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MESSAGE TWENTY-SEVEN
ON HUMAN MODES OF PERCEPTION, UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES, AND ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
April 27, 1982
The following message has been received today from the Most High.
Many people have a tendency to limit the reality of being and
existence to what they are able to perceive through their physical
sensory organs. They either deny the existence of whatever is beyond or
above such a perception, or they have a hard time accepting it. This
situation changed somewhat with the discoveries which led to the
development of radio and television. Such discoveries proved the
existence of various waves which are beyond and above the limited
perceptual abilities of humans’ physical sensory organs.
People forgot that physical sensory organs were built primarily for
the purpose of orientation in their immediate physical outward
environment and for perception of some of their bodily functions. But
even this mode of the sensory organs’ functioning is very limited, gross
and imprecise, not capable of perceiving the infinite number and variety
of dimensions, levels, degrees and steps of life existing in various modes
of continuity and discrete, simultaneous synchronicity, etc.
Because of such an attitude, people expect, require and place more
meaning and sense from and into their sensory perception and external
consciousness than they can deliver or are equipped to offer, or people
expect from their sensory perception that which is contrary to what its
real function is. People believe in and impose on the sensory organs and
external consciousness something that was never meant to be a part of
their structure, function and dynamics; hence the source of myriads of
distortions.
The problem with people on Earth is that they live under the
condition of the active and dominant negative state. The result and
consequence of this situation is a closure to and a limitation of most
regions and areas of the human mind, production of unconscious
processes, suspension of the inner knowledges, and institution of
ignorance. As mentioned previously, only approximately five percent or
less of the human mind is activated into the conscious mode of its
existence and function. Under this condition, people barely have enough
time and tools to cope with and survive in their outward physical
environment. Thus, by their position, they are forced to turn nearly all
their attention to such an outward struggle for everyday survival.
Inherent in the activated and dominant negative state is the
condition of rejection of any knowledge contrary to the status quo of this
activation and dominance. Therefore such a mode of the negative state’s
existence keeps people in blind obedience to the established modes,
norms, standards and stereotypes of living, surviving, understanding,
perceiving and functioning. It develops gruesome customs, institutions,
systems, conventions, traditions and cultures in order to keep people
preoccupied with their externals thereby preventing them from finding
out the real truth of their predicament and situation.
Because of this preoccupation most people do not realize that they are
slaves to the unconscious processes and to the unknown factors of their
behaviors, desires, wants, attitudes, relationships, etc. They believe that
all their activities are the result of their rational, logical and conscious
decisions. They consider this situation to be normal, natural and healthy.
Many of them reject even the notion of the unconscious mind’s existence,
not to speak about the Inner Mind.
People do not realize that one of the many side effects of the activated
and dominant negative state is to keep everything hidden, to motivate
people from behind the scene, so that its functions, processes, states and
modes of influence, dominance and activity are not discovered and
subsequently removed.
This is why people on Earth are primarily motivated in their behavior
by the unconscious processes. People do something without often
knowing why they have done it. They feel certain feelings without
knowing why they feel this way or that way. They crave something
without knowing why they have such a craving. This situation exists
with most everything in their lives. They have very little true awareness
as to why things are happening the way they are happening. Usually
they have some surmises, views, suppositions, opinions, etc., about the
reasons for such events but, in most instances, these are conscious
conclusions which very rarely reflect the truth of the situation. Such
conscious conclusions, not being reflections of the true reality of the
matter, keep people in a self-deceptive and deceptive mode of existence.
Such a situation as described here, establishes a very peculiar and
negatively unique condition, existing only here on Earth, that, by and
large, makes people’s behavior and attitude unpredictable even to
themselves. No one knows exactly how one will react from one situation
to another.
This unpredictability is the true nature of the activated and dominant
negative state. There is nothing predictable about such a negative state.
It is by its very nature illogical, irrational and inconsistent. Its
predictability is possible only when it is in its natural state of
suspension, dormancy, taming and subserviency to the positive state.
But the moment it loses its natural condition, it becomes unnatural,
unhealthy, pathological and disruptive. In such a mode of existence,
there is nothing logical, rational, reasonable, stable and consistent.
Now, people falsely believe that the condition of their life, as it is now
— a life of limited consciousness and reign of the unconscious processes
— is a natural, healthy and normal occurrence and condition. They are
habituated to it, they cling to it rigidly and have, very often, mortal fear
of the discovery of what is beyond their external consciousness. They
start to believe that no other mode of life is possible or feasible. This is
exactly what the negative state wants them to feel, to believe and to
think. As long as people consider such a situation a normal, natural,
proper and right state of affairs, they will keep the negative state in the
activated and dominant mode of its existence. As long as the negative
state is in such a mode of its existence it will exert all its powers and
energies (stolen from the positive state) to keep people right where they
are — believing that this is the only possible mode of existence and that,
therefore, it is normal, natural, healthy, right and proper. This is a
vicious circle of the mutual feedback of falsities and the unpredictability
of their outcomes.
People are afraid to discover and to admit that the present mode of
their existence and their lifestyle — the reign of the unconscious
processes, tremendous limitations of the presently existing conscious
processes, unpredictability, ignorance, problems, tragedies, miseries, etc.
— has nothing natural, normal, healthy, right and proper in itself.
Therefore, they have a tendency, in many instances, to reject anything
which would lead them to believe to the contrary.
A good example of such a situation is some people’s fear of altered
states of consciousness, such as, for example, hypnosis and self-hypnosis.
They are afraid to experience something which is beyond and above their
so-called conscious mode of existence. Very often, they consider such
experiences to be abnormal, unnatural, unhealthy, improper and
incorrect. For that reason, they have been avoiding such experiences for
a long time in their history, rationalizing by the most foolish means the
avoidance of such experiences. Yet nothing is farther from the truth than
consideration of such phenomena as hypnosis and self-hypnosis and
similar methods to be dangerous, abnormal, unnatural, unhealthy, etc.
Just the exact opposite is true. Such phenomena are the most normal,
natural, healthy, proper, right and spiritual. They are an integral part of
the human mind’s equipment for bridging a deep and vast gap, a schism
which exists between external consciousness and the unconscious mind.
As a matter of spiritual fact, the normal, natural and healthy
condition of human existence is complete and total consciousness,
without any unconscious processes, with full awareness and access to all
levels, degrees, regions, steps and layers of one’s entire mind. Anything
less than this is unnatural, abnormal, improper and is the result of the
activated and dominant negative state.
Therefore, whatever helps to bridge and to connect various levels and
regions of the human mind, and whatever helps to overcome its presently
existing unnatural and pathological condition, is proper, right, natural,
normal and healthy and should be practiced, utilized and exercised on a
broad scale.
One good example of such a normal, healthy and natural condition,
which should permanently exist with everyone, is the ability to
experience altered states of consciousness by such modes as hypnosis and
self-hypnosis, and especially the ability to enter a so-called waking state
of the plenary level of hypnosis. This experience gives one some insights
and understandings of what it is like to function normally, naturally and
healthily. In this condition, one’s perception of reality is multi-
dimensional and magnified almost to its original proportion. One is able
to perceive and to function simultaneously from all or most levels of one’s
mind, in all or most dimensions available at this moment. One is able to
understand and to perceive what is truly right and proper. One is
capable of experiencing many other things which are difficult to
comprehend in limited conscious awareness.
Now, such an experience is proper, right, desirable and spiritually
justified, and it leads to the enhancement and enrichment of one’s life. It
should be a permanent condition of one’s life.
As a matter of fact, once the negative state is put back into its
dormant, suspended, tamed and subservient condition, the above mode of
existence and living will be activated again into human life and will
become a permanent state and process of the human mind and its
function with the difference that it will be unimaginably of greater,
deeper and more magnified proportion than humans are capable of
experiencing even in the deepest level of the plenary state of hypnosis.
(This proper condition exists in all Creation with the exception of planet
Earth.) After all, under the present existing condition on Earth, people
even in the deepest level of the plenary states of hypnosis are under the
influence, to a certain extent, of the activated and dominant negative
state which puts some limitations and restrictions on their experiences.
In view of these facts, it is advisable that people start to use, in their
everyday lives, such means of altering their consciousness as hypnosis,
self-hypnosis, meditation, deep relaxation, biofeedback, guided imagery
and similar methods which help people to bridge the vast gap that has
been in existence between the external conscious awareness and their
unconscious mind and to make contact with the Inner Mind in order to
start the process of the elimination of the unconscious processes entirely.
To use such methods is spiritually right and proper because, among
many other things, such methods contribute to putting back the negative
state into suspension, dormancy, subservience and tameness where it
belongs.
Once the negative state is exposed and comes fully to one’s
consciousness, an insight is acquired of its present unnatural condition
which has caused all kinds of problems and miseries for human life on
Earth. Recognition and acceptance of this fact is the first important step
toward its elimination or returning it to its initial state.
The only way the exposure of this situation can come to its fruition,
under the present condition on Earth, is by self-exploration, self-
examination, self-inquiry, self-determination, and continuous contact
and dialogue with one’s Inner Mind and the Most High in it, for the
purpose of learning to be the master of one’s own life from the Lord and
the center of one’s own universe from the Lord. By becoming the true
master of one’s life from the Most High and by becoming a true center of
one’s universe from the Most High, one abolishes one’s slavery to the
negative state, and, to the extent that one is becoming more and more
the master of one’s life and the center of one’s universe from the Lord, to
that extent the negative state will become more and more deactivated,
dormant, subservient, tamed, and will recede from one’s life.
This is all for today.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
