E73: Chit Shakti: The Unity of Consciousness and Energy

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Michael Singer: Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters. There is a very fundamental understanding of something really, really important that very, very few people understand and we’re going to cut through it and not try to bring your entire intellect along, but just explain a very, very deep truth that maybe someday science medicine religions will come to understand is a concept that in yoga is called shakti. Shakti. There’s Sanskrit words and chit means consciousness and Shakti means energy. It’s interesting, we all know there’s energy, we all know there’s consciousness. What we don’t know, although some of us do, but you will if you work with yourself, is that they’re really all one word. Not separate words. The word is ti because they’re the same thing. That’s the key. Consciousness and energy are the same thing. Just like we used to think there was electricity and there was magnetism, then they figured out that they were the same exact force.

Electricity and magnetism are the same thing. If you wrap a metal rod inside of a coil and you spin it, it creates electricity. If you take electricity and you spit around the metal rod, it creates magnetism. The same thing. They’re coming in from different angles and so we now have what we call an electromagnetic spectrum. They don’t speak of them as separate. You’ve heard of those words, the electromagnetic spectrum. You think nothing of it. That’s an amazing breakthrough to realize these force are the same thing. Consciousness and energy are the same thing. There’s no difference. It’s chi. First of all, what has that got to do with you a lot?

Western science understands the physical plane phenomenally well. I mean beyond comprehension, how well they have done studying the physical plane. I want to know how you know anything and you say, well, I have a mind. What is that? It’s not physical point to it. Show me, prove it can’t even come close. So they use this thing called the mind to study what’s outside. What are your thoughts? Where do they come from? What is intellect? You have intellect. You may have Einstein, but you have intellect. You can reason, you can logic, you know things. You have intellect. What is that? Where’d it come from? So the great yogis did an amazing thing back in the very old days Thousand, thousand thousand years ago. The original yogis are called rishis. Presumably in the yogic tradition there’s seven great rishis. They’re the ones who figured this all out.

They figured out what is the nature of consciousness? Is the nature of energy. How do they do that? Not by building microscopes and studying things or talking to Freud or by using intellect. They went into the caves and they meditated. What does that mean? They went into places that were so quiet that their consciousness did not get distracted by anything in the outside world. That’s the representation of a cave and they did what they tried to study. Who are they? Who is this in here? I hear, but who hears? I see, but who sees? I think, but who thinks I have thoughts? How do you know? Have thoughts? You know you have thoughts. You know you have thoughts, don’t you? Alright, watch what you say. I have thoughts, subject, verb, object. You’re exactly right. The subject has thoughts. Who’s the subject? My mind is driving me crazy Today what you’ve just said is you’re not your mind.

My is a possessive pronoun. My car, my house, my mind, my hand, my nose, my wife, my husband, my child. They’re possessive. They’re not who you are. There’s something you have. Well, they went into a case to find out who you is. Fair enough? This is great. You have great thoughts. Where do they come from? Who are you who’s having that? And so this is the beginning of yoga. This is the foundation of seeking the source of self. You say myself, but you mean by myself, is your ego is a collection of thoughts that you built in your mind that say, I am a woman, I am a man. You are not. You look in the mirror, you see a woman’s or man’s body and you say I this, I that I built inside myself thinks of myself as a man or a woman as tall or short.

But what if you go to society where you’re five foot two, but they’re all four three. Then I am tall. Notice that the I am is not the same as I feel I am is a sacred verb. It’s defining an identity. That’s what I am is supposed to be. I like that in Spanish, they have two different verbs. A star and Sarah. What is the difference? They both are I am, but one is I am temporarily this. I am hungry. You just define yourself as hunger. I’m angry. That’s who you are. Is it? No, that’s what you’re experiencing. That’s what you feel. Alright, so you used the word a star. If you’re saying I am this, it’s a permanent state of this, then you use there, the net result is you are defining yourself by the experiences you had. That’s what you mean by I, I’m so-and-so’s husband, I’m so-and-so’s wife, I’m so-and-so’s mother or father.

What that’s basically saying is if that’s who you are, then you didn’t exist before you had the child. You weren’t even there. You didn’t exist before I get married because you said I am the wife. What were you before you were the wife? I didn’t exist. It’s not true. Being the wife or the husband is an experience you had. I had the experience of getting married. How do you know? Here’s my album. Them so-and-so came. You are defining yourself by the experience you had. That is what your ego is. Don’t make it complicated. It’s not like a big ego. Yeah, everyone’s got an ego, right? But the ego is a false identification of self. What does psychology call your ego? Your self-concept. Have heard that? Your self-concept. What is a concept? Something in your mind, something you made up. By definition, concept and reality are different things.

You can have a concept of reality, but that’s still a mental flaw. So your ego is something you made up in your mind to define yourself. Listen to me, there’s the essence of spirituality. It is something you made up. It’s a thought pattern, a collection of thoughts that you made up about yourself. I’m the person who won this. I’m the person who was sick when I was young. I’m the person that had polio. I’m the person that did that. I’m the person that so-and-so left me and I was in so much trouble but I rose above it. That’s your eye. You’re saying I’m the experience I had. That’s not who you are. You are the one that’s aware that you do. You have an ego. Do you have something in there that has to defend itself? If somebody walked up to you and said, you said, I want to introduce you to my husband, and they said to you, what are you talking about? That’s my husband. How you doing? It didn’t match your self concept and it got kind of weird in there, didn’t it?

That’s because you defined yourself as something you’re not and it can be challenged and even you can challenge it. You can sit there and say, well, I thought that he loved me. I thought that’s who I was. I thought that was the love of his life and now I’m nothing. Look what you did. Your thoughts don’t match anymore. Ever have that happen? Okay, so that’s your ego. That’s what you did. The yogis went back further. The great ones to say, wait a minute, I am watching my ego. I am watching get upset. I’m watching it. Get happy. I can watch myself build an ego. I used to tell you that story as a perfect example, right? Make believe you never played a guitar ever in your entire life, never even touched a thing and John left his guitar after services and you came in here. You better not. You came in here and picked it up. Well man, you play it right? You start plucking into the thing. You’re playing around. You don’t know how to play. You don’t know the thing. You just air doing your little thing and all of a sudden two or three people walk in the back door and they’re behind the curtain and they’re listening to you and you’re doing your thing. All of a sudden you look up and they’re just staring at you and you stop playing and they say, how long have you been playing?

My God, you’re good, right? And you sit there and say, I’ve never touched a guitar in my life. You’re a prodigy. My God, you’re probably the finest guitarist that was ever born. If you’ve never touched this before, Hey, how you doing now? I am a pro you. I am a great guitarist. Now all of a sudden you go about your business, other people leave. You’re film pretty good, right? Some other people walk in, oh my God, will you stop it? What you’ve never played before in your life. You’re terrible. You have no right to touch a guitar. How do you feel? Terrible? Five minutes ago you’d say, yeah, you’re right now you feel terrible. That’s the ego. That’s how easy it is to build the thing. You built one, didn’t you? Exactly like that. The experience that you had that you liked, that were pleasant, that felt good.

You held them and said, I am this the ones you didn’t like. I was married to a guy named Ben and who was a real schmuck and I ain’t going out with no Bens. I had enough Ben for the rest of my life. That’s who I am. I’m the person that ain’t bending around and I’m not getting married either. I got married once. Marriage doesn’t work. Don’t tell me I had the experience directly. Oh my God, how can you talk like that? How many did you have? There’s what? 8.3 billion people running around. A lot of ’em got married and had children, right? No, no, no. It’s a bad thing. You have one experience. That is what your ego is. Take a breath. It’s nothing. It is something you made up in your mind because of experiences that you had in the past. You put them together and you said, here I am and if you accept me, I like you and if you don’t accept me, I don’t like you.

Who are your friends? The people who accept for who you are? No. They accept you for what you made up. What if you fall in love with somebody and they don’t like a certain aspect of your being? I can change. I can. I’m sorry. I don’t have to be like that. You’re proving you made it up. Have you ever done it? I can change. Wow. Okay, so you had these experiences, you held them in your mind and you identified with that as you. It’s not who you are, you’re not your ego. It can change in a minute. It’s just a pattern of thoughts that your consciousness, your awareness God identified with and started hanging out with. This is me, accept me, love it or leave it. Okay? That’s what it is. So that’s your self concept. Well, the yogis went back there. They said, that doesn’t seem very real to me.

I want to find out who is noticing the ego? Who is noticing the thoughts? Who is noticing the likes? Who’s noticing the dislikes? Who’s noticing what comes in through the eyes? Who’s in there? Who’s the ultimate end user of all of this? Because it’s the same being you who notice your thoughts as the exact you who knows your emotions and when you notice your thoughts and emotions, you can be noticing what’s going outside, causing the thoughts and emotions to be what they are. You’re pretty present. You got a lot of consciousness there. It’s the same you. Who is that? What is that? And they found out something amazing. They went back there by letting go. How do you do it? You don’t get distracted by the outside world. If you get distracted by the outside world, then that’s what your conscious is doing. It’s hanging out with the outside world.

If I look at my hand, then I’m hand conscious. If I don’t look at my hand, I’m still here. You’re not conscious of the hand and you realize the entire outside world is that way. Your sense is past the outside world back so your conscious can see it. The camera doesn’t know what’s taking a picture of your eye, doesn’t know what’s taking a picture of. And so it is your consciousness that’s receiving the image and it’s the same consciousness. Were you in there yesterday? Were you in there experiencing yesterday? Yes or no? How do you know I was in there? Were you in there five days ago? Were you in there receiving? What came in through your senses and noticing your thoughts and emotions Five days ago? How about five years ago? How about when you were 12? Were you in there seeing a 12 year old’s thoughts, a 12-year-old self concept, a 12 year old’s body?

Yes or no? Of course you’ve been in it from the beginning. Same you, same you just looking at something different. When you were young, you wanted a toy, a truck. It is that now you want a relationship. You didn’t know anything about relationship back then. Who cares? Okay, it’s the same you. There’s just one you in there. The trouble is that consciousness is staring at whatever it’s looking at. It’s staring at the object of consciousness. So it’s staring at thoughts, it’s staring at your emotions, it’s staring at your body. It’s staring what’s coming through your senses. It’s not just staring at it, it’s lost in it. It lost its sense of self in what it was looking at. That’s the fall from the garden. That’s the fall from the garden. You are the one who’s in there, but you got so lost looking at what you were looking at that you started defining yourself by what you’re looking at.

And that’s a human being. That’s you fell from God, you fell from the garden. Well the great ones went back by letting go of the senses, letting go of the thoughts, letting go. Not suppressing, just letting them go. They’re nothing. They’re wind clouds in the sky. Let ’em go. White lines in the road, let ’em go So it didn’t distract you. If it’s not distracting you, where do you end up not distracted, where is not distracted? What is the core? What is the essence of your being and they ended up in the center in consciousness and witness you call it. Well fine. Then you sit and witness long enough and that’s a state. It’s a state. What does it mean to sit and witness? You’re not being drawn out of yourself by what you’re looking at. There’s no emotion that draws you out. You can have an emotion.

You just pass it right through. You don’t change. I can sit here and look at that picture. I’m still sitting here unless there’s something in that picture that I really like or don’t like a lot. And next thing I know, I’m not sitting here I am, but my consciousness isn’t. I have projected my sense of being, my sense of consciousness onto what I’m looking at. People do it all the time with all kinds of stuff. You see a snake, you’re not there seeing the snake. You’re freaked out in the emotion. You’re lost all kinds of things. Draw your consciousness to where that’s it. That’s where you are. You lose yourself. Have you ever lost yourself? Have you ever lost yourself? Ha. Alright, so when consciousness is, when you’re able to sit there and there’s no effort, how hard is it for you to see me right now?

I better try hard. How much effort are you putting out to see what’s in this room right now in front of you? None. Zero. That’s how much effort you put out to stay in witness consciousness. It’s what you see inside. Here’s a thought, here’s an emotion. The trouble is if somebody’s sitting over there next to somebody else and I’m jealous and now I can’t see you guys, I only see that I only have eyes for you. It drew my consciousness into it to where I now have to force my way out. That’s what you’re doing inside. You should be able to just see your thoughts and see your emotions. No effort. There’s no technique here. There’s a technique for how you can see are you crazy? You just see there’s no effort. It’s the same thing inside. It’s just that you’re so attached and distracted by your thoughts and your emotions that you can’t stay seated in the seat of consciousness.

You get drawn into them. That’s a problem. Why? Because what you stored in there is what bothered you the most as psychology is all about Freud’s, all about you bother to store the things that you didn’t like from the past inside your mind. Why they’re over. Why do you want to keep the worst thing that ever happened to you when you were three years old, five years old inside of your mind so it can bother the rest of your life. If I was at a retreat, I don’t do retreats with you guys, I don’t do retreats at all. You would not like it at all. I would make you explain to me what a stupid thing that is to do to take that which bother you the most 50 years ago and have it still be inside of you bothering you, but your friends say, oh you poor thing. No we’re not your poor thing. You stupid idiots.

That’s true. Compassion one is sympathy. Oh you poor thing. I know what that’s like. I had my problems too. That’s sympathy. Compassion is you don’t have to be doing that. You don’t have to be suffering. I have decomp compassion for you that you haven’t caught on yet, that you do not have to be doing that. Alright? Come on up where it’s nice to breathe. Not I’ll go down with you. Sympathy is okay, which is fine. Alright, I’ll go down there with you. Now you feel you have a friend down there and help. Well, at Lisa, I’m not lonely anymore. To me compassion is, I have realized you don’t need to be doing that. Your 12-year-old daughter had her first relationship and she’s crying. It broke her heart, right? And your insider saying, don’t worry, there’ll be many more. It’s okay. Believe me, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.

That’s compassion. You have compassion for her, right? She hasn’t caught on yet that you’ve got some human stuff going on in there. You’ll be okay. You’ll be okay. Alright? And so basically you’ve caught on that. You don’t have to go down there. You don’t have to store every single thing that ever bothered you. Why would you store everything that’s already over? It will never happen again. You’re a child anymore. Your parents got divorced 20 years ago or you got divorced five years ago. He or she’s gone. Why are you still keeping them in there? I thought you got divorced, you got divorced outside. You didn’t get divorced inside, did you? So you have willfully stored inside your precious mind. All this garbage and the garbage you stored was the most important stuff that bothered you the most. You didn’t bother sort the white lines you drive by or clouds that go by or the people you don’t know hear me like 99.99%.

Everything came with your sensor. You didn’t store it, you bring it back from memory. But that’s not the same as resisting it and keeping it there. And why do you keep it there? You have to ask that. Why do you, and it’s kind of like a sick kind of thing, like kind of saying, I don’t ever want to forget how much this hurt me. I don’t want it to happen again. Isn’t it kind of like that? I don’t want this happening again, so I’m going to keep it there so it doesn’t happen again. I don’t know it. It’s weird. Tell me the truth if I look at it that way. What a weird thing to do. Why would you do such a thing? Because it affect the rest of your life, wouldn’t it? Patterns the rest of your life. It determines what you’re willing to do or not do for the rest of your life because you’re afraid of the stuff you stored in there.

So they got past that. You can get past that. How you just learn, you learned to let go. You learned to not store stuff in there like that. They called some scars. Patterns you stored because you resisted them. You couldn’t handle them and so you kept them. Alright, so the yogis, the great ones, got past all that. They stopped identifying and stopped storing, let it go. And you end up in witness. What does that mean? You’re noticing your thoughts, you’re noticing your emotions. You’re not doing anything with ’em. You just notice that just like you notice the world outside of you, it’s exactly the same. True in this consciousness is exactly the same as being outside in the world. Things are happening. You see them. You just see them. I don’t have to try. I just see them. Do I own them? Of course not cars drive by whether, what kinds of things go on?

Do you see it? Do you see it? Yes. Do you deny seeing it? No. You just see it. It’s called just seeing very Zen. You’ve heard that. You just see, I got to learn to just see. No, you just see. There’s nothing stopping you from just seeing till you just see. I’m telling you, I want you to see it the same as outside. Look how easy it is to see. Okay, you’re doing that inside. Therefore the thoughts and the emotions, they just come and they fly by. They don’t draw you down into them. You don’t get distracted by them. So you remain in your seat of consciousness. It’s where you always were, but you got drawn out. That’s one stage. It’s not a very high state. We’re going to talk about deep stuff today. That’s a state of not getting drawn out of your seat of self, your seat of consciousness at some point when you spend enough time there, like here, at first I was scared by the snake.

I was attracted to her. So I had to fight with that. Right now I can able just see fine at some point that I can just see it’s start freaking me out. I can say, well, I want to know where she came from. What’s this made of? Well, you’re affected by it. You’re just trying to control it and have a relationship. You follow me? But when it’s neutral to you, it starts to be interesting. I wonder what matter is. I wonder. And so you start to look past that. You look for what it is, what’s form. Same thing inside. At some point you spend enough time and witness to where you’re not being drawn out and it dawns on you, not mentally, just intuitively where’d I come from?

I am conscious. I do see the thoughts I used to get lost in them. Now I’m back here effortlessly. Where did I come from? What’s the nature of consciousness? Not the nature of what you’re conscious of. What’s the nature of consciousness? That’s what they call the self. But now you’re seated in the self, you’re established in the seat of self’s a very high state. Nothing’s drawing you out. And I’m telling you this intuitive feeling. Who am I? Where did I come from? The difference is you’re used to looking down out of yourself. Like you look in front of yourself. When you look outside, you’re looking down inside. I’ve been drawn down. But you’re looking down and it dawns on you that there’s something behind you. There’s always something in front behind left, right? You hear me? It’s infinite. What’s behind your seat of self? Not what’s in front and not where am I?

What’s behind? And it starts to draw you back inside. And what’s happening is you’re exploring the source of self, the source of consciousness instead of consciousness. And you’ll feel like a vacuum cleaner pulling you in versus your thoughts used to pull you out. This pulls you in. And that is the journey that the great ones took. And they all found the same thing where they find OMG, oh my God, I am the universe. Every galaxy is inside of me. My entire being is one with all of creation. And they realize it’s all made of consciousness. What is everything? But I thought it was made of energy. Yes. And they’re the same thing. Consciousness and energy are the same force. That energy chi are the same force and it manifests these two different things. It manifests as the power that causes things to happen. And it manifests as the awareness that is aware that they’re happening in your dreams.

You’re chi you create the form and you get in. Yes or no? Are you present in your dream walking around? So you are both the consciousness and the energy. It’s really beautiful. It’s so funny you don’t know these things, but you do know them. You’re just not paying attention. No matter what dream you’re having, it’s still just a dream. It’s made of the same fabric and basically it creates the form of your dream and it gets inside. And sometimes you can have lucid dreams where you’re aware that you’re dreaming. That’s just another layer of awareness, that part that’s aware, that it’s aware, that it’s aware that it’s dreaming. Didn’t project itself far enough into the form of the dream to where identified itself as the body and the person that got married or all kinds of stuff that you do in your dreams. You understand that you’re both in and out.

That’s witness consciousness. That’s in essence when you have a lucid dream, you’re in witness consciousness. Within your dream, you’re aware that you’re aware that you’re dreaming and you’re still in the dream. It’s such beautiful. The point is consciousness and energy are the same thing. They’re ti. You’ll start to experience it also. And you meditate deeply enough. You go into its complete quiet but empty. It’s empty. And you’ll see that in order to have a thought, your consciousness has to focus, has to focus down onto it. Like when you try to, what does it mean to concentrate? Multiply 432 times 12.3 in your head, right? You try to focus on it. You try to hold it in your mind. Ever try to hold a thought. Think of what are you doing? I need you to look at that. What does it mean to hold a thought?

What does it mean to write that number 1, 2, 3. They make it easier. 1, 2, 3 times three on the blackboard of your mind. You have to concentrate to do that. You are projecting your conscious. You say concentrate. What does that mean? Concentrate. Focus. Consciousness. What’s concentrated consciousness? It is consciousness focusing itself and that creates energy. Then you feel it as energy. You can get tired from thinking yes or no, right? You’re expending energy. You can tryer from concentrating. I can’t do this anymore. I’m worn out. Well, you didn’t do anything. You did. So you focused consciousness and you projected energy down. The truth of the matter is it’s so hard to talk to you because they’re so used to looking everything so different. Alright, if I pick up this glass, you all are physicist enough to understand what picked up that glass A force. Is there a force making the glass not floating the air right now? Yes, there’s a force called gravity. I had to offset that force to pick up that glass. Did I not?

What force did I use? Trace it all the way back. You used your muscles. That’s not a force, that’s a mechanism to carry a force. Well, you used food. No, I didn’t eat right then and oh, you stored food. Very good. My answer to that is you’re all depressed. Your boyfriend and girlfriend just left you. You don’t want to get out of bed for a week. Can’t even move. You’re just totally drained like a washcloth. Dead, laying in the bed. You’ve been there, right? And all of a sudden he or she calls on the phone after a week and you pick it up. I don’t want to pick it up, right? Oh, George, oh my god, I’m so sorry. How stupid was I? I didn’t realize you had the meaning of my life. I had to get away from you for a week to realize that.

Can I come see you? Please forgive me. How you doing? How are you doing? Did you get out of bed, have a little energy, take a shower, clean everything up, run around like a maniac. Where’d the energy come from? It instantaneously. Bam. Alright, there’s energy in there. You have energy in there. It does not come from your food. Yes, some energy can come from your food. Very little. You have Shakti, you have energy in there. Why don’t I feel it? Because it’s blocked. I blocked my energy so I don’t feel it. I didn’t unblock my energy. Her phone call unblocked my energy, didn’t it? It didn’t unblock my energy. It opened me. So I stopped blocking my energy. I was blocking my energy. I was closing my heart. I was closing my mind. I’m all depressed. Depressed. What’s depression? No energy. Then all of a sudden there’s energy. I don’t understand. Well, I understand. You closed to the flow of Shakti inside of you, and then you opened and there it is, instantaneously there. Wait, that was because it’s open. Let’s make believe. Let’s see if we can get rid of it. You’re sitting there in an intimate moment with your lover. You’re so filled with joy and love and energy. Oh my god. You can’t even see straight. You open your eyes and he or she has her cell phone out and they’re looking at it behind your head.

How much energy you got. Then you just clo bam, right? And you’re depressed for days wake up. There’s energy in there, there’s Shakti in there. Everybody experiences Shakti. They just don’t understand what’s going on. You’re all yogis and yoginis. You’re not paying attention to what’s going on in there. So you have Shakti, where does the Shakti come from? You’re going to find out that your consciousness, your conscious awareness can focus on one thought in your mind and you feel no energy. Focus on another thought in your mind. You have a nice thought in your mind. You feel much better, don’t you? What’s positive thinking versus negative thinking? Have you noticed? When you think negatively, you don’t feel so good? You know you get tired. You have no energy. You don’t want to do anything. No inspiration, no anything. Those of you turn around, you just have positive thinking.

All of a sudden it’s totally different. Your consciousness is focusing on something and bringing positive energy. It’s focused on something and bringing negative energy. I said, oh, do you know that you can have a negative thought and feel wonderful? I told you once May Shakti, the rod statue back in the seventies, very, very high saint, very, very high saint. She once leaned over to me and said, Mickey, yes mother, don’t you just love when they yell at you? There’s so much energy. It’s like it’s up to you whether you’re opening or closing. So you have inside of you, you’ve experienced these two things, consciousness, awareness, and energy. You’re going to find out that the same thing where you put your consciousness, you’re putting your energy. How did I pick up this glass? I willed. My intent was to pick up the glass. That’s all it took.

And I sent energy down there that offset gravity. You understand that? So consciousness and energy move together. Alright, what does that mean? What’s the difference? Well, for one thing, that’s when you go far enough back deep inside yourself and you merge. You are chi are the conscious energy. You are literally the energy that created the universe not created. You’re creating the universe. That’s how important your consciousness is, how important your energy is. But we split them. We see them as totally different things. I need energy. I’ll go eat. I need energy. I’ll do a drug. All of it is telling you something, but you’re not listening. Why? Because we’re so messed up that all we want to do is have a nice experience. I don’t mean just drugs, relationships, this, that money, travel, every single thing. We need things to do. What distract our consciousness from ourselves, that’s an entertainment is you’re distracting yourself from yourself.

Why? Because it’s not nice in there. I need a relationship. I need money. I need to travel. I need to be inspired. I need a passionate job. Why? Because I’m not okay. Why are you not? Okay? I told you why you’re not okay, because you s stored all this garbage inside yourself. Now you need to get away from it. What happens if you don’t do that? You’re fine. You’ll feel consciously aware. You’re sharp, you’re filled with Shakti. You want Shakti. Just wave your hand across the chakra. Anyone, anyone? Just wave your hand across the chakra. Shakti was pouring out of you. That is who you are. You are Chi shakti, your conscious energy. It’s a beautiful thing to work with yourself to raise yourself. But we don’t Why? Because we’re focused on our stuff and what we try to do is use the outside world to create a situation where I don’t have to be focused on my stuff.

I haven’t been happy, but since I met you, I’m so much happier than I used to be. Why? Because you distract me from myself. The moment you do something I don’t like and I start feeling myself more, I don’t want to be with you. So that’s all that’s happening. You’re not understanding the relationship between your energy flow and the consciousness. So what does it all mean? It means at some point you start to work with yourself to realize I started telling you about what is mine. Let’s do that. What is mine? Mind is an energy field in which thoughts can be created. That’s all it is. It’s an energy field, a higher vibration rate than the physical plane. That’s all it is. There’s a higher vibration rate and thoughts get created within that field. Like waves get created in an ocean or a lake. So thoughts get created within a mine and then you hold onto them and you build this whole structure and then the consciousness gets buried in that.

And that is a serious problem and that is the only problem. And then you walk around saying, this is who I am. It is not who you are. So awareness is when you start realizing that you’re staring at a pattern within a mind. You’re staring at a pattern within a set of emotion field and you don’t have to do that. And so you can liberate yourself, free yourself. The states that the great yogis reach the samati we talked about. I talk about sabi, kaba, samati and nebi, kaba, samati, they’re so high. They’re giving names to the higher states. You understand a chance. What you do is talk about fear and anxiety and self-consciousness and embarrassment. So that’s what you’re identifying with. They let go enough to where sabi ka samati is when you let go enough to where you merge and the entire universe, the form of the whole entire universe is your body. Literally. You’re going to wrote that in this chapter of my experience in cosmic consciousness and autobiography. You feel your entire body is all the galaxies, the entire infinite being. That’s a very low state called sabi. K.

There’s a higher state near Bal Samati is when you go so deep that you don’t even identify with any form including as creator of the universe. And that’s the void, that’s the formless state, the non-dual. That’s where you fall back into God before God created creation. Oh my God. And then from that state, that’s why they were able to write what they wrote from that state. You see how creation have created. You see how that which is empty. That which always was, always will be. It’s just what is how it created creation. I keep telling you now, I love it. It’s hard not to talk about you are scientists. They’re your closest thing to your preachers nowadays, to your priests. Why? How can you go from formless into this, into all the galaxies, into all the black holes, into human bodies, into every single bit of creation that exists.

They know how to do that now. That’s what quantum physics is. Then we’ve gone all the way down, but they’ve come very, very close. Let’s do it real quickly. Alright? No, it’s not true. That’s made of molecules. It’s not true. They told you it’s not true. It’s made of atoms. Oh no, it’s not true. It’s not made of atoms. There are no atoms. It’s not made of atoms. Atoms are made of something that appear to be atoms. What are they made of? Electron protons. You all got that in school, didn’t you? There’s electron protons. They put themselves together and you see them as atoms, but the electron protons, well, quantum physics says no. We looked a little closer with our big ciders and we found out that neutrons and protons are actually made of something. They’re not the basic element that created atoms. They’re made of something.

They’re made of corks and leptons and boons and these subatomic particles. Well they used to say subatomic particles. None of ’em say it anymore. There’s literally no such thing as a particle. Those things are not particles. There’s a field, an omnipresent, infinite field throughout the entire universe. It is the universe and that field like an ocean’s, a field. It’s not a particle, it’s a field. If that field vibrates, if something disturbs that field, it creates a wavelet. Like if you drop a leaf into a lake that’s still creates a wavelet. Those wavelets have properties, not things that have properties like magnetism, like force, and they interact together to make up protons, neutrons, and electrons and those make up atoms. In other words, there’s nothing really there. It’s empty. It’s just a field. If you ask a quantum physicist, what is the quantum field made of? They will tell you we don’t know.

We just know that it’s there and we can see if it makes a wavelet. If it makes a wavelet, we can build with our standard model of physics. You give me that wavelet and we’ll build the universe. What they don’t know is that field is made of consciousness and that’s why the yogis were able to merge with God, we’re able to merge with it because you are. That’s why they teach you. What did Christ tell you? My father and I are one to say meditate on the self honor and worship your own being for God dwells within you as you. So that consciousness in there that is aware of what you’re looking at is something very, very great and it’s not a sinner or you are not a sinner. What you’re looking at now, that thing got some problems for you. Who’s looking are the highest I ever walked the face of the earth.

Alright, so basically consciousness. That field, I’m glad we talked about that quantum field of which the wavelets create creation. Like I said, isn’t it amazing that you give a quantum physicist a wavelet, a wavelet comes and go, they cancel each other, all kinds of things that goes on just wavelets and they will build the universe, they’ll build every single star, all the galaxies, every single thing. They’re all made out of those wavelets. So we’re pretty darn close to where the yogis went, nor we, but they experienced from inside by becoming it versus sciences trying to study from outside, which is fine, it’s beautiful, but I’m interested. I like the very thoughts, brilliance that they have that are able to think about this stuff. Where did that come from? What is intelligence? That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. Alright, what is intelligence Chit Shakti?

Conscious energy is God. So it is God’s intelligence that is coming down into the form of your mind and giving you inspiration and giving you the ability to think it’s all God, it’s all one, it’s nothing. It’s just vibrating at different levels and you’re existing at whatever level you get caught in. So intelligence of your mind is a divine intelligence that created the universe. That’s why people can be so creative. That’s why artists can come up with things and why scientists can think of things. They’re so busy thinking, they’re not questioning what makes it so you can think what in the world’s going on in there, this can’t think. How come that can think? They don’t know what the mind is. It’s a bunch of neurons. No, it is not a bunch of neurons. That’s like saying a computer’s a bunch of wires. No, it is a bunch of wires put together in a way that software can go down and do things.

And if you don’t have the software, the thinking aspect, the computer doesn’t think wires don’t know how to think, but they can channel the intelligence of the software down. They run it and it goes down through it. Your neurons and all the stuff in your brain are just the nexus through which the intelligence of your mind passes down to the physical plane. It’s just a transport. They’re wires. They’re very complex wires. It’s not make it complex enough and it thinks make it complex enough and it has the ability to channel thinking Beethoven. I always say that I don’t know them right? People won’t like it, but I love Beethoven, right? Why Beethoven heard music playing in his head enough that it drove him crazy. He did not write the music, he wrote down the music. That’s how a true artist, it’s just inspiration. It’s just poured through his head.

He was only calm if he could hear through his ears what was going on in his head. You know that later in his life he was going deaf. He went deaf, right? Imagine the greatest composer went deaf. He cut the legs off his piano, put it on the wood floor, put his ears next to the floor so he could hear the vibration of the music. There was only sanity he could get. The music was coming from above. It did not come from him writing it. Where does that come from? God, but you got lots of layers before you get to near Balpa. But all that inspiration, all of that brilliance and intelligence, that’s all coming from a higher consciousness, a higher vibration dropping down into what you identify as yourself as your thought patterns. Are you a creative person? No, I’m not. Yes you are.

So the greatest thing ever walked the face of the earth. The ultimate creativity is the brilliance of Einstein. Every single thing is who you are. The trouble is you’re staring at something that’s not that. If I told you, if I stare at this little piece of plastic, eventually I’m the piece of plastic. I am where my consciousness is. I am where my consciousness is. Why else am I experiencing my entire experience of self is where my consciousness is. Well, your consciousness is not in a very high place. It’s hanging out to what happened to you that you didn’t like in the past. You’ve identified yourself as the ego. I’m a human being. You are not a human being. How dare you degrade yourself like that. You’re not even close. You are looking at one. You hang out with one. You are staring at a human being.

Therefore you think you’re human. If you have all these human concepts, oh my God, I’m going to die. You are not going to die. Consciousness can’t die. It’s always been. It will always be. It is that which is and that is staring. That’s like light saying I’m going to die. Light’s not going to die. If light is shining on something and it starts disintegrating, the light didn’t disintegrate, light is of a higher plane, consciousness doesn’t die. Let’s get that straight. What happens when I die? You don’t there. I don’t want to talk in between. I go to heaven or hell. I go details. Details, alright. That’s like saying you’ve admitted your consciousness didn’t go anywhere. They all teach you. You go to heaven, you go to hell, you go here, you go, right? You’re still conscious. You’re still a conscious being. Ultimately you will merge ultimately.

Ultimately the conscious will stop staring out away from itself and it will allow itself to settle back into itself. And that’s called self-realization. The realization of self. And so basically your mind mental plane, it’s all a manifestation of chi. There’s this God conscious energy throughout the universe always was there. It’s what is and was always. It’s slows down its vibration even slightly. And these wavelets start happening. They can’t happen. When it’s moving too fast, the wavelets start happening. All of a sudden the physical plane gets created and all of a sudden the consciousness which didn’t come down with it, it’s still there, started looking down into what it created. And that’s what you are. God’s consciousness looking down through form. And you’ve developed mind that said, I am separate. I am P. I am Sally, and this is what happened to me. That is not who you are.

All of it is the descent of shakti, of conscious energy. So all of your will is energy, all your consciousness, it’s all the same thing. Just vibrating at different rates all the way down until you ended up here with this body and these thoughts, very specific thoughts. Yours are not the same as mine. Why? Because you had different experiences. Therefore you store different things. Otherwise, the mental plane is the mental. We’re all sharing the physical plane. Believe me, you’re all sharing the mental plane. Wait, is that true? Is that true that all thoughts right now are all in the same plane interacting with each other? Absolutely. Just the same as all your atoms are. Well, why don’t I see ’em? Because you’re only staring at yours. Can a psychic see someone else’s thoughts? Yes. A true psychic can see the thoughts. They see the thoughts, okay?

But you only care about your thoughts. You care about your thoughts. What I want, what I don’t want, what I like, what I don’t like, who I like, who I don’t like the weather. I like every single thing is, I mean mine. I mean mine. I mean mine. Then those are the thoughts that you attract and hold to yourself and you build a U in there. That’s the funniest part I’ve ever heard of. You build a U in. There are thoughts and you’re serious about ’em. I’m serious about what I like. What you like is a thought. No, it’s not. Have you ever changed your mind? I really like chocolate ice cream. I’ve always liked chocolate ice cream. That’s what I like. I like chocolate ice cream. Okay? And all of a sudden somebody told me it’s made out of plastic. What?

So all it takes is one more thought and all your thoughts change. Yes or no, not so solid is it? And you’re defining yourself as that. You’re defining yourself as the thought you had based on experience you had in the past. That’s not who you are. You’re not mystical for me to tell you. You’re not your thoughts. Of course you’re not your thoughts, but you hold onto some of them and you let others go through. And you built a house in there called your ego, your self-concept. You built a house in there and your consciousness is married to that house. It got inside that house. It doesn’t know how to get out. Help.

There was a sixties song. I loved it, right? We got to get out of this place. If it’s the last thing we ever do, you got to get out of that house. That’s a house of horse. You built that house out of your horse. You did. You stored every single thing ever bothered you and made a house out of it. And they went and lived in it. Okay? So that is consciousness and energy. They’re the same thing. None of this stuff is real. I don’t understand. The physicist, the quantum physicist, they find out that it’s not even there. And then they go home and fight with their wife. What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you bring what you know into reality? You having trouble, something happening you don’t like? Get up, get really big and sit on top of the planet. Just that’s your chair, right? You’re sitting on top of this beautiful little ball. Spin the middle of what? Black empty space for as far as you can see. Ain’t nothing. Okay, what’s your problem?

If the entire planet got blown to smithereens tomorrow, a couple of other planets would change their orbit and nothing else would know it was even here. I told you one star, you’ll get these 9, 8, 9 planets spinning around this star. There are 300 billion of those stars in your galaxy. And I visited the astronomy department recently and I asked them, how many stars in our galaxy have exoplanets? They said, we think now all of them do 300 billion. And they think all ’em have one or more, two or more. And you’re one of those around one star and one problem are you having, and you don’t even have to stay here very long. Here’s what, 80, 90 years on a tiny little ball in the middle of nowheres. You do not have problems. You’ve never had any problems. You made it up in your mind. What do you mean? I don’t like what she said to me. You made that up. Nobody cares.

Is it not true that only you care what she said to you? Sometimes I’ll have a thought about something that I did in the past that’s so embarrassing. Wasn’t a big deal, right? But somehow I wasn’t comfortable with, I’m talking about 20, 30 years ago and I think maybe I said something to somebody. Do you think they remember what I said to them? There’s a chance of the world. It’s just something you did in your mind. Therefore, it’s a big thing to you. You are causing your own problems. Stop it. And you just get to the point where you’re welcome. I do it all the time. I live on the top of the planet and I leave whenever I want. Okay? He’s not going to do that to me. No way. I’m letting this stupid mind ruin my life. I’m here on the planet. Spin it around or having experiences.

Are there things he likes? Yeah. The things he don’t like. Absolutely. Does it matter? No. Does that mean I don’t do something about it? You’re welcome. Go be an activist. Go work for what you want. There’s no problem. Just don’t get caught in it. It’s a game. How can it not be a game? One little planet spin around one star, which is 300 billion in one galaxy. How many galaxies are there? 2 trillion. 2 trillion with hundreds of billions of stars in each one. And you are freaking out by what somebody said. Worse yet you’re free out by what you said. Ever walk away from a conversation And I feel comfortable about it. I shouldn’t have said that. Oh my God. Should I call him? No. That just makes a big deal. Come on, wake up. You are something very great. You’re that song by sang of yoga when that song flows through me.

When you go deep inside, you understand how great masters wrote songs like that. What does that mean When that song flows through me? You start feeling the Shakti coming down, washing over you. There’s no problem as it washes everything away and you just experience the song flowing through you. You’re all capable of that. It can be beautiful inside. What’s stopping you? Nobody. You’re the only one in there. Make it nice in there and you’re going to find out that it’s not nice. It’s beautiful. They’re going to find out that it’s not beautiful. You’re beautiful. They’re going to find out everything’s beautiful. The fact that it exists is unbelievable. They’re having trouble here on earth. Go to Mars for a while. See how you do. Come back here so fast. Okay, will you please Look what you got all the time. Trees and grass and people and things to do and oh my God, oh my God, when was the last time there was nothing in front of you?

Never. And all you do is complain all you think. It has to be different than it is for me to be. Okay. Why don’t you just appreciate I’m telling you why. I told you why? Because you stored everything that ever bothered you inside of you. And now you’re bothered and you need things to be a certain way for you to not be bothered. Well, why don’t we just not store that stuff and try to be here now. Try to experience the reality of the fact that we have all this stuff going on. It’s pretty exciting. Pretty exciting. And just be blown away every second that it exists. Where did a tree come from? An acorn, A seed drive by a corn field. I’m sorry, I can’t help myself. You got to listen. Drive by a corn field. What do you see? You know what I see?

I see a kernel of corn that fell on the ground and turned itself into an entire cornstalk with corn ears all over the place. How the heck did that happen? Did I do it? No. Did the farmer do it? No. What did it? Where’d that cornstalk come from? It wasn’t there a while ago. It’s atoms. It’s real something. Had the intelligence to suck dirt, water and sunlight and turn it into a cornstalk. Was it a chemist? How could it do that? What did that? Oh, the DNA molecule. Oh really? A molecule did it. There’s an intelligence that’s doing all of this, isn’t it? That pretty intelligent And not to talk about your baby. It’s not your baby. It’s a single cell. A single cell that knows how to make the pancreas and the liver and the brain and the kidney and the pineal gland. No. Yes, it made all that out of what? Twinkies and Coke.

I know we like to eat, right? But it could do it. It’s been known to do it. They eat some really bad shit and the baby comes out. Not always so good. But the net result is it made itself. That cell had the intelligence. I don’t care if you believe in God or not, I have no interest in it. Right? Just believe in that. That’s enough. Just understand that you didn’t do it. Didn’t do what? Anything. Well, you do a lot. You do a lot because there’s trees, because there’s sunlight, because there’s water, because there’s baby, because there’s a body. Take away the stuff you didn’t do. There ain’t nothing you’re doing now. I’ve just showed you ego. You made this thing up in your mind. I’m the doer. You are not squat. Okay? And you don’t want to be squat. You want to be able to come here and say, wow, wow.

Look what there is. And I didn’t have to do it. I don’t need to make the sunshine. I don’t need to make the trees grow. I don’t need to make the body, the cells of my body. What? 35 trillion of them talk to each other, divide and interact with. Whoa, I got my day off. How much do you not have to do? The only thing you think you have to do is try to manipulate what is so it be what you think it needs to be so that it matches your ego. That’s what you’re busy doing, trying to make it be what you decided it should be instead of the miracle of what it is. Okay? Ti don’t forget it. There’s one force chi conscious energy that created the entire universe and you’re it. That’s the amazing part. You’re it. You are that force and you’re busy staring at this little thing that you made up and having a terrible life. Unless it’s exactly the way you want it to be. Let go. Alright. Work on yourself. Free yourself. Free yourself. Jai.

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