Preparing For The Mystery IV

Breathe... breathe.... breathe... Did you inhale? Do you feel the Christos in your very breath? Indeed, the very air we breathe is charged with the immortal power of the Christos. The very air we breathe is charged with the light. My friends, we must not forget this, we must remember our God in our very breath.

Indeed, the immortal Christ is closer to you than your very breath, yes, he is closer to you than the blood right now flowing in your veins. Hahah, do you feel the power? Do you feel the light? Are you aware of the great secret concealed within you? Are you aware of the mystery?

Pause... inhale.. and feel.

Ahh... how many can feel it? How many hear the sound? How many hear the whispering thunder? Indeed, a sound from eternity seeks to unfold from within us. Pause.. pause.. pause and listen. Did you pause? Did you listen? The mystery is within you. The trinity is within you. The triple power is within you. The Christ is within you.

We must not be ashamed of who we are, we must not be ashamed of our heritage, we must allow this light shine out of the darkness of our hearts, out of the darkness of our wounds, out of the darkness of our travails, out of the darkness of our sorrows. "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" said the immortal Father, and there was light. This light was, is, and will be the immortal son of God, The Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ, may the beauty that finds the dawn of its existence from a pile of ashes be your portion. Yes, may every chaos in our lives, in our hearts, spring forth a new creation in the name of Jesus. May every cross we are presently experiencing lead to an even more powerful resurrection in Jesus might name, amen.

Friends, it is no secret that an old wine skin cannot contain new wine. Indeed, we all know the tragedy that awaits those who shall pour the new wine of the iOS 14 update in the old wineskin of their iPhone 7. Let us pause and say a prayer for such people.

Christ is an update, his light is an update, his wisdom is an update, his force is an update. For more and more of him to be harnessed, for more and more of him to be experienced, the containers that we have need to be upgraded as well.

Indeed, it is no secret that the complete human being is made up of multiple distinct containers, multiple distinct centres, multiple distinct bodies. We will along the course of this series lay emphasis on three of these centres, namely: The mind, the emotions, and the physical body.

THE MIND

Let it not be considered strange to the hearing of anyone that the mind is a body of its own, a container of its own. Have we not at times "caught" ourselves thinking strange things and "stopped" ourselves from thinking such? Who is the "me" that caught "myself" thinking? Do we see that even the phrasing of that statement is wrong? Better said: "I perceived a thought happening".

Ahh, now that makes more sense. "I", that is me who is within the mind, caught my mind carrying out processes that were contrary to my wish and I stopped it. That alone highlights the distinction between us and the mind we possess; a very very important distinction.

You are not your physical body, you are not your emotions, you are not your mind. How you take care of these bodies, vehicles, vessels, how you treat them, how you feed them, will determine how well they will serve you.

Obviously, a physical body that is used to being lethargic, eating more than it needs, perpetually consuming harmful poisons in the form of the various chemicals to 'mimic' joy, will shame us on the day we need it to perform. Yeahh, remember the last time you had to take the stairwell and your body disappointed your assignment? Yeah, that.

PS: I am on this table don't worry *embarrassed laughter*. I myself am repenting as I am reading what I am writing. I tried to dance last night and 3 mins into my dance, I was thoroughly embarrassed by all my panting and gasping. Sigh.. shame.. shame.. shame *rings bell over head*. The gym shall be visited today!

Concierge

Imagine having a house staff who we never feed well, never pay well or take care of well, yet expect to him/her to act and function like a concierge of Waldorf Astoria? Wouldn't that be crazy? Yeah, our physical body is that house worker, our emotions is that house worker, our mind is that house worker.

One doesn't just wake up one day and function in the sophistication and power of Apostle Paul anymore than one doesn't just wake up with the physical conditioning of Cristiano Ronaldo. The mind must be taken care of, it must be deliberately cultivated if it is going to function properly for us.

Be wary of anyone who presents a short cut to success. Short cuts instantaneously translocate us to a destination, whilst leaving us destitute of the learning and experience required to SUSTAIN that destination.

Grade 6 has incorporated within itself Grade 1-5. The journey is part of the destination. To find oneself in grade 6 without having achieved grade 1-5 within oneself is a curse not a blessing.

There are many people who attempt shortcutting their way to spiritual attainment. It is possible to 'experience' the realms of the spirit through various means but attainment is something else entirely. We discussed about spiritual tourists and spiritual residents in the previous post.

Just like those who are quick to fall for any get rich quick scheme, there are many who look for quick ways to spiritual experience, one of those ways is via psychedelic plants. It is necessary a few words, true words, be spoken about the nature of 'psychedelic' plants because so much about them has been misconstrued, both by those who are for and against the usage of it.

Psychedelic plants are not evil. They do however possess an intense degree of potency, especially when they are in their raw and natural state, unadulterated and untainted by chemicals.

Owing to the tremendous energy contained within these plants, sages in time past gave them to their students in controlled doses to open their minds to realities of nature they were ignorant of; to open their minds and motivate to them to strive to attain those realities INDEPENDENT of the plants. I am in this moment speaking of plants like the poppy, coca leaf, peyote, ayahuasca, and cannabis sativa.

Unquestionably, what people call 'psychedelics' or 'psychoactive' plants actually do possess the ability to break down the barriers between the physical and the spiritual in a tremendous way. I want us to understand that this is an undeniable fact. It is not a good or evil fact, it is just a fact.

This is because the souls within such plants are far more 'evolved' than other plants. Just like the 'Eagle', 'Lion' and 'Elk' are the elder brothers in their respective animal families, there are also elder brothers in the plant families. The elder brothers have powerful medicinal and psychoactive properties.

The truth is that every plant and animal has a soul on the inside of them, and it is beyond possible to contact and interact with the souls within the plant. Again, this is not a good or an evil thing, this is just what is. Satan did not make the plants, let us not fall victim to ridiculous claims propagated from the belly of ignorance. Nature is more alive than most people imagine but that is another day's discussion.

One can really get musical and artistic inspiration from using psychedelics, seeing as it really opens a person up to the supra-sensible regions of nature, regions which all wise men in history extracted inspiration from, except they did so as masters of themselves not as slaves to a plant.

The downside of the abuse of these plants is that it makes its abusers believe they cannot be functional without them; they cannot be happy or garner inspiration without them. They are not 'demonic plants' as people ignorantly say, everything God created is good. A good thing however, when used in a way that it was not designed for, instantaneously turns into an evil and becomes a poison.

In the ancient times, the wise men gave their 'weak' students a one time only dose of these plants to help them see what they were capable of experiencing and becoming ON THEIR OWN. It was never a thing meant for conventional or leisure use. Owing to its tremendous potency, coupled with a person's lack of self control, it can easily create an unhealthy dependency and completely atrophy the normative faculties of the mind.

All those who are depending on psychedelic plants for joy, spiritual experience, artistic inspiration etc. are tarnishing themselves. They are abusing the plants and wasting their own potential believing that their solution is found external. Misery would always be the portion of one who cannot develop a sufficiency from within; from Christ.

Many do not even know that the human body has an entire division that naturally produces the psychoactive chemicals found in the cannabis plant, the chemical known as 'cannabinoid'. I am in this moment speaking about what western science has named the 'endocannabinoid system', otherwise known as 'ECS' in the body. The secretion of the cannabinoid chemical in the body is responsible for many processes such as appetite, metabolism, sleep, pain relief etc.

Those who have attained a level of control over their physical body know how to command their body to secrete this chemical at will, seeing as the secretion of this chemical is so necessary for the relaxation of the body, which helps support the transition of awareness from the material plane to the immaterial planes of nature.

For those who have experienced an ecstasy of the spirit, they know it is EXACTLY like what people would call a 'high', except without the aid of external supporters. In the name of truth, though I am naught but a beginner, I must confess that I am able to command my body to secrete such enzymes at will and become 'high' in a matter of 3 minutes of sitting still. By this, I can penetrate my vision into the heavens and extract teachings, learnings, and inspirations, according to my present capacity.

Western science and dogmatic religion believe they understand the true nature of the human anatomy but they know nothing Jon Snow. We laugh at the silly theories and ignorant conclusions of the vain men of western science and dogmatic religion. They are enslaved by their ignorance and further enslave others.

I must confess that we laugh at those who have made themselves apostles of the coca, the poppy, the ayahuasca, and cannabis sativa. They have made themselves prophets of things that they are superlatively greater than. I will liken such people to a horse with his foot tied to a chair, imprisoned by ignorance and limitations of its own mind. It is time to rid ourselves of all these childish things.

I will liken a person with psychoactive drug dependency to a child who spends the rest of his life being carried on his back by his mother; a child who never learns how to walk. Every educated parent knows that from the age of 2, a child ought to be 'carried less', else the strengthening of the bones of the child will not happen. The child needs to WALK ON ITS OWN!

Our minds need to be developed! It is a faculty that is absolutely necessary for spiritual growth and experience, seeing as it is a medium through which the Holy Spirit functions in an incredible way. A lazy mind, an atrophied mind, a lethargic mind, can only do so much; can only achieve so much.

MEMORY

The capacity to retain memory of that which one has experienced and learnt is something that is fundamental in every aspect of life, especially in the spiritual walk. Observe nature, it forgets nothing. Our bodies of water are tremendous storehouses of memory, they incorporate into themselves the data of things which transpire in their immediate environment and NEVER FORGET.

Water is very much alive, water can fall sick and water can die. This is something that has already been scientifically proven and tested. Your body remembers! Within your DNA is contained data and information dating back to millions of years. Reality is a continuum, nothing is old and nothing is new. Everything IS. The problem lies when we forget what we are, the problem lies in the loss of memory.

There are many things which God has communicated to us via dreams and visions through the course of our lives that we have miserably forgotten. We have forgotten because the muscle fibers of our minds are atrophied, unexercised, and lethargic. It is time we started changing this.

In the ancient Hebrew culture for example, children who were trained to become pharisees would have memorized the entire torah (five books of Moses) by age 8. I want us to understand that the point is not that they have memorized that much content in detail, the point is in THEIR ABILITY to memorize that much content in detail.

Look at the book of revelation for example, a book we all are still profiting from after 2,000 years. Imagine if John had a memory span that could not even remember what he ate yesterday, how would he have been able to deliver such a mighty piece of work? Mental fitness is necessary in this field of work because an expanded memory opens the gates to other faculties of the mind, secrets of the mind.

I will say once more that the mind is a body of its own and the capacity to remember is only one of its organs, the capacity to think is only one of its organs, the capacity to transcribe is only one of its organs. These organs however, are but the rudimentary functions of the mind, rudimentary functions whose development is quite necessary for the harnessing of the more sophisticated mental faculties.

EXERCISES FOR MEMORY

1. When one wakes up in the morning, it is beneficial to initiate a retrospective exercise to recollect the memory of all activities carried out in the realm of dreams. It is profitable if one does this before they move their physical body, seeing as stillness of the physical body upon waking supports the recollection of 'subtle memories'. The memories of activities in the inner aspects of nature vibrate at a different wavelength than that of the physical plane, hence the label 'subtle memory'. It is just a label I have chosen to give it for the sake of context.

2. When one watches a movie, upon completion, sit still for 10 minutes and recollect as much detail of such movie as one can remember. The point is not in the remembering of the movie but in the ability to remember in detail that which one has just seen. This will undoubtedly translate to other areas of a person's life and one will soon find themselves able to remember in detail experiences of 20 years ago.

3. Pay attention! It is much easier to remember things that we have paid attention to. We must learn to observe our environment as we are in the environment. We must learn to start taking note of details of things in our surrounding. We need to take note of how many people are on the queue, we need to take note of the color of the shirt of the cashier, we need to take note of the arrangement of goods within a supermarket. Upon leaving the supermarket, sit and recollect as much detail as possible. Again, the point is not necessarily in what one is remembering but in one's capacity to remember. If one does this, one will find themselves remembering even the most exquisite details of their dreams and spiritual experiences.

4. Download memory apps on your mobile phone! Hahahahah...

5. Patience with the mind. Again, the mind is a body and ought to be treated as such. It is very detrimental to poke the mind aggressively to extract a particular memory out of it just because we can't wait. It hurts the mind and makes us forget even more. If we notice, when we try to remember something, pushing the mind ever so softly, after a while it comes to us happily; joyfully. Brute forcing the mind to do things it has not been trained for is like trying to do a handstand when you have not first developed your physical body to do so. A mild but consistent ping is necessary to recollect memories, especially the subtle ones. Aggressive pinging of the mind will distort the subtle memories and scramble them.

6. Patience in general. Rome was not built in a day but attained its fulmination because of 'consistency', they key word is consistency. We must take our practices seriously and we must be deliberate and consistent with them if we expect to see results.

God wishes to do a lot in us and through us but the vehicles he will use ought to be refurbished; out to be developed and renovated so help us God. When the mind begins to function seamlessly, effectively, a lot of things become easier to do and easier to achieve.

There are many blueprints for the transformation of our society that God wishes to download into some of us. How can we be able to recollect this if we do not have the capacity to remember? Let us begin taking many things seriously, let us begin taking ourselves seriously.

It is my prayer that we all begin to grow in spirit, in strength, and capacity. Brothers and sisters of mine, there will be a lot of work in the coming days and we will need to be prepared; we will need to be equipped. It was good when our fathers carried us on their backs and spoon fed us, God bless them. The time for that has now passed and it is time everyone begins to walk on their two feet, there is work to do!

In the next post, if God does not scatter my plans as he is so fond of doing, we shall go into 'thoughts'. Please, if anyone of us has exercises they also use to help themselves cultivate the capacity to remember, do share with us in the comment section below.

I remain your brother and friend in the Light.

El Shakar.