March 28, 2005
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brendaclews posed a question in her post today that had me running for the first “spirituality books” my teacher (acupuncturist) had me read. He had flown to Greece to meet “The Magus of Strovolos”, after reading the book I’m quoting. I just read the paragraph that probably had him calling the airlines, for it is exactly the same theory he was teaching as a Taoist master. The book I am typing from is called Homage to the Sun by Kyriacos C. Markides. The author, a skeptic, went to Greece to study with and write about the Greek Mystic, Daskalos, and over the course of several years, produced three books.
Brenda brought up the subject of the power of thought, as did lionne today, and it made me think of the lesson I learned about what Daskalos calles an “elemental.”
‘Every thought and every desire, Daskalos replied, are psychonoetic (noetic= a 5th dimension, where both space and time are transcended)energy charges that are projected into the environment. Once these “elementals” are thrusted outwards they have a shape and an existence of their own. Elementals, therefore, can affect others who vibrate on the same frequency as the person or persons who projected them. A Researcher of Truth must, through self-analysis and appropriate meditation exercises, project only benign elementals that can be of help to others.’
“Through self-analysis we must try to weaken the negative elementals that take possession of us. A Researcher of Truth must constantly scrutinize and examine his thoughts and feelings. Is this not a form of psychoanalysis? It is a necessary work of fighting evil elementals. We have to do that systematically so that they do not get settled in our subconscious.”
Daskalos went on to argue that one is always linked to and accountable for the elementals that one ceaselessly creates. Whatever kind of thoughts and desires, or elementals, therefore, we project outwards will eventually return to us either in this or future incarnations. It is the way the law of Karma works.
I have done a lot of work trying to rid myself of needless worry, crazy love fantasies, and dwelling on wrongs which made me angry. Staying in the present and focusing on the positive is the way to go I have found. I am even starting to be able to have positive expectations about the future.
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I get afraid, though, if I don’t let myself feel the pain I’m in sometimes, if I only let myself feel the joy and the bliss, that I’m denying an important part of myself, and that that is dangerous. I’m more of a ‘feel what you’re going through’ type; though for years everywhere I went I practised cleansing my thoughts via endlessly chanting silently in my mind. Oh and the weekly 2 1/2 hour chants, worked through so much darkness, dense clouds of black smoke, until lightened, rarified, perhaps. Now I just go about my life, struggling in the way I always do. I fall into bliss when I pass a blossoming cherry tree in a bus. I cry when I see or am the recipient of injustice. And people are not uniformly nice in the work I do, so sometimes, well… the elementals wouldn’t approve. Though I do try to be fair: if I can offer a blessings, I offer that (usually that their greatest wish come true); if I can’t, I offer its inverse (usually that their greatest fear come true). Then I detach myself. People who care for others are wonderful; those who deliberately humiliate or harm others aren’t so wonderful. I can’t be a Pollyanna anymore for anyone. Now I am ranting! Sorry!! Was life better when I chanted every free moment, purifying myself? Don’t think so. And it’s not that I love the world and life and everyone (even those whose treatment of others is questionable) less, I probably love it all the more now. xo
Sure was a funny coincidence that several people were posting on this subject at the same time. I had no clue others were until someone commented to me. I get put off sometimes by all the various ways of trying to phrase the idea of being positive. In psychological circles there are endless pathological alphabetical boxes (ADHD, Personality Disorders, etc. etc.). In spiritual circles we have elementals, etc. Isn’t is just basically about love?
“Sha la la la la la live for today,” that hippie song from the 60s or early 70s, has been in my head for weeks now. And that damned Calvin Klein slogan, “Just Be.” That’s where I am right now. Thanks for your input, and I thank brendaclews as well for her alternate ideas
positive expectations of the future; why not?
I *smile*
There is plenty life left to live and plenty love left to give as well…
You and I know it is about choices…attitude and patience
((((HUGS)))) to you
For months when I write; I have you first and foremost in the front of
my head…This is a message of sorts to help you sort with the emotionality
that family issues sometimes string along…I think only u know what to really expect
in your world these days…
I always hope for the best …
I *smile*
Just want you to know I’m lurking…my nicotine-deprived brain isn’t letting me make any brilliant comments. Soon…I hope!
Peace and Love…GFW
I completely LOVE you! Thanks so much for listening to the audiopost – really, it was for you anyway. Each of the posts has been different, experiments I guess. None of the others have had laughter, thought I’d give it a whirl. xoxo
I don’t even know how to “distill” all this, at the moment. Which is usually a sign that I am “onto something.” Whereas I am no expert on Elementals, the thing I always get bogged down in is what can I possibly do to “process” those negatively vibrating Elementals I have released into the Great Void before having the insight to put forth positive energy. Whereas I would like to believe in David Hawkins’ principle that a highly positive thought carries more energy than a negative one, I continue to worry about the “subspace pollution” I have already created. I suppose I am also cut from a similar cloth as brendaclews, in the sense that I believe that everything must be “experienced fully,” regardless of whether it is “good” or “bad.” Otherwise, I end up with some kind of “psychic indigestion” from those things I shoved aside without fully experiencing them. Thanks for a thought-provoking post!