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What Is the Conscious Process? by Da Free John October 28, 1982 Listen to Adi Da reading this essay In The Liberator (Eleutherios), I have written: "Be Conscious as the Feeling of Being and Realize that It Is Radiant Happiness." This Admonition summarizes the Teaching relative to the "conscious process." And that practice epitomizes and fulfills the entire Way that I Teach. However, it must be understood that this Practice or ultimate Realization of the conscious process is not a matter of remaining fixed in the conscious or merely left-brained mind of the waking state. It is a matter of Realizing the Transcendental Condition of Consciousness, Free Being, or Self-Radiant Happiness--what is called "Turiya," or the "fourth state," in the Hindu tradition. Therefore, the ultimate Realization of the conscious process requires, as a matter of real preparation, the liberation of attention from the self contraction (or ego-bond), and thus the liberation of attention (or functional consciousness), from bondage to the limiting structures of the three common states--waking, dreaming, and sleeping. For this reason, the practical discipline of the Way that I Teach involves not only a sequence of preparatory disciplines or phases of the conscious process (finally epitomized in the Realization of the Practice as described above), but also a culture of associated secondary or supportive disciplines, all of which may be regarded to be forms of the general practice I call "conductivity." Apart from the conscious process (generated in the form of true prayer, enquiry, recognition, and the first two stages of the Perfect Practice), my devotees also practice a broad spectrum of functional and relational disciplines (relating to general health, diet, sexuality, intimate society, community, and so on). These disciplines, in the midst of the entire culture of devotion, study, and right relationship to the Spiritual Influence of the Adept Spiritual Master, are a secondary but necessary supportive regime of practice that ultimately provides the maturity or free ground for the fulfillment of the conscious process. As I have always indicated, the fulfillment of the conscious process requires, as a matter of preparation, the significant development of truly free energy and attention. This means that, for the conscious process to fulfill itself in the terms I quoted earlier from The Liberator, energy and attention must be truly and stably free from bondage to the self-contraction in every kind of functional and relational context. It is the work of the secondary disciplines (or the entire regime of conductivity) to release energy and attention from the ego-bond. Without this supportive exercise, the conscious process remains nothing more than a minor psychological and verbal exercise of the waking mind. It is only to the degree that energy and attention are set free by the practical and meditational exercises of conductivity that the conscious process can enter profoundly into the Real Source of life and attention. It is because of the absence of profound practice of supportive disciplines involving total psycho-physical submission into the Life-Current that the Way of the conscious process gets reduced to a kind of "talking school" obsession with "consciousness." Many people read and even write books and give lectures about the primacy and freedom of consciousness, as if they could, merely by analyzing consciousness out from the mass of thinking, knowing, and experiencing, achieve the incomparable State of "Jnana," Enlightenment, or Transcendental Realization. But all such talk is the mediocre chat of the waking mind. In order to Realize the Transcendental Truth that Is Consciousness, the entire process of attention must be liberated from functional bondage to the states and functions and emotions and thoughts and relations of the egoic or self-contracted body-mind. Therefore, I call you not only to consider my Arguments and understand, but to practice that consideration in the form of real disciplines that restore psycho-physical equanimity and liberate energy and attention for the ultimate affair of radical intuition. The practices of conductivity and the conscious process are the responsibility of each individual devotee. But the Way is not merely a matter of self-generating these disciplines. The Way that I Teach (in both its preparatory and mature or ultimate forms) is the Way of "Satsang," or Transcendental Spiritual Communion with the Adept in God (or Reality). The practices of conductivity and the conscious process are simply the means whereby individuals enter into that Communion moment to moment. The Adept Spiritual Master provides the Ultimate Means whereby the practices of conductivity and the conscious process become fruitful. It is in the "talking school" of heady non practitioners (or self-contained egos) that we hear so much nonsense about the non-necessity of a Spiritual Master. Of course, the Adept is of no use (except perhaps to write books to feed the ego minds) for those who are self-bound and not interested in the real fulfillment of the Great Way. And there are also many kinds of ego-based, childish, adolescent, merely cultic, and false kinds of approach or attachment to the Adept--and I criticize those inappropriate approaches and attachments more than any of those who merely damn and anathematize the Great Relationship between the devotee and the Adept Spiritual Master. But when the Way is fully understood, valued, and practiced, then-and only then--the Great Relationship is seen to be the Primary Principle of the Way itself. The Adept Spiritual Master is not merely an independent Realizer of the Truth. The true Adept is a "Siddha," or a Living Agent of Help and Awakening. Thus, beyond the Work of Communicating the Arguments of the Way, the Adept is Present to Transmit the Power of Awakening. Those who are devotees of the Adept not only "hear" or understand the Teaching Arguments and practice the conscious process and the relational and functional disciplines of conductivity, but, by these means, they "see," or enter into Communion with, the Radiant Power of Being Transmitted by, as, and through the Adept. There is no practice of the Way that I Teach apart from such participatory "seeing." On this basis, the practice of devotees is made fruitful by self-transcending or self surrendered association with the Divine Help and Awakening Power. The Way is not fulfilled by the efforts of the ego, but by the ego's transcending itself in Communion with its Ultimate Help. Those who are only beginning their association with me in this Way are yet preoccupied with the initial obligation to listen to and hear or understand the Teaching. Therefore, they are also preoccupied with the struggle to adapt to the various disciplines that are their obligation. For these reasons, such people have not yet developed the means of Communion with the Adept's Transmission. And, for them, a formal relationship to me as the Teaching Source is their right form of association with me. But as their practice begins to develop, devotees also begin to "find" me, or Locate the Power of my Spiritual Transmission in their daily lives. For this reason, I make myself available to actual practitioners in various occasions or gatherings devoted to the Magnification of my Transmission. Those who practice thus in my Company develop over time a sensitivity to my Influence, and, as devotees mature via the stages of practice, they are offered many different kinds of opportunities to enter directly into the sphere of my Influence. If you will ask mature devotees about the development of their practice in my Company over the years, you will hear countless remarkable and extraordinary stories. Those stories are indicators of how the Radiant Divine Influence has made Itself felt and effective in the case of those who know how to use me. And what is the actual process behind all of those remarkable effects? As I have told you, when the Adept Awakens into his Function for others, the "Siddhi" or Divine Awakening Power achieves universal Agency. Thereafter, when the Influence of the Adept is contacted via the practice of devotees (or when the Adept makes his Influence effective, spontaneously or at will, in the case of any person or condition), changes begin to occur. The essence of those changes is a Work that purifies, balances, and ultimately Awakens the individual being. Those who truly practice, and thus cooperate with (rather than resist, or even merely luxuriate in the superficial effects of) the Adept's Transmission, are progressively relieved or purified of the "karmic" (or self-based and habitual) limitations they have accumulated in the functional domain of the body-mind and its relations. It should be understood that the karmas or habit patterns of every individual are effective at every level: physical, emotional, mental, unconscious, subconscious, conscious, waking, dreaming, and sleeping. And those karmas extend beyond the individual body-mind to include others, objects, and environments on every level, visible (or gross) and invisible (or subtle), known and unknown--past, present, and future. Also, because of the universal effectiveness of the karmic or conditional associations of individual being, it is not at all possible merely to invert upon and identify with the self-essence (the "atman" or most inner consciousness) and have that be true Transcendental Self-Realization or Enlightenment. The inner self or "atman" is not identical to the Transcendental Self ("Paramatman" or "Brahman") unless it is Realized to be Such. (Just as "Nirvana" and "samsara" are not identical until they are Realized to be So.) And such Realization is not at all possible until the individual or self-bound consciousness has first been transcended through the real discipline of practice. Transcendental Realization requires, as a prerequisite, the purificatory release of karmic accumulations, or the tendencies of attention that limit and suppress the ability of attention to Locate its Ultimate Source- Condition. Therefore, the ultimate fulfillment of the Way (which is to "Be Conscious as the Feeling of Being and Realize that It Is Radiant Happiness") requires, as a matter of preparation, the purification or release of attention from the self-bond, the stable development of true psycho-physical equanimity (or full responsibility for self-transcendence), and the magnification of free energy and attention. The Adept Spiritual Master Works spontaneously for devotees as a Free Agent that Serves both the initial or preparatory process (of purification, self-transcendence, equanimity, and free energy and attention) and the ultimate process of Transcendental Awakening that follows naturally upon and even always coincides with every stage of such preparation. Therefore, when I regard my devotees, or when I sit with them in Transcendental Communion (whether I am physically near or far from them), I Magnify the Purifying, Liberating, and Awakening Power to them, each and all. As devotees progressively develop and mature in their practice, the Power in my Company acts directly and effectively to prepare them and to Awaken them. This is shown by many kinds of evidence in life and meditation, and there are at least many hundreds of individuals thus far who can attest to this. The Awakening Effect is affirmed even by those who first study the literature of my Teaching. Likewise, all the Effects that serve to purify, to release the self-contraction, to create equanimity, and to release energy and attention can be testified to by many who have practiced this Way in my Company for years or even months. The process whereby these Effects are Demonstrated is directly associated with the unique daily life and meditation of each devotee. Each day, unique tendencies, associations, and conditions of life and meditation appear in the case of each devotee. When those tendencies, associations, and conditions are combined with real practice (in the forms of conductivity and the conscious process) and brought into the sphere of Communion with the Adept in God (or Reality), a purifying, harmonizing, liberating, and Awakening Force is brought into the context of the moment--and this Event produces all kinds of transformative changes, both ordinary and extraordinary or profound. In this manner, the various karmic accumulations or habitual limitations of each true devotee are gradually lifted off and absorbed or eliminated by my Agency. My own Work in this regard is a spontaneous Siddhi that has always been Alive in me, but I accepted full responsibility for It in relation to others only after the Event in the Vedanta Temple. Then the Signs of Its Operation began to Move and Oblige me toward others for the sake of their Awakening, and I began to Teach. Over the years since then, I have entered spontaneously and freely into all kinds of relations with people in order to allow this Siddhi to do Its Work without limitation. As a result, the Great Way has now been fully Communicated anew, and devotees and I practice the Siddhi of our Great Relationship even at great distances. It is a Marvel of Divine Grace which few are able to value and understand. And so I call you to practice this Way in my Company. I call you to understand, surrender, and transcend yourself in Divine Company, free of the conceits of egoity. If you do this, then all of these obvious and also hidden content of manifest consciousness will gradually rise up to your attention--and each portion of it will be inspected and released in your own case. When all of that content has been drawn up and released, then attention will stand bare in you, and all of the energies of your manifest being will be free to collect in the locus of the right side of the heart. Then, and only then, your own consciousness will be free to Identify with the Transcendental Consciousness, which is prior to the body-mind and all of Nature. Therefore, do not think you can "take Heaven by storm." The mere "I" thought is not now an indicator of the Great One. The "I" is Narcissus-more than a thought, but a profoundly complex pattern of destiny. You must first transcend the complex "I" through real practice of the self transcending Way. And I am always Present to Help you Awaken from your sleep, your dreams, and your waking conceits. That Awakening, in the midst of the hard school of self-transcendence, and in the constant swoon of Transcendental Communion, is the conscious process that I Teach. "You are responsible for the various forms of your practice, the forms of conductivity and the conscious process"...not the Spiritual Master. "This practice of conductivity is a great art. Therefore, the practice develops over time...in the form of an effective life-practice...that practice of conductivity is a change in your capacity to be responsible for the full openness of this frontal line of your manifest existence. Until you become fully responsible for it...you are always experiencing symptoms of one or another kind, chronically... physical and emotional symptoms... in the form of your complicated living." "The conditional root of attention is the self-contraction. Attention is not finally controllable by effort, but it (or its binding power) naturally dissolves if the self-contraction is presently observed, tacitly understood, and transcended." "Such present observation and transcendence are the fundamental exercises of the conscious process..." Intro: That whole affair of practice, which ultimately becomes awakening, is what I call the Conscious Process. The Concsious Process cannot be reduced to exercises that go into the name of the conscious process. The Conscious Process is really the entire Way, including the secondary means. The Conscious Process in the Way of the Heart is not the whole but a part of the total affair of practice, which involves the transcendence of ego, or conditional attention. "I have tried to make clear that conductivity, the practice of equanimity, and all the life disciplines are basic practices. They are expressions of the point of view of understanding, and by application to these disciplines, energy and attention are released for the conscious process or the ultimate process of Realization. But this is not a Way of conductivity, not a conventional Spirit religion. It is not a fourth or a fifth stage practice." It is also the epitome of this Way and it is the essence and most fundamental excercise of this Way. The practice of this Way has many features and forms and the Conscious Process being one of them, develops by stages. It is associated with the total culture of life because the concept of Narcissus or ego applies to every single aspect of the life of the individual. The earliest stages of the practice of this Way in my Company, are associated with changes that serve.. purification of attenton...the establishment of psycho physical equanimity, and the freeing of energy and attention. This is the content of the spiritual proess in its earliest stages.You live in communion with that in life, meditation and the relationship to the Adept. But that communion is not equal to Realization... It is...so when this original work has fulfilled itself. You must use the influence of the Adept for the sake of this purification, rebalancing and liberation of energy and attention. People thinking about the Conscious Process may see it in abstract terms if they truly don't fully read Adi Da. They would perhaps see it in terms of the present day 'dharma' of 'non-dual' teachings. People who preach 'no path' or identification with the Absolute. This is an error in understanding Adi Da. Today many teachers and teachings advocate identifying with consciousness and affirm that the essence of being beyond thoughts and actions is presently and already idenififed with the Absoulte. They presume Enlightenment and advocate no need or purpose for a teacher, Spiritual Master or in in fact a path, sadhana any spiritual discipline. This again is an error of understanding. Continue to read on and understand the spiritual process is about purification and freeing energy and attention from the self contraction. In freeing energy and attention from the self contraction the the habits of ego equanimity and responsibility for conscious process are awakened. WHAT IS THE CONSCIOUS PROCESS? In The Liberator Eleutherios, I have written, "Be Conscious as the Feeling of Being and Realize that It Is Radiant Happiness." This Admonition summarizes the Teaching relative to the conscious process which epitomizes and fulfills the entire Way that I Teach. However, it must be understood that this Practice (of the Conscious Process) or ultimate Realization of the conscious process, is not a matter of remaining fixed in the conscious or merely left-brained mind of the waking state. It is a matter of Realizing the Transcendental Condition of Consciousness, Free Being, or Self- Radiant Happiness - what is called "Turiya," or the "fourth state," in the Hindu tradition. The Concious Process Practice or Realization requires: 1. Real preparation - the purification or release of attention from the self-bond. ... a. Hearing = Understanding ... b. Seeing = Conversion ... c. Practice = The Artful Science of Equanimity ........1. Self-discipline ... ... 2. Service ... ... 3. Conductivity - "the capacity of the body-mind to conduct, or be surrendered into, the All-Pervading Life-Current." It is the practice whereby the body and energy are harmonized and brought to a state of balance or equanimity as a necessary base for the conscious process". "Conductivity, therefore, is a basic practice in this Way. It is associated with the attitude of going beyond the self-contraction and allowing attention to be focused in understanding in this moment through the conscious process". ... ... 4. Real Meditation 2. The liberation of attention from the self contraction (or ego-bond - Conductivity = the liberation of attention (or functional consciousness), from bondage to the limiting structures of the three common states: a. Waking b. Dreaming c. Sleeping The practical discipline (Conductivity) of the Way that I Teach involves: 1. Sequence of preparatory disciplines or phases of the conscious process. 2. Culture of associated secondary or supportive disciplines which may be regarded as conductivity. The conscious process forms: 1. True prayer "It may at first take the form of true prayer, but it must ultimately take the form of enquiry, or "real meditation". 2. Enquiry (meditation) see: Let the Spirit Carry the Body While the Mind Enquires 3. Recognition 4. And the first two stages of the Perfect Practice - The Perfect Practice has three stages, all taking place in the Domain of Consciousness, that is, in direct relation to the Awakened State and the Divine Person in His Ultimate Identity as Consciousness: The three stages of the Perfect Practice 1. Be Consciousness. 2. Contemplate Consciousness. 3. Transcend everything in Consciousness, Recognizing all objects in and as God. The Three Parts of Conductivity 1. Feel-surrender into the all-pervading Life-Current (or Divine Radiance) in all directions from the heart. 2. Relax into the Life-Current bodily, base toward crown. 3. Breathe the Life-Current to and from the vital center. On this basis, practice the conscious process see: Surrender Bodily in the Spirit and Merge Attention into Its Source Divine Ignorance, Conductivity, and the Conscious Process The Bodily Secrets of Conductivity 1. The secret of conductivity: Treat the world and every condition as Energy. 2. Keep the head cool and the vital warm. 3. See all forms in the Transcendental Being. 4. Use every circumstance as an incident of Transmission of the Radiant Principle. Open to it, circulate it, communicate it. 5. Work to keep physically, emotionally, and mentally releaxed and balanced. Conductivity releases engery and attention from the ego-bond "Conductivity, the practice of equanimity, and all the life-disciplines are basic practices. They are expressions of the point of view of understanding, and by application to these disciplines, energy and attention are released for the conscious process..." ..."it is not a fourth or fifth stage practice".... "If you do not found yourself in this radical disposition of Ignorance and Understanding then the practice of the disciplines...are transformed...into seeking ..and..conventional excercises " Subtle Error of Conductivity Extra ordinary experiences tend to arise and individuals become enamored of them and become the object of their meditation. "extraordinary experiences begin to arise. And rather than transcend these experiences through the conscious process, individuals tend; to become enamored of them and so attracted to them that their practice becomes meditative submission to the potentials of experience." The Subtle Error Practice a broad spectrum of functional and relational (SECONDARY - supportive disciplines - 'conductivity') disciplines: 1. General health Relax into the Life-Current. We should not resist its changes, but we should not be fascinated with them or trapped by them. Work to keep physically, emotionally, and mentally relaxed and balanced. Don't intentionally let the abdomen get cold or the head hot. a. Yoga "In and of themselves, physical exercises and traditional Yogic poses are not the ego-transcending discipline of "conscious exercise" that I have Given to My devotees. "Conscious exercise" is a unique and specific (by- Me-Given) approach to (and understanding about) exercise and all common daily activities. In and of themselves, the physical exercises and traditional Yogic poses of the "daily form" of "conscious exercise" are simply structurally correct models for physical movement and posture (altogether). In order to become "conscious exercise", those formalities of physical movement require not only the discipline of the physical body but also the simultaneous discipline of mind, emotion, and breath-in intrinsically ego-surrendering, ego-forgetting, and ego-transcending devotional Communion with Me. Therefore, "conscious exercise" is not the same as conventional physical exercise-because "conscious exercise" is founded in the turning of the principal faculties of the body-mind-complex to Me. Thus, "conscious exercise" is mature (or truly human) activity, since only when all the functions of human existence are so coordinated do they become a single, non-problematic condition of existence that is rightly and fully aligned to the Acausal Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, Source-Condition, and Self-State of all-and-All." Aletheon - The Necessary Foundation of Right Life 2. Diet 3. Sexuality, 4. Intimate society 5. Community These (SECONDARY - supportive disciplines - 'conductivity') disciplines, in the midst of the entire culture of: 1. Devotion 2. Study 3. Right relationship to the Spiritual Influence of the Adept Spiritual Master These supportive - secondary - but necessary regime of practice that ultimately provides the maturity or free ground for the fulfillment of the conscious process. As a matter of preparation the fulfillment of the conscious process requires, the significant development of truly free energy and attention - Conductivity. Energy and attention must be truly and stably free from bondage to the self-contraction in every kind of functional and relational context. see: Be Free and Powerful "Without Conductivity the Concsious Process is a verbal exercise" The Disposition of Enlightenment The Attitude, of Conductivity: The world, the body, the mind, the self, and every state of experience or cognition is nothing but a form or state of the Radiance, Life-Current, or Shakti of God. Therefore, recognize all that arises to be such. Relax and surrender the body-mind to feel into the Radiance or Love-Bliss that is the Substance of manifest existence. The Attitude of the Conscious Process: The world, the body, the mind, the self, and every state of experience or cognition is nothing but a contraction or modification of Being, Consciousness, or the Transcendental Divine Self. Therefore, recognize all that arises to be such, moment to moment, and so be Free. These two primary attitudes coincide in every moment of true practice of the Way. Their simultaneity expresses the tacit. Realization of Radiant Transcendental Being as the always present Identity and Condition of existence, and such Realization is always already established in That of which every arising condition is a transparent, nonbinding, temporary, and unnecessary modification. Readings: Surrender as the total body-mind into the All-Pervading Life-Current via the Radiant feeling-attitude of the heart. On inhalation, open the entire body-mind with the feeling heart and so receive the Radiant descending Life and Love-Bliss. On exhalation, release the feeling heart in blissful love-aspiration, thus channeling the rising Life-Current of Love-Bliss to its highest place. Do this breath after breath. I Is The Body of Life -Chapter Two: The Natural Vision The Way Of The Heart Is Primarily A Matter Of The Conscious Process The Dawn Horse Testament - Chapter 13 "...and this exercise, like all forms of breathing-conductivity in the way of the heart, is generally to be done via the nose, rather than via an open mouth, and with the tongue pressed lightly to the roof of the mouth, so that the natural circuit of the breath-process is maintained. And, as should be the case in all instances of breathing-conductivity in or via the frontal line at any developmental stage of any form of the way of the heart, inhalation-reception into the frontal line should, at random, or occasionally, be pressed down fully to the abdomen, while pulling up internally at the bodily base, so that the frontal line may be opened more fully, especially at the chest, the solar plexus, and the lower abdomen, and any following, or otherwise random, exhalation-release should be "relaxed into" either the frontal line, downwards, or the spinal line, upwards." Chapter 20 - The Dawn Horse Testament This Way is not merely some kind of self generated discipline, some effort made by the ego, that ultimately winds up being Enlightenment. The Conscious Process Is the Epitome of This Way The secret of conductivity: Treat or relate to the phenomenal world and self (body-mind) as Energy rather than mere matter. And treat or relate to every condition of the phenomenal world and self, positive or negative, high or low, as the same ultimate and total Energy (or Radiance of Transcendental Being). Body and mind are the same Energy. Use every condition or circumstance as an incident of Transmission of the same Radiant Principle. Open to it, contact it, and circulate it. And communicate it in all directions and relations through love. I Is The Body of Life -Chapter Two: The Natural Vision The Secret of practice is this: In every moment, instead of merely thinking and acting, engage the conscious process. Instead of Indulging in Thought, Practice the Conscious Process DEVOTEE: Master, what are the characteristics of somebody who is capable of the practice of yoga? MASTER DA: First of all it is not a matter of whether or not they are capable of yogic practice, but whether or not they are qualified altogether. The individual should demonstrate the intelligent, rigorous application of discriminative intelligence. He or she should show the signs in meditation of yogic phenomena, which will naturally appear at a certain level of maturity. Conductivity is essentially a yogic process, and the conscious process is essentially a process of intuitive intelligence. The Dreaded Gom Boo Conductivity: Surrender into, receive (or contact), and circulate the Energy (or Radiance) of which everything (including the body-mind) is made. Preserve it with true happiness, which is equanimity, peace, and calmness. Through self-understanding and self-control, transcend reactive emotion, physical excess, exaggerated desire, and the dominance of either right-sidedness or left-sidedness of being. Keep the head cool (relaxed, open) and the vital warm (covered, relaxed, circulating). The head (or the entire upper coil) is the epitome of the highest vibration and the vital region (or the entire lower coil) is the epitome of the lowest vibration. The heart and the central current are the center of original or primary Radiance, prior to vibratory differentiations. The frontal and spinal lines are the circuit of transformations. (The lower, or vital and generative, force is circulated toward and transformed into the higher, and vice versa.) I Is The Body of Life -Chapter Two: The Natural Vision Skillful Means For Collecting attention, mind, vitality, bodily Orientation Dawn Horse Testament - Chapter 35 "...and this exercise, like all forms of breathing-conductivity in the way of the heart, is generally to be done via the nose, rather than via an open mouth, and with the tongue pressed lightly to the roof of the mouth, so that the natural circuit of the breath-process is maintained. And, as should be the case in all instances of breathing-conductivity in or via the frontal line at any developmental stage of any form of the way of the heart, inhalation-reception into the frontal line should, at random, or occasionally, be pressed down fully to the abdomen, while pulling up internally at the bodily base, so that the frontal line may be opened more fully, especially at the chest, the solar plexus, and the lower abdomen, and any following, or otherwise random, exhalation-release should be "relaxed into" either the frontal line, downwards, or the spinal line, upwards." Chapter 20 - The Dawn Horse Testament "You must be responsible for yourself at the human level, and in a profoundly uncommon way. You must live the discipline of ordinary life. You yourself must be love under all ordinary, daily conditions. You must make this change in your life. There is no way whereby you can be relieved of this necessity - and nobody else can do it for you. Nevertheless, all of that ordinary responsibility simply prepares you for the right relationship to Me (in and As My Divinely-Avatarically-Born bodily human Divine Form and Person)." "The Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment" - THE ALETHEON "I was considering this cramp in the solar plexus with you the other evening. We were having a conversation about the yoga of the frontal line. Perhaps the most common experience people have of contraction in this frontal line is a cramp over the solar plexus, the "knot in the stomach" that people refer to. If you become aware that you are suffering this knot and this anxiety over the solar plexus, your first resort, by tendency at any rate, will be to try to relax it. You will take deep breaths and so forth. That may work if the contraction is rather superficial and your attention is relatively free, but you may also discover that you cannot do it, that you cannot relax it. In that case, you will begin to think some more and work on your trouble, whereas the most direct way of dealing with it is to divert attention from this knot, rather than keep attention in the knot and try to undo it. I suggest to you, as a practical matter, that instead of keeping your attention in this knot over the solar plexus and trying to relax it, you should simply remember that attention goes wherever the knot is. Attention gravitates toward the contracted states and becomes fretful, suffers the pain of these contractions, gets stuck in these contractions and then tries to work its way out of them, you see. Well, this knot over the solar plexus is occurring a little more than halfway down the frontal line of the body. The Current of life is not descending below that point. The knot over the solar plexus is a little bit like nausea, the urge to vomit, weeping, and anger. This contraction is a revulsion, a reversal of the Current in the frontal line of the body, and in effect it prevents this line of force from going to its lower terminal in the bodily base. One way of naturally relieving this contraction, in addition to the basic resort that is your devotional practice, is to place your attention lower down in the body, below the point where you feel that cramp. If you place your attention above the point of disturbance, the revulsion will continue. The most intelligent approach, therefore, is to place your attention below that point, where there already is no contraction, you see. Place your attention below the navel in the vital battery region, in the genital region, or at the perineum. Do