EXPANDING STATES OF SELF-AWARENESS
LESSON 17
In this course of lessons we have followed the diagram of States of Self Awareness on page 25 (Lesson 4). We have now arrived in our description at the telekinesical level, where the Power-to-be-conscious directly exerts its influence, ('internal' motivations, as considered from the objective point of view). Also in prior lessons we have worked to establish a referent for the term telekinesical. In the objective manifold of values we look upon this world and everything in it as objective, relative to the perceiver of it. We call that the Aristotelian orientation. We are familiar with functioning in that frame of reference. In fact, we are all so conditioned to it that it sounds perfectly normal, natural, and logical. But now we have been dramatically precipitated into the new age, the new cycle. In this age of technological automation in which our electronic scientists are now working and living, great factories can be run by electronic gadgets and atomic or nuclear war has become a distinct possibility. We must adjust ourselves and our thinking to it. We can no longer afford to look upon this world and everything in it as 'things' or 'objects'. What we have heretofore called 'things' and 'objects' must now be regarded as dynamic configurations of incomprehensible energy. Look what a revolutionary process that will be - to convert our thinking into this new cycle!
In the School of the Natural Order we have been trying to inculcate that method of thinking for a long time, and in some measurable degree, we are making progress. We are beginning to get alert men and women to function in it. And what a world is opening to them! They no longer live in the old concept of a static creation, and then try to account for that creation by postulating some outside creator. An outside creator has only one basis - the basis of creation. Point to any 'this' and say, "this, this, this is a creation." Oh, is it? If we analyze it we find that it is a dynamic configuration of light, energy, and dynamic power. There is nothing static, created, about it.
In several of the earlier lessons of this course we went into considerable detail in establishing a referent for the term telekinesical, which we understand as the way in which the evolutionary process proceeds. The search for an outside creator is precisely opposite from the referent for the term telekinesical. When we seek for meaning, when we arrive at the telekinesical state in the developing process, we reverse the direction of search and we begin to look 'within'. (Note that we put the word 'within' in single quotes to indicate that the word has no meaning. 'Within' is based upon the old thingifying, objectifying way of thinking and speaking. Just now we are betwixt and between the old habit of thinking in terms of objectifying, thingifying, and learning how to reorient the thinking in the absence of all objectification. So we compromise by using the Aristotelian language, but we put such words in single quotes. This reminds us that these words are part of what we call the dual throng, words that have meaning only with reference to each other: hot-cold, good-bad, within-without, etc.)
Instead of looking 'out' for a reason or cause or creator of a so-called creation, we now look 'in'. But when we get 'in', there is no 'in' to it. The creative process becomes the act of becoming aware, of being Self-aware. We become aware that we ourselves and this dynamic process we call objectivity are only the act of Self-awareness. And resting upon the Self which is aware, where is 'within' or 'without'? It has vanished, along with high and low, far and near, hot and cold, vice and virtue, and all the other dual throng words. So also are objective and subjective. Once we catch that, then we will see that all power, or any power that motivates creative processes, does not come from something 'without'. It comes from the intrinsic nature of the power to perceive. That creative power comes from the deepest 'in', not from the furthest 'out!' That is telekinesical.
Let us put this in simple terms that a child could understand. And by the way, children can pick this up quicker than adults, because children are not yet as canalized in that old creation-created-by-an-outside-creator way of thinking. They are less canalized in the old manifold of values. That is why we put so much stress on training our children. Adults have much unlearning to do to counteract the psychological resistance to the necessary change and the reversal of the basis of thinking or perceiving. When we become conditioned to this new basis of perception, evaluation, motivation, etc., we find that any power, force, energy, influence, emerges from 'within'. Here is a simple illustration that even children can readily see. It is the life force in a rosebud that unfolds the bud into the fully blooming rose. It is the life force within the bud that responds to the light of the sun, the energy and warmth, moisture, and fertility of the soil. All of the fertility, all of the rain, all of the sunshine, all of the energy, would not produce a rose if it were not for the intrinsic life force responding to it. And responding to it is telekinesical.
I know you are reading this lesson, and mentally you may be saying, "oh, yes, yes, yes, of course!" But five minutes after this lesson is over you are going to do or say something that has nothing to do with 'outside' to account for something going on 'in' you. You will engage in some conversation and go blah-blah-blah about some 'outside' thing that affected you. But nothing anywhere on earth on any level can affect you unless this 'inner' intrinsic Power-to-be-conscious recognizes it, gives value to it, and reacts. Nothing can touch you or affect you in any other way. So stop alibiing; stop looking 'out' and justifying and manufacturing excuses - for what? For everything that affects you! Look to the intrinsic nature of the Self and the state in which it is conscious; that is telekinesical. We must begin to practice this, and the more we practice, the more this Power-to-be-conscious that has been struggling down through the ages to emerge into Self-awareness will emerge. The more we practice it, the more it will emerge and guide, direct, safeguard, and protect the person who orients consciousness to it.
Let us now move to the last item on our chart that we have been following - Unitary Field Theory. (See "States of Self-Awareness" on page 25 of Lesson 4.) Heretofore we have been working from the configuration, the 'out', 'in'. Now I want to reverse it. Let us begin with the field. This outline represents the evolution of understanding, not on the part of the students of the School of the Natural Order, but on the part of students and scholars, everywhere. Little by little researchers, scholars and scientists, have labored through these concepts, each one merely a representation of the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious was becoming conscious. The evolution of education, of learning, the evolutionary process of the growing knowledge in the given person or in the race as a whole can be understood. We find that interest in a given subject did not take place until the motivational force of the Power-to-be-conscious awakened it. The Power was becoming conscious - Self-aware - and interest in subjects representative of the expanding state on the part of the Power-to-be-conscious developed. When we glimpse the whole picture, we can determine the degree in which the Power-to-be-conscious has emerged. Come right down to today (1956). Where is the interest of the top bracket of the investigators into knowledge? Where are they functioning? In field physics.
Let us first be certain that we know what we are talking about when we use the term Autonomous Field. The book of Genesis describes an edict: "Let there be Light." That edict is an allegorical portrayal of the union of the Positive Power and the Negative Substance. "And the evening and the morning was the first day" - of the creative process. If you read the first chapter of the book of Genesis carefully, you will see this whole cosmic process, day by day, period by period, state by state. But notice that in this allegorical narrative it was the fourth day before the configurational process took place in which sun and moon appeared. Thus it has no reference to what the blessed Aristotelians in objective identification would ascribe to light. They cannot separate light from the concept of the sun, but today our top researchers in understanding and knowledge know that what is called an atom is more brilliant, brighter, than the noonday sun. So the union of the Positive Power-to-be-conscious and Mater, Mother Substance, could be described allegorically as an edict, "Let there be Light." That light was the atom of hydrogen. One positive and one negative made the atom of hydrogen. We can take it from there and go through the periodic table up to uranium and beyond, and you will find that it is only a repetition of the same process: "Let there be Light."
Now we turn our attention to what we label the Higher Self, the Autonomous Field, the true Individual, the essential, intrinsic Power-to-be-conscious in you and in me and in every so-called thing. We find that when the union is established between the positive and negative, at once an electromagnetic field appears. We could go into that technically and get involved in recondite mathematics, but that is not our province. It is sufficient for our purposes to direct attention to the point that with the union of a positive and negative there is an electromagnetic field. The electrical field is positively charged; the magnetic field is negatively charged. So we could simply say that there is a positive and a negative field that appears. This can easily be demonstrated with a simple solenoid.
In any creative process, essentially there must be a field. And a field can only be described by the lines of force between its positive and negative pole. This may seem elementary, but please be patient. We need to begin to think this way. I am emphasizing it because not only must we learn to think this way, but we must become conscious of the fact that this is the way we actually function. We need to grow into the consciousness of the way we function.
Let us make it practical, because it is not abstract or recondite. Let us illustrate it with something that you can put into practice every day and watch how it works. Here is a pragmatic, usable illustration. What do you want, and how can you go about getting it? The good aristotelians would say go out and get a job, set up a business, do this or do that and earn some money. Put the money in the bank, and when you have enough money saved up then buy it or do it. That is the aristotelian way. But how does a conscious creator do it? He remembers that first there must be a field, so he creates a field. How? By holding the idea. Now watch. That is not a mental concept. He perceives the idea until his consciousness conceives it. That conception has a positive and negative pole. One must be stimulated, fecundated, mutually reciprocally motivated by a positive and a negative, on all levels, even the level of germinating an idea. How this occurs seems esoteric, and you have to get onto it. This is how it is done. There is a unity, a oneness, with a positive and a negative that conceives an idea.
The next step is to nurse it. Keep it secret. The reason one must keep it secret is very simple. It works like steam in the boiler. If you exhaust all the steam, there is no steam left to have the pressure to drive the engine. Keep internal enthusiasm high, and don't open that safety valve. Bottle it up and don't talk about it - to anyone. By and by the pressure, the tension, generates. Here comes opportunity. A person or a circumstance appears - is it out of the blue? No, because the creative forces of the field reached out and tapped him on the shoulder. So nurse the idea, keep it bottled up, generate enthusiasm, 'steam', energy, and it will reach out and provide what is needed. That energy, that force, does not operate in three dimensions. It will reach out and bring what you require for the configuration of your idea. Talk about practicality! Why, this is the greatest secret of all secrets. This is the way that all creative processes work. This is the way the archetypal gods in Light's Regions configurate and create galaxies out of which solar systems and planets eventuate. This is the way the creative process works. How? From the field 'out'. This is what we must do. Try it. It will work. What do you want? Get it. The worst that can happen to you is that you will learn a lesson that possibly you shouldn't have gotten it. But how could you have known that was the last thing you should have had? We have to learn, until finally we learn that which is more valuable than all other things combined, and that is what you can take with you and bring back again. That is more valuable than all other things combined. But how are we going to learn what is most valuable? By getting what we want! And little by little we exhaust everything else except that which we can take with us and bring back again. That has supreme value, "... where rust will not corrupt nor thieves break through and steal." But until that awareness dawns, we are not going to criticize what you want, because what you want portrays the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious is becoming conscious in you. Understanding of this teaching takes away any tendency to try to make one yardstick of morals, ethics, etc., for everyone. For instance when John Doe won't conform, he's bad; Jane Roe can't see this yardstick, so she's off base, ostracized, evil. This teaching takes away all of that. We make no judgment whatever, because what you want is just as legitimate to you as what I want is to me. What you want portrays the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious in you is conscious, which is wonderful. Everything is good, irrespective of what you want!
So much for the field and the idea. This field is also called the sphere or the space in which a given one functions. Back in the old dark ages, the aristotelian age, people of that period thought that space was the apparent distance between two or more objects, like the sun and the moon, or Venus and Mars, Earth and the constellations, etc. Closer at hand, if there were no walls nor ceiling nor floor right here they could not get a concept of an enclosed space. They had to have three points of reference - walls, ceiling, floor - in order to get an idea of space. That was the old idea of space. In this new age that is all obsolete. In this new cycle that kind of spaces does not exist. To get the idea that there is no such 'thing', imagine that you are out where there are no points of reference: no sun, no moon, no stars, no Venus, no Jupiter, no constellations, no points of reference. Now in your imagination try to get an idea of space. It is non-existent. The Robert Oppenheimers, Albert Einsteins, and other such scientific types do not think of space in that way any more. They have a new kind of space called curved space. That is the way space is conceived now. And that is the way we function, in curved space.
Think of a sphere, the peripheral limitations in which a given person's consciousness functions. That is the space representative of the state in which that Power-to-be-conscious is conscious. Let me illustrate, because we all have to teach by analogy. Without analogy we would have a difficult job trying to put over some of these ideas. Here is an analogy of what I just said. A child growing up in a home knows its room first, from its crib. Little by little he or she learns other rooms until it learns its house. That is the space in which the child's consciousness functions. He knows nothing else outside of that. A little later on he learns his yard, all the familiar little bumps and grass and flowers that might be in the yard. That yard becomes the space in which the child's consciousness functions. Anything outside of it is unknown. If he accepts anything from outside of the space in which he functions it is metaphysics - pure metaphysics - because it has no reality to his space.
As the child grows up he learns his neighborhood and the town or city in which he resides. Let us say the child grows up and becomes a pilot. He may talk to others who fly. "Paris, Tokyo, gotta be careful when you land in Berlin, it's a little tricky." My gracious alive! the whole planet is their space! They are perfectly at home talking about London, Paris, Tokyo, etc. We earthbound ones have much more limited spaces. Think of the state in which world travelers function. The new idea of space is a sphere in which a given consciousness functions. Anything outside of that is on the basis of belief, on the basis of metaphysics. Something outside of my space in which I function is pure metaphysics to me. That is why this teaching is non-metaphysical, because we confine ourselves to the state, the space, in which we function until we can expand that space, that state. Do not hurry past this point. Watch it, because it will orient you to life facts. Do not try to function on beliefs - that is metaphysics. Confine yourself to life facts. Do not rely on your belief system; that is metaphysics.
Then, as we understand space we begin to understand time. Time is the movement of our consciousness upon the space, in the state, within the peripheral boundaries of the sphere in which we function. Stated simply, time is the movement of our consciousness upon the space in which we function. The more movement of the consciousness upon the space, the more time; the less movement, the less time, until time disappears into timelessness. And space disappears because the periphery gets so expanded we can't hold onto it any more and we are universalized. We become universalized because we can't hang onto the peripheral outline of the space in which consciousness functions. That is the only universalization there is; when your space gets so big you can't hold onto the periphery.
Then we stand clear in the creative process, identified and unified with the Light, that "Light of every man that cometh into the world" - that lights every manifestation that comes into the world. We are admitted to the great company of the Illuminati. And that is something to glorify, to be thankful for, whatever state one might be in. It is that which gives meaning and purpose to life, to everything.
-Vitvan, Tape series dated 1955 - 1956 Marj Coffman, ed. 1999