Identification on the Four Poles of Being

Posted on August 31, 2019 by

Different spiritual groups focus attention on one of the four poles of being. These poles of being are:

Ensouling entity
Your spirit
Your vehicles of consciousness in the Superconscious mind and their integrating centers (nuclei of identity)
Your attentional principle (consciousness aspect of the fourth pole) and Self and ego (life aspect of the fourth pole)

Through focusing your attention on one of these poles of being, you come to identify with that essence.

Spiritual work on the first pole has you contemplate your Soul [or higher octave ensouling entity] and identify with it.
Spiritual techniques that operate on the second pole have you focus on your spirit in one of the twelve domains and identify with it. This style of spiritual development is typical for spiritual Paths of the Transcendental Sphere.
Spiritual practices that access the third pole typically focus your attention on a nucleus of identity and have you identify with it. Christians and Jews typically have you identify with the Moon Soul nucleus of identity. I AM Movement groups have you identify with the Mighty I AM Presence. Yogi Preceptor led groups have you identify with Cosmic Consciousness. Groups of the Supracosmic Sphere have you identify with the Supracosmic seed atom of their Path.
Spiritual methods that access the consciousness aspect of the fourth pole have you identify with your attentional principle. Psychological modalities that access the ego and the Self have you identify with one of these personal integration centers, and operate from that platform.

Attention is the channel selector of the mind, so depending on where you focus your attention, you will activate one of these aspects of the mind—and with sustained contemplation—you will identify with it.

Since most groups only contemplate the essences on one of these poles, they form a cosmology based on where that essence is on the Continuum. So groups that identify with the Moon Soul nucleus of identity will look to the content of the First Planetary Initiation. Groups that identify with Cosmic Consciousness interface with the content of the First Cosmic Initiation. Groups that identify with a Supracosmic Seed Atom engage with the content on that Supracosmic Path.

Abilities of the Essences on the Four Poles

Focusing attention on these four poles gives you certain abilities. For a lot of our spiritual work in Mudrashram®, we focus on the attentional principle—on the consciousness aspect of the fourth pole.

Abilities you gain focusing on an ensouling entity include:

Gnosis – the experience of your Oneness with God
Unity consciousness – Oceanic Consciousness of Being
A symbol of oneness and mystic union – an archetype imbued with the Jet of Spirit in which you encounter the presence of the Soul
The Way – The intuitive knowledge of the Path your Soul has opened to its current nodal point
Kundalini track – the channel of the Kundalini Shakti through the inner vehicles, opening to the point where it unites with the Soul
The Aureole – the sphere of the Soul’s consciousness and illumination
The Atmic vortex – The resonance in which the Soul’s vehicles of consciousness are anchored
The Light and the Word – the sacred inner altar where the spirit gains union with the heart center of the Soul’s essential vehicle

Abilities you gain focusing on the spirit include:

Brain center – The consciousness of the spirit
Point between the eyebrows – The spiritual senses of the spirit
Medulla – the spirit’s octave of conation, the wish
Throat – the spirit’s voice, the ability to give inspired discourse (satsang)
Heart – The spirit’s love and devotion
Solar plexus – The spirit’s virtue
Navel – The remembrance of the spirit’s own nature, the spiritual Master, and the Divine
Feet – The experience of moving in the channels of the Nada

Abilities you gain focusing on a nucleus of identity include:

Brain – Identification with the state of consciousness of a nucleus of identity
Point between the eyebrows – Expression of the unconditional love, intuitive wisdom, and the aspect of volition—and the abilities this confers—anchored in the nucleus of identity
Medulla – The mental capsule, the container of knowledge of the nucleus of identity
Throat – This is the speech principle of the nucleus of identity
Heart – the karmic capsule, which is the nexus of karma that is processed through this center
Solar plexus – The astral/emotional capsule, which embodies the virtues imprinted in the personality (character); the non-integrated material of the unconscious mind interfaces with this center as fantasy
Navel – Etheric capsule, the mental nadis and somatic meridians associated with this nucleus of identity
Base of the spine – The symbol representing the Law, or Dharma of this nucleus of identity
Feet – The expression of this nucleus of identity through the personality as spiritual ministry or the arising from Soul’s Expressed Purpose

Abilities you gain focusing on the attentional principle include:

Brain – The wave of consciousness (chetan)
Point between the eyebrows – intention
Throat – Reception of telepathic impressions, communications through thought
Heart – Contemplation, the ability to extract meaning from seed thoughts, symbols, or archetypes
Solar plexus – Suggestion, the ability to interface with inner vehicles of consciousness
Navel – The ability to empathize with the conscious experience of others
Base of spine – Creation, the ability to combine intention, suggestion, and affirmation to activate the Superconscious mind to manifest a desired outcome
Feet – The stream of light upon which the attentional principle travels that is the focal point for attention

Abilities you gain focusing on the Self include:

Brain – Identification with Self, Self-Knowledge
Point between the eyebrows – Personal volition, free choice
Medulla – Personal intuition, your ability to check in with each aspect of your Conscious, Subconscious, and Metaconscious mind
Right hand – The intellect, you ability to use intelligence to solve problems
Left hand – The concrete mind, you ability to set goals, to plan, and schedule
Throat – The conscience, the ability to tap into your values and standards
Heart – The persona, the ability to express your social skills and humor, and to disclose your genuine Self
Solar Plexus – Your desire body or body of commitment, your ability to give your word and keep it
Navel – Your etheric body, your connection with the Subconscious mind

Working with the attentional principle allows you to unfold the Soul with a transformational method, transforming pole one. It also allows you to shepherd the spirit, to guide it along its Path to liberation, activating pole two. It allows you to access the love, wisdom, and power aspects of your Superconscious mind that expresses through your nuclei of identity, awakening pole three. It natively [on the consciousness aspect of the fourth pole] is able to travel in full consciousness through each of the bands of the Continuum of Consciousness. It is able to lead attention to unite with the Self [on the life aspect of the fourth pole] at the nucleus of the human personality through centering methods.

Using the attentional principle focus is like the Swiss Army knife of meditation: it allows you to access each of the four poles and develop them in synchrony.

We teach you how to awaken and develop each of these poles of being in our intermediate classes, the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation Program. We invite you to learn these key techniques for personal and spiritual development through taking one of these classes.

Why Affirmations Don’t Work

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

Q: When I do affirmations, nothing changes. What am I doing wrong?

A: Affirmation is at its root a form of subtle speech. It is first important for you to recognize where affirmation fits on the spectrum of speech.

The first level of speech arises from the unconscious mind. This includes:

Profanity
Expression of emotions that are buried in the unconscious. These come out during periods of upset, argument, and defensiveness.
Certain types of psychotherapy encourage the communication of this material. This includes abreactive methods such as Primal Screaming, or dialog methods that give a voice to issues in the unconscious mind

The second level of speech is called consensual speech. These are statements made without emotion. They are factual reporting. These include:

Sensory report of what you are seeing
Reading technical or legal material aloud that is a statement of facts
Reading lists of information, such as names from a phone book

The third level of speech is called invocation. The most common types of invocation are chanting and prayer.

Chanting the name of a Divine Being, as is used in many spiritual traditions
Using a rote prayer that is written down in a scripture or hymn book, for which you do not have any emotional connection
Praying for a heartfelt desire, for something that impacts your life and that you genuinely wish to have granted
Intercessory prayer, in which you ask the Divine to meet the needs of others
Universal prayer, in which you invoke blessings for everyone

The fourth level of speech includes affirmation and suggestion. These include:

Statements addressed to the Subconscious mind to retrieve memory, or to the Akashic Records to trace back the origins of emotionalized issues. Process meditation employs this type of suggestion.
Suggestion is given to one of the hypnotic bands of the mind—spanning the Subconscious, Metaconscious, and Superconscious mind—to introduce change or to produce specific outcomes. This is applied in hypnosis and autohypnosis. This is called Suggestion.
Affirmation is performed at the periphery of awareness, repeating this affirmation at progressively deeper levels of the unconscious mind until it is anchored in the Superconscious mind and you feel powerful conviction it will come true. This type of affirmation is sometimes coupled with observing the content that arises in the liminal bands of the mind as you are doing the affirmation, which gives you insight into the inner resistance of the unconscious mind that may be interfering with the manifestation of what you desire. This type of affirmation is called Anchored Affirmation.
You speak an affirmation aloud with the core conviction that it is true, and you have complete faith that speaking this word will create or manifest whatever you desire. This is called Command Affirmation, Fiat, Power Affirmation, or Decree.

The fifth level of speech is called Inspired Speech. This occurs when you become a channel for the revelation or intuitive knowledge of the Superconscious mind. Examples include:

Communication received from another spiritual being, such as an angel, a departed spirit, or an Ascended Master. These words can be spoken aloud, which is referred to channeling or mediumship. They can also be written down, which is called automatic writing.
Revelations or prophecies received through the Holy Spirit, when it dwells in the inner altar of the Moon Soul or Christ Child nucleus of identity. This may take the form of revelation of the future (prophecy) or inspired teaching, which has been called preaching.

The sixth level of speech is called core speech or Satsang. This type includes:

When your ensouling entity speaks through you to give teaching and wise counsel (Atma Satsang)
When your attentional principle shares its experience or guides someone in meditation (Nirat Satsang)
When your spirit communicates its experience (Surat Satsang)

The seventh level of speech is called Divine Speech. Spiritual Masters (Initiates) utter this type of speech. Examples include:

The Word of Power, which anchors the Divine Light to destroy thought forms, or to bring the Omnific Power of Divine Intention into manifestation
Mantra Shakti, the ability to activate and animate a transformational (bija) mantra, so it is able to unfold the spiritual evolutionary potentials of others
Uttering the Words of the Divine, which have become the foundation of the world’s scriptures

To use suggestion and affirmation, you are tapping the fourth level of speech. In suggestion, anchored affirmation, and command affirmation, you utilize conation—intention or volition—to initiate change. It is important, when you are performing suggestion or affirmation, to observe the following:

You need to know how to correctly perform the method. If you don’t apply it correctly, you won’t get results.
You need to do the technique when it is appropriate. It needs to be the right technique to bring about the change you want.
You need to have a genuine desire to change. You need to be invested in getting the results for which you are utilizing suggestion or affirmation.
You practice the technique for a sufficient amount of time until your deeper mind—Subconscious or Superconscious—accepts your suggestion or affirmation, and begins to change old patterns of behavior, belief or emotional reactions.
Your suggestion or affirmation needs to be in alignment with your Soul Purpose or the Divine Will, so you are not inadvertently working counter to their guidance. For your affirmation to be accepted, it should have relevance to your Soul’s ministry and service, or be germane to the expression of its abilities in your human life (Expressed Soul Purpose).
Make sure your affirmation is not attempting to counter an element of destiny karma, which may not respond to your intention or volition to induce it to change. Suggestion or affirmation has little or no effect upon destiny karma.
You believe the suggestion or affirmation is true, it would bring about positive change and improvement in your life, and it is for your highest good.

Affirmations don’t work when:

You’re not using the technique correctly.
It’s not appropriate to use them. It’s the wrong technique to achieve what you want.
You don’t really want to change. You resist change on a deep level of your mind.
You give up on the method before it has time to “take” within you.
You are using affirmation to manifest something not in keeping with your Soul’s purpose—in effect, you are asking for something that is not in alignment with what your Soul aims to manifest in your life—so your Soul denies its permission for your request.
You are trying to uproot elements of your destiny karma, which affirmations cannot change.
You are trying to do an affirmation someone else suggests to you, and it doesn’t genuinely resonate as true for you.

Affirmations are not a universal panacea; they do not work in all situations. If you do them correctly for the issues for which they are effective, they can powerfully promote change.

Q: I was reading some affirmations in one of Deepak Chopra’s books. While I recognized the perspective in which these affirmations were true, it didn’t seem to actually change anything. For example, there were a couple of affirmations in which he said that I was free of addictions and compulsions. I affirmed I was free from them, but these patterns haven’t changed. What am I doing wrong?

A: There’s nothing wrong with visualizing the state in which you are free from these patterns. However, until you eradicate the karma that underlies these issues, affirmations are not going to miraculously dissolve and release them. They are just not the right technique to purify, transmute, and integrate karmic patterns in the unconscious mind.

To do that, you need a transformational technique. These methods include:

Transformational mantra
Kriya Yoga
Nada Yoga (this works as a transformational technique in the Transcendental Sphere)
Light Immersion

We teach the rudiments of autosuggestion and using anchoring affirmations in our intermediate meditation classes, the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation Program. We go into greater depth on these techniques in the companion book for these classes, The Yoga of the Seven Mudras: Introducing the Mudrashram® System of Integral Meditation. Volume One: The Fundamentals of Meditation.

We also teach transformational mantra in our intermediate classes. This enables you to actively burn away the karma that underlies many of the patterns you are experiencing.

If you like affirmation as a technique to support the objectives you are attempting to actualize in your life, we would suggest you read different authors’ approaches to this technique to find one that works for you. Test each one: see if it gets you results.

If you do affirmation for the issues you can change, it will be an effective tool in your inner arsenal. However, your expectation that it will magically change what it is not designed to do needs to be tempered with a realistic appreciation of its appropriate application.

Stages of Relative Grounding After Kundalini Awakening

Posted on August 16, 2019 by

Q: I had a Kundalini awakening and I have found it is extremely hard to ground myself again. Is there a solution for this?

A: Since 2006, people have contacted us with Kundalini syndromes of varying intensity. We can characterize the eight stages we have observed from full groundedness to full-blown awakening where normalized functioning is compromised—and in severe Kundalini syndromes—not possible:

Full groundedness – The Kundalini has fully returned to its seat in the perineal center of the system of chakras of the Subconscious mind, and animates the ego, reason, feeling center, deep body awareness center, and the waking state of consciousness. You are fully present in the room, and you sense you are fully embodied, connected with the important people in your life, your reality testing mechanism of reason is operating, and your ego appropriately senses its roles and the continuity of your life narrative.
Withdrawal of single Conscious mind functions – here the Kundalini withdraws one of its five rays from a Conscious mind function. (1) If it withdraws the energy from the waking state of consciousness, your attention is fixed in a higher state of awareness, and you have difficulty returning to the ground state. (2) If it withdraws its energy from the deep body awareness state, you may become aware that you have multiple vehicles of consciousness and that you inhabit them simultaneously—it may be difficult for you to sense the solidness of your physical body. (3) If it withdraws from your feeling center, you may regard others as spiritual beings and have a difficulty feeling normal emotional bonding with others. (4) If it withdraws from your faculty of reason, you may live in a trance state and be extremely suggestible. (5) If it withdraws from your ego, you may sense that you are a spiritual essence—ensouling entity or nucleus of identity—and your life seems alien, dreamlike, or unreal to you.
Withdrawal of multiple Conscious mind functions – in this scenario, the Kundalini simultaneously withdraws from two to five of your Conscious mind functions, and you experience the symptoms from this concurrent withdrawal. At this point, you may feel you are going crazy.
Core activation of the chakras of the Subconscious mind – when this occurs, you become aware that each chakra appears to govern certain actions and you will attribute your actions, not to your ego initiating behavior, but to the activity of the petals of one of your chakras. For example, you might experience your drive to exercise to be the activity of one of the petals of the chakra at the base of the spine, or your engaging in courtship as the activity of one of the chakras of the navel chakra. You may experience intuitive revelations from your chakras, and feel that your true essence dwells in the brain chakra of this vehicle of consciousness. At this stage, you may experience out of body experiences (OOBE) or the sense that you are a conscious entity that dwells in the body—as a result, you may begin to identify as the attentional principle. Your ego, reason, feeling center, deep body awareness center, and waking awareness center feel distant, alien, and unreal—you may experience difficulty in carrying out the tasks of daily life at this point or engaging in normal social communication with others. At this stage, you are meditating during every waking moment.
Entering the Void – When the Kundalini withdraws up to the top of the Metaconscious mind, you experience the voidness of Being. Here your ability to initiate behavior using your volition, to think, plan, evaluate, imagine, and make commitments shuts down, and you passively experience life. You are not able to change anything; you just go with the flow in the present time. You may feel that action arises of itself: there is no doer. You may experience deep inner silence at this point. You just follow the Tao: your life seems to unfold by itself.
Archetypal encounter – As the Kundalini rises into your Superconscious mind, you may experience hallucinations and voices, similar to the experience when you ingest a powerful psychedelic drug. You may have remarkable experiences of gods and goddesses from different cultures. You are immersed in a downpour of revelation from your Superconscious mind. Were you to divulge these revelations to others, they would assume you had developed schizophrenia. At this stage, your mind and emotions become unstable, and you have difficulties making simple choices—you may act on the guidance of archetypes that appear to you. You would have difficulty in carrying out even basic activities—you would likely need someone to take care of you when the Kundalini rises to this level and stably operates here.
Integrating vision – Here the Kundalini unites with the Soul. You will experience yourself as a godlike being, which apparently has a mighty power to influence reality, express unconditional love, and is a source of great wisdom and illumination. You may experience states of grandiosity and omnipotence when the Kundalini reaches this stage. You may feel your knowledge is infallible and you are all knowing. When you make decisions from this state of grandiosity, you may find that you are sometimes unable to accomplish what you intend—when this occurs, you may blame others for your failure or formulate paranoid conspiracy theories. You may believe you are capable of miraculous creation. You can become very delusional at this stage.
Higher octave integration – In this stage, the Kundalini rises and becomes fixed in a spiritual essence—ensouling entity or nucleus of identity—at a level beyond where your Soul is. Common levels of this higher order fixation include the Moon Soul nucleus of identity, the Mighty I Am Presence nucleus of identity, the Cosmic Consciousness nucleus of identity, the Astral Soul, a Supracosmic seed atom on one of the Supracosmic Paths, or your Supracosmic Soul. At this level, you feel that you are this essence separated from the form of the Divine on this Plane, and you are actively engaged in some type of transformational practice to move this spiritual essence closer to this Divine Being. Your life and personality seem irrelevant at this stage: only your spiritual quest is important to you. You may be capable of pilgrimage, living in an ashram or structured monastic community, or doing holy wandering, but it may be next to impossible for you to function as a parent, an employee, or to assume positions of responsibility in your society—your personality is barely functioning at this level. It is common for people at this level to experience emergence phenomena—you begin acting on impulses that arise from your unconscious mind, you may be absorbed in perpetual processing of deep emotional issues, or you may experience continual visions and voices.

The challenge for those of you in whom the Kundalini has been activated is to bring it back down to stage one, where you can resume normalized functioning. Many of you have told us about the creative methods you have found that help you cope with this energy and at least temporarily ground it. We have given you some general guidelines for grounding in our article, “Grounding: Coming Back from Altered States of Awareness.”

The key to grounding is that you need to being the energy fully back into the Conscious mind, all the way back into your body, and down into the core of the earth. If you are able to successfully do this, even once, it will give you hope that you can begin to gain greater control over this energy, and not let it lift you into states of consciousness where you cannot function.

We teach the practice of safely awakening the Kundalini in our intermediate courses, the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation program. One of the things we teach and emphasize is the practice of returning this energy to the fully grounded state.

We suggest that those who have learned to guide others to awaken this energy, or have been given the gift of awakening the Kundalini in others through attunement (Shaktipat), need to train their students in how to bring this energy back to full groundedness. If this were the case—that this recommendation were more widely implemented—we would likely not see so many people absorbed in stages two through eight, with compromised personal functioning and varying degrees of madness.

If you have unfortunately had the experience of becoming stuck in one of these ongoing Kundalini-generated altered states of consciousness, we sometimes can help you. If you are interested in these services, please see our Kundalini Recovery Services page.

What Is the Impact of Spiritual Development on Daily Life?

Posted on August 9, 2019 by

Q: How does spiritual development impact my daily life experience? On the other hand, are there ways that it does not change or impact my daily life?

A: There are seven major ways your spiritual development influences your human life.

Anchoring of abilities in your physical brain – these abilities, called gifts, enable you to make a connection with an ability in your Superconscious mind and channel it. You can consciously ask that it be turned on, and it operates. An example is a musician can tap into his musical gift when he is going to play music or when he is teaching someone. [Two other types of higher abilities are only accessible in either an altered state of awareness or are channeled through your attentional principle or spirit—these two types of abilities are not accessible in your waking awareness.]
Channeling guidance – Some people can use the cord of faith anchored in their ego [this is a part of your Conscious mind] to ask a higher aspect of their mind [Self or Soul] or the Divine to help them solve problems, to cope with the stress of life, and to help them resolve issues. People typical invoke this higher aspect of their own nature—or the Divine as they can conceive it—through questioning or prayer, and listen for the response.
Behavioral plan – In this type of connection with the higher mind, you are shown all of the steps necessary for you to achieve a goal. In the Conscious mind, you are capable of making one action at a time. Showing you each sequence of what you need to do to accomplish the goal, and the part you will do today, breaks down a project that may seem overwhelming into manageable pieces. For example, if you have to clean your house, you’ll focus on the task you need to do in each room and finish it [For the bathroom, this might look like: clean the sink… clean the toilet… clean the tub… clean the corners…]
Stress reduction and relaxation – When you meditate, you enable the body to relieve stress, promote relaxation, and soothe your emotions. During the period you are meditating, this effect is pronounced. Many people report that this state of calmness and poise lasts well after their meditation session is over.
Dialog and inquiry – Since the rational mind, which is the primary mental faculty of the Conscious mind, has only the information of the senses, its emotional experience, and its ability to infer [analogical reasoning] and to reason [deductive reasoning] to determine what is real and what can be believed, much of what the Soul and spirit experience are outside of its ability to know. For this reason, there is often a lively dialog between reason and the Soul. What the Soul experiences seems like complete fantasy to reason; in those individuals who establish a link with their reason, there is a rebuttal of reason’s doubts, and giving reason exact knowledge of what is in each higher vehicle of consciousness and what this vehicle of consciousness does. In this way, the mental function of the Conscious mind comes to appreciate the operations of the higher aspects of personal and transpersonal nature. As this dialog ensues, there is a lessening of doubt and an increase in trust and acceptance of these higher intellectual and intuitive faculties. [Think of the way you might trust a plumber to do his job, when this is not an area you know much about.]
Comforting core suffering – At the core of human life are the painful, shameful, and fearful issues that make up the psychological component of destiny karma. This is the aspect of human life that experiences frustration, suffering, anxiety, and depression. While meditation allows you to monitor and release this core of dysphoric feelings, using techniques like process meditation or Vipassana, these feelings come back until you ultimately resolve them. Invoking the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, is one of the few remedies that enable you to cope and carry on when you are yet laden with these emotional burdens.
Ecstatic movement and speech – Those that do Kundalini Yoga, sacred dancing, and tantric practices report they experience the movement of inner energy that automatically repositions their body into different postures [martial arts stances or hatha yoga poses are common], places their hands in mudras, or has them spontaneously utter mantras or glossolalia. This occurs in those who actively awaken their Kundalini, or those who passively receive Shaktipat from an advanced disciple or Initiate empowered to send this attunement.

The experience of the Soul is outside the life matrix that you experience in your daily life. While there is some interface between them, the great majority of what the Soul experiences and its activities take place outside of your daily, conscious awareness. For you to become aware of what your Soul experiences and what it does, you need to move your attention to the level of your mind where your Soul dwells—this is the key function of meditation: to allow you to go where it is and gain direct knowledge of this immortal aspect of your nature.

Your life matrix—the conscious and unconscious aspects of your mind that you experience as part of your human life—has the following 13 components:

Infra-conscious – these are the centers below waking awareness that comprise the states of hypnotic sleep, dreaming sleep, sound sleep, coma, and death. Elements of hypnotic and dreaming sleep sometimes persist when you awaken, so you have some recollection of your experiences in these liminal states.
Waking state of awareness – this is the seat of your attention when you are not in an altered state of awareness induced through meditation, psychotherapy, hypnosis, or psychoactive drug use. This is your immediate perception of the environment around you, the people in the room, the objects that are relevant to the task you are currently doing. In the Light Sitting, when the Masters guide you back to “your moment,” they are asking you to return your attention to this ground state.
Movement awareness center – this is your present time experience of your movement and body position. The experience of “living your life” is intimately tied to what you are actually doing moment-to-moment. In the Light Sitting, when the Masters guide you back to “your life,” they are asking you to move your attention to this center.
Immediate sensory experience – this is your present time experience of each of your peripheral senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. These senses give their moment-to-moment report to a center we call the sensorium. [Neurologically, this perceptual matrix appears to correspond to the thalamus.] The sensorium has an energetic link to each higher order of sensation—astral sensing, attentional sensing, attentional principle sensing [meta-sensing], spirit sensing [heart-sensing], higher mind sensing [global intuitive or Buddhic sensing], and ensouling entity sensing [core sensing]. We teach you how to access this thread in the Vision Workshop.
Deep body awareness – this is your present time awareness of what you are experiencing inside your body. Focusing attention on this center reveals your moment-to-moment experience of your muscles, connective tissues, joints, bones, organs, glands, nervous system, circulatory system, lymph system, immune system, and reproductive system as their chemical and electrical signals reach the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex. In the Light Sitting, when the Masters guide you back to “your body,” they are asking you to move your attention to this center.
Feeling center awareness – this is your present time awareness of your emotional reactions to your experience. Focusing attention on the feeling center is a common technique used in psychotherapy. This center is intimately tied to your memory: most of your emotions are tied to particular memories of incidents you have experienced.
Mental awareness – this center has three major functions (a) volition, this is the seat of the egoic octave of will, which governs individual behavior; (b) analogical reasoning, which meditates your ability to compare objects and ideas and understand metaphors; and deductive reasoning, which operates your ability to test reality and to analyze the salient information about your present time experience.
Conscious Egoic complex – this is comprised of (a) the Egoic integrative function, which establishes your connection with each of the other vehicles of your Conscious mind; (b) a desire/goal organizing matrix, which organizes the areas of your life into specific areas, and establishes an identity state or role for each one; and (c) a remembrance of your key achievements and challenges in your life, which we call your life narrative, or personal story. This is your conscious experience of your life and is part of your zone of liberty.
Unconscious Egoic complex – this liminal zone of your Conscious mind consists of (a) the layers of your psychological defenses, which cover up your deeper painful and shameful issues; (b) your shadow, which contains your deep, unresolved issues [this is the core of your personal suffering and pain], (c) your Egoic seed atom, which is a center that tunes up as your Soul evolves—experience of this center reveals a world of child-like wonder and delight; and (d) your subtle egoic identification with higher spiritual essences [for example, if you are a Christian, you might establish a link with your Moon Soul nucleus of identity; a Yogi might similarly identify with the cosmic consciousness nucleus of identity].
Interface with the Subconscious mind (Preconscious) – this is your connection with the Subconscious mnemonic/temporal zone. You actively use this conduit to recall specific information or events. You passively receive impressions from the Subconscious mind in the state of reverie.
Subconscious life narrative – this is your identification with the events of your life, starting with your first conscious memory, when you first experienced you were the actor in your life. This is not part of your conscious life experience, but you can access this band in meditation and hypnosis.
Standpoint of eternity – this is the view from your Soul’s perspective, which beholds its past lives, conception and embryonic development, birth and the experiences before your first conscious memory, your Subconscious life narrative, the recording of your experience in the present time, and the “bubble” of your Conscious mind experience. You are able to visualize your life helix from this viewpoint. This is not part of your conscious life experience, but you can access this band in meditation and hypnosis.
Wave of the present time on the Akashic Records – this is the point where your Soul’s thought and intention enter and shape your human life. This center is on the fifth Subplane of the Abstract Mind Plane in the Superconscious mind—your life experiences are also recorded at this level in the Etheric Book of Remembrance, which is called the Akashic Records. This is not part of your conscious life experience, but you can access this band in meditation and hypnosis. Process meditation, in particular, is keyed to this level. [You experience the Soul is creating specific experiences in your life at this level.]

Much of the experience and activity of your Soul, spirit, and attentional principle is outside your conscious awareness. You can visit their world in meditation, but unless you keep your attention fixed upon these essences, you are only able to glimpse their world of beauty, wonder, and Omnific Power and Grace during the lyrical interlude of meditation.

But even a little time spent in their realm will sustain you, renew you, inspire you, uplift you, empower you, and turn your life into a channel for some of its gifts. As you deepen your communion with these essences, your gratitude, humility, and joy will grow—and you will know, with every fiber of your being, that you have found a treasure beyond compare.

Those of you who may wish to learn about meditation in daily life, to make your life more functional and serene, may wish to acquire our book, Applications in Meditation in Daily Life and Education.

The Seven Stances of Light Ministry

Posted on August 2, 2019 by

Q: Are there other forms of Light Ministry than the type you do in the Light Sittings?

A: Yes, there are seven major types across the Seven Rays. These are briefly described below.

The Destroyer Ray – this Light Ministry of the 1st Ray seeks to destroy entities that give rise to evil. This is the “battle of good and evil,” fought on the Astral Planes.
The Enlightenment Ray – the 2nd Ray Light Ministry uses seed thoughts and contemplation to change perspective, patterns of thinking, and limiting or erroneous beliefs. It seeks to open a conduit to the Illumined mind and establish the aspirant in the state of enlightened mind.
The Ray of Divine Mercy – Light Ministry of the 3rd Ray receives Light directly from the Masters and ministers it to others through anchoring the Light in their Souls, their nuclei of identity, and/or connecting their personality with the Soul through the minor attunements. This is the form of ministry that disciples of Grace-Bestowing Masters in different spiritual traditions typically practice.
The Ray of Divine Unity – the 4th Ray Light Ministry emphasizes attuning people with their inner Divinity, bringing about the state of Oneness and Wholeness. This seeks to lift people from distress into peace. The universal prayers of Buddhism—e.g., “may all beings transcend misery and suffering and find peace and Nirvana”—tap into this Light Stream.
The Ray of Sevenfold Healing – 5th Ray Light Ministry utilizes different bands of energy to bring about healing. These seven octaves of healing are (1) electromagnetic and atomic, (2) etheric [life force, or prana], (3) emotional [Holy Spirit, Divine Love], (4) Mighty I AM Presence [ministry of the empowered Word], (5) mental [contemplation of seed thoughts, radiation of the thought streams from the Masters], (6) higher mental [activation and downpour from the Illumined Mind], and (7) Light of the Nirvanic Flame, which conveys spiritual healing and Initiation. These seven streams promote healing of physical and emotional distress.
The Ray of Miracles – 6th Ray ministry invokes Angels, Saints, Ascended Masters, Masters of the Hierarchy, or the Divine through prayer to bring about healing and resolution of negative conditions through the Omnific Power of the Light. This is the form of ministry that is commonly used in religious groups.
The Manifesting Ray – 7th Ray ministry dissolves karmic issues, empowers the Soul to re-create new life conditions, improved relationships, prosperous enterprises, and political and social movements that transform society so that people’s needs are met.

We encourage aspirants and disciples to familiarize themselves with each of these ministerial stances, and to be able to minister from more than one perspective, to expand their capacity to become instruments of the Light.

We suggest that certain aspirants and disciples have a resistance to moving out of their comfort zone of the platform of ministry of their Soul Ray. However, if they are able to do so, it will greatly expand their capacity for spiritual service—the ability to operate as an instrument for the Light, and be a conscious co-worker with God and the Masters to respond to the evocation of humanity.

In Mudrashram®, we readily embrace more than one of these platforms. Our Light Sittings are a variety of 3rd Ray Light Ministry. We use the perspective of the 5th Ray in our Healing Workshop One and Two. We utilize the rudiments of 7th Ray ministry through the techniques we teach in our meditation classes—the in-person Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the by-mail and online Accelerated Meditation Program; this is also the foundation of the change and transformation we bring about in our coaching programs.

Each of these ministerial platforms has their place in the working out of the Great Plan. It will be valuable for you to learn a variety of ministerial types to carry forward your Soul Purpose and participate with others in the redemption and uplifting of humanity through the widespread dissemination of the Light.