"An incarnating entity wanders blindly through a physical body when it is born in alien cultures, such as humanity, drinking the wine of forgetfulness and trying to find its way through some inward ringing, some inward calling, indeed some inward drum. It is quite a life's journey for an entity to wander aimlessly in the wilderness and finally find its way to its spiritual path. Not everyone wants to follow that longing. There are many paths, but most paths have dead ends because talk is cheap, philosophy is cheap, and though it is needed for the art of communication, unless it is applicable rather than intellectual, it is truly and utterly meaningless.
"You came here being urged by something inside of you, like blind mice through a maze. It is destiny that we are together here. When you come here to see me, don't come expecting to hear anything else other than what you are coming to school to study. You are coming to study about the spiritual aspect of who you are and its eternal ongoingness and how we shift gears from being a tragic, momentary, biological unit to an everlasting, unforgettable, memorable consciousness. What defines who you are is not reminiscent with the body; it is reminiscent with the divine being who knows no death.
"You have come to hear this message that you are God, a divine action upon a plane of demonstration to bring forth the unknown. The long study at this school has always been about learning the art of becoming profoundly spiritual, which really means becoming profoundly conscious. Profound consciousness doesn't happen in the past; it happens in the Now. Humans live in their past, thereby defying illumination. Illumination never happens in memories. It just doesn't.
"You have come to school to learn the art of being spiritually aware. You have an ulterior motive; you want to go home to God. You only have to go out and look at the Milky Way to decide for yourself how much life you have never lived. That is all you have to do to really be humbled. There are in God's house many mansions, but they are only prepared for one who prepares themselves for them. These mansions are never made available to one who never makes themselves available to them.
"This school is such a priceless and beautiful place because in its humble abode it simply concentrates upon your possible illumination and how to definably work out that region of divine quality in you. I have taught this from the first manifestation of my presence here, for there is no greater truth than that. It is a labyrinth, because your life has been a labyrinth. You are blind, and you are blind intentionally. This school must teach you in every area so that at every point we challenge your altered ego, which is always quick to make you lazy, excuse your behavior, make you a dishonest and immoral creature. Dishonesty and immorality are the aspects of capitalism. They are aspects of survival. Everyone is wretched for a reason. The personality, the altered ego --the Antichrist, the altered Christ-- is one that is concerned about its own small, little body, its small little concerns: what it eats, how it looks, how much it is going to be touched, where it lives, what it has, who it is with, who it is not with. Those are strong emotional/chemical fundamental elements to humanity.
"The teaching must bring a revolution in one's life along the way, which we call change. The revolution is that you revolt against your limitations. You must have enough information, enough support, and indeed enough truth that you can bring about such a marshaled revolution so you can take the personality as a wild steed and tame it for the Holy Spirit to ride it, instead of the other way around. The blind personality is like a wild horse, and it goes here and there. It is sort of a stupid creature. It will run itself to death from fear or just to get what it wants. In the end, it dies anyway. The human creature is the same creature.
"We do not want to destroy the personality in the school of mastership, but we want to revolutionize it. We want to bring about a revolution where the personality is exactly the mouthpiece of the Spirit, that they are not enemies but are one and the same entity so that the Holy Spirit can ride the body without objection and victimization. Many of you are victims to the concept of being masters, and you intentionally make yourself victims. You suffer so that your personality can come back and say, "Well, I am doing this to become a master, but I am really suffering." Suffering is unnecessary when you realize the rules.
"I like and love and embrace that I am Ramtha. I love my personality. I have never apologized for it, nor would I trade it in for anyone else's because it took a lot of life to make it, to tame it, to humble it, to resurrect it. I have no image -- just Ramtha.
"Revolutionizing the altered ego into a sublime steed for the Holy Spirit takes a lot of work. Many of you are at a disadvantage and many are at a greater advantage. Those who are at a disadvantage prize their image (ie. status quo) more than they do their Spirit. How would I know that? It is simple. Just look at the priorities in your life, and what you live for every day, what you think about, what you scheme about, where your mind is every day. That tells you where you are. That means your personality and altered ego are stronger than your Spirit. Then there are those people who have a very strong Spirit and a very weak body. That doesn't work either. We call those people martyrs.
"What we want here in this school, is that the confluence of personality and Spirit are the same thing: that they are real clear, there is no deception, no lack, no past, and there is only this present. What you see is what you get, and that is what it is. It is fundamentally important that you change. I have never asked any of you to change without having sufficient knowledge so you could have the ability to go forward into change. Change is important. Unless you change, you will never be balanced. Until you are balanced with your personality and your Spirit, that they are the same thing, you are not going to make the steps to become the master." --Ramtha, Defining The Master, Vol 1, No. 1
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"The core of our being is the act of perceiving, and the magic of our being is the act of awareness. Perception and awareness can be a single, functional, inextricable unit with two domains. The first one is the attention of the tonal ; that is to say, the capacity of average people to perceive and place their awareness on the ordinary world of everyday life: our first ring of power; our awesome but taken-for-granted ability, to impart order to our perception of our daily world.
"The second domain is the attention of the nagual ; the capacity to place our awareness on the nonordinary world. It's our second ring of power, or the altogether portentous ability all of us have, but only sorcerers use, to impart order to the nonordinary world.
What I have struggled to vanquish, or rather suppress in you, is not your reason as the capacity for rational thought, but your attention of the tonal, or your awareness of the world of common sense. The daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses.
Practice is what counts. Once you get your attention on the images of your dream, your attention is hooked for good. In the end you can hold the images of any dream.
Our first ring of power is engaged very early in our lives and we live under the impression that that is all there is to us. Our second ring of power, the attention of the nagual, remains hidden for the immense majority of us, and only at the moment of our death is it revealed to us. There is a pathway to reach it, however, which is available to every one of us, but which only sorcerers take, and that pathway is through dreaming. Dreaming is in essence the transformation of ordinary dreams into affairs involving volition (ie. Will). Dreamers, by engaging their attention of the nagual and focusing it on the items and events of their ordinary dreams, change those dreams into dreaming. --The Second Ring of
Power, by Carlos Castaneda.
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"The aim of the teaching and of the Work is to provide the willing student with the tools to help them distinguish between their outer world (the world of the body and everyday life) and their inner world (the higher part of themselves which some refer to as the soul). Having been able to distinguish the two, it is the aim of the Academy that the individual student will start to develop the inner, hidden part of him or herself and grow towards enlightenment." --Academy of European Arts & Culture.
"Soon we forget about the Soul that is inside us. The body starts to eclipse the Soul the way the little moon eclipses the entire sun. The body blocks the Soul. And because the Soul is no longer recognized, it slowly goes into hibernation, just as the body will shut down if it is no longer fed. By the tender age of seven, the Soul (of many but not all) is already asleep." --Mervyn J. Brady
Smelling The Roses
*Note: The thing I object to in this crass, Class! I meant, is the calling of the body a "machine." It is not a machine!
It is the Mother Earth's efforts given, as a gift, blended with your Higher Self, to bring to you this opportunity to experience and express and learn. For example, if someone irks you enough that it makes you begin crying... is that a machine at work? No. It is a natural function, and it shows you, if you are interested in learning, that you shouldn't irk others until the point of making them cry. You should have some respect instead of antagonizing... would you like it done to you? So, No! It is NOT a machine. It is an exquisitely well made structure full of life and sentience. Respect it!
One has to learn their limitations, and to break from them correctly! By Overcoming, and that is through learning, and knowing, and honouring.
In every philosophy, we are always learning, and bringing it to fuller completion!
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