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MESSAGE THIRTY-FOUR
ON THE MATTERS OF EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE PROPER BUILDING BLOCKS OF EVERYONE'S LIFE
May 4, 1982
The following messages have been received today from the Most High.
Spirituality and its principles can be alive and useful only by their
activation and practical utility in one’s everyday life. Without such an
activation and practical utility, spirituality and its principles are empty
notions, idle concepts and words without spirit or soul.
Spiritual principles were formulated for the purpose of living and
functioning in such a manner as to give everyone an outline and
direction which can bring one who follows them everything good, positive
and useful.
Since it is so important to conceptualize spiritual principles from the
standpoint of their practical utility, it is advisable today to elaborate
further on the issues of everyday living.
From the standpoint of spiritual principles one can basically conceive
the content and the quality of everyday living in three ways, or in three
building blocks of life.
First, the content and quality of one’s life is determined by the type
and kind of concept, attitude and treatment one has in respect to the
Most High. Second, it is determined by the type and kind of concept,
attitude and treatment one has toward others and the Most High’s
Creation in general. Third, it is determined by the type and content,
attitude and treatment one has toward oneself. These three building
blocks of life determine the entire structure and dynamics of one’s
everyday life.
The way these three building blocks are acquired and utilized
determine the true content and quality of one’s life and, most
importantly, determine the degree and extent of one’s spirituality and
realization of all spiritual principles in one’s everyday living. For obvious
spiritual and psychological reasons, the starting building block, which
becomes a primary base and foundation of the whole structure, is the
third block — the type and kind of concept, attitude and treatment one
has toward oneself. The reason it is considered a base and foundation of
the whole structure is because one can relate only from and by oneself. It
is impossible to establish any relationship from the outside, or apart
from oneself. One cannot very well step out or disassociate oneself from
oneself in order to relate. If this were possible, it would cancel one’s being
and existence.
In view of this fact, since one must relate from and by oneself, it is
obvious that the quality and content of one’s relationship to the Most
High and to others is always determined by the type and kind of
self-concept, self-attitude and self-treatment one has.
Simply stated, one treats the Most High and others as one treats
oneself. Whatever attitude one has toward oneself, it is shared with the
Most High and others. If one perceives, conceives, feels and treats oneself
with all types of negative attitudes, and if one adopts a self-rejective,
self-punitive and self-belittling attitude, one shares this kind of attitude
with the Most High and others. After all, one can share only what one
has or thinks one has. It is impossible to share something one does not
have or does not think one has.
This kind of situation, unfortunately, also works the other way
around — if one has such an adverse and negative self-concept,
self-attitude, self-perception and self-treatment, one tends to seek out
and to accept from the most High and others only a rejective, negative
and punitive treatment. All else, contrary to such adverse and negative
treatment, is rejected or denied. One simply is not able to see or to seek
out anything truly good in any situation or treatment.
However, since the Most High is blocked from contacting anyone who
is in a negative or adverse manner, and since He/She continuously offers
to everyone without any exception only positive and good things, one
tends to reject and deny the possibility of existence of this kind of
treatment as incongruent with one’s self-concept and self-treatment.
Whatever is incongruent with this kind of self-concept and self-treatment
cannot be seen or experienced. Unfortunately, in situations such as this,
one not only rejects or denies the goodness and the positiveness of the
Most High’s efforts and relatedness, but one projects onto the Most High
one’s own negative and adverse perception, attitudes, expectations and
treatments, frequently accusing the Most High of the same type and kind
of attitude and treatment one has adopted for oneself. The same is true
in relationship to others.
This is one of the reasons why, in human terms (humans on and from
planet Earth only), God often is described and conceived as angry,
hostile, punitive and jealous, condemning people to Hells, and is
attributed other negative and adverse human traits and atrocities. This
is also reflected in the literal sense of the Christian Bible which was
written in the language of human projections. This was permitted by the
Most High for the sake of people’s freedom and independence. Yet, in
reality, the Most High can never be any of these kinds of negative and
adverse things, since it would be contrary to His/Her Absolute Nature
comprised of the principles of Absolute Love and Absolute Wisdom. Love
does not conceive such negativism and wisdom does not allow it to enter
its content.
Very often the same is true with respect to one’s relatedness or
perception of others. No matter how others are in and of themselves,
whether bad or good, and no matter how well or how miserably they
treat one, one will tend to perceive and feel their attitude and treatment
in accordance with the type of self-concept, self-attitude, self-treatment
and the degree of self-respect one has.
The reason why treatment of the Most High and others depends so
much on one’s self-concept, self-attitude and self-treatment is because
the Most High is always within one’s Inner Mind, and others are various
processes and extensions of the Most High who is in their Inner Mind.
Everyone is a part of the whole. The way one treats that part, one also
treats the whole. There is no other way possible.
This is one of the most important fundamental spiritual rules of life
and everyday living. This rule fully applies also to any therapeutic
approach and situation.
Since the above-mentioned three spiritual building blocks of life are of
such importance with regard to everyday living, it would be useful to
outline and, perhaps, repeat some points concerning their practical
utilization and application.
1. In the activated and dominant condition of the negative state on
Earth, the order of acquiring and utilizing these building blocks was
reversed. This happened as a result of genetic manipulation and spiritual
manipulation of correspondences by the pseudo-creators. They fabricated
pseudo-humans in such a manner as to place them in a position of total
spiritual ignorance and blindness. This situation requires that all
knowledge of the Most High, oneself and others be acquired from the
outside, from “without”, by learning from someone or something else. The
ignorance demands that all access to the internal knowledge of these
issues, which is everpresent in everyone’s Inner Mind, be completely
severed. No ignorance is possible without this severance. Therefore,
people are conditioned from the onset of their Earthly life (by their initial
choice) to expect that all knowledge of life will be found somewhere
outside. This leads them to a continuous search for knowledge in places
and outward circumstances where there is little or no knowledge, or
where there is knowledge which is completely distorted and irrelevant to
these issues. No wonder that a majority of people only achieve complete
disillusionment and disappointment, and at the end they realize they are
not better off than they were at the beginning.
The necessity of being taught from the outside about the Most High,
others and oneself (aside from everything else) was determined by the
kind of situation people were in after their incarnation on planet Earth.
Since there was and is no direct available access to the Inner Mind, the
spiritual world or the Most High from this level of incarnation, it was
necessary to establish various external modes of learning and acquiring
knowledge which would allow people to have some concept,
understanding, attitude and perception of the Most High, themselves
and others in order for them to survive. Although such a mode of
acquiring this knowledge leads in most instances to a distorted view of
reality with regard to the Most High, others and oneself, it is sufficient to
maintain some semblance of life so that people might have an
opportunity to experience the negative state’s dominion and all its dire
consequences. The necessity of such an experience and its usefulness for
all-universal learning was pointed out elsewhere.
In view of this fact, it is obvious that those three building blocks of
life were originally acquired and utilized in the wrong way. This is a
consequence of the choice to be incarnated on Earth and to participate in
experiencing the negative state.
Therefore, the first step to be taken for a return to the normal and
positive state of life is the realization, acknowledgment and acceptance of
the fact that one’s life on Earth, from its onset, started from the wrong
direction and has continued in the wrong direction. It means that
whatever knowledge one acquired about the Most High, others and
oneself is either distorted, faulty or entirely false because it was acquired
form the wrong source and from the wrong direction.
It is necessary to return to the starting point and to seek this
knowledge in only one genuine and true source — the Inner Mind.
Because the Inner Mind, in its innermost degree, is the seat of the Most
High in every person, only from the Most High can one learn properly
and objectively about the Most High, others and oneself. The
consultations with the Inner Mind are the starting point of properly
building one’s life.
However, as long as children continue to be born on Earth in an
animalistic, inhumane and negative, manner, this will be a difficult task
because they must be taught from the outside (a perverted order of the
universe!). Nevertheless, this situation can be corrected early in life by
teaching children as soon as practically possible to meditate, to do
self-hypnosis, and to learn similar methods of getting in touch with
themselves and their Inner Mind. Also children can easily be taught to
communicate with their spiritual advisors (different periods of life
require different types of spiritual advisors) who are always within, in
their Inner Mind. Most importantly, children can be taught to
communicate directly with the Most High in their Inner Mind who
readily accommodates Himself/Herself to the level of their physical and
mental development. Until reversion to the spiritual birth of people on
planet Earth takes place (as it was before the Fall), this approach can
become a very important step in preparing children for the New Age and
its proper universal order. The more this is done the more prepared
mankind will be for the beginning of the New Age.
As far as adults are concerned, it is advisable for them to retrain and
redirect their attention from focus on the outward and outside modes to
focus instead on the inward, inside modes by some of the methods and
tools described and mentioned throughout these “Messages From
Within”.
The more people engage in this redirection and re-training, the more
adequate and proper knowledge of the Most High, themselves and others
they will acquire. Such a true, genuine and undistorted knowledge will
lead them toward the establishment of right and positive concepts,
attitudes and treatment of themselves, the Most High and others.
2. In view of the facts outlined above, it is obvious that, in most
instances, one does not have a proper and right self-concept, self-image,
self-perception or self-feeling. Whatever one has in this respect is
distorted by the imposition, expectation, infusion and implantation of
wrong ideas formed and formulated from the external demands of one’s
environment and one’s parents, teachers, authority figures, etc.
This distortion maintains in one’s life a continuous tension and stress
resulting from the repression, suppression and disregard for one’s true
essence and substance and acceptance, identification with and following
of wrong and distorted ideas as to how one should be and how one should
conceive and treat the Most High, others and oneself. Such stress and
tension is the cause of numerous spiritual, mental, emotional,
intellectual, volitional, sexual and physical problems and illnesses which
people are continuously exposed to, endangered by and suffer from.
The alleviation of this situation is possible only by changing one’s
imposed and inculcated self-concept, self-image, self-perception and
self-feeling, and to allow one’s true self to take over and to express itself
fully as it was meant to before it was rejected.
In this respect, one is advised to establish with one’s Inner Mind and
the Most High in it the right ways and means for removal and
elimination of the old, unreal and untrue self-concept, self-image,
self-perception and self-feeling and to discover within oneself the true
nature of one’s being and existence in its essence and substance with full
acceptance of oneself the way one really is. This will lead to a permanent
establishment of a right, real and true self-concept, self-image,
self-perception and self-feeling, giving one the most valuable building
block for one’s productive, constructive, creative and useful life.
As a first step in this endeavor, it is advisable to admit and to tell
oneself, “I am not what I think, feel and perceive I am or seem to be. I
need to explore and to find out the truth about myself and to establish
who I am without impositions of external demands and brainwashings.”
However, as pointed out many times before, the success of this
endeavor can be assured only if all the things described in these
messages are done from one’s free will, by one’s free choice and by one’s
own determination from within and not from without; no other way will
or can work. To do this means to be truly spiritual.
3. The change in self-concept and self-image leads naturally toward a
change in how one perceives and conceptualizes others. Usually and in
most instances people, in their essence and substance, are not what they
seem to be from outward observation by others and by themselves.
Projections, expectations, demands, etc., as to how they should be
distorts the reality of their being and existence in their essence and
substance.
It is necessary to admit and to tell oneself, “People are not what they
seem to be from my own perspective, projections and expectations. Why
should they be this way or that way? Why not admit that they have the
right to be the way they want and need to be and not the way I want
them to be or perceive them to be?”
By not expecting anything from people, one will surprisingly find
oneself seeing people differently and more congruently with their true
nature. This view of people, which is more appropriate to reality,
eliminates many pressures, tensions, disillusionments, disappointments,
etc., which may, and very often do, lead to serious problems in human
relationships.
One is advised again to examine oneself in this respect and to give
oneself suggestions along the line of this newly understood attitude and
concept. This is a second important building block of the true and real
life and its true spiritual principles.
4. The change in self-concept, self-image and self-attitude, and in the
concept, image and attitude toward others is accompanied by a necessary
change in the concept, perception, image, understanding and attitude
toward the Most High. This is the most important building block of the
true and real life and all its spiritual principles. It gives content,
meaning and purpose to the whole structure and dynamics of true and
real life. Nothing can be complete and real without this building block.
The first step in establishing a proper and right way of conceiving,
perceiving and relating to the Most High is in admitting and telling
oneself, “The Most High is not what He/She seems to be from my old
point of view or from anybody else’s point of view. It is necessary first to
relinquish all old concepts infused and implanted in me from the outside
by parents, teachers, ministers, authorities and churches. No one can
know the Most High the way I can know Him/Her from my Inner Mind
and from my internal self.”
The second step in acquiring a proper and right concept of and
relatedness to the Most High is turning oneself inward, to the Inner
Mind, and requesting humbly from the Most High that He/She reveal
Himself/Herself the way He/She really is in His/Her unique
manifestation within the inquirer. This revelation, then, is adopted by
the inquirer with constant understanding and acceptance of the fact that
with other people the Most High reveals Himself/Herself differently in
congruence with their unique perception and mode of the Most High’s
manifestation within them. This is a truly spiritual and wise approach in
establishing one’s proper and right relationship with the Most High.
Once these fundamental building blocks of real and true life are
properly acquired and established, one may proceed with changes in all
the other areas of one’s life.
5. By acquiring a proper and right self-concept, self-image and
concept and image of the Most High and others, one will have a proper
tool for re-evaluation and change of the meaning, content and purpose of
life. First of all, one admits and tells oneself that the real meaning,
content and purpose of life is not what it seemed to be. It is not in
outward, external and “without” matters in and of themselves, but it can
be only in one’s Inner Mind from the Most High in it.
Therefore, one goes into one’s Inner Mind to the Most High and
requests help for establishing the right, proper and true definition of life
and its content, meaning and purpose in general from the standpoint of
one’s own unique manifestation and needs in particular.
Having established previously the right and proper concept of the
Most High — that the Most High, as an Absolute and the only source of
life, is always positive and good — one becomes aware of the major
general principle of life which states that life is always for loving,
enjoyment, delight, pleasure, fun, sharing, mutual benefit, common good
and all other felicities. Nothing of the negative or adverse can be and
exist in the true life or originate from true life which is the Most High.
This spiritual principle of life gives one an idea of the general purpose
of true life and how one can derive from it its specific purpose with
respect to one’s own unique life. This purpose was defined in “Principles
of Spiritual Hypnosis” and “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality.”
6. Once the proper and right concept, content and purpose of life is
established, the next step begins with changing the definition and
application of the true values and priorities of life. One asks, “What are
the true and genuine values of life and what are the correct priorities of
things in my everyday living?” This inquiry starts with an admission
that the true values and priorities of life are not what people think and
accept them to be.
The true values and priorities of life cannot be found and placed in
external, outward and superficial various commodities of physical and
environmental living in and by themselves. The true values of life are
seen in the spiritual principles of life, in one’s internals, in one’s Inner
Mind and, most importantly, in the presence of the Most High in one’s
Inner Mind. All else derives from there.
The establishment of this fact leads to the establishment of proper
and spiritually right priorities of things and activities in one’s everyday
life. One starts to consider the type of activities which lead toward
deeper, better and more appropriate knowledge and understanding of
oneself, others and the Most High. Such activities become top priorities
and the most important ones in one’s life, leading toward the
establishment of a new proper and right hierarchy of organization for
everyday living.
7. The establishment of proper and right values and priorities in one’s
life leads to profound changes in the structure and dynamics of everyday
living. One begins with the process of re-evaluation within oneself of the
meaning, purpose and needs of various traditions, customs, conventions,
cultures, institutions, marriage, family life, etc., which are constantly
impinging themselves upon one’s life and mind trying to influence and
very often to force one to relinquish one’s unique individuality and to
adhere and conform to their dictates and demands. One recognizes that
these dictates and demands rarely come from within, but instead come
from without where there is no true and genuine life.
Here one is advised to consult the Most High in one’s Inner Mind in
order to establish and extract the positive elements, if any, which may
exist in such establishments. These positive elements are then accepted
and adopted by one in accordance with the structure and dynamics of
one’s total, unique mind and personality. All else in them is rejected and
avoided as being of no use.
8. Simultaneously with the above-described efforts, one begins a
process of changing the concept of spirituality and the forms of its
practice. One admits to oneself from within that spirituality and the
forms of its practice are not what people think they ought to be.
Spirituality and its practice does not depend upon and is not in the
external rituals, ceremonies, verbal confessions, regular church
attendance and similar matters. Instead one recognizes the fact that
spirituality and its practice depends upon the modes of one’s everyday
living, thinking, willing, feeling, acting, behaving and relating. It is a
matter of everyday life and one’s internals. This constitutes the true
content and meaning of spirituality. Little truth can be found anywhere
or in anything else.
Therefore, one is advised to carefully assess within one’s Inner Mind
with the Most High one’s religious, church or any other affiliations in
order to determine to what extent they contaminate, pollute and poison
one’s mind and life with all kinds of distortions and falsities, and keep
one away from the discovery of the true nature of spirituality and forms
of its practice. At the same time, one asks the Most High to help one to
determine the good and positive aspects, if any, of one’s affiliations and
their doctrines and philosophies, and whether it is spiritually proper,
right, useful and wise to retain them in one’s life.
By doing this with honesty, from one’s heart, with longing for the
establishment of real truth and for the purpose of living and practicing
spirituality, one will never be led astray.
9. Finally, having all these things established and accomplished, one
becomes aware of the need to change one’s concept of the negative state
and the forms of its manifestations. One admits to oneself that very often
what people consider to be bad, evil, wrong and negative, or, on the other
hand, what they consider to be good, right, proper and positive, is not
necessarily so.
People’s determination of what is bad and negative, or good and
positive, and how it is manifested in everyday life, is based on external
stereotypes, conformities, standards and uniformity, accepted and
adopted by them from the standpoint of what they project onto other
people from their external conveniences or their understandings from the
codes of certain cultures and traditions, especially of a religious nature.
No regard is given to the internal inner or “within” determination of
these concepts.
This is a dangerous situation leading to the establishment of general
rules, forced upon all, by which everyone’s conduct is judged without any
regard for internal motivation and intent for such conduct. Thus, very
often, wrong conclusions result — something is considered bad which is,
in fact, good, or vice versa.
Such adopted general standards and laws disregard one of the most
important principles of spiritual life — what can be good or bad for one
person or situation can be bad or good respectively for another person or
situation. No generalizations are possible in the true spiritual
connotation of life.
A suggestion in this respect is that everyone singly turn oneself to the
Most High within one’s Inner Mind and ask for help to determine the
nature of the negative state and its forms of manifestations as related to
the unique structure and dynamics of one’s mind and personality. One
establishes from within oneself what is right, proper, appropriate and
good and what is bad, wrong, negative and improper for that one,
recognizing that one cannot generalize from others to others. This is done
in the process of daily exploration and examination of one’s motivation
and intent with regard to one’s thinking, willing, feeling, acting,
behaving and relating (as described previously).
By following these and other points (revealed previously) faithfully
and freely, from one’s free will, by one’s freedom of choice, from one’s
heart, with good and positive motivation and intent, one leads a truly
spiritual life in its practical manifestation and realization.
This is all for today.
Source: MESSAGE FROM WITHIN
