Discernment vs Judgement - In a World of Lies

Feb 9

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In this lecture, we examine the nuances of how the consciousness can perceive and understand in the face of layers of illusion. These illusions are not just the fabric of all manifestation, but they echo across all of the rendered structures and ecosystems of society. Awakening occurs in infinite stages that begin with the first step. That first step is to let go of everything we have clung to.

Discernment vs Judgement - In a World of Lies

Series: Finding the Third Force - Class Two

Transcript

Instructor:

So this would be the second talk in our series, on finding the Third Force, which some of you came to the first one. We also did another talk in a different series on New Age Vs. the Occult, which also comes along those lines of trying to balance polarities, including within spirituality, to find the Third Force.

Just real quick, I wanted to—since some people haven't been here—to explain what I mean by that.

If we look over here, (points to Tree of Life) we have a Tree of Life. This is Kabbalah. You don't need to know it right now, but the top three (Sephirah) represent the Unity, so three are one or one are three. And in that sense, everything that is manifested is consciousness.

So we manifest the ONE through duality but, we see things dualistically; and we don't see the third factor that creates the consciousness itself. And this is what prevents us from seeing past the illusion of the Maya. So this can come along also as well for the spiritual path itself. Everything that is manifest has these three forces. If we think of an atom, it has a proton, an electron, a neutron; a positive, a negative, and a neutral force. Let's say that's the base unit of consciousness.

I know there's smaller things that are inside of it.

Quarks

Yes.

So, in that sense, we could say about anything that exists: ourselves, this table, we could break it into three things. And the spiritual path is no different. So if we were to go like this.

(Draws A trinity of sephirah + , - , /)

There are three aspects to the spiritual path which relate to the positive, the negative, and this.

(The Conciliatory Force [ / ])

One (The Positive + ) is the death of our conditioning. The negative is related to initiation, which is...

To move along a kind of spiritual journey...

It's to create, higher subtle bodies. It's not that important right now, but these are those 2 aspects. And then the third is the awakening of the consciousness.

And these things all, to an extent, on our journey—depending on our own unique [circumstances within our] incarnation, we might experience things in a different way, but all of these things have to happen, [If we feel called to transcend this reality] not necessarily simultaneously, but they do.

And the awakening is the most important thing that we try to stress, and that's what this series is really about, because what happens is that when we work in the work, before truly awakening the consciousness; and we work with these two things (Death of our Conditioning & Initiation), we can still awaken through conditioning.

And when we awaken through conditioning, we awaken through ego,. We actually strengthen the ego that we awaken through. So we can develop abilities. We talked about this in the first class. It was Mastery of the Cosmos. We can still develop psychic abilities, we can, you know, become more in tune with the reality, but we're not actually freeing or liberating ourselves, our true self, from the reality.

And the third force, it really can only be found in the present moment since time and duration itself is, in itself, an illusion. So we can only see this, or connect to this, or connect to the awakening, connect to our true nature, our true spirit, in the present moment, here and now.

Now, depersonalization tends to be... affiliated with the New Age path. This is where we have to talk about New Age Vs the Occult, where the occult tends to be… the esoteric, the mysteries tend to be focused on the ego death and the initiation. And in a sense, too much to one way, too much to the other way; we're still out of balance, because the Third Force itself is balanced. So even if we focus too much one way or the other, we are actually also out of balance.

To a certain extent... attachment goes much, much deeper than the subtle layers that we think of. We think our attachment is just the things that we like, and we dislike. But everything, even down to our physical body, we're attached to a certain extent. And it's all illusion. But at the same time, when we look at it from a perspective of a New Age perspective, where people will be like, “Oh, everything's illusion. I don’t have to do anything.” Well, that's not exactly true either.

We created this reality, our true Self, our true Spirit that's within, the one that's within each and every person that's in this room, we're all a Unity. But just because we're a unity and the reality is illusion, we created the reality for a reason, to learn from it, to grow from it, to extract wisdom from it. And through understanding, through comprehension, which is also related to this third aspect, that's how we extract wisdom.

In a sense, we're both at unity and in duality at the same time. It’s multi-dimensional. It's not one thing or the other. A lot of times, people are like, “Oh, well, we're not in the Absolute, we're in the physical. Why do we need to worry about that?” Or like I said, people want to just float away. They think they don't have to work. But it's both at the same time. And through that sense, we then have to understand that at unity, objectively, we already know everything. We already have experienced every perspective. So for us to experience, to have wisdom, to grow, we put ourselves into this scenario, in all these different perspectives, and we forget.

Then, to awaken, is to start understanding more perspectives. So, in that sense, if we're just focusing on, “This is the way. This is THE method. I'm gonna be dogmatic about this.” That's still one perspective. That's not truly the awakening. Like, we said, you can grow, you can develop many abilities. Master Samael, who is the master that diffused Gnosis originally at the beginning of the Aquarian Age, he said there were many paths that can lead you to become the master of this edge of the cosmos or that edge of the cosmos; and they're valid to that extent, but they do not lead us out of the construct. They do not unplug us from the Matrix. They're part of this.

To an extent, the angels, aliens, whatever you want to call them, Archons, right? Those beings are also still—they're superior to us, in a sense—but they still exist within this reality; and the awakening is about actually moving past the illusion and past the Maya. So with that being said, that's just a little talk on that.

Yes.

Audience Member:

What's an Archon?

Instructor:

It's just—it's from the original Gnostics [who] were Esoteric Christians; and in their lore, the book of Thomas, book of Mary Magdalene, the Archons would be, the ego or the enemy, the demons, They were these beings from another dimension that are enslaving humanity.

It's just another… From my understanding, subjectively, all of these things are all one and the same, what you would call them, angels, demons, you could call them Archons, you could say it's AI. Some people say they're extraterrestrial. These beings exist, but subjectively how we see them internally is based on our own perspective.

Audience Member:

Can I give a follow up question?

Instructor:

Mm hmm.

Audience Member:

You said that you can be a master at one edge of the cosmos,or a master at the next edge of cosmos, but you're not plugged out. Could you be a master at this part of the cosmos, and the Archons still have hold on you?

Instructor:

Well, so, we have the first talk is up online, but basically there's a difference between mastery and awakening. Awakening is a level of comprehension and understanding of the reality around us as it is right now. We could have a high level comprehension and not have mastery because we haven't done the work in the physical body.

A master is someone who has actually done spiritual work in this incarnation, in this current physical incarnation, and has developed certain abilities and created certain bodies. So, for example, someone could have a lower level of awakening, but already have activated their clairvoyance, their telepathy, their clairaudience, and all these things, they would have achieved a certain level of mastery over their body and their vessel. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're more awakened. Someone could still be trapped in duality, yet have achieved mastery—in a spiritual sense—over the abilities that we think of, like the chakras and the Kundalini, things of that.

For example, they could be someone who goes into the astral and fights demons and vampires, and they're very stuck in this dualistic thinking, “I'm being attacked. I'm being chased by something. I need to defend myself,” but really, they're bringing all of that into their reality by their belief that something is chasing them, and it's a whole thing that's happening. It's really happening, but it's happening because they subscribe to it.

Mastery is within duality. It’s within the construct. If we were to break this like this (draws a line, one side is the Awakening and Death of Conditioning along with Initiation are on the other side), this is spirit, and this is matter.

Mastery comes from doing these two things, dissolving ego, and the initiation, and creating the higher bodies and having abilities. The awakening happens now in the present moment, and it's for comprehension and understanding. We need to do both of them if we want to fully evolve out of this thing and learn what we're supposed to learn. But they don't have to necessarily happen the same, and part of the experience is to sometimes do just this, or do just this.

In a sense, those are stages of development for our spirit. If we go through many, many, existences, there's the time that the Spirit didn't want to do anything for an entire universe and wanted to be an NPC. People call people NPCs nowadays, right? To an extent, that's a stage of development. There's a reason those souls don't want to self realize at all. Then there's a stage where you probably were a black magician, and, you were a politician that controlled the planet. All those things are levels of development that we have to go through before we can reach awakening. Because, again, it's having all the perspectives. So you have to have a certain number of perspectives before you even will be able to have the wisdom—within—in the fractal of your spirit, to start the awakening process.

And that's how we have discernment and understand what it is we're working with. Like, if we talk about going out to different schools and reading lots of different scriptures and different writings, one of the biggest things that we hear is that you will see every school says, “Our way is the correct way, and don't go try that other way, because, we're not saying you can't, but if you want to study with us, then you can't. And if you go over there, then just do that way. Just do that way.”

So they kind of have this arrogance in each camp where they don't want the student to go to everywhere and be able to connect the dots. And I don't think they do it on purpose, but they genuinely—they believe that their way is the best way. And the ego, or that rigidity inside of people, is what tries to attach to one particular system and say, “If I just follow this formula, then I will awaken, then I will achieve spiritual enlightenment,” and we find that's not the case, because you can go to any of these schools. There might be one or two who awaken—actually—and then everyone else is just trying, trying, and it doesn't work.

Yeah, well, the truth is, like we said, at the most meta level, no school paints the full picture. The purpose of any school is to pull us to where we find the middle and we find the school that's within us internally. We call it finding the Inner Master, or the internal school. From there, we learn from ourselves, from our own fractal of Divinity, that will teach us. But in a sense of that, once you reach that level, it actually maybe makes sense to go looking at multiple modalities because it will help you connect what you're receiving internally. The thing is, is that any school, though—right now, we would say we start in this root race, in this civilization, right now. We're starting a little bit to the left. Our society is more egoic.

That's not a political left.

No, no. I mean, like, there's a left-handed path and right-hand path which we'll talk about.

So what we look for, ideally, is a school that teaches the right-handed path, but, in a sense, to help us pull ourselves and get ourselves back to the middle, and to find the middle way. So what happens is if you follow a school that teaches a right-handed path, and there's many, it's not just Gnosis. You can say Sufism. You could talk about many New Age schools. We could talk about Theosophy, all of these things, right? But what happens is, if you miss the middle, and you keep going into the right more, and you become dogmatic and religious, then the right becomes the left because it's just another polarity. So, the purpose of the school, whether it's our school or another school, should be to help you find your own school inside.

The way the master taught it was the purpose of this is to awaken enough so that you can start receiving internal information in the astral and learn from yourself, not to follow a master, not to make a religion, not to find dogma. But these things become a thing.

And this is something that we need to look out for, because everybody can look out for the left-handed path school. Everybody knows, “Oh, well, they're Satanists. I don’t want to be evil.” But the truth is, most black magic schools—black magic, meaning in service of the ego—are white schools, right? Most people don't join a place to do evil things. They join, and they become “righteous”. And in a sense, the school and their dogmatism then turns it into, a school of evil, of black magic. The white and black duality, it all comes from the perception that we're looking from. You look at, political conflicts or, wars, and all these things are terrible, you know? If you're on one side, you think the other side's the bad guy, and you're the good guy, and they probably think the same thing. And, regardless of the facts or whatever, that's the perception that the person has in their mind.

Audience Member:

What you're saying about all the different schools, thinking they all have the right path, is reminding me of this analogy. I don't know if you're familiar with it. There's, like, a mist, and there's an elephant in the mist, and there's people, and they can't see the full elephant, and they each have their hand on some part of the elephant. And that's the only part that they understand or are aware of, but they can't see the full picture.

Instructor:

That's right. And then everyone says, “Oh, the elephant is like the wall. No, it's like a trunk. It's like a tree trunk. It's like a rope. It's like this and that,” and they all, the guy that touches the tusk says, “It's like a spear,” and they all start fighting, and all of them are touching the elephant, but they all want to fight and say, “No, I'm right, you're wrong.”

So when we talk about discernment and judgment, we want to be able to have the ability to not get caught up in fighting with any school or anyone, because it doesn't make any sense. We have to find what is right for us individually and have those experiences. And wherever we end up, we'll see what that is. So we consciously decide where it is that we want to go. We apply tools, and we see what happens. That what we call Gnosis. It’s knowledge through direct experience. So you can take a tool, you can use it. If it does something for you, good. If it doesn't, then try something else. And when you have a group of people that is busy fighting over, “No, you have to do it like this. You have to do the yoga pose like this. You have to breathe like this.” Then people are not free to follow their own intuition, and it turns into a religion, a church, a club.

Well, not only that, too, but everyone has a unique frequency back to Source. We may be closer in resonance to someone else, depending on [our internal] spiritual group[ing] or whatever, but even within two individuals that see sort of similarly, internally, it's still not going to unfold the exact same way. So as soon as you're like, “I'm going to do what somebody else did to awaken the consciousness,” it will NOT work for you. It maybe it gets close, like I said, if it's close enough, maybe it'll help you get to a certain level, but unless you find your own unique resonance, you can't find [your way] back.

That's why even when we tell you, okay, this is what the goal is as a guide, it is to [help you] find the Third Force, to find that comprehension of reality. The truth is, we can't tell you how to do it. Only that it's unique to you and we can give you advice on how we did it, and it really comes from knowing yourself. ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ (Gnothi Seaton) “Man, know thyself, and you shall know the universe, and it's gods.” This is the maxim on the temple of Apollo, in Delphi, in Greece. And that's the truth, that's the only way to have the awakening.

So, when a school tells you, “Oh, if you do it our way, and then it’ll just work out for you.” I mean, it's not even necessarily that they mean it—like they're trying to trap you—They probably believe that, the teacher or the instructor, that may be their level of understanding; and they think, “Oh, well, I just do this, and now I'm awakened, because they believe themselves to be awakened. And they [tell you], if you just do exactly what I do, you will also.” And it's not out of necessarily a malicious intent, but that is not going to help you find the Third Force.

There's a joke, actually, there was a master, Master Rabolu, [this] Gnostic master used to say that Gnostics can't see the Third Force. And this is literally talking about Gnosis, because there's a huge problem. That most of the institutions that've done this teaching, basically, have become just a[n exoteric] religion with some esoteric information. I don't want to use any disparaging remarks.

Basically, it's the story of every teaching ever. There will be information that comes from Source that is an assistance to the people at the time. Usually, one specific person, who was perfectly aligned, received the original download, and then went out and began telling people, “This is how I did it. This what happened to me.” And the first people who come and study with that teacher receive the most help, and then it becomes Chinese telephone. And after a time, especially a lot of time and a lot of Chinese telephone, then it turns into something that is taken by the ego.

It becomes formulaic. It becomes structured because the ego likes what it can grasp, what it can put a handle on. So the ego tries to reduce it to, “If I do A, B, and C, in such and such a way, then it's sure to work for me.” And the ego is the one who says “I want that. I want enlightenment,” but enlightenment happens when there is no more ego left. So the very thing that wants that trophy is going to be the thing that stops us from getting there in the first place.

So, this is the story that all the religions, all the schools go through, even, like, we study Ram Dass, you might have people today that say, “Oh, you can only do Kirtan and meditation, and talk about Ram Dass books.” And if you mention another book, then, well, “that wasn't Ram Dass' book, so you shouldn't read that.” And of course, this is ridiculous, because each person has to be able to study the knowledge that they are drawn to, that's going to assist them, and to try for themselves, make their own decision. So as soon as we have someone else coming along trying to tell us, “Oh, no, you shouldn't do it like that. Let me tell you, this is the way to do it.” Then it may not work out for us if we blindly follow a said person.

Audience Member:

I'm just gonna get the example of—I grew up Southern Baptist, and so, the end game there is to get someone to say, “I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior”, and that's it. If you accept that, that's one dogma sentence, you're in, and that's it. Like, we've got condensed to that.

Instructor:

Yes, exactly. I was also raised a Christian, and we believed, if you can just get your friend to say a certain prayer, then they're gonna be safe from hell. And if you can just convince them by any means, and they just say it, and then walk away, and no other change in their life. They're safe because they said those words. And if you didn't, then now they're going to hell because of you, because you didn't convince them. So...

Audience Member:

Could you trick him into it?

Instructor:

Well, you could say whatever you wanted, as long as they said the prayer. So we can see how ridiculous this is, right? That the ego wants a set formula, and then whatever teachings, whatever wisdom it started as, then it reduces it to a kind of dogma, and we'll start fighting other people around it, because, you see, the ego defends its reality. So if the ego has bought into something, now it starts fighting everyone else around it to also buy into it, because if they question it, then that person that's defending it feels like, “Oh, this is not solid ground. This is not a true fixed thing that I've subscribed to. I can't have that, 'cause then I won't know what's what. But if I can just convince them. If I can just either go into an echo chamber, where everyone around me is a sycophant, and we all agree and confirm the same thing or I'll try and convince other people.”

Audience Member:

I was raised Catholic myself, and something that bothers me is how conservative Christians want to force everyone to believe what they believe. And would you say that's all ego?

Instructor:

Well, of course, it's ego. First of all, beliefs in itself is not very useful. Blind faith is not only unique to Christianity, but you'll see it even in esoteric schools and things of that nature. As we said, the Universal Thread behind all teachings, whether that was Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, is the knowledge through the direct experience, and to actually experience God. Yoga is union with God. Religion comes from the word “relagare”, or union with God. (Relink) So that is what we're supposed to do. But what happens is, is that because people haven't had the experience yet, and they want to—they don't want to admit that there's an unknown, or that they're working towards an unknown. It becomes, “I just believe in this, because that sounds good. I heard that. I haven't actually experienced anything. Instead of finding out for myself, I just believe in somebody else that he's already so spiritual.” And blind faith is very dangerous. It's one of the most... dense egos that we have on this planet.

It puts people to sleep. So, yes, I would absolutely say that blind faith is the ego.

Audience Member:

So the example that Nate gave, in the follow up that you said, Ruth, about, “say the sentence [and] you're in”. People don't think that's foolish, though?

Instructor:

They don't, because they want that.

Audience Member:

They want what?

Instructor:

They want to believe in the false paradigm. Because the ego is afraid of many things. So it tries to eliminate the fear by creating an illusion that makes it feel comfortable, not realizing that it itself is just another illusion.

Instructor:

We call it mystical pride.

Audience Member:

Mystical pride.

Instructor:

It's an ego that wants to have the identity of being a spiritual person, but it doesn't want to actually do the work on itself or kill itself. It's actually probably the biggest danger to the awakening of depersonalization, the closer we get to there. When the ego sees that you're observing it, and you start to see it, what happens is it tries to hide in something, and what does it hide in? Your identity as being a Gnostic or a Sufi or something of that nature. Because what happens is, if the ego is able to trick you and become your god, well then how are you ever gonna see it? I'm not saying it's impossible, right? In Star Wars, Darth Vader eventually kills the emperor. But, realistically, usually then you're lost when you get to that point. And also what happens too, especially if it's esoterically, there are practices that start working with energies that they feed us to awaken the consciousness, but if we awaken it through the ego, the ego can also use those energies. So you're actually strengthening that ego of mystical pride and becoming more asleep and caught in that paradigm.

Audience Member:

I guess it's great, because then the ego has jailed you, and the jailer is saying, “I will free you.”

Instructor:

Yes, yes, yes. that's right. And then you could have Stockholm syndrome.

So we have the agenda here. We're gonna look at the question of what is truth, because if we can't establish what that word means, then we can't talk about it. So we have to understand what is truth, then we're gonna look at a little bit of what we talked about with programming and systems. What are the mechanisms that entrap us entrap our thinking, our perception? And then we talked about the Third Force. We talk a little bit more about it, and how it relates to these systems, and how we can unplug ourselves. And then a very big key that comes up, and this is where we're talking about discernment and judgment, is that there are two kinds of ways that someone might try to bring us some methods—some teaching—and that's persuasion or coercion. And if we are asleep, meaning we are not aware regarding this mechanism, then coercion takes place, and we fully consent to it, and we don't know what just happened. So we have to be able to begin to energize that ability to be aware, and the consciousness…

So the consciousness is a part of us that has an ability to perceive very profoundly. But in most people, that ability is asleep. And so because it is asleep, we get stuck on the autopilot of thousands of different programs, and the very, very sleeping observer is way back here in the corner with just one eye, watching all of these things play out, and it thinks that it's that. So it watches, “Oh, I want to get an ice cream.” And then the program goes and gets the ice cream. “Oh, I want to get this job,” and the program goes and gets that job, and we are completely on autopilot fulfilling all of these desires, thinking it's us. Not knowing where the desires are coming from. And really, these are thousands of programs—of energetic structures. They're coming into the physical vehicle in different ways, and the awareness is not in the driver's seat. So it's like a car on autopilot, and it's set to the wrong destination, and we're sitting in the back, just watching, “Where is it going?”

And as we begin to use certain practices, we begin to wake up the consciousness, which is the part of us that sees and understands perfectly instantaneously. So if someone is tricking you and they're using a method of coercion, the consciousness just sees right through it. And we notice—we know that there's certain people who have a more awakened consciousness or more consciousness, typically—not always—but typically, these are people that tend to go into positions and more responsibility, and everyone says, “Oh, they're so smart.” But it's not a kind of intellectual smart, and that's where we laugh at people who are book-smart, and we say, “Oh, they learned all these things, but really they're dumb.” Right? They can memorize knowledge, but they don't have any wisdom, and that wisdom comes from the consciousness itself. So we falsely attribute intellectualism. We say, “Oh, that's consciousness.” (correction follows) Oh, we say that we look at the consciousness, and we say, “That's someone's intellect, but actually, it's consciousness.” So, the consciousness is going to be what allows us to see this coercion, but we'll talk about the way that it's used.

And then, finally, we have groups and schools, which we talked about a little bit, but we'll give some more of the methods that certain certain groups will apply to say, “Oh, look over here. It's all rainbows and sunshine,” and there's many stories that people that did things like, committed themselves in certain ways, made certain pacts, and these things continue over many lifetimes, and they don't realize what they've done, because they enter into a kind of pact, under coercion, and then, you know, they'll eventually find out, and eventually come out of it. But it's good for us to know about these things. Be aware.

Audience Member:

Quick question. So you can make a pact in one timeline, and you die, get a new body, and the pact is still present?

Instructor:

Yes. This is why we have to be aware of making pacts. And whenever we say, beg an angel or something and say, “Oh, please help me with this thing, let me do this certain spell.” We can fall into a pact.

The thing with things like that, when you talk about karma and dharma, but a pact—I think—would be a higher form of karma. Probably, like, Katancia, if you were making it with an angel. But the thing is, is that, objectively, karma dharma is also an illusion. if one comes out of the construct, but you have to actually get all the way out. Relatively, we still have to work with things. We'll see this a lot with these teachings. When we said, the New Age way of people saying, “Oh, well, now I understand disidentification, so I don't have to do any work, everything's an illusion.” That's also slightly an incorrect perspective, because what happens is that now we're here. Okay, yes, we understand it's illusion, but it's illusion we created to work with. So it's like we created a game for us to play to get something out of it. So the idea of things like karma & dharma, working with the energy, relatively, we still have to do these things, because it's how the game works for us to go through it. So, in a sense of ideally, yes, we wouldn't want to make pacts with beings, if we had the understanding not to, because then we have to pay them back. You know what I mean?

Instructor:

Yeah, so the question of what is true? Oh, yes?

Audience Member:

You're talking about, a little bit before about, people thinking they're making conscious choices, but they're not really any conscious choices. And I've kind of been thinking about this, but not necessarily in the sense you're talking about, but like, just, you know, the way our cultures raise us, the directions they give us—you're supposed to go school, you're supposed to get a job, you're supposed to get married, you know, you're supposed to be straight, you're supposed to like, how many of us are making choices? Like we think we're making choices. We're just doing what?

Instructor:

—What we've been programmed to do. Exactly.

We are unaware of the influence of our programming

And there are programs that recently, say in the last five years, a lot of people have become aware of, to do with the education system, to do with politics, to do with the economy, to do with the food we eat. So these kinds of very surface-level programs, a lot of people are aware of right now, but we're not aware of the more subtle programming to do with how we want to be superior to others, how we want to project a certain image, because we've been trained to assume a certain identity, to have an attachment to the physical vehicle, to think this is a “me”. I'm so and so, this is my name. I need to get a job. I need to impress people. I need to do all these certain things that are more subtle social, that are less to do with the material, but more to do with our psychology, and we chase all these things, like vanity, or looking good in front of other people, having favor, having attention, or having people agree with you, being nice to you, say certain things to you, and if they meet all these certain requirements, then: CHECK—that's good, and they're my friend, and I understand what's going on here. It all matches this perfect thing that I've laid out. Where really, what's going on energetically can be much more subtle. There are layers and layers to us being experienced.

Audience Member:

Yeah, I think a lot of people do things, and they don't even ask themselves if that what they really want. They just do.

Instructor:

Usually they don't want to do any of it, really. But they are a victim to that impulse that arises from the program, and they don't know that it's a program. And it's something that requires more unpacking—how to go up against it—because let's say you see someone who's an impulsive eater, and they're overweight, and they keep trying to manage their weight, but the more they go on diets, and the more they do fasting, and the more they torture themselves, the more they then fall into binge eating. And they end up getting stuck in this cycle where they go back and forth, and then arises shame and guilt. And then—in the end—they say, “Well, I failed, so I'm just going to love that I'm overweight,” which they still didn't get the thing they really wanted which was to lose the weight. They didn't get that, but then just say, “Okay, I accept it.” Whereas there could be a parallel universe where they did lose the weight, 'cause they figured out how to deal with that internal drive to just impulsively eat.

And to understand how this works, we have to understand the battle of opposite forces. When we have equal and opposite forces, both sides grow. So, like in the Matrix, when Neo, he keeps fighting and fighting Agent Smith, and the more he fights him, the harder he fights him, the more Agent Smith multiplies, and those forces keep growing together. So that happens inside of us when we try to fight ourselves. But the solution is not to just keel over and let the ego win, because it's still a program. But it requires working with energy—and through certain practices—we can completely dissolve the aggregate and move into a place where we are a free observer, where we can consciously choose how we want to act.

Uh, what is truth? Eh?

Objectively, and this is not something that I've perceived personally, because we all have a subjective perspective where we're at. But from my understanding, it's objectively, we're all one being that's simultaneously experiencing every perspective on the path, descending into ourselves and ascending back out through all space and time, over many parallel realities, all right NOW in the present moment.

—And teaching and learning from ourselves?

Oh, teaching and learning from ourselves, yes.

That's one way to put it. And the thing that we want to understand with truth is that all perspectives are subjective if we are inside of the manifested reality. So even to argue with someone—there's really no point—because to the other person, whatever their side of the argument is, what they're seeing, is true to them, and exists in their universe as a truth. So when you say, “No, you're wrong and I'm right,” you're really, what you're really experiencing is that you have a different perspective that's true to you in your universe, and you're trying to convince them that your universe is the only one.

But actually, all the perspectives exist simultaneously. So to have two individuals fighting over something, “This is how you should sweep the floor. This is how you should empty the trash, or this is how you ascend. This is how you do the spiritual work,” or, “My school is better than your school. My religion is better than your religion.” All of this doesn't really make any sense. Because everyone is stuck in one perspective, and they cannot see what we talked about. The Third Force is the ability to understand that the other person's perspective is simultaneously true.—It's true to them. So, to say, “Mine is true”, is to not understand the nature of reality itself.

And that's how I think there's been drawn certain geometric shapes that cast different shadows on different walls. Like, if you take a cone and you shine a light on it. On one wall, you see a circle; another wall, you see a triangle. And—of course—the wall with the circle and the wall with the triangle…but they both say, “I’m right.” But the truth is actually a cone.

3D image casting different shadows from different perspectives

Audience Member:

But does that apply, like, like, you're talking about science? If someone says they don't believe in gravity, you know, if someone says, “I believe it isn't real,” but there's evidence that...

Instructor:

Well, at objective reality, when we talk about, there's four pillars to everything, there's, that the way that Divinity communicates with us, down here, because there's four elements related to that. We're in the quaternary. But religion, science, art, and philosophy. And at objective reality, they're all one and the same thing. So, you know, I think that Thor line in the Thor movie, he says, you know, “Your ancients called the magic. You now call it science. Where I come from, magic and science are one and the same thing”. Somebody says gravity isn't objectively real? Well, it's correct, in a sense, because gravity is an illusion of the Maya. Terence Howard literally proves that with fifth dimensional mechanics, gravity doesn't exist. It's only an effect of the perception from the Third Dimension. At the same time—though—from the perspective of the Third Dimension, gravity is a law of the physical science on this planet. So in a sense, both are correct, depending on what perspective you're looking for.

And that's the thing. The truth is multidimensional. So things can be correct or incorrect depending on the perspective that you look from, because in the Absolute, in objective reality, everything is correct, at the same time. Because it's all correct and incorrect, because it's all perspectives, all together—ONE.

Audience Member:

So this is a real stickler for me, right, as a career scientist, that what we do with science, right, is we have a model. We can construct models of how things operate, of even how life operates. And so we can create models and make predictions. Given—and that's what we're doing, we're not in the truth business, certainly in the model business, the model of how things work. And now that gives us incredible power. So that gives us incredible predictive power. Up the street, at 1st and 29th, I'm engineering human hearts, and skeletal muscle—you know—that's possible, because we have understanding of life and how life works. With humility, incredible humility—we also know—by that knowledge, there’s so much that we definitely do NOT know. I definitely cannot predict. And that's one aspect. It's one we build models of how things could work. give it under certain conditions. That's it. We're not in the game of, people in your ego, it does inflate often to, yes, with a true business. But it's really not true.

Instructor:

Yes, science has brought us so many advancements, so many inventions, and modern conveniences that—of course—we don't deny. You know, we use those. We have a TV, we have a computer, and, of course, if we need to go to the hospital and have surgery, we have all of those modern inventions that are going to make it a more comfortable experience. Right? So, of course, science is beneficial, and in the teachings of Gnosis, it said that science is one part of God's message, or what comes from the higher dimensions, right?

So of course, in that way, science is able to be a kind of truth. And in another perspective—for example—you talked about heart surgery. So we understand how the heart works, and surgeons can perform an operation, they can save lives. If you go into Eastern wisdom and Eastern traditions, then there's discussion of the heart chakra, and how it emits a magnetism that can go many meters out, and can affect and interact with that energy that is pulsing from others. And this is also a kind of science. We can't say that it's not science, because people experience it.

The thing is, physical science is limited because the physical universe, at this time, I think, as I said, if anybody's seen that Terrance Howard podcast with Joe Rogan, where he does a fifth dimensional mathematics [Model of Reality], is that the physical universe right now that we live in right now is five dimensions. So we use a three dimensional model. There are two more dimensions in the physical universe alone. But even if we were a more advanced race, let's say another planet that understood the fifth dimension, we still wouldn't be able to just prove the truth with science, because realistically, the phenomenal universe has seven dimensions, and there's a whole other layer to reality beyond that. And then beyond our solar system, there are more dimensions beyond that. So, the universe can be completely described within mathematics, but you have to have mathematics and also an understanding of the superior planes, which there are more than we can perceive at this current time. Even if we awaken to a certain point, our human brain can't process some of the things that come back.

For example, other galaxies are organized by different mathematics than ours are. We can get this information from a download, but we can't actually perceive what it is. Like, we can't project ourselves there, because our brain can't process the information of what a reality with different math would look like. We would need to create a more superior body, which is something that also comes along with these teachings, to even actually understand that information properly.

Audience Member:

Okay, one real quick thing. It's just that, and we can use science to help us understand these things. We know that [with] our perspective—we evolved to see the world efficiently, not at all as it is, not at all. That's right. The illusion of solidity, of this wood table, of this is an illusion. We know that we evolved, the illusion of time is, and space time is not fundamental because it clearly evolved to perceive that way as a convenience for... It's really clear. So, we can use that, we can, they can help understand, guide that our perspective is clearly not what we think it is.

Instructor:

Yeah, yeah, 100%. Yes.

Audience Member:

I'm sorry, but I think that ego you're talking about before, that was applied to, like, religion. I think some people apply that to science.

Instructor:

Yeah, science. Absolutely. We can say that science, mechanical science itself is a religion. It's become a religion and a dogma. If I'm an atheist, then I only believe in physical science, and I have a dogma, and I have my physics and all of these things, there's no difference. We could turn anything into a religion. You could turn going into the gym and doing CrossFit into a religion. You know, anything that we make into a ritual and a routine mechanically is a religion. Like, we mean, in the exoteric sense.

Yes. So then we come to programming and systems. And first, I want to ask you guys, what programming and systems are you aware of currently?

Audience Member:

I don't mean to be vulgar, but sex. On every bus in the city, they have a Museum of Sex advertisement on it. I'm not trying to be funny. Why are six year olds viewing sex objects when they're in their little light bodies like this? Like, see, the sex programming is very heavy.

Instructor:

That's right. That is a program where the creative energy—some knowing how powerful it is—will abuse the power of that energy in order to pressure people to do certain things, to take certain actions.

Certainly on purpose.

Yes. That's right. Sex and money is used in marketing, right? There's always a pretty girl standing next to the cigarettes or the car, and has nothing to do with those things.

Yeah, programming and systems—though—also, beyond the ones we think of as obvious, like, politics, religion, schools, it's even systems [that] could be as simple as our morals on what a family should look like, our pleasantries that we go around [saying & doing]. All of these things are programming in systems. So—to that extent—it's literally every thing that we've been accustomed to doing from a young age when we form a personality as a child, right? All of those things—in a sense—are programming.

It's the limitations of those systems that can prevent us in critical moments from taking conscious actions, taking actions that are appropriate to a certain situation. The consciousness has the ability to color outside of the lines, to see a circumstance, to see some kind of scenario, and not react to it in a mechanical way, but to see what is the best thing to do here, that doesn't necessarily satisfy what everyone wants me to do, but what I feel is right to do. And that's where you have these famous characters who take certain decisions, and other people say, “Oh, I can't understand them.”

I'm reminded of, this is story Ram Dass, tells, he talks about Gandhi, and Gandhi was organizing a large march or a protest, and all of the supporters—some had traveled many, many days or weeks, some on foot, to all conglomerate in this one location, to begin the protest. And when they got there, then Gandhi said, '“No, we're not doing it. Sorry, everyone. Go home.”

And they said, “What? No, you can't do that. We've traveled for days, weeks. We are here now. You told us to come here. That's not right. That's not fair.”

He said, “I have to be loyal to the truth of the moment. So, whatever I said before was true then, and this is true now. Go home.” And we don't know what he was thinking, but he succeeded in the end.

So sometimes we have to be free enough to not conform, and all of these systems, these programs, they restrict us into a kind of weakness, where we don't come into our full power, our full strength, to be able to act when we need to act. One very extreme example that we mentioned before, that is—it's a little bit dramatic—but say, the religious, nonviolent person has some, someone violent break into their household, and then they say, “Oh, no, I can't defend my family, because I'm nonviolent,” and then their family dies.

I think it's in the Quran.

Yes. So it's a very extreme example, but a lot of us have less intense moments where we allow the systems, the programming, to make us behave in a certain way, and we would rather the programming, because that's how it's always been, and we don't know any better. And really, it's because the consciousness is asleep. So we are not even aware that we're following a program. If we take the example of pleasantries like, “Hello,” “Goodbye,” and, “Oh, nice to see you”, and the typical moment where this program plays out the most is where we run into someone in the street, and we really don't want to talk to them. But we do, and we spend far too long asking them about things we're not interested in, and in that moment, we are being inauthentic. We're being very fake.

But the program is “more important”. So we follow the program, and then we smile, and we leave, and we may never see that person again. But we weren't even being kind or loving or compassionate. So we don't get brownie points for that. We were JUST following the program. It would be another thing if we were seeing them as a soul, and we were looking into their heart, and we wanted to give them some kind of uplifting encouragement. But usually, we're not doing that. We're on autopilot, and we're busy thinking, “Oh, I just want to get out of this situation. But I'll say all the standard lines, and hurry up, and then goodbye.”

That's a big thing, too, right? Sacrifice. And that's just a little bit off topic, but, a main tenant in most spiritual communities—even in the kindergarten schools, who don't really have the Death (death of the ego), and other things of that nature—is to sacrifice for others. People don't seem to understand that, if I do [something] because I think it's gonna get me a good favor or get me free from my karma, and I'm doing [this thing] for selfish reasons. Like, “I'm gonna be nice to get myself something,” that's not really sacrifice. Also, if we're sacrificing something that doesn't have any value to us, like the rich person that's a philanthropist, throwing around a million dollars, like it's a $20 bill; that's not really a sacrifice either. They're giving what they have rather than giving something that [they] don't have, to just honestly, selflessly help someone else.

One of the biggest systems of control is a religious system. And any school, any group, any society can fall into becoming this kind of system of control. And whatever the tenets of faith or the doctrine, you will have a large group of people.

Now, in the study of Gnosis, we study energy and how it works in the universe. And there's a term for what happens when people regularly meet, which is why it's the same in every religion. It's called an egregor. An egregor is a living entity that is created by the sum energy of the consciousnesses that regularly come together and participate in a set of values. And for as long as people regularly meet, like some of us have been meeting in the Theosophy Society—and it's been going for a very long time—all of those lodges have egregors. And as long as the Egregor is alive and healthy, then it can continue to have a certain atmosphere, invite people back, people will keep coming, and keep that egregor alive. So we say that an organization or a group...

It doesn't even have to be spiritual, by the way.

A company…

I know. A famous stadium, like Madison Square Garden, and there's energy in that building, all of the things that happened in it, you know, and that's just because people go there, and they dump their energy. In an unconscious way—because it's a stadium—but the thing is, is that people meet and things happen there. And that energy stays in that place, that venue.

Which is why you can feel it when you go there.

So especially a place where people go to do spiritual work and actually are trying to give their energy, so it's not by accident, then you have these buildups of energy.

So that energy takes on a life of its own. And certain things happen in certain groups. You could say that a group has its own kind of collective ego. If you look into, say, commercial law and studies of commercial ethics, they talk about, “How should we treat the corporation? It, kind of, like, its own living being. Shall we say it's a person where we want to accuse it, because it functions like a person?” It's not any one person that did the bad thing. It was the collective in the company, right?

So, when you have a school, typically, what happens is they have access to some wisdom. Right? And then they have students that come in and begin to learn the system, the wisdom, the teachings. And over time, generally, what happens is it all becomes very materialistic. So the same language is retained, the same texts may be retained, but because the ego is at hand, and the ego wants to reduce everything to something that plays within its realm of understanding, it will reduce the system or the teaching to something egoic. And that's where you see those TV preachers that say, “Reach deep into your pockets,” and, “When a coin,” what is it, the Catholic saying, actually, “When a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from Purgatory Springs.”

They have these sayings, right? That was, I think, when the Catholic Church was just forming in the beginning, and they were going from village to village with pictures of hellfire, and collecting all the “coins for the souls”, apparently.

So you'll see these things like, “If you donate a lot of money or buy a piece of land for the—not necessarily Christian church—but for the whatever group, then surely you'll be given an extra incarnation. The priest said it.” You know, something like this. And we, being outside of these systems, can laugh and say, “That's ridiculous!” But then why do you see all of these people flock to these egregores, invest their energy, and invest their money—which money is a physical manifestation of energy anyway, so it's still showing the flow of energy into this location. Why do these people come and make themselves subservient, giving up their inner authority, and coming under a system, and then just giving them lots of favor and attention, and genuinely hoping that they can find divinity, find a higher truth, find some power, some peace, whatever it is they're looking for?—And also, believe that they found it when they haven’t; and then continue to participate?

Yeah, well, that's a red flag when—you'll see, schools or religions becoming a business, really. And to an extent, the teachings are supposed to be disseminated for free, and then, obviously, you need to run off donations. We even run off donations in that sense. But once you start, trading… “Oh, you're gonna move up, if you, gain favor, get money…” People are supposed to donate money when they’re donating of their own accord, because they're giving their energy just like they give their energy by doing spiritual work. The internal currency is favor, dharma, and the external energy is money. But, it should be somebody's choice.

You shouldn't be telling them, “Oh, you know, it’s a sacrifice if you give us more cash.” But you see it a lot, because the ego gets involved. And also, some of these places, they have big temples or they have big sanctuaries and somebody… how do they support it? They don't work, so they support these temples by getting the congregation to pay for it.

Audience Member:

What you were saying, was that question rhetorical? Or you were actually asking us?

Instructor:

Which one?

Audience Member:

When you said, Why do people... I'm gonna boil it down. Why do people go to Eggregor's all the time and give their energy?

Instructor:

It was rhetorical, but if you have an answer, sure.

Audience Member:

Well, it's insecurity. They're fearful. That’s fear.

Instructor:

Yeah, the ego wants something to rely on, and it wants to outsource the journey. The journey is internal, and it's for the individual. But the person doesn't want to do the work. don't want to face themselves. They don't want to seek within themselves. So they would rather ask someone else to give them a formula and say, “I'll just follow that.” And when it doesn't work, they just come up with a million excuses and mental gymnastics to say why, “It's working, it's working, it's working, so I can continue. And now I've put in 10 years, I put in 20 years. It better have worked, so I'll just tell myself all the ways that it's worked. So I can commit for life.”

Audience Member:

Well, you also just say there's value in community often.

Instructor:

I mean—look—realistically, everyone is responsible for their own work. Now, that can be true, and still, it is good for us to meet as a group, with that understanding, because there are powerful energy practices you can do with groups, and we can all support like-minded individuals in doing their own work. The issue becomes when it shifts from, “We're all working on ourselves, and we're meeting together and assisting ourselves, doing our work on ourselves,” to now, “I'm relying on you (whether this means relying on a teacher, a group or even angels) to help me do the work, because I don't want to do the work myself.”

For a bit of humor, this is an example of an attitude we want to avoid when it comes to the spiritual work.

Or, “I'm going to tell you how to do it.” (a mechanism of control)

“I need a medium to connect me,” though the work is to find the spirit within. But if you think about, what happened to the Catholic Church? Well, they have a priest, and the priest is now “the medium” to connect you spiritually to your own internal Divinity. And that's, it's partially because of the level of understanding. It also partially is because some people just want that, right? So there's a market for it. Most people don't want to work on their own ego or die to themselves. You know, it's scary to the ego.

Audience Member:

Is spiritual teaching supposed to be offered for free? Is it wrong to charge a fee?

Instructor:

I mean, it's not incorrect to charge. But the thing is that, usually it still should be, through donation and you're supposed to disseminate the wisdom in a free way. One of the red flags of a school of black magic or something, of the left-handed path, is if they're charging, exorbitant sums, or they're charging you for initiations. So they're saying, ”Oh, if you paid this much money, now you're the 30th degree Mason.” The initiations happen internally, and they don't even happen for the person. They happen for our Higher Self, which takes the initiations if we do work in the physical. So nobody can sell you an initiation, but there are schools that do that.

But usually in the sense that that would be something related to something that is openly a school that towards the ego. Most of the time it's that they don't “sell” anything, they are a school that works off donations. And they just put pressure on you because they make it feel like you're going to have some type of advancement if you are “sacrificing” more.

Or that you're bad if you don't.

No, not like, obviously, we know that something, like, Scientology, “Oh, the more you pay, the more spiritual you are!” Obviously, that is in terms of the ego. But we mean more in the sense of a school that actually does have a certain proclivity to pull us maybe in the right direction—at first—but there's also benefits to them and the people that are in power.

Generally, when money and power are involved, it's all ego, because those are the things that the ego likes. So even if they say, I take the Bhagavad Gita, and I make a system around it. I extract all the practices, and I put them in certain books. Yes, I've done work to organize it, but as soon as I start saying, “Okay, this costs $300, and you can meditate with me every week.” Then I'm actually taking something that is not really mine, and I'm selling it. And the thing is, when we study all religions, we see there's a Universal Thread that is fundamentally true. No one owns that. That's something that we all know in our hearts.

Another funny story from Ram Dass is he often would say, “When a spiritual teacher is talking, the audience would nod. They’d nod along.” And he'd say, “How do you know? See, you already know. Otherwise, why are you nodding? You're nodding. You're agreeing because it's your own inner knowing. So how can I sell to you what you already know?”

Audience Member:

I wanted to do shadow work, and this guy was offering it for $3,500.

Instructor:

That's the case, and point. You could probably, ask ChatGPT, for a shadow work.

Yeah, there's, for example, another thing that is—obviously—it's an effective thing, but people take advantage of it to sell it for money is Transcendental Meditation, which, literally, is basically, the occult method of how to meditate. That’s what we teach in Gnosis for free. You use mantra to concentrate and get deep, and they, market it as we give you your own “special” mantra, and then you pay us all this money, and then you sit and you use a mantra to, get you deep into meditation, and they charge…

$5000.

I was going to say—a session. It's, [around] $500, [and] it's not even that it doesn't work, but it's dishonest. I mean, you can find those… It's not some magical secret thing that you can't find on your own.

But the people that do things like that get karma for that. So that's why usually, when a teacher is honest and trying to actually help you awaken, and they themselves are a student that is also trying to awaken, they wouldn't do that, because the amount of karma that you take on for selling something that's not yours…In a sense, there's a commandment in the Bible, “Thou shalt not steal,” that we all know. We think of it as we shouldn't take items from other individuals. In a sense, that's true in a practical sense, but all of these internal ethical laws have a deeper meaning, and to not steal is to not steal from Source. So when we take credit for anything, that comes from the fact that we're actually this one larger being, it's a violation of internal ethics, so there's a karma behind it.

So, if I heal somebody because I open my heart center enough to connect to, my Being, and I can have some healing abilities in my hands, and I start selling it. Like, I'm the one healing people, me—the person. There's going to be on a Cosmic level—there's a karma that comes along with different things of that nature.

Yeah, so let's say you are doing something like a sound bath or yoga. That's fine.

That's fine.

Right? But if you're offering something that is fundamentally universally true, it doesn't make sense to be selling that, because that belongs to all of us. But again, this is just our perspective. So everyone's free to do as they choose, and we always do. We always have our own perspective, and we take actions according to that. So we're sharing our perspective on charging for spiritual teachers.

So, let's move into Duality and finding the Third Force. The whole of manifestation functions off of two poles that we talked about before the pendulum that goes back and forth. So if we have a week or some days where we're experiencing a lot of joy, we're partying with our friends, the Buddha says that pain and pleasure are two sides of the same coin. Because the consciousness is asleep, we don't realize that the pendulum is about to swing the other way. So then, when we say goodbye, or our best friend leaves town, then now we're gloomy, and we're kind of bummed out for a couple days, and we indulged that, and we feel real sad, and eat some ice cream, and watch the movies, and then we're happy again.

And then this pendulum keeps swinging, and these two poles exist within everything. So let's take the example of some activists that are fighting for freedom, and justice, and they think they're doing so well, and they're working very hard, and they're making their point, and protesting, and writing letters, and then on the other hand, you have the oppressor that is very strong, and pushing them down, and these parties that are playing in this cosmic dance—if they're asleep—they don't realize that there are two sides of duality pushing up against each other. So as long as one side exists with full identification with that role, then the other side will exist. And they'll exist to perpetuate that dynamic, which is why, when we fight really hard, and we get tense, and we're full of ego and desire, we tend to repel the thing that we really want, or that we yearn for, because we're generating a lot of DUALITY, which means the opposite thing has to be true.

And so generally, say, we are very insecure. For example, someone who thinks they can do no good, and they always fail, then they'll find that to be true. So, we create our reality within these two poles. And when we are stuck in dualistic thinking, we think, “This is good, that's bad. And I want this, and I don't want that.” And so when Buddha tells us the noble truths and says there are two sides of the same coin, we go, “Yeah, but not really, because when I'm happy, like [when] I'm eating the ice cream or I'm having a party, it's good. I like it.” And so we don't see how we keep creating the downtimes or the negative incidents because we're chasing the positive ones. Yes.

Audience Member:

I have bipolar disorder. And does that mean, like, in, like, a constant state of imbalance?

Instructor:

Well, everyone's in imbalance.

So... I actually used to have bipolar. What it is, is that we are more than likely empathic. And we're very sensitive to emotions around us and energies around us. So therefore, the mood swings. What the swinging truly comes from, with most psychological things, is that we don't have control and balance within. So, we are susceptible to the changings in the environment a lot. I don’t know if it's environmental for you? I know—for me—it was environmental. But even so, it's the swing between the energies of the pendulum. We are feeling them more severely than others. And it usually has to do with a strong solar plexus.

You'll feel the emotion here (indicates solar plexus).

So there's a center that—it’s the emotional center, and when we're hyper-sensitive there—we have more ability there—we feel emotions stronger. Through the work, through balancing and working with the ego, eventually most psychological disorders can eventually disappear.

I eventually stopped taking my medicines. I used to also be ADD as well. I used to take…Those actually took longer to get rid of, because they actually help you with meditation it helps you focus though, but the thing is, then you don't want to be reliant on it—But I know that the mood stabilizers and things, once I was able to stabilize my mood internally, within the emotional center—and the mind too, because the thoughts get in the way—Find enough balance, then eventually, intuitively, I myself moved past it.

But, with things of that nature, it's all everything that goes on in our psychology is related to egos and how we process impressions. And through the work of observing ourselves, and then finding where the aggregates are, we slowly can work towards removing them, and then becoming more stable, but it's a process; it's a work. It doesn't just happen overnight. You can't wave a wand. Even once we get to a more balanced state, we're still mostly ego. We say in Gnosis symbolically, we start out with 97% ego. 3% of Essence or the Seed of the Spirit.

Free consciousness.

Free consciousness. Now, that's symbolic, the three is related to the three forces. And truthfully, most people that find themselves in today's time, that come in, probably have more free consciousness than 3%. But the point is, we're mostly ego. So let’s say [approximately] we're 90% ego. So even if we get to a certain state of awakening, it's going to be there. We could find the depersonalization, find the balance. And we still, it's everywhere. In fact, you see it even more when you do back away from it, you just don't become identified with it anymore. So it's a process, and, it's slowly but surely. We'll start with, moment to moment awareness and practices of that nature. Maybe we'll talk about some after the class.

Yeah, well, we have on this slide finding the Third Force, and that is the only way to come out of duality. So when we're caught in right and wrong, we're caught in judgment, we're caught in craving and aversion. And even if we hear this teaching, we think there's no way out. The Third Force is that equanimous observer, and a lot of people who work with observation for many years, then they can see the egos, and their tactic is, “Okay, when I see the ego comes in, I just have to watch, and I have to wait, and then this negative emotion or whatever, it's gonna go, and I can see it perfectly, and then it's gone.” And they think that's the best they can do, but really, with particular practices, we can actually completely eliminate those aggregates. And that's what the Buddha did.

But today, people don't know how to do that. They think “If I just keep watching my breath, eventually, they'll go away.” And they find after 30 years, they get really good at seeing them, but they're still there. So there is a way, and it starts with the Third Force, because the third force is that neutral part of the three forces in all reality. It's the energy that BINDS the forces so that reality exists. And that is the structure that allows the ego to exist. So if we can move into that part of that binding mechanism, we have the power to undo that creation and to slowly over time dissolve the ego. And as we dissolve the ego, that's how we awaken the consciousness and our abilities and our energy and our ability to perceive around us.

So slowly, some people may begin to see auras and awaken certain abilities, and it's not that we want to chase those abilities, because that becomes another ego that prevents it from happening, but it can be a byproduct of that process, where we see that the ego has completely entrapped and entombed what we really are. And we're so far gone that we don't know how to get back out of it. But as we move into the Third Force—the Observer—and work with practices to dissolve the ego, and stay detached from the duality, then we become a kind of superhuman. We become someone that doesn't get caught up in all of the ups and downs of the construct, because the construct is gonna keep having that pendulum swinging and everything.

Yeah, it's natural. The swings between duality and also even the four elements and other elements in that nature, too. These things are always constantly changing around us. So, if we're not aware of it, and we're, especially if we're open, and, like I said, specifically, I say, the emotional center for bipolar, or in the mind. Let's say, somebody is schizophrenic—although it's probably really hard for somebody schizophrenic to do the work. Because they...

But we're all schizophrenic...

No, technically, in a sense, everyone's schizophrenic.

Audience Member:

I'm on anti-psychotics too.

Instructor:

There's still hope, there's still hope.

Audience Member:

Bro, I got diagnosed with that. You can you'll get through it eventually.

Instructor:

I meant if it was active. You said you were on medication?

Audience Member:

You keep saying dissolve the ego, but even Ram Dass…When you hear—you talk about him, he does talk about, that it does serve a purpose, to a certain extent. Especially, in the physical world that we live. I do want to reduce my ego as well. I see the value of what you're talking about, but when you say dissolve, I hear myself or maybe my ego responding to that. But I feel that you need to dilute it or minimize it, not necessarily dissolve it, because it does offer a certain level of protection, if nothing else, as in, I'm gonna get eaten by the lion, or I'm not, if I don't take a basic [survival approach].

Instructor:

Yes, The ego definitely is not a negative thing. We create it so that we can extract wisdom from the construct of reality. The problem with the ego isn't so much the ego itself, because it's really our relationship to it. We created it so that we could have an experience, and then we remove it so that we can extract the wisdom out of that experience. And it's not, good or bad, but it is meant to be removed so that for us to actually advance out of the contract.

There's two things, and we talked about this earlier, you guys actually came up, late, but there's, the New Age perspective, the Occult perspective, and both need to be in balance. The truth is, the actual teaching, even though people tend to focus more on either the depersonalization or the death of the ego, is, the teaching is to self remember, which is to be aware, here and now in the present moment, and to practice the three factors of initiation, which are Death (of the ego or conditioning), Birth (of new internal qualities and characteristics), and Sacrifice (being altruistic and serving others).

Now, (which is death of the ego.) Most people focus on one thing or the other, but the truth is, and it's okay, too, because the perspectives are fine. From our understanding, it's different levels in spiritual development. But the thing is, is that... we need to want to awaken, right? So to realize that this is illusion. But two, to actually move up this Tree of Life, to actually move up and become a higher being, there are certain things in this reality that need to be created, certain higher subtle bodies.

We talk about the astral body, and the mental body, and the causal body, these things [that are] in Theosophy. These are bodies that one, need to be created. If we're at this point in the work, we probably actually have created them in past existences, but they need to be reacquired, because they're obscured by the ego. Without achieving this, which can be done in a lifetime if we awaken and see the work. The work doesn't take, the work itself, once you've awakened, can take 20 to 30 years. That's what the masters mostly say. But it takes many, many, existences to even awaken. That's pretty much the hardest part. But in that sense, we do need to grow as a physical being so that we can experience higher levels of reality.

As I said before, we were talking about just certain things, for example, that.—You can awaken to a certain point just on the awakening without doing this and receive information, let's say, about another galaxy. Another galaxy is organized with different mathematics than ours. So even though you know it exists and you know this about it, you can receive the information from Source, you can't actually go there nor perceive it because our human brain cannot perceive a reality of different mathematics. So therefore, the only way to—even though you're aware of it—be able to get out of here and go to other places like that, would be to then do the work and create the higher subtle bodies, which takes dissolving the ego.

Yeah, so with the ego, the ego thinks that it's pretty good and it's pretty useful and it does a good job. And when we created it, there was a function that it was “trying” to serve. it does a good job at “trying” to serve its function. But actually, the ego never successfully serves its function. And the wisdom that we extract out of the ego, when we dissolve it, is we understand how it tried and how it didn't succeed, and we see a higher perspective that is outside of that entombment.

So let's take the example of someone who has an insecurity and really wants love, right? They have an ego of unworthiness. And with this ego, they're always in a repelling energy that pushes away their opportunity for love. The ego's intention is to find unity, and to find a place of love that they can be in together with another soul. But because this Essence doesn't recognize that the love can only be found within itself, it searches for that externally. And the more that it craves and grasps, and it goes on Bumble and Tinder, and on date after date, and it meets terrible people, and it's very unhappy, it thinks that, “If I just keep trying really, really hard, I'm gonna get there.” And actually, if it were to do the complete opposite, and to go within, and to find that love within, find the wholeness within, find that Unity where we're all One Being, and there's no ego, it's just love. Then surprise, surprise, love and unity will come to it, because the consciousness and the Essence already knows how to create what it yearns for. The ego only tries to do it, and those moments where we succeed in coming into a place where this yearning is realized are the moments when we didn't have ego.

And if we did—if we got something through ego—the way the construct works is it will deliver it to us in a corrupt manner. If we look at—we gave the example before of a high-performing CEO and he thinks he's done incredibly well. He has all this “respect”, which is an illusion. He has all these henchmen and people in deference to him, and he has access to all these funds. He lives a very tight and controlled life. He wakes up at 4 a.m.. He goes running, and he has this 20-minute schedule where he's gonna talk to his wife on the phone as he drives to another meeting. And he has 30 minutes scheduled to play basketball with his son, and the rest of the time, he works and works and works and works. And he has a big house, and he has several lovely vacations a year, and he's terribly miserable. He's not happy. He has no time to even know who he is or if he even wants a life like that. And he doesn't enjoy time with friends and family because he's busy pursuing these numbers in a bank account, thinking, “I’ve really done well.”

And the “I” that thinks it's done well is the ego. there are egos of greed, egos of self importance, and they're trying to create abundance, freedom, harmony, love, togetherness, community, but they create all the opposite. They create separation, restriction, unhappiness. So the ego is something that we can certainly learn through. And the ego thinks that it does a good job, which is why it says, “Don't fire me, I can do it. I can do it.” But the more we watch and pay careful attention to how the reality externally is manifesting in conjunction with our internal energy, the more we can understand who is the better creator. Is it the ego, that tight, clenched ball that is an aggregate of trapped energy in a cosmic knot? Or is it the I AM THAT I AM?—That which I truly am, that creates in the present moment.

Audience Member:

So then, is it bad or not spiritual?

Instructor:

It's not bad.

Audience Member:

No, I didn't finish my point. To have material opulence, to have abundance.

Instructor:

If that's your path…

Audience Member:

If that's your path what do you mean?

Instructor:

Well, the most important thing is actually your energy, your internal state. So, if you were chasing that and obsessed with it, and attached to it; and after you got it, you were really afraid of losing it; and you used it to think that you were better than everyone; and you obtained it by hurting other people and causing suffering for others; then in that way, the energy is going to balance. The pendulum is gonna come back the other way.

Audience Member:

I understand.

Instructor:

All right. So next, we're going to talk about kind of the systems through Duality in itself. So, here we have a slide on the differences between persuasion and coercion. We broached the topic a little bit earlier. In this sense, we'll relate this to let's say… Is anybody familiar with the concepts in, exoteric Gnosis or, the ancient esoteric Christianity, of how there's a Demiurge, and, the Archons?

The Ancient Gnostic Demiurge, Yaldabaoth

Okay, so to a certain extent. There are beings that exist in the higher subtle dimensions that we could call the gods or angels, demons, etc., etc. The Logos is what we call them in, [Samaelian] Gnosis, that do actually control the majority of the systems on this planet, but it's not in a sense of… subjectively, aliens controlling the planet. It's more that they are cosmic principles.

So there are seven cosmic principles that... the universe manifests through, like the illusion, the Maya, is manifested in seven principles, and those seven principles all have different...

Aspects.

Well, I would say people… well beings that incarnated out of them certain levels of [reality], we could think of them sort of as— anybody who has watched the Matrix. And in the Second Matrix, he goes to the Merovingian—like those programs that work with cause and effect. They're sort of the architects of the system itself. That's how we can think of those beings.

The Merovingian, Matrix Revolutions 2003. Fair Use

And those beings are… well, even us, right? Our higher aspect, our higher self, exists in the Seventh Dimension, too. We unfold down through one of those beings as well. We're a piece of that, whether we come from beyond that or from one of them. But those beings work in a way that they're not actually unconscious, as the people on this planet are. They are conscious. They're aware of their connection to Divinity, but at the same time, they're at a grade of spirit that they're going through this procedure where they're living the experience of being in charge of certain parts of the cosmos. Now, with that extent, they're not good nor evil, these beings are balanced to an extent. They're not fully in balance, but they're balanced to a [very high] extent. And they simply are just given missions that have to do with, working with Reality. And in Gnosis we call this, the White and the Black Lodge.

This is duality. In that sense, a being that's an angel can have a mission that is involved with helping people awaken, or it could have a mission that is involved with helping to facilitate the ego on the planet. Now, these beings are not black magicians, those things exist. We're not talking about somebody who is in ego, that works like that. They're a being that's just awakened and doing its part in the Construct. Through that, that means that they don't do black magic. What they do is that they have to respect the free will of others.

Now, since most of these systems that we talk about, politics, religion, are controlled by, say, this “Black Lodge”, what that means is that it's a system that needs to exist because there needs to be balance on the planet. But they can't make people fall asleep in these systems. So we talked earlier about the aspect of coercion. Now, persuasion and coercion are two sides of the same coin. Persuasion is me sitting here right now. I give you information about the path, and if you're drawn to the light, if you're drawn to that vibration, you come back for more classes. If you don't, you don't, it doesn't bother us. You can go.

Coercion, on the other hand, is when the beings or the system of control, purports something to you that's unconsciously there, and you don't realize it. Therefore, you consent freely on your free will, but because it aligns with egos that you have, you don't know that you're consenting to it.

We're actually going to do a podcast on this probably soon, but we noticed, for example, on Apple TV, they're perhaps a left-handed path corporation is in charge of the programs on that channel. But what we see is, is that it's hidden in plain sight, so all of the shows will have things of overt esoteric symbolism that points to all the things that are about awakening the consciousness. They even say things like the ego death, they talk about saving the energy. But the main character always is, for example, not wanting to become enlightened and wanting to stay with themselves for a while and, “Screw moving up to the next level. I just want to stay here and be myself (the ego, the lower self)!”

Now—overtly—we don't realize this, but what it's doing is, is it's saying you should pick the ego. Now, somebody just watching the show says, “Oh, that's the main character. That's the hero.” So by you watching that show and you align yourself with this hero; you like that character, subconsciously going into your subconscious is, “I should favor the ego over the Higher Self.”

Audience Member:

It's funny, I'm a big Star Wars fan, and I noticed Disney started doing something where they start saying, “You can choose between the Jedi and the Sith.”

Instructor:

Yes, in the Acolyte, they literally… The guy says something about, “Just below the level of consciousness, there are these emotions that you could use, like anger,” and that's dark. And actually Star Wars, the original Star Wars is a beautiful modern mythology of finding balance—the original ones. There's so much symbolism in Star Wars. But the stuff that Disney has done after is definitely there's been a…

That's a coercion.

…switch in that and that is coercion and that's the difference between coercion and persuasion. Persuasion is I put it out there for you. And, you're still free to make your choice. And it's something that speaks to the Essence. But coercion speaks to the ego, but it doesn't make you. It'll tell you everything [that] is there. It will have all of the information [that] is still the same. All of the stuff is true. The way all of the stuff about the ego death and initiation will be hidden there in symbols, but they’re basically saying, “This is how you awaken, but you shouldn’t awaken because that's bad. You should get into trans-humanism or something and you should evolve yourself and bet on your own intellect rather than finding enlightenment. You CAN find enlightenment this way, but that's not good.” And that's the energy.

Audience Member:

If they don't want you to find enlightenment, wouldn’t it make more sense to just hide the information so you don’t know about it at all?

Juijutsu Kaisen Season 2, Episode 4. Fair Use

Instructor:

There was a show called Jujitsu Kaisen.—So anime show where all of the guys that go around and kill the curses right before they use their powers, they always have to tell their opponent, “This is my curse. This is how it works, and now it's going to cut you up!” And then, once they tell the opponent exactly how it works, in the cartoon, the story goes that now the technique is going to be more powerful. And what the “Black Lodge” or the system of control uses is, they don't want to get karma for violating your free will. So, they have to put the information in plain sight, banking on that your consciousness is going to be asleep, so you're not going to see this information. It goes straight into your subconscious, and then you subconsciously turn over your will. They didn't violate your free will, but now you've agreed to it.

Yes, these beings are not evil, per se. Their mission is to run a system that creates people that are in ego. But, the actual, person (but it is their Higher Self, called their Being in Gnosis) is a master. but there'll be a system that then creates a whole bunch of people that are in ego and it's those people that are the instruments of karma because they themselves don't want the karma for it. So it's like, “Oh, I have to do this, but I [am] a highly evolved being. I don't want to deal with that.” So they put somebody like Donald Trump in office. And then [they are] an instrument of karma, but there's something behind [them] that is not actually necessarily an evil being. And they create these systems. And then the systems are run by people that do have a certain level of force and are doing the black arts. But if you actually do black magic and you violate peoples free will; that person then suffers for it later.

There's a cost for the karma, [for] the actual soul. So the thing that's actually behind it, the master that's there doesn't want that. So they shield themselves by then creating a system that teaches people to be a certain type of way. But their Being is involved. And actually, what's really interesting with that is that if you reach a certain level of awakening, that both—just that these beings—both the White and the Black Lodge, the angels, will hold us down. This is from Gnosis. They hold us down from awakening. They're jealous of us. They can't get there. [To awaken at this current moment in existence]

At the same time they follow this militaristic hierarchy because that's just how they have to organize. (They are hive beings) So, to an extent, if one awakens, both of them (both the Black & White Lodges, they may both fight you in the physical but their Higher Aspects will assist you) actually have to help you.

If you're aware of what's going on and you don't fall for the coercion, then even the beings that say run the black school—that entraps people—can actually be a master that assists you, and is helpful to you in the path of awakening, and will give you teachings. In fact, they'll give you this teaching so that you can understand it. In the open, and they say, “You understand it? So then…Oh, you're not an asleep person. You're not my mission anymore.”

I think there's a line [I believe] in the Pistis Sophia, “Let the Kings be Kings and let the Slaves be Slaves.”

But the truth is, those programs—let's say, they’re, like, the egos of the solar system—They're just doing what they do. And what actually makes us a slave or a king is our own psychology, because if we understand what's going on, then we're beyond it. But if we don't understand what's going on, then we enslave ourselves. And we're given the choice. Nobody's forcing us.

They say “black magic”—it really can't affect you unless we consent to going along with it.

Audience Member:

How does that manifest, though? How does it manifest when you surpass the Black Lodge, White Lodge, and they said, “Whoa, this lady or this man is awakened? Let's help him out.”

Instructor:

It's not exactly quite like that. Basically, if there is a master that's incarnated, that has a Bodhisattva… They have a person from that level, because the master themselves—and I'm talking about their Higher Self— can't access the objective reality yet. They haven't evolved to a point where they depersonalize, their person will not be depersonalized. So to an extent their person is asleep. think of them as like a channeler. So more than likely, the master [in the physical] will come after you and try to hold you down, their person. But the things they'll tell you—they'll give you all the information that you need and they may, may or may not be aware of it. We don't know.

Because the higher being is helping you because it knows that you're above it, but the person on the ground thinks [you]’re doing something bad, but they tell you all the things that you need to know. They give you something that's supportive, and they're still mad at you.

Yeah, they'll give a teaching that this is coercion, and this is exactly everything that we're doing, [it] means that we're bad. But we'll teach you about it. And you know, if you hear it, then it's like, oh.

Then you know what we're doing.

And then they'll get mad at you for knowing, the person will, but you'll actually start, you can receive information from their Higher Self, their being in the internal planes.

Audience Member:

This coercion, thing sounds… I was so confused when I heard that the Disney thing. Because, like, why are you saying people have the choice to be a Sith? A Sith is bad, you’re not supposed to be a Sith. Like, why are you telling children they can be that?

Instructor:

Yeah, well, because they're pushing a particular message, a particular narrative.

The thing is at this point in time, at this stage in the game of what's going on on the planet—and we're not going to get too deep into these things because it's getting off topic—But pretty much every system that exists right now is under the influence of the “Black Lodge” or the ego, we could say. Because the planet is going through its own process where the planet is awakening. So there's a lot of, it's very dense, heavy vibrations now, which actually means there's a good chance, there's a lot of energy to work against with, to awaken if one has the will and the force to get out.

Audience Member:

Intuitively. Yes

Instructor:

Yeah, because even the things that that used to be like systems that were like positive seem to be getting twisted. And everything, you see the tensions rising between nations, and you see all the stuff that's going on. But all of it is, an energetical thing that has to do with a cosmic event that's way, way, higher, and we'll talk about it when we do classes. I think actually maybe mentioned it in the first talk on this, actually, though, the solar system coming around into the Age of Aquarius.

Yes, but this coercion is why you will see, say, there's some big concert or some movies, some event, and they will say something very weird out in the open. And no one understands the context. But they're gonna do something later, and they had to warn you it's coming.

Like the pandemic. There was a movie about the pandemic, basically, before...

Audience Member:

Oh, I saw that! Contagion!

Instructor:

That's a Black Lodge ritual, basically. They do these things in the open or there's things that they've done in like a sporting event. usually like a concert. They’ll do something. And then it's like they're telling you that they're gonna do it, but nobody realizes that they're telling you to do it. Then when it happens, everybody's cool with it.

Well, there was Event 201 before the pandemic as well, where the, a group of politicians came together to practice simulating how they would respond to a global pandemic, some months, I think it was six months before it started.

Audience Member:

In 2019, then?

Instructor:

Yeah. So, you can look up. It's event 201, and they have the whole list of, this is how the public will react. This is what we'll say to them. Everything straight out of the playbook, before it happened, and they put it in the public, but no one knows to look at it, and knows that that's what they're planning to do later.

Audience Member:

The thing that confuses me. If these people know these systems exist, and they know about karma, and they know the consequences of all these things. Why are they still trying to hurt people?

Instructor:

Well, that's the thing. It's not them themselves. They create the system, and then the system creates people that, it's like a… the being itself that is in charge of…. They diffuse let’s say, a teaching or, not even a teaching. It's like politics. They diffuse a narrative. And then it's the people, though, the actual person who's a politician, like let’s say, somebody like Donald Trump is not an awakened master, right? So its just the system is created by these beings, and then basically all the people that are in ego, that want to get into power, they'll (the higher beings) find someone to take those positions, and [then] those people get the karma.

I think you have to explain what the being is, the being is the higher self of the agent of karma. So that being is conscious, and there are light and dark forces, so there are subjectively good and bad ones, and they have a human that they're connected to, and we all have something higher as well that we're connected to. But those angels or logos that are in charge of either creating a positive pole or a negative pole will have their human that they act through. And the human will have, if it's, a say, what we call a Bodhisattva, it's a particular soul that has a lot of force to undertake a certain mission, and it will have a big global impact, whether it's positive or negative.

Most world leaders, for example, are not just regular people. They’re maybe not, actually, conscious and, doing things, like say a, Hitler who was actually into esotericism. But most of them are connected to a very [powerful being]. They're not an NPC put it that way. That's why they have force. It's easier for the being to get us to do a “dark mission” to balance out the construct, than it is to get us to listen and awaken. Because all it has to do is program us with some egos and then never try to contact us. And we'll do exactly what we're programmed to do because in that sense, then you're just a machine. And then with a lot of energy behind it because you have a being behind it that puts you on that mission.

Audience Member:

Why would a Bodhisattva come down, use a human being—isn't a Bodhisattva from my understanding a righteous entity?

Instructor:

A Bodhisattva is [The Human Soul of] a balanced entity that also can have multiple incarnations. It [comes down from] the Atman or our Higher Self, but also in a sense, the constructs always in balance. The Law of One. Objectively, everything's always in balance. So for there to be positive means there is negative. And who do you think manages that on an architectural level? These are the beings that are the architects of our reality, for it to be a manifestation. God has 2 fists and he's not afraid to use both of them. We have this idea that only the “good missions” come from spirit, but the Devil is God inverted.

Audience Member:

Um, you keep talking about, past lives, and it makes it seem we each have, some past lives, but wouldn't we all have all of the same past lives?

Instructor:

That's right.

Objectively, we are all each other's past and future lives. Also—to an extent—when it comes to actual past lives, the best way to look at it, in my perspective, this comes from New Age, [From] the hypno-sessions. If you have past life memories, if you start to get them through in meditation or something like that, it's better to think of it as an imprint, [that] you need to learn something from having that memory. That's why you have it.

Because for example, there's people that have the same past lives and people [will say], “Well, how can be true? That means hypnotherapy is wrong.” But there was once a hypnotherapist that asked, I think somebody [that] had a past life as Jesus, and they [asked], was this person actually Jesus his past life? And the higher self in the session said, “No, but there's something that will help him with what he needs to figure out for his mission. So he has to have those memories imprinted.” Because in a sense, we all are connected, we could have whatever past life memories we need for our manifestation to go through and then learn the lesson.

Audience Member:

So does that mean, everyone, technically, somehow, learns the lesson they need to before they die?

Instructor:

Not necessarily before they die.

But before the end of the Universe, everyone goes through what they need to learn, even if what they need to learn is still being asleep. Like someone who is in the earlier stage of development that’s an NPC goes 3,000 times around the wheel.

It's said.

—The Wheel of Samsara. But the thing is, is that we all have something we're meant to learn, and if we awaken, then hopefully we learn that. Or even sometimes, depending on what someone needs to learn, they may not even need to awaken the consciousness and self realize. If you know someone who is older, and, they’ve had, a journey in their life, and it was some sort of, a heroes journey, they were down and out, and they, had some type of change, and they made it, they had some self commitment, and they became a better person over the course of their adult life. In that case, that was what they needed to learn, in that incarnation, doesn't need to be something that's necessarily spiritual either.

Yeah, there's a Gnostic story from the master who compiled all the Gnostic writings. He used the name Samael Aun Weor, and it’s said that in a past life, he was an ascetic monk, and in that said past life, his thing that he needed to learn was just to have faith. And when we say faith, we don't mean blind faith, but we mean confidence, right?—Confidence in our ability, to contact Divinity internally. So that whole mission, or that whole incarnation where he was a religious person, was just to understand one principle, and then he wasn't religious in the next incarnation.

Audience Member:

Well, I've heard more than one person tell me that they think Donald Trump has probably done some kind of dark magic or something like that.

Instructor:

It's possible. So from our understanding, is he's a fallen Bodhisattva. Does that mean that he's actively doing esoteric stuff?

Audience Member:

Why would you say he's a fallen Bodhisattva?

Instructor:

He supposed to be Napoleon.

Okay, so let's understand better what is a Bodhisattva, because we said Atman, and if you're in Theosophy, maybe you understand that better. Basically, we all have a Higher and a Lower Self. And we mentioned that when Spirit comes down into matter and it has all these experiences, if it sends a brand new fractal, that fractal just goes 3,000 times around the wheel and goes through all the plant, mineral, animal, kingdom, has lots of human lives, and then Pralaya—the whole universe closes up and goes back. And all it did was go on autopilot through all of it.

Then the next time the universe expands, now the soul has been through that whole cycle once. It's going to have a different experience. Maybe—perhaps—now it is going to go down a “dark path” and do “dark things”, and then maybe the next time it's gonna go down a “light path” and do “light things”, and then it's going to have an aversion to both paths and say, “I don't want to do that. That path was extreme. That path was extreme. Now I'm going to do nothing,” and then maybe another time it comes back, and it says, “Now I'm gonna do some work, and use certain tools, and see what I can create and understand, because I tried that, I tried that, I tried that. Now I'm going to do this.”

So, the souls can have different kinds of experiences, and when the soul undertakes specific practices, it creates a Higher Aspect that we call a Bodhisattva. And the Bodhisattva is a thing that is made through a kind of spiritual work for that soul that now the Higher Self can use. It has, when it reaches down into the lower unfoldment, it has this powerful thing that it can go through to manifest down. And not everyone has a Bodhisattva. If you see those people at work that are just on autopilot, and they're not very bright, and they can't solve problems, probably, they're not a Bodhisattva.

Audience Member:

Do you think a dog could be a bodhisattva?

Instructor:

No. Actually, any animal [the Essence] right now that is still within an animal [body] will not reach human form until the next planetary chain. Because at this point, after this Root Race, the planet has started coming up, so those that don't make the cut [for the next Root Race], will also have to wait till the next planetary chain, because the next two root races Six [and] Seven, would be, more like how we see some extraterrestrial humanities and things of that nature. So there needs to be a certain base level of consciousness.

We'll just finish the question on Bodhisattvas. So, when a Higher Being sends down its Bodhisattva and it has been many universes, it's made this thing—because it's really just God's playground—and he's trying all kinds of different things. So now he's made this thing that he can play with, this kind of an “individual” with a lot of force, and he can have these incarnations. If he loses contact with it, and it creates too much ego, and he can't directly channel through it, it's said to be fallen. However, this is a perspective.

It's a perspective.

When we are stuck in dualistic thinking, we say, “Oh, it's fallen. It's a fallen angel. It's bad.” But really, the being is still in charge of the thing that it made. So it wanted it to fall, to go and do something, which is what Adonis was saying. It programs certain egos, and then it says, “Ha ha, go down and do this.”

Well, also to a certain extent, these beings, the Higher Self, [in order] to get to a certain development, to escape, need to experience many different perspectives. So while they have incarnations that need to do the spiritual work and self-realize parts of themselves, they also need to have incarnations that actually do negative, they literally need to. They need to experience what it's like to be a world leader. They need to have all these experiences. All of our spirits have also gone through similar experiences. That's why you reach a level, then you can continue the awakening process. You've already experienced enough of the experiences already.

Audience Member:

I'm just curious how do you know he’s a fallen Bodhisattva?

Instructor:

Yes. So, there are certain practices that have been taught in the mystery schools, and one of them is astral projection. With astral projection, we can investigate what we call the internal worlds, and the internal worlds are more subtle layers of reality, where you can go and contact the higher aspects of different beings. So all of us have an aspect in the Astral, in the Mental, and it goes up and up in different layers, depending on the practice and the ability of the practitioner, they are able to go—usually it's in the astral—and to investigate. And not just one, but a lot of esotericists might go and investigate a particular question or a particular politician, if there's a lot of interest in them, to confirm certain things.

Yes many, many have investigated Donald Trump.

He was very interesting.

I guess, like, we said, we also believe he's related to Napoleon or something like that, which is interesting, because if you look at it as a recurrence, they have a lot of things in common if you actually get to do study on that.

Audience Member:

Can you guard some kind of person or location from, if you were trying to stop people from looking in what's going on right now, can you do something like that?

Instructor:

Well see that pentagram there? So the pentagram in its upright state is a restored state, is the return to the Divine. You see, the people who do dark arts want it inverted because they want to serve the ego. If you have an upright one of those in your window, and you put them around your house, it does create a low-level barrier. So that something that doesn't have—low level, little imps and things can’t get through… But if it was a very powerful thing, yes, it could still get through.

Also, since this is the last slide, and we’ve been actually going on about some of these questions, but we're about to talk about different types of groups and schools.

[About] the other thing that you ask, though, about him doing black magic or anything like that, the answer is that we really don't know. I mean, it's very possible that a lot of the elite are in schools that are related to left-handed path. But we're not really familiar with them outside of just that we're almost positive that Apple TV based on the symbology—there is something's going on there.

Audience Member:

I believe you, but that sounds so….

Instructor:

Well, I mean, we’re gunna do a podcast on it, actually, and we’re going to talk about 2 shows—Severance and Foundation. And I mean, it's full of symbols. It's very overt.

The thing with groups and schools, and this is the thing that we have to worry about; we will have a class on this during the actual course. So I’m going to give a quick summary, but basically from how we list it is there are. Four types of schools. We have 1) Kindergarten Schools, which are schools that usually talk about esotericism, but then don't provide any type of practices or things like that. That would be along the lines of the exoteric theosophy. The theosophy [society] actually began as a regeneration school, but because it was before the whole teachings had become fully out in the public, which didn't happen till later, when Blavatsky died, a lot of the hermeticism disappeared.

The hermetic teachings disappeared.

I do hear that in a place like California, they still have the secret part of the school. But without the secret part of the school, the outside of it would be what we would call, Kindergarten School, and so we sit around, we talk about things, but we don't actually provide any way to actually achieve [self-realization].

The second type of school is a 2) Soul School. That would be something that talks about the death of the ego, but it doesn't work with the energy work that we need for initiation. So think of something like Vipassana or something like that, where they don't do energy work in the meditation, you can dissolve ego that way to a certain extent, and they have the meditation. So they have two of the Factors of the Awakening of the Consciousness. And that's another way to look at it, actually.

We said there were three factors, death, sacrifice, and rebirth. Sacrifice is in any normal religion, that we should sacrifice for others. A soul school—like say a lot of Eastern traditions—their exoteric wing of them, has death of the ego in it, like Buddhism and things like that. But they'll still be missing the work with transmutation and energy. So we would call that a soul school, where you could do some work, but you won't be able to create the higher bodies, so you can make progress, but there's still more work to be done.

And then we have 3) Schools of Regeneration, which have all three of the factors. That would be something like Gnosis, Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism, there are if you can find them, some Hindi schools that also still have the full teachings, but they're usually a little bit harder to find.

(Note: The reason these schools are harder to find is because the true school is still hermetic, meaning the public part that you easily access is not the real school.)

And then what we really want to focus on in this talk is the fourth kind of school, which are 4) Schools of Black Magic. Now, as we said earlier, everyone can spot, you know, a Mason Lodge or a bunch of Satanists, and we know that they're evil. We more want to focus on how can we tell that a school that's a “white magic” school—that has esotericism—that, how can we tell that this school is actually giving us a teaching that services the ego?

Usually, what they'll do is they will talk about the three factors or something along this nature, but they'll combine it with a kind of Kindergarten Teaching. So, while they say we have to do all of this, they use cheap tricks, a lot that come from maybe, New Age and stuff, that instead of actually meditating on and removing the ego, we'll see something along the lines of just changing your external personality to something that WE LIKE and that matches up with how you SHOULD act. “And this is less egoic because we say so.”

And what happens is, if you're not doing the serious work on the ego death, as we said before, when you do the energy work that comes along with this, the energy work then feeds the ego, which is why it's dangerous.

We talk about working in transmutation is dangerous when you don't dissolve the ego. And that's what the black magic school is trying to get you to do. In the past—it was different—and the master talked differently about it. He said that basically any school that tells you to waste the energy is a black school. So if a school tells you to save your creative energy, it's good. But that was in 1962, when the teachings had been hermetic. So it was true that overtly, that was true.

But since time has passed, people were aware of it and the tactics change. So [now] they tell you, “Oh, yes, work with the energy. But just don't dissolve the ego,” (they will not say not to dissolve the ego, but they will mislead you in how to successfully do it) because that's the same thing. Even if we don't give the energy to the ego—initially—if we hold onto it and don't actually use it for the awakening, then the ego knows how to use it. So, that's a quick, a summary of that.

Yeah, I think that's good. But the summary here is that when we look for a school or a teaching, if someone—anyone—is trying to smother our inner light, our inner authority, and tell us, “I'm gonna tell you what's good for you, and I'm gonna tell you how you should practice, and I'm gonna tell you how you should find Divinity, and you always should do it my way.” That's the biggest red flag. It's very common, we see this, but...

There'll be a lot of gaslighting as well. They'll tell you, you know, like, “Harmony, cooperation is you being obedient to us and the masters,” or something along those lines. They'll tell you that, “There are many different vibrations, but you have to either get with our vibration or find a different one (to leave) to awaken.” These are all things that we've heard in these schools. So, it's a real thing, and they also tend to “advance” people very, very quickly (up a hierarchy). So that you haven't really learned the teachings yet properly and then they, you know, will flip it out and then put their other teachings on you. And those teachings, at that level when we haven't actually started doing the work, they appeal to the ego. So then we get caught and wrapped up in them.

And then once we're very far into it, we don't want to leave because we feel like we're invested in it. So these are all things to be mindful of, that the true path is the pathless path. The true path is the path within. We want to be able to contact our inner light and not fall into subservience or succumb to anyone else's control, their dogma. And when we truly unlock that knowing, then we begin that journey. It's the first step of forever, to truly knowing ourselves and understanding.

Audience Member:

I think it was the founder of Akido. He said, “There are many ways to the to the ONE.”

Instructor:

That's right. Yes, in a sense, we talked about mission on purpose before, but divine purpose is the same for everyone, which is to awaken the consciousness and help others awaken that want help. And in a sense, even if we do a “dark” path, we are technically helping others awaken. So truly, if we're actually doing our mission, even if it's a dark one, we are fulfilling Divine Purpose.

The other thing is mission, though. Mission is our own unique expression of the divine purpose. So in that sense, in a multidimensional sense, we both all walk one path, but we also all walk a different path. And it's unique. And both are true. That's why, as you said, you said there are many paths, or Jesus will say there's only one path.—It's straight, and it's narrow. It was, “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way.” Both of those things are actually true.

Audience Member:

What's one practice we can take home with us?

Instructor:

Yes, we will give you one practice that we actually gave to Sean before. It's the practice that we never stop doing the whole way. It's called the key of SOL. And it was given by a master who did achieve awakening. SOL refers to subject, object, location.

And we all know how to observe if we are practicing in meditation. For example, but then when we come off the mat, we fall back into our ego and become identified, we start clinging and chasing, and then we get our whole lives into a knotted ball, and we're unhappy.

So, the first thing we need to do in order to see the ego is that we have to become aware. And it's not tomorrow, or in five minutes, or at 12 o'clock, or when I set an alarm, it's moment-to-moment continuously. That sounds hard. So, in the beginning, we might have an alarm on our phone that goes off three, five, ten times a day, that reminds us.

When it goes off, then, we bring the awareness to subject, that is, the person, and we become aware of the person. You can do this by remembering your inner divinity, however you do it, your awareness sees: This is the person.

Then object is the thing that I'm doing, whether I'm washing dishes or whether I'm chopping the vegetables, and I'm really aware of it, not just saying, “Oh, I'm cutting vegetables.” That's in the intellect. We have to perceive it with the awareness, which is actually a field.

And then the location is being aware of the space that we are in. We can start by using the peripheral vision and a relaxation of the eyes, but eventually it turns into that, there's actually consciousness, awareness, all out here. And it's not just with my eyes, it's with, there's awareness here, there's awareness here. And the body becomes something that is like a cloud of sensory data that arises within a field of awareness.

So, we start by breaking it down like this subject, object, location, but eventually, it becomes like this. [Draws a diagram of a field of awareness on the board]

If we continuously do it, and some people use the method of imagining a flaming triangle in the Third Eye, and or simultaneously in the heart, and in the instinctual center, then another one. However you want to do it, but you want to hold that awareness in place, and over time, you will start to see when the egos come in, because they're actually, like, individual entities that come into your field.

You made them, but you don't know that you made them, and how you made them, and when they come in, so you identify with them, and you think it's you. When they come in, there will be a kind of tightness in the field, because they WANT something. They desire something. Once they finish feeding off your energy, then they go out. And so, if you're watching, you can see, when they come into the mind, they repeat stories, they repeat why we're angry, but the we is actually lots of these entities that we made, and they come into the emotions, they create a kind of bitterness, a kind of pain, and we carry it for as long as we latch onto it and keep them in these centers.

We'll talk more about that later, but that's the key of SOL.

Eventually, it will potentially look like this. [Draws a diagram of the observer in the third state of cosciousness]

An example of the Third State of Consciousness

Audience Member:

That eye is the observer?

Instructor:

Yes. So, your observer,—there's two different descriptions that we have actual gnosis of—meaning we have the experiential knowledge of—where this one, we have several people we know who experience it like this, the observer is behind and looking down. And if you keep going, the awareness can also start to be aware inside of the walls and the space and so on. And then your (indicates to Adonis) experience is that it's like a beaming that comes out of the heart. Like, there's a man inside of the physical body driving it, kind of like in Men in Black.

Being inside Human Vehicle. Men in Black 1997 Fair Use

Well, not just the physical body, but you also can feel the layers, so we have multiple subtle bodies. So it's like almost like you have rings of these layers and you can feel that in that sense.

Just with this real quick, also, to start practicing it, I would suggest the best way would be to use random alerts on the phone because we can also put alarms and say, every time [it rings] I [will] do this, but just to remind us to start doing it [spontaneously] more often.

Audience Member:

Sorry, I already do that on my phone. I already put alerts, “Okay, where is my mind right now?”

Instructor:

Exactly, that's what it is. The point of this practice is to find a moment-to-moment awareness and for it to eventually become the Third State of Consciousness is what we call it. There are four states of consciousness, [our normal state is the second], the fourth being objective reality. So the third state is obviously somewhere in between that. And it's kind of like the depersonalization. It's the first step towards that, at least; And we have to 1st experience reality like that before we can truly like detach from our person.

The ego doesn't like this viewer. So it will say, “Don't do it,” but... it's very powerful because it will allow us to see it.

Do you want to get the questions, too?

Yeah, so you can ask yourself, either in the beginning...

It's supposed to be instantaneous, but at the beginning, we give questions to help us see where we can see.

Yeah, either we can ask ourselves intellectually in the beginning, but eventually, we want to ask these questions without talking internally. So we... ask this with our perception, with the awareness. So we become aware of who I am, become aware of what I'm doing. Become aware of the space, and so on. Because if we're talking, we're still stuck in the intellect. And the awareness is actually bigger than that.

Audience Member:

I just had a question. I don't mean to play devil's advocate. I'm just curious. At the beginning, you said that we are all sort of one being that's sort of learning from itself, experiencing itself through the Universe. So, I'm just a little curious, and correct me if I'm wrong, but no matter how far into the ego or programming, we sync, or, for that matter, how much awakening or mastery we achieve, we will always remain within that being. We will always be that being. And I just want to know, what's the point of even being awakened if it's not going to change that eternal truth?

Instructor:

Eckhart Tolle [was asked this] same thing, “Why would consciousness want to awaken to the fact that it's a creator, then what would be the point?”

And he said, “Well, because it's fun. You get to become, a creator.”

And also, to an extent, the idea of being born again, it's not finding Jesus, But to be born again, it's almost like you're being born for the first time. It's outside of time so it's like you're just starting. And the thing is, yes, you're right. Once you reach all the way back up to the Unity consciousness, however long that takes in duration, you probably eventually get bored and come back down and start all over again. But the thing is, is that, it's like we're just starting. We're like infants spiritually. We're just for the first time… there's so much to experience and things that we can't even fathom. So there's no rush to get back, but it is a relief to get out of this first stage. It's like we were in the womb, almost literally, It's a cosmic womb, and now you're out. And now, there's the concept of, “We have to fight the ego like a warrior,” and all of these things that comes from a spiritual ego, from a lower level of understanding.

Spiritual Warrior setting out into Psychological City

But when you really get to the point where we comprehend and we understand, it's like, sure, we're gonna do the work, we're gonna work with the energy, we'll work with the ego. But it's not a pressure anymore. It's not like, I have to fight and it's so hard and there's so much pain. It's kind of let's just be. Let's exist. Let’s have this experience. We're gonna do what we need to do, because that's what we're meant to do. That's why we exist. We exist to exist and to have experience. But at the same time, it's not like, “Oh, now we're just gonna go float away.” So, there's a whole bevy of experiences that we have yet to have. And we have to have all of them before we get back to that Unity. So, it's definitely not a rush, but it is better than where we came from.

Also, a lot of people are suffering, and when we go through this process, we come out of suffering.

Well, yes, you're free from eternal suffering. They say that suffering is eternal in hell. Basically, we are in hell. Psychologically, we are in hell. And suffering is eternal until we awaken and come out of that hell in our psychology, because eternity is the Fifth Dimension. It's actually another (higher) form of duration. Eternity is, the universe expands, it contracts. But if we awaken our consciousness out of that, then we actually escape suffering, and we escape eternity, because eternity is that wheel, the snake biting its tail, and we go out of it.

And yes, eventually, there's probably some bigger wheel, and then we'll come back down. But getting out of that first one is [a precious moment].

Yes, we're going for one playground to a bigger playground because there's other fun stuff out there, but you can choose where you want to go.

Thank you, everyone.

Ruth Ansell

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