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C5) Combinations of desires produce an uncountable number of possible worlds.

From Spirit Plane beings’ perspectives, there are innumerable possible worlds to explore. Although all these worlds exist within Spirit Plane, they have their own separate identities. Spirit Plane is itself an amalgamation of different worlds with a common theme. It is not really one discreet world, although you can look at it that way.

Rather, these worlds are bound together by a single common understanding that underlies everything. This understanding fully applies to all beings in all these worlds. However, there are beings with bodies, without bodies, in many different kinds of environments in Spirit.

Desires create worlds. That is to say, that every desire creates a world, and that world is the process of fulfilling that desire. As you hold desires, they come into manifestation and are expressed in certain ways. The way that desire is manifested in the physical in your life is unique, and can be considered a unique “world”; it is the world of your particular life experience.

However, in the physical world, not all desires are fulfilled. We attempt to fulfill them, but are sometimes frustrated. This seems to fly in the face of what I had previously said about our being the consolidation of a variety of different desires that come into manifestation. What about the ones that don’t manifest?

The desires that are not fulfilled are in competition with the desires that are fulfilled. And, there can also be higher-level desires that we may not be aware of that are expressing themselves through our life.

If we are consciously altruistic people, or are consciously bent on self-improvement, we will have the desire to be good people. For people who do not have that innate desire, they may find that their conscience does not express itself consciously, but at an unconscious level. That is just a complicated way of saying that the desires that are a part of their conscience, which is part of every person’s consciousness, are not able to be expressed through them except by appearing as “external circumstances.” The cricket on the shoulder becomes the Four Horsemen.

But in Spirit Plane, all desires across the board can be fulfilled. And every desire fulfillment is a world. Also, the combination of different desires creates different worlds in consciousness, and therefore in manifestation. Desires in combination or alone generate manifestation worlds and fulfillment world. Manifestation worlds are worlds where the desire begins to be made manifest. Fulfillment worlds are the worlds of the actual fulfillment of that desire. They can be a combination of both as some fulfillment and some manifestation takes place. For you, the task is to see clearly how your desires mix and create “worlds” of both manifestation and fulfillment in your life.

Exercise: World of Desire

In this exercise, we will briefly explore how your previous experiences have been created by your desires. By looking at the desires behind the “worlds” of these experiences, we will be able to see our life as a series of fulfillments of desire. We can also identify how painful situations have been fulfillments of our desires, when examined in this way.

To begin with, find a previous experience that was positive, but did not seem to come from your own efforts, but from simple good fortune. Relax and get your pen and journal ready. After identifying the event you want to work with, see that event inside a bubble. The bubble encompasses that entire event from beginning to end.

Now, while imagining that you are holding that bubble, stick your hand in the bubble and pull out one, two or three marbles. These marbles represent the desires that generated this desire. Now, as in the previous exercise, hold one of the marbles in your hand and let it merge with you, allowing you to feel it and know what it is clearly. After doing this, repeat the process if you have any other marbles to examine. Write down a description of the experience, along with the desires that created it, in your journal.

Now, try this exercise with an unpleasant experience from your past that you don’t feel was anything but hurtful and harmful to you, where you don’t see how it could possibly relate to any of your desires. The desires that created this hurtful situation may have to do with raising your self-awareness, causing you to face your anger, your deepest emotions or something else. They would be the kinds of desire that it is unlikely you would have consciously held, that would be held by superconscious or subconscious mind. Be sure to write down the hurtful situation’s description as well as the desires that brought it into being.

Becoming conscious of these processes, we realize that we test ourselves and refine ourselves through trials and tribulations. Through hurts we emerge better and stronger. We desire, at some level of ourselves, to be better people and to face ourselves. We can consciously alter these desires by creating new desires that help take the edge off these experiences. By being consciously involved in knowing and working with these desires, we can fulfill them with less trauma to ourselves.

C6) Desires are their own landscapes, challenges, desires, limitations, and outcomes.

That is to say that each desire carries within it a landscape of experience and feeling, and the playing out of all these elements is the fulfillment of the desire. That could include overcoming challenges as well as positive experiences.

The factors which make any desire unique are the identity of the consciousness that conceives of the desire, the nature of the desire, and the environment of the being having the desire, as well as the strength of that desire.

If, for example, Bob is a human being who wants a big, red apple, his desire is specific to him, and carries with it the mental traits of Bob at the time the desire was conceived. The desire is specific not only to him, but to the physical plane, as that is where it was conceived. The desire will reflect the place that he is in when he initially has that desire, and will reflect the limitations of his environment.

Is he living somewhere where he can’t buy apples? Will this desire be fulfilled? It depends on how it clicks with other desires that he has. Other desires might take priority, and it might be fulfilled later. The point is that at the moment the desire is conceived of by Bob, it comes into being, and has a very specific nature, which is strongly influenced by who Bob is.

So, not all desires are the same. I have noticed that some people can simply list out things they want and they seem to magically come to them with no effort. This may not work for other people who try it. It may have to do with the desires of that particular individual. There are people who are very prosperous in some ways and not at all in others. The desire may seem superficially the same from person to person, but it actually varies in nature greatly, based on who is doing the desiring.

Also, the state of mind that a person is in when they give birth to a desire can greatly influence the nature of that desire. That is to say, a person may find that in one state of consciousness they may be very fluent in producing desires that bear fruit, while in another they may be frustrated more often.

Also, a person may find that in one state of consciousness that they have a certain set of desire, but that many of those desires are dry and meaningless to them in other states of consciousness. A lack of real desire is a big problem for some people. To have that clear, passionate desire to have a certain thing is very simple for some people and not for others. I have often thought that passionate desire is the source of real talent. It seems that behind every person who has a great area of expertise there is a passionate desire that drives them to try, learn and retain information in that area. That interest is the key.

Sure, there are people who are passionately interested but not very skilled, but I think that in general it is that ability to retain what you learn that comes from desire that is so important. In the pecking order of desires, there are so many desires inside of us that it is a rough place for a new desire to take hold. Like plants competing for soil and light, our desires have to fight to take root and thrive. Depression can be a killer of desire, as we can begin to associate all activities to pain; or, more specifically, the pain of being depressed.

As desire is its own world, it is important to understand it clearly before we bring the world of that desire into our life. The following exercise will explore the process of investigating a new desire, to see if we want it to manifest as is, or if it may need to be tweaked in some way in order to bring something positive and effective into our life.

Exercise: Examine a Desire

In this exercise, we will peer into the world of a new desire, and determine what elements in it we should change in order to make it an optimal desire for us personally. First, get relaxed with your pen and journal handy. Then, think of a desire that you have had that has remained unfulfilled, but is basically a realistic desire to expect to have fulfilled in your current situation.

Once you have chosen such a desire, write it down. Then, imagine you are looking at a large bubble, which is the desire we have just selected. Begin by entering the desire as if it was a large enough to encompass your whole body. Then, entering it as a landscape, with solid earth beneath your feet.

Examine the features of the world around you. How does it feel? What is the atmosphere like? If the landscape is unfriendly, then examine each attribute of the environment that is uncomfortable and merge with it as a conscious awareness within yourself. To do this, identify the attribute that is negative to you, and then merge with it on a ten count, knowing you will understand it when you merge with it.

Now you will know exactly what that attribute of the environment means in terms of the desire. Write down any observations after they come to you. For example, with my desire for to manifest a yellow sapphire pendant, I came up with a humid, yet desert-like environment, with heat and no plant life. From merging with the humidity, I learned that this desire is my way of trying to prove that I am not just physical and powerless. It is an expression of my feeling earth-bound and powerless. The dryness is an expression of how I feel very sad, heavy and barren because of all the things I don’t have yet. The barrenness of the landscape represents how I feel very sad about my life and unfulfilled by the physical form of my life. This makes me in turn feel very discouraged about attempting anything in terms of manifestation. The heat is my anger at what I feel to be a frustrating, painful life. With so many negative attributes, it is easy to see how this desire is very tied down in negativity and unlikely to manifest freely and spontaneously.

To begin with, we should write down all the observations on the desire and look them over. Are there any common themes that run through them? If there is one positive way we could feel that would negate all these attributes, what would it be? For me, it was to feel that my life has not been a disappointing and powerless experience.

To generate this feeling, we now generate the desire to have this feeling (within the context of the desire we are examining). Think about how it would feel to have this new emotional state in this desire, and experiment by adding the feeling artificially to the environment. Do you like the way it feels now? Keep experimenting until you find the right feeling to fix all the major issues with this environment.

Now, look at how this desire-feeling might help you feel better and be more successful in the future. Say to yourself, “I now have the intention to desire to feel “_____” in connection with this desire from this time forward.” You may have to add more than one desire to fix the damage, depending on how you word them. Look at how this intention has transformed your desire-environment for the better. You have successfully altered and repaired this desire, and improved your chances of attaining it in real life.

Another approach is to find a completely positive desire, such as wanting to live in a state of loving all sentient beings, that is by its very nature desire-fulfilling. Such a desire, if grown and developed, will produce all of one’s desires, leading to a fruitful life and happiness. Your original desire could then be made to be an adjunct to this larger desire. And so, you “convert” the purpose of the desire to support this new, larger desire.

When a religion moves into a region where there is a certain kind of worship going on, the local deities are often turned into saints or protectors of the new faith. This conversion process represents the converting of old ways of thinking to new ones. The new version of the old deity serves pretty much the same function, but then also an additional function of serving the new faith.

C) There is infinite time to play with experience.

Spirit contains infinite potential for time because it is made up of consciousness, which generates its own time, rather than matter, which is tied to space-time without choice. New consciousness carries its own time stream and as such there is infinite potential to generate new time as you play with consciousness in Spirit.

Every new experience you generate has a separate time-stream from the one you just left, unless you artificially tie the two together in some way. That means that no time has to pass in one experience while you have another experience that lasts any length of time in another experience.

Infinite time throws a strange light on your experience. If you were really in a situation like that, what would you do? To have infinite time to explore experiences would change everything. You wouldn’t be limited to physical planes of consciousness. There would be so many experiences to explore that you would have to really give some thought to what you wanted to experience.

Another factor would be that you would have to consider the nature of your identity. If you chose to experience other identities, how would those experiences alter your current identity? Would you add your old identity to the new one, thus augmenting yourself? How much are you really willing to give up your present identity?

I think that it is attachment to identity that makes it the most difficult to take full advantage of that kind of freedom. Would it be hard to live in a world where you could explore every experience and always have infinite time in front of you to have more? It would certainly change your priorities. If you think about your physical life as being part of an infinite Spirit experience, how does that change how you feel about your life? How does it impact your goals and priorities? How does it effect your thinking and emotional state? We will address all of this in the next exercise.

Exercise: If it was Eternity

In this exercise, we will reexamine our life from an eternal standpoint. That is to say, we will think of our life as being part of an eternal Spirit life, and then examine how that viewpoint of having eternal time changes our goals in life.

To begin with, get relaxed and have a pen and your journal handy. Imagine infinite time stretched out before you in Spirit. After you die, you return to Spirit experience and there is infinite time to explore reality.

With this in mind, suspend your disbelief and think about what we would like to do if we had infinite time. Make a list of thirty experiences that you would have (in Spirit) if you were not able to have them in physical life. Each experience should be as broad as possible, while still being specific to a certain set of activities. For example, one item could be “I wish to explore all the places on earth that I never had the chance to visit.” Complete this part of the exercise before reading forward from this point.

Were you surprised to find that you couldn’t come up with thirty items? Or, perhaps you had far more than thirty. Whatever the case may be, you can see that you might eventually reach a point where you would have to get creative in order to find more experiences to explore.

Now, write out the four top themes that you find repeated in your desires, ranked in order of importance. Are there things you can do in your physical life to in some way partially satisfy these “themes” of desire? If you put forth the effort, planned and took action, could you perhaps bring these themes into reality in your life to some degree? Take a moment and say, “I intend to desire from this time forward to have more satisfying physical experiences relating to __1__, __2__, __3__ and __4__ in my life.” Repeat this sentence two more times. This creates a desire that will later lead to action and manifestation, if you are willing to make the effort.

What impact did an eternal time reference have on your mind? How did it effect how you thought about your desires and goals? In Spirit we would have a much greater capacity to be in touch with our desires. We would never have to struggle to think about what we wanted. We would always slide effortlessly into each new experience. We don’t have that luxury here because our mental capacity is limited.

D1) Every state of consciousness has its own multi-leveled universe and its own range of experience.

That is to say that for every state of consciousness, there is a world around it and a realm of experience above and below it, in terms of higher and lower planes of existence. And, that consciousness has a range of motion, from higher to lower states of consciousness that is peculiar to that state of consciousness.

Spirit can conceive of universes that are very different from our own, with different higher and lower planes of existence associated with them. Individual consciousnesses also have their own unique ranges of motion within those available states of consciousness.

Each person has his or her own unique state of consciousness that is different from every other state of consciousness in existence. When you use visualization to access other people or beings, you are also accessing their unique worlds, and their range of consciousness to some extent. That is to say, if you access a being that is more evolved you can, to the degree that you are able to tap into their state of consciousness, you can temporarily and in a limited way expand your own range of consciousness.

This is because your state of consciousness temporarily shifts to partially encompass their state of consciousness, and thus you expand your range of consciousness partially. In the following exercise we will use this idea to explore a wider range of consciousness than we usually have access to.

Exercise: Touching an Evolved Soul

In this exercise we will begin, as usual, by getting into a relaxed state and having our pen and journal handy. Start by identifying a person who we admire and think of as having a more advanced consciousness than our own. This person can be either living or deceased.

After identifying this person, imagine them sitting in front of you. Move into their body and see through their eyes. Allow a scene to fill in around you gradually. Begin to identify with them, and feel their emotional and mental state more and more as your own. When you are finished, be as completely identified with them as possible, while retaining a fraction of your own awareness.

Now, imagine that you can control what level of consciousness they are in, within the normal range of their consciousness as a person. Imagine that you are exploring their highest state of consciousness as a person. Raise their state of consciousness higher and higher within their normal range. You can use the grading scale, with C+ as average state of consciousness, and A+ as the highest.

When you get there, take note of what you are experiencing. You may see, hear and feel a whole experience through this person’s eyes. Give yourself time to fully experience it. Then, take some notes on how this experience affected you and on any insights you had through being this person.

D2) Every moment of every timeline has its own range of possible experiences that could be explored as planes of existence.

This means that in your own life, and the lives of others, if we could stop the clock at any moment of time, the ideas, feelings and thoughts going on within them could be explored as separate worlds.

A better way to imagine this would be to see yourself as a being in Spirit Plane, who has decided to take you as you are at a particular moment in time and break you down into a collection of ideas. These ideas would be your memories, thoughts, feelings, ideas, inventions, fantasies and so forth that have made up your past and present moments. Obviously, this would be a lot of material.

Each of these ideas could be expanded out to become a whole world of experience. Obviously, a toaster or a fork does not lend itself to becoming a whole world unto itself. But many ideas can definitely be explored as a world unto themselves.

The exploration of an idea as a whole world involves going into that idea and exploring it as a complete environment. For example, you could have a friend named Judy, and build an entire world out of your previous conversations with Judy. Are all the conversations with yourself and Judy, or with Judy and a variety of other people? Are the conversations limited to physical plane conversations that have already happened, or does it include possible future conversations?

Perhaps the conversations are not pre-scripted, but are set in a variety of moods and settings, and simply involve yourself and Judy having a spontaneous talk. Perhaps there are no rules or boundaries, other than having every conversation involve Judy’s participation at some level. The slant you put on any idea to define it as world is up to you. The details of your idea will define it entirely and choosing not to be clear is a choice in and of itself.

What is the point of all of this? As usual, the point is to be able to explore reality through consciousness, because reality is consciousness. So, we are exploring all our options by breaking down events into ideas as a means of “mining” those ideas for new ideas and experiences. This is an important step toward being able to combine ideas together in new ways.

A fork is a physical object but also an idea that can be explored. What would a fork look like as a whole world? You would have to explore it at a consciousness level to find out. But abstract ideas would yield much larger possibilities and less literal limitations. The higher the degree of abstraction of an idea, the wider the possible field of exploration would be within that idea as a whole world. Any idea that is restricted to the physical world is inherently limited. Abstract ideas are by their very nature the most unlimited, because they can exist as thoughts and ideas in the physical context and as realities in a Spirit context. Ideas that are limited to the physical cannot operate at the abstract level unless they are altered.

If you have a work of art that you are involved in creating, and are not satisfied with it, you can explore that work of art as a world. How does it feel? What do you like or dislike about it? What would you like to change about it? What mood would you like to infuse it with? The inside experience is very different. Then you could take the emotional and intellectual perceptions of what the piece was lacking and make a world out of those missing elements, then examine the forms and colors in that world and add them accordingly.

You could likewise take your current job or career and examine it as a world. If you found it to be lacking certain elements, then you could see if you could infuse those feelings into your work experience somehow, or perhaps set a goal of finding a job that would hold those feelings for you.

You could do the same for a relationship that is significant to you. If you are facing a problem, you could explore that problem as a world and come up with insights that might be helpful in dealing with that problem. Or, you could look at qualities that you might bring forward in yourself that are somehow lacking in the problem’s inner world. Or, you can explore a person as an inner world, seeing what makes them tick and getting a feel for them.

The idea of exploring ideas as worlds is key to all visualization work, and has broad applications. In the next exercise, we will use this technique to examine what might be missing in our life, and how we can add that missing element to our life.

Exercise: The Missing Piece

In this exercise, we begin as always by relaxing and having our pen and journal handy. Start by seeing a jigsaw puzzle lying in front of you, partially assembled. This partially complete jigsaw puzzle represents your life. Although the picture is fairly well constructed, there are a few missing pieces here and there. Pick out one distinct area that is one missing piece in the puzzle, and zoom down into it.

You are going to enter this empty space as a world. You pass through a barrier and enter that missing piece as a world. Standing on solid ground, allow the surroundings to reveal themselves gradually. When you have a feeling for where you are, look around and get a sense of the place. Walk around and explore this environment.

What seems to be missing from this place, on an emotional level, as well as on a material level? How does being here make you feel? Is there fog, or a lack of clarity? Is it dark? Are there no people or buildings? What is missing here? The literal things you perceive and how you feel will literally or symbolically point to the problem. If it doesn’t make sense literally, see it as an emotional language. What does this thing or absence you see make you feel? This is the kind of clue you are looking for.

Now, zoom back out of this world and see the puzzle again. Pick out the missing piece and hold it in your hand. Zoom into it and enter it as a world. What positive feelings and sights do you see? How does this world relate to the world of the missing piece? What is abundantly available here that was absent there? Write your observations down.

Now, take the missing piece and add it to the puzzle. Now, enter the jigsaw puzzle, which now has one less missing piece, by zooming down into it. After entering it as a world and getting your bearings, ask to be shown what is different about this world, now that the missing piece has been put in place. You may see specific things being presented to you that literally tell you what would be different, or you may perceive a new feeling or a new way of doing things. Write these observations down as well.

We can clearly see how our life will be better with this missing piece in place. Now, to finish, we will take that thing or quality of being, or feeling or activity that is missing and make it into a desire. Say out-loud “I now express my intention to desire from this time forward to (name the missing element you want to add).” Repeat this two more time out-loud.

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