"Beingness" and "Worship"

Confederation Philosophy
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This is an unusually provocative passage in that it points out the faint-heartedness of personality based intellectual “understanding” of spiritual principals. Real understanding, one might say, lies in the heart of being, not in calculation.

When the words “wisdom” and “analysis” are set up as a dynamic it is as though there were an observer apart from the owner of the analysis and the wisdom which judges the way decisions are arrived at. What this observer self often fails to realize is that the observer self is a creation, a persona developed by the internal use of both wisdom and analysis. In the subconscious, or the roots of the mind, the two have an authentic, unique balance created by all that has accumulated throughout all incarnational previous experiences. It is difficult for the intellectual mind to grasp how little it truly has to do with the deepest choices in an incarnation. Yes, it may block the rhythmic, natural action of destiny, but in blocking that it simply stops a forward motion. If it appears that another course has been taken it may seem that analysis and/or wisdom provided a choice which changed the whole life. However, along both paths, seen at the crux lie the same lessons in variant forms.

The choices you work on making skillfully are choices in substance and quality of beingness. This beingness informs whatever choices are made. We are not in any way saying that it does not matter whether one makes choices; it truly does greatly matter. We simply wish you to grasp the thought that these choices are those which have to do with one’s stance or attitude towards that which is facing it rather than having to do with one situation chosen over another. There is a saying in this instrument’s mind, “You can run but you cannot hide.” The destiny which you skillfully offered your future incarnational self before this experience holds sway in the amphitheater of your brief existence in this one incarnational opportunity. You need not attempt to monkey overmuch with the tendencies or basic given of your incarnation. What you are here to do is refine and refine again and again, the choice of focus, of attitude, which—we correct this instrument—with which it faces the present moment which is destined to be just so.

How can we express to you the importance of your accepting the gifts of both intellect and heart’s intuition and wisdom except to suggest that if one trusts one’s destiny enough and if one trusts one’s basic universal nature enough the balances will be offered in ways which engage both the intellect and the heart. Therefore, we suggest to you several things. Firstly, we suggest the entity respecting both tools, the intelligences of the mind, both shallow and limited, and deeper and broader, and the wisdom of the heart. Also, we suggest the focusing upon the worshipful side of the human, shall we say, nature. How natural it is to respond to the beauty about one, to flower under the kind attentions or smiles of friends or acquaintances or strangers. The more that trust in one’s destiny and one’s validity as an eternal and infinite being are taken as sure, the more sure-footed the entity shall be at utilizing in a skillful and graceful manner all of the assets which it has. The mistrust of self and circumstance create very nearly all of the confusions within one’s incarnation. With enough trust and faith, that which is becomes transparently joyful and vital.

The quality of one’s being (beingness, if you like) is often overlooked, in my observation of such discussions, as is the beauty and importance of “worship.”

I am appending a further quote from the same session, not because it’s on point, but because it is again provocative. This must have been a particularly fiery individual in the Q’uo group delivering this particular message.

We ask you to consider the manner of being that you are. You seek to become aware of your basic nature, you seek to go beyond what can be known either by mind or heart. You are, shall we say, children of the one infinite Creator; no less than that are you. Shall a spark of fire choose the manner of its burning? See yourselves in relation to the infinite Creator, sense the back-pressure of the Creator’s love of you. Can you know the Creator with either compassion or analysis, either intellectual thought or intuition? In no way shall you know the Creator. Through you the Creator knows Itself. You are precious for you are being that which the Creator experiences, you are experiencing the Creator being, both of these locutions being equally so. Sense your natures, give praise and thanks that this nature is, beyond all dynamics, unified.

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Thanks for sharing this. I found the whole channeling to provide a greater context for these points. Its very worth reading.

To sum it up in my own words–trust and work with one’s individual, carefully, intentionally, lovingly prepared incarnational plan.

And then within those boundaries and limitations, we “refine and refine again and again, the choice of focus, of attitude”. The tool of analysis is not to figure out how to generate different circumstances, but to recognize and learn the lesson plan.

What is more vital is the simple hunger or appetite or gusto felt for the rough and tumble of incarnational life, with all its buffeting and confusion. With enough enthusiasm the persistent seeker may go through many initiations, learnings, and then the experience of the fruit of these learnings.

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Yes, that discussion about vital energy and choosing not to resist change was very interesting.

Thank for engaging with the material at this level. It gets lonesome here sometimes.

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Isn’t as said in the first quote, the mistrust of self the great obstacle ?

Could the mistrust disappears when Paramahansa Yogananda says,

“Forget the past, as itt is gone from your domain ! Forget the future as it is beyond your reach !, Control the present ! live supremely well now and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. “

Could being in the moment completely, then erases the mistrust ?

I guess he was talking also about the rough and the tumble…:melting_face:

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Mirror, don’t get lonesome

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Is my lonesomeness not good catalyst?

Maybe for you, too?

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A problem with this is that much of our mistrust, I believe, works subconsciously, so “being in the moment” includes more than meets the eye.

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@flofrog It does seem that trust in each moment is key.

What I particularly like about this channeling is that it speaks to that in a way that doesn’t reduce it to an if/then formula. It emphasizes process over an end state of perfection or bliss. It fleshes out a bit more the idea of “being in the moment”.

I think “the moment” can be read as “the incarnation”. Be in the incarnation. Face and embrace the rough and tumble (and loneliness:) as each rolls in and out like tumbleweeds. The more we can do that, the more we are in the moment, exploring the depth and breadth of love (the Eternal Moment). That’s how it’s hitting me at least.

And Flofrog, if that cake next to your name today means it’s your birthday… Happy Birthday!

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I so agree Melissa

and the cake I dont know why it is there… My birthday was July 10th so it ‘s gone a little away !! lol

I had the same birthday as the tennis player Arthur Ashe, whom I met when I was young , we joked we were twins.. lol

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If “being present” while feeling lonesome drives away loneliness, then you are not truly being present with the loneliness. Anyhow, none of this is as easy as it sounds, I would say.

And just to add another layer, being present on the level of animal instinct is completely different from being there on the level of spiritual instinct. One expresses the the presence of survival concerns and all the rest, the other expresses the presence of an open heart the fluidity of love.

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I would agree. I didn’t mean to imply that it drives away loneliness. I thought I was drawing a similar conclusion to what you stated. But maybe in addition to not being to as easy as it sounds, its also not easy to say:)

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Ashe is a hometown hero here in Richmond! We have a famous statue of him on monument ave (the storied street that the Lee, Jackson, and other confederate statues were on) that everybody jokes looks like him using a racket to beat a swarm of encroaching children.

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Lol, this is so funny about the different statues

I remember him mentioning Richmond .. he was such a lovely, kind and sort of complete person

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I believe you are mistaken, Mirror, regarding animal instinct and spiritual instinct being different.

Can you describe why you believe they’re separate so I can understand your view further?

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Glad to…but first, a word about models of “reality.”

Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese medicine have both been validated as being effective for thousands of years, yet they have >99% NOTHING in common with one another. These models do not overlap. So, how can one model be so effective and yet have no interest in the validity of the other? This is to say, don’t expect too much from the model I use nor from any other. It might prove useful for some period of time, and it might not.

If you search the internet to find out what a nervous system does, you’ll find three basic criteria. (1) It senses information about the environment, (2) it processes the information and determines a response and (3) it directs the implementation of the response. For example, it perceives toxins, it determines to flee and it initiates the flight. But note, you don’t actually need a nervous system to do this. A single cell creature with no nerves and no brain will do these same things quite efficiently. Plants have the ability to manipulate their genetic information in radical ways we are just beginning to understand in response to environmental conditions (such as insects or drought) to similar effect.

The human personality is a function of the human nervous system, it helps us perceive and adapt to our environment. It facilitates our survival and explores our personal relationships and our social involvement. And according to my distortion of this model, that’s all it does. The part of you that stops to hear the birds sing or stops to see a gorgeous sunset has little to do with your animal personality (unless, say, a group is doing it together), rather, it has to do with your spirit.

Spirit is understood in this context as the portion of your soul which grows and learns spiritual lessons during any particular incarnation. Your soul (or “soul stream”) is made up of, not all of the nervous system personalities of all your incarnations, but of the spirit personalities of all your incarnations. The nervous system personality does not grow into spiritual maturity. When successful, these two personalities can blend in some fashion in the open heart, because that is where their intentions may begin to overlap.

Returning to the spirit personality, it knows it will never die, and so it has no concern for survival. It doesn’t care how much money you have in the bank and it is not concerned with your place in your social pecking order.

Just as your physical body learns to crawl, walk and run, your spirit learns to express love, receive love, attune to Source and various other spiritual skills.

Maybe this is enough rambling on to show why I view animal instinct and spiritual instinct as being distinct from one another?

Now, when I am discussing levels of instinctual reality, I am looking at the complexity of the human. Just to be clear, I am not attempting (at all, in any way) to say that animals are not aware of spirit. On that front, I would suggest that they certainly are as aware of that as well as they are aware of anything else, but at their level of operation, they delight in flowing with it, not in twisting it all to hell the way some of us humans like to do. Or, to say that more carefully, we have more agency when we approach spirit because we have more developed access to the higher energy centers.

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These are two snippets from the same session, one discusses the biologically oriented mind and the other discusses how this shifts when the opened heart is discovered. I’ll keep an eye out for a description of how this looks from the perspective of the spirit’s personality.

We would suggest that the biological mind has as its purpose the protection and the survival of the organism, and in order to adapt to its circumstances, from its very beginnings in the second-density kingdom of the great apes, it has prospered because of its adaptive nature. Once this occurs—this opening of the heart—once this inner ear is able to begin suggesting to the consciousness as a whole when it is biasing its incoming information, then it becomes far more possible to detect within oneself the triggers that create confusion beyond the necessity of the incoming information.

The very heart of third-density existence is the experience of utter confusion. It is the goal of this density to create an atmosphere in which only by faith can one see the health and rightness of the present moment. The purpose of this confusion is to wean the infant spirit from its biological choice-making brain and into the fourth-density gateway, shall we say, which is the fourth chakra of the energy system of the human vehicle, the green-ray energy center or heart chakra. Once the seeker is able to grasp the value of this opened heart and the limitations of both intellect and personality, the seeker is far more able to retain a certain sector of consciousness which is devoted to refining the accuracy and lack of emotional bias with which it receives the incoming information.

If anyone is interested, about 3/4 into this video, there is some discussion of how the spirit (he uses the term “soul”) [whatever] needs to be fed in your lifetime, and how the outward looking personality needs to understand this, otherwise illness may ensue.

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I’d like to hear what you think. What basis do you have to consider second density consciousness and influx from the spirit complex as the same?

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The animal instinct brain has no concept of self to experience confusion as it appears to be getting used here, and is, in a sense, more at one with the rest of the world than most third density life.

Animals lack free will, and therefore have only animal instinct in their set of possible instincts. But that animal instinct is a subset of possible instincts within the spiritual instinct.

The densities build upon each other, they do not erase over each other.

That is my view, at least.

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Animals lack free will, and therefore have only animal instinct in their set of possible instincts. But that animal instinct is a subset of possible instincts within the spiritual instinct.

ok, sure. So do all species of animal have the same instincts? Does all second density, plants included? And if not, which instincts are constitutive to second density and which are simply a species-specific expression of a more general philosophical vibration?

the other issue is that it’s unclear what you mean by “spiritual”. Do you mean “of the spirit complex” or simply “part of our nature as the Creator”? If the former I’d obviously disagree that animal instincts are properly categorized as having anything to do with what in second density is the potential, unactivated spirit complex. If the latter then we’re speaking in wide enough terms that sure, ok — but I’m not quite sure why it’s worth pointing out.

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Of course animals have free will, otherwise they could not eventually move to third density activation from second density activation.

What is your notion of “spiritual instinct?” I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing here. As stated above, I do not perceive the nervous system instinctual system growing into spiritual awareness, rather the two systems are parallel.

Some while later…

I thought of another way of saying this. It is because the animal instinct is disjunct from spirit that our personalities turn outwardly for comfort (to other people, substances, experiences of other types) instead of reflexively turning to spirit for comfort.

When you think about it, it would be sooooo much more efficient to do that if we could simply connect in with unconditional love when we need it. But this is where the so-called 90 degree phase shift comes in to play. The personality simply runs to the end of its course and must make a radical change in order to continue growing. That change is to the open heart where, for the first time, it can learn to freely collaborate with spirit.

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