thus our life-experiencing can be through the prism of natural happiness, creative well-being and enlightened understanding.