Skarekrow,

I just wanted to send you and everyone else good thoughts and a wish for everyone to be well and happy. Thanks for this thread :)


@Skarekrow, @Amanki, @Kgal, @Free, @CosmicINFJ, @Aether, @Milktoast Bandit, @hush, @Jet, @bellisima, @SkipINFJ, @ INFJ1357, @melissa*, @Marnie, @dang, @CindyLou, @Wyote, @flower @Serenity, @James, @atree, @Anywhere But Here, @Flavus Aquila, @JJJA, @brightmoon, @ImaginaryBloke, @Scientia, @ruji, @sprinkles, @just me, @muir & fellow forum members:
be happy and well this new year & always
 
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Skarekrow,

I just wanted to send you and everyone else good thoughts and a wish for everyone to be well and happy. Thanks for this thread :)


@Skarekrow, @Amanki, @Kgal, @Free, @CosmicINFJ, @Aether, @Milktoast Bandit, @hush, @Jet, @bellisima, @SkipINFJ, @ INFJ1357, @melissa*, @Marnie, @dang, @CindyLou, @Wyote, @flower @Serenity, @James, @atree, @Anywhere But Here, @Flavus Aquila, @JJJA, @brightmoon, @ImaginaryBloke, @Scientia, @ruji, @sprinkles, @just me, @muir & fellow forum members:
be happy and well this new year & always

Thank you for the good thoughts and wishes!
May they return to you and all listed X10.

I will try to continue to keep it interesting without repeating myself too much. ;)
 
If you think about it, the concept of walk-ins is rather expedient, for if an entity wants to leave the physical body, it is a shame to waste that physical vehicle if someone else could use it for spiritual growth. However, it takes a very bold soul and soul extension to make this choice, for it is not an easy or glamorous path to take. This period of history on Planet Earth is such exciting time in a spiritual sense that many entities are willing to take on the karma and risk in order to be a part of the action. Physical bodies of all kinds are at a premium during this period of time.

http://www.bodymindsoulspirit.com/the-walk-in-soul-experience/


I just got a bad feeling. What if my oversoul sells my body occupied by my soul to a third party in exchange for some astral ice cream and astral beer? How can I stop something like that from occurring? You cannot trust anyone these days!!

You see, my oversoul would reap the benefit from that while I get nothing. I clearly need to have a talk with myself, literally.
 
Skarekrow,

I just wanted to send you and everyone else good thoughts and a wish for everyone to be well and happy. Thanks for this thread :)

@Skarekrow, @Amanki, @Kgal, @Free, @CosmicINFJ, @Aether, @Milktoast Bandit, @hush, @Jet, @bellisima, @SkipINFJ, @ INFJ1357, @melissa*, @Marnie, @dang, @CindyLou, @Wyote, @flower @Serenity, @James, @atree, @Anywhere But Here, @Flavus Aquila, @JJJA, @brightmoon, @ImaginaryBloke, @Scientia, @ruji, @sprinkles, @just me, @muir & fellow forum members:
be happy and well this new year & always

Thanks for the nice video.

BTW, I did not get an alert. Something might be wrong with the programming.
 
You can find Part One on the previous page.
This has some ideas I don’t agree with but many that I do.
It is worth reading at any rate.


Principles of Spiritual Evolution (Part II)

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Part I was a general guideline discussing the minimal requirements necessary to ensure stable spiritual evolution.
The key consisted of incorporating into one’s life a balanced trinity of fundamental principles: faith/love/hope, humility/forbearance/levity, and knowledge/awareness/wisdom.

The fault with many philosophies and religions is that one or more of these basic requirements is ignored, forming a structural weakness that potentially leads to collapse.

This collapse is hastened when weaknesses are further exploited by malevolent forces seeking to sabotage the efforts of truthseekers about to evolve beyond their control.

Since part I is essentially complete in itself, part II shall merely expand upon a few of its themes.
Here, focus will be given upon the necessity for both knowledge and love rather than strictly one or the other in any methodology for spiritual evolution.

To summarize, knowledge accompanied by negative emotions may produce positive physical results, but negative metaphysical consequences.
Likewise, love accompanied by ignorance may lead to positive metaphysical results but negative physical consequences.

Both in balance and in conjunction with the lesser principles of the aforementioned trinity results in strength on both physical and metaphysical planes. Because the enemies of truth attack on all fronts physical and metaphysical, one would do well to seek progress and reinforce defensive strength on these planes.

The proper role of negative emotions was explained in part one, whereby they served as wake-up alarms alerting us to an internal or external danger. Beyond this function, they serve us no benefit.

By becoming aware of the truth they signal and then letting our realization of the truth’s greater metaphysical context transform the negative emotional energy into positive, the quality of energy thus formed helps us apply the truth in the most efficient manner possible.

As stated, without the conscious transformation of negative into positive emotional energy, the truth can still be applied but not as efficiently and not without detriment to our spiritual resiliency.

Wallowing in negativity undermines any gain in knowledge due to the discordant effect it has upon your soul, and because it puts you in greater resonance and contact with malevolent forces and harmful experiences.

It should become clear, from experience and contemplation, that positive feeling and positive thinking are the best routes toward positive action on both physical and metaphysical fronts.

Falsely Justifying Negativity

It is absolutely imperative that we strive for both knowledge and love.
You might resist this idea by saying, “Negative emotions make up part of who I am. To counter these would mean cutting of a part of myself, leaving me incomplete. Since lack of wholeness leads to disharmony and imbalance, I should not counter my negative emotions.

Though this excuse sounds attractive, it is fallacious for the following reasons.

While negativity may indeed be part of you at the moment, do you expect it to remain part of you forever?
Who you are now should not limit whom you choose to become. If you expect your future self to be more evolved than your present self, how will you become this purer self other than striving toward it step-by-step, choice-by-choice?

You can accept yourself in totality each step of the way and still make progress — not by cutting away part of the whole, but rather by transforming and purifying it.

While you can be in complete harmony with your self, the self may not always be in complete harmony with Creation.
Only by first accepting yourself as a whole can you choose to bring the whole gradually into harmony with Creation.

When you experience a negative emotion, you can and must accept it as part of who you ARE in order to allow it to serve its purpose as a learning catalyst.

But once acknowledged, you can then choose whom you will BECOME by taking the next step and refusing to entertain or indulge in this negative emotion.

Rather than by cutting off negativity cold turkey, which only leaves an unnatural vacuum, this is done by replacing a negative thought with a positive thought, a negative emotion with a positive emotion.

When the accompanying truth is properly integrated via deep contemplation and understanding of its greater context, this transformation happens naturally.

In this way you remain whole and in harmony with yourself, while simultaneously progressing toward greater levels of knowledge and love.

Another common objection to the idea of striving toward positivity and awareness is the difficulty of doing so, or that there is futility in striving to attain something that cannot be reached due to the imperfections of the human mind and challenging conditions of human life.

To answer the latter objection, realize that you need not worry about whether you can reach the North Pole in order to begin walking north.
As long as one step is north of the other, you will have progressed. How else can the destination possibly be brought closer?

Every step counts, and the smallest of steps is infinitely greater than no step at all.

As for the difficulty of trying to remain positive, understand that positivity is a choice and not a consequence.
By default, a rock naturally moves from high to low when it falls as a consequence of gravity.

But one can choose to make the rock move upwards against the tug of gravity by lifting it.
Likewise, while our reactions to an internal or external impulse is negative by default is minimally a consequence of our genetic and social programming, we can choose to defy this programming by willingly seeking to act positively or transforming something negative into something positive.

For example, what would otherwise be a depressing truth can be made into a positive truth by choosing to view it in context of its greater metaphysical significance – rather than the truth being watered down or sugar coated, it is your palate or sense of taste that is expanded to make the bitter truth taste sweet.

This way, it is the self rather than the truth that changes, which is the whole goal of spiritual evolution anyway: to evolve the self, particularly into congruency with the Higher Self.

Properly transforming a negative thought and feeling into a positive thought and feeling merely changes the way you think and feel about a particular truth; it does not add or subtract from the truth itself.

It is the raising of a barbell against gravity, rather than its release into freefall, that builds the muscles.
Likewise, the difficulty of attaining and maintaining positivity and awareness is what builds spiritual strength.

Sugarcoating the truth, or anesthetizing oneself to the truth via selective denial, is like cheating yourself by using lighter weights.
Indulging in negativity is like lifting weights incorrectly and causing muscle damage.

But just as sore muscles can be sign of a good workout, so can the pain of a muscle injury due to incorrect exercise fool you into thinking you’re making proper progress.

So those who attempt to evolve while indulging in negative emotions may misperceive the pain of spiritual damage as a sign of spiritual progress.
They might even see the pain as an ends rather than means, which creates the foolish condition of martyrdom – conscious suffering for misguided ideals.

But most importantly, there is no substitute for lifting the weight yourself – you cannot pay someone to do it for you.
Likewise, only the through personal choice to put in the appropriate effort, introspection, contemplation, enlightenment and transformation can the spiritual muscles be strengthened.

How to Transform Negative into Positive

To get a better idea of how to handle and transform a negative emotion, let’s survey some metaphysical resources on the subject.
The Ra Material contains a description of how both positive and negatively oriented entities utilize the emotion of anger:

The entity polarizing positively perceives the anger.
This entity, if using this catalyst mentally, blesses and loves this anger in itself.

It then intensifies this anger consciously in mind alone until the folly of this red-ray energy is perceived not as folly in itself but as energy subject to spiritual entropy due to the randomness of energy being used.

Positive orientation then provides the will and faith to continue this mentally intense experience of letting the anger be understood, accepted, and integrated with the mind/body/spirit complex.

The other-self which is the object of anger is thus transformed into an object of acceptance, understanding, and accommodation, all being reintegrated using the great energy which anger began. (The Law of One, Book II, p. 108)

In other words, rather than lashing out blindly at the object of anger, you would do better to first center yourself, then turn inward and focus upon the feeling of anger itself.

Feel it as you would a bodily sensation.
Once your attention is removed from what originally provoked you, anger is cut off from its generating source, and what’s left is an internal free-floating quantity of energy.

Your freed attention is then able to see the folly of this anger due to its uselessness, an act which can often make you laugh when you finally realize the ridiculousness of the situation and how you initially reacted.

By accepting what has happened and how you reacted, you can then begin seeing yourself and what provoked you from the proper bigger picture perspective.

Once composed and collected, you can then confidently solve any remaining external problems.
In the end, you will have grown from choosing to act positively rather than react negatively, protected yourself by feeling positive rather than negative, transformed and integrated the emotional energy rather than burying it within you via denial and repression of the initial feeling of anger, accepted who you are in totality, and likely avoided a reckless confrontation with whatever or whomever provoked you.

The Kybalion gives good advice of how to transform negative emotions directly.
This is useful when negative emotions arise without any visible provocation.

Many factors can create seemingly baseless negative emotions, ranging from mood swings, chemical and hormonal fluctuations, and biorhythmic cycles to electromagnetic suppression of one’s emotional state, psychic attack, the triggering of a posthypnotic command installed during an abduction or via an implant, and the presence of negative thought-forms as will be explained later.

In these cases, you may not know what is putting you into a bad mood, only that you are in one.
Also, unlike the negative emotions that initially accompany a shocking learning lesson, these types of negative emotions stem not from shock, but from direct physical or metaphysical induction.

In other words, they are products rather than by-products, and the lesson to be gained in dealing with these seemingly fruitless negative emotions involves the growth of willpower and personal discipline.

“To change your mood or mental state — change your vibration.”
– The Kybalion

One may change his mental vibrations by an effort of Will, in the direction of deliberately fixing the Attention upon a more desirable state.
Will directs the Attention, and Attention changes the Vibration.

Cultivate the Art of Attention, means of the Will, and you have solved the secret of the Mastery of Moods and Mental States.

“To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the principle of Polarity and
concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress.
Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity.”
—The Kybalion

This is one of the most important of the Hermetic Formulas.
It is based upon true scientific principles.

We have shown you that a mental state and its opposite were merely the two poles of one thing, and that by Mental Transmutation the polarity might be reversed.

This Principle is known to modern psychologists, who apply it to the breaking up of undesirable habits by bidding their students concentrate upon the opposite quality.

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to “kill out” Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.
Some writers have expressed this idea most forcibly by using the illustration of the dark room.

You do not have to shovel out or sweep out the Darkness, but by merely opening the shutters and letting in the Light the Darkness has disappeared.
To kill out a Negative quality, concentrate upon the Positive Pole of that same quality, and the vibrations will gradually change from Negative to Positive, until finally you will become polarized on the Positive pole instead of the Negative.

The reverse is also true, as many have found out to their sorrow, when they have allowed themselves to vibrate too constantly on the Negative pole of things.

By changing your polarity you may master your moods, change your mental states, remake your disposition, and build up character.

Much of the Mental Mastery of the advanced Hermetics is due to this application of Polarity, which is one of the important aspects of Mental Transmutation. (The Kybalion)

Although this is stated rather clearly above, I shall rephrase: to change a negative emotion, fix your attention upon the opposite emotion until it transforms, degree by degree, into that polar opposite.

This works for a couple reasons.

From a metaphysical perspective, you empower whatever you focus upon, so naturally the positive emotion will grow in intensity as the negative emotion diminishes if you fix your attention upon it.

Also, it is easier to change the degree upon a scale than transforming one scale into another.

From a physical perspective, fixing your attention on a positive idea creates a feedback cycle wherein your hormonal and neurochemical makeup begin matching what you are holding in mind, thus reinforcing it.

That emotions can be chemical in origin is no excuse for refusing to attempt to transform them – via the mind-body feedback cycle, the body can respond positively to positive thoughts, and thus a reorientation of the soul can reorient the body.

Although this may involve the release of endorphins and other pleasure chemicals, understand that the body and soul are coupled and will therefore what happens in one might be consequently mirrored in the other, both ways.

What matters is where the initiative originates (body or soul), therefore whether it aims to serve physical or metaphysical ends.
When the mind decides to think positively, these pleasure chemicals accompany the thought to provide a physical means toward a spiritual end.

If instead drugs were used to anesthetize one against a negative emotion, then this constitutes a physical means toward a physical ends which might in many cases be detrimental to one’s spiritual learning path by suppressing the necessary emotional catalyst for learning.

The Cassiopaeans (read my warning first) provide a succinct answer to this issue of positive and negative emotions:
If you choose, you may have only positive emotions.

This was in response to an individual attempting to argue that negative emotions were part of who he was and were thus necessary, which constitutes the fallacy already dissected earlier in this article.

The Cassiopaeans responded by subtly revealing the core ingredient necessary for transmutation of negative into positive: choice. Thus, one can truly choose to only have only positive emotions, regardless of what excuses the ego can come up with for indulgence in further negativity.

The Ra Material advises similarly with the following:
There is no necessity for negative thought-forms regardless of pain distortions.

The elimination of such creates the lack of possibility for negative elementals and other negative entities to use these thought-forms to create the worsening of the mind complex deviation from the normal distortions of cheerfulness/anxiety. (Law of One, Book IV, p. 17)

This segues straight into the next topic: how negative thoughts and emotions can lead to spiritual detriment.
Here, Ra mentions that negative thoughts can create negative thought-forms which can be used by malevolent forces to worsen the condition of individuals who have created them.

Consequence of Negative Thinking: Harmful Thought-forms

What is a thought-form?
In the conventional sense, it is nonphysical entity created from thought energized by emotion.

Thoughts are real things on the mental or imaginative level of reality, and when empowered by emotions, these thoughts gain added dimensionality into the etheric and astral levels as well, increasing their power to affect things in the physical.

A negative thought energized by negative emotions creates a negative thought-form.

These etheric entities exist much like eddies in a stream of water, borrowing their existence from its flow.
However, in addition to owing their existence to the individual who created them via his thoughts and feelings, by having a life of their own they often return to their creator and induce within him further emotions to feed upon them.

This is how people can become slaves to their negativity – not just by habit, but by these very thoughts gaining life on the astral/etheric level of reality and becoming energy parasites, so to speak.

They can just as easily dissipate when starved of negative emotions, so choosing to remain positive goes a long way toward freeing yourself from former negative thought-forms.

Ra suggests that these thought-forms can be employed by malevolent forces as supplemental agents of attack.
The book Brotherhood mentions this phenomenon in context of the mass thought-forms generated by mankind:

And the Enemy – who—what is he?
Only the entitized form of the mass selfishness of men, that vast cumulation of the evil thoughts and passions of men’s lower nature appropriated by Masters of Evil, grown great and powerful by their stealing and feeding off of the vital forces that their unsuspecting dupes at their instigation had poured into such evil thoughts and desires, thus giving them direct power over men through men’s own life-force now absorbed and incorporated into their Master-nature, which they could thereby easily use to bend men to their will. (Brotherhood, p. 70)

This describes very well the etheric thought-form component of the Matrix Control System, (the other components consist of the following: the phenomena of hyperdimensional manipulation of mankind by advanced negative entities, and the institutional/social manipulation of humanity by their human counterparts in the New World Order).

Negative thought-forms have their own “gravitational” field that tends to negatively bias the thoughts and feelings of individuals exposed.
So a large and concentrated group of people thinking and feeling similarly can potentially overpower the independent thoughts and feelings of those nearby.

For example, entering a densely populated city in which the predominant mood is negative can often lower your mood, even without any specific incidents provoking such a mindset.

This goes to show that not all negative emotions are accompanied by specific events which function as learning catalysts, but rather the soul grows from the very act of choosing to assert its individuality over the impinging collective thought-form by remaining positive despite the negative bias.

As should be evident, even when negative emotions are used as wake-up alarms alerting one to a truth or catalytic event that needs to be acknowledged, recognizing the truth without transforming the negative emotion into positive can cause problems on the metaphysical level, particularly in the creation of negative thought-forms.

So in the case of a truthseekers garnering attention from the so-called “Masters of Evil” or equivalently “fourth and fifth density Service-to-Self entities,” the more truth he learns and applies, the greater his caution must be against indulging in negative thoughts and emotions, for the thought-forms he creates via this dangerous expenditure of energy and caustic form of thinking can come back to haunt him, literally.

Via mind programming and psychic or electromagnetic means, malevolent forces often seek to bias a truthseeker toward negative thinking and feeling, as this opens him up to attack should he choose to wallow in them.

Only through caution and the choice to stay optimistic, faithful, and aware can such an individual avoid this trap.
Because the process is gradual, it is never too late to benefit from turning around a negative mindset.

Consequence of Negativity: Harsher Learning Experiences

There are reasons other than the effects of thought-forms that make extended negativity dangerous.
One’s emotional learning path, consisting of how one chooses to respond emotionally and mentally to experiences, greatly determines what is experienced.

This is because in the metaphysical sense, we experience what we need to experience in order to learn a particular lesson – if our needs call for highly painful experiences due to our ignorance and inertia, then that shall typify the nature of our experiences.

Conversely, if we are astute and quick to learn from our past mistakes, present experiences, and the mistakes of others, then we can learn our intended lessons with less need for shocking experiences.

Generally, having an ignorant or negative mindset and emotional nature requires greater shocks to teach you a lesson, while having a happy-go-lucky but aware mindset puts you in greater congruence with the mindset of the Higher Self and thus allows lessons to be learned more smoothly due to the proper attitude.

Negativity Increases Sabotage by Malevolent Forces

Sabotage and encounters with malevolent forces would certainly qualify as a negative learning experience.
In fact, it is in the vested interest of these forces that you be as ignorant, negative, and reactive as possible so that your Higher Self approves of their hostility since the shocks they provide would then match your chosen emotional learning path – in other words, that what they do to you would be entirely the result of your freewill actions necessitating such drastic measures.

The only problem is that these forces don’t care about what you need, but rather how much they can get away with.
So in this sense they are reality hackers, attempting to bypass or disable your “firewall” of freewill.

When they succeed, it is by trickery more so than blunt force.

For example, rather than eliminating a targeted individual right away, which may be impossible due to his emotional learning path not being conducive to allowing such action, they may wear him down bit by bit.

They may provoke a targeted individual into reacting negatively by externally biasing his emotional state and then triggering its explosion with a manipulated incident.

Using this expended negative energy, they reinvest it toward increasing the strength of their next attack.
This continues with the target’s defenses growing weaker each step.

Although he chooses each step of the way to continue letting the attack happen, the consequences of his earlier choices to ignorantly indulge in the provoked negativity increasingly makes it more difficult for him to choose otherwise.

All this depends greatly upon what physical, spiritual, and psychological weaknesses he has, since these weaknesses are where malevolent forces tend to attack.

Ultimate Consequence of Negativity: Reprogramming, Death, or Reanimation

Needless to say, should the careless truthseeker choose to consistently succumb to these negativities, he will inevitably face death, heavy mind programming, or possibly reanimation.

In reanimation, rather than an individual expiring permanently, his body continues living though with the residing consciousness either reprogrammed or replaced.

He may continue living as before, but now as an agent of the dark side programmed to disseminate disinformation.

This is neither fantastic nor impossible, as the body is simply a machine under the control of whatever switches it neurons, be it the original soul, a reprogrammed soul, or some remote technological interface.

To quote again from the book Brotherhood:

[…] the Evil Masters, where opportunity offers, will deliberately break the Dvine Law by disloding and driving out the Souls of the infants, thus stealing their bodies from them, or by driving out Souls from mature bodies, dispossessing them, and thereafter obsessing and impersonating such Souls to their friends and associates.

Such in the near future will be of common occurrence, and will be made easy for them by all who succumb to fits of passion, indulgence in intense hatred, jealousy, or self-pity, or continual brooding over wrongs done to them, or habitual condemnation of others, and who will suddenly wake one day in another world minus their physical bodies. (Brotherhood, p. 76)

Variations upon this phenomenon of replacement or reanimation are discussed in the Ra material, Cassiopaean transcripts, and in the book The Allies of Humanity.

It is not the purpose of this article to go into detail about the theories and process of reanimation or the replacement of targeted individuals, except to say that the common denominator among all of these views is that the targeted individual succumbs because of physical and spiritual vulnerability.

The latter is due primarily to a lack of spiritual resilience, brought on by a deficiency in positivity and awareness.

The trinity of essential principles detailed in part I, said to ensure stable means of spiritual evolution, are therefore not just suggestions for more efficient evolution, but suggestions for the avoidance of such drastic outcomes as death and reanimation.

Knowledge and love are the greatest protectors.
Even in the case of an individuals who is abducted by malevolent hyperdimensional entities (grays, reptilians, et al…) who attempt to replace or reprogram him, if his knowledge and love are sufficient, these attempts will fail.

Spiritual Resiliency and the Aura

So what exactly constitutes spiritual resiliency?
For one, it is associated with the aura, the etheric/astral energy field surrounding and penetrating the body that interfaces the physical with the metaphysical.

This interface works on the quantum level, not so much via physical force and causality but rather via probability-biasing and synchronicity.
This interface is very responsive to your thoughts and emotions.

Because it functions as an interface field reaching both into your body and extending into your environment, it not only regulates your biological life functions but it also affects your physical experiences and environment.

Thus, having negative thoughts negatively affects both your body (cancer, disease) and your experiences (accidents, sabotage).
When strong and clear, it also acts as a synchronistic shield protecting you from unnecessary dangerous experiences:

Your aura contains every color in the spectrum of the sun.
Oh, if man could but see his aura, when he is thinking unkindly or speaking rash, harsh, unkind words.

If he could but see the change that takes place in the spectrum of his aura, he would never again think an angry thought, let alone speak in anger.

[…] Man’s aura is his shield of protection.
Remember, man’s aura is man’s protection.

When, through man’s thinking, the colors are kept crystal clear and radiate brightly, man can walk through the abyss of Hades and fear no evil.

Let he who is living the life of a mystic live in the protection of his aura.
In mortal thinking, when one does not accept the negativeness of another, the aura of the mystic remains his spiritual fortress.
(Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood, p. 113 – 114)

This is one reason why knowledge protects, as the Cassiopaean have repeatedly emphasized, and why love protects, as Ra has stated.
Both act to reinforce one’s spiritual resiliency by brightening and tempering the aura, and offering one greater synchronistic protection against unnecessarily harmful experiences due to the mentioned function of the aura as interface between physical and metaphysical, mind and experience.

The metaphysical function of love or positive emotion is to help one vibrate at a frequency beyond easy reach by malevolent forces and experiences which tend to vibrate at a lower frequency.

Frequency Resonance Vibration and The Emotional Learning Path

There is clearly a relation between the vibratory characteristics of the aura and the quality of one’s emotional learning path.
Both stem from one’s personal choice concerning which thoughts and feelings to associate with particular truths and actions.

Thoughts and emotions impress upon the aura a unique spectrum of resonant frequencies, which in turn resonate with and attract corresponding experiences to match the learning profile of the individual projecting such thoughts and emotions.

This process is quantum mechanical in nature, since linear time as we know it is simply the sequential perception of events selected from among a broad range of candidate events by virtue of their resonance with our soul.

So just as the physical nature of an object determines at what acoustic frequencies it resonates, so does the metaphysical nature of the aura or soul determine with what experiences it resonates and therefore attracts.

The idea of raising your frequency, or your resonance frequency vibration (FRV) as the Cassiopaeans call it, means simply to clarify, brighten, and strengthen your aura by cleaning up your emotional and mental state to keep out negative thoughts and feelings.

This resonance frequency vibration, then, is essentially the frequency at which your reality radio is tuned.

[…] The negative person attracts all the negative things of life, all the ills, inharmonies, troubles that are in the mental atmosphere—the effluvia of other weak and negative minds; while a positive person attracts all the good.

If you understand the radio you will know that when you set your dial at a certain wave length, all that is “on the air” of that wave length will make itself heard.

It is exactly the same with your mind; it will receive whatever happens to be “on the air” of the wave length to which your thoughts are attuned.
So that it is “up to you” and you only what your mind radio gives forth or outmanifests.
(The Way Out, p. 34-35)

Staying on a good station is accomplished by having knowledge, love, faith, gratitude, humility, etc… in a balanced manner as outlined in part one. Imbalance among these principles, or incorporation of their negative opposites, leads to the consequences detailed in this article.

Avoiding such consequences does not prevent the learning of lessons, but allows more efficient means toward reaching the same spiritual ends.
This requires that:

You must train yourself to STAND GUARD CONTINUALLY AT THE DOOR OF YOUR MIND, AND TO LET IN NO THOUGHTS OR FEELINGS THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO OUTMANIFEST.

It may seem hard — at first, and you may not know what to admit and what to deny.
But guard the door from every negative thought and feeling of whatsoever nature — from every thought that you know God would not have you think; from every doubt, fear, worry, anxiety, or concern of any kind; from every tendency to criticize, judge or condemn anybody or anything or any condition; from self-pity, jealousy, envy, irritation, unkindness, anger, hatred, etc.

These will give you an idea of what are negative and ungodlike thoughts, and which must no longer have part in your consciousness.

If you will keep all such untrue thoughts out of your mind, you can see that then and then only can your Higher Self draw into your mind the true and positive thoughts that will attract to you the good that is waiting to manifest itself to you.

For while your mind is cluttered with all those fearful, worrying, discouraged, sick, weak, poverty-tainted thoughts, how can you expect anyone who feels these vibrations — and vibrations are things you cannot cover up—to be attracted to you, or how can you expect God to inspire you with thoughts of a beneficial nature?

In fact, such negative thoughts actually keep away the things you are longing to have manifest in your life — for like attracts like.
Think!

Poverty-stricken thoughts do not attract prosperity or jobs; sick thoughts do not build a healthy consciousness; and belief that you are failure invites failure.
(ibid, p. 17-18)

As you can see, knowledge alone is not enough, seeing the truth is not enough — one must also choose how to emotionally and spiritually interpret and apply what one knows and sees, as this choice determines one’s spiritual orientation toward high or low FRV, toward serving others or toward controlling others, toward being free or being predator/prey, toward being man or machine.

In turn, these determine the quality and range of our experiences.

Beyond Knowledge

Both higher evolved compassionate and malevolent individuals can know the same truths, but what differentiates them is how they have chosen to interpret and apply these truths.

For example, there is the truth concerning the paramount importance of freewill – while positive individuals respect freewill by supporting it, negative individuals “respect” freewill by manipulating their victims into giving it up freely.

Thus, while the level of knowledge, wisdom, and awareness may be equal in two oppositely polarized entities, it is their chosen emotional learning path that ultimately determines their spiritual orientation and resultant nature of experience, all of which follows from how they choose to think and feel about what they learn.

Make no mistake, there is indeed choice in who we shall become, choice between responding negatively or positively to the same experience, as that is the purpose of freewill.

By learning about external objective reality, we get to choose how to achieve congruency between our selves and this objective reality.
The positive path brings the self into harmony with the universe via acceptance and service of others, while the negative path seeks to bring the universe into congruency with the self via imposed order and conquest.

Both are paths of uniting the external with the internal, the above with the below, and the self with the other, though by different means and resulting in different outcomes for the individual in question.

Conclusion

So the important thing to remember is that everything begins with choice, no matter how seemingly insignificant the choice.
The truth exists independently of how you choose to perceive it, but it is your choice that determines how this truth is integrated into your being and thus in what direction you evolve spiritually.

Choosing to indulge in negativity by failing to strive for an aware, positive, and balanced mindset incorporates further negative elements into your being, which resonate with and attract corresponding experiences and intelligences, even providing “handles” by which such intelligences can toss you about.

These elements can only be identified and transformed if you know yourself by being in harmony with yourself and who you are.
Every moment is another chance to choose for the better, and in this way the whole can be gradually purified and brought into harmony with Creation.

Addendum: There is a science experiment whereby sand and powder are thoroughly mixed and placed on a rubber sheet.
When the sheet is vibrated by sound, the mixture separates into piles of sand and piles of powder.

This is because the powder is of a finer consistency than the coarser sand, and therefore shares different resonant frequency characteristics.
When vibrated by the same frequency, each substance responds differently and thus begins to separate.

A comparison may be drawn between this separation of sand and powder and the polarization phenomenon happening among individuals today due to the influence of a hyperdimensional vibration known as “the Wave” pouring into our planetary sphere and beckoning our evolution to the next level.

In short, under the influence of this Wave, individuals responsive to it have begun distancing themselves from individuals of discordant frequency and have synchronistically met those of more congruent frequency.

This is the precursor to a full reality split between masses of individuals necessitating different collective destinies, just as the initial vibration of sand and powder is the precursor to full separation of the mixture into piles of one or the other.

It is our internal vibratory nature, formed not only by our knowledge level but also how we choose to integrate it via our thoughts and emotions, that determine how strongly we respond to the Wave.

Love and understanding allows the greatest resonance, providing connection with maximum impulse toward the next evolutionary level.
 
Principles of Spiritual Evolution (Part III)

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Ignorance, fear, and superstition stem from reason being overridden by emotional and instinctual impulses.
The historical consequences of human ignorance have given philosophers cause to invent a solution, most proposing objective reasoning and intellect as the antidote.

In the past, the dichotomy was religion versus secularism, blind faith versus logic.

Today, religion and secularism are old news and the dichotomy has shifted into other areas.
In the alternative knowledge field, for example, there presently exists a split between those who advise abandoning reason and submitting to feeling and sensation (certain fluffy New Age paradigms) and those who advise abandoning emotional subjectivity and striving for objective knowledge by thinking with a hammer.

But is intellectual reasoning enough?
Although overcoming the subjectivity of emotions and instinct, the intellect comes with its own share of problems as outlined in this article.

For the most part, the follies of emotionalism and primal impulses are matched by the shortcomings of intellectual reasoning.
When one is held supreme and the other denied expression, severe imbalances result.

Reason without emotion is entropic and lifeless, while emotion without reason is animalistic.
Specifically, New Age philosophy denies the intellect and gives too much free reign to the subjective whims of the emotional center, leading to gullibility and ignorance.

Its opposite counterpart unwisely declares the intellect supreme.

In their proper places, reason and emotion exude their virtues.
But when misappropriated they make for the worst of vices.

This is evident from examining Marxism, communism, fascism, the Spanish Inquisition, allopathic medicine, and New Age disinformation philosophies, all of which owe their growth to the exploitation of some imbalance or underdevelopment among the physical and metaphysical faculties of their supporters.

We know about the proper and improper role of emotion – properly used it propels us into action and gives life to our thoughts.
When outside its role, it blinds us to the truth and reduces us to reactive animals.

But the use and misuse of intellect is more subtle and will therefore be the focus of our discussion.

The intellect can discern, measure, discriminate, compare, and contrast – and thus appears to be the ultimate faculty available to man.
But its supremacy is false, for the intellect is still inferior to man’s higher spiritual faculties.

What we commonly know as the emotions, intellect, and instinct are all part of man’s lower nature arising from his neurological, biological, and physiological systems.

Man is more than just machine.
He is the ghost in the machine.

The true human possesses soul, mind, and spirit in addition to his physical body.
So besides the lower emotional, intellectual, and primal centers, he has the potential to access his higher emotional and higher intellectual faculties.

They surpass the lower ones in function and verity because they are of a conscious rather than mechanical nature.
They operate through direct knowing instead of linear logic.

In keeping with the narrow rigor of materialistic science, the leading intellectuals in recent history have denied the existence of soul, mind, and spirit.
So the problem with most secular philosophies is that they revolve around man’s lower centers.

Even if properly balanced, the lower centers are still incomplete and imperfect; any philosophy restricted to their use will likewise be flawed.

Communism touted the virtues of reason and rationalism, centralizing and calculating all aspects of the state, while fascism saw the limits of logic and instead emphasized the virtues of irrationalism and impulse.

Both of these merely traded one lower center for another, which ultimately solved nothing.
Both became abominations because they molded man into what they falsely assumed him to be, a mechanical unit void of the very spirit needed to sustain the system.

The lower intellect is like a clever computer.
Given a set of inputs, it can calculate a set of outputs.

But given false inputs, it will not realize that its outputs are also false until a cataclysmic rude awakening forces a reassessment of assumptions.
It is a blind man probing the world with a stick.

It is a ruler that measures distance but cannot tell direction.
The intellect is therefore detached from sensing absolute reality.

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The Floating Intellect—a mechanical behemoth
disconnected from the ground of objectivity.​

Instead, the higher (spiritual) centers act like a compass, telling one via intuition, inspiration, and insight what is “north.”
While the lower intellect perceives only symbolic relationships between ideas, the higher centers allow you to perceive the intrinsic meaning and validity of an idea.

There is a difference between seeing a symbol on a map, and seeing that destination for yourself.
Using the lower intellect is merely browsing the map.

Only by turning inward and walking consciously to the core of an idea can you perceive its level of resonance with the truth.

When people communicate, they are sharing maps of ideas with each other.
Ideally, each person should be responsible for using the map received to consciously locate within himself the destination represented.

The sender never gives knowledge to the receiver, rather he points toward a place where the other can find it for himself.
Knowledge cannot be taught, it can only be shown.

If one works only at the level of lower intellect, the map itself is taken as the territory because the shallow faculty of reasoning alone cannot tell the difference between symbol and reality.

Words are mere reflections of ideas, and those who mistake the map for territory will never find the treasure.

This is why group consensus built upon intellectual agreement rarely guarantees objectivity.
Being blind to the absolute value of an idea and taking everything to be relative and uncertain, the intellect finds group consensus as good a verifier as anything.

So when a truth comes along to challenge an erroneous consensus, the intellect sees only one idea contradicting the judgment of multiple minds and naturally rejects it.

The greatest vice of intellect is hubris, its rationalizing away of higher truths and spiritual impulses as baseless and frivolous ideas.
It truly is a blind man with a walking stick – unable to distinguish between a high curb and a cliff, and thus afraid to cross the street.

The intellectual man is an agnostic rationalist, one who is unsure of everything and prone to rationalizing challenging truths as mere aberrations and fantasies, interpreting the three dimensional picture in terms of his two dimensional world view.

Seeing the faults of intellectual reasoning, many at this point make the mistake of rejecting rather than transcending it.
They turn toward lower forms of human expression and fool themselves into thinking they have reached higher states.

Relativism is why ever increasing levels of decadence are hailed as breakthroughs in modern art and philosophy.
And not being able to tell up from down, the intellect can mistaken falling for rising, an error often fatally reinforced by group consensus.

These illusions seem valid until one hits the ground.

In truth, the intellect should be put in its place rather than rejected.
What is the proper function of the lower intellect?

At best, it can determine what IS NOT, mainly by naturally discerning differences between two things and so proving among them the presence of a falsehood or incompleteness.

But when intellect attempts to declare what IS, it cuts down the infinite range of possibilities to one ignorant conclusion and defends it.
If instead it stays within its bounds and proves what IS NOT, it cuts out one possibility among many, leaving the truth among the remaining possibilities.

Continuous whittling of possibilities allows the truth to eventually be cornered.
Sherlock Holmes used this method, eliminating the impossible until what was left, no matter how improbable, must have been the truth.

When the lower intellect begins heeding the advice of spirit coming through the higher centers, then one becomes a gnostic intellectual rather than an agnostic rationalist.

One then knows things intuitively but uses reason to check these impressions and give practical substance to them.
With map and compass in hand, the intellect can step forth with confidence.

The blind man begins to see, perhaps vaguely at first, but enough to know that a curb is just a curb.

Here, the lower intellect has been placed in service to the higher centers as a scribe and navigator.
For each center to exhibit its virtues, lower must always be placed secondary to higher.

Ideally, the higher centers communicate an intuitive impression to the intellect, which after analyzing, makes a decision that is empowered by emotion before being put into physical action.

This process results in further impressions which in turn give rise to further actions.
In this way, the will of Spirit becomes manifest in the physical world, but only by cascading from the higher centers down through the lower.

This is an aim of spiritual evolution at our level, to access the higher centers and give them command over the lower.
It means following the impulses of your spiritual self rather than being slave to the whims and reactions of your lower self.

To progress, it is not enough to be objective and watchful of your mechanical and animalistic aspects – that merely refines the intellect and places it in command over the lower centers, but does nothing to access the higher spiritual centers.

As you learn and apply what you learn, you must also strive to listen to your intuition and inner knowing, becoming proficient at using your intellect to dissect and transcribe these impressions.

Give no free reign to the vices of your lower centers, but place them in balanced service to your noblest aspirations and spiritual impulses.
 
Maximizing Your Potential to Help Others

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In a recent email exchange with a friend, an important subject came up.
How can we help others, and what difference would it make?

This question came about because he was feeling down and confused about the world and the prospect of acting upon his desire to help.
In the past I have had these thoughts myself, feeling dejected with the seeming futility of trying to make a difference in a world brimming with negativity and corruption.

From my own contemplation of the matter, certain answers revealed themselves over time.
These I offered to my friend in the following email.

I have met many others in recent months who were equally discouraged and confused by these same issues, so for the benefit of anyone reading, I am publishing my email response here.

Rather than condensing my response into a formal article, I decided to merely do some minor editing and leave the conversational flow intact.


One of the reasons I am confused at the moment is because I have been talking to a person who is confusing me.
He is a really nice bloke, but he asks me about spiritual matters and then the conversation gets all … confusing!
I don’t know if the feelings he is sending me are of good nature, or if he is being negative.
He totally disables me!
I need something to get me back on track.

[…]

You see I am drawn to discussing spiritual things with certain people. … for instance, this boy who is confusing me, I walk into his room and he sits there reading the papers getting noticably upset with the state of the world.

I tell him to not read the papers if it’s getting him down.
He says that is burying his head in the sand.

I say it might do you good to be aware of a negative side, but you shouldn’t dwell on it.
He says “if you have all the answers, how can I help the world? there is people starving & we sit here eating luxury food etc etc…”

I say I don’t know all the answers but am aware of a bigger perspective that may help him see things in a different way” and the conversation ends with me feeling confused and a bit helpless.

How can I help people!

Regarding the person who confuses you, consider it a challenge testing you on not only how well you know what you know, but how well you can communicate it to others, especially when there could be things working through them to befuddle your mind (usually involves an energy drain and neurolinguistic programming through their language that works to put you in a slight hypnotic trance, all unbeknownst to them).

The more you learn what you know, and learn how to communicate it, the greater your confidence and power.
It’s like wielding a sword…at first it’s heavy and slows you down, but only after practicing can it be turned into a great tool.

Can I ask you a question?
What is the best way to help somebody?

Should you talk about the bigger picture to other people, or just let them discover it for themselves?
If now is a critical time for Earth, is it good to “throw seeds about” or is it unwise?

What I do is “give up” only when my interaction with someone turns purely into a waste of energy.
That’s the line you cross when you see they have made their choice and actively defend it to the point of no longer hearing what you have to say.

You can tell this happens when they start becoming irrational or argue in circles or simply don’t get what you say no matter how you put it.
That’s when naiveté on their part spills over into willful ignorance.

Naiveté is simple lack of information but willingness to learn, while ignorance is choice to hear no more.
Once you understand this difference, you’ll know when to try and when to stop.

You can plant seeds as long as something goes into them, but once they shut the door and lock it, then your job is done for the moment.
So what I do is keep going til I cross that line, then for good measure try a bit more just to make sure their door truly is locked.

So cross the line, and go a bit farther, then be satisfied you’ve tried and get on with your life.

I say it might do you good to be aware of a negative side, but you shouldn’t dwell on it.
He says “if you have all the answers, how can I help the world? there is people starving & we sit here eating luxury food etc etc…”

I say I don’t know all the answers but am aware of a bigger perspective that may help him see things in a different way” and the conversation ends with me feeling confused and a bit helpless.

Whenever you feel confused, that’s usually a sign that some great truth is buried there.
Confusion says “Figure me out!!”, like a present contained in a chinese puzzle box…gotta figure out the tricky way of opening it and the present is yours.

For example, a close friend of mine recently complained that we’re here to do good in the world, and yet she’s consuming products that require things be thrown away, which damages the environment so that’s not really helping.

She asked theoretically, why not just move into the country and live off the land, grow our own food and help the earth?

There is a paradox there – we come here to help the world, and yet we’re harming the world through our garbage.

After thinking about it, the solution hit me: you must maximize how much of your potential you can manifest.
Let’s say your potential is to reveal the truth to as many people as possible, to wake them up, arm them with knowledge to free themselves from the Matrix Control System, to maximize their potential and so on.

But you then move into the country away from civilization and spend all day working the farm just to stop yourself from being a consumer that harms the environment — sure, you’re no longer harming the world, but you’re also not applying your potential in ways that could help the world a hundredfold more.

If people like us moved into a wooden shack and lived off the land without electricity, we could save the earth for a year but ultimately allow tyranny on earth to prevail for the next thousands of years (if that were our destiny, hypothetically speaking).

To maximize how much you can help the world, you have to weigh the costs and benefits of doing or not doing something.
The cost is between how much you help the world by doing it, and how much you hurt the world by failing to spend that time making better use of your potential.

This will vary from person to person, but one thing I guarantee is that the only way to know what’s right for you is to know what gives you enthusiasm, what is naturally in line with your drives, your skills, and the needs of the world.

Some examples I can think of are donating large sums to charity and working in soup kitchens.
Depending on who you are, these may or may not be the ideal options for you.

There are those who do precisely these things because that is the maximum extent of their potential, and they know it because it is their heart that leads them to do this.

If you have time you cannot think of spending any other way, then naturally these are right for you.

But for me, other than giving money to homeless when they come my way on the streets, or having spent time doing volunteer work in college when I had the time, I don’t go out of my way donating to charity or working at homeless shelters because I’m busy helping the world in other ways.

When I donate, I don’t give money indiscriminately, but rather where it counts — where a little can go a long way.
Tithing the homeless is an example.

So is donating to a fellow truthseeker’s website.
Under higher laws, only time is a limit, never money.

When you give for the right reasons, reality compensates you: give to receive.

Regarding many of the “altruistic” options the Matrix gives us are just the opposite – most amount of money for the least amount of effects.
Think about donating to the “National Cancer Foundation” to help with cancer research.

Sounds like a noble thing to do, but in truth cures for cancer are being suppressed by these same pharmaceutical companies, and it’s amazing how much money universities blow on research that ultimately does nothing.

A hundred thousand dollars for a university physics lab may build a machine whose results may be published in an obscure scientific journal that gets forgotten, or a hundred thousand dollars in the hands of a renegade inventor presently working in his garage on a free energy machine may be enough to change the world.

It’s all about where you put your time, energy, and money. Not only must you maximize your potential, but you must apply it in a way that makes use of others’ potential in the best way as well.

Many compassionate people from 4D incarnate into 3D and often sacrifice themselves for the well-being of others, only to learn eventually that wisdom is needed in knowing when and how to help.

This is the lesson we need to learn.

Sometimes a little harm is needed to access an exponentially greater amount of help.
I use gasoline to power my car, so that I can network and buy things I need to help others.

The harm I do is insignificant to the help I try to accomplish.
And being that the SOUL is what matters, metaphysical help is far more powerful than sheer physical help.

Therefore, you also must learn to prioritize things.

Then there are problems you can’t do anything about, like the starving children in Africa.
Well, you could go there and help them for the rest of your life, but the issues above must be taken into account.

The least you can do, however, is send them love and compassion, which helps ease the suffering of their souls on the metaphysical level.

He says “if you have all the answers, how can I help the world? there is people starving & we sit here eating luxury food etc etc…”

See, what would this guy be implying?
That we should feel guilty about what we have (which ignores that we chose our life before incarnating), that we should live like the starving people (which ignores that we’re living the life we’re supposed to), that we should give all our food to them (which would be impractical), etc…?

When we can help someone, then we should help in the wisest manner possible.
If we cannot help someone, then we should not worry about it other than sending them some metaphysical help like a prayer.

Everything happens for a reason, because of a choice.

You cannot help everyone in the world – if you have to choose between feeding someone in Africa versus India, how is this less “sinful” than choosing between donating to such charities and using the money to, say, write a book that helps free the minds of thousands?

This is IF you had to make that choice – often you can indeed contribute money toward charity and still have much left over for helping others in more productive ways, but nevertheless wisdom demands optimization and the long range view.

What do you suggest?
I want to help stop that horribleness in the planet…all the ignorance and negative energy.

If you can’t do something physically, then you can only work on the metaphysical level which is good because that’s where the physical is projected from anyway.

You can be a beacon – by discovering your inner truth, manifesting it as practical knowledge, and maintaining your frequency and confidence in what you know, you become a beacon broadcasting higher frequency and higher knowledge into your environment and into the lives of all who cross your path.

You create ripple effects in reality, sending waves out through the lives of others.
You throw seeds and they grow in those whose minds are fertile.

You create a forward cascading effect into the future, in ways only the divine mind can grasp in its entirety because the future is nonlinear – small things can have HUGE effects if applied in the right way at the right place at the right time.

You can’t calculate these ahead of time, but know that by following your divine calling, you’ll always be on target.

You don’t have to yell in a park to teach the truth, you can simply discuss it with those who bring it up in conversation – just speak your mind in the most logical way you can, share your opinion when called for.

You don’t have to give your life to charity to be altruistic – while that’s great for some, for others who have a different level of potential, this can only be a side project but not the main thrust of life.

Think about Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix.
They knew their goal, and they knew that it takes a little hurt to do a lot of good.

It’s not about “right” and “wrong” but a matter of what needs to be done and the wisest way of doing it.
Maximizing potential isn’t as simple as following society’s criteria for what the right thing is to do.

Surgery requires creating a wound to fix an internal problem.
Likewise, sometimes the physical in the world will be harmed slightly so that the root cause on the metaphysical level can be fixed.

But what is the best way to help?
To sit over my computer reading C’s and other material?

Or to get off my arse and go and do some helping?
Charity work, cooking for homeless people etc.?

Imagine you had the wit, the strength, and the knowledge to tell that guy exactly why he shouldn’t gripe about the headlines. Imagine him lighting up with recognition, of him seeing that truth that has always been within him.

Say he then stops wasting his energy and starts refining how he can best help the world, and how all who then cross his path share in his ignited light. Okay, so this is an ideal scenario that doesn’t always happen, but unless you know your truth and have practiced the clarity of mind needed to share it, this can never happen.

Reading the C’s transcripts may seem like nothing on the physical level, but on the nonlinear and metaphysical level you now understand how it can indeed help.

In life, it is very difficult to make things happen that aren’t in line with the flow of your destiny.
To serve means to serve when called to serve, not just to go out and start picking things to serve.

When your heart calls you (via enthusiasm or inspiration), when someone calls you by asking you a question or leaving himself open to your words and thus subconsciously asking for your help, then that is the time to act.

And to act well, you must be knowledgeable and wise – which is why learning is far from fruitless.
The more knowledge you have, the more you understand where help is needed, how to apply it wisely and effectively.

I want to get rid of this helpless feeling.
I want to stop talking about “higher” stuff and start acting higher.

But I don’t know how a higher person would act! I feel I am kind and caring, but what’s the point of being kind and caring if I don’t get out there and care for anybody? etc…

Let’s say you’re a person who likes to give presents.
Do you go out and just force presents into people’s hands?

No, giving when not called for is not giving at all.
I know people like this who do it literally, they get internal satisfaction from giving things to people, even when people don’t even need or ask for what they are given.

This is why patience is required for the right moment.
Until that moment, you can only become better prepared to meet it.

I think you are doing a grand job with your web site, I could make one too…. but there again we could just end up with a world full of people reading stuff on the internet and thinking “yeah that’s good stuff”. but how is this really helping?

Think of it this way.
There’s someone out there right now whose future can benefit from you speaking your truth.

You have a role to play in his life – and whether you fulfill it is up to you.
Among the many people nodding their head with what they already know by reading your site, there will be a couple who will open their eyes for the first time.

Even if it’s a single idea that they haven’t thought of yet, it’s enough to kick them into an interesting direction.
The divine flow works through all channels that can contain this flow.

By opening up your channel, you give one additional outlet for the divine flow to do its thing.
That’s how it works.

It’s like building a new road in town – sure, people can say “just another road” but who knows what difference it can make…by taking a shortcut, the ambulance may get to the hospital soon enough to save someone.

Because of the eventually unpredictable effects of our actions, the best we can do is live our destiny and our heart’s calling to the fullest, regardless of whether we think anyone is listening or not – because what we THINK we are doing isn’t always how things really end up working out.

I don’t get much feedback on my site, but occasionally someone tells me that because of my site, he and his whole circle of friends have now hit upon some new ideas and have been helped.

THAT is something I could not predict, but it happened anyway.

These are important points to consider, because they are things I’ve had to learn for myself, and things I understand can discourage a lot of us if we are unaware of them.
 
Lords Prayer

Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos


O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos

Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now-through our fiery hearts and willing hands

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

Amen.​
 


At about 10 A.D.; the last Pleiadian leader called Plejas left Earth for good, because Pleiadians finally achieved peace back home
in the Pleiades. They felt it was time for humans to evolve on their own. Before leaving Earth, the Pleiadians left a spiritual leader
called Jmmanuel, who later was known as Jesus. Jmmanuel was a very evolved soul, whose father was Gabriel of the Pleiades
system and Mary who was of Lyran descent.

http://www.burlingtonnews.net/pleiadians.html



Now I understand the connection between Jesus and the aliens (Pleiadians). Monty Python obviously had no idea either, but perhaps that they got their inspiration from what Rupert Sheldrake called the "morphogenetic field".
 
If they have a worldview at all, it can be said that Infant souls have a simplistic perspective based on a superficial understanding of life. They are rarely interested in the greater overview of life, but instead are wrapped up in their own little arena of events. They cannot easily cope with more than this. A Infant soul is "a babe in the woods" when it comes to dealing with our complex society. The older souls (Young and Mature) who dominate the events of the world, are involved with issues and perceptions which are quite beyond the capacity of the Infant soul to negotiate. And if you don't really understand what is going on, why pursue it? So they rarely get involved in, or even show a deep interest in, the wider and more complex aspects of life, such as politics, religion, humanitarian causes, show business, the arts and sciences. They dabble in the limited, elementary, and simple things of life — home and family, or a routine job or odd jobs working for someone else. Often they do not even pursue a lifetime career, preferring to go from one menial job to another. They tend to live in the moment.

Infant souls do not have very much inherent knowledge. By this I mean that they do not have extensive experiential background stored in their subconscious memories. Infant souls simply believe what they are told: they absorb a lot of information just as children in their early years accumulate an enormous amount of basic information, and they readily adopt the teachings of their parents and society — but without modification because they do not have the breadth of perception to know otherwise. Their concepts are not well founded. Sometimes Infant souls latch onto some pretty "kooky" notions because of their simplistic worldview and lack of experience. It is amazing what people can believe when they do not have much knowledge and experience on which to base their beliefs. They are gullible because they do not have enough depth of personality to recognize a silly idea or suggestion. They are easily fooled, and some older souls who are not very morally advanced themselves may enjoy playing tricks on them and making fun of them for their primitive ways and perceptions.

However, it should not be thought that Infant souls are intellectually deficient. Of the Infant souls known to me personally, several have been college graduates. One was an engineer, a partner in an engineering firm. Two are architects, and one is an insurance salesperson. Another was a ministerial trainee. Intelligence is a factor completely separate from soul Age. There are bright and stupid people in all Ages. Each of the above Infant souls has absorbed the culture and knowledge of our society very well. The hardware of their brains is functioning fine. The thing that distinguishes them psychologically is that their perceptions are shallow and simplistic. They are weak on savvy and common sense. This is often mistaken for lack of intelligence, but the two deficiencies should not be confused. Because of their simplicity, no matter how intelligent or otherwise gifted Infant souls may be, they rarely rise to prominence or notoriety in the world. Older souls do not acknowledge that Infant souls have anything worth contributing. Michael named no famous Infant souls other than Ethelred the Unready, and I have not come across any in my Charting of notable persons.

Infant souls stay with the familiar. They stick to what they have done before. They dislike change. They get comfortable in limited routines, not venturing off of the accustomed paths because it would be anxiety-provoking. Unfamiliar experiences bewilder them, so they avoid experimenting with new experiences. Whatever interest they may show in things is usually cursory, shallow, unsustained, and superficial. They lack the concentration to delve into a subject fully and deeply.

http://www.michaelteachings.com/infant_soul.html


Skare, have you seen an outstanding Infant Soul?
 
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A good example of a thought-form, or the possible formation of a Poltergeist.
There is still the possibility that there was a spirit or something of the kind participating under the guise of this “invented” person.
Curious stuff anyhow.


The Philip Experiment

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In September 1972, the Toronto Society for Psychical Research,
along with poltergeist expert Dr. A.R.G. Owen, set out to accomplish one singular objective: To create a ghost.

Not conjure, or contact.
They wanted to explore the Tibetan Buddhist concept of tulpas, or “thoughtforms,” the practice of “willing” tangible forms into existence using our own innate mental energies.

Designing Philip Aylesford

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The group was composed of eight individuals, men and women of a variety of occupations and interests. Although Dr. Owen himself was an expert on poltergeists, none of the other members claimed to have any “psychic” abilities or other paranormal affluence.

They began their experiment, in September 1972, by creating a fictional character.
They named him Philip Aylesford.

As though he were an actual person, they gave him a history, likes and dislikes, and a tragic end leading to his own suicide.

They even drew a picture of Philip’s appearance.

His original biography, which the group wrote out to better envision Philip’s identity in their minds, contained some interesting details.

Philip’s History

He was a Catholic Englishman aristocrat, they wrote, who lived in the mid-1600s.
He lived a well-off life at Diddington Manor, married to a “beautiful but cold” woman named Dorothea, the daughter of a nobleman.

But things were hardly perfect.

While out riding one day, Philip came upon a gypsy encampment and met a woman named Margo, with whom he fell madly in love.

He invited her to his home, and kept her secret from his wife, allowing her to live in the gatehouse at his estate.

But Dorothea eventually discovered the truth, and accused Margo of using evil witchcraft to seduce her husband.

Philip, terrified of damaging his reputation, said nothing in Margo’s defense, and the village ultimately tried her for witchcraft.

They burned her at the stake.

Philip then became depressed.
He hadn’t saved Margo from the strange accusations, and she had died because of his betrayal.

For some time he would be seen wandering quietly, pacing, his mind filled with regret.
They later found his lifeless body at the bottom of one of the manor walls.

He had committed suicide.

Taking all of this information — the made-up history, the pictures, the stories — the group meditated on Philip.

They visualized him appearing in their minds, concentrated as hard as they could, willing him to be.

Sometimes, they would even “feel” him in the air.

But for about a year, nothing happened, and the entire project began to seem like a foolish endeavor.

The Séances

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The Philip experiment needed a change.

At the suggestion of Kenneth J. Barcheldor, a psychologist, they threw out the clinical, “experimental” nature of the project and opted for something more traditional: A séance.

It was thought that, perhaps, some of the members were having difficulty focusing on Philip because they knew he wasn’t real.

Holding something like a séance, with dimmed lights, a table surrounded by chairs, and Philip’s “personal artifacts,” would hopefully create a mood more conducive to conjuring a tulpa.

It worked.

Strange things occurred as soon as the group began their “séance.”
As they sat around the table, focusing their will on conjuring Philip, an unseen force began to tap on the table.

Was it Philip?
A single thud told them that yes, it was.

They asked him questions about his past, and he would answer — one knock for true, two knocks for false — communicating with them through raps on the table’s wooden surface.

Of course, the group already knew the answers to their questions.
They’d created him, after all, and everything about his life.

But the answers were consistent, and eventually he began to reveal new details from his “past,” which contained oddly accurate information regarding actual historical events.

He even developed his own personality and, occasionally, the lights in the room would flicker, and the table would levitate.

Unexplainable noises were often heard throughout the room.

He was becoming something more.
Something independent.

Something real.

Eventually, the group opened their doors to the public, inviting others to bare witness to their strange séance.
Footage of one of the events was actually captured on film.

What really happened during the Philip experiments?
Do tulpas exist?

Can you truly “will” something into reality?

Although the original experimenters couldn’t explain the supernatural activity surrounding the séance table, there are several possible explanations for what happened during the Philip experiments.

Supposedly, subsequent experiments involving other groups and other fictional characters even yielded similar results.

But Philip never physically manifested as an apparition, only as strange noises and rappings while the group huddled together around a table.

This may indicate that it was all a product of the human mind; perhaps a manifestation of their collective unconscious.

The accurate answers that Philip gave to so many questions, for example, may have arisen from the group’s own collective, subconscious thoughts and knowledge.

It could have also been an odd form of confirmation bias or groupthink, or an extreme example of the power of suggestion.

Or, perhaps, their shared belief created a shared delusion.
A group-wide hallucination.

Others think the group may have “opened a door,” so to speak, that Philip was in fact a ghost or, worse, a demon playing along with the participants’ desires to “create” a thought form.

In that case, they didn’t design a tulpa; they conjured an actual spirit.

Ultimately, if we’re to be honest, it was never what you could call an “experiment” — there was no control group or real, scientific methodology involved.

But whether they conjured a spirit, manifested their own unconscious will, or participated in a shared hallucination, the results of their endeavor are still a profound example of the power of the human mind.




 
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Battle of Opposites

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The first and most important step in waking up is discerning between the positive and negative.
One must differentiate what lifts up and what drags down.

As spiritual beings inhabiting third density bodies, we are caught in a battle of opposites.
This manifests within as a battle between our higher and baser natures, and outside as a battle between divine and diabolical forces.

What is within resonates with what is outside, the divine resonating and working with our higher self and the diabolical doing the same with our lower self. Every moment is a choice, and every choice is a response to the following question: whom will you follow, the lower or the higher?

When faced with a choice, we may feel within us simultaneously conflicting influences.
A part of us wants this and another part wants that.

For the majority of asleep people, these conflicts are between the various sub-personalities making up the mosaic of their inconstant minds.
But sooner or later the contrast is turned up until the conflict is primarily between what is written in our hearts as spiritual conscience and aspiration, and what is programmed into us socially, genetically, and psychologically.

Anything can fall down, but not everything can fly up – likewise, it takes little effort to fall into darkness but considerable effort at times to withstand the pull of this spiritual gravity and even more to rise higher.

The intensity of this “gravity” fluctuates with time depending on physical and metaphysical factors, and the strength of one’s soul is put to the test during the more intense periods.

Just as weight determines how strongly something is pulled downward by gravity, so does the level of dominance held by our lower aspect determine how strongly we are affected by negative influences.

These weigh us down for as long as we are chained to them via our repeated indulgence in negative reactions and thoughtless mechanical behavior.
But by consistently identifying and choosing that which uplifts and originates from our nobler aspects, the chains rust away from neglect and the possibility of flight becomes a reality.

So identifying the choice and making the right one is imperative.
Some would say there is no wrong choice, and that is true because all roads lead to the same destination.

However, some roads are far more circuitous than others.
The yellow brick road circles the globe – if your destination is ten miles east, you could just as well get there by traveling twenty five thousand miles west.

By right choice, I mean the smart choice.

Most esoteric literature you may come across, such as Sufi, Fourth Way, hermetic, alchemical, and inner Christianity literature, expound upon the necessity of distinguishing between higher and lower.

The most basic of these discuss the importance of seeing the contrast within us.
The more advanced ones mention influences that originate outside us as well.

For example, Boris Mouravieff in his three volumes of Gnosis does an excellent job of showing how our inner progress depends upon what types of outer influences we assimilate.

These influences he sorted into two basic categories: those that beckon one to stay within the current level of evolution, and those that compel one toward the next level.

Largely missing from esoteric literature is mention of the hyperdimensional factor.
Save for a few writers like Michael Topper, most do not discuss its negative aspects like soul abductions, implants and mind programming, dimensional engineering and timeline manipulation, artificial synchronicities, technological soul frequency modulation, etc…

This is understandable since the soul grows from hardship regardless of where the resistance originates, and one can therefore get by without having to know the specific methods of deception and persuasion employed by dark forces.

Nevertheless, as much as darkness has a place in Creation as mirrors for our own weaknesses and catalysts for growth, its agents do have freewill and use extreme cunning and technological tricks to get their way.

It is easy to be misled and the price can be heavy; we must bear the consequences not only as delay in progress, but in missed opportunities to be of service to others.

Thus, more knowledge is better than less.

Readers often ask me, “How can one tell the difference between positive and negative synchronicities?”
They would like to know which of the unusual opportunities placed before them are genuine and which are traps.

It is an important question because since each incarnation has a finite span and making the most of it therefore requires discernment to avoid the pitfalls.

Toward that end I have sketched out some of my observations on distinguishing between positive and negative influences.
These are tentative guidelines rather than absolute formulas.

Formulas are mechanical substitutes for discernment undermining the very reason challenging situations are arranged into your life.
So as always, take what makes sense and leave the rest.

In my wrestling with this issue of discernment, I have found it useful to divide influences into eight categories based on whether they originate from a positive or negative source, manifest within or outside us, and whether they are forms of encouragement or resistance.

They are listed below together with identifying characteristics gathered from internal and external observation.
To avoid writing solely about the obvious, the following list will focus more on the hyperdimensional than mundane types of positive and negative influences.

Negative external resistance

These are responses by the Control System toward individuals making or contemplating some positive form of progress; sometimes they are messages designed to instill fear and doubt, other times they manifest as distraction and diversion, and occasionally they are sheer outbursts of frustration.

Whatever the case, negative forms of external resistance are but empty threats and optional obligations, illusions that only carry consequence if you choose to buy into them.

They attack your certainty instead of your strength; rather than forcefully oppose your chosen actions, such influences merely attempt to undermine your confidence in continuing/undertaking them.

Nevertheless, such messages can be highly manipulative because they work through anyone and anything that can be influenced by the Control System, allowing for methods of deception too subtle to be discerned by the average person.

Examples of negative external resistance include: irrational criticism/ridicule of your choices, being shown examples of others who failed, multiple individuals giving you the same baseless warning around the same time delivered in the same way, hive mind harassment like evil glares and cryptic mutterings from strangers, people exploding into rage at you for no reason, electronic glitches and paranormal phenomena that serve as overly dramatic omens, and twisted synchronicities that seem smug and contrived.

All of these appeal to ignorance, fear, insecurity, shame, and self-importance.

Positive external resistance

Rather than deceptively baiting your freewill, positive external resistance comes in the form of subtle warning signs and logistical blocking of detrimental courses of action.

The warning signs are clues that guide one toward gaining an expanded perspective of the situation in order to see some hidden danger.
In contrast to their negative counterparts, these positive signs and synchronicities require a raising of awareness to decipher.

The logistical blocking comes in the form of interruption and delay in plans.
When severe, it manifests as an increase in accidents, mechanical failures, and health problems.

Positive resistance is far more persistent, all encompassing, and final than the negative type, more like a brick wall than a stop sign.
Forcing one’s way through these blocks results in mounting personal misfortune.

Positive external resistance appeals to reason, intuition, and discernment.

Negative external encouragement

These are deceptive opportunities and messages that appeal to one’s weakness, ignorance, wishful thinking, and primal desires.
They are spiritual hooks cast into our world by the Control System to reel in the weak and gullible for consumption.

These hooks are baited with empty promises and artificial synchronicities, appealing to the ego and lower emotions and frequently reinforced by “confirmation” in the form of blatant coincidences designed to give the impression that this was all “meant to be”.

Examples of negative external encouragement: slick individuals giving you opportunities that are too good to be true, belief systems offering quick results and empowerment, “reality” responding to ego-based requests and “prayers”, dreams that are literal rather than symbolic and involve characters trying to talk you into something dubious, disinformative ideas pushed upon you simultaneously by multiple unrelated individuals, physically impossible anomalies and indubitable synchronicities appearing during periods of uncertainty in an attempt to sway your decision, and oddly timed requests for participation in some form of distraction.

Positive external encouragement

Reality aligns when one is in the flow.
Confirmation in the form of genuine synchronicities and signs tend to come after the choice has already been made to pursue some positive idea or action.

Another type of positive external encouragement is a serendipitous and unexpected opportunity that answers a soul-based calling or earnest need.
What distinguishes positive from negative types is that positive ones appeal to reason and intuition, lifting one’s spirits and bringing relief; positive ones also lack the intuitive vibes of desperate baiting, plus they are not limited to working within the comparatively narrow range of what is susceptible to negative control.

At its extreme, positive external encouragement conspires with destiny to make critical events fall into place unexpectedly and thus unavoidably, always for the better in the long run.

Negative internal resistance

When naturally occurring, negative internal resistance originates from psychological inertia and habitual resistance to change, as well as emotional addiction to old ways of being.

Other natural factors include chemical, biorhythmic, astrological, and lunar phase variables.
When intentionally induced or amplified, negative internal resistance generally arises from a combination of artificially lowered emotions and destructive posthypnotic suggestions, which send the fickle mind into a downward spiral of rationalization and reinforcement of these triggers.

They may manifest passively as impulses that are followed without second thought because they so closely mimic real thought, or they may manifest actively as compulsions that push the mind firmly into resisting some positive action.

The latter arises most commonly as procrastination or unfounded bias toward a beneficial field of study.
Whatever the case, such influences can be discerned on the basis that they suppress lucidity and emotional balance.

Examples: incessant critical self-talk, mental block or fog in regards to some constructive thought or action, symptoms of trance state signifying activation of a posthypnotic command, sudden emotional envelopment in a dark cloud, feelings of fear and despair rationalized by dwelling upon personal insecurities, unexplainable hostilities toward a harmless idea or person, clenching sensation abnormally isolated in the solar plexus area and designed to imitate the more subtle gut instinct, symptoms of conversion (mind disobeying a hypnotic command and releasing the pressure in other ways) such as unexplainable fidgeting and sudden feelings of anxiety or panic that come to nothing, and positive thoughts immediately countered by discouraging or distracting thought loops.

Positive internal resistance

When the lower self acts contrary to higher wisdom, this shows up as an inner feeling of indifference or caution toward some matter.
Despite superficial justification by the ego, this feeling persists and can only be drowned out by purposeful identification with lower impulses and desires.

Sometimes this is accompanied by a faint inner voice or intuitive impression, the tone ranging from calm advice to urgent caution, but never does it manifest as spiteful criticism or threatening commands.

When in the form of a gut-instinct, this feeling tends to circulate through the upper body rather than just the gut or solar plexus area; the latter in isolation can be post-hypnotically triggered to provide a false signal.

In contrast to negative internal resistance, positive demands lucidity instead of hysteria and requires rationalization to ignore rather than to believe.
As a whole, positive internal resistance is the heart and mind saying “no” in unison.

Negative internal encouragement

All of these play upon latent tendencies to compel one toward hastily and impulsively engaging in harmful or distracting behavior such as acting upon false assumptions or pursuing sexual and material fantasies.

Programmed thoughts can be amplified by lower emotions and primal instincts to produce obsession, wishful thinking, and prejudice.
Forms of negative internal encouragement range from the completely mechanical (habit, custom, hypnotic programming) to the completely emotional (hormones, ego preservation, primal instincts) but most often tend to be a synergistic combination of both.

The subtlest types simply dress up fruitless ideas as good ones, and the most extreme types demand violent action.
Any type of negative encouragement can be detected by its irrational, hasty, impatient, and desperate nature.

Physiological clues accompanying negative internal encouragement match those of mechanical or emotional trance; mechanical trance involves mental and emotional muting preceding the carrying out of a programmed command, while emotional trance is accompanied by physiological symptoms like tightened breathing (subconscious activation of the thanatos death instinct), increased heartbeat (adrenalin surge from engagement of the survival instinct), or flushing and salivary changes (tapping of the sex drive).

Positive internal encouragement

This lights up the heart, mind, and soul.
A truly good idea will be agreeable to both reason and intuition, deepening the breath, bringing a sense of relief and inner knowing that defeats any necessity for impatience.

Whereas negative encouragement propels one into action like gravity sending one tumbling down a hill, positive encouragement puts spring in one’s step. It always sharpens and energizes the mind. It engages the higher emotions of wonder, curiosity, creative joy, enthusiasm, and spiritual satiety.

If active on the mental level, it will come in the form of an epiphany.
If solely on the intuitional level it will manifest as a deep and calm sense that something is a good idea — unlike negative versions of same where a “good idea” only seems so after sufficient rationalization drowns out any underlying lack of soul interest.

Positive and negative are never identical, but they can be very similar.
The training of discernment demands increasingly challenging exercises.

Whenever confronted with ambiguity, turn within and reflect upon your own experiences.
Truth is found by reconciling example with counter-example, extracting insight from conflict like fire from friction.

Below are some examples of positive phenomena and their simulacral negative counterparts.

How does one tell the difference between:

1) “loss of faith in what is actually a good idea” vs. “intuition finally coming to light that something was a bad idea all along”?
Both begin in hope and are interrupted by discouragement, so superficially these seem indistinguishable.

Knowing that positive and negative are never identical, a difference must exist and here it is: while the first begins with excitement in what is and meets discouragement by “what if?”, the second begins with overconfidence in “what if?” and is eventually defeated by what is.

In other words, loss of faith in a good idea happens when facts are overpowered by speculative failure scenarios and mental paralysis through insecurity and fear, while intuitive recognition of a bad idea starts with overenthusiastic fantasizing and ends in a rude awakening to the facts.

2) “indifference due to absence of soul interest” vs. “programming to resist and turn away”?
Both involve lack of total enthusiasm for an idea or course of action.

Nevertheless, they differ as follows: the first signifies total lack of inner soul enthusiasm, the second drowns out inner soul enthusiasm with negative influences (lower emotional encouragement toward distracting alternatives and thought-loops rationalizing failure and insecurity).

In the first case, no inner enthusiasm can be found; in the second case, it can be found if one pays attention to it despite the noise.

3) “good course of action encountering obstacles” vs. “obstacles signifying a bad course of action”?
Both involve goals being hindered.

The difference is that that in the first case the factual and intuitive basis of the idea is not negated by the obstacle, while in the second case that basis is defeated by evident non-viability of the idea.

The first logically requires a bypass of the obstacle, the second demands abandonment or modification of the idea.

4) “resistance out of intuitive perception of danger” vs. “being programmed to resist out of paranoia and feelings of doom”?
Both involve the impression that there is danger, but the difference comes down to awareness vs. reactivity.

The first creates a sense of urgency that heightens awareness and sharpens perception, while the second skews perception by inducing physiological symptoms of fear and panic.

Both may involve fear, but in the first case fear follows perception while in the second case fear precedes and molds perception.

What is written in this article is not entirely universal because tests of discernment are tailored to the discerner.
How much of it applies to you depends on how much you can recognize the above in your own life.

The point of this article is merely to show you the necessity of discerning positive from negative and to illustrate by example that it can be done.
 
Skarekrow,

I just wanted to send you and everyone else good thoughts and a wish for everyone to be well and happy. Thanks for this thread :)


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be happy and well this new year & always
Thanks AJ and ditto! I didn't get the prompt either, so my apologies for a belated Happy Holidays. ❤
 
Can Humans See 'Spooky' Quantum Images?

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What do you think the world would look like if we could see such higher-order images, in which two tiny particles are entangled even when separated by large distances in space?

Quantum physics deals with the realm of the very small, and most of us never expect to see the weird world it describes.
But could we?

Recently, scientist Geraldo Barbosa of Northwestern University designed an experiment to answer that question.

The quantum effect Barbosa is hoping to see is called quantum entanglement, in which two or more particles can become "entangled" so that even after they are separated in space, when an action is performed on one particle, the other particle responds immediately.

A common experiment illustrating entanglement is to fire a laser at a special type of crystal.
Occasionally a photon particle from the laser "splits" into two.

The energy and momentum of the two new photons each add up to the value of the one originally fired.

These two "daughter" photons are entangled — if you look at the state of one photon, you know the state of the other, instantly.

Einstein described this eerie connection as "spooky action at a distance."

Next, the physicists change the form of the laser beam in the experiment to create an image.
They have found that the image isn't visible unless two detectors are able to "see" the photons at the same time.

While these physics experiments rely on detectors to "see" the photons and the resulting images, Barbosa foresees setting up an experiment in which a person's retinas would act as the detectors. [Stunning Photos of the Very Small]

Spooky action in the lab

The entangled photons have opposite polarization states: in other words, their waves are oriented differently. (On a quantum level, particles can behave like waves, and waves like particles.)

In these experiments when only one photon is detected, it could be in any polarization state and it can hit the detector at any time.

That means scientists can't tell whether the photon hitting their detector is from the entangled duo.
Without that knowledge, a person can't reconstruct the image these photons are meant to create.

But when both entangled photons are detected, you can figure out the photon's polarization state.
Knowing one, you know both, and can recreate the image.

The "spooky" part is that by observing either one of the photons you've eliminated all the other possibilities — both observed photons must have the polarization states you see.

But how does the entangled photon "know" what state to be in?
Relativity says that you can't have information travel faster than light.

Observing entangled photons, though "forces" them into a certain state at the same time. [10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Discovery]

Essentially, the information in both photons is added to recreate the original image.
This experiment has been done many times.

But what would happen if the two detectors were human retinas?
Would a person see the higher-order image or just the classical one, the flash of light?

Ordinarily, we see things by perceiving the intensity of the light in several wavelengths.
Mixing various wavelengths makes up all the various colors and saturations we perceive.

This situation would be different — if brains could see quantum effects like entangled photons, one would expect a different image when looking with one eye than with both.

This is a deeper question than it may seem, because if people can see such images, it means our macroscopic brains can pick up subtle, microscopic quantum effects.

Next step in quantum vision

Barbosa said there are still difficulties with setting up such an experiment.
One problem is the signal-to-noise ratio in human neurons.

We can't perceive individual photons even though they hit our retinas, as it takes a certain number of photons hitting our eyes for our brains to interpret the signal as, for example, a flash of light.

In his paper, which is posted on the physics pre-print website arXiv, Barbosa notes that it is far from clear that one could generate enough photons to trigger a response from the human retina — at least seven photons are necessary to do that, and they would all have to be entangled.

Robert Boyd, professor of optics at the University of Rochester, said he doesn't see anything in principle wrong with the idea.

"Even here, there are two possibilities," Boyd wrote in an email to LiveScience.
"One is that the human brain simply does not work in the manner that Barbosa proposes.

The other is that it does, but that the effect is so weak as to be unobservable."

Barbosa, meanwhile, said he has been thinking about this for a while —he did some of the first experiments with quantum images in his lab in 1994.

And he sketches out some of the equipment that would be needed to make the experiment work, such as special goggles to get the photons to the right part of the retina.

"This would only indicate that the complex neural system is able to process quantum signals —an amazing feature," Barbosa wrote.
 
Skarekrow,

I just wanted to send you and everyone else good thoughts and a wish for everyone to be well and happy. Thanks for this thread :)


& fellow forum members:
be happy and well this new year & always

Thank you AJ! I did not get the notification for this.
Be well. Be in Abundance. Be in Love. :D
 
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