| The Development of Intuition …. A New Look |
| 18-10-2008 Discourse by Ellaeenah The Development of Intuition …. A New Look © Ellaeenah Many consider intuition as a feeling, a feeling that tells you that something is going to happen in the near or distant future. This is not true at all. Intuition may lead you to having a heightened awareness of the environment, of the time/space continuum. Banoo (referring to the guest speaker) has already introduced this in her talk. She described it as: ‘Good dog, bad dog’ from the North American fable. She called it ‘Higher Self’ and ‘lower self’ to use the term of the masters. She called it the ‘Fravashi’ to use the Zoroastrian term. She quoted Deepak Chopra as ‘comfort zone’ and ‘discomfort zone’. All are only talking about intuition. I am going to divide this word into two parts: in …. tuition. What is tuition? The oldest definition of tuition is: guardianship; custody. From that it changed into: taking care of your guardian; taking care of the training given to the student who is under your custody. And then it came into the modern day version ‘tuition’. Its root is ‘guardianship’ or ‘custody’. In fact, that really is intuition. Its: ‘in’ as in inward, ‘tuition’: guardianship. Guardianship of what? There is something within us which we have to guard, which we are custodians of. What is this within us that has been given to us to keep safe and secure, to protect and to subsequently train? This something is the ‘I’. Interestingly enough, ‘intuition’ also starts with that same alphabet. The I which is the larger I, (you may call this the universe, god, cosmos, whatever you wish) has within its embrace, everything physical and non-physical that exists on Earth, around Earth, in the universe, created and yet not created, all is I. Where you and I are concerned, the ‘I’ has taken on duality. The ‘I’ which is symbolic of who you are physically, for e.g. I am Ellaeenah. The other part of the ‘I’ is that which has the consciousness of the larger ‘I’. It is this consciousness of the larger ‘I’ that we need to protect and guard within us. The greater is the consciousness of the larger ‘I’, the more heightened is your awareness of the environment, which includes time and space and no-time/no-space. ‘I am Ellaeenah”. That part recognizes the time/space continuum and will talk in terms of ‘hours’ and ‘minutes’ and ‘here’ and ‘there’ and ‘big’ and ‘small’. That part of ‘I’ which is consciousness recognizes this time and space, but is simultaneously aware of realms and dimensions that have no time and space recognition. Though your physical part is only aware of the time-space environment that you live within, consciousness is aware of this environment as well as all other environs in which you co-exist without your intellectual awareness. If your constant focus is on the consciousness of the larger I, your awareness of both these environments will be heightened considerably. It is this part of the ‘I’, the part that is conscious of the larger ‘I’ which we have to guard, which we have to train. That is the inner part which is called in-tuition. The more you focus on that part, the more heightened your awareness is, and out of that heightened awareness come those feelings of knowingness e.g. ‘I think my friend will call me up.’ And lo and behold your friend calls. Why? When you are in-tuition, guarding, a faithful custodian of this part of the ‘I’, which is the consciousness, your awareness is heightened of all dimensions, time and space controlled and time and space not controlled; going beyond time and space. Now what is this consciousness all about? Unless we understand it a little more clearly, we may not be able to focus on it in a more defined manner. This consciousness is what makes the inaudible audible. When you are in a state of meditation, a state of inward stillness, inner silence, there are thoughts that you can hear. ‘ How is it that a thought suddenly begins to have a voice? How is it that energy suddenly seems to have a colour? How is it that energy suddenly seems to take on a temperature of heat or cold? What happens? Are you imagining this? NO! You are becoming aware of the intangible, in a manner that is acutely tangible for you. Your consciousness will translate the intangible into a tangible that you can easily relate to and understand; for another, the same intangible may be translated into the tangible quite different from your but which that person can relate to, through their consciousness. That is why when persons learn to read auras I ask them not to get caught in the definitions of colours given to you by another. If you ask 4 people what the colour red implies for them, you will be given 4 different answers: one will say ‘anger’, another will say ‘courage’, a 3rd will say ‘passion’ a 4th will say ‘hatred’. Which one is the truth? The colours and definitions may appear completely different, but when all four get into that space of inner stillness, that space of consciousness which studies the intangible, they will all get the same interpretation. Most of us here have done large amounts of meditation and/or spiritual work. Very often, I find even active spiritual workers getting caught in the small ‘i’ aspect of spirituality: ‘I can’t see colour’ or ‘I can’t feel energy’. They are unable to comprehend that that which they seek is only the tangibility, which is so insignificant when viewed in the light of ‘I”. The more you focus on the large on consciousness, the less will it need to make the intangible tangible. In making the intangible tangible, you have to limit it somewhere, you have to give it a boundary, you have to call it ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ or ‘large’ or ‘small’. Very often, someone says: “I saw the master and he was 7 feet tall’. Why not 10 feet or a 100 feet? Because the intangibility of the energy that you have been conscious of has been converted it into the tangible terms of height. In that moment, the ‘height’ refers to the largeness of the being, its expanse and its power. When your consciousness experiences power, it has to convert intangibility into tangibility. In your mind, power may be equated to male energy so its conversion into tangibility is an image of a very tall man! But if the energy that your consciousness is aware of is filled with compassion and kindness and mercy, the person may see it is a ‘woman’ and not as a ‘man’. So, you can see how limited conversion into tangibility can be. The truth is: power is neither male nor female, compassion is neither male nor female. Your intuition, that part of you that is conscious of the larger ‘I’, has a very important task. Its task is to translate the inaudible into the audible, the invisible into visible, the intangible into tangible. In order to do this it must use the limitations of your belief system. If you are caught in the limitations of tangibility and visibility and audibility of energy, of consciousness, you will get those experiences; whereas another, who has gone beyond that need of tangibility, audibility and visibility, will perceive what they may call ‘nothing’. There will be an explosion of an inner experience of energy, which will be extremely difficult to put into words. So when we are developing our intuition, the first thing we have to attempt is to move beyond the need for validation of consciousness through ‘tangible’ means. I admit, it’s quite thrilling to have validation through tangible means, but the problem is that the thrill is so good that you tend to get stuck in it and don’t wish to move beyond. The small ‘i’ has a need to be constantly in the limelight. When your focus of attention is on this, on the thrill of the limelight that bathes you as ‘see’, and ‘fee;’, and ‘hear’, you will not be able to expand further. The expanse of this ‘i’ is very, very limited; the expanse of consciousness is infinite. The first thing you must do when working with intuition is to decide: ‘where is my focus going to be?’ If you wish to focus on consciousness, on that part of ‘I’ which is conscious of the larger ‘I’, then the need to get validation of consciousness through tangibility, audibility and visibility must be overcome. In fact, each time you do get a validation be aware that you have taken the expanse of energy and forced it into a small box, thus causing its distortion. Most people try to develop intuition from that small box. It can be done to a certain extent, through meditative practices, through yoga, through breath control. The small ‘i’ can be expanded till its fills the box, but once this box is filled, there is no further growth, expansion or development. For full expansion that box has to be broken. The more you’re aware of the box, the easier you will let it go. Then you come to the second phase of intuition: training that part of you which is consciousness, which is the I AM God part. So we’ll assume that you have now moved beyond the need of the box of tangibility. Now how do we train our consciousness to move into and merge with the larger I, to be aware of more and more of the larger I? This is where the dichotomy comes in. To train consciousness you have to remain in this physical, bounded, encapsulated structure, but move beyond to infinite expansion. To do that we need to address our beliefs of self: ‘what do we believe of ourselves?’ Not of others, not of the universe, not of the world. What do we believe of ourselves? Your expansion will be as large as your belief of yourself. If you can intrinsically believe: I am God, your consciousness is unbounded. The second step, therefore, is working to this belief, the ‘I am God’ belief. As you work towards it, there will be two hurdles that you will face. The first hurdle will be that of conditioned ego. Even though now I have complete belief that I am God, I would not have believed it in the past, because I was in a very small place. I was in that box, so I could not see the larger space of self or another. You can see another’s space as being as large or as small as your own. It is from this space that you pass judgment. When the masters teach us that you judge another by the way you are, this is its deep down meaning. If you have judged someone as being childish or immature, you may not be childish or immature and so you’ll say, “That’s not true’. No, that limitation may not be yours, but there is a limitation that keeps you within the box as well, and thus you recognize the limitations of others!! If you need to see the world as it IS, you need to move out of that box. The only way you can move out of that box is to change your belief system about who you are. Which brings us to, let’s say, part 2A: the belief system is directly influenced by your love for yourself. When you are in a good place and if a challenging task is given to you, you will accept it quite readily. But if you are in a ‘discomfort’ zone and a challenging task is given to you, you will not want to take it up. You react in two ways, at two different points in time, depending upon how much you love yourself in that moment. That time when you’re in your happy place is the time when you love yourself, when you aren’t whipping yourself. But when you’re whipping yourself, you’re in a very uncomfortable zone and you cannot see your largeness. So you can see that the belief system you have comes directly from self-love or the lack of it. What you believe of yourself indicates how much you love yourself. To change that belief system you must ask of yourself very honestly: how much do I love myself? The only real love is self-love. The love between man and woman is an artificial imitation. The love between parent and child is at the threshold of the temple of love. The temple of love is built only from self-love. The truth is: you can love another inasmuch as you can love yourself. If self-love is absent or incomplete, you have not entered the temple of love. It is when you enter that temple and look at the altar that you see only one image: that image, interestingly enough, is the image of your small ‘i’. In that space of self-love, you can see the largeness of you that has been entombed. You can see that and love it for what it is, instead of resisting it and judging it as being ‘ugly’. If you wish to develop intuition, you have to develop self-love. So now you’ll ask: how? It’s the simplest way. The way to develop self-love is to focus only on the ‘comfort’ zone; the place of beauty of self. There must be no focus on the zone of ‘discomfort’. When the ‘I’ of consciousness, which is often referred to as the Eye of Shiva, is awakened it can see the small ‘i’ and understand the ignorance or the hurt from which the small ‘i’ sometimes reacts. Simultaneously, it can see that the only component in the energy structure of the small i is the energy of LOVE. There is no other component in your energy structure. Your energy structure is woven from threads of self-love. The ‘I’ of consciousness can see the pain, and it can see the resistance that comes out of that pain, and it can see the ignorance. Would you judge a child of 3 for failing a university examination? Would you beat it or call it names? You wouldn’t. We sometimes expect so much of ourselves that we are not conscious that we are like 3 year olds who are attempting a universal examination. If in your moments of, that which you call, failure or weakness, you can accept that this is a moment of a) ignorance or b) inner pain, you would not waste any further time on that moment, but would move beyond. Let’s assume that in a particular moment you are angry. What else can you find, in this moment, to focus on, besides your anger? Let’s assume it’s your ability to help people, your generosity of spirit. This is not some empty exercise of ego or vanity; this is self-love. Shift your focus from the anger to your generosity of spirit and start thinking of all those times you have given freely and unconditionally of self. The constant shifting of your focus will ensure that you live more and more in the zone of joy. Self-love can be developed slowly, but certainly, by constantly shifting your focus from the discomfort zone to the comfort zone. It is ONLY when you have shifted to the comfort zone and are feeling good about yourself that you can analyze that past moment of pain or ignorance. You cannot analyze a moment of pain or ignorance when you are caught in it. If I were to have a fight with someone right now, I would be the last person to be able to analyze it just now even though all 50 of you would be able to see the truth. When you are occupying the space of consciousness, instead of the space of the small ‘i’, your heightened awareness will give you insight of what took place, and your reaction to it. If you can do this every single time, I can guarantee you that within 6 months your belief that ‘I am God’ will be complete. With that belief, you will be in the state of constant focus on the consciousness of the larger I. When you are constantly in a state of the larger I, your awareness of the environment that you can see and not see, hear and not hear will be heightened. In short: intuition has been developed. Let us remember: we have taken birth as guardians, as custodians to guard and keep sacred that part of I which is in full connection to Divine Consciousness. How will you be a good custodian if at every moment you are chiding yourself about something? You might say, “I don’t really chide myself, but I must admit I can be critical of others.” There’s no one out there to be critical of. If you are being critical of others, you are not in a space of self-love. Don’t waste your time in the futile pursuit of loving all. Instead focus on loving yourself. When that self-love is complete, when you’re in that temple, looking at that image that is your own, you will know I am God. Your knowingness of I am God will instantly expand the consciousness to a limit that you cannot even fathom just now, and then you will be aware of all the energies that exist within that consciousness. This expansion is instantly translated into love for all! If you wish to be an intuitive person or a so-called psychic, remember that every single person can do it. The only requirement is: break that box. Every word of criticism of another is actually a word of criticism against self. Look at self and introspect, “What am I criticizing myself about? What are the aspects of me that I’m not comfortable with?” Now pat yourself on the back for knowing these aspects, for shifting your focus to the comfort zone. Before you work on overcoming a weakness, you must find a strength. If your weakness is anger and your strength is generosity of spirit, be generous of spirit to that small ‘i’ that is caught in the anger, and from that generosity of spirit understand what is the pain that makes you angry. Weakness can only be addressed from a position of strength. If you try and work on a weakness from a position of weakness, you will not be able do it. That’s why you often feel that you’ve been working on something, struggling so hard and not being able to achieve it; it is because you have been working from inside that box. If you have to work on something that’s within the box, you have to be out of it. Let us all develop our intuition to the fullest. Let us all be sacred guardians, loving that fragile but oh so strong part of the ‘I’ that’s conscious of ALL. And that, in fact, is channeling: the heightened awareness of the environment, the real and the so-called non-real. That is channeling. When I had just started, over 10 years ago, the Master who was training me, asked me a question I will never forget. I didn’t know then what he meant, and I didn’t fully appreciate it at that time. He asked, “Do you wish to be a medium or do you wish to be a spiritual medium?” Till then, I had thought it was the same thing. I know differently now. If my awareness of the environment around me expands even a little out of that box, I can be what people call ‘a medium’. A ‘spiritual medium’ is one who has entered the temple of self-love, who has seen the image of self on the altar, and whose expansion of consciousness is ever-growing. When your distance from that box is not very far, any catalyst can make you jump right back into it. A spiritual medium may never channel and may never heal; may not do any work that is often associated with mediumship and spiritual work. A spiritual medium is one whose focus on consciousness is ever-growing. It really doesn’t have to do with meetings or healings or tarot readings. That is work; that is not consciousness. Consciousness is about who you are when you are not doing that work. Do not put channels and mediums and healers on a pedestal; they are just very good workers. Putting anyone up on a pedestal means that you have not reached even the threshold of your temple! Yes, there is a GOD….the mirror is the greatest proof of this fact! |
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