30. Trusting Yourself

©1999 Athene Bitting

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Faith, Trust, and Receptivity:

Recognizing Your Clairvoyant Ability

Lecture based Questions:

1. What is The Grand Illusion?

In part, it is what some members of the Hierarchy call the physical dimension. Mostly, however, it refers to the belief system [of those who are incarnated] that the physical plane is solid, unchangeable, and has power over us. Part of the reason for the appearance of this illusion is the extreme slowness that the physical reality takes to respond to our thoughts and feelings [usually, although there are some occasionally faster reactions]. It is so slow that it seems permanent, but of course, it is simply moving at the speed of its native manifestation.

2. What is the difference between imagination, dreaming, and the Astral World?

In the Astral World, imagination and dreaming have their actual location and solidity. These usually take place in the Spiritual Landscape of an individual. Our thoughts and feelings have tangible and dense manifestation in the Astral World. The beauty of these is in direct proportion to the quality of their energy. So it is a good idea to cultivate beautiful thoughts and constructive feelings.

3. What consciousness is required for clairvoyant activity? Do certain elements aid in clairvoyant perception?

First of all, discard the misconception that clairvoyance is a separate and esoteric system of gathering information. It is merely an extension of the physical senses. It requires attention, focus, and maintenance of the receiving organs.

In order to receive information that is free from illusion, one must suspend the sense of identity and the extension of will force. Also, it is important to note that if you are self-conscious—busily observing yourself as you go through life—you are not free to observe anything else. Therefore, you cannot effectively be observing yourself observing something outside yourself. The physical brain cannot embrace such a complex scope. It is not necessary to monitor yourself; there are Angels who can do that. Be simple of heart and mental attitude. Be a good observer, listener, and asker of questions. Your best bet for safe and effective clairvoyant activity is to dialogue continually with your Guardian Angel.

Beta blocker drugs and alcohol do impair one’s ability to receive information. Fear and distrust make up the veil that most people wear to interfere with their clairvoyant abilities.

4. Which gender is more likely to experience clairvoyance?

Due to certain hormonal combinations, those spirits who have incarnated into female bodies find that using their clairvoyant and intuitive faculties is natural and comfortable. An abundance of testosterone in the body turns the mind away from the higher realms and toward the physical reality.

On the other side of the coin, however, men can release their awareness into Astral Projection easer than women can. Men experience this phenomenon as an extension of their physical somatic identity, with physical sensations and activity from a point of view that is similar to wearing a physical body. Women tend to experience it more as a disembodied extension of awareness without physical sensory identity.

5. Exercise: Astral Perception

When images and strong blurbs of information enter your thoughts, this takes place in the Astral World. People who have been strongly repressed as children will dismiss the impressions as imaginings. Trust the information and observe it dispassionately to verify its source.

View the following and note movement, color, and continuous activity that arises in your minds eye:

A photograph

Your neighbor’s aura

A cherished artifact

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.

Here you go! I can't emphasize enough how important this little exercise is for increasing your skill.

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Returning to Innocence

It was the opinion of the ancient Chinese mind that the personality became polluted by certain experiences and could return to a natural state of purity and innocence when removed from the corrupting influence. This is what we should keep in mind, that from our youngest days on this earth, our natural inclinations and perceptions were tainted by our parents, our society, and religious dogmas. In many ways, the identity is comprised of several outer elements that have been imposed upon the Astral body.

The expectations of others, the hormonal urges of the physical body, experiences that engender feelings of hardness, restrictions of one’s milieu, all blend together to create what we call the personality. When the identity steps into the adult world, it then continues to develop this sense of me-ness. Through life choices in everyday existence, each decision reinforces or mutates this image of personality. An unconscious character will tend to lock into choices that perpetuate the existing identity. We can call this tribal mentality, because separation from the childhood matrix generally causes anxiety in such a one.

Through psychoanalysis or enlightenment (with the help of Awakener Angels), a person becomes aware that some life choices (though they validated the self-image) were unfavorable to the success of his or her life. Then begins the deliberate reshaping of a person’s attitude. It is the quest for rediscovering the essence of a person’s being without the influences of the world. It is the realization that “I am not my family, my religion, my job, or my body. I am a divine spark of life united with the Divine Mind.” We can call this process individuation.

Now we come to a different point of view, the reason why you are reading this. The identity must be suspended entirely for the clairvoyant sense to register on the physical brain. If you are feeling self-conscious in any way, you are not receiving information, because you are too busy watching yourself doing something. If the will force is active, then it is creating emotional scenes in the Astral World, which distract the focus from what is true. Therefore, we can see that these two elements must be out of play for genuine clairvoyant perception to take place. We can call this a state of innocence, because at such a moment the spiritual essence is ruling the conscious mind and the identity that has experienced the travails of the world is not active in thought.

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December 18, 1950

Master G:

I wish to correct certain of your impressions in silences so that you can better open to receive a message. A few of you have difficulties in sensing presences, radiations, and God Light. This is because either you are thinking wholly on the mental plane horizontally and your idea of these great realities is focused within your own aura. Most of you are able at times to think vertically and to think in circular intonements of the vital God Presence. Bear this in mind, our pupils, and experiment this day in following these suggestions:

First, think interestedly about God naturally and try to judge the distance of the focus of your thought. You can be aware of the limits of your thoughts’ reach. It might be that of thirty-six inches from you; it might be fifteen yards. Accuracy, of course, in this is not as important as your penetrating realization of the extent of your perception.

Secondly, endeavor to widen your receptivity to God, as well as your idea of His Presence, which must guide your openings, to at least a circumference in a rounded manner, of this entire chapel. Feel that you are in the center of it and that the radiations of your spiritual interest and your love and your veneration move in every direction from you—out, up, down, sideways, making each focus of interest charged with sensibility. There are students more able to sense the width of their workable field of which I am talking—seven feet, ten feet or more to their right, level with their shoulders—more easily than they are conscious of attunement from any other direction. Again, others will be more conscious of the area between their heart centers and the peak of the Ray of light towards which they center focus on God.

But we wish you to cause your sensibilities of spirit to actively engage their powers for widening this circle in a workable field of consciousness; cause every particle of reverence in you to make clear and active the intuitional impression as to the extent of this field of your awareness. Later, cause your vertical attunement to recognize the radii of your spiritual ardor as moving outwards to the extent of at least an acre, yourself being thought of as in the center of that square. Then think of yourselves as in the heart of this sanctuary completely attuned to the God Presence for a wide distance upward, downward, sideways. How wide is the arc of your reception? This is what you must ask yourselves each day when attuning to the Supreme Presence active before you.

The time will come (from the standpoint of the immensity consciousness) when you can sincerely sit in meditation (having your body identified with that place), while (in spiritual perception) the soul within you (keeping the vertical consciousness alive, instructive, energetic) knows a wide reach in God attunement of immensity consciousness. Then, you will not be thinking of a place on earth, but of eternal space charged with Light. During this type of thinking, your consciousness always acts in a circular manner to give you information. You receive feedback on the fertility as well as the width and height and depth of your spiritual arc within the center of your God circle. That is what this workable field is. You should be conscious of the fruits of Spirit.