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..:: The Mental
Field IV ::..
“Communion”
By
Alan Schneider
In the last essay, I suggested the existence of the
Threshold of Chaos as the psychic portal from which virtually all of the
information used by the ego to construct its version of consciousness
emerges. I further suggested that this portal resides at the base of the
ego and sensory perception, both developmentally and literally, and that
no deeper level of experience is possible, even in deep meditation.
While conventional science asserts that the senses themselves form the
basis of experience and perception, I maintained that even these
apparent fundamentals are really created in the Chaos present beyond the
Threshold, formed by quasi-intelligent influences concealed in that
Chaos as strange attractors, and then intentionally transmitted across
the Threshold according to an extremely sophisticated and purposeful
design. I suggested that this design was tantamount to Karma, and formed
the essence of the Will of the Logos acting on human affairs on the
Physical Plane of manifestation. Although we have a natural tendency to
misperceive the origin of the projections emerging from the Threshold of
Chaos as being our personal creations, such is not the case –
they are of Divine origin. I suggested that the consistency of
these perceptions, whether they are called visions or dreams or
fantasies, both in studies across the expanse of history and prehistory,
and in exsiting present day cultures around the world, demonstrates that
they are organized and meaningful in content, and tend to challenge our
perception with moral quandaries and dilemmas that clarify the Soul
as the focus of consciousness, not the ego.
Now I will take these
propositions a few steps further, as we examine the nature of the
material emerging from the Threshold, and the apparent results of
various experimental methods used by not only the Saints and Seers of
history, but also by “ordinary” individuals, to send information back
the other way into the Chaos. These methods involve meditation,
prayer, astral projection and perception, and full Ascension of the Soul
to the level of the Logos and beyond.
As time is spent in
meditation and contemplation at the Threshold, a perceptual edifice of
remarkable consistency among observers tends to emerge as a stable
element of their experience that is frequently characterized as an
additional sense, much like the physical senses, but far more
expansive in the Psyche. With ongoing practice, another completely
distinct continuum of experience takes form at the Threshold, one
that accounts for virtually all psychic ability and extrasensory
perception. I have already referred to the Astral Archetypes and the
Akashic Records as two of the features of this extended region of
experience, and there are many others as well, including personal
attributes and psychic skills (frequently referred to as Siddis,
or supernatural capacities, in Hindu Tantric Theory) that come to
be developed by many practitioners. The attempt at a more or less
complete listing and analysis of these personal and collective
capacities would entail the writing of at least one, and probably more,
full volumes into the hundreds of pages in length by this author – a
daunting task to be sure (although there is nothing to say that I will
not do so eventually as an expression of Dharma). In this little
article, such a treatment is clearly out of the question – only the most
basic questions can be raised and clarified here – questions of the
communication dynamics that take place at the Threshold. The spiritual
term for this set of dynamics is communion – a deep
sharing of more than simple information across the Threshold – a
sharing of our most intimate personal consciousness, feelings, and
experiences with the archetypes on the other side through interfacing
with their symbols, up to and including the Supreme Manifestation
of the Logos. The archetypes become living beings through the
manifestation of their symbolic structure, capable of speaking,
thinking, feeling, and behaving, and the results of communion
with them can be seen in observable change (including occasional
miracles) here on the Physical Plane. It is through these
often baffling real time transitions that defy probability – that defy
even possibility – that we come to have convincing knowledge of
the supernatural world beyond the senses.
It is tempting to make
blanket generalizations about the communion process, but such things
have a way of confounding the claimant. The process itself takes place
beyond the “normal” state of ego consciousness, at least in the case of
Astral perception, and the presence of the archetypal manifestations
present establishes what amounts to an environment of non-linear
dynamics. It is frequently difficult or impossible to account for what
takes place on the higher Planes using the correlates of the Physical
Plane. But some guidelines can be established for the sake of our
communication on the Physical Plane in terms that the ego can accept and
is comfortable with.
I have said that some people
have natural abilities for various aspects of psychic capacities, and
this includes communion. There are, for example, individuals who have a
powerful natural capacity for prayer – the sending of messages
back across the Threshold to the supernatural entities who exist there –
predominantly the Angels, Archangels, and other expressions of higher
consciousness. It is said in the Mystery Theories that the Archangel
Sandalphon is the initial Astral entity who first hears our prayers, and
then translates and relays them in the musical Angelic tongue to the
extended sequence of Archangels to follow, sending our prayers up
through the Planes of Ascension if He deems us worthy. I have also heard
it said that there are demonic entities present in at least the Lower
Astral Plane (contiguous to the Physical Plane perceived in the senses),
who hear and respond to dark incantations soliciting outcomes
based on greed or other negative psychological postures. And there is
also said to be a class of more or less neutral Entities that may or may
not acknowledge our requests, depending on their content and our
motivation in making them. I have certainly met any number of persons
who seemed to have both capabilities – positive and negative
solicitation – including occasionally in the same physical persona! As
was noted in the film The Ninth Gate, “Even Hell has it Heroes!”
– there are people who seem to be chosen for and by the Darkness
to perform dark deeds with apparent impunity. These individuals are
frequently devoid of love and compassion, however, and this makes them
pitiful and empty creatures, however powerful they may seem to be in the
material sense.
No information will be given
here regarding the Dark practices. As far as this author is concerned,
they all represent psychic and psychological dead ends, and are
simply not worth the price paid for the very questionable advantages
promised to the practitioner. Even though our Karma at a certain stage
of spiritual development may include the study and practice of the Black
Arts, my identity as a Light Worker precludes any further mention of
this most challenged condition. This leaves us with the solicitation of
the Light and Neutral Entities to be considered. Since the Neutral
Entities are also prone to perform service to the selfish ends of the
unenlightened ego, they too are to be regarded with suspicion, and will
not be considered here. There is much in the realm of the archetypal
symbols that is deceptive and represents all manner of concealed
malevolence, and any image encountered in any state of heightened
receptivity, including meditation, should be carefully scrutinized for
indications of its intent and character before becoming involved with
the potencies that it represents. Be warned!
The process of meditation
automatically places us in contact with the Astral State when even
entered into for just a few minutes, and will progressively send us into
higher planes of consciousness as it continues. These higher planes
(from the level of Anahata, the Heart Chakra, and in Ascension beyond)
are the abode of the Light and Light entities, all of whom are
benevolently disposed to humanity. Our wishes and intentions, whether
we are aware of them or not, are continuously broadcast on the Astral
Plane as a consequence of our heightened receptivity in that place.
Receptivity here means more than an increased state of openness to
incoming information – it also means an increased state of open
transmission of our personal state of being into the Astral
Field. For this reason, it is very important that we know what we
are feeling, wishing, and intending in any altered state of
consciousness, particularly in meditation, but even in normal ego
consciousness, for that matter, and enter into altered states with as
much positive intention and good will as we can. If we have or are
harboring negative, self or other destructive impulses of any kind, we
may be assured that these will be noticed by the many entities present
on the Astral Plane, and the Dark ones will be quick to exploit this
opportunity to extend their influence on the Physical Plane through
our personal negativity. This is why I always encourage the process
of therapy for those who wish to pursue psychic matters – it tends to
create an inherent countermeasure of mental stability and grace against
the Dark Forces present in the Lower Astral Plane.
I personally focus on going
into meditation from as blank and detached a perspective as is possible
– detachment from personal ego objectives is inherently positive.
This way, if I am not willfully sending out positive signals on a given
occasion, I am hopefully not sending out negative ones, either.
Beginners frequently simply cannot attain this state of mind, and
therefore need to be advised that the ego residue present will interfere
with the clear reception of incoming messages from the Threshold. As one
continues to meditate, the mind progressively clears, and becomes a much
better channel for the incoming Astral information, and the messages
contained therein – messages that are often of great significance for
the practitioner upon returning to the Physical Perception of the
senses, our working base of operations in this life. I want to receive
as much information as the Logos will send me on whatever subjects this
Being sees fit. I regard the Logos and the correspondent Logoic Plane as
unquestionably positive and benevolent, even though I know that I must
eventually die and leave this life as a consequence of being
alive. This life originated on the Logoic Plane as pure Love and Light,
and was transmitted to me on the Physical Plane as the working gift of
sentient biological life, and the opportunity to experience and release
Karma. My love of the Logos is ever present in my consciousness, and is
radiated on all the Planes always, even on the Physical Plane with its
many aggravations and sufferings. This is my part of the communion
process – what I give back to the Source – my way of keeping my channel
clear for higher communication to emerge.
I occasionally also pray
to the Logos on behalf of those who request this. Now, we tend to become
very attached to the transitory, illusory sensory images present
on the Physical Plane, and experience much anxiety when these images are
threatened in any way, rarely stopping to consider that everything on
this Physical Plane in this material life will perish – that is,
transmute its form – eventually. Prayer is frequently an ego-based
phenomenon, with those rare exceptions where we are sincerely concerned
for another’s welfare without regard for our own, and is problematic
for that reason. Prayer is filled with emotional intention, and such
intentions can occasionally backfire on the individual and produce
contrary results if one does not take great care to release all selfish
personal motivation and negative intent from the action. The best
prayers are those that express one’s love of the Logos to the
Logos and Archangels, and our appreciation for the gift of this life.
Existence is, after all, an opportunity to express and release Karma
through Dharma and good works, and become closer to the Logos in the
process.
Yet, we all still become
attached on the Physical Plane. I have experienced cases where persons
have literally cried out to the Logos in agony and misery over their
lives for help, and seemed to be answered with salvation. The Divine
Light never turns away from anyone who is willing to bare the Soul
honestly and openly in prayer in this way. However, this highest Source
of Consciousness would also like to hear from us under other, less
desperate, conditions as well. The Gurus, Saints, and Seers have
mastered the art of constant communion with the Logos, and literally
live in divine trance all of their lives as an expression of Love and
Grace. In this way, they become living conduits for the Divine Light to
shine forth here on Earth, and positive prayers and spiritual requests
offered directly to such an individual, as expressions of the Divine
Light present on the Physical Plane, can be very potent indeed!
Where do the Saints, Seers,
Gurus, and Avatars come from? Ultimately, the Logos sends them to
us here on the Physical Plane to assist us with our spiritual evolution.
The effect of Maya, the sensory illusion, is very powerful, and we can
all benefit from Divine assistance here while incarnate. I personally
suspect that, under Divine Grace, a gene or genes will eventually be
isolated in the human genome that could be called the “God” genes.
Throughout history and prehistory, certain individuals seem to have
demonstrated a natural inclination to focus on spiritual themes in their
lives, becoming shamans, priests, healers, psychics, and spiritual
leaders. While the tendency to channel this type of information from the
Threshold of Chaos emerges through the agency of specifically
spiritual archetypal symbols (Chakras, Sephoroth, OM, and
others), I must suggest here that there is, in all probability, a
genetic structure driving this process, one residing beyond the
Threshold as a spiritual strange attractor, or attractor network. Like
all Karma, the tendency to spiritually seek is almost certainly
predetermined by the human genome itself.
We clearly have the extensive option for the use of free will
built into our personal pilot mechanism, the ego. Anyone is free to
accept, reject, consider, or disregard any or all of my arguments,
suggestions, and observations made in these articles. In many cases they
are admittedly quite fantastic, even to my perception, which has
accepted them as the Truth of Consciousness. I am the servant of the
Logos, the Source of the information in these matters, and have promised
in Love to offer all of it as Dharma for the spiritual enlightenment of
humanity. One can do nothing more positive!
- With Love, Alan -
(CR2008, Alan Schneider)
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