Author: Raymond Patrick Phelan

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.

In our present human configuration we’re both form / matter (body) and formless (spirit / energy) simultaneously. If I may use a leaf analogy. When we look at a leaf we see its outer form, but, what makes up the leaf is sap: we don’t see the sap as it is covered by green Maya (ma, ya, “that which is not”). Thus we could say the outer visible leaf is / reflects Maya or illusion. The outer leaf, Maya, is covering the inner Essence of the invisible Real leaf. Likewise, OUR unseen inner bliss nature is covered mainly through generational conditioning, addictions and unending “world” head-noise. In other words, due to out of cosmic coherence sync the mind fails to perceive “as is”, fails to experience through its innate nature — present moment awareness — fails to experience divinely.

Like the leaf, what we see is not what we are. The essence of the leaf is pure sap, similarly the essence-potential of humankind is Pure Transcendental Spirit.

Again, like the butterfly miracle, we’re each intended to shed the caterpillar status, grow through this chrysalis (cocoon) of “world” — subconscious conditioning — or Maya by means of our latent spiritual mechanisms. Unlike the caterpillar, which has to spin a chrysalis to “birth” its higher Butterfly nature, humankind already has this cocoon in the form of the endocrine / glandular system along the spine and into the brain. As such, by activation — hormonal secretion — of the glandular system by means of meditational silence, we germinate the bliss seed — known as kundalini — in the base [of spine] chakra, temporarily sealed by generational conditioning or Maya. The mind, on knowing mental stillness triggers this dormant, potent chrysalis to birthing our spiritual Self. Birthing this Self-seed nature, this bliss dynamic through vibrational silence is our life’s purpose, with its development into Cosmic Consciousness the ultimate goal of human evolution.

As we know, water adjusts to whatever shape the pipe takes. Likewise, mind accepts whatever we settle upon or have been indoctrinated into — also known as belief systems. But, in settling for Maya, this inherently carries evolution’s silent disagreement. Evolution will be at work to rectify all non life-serving mind-sets in the form of “suffering” in proportion to our “lost” true nature. In other words, while we may be enjoying senses gratification and “world” happiness, but if such is through spiritual ignorance, evolution will be aware of the soul’s need of “course correction” at a later date, either in this lifetime or another.

Evolution will eventually bring each soul back to the purification process of eventually knowing Pure Consciousness. “Purification” here means expansion of conscious mind — gained through the silence of [inner] mental stillness — whereby we live through soul-understanding based on Divine Principle or spiritual values. In other words, for mind to perceive spiritually, intuitively then mind needs to be functioning as full mind — not diluted or splintered by sub conscious Maya conditioning — thus bringing healing to every area of our divine nature: mind, body spirit.

To live Maya knowingly is to consciously choose suffering over bliss thereby thwart or deny chrysalis birth or spiritual transformation, thus remaining a dysfunctional caterpillar indefinitely.

But, of course, we’re not all starting from the same point of spiritual awareness, rather we’re each continuing the personal journey of soul purification, (mind expansion) of becoming de-conditioned [of Maya] thus to know our eternal spiritual nature — unconditional love or bliss consciousness. Now that we know what needs to carried out, why not make this earth journey the one we finally succeed in breaking free of lower-self dominance — ever-clinging Maya — and actually come upon the Transcendental Nature of our soul’s freeing bliss status — Scripture puts it: ‘know ye the Truth [state of pure inner silence] and this Truth shall make you free’ [of sub consciousness / Maya].

Silence

As we can see, the activity of meditational Silence is more than just the absence of environmental noise. In spiritual terms, transcendental silence is a dynamic not an intangible or static emptiness; like an ocean of electricity waiting to be sparked into activity, divine silence is the “lightening” spark [to this ocean] with its after-activity/ effect “thunder” or love. First there’s “lightening” (silence spark) then thunder or unconditional love: no lightening, no thunder. Thunder without lightening equals ego.

In the spiritual matrix, the dynamics of noise (mental chatter) and Silence are mutual conduits, in that, transcending mental noise (compulsive thoughts) allows the all-pervading Electric Silence become experiential as bliss or unconditional love, thereby know Universal consciousness as separate from finite or limited individuality. In this regard — similar to electricity — when sparked through silence, Transcendental nature becomes as all-encompassing interactive bliss-consciousness or individual soul awakening to itself.

It’s important to distinguish between human emotional love FOR God and the state of unconditional Love-Consciousness realized in meditation: bliss is not emotional love rather an overall compassionate resonance — a state [of Heart] in harmony with the all of creation: mankind / animal / environment / the Cosmos).

Altered States of Consciousness

As physical beings, re-birthing out of this time-tomb body or chrysalis into transcendental expanded consciousness is our life-purpose. This entails the mind entering into subtler states of silence-awareness or altered states of consciousness thus the mind becoming unbounded or cosmic in nature, (think biblical Matthew 17:1-13) and Jesus’ Transfiguration on the Mountain’ meaning, our own highest point of inner awareness — transcendence — in meditation:

Transcendence is the Purity-Prism through which the never-changing Divine (Truth) reflects AS Cosmic Consciousness, the potential functioning capacity of each spiritually awakening soul.

As the mind begins encountering deeper meditational silence, the respiratory system reduces — breathing becomes more and more refined. With this level of mental inactivity, the nervous system adapts gradually to a profound level of restful alertness — neither active nor inactive — leading thus to the nervous system / brain reflecting divinely, reflecting bliss consciousness naturally; when the lake is calm the Moon reflects beautifully, serenely and clearly.

Through persistence [of practice], all sub conscious Maya or conditioning becomes integrated. To this end, infusion of bliss into the conscious mind is fundamental. Here properly carried out twice-daily meditation brings about tangible success in this area, thereby resolving subconscious reactive thought patterns — the Maya “loop”. Thus “worldly” addictions can be seen as temporary clouds, which, on passing (integration), reveal the Sun, the real You, our true eternal Spirit nature.

Real happiness is spiritual, it’s an inside job. This being so, why don’t we experience happiness on an ongoing daily basis? To answer this let us explore what may be blocking our natural happiness and how we can rectify such. Let us examine how religious dogma, literal interpretation of scriptures and their resultant mind-sets, may have confused, mislead or ill-served us in life.

Baptismal Contract

Awakening out of ” formal religion” conditioning reveals that we were living a religious / baptismal contract not of our own choosing or signing. And, strangely, but for the subtly imposed fear clause, this water over the head “contract” could have been opted out of at any time. Misguided, we lived the fear, delusion, and accepted domination; we relinquished our own Christ-within determination and became “literal” prisoners of the institutional “arrangements”. Even though we sensed “our church” were holding back on the essence of the Jesus-intended Way to soul liberation, we conformed to Institutional liberalism and its democracy premised on collective ignorance maintained through fear-instilling dogmas. The reality of course is, that we rely solely on direct experiential contact with our already present inner Christ nature. In other words, we each possess a cosmically-designed constitution (brain, nervous system/spiritual mechanisms) drawn up by the Almighty and managed by evolution for the sole purpose of “saving” each soul through our own Christ “within” consciousness.

As spirit beings we’re each encoded to finding or coming upon this saving Truth through inward endeavor. We’re each given the tools (endocrine or glandular system / chakras) to actualize Truth: become Self or Christ-Realized experientially now, in consciousness, and not some time in the future.

Sense-Based Happiness

Many seem not to realize that by constantly (unwittingly) seeking and experiencing solely through sense-based happiness we’re unconsciously stating that lasting happiness can only be found WITHOUT thereby subjectively denying our real “within” bliss consciousness. An automatic loop is proclaiming: when I find that special person, house, employment, fame etc., happiness will COME, then I’ll be happy. Such mind-sets are delusional. Outcomes as these will of course make the ego feel happy or inflated but, due to evolution and change, such happiness can never be lasting, only fleeting, as such, requires constant “topping-up”. Dependence on outer-world happiness leads to addictive personality — mind / senses becoming overpowered through stimulant attachment to almost everything it/they encounter thereby denying our innately present Heart happiness.

The mind, through on-going discontent, instinctively seeks happiness through the senses, that’s its nature — but mind can never be satisfied until it comes upon its true nature — bliss. With the senses duty-bound to serve the mind, the non-spiritually awakening mind will accept artificial happiness from any source — to include political, religious or corporate dogmas,not to mention the “world” menu — but this sense thirst craving can never be quenched by the “world” — by outer sources.

While the mind is cosmically encoded to fulfilling its full stature of expanded eternality in bliss or divine consciousness, the process requires individual conscious decision, meaning, engaging in meditational practices such as deep inner silence leading to bliss-consciousness.

So long as the addictive-driven senses remain the sole provider of contentment, mind remains out of its own cosmic bliss nature, thus functioning in the realm of sub consciousness or spiritual ignorance. In finding bliss mind finds everlasting natural fulfillment, contentment, and, no longer scours the “world” junk-menu for sense-fixes.

“Lost” to Wisdom and Life Direction

Consider the following. Have we ever been lost in a strange location in a foreign Country? And through a sense of panic, we automatically take every wrong turn thus leading to more anxiety – we lose our natural bearings. Out of fear we tune OUT instead of IN. We do this instinctively when we lose inner calm and come under the controlling grip of ice-chilling fear. Similarly, through discontentment, self-doubt, lack of Self-awareness, contradicting mind-sets, stress, fear, worry and “fix” hunting, (addictions), mind / nervous system become exhausted and spiritually disorientated — “lost”. Panic severs our route to divine wisdom and we’re automatically drawn outwards, become ego or fear-led (scripture puts it: “Peter drew his sword and severed the arresting guard’s right ear”, in Gethsemane, John 18:1-10, meaning fear / dominant ego, cuts of the path to our Higher Self wisdom). “Peter” in scripture, of course, represents the lower ego, to which Jesus rebukes saying: “get behind Me heathen” (negative mind-sets). In other words, don’t lead through lower ego or “world”-formed conditioning, rather through “Me”, our own inner awakening love-natured, wisdom-full soul.

Similarly, through weariness and fatiguing lifestyles, we seem naturally to make strange and irrational decisions all of which can lead mind to settling for a crutched existence, a fake unnatural or contrived happiness to ease life’s burdens and respite from chore responsibilities. Wisdom is blocked and we classically miss the calm portal to where this Glorious bliss happiness dwells transcendentally (within).

I’m sure most of us are familiar with the following, but, for the benefit of those not, here’s a repeat. When the Good Lord was looking for a safe spot to place this Jewel of Happiness, (biblical Prince of Peace) he placed it where we could never lose it no matter how ‘lost’ we became. He placed it within consciousness for such requires transcendental journeying, requires activating the metamorphic meditation button to inner cosmic calm nature. This within-consciousness represents our eternal Spiritual Essence as separate from egoism finite mind. This “within spot” isn’t a physical place, rather a state: our unseen transcendental or raised Christ Nature. When we cease frantically searching WITHOUT for happiness, and direct mind (in meditation) to within thus do we engage or activate were the Good Lord placed the wondrous happiness Jewel. Here we discover the calm-imbued doorway leading “lost” egoistical mind from its finite island-refuge of outer happiness reliance to the expansive, eternal ocean of inner transcendental bliss; the soul’s sonar becoming re-attuned with its “forgotten” (conditioned over) cosmic nature.

On reaching the “Jewel spot” within, the mind’s subconscious programming (addictive mind-sets) begin dissolving, defragging — prioritizing through wisdom — and, in proportion to senses / mind purification, human consciousness comes within the range of the never-changing state of Cosmic Consciousness — “Will of God” — or Eternal Truth.

Conscious “Contact”

God is Love /Spirit and man/woman is made (of Spirit) in the (creative) image (imagination) and likeness (love nature) of God. True, BUT, it’s “conscious contact” which validates Love experientially, which gives meaning to all this spiritual language we speak and read about, for, intellectual knowledge alone (of Spirit) isn’t sufficient.

Although unconditional by nature, (as in, the reservoir unconditionally supplies water to every pipe RAISED to it) Love, in this regard, is conditional that we make “meditational silence” contact. Thus, the emphasis needs to be on raising our consciousness, engaging Spirit Consciousness through technique-based practices such as yoga, meditation and mindfulness rather than relentlessly “searching” for intellectual validations. Meditational nature lived through our nervous system validates ALL scriptures simultaneously even if we’ve never read any scriptures. In fact it’s only after a degree of meditational purification, (mind expansion) that any of these biblical scriptures begin making any practical, everyday-life sense.

My interpretation of Matthew 6:33: “Seek ye first the Kingdom and all its righteousness and all else shall be added unto you”, is: seek meditational bliss silence thereby activating the Thymus love gland — the Sacred or Cosmic Heart — thus is human consciousness set upon the transformational process of becoming realized in Christ Consciousness.

When esoterically or non literally translated, the word “Lord” refers to Law – and, more specifically, Cosmic Law, as opposed to subconscious conditioned mind law; in other words, thy Lord, or, [functioning of] Cosmic Law, is the resultant dynamic of raised consciousness by way of Lord’s Supper meditation.

The first commandment given to Mosses on the Mountain (symbolizing transcendent moment in meditation) reads: “I am the Lord [Cosmic Law] thy God [eternal functioning Authority] thou shall not have strange gods before Me” – “Me” representing our own Higher Self or eternal Christ within – Transcendent aspect of my soul’s awakening nature.

While traditionally cognized as a historic event (and, respectfully, may well have taken place in some format), esoterically the Lord’s Supper represents conscious inner communion with – or feast of – divine Love celebrated at individual level in transcendence meditation.

This most personal declaration of soul quietude is practiced on the Alter [Mountain] of inner Silence [unconditional faith] for the purpose of surrendering to Divine Law; an act of individual devotion whereby experiential Presence of pure consciousness becomes known at Heart level as separate from intellectual ritual equivocation through outer identification.

Of course, what we title such Presence, Power, and Law, is our personal, or, traditions’ choice. But, what is unequivocal at experiential level beyond “ritual remembrance formality”, is the eternal Nature of my indwelling Christ — the Cosmic Mind, or, the Law of “Me” my soul or Self.

From a mind-stilling perspective – the Lord’s Supper is about gathering or centring our scattered mental activity into one-pointedness – single Eye awareness – whereby all our purposely designed spiritual mechanisms become cosmically active. In Yogic terms this is known as “action through inaction” – transcendence through dynamic silence. Thus, the Lord’s Supper is a means of becoming cosmically or Christ Empowered; a vibrational process of awakening the metaphysical disciples in the brain – our route to full humanity.

Each time we enter into transcendental silence, we’re performing the Lord’s Supper, becoming cosmically attuned, for, egoic mind cannot know transcendence. Jesus puts it, “anyone who gives up (crucify) his lower egoic life for Me (inner Christ) will have eternal Life”. Each Lord’s Supper meditation makes eternal status more blissfully known unto our consciousness.

Ego, by its corruptible nature, cannot crucify itself, cannot be in charge of “my kingdom is not of this world” process; ego and transcendence are of two incompatible levels of consciousness. Therefore, other than trans-mutational silence, there’s no intellectual mechanism whereby ego can “surrender” willingly, so to speak. Therefore, what we do is, narrow the focus of [our] awareness – convergence – “if thine [mind’s] eye be single then thy whole body will be full of Light”. But beware, just when it seems we’re free [of ego], the ego insidiously tempts us back into pleasant, complimentary thoughts – even a thought of God is the same as any other thought. Thus the constant “restart” of daily meditation is vital to ensure success of crucifying ego, thence, successful transcendence.

“Take this all of you and eat, this is my body.. do this in Remembrance of Me”

“Eating” his flesh is equated with receiving [unto consciousness] spiritual truth; a spiritual concept pertaining to digesting / expression of the Lord’s Nature through our physiology and nervous system – knowing divine love as an ACTIVE Law ingredient – thus, “baking bread” and “eating” is sharing what we’ve gained through experiential inner Christ or Bliss Presence.

Regularly “eating” His nature leads to establishing Christ personality – the revelatory and celebratory feast or “wine” of His Heart. Similarly, when expressing unconditional love with friends, family or perceived enemies, we’re simultaneously “eating”, “wining” and sharing Divine Nature – “Breaking” Love-Bread.

When Christ-Nature becomes fully formed in consciousness thus we can say Christ is living through us. Becoming as bread sharers among the multitudes – filling many a heart basket of His love – our own Heart simultaneously functions through Universal or divine Mains rather than egoism battery power. “No greater Heart love can be known by he/she who lays down (surrenders) their lower-nature life so others may see Divine Light [through us].”

Transcendentally attuned, our Hearts are ever-replenishing of the Lord’s Presence, ever reflecting the never-changing Law of Love consciousness; eternally united in the never-diminishing Light of Spirit that others may be drawn unto, we rejoice knowing our soul reflects Divine Will – Cosmic Consciousness.

With Jesus essentially being a soul psychologist, and the Bible a book on Mind / Soul science, the imperative becomes obvious: that we actively participate in the Lord’s Supper as an everyday meditational inner transformation event leading to use of our full brain capacity – through which-ever closet format or practice we adapt – and not so much fixating on historical events and geographical locations. Reality is NOW in every corner of the cosmos simultaneously, and its realization is through the unconditional, uncontaminated Present Moment – “Me” the Christ within.

“Remembrance” for church-goers is referred to at the consecration of Mass where the individual soul, on receiving the Eucharist, becomes consecrated again in the Lord / Law / Christ within – healing the “Fall of Man” episode of our lives. Similarly, our own “closet” practice, fulfills the Lord’s Remembrance blissfully and dynamically.

Deliver us O Lord.

Scripture states it’s by Grace – divine healing, pure forgiveness or integration of sin – that our soul becomes saved, “Delivered” from on-going ignorance-suffering. Grace, or Deliverance, thus, is a transformational outcome: a process of deconditioning the deeper mind’s accumulations of subconscious thought patterns responsible for the daily actions which we unwittingly perform under lower-self law.

It’s important to reflect when “praying” meditationally – stillness attuning – that, it’s God who works the Grace, not us. “Not I, but my Father in heaven which doeth the healing” – restoration of soul to wholeness. Silence being the loudest prayer, it’s the password-conduit to inner Me / Christ, when lower ego, for the duration (usually twenty minutes) of our meditation, has totally lost its corrupting influence. Regularity of practice establishes “duration” as the permanent state of cosmic consciousness.

Understanding that WE cannot deliver ourselves unto Kingdom consciousness, we begin to see the absolute necessity of practical application to symbol-structured scripture; we begin relating to where, and through which means, biblical language is instructing – providing the reader with Law-based knowledge in achieving Christ consciousness – Eternal life. Thus we see biblical “Grace” as purification of subconscious conditioning – enabling us recognize the associated implications should we consciously chose to ignore such profound messaging, that, the Kingdom [of Love / Christ] is Resurrected within consciousness through meditation.

How meditation and Psalm 23 relate to the Lord’s Supper

When this great Psalm becomes Realized as a “state of belief” / Transcendental silence, then, as a spiritual dynamic, it becomes enormously powerful – our thoughts supported by the full force of Nature.

When, through meditation, Transcendental Silence becomes the ever-present, immovable, immutable, unalterable Awareness, thus, vibrational communion with the Almighty becomes established; thereby carrying out Jesus’ command of going to our inner closet, thereby die to, or, crucify the corrupt one, ego, lower-self, thereby know Transcendental Silence, the state [of belief].

A point relevant to spiritual healing and overall manifestation is that, it’s not the object of our belief that’s important, rather, Belief itself, which state (Biblical’s image and likeness) is innately present within all humans awaiting validation through the self-referral processes – consciousness aware of itself alone [in pure silence].

It’s really not so much belief “in” [something or someone] but of validating Unity consciousness “I and the Father are One” – thus fulfilling John 6:47 “I tell you the truth: whoever believes has eternal life”. Eternal life is a present possession in consciousness, not a future reward; eternally, meaning, of God Nature.

Is reciting this powerful prayer regularly sufficient? Well, that depends on the level of developed belief-consciousness the words pass through. All formal prayer words are indicative and don’t in and of them-selves bring about Kingdom consciousness. In this regard – for it’s the overall nature of Psalm 23 which needs to be lived – some soul cleansing needs to be carried-out. In other words, intellectual knowledge alone doesn’t alter the state of the soul into belief. If it were merely a matter of reciting words, there wouldn’t be any need of scripture’s call to raising ordinary human consciousness through [purifying] inner silence leading to experiential belief consciousness – the Bible’s central theme. As we know, Jesus warned against materialistically based “give me this-give me that” form of prayer.

Formal word-prayer should be about vocalizing gratitude for already present spiritual abundance regardless of whether such is visibly in place, and not so much a begging session for specific materialistic fulfilment. When consciousness functions as ever-present Silence – the state of Belief – all intentional pure thoughts become realized, thus, momentary life becomes our non-ending prayer [of purity] in preparation for the next Plane of Life where our true nature of Total Belief [the state] comes fully into play.

Who is the Good Shepard?

Here the word “Good” is referring to state of Transcendental Nature not a qualitative human attribute. “Shepard” represents the all-encompassing [Cosmic] wisdom, the guiding and compassionate nature of such Divine state.

Once realized that the Good Shepard is our own indwelling Christ, then Psalm 23 becomes powerful beyond its written words; our life dynamic takes on His cosmic, all-joyful, all-knowing eternal Potential.

Like the metamorphosis of caterpillar into butterfly, consciousness undergoes transformation into the unbounded spiritual Nature we’re each designed to Realize; then, through our focused conscious awareness, divine interpretation of our momentary life is ever of Higher perception; thereby, our soul’s “revelatory” capacity expands enabling revelation of the promises of our indwelling Good Shepard Nature: sourcing wisdom cosmically – rather than from ego’s memory bank – becomes our natural ability.

When Good Shepard awareness – continuum of pure consciousness – becomes established, it can be said we’ve become the Promises [of Christ] – become the eternal living Christ in all our human affairs. As Cosmically-infused beings of Divine Law – and all the wholeness such represents both within and without – we’ve fulfilled this stage of our evolution of establishing Eternal Christ Nature within consciousness.

As Good Shepard nature is imperceptible to the five ordinary senses – “no eye has seen nor ear heard” – transformation becomes our life’s purpose. For Divine nature to be known, such can only be through a compatible [pure] consciousness, hence, regular purification and transcendence.

When read through and evaluated esoterically, (non literally) be uplifted, that, each time we meditate, Psalm 23 and its entire ethos is forming within consciousness – His forgiveness Grace is preparing for Revelation unto our own “City of David” [raised] Consciousness.

Psalm 23 / Good Shepard Translation

The Lord is my Shepard: The Law of God’s Commandments – functioning through my indwelling Christ – guides my every intention, activity and expression at my conscious use of Christ nature.

I shall not want: I shall not want for any good thing, for the Lord has already provided His All-Joy, All-Happiness, All-Creativity AS Presence within.

He maketh me lie down in green pastures: Green pastures here symbolize Divine Abundance. We’re declaring that, through replenishment of His Bliss-Mana in meditation, all areas of mind, body, spirit, are divinely prospered – know Abundance Nature.

He leadeth me beside the still waters: Still waters symbolize the soul. Through this meditation my struggle for peace is over – a reflection of my soul’s contentment – divine peace is now the all-pervading Presence in my life.

He restoreth my soul: Having endured separation from God – Fall of Man – now, reunited, my soul knows wholeness. I affirm this soul prosperiety to be my experience, my way of life. His Purity reigns Supreme in my Heart eternally.

He leadeth me in the paths of righeousness for his Name’s sake: “His Name’s sake” – His Nature – pervades my every thought and subtle intention, thereby is right thinking, right action garunteed. Only life-supporting thoughts, words and deeds emerge into my expanded consciousness, thus only good goes from me, only good comes to me.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: Raised in Heart consciousness divine insight, understanding, reveals Eternal Truth, that, there is no death only separation from Love’s Presence. Through this meditation, cyclical illusions are shattered forever, revealing thus unto Heart the continuum of pure consciousness.

For thou art with me: My Heart abounds in bliss: my soul reflects His Spirit Nature. My Heart’s senses are quickened to See and Hear divinely, my mind, body, soul are ever-full of His compassionate and forgiving ways.

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me: Through this meditational Silence, thy Rod – chakras / spinal glandular system and Rod’s Crook – brain physiology / pineal, pituitary glands – are now optimally functioning thereby my entire physiology expresses Divine Intelligence; thy Staff – steadfast in Faith through purifying wisdom and understanding, my unwavering soul rejoices eternally.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: With consciousness raised Knowingness reveals, that, mine enemies are product of my own mental thought patterns; at this very moment, all negative mindsets are integrating – Christ, my indwelling Shepard, is overseeing this entire deeper mind functioning.

Thou anointest my head with oil: Biblical oil and anointment symbolize praise and thanks-giving. With the two primary glands in the brain – pineal and pituitary – activated, I Heart-praise the Lord fully for the ongoing manifestations of peace, happiness and love witnessed in my life.

My cup runneth over: For a cup to run over it must first be full. With unconditional love now the over-flowing reality of my momentary awareness, the capacity to extend and receive love in every situation, is my reciprocal, joyful privilege.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: Through this Silence communication, the Lord’s nature of boundless love, peace and happiness rebound within my Heart. All aspects of my life-living reflect active praise, gratitude and compassion – I render divine service unto others in / for, His Name’s sake.

I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever: With “Law of God consciousness” fully established as Enlightened Awareness, my soul rests eternally in Christ – my Good Shepard – and there is nothing good I shall want, for, already I receive the Kingdom of Heaven. My Heart perceives eternally, thus, it dwells joyfully in His Love House (Christ consciousness) forever.

Amen.

“The Apostles got into the Boat and went to the other side” Matthew 14:22

Keep this Scripture in mind as we weave our way through this article, we shall return to it later.

For centuries, like beavers, man / woman has been building dams to blocking our divine nature.

Consequently, so many people in the world today are living their bliss, their soul-potential unconsciously, as conscious ignorance or inverted bliss. Parallel to this we have the term “ignorance is bliss”, so, how is this latter expression to be understood spiritually, or is it simply a play on words?

“Ignorance is bliss” could be interpreted as “what we don’t know won’t hurt us”, in that, the mind is spared the need of digesting unpleasant facts such as negatively charged TV and Radio news bulletins. On the other hand, “Ignorance is bliss” can translate as unconscious bliss potential awaiting integration.

In reality spiritual ignorance is subconsciousness in need of purification — an aspect of mind waiting to be made conscious. In other words, while “Life is Bliss”, Life requires a fully conscious awareness to reflect the nature of bliss: unconditional love, compassion, creativity…

The Barrier

While spiritual ignorance indeed poses the obvious barrier to realization in God-Consciousness, ignorance is a necessary dynamic which we must all undergo in depotentializing the soul’s non-serving belief systems (sin seeds) which have become embedded in the subjective mind or soul. Otherwise, under law, evolution continues replaying these previously established sin molds — our non consciously dealt with “cause” (of effect) thought patterns.

By way of automatic behavior, subconsciousness controls our human value system, world perceptions: our every mental activity in daily life. In other words, on acceptance in deeper mind, negatively charged thought seeds (sin nature) travel from the brain to the solar plexus, where they germinate to be “manufactured” as our physical / mental environment. Thus also is cyclical reincarnation programming, maintained.

In effect ignorance (of spiritual nature) serves only to reflect that which is unnatural to our eternal immaterial or spirit nature. To knowingly endure the status quo of spiritual ignorance — partake of its fruits — is to consciously choose pain / suffering. On the other hand, sin / ignorance is Grace or healing-forgiveness in waiting — a calling out for conscious integration. “Sin” — the manifestations of ignorance — should be grasped willingly thereby allow Divine Light shatter its basis. Doing so allows the soul come under the direct influence of our own inner Unifying Christ Consciousness.

How Sin / Ignorance is Processed Within

This sub-level nature of “hell on earth” or “hell of our life” is created when the subjective mind is negatively charged with fear, stress, anger, worry, bias, judgmentalism and so on, to include excesses of unnatural sense gratification; our thought processes becoming automatically aligned to the “jink in, junk out” cycle. Thus, the unconscious, taking these engraved emotive patterns to be our conviction desires or command, manifests these patterns into our physical form and life experiences. “As we sew (in mind) so shall we reap” (experience).

As the saying goes: “what a man / woman thinks about all day becomes their reality”. In this context, consciously watching our dominant thoughts — inner / outer dialogues — is prerequisite to keeping our “sin bank account” — subconsciousness — pure or non existent, thus keeping the unconscious (soul) naturally attuned with Higher-Dimensional Consciousness — Christ within. In progressing to this level, conscious choice is the imperative as opposed to subconsciously obeying the dictates of lower-self. This is what Jesus meant when he said: “The prince of this world calleth and findeth nothing in Me” John 14:30 — no subconsciousness, no perennial “sin seeds” to be dealt with repeatedly.

Inner Self Awareness or, capacity of Love Presence, is like a spiritual weighing scales, where our mental-emotional processing is filtered through Cosmic understanding. In living Presence, we’ll have found the secret of blissful life participation — freeing the soul off the merry-go-round of subconsciousness. Subconsciousness, as mentioned here, is not the Subconscious often refereed to by american inspirational writers who are in fact referring to Infinite Being or Soul.

Awakening out of Death and the Time Dream

“So get rid of your old self which made you live as you used to… ” Ephesians 4:22-23

Because the event cannot be “experienced” as a reality in consciousness, the most common reminder or nudge to spiritual awakening is the bed-time dream. Here we’re confronted with a “death” confrontation — a no choice scenario but to awaken from that dream. In this situation, we’re required to “push” or birth ourselves out of the cocoon of utter fear, and wow, how exhilarating “the arrival” of the awakening experience. This dream revelation (which is real to us at the time) was necessary in order to consciously face the fear illusion which death poses, but which has no reality basis for experiencing except as experiential sin. In other words, conquering death is a realization born of Higher-Self or Christ consciousness.

If we didn’t awaken from this time-based existence, this material / ego dream, we’ll never know it to be a dream: “hellish existence” would be taken as natural leading to unnatural means of coping. In this regard, life-situations are constantly presenting as “choice of evolution” moments. Lifestyle behaviors, which are alien to our true nature, are constantly challenging us to awaken unto our innate Higher Aspect, gained through meditional techniques. Prior to spiritual awakening, everything that is happening in our life is there through our unwittingly requesting it – through ignorance or, disobedience to the prompts of our own indwelling Christ.

Present Moment

The single most contributing factor to spiritual ignorance — a consciousness paralyzed in time and residual fear — is absence of experiential Present Moment. While the conditioned lower-self ego is at home in the time-based world, such is not the soul’s domain, which is Transcendental – a level of consciousness attained while alive on earth. Therefore, some preparity work is needed to acquaint the physiology and consciousness in timelessness, transcendence, in present moment functioning.

The purpose of time, of course, is to reflect the dream-like scenario in the brain in order that we transcend time or the relativity domain, and, in the process, neutralize previous incarnations’ sin mounds. If there were no time how could we know it’s opposite, timelessness. Time is the dynamic from which each soul must gain its own freedom, and, we do this by birthing a NEW space dimension within: culturing a unifying of diversity consciousness. A level of conscious awareness that encompasses the everything / everybody in Creation. This time / dream dynamic remains our repeating reality only as long as our time-anchored “I” battles to maintain the status quo: a mind needing to be dragged kicking and screaming to the Transformation realm. For, an educated intellect is not the criteria of right or wrong action, rather a transformed cosmically-aware consciousness.

Pineal Gland Meditation – Portal to Bliss

Residual mental / physical tension is the dynamic which holds subconsciousness in place. In creating this NEW space in consciousness, the secret is to first rid the mind of tension / fear: “First seek the Kingdom”. By focusing the awareness between the eyebrows at the Pineal Gland in center of brain, thus the mechanics of tension, which support our deeply-held fears, are demobilized, desensitized – fear / tension becoming exposed to Awareness.

In focusing at the Pineal Gland, the virgin point of our own divinity is penetrated, incubated, thus fertilizing the root seed from which Eternal life emerges — the soul is freed out of Egypt, out of the time / fear / tension hypnosis and into bliss – the Promised Land or Divine Consciousness. Thus, at individual level, the unconditional love nature of our indwelling Christ becomes knowable.

Let us clarify Pineal Gland penetration. As the Pineal Gland is a tiny physical structure in the brain we don’t physically enter into it, rather, our consciousness is recipient of its Bliss Nectar. By way of Kundalini, or life-force rising up from the Base Chakra, it’s the Kundalini which activates the Pineal, out of which eternity consciousness emerges to become our Realized Christ Awareness. Our work is firstly: conscious intention to Kingdom Nature then, commitment to THE PRACTICE: Pineal / Kundalini practice is the matrix through which divine nature is revealed unto consciousness.

The process, while depotentializing deeply rooted time tracks or crystallized sin triggers from automatically replaying non soul-serving mindsets, simultaneously activates the Pituitary Gland. Pituitary Gland activity is needed for Human Growth Hormone production to maintain the physical body, which, among its other vital benefits, the hormone stimulates the immune / nervous system to optimal functioning thereby aid divine nature experiencing. After middle-age the Pituitary reduces HGH output, thus meditation is vital for re-balancing the deficit. Meditation also makes the body-system alkaline from acidic which helps reduce cellular oxidation or premature aging of the organism(s).

New Conditioning

And although, between meditations, the mind / nervous system are again exposed to further conditioning, such is transient, potency is shallow. Any new conditioning becomes integrated in the conscious living moment — not re-sewn, recycled for future mental digestion. In fact, challenges, or negative thought attacks, represent opportunities of establishing greater Self awareness leading to greater bliss levels in our nervous system. Bliss must be lived or acted upon consciously in our daily chores, this is how bliss is made permanent in consciousness:

Enlightened Consciousness

Due to the ego’s death during this interactive Pineal / Base Chakra period, the mind gets to know Transcendental consciousness – think Crucifixion / Resurrection (of consciousness). But remember, Pineal convergence-familiarization takes committed daily practice of bringing the intellect to Pineal focusing. This convergence environment is not taken kindly by the finite mind, even though, paradoxically, mind is being led to what it’s actually searching for – Bliss consciousness. How unwitting is that!

Pineal meditation transcendence also enhances a brain function known as neuroplasticity. This process allows for new neural pathways or nerve connections in the brain to form, thereby enabling development of greater explorational skills into newer frontiers of Creation, beyond our present human capabilities. By way of the brain’s new organizational ability, our cosmically-orientated Pineal consciousness can potentially find ways into previously unimaginable states of creative consciousness. Pineal orientation spiritualizes the neuroplasticity harvest thus “guaranteeing” the fruits of consciousness development are mutually beneficial to both mankind and Planet Christedness (in its reestablishment).

When the inner booster rocket of transcendence is ignited, thus the ignorance gravity field and limiting mind paradigms are conquered: consciousness moves on from base camp level of understanding to Summit Thought – think Star Trek: warp5, (within) Mr Scoty”.

From previously spiritually asleep souls, (biblical’s “son of man” or “natural man”) now, through consciousness development, new frontiers in spiritual evolution are crossed, no longer are we resigned to degenerative or diseased thought patterns. Rather, spiritual man / woman is destined to plow the Higher planes of cosmic consciousness: universes which God has ordained unto each soul.

As a starter to Pineal Gland meditation may I suggest the following breathing technique.

First, (closed eyes and seated with straight spine) breath out fully through the mouth. Then, when breath is exhaled, close the right nostril with thumb and breath in fully through the left nostril. Swiftly then, close left nostril and breath out fully through right nostril. Breath in through right nostril, close right nostril and breath out through left. Repeat this alternating breathing for about five minutes before settling onto gentle Pineal focusing. In practice, the inner gaze may drift upwards. This is fine, but allow this happen naturally, this is transcendence maturation. Do not strain the eyes in this exercise.

Returning to the Bible quotation mentioned at the beginning: “The Apostles (spiritual faculties within the brain) got into the boat (meditation) and went to the other side” (Transcendence).

The Bible is here talking about traversing from left-side brain – egoism logic — to creative, inspirational right-side brain via the boat of transcendence. In this process both the Pineal and Pituitary glands, plus the brain’s twelve Cranial nerves become spiritually active, leading to total brain and optimal organism functioning – consciousness aware in Higher logical perception. Combined with neuroplasticity activity, Pineal meditation presents the brain with “reconfiguration” opportunity, thereby advance out of the present primal five sensory awareness to cognition in multi-sensory cosmic perception.

With this level of expansionary Awareness, Spiritual Realization, that seemingly impossible to overcome sin, or addiction-based lifestyle, no longer looms as the Goliath in our life. Now, just as biblical David, we too have the Pineal White Light Marble to spiritual freedom and Self expression in our spiritual Hearts to once and for all slay the dragon(s) of limitation. Our Pineal Gland runneth over of Enlightened consciousness.