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Michael Singer: Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters. There are things that are reality in life that some people will never, ever, at least in this lifetime, come to know anything about. You can call them the deep secrets, the hidden jewels. At some point they become so obvious, like, you know, my eyes were blind, but now I see you can’t ignore them.
They’re just right in front of your face all the time. One of those is Shakti. Very few people understand Shakti. In fact, only a great master understand Shakti. We talk about in yoga, we talk about prana in the body. In other Eastern teachings, they talk about chi, they’re talking about Shakti. We talk about emotional disturbances.
You’re talking about Shakti talking about mental disturbance, you’re talking about Shakti. When you talk about love, overwhelming love pouring through your heart, you’re talking about Shakti. When you talk about deep, quiet peace that overcomes your being. You’re talking about Shakti. When you talk about the upward ascent, the spirit flowing up, pulling you up, the Holy Spirit, right?
You’re talking about Shakti. All of it is Shakti. All of it is Shakti. When you’re talking about the quantum field, just this. Foundational field that vibrates and from those vibrations, all of creation, as you know, it all matter. All energy emanate and put together electron, neutrons, protons, atoms, molecules, all of it.
It shati it. Shati. That’s. One of the great masters, it’s hard for people to understand this Ram Krishna, these late 18 hundreds, he didn’t know much about the quantum field. Plus he was not a quantum physicist. All he saw was light. He didn’t have to try to, he couldn’t not. Mm-hmm. All he saw was blinding light shimmering.
That’s how he described it. Shimmering light. He called it the dying mother. Once somebody asked him, one of his disciples asked him, ’cause he was gone. By by. If all you saw was not, you don’t care much about what’s going else in the world and the light is ecstasy and feeding you and filling right and you to invited with such a high being, he got invited by Prime Ministers for dinner, this and that.
His disciples would go with him and in the middle of dinner, the master would stand up, start drooling, and dancing and singing God’s name. All right? And they’d ask him afterwards, master. Don’t you get embarrassed? He’s like, don’t you have any sense of self concept or so on? And he said to them, I’ll never forget this.
He said, do you know how sometimes you say you see a. Images, you know, like, like ghostly apparitions. So like a vision. You start seeing something like a ghost or like something that’s not there, but it has deep spiritual meaning. All right? That’s how I see your world. All I see is shimmering blinding light, and every once in a while coming into my vision is what you call the building, and then it fades away.
Shakti. Someday. Maybe like right now, if you asked a quantum physicist, I’ve discussed with you least the foundation of quantum physicists, you should all understand the simplicity of the foundation of what they found. The deeper they go, the simpler it becomes. We had all these different atoms in the periodic table.
No, we don’t. We have electron neutral protests. No, we don’t. We have vibrations in a field, in an omnipresent field. There’s irritations. And they have properties spin charge, and they interact with each other and they cancel each other out like waves in the ocean. But when they put themselves together a certain way for a billionth of a millisecond, it.
A neutron shows up, really a cork, two up corks and a down cork, and you have a proton, two down corks and an up cork. The corks are even smaller, not particles. They’re just part of the properties of that wave. And then these, these objects pop in to existence because of the laws. The underlying laws, like there are no electron nuclear or protons.
There are no atoms. There’s just a field. It gets irritated, agitated, and when it does, it makes wavelets just like everything else does when energy hits it. And those wavelets naturally do to laws put themselves together and create what we see as electron protest. And it comes all the way up. This whole world right now is wrong.
Glamor Christian saw it. It is literally how he saw. It’s just pure light shimmering, and then it puts itself together as this. Please take a breath. You don’t have to be a quantum physicist to understand what they have found. What they have found is spiritual. It’s phenomenal. But if you ask a quantum physicist, okay, fine, what is the quantum field?
They have no idea. They don’t try to have an idea. They said their job is not to have philosophy of where things come from and this and that. It’s to explain what is here now. How do I dig down and explain what I’m seeing? Well, I’ve, you know, they have these big colliders over in France and Switzerland, you know, the CERN LHC, large head lung colitis.
They’re miles long. And they shoot one proton at each other for miles and accelerates enough that if they have, well, they don’t shoot one. These are billions. If they haven’t to hit each other for a tiny of a microsecond, they see it split into corks, leptons, and et cetera. It’s like they are getting down to see what made the universe, but they don’t know what those things are made of.
Maybe they’ll go another level and see something else. Right now. They just have this omnipresent field that generates everything. What Roman Krishna saw was that light. He saw that his mind did not bring it down to this level, and he just saw the shimmering light that put itself together into this universe, and they gave that a name, Shakti.
Way back. The great Masters talked about Shakti. We’ll talk about the other side in a minute. So the whole thing is Shakti, the whole thing is Shakti. That means all of the 35 trillion cells in your body, which are all made of Shakti. When people say, I thought Shakti was that, which flows through me. If you take steam, regular steam and you make it cold, it becomes water.
It is still the same structure. It’s still hydrogen, oxygen, atoms, exactly the same, just moving at different rates. That’s all that’s going on is Shakti vibrating at different rates of vibration. So when the Shakti is making form, when it manifests its form, that’s a very low gross vibration rate. Now there can be grosser vibration rates a rock.
Is vibrating less actively than yourselves because they’re vibrating at a higher rate. They’re able to move around. They’re able to have flexibility, right? If you take the water and make it cold, it becomes ice. Well, what’s the ice and water? Nothing but one flows through the other one you can drink.
They’re the same thing. It’s all the same thing, just vibrating a different race. As it vibrates a different race, it’s able to do different things and manifest in different ways. So to get ahead, I said, okay, so all the physical form of Shakti, all the physical form of Shakti. But what about the Shakti flows through me.
We’ll get there. It’s still all Shakti. They’re just hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Steam. Water, ice. But they look different. They’re the same thing. There’s no difference. Nothing’s added to it. Nothing. It’s just vibrating at higher rates. Therefore, it’s more flexible, more open. It can move more or it’s less and it freezes down.
So your body and this world is a very low rate of vibration that manifests as form. That’s what form is. Well, what about this physical form isn’t the only thing that exists? What do you mean? Science says it is. Well what about my thoughts? Oh, that’s your brain. It is not. They can grab a piece of your brain and take it out.
They can’t grab your thoughts. Your thoughts are there. You can You create thoughts, you can create thoughts. Do you have emotions? How do you know you have emotions? ’cause you feel them. We’re working our way up. Thoughts and emotions are Shakti vibrating at a higher rate than form. Do they know that? No.
They will know it when they develop machines that are sensitive enough to pick up the higher vibrations. There was a time in which the electromagnetic spectrum was very small. It didn’t have infrared and ultraviolet, et cetera. When they discovered those things by developing instruments that could kick up the higher vibrations, they didn’t say they were alien.
They didn’t say they’re from some other world, another plane of reality. Did they, they just defined them as part of the physical plane ’cause they were able to see them. If you told them about ’em to start with that there was such a thing as an x-ray that could see right through your body. There’s not, nobody had developed or seen that they will raise vibrate at a high enough rate that it could go right through your body.
But they didn’t make it weird. They said, okay, it’s part of the physical plane. Everything they found, they defined as part of the physical plane, which is fine. So someday they’ll find out that there’s high vibration rates that make your thoughts fine. They make your emotions, you know, there are, and so the deep spiritual teachings are very scientific.
How do you see, you have senses. You have eyes that are optically sensitive. You have ears that are are auditorily sensitive. You have skin that is tactically sensitive. Correct. So you have sensors that can pick up the vibration, race your consciousness, your awareness of being is able to pick up. Thoughts and emotions?
How do you know? ’cause you know they’re there. You can even create them by yourself. Make a boat, make a house. Where are those things? They’re there. I have met, maybe you have two. I’m not into all the psychic stuff. I have met psychics that can see your thoughts and I’m not playing around. Literally, you make a house, they see the house.
Hmm. Because it’s there. Well, how come I don’t see yours? The answer is so simple because I’m only interested in mine.
I only have eyes for you. Can you get that fixated on something? That’s all you see. That’s why you see your thoughts and feel your emotions. Can you feel other people’s emotions? Of course you can. They’re called vibrations. Can you walk into a house where people are fighting and they stop and they sit up straight and say, you know, you can feel the yes or no.
You’re not psychic. You’re sensitive enough to feel, not you, but if you walked into that house, something bad happened to you before you walked in, you don’t feel squat, but you mm-hmm. There, look what we can understand. It’s all the same. It’s just different vibration rates of Shakti manifesting different ways, right?
We’ll get to consciousness in a moment. It’s the only thing that’s different. So now your thoughts are Shakti. Well, what about this Shakti that yoga talks about that way you’re used to? Oh, I feel Shakti pouring through my being. I get so filled with Shakti. I met the great saying Master. Oh my God, the Shakti was amazing.
That’s how you like to use it, don’t you? It’s everything That’s just a higher, what does that mean? Just as water can flow through. If it’s vibrating high enough, if ice is vibrating high enough, it can flow straight through. If energy is vibrating high enough, it can flow through. It’s funny you say through your body, it just is just like X-rays go through your body.
No, they don’t. They’re just high enough vibration or your body doesn’t stop ’em. Nothing blocks them. Well, your Shakti is a high end of vibration to where generally, and we’re gonna talk about that and that’s what I wanna talk about, is it can make it through, it can flow. There’s nothing stopping it.
There’s nothing stopping and it flows right through. How come air doesn’t show up? ’cause light doesn’t get stopped by air. It’s thin enough, it’s not dense enough, et cetera, et cetera, to where light just goes right through it. Photons go right through it. They don’t go through the wall. Why is the wall different?
No, the wall is absolutely no different. It’s just vibrating at a very different rate. Therefore, it’s dense enough. The vibration slows down enough to be able to stop enough to become dense, and photons can’t flow through it. Therefore, okay, it’s all science. It’s all certainly science of the same thing.
It’s just that science hasn’t caught up. Alright, so Shakti, what you call Shakti, is Shakti the same energy that created the universe that is at the base of all quantum everything. There’s just one energy. God is one. It is one. It’s the primal energy that all of creation is vibrating at all different rates, but it’s the same energy.
So the shock to you feel flowing through you, and we’ll talk about why and how and so on. The shock to you feel flowing through you is higher, higher vibration rate of Shakti that’s thin enough that it can make it through. Passing. It doesn’t get blocked by your body, but can it get blocked by your body?
I just jumped to Right. What we should talk about. Can you be feeling Shakti love, joy, enthusiasm, and somebody say one word to you and it stops. That’s what I wanna talk about. Does it or doesn’t it? Yeah. Or could you be all depressed? Well, what that is, every single word you use can be replaced by Shakti.
You are not depressed. The higher energy can’t flow through the lower blockages that you created with your mind and your emotions. Let’s just get it. You had an experience. What’s an experience, Shakti? I’m sorry. I’m gonna do it all day. It’s just Shakti out there. Therefore, anything you experience is a Shakti.
It’s all the same. It comes in. What do you mean in it passes through the denser part of your being gets picked up by the Shakti. That makes up your senses. It’s all the same dance. It’s the dance of ti comes in and is gonna pass through you. What does it mean? Through the higher vibration of your mind, through the vibration of your emotions, has to pass through all these layers.
To go to a higher vibration rate, you have to make it through the lower vibrations. That’s all for me to be see through that wall. I have to up step how fast the molecules within that wall are moving and bam goes through. Same thing within yourself. Now I’m just gonna forget the physical physics and I’m gonna talk about you, right?
Because that’s what you need to know about. You are a walking bundle of Shakti vibrating at every possible rate. That’s chore. So what happens when something happens outside? There is no outside. It’s just a lower vibration rate comes in, the higher vibration rate comes in, passes through you, gets in there, and then it has a vibration.
Everything has a vibration. It’s so hard to talk about this. It’s so simple. A rattlesnake out there rattling when it comes in. The snake doesn’t come in. But the vibration does, doesn’t it? It feels very different than a butterfly landing on your arm. Totally different vibrations. Okay, fine. It’s a world of vibration.
Every single vibration that could ever be is and was, and will always be. Simultaneously, it’s called God. Omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It’s everywhere. It’s at all times. Vibrating at every single rate period. So I have to bring in, ’cause I didn’t. I purposely didn’t. But when that vibration comes in, you are aware of it.
There’s only one thing that isn’t the creation of Shakti that I said is everything, and that’s consciousness. You are aware of every single vibration of Shakti at every single level that comes into your world of awareness. The same consciousness. Feels joy and pain. The same consciousness feels depression and ecstasy.
The same consciousness sees red, white, blue, orange, yellow. The same consciousness sees male, female, the same consciousness sees a bug, the same consciousness sees a star. There’s just one consciousness in there. You. Your conscious being. We will talk. When I’m done, we’ll talk about the relationship between consciousness and Shakti, but right now I’m gonna talk about is if they’re separate.
So your awareness of being is able to pick up many different vibration rates of Shakti in the physical form. Shakti manifested as your sense. Those senses can pick up colors, shape, movement, high, low, hot, cold, you name it. Alright? But when it’s all said and done, it is the same consciousness that is experiencing all of those.
There are many, many objects of consciousness. There’s just one consciousness. Like if I put red, blue, yellow, orange, and black in front of you, and I say to you, what is this color? What is this color? And they asked you, did you see different colors? Yes. Was it the same you that saw them or you gotta call each other?
Is it not the same you that saw the colors? The colors weren’t the same. The same. You saw them. That’s true of every single thing in your life. Do you have different thoughts at different levels? Some high, some low, some nice, some X-rated. All right. Is it the same you who sees them all? When you are depressed, how do you know you’re depressed?
There’s only two big questions in the universe. What is the universe made of? Including thoughts, all form. What is all form made of at every level? Who experiences it there? We got a pretty simple, that’s the two things are your thoughts, not forms. Do they talk to you and see visually and so on are your emotions.
They’re not like the same performance as your thoughts, but you feel an emotion. It comes up anger, love, resentment, jealousy, insecurity, self-consciousness, embarrassment. Yes or no. These things exist or not every single one of you know what I’m talking about because you experienced them. Where are they out here?
No, they’re not out here. But they are Shakti. They’re just a different vibration rate. They’re not picked up by your physical senses. But they are picked up inside. You feel vibrations. You can feel somebody’s love. I hope you can. I hope you can sit there and just feel all this energy pouring between your hearts.
It’s not just you. There’s juice out there. Why do you think people visit? Holy places and they talk about, oh my God, I had so much Shakti. You know, everything is Shakti, but it can hold that people can go to places, you know, with Amityville and these horror houses and, and houses, right? There’s a real thing.
People can feel things can you walk into a place and not feel good about it? You’ve never been there before. It’s just got a low vibration. Can things have a low vibration? Can they have a high vibration? It’s because your consciousness can pick up every vibration. It’s all shasti. Alright, so now let’s get back down to Shakti flowing and Shakti not flowing, which is what I like to talk about.
’cause that’s your work. Okay? So you’re here, you’re having a fairly good time, everything’s fine. You go to a party, you’re excited to go there. All of a sudden somebody calls out Ben. Ben, and you just went through a divorce two years ago with a guy named Ben, and it really was not very nice. Okay. How you doing?
Did it change a little bit? I wanna leave. I don’t, I, I wanna leave. It’s not the same. Ben. Doesn’t matter. I’ve had enough of any Ben for my entire life. I had enough bends. What happened? What’s going on? What happened was in the event happened in the past, your relationship with Mr. Ben, and it didn’t go well.
And when the energies came in, it wasn’t one incident, but somebody, it was one incident came in, it did not feel good. You don’t like what he said, what he did or anything like that? It came in and it was a low vibration and it wasn’t comfortable to you. Did you want it to come all the way back to the core of your consciousness so you could feel it fully, not a chance in the world.
You want to protect yourself from it. You. The consciousness in there that lives in there is feeling this vibration and is not comfortable with it. So what do you do with it? You stop it from coming in the rest of the way. The same way you block somebody’s punch. It’s like you protect yourself. So the consciousness in there does not want it coming all the way in.
And you know how not to, ’cause you have will. What is Will Shakti? It’s just a form of very high concentrated Shakti that can push against the lower Shakti. It’s just all Shakti dancing with Shakti. So you have power in there. Who does you Well, because Shakti’s power, here’s focusing a higher Shakti onto a lower Shakti, which is the vibration that came in, and you have the ability to push it away.
Who said? So Freud? I think Freud was the first one to come up with that stuff. Are you kidding me? People dealt with it from the beginning of time. Yogis went into the mountains to try and get rid of it. You have stored stuff in there, have you not? Have you stored stuff in there that happened from the past and isn’t happening anymore?
Does it come back up by itself? Do you have to push it back down? Are you afraid of it? Are you afraid of some stuff you have in there that you know, if it came back up, it would ruin your life? It would mess you up. You know, I don’t like to talk about that. Why? I told you I don’t wanna talk about that. Why?
They’re just words. They’re just shati. Why do you wanna talk about it? Because I have stored, what does that mean? I lowered the vibration so it didn’t pass through. That’s what you did. You used your will to slow you listen to me. You used a very high vibration of energy, which is your will. You focused it to slow down that thing that would’ve passed right through wound, just like the trees passed through in the white lines passed through, and the people you don’t know pass through and the cars pass.
They all pass through. 99% of every single thing that ever came into your sense is passed right through. But not that. Why is your Shakti, because you stopped it. How did you stop it? You used a higher vibration rate of energy. You in there consciousness had access to everything. You used it and you pushed it down.
You slowed it down, and when it slowed down, it couldn’t go through anymore. And so it got stored at whatever level of vibration. A slow down the motion ends up. Whatever vibration, a slow down thought form ends up. Otherwise, thoughts just come and go, but not if you stop them. So they lower the vibration rate and they get stored in your heart.
And where they get stored is where a whole nother vibration rate of Shakti manifests, which is your flow, your Shakti flow. It gets stored in that Shakti flow. It’s like taking a rock in a flowing stream and sticking it in and blocking the flow of the water so it splashes against it and creates eddies and currents and sprays.
That’s what you did to your natural Shakti flow, which is a very high vibration of energy. We’ll talk about that from I’m done, and it’s just ecstatic as it flows through, and it’s there all the time. It is your natural state of being. You have access to every single vibration under Shati. Your consciousness is the highest thing that is.
It can feel really high vibrations and really low things and so on. Plus, it has the ability to focus. Your consciousness can focus, can’t you concentrate? When you focus your consciousness on an emotion or a thought that you don’t want coming up to you, to the consciousness, to the seat of consciousness, you slow down.
Its vibration and it stores inside of you, and it will be there for your entire life. Psychology agrees with me a hundred percent. And look what it takes to get it out. Forget yoga for a minute. Let’s get traditional psychological therapy. You had an experience that took place when you’re seven years old, something happened that no, you couldn’t handle it.
You consciousness could not handle it. So you pushed it down. It could take years of therapy to get it out. And they don’t even say it’s totally out. It’s like aa. They say you’re always an alcoholic, you’re just not drinking. Pay attention. So psychology I, I don’t know that much about, there’s different levels of psychology, transpersonal and so on, but in traditional psychology, they may say, well, okay, we’ve gotta work through.
You’re reasonable and I have to cope with it. It happened. You have to cope with it. It’s not true. It’s not happening, therefore should not be affecting you. I’m sorry. I’m so logical. Why are you be affected by something that doesn’t happen? Things that are not happening should not be bothering you. How’s that?
Why would they bother you? They’re not happening. Well, you’re doing this to yourself. I’m gonna make a statement to you. If it ain’t happening, it shouldn’t be bothering you. Am I making sense to you? I know you can’t do it. I know they don’t teach you this, but why would you be bothered by something that’s not happening Because you s.
Stored from the past, something that bothered you and you decided to keep it. This bothered me so much, I’m gonna keep it for my whole life and let it bother me forever. Okay? Nice choice. Do you do it? ’cause no one will talk to you like this. So what you did is you slowed down the vibra here, your body is still here, that had the experience.
But your emotion shouldn’t be. It just passes through. Your body’s a lower vibration rate, and so it can’t move as much. It’s not as fluid, but your thoughts and your emotions, oh, whoa, boy. Come in a minute and come and go. Right? But you decided to use your Will Shakti to slow it down. You literally slowed down the vibration rate of the thought or the emotion as it passed through you, so it couldn’t pass through your psyche.
Didn’t get stuck in. Well, I wanna say it didn’t get stuck in your physical body. It did. So you get ulcers, get headaches, you tense if the shakti flow that’s coming down into your body, the prana, we call it prana. Oh, what is prana? The certain vibration, or Shakti, call it prana. It’s your Shakti. If that vibration gets disturbed as it’s coming down into your body.
Why is it disturb? ’cause it hits that stuff you stored then the energy that is feeding your cells. That is literally doing, everything has come your whole life force, lemme call it a life force, is disturbed. It’s vibrating at a disturbed rate. It will mess you up. And that’s why you have those types of energy therapies and all that kinda stuff like that.
Do they work? Of course they work. They don’t necessarily solve the problem. The problem is in here, they help to release the energy. How massage does it you places of tension. Why? Because the energy that came in is not healthy. You eat food that’s not healthy, you better go see somebody. So it does affect the physical body.
So as it comes down, it slows down and it can do stuff at every level. And so basically, what’s the answer? Stop shoving that stuff down there. You make it so obvious. It is obvious. Then we can talk about how to do it. That’s a different story. But you first have to understand you’re doing this. You do resist every single thing.
That actually happened and came in and you resisted, you held inside and it will disturb your Shakti flow. But I use the word by Shakti flow just mean the exact vibration of the Shakti. ’cause it’s everything that you feel as the upliftment of joy, of spiritual energy. Lemme call it that. That’s a vibration rate.
Holy Spirit. So now what you’ve got is a natural energy flow at a certain level. It’s like your body is a phenomenal thing. It has an immune system to try and keep it healthy. It has a digestive system to let you eat anything from grass to meat. It’s amazing what your body is capable of doing. Your body intends to have you be healthy.
It’s trying very, very hard. You understand that. They sit there and say you need protein. They all have those diets that you’re supposed to have. Many of you don’t have those diets, and you do just fine. The body is phenomenal. It’s intention. It is so brilliant. It can handle a lot of stuff, can’t it? So basically what’s going on is the Shakti’s supposed to be healthy.
It’s just another vibration rate of energy that balance and flows, and you fill it all the time. It feeds you. That’s what Christ’s meant in the Bible when he said, man does not live right bread alone, but by every word that leaves at the mouth of God, there’s yoga. There’s a discussion about Shakti. You don’t live meaning, you don’t get joy and meaning of your life by what’s coming in from outside bread.
Not just from the outside. There is a flow inside, but by every word that leave with the mouth of God. That’s your Shakti flow and that beautiful and it’s real and you feel it. There’s inner openness that you can fed, right? Alright. So basically you have this flow of that vibration rate of Shakti, spiritual vibration of Shakti.
That’s always going up. It’s feeding you, it’s going up. Shakti comes down to feed the body, to energy, feed the body, and it flows back up. That’s your Meridian system. It all ties together. Your conception and governing vessel, right? It’s coming in. It’s flowing back up. It’s coming in, it’s flowing back up.
That’s at the physical level. Well, the Shakti at every level is doing that. When you block the main point is what I’m talking about. When you use your will. The power of your Shakti at that level to push against an actual experience that came in. I’m sorry, you’re not gonna stop from having happened. No one has ever stopped an experience from having happened.
All you did was stop from feeling it. Stop from experiencing it. Totally. And when you did that, I’m telling you, it got stored inside of you and it will be there until it’s allowed to let go. And it goes so deep down, you don’t even know it’s there. Then all of a sudden, I’ve met people, they’re fine for years and years and years.
All of a sudden something comes up. They totally change. I, I mean like hit a switch. They’re a different person. They want different things. They believe different things. They hope for different things. Everything can that happen. Why? Because that’s stuff you’ve got down there. That when the shakhti flows a certain way, God, we’re having a deep discussion.
When your shakhti balances based on the stuff you stored down there, it’s always trying to come up. You understand that? It’s always trying to go back to God. It’s all trying to merge all the time, but it can’t ’cause it’s blocked. And so when it hits the blockage, the mind exactly mirrors. What part made it through?
What part didn’t make it through. So your mother did this and your father did this, and your first husband did this, and then that happened, but then you had the experiences you liked. All right? So you got all that stuff stored down there and it shouldn’t be, yeah. It’s not happening. You should be living your life based on what the heck’s going on.
This is your life. That’s not your life. That was your life. Those were experiences you had. They’re not supposed to be in there. ’cause if they’re in there, the shock has to find a way around it to where at least you have some energy. Otherwise, you’re totally depressed. There’s nothing What your mindset, talkie, talkie, talkie going on in there?
The voice of talks of mine. Why did I do that? I don’t know. Oh my God. I kind of like her. Oh, I can’t, I don’t know. I was. And that whole thing, it is all a reflection of the Shakti that you store a block downstairs. It’s like a motion picture in the old days, used to fast through film. And then it came out onto the screen.
Your mind is the screen playing the film of your blockages. That’s what your personal mind is. Not your whole mind. Your mind’s brilliant, but your personal mind. I’m telling you. That’s why the stuff says what it says. You can be in a perfectly good mood and all of a sudden you think about something that happened 10 years ago.
How you doing? It goes, and plus you know this, you’re brilliant. So your mind tries to create outer situations that when they come in, they help your Shakti flow and it tries to avoid like poison outer situations that you know will get you upset. What you mean to get upset? The Shakti hit your stuff. Can you get angry?
Can you get angry? Has anybody ever felt anger? Does anybody know what the word anger sounds like or means? It is. The Shakti blocked. Pouncing off the blockage and needing a place to express itself. And some people can’t handle that. And the next thing you know, the rage of that current or that water that got all messed up down there starts spewing out.
Alright? Can you feel very, very strong desires? What is a desire you have? Desires? I want a boat. I’ve always wanted a boat. I want a boat. And when you think about it, you just feel uplifted. You feel like that. And all the time you’re looking to earn a boat. Your whole life is about somehow getting that boat.
Why do you want a boat? There’s a boat that floats in the water. It’s like, why? Why? Why? There’s a reason. There’s something that got stored down there. And somehow your mind thought, how can I be okay? And it remembered a movie it saw, or a book it read, or an experience it had when I was young. And I said, if I can recreate that, I’m gonna be okay.
And the very fact that your thought believes you’re gonna be okay, you won’t. But have you ever gotten what you wanted? Have you ever gotten what you wanted? Was that the end of it? You never wanted anything else? Ha ha. Did it always turn you on the same as when you first got it? Ha ha. So basically, your mind, your thinking mind is trying to help you.
It doesn’t seem like it is trying to help you. It’s trying to think of what could happen that would help the Shakti flow past the blockage. Like when you were young, you had a lot of brothers and sisters and it wasn’t good relationships. It was terrible. Plus one of ’em died young and it really hurt you terribly.
You don’t have children. What do you mean you don’t wanna have children? What does that mean? It means my mind. Has all that energy blocked down there and it doesn’t wanna deal with that or at once have children to prove it can be okay. They’re both the same. Children are children. They come, believe me, the deer out there, they have kids.
Alright? It’s a natural process. That’s not something you want or don’t want or upset ’cause you couldn’t have it or upset ’cause I had too many. Now what I do, that’s just your mind trying to think of what it thinks will let your Shakti flow. There are people that aren’t getting along very well in their married relationship right now.
Okay. But they were doing good. When they had their first kid, they felt bounded and they went together and they did things, and so they decided to have another kid. I do not want to be that child. That child was not made out of love. The child was made up. I’m not, okay, we’re all screwed up. Maybe this will take care of it.
It won’t. The problem is that you don’t have another child. The problem is that you’re blocked. What’s the child got to do with that? So we’re trying to create in our minds a. Alternate events that could take place that we think will make us feel better or ones that better not take place. ’cause we think it’ll make us feel terrible and all of a sudden our entire life is run by that.
It’s run by your mind saying, I need this and I don’t want that. Now figure out how to get it and avoid it. It’s not enough that it. Took the image of, I told you, run a light through the film of your scars. They call some scars. That’s stuff you store down there. Run a light up through that film and have project onto your mind, and that’s what your mind’s talking about.
His problems are not hers, but they’ve been married for years. That won’t matter. How long did you go through all these experiences before you even met the person you married? They don’t know you. You don’t know them. Oh boy. It got real quiet in here. If man is a sum of his learned experiences, you picked up about 3% of ’em.
What about the other? 97% of every experience that person had? Well, they told me about it. It would take a lifetime to tell you about it. Plus, you don’t even know what influence it had on you. You’ll lie, you’re not gonna tell the truth, right? That happened to me, but I was okay. I was okay with it. I don’t think about it much, but I was okay with it.
Do you understand that? Please wake up. As to what it’s like to deal with all these different levels of Shakti and be unconscious being in there. So what you end up doing is the stuff comes up that’s disturbing or comes up that’s nice. Your mind thinks, how can I have it again? How can I avoid it? I guarantee you every single thing you want is of impressions that got left in there that felt good when they happen.
And every single thing you absolutely don’t get near me is because the impressions that happen in there. That really were terrible when they happen and you stored them in there, they’re running your life. Every one of you, everything you want, everything you like, everything you don’t like, and why, and what you’re gonna do about it, and what you decided is the answer to your problems.
All of it is those things coming up into your mind and your mind trying to be okay with all that stuff coming in there. You can have one thought, but the emotion comes right back up to think about something that happened. It’s all down the earth. So now we’re talking Shakti. That’s another level of Shakti, but you slowed it down enough to where you stored these some scars.
That’s what yoga called them thousands of years ago. You stored these patterns from the past inside your Shakti, flow inside the natural flow of your Shakti, and they’re gonna determine how much Shakti you feel Watch a movie. That has a person in it, some famous person in it, and you love the movie, and all of a sudden you see in the newspaper that person’s coming to town.
How are you doing? Feel in Shakti? Feel excited, feel enthused, feel inspired? Wanna go? Okay. Okay. Rewind. Prior to seeing that movie, you don’t know the person. You never seen the person you never heard of him. Newspaper article comes out, that person’s coming to town has no effect on you. Take a breath. How many of those do you have stored in there?
That is what’s running your life, and that is not what should be running your life. So the shockti will flow based on what you stored. Why? Because you blocked it based on what you stored. What does it mean to not have that stuff in there? That’s an enlightened master. Why There’s nothing blocking the energy flow.
It comes in, it goes up. They’re in ecstasy all the time. I’ve had the honor of meeting such people, right? It’s, I don’t like to tell you then you wanna do it. I, than the presence of me was so great that a room three times this size when I walked in it. It was like the poles of magnet pushing against each other.
I couldn’t walk up to him that far away. And as you walk closer, it got stronger and stronger and stronger. They’re just emanating light. They’re emanating Shakti. There’s nothing blocking it. Most of them you will absolutely never meet. I don’t care who you think you met. ’cause they live in the hama and caves and throw rocks at you if you try to see them.
They’re not trying to build an ashram. They’re not trying to do anything. They’re gone like Ram Krishna, he’s just gone. Bye-bye. Whoa. I wanna meet them. I like them. Okay. It’s like. You are a very high being. You have all of that inside of you, but you’re blocking it with this vibration rate that you held down inside of you.
And now what happens when it tries to come back up? It feels terrible, and you push it back down and now your entire life is devoted being blocked. How about I say it that way? Mm-hmm. Your entire life is devoted to nothing triggering that stuff you stored inside of you to cause troubles. And if you’re not doing that, they have positive and scars, ones that got stored over.
This is nice. What’s the problem there? Okay. There’s no problem there. Here’s the only problem. You’re trying to have ’em again. Anything you stored that wasn’t good, they didn’t like, you don’t wanna have it again, do you? Anything you stored, which is very few by the way, that really turned you on. I wanna have it again.
That’s where your passions come from. Passion is Shakti. So they sit there and say, passion’s an evil. No passion is Shakti. Block Shakti thinking it can release itself in that, or releasing itself in that direction. Shakti explains everything, so you get to the point where you start wondering, what am I doing with my life?
I’ve devoted my life to the problems of my past, and then all excitement I feel is if it matches something that felt good in my past, like I started to say, what’s, what’s wrong with that? Well, nothing except that you want it to happen again. Does that mean disappointment? Fear that it won’t happen again?
Resentment. ’cause somebody got in the way of you happening again. It’s not clean. Why don’t you just be okay with what is? I’ll give you a formula here. You want a pill a psychologist should give you. Here’s the I’m okay with what is pill if it’s happening. I love it. I’m passionate about it. Hey man, I stole my car.
Wow, this is far out. What do I do? I get to know the police isn’t gonna be fun, or maybe not be, I have a direct experience, right? I get to deal with insurance companies. I hear it’s amazing. It’s like Maze, can I get around it? Like, hey, it’s a puzzle. We do puzzles that are fun. We play video games, go go deal with an insurance company.
It’s a puzzle. And it’s like, why are you not having fun? Because you decided not to. You decide I’d rather be sailing. That’s gonna be up a bumper sticker. I told you they once, many, many years ago, because they gave a talk like this at the book table, they had his bumper sticker and said, I’d rather be doing what I’m doing now.
That’s what it should say, isn’t it? There. We’re talking about that spirituality. It’s not about trying to achieve something or this or that. It’s saying, boy, am I messed up. You gotta start there. AA starts with, I’m an alcoholic. If you don’t say that, you don’t go to the meetings. You gotta accept reality.
Boy, am I screwed up. I got all this stuff down here. Some people collect spoons, teacups, stamps, baseball cards. I collected bad experiences,
didn’t I? If you store inside of you, everything ever disturbed you, what’s it gonna be like in there? Disturbed and it is. And somebody says something, I’m not disturbed. I like my wife and I like my kids. Okay, take ’em away. Ah, I’m disturbed, but I kind of compensated for it. I temporarily, what happens if you even think that your wife leaves or goes out?
You hear me? You ain’t fixed. That doesn’t fix you. Those things you’re doing to compensate for the issues you have in there. Doesn’t mean you don’t do ’em. You gotta go through your life. But at some point you wake up and say, you know what? This is a mess in here. What’s the solution? Clean it up. Can they clean it up?
Some people will tell you no. So you’re scarred. You’re scarred for life. That’s bull. Don’t ever let anybody tell you anything like that. I’ll prove it to you. If it tries to come back up, you push it back down. That’s why it’s still in there. ’cause you’re holding it in there. Aren’t you? You didn’t accept it when it happened and you’re sure as heck ain’t accepting it now.
That’s why it’s in there. Why does it come back up? That’s a teaching that I’ve given in my new book, living Untethered. I go into great detail in this and people helped a lot by that. Alright? Just as your body has an immune system that does not want bacteria and viruses in it and knows how to, pretty much within reason, tries to get ’em out, doesn’t it?
It can do, it, can it? Your mind and your heart has such a system, but it’s a way higher vibration rate of Shakti, so it’s way more advanced. It does not want that garbage in there. Why would your heart or your mind want this garbage from the past shoved down there instead of it being experienced? Okay, it happened.
It happened fine. Alright. And so basically it tries to push it up and that’s why it keeps coming up. It will not sit down there quietly. We try to push up or it spreads out like a virus down there and destroys everything. You understand, your whole life gets messed up. ’cause it spread its poison down there in the subconscious.
So it doesn’t want it in there. It’s trying to purify and you’re pushing it back down. You’re saying, no, I don’t want you to purify. I don’t wanna deal with it. Well, the answer is you do wanna deal with it. Again, we started with Shakti. No, there’s not a single thing I talked about that’s just not different vibration rates of Shakti.
What’s the purpose of talking like that? Shakti’s beautiful. Shakti’s Nirvana. When Shakti’s free to flow, that’s what Nirvana is when it’s absolutely free and nothing’s stopping it. Consciousness is not pushing it away. The personal self is not interfering with it. It merges the Shakti merges with consciousness.
And it’s called in yoga. It’s called ti. Not two words, ti one word. They’re the same thing. Alright. Conscious energy. That’s what God is. Conscious energy. You focus on the conscious part. That’s you. You’re conscious, you’re aware. Focus on the energy part. I’ve talked about it all day. It’s all energy. It me, that’s called the merger.
That’s the union. The word yoga means union. Merger it is when all of that Shakti, which was vibrating under the lower array, you still can. I told you, ice can exist even though there’s water, even there’s steam. So the world can still exist even though you’re enlightened. ’cause you can dance at every single level of it.
You’re a very great being. Every single thing that I talked about today. Is you. They’re just different vibration rates. But your consciousness has stopped it. It stopped it. Alright. I almost said to you once, I said you didn’t want it to come all the way in. Didn’t feel good. Have you ever had anything come all the way in?
Have you ever had an experience that blew your mind? Meaning your mind couldn’t think what it could think? You just came in, you said, it’s like it touched me. Has anything ever touched you, the depth of your being? Have they ever touched you to where you said I was in the presence of God? Because you didn’t block it.
You didn’t push it away. It just came in and it just caught you by surprise. Like a sunset. That’s gorgeous. Or somebody fronting up and hugging you, who you haven’t seen for a long time. You go bye-bye. It’s always supposed to do that with everything. That’s what in the garden means. Everything in creation is God’s creation and God’s experiencing God’s creation, Adam e or just God experiencing God’s creation.
Don’t think about it in heaven somewhere. It’s just that every single thing touches you to the depth of your being. There’s nothing blocking anything. It’s just all wow. Wow. There’s no personal self in there liking and not liking. Why would God like something he made or not like something he made artists paint paintings or they made different things.
They love them, all that expression of their being, this universe is expression of God’s being and he’s experiencing it. But then what did Adam and Eve do? That whole thing about the fruit, they developed a sense of ego. They developed a sense of I am separate. The most beautiful part of that story in Genesis is when Adam’s in the garden and God is looking for him.
Adam, what do you mean looking for him? You are him. What? What, what he is. You alright? Adam, where are you? And Adam says, I’m hiding. How do you hide from God? You block, you put an artificial thing over your consciousness that says, I’m looking down now, and what I see is the body and the mind and the emotions of a human being.
If I look up, I realize I emerge with God. Is the body there? Yes, but I’m not staring at it and I’m not lost in it. I didn’t fall from the garden into this human is the human there? Yes, I told you it can all be there. The question is, are you fixated with your consciousness on it is who you are. No. Right.
And then God says Adam. Adam says, here I am and he stands up and Guy says. What’s that around your waist? Adam says, well, fig leaf said I put fig leaves on trees. What’s it doing around your waist? And I’m telling you, the deepest part of that entire neurogenesis. What did Adam say? I was naked. Whoa.
Everybody’s naked. The trees are naked. The, the, all the animals are naked. What do you mean? I was naked? That’s your ego. You started to identify with your body as yourself and you became self-conscious. ’cause you’re identify with your body as yourself, and all of a sudden you’re staring at this thing and saying, I’m naked.
Do you get what I’m telling you? Not telling you to run around nude. There’s nothing wrong with clothes. There’s nothing wrong with anything except that you identify with them instead of identifying with who you are, which is God looking at them, God experiencing his creation. That’s all that’s happening, and it’s all Shakti.
That’s what’s so beautiful. So next time you feel depressed, you are not depressed. You are staring at a depressed psyche. Consciousness is not depressed. How can it be depressed? It’s God, it’s ecstasy. Staring at a depressed psyche and identifying with it. So is there an answer? Of course there’s an answer.
Stop it. Okay. And people say, I don’t teach techniques. What I do is inspire you to free yourself. Right? You’ve, you figure it out, but it’s not hard. It’s not hard. Why? The problem is that you’re shoving stuff down there, and when it naturally very naturally comes back up, doesn’t it Comes back up by itself.
Somebody says something, somebody doesn’t say something. You think about, something comes back up. What’s that telling you? It doesn’t want to be down there and you push it back down. Okay, don’t do that. Whoa. All of a sudden, that’s the highest technique you’ll ever be taught. You have a tendency to push it back down, don’t you?
You have a tendency when new ones happen to push them down. So you’ve got all the old ones that you push down. You’ve got the new ones coming in, hitting the old ones, and you got yourself a mess in there. It’s called neurotic. It’s up, it’s down, it’s this, it’s that. It’s good one day and going on the next.
It’s just hitting your stuff. A thought can make your stuff come up. A, a person, anything, everything. You don’t want that stuff down there. It’s keeping you from the ecstatic state of your being of God, realization. It’s a beautiful being. Alright, what do you do? So the new book goes in in real detail and some people do the real well with that book.
I’m very happy to see it. Right? One stop putting more down there. How? Stop putting more down there. Somebody doesn’t say hello. Okay. They didn’t say hello. It’s hot. Okay. It’s hot. You shoved that down there. Oh my God, it was so hot the whole day. So hot down here. I’m gonna move. I don’t live in Florida, but Arizona’s got radio sick.
She’s no neurotic about the fact that it was hot. No, enjoy the hot. Enjoy it. It’s. There’s a star out there shining. You can feel this heat. Every single situation during your day is an opportunity to learn to let go. Keep your hands to yourself, honor it, respect it, positive thinking, whatever you want. And what’s gonna happen is the old ones start coming up by themselves.
I guarantee you, they will come up by themselves, don’t touch ’em. And it is hard ’cause they were stored with pain and they’re coming back with pain. It’s gonna be hot. Good. You have to change your attitude. I love it, but it’s hard to sit there when it’s hot, do your best to relax. Well, what if I slip and I say something fine.
You slip and said something, you get another. Don’t worry. You got plenty of chances. Your entire lifetime is about this. The reason you took birth is to go back up with lessen. You came down with. So we’ll work on it. Every minute of every day. Relaxing is the answer. Relax in the face of the disturbance and it will have room to pass through, and little by little will pass through and you’ll get higher and higher.
The real growth, you don’t even know what’s happening. Just all of a sudden you’re not being bothered by things that’s we’re bothered by. And you just keep letting go and then the big stuff comes up. The bigger that comes up, the better. You’ll start to sit there and say, wow, if I got this high letting go of the little stuff, it wasn’t gonna be, if I let go of mommy and daddy and ex-husband and, and all the junk that happened, well what would it be like?
You start having a real aspiration and inspiration that becomes your passion. I don’t know how to stop, so, alright. Will you work on yourself? Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters.
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