There is great interest and emotion in people whenever the subject of reincarnation is brought up. Some strange magic responds within people when you talk about a past karmic relationship. It is again the old cliché of familiarity breeding contempt. People who believe in reincarnation usually feel their past lives more vitally than the present one. it is always what we do not have to be responsible for that seems attractive. As our present life includes our past lives, how can the whole (our present life) be less than the part (our past lives)? It is unrealistic not to try to extend and deepen the life which we are presently living. Past connections are only as valuable as the consciousness of the person using the connection to expand what is in existence at the present. What many people fail to understand is that the second we connect with the past experience, we have succeeded in bringing it into the present. It is either brought in with consciousness and incorporated into the present, or it becomes an illusion. It is an illusion in the sense that the energy, which is being fed into the past, can in no way advance the growth of the individual. By bringing past energy into the present, we can expand consciousness and grow. Emotional identification with past experiences has even deeper potential for illusion and fantasy than the consciousness of a present situation.

People often dramatize to the good or bad something which they reflect upon. When there is a connection karmically, we have an inordinate capacity to project only positive quantities on the previous relationship. It is certainly good to enter into a relationship with positive feelings and to feel all kinds of warmth and love. If the connection of two people has positive quantities, then the situation around them will show increased growth. If the past karmic connection was a negative or destructive one, it will reflect itself in circumstances around the people; one or both of them will become weak as a result of the additional energy flowing into this previous relationship. What we would like to happen because of some romantic idea of past karina or reincarnation connection is an illusion.

Once I was visiting some people who were not particularly good gardeners. They proudly showed me their garden and it was covered by a carpet of plants with beautiful red leaves. Knowing their inability to sustain other forms of plant life, I became suspicious and I asked them how long the beautiful red plants had been growing. They said just for about four months. I don’t know much about plants but I know these people very well, and I said, "I believe that they may be weeds." They were very upset and felt I couldn’t enjoy the beauty of this growth. I said my attitude was based on their history as gardeners. I felt therefore that the only thing they could grow was a weed. They checked out the plant and found it was a weed. They had a very difficult time removing the plant as it spread underground at an incredible rate.

This is really the reflection of realism against illusion. They wanted so badly for the plant to be a precious one that they could not allow themselves to think of it as a dangerous weed that could choke off everything else.

Emotions, particularly past connections from Time and Space, have such a strong root system - having survived over such a long period of time - that when they attach themselves to people they draw very deeply and succeed in growing at an extraordinarily fast rate. Furthermore, such energy is only contacted after your consciousness on a spiritual level develops to a very high degree. Only then can you be aware of these past-life connections in even small ways. Because they come from the deep past, they have depth. Because of the great elasticity essential for travel through Time and Space, they have great strength. These cosmic seeds are not for amateur gardeners to play with. They take a deep consciousness and detachment to be used well.

A human being must reach an advanced stage of spiritual development before he or she can exist in Time andSpace. By Time and Space I do not mean the time that we measure by clocks or the space that we measure by yardsticks. Time and Space are absolute realities, and can be perceived only through true enlightenment. The time and space accessible to mortal senses before enlightenment are imaginary concepts - or, at best, minuscule segments of Time and Space.



IT is always what we do not have to be responsible for that seems attractive.



It is the nature of anything which has grown in depth to accelerate as it advances. The equipment and foundation and the understanding of the person have come about through great effort and development over a period of time. The amount of spiritual work that goes into development on the physical, material and then the spiritual level gives two dimensions of soil, which can retain this energy for a third dimension. Time and Space experiences are not for undeveloped people, who do not have the depth to hold anything with such a deep root system and with such an accelerated pattern of growth. You can raise morning glories on a terrace, but you certainly cannot raise oak trees on a terrace.

Anyone working to grow must consciously understand that the further you grow and develop, the deeper your detachment must become on an emotional and intellectual as well as a spiritual basis. You have to begin to accept the fact that things are as they are, not as you wish them to be. You need to develop a practical, simple, and essential consciousness. Projecting, dreaming, and wanting are for people with a great deal of time and no development. It is a waste of energy to fight inevitable situations; to grow, you must change within yourself and transcend the situation. The dreams and hopes and illusions of people have to disappear as they grow. Otherwise, they can never accept the realities. Moreover, the realities are richer and manifest the rewards of growth. It is the fool who forsakes that which is for some strange reward which lies within him from either a past life or some perverted childish fantasy. He is like a tourist who runs to India for the first time taking along his old childhood dreams of the exotic East and forgetting to take along dysentery tablets. In one week, feeling a free spirit, he eats and drinks indiscriminately, ruins his physical system, and has to leave.

Consciousness means living with conscious choice - using our energy in a way that perpetuates the positive pattern that we are pursuing. All manifest patterns are life, and any sign of being less than vital requires the immediate looking toward the atmosphere around us and pulling out those elements which are drawing the energy away from the direction that we wish to pursue, We must be ruthless, because the people or situations that draw our life force weaken our entire structure and our ability to see consciously the changing patterns within the structure. A plant that is attacked by a fungus or some kind of bug reflects, by the yellowing of its leaves, that it is in danger. Any person with consciousness would see this and spray the plant or clear away the condition that is destroying it. By being unconscious, we endanger the total structure. Everything that lives expresses in dozens of ways the need for attention. It is the constant need for consciousness during patterns of growth that determines the ability to continue growing. Life is very strange: we do not always receive energy from the people we are most deeply involved with. We are taking in a small amount which we deeply identify with because of the emotional quality, but we ignore the enormous amount that is flowing out because of our need to sustain the emotional and illusionary effect.



You do spiritual work to satisfy your existence on earth.



Many years ago a young married woman used to visit me at my place of business. A very strong emotional connection existed between us. It was in no way obvious what the connection was; being young, I felt it was emotional. It took several years for it to work its way out and I found that the quantity of energy going from me into the situation was unbelievable. It was the closest thing to dying physically that I ever experienced in my life. This experience took from me a vast quantity of energy and it also caused this woman to behave in a manner that was completely contrary to her usual behavior. It was like feeding very rich energy into a small fish which, because of the strength of the energy, became a big shark and a dangerous quantity to deal with. I found it was not possible to blame this person but understood that strong emotional quantities are good only if they have a mutual balance which is positive for both people.

Because of this experience I have watched many intense relationships and found that often one person grows by the complete destruction of another. It is not always the way people enter into a relationship that counts; it is what the chemistry between them produces after association. A relationship between a weak man and a strong woman may develop a strong man and a weak woman, as the man’s chemistry may eat out the woman’s chemistry or vice versa. In spiritual life, as in ordinary physical and material life, relationships which function very well can change extraordinarily, depending on how one person’s chemistry eats or is eaten by that of another. It is essential to understand consciously that good friends can become dangerous obstacles if we are not aware of the constant changing flow between ourselves and others. We all would like the security of consistency, but it does not exist except in our relationships with creative energy, or God.

Many people love to help support a starving artist. They will move heaven and earth to bring him to public attention. If the artist succeeds, a great percentage of his well wishers may become his critics and deride him and make all kinds of demands on him. They become enraged that he has grown beyond the level in which they felt comfortable knowing him. It is one of the hazards of conscious growth. We must understand that as wegrow toward our enlightenment and toward God, we are simultaneously growing away from many people. In nature, a fast-growing tree will dwarf a slower-growing tree and cause it to perish by cutting off its light. It is not always weakness that makes somebody unable to sustain a relationship; it’s sometimes impossible for certain kinds of people to grow with other people.

Compassion and love and a deep understanding are needed when somebody asks to be released from a relationship. If you are growing, it is the deepest kindness to allow the relationship to cease. Otherwise, you are like a rich man taking a poor friend to a restaurant and letting him watch you dine in splendor. The unconsciousness of many people at a particular time does not allow for their growth. Some growing people try to carry their friends along with them; this not only will slow them in their own growth but will bring tremendous frustration and psychic suffering to those who cannot keep up the pace.

As I reflect on my last thirty years, there stand out four different groups of people who were deeply interested in me, feeling within me a great spiritual potential. It was a shock to find that the people who defended me against everyone else were the ones who turned on me most violently when I did the unforgivable thing of fulfilling their prophecies. It took me many years to understand that if they had the potential within themselves to grow, they would not be identifying themselves with my capacity but would be developing their own.

You do spiritual work to satisfy your existence on earth. The extent to which the spiritual force rises is limited only by your will. We continually feel satisfaction from small results. Swami Nityananda wrote about breathing and following the breath down into the body. When we drop a stone down a well, it always takes much longer to hear the splash than we believe possible. It is a very simple principle in spiritual work which is seldom followed: we should allow more time for breath, movement, and energy to expand. We never finish anything, particularly in our expression of spiritual energy. Meditation is the limitation of our will by using spiritual force to keep us on the earth and making bearable all existing negative conditions.

Jesus as a symbol has been distorted. Few people take him as a point above themselves that they can project into infinity. He is used as a point against which their own growth is measured and limited. Almost all spiritual teachers are the limitation of their disciples, not a projected point in space to measure from themselves to the teacher and then out into the real spiritual world and beyond.

When your base is secure enough you can surrender it. When the spiritual life is secure enough, you can also surrender it; and to your amazement it does not come to a halt, but keeps expanding upward, refining endlessly. It is our mind and imagination that continually seek the limit, because we cannot bear to part from all the things that we understand or think we understand. We prefer to perpetuate the imaginary past rather than to explore the true reality of our nature. it is by allowing our energy to rise endlessly that we discover our real connection with the energy that is in the atmosphere. To be secure enough to allow this force to flow out of us and rise and rise and rise endlessly is to contact the properties that exist in Time and Space.

We are so insecure in ourselves that every materialization we encounter we wish to embrace forever. We don’t merely embrace it, we squeeze it until it ceases to nourish us. It is the continual need for conscious surrender that allows spiritual energy to flow. All things found in the atmosphere represent energy that can enable us to ascend to higher levels.

One morning I was sitting for a painter, quietly working inside. My energy went further and further out and I saw a strange face looking at me. It looked like an arhat (ancient saint); a very distended head and very ancient face. I found some resistance, and I had to take a deep breath to open within myself to bring the impression closer. I felt a strong tingling in my temples as the forces from this being were imposed upon my head and brain. The face retreated and ten minutes later, while working again, I saw it approach; this time with full body, in a robe. I opened very deeply to receive this contact and found a blending of my chemistry with the chemistry of the manifestation. This lasted for about ten minutes. Then I saw person after person standing one behind the other with this particular figure in front. It was like an endless chain going up into the atmosphere. I could feel a brotherhood with all of them as though my energy had joined theirs in a spiritual being. For the whole day I felt this connection and the nourishment coming from them to me.

It is this type of experience, coming from Time and Space, that changes the entire chemistry of a human being. It only adds to us and in no way threatens anything except our resistance to change. I have a continued sensation within my chemistry of this blending of the content of astral beings with mine and the changing of my energy - the content of these manifestations blending within me. It is a decidedly uncomfortable feeling to have your nature changing and the chemistry within your body assimilating these cosmic vitamins. It is much like having your parents say, "Take it, it’s good for you." I always have to talk myself into swallowing these spiritual manifestations and absorbing them always throws my chemistry into a turmoil. As the increase in these energies comes into my being I see the changes that are manifesting themselves in my ordinary life. The sweetness that is growing in my being is manifested by the people around me. Only by loving and serving them can I accept the wonder and goodness of my life evolving into this.

Once as I sat looking at some of the great early Indian stone carvings, I could see they represented the spiritual force coming to a higher dimension. They represent the beauty and the love and the being that we attribute to God but is actually the maturing of spiritual energy. It is living the spiritual life, not talking about it, that finally brings it about.

Going from the physical to the spiritual and from the spiritual into Time and Space in no way requires change of a physical nature. As progress has been made in electronics, aviation, and all fields that have to do with mechanics, the ability to encompass more machinery has made it necessary to miniaturize. If the instrumentation of a 747 jumbo jet were proportionate to the first commercial airliners, the size and weight alone would disqualify the larger plane from existing. Growth and dimension require compactness. This compactness does not mean that things are minuscule but that they are small in relation to the work that they can perform. A rocket going to the moon travels thousands of times the distance that an airplane does but it is not thousands of times the size. At times it is even smaller than the less refined instrument. This is due to the refinement of the fuel that is used. Until you understand within yourself that the concepts of size and distance do not have to be related, you will be limited in your mind. Surrender must be in no way a limitation of size and distance. These are limitations of the brain. By feeling energy moving endlessly through space we can begin to attract the extraordinary quantities which are available.

In the growing process, you will encounter an unbelievable amount of sound and pressure while reaching into the atmosphere; you require a mechanism elastic enough and strong enough to carry a spiritual force and to withstand the shock. A man descending deeply into the ocean has to adjust to the pressure due to the change in atmosphere. Ascension into the spiritual atmosphere has the potential to keep you from venturing into a dimension which you instinctively fear. The continual rising into higher and higher levels of the atmosphere causes chemical changes which slowly build a mechanism that can carry us into a still higher atmosphere. it is our instinct to stay on the earth and it is our consciousness that allows us to open and absorb the tensions and transcend ourselves. The sense of adventure and the sense of limitation must become the driving forces which allow us to go endlessly beyond ourselves. There exists in every human being the need to breathe. Pioneers in all countries, pushing endlessly into the vastness of physical space, have demonstrated claustrophobic attitudes in whatever atmosphere they existed in. Once you begin to feel the vastness beyond yourself and tune into it, it is the need to breathe again that will allow you to drive endlessly into the unknown. We always pollute the atmosphere around us. The desire for fresh and vital energy should motivate anyone to reach into higher realms. Look at a tree and you see it reaching into the atmosphere. Man in his normal position looks to the horizon. Civilization has made us look to the ground. It is the weight of the physical and material world that puts the weight, the pressure, on our backs and stoops us so that we look into the earth - By reaching up to God, into the endlessness, we find within ourselves the raw material and vitality to provide that which is needed in this endless pursuit.

Every time I feel an opening above me and reach toward it, working and trying to expand, everyone I know will say, "Do you expect more? You just finished something yesterday." It is the endlessness that necessitates finding and moving on. There are two kinds of people: those who find a river and build a house near it and those who find a river and fight their way upstream. It is the fight upstream which has to do with getting beyond the point of creation. Building a house near a river will bring about a family situation. This will bring more life into the world, but fighting to go up the river will bring about rebirth.

In all spiritual situations we work to gather energy for rebirth on the physical level. This detaches us from the physical. When we reach into Time and Space we are gathering energy in Time and Space which frees us from attachment. We no longer need to identify with an image; once we have gathered all that we were in the past, we are freed of the need of manifestation. The images of our past fade like a photographic print slowly fading as each superimposed image disappears. The image gathered on the film is due to the exposure of time; and as we reach back into time, the images of what we were slowly dissolve into energy. Eventually this destroys all manifestations of our being. The being alone remains and this is foremost.



THERE are two kinds of people: those who find a river and build a house near it and those who fight their way upstream.



To enter a room, you go through a doorway. To enter the endlessness of the void you must also go through thedoorway. The doorway in this case is the unconscious. It is unconscious only because we never enter into it, as we are not prepared for the room beyond. All the attributes and stories and symbols and myths relating to this good and unknown quantity are the clues to the real purpose of the unconscious. To understand truth you must first surrender the lie; to find consciousness, you must first enter the depth of the unconscious. For ages man has looked up to the heavens, to the vastness that he can reach only through the doorway of the unconscious. It can be reached by simply wanting and opening and feeling within ourselves - by being ready. The Bible describes the condition: "Knock and the door shall open." So, too, when we are ready to enter the void the doorway in our unconscious will open. When we can feel everything that we are and very simply reach within ourselves - into our unconscious - we can see this doorway.

It is the ultimate in simplicity when our unconscious connects with the nothingness in the void or infinity. Man always brings his profundity and his enlightenment to his search. The very vastness of cosmic consciousness demands only the simplicity of our nothingness. Our conscious mind is only the crust that protects the treasure that lies in the unconscious. Enlightenment is like a man going into Ali Baba’s cave and coming out with a few trinkets. All enlightenments are just the momentary flashes of the treasure house that exists in the unconscious.



THE FUEL for Time and Space is nothingness.



It has been written that you can only have that which you can surrender. When you are free you will understand and receive what appears to be everything. Someone working in Time and Space can only be of service to God. This is reflected in the state of being, not in the state of consciousness. A state of being is that vehicle through which realized energy can flow. It is essential to use the right fuel in any vehicle. The fuel for Time and Space is nothingness. In a state of surrender, or nothingness, our energy becomes fine enough to carry us spiritually into Time and Space.

As we have taken isolated treasures from our unconscious, we have always found something, but if we just surrender to it, we find the everything. Something is again the restriction of the mind thinking it has acquired something, rather than a state of surrender and nothingness - in which nothing and everything must exist simultaneously. It is zero and 360 degrees where the two points meet. It is the beginning and the end.

In life we see differences; in spirituality we see the oneness of everything; in Time and Space we are the oneness. The oneness of everything exists only in a particular form which expresses the nothingness of everything. It is the tube that carries energy to all plants and animals. This flow of creation comes into each plant and bush, tree and vegetable. We can pick hundreds of tomatoes off a plant and the life flow coming through the stem will endlessly give creation. The type of vegetable has only to do with the seed; that which feeds it and allows it to become is the same energy that flows into all matter.

In spiritual work we tune in to the Om sound. It is the direct current of energy coming into our world which nourishes spiritual growth. It is the surrender of the mind which allows us to hear and contact this force. The sound is in the nature of an ascending or descending energy. It sounds like electricity running through high-tension power lines. It is a high-pitched hum of electric current. It is always present and can be heard. It either lifts the person up in its ascending flow or enters and nourishes in the descending flow.

One of the ways the horizontal plane gathers its energy in Time and Space is from the vertical - gathering into itself levels of energy that are the vertical plane in spiritual work. To fulfill past karma, it is essential to gather the energies of the past into our consciousness and then to empty our consciousness of them. It is this meeting of the energy in Time and Space that fulfills past karma. This continually releases tensions which have existed in our psyche. It is the only way we can prune something which does not exist physically.

The difference between Time and Space and spiritual work is that the first allows the possibility for us to rectify that which was. In spiritual work we try to rectify that which is. As the present moment of our existence is a reflection of "What I was," taking care of "What I am" is only taking care of one level. "Who am I?" expresses the philosophy of the spiritual. "What was I?" expresses the philosophy of a person capable of existing in Timeand Space. The objective in spiritual work is to free ourselves from the earth and the pressures and tensions that exist for us on material and physical levels. In Time and Space we free ourselves from everything. The fulfillment of creativity is to exist without a concept of having, or any concept, but to face the reality of the nothingness. We must feel and hear and understand that upon reaching our objective we will become part of the great void.

Spirituality is a question of mind over matter. In Time and Space it is nothingness that becomes the dissolving of matter into this endless void. The symbols that are used in Time and Space are always symbols of creation. They are expressed in bringing matter back to creativity, which then dissolves the blocks in our past karma. We take the physical to the moment of creation and then go beyond. The Bible refers to God making sound into the void and from the sound the world was born. By bringing energy or matter to sound and surrendering the sound we go beyond creation.

Every realization must be brought to the point of its conception and then reduced to the flow that existed before conception. This will reduce all resistance to the manifestation of resisting creation and creative energy. The surrender for this purpose will bring you to the point of resisting not necessarily on the vertical plane, which is in this life, but on the horizontal plane, where that particular resistance began. We begin to see the original cause and we can transcend it because we are facing the problem as if for the first time. It would be as if a Christian could practice his religion at the time of Jesus, within that flow of creativity which formed the Christian religion. Drinking water by having the raindrops fall into your mouth before they touch the ground andbefore they touch the atmosphere is to take in pure energy. Bringing everything back to its inception becomes the first everything, becomes the apple before it ever existed. This is energy of unlimited depth, the deeper energy of the unconscious. Once energy is conscious, it is reaching the physical form, has been touched by the brain, and represents less than pure creativity.

Creativity is the meeting of two factors to bring about creation. In bringing about the birth of a child, the stamp of the mind and psyche of the parents is impressed upon the creative act, which impresses around the child a great shell. This shell contains within itself the pure soul of a human being without limitation.

A person growing on a physical level expresses his growth by growing and in that growth expanding his capacity. When a man and woman marry, they become more responsible; if a child is born, their responsibility increases. It is necessary to be more conscious so that each extension of our creative growth flourishes. The capacity to grow completely depends on our being open physically to the flow in these extensions of our being. The struggle of a human being is against the unconscious in rejecting growth; in times of tension in closing off the connections.

In gardening, trees are pruned so that the energy drawn up by the tree is put to the best use. All growth has to do with expanded consciousness and discipline, maintaining that which creative energy flows into. The original root or trunk of a plant or person expands into additional expressions of creative energy. In Time and Space a person becomes responsible for an enormous expansion of energy and the conscious flowing of that energy into many different levels simultaneously. Each of these levels is connected through a form of detachment. It is like blowing up a long balloon, then tying the balloon in three parts with two rubber bands. Each section comes from the one creative effort but it is separated by the rubber bands. Our will has to separate the creative energy flowing from us. Once a separation takes place, we can call the three sections physical, spiritual vertical, and spiritual horizontal. Separating our energy into these three units, we can take the first and third units as horizontal and the middle as vertical. This is a way of demonstrating the simplicity of identifying with energy to allow for growth in a more patterned and convenient effect.

Many things in life are ordered not because it’s the only way they can be expressed, but because it is the best way. To fight simple logic with enormous mental and emotional resistance in no way allows a human being to grow. The depth and effort needed to do what is essential to maintain these three separate dimensions require the simplicity of the explanation. Taking energy as resistance to working will never allow the working to reach its fulfillment. Each day it is necessary to feed energy into these dimensions individually and consciously to allow the creative flow to take place in its fullest sense.

In life on a physical level, there are many acts we perform that are not dissimilar. We harvest wheat and ship it, mill it, and pack it over a period of six months. Each act of creation takes various times to be brought to its refinement so that it can be used as a higher food. A child should give additional energy to a relationship between a husband and wife. A new position with more authority should bring a dynamic quantity to a person who is raised to this advanced position. increased responsibility for a human being should be entered into with enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, longevity is often expressed in negative terms. People complaining about their effort becoming excessive in relation to a time span are stating their inability to sustain consciousness. The simple explanation for these joys turning into occasions for lamentation is that increased responsibility requires increased flow. The flow is the connection between a human being and any activity. As we increase our activities and responsibilities, the flow should be of more depth with each new commitment. People have a tendency to divide their loyalties and energies. A higher responsibility requires greater flow. The exhilaration of the moment has to be the exhilaration of every moment so that the person is extracting the essential chemistry to sustain responsibilities as well as to enjoy them. As something grows, the mind seizes on the old pattern and tries to hold it where it was. This is on a lesser level of flow, and unless you can consciously detach yourself so that the increase of flow occurs as your consciousness demands, it is impossible to sustain the growth. Each new responsibility encompassed as energy should act as a catalyst or the entire capacity to sustain energy will collapse.

Thomas Edison took many short naps to keep up his energy. I have seen many saints do the same thing, breaking up a day with short intervals of rest and washing so that their systems can purify and refresh themselves. The statement "God is love" expresses a simple fact of consciousness which allows for increasing responsibility. If it is an act of love which allows us to increase our effort, the increased effort allows us to encompass all that was previously experienced. It is like eating a meal slowly, taking time between courses. Digestion is much easier.

Time and Space can be approached similarly in that we move from one level to another simply and joyfully. In this manner we extract from each level the positive quantity that exists on that level. We begin digesting it and then consciously grow to the next level. A man who fights with his wife and children usually fights with his associates at the office. Each level must be disciplined and reflect conditions under which assimilation is most profitable. A satisfying physical experience should free your energy to rise on the spiritual horizontal level and produce a rich materialization from which you can take energy. Tension by over attention and drama will diminish positive effects.

A person existing in Time and Space is so protected by his ability to express his energy on three dimensions simultaneously that he can be in no way threatened by anything or anybody. The realization of our nothingness makes all manifestations essential as energy. What does not flow can be transcended and digested. It is necessary to realize that there are three completely different mechanisms functioning for us. People fail only because they are not conscious of what they have to work with. The ability to break down all matter becomes more significant as more consciousness is needed, as our nature is to stay attached to whatever we are doing. Continued detachment as you go from level to level is not just a necessity, it’s part and parcel of Time and Space.

There are three harvests occurring on the physical, spiritual vertical, and spiritual horizontal levels. The content of each is essential independently and they are all essential collectively. We can call them cosmic chakras (energy centers) in that they flow one into the other. The inner action between these levels makes them as one vast mechanism. Entering a large apartment house with a key to the front door can be compared to entering the physical level. Going up on the elevator would be entering the spiritual vertical level, and entering your apartment would be entering the spiritual horizontal level. This is the realization of the accumulated efforts to dwell in consciousness. To forget your key or to allow the management to neglect the elevator would make life very uncomfortable.

Working in Time and Space is an exciting expression of life. It affords you tremendous quantity and realization. All that is needed is to remember to open the door, to ring for the elevator, and to enter your apartment. We have to consciously think of the different levels to allow them to produce what they are capable of giving. Trying to make heaven on earth is the expression of a person with limited understanding. It would be like taking off your clothes when you enter the lobby of a building. It’s not the time and the place for that function. We continually demean ourselves by trying to perform certain acts on certain levels which cannot support the experience.

The resistance to keeping these three levels in operation is enormous. The expression of dimension is a geometric progression. The base, or physical level, is the most sluggish, having the most physical matter. The spiritual vertical, as it is refining physical energy, moves more quickly. The spiritual horizontal, being refined matter, flows very much faster. It is often confusing because of the difference in fuel, the different rates of assimilation, and the manifestation of the effort. As the ability to live in Time and Space grows, the amount of material on the physical level has to increase enormously so that its matter is refined on the spiritual vertical level. This is the energy that is needed to sustain the spiritual horizontal. Any attachment on the spiritual horizontal level represents a much more enormous quantity than is obvious, as it is a refined quantity. Once an experience from this level is brought down to a spiritual level and then to the physical level, it can cause tremendous problems. It expresses itself on the spiritual horizontal level because of the change of mathematics.

As every attainment requires great consciousness to keep it functioning, every gift requires consciousness to maintain it. A development of the Time and Space experience takes huge quantities of energy and a corresponding consumption of raw material. It is not unlike a great bush on which hundreds of blooms appear. The amount of water needed to keep the bush alive is enormous compared to the needs of a simple plant with one or two flowers. If we were to feed six loaves of bread at each meal to a child, we would be thought insane. However, if the child ate the six loaves of bread and thrived, we would be proved rational. If you were to claim that the child had eaten only three loaves because your mind could not accept the fact that he had eaten six, you would be yielding to the limitations of your mind. As spiritual work is irrational in terms of physical existence, the concepts of Time and Space are difficult for the ordinary mind to grasp. On another plane of existence the law of gravity and the other laws of physics and chemistry exist in a different dimension; to comprehend them, we have to comprehend a different reality.

The fascination of reaching into the past should in no way hold us to the energy connection we find. This is a tremendous temptation because it is an externalized situation; even though it represents us, we are detached from it because we see Time and Space simultaneously while we exist on another dimension. It takes tremendous courage to work dynamically in two different directions at the same time. It is as if we are trying to create two cyclones on different planes where they need each other to maintain the energy balance. It involves raising one level of energy, transcending that, detaching from it, and then opening during the surrender to any dimension where the effort of the surrender and detachment brings other energies into the void. A higher force on a higher level creates a second cyclone. It is necessary for the horizontal lines of energy to be as quiet as possible during the vertical vortexes. It is possible to take these cyclones or vortexes through the solid horizontal lines because they are lines of matter while the cyclone represents the movement of creativity. The cyclone can completely absorb the horizontal lines removed by absorbing their quantity as more cyclones are born; these cyclones, or vortexes, all contain wisdom and energy. Some are containers of people, some of knowledge of a culture, but they are again only manifestations and have a capacity to bore their way into our unconsciousness and serve as very high nourishment accepted without mind. Some of these are such complete worlds in themselves that if they are looked at consciously, they immediately wrap the individual experiencing them into this intelligence and the person feels completely creative living within the extraordinary expansion of materialization and energy force. This is an endless pattern.

On the physical level we can absorb segments. An entire world can absorb us on the Time and Space level. We are always in danger of being absorbed into what we are eating as nourishment. On the physical level we surrender illusion to obtain spirituality. This spirituality becomes manifest and we must detach ourselves from the manifestations as they are only partial truths. In Time and Space there are complete truths because everything that was, exists, and the need to understand the nature of energy causes entire worlds to be manifested. These worlds are in no way any more valid than the partial truths on a spiritual level. The process of absorption is really for the purpose of using the past to mature us so that we can prepare to live in the future. To live on the second horizontal level, taking in total quantities of past lives and culture, is to gather all the energy that was - to experience and be part of what is. This development of creative energy in us is concurrent with the energy of God expanding this consciousness into the universe.

Above Time and Space is creation. It is the vertical of infinity. It gives birth. It is a descending expression of sound. The nature of energy is that, as it descends, it is held in all matter and is equal in all of its parts to the whole. Within every human being is the entire content of consciousness in its highest form. It is locked in a structure of the tensions of people and when a piece is broken off, being of a lighter nature, it rises and we see it as an enlightenment. It is only the reflection of the whole. The unconsciousness in us contains everything. Spirituality frees the inner content to allow it to travel until it becomes one with Time and Space and then the complete manifestation of all that was gives the nourishment.

An iceberg floating in the ocean is a detached part of a glacier. No matter how enormous the iceberg, it in no way compares with the size of the glacier. The nature of anything that breaks away from its mass on the horizontal level moves it along the horizontal. It is the law of physical and material things. When we work spiritually, we look above ourselves, reaching to transcend ourselves and touch our enlightenment. We always relate spiritually to this energy on a higher level. It is without consciousness because what we see above us has broken off from the mass of unconsciousness within our being. It is important not to be satisfied with the realization of this fragment but to take the energy from it and bring it back where it can penetrate into the mass of unconsciousness. The energy soaks into and releases the tension in the unconscious, allowing it to free another piece of itself. This is then used as nourishment and the process is repeated endlessly.

It very often happens that because you cannot understand where the creativity belongs you bring physical revelation to spiritual energy or spiritual revelation to physical energy. The energy that we encounter in Time and Space is still another energy. If any of the treasures that exist in this dimension are manifest, they can only be understood intellectually on the level of the dimension from which they came. If any lesser degree of understanding is found, it should be surrendered as food.

Man going to the moon adapts inside a space ship by keeping pressure and gravity controlled so that he can function in alien surroundings. The ability of a human being to travel within himself from the physical to the spiritual and then to higher levels requires a chemistry that can withstand the transition. You must allow your system to assimilate the differences and densities of energy that you encounter. To do this, you have to be conscious of the conditions met and what the energy or experience will be. Spiritually we do this so that we can stay with the change until the molecular structure within us has completed the process of assimilation. If we wish to operate on the level of time and consciousness, it must be with the understanding that we must first go through the two previous levels.

The beginning always must be the same - you open and consciously go up from the physical to the spiritual, and then go up to the level of Time and Space. As in all things, the beginning emulates the end. We begin in the physical by the seed germinating within the unconscious, in which we rise to the spiritual and then into Time and Space. It gives us the stem through which the flow of energy can move and assimilate at each stage that which is essential not only for the growth but for the continued connection. Having isolated thoughts in no way will bring about a process of creativity and growth. Creation is a complete process.

It is a mistake for anyone to venture into this area without the commitment of time and longevity. Life is lived with our total being and limited consciousness. How can anyone expect to extract from creation without being open to it?

You would do well to recognize the particular quantities which we receive from the different dimensions. It is not unlike doing three different jigsaw puzzles simultaneously. Each piece belongs to one or the other of the puzzles. Many times we put a piece in the wrong dimension and when it does not fit, we feel that what we have found is wrong.

What is wrong is that we are not looking closely at what we found and understanding it as it is rather than as we wish it to be. Very often you reject because you forget where you obtained the information or enlightenment and try to fit it into a puzzle that is in another pattern in Time and Space. It is confusing when we scramble the three puzzles and think there is only one. This makes great confusion in relationships where we have a spiritual relationship on a physical level, a physical relationship on a spiritual level, and on a physical and spiritual level, a relationship of Time and Space. With many people, we live and love and grow or do not grow because of this scramble.

We have the tremendous capacity to bring tensions to our ordinary physical life. To our spiritual life we bring the tensions of our physical existence and thereby stop the growth of a spiritual development. The basic discipline of making the mind quiet, which is essential for spiritual work, is dramatically needed for the evolvement into Time and Space. Spiritual manifestations, although dramatic in the sense that the person growing in spirituality sees manifestations which are strange, are usually impersonal. In Time and Space all experiences are deeply personal as they represent connections of past lives.

In spiritual work if we stay on the path we receive protection. We continually surrender, allowing nothing to touch our mind; if we keep in a state of surrender, we will not be attacked. Everything is dissolvable through conscious surrender into matter which will flow. This protects us and allows us to transcend the experience by encompassing it as energy. In Time and Space, as we are reaching past relationships and experiences, we do not avoid what is on the path, but try to relate to it. We must open, experience, and fulfill whatever quantity was not fulfilled in the previous time that we encountered this life experience. This is detachment with consciousness, in which we experience solely to complete our karma, not for involvement. In Time and Space, there is no longevity - we work for meeting the moment of karma and as we touch it we complete the past situation.

it is a new land with new customs and rules; we must realize this from dimension to dimension. In physical life we do as the law of the land demands, in spiritual life we must live according to the rules of spirituality, and in Time and Space we live according to the rules of infinity. The "I am" is the accumulation of the "Was."

One factor which is always predictable in spiritual work is the feeling of a void. A void is observable when we come to a situation of great frustration where we cannot generate the energy needed to take care of the growth; when this occurs, as it frequently does, an unconscious person becomes frustrated and expresses this frustration by fighting. It is possible to fill the void by consciously surrendering at that time and feeling a separation in which you transcend into the void. This obviously leaves you suspended in space. It is from this level of suspension that you can attract spiritual energy which transcends the level acquired on the earth because you are no longer on the physical level. It allows for the attraction of energy which is of Time and Space. The nature of this incoming force is totally different from one that we attract on the physical level.

It is imperative to maintain the feeling of suspension in the void so that these Time and Space energies can be attracted and connect in us. As the experience takes place in a void, many of the guiding factors have to do with manifestations on the physical level and in the person connected with you during these experiences. It is possible to see openings in the psychic center of a person so that the energy connections are feeding directly into areas that are visible on the head or other parts of the body. It becomes like a multilevel film where several dimensions are superimposed on each other simultaneously. You actually see the symbols of the past and understand and feel the connections between yourself and the person you’re working with. They represent a point on the physical level, you represent a point in space, and the connection can then come from infinity.

In this Time and Space energy we do not connect the same way as we do working from a spiritual level. Working on a spiritual level we are consciously opening to receive a specific energy which has to do with the one-pointedness of existence. We are standing on the earth opening to the energy above us - energy which is at a point directly above our head. In the Time and Space connection, as we are working in a state of suspended energy, we have to attract the force from infinity. This should manifest a connection in a particular past karma. It has no more significance in its manifestation to the earth than a noodle has in a pan of lasagna. If you get lost in the pan of lasagna, you’ll get lost in this aspect of your cosmic soul. As the distance in energy is much more vast, so are the manifestations. The more extraordinary the manifestation, the more advanced the student, the simpler it should be to separate from the manifestation. Intensity does not make truth, it only signifies dense energy.

Many people completely surrender themselves to the extraordinary experience even though they have learned to separate themselves from a negative or limited experience. It is no more honor to be killed with a jade dagger than with a chicken feather. The greatest danger of Time and Space energy is that the staging is bigger and more magnificent. It is just a difference in mathematics and must be consciously understood at all times.

We come from a physical base which we must continually add to. Once free of this and mature, the energy rises from that base and acts as a link with more abstract or spiritual forces. Most people who are attracted to spiritual work want to leave the physical level because of dissatisfaction. People going up into spiritual realms for this reason are like immature plants whose stems are not thick enough to carry the nourishment higher. What occurs is a spindly plant, or the illusion of a healthy plant. Spiritual reality can be attained only when the energy rises from a strong and happy physical level and keeps rising and rising and rising and rising until it becomes manifest and again spreads out on a horizontal level. It is only different in content, in this case as spiritual force acquires properties as it goes through dimensions. It produces and reproduces until the seed on the spiritual plant is refined as a seed which is crossbred in nature.

It is essential, therefore, if we are going to raise the seed we sow, that the seed itself be very, very strong. Anyone who grows in a weak condition will only become a weak student. Spiritual energy almost never rises to a horizontal level and expands. Heaven is a rising spiritual energy of rich content due to its refinement, manifesting a world as rich as the ascending energy itself. Anything coming from heaven is rich and makes everything it touches rich. Any part of a whole is the same as the whole.

In all spiritual schools realization is always talked about in extraordinary terms, while the teaching is often poor. When traveling in the Orient, I heard the promises of a spiritual life in conversation but never saw the realities in the people. My experience with Swami Nityananda was the great exception, as the richness flowed through him to me. Every time I surrendered to him I felt a tremendous richness. It should be understood that my physical connection with Swami Nityananda was for just one day. The richness is still within me, which makes it obvious that the problem in this world is not a lack of hunger on the part of students but an inability of teachers to meet their need. To arouse curiosity in someone is not the same as opening someone to their need. Creating mysteries is the usual capacity of teachers. Their purpose should be creating life.

Only when the energy has risen to the higher horizontal plane does the state of being of a person begin to accumulate; this can only occur because everything on that plane is of a whole. This state of being is the first platform for a permanent new dimension. The accumulation on the physical level helps to free energy for the spiritual; the accumulation on the spiritual level helps to free energy to reach into infinity.

It’s very easy to be happy by staying on this level where all things are wonderful. But the same appetite that is necessary on the physical level must exist on the spiritual: to not accept the gifts but to demand the energy to go higher and higher. The mind is even less able to comprehend because the expression is more abstract. The connections are further removed from today as time becomes something other than the point above us that we’re working toward from the physical to the spiritual. It becomes multipointed, which is exactly what a horizontal line is. It connects as a whole as the nourishment gathers on a level. In this case, instead of a point in time, it is all points in time.

Our connections become connections of infinity, not of one-pointedness; instead of the limitations of one aspect of a relationship we experience the total. On the earth level we have relationships which exclude all of our past lives and gifts. On this horizontal level, the richness of all our past lives and energy satisfies the relationship. Everything flowers on this spiritual level of realization. We can understand why our tensions and irrational behavior are as they have been. Our true nature is revealed to us.

Man thought the world was flat because his concept could not encompass the physical world in its entirety. That he has grown to accept a round world and live in it is an indication of the brain expansion that has occurred within the last few hundred years. This expansion has opened us to many other factors. These are all in the conscious mind. That they existed in the unconsciousness is obvious because what can evolve must be latent in the brain. This extraordinary new dimension obviously existed in our unconscious. When we begin to understand that the unconscious does not work by the same principles that the physical and material worlds do, we will find that we are entering the creative storehouse and bringing to the surface all the treasures that ever existed for us. It is the simple truth that once discovered brings a smile to everyone’s face and the profound quiet followed by the statement, "Of course." What else can you say when the obvious is revealed?

The whole higher evolvement of man has always been a reaching up for spirituality where man’s consciousness can expand through a tremendous effort. The higher consciousness of man is only the expression of the unconsciousness freeing itself and rising to a level that is visible and available. The higher forces of creativity are lighter and rise and nourish us and therefore attach to our mechanism and become consciousness.

It is no different from seeing an iceberg floating off the coast of New England. It detaches from its glacier somewhere up in the Arctic and by its separation becomes visible. This is the way energy expresses itself on a physical level. What breaks away separates on the horizon. Energy breaking away on a spiritual level rises and is visible from the physical level as a piece of creativity above us. We assume that this piece has dropped from some great glacier in the atmosphere.

It is by digging inside ourselves and surrendering endlessly that we free the inner material so that it can rise up. It is this simultaneous digging in the unconscious and being in Time and Space that enables us to see those treasures that are not visible.

The nature of energy is that it gets stronger as we rise from the physical to the spiritual level - There are fewer tensions and a great vastness to draw from. It is like a V shape (a cyclone) and we are on the bottom. As it rises the expansion on the top increases and the tension lessens. Also, as we rise we are farther from the two external lines of tension which contain this vastness. The higher up in this V shape we come, the greater the movement. The nature of energy is that it flows faster with fewer tensions around it. The volume of energy also speeds the velocity of the flow. As you reach into Time and Space, the flow of energy is faster; as a result, the outer conditions of the world around you seem to move with great speed.

Many people in public life or in high positions in business or professional life understand this principle to some degree. It is essential for anyone working with higher energies to in no way be involved with petty detail, as this acts as tension which slows down the flow. A weak person does his job below the tension of a situation. A strong person makes new rules and frees himself from the obsolete restrictions placed upon him. It is the same thing in spiritual work. We work and learn with everyone else’s restrictions and tensions. If you have the capacity to grow, you break these tensions, but only by being free in the sense that you can transcend them and function better than somebody else can with these restrictions.

A revolution is of no help if it imposes restrictions that bring about more tension than those which have been removed. Transcending one level should not bring restrictions to force a person to a lesser level in any area of his life. If one point of growth in any way brings part of a person to a lesser level, then the development of the particular aspect which is accepted becomes the limitation of the work done, not the expression of the creative potential. Simply continue the line of work for a longer period of time until the restriction is removed. If the restriction cannot be removed, then the energy must be treated like medicines which can cure eighty percent ofthe people and are detrimental to the other twenty percent. It requires great consciousness not to inflict that aspect of the development on the complete person, but to use it only in situations where it performs one hundred percent.

Many things fail because they are generally good, not always good. It takes a great consciousness to use anything of limited capacity well. It takes more consciousness because each situation must be examined in its entirety and watched continually for any reaction other than that which brings about the growth required. As people evolve spiritually, it is necessary for them to see everything that they do relate to the area around themselves. The continued sensitivity increases the molecularly or connection between the reacting area or person and the energy in space. When we drop things, it tells us that we are losing sensitivity. It means that we are not relating an object to the flow of creation around it.

Many of the tensions that we feel with people are the guiding hand of creation trying to show us that we are building tensions against creative flow. We project these as attacks upon our ego, and add to the tension. The greatest waste in our lives is energy that is fed into ego. It increases the appetite of the unbelievable unsatisfied monster that eats energy. It increases the unhappiness within a human being. It takes everything and if it gave only nothing, it would not be so bad. It brings misery because it embodies the waste of energy which is the enemy of creation. It is the greatest sin that a human being can perpetrate. It is taking the gift of life and by consciously not using it, feeding it to this monster of ego. It becomes more and more a creature of self-pity and helplessness. A helplessness based on great strength because of the vast amount of energy fed into it, it is not weak, but strong. It talks weak, which is one of its great disguises, but can eat up people in one bite. The innocent try to appease it, but that is like feeding helpless virgins into a volcano to keep it from erupting. Ego can take and take, but this in no way appeases the fire that is building within it.

If a person on a physical level moves an object consciously, he incorporates the energy around the object on the physical level. We see this with good coworkers who can work and at the same time have a sympathetic feeling for each other. This opens them, increases their creative flow, and helps them to increase their output. The increase of creative energy on the physical level supports the rising energy on a spiritual level. The energy increases on the physical level as it now not only supports the physical act but is feeding a quantity of energy into the spiritual level, energy connected to a finer quality. The base expands much slower than the higher spiritual level, and the energy opens very much in a V shape. If at the same time the effort is made to reach into Time and Space, this V shape is moving into a still higher and much more refined energy level and travels vortically throughout the cosmos. It still requires the will, consciousness, and surrender of the person. This allows for the gathering of a vast energy which will come into the core of the person and into every situation simultaneously.

It is therefore possible to be working on three dimensions simultaneously. The higher energy in Time and Space has such velocity of movement that it can be brought to the physical level while it is still in this other dimension. Great endurance and physical strength are essential to encompass this and it should be treated very cautiously. All energy is supported by us from the ground up. It can be separated from the physical and be allowed to exist in the spiritual to Time and Space. This allows two dimensions to work freed of the weight and pressure of the physical and material level, but there must be one thread of consciousness at all times holding these two dimensions together in harmony with the actions taking place on the physical level. Cosmic balloons can be made for many reasons and will serve the person on different dimensions. We should learn that the act of creativity can exist on many different levels simultaneously.

People make the creative connection unconsciously. They should always hold on to it and strengthen it by feeling the satisfying and nourishing extension all the time. Living by being more responsible to everyone around you makes for spirituality. You give life to the people around you. Hardly anybody ever looks objectively at a situation - consciously checking to see if there is something he can do to improve it while expressing his energy. People have to learn that what they open in themselves is feeding them. How can you have a connection with someone if you don’t take care of your other responsibilities?

On the ordinary level when we surrender and open we receive spiritual energy as a point reaching for something above itself. The energy comes down from above in a straight line. This has the tendency to keep us going in a straight line, transcending ourselves; it creates more than enough strain for the strength of the energy and the development of the energy on this level. In Time and Space, you open in the void. The energy comes in at a 45-degree angle, which brings you a much greater area to fill, as the outgoing force is also at a 45degree angle, making a configuration like a vortex. The student is in the void, above the incoming and outgoing energies.

The person being opened between the incoming and outgoing force will find the position above the vortex as a natural consequence. It is again not a thing of mind, but a thing of spirit. As such, it works with the surrender to bring about the ultimate good of the person working to grow. In many areas of the mind, once we open the door, that which exists there flows into our being and becomes part of our entire life force. The buoyancy that exists completely removes our need to measure precisely angles and inches. By expanding the size, you can feel what is essential for the particular effort that is being performed.

Using the vortex in movement is another way to gather energy in Time and Space. In this case, the physical manifestation of a person is completely lost. It is used up as a quantity during the movement and reappears on other planes and dimensions once the movement has ended.



LIVING by being more responsible to everyone around you makes for spirituality.



The riches of the earth are mined through the consciousness of man digging out the treasures that have developed through millions of years. Gold, silver, and coal are all obtained by sinking various kinds of shafts into the earth and, with a great flow of water, removing these treasures. Oil and gas are treated differently as their condition demands. These treasures from the earth represent our inheritance of millions of years; only in the last one hundred years have we been able to tap these resources.

Today man flies through the air and sends rockets to distant planets, tapping the resources of space. This is also symbolic of the capacity that is available spiritually. In spiritual development we are approaching that point at which Time and Space become just another level of consciousness.

We think of ourselves as only living today. Those people fortunate enough to experience astral travel are still traveling on a horizontal plane because they are within the immediate Time and Space. The deep treasures that free us are not those that appear on a horizontal plane but those that appear on a vertical plane. As we approach creation, or God, we come through all levels of Time and Space. As we transcend them, we absorb the content of these levels.

IT takes growing and surrendering continually to become part of infinity and the endlessness that is represented by the concept of living in Time and Space.

Very often people talk of having the knowledge of past lives and this is received by others with great reverence and mystery. This is like digging up endless aged jars that have no content. The real miracle and adventure is not only to contact those aspects of ourselves that lived previously, but also to take the content and nourishment from our past lives to raise the level of our being. In this way we become aware and grow higher and higher. Man living on one plane is continually harassed by the meeting of situations and people from his past lives. He is unable to feel the reason for his attraction to these persons. This void is responsible for great unhappiness in most people. They have everything that this plane can offer, and yet this hunger that is within them can never be satisfied. Money, power, fame - none of these can take care of the voids within us due to a lack of fulfillment in our past lives.

Everyone has had the experience of friendship, marriage, or connections with other people which are irrational in themselves but yet are sustained because they satisfy something very deep in our unconscious. It is this which binds so many people to an endless dissatisfaction because they cannot satisfy the strange hungers and appetites that exist in them. When we ask, "Why am I?" and succeed in finding the answer, it takes care of today. The question should also be, "Who was I and who will I be?" It is only by freeing the self so that it can travel through Time and Space that we become one with God and one with our true nature.

One time a man tried to reach an apple and someone asked him what he would do in order to reach it. He said, "I will grow within myself and then I can pluck this apple from the tree. " This is the true spiritual answer for obtaining everything. It is not enough to have the apple fall. We must grow internally and stretch so that we grow up to that which is in existence and obtain what is rightfully ours. The physical act of changing the arrangement by climbing the tree or throwing a stone and knocking the apple down makes it available for the moment. By growing taller inside we have this apple forever. It is the moment that we usually think of - it should be the endlessness. Only by doing that which is part of infinity do we really satisfy everything. It takes growing and surrendering continually to become part of infinity and the endlessness that is represented by the concept of living in Time and Space.

It takes some consciousness to lower resistance when we wish to surrender. The deeper your insecurity, the stronger the resistance; the greater the ego, the stronger the resistance. To give away money you have to have money; to gain life you have to surrender life. In this sense the more alive you are the faster you will grow. Most people surrender ego when they are surrendering what they think is themselves in their spiritual work. In Time and Space we can only surrender spirit.

The conflict between our resistance to our physical self and reaching for spirituality is our going from the physical horizontal level to the spiritual vertical level. To attain consciousness on a vertical spiritual level, we must surrender spirit. It is the spirit meeting spirit which is the true meeting of this level. On a physical level we are going from physical to spiritual and we surrender ourselves. As we are going from spirit to spirit manifestation it is essential to understand the nature of the energy involved. The nature of spirit meeting spirit in no way can be possessive, as spirit cannot possess it self. It fills everything and is the best replacement in any human being for ego and self.

As we become more involved on the horizontal spiritual plane, we become filled with what was, which changes our capacity to attract what is in our life. The need of receiving energy due to the expansion of the likeness of this higher point of existence creates a three-dimensional movement that is separate from - and at the same time connected to - the field in which these energies are at work. The need not to identify becomes essential because the sensitivity due to the interaction of the fields of energy around the dimensions cannot be disturbed.

IN going into psychic areas, touch only what you need to touch.

"The mind is the slayer of the soul," and it also reaches through dimensions disturbing the operation that is essential to working in Time and Space. Wandering of the mind interferes tremendously with the objective in entering Time and Space. Our purpose should be to gather the energy of past lives to free ourselves, also to avoid disturbing the balance that exists in the places that we come from. When you take from a situation; it should be left living and healthy. Going into areas where the refinement of energy has been in existence for many thousands or even millions of years, we are touching something of great strength. We must use what we find, not abuse or destroy it. Destroying builds karma and the entire purpose of this work is to free yourself of past karma. There is an old adage, "If you do not know what to do, do nothing." This is extremely true when going into psychic areas. Touch only what you need to touch. Experience only what is essential. Wantonness is tantamount to destructiveness. Excessiveness in no way allows for flow but creates all kinds of physical problems. Great respect should always exist with consciousness as it builds sensitivity. It is gathering in depth,not just from the obvious, that frees you from your past.

We eventually come to that point where we can work with the three separate levels simultaneously. This forms an energy and shape similar to a cyclone with the physical as the base, the spiritual in the middle, and Time and Space on the top. The shape is significant; the difference in movement from the bottom to the top shows the extraordinary difference in energy and rate of movement. This energy is sucked up from the tip of the vortex above the physical level. In the middle there is the expansion that comes through spirituality, which produces a situation that draws into itself vast energy which frees us to transcend. The width of the circumference at the top is significant in that it is not focused but wide and all-encompassing.

Growing is in the nature of eating. If you start to eat anything, you start on one comer and work your way across, whether it’s a chocolate bar or a loaf of bread. People may touch a source of nourishment and cease in their eating and digesting. A child eating from its mother’s breast when it’s hungry will not be satisfied with a rubber nipple. It’s conscious of its need because it has an appetite which motivates it. The sense of eating, digesting, and assimilating must become a conscious effort, otherwise we become satisfied with a rubber nipple, not filling the inner hunger. It is the subtlety of spiritual food that we do not feed a conscious appetite. We surrender and consciously work and build resistance. As the nourishment expands our muscle system, it has a reverse sensation. The growing in no way satisfies a human appetite. It creates tremendous unrest, tension, and resistance because it is eating by transcending, not by attachment. In Time and Space we have not only to overcome all the spiritual problems, but the physical problems as well. Since it is a higher level which encompasses the two lower levels of physical and spiritual work, we not only have unrest, tension, and resistance, but also an appetite - a hunger that wishes to attach us to whatever we’re eating.

There are many extraordinary growth capacities in the expansion that takes place on the spiritual vertical level. The meeting of people from past existences represents a great energy intake. One of the remarkable effects is the ability to meet someone who has been attached to you many lifetimes ago. Under ordinary conditions it is a great energy transference, as past gifts flow between you and this other person. This is a reward of consciousness and helps to transcend ordinary physical and spiritual levels.

At times the meeting with someone from Time and Space can bring dramatic and unusual circumstances. Many incurable diseases can be helped enormously with the higher rate of flow that exists on the spiritual vertical level. The disease is based on crystallization or lack of flow. The connection of past karma in Time and Space connects to this enormously increased rate of flow. When consciously used, it can break through crystallization, removing structure that holds all kinds of disease or negativity. It is another way of allowing creative energy to flow through for a conscious purpose and must be done with a consciousness by both parties.

Many things not possible on the lower levels of creative energy are easily managed on the higher level. This is due to the refinement and depths of nourishment which can be obtained because of the increase of content on the higher level of Time and Space. The mind has to be very well controlled to surrender all connections on the lower levels or it would demean this higher energy. We must keep the highest potential as the realization of this new dimension of energy and not limit ourselves because of past experience. The need for fuel is increased by the rate of flow and the greater capacity to burn up energy in this higher level. It is necessary to open much deeper within yourself so that instead of reaching out in a limited way, we open completely on a 360-degree angle - as whole flowers open completely round, drawing energy into the core of their being. This is a continual process and has to be consciously felt and thought of.

People wishing to serve this level of existence must open as if they were hypnotized, or set within themselves a conditioned reflex. Each time energy in the atmosphere flows toward them, they respond like an ant-eating plant whose outer ends of leaves vibrate with the scent of food. The radius extended from a person has to continually increase to draw within the being all energy that exists around it. Trees and plants do this and serve nature in a wonderful way, by refining all energy that comes within their radius. We have to begin to use the radius of our conscious existence to draw within our being all matter, regardless of outer shape, as energy.

ENLIGHTENMENT is spirituality and longevity, period.

A great river that is not harnessed provides scenery and supports a certain amount of fish life. A well-harnessed river does this, too, but also generates energy that gives life to great cities. We need not destroy nature on the physical level; we must draw it up through the spiritual level. "They also serve who only stand and wait" is a quotation used by many people to justify their ineffectiveness and lack of motivating drive. "Serve what?" would be a question to ask. Everything serves. Even garbage when it rots serves, but it certainly doesn’t realize its ultimate potential when it serves as garbage. Every human being is recycled into the cosmos. Your real purpose and realization comes from the amount of energy that you can refine. This puts greater nourishment into the atmosphere and helps other people become enlightened.

So much of life is a continual lamentation by people of the limitations they feel. Standing on a ship at dawn and looking at the horizon or on top of a mountain watching the sunset gives you a sense of infinity. People locked in their own tension, relating to themselves with self-pity, reduce their capacity as human beings. We expand only through the open quantity that we allow ourselves to relate to. Once we experience the energy in Time and Space and open to it, we have a sense of realization of what was. As we see the walls of ancient relationships, vital in their time but foolish and limited on reflection, we understand the nothingness that restricts us from the sense of infinity. It is surrendering and stretching and reaching and taking in more and more energy that accomplishes the impossible. Enlightenment is spirituality and longevity, period.

In reference to the physical level, remember the fairy tale of the child who sees an elf under a mushroom. He grabs it, knowing that if he can hold on to it, the elf will grant his wish. The elf turns into fire, a wild animal, and many other things, until he eventually turns back into an elf and the boy’s wish is granted. This expresses the basic need to sustain an effort until the chemistry changes are manifested and the many threads return to a form of a higher understanding and realization. All changing chemistry provides nightmares and thoughts until a level is reached at which the chemical balance is maintained and the impurity washed out of the system. Thechanging within you always causes tensions. It is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; the taking of the chemicals causes transformation which drives the mind crazy. The mind cannot encompass the physical change. We take all change into the mind, which makes for the split of personality and allows the ego to attack the soul. It is all one, and accepting is only a form of rejecting.

To attain realization is to refuse to accept until the ultimate realization is reached. The inability to endure and sustain a wish is the great enemy of a human being. We always talk peace and make war. We talk enlightenment but we cannot overcome our tensions to allow that enlightenment to assert itself. Time, time, time. It takes time and patience and consciousness to watch the changing chemistry.

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CHAPTER FOUR

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