The Twenty-Six Healing Keys (Part VIII of IX)
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Hello and welcome back! Today I will be continuing with part eight of a nine-part series on the theme of internal healing. I have to admit that I generated this material as part of my attempt to heal myself of a chronic health condition. Although these techniques have been very valuable to me, they haven�t healed me physically, so at this point you should think of them as purely healing to the psyche. There are twenty-six �healing keys� in all, but we will only discuss the twenty-first through twenty-third healing keys in this edition, which is plenty to work with over several sittings. In fact, I would recommend breaking it up over at least three sessions if possible. For June 2004 and July 2004, I am aiming for them to roll out simultaneously in late August. At a later date I will roll out numbers twenty-four through twenty-six of the �Healing Keys� and thus complete the entire series.
Before I discuss the twenty-first healing key, I want to explain the meditation that you will use with all the healing keys. The meditation is specific to this exercise, although it could be used in other contexts. We will call it the �healing lock� meditation. This meditation will specifically work with each �healing key� in the best possible way to release its maximum positive impact on you. Begin by getting relaxed and have a notebook and pen handy.
Visualize a gold or copper circle with a black (old fashioned) keyhole design in the middle (see above). As you breath in, say internally, �I am in healing lock meditation on�,� here you breath out slowly, saying internally, ��the healing key of ____healing____ .� You will fill those spaces in with the name of the healing key, which is always described in the form �x healing y.� Conceptualize this meditation as being the perfect lock for the key to operate in, the perfect means to achieve the healing. Simply plug in the name of the healing key after reading the description and memorizing its basic meaning. If you have insights during your meditation, you can jot them down at the end of the meditation period.
We will begin today by discussing the twenty-first healing key which is receptivity to God fulfilling desires healing purpose. Purpose is an idea that we try to capture for ourselves, but it remains elusive. Sometimes we feel it and sometimes we don�t. The purposes that we assign ourselves relate to our desires and their fulfillment as well as our ideals for the world and our perceived values. However, purpose has many facets, some of them visible and others invisible to the naked eye. It is those Spiritual, invisible aspects of purpose that tend to elude us when we grasp at purpose and feel that it is missing from our lives.
Purpose comes from God, which is to say that the consciousness out of which we are made into individual minds is the holder of our true purpose. At the level that we are all equals, living in a state of transpersonal love for each other and for God, living in Spirit, we experience the constant fulfillment of our desires. At the moment that we conceive of a desire we experience both the desire and its fulfillment. This is because at this level we are living at a level that is entirely non-physical and ideal, built on abstracts and pure ideas. We can experience anything we desire, and time is manufactured for us to experience the fulfillment of these desires automatically. This whole process happens within God, which is the Truth at the highest and most abstract level. However, God is the real Truth and the highest �real� reality. Abstraction and reality are ultimately the same, not opposites.
So, in this scenario, we have generated out of our desires a physical world, which is in fact an illusion. But, this illusion comes entirely out of our desires. We are here because we wanted to be here. But, the very things that we take for granted here, that we are separated from others and how they feel by time, space and physical bodies is in fact an impossible situation in reality. We are imagining something that is impossible in reality and experiencing as if it were real. It is no different from dreaming that you have two heads or that you are talking to a flying purple chipmunk. You don�t question the reality of the dream when inside of it, and the impossibility of the situation doesn�t deter you from experiencing it as if it was real.
So, to get back to our original theme, purpose is held by God. Under God we only dwell on what we want and God fulfills those desires. Our purpose is not something we engage in consciously beyond knowing that it is there. God�s purpose is for us to evolve. But, this is an automatic process that we can�t push or prevent consciously. It is happening all the time and is absolute; it WILL happen regardless of our will. So, our purpose, our true purpose, is constantly happening inside consciousness itself; it does not need to be given some form or shape outside of that.
Regardless of what you do in the physical, your activity and mindset tends to be wrapped in layers of illusion. So, any purpose that we hold onto tends to be muddled with our own personal illusions. Ask a person what their �purpose� in life is, and they may give you a swift answer or they might become confused. It is complicated to figure out one�s purpose, but we all know what we want. To know what you want is part one of the equation. Part two is to understand that God�s function is to fulfill all your desires. Part three is to understand God�s purpose.
That being said, you have to wonder how that can be true when so many people want things and don�t get them. The answer to that is that one has to shed layers of false beliefs about God to reveal that potential in one�s life. First, the idea is tossed around in your mind. What you have seen in your life does not back up that belief but you can at least consider the possibility. Then, you clarify the model of God as the All Providing by considering how you have put ideas between yourself and God in the past and how that has reflected in your experience.
In exchange for �personal autonomy� you have paid a heavy price. You have suffered and struggled and wondered how to get out. You have built walls to keep God out and then you have to tear them down. But, the hidden x factor here is that you are really getting what you want out of your life, even if you are suffering. But, if you are suffering, you can�t understand that, because of the distance between who you imagine you are and who you are in reality at that point.
So, your fictional character of self, with its layers of confusion and struggle can be rebuilt by considering your relationship with God. It is very simple; you want and God gives. So, how do you get to the place where you really believe it? There-again the answer is to ask God. Reaffirm that desire daily. When you really truly know that believing this is what you want, you will get it. It can happen much faster than you can imagine. Don�t believe that the time it takes is somehow dependant on your own personal efforts or that you are in for a long ride. It can take much less time than you ever imagined. Reaffirm your desire to believe that God is the fulfiller of all your desires and that belief will become your constant state of being in time.
We can see that in our most abstract moments we can engage in beliefs that are really beyond us. After climbing to these heights we then naturally fall back down to our daily set of beliefs. Then, later, when we become depressed, angry or fearful, our beliefs can fall even further. When the stress is relieved, our beliefs rise back up to our normal state. So, we have multiple belief systems that we naturally draw upon, not just one. Our goal is to raise our resting-state belief system to the level of believing that God fulfills all of our desires.
Our hand-to-mouth relationship with God fulfills even our need for a sense of purpose in life. It fulfills not only our most base desires but also our most abstract desires as well. And, at the moment that we understand what we really want we will receive it. In the process of learning this new belief system, you will begin to teach it to others. We naturally teach what we ourselves are currently learning before we have really even �arrived� at our final level of understanding. This is natural outcome of the learning process that we share what we are learning. It is in the giving that we receive what we offer to others. That does not mean making a self-conscious effort to teach others, it only means that you should be open to teaching ideas that you yourself do not completely understand yet. It is the butterfly effect, the subtle, invisible interconnection between things that is the most powerful teacher and transformer of life. Be the teacher in your mind and that is all that is required. Remember that you are the healer and you will be healed as you heal others through just living and pursuing your desires.
A final note is the importance of tracking your desires and sharing them with God. Keep a journal of your desires, and you will see an evolution of them as living entities. When you have time, establish a written list of your most major desires and give each one to God 100% for a brief period of time. Concentrate on giving up that desire to God completely. Then you will move on to the next one. You don�t have to sustain that state of giving up the desire to God, just achieve a few moments of it. Then God can take that desire and fulfill it in the best possible way and at the best possible time. If you never fully give a desire to God, you are hanging on to it and God is held up in fulfilling it.
God will keep you in an increasingly satisfying and safe arena where you are not subjected to too much stress or fear or excessive problems, to the degree that your belief system allows God to do so. So, you can expect an ultimately better quality of life. Face your fear of God and you will overcome your problems.
The twenty-second healing key is unity healing friendship. We are one with each other, but we have built a world that emphasizes our differences. Each difference is brought forward and exaggerated in our minds. In turn, our commonalities are clouded by our separate bodies and the limits of our ability to communicate. This leads to an ugly world of seemingly insurmountable differences. We need to overcome those differences and barriers in order to expand our ability to be friends with others.
The needs of the whole are not separate from the needs of the individuals within the whole. In a world where we seem to be at odds with the welfare of the world around us, we need to understand that our false ideas are the source of this seeming discrepancy.
If the earth were the moon and visa versa, we would look up in the sky and see a beautiful and promising world over our heads, larger than our own and more desirable to live on. We would be possessed with the urge to live on such a world. We would be in love with the idea of that world and what it had to offer. But, living on such a world now, we still find ways to turn it into a place of deprivation, famine, war, violence and pain. No individual person is responsible for this, it is a collective act. But, as individuals we can stand in the midst of that kind of mess and wonder what we can do to make it right.
Our needs are not separate from those of others. Any person you see randomly driving by on any given day has needs that are absolutely in synch with your own. However, the space between you, your ideas about identity and separateness and your ideas about God cause you to see your needs as potentially being at odds. In fact, it seems ridiculous to state that your needs could be aligned. However, we should not be so eager to dismiss the idea, for it is based in reality.
Each day we wake up and face a seemingly hostile world. We ingrain in our minds that hostility and our need to protect what is �ours.� Then, when we have families and raise children our definition of �ours� includes the needs and desires of the other members of your family. Their �mine-ness� then is in opposition to the identities of other people on earth. Before we ever came to earth, we were all family in love. There was no race, no body or gender or other issues to bind us to difference. We shared a loving space unified in peace and joy. Now we associate some of our differences with pleasure and some with pain, and hang on to those that seem pleasurable like a life raft.
At our level of being family and living under God, we had everything we desire and wanted for nothing. This being so, we came to explore the idea of separateness. Now, we think of our separateness as a reality rather than the fiction it has always been. But, by exploring that fiction we realize it has no value and this frees us to move past it ultimately. Along the way we fulfill our desires for separateness and then are done with them. We leave them behind fulfilled and satisfied that we have enjoyed them and can put them to rest. Our best experiences and memories in separateness will always be a part of us and the unpleasant portions are mentally healed and left behind. We do not miss out on anything.
Choose any random person from a crowd and upon identifying them, know with certainty that their needs and your own are perfectly in synch. Knowing this, all aggression and fear of that person dissipates. You are free to desire their well-being completely and wish for their future fulfillment because they can never hurt you and the fulfillment of their desires is part of the process by which your own desires are fulfilled. In fact, you share one process that fulfills both of your desires without fail. The basis for all animosity disappears and nothing stands in the way of your loving that person. This is the perfect basis for friendship.
There is no need to artificially impose yourself on a person for no reason, but if for some reason you feel pulled to explore a friendship with a person, know that your needs are perfectly aligned. You may come to find that this person is not one you want to pursue a friendship. They may not appeal to you when you get to know them better. But if they do, see them in this new light and understand that you share a mutual state of benefit that is interlocking and perfectly aligned. Then you can engage in a real relationship with that person based on love and without having to see that person as someone you need to manipulate in order to get what you want.
This whole approach can seem a bit like the cart leading the horse, but in truth, because of the way things work in reality, it is a viable way to change things. Reality is based on belief and desire, pure and simple. And it is our beliefs that can radically change how we relate to people. By relating to a person within this new framework of understanding, you can free them to relate to you in the same non-hostile way. If the person is hostile towards you, just know that this person is not able to be your friend right now and let them go. A better situation will emerge to replace it. When we understand that we are not lacking and that our desires will be fulfilled, relationships will come and go and we will learn to be flexible rather than needy and allow people to leave. This saves us from unpleasant situations with people we don�t need to interface with.
In the final analysis, we are responsible for where our head is at. We take this responsibility on in baby-steps at first, then later in more confident strides. Learn to see people as being intermeshed with you at the level of mutual best interest and you will see a change in the kind of relationship you can have. As you practice, you will draw to yourself spontaneously more and more appropriate and timely relationships. Each person will come to you with a gift and you will accept it gratefully, knowing that you in turn have given them a gift as well. Love and peace to all is our fulfillment.
The twenty-third healing key is forgiveness healing interest in life. As we struggle through life, we find many roadblocks and impasses to deal with. We have to figure out in our minds how to get over them. Some we conquer and some we do not. However, within that framework, there is an ever-present theme, that our lives are scripted and we must �adjust� to what life throws at us as we move through it. Like it or not, we must learn to become more flexible and adapt to life.
However, in the light of everything we have discussed previously about God, we have to ask if this model is correct. God is the mind that we use to perceive our life and problems, and any experience at all. God�s script for us can, on the surface appear to be one of testing, suffering, sacrifice and ultimate frustration in some areas with success in other areas. But, from what we have already discussed we know that we are co-creative with God. Our wants and desires are fulfilled as they are conceived of. We are here because we wished to be, and time was created to give us the means to have these experiences.
As we are challenged, we can see that we wanted this challenge but that God will fulfill our other wants and desires as well. We are, in a sense, always where we want to be, but this is not necessarily understood by the imagined identity that we have taken on, only in reality. The unpleasantness of experience in a separated state causes us to question the value and meaning of our experience. However, God wants this to happen because we ultimately need to return to love for others and ourselves, because that is a true state of perception. Transpersonal love, a love that encompasses everyone, is the truth and anything short of that is some form or other of fantasy that we ultimately need to abandon. To be separate from God forever would be Hell.
We need forgiveness to allow us to flow back into transpersonal love; forgiveness is the path that leads us. Forgiveness is the essence of what it means to be free and enjoy life. To explain this, we have to backtrack a bit and re-explore certain concepts. First, it is essential for us to reconnect to everyone else in a loving way. This can only happen when we see that we all have one need, and it is the same. We all have a need for redemption and release from guilt, suffering and materiality. We cling to material form because we fear the loss of it and we imagine it is the best we can do. We fill ourselves with guilt because we accept that we can�t be perfect and we see how we hurt others. We suffer because we are trapped in these lies and won�t release ourselves. Forgiveness is the key.
First of all we must acknowledge that all beings suffer. Life is hard for everyone, even the privileged. We suffer also and we see those less fortunate who suffer more than we do. Suffering is universal. We also see that we seem to make selfish choices and sometimes we are mean and vain. We hurt people or don�t follow our conscience and feel guilty about it after the fact. Others do the same. Some people bury their conscience but it haunts them in a million ways. They revel in the suffering of others, feeling that they alone matter and must benefit from life. For them, conscience can be their hidden enemy that confronts them in horrible self-hatred and in the form of self-destructive behavior.
The theme here is the commonalties in peoples� experiences, rather than the differences. We reach out for what we think will free us and run from what we fear, not understanding the true source of our suffering. This can change. It is through our seeing that we do not have any true Free Will that we can be liberated from guilt. We look at what we do and see how our past, in combination with circumstances, dictated what we did in every situation, one known factor combining with another known factor to produce a predictable result. I say predictable in the sense that it is a case of two finite and fixed factors (self, circumstances) combining to produce a finite and fixed result. This result is our current circumstances.
The mythology of free will aside, we can see how we were not free-willed individuals all along, and our so-called crimes were as much a testament to our limited circumstances, skills and upbringing as they were to the challenging circumstances that we found ourselves in. And yet, without our treasured free will, we are just as free as we were when we thought we had it. We have simply re-perceived our condition. Now we can tackle our attachment to physicality with full force.
In our rush to make the most out of our limited lives, we have hurried around and greedily pushed as much experience into our mouths as possible. We haven�t been honest with ourselves, or others, covering our pain as we try to consume more and more life in a frantic rush to validate a disappointing experience. As we use fantasy, denial, rage and other tactics to control our experience and relationships, we imagine ourselves as gods, having the upper hand through wealth, power or fantasies of such. We relinquish our grasp on reality to an increasing degree as long as we can get away with it, and cover up during times when our lies are exposed by applying emotional smokescreens, denial, etc. and turning away from reality in our mind. This is the pattern that keeps us enslaved to materiality.
But, the obvious question here is, �what is the alternative to materiality?� The alternative to materiality is the truth, which is our true nature under God. It is the truth that waits for us and is gently guiding us back to itself. As we run the gamut of fictions and fantasies, the truth prods us gently over time to keep us on track, leading us back to itself through a series of interconnected revelations that lead to understanding. We were never lost and cannot be �found,� we simply are, in reality, always free and with God forever. There is nowhere to fall and no real alternative. This is reality and who we really are. Our journey back to reality involves giving up on the fantasy that materiality has anything of value and worth for us.
If you are homeless, a quarter could be a thing of great importance, while if you are wealthy it could be too unimportant to beg a second of your thought. In the same way, as we realize what we really are beyond the material fiction, we see that materiality has almost no value compared to what reality has to offer us. Why replace a beautiful truth with an unpleasant fiction? It doesn�t make any sense. But, we would hold onto our emotions and rage and fear in place of all-encompassing love because we are afraid we will miss out on something. If we knew what we were really missing out on in our rush to hold onto the worthless and meaningless, we would be appalled. Transpersonal love is available to us and we can claim it at any moment. But, we must give up the alternatives.
How do we do this? We ask God for the experience of transpersonal love. Then, think about what you are asking for. Are you really ready to receive it? In doing so you would have to forgive everyone and release them emotionally. Could you do that? You can and will eventually, but for today to be that day, you must be willing to suspend all other feelings and emotions. If you have decided you can, you can move forward.
Next, you must ask God to give you a small taste of the experience of transpersonal love. Then, remain in a calm and receptive state, ready to receive it. After a short while, focus mentally on a person who you normally have some emotional baggage toward. Do you feel a sense of peace toward them rather than the usual mix of negative or mixed emotions? Do you feel compassion toward them and a sense that they need help? If so, you are tasting transpersonal love. This is just a taste, a sample to give you some idea of how it feels. Now you are ready to step it up.
If you did not experience this kind of forgiveness but instead had the usual emotional experiences when thinking of this person, become calm for five or ten more minutes and try again. If it fails on a second attempt, repeat this process daily until you experience the desired result.
The next step is right in front of you. The first experience was quiet and calm, not a state of great elation or bliss, but very ordinary. Now, we look up to God and see a heavenly staircase spiraling upwards infinitely. We have taken one large step on a very big staircase, and this is just the beginning. Ask God to take you to the next step. This will be the next higher degree of transpersonal love.
Again, become calm and receptive and wait. When you feel ready, try focusing on the same person again. This time you will experience seeing the soul behind the person, an eternal being of great beauty and love who is not at all like the person you know. This greater �person� encompasses the smaller person with whom you have had life experiences. You see that this soul is using this situation for its own personal growth and development. It is using this life to explore and challenge its own limits.
Seeing this, you will understand that life is a multi-layered process. We have had contact with people at only the most superficial levels. If you question if this perception you have just had is real, know it is natural to distrust your subtle levels of perceptions. However, it is real and true. You probably even grasped a personality somewhat different from the one you know this person has in this life. That is natural. This soul is not the highest level of consciousness under God, but a sort of higher-intermediate level of being between ourselves and our true self under God.
You have a big decision to make; which state you prefer? Will you indulge in anger, fear and pain or will you release them and experience life at a higher level? You are more attached to the previous than you think! But, by consciously letting go each day and exploring you will ultimately prove to yourself that the switch is beneficial to you, and you will release your old way of being as simply and easily as a snake sheds its skin. Thank you for reading this material and take care until next time!
