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CXII
The Clairvoyant Approach Part 1:
The Path of Easiness
Lecture based Questions:
1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.
2. What the heck is this all about?
Sounds very Zen, does it not? And so it is. The purpose of this chapter is to lift the final veil so that your barriers of resistance to what you are seeing will finally register in your physical brain. This is a very subtle and refined technique. So if you do not catch on right away, don’t beat yourself up about it. This is the means by which the conscious mind can identify information from the Astral and Mental dimensions as clairvoyant sensing.
What I mean to say is this. Emotions create Astral noise that interferes with the clear reception of your clairvoyant talent. Intellectual projection creates a false image or scene that puts you in illusion rather than in a truthful reading of a situation. Today we will try to explain this concept clearly so that you can begin working on lifting these bad habits of attitude and thinking.
For example, my mother was a very powerful clairvoyant. Yet she used to put words into the mouths of her pets. She would say that the dog was thinking what she herself was feeling, although I could very clearly see that the dog was thinking about food, the flea on its left leg, and the distance to the kitchen. In such a light-hearted situation, having a projection experience on a pet dog makes few problems. However, when we are analyzing a client with more solemn emotional needs, it is important that our input be clear and unstained—removed from any need for self-validation, neuroses, and personal wishes.
3. Why do emotions make so much trouble when I’m trying to be clairvoyant?
First of all, you are clairvoyant all of the time, whether you acknowledge this or not. How you have chosen to receive the information that enters your consciousness is another matter. What you are receiving is also another point, which we are discussing here.
When you are entertaining strong emotions, the Astral and hormonal experience is so potent that this is pretty much all you can sense. Imagine yourself in a cloud of sooty gray mist. Hard to see, isn’t it? This is the Astral condition of negative thinking. It also lowers the consciousness so that whatever you do pick up is going to be less than inspiring. What happens when you are feeling anxious or emotionally attached to the outcome of your perception? This neediness generates a barrier between your aura and the object of your focus. The intensity of your feeling determines the opacity of the barrier.
The good news is this. You are not required to be emotionally perfect (not by a long shot!) and you are not required to have a focused mind all of the time. Only a split second of suspending the identity and your emotional garbage is needed to peer into the truth of a matter. Only a blip of focused thought is necessary to find the target of your inquiry. The more you practice this frame of mind, the easier and more automatic it becomes.
4. How can I develop this state of consciousness?
MEDITATE MEDITATE MEDITATE MEDITATE FOR GOD’S SAKE MEDITATE.
I don’t know what the big deal is about meditation. So many people resist having a short daily meditative session. I’m not talking about long three hour bouts of Ohms and levitating mantrams. All you need is to clear your mind once in a while of your own bullshit. Do it while you’re sitting on the toilet. This seems very appropriate to me! For parents with demanding children, the bathroom is usually the only time and place where a little meditation can go on. If you have family members that interrupt you even in there (because they get lonely or are afraid that you might fall in), don’t get cranky with them. Be gentle with their fears and needs. Say the following affirmation: “God provides me with the time, opportunity, inspiration, and emotional space to successfully meditate.” God will give you a meditation moment if you ask for one.
I was born with a naturally short attention span. A one minute meditation is about all I can do without falling asleep, and for sure I can’t stay awake through a group meditation. [By the way, it is not necessarily a bad thing to fall asleep during meditation.] If I can clear my mind for one minute, anyone can do it, believe me!
If the constant chatter of your inner commentator is difficult to silence, here are some meditative activities that facilitate a quiet mind.
1) Here is a meditation spot. Breathing normally, think of only this spot for thirty breaths.
Observe it—do not analyze it.
2) If you do needlework (embroidery, knitting, crochet, tatting), you can meditate while your hands are busy. Turn off the TV and the music. As you do your stitches, visualize sky blue Light surrounding your hands and the work. Breathe slowly and deeply. Keep this up for as long as you feel comfortable.
3) With the hands in the following mudra, positioned in front of your face, vocalize a tone. It does not have to be continuous or beautiful. Just sound the tone naturally as you exhale. You may close your eyes, or look at your hands. Continue this for thirty breaths.
5. So what is the Path of Easiness, anyway?
It is the discipline of releasing your will. It is the way of not setting deadlines and structures for your clairvoyance. It is relaxing into the nature of your receptive mode of consciousness. How can you listen when you are too busy telling yourself a bunch of crap and see when you are occupied with expecting to look at some made-up color and image based on your physical experience? There is so much more out there that you cannot even imagine it. Why are you limiting your adventure by thinking that you know what to expect? Let your Guardian Angel be your flawless guide. Be simple of heart. Ask her opinion about everything. [That’s what she’s here for.] Understand that everything you see and hear and feel is a mere translation of your brain, anyway. Clairvoyance is not different. You will often see things that seem to be worldly images superimposed upon your “real” vision or imprinted in your mind. Understand that this is the message and that it needs to be released to its essence of truth in order for you to deal with it. Your personal life will be used as symbols as well in order to get a meaning attached to your brain cells. Don’t take the image literally, but use it as a means to gaining insight into the subject matter.
6. Exercise: Release Me
•Sitting comfortably so that your body does not distract you, breathe normally.
•Imagine yourself sitting inside of a submarine. It makes you feel secure and walled-in. This vehicle is made up of all the concerns and thoughts that you have for today—how you are going to get certain things done, what is the correct way to do them, who are you interacting with, what are your relationships, what do you need to buy, where will you go, what is your time schedule, etc. The submarine is useful and it helps you to succeed in your daily living.
•Now imagine that you are standing outside of this submarine, which is no longer in the ocean but in dry dock. You are standing outside, and you are also still locked inside. There is a round hatch at the top of the submarine. Go ahead and unlock it. Hear the air rushing out as the lock releases. Open the hatch door. Help yourself to climb out of the submarine.
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A FINAL WORD
Ambition, pride, jealousy, desire, unrest, drive, comparison, and will force all prevent clear reception. They throw up resistance in the Astral World that filters out correct information. The correct approach is to feel relaxed and emotionally detached, yet interested and focused.
Take a still bowl of water as a metaphor. We can see without distortion through the peaceful water. We can also see on the quiet surface a clear reflection of what is surrounding the bowl.