By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

(Continued from part 1. Read full post here.)

If you wonder what it was like to feel the ambrosia (spiritual bliss) and experience the Current, here is Franklin’s description:

“I felt the Ambrosia-like quality in the breath with the purifying benediction that it casts over the whole personality, even including the physical body.

“I found myself above the universe, not in the sense of being above space, time, and causality, My karma seemed to drop away from me as an individual responsibility. I felt intangibly, yet wonderfully, free.

“I sustained this universe and was not bound by it. Desires and ambitions grew perceptibly more and more shadowy. All worldly honors were without power to exalt me.” (1)

When compared to such an amazing experience, one can’t help but think there’s nothing to desire in this world. However, Franklin realized that one thing makes our time here worthwhile: sharing knowledge and good vibes with a world lost in darkness.

“Physical life seemed undesirable. … I looked, as it were, over the world, asking: ‘What is there of interest here? What is worth doing?’ I found but one interest: the desire that other souls should also realize this that I had realized, for in it lay the one effective key for the solving of their problems.

“The little tragedies of men left me indifferent. I saw one great Tragedy, the cause of all the rest, the failure of man to realize his own Divinity. I saw but one solution, the Realization of this Divinity.” (2)

We learn from this passage that the world’s problems are caused by a lack of enlightenment and can be solved by the understanding that we are one with Source and each other.

In my opinion, love is what the world needs more than anything. To be fair though, love probably overflows in a state of enlightenment. I’d imagine it’s as effortless as breathing, but it can change the world with or without enlightenment.

Next, Franklin describes a second experience in the Current.

“I had been following this course while completing a cross-cut in a gold-prospect near the small town of Michigan Bluff. Much of this time I was completely alone and was more than usually successful in penetrating the meaning and following the logic of what I was reading.

“One day, after the evening meal and while still sitting at the table, I found that, by gradual transition, I had passed into a very delightful state of contemplation.” (3)

His experience, which I’ve shared before, was less powerful than the first but still profound.

“My breath had changed, but not in the sense of stopping or becoming extremely slow or rapid. It was, perhaps, just a little slower than normal. The notable change was in a subtle quality associated with the air breathed.

“Over and above the physical phases of the air there seemed to be an impalpable substance of indescribable sweetness which, in turn, was associated with a general sense of well-being, embracing even the physical man.

“It was like happiness or joy, but [these] words are inadequate. It was of a very gentle quality, yet far transcended the value of any of the more familiar forms of happiness.” (4)

For Franklin, the ‘elixir-like quality’ was the most powerful when he exhaled.

“Introspective analysis revealed the fact that the elixir-like quality was most marked during the exhalation, thus indicating that it was not derived from the surrounding air.

“Further, the exhaled breath was not simply air expelled into the outer atmosphere, but seemed to penetrate down through the whole organism like a gentle caress, leaving throughout a quiet sense of delight. It seemed to me like a nectar. Since that time I have learned that it is the true Ambrosia.” (5)

I might share Franklin’s third enlightenment experience in another report, because it’s just as fascinating as the first two. No two people will have the exact same experience, but sometimes, it helps to have a general guide to go by.

No matter who you prefer to listen to (or if you don’t prefer to follow anyone), remember to go within and rely more on your authentic inner connection than external things that help illuminate it.

It only takes a sunset or a pretty patch of flowers to show you that we have everything we need in the spiritual sense, and with openness and dedication to the path ahead, we may eventually have an experience similar to Franklin’s. Then, we can share the wealth like he did.

Footnotes:

1. Pathways through to Space. A Personal Record of Transformation in Consciousness. New York: Julian Press, 1973, 4-5.
2. Loc. Cit.
3. Ibid., 1-2.
4. Ibid., 2.
5. Loc. Cit.

Are You Listening? – The Council

We speak today to those who wish to become more aware of us, of this council, and most importantly, of their higher selves. We say most importantly because your own higher self is your connection to everything that is not in your physical dream. Your physical dream will all pass at some point. These higher planes will not. So we know that it would behoove you to begin becoming more aware of this connection now instead of waiting for it to be thrust upon you by your ‘birth’ into these other dimensions when your physical vehicle has reached its ‘sell by’ date.

Now there are a great many of you who have no daily meditation practice. You have in mind a vision of a person dedicated to spending hours, days, and years in a physical position that you cannot reach, contemplating their navel, and seeing and hearing miraculous things. You have no time for that.

We would like to make a small correction to that picture, if we may. There are as many different methods to do what is required as there are individuals. What Is really important in the picture is that the person, and they are only persons just like you, is reflecting on their inner reality. They are basically listening. They are making the connection we spoke of in the first paragraph.

Can you do this while you are sitting in your comfortable chair? Can you do it while you are gardening? Can you do it while you are fishing, or golfing, or sewing? Of course you can.

There are a great many things that would be of help. Breathing patterns, diet, digital recordings to control brain waves, etc. Are any of these necessary? No. What is necessary is that you be still and listen. You can be still while you are walking in the woods. The stillness we speak of is a deep listening to what your Self is saying, is feeling. But before you can know that, you need to be fully aware of what you are currently feeling. You need to be aware of what your inner chatter is bombarding you with.

Now you have likely heard that you need to shut this off. You’ve tried and it just keeps chattering. Well, now that you are aware of it. Why not just turn your attention aside to those deep, deep feelings that they are covering up? You do that all the time in your outer world, do you not?

Start asking your Higher Self some questions and listen/feel for the answers. “Self, if we, you and I, could make one small change right now, what would you like us to do?” “How do you feel about our life right now?” “How do you feel about my efforts to _______ ?” “I have been told that I need to love myself. I’d like to begin by loving You.”

Just listen. Just feel. You will doubtless come up with many, many other things to ask and to say. But get the conversation started. It is a conversation that you have been conditioned to ignore. It is a conversation that, if you persist, will change your life. And it will change it in all the ways that will make you the happiest. There is no one in this entire universe that is more interested in your happiness than You.

When this begins to happen, you will soon discover that you have made the connection with something far greater than even your Highest Self, because that Self is the direct connection to your Source.

We have one final comment for you. When you are connected, if you wish to stay connected, make efforts to put what you receive into use in your life. Don’t file it away for a better time. Use it. It will grow.

Good day. Blessings and love to you.