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Masters guidance does not limit a persons freewill.
Masters must be asked before they will help.
A journal of one man's path toward spiritual enlightenment by physical
and mental purity, fasting, raw food diet, few words, natural living,
good works, right thinking, and exhilaration of the mind
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PETE'S JOURNAL, AUGUST 2002
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8-1-02
I AM that I AM. God is All there is. God is both matter and spirit.
God made All there is out of Himself. God created man. God created man out of himself, and One with Himself. God gave man freewill and his body, mind and Soul; dominion over all creation; and the power to create.
God is perfect and without error. God always sees man as his divine self... perfect... the Christ. God sees man creating an illusion that he (man) is separate from Himself (God). Man has freewill to create anything that he wants. No matter what man creates, God always sees man as his divine self... The Christ. God does not see any error in his Christ son for creating an illusion that he is separate. All is well with God and His creations, and ever shall be.
However, all is not well with man and his creation. Man in his ignorance has created the illusion that he is not perfect and divine but a limited mortal man. The illusion that he is not the divine, locks man away from his true self... the Christ. And from this came the duality and insanity of the world in which we live today.
What are we to do? We can with the help of God through contact with our inner voice eventually work our way out of the illusion of the 'world view' of life today. This path is the true spiritual path and will lead to the Goal. Man with the guidance of the inner voice alone can reach the Goal, but, for many, there will be a lot of hit and miss and trial and error, and 'reinventing of the wheel.'
In theory, I believe, we need no other guidance than that of the inner Voice... The Voice of God. However, I'm wondering if it would not be a good thing to also ask for the help of men and women that have walked the path before us and reached the Goal, to also help us. To have both internal and external guidance.
If one man can do something; all men have the potential to do the same thing. That difference in potential is what I am trying to address here. A few men and women are strong, vital and very intelligent; and very spiritual. They may follow their path with little error and faltering on the way to the Goal.
Then there is a large population of people in the middle that are just ordinary... neither strong nor weak, real smart nor dumb... just people that are spiritual with ordinary gifts and talents. I believe that these people will need all the help and guidance they can get. They may need the vision of a radiant figure beckoning them onward and upward.
And there is a large population of people that have no spiritual understanding at all. These people are not bad, they just have no spiritual inclination. They and their children and their children's children will ascend at the same rate as the 'world view' is lifted up.
It is my understanding that the Masters must be asked for their guidance before they are free to help. This is not the same as the initiation of a Guru or becoming a student of a certain teacher. Guidance does not in any way limit freewill, you can either accept it or reject it. The Masters send out their inspirations, what you do with them is up to you.
I now invoke with all my heart, mind and spirit the help of Jesus, the Masters of the Far East, and all other Masters that have ascended the path to union with God to help and guide myself and the others that follow the path of the seeker outlined in these journals, and for all humankind. Thank you... may it be so.
I ask this guidance for everyone, however, everyone must ask for this guidance for themselves.
8-6-02
"...on the right hand insanity" How to keep the rational mind sane while crossing the unknown to the "All Knowing Soul."
When you ascend you begin to see into the "unseen" or spiritual realm. This leads to conflicts in the rational mind. You may be walking down a street and see a man standing on the corner and right beside him you may see the transparent figure of a spirit. The world view of such an experience is that you have gone insane. In this society, to see spirits or hear voices is insanity.
You are not insane. You have purified the body until you can see into the unknown realm that lies between you, your personal separate self, and your SOUL, which is in the realm of the spirit. This unknown realm is a land of duality where both the 'world view reality' of the rational mind and the realm of the spirit exist simultaneously.
In dealing with the physical man and the spirit standing together on the corner the first thing to remember is Jesus' admonition, "Thou shall not judge." You don't judge what you see, and mainly you don't judge yourself. You don't have any experience to make an effective judgment about any of this experience. If you run away screaming, "My God, I've lost my mind, "you have lost the ascended ground you have gained.
So don't judge, just observe, and remain as calm as you can. Try not to allow this experience to change anything in your inner reality. Go about your business and maintain your routine. Do what you came to town to do, then go home and do whatever you were going to do that day. Calm yourself, if you are upset, try to relax, play soothing music, clean house or take a nap.
The best defense against insanity while dealing with the unknown is to maintain you daily routine. Get plenty of sleep, eat right and at your usual time, and make a lot of time for leisure activity... music, reading, gardening and study. Do not, allow anything to pressure you to, "hurry up." You are the boss in and about your own life in this reality or any reality. Guard closely God's gift of freewill, your will, to do as you see fit. In your life your judgment is sovereign and final. Never yield and inch on this point to anyone, mortal or spirit, voices inside or outside of your head, angels, devils or demons: they suggest and persuade, but only you have the right to make the decision to act.
"When a person
Talks to God
They call it a
Prayer.
When God
Talks to a person
They call it a
Hallucination."
A Vietnam Vet
8-10-02
If you become upset by what you see in the unseen world, you will begin to worry and fret. Your mind will speed up, begin racing, and you will not be able to sleep, eat right or maintain your daily routine. The loss of your inner calm... 'peace of mind,' will open your mind to bouts of insanity. This beginning slippage of the rational mind is not serious, but if it is allowed to continue unchecked it could lead to real trouble.
I don't know if your path will lead you into the unseen or not but I want to assure you that if it does there is no reason to panic. Just stay calm, look at things squarely and learn what they have to teach you. Once you enter the unknown, it will continue, because it is part of nature and natural, and you will either learn to live in both realities in harmony, or not. The main thing to remember is not to resist or fight it, just let things flow and observe.
If you need to talk to someone, talk to another seeker on the path, Do Not, talk to parents, old friends, medical doctors or mental health people because they will have you locked up and medicated. When you have to deal with ordinary people remember what is considered "normal" in this society and speak and act accordingly.
8-12-02
If you have to 'bail out' stop all practices of physical purification, eat cooked food including a steak and a shot of whiskey every day until you come down. I first heard this at a lecture by Peter Caddy when he left Finhorn to speak on the West Coast and around the Pacific Rim.
Years later I read, Talking to Heaven, by James Van Praagh, a world-famous spiritualist medium, in which he states: "Red meat, in particular, slows down the vibration of the body and in doing so slows down one's higher ranges of sensitivity." And... "Alcohol lowers the body's natural vibratory rate and should never be used when one is preparing to open oneself up to the spiritual worlds." What you want to do, to come down, is lower the body's vibrations by eating red meat and drinking alcohol, thereby protecting your sanity.
If you want to continue on your path and try to cross the unseen later, work on your mental purity and strengthen and purify your mind and stay physically fit.
If you lose your mental balance and allow your mind to worry all the time, begin to race, so that you cannot sleep or maintain your daily routine, you need to immediately stop what you are doing and go over the truths that you know. You are one with God, nothing bad can happen to you. That is your solid ground to stand on. Your fortress. Re-establish your daily routine, ignore the unseen until you feel strong enough to venture slowly and carefully out on your path again. Take a break and regain your balance. Do this as often as you need...the world is not going to be lost if you take a break from your path.
On the other hand, if you begin to really think your efforts are what is holding the world together, you are into, "Delusions of grandeur." If you begin to think of yourself as somebody above and beyond, that the outcome of this age on earth is up to you, then you have gone a little bit nuts. Usually in a day or two your common sense will kick in and that particular little bout of insanity will be over. So, calm down, analyze what happens to you, regroup and stay on the path.
8-15-02
When these things begin to happen it is really good to have the support of other seekers. There is no reason to feel ashamed or embarrassed, the main thing is to maintain the ground you have gained. One of the main problems, for ordinary people having mental problems, is that they are reluctant to talk about them. This is only natural for any one... nobody wants to be thought of as crazy.
For the seeker of truth, this condition is different. It is self induced. Like a fast, which is a self induced illness...that makes you well and/or purifies the body, a walk in the wonderland of the unknown is self induced irrationality, therefore insane; but for the seeker, it is not insanity, but an expanding of their reality. With a calm mind and balance you will begin to see how the unseen world influences ordinary reality.
8-17-02
In the beginning dealing with the unseen world may be very stressful. Seeing the spiritual as well as the physical reality may cause you to become anxious, worried, confused, unable to concentrate, set your mind racing, cause you to spend sleepless nights and upset your routine completely. As you struggle to maintain, you may begin to hear a clamor of inner voices telling you to do all kind of things.
If you cannot calm down and gain control, as time goes on under this stressful condition you may slip into false thinking, false beliefs and get involved in various delusions and obsessions. You may fancy yourself a great master, Jesus, or even God. After common sense kicks in and frees you from this round of nuttyness, you may become depressed because of the stupidity of the whole affair. Don't despair, this happens to a lot of people, and I am speaking from experience.
You may become obsessed or preoccupied with a persistent idea or emotion from which there seems to be no escape. You may become paranoid, having a feeling of persecution, by itself, or in combination with your delusions and obsessions. You have taken a little side trip to crazyville, but you are not clinically insane. You need to slow way down, reason things out and re-establish your daily routine. And talk things over with other seekers on the net. One of the major ideas of the seeker network is to provide a solid support system, for when things like this happen.
8-18-02
As I said before, I speak from experience. When I walked the path before in the 70's and was living in and experiencing both the seen and the unseen daily, I had a number of short bouts with temporary insanity. Fortunately, I was able to reason my way out of these bouts and continue on my path. Unfortunately, in the end I became utterly exhausted and collapsed. Minimal support and companionship would have kept this from happening.
The point of all this is how to avoid the insanity and nervous exhaustion caused by dealing daily with the unseen-unknown reality of the spirit world. First, this unseen reality is as natural as the our ordinary everyday reality. It exists and can be dealt with as normally as we deal with ordinary reality. Second, you need to purify and strengthen the mind, and your body; you need to be as physically fit as possible and mentally pure as possible, before you approach the unseen. And third, you should establish and religiously maintain a daily routine which grounds you and limits the amount of the unseen reality you experience in a day. You will learn to deal with it...and you need to learn to turn it off and ignore it.
And by all means, email other seekers and ask for help and/or support when you need it, or even if you don't need it. Invoke the Masters. Stay on the path.
"Peace Be With You." Essene Gospel of Peace
