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#148 November 2006

ALONG THE WAY

Our circumstances are in balance to our inner state.

THIS MONTHS THOUGHT

The Teaching material does not allow us to be less disturbed.  But we will be less disturbed because we don’t care anymore if we are.  When we are free to be disturbed, we don’t get torn up about it

SCIENCE OF MAN

Lesson five

For the past several weeks we have been studying man as he is in his conditioned state, that we may be aware of the actual situation as it is within each of us.  Not with the idea of condemning it or not with the idea of justifying it, but simply being aware of what is.

The whole idea of schools is for man to be aware of what is, as it is. And the whole idea of the world is to set up ideals, and ignore what is, and struggle with what is to change it into the ideal of what ought to be.  Man, thinking that he knows better of what ought to be rather than finding out what is and possibly something would appear that would result in a new man, not just a patched up one.  Somewhere it said that one cannot patch an old garment with a new piece of cloth or else the new cloth will rend the old garment and it will be worse.  Or that one puts new wine in old bottles because the new wine would break the old bottle and all is lost.  So we have been studying the old garment and the old bottle so that we will know something about it.

And as a preliminary to begin another level of work, which we will take up next week, we will start this week with understanding and observing for ourselves the function of each aspect of man.  Now, in the picture of man we have the physical body, we have awareness, we have X, and we have function. Now we’ll take these four aspects of man and begin to see their function in relationship.  No one of these aspects ever seems to function alone.  It is an inter-relation of four aspects or factors of one man.

Now the first thing we will attempt to study a bit is X.  So we will try to see how X works. Now here is a guide or roadmap for observing and you must do the observing.  But let’s see if we can observe how X works first.

X always does the proper thing for the information received from awareness.  Now it doesn’t say that it always does the proper thing, but the proper thing for the information received from awareness.  One time in a mental institution a young lady who had a delusion that the room frequently filled full of poison gas was observed. She would begin to have this illusion from some association that the room was filling full of poison gas.  The first thing she did was climb upon the piano stool.  That got her head above where she felt the poison gas was.  When the gas filled the room up to the level of where she would have to breathe again in her delusion, she climbed up on the cover of the keyboard of the piano.  That got her still higher.  And when she felt the poison gas was to her nose again, she got up on top of the piano with her head almost to the ceiling.  And when she felt the gas arrive there, the room continually filled up, to her, nobody else. The rest of the people were sitting around in chairs.  This she didn’t take into consideration.  She was in a mental hospital.  When her head was almost to the ceiling and she felt the room was filled full, she passed out. In a little while she revived and then she would go on about her usual affairs until this particular delusion set in again.

Now what she did, what X did, for the being, climb up on the piano stool, on the keyboard cover, and on top, was the appropriate thing to do for the information X received from this deluded awareness.  Now this was an extreme case, possibly, but each of us sees that the way to get along well in the world is to be complaining or sticking up for rights or pleasing people and we might even see that the whole purpose of living is to be non-disturbed. As long as this information goes to X, it does the appropriate thing for the information received.

As we continue to study we may find that different information would go to X than that which has always gone.  And then, of course, there would be an entirely different state of being.  Further, X receives as truth all information furnished from awareness of man, whatever the awareness says is truth, X operates upon it as truth.  When the poor girl reported that the room was filling full of poison gas and she was going to be poisoned or suffocated by this gas, X accepted that as true, and did the appropriate action for that truthful information as it seemed.  It accepted it as being true.  So if we say the whole purpose of living is to be non-disturbed, X operates upon it.  If we say that the way to be non-disturbed is to kill someone, X kills them. If we were to say that the appropriate, or that the ultimate thing, that the truth of the matter was that we should be dead in order to be better off, X pulls the trigger that blows the brains out.

Third, awareness function or I is function, not thing. I is function, not thing.  The awareness is simply a function of X.  Not a separate identity or thing.  It has awareness, and therefore, can be deluded into believing it is thing.  X generates the energy for any act that the awareness function I says is valuable or good.  If one sees something as being true but of no good, no value to one, X doesn’t operate upon it. It is if simply we see it as no value. I, awareness, sees something as being no value, no action is taken on it.

The awareness function being 100% subject to suggestion, 100% of the time, accepts ideas that are false as being true.  Such as the ones we have been observing for the past many weeks.  This establishes what we refer to as bits of conditioning, or as “Not-I’s”, personalities that are really not true, but conditioned to observe things in a false light.  All this conditioning has the effect of putting I into a hypnotic sleep in which it identifies with the “Not-I’s”.  To identify means to treat the same as.  In other words, these bits of information conditioning that goes to X is treated as though it is really awareness, or I. And the real awareness identifies with the bits of conditioning and feels it’s all the same.  It is though an Intelligence Corps head in an army were to identify with some Fifth Agents and say, “Well, they’re the same as I, they’re in the Intelligence Corps.”  And, of course they could all report to the general and the general would act upon everything he received from the Intelligence Corps as being true.

Another little parallel.  It is as though there were a bunch of burglars invaded your home and they all used the telephone in your name.  They could call up the store and have things sent out, charged to your account and they could cause you considerable difficulty without you knowing it because they could use the phone in your name. (To be continued)

A STORY

I play card with different groups several times a week.  My favorite game is bridge.  I observe that those who complain about the hand they’re dealt complain about the hand they’re dealt. One friend says she never gets a good hand.  She is usually whining and unhappy throughout the entire game.

When I looked at her life more closely, I found that she had complained about everything that has happened to her.  Two strokes and a heart attack have re-enforced her opinion that Life is a vale of tears.  This friend is not much fun to be around. Since I want a few friends at the end, I decided to take a closer look at how I play the game.

• I have had my share of second force. In retrospect, it has ALL been to my advantage.
• Balance is the law of the Universe. A streak of poor cards is always followed by a series of wonderful hands.  Resistance has its ebb and flow.  It’s easy to forget this when Life appears to be especially challenging.  The “Not-I’s” convince me it will be this way forever.
• Sometimes I forget I am playing a game. It is unrealistic to think I will win every game.  But if I make it important to win, well, you know what happens!
• I am a privileged, invited guest at this Party. Life has set up the games for me to play.  I can have fun playing the games or I can complain that the games are no fun because I don’t like the hand I’ve been dealt.
• Even when the cards are less than desirable, I can marvel while watching Spirit know which muscles to use to shuffle the cards (my favorite physical exercise.)
• Life custom designs all experiences to evolve the living being. Am I so full of pride that I would second guess the Creative Spirit of the Universe?
• “What is” is what is. When I can see ‘what is’ clearly and know that ‘what is’ has infinite value, only gratitude remains.

I will pay closer attention to playing the hand I’ve been dealt with joy and thankfulness.

LITTLE AMERICA WORKSHOP   

APRIL 74  Dr. Bob Gibson

“I am choosing how I will act.  This determines how I feel.  Therefore I’m choosing my attitude and therefore my state of being.  It’s not something one needs to learn or memorize.  It is something one does.  When do you do it?  The only time you can do anything….NOW.  You can’t do it tomorrow because tomorrow never gets here.  If I wait to act like I’m happy until I feel good, I won’t ever get there.  So you start where you are with your backbone out of place and your jawbone out of place and your headaches and bellyaches and all your other lovely ailments.  We start acting like we were the luckiest person in the world…RIGHT NOW.  You can do that, can’t you?  You can’t wait until such time as you feel like smiling.  UP.UP.UP is the word and that word UP is really the only word you need to work with”

SO BE AWARE of;  “How I want to feel?” How do you want to feel? Like a million dollars, don’t you? Now how would you act if you already felt all that wonderful?  Everything would be UP, wouldn’t it?  Your eyes shine and you would be on top of the world.

21^st CENTURY LIVING

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.

Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 or 60 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go  and get it.