Hello and welcome back! Today I will be continuing with part three 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 be discussing the ninth through eleventh keys in this edition, which is plenty to work with in one sitting. In fact, I would recommend breaking it up over several sessions if possible. For December 2003, I will roll out numbers thirteen through fifteen of the “Healing Keys.”
Before I discuss the first healing key, I want to explain the meditation that you will use with all these 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 ninth healing key, which is quality of perception healing anything. The ninth healing key is in some senses the final one. It deals with how the quality of perception of a thing is more fundamentally real than the thing itself.
The physical world cannot exist. Fundamental reality is pure consciousness and such a world cannot contain any materiality. Materiality can only “exist” in the sense that consciousness explores the idea of materiality. It is sort of a “what if” question that challenges reality by making materiality seem real to those exploring the idea. The actual existence of materiality is impossible.
In a physical world, there is a fragmentation of everything. Any person is fundamentally alone in a world of objects. The connections between things are determined by such things as attention, distance and location in time. The reality behind the scenes is more complicated. To learn more we must turn to our dreams.
Dreams take emotions that we have suppressed during the day and express them in the language of images and scenery. These scenes are created with only the purpose of evoking these emotions. A tiger chases the dreamer to give expression to their pent-up feelings of fear from waking life over other issues (probably not tigers). Or, positive emotions can be evoked. The mind does what it wants.
The scenes created in dreams are three-dimensional. You have a “body” and you navigate in an “environment.” Things happen to you and you react. In all of this there is no reality to the whole show. You don’t really have that body or identity. You aren’t really that person. The places that person goes and the things they do are all generated by mind. There is no space inside your head where dreams take place. The have no “place.” None of it is real and yet it seems real to the dreamer.
The relationship between dreamer and any dream object is determined by what feeling that object evokes. The feeling comes first and then it expresses itself as the object/person interaction, which is really one thing. The shape and color of the dream object, its weight and size and what you are doing with it are all determined by the emotional reaction it elicits. It is sort of the inverse of what seems logical (to the dream character). This reversal of logic prevents the dreamer from questioning the reality of the dream. You see a gun, not the emotional purpose of the gun. If you saw that emotion directly the dream would lose its power to push that emotion on you.
“Self” in the dream context is just part of a larger equation. Self is manipulated just as the object is. Haven’t you ever had a dream and thought, “why couldn’t I figure out how to drive? I know how to drive!” You may know how to drive in waking life but you dream self in this case didn’t know how. They get behind the wheel and can’t drive the car. The self is manipulated just like the environment, in this case just to create a scene that evokes the feeling of frustration and powerlessness.
With all this unreality, it’s hard to figure out which end is up. But we can see that the quality of perception that the dreamer has about their dream body, dream car and dream environment are not in any way separate from the realities of these things. It is meaningless to say that a dream banana is yellow, because the yellowness is really a not “in” the banana or the dream character. If it could be in the banana, then the banana would be real. The dream figure holding the banana is an emotional event, and the quality of the banana of being yellow is just an aspect of the event that can’t be made into “part” of anything.
How does this apply to physical reality? As we have said before, the physical world is not possible. The dreamer is both the waking person dreaming and the figure in the dream, but at that particular moment his identification is in the dream figure. Who he more fundamentally IS is the person who is asleep. If the physical world is not possible then it must also be a “dream.” Who we are when we wake up is something that is more conscious and less physical.
A physical object or person is impossible. It is impossible because for it to be real the nature of Spirit would be compromised and even the nature of that which is, because if matter exists, then it must be something that fundamentally exists. That fundamental existence would challenge reality as consciousness, because reality can only have one fundamental nature, consciousness or material.
Physical reality is fragmented into selves, objects and spatial configurations through time. In a world where there is only consciousness, there is no environment to have a “timeline” in, so there has to be only one moment in time, the Eternal Now.
Selves cut off from others and subjected to starvation, injury, disease and conflict with others is only possible in a material world. In a world of consciousness the only activity is the fulfillment of desire and injury is only possible if the person wants to take on the identification of a “self” with a “body.” They have to choose to forget who they are in order to suffer in that particular way.
Because these kinds of false experiences have to happen inside the idea of a world that is “material” and such a world is impossible, then Spirit has to assume the forms and shapes of this world to fulfill the desire. Spirit imagines what such a world would look like and feel like and out of that creates an experiential state. But, because the nature of reality is Spirit even in these worlds, the individual who wakes up to reality while in this state by degrees can extricate themselves from this world and its rules.
Such a process of disentanglement seems at first to be a battle against materiality itself to find some sort of Spirituality. Then, the person seeks to see materiality as false and see another possible world. However, they remain in endless conflict with their own “materialism.” Eventually they realize that there is no materiality in materialism as everything is made of Spirit/consciousness. From here it is a process of removing veils. Each event or quality in that person’s life that seems to tie them down as the physical world does is examined in light of this new realization.
In this new light they take each one of these unsatisfactory elements of their life and see in it the quality of heaviness, materiality. They then go through a process of seeing that materiality fall away as they realize that materiality is impossible. By seeing each situation and object from a Spirit perspective they see that such a material thing is impossible and so must not be real. The ultimate goal is to only see Spirit where you once saw a problem, person, body, illness, event or object.
The tenth healing key is the healer of satisfaction. This removes all internal and external blockages by dumping materialism of thinking and lightening the whole being. To accomplish this, you remove all materialism from your thinking that is in conflict with your comfort level. When you reach your comfort level, you experience a glowing feeling of satisfaction and the removal of obstacles to getting what you want. Rather than wanting, striving and possibly getting, you simultaneously want and get.
This kind of wanting can’t be faked, as in “wanting to want.” It is only genuine, pure and right-now. It can cause you to experience hidden anger. When this happens you experience the satisfaction of knowing exactly what you want when you want it and to a degree of refinement that there is no friction and no blockage to your desire, thus resulting in pure, immediate satisfaction and gratification. This represents an entirely new way of doing things, and it will feel artificial at first, but stick with it and it will pay off big time.
Materialism that is in conflict with your comfort level is a sense of frustration created by materialism. Your comfort level is a good barometer of how close you are to being unhindered by things. Spirit is free from materialism and unhindered by it because the nature of consciousness is to naturally get what it wants. Consciousness creates for itself the experiences it wants because it can create any experience. Consciousness that is inhibited by material reality and materialism is not free to create in this way as it is bound up in many rules, limitations and internal conflicts. Guilt, blame and fear are common examples.
To begin with, a person who is caught in a materialistic state of consciousness will hate others who live outside their values. They will blame others and conversely feel shame, guilt and fear when they fail to make others happy or fail their own value system. There is a kind of slavery in this thinking because you are expected to please others regardless of your own internal situation. Simultaneously you expect others to live up to your values without the other person having the benefit of your knowledge and experience. This is like asking a one-legged man to walk normally.
The slavery to self and others creates constant inner conflict and prevents fulfillment. By seeing that each person has created their life and that they cannot be a victim or a victimizer, unless both parties are playing along, allows the person to put down blame and shame. The only purpose of existence is to fulfill desire, which is what the self does naturally. The fulfillment of desire leads to new desires, personal evolution and higher types of fulfillment.
The eleventh healing key is fusion healing brokenness. This is the fusion that occurs when different elements come together to create a greater whole, successfully. Fusion can meld seemingly broken pieces of a life and fuse them together into a new working whole. This healing of fragmented parts is achieved by a clear mental gravity that works to unite disparate parts in meaning.
This gravity is a reflection of a kind of love that comes out of the self; it is self-generated. The process is essentially continual and is expressed in many different ways. That love comes from a mental attitude of being in a place that is made of love and drawing the self back into that place again. It could be called “Calling Love” because it calls to the self from a place already united in love, calling back other aspects of consciousness to that point.
By developing full awareness of Calling Love the process of self-reintegration can begin and the pieces of your life can come together in meaningful ways that they haven’t before. In this new framework, if expressed continually, there will simply be no “broken” self, because “broken” aspects of the self will be part of something new that works. Thus their brokenness is consumed.
Calling Love is evolution, which is the only thing that consciousness really does. Evolution is expressed as a person made of consciousness constantly fulfilling their desires. As they do so they evolve. Higher desires are a big part of that process. The self stretches up to the place where all consciousness is One. So, personal desires can come from that level or any lower level down to the current level of consciousness. This entire spectrum of experience is all “self.”
As these desires filter down into fulfillment, the person evolves and becomes aware of higher forms of desire fulfillment while being encouraged to drop lower types of desire fulfillment. This is the real nature of “virtue.” All types of desire are given enough time to be fulfilled, but in order for this to happen in a person who embodies so many different levels of desire, the person must evolve upwards into higher modes of being.
Ultimately, a person must work out all their desires in Spirit; no desire can be left behind. As lower desires are burned up through being fulfilled, higher desires pour in. These states of consciousness feel more and more like love as they get higher and higher. The embodiment of love then is in evolution, which is all that consciousness does. The frenzy of activity produces endless new experiences to add to the whole of creation for use by all beings living in the Eternal Now. We are all being Called and we are all chosen.