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Ch. 6 Exercises1. First, it is
the Path which each Being treads cousinnoutly return after return until
perfection is accomplished; the Work never ends. The Work is continuous
effort to perfect the Being, without getting into forms of evolution which
are higher than human.2. When I read the term true teacher,' I thought Real
Self' that is the Self which you yourself are in the sense of you are a spark
of the Divine, when it has realized that it is part of the Whole, the ego has
been dropped, the small I's have disappeared and the teachers are everywhere
in everything because now you are able to understand' interconnected and
related parts of One Whole Being.3. It appears from what I gather that
Discernment (which is seeing or perceiving) is a faculty of the sense of
sight in terms of seeing greater detail which is necessary before the Higher
Mind or even Mentation can develop, that in fact the development of the
senses (and also control of any indulgence of sensations) is absolutely
necessary before discernment can be developed that is of any use. So any
exercise that will refine and extend any of the senses, especially sight and
hearing because they are the most complex and last evolved in man, will
develop discernment and lead to Mentation which will lead to Higher Mind.All
this, of course, begins with Attention and the Popcorn exercise EJ has given
us. It is necessary to learn to view complex objects in parts' as in looking
at a face you train yourself to look at the eyes, mouth, shape of the face,
etc. separately otherwise you have a blurry memory and blurry memory is no
use for anything. Beginning with Attention to detail not only with sight, but
with all the senses, beginning with the observation of movements of the HBM,
externally and then internally, extend all the senses, making them finer and
greater.When you have discernment, can discern well, you can learn and have
knowledge, your attention is concentrated and you develop will. When you have
knowledge you have the ability to think' unless and until you do that you
cannot have memory and knowledge, you can't mentate. In fact that is what has
to be done in order to develop the astral senses which must be done in order
to consciously travel in the macrodimensions in my view. All the foregoing is
one description of work that is necessary to do in order to wake up in fact.
When you are able to attend, sense, know, think, mentate to a far greater
degree than now, then that is AWAKE. Anyway, discernment is essentially the
development of the senses the increased perception means you know more about
the environment, ergo you are more awake.4. If you have an awareness of the
mechanical manifestations of the machine and are witnessing that I would
think that you are awake to some degree. If you have an awareness of yourself
as a center of Being not connected to the objects of attention I would think
that you are somewhat awake. I do not think I can answer this question well
or in detail. To repeat, when you are able to attend, sense, know, think,
mentate to a far greater degree than now, then that is AWAKE. |
Ch. 6 Exercises1. First, it is
the Path which each Being treads cousinnoutly return after return until
perfection is accomplished; the Work never ends. The Work is continuous
effort to perfect the Being, without getting into forms of evolution which
are higher than human.2. When I read the term true teacher,' I thought Real
Self' that is the Self which you yourself are in the sense of you are a spark
of the Divine, when it has realized that it is part of the Whole, the ego has
been dropped, the small I's have disappeared and the teachers are everywhere
in everything because now you are able to understand' interconnected and
related parts of One Whole Being.3. It appears from what I gather that
Discernment (which is seeing or perceiving) is a faculty of the sense of
sight in terms of seeing greater detail which is necessary before the Higher
Mind or even Mentation can develop, that in fact the development of the
senses (and also control of any indulgence of sensations) is absolutely
necessary before discernment can be developed that is of any use. So any
exercise that will refine and extend any of the senses, especially sight and
hearing because they are the most complex and last evolved in man, will
develop discernment and lead to Mentation which will lead to Higher Mind.All
this, of course, begins with Attention and the Popcorn exercise EJ has given
us. It is necessary to learn to view complex objects in parts' as in looking
at a face you train yourself to look at the eyes, mouth, shape of the face,
etc. separately otherwise you have a blurry memory and blurry memory is no
use for anything. Beginning with Attention to detail not only with sight, but
with all the senses, beginning with the observation of movements of the HBM,
externally and then internally, extend all the senses, making them finer and
greater.When you have discernment, can discern well, you can learn and have
knowledge, your attention is concentrated and you develop will. When you have
knowledge you have the ability to think' unless and until you do that you
cannot have memory and knowledge, you can't mentate. In fact that is what has
to be done in order to develop the astral senses which must be done in order
to consciously travel in the macrodimensions in my view. All the foregoing is
one description of work that is necessary to do in order to wake up in fact.
When you are able to attend, sense, know, think, mentate to a far greater
degree than now, then that is AWAKE. Anyway, discernment is essentially the
development of the senses the increased perception means you know more about
the environment, ergo you are more awake.4. If you have an awareness of the
mechanical manifestations of the machine and are witnessing that I would
think that you are awake to some degree. If you have an awareness of yourself
as a center of Being not connected to the objects of attention I would think
that you are somewhat awake. I do not think I can answer this question well
or in detail. To repeat, when you are able to attend, sense, know, think,
mentate to a far greater degree than now, then that is AWAKE. |
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