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NOTE: This
answer was given on August 20, 2006, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Answer from Jesus:
I can understand that someone
can look at the decrees and rosaries we present as mere nursery rhymes.
I can understand that someone would use our techniques with the expectation
of having a spiritual experience. However, I cannot understand how someone
can give the techniques with the attitude that they are nothing more
than nursery rhymes and AT THE SAME TIME expect to get a spiritual experience.
That is a misunderstanding of how spiritual techniques work.
A person might hate cars and think they are responsible for killing
people, scarring the landscape and producing global warming. Yet if
that person gets into a car and turns the key, the engine will most
likely start. The reason being that technology is a mechanical device
that works regardless of what you think about it. In contrast, a spiritual
technique is NOT a mechanical device.
What you put into giving a spiritual technique has a direct influence
on what you get out of it. If you want a holy experience, approach the
technique with an attitude of reverence and holiness. If you cannot
do that, simply admit so and don’t use the technique. Find another
technique that you can approach with a more constructive attitude. And
stop projecting your own inner paradox upon anything outside yourself.
Deal with the problem at its origin. Listen to your own words, "I
am increasingly troubled…" and be willing to admit that if
you are not at peace, you have a problem that you need to solve.
Decrees and rosaries are not designed specifically to produce non-dual
experiences. A non-dual experience is an inner experience. Such an experience
is possible because the Conscious
You is made out of God’s own being and consciousness. Therefore,
the Conscious You can never lose the ability to tune in to a level of
reality that is beyond the dualistic world view of the mind of anti-christ
and the physical senses.
The Conscious You can have many different types of non-dual experiences
and just about anyone giving decrees or rosaries with the correct attitude
will have some form of spiritual experience, either as the technique
is given or upon meditating afterwards. Obviously, both I and Mother
Mary welcome people’s descriptions of their experiences.
However, rosaries and decrees are very active and out-going techniques,
as opposed to contemplative and in-going techniques. Thus, they are
not designed to give you a non-dual experience but to give you a tool
for resolving dualistic beliefs and invoking and directing spiritual
energy.
Obviously, as you clear the four levels of your mind, you will gain
greater clarity, and this will open the way for spiritual experiences
of various kinds. Yet this might take years, depending on how much junk
is stored in the attic. So it is wise to approach any spiritual technique
with not only patience but with complete non-attachment to what type
of experiences you have as a result of using the technique.
The reason for this is that a non-dual experience cannot be “produced”
at will. It is not a mechanical product of using a magical technique,
and this taste of Heaven cannot be taken by force. A non-dual experience
should be viewed as a gift that may or may not be given. You cannot
force the experience, so all you can do is to make your mind as receptive
as possible to having the experience. And only when you are completely
non-attached to whether or not the gift is given, will you have maximum
receptivity. That is why the Zen Buddhists talk about having the beginner’s
mind that is open to spontaneous experiences instead of demanding them.
That is why I said:
Whosoever shall
not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise
enter therein. (Luke 18:17)
If you use your analytical
mind to set up conditions for how you think the experience can or should
be produced, you will only push the experience away from you. And if
you use your emotions to set up expectations that you are supposed to
have such an experience – thereby setting yourself up to feel
disappointed or cheated if you don’t have it – you have
blocked the experience before it can happen.
There are many spiritual seekers who had spontaneous non-dual experiences
when they first discovered the spiritual path or even before. Some of
them became obsessed with these experiences, thinking they were supposed
to have them all the time. This has led some seekers into an endless
pursuit of “peak experiences,” always chasing a goal that
seems beyond their reach. And when they do have some experience, they
feel it isn’t enough and immediately start longing for the next
one. Some even become so fixated on having such experiences that they
use drugs to supposedly
produce them.
It is wise to look at spiritual experiences as having one purpose only,
namely to demonstrate to you that there IS a state of consciousness
beyond normal human experience. This should show you that the spiritual
path is real and that there is a reward at the end of the path. Thus,
a spiritual experience – even if you only had one in a lifetime
– should be sufficient encouragement to make you pursue the spiritual
path—for a lifetime.
Some seekers have been misled by certain false gurus – and even
some otherwise true gurus – into building the expectation that
the goal of spiritual practice is to have non-dual experiences all the
time. They have set up a vision of the meditator, sitting in a cave
in the Himalayas and experiencing constant bliss. Indeed, there are
a few people whose spiritual mission is to hold the balance for planet
Earth while being in embodiment and in constant meditation.
Yet for the vast majority of spiritual seekers – and the operative
words are “vast majority” – this is not their Divine
plan. You are not here to indulge in spiritual experiences. You are
here to express your Christhood by ministering to other people and helping
them grow spiritually. Doing something to raise the consciousness of
other people and purify the planet is far more important than having
peak experiences.
Take note of what I am saying here. There is a common misconception
that having peak experiences will lead to spiritual growth and permanently
raise your consciousness. Yet many people have such experiences and
find it very difficult to integrate them into their daily lives and
normal state of consciousness. Some fluctuate back and forth between
living a normal life and frantically seeking peak experiences, being
unhappy with either extreme.
Yet the reality is that a peak experience can be a detriment to your
spiritual progress if you do not approach it as described above. As
I said, some people become very focused on themselves and constantly
seek the next peak experience. Others become prideful, thinking they
must be spiritually advanced because they had such a high experience
in the past. They feel entitled to have more experiences, becoming angry
when they do not appear. Such attitudes will only block your growth.
The reality is that all spiritual seekers will progress beyond a certain
point ONLY when they overcome the self-centeredness that springs from
the ego and begin to selflessly seek to do something for other people
or for the planet. Obviously, many people have daily responsibilities,
so Mother Mary’s rosaries are designed to help you do something
to raise the planetary consciousness right in your own living room.
The goal that I and Mother Mary have is to give people tools for systematically
raising their consciousness and making the progress permanent. Our techniques
are designed to gradually raise your consciousness rather than giving
you an experience that is so far beyond your daily consciousness that
you cannot integrate it. Obviously, you may have a spiritual experience
as a result of using our tools, but it is wise not to expect it.
The real goal is to permanently raise your consciousness so your entire
waking state of mind becomes a non-dual experience. However, take note
that when this begins to happen, it might seem like you no longer have
any peak experiences. A peak experience is per definition something
that is beyond your normal experience. So it is actually possible to
permanently attain a higher state of consciousness without fully realizing
what is happening. You simply become so used to a higher state of consciousness
that what used to be a peak experience has now become normal and it
seems like you have no more peak experiences. Thus, it is good to once
in a while look back and realize that you have made significant progress
compared to where you used to be in consciousness.
The bottom line is that a non-dual experience is beyond duality. Giving
any spiritual technique while expecting or demanding – even longing
for – a non-dual experience is in the realm of duality. How could
you possibly use the dualistic mind to produce a non-dual experience?
Thus, the more you want a non-dual experience the less likely that you
will have it. Only when you find ways to set aside your dualistic expectations
and demands, will you be receptive to a non-dual experience. In the
spiritual field, attitude is everything. What you send into the cosmic
mirror is what will be reflected back to you.
Note from Kim: I have personally had many non-dual
experiences as a result of giving decrees and rosaries. I have practiced
such techniques for over 20 years and they have many times given me
high experiences, especially as I meditated after invoking spiritual
energy. Personally I have found that Mother Mary’s rosaries are
very efficient for making me receptive to a spiritual experience, especially
when I give them slowly and meditate on the words. I often talk to people
who have similar experiences, but if any of you want to write them down,
I will be happy to put them on the testimonials
page.
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