Equanimous

From the Big Bang to Peace and Quiet in Every Community - A Channeled Dialog of Why You are Here and What You can Do About it Right Now!

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From the Big Bang to Peace and Quiet in Every Community - A Channeled Dialog of Why You are Here and What You can Do About it Right Now!

Written By Michael Paul Stephens Channeled by Orranut Stephens

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Contents
Chapter
Preface Prologue Part 1 : The History of Humanity Chapter 1: The Universe Chapter 2: Energy-beings Chapter 3: Earth Birth Chapter 4: Evolution of the First Civilization Chapter 5: The Roots of the Modern Age Chapter 6: The Ascension of Buddha Chapter 7: The Life of Jesus Chapter 8: The Energy Reset 11 35 62 88 135 175 185 213

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Part 2 : The Way of the Equanimous Introduction The Four Lessons of History Chapter 9: Share Circles Chapter 10: Organizing Share Circles Epilogue 238 244 253 315

Dedication For Anongluk and Chaleo Porkathong and Deana and David Stephens Without you, we would not be.

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Preface
I need to thank Master Jacob for his patience as a teacher and a guide. He waited a long time through many of my lives for me to wake up a little. I hope this book is a worthy return on his faith in me. Orranut, thank you for being a part of this book. Without you it would not have been possible. Thank you for being a part of my life. Thank you for our two wonderful children. You are beautiful inside and out. This book is most certainly yours. Roger Moore, thank you too for your input and inspiration into this work. You are a guide on Earth and I love you as a brother. Appreciation, kudos and love for a job well done to my two wonderful editors, Mark Stephens and Kirstie Flood. You are my sounding boards, as well as my filters for grammar and syntax aberrations! Lastly, I want to thank all of my great friends who have been a part of this book, and those wonderful people who have been a part of our journey of discovery as clients and workshop participants. You have supported Orranut and myself with your well wishes and faith in our abilities. This is for you. It is for all of us. Use it. Pass it on. Love, MPS April 2011 info@michaelpaulstephens.com

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Prologue
Ever since humanity was conscious of being conscious we have asked where we have come from, where we are going and what the point of life really is. And there have been a multitude of different answers. Some say we are a creation of God. Others say we started with a Bang and will end with a huge Crunch. A few believe we live in an illusion and all that we see is just a dream. And then there are those who think the Earth was seeded by space travelers who were seeking the universal secret of fantastic soap, they spilt a drop into the ocean and voilaevolution. OK, so I made that last one up but, as you will learn, from the perspective of this work, it is no less credible than the first three options. You see, the answer the lifes purpose defines our humanity. It defines our reason to get out of bed in the morning. It defines whether we build our societies on the foundation of trust and respect or just continue to beat the living daylights out of one another. Over the course of several months in late 2009 and early 2010 my wife, Orranut, and I decided to ask someone a little bit special these very same questions. We received some very different answers. You see, Orranut is a channel. In fact, a very attuned and accurate channel. She is able to connect with spirit guides and receive advice about life, health, relationships, in fact just about anything that can help people to live their lives with a little more direction and clarity. If youve never really believed in psychic ability or simply cannot get that ingrained image out of your head of Gypsy Noras crystal ball from the traveling circus, we understand. Its a lot to take in, and skepticism and doubt are nothing new to Orranut.

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As a child growing up in a conservative Thai household in the 1970s, hearing voices in your head wasnt exactly embraced as the etiquette of polite society. Not that most Western people embrace it with much more gusto. Whether you are accused of being possessed by demons or simply called mad, it makes little difference. The inclination of a young psychic subjected to criticism, ridicule and marginalization doesnt exactly encourage exploration of rare abilities. Even today, 30 years later, the ability of people to channel information from invisible sources is still the stuff of movies, psychiatric hospitals and the weird and wonderful section of newspapers, as far as most popular pundits are concerned. Despite the social stigma, Orranut has slowly embraced her incredible abilities over the course of her life. She has had to. Denying the talents she has is like denying a limb, such are the essential qualities of her character that these abilities augment and reflect. She has come an extraordinary distance since those days when other peoples criticism led to self-doubt and the denial of her great gifts. She too has become a believer, when years ago all she felt was denial and shame. As a child, all she wanted was to be perceived as being normal. It took her 40 years to realize that she was the most normal of them all. In a very real sense, today she comes out of the psychic closet. Equanimous is a product of Orranuts abilities, channeling my questions to my spirit guide1, Master Jacob and then channeling his answers back to me. Much of what we discussed, she does not even recall, such is the nature of channeling at times. Some of it covers subjects that she has both zero interest in and has little or no knowledge about. While some may claim that she is just making this up, there is no way she could have made up some of the conversations we had. If this comes from the mouth of Orranut, which it does, it is the real deal.

A spirit guide is what many would call a guardian angel; an energetic being who guides a person through life so that they may achieve their purpose on earth.

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The conversations that are written in this manuscript were not taped and therefore are written from my memory. Much was written immediately either directly after the conversations took place and sometimes even during the conversations, and while no information is included that has not been checked and doublechecked with Master Jacob, the reader may forgive this author for taking a little literary license for the way in which the conversations are structured, some being pieced together from several conversations in the initial three month period and some from both the initial conversations and conversations that have taken place since that time and during the editing of this manuscript. From November 2009 until February 2011 Orranut, Master Jacob and I have spent many hours discussing the structures of the universe, the creation of Earth, the evolution of humanity, the development of modern civilization and many other powerful epochs dotted across humanity's collective past. The purpose of these discussions was never to rewrite history, nor to incite flames of controversy, but to inspire people to leave behind the lie that we live in a meaningless universe on a lonely blue planet and to realize the incredible purpose and potential laying dormant within each and every human being. Over the centuries, human society has slowly devolved into a rat race of economics, politics, technology and social competition. Such is the worsening ecological condition on Earth, contributed to by the economic paradigm that we insist upon pursuing with such fanatical zeal, transformation in our consciousness and on a greater scale than previously seen in the history of humanity is becoming absolutely imperative. I cannot overstate the importance of the message that change in governments or in laws is not the answer to our current problem. Only by first raising human consciousness can lasting change occur that will mean anything worthy of our true potential. The will to create that change happens when we answer the simplest of questions: Birth, suffering, deathis that all there is to life?

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Science cannot answer this essential question. There is no empirical measurement to it. It is just a question that arises from the inevitable dissatisfaction human beings feel from seeking genuine happiness through transient events and objects. Having spent the last year and a half uncovering the origins of our universe, the causes of creation on Earth and the purpose of all civilization over the past 150,000 years, I now feel qualified to answer the above question with an emphatic: No, birth, suffering and death is not all there is to life. We are missing the point and Equanimous is all about you waking up and understanding your purpose. There is a greater meaning to life than owning a big car, having a gorgeous partner and holidaying in the tropics twice a year, although it cannot be denied these things are nice. But life is not about just feeling nice. It is sad that nice is so often a smidgen better than the contentment Joe Average expects in this everthreatening world. It is time that we awakened from our collective reverie and each of us started putting in the hard yards to adapt the mindset that tells us that nice is the best we can hope for. There is more. There is better. And anyone can live it if we just started believing it is possible. It is no longer good enough to await God to heal this Earth, for prophets to cure our ills or teachers to tell us, once again, how we should live better lives. In this book you will learn that you are enough to do all that needs to be done and times are such that you cannot delay your personal responsibility to evolve for even a moment longer. Our species has come from sticks and stones to hadron colliders and stem cells in a blur; a tiny fraction of the 4.1 billion years that we are told Earth has been in existence. And yet, here we are, civilization marching on into a bright, interconnected web-based, blog and Twitter-dependent future and we havent even learned to share anything more valuable between cultures than our email addresses. If life has a point, and it does indeed, we need to

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get it here, from the message of Master Jacob, and we need to do something about it now. Yes, we may have the existentialists banging on about giving your own life meaning and the metaphysicists telling us what exists and what it feels like but none of them can tell you Why? or What is the point of it all? Are you a bag of bones thrown together by biology, roasted in the oceans and spat out onto the shore? Or are you a product of God, knocked out in a single day and cast into an Eden that you share with a mysterious woman who is also looking for her belly button? Science has theories about how all this came together but it is no more fact than fossils and theory will allow it to be. There is not a scientist in existence who can claim with 100% certainty where this planet came from. There is not one man, woman or child who can prove to you that it was not mixed up from a bag of instant planet formula, microwaved and placed in the void by a giant bakers mitten. Thats not what happened, by the way. Lets just cross off that scenario from the get-go. Orranut and I believe the answers we have learned from Master Jacob offer everyone a clear and concise insight into who you are, why you are here, what your purpose is in life and how you can go about it successfully, in peace and in joy. If you dont believe in spirit guides like Master Jacob, dont let that be a barrier to your understanding of the bigger picture. Just substitute spirit guide for teacher. If youre Christian, substitute it with God. If youre agnostic, substitute it with energy. If youre a Muppet fan, substitute it with Kermit. It really doesnt matter. The point is that, whatever you call the source of the information, the reason we have written this book is to ask you to question the perception you have of who you are and why you are here because I guarantee that by the end of this work you will have been challenged. Expect it and dont take it personally. I consider myself a spiritual person in that I take a great interest in seeking the truth about myself but I can state wholeheartedly

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that I had no idea what I would uncover in the process of these conversations. I have absolutely evolved into a new being during the course of writing this book, whether I liked it or not. It truly is a remarkable insight into life, the universe and, well, just about everything, that even the late, great Douglas Adams couldnt have imagined! My hope is that Equanimous can do the same for you as it has done for me. It is no coincidence that this book comes at a time when humanity faces unprecedented ecological trauma, rising political conflict and eroding social trust and respect. The interconnected and interdependent nature of the universe will always give us exactly what we need whether we are looking for it or not! We have reached the end of the road for the old ideas that created the modern crisis in human identity and those of us who are asking the question of whether this is all there is to life must now be prepared to look inward and answer our own question by making something better than what we have with what we think, say and do. There are no other tools, dear friends, just these. There are no short cuts either, just the opportunity for people to wake up as individuals, accept their part in the process of creation and make a better world. Equanimous isnt just a new description of reality. It offers you real reasons to change your life and the mechanisms by which to go about it. In Part One you will learn the shape and structures that exist in our universe, the true nature of humanity and the truth of why our collective search for equanimity; true spiritual harmony and balance in our lives, is so vital to our future. In Part Two you will learn about Share Circles and the way in which every reader can build person to person, family to family and community to community, spiritual groups that will help us all to share the load of change and work together towards a more equanimous future. Humanity labors under the false belief that we will just keep going on and on. Progress is a natural state, we have concluded; we came from caves, we rose to skyscrapers and we will eventually conquer the stars. But life isnt like that. Nature isnt like that, at

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least, not here on Earth. The current version of civilization, the western model let us call it, is not the first to have existed. We have all been around on this journey time and time again and we keep failing to learn from the mistakes of ages past. Unless we wake up and smell the coffee in this generation, the stupor of ignorance that condemns us all to pursue pointless goals in life and to do so without any awareness or effort to learn from them will continue to plague our every thought, word and action and the resulting ego that has thrived so successfully on our planet will have to face the consequences of its own falling shadow one last time. Orranut and I are not prophets. We are not soothsayers. We are not totally mental (youll have to take our word for it!). What is contained in this book is a call for everyone who reads it to open their mind to the prospect that beyond their superficial self, their authentic self is awaiting inclusion and involvement in the creation of an authentic reality that initiates humanitys evolution from the trance of self-absorption to the heights of self-realization. You innately know the paths that will help you become equanimous because you have already agreed, before you were even born into this life, to find a way to become more authentic and, in doing so, thrust this entire planet in the same direction: authenticity. We have written this book to help you do that. It is time to act. Equanimous is more than channeled information. It is more than a plea for greater community and more sharing. It is a book of hope in a time of great change. It is a book of love in a time of great fear. It is a book of unity and togetherness in a time that has the potential for such division, for both Orranut and I know what it is like to be rudderless, lost and alone. By speaking out on these pages we do not claim the only truth, nor do we claim that any other truth is wrong but that, whichever truth you are buying into, unless it creates more peace on this Earth and less conflict in our individual lives, it is not doing what it says on the tin. There are no pause buttons on values. There are no sabbaticals on the learning of life. We cannot await perfect conditions to be kind, loving and gentle.

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The next war is always the last, so we tell ourselves. So, let the demons within be the final battle on this Earth. No one need die except ego. Our planet has reached a juncture in its evolution that is not about the politics of left and right or the definition of right vs. wrong. It is about the nature of our souls. If we are to survive together and work towards a greater purpose than a job, buying stuff, learning how to rumba and just generally trying not to die too quickly, we need a higher purpose than self-destruction. We can live together or we can die alone but the choice of which we become experts at is best made from a plateau of awareness that truly comprehends that your life has purpose and that it is a purpose that connects all of us together and all things as one. Equanimous may answer questions about the universe. It may answer questions about God and the Prophets. It may even give you teasing insights into how to make a creamy cup of Joe. But it is does not answer the question of whether you will stand up once you have finished reading it, put on your best walking shoes and stride through your personal purpose like a knife through hot butter. You are the missing ingredient in your own perfection and all you need do is start cooking. In a very real sense, Orranut and I have not written Equanimous at all. It is your book. It was always here, waiting to come alive in the lives of those who are prepared to wake up. That time is now and that life is yours. Equanimous belongs to us all. It is a part of everything. Take what is yours and live it as if you mean it. No more fear.

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Part 1 : The History of Humanity

The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees and soil. Our bodily parts function as a cooperative. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise, that human beings are all mutual friends in the process of birth, old age, suffering and death, then we can build a noble, even heavenly environment. If our lives are not based in this truth, then we shall all perish. Extract from The quest for a just society: the legacy and challenge of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, ed. by Sulak Sivaraksa Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, (Thai: ) Thai Buddhist Monk, May 27, 1906 - May 25, 1993

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Chapter 1 The Universe

For nearly two and a half millennia, the Chinese have celebrated the power of Feng Shui: the art of designing the exterior and interior of buildings to sit harmoniously among the native energies of the Earth. Feng Shui practitioners believe that this world is not merely a floating ball of rock and soil but a living energetic entity and the design of every structure, the curves and edges of its external features and the placement of fixtures and furniture within it, all affect the energetic flow of a living space. To practice Feng Shui is to practice shaping an environment to the energy of the Earth. Should you inadvertently disturb the energy of the Earth, you also disturb any human activity that would occur there. Thinkers hailing from the European tradition have utilized the last two thousand five hundred years a tad differently. We have spent them conjuring up technical epithets for practitioners of Feng Shui. So far, cuckoo is the connoisseurs choice, closely followed by brainsick. A few bricks short of a hod-carriers load runs a close third. Flippancy aside, it would be injudicious to glibly dismiss the possibility that the natural environment interacts with buildings or objects in subtle as well as more evident ways. Throughout the ages human culture has often doffed its proverbial hat in the direction of this belief through such customs as respecting the spirits of the land or through Gods that represent natural energies such as the sun or the wind. Likewise, artists, mathematicians and spiritualists, to name but a few, have utilized the power of shapes, icons and images that are said to draw upon the natural energies of the planet. Many of these beliefs still endure today, so we should not be so hasty as to snub them as primitive simply because they are ancient.

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Some may call the use of this energy magic, others supernatural, still others shamanism but what if the respect of these energetic forces was simply a necessary and natural obligation of all people seeking harmony in their life, from whatever historical period we hail? What if the very shape of our lives acts as a lightning rod for an energetic interaction with the planet which, in turn, defines the potential for harmony or conflict we can create? And, if this is so, what could we achieve with our lives if we opened our minds, understood a little more about the energies at our disposal and began using them to create a more harmonious and balanced planet? The premise of Feng Shui, that a shape or form placed on the land can cause an energetic response from the Earth, is very similar to the idea that a shape or form could spontaneously invoke an energetic response from a human being, isnt it? After all, we are natural products too? When we experience something in life, when we feel something, look at it, taste, smell, hear or intuit it, a response naturally arises within us without any conscious choice. It is spontaneous. We are naturally eased into a state of peace and tranquility or anger and frustration, depending upon our relationship to the experience. It is as though the energetic shape of our lives interacts with the energetic shape of the event to create an effect. Upon closer inspection of European history we discover that Feng Shui is not such an alien concept to Western culture after all. The reaction of a human being to a shape is exactly the kind of instinctive response that occurs when people view one such magic shape known as the Golden Ratio. Indeed, the Golden Ratio turns out to be, not just an interesting anomaly, but a powerful symbol that affects all people, arousing a deep-seated state that lies dormant until stirred by a powerful key. Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian

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mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.
Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number (Broadway; 1st edition October 29, 2002)

The Golden Ratio, often represented by the Greek letter Phi, is best explained as the ratio of length to width in rectangles that is most pleasing to the eye. It was defined by mathematicians as the number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820. However, as long as I stare at that number, it neither sends a shiver down my spine nor moves me in any other way than to wonder what possessed someone to work it out to so many decimal points. It must have been a very, very wet Sunday. The only way to really feel the Golden Ratio at work is to view its application in art or architecture where it seems to imbue a creation with an unusually moving sense of harmony and balance. Such great structures as the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt and the Acropolis in Athens or art such as Phidias statue of Zeus in Olympiad or Da Vincis painting of the Last Supper are notable examples of artistic and architectural applications of this phenomenon that move the observer emotionally, in ways that absurdly long numbers rarely can. Unless its your tax bill. For an extended period of ancient history in cultures all across the Earth from China to Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia to India and Peru our ancestors invested a lot of effort in reproducing the Golden Ratio in buildings, statues and art across a wide range of cultures over a broad period of time. You dont accidentally do this.

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Neither do you do this just because it is very, very wet. It is deliberate. It has meaning. Thousands of years before the Greeks even knew what the Golden Ratio was, ancient cultures, seemingly disparate and unconnected, were consciously using this formula for very specific reasons. Why? In the twelfth century an Italian mathematician called Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, expanded on a sequence of numbers first described by the Indian philosopher Pingala in the second century before the current era. If you have read The Da Vinci Code or seen the movie, you will have come across the Fibonacci numbers, which Pisano calculated in order to answer how many rabbits would be created in one year assuming that each pair bred once each month beginning in the second month after their birth. I am not making that up, by the way. Go on. Read it again and weep. Leaving aside the burning need to ask why anyone with all their marbles would want to know the answer to that question, this author is most grateful that Fibonacci did. The result is a sequence of numbers that is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 ... etc.). While this may sound exceedingly dull, even to someone who thinks knitting is an extreme sport, Fibonacci had rediscovered Pingalas subtle message from over a millennium before: there is a pattern to how everything in the universe relates to everything else. This is how the Fibonacci pattern looks when line-drawn:

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What does this silly picture mean? It is the pictorial representation of this rather more gorgeous natural application:

Photo by L. Shyamal Helianthus flower, Bannerghatta Bangalore, 2006 Wikipedia CC License: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5)

This picture of a Helianthus is a Fibonacci spiral in a three dimensional natural formation. Flowers, ferns, trees, shells, snails, even the relationship between a person and their belly-button and the shape of entire galaxies organize themselves and relate to one another in this pattern. And you have to admit, it is both incredibly beautiful and familiar all at the same time. But why, when such ancient forms as the Golden Ratio, Feng Shui or Fibonacci spirals are applied to spaces and forms, do they spontaneously induce such a natural feeling of aesthetic beauty, calm or peace when viewed by a person? The answer is because all shapes and forms in our world are reflections of their energetic vibration and those shapes and
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patterns most entrained with nature vibrate at a wavelength that connects with another of natures great marvels: human beings. This vibration is not a local phenomenon. Nor is the shape of the Fibonacci Spiral, the Golden Ratio or the basic principles of Feng Shui coincidental. They each reflect the shape and vibration of the universe itself, repeated again and again and again in everyone and everything. So, as our human senses digest this sacred geometry, the feeling that results is like a chord strummed across the very fiber of our souls. This, I believe, is what some of our ancient ancestors knew very well. They were fully aware that humanity is not a species separate or divided from our environment and they left teachings to guide those who suspect that there is more to life than just coincidences, luck, bricks and right vs. wrong. Our environment moves us, we interact with it, our lives are molded by it because we are intricately connected with its shapes and forms that affect us in quiet but meaningful ways. We are being guided by the entire universe to begin living our lives in ways that reflect the shapes of the universe and everything and everyone is screaming at every human being, albeit under their breath, the same soft message: Wake up! Unless we listen to the message of nature and learn how to make sense of these shapes and patterns in our lives, we will forever conclude that events are random, life is just stone and pizza and we are all victims of circumstances in a big accidental universe that doesnt care about anyone or anything. That is about as far from a useful truth as any truth can be. The life of the average westernized person is not entrained with these natural principles in any shape or form. When I say that our lives dont reflect a Fibonacci spiral at all, this does not mean that we should all become snails or that our purposes should meander a circuitous route but that we must expand our minds beyond the conventional interpretations of size, shape, weight and other measurements that our scientific minds might use to define what is practical in life and begin to create lives that feel like the Fibonacci

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spiral when you see it represented in art and architecture. The Fibonacci spiral embodies the infinite balance, harmony and flow of natural energies. When these properties are reflected in the patterns of our lives we feel at peace, we feel comfortable, we feel in harmony with life. In contrast, western thinking has for millennia sought to find stark comfort in the straight edges and sharp corners of beginnings and endings that separate the sky from the ground, the tree from the fish, the rock from the air, the bird from the clouds and the atom from the molecule until nothing appears to flow into one another and all things are individual, separate and alone. When we apply ideas to our life that do not create natural synergism (increased overall power) or natural symbiosis (a win/win situation) we effectively conflict with the movement and shape of our environment. From this conflict suffering, quite naturally, arises. A crude analogy of how we disrespect these patterns in our lives might be trying to get water to flow upstream or the wind to blow in another direction. Although you might, for a time, be able to create the impression of these things occurring by applying mechanisms and technologies that force it to do so, the result is artificial. The river is not really flowing the other way and the wind has not really changed direction. If you do this for long enough you will forget how the river flows and the wind blows and believe that the artificial air and water are great accomplishments because they are doing what you want them to do. These types of patterns occur so frequently in our lives; using violent means to create a world we think serves our purposes, but this ignores the fact that the wind and water flow in the direction they flow for the same reason that blood flows towards the human heart through veins and away from the heart in an artery. It wouldn't be effective any other way. The patterns of nature may sometimes fill invisible channels and head towards intangible objectives but to place in their way human barriers that dismiss their purpose as inconsequential because we cannot comprehend how they connect with our own is to detach

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from the natural mechanisms that bring order to the universe and to descend into an artificial environment created from the illusions of humanity. It is madness to adjust nature to suit our purposes. It is wisdom to adjust our own to the purposes of nature. In that way we become natural once again and, in becoming natural, we will find peace. The choice to accept a mind full of beginnings and endings has a simple logic behind it. Sadly, logic is not a Fibonacci spiral. It has sharp edges and straight lines and thus its unbridled application to the creation of our world tends towards filling our lives with artificial patterns that lead us further from connecting to our natural heritage, let alone our friends and family. If you organize your mind along the lines of beginnings and endings then it is a logical assumption to conclude that you and I are also separate from one another. After all, physically, you can see where you begin and I end. From this initial conclusion, a false conclusion I might add, everything begins to unravel from a tightly knit ball of unity into a disparate set of unconnected parts and pieces. With beginnings and endings life and death are distinctly different and unconnected, an event on one side of the planet is not connected to an event on the other side of the planet, the eternal process of causality, of all things affecting all other things, seem as if it can be controlled and stripped down to the manageable context of my life, your life, their country and our country and so on and so forth. Thus, in such a world, all responsibility for events, as well as possession of objects, can be divided and assigned so that we can each go about our independent days in the belief that we live once, we are here alone and that the ultimate philosophical purpose of life is to enjoy what we can own for as long as we can possibly own it and from this philosophy of separation and independence, so we extrapolate our society, economy, politics, education, medicine and science. We build legal systems out of guilt and innocence, education out of pass and fail, life out of success and failure,

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business out of winners and losers, structuring and shaping our personal conduct and our relationships with one another in ways that learn to distrust the moderation of balance that has relegated the search for harmony to an idealistic pipe-dream. Over the millennia, as natural values have slowly given way to artificial divisions, our social, political, and economic structures have become equally exclusive and divisive. The civilization we have created is not a natural pattern. It is waging war against natural patterns and thus the lives of the individuals within it are battlefields and the battles that we win are quickly destroying the trophy: Earth. If the motivation of greed is the best shape we can come up with to create a better world, what shapes are the minds in which this idea appears so profound and compelling? In this first section of Equanimous we will begin our talk with Master Jacob by looking at the shapes that structure the universe in which our earthly environment has developed. If we wish to create harmonious lives, we must begin by creating awareness of how harmony manifests in the universe and how we can apply these shapes to live together on the planet more effectively. To achieve this, we will need to first suspend our faith in our conventional notions of what the universe is and why it is here because these ideas support the patterns by which we have built our lives and they will not change by themselves. We must each consciously recognize the part we have played in contributing towards the habits and rituals that dictate what is normal in our personal world and accept that the only way to create something new is to break these ingrained habits and change the patterns that build the limits in our own lives. Talking of beginnings and endings, lets start our dialog with the mother of all beginnings: The Big Bang. It is one of the most glaring examples of the divisiveness that we project into our reality. Can there be a bigger example of a bigger beginning than this? Where did the idea of the Big Bang come from? My intention here is not to criticize Georges Lematre, who in 1927 postulated the Big

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Bang theory, but to examine the paradigm in which he and millions of other people were constructing their view of the universe and wonder whether it is still helpful to us to continue believing that the universe started and therefore will one day end or whether a different shape would help us to build lives that are more conducive to a greater future than the inevitability of a dark, finite death. The idea of the Big Bang did not come from a mind contemplating the possibility of infinity, thats for sure. It came from a consciousness whose limits precluded the idea. From within this paradigm, it is natural that our own life should conform to the same limits that reinforce our separation and independence from other people around us. Therefore, challenging ideas that support this paradigm is the first step to a new beginning for us all. If we can leave behind the very first division, the very first beginning and the very first notion that anything has begun or ended, we evolve away from the shapes that limit who we can be and into the interconnected patterns of natures infinity. According to Wikipedia: As used by cosmologists, the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (currently estimated to have been approximately 13.7 billion years ago), and continues to expand to this day. Perhaps you personally dont give two hoots whether the universe began with a bang, ends with a crunch, or continues with any other onomatopoeic noun but the laws that are in effect in the meantime are the same laws that make you and me walk, talk and watch reality TV for hours with only salty snacks and adult diapers for company. The inevitable conclusion in short: ignorance of the shape, values and processes of the universe around you is akin to ignorance of your own nature, which inevitably gives birth to

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producers who believe that reality TV adds to the quality of human endeavor. Now, do you realize how urgently you need to pay attention? Im no physicist but I must say the notion of the Big Bang has always bothered me. Im not saying Id sit up late at night fretting, but it has certainly caused me slight indigestion on occasion. Id wonder, for instance, if the Big Bang started the universe, what came before the start? How did something (the entire universe) come from some stable or fixed state before which only that stable and fixed state was present? Why did it cease to be stable and become unstable? What caused it? And if something caused it, then it wasn't fixed or stable in the first place. So, not only can you tell from this how full of paradoxes the whole idea is, you can also see how anal I really am. But seriously, the current scientific view of the Big Bang is like saying: Before the baby was born from the sperm and the egg there was, well, nothing really. Nothing happened. Its a miracle. Honest guvnor, I didnt even touch her! Perhaps the universe was carried into existence in the mouth of a stork? It sounds about as credible. Maybe it is just my relentlessly enquiring mind but I have to ask what came before the explosion. If we are to assume that nothing comes from nothing and only something comes from something but that something cannot come from nothing and nothing cannot come from something, we must either reread that sentence to know what on Earth Im talking about or look for a simpler explanation. The simpler explanation is that the universe cannot just spring into existence without a cause. In other words, if the Big Bang came from a primordial hot and dense initial condition what conditioned that condition? We are all creatures of nature and thus, the universe should behave in natural ways but I have never experienced the magic of something being created from nothing and neither have I ever experienced a beginning nor an end of anything. All I have seen is

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transformation, transition and transience and I am yet to find anything that does not hold to these laws. All lifes problems occur because we are trying to create a life unsuited to the environment in which we exist. It is like trying to get from A to B with the wrong map. Life becomes trial and error when we should know enough about the environment of life for it to guide us without too much disaster along the way. What seems to be right and what should work isnt right and doesnt work and yet we keep on trying because we are unwilling or unable to let go of the only methods of creation that we are familiar with. The rules of life become less confusing if you understand where they came from. In this case, they surely didnt come from nothing Michael Paul Stephens: Master Jacob, did the Big Bang really occur? Was there really a massive explosion that brought the entire universe into being? I asked these questions one day in November 2009, riding home from work with Orranut. Having decided to write this book, I was quite sure I wanted to start it off at the beginning of pretty much everything and I couldnt think of a bigger beginning than this. As we started to research this book, Orranut would often take a while to connect with Master Jacob but, as time went on, this changed. She would soon remark that he was frequently with her throughout the day, commenting, offering advice and generally acting as her fourth spirit guide. Yes, she has three others. Some people have a lot of help. Master Jacob: The universe has always existed. Its nature has always been similar to what it is now. MPS: Well, thats very revealing on its own, Master Jacob but I would like to explain to people why the shape and structure of the universe is significant. As I understand it, current science tells us that the universe is
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expanding out like a bubble 2. Could you tell me if this is the correct observation and if there was some kind of explosion involved to create this expansive movement? MJ: An explosion implies violence, that there was something destroyed to create the universe in its current form, but this is not the case. One of the things I learned very quickly with Master Jacob was that I needed to ask very specific questions. Little information would be volunteered. I had to work it out myself and get him to confirm it. It is his way of helping me to remember what I already know. MPS: OK, so let me put it like this, Master Jacob. I need to understand why science has observed the universe expanding outwards from a central point. Physicists believe that this was caused by an enormous event over 13 billion Earth years ago, called the Big Bang and that, one day, the universe may run out of the energy that currently causes it to expand and, when it does, it will contract in a Big Crunch. What I would like to know is whether this observation is correct and could you also shed some light on the mechanism by which the universe expands and contracts like this? MJ: The observation that the universe is expanding is correct. However, you have almost answered the question yourself. You are as natural as the universe round you, right? MPS: Are you saying that a human being reflects the way the universe moves?

In 1929 Edwin Hubble and Milton L. Humason formulated what has come to be known as Hubble's law. This dened how light changed, known as redshift, when an object was moving away from the observer. Their discovery showed that other galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way. In simple terms, this was the rst empirical support for the Big Bang theory, which had been proposed by Georges Lematre in 1927.

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MJ: Of course. You are part of the universe. In your body, what organ expands and contracts in the same way as you have described the universe? I thought for a moment before realizing. MPS: Oh, the lungs? MJ: Correct. MPS: My goodness. The universe is breathing. MJ: Indeed. Wow, the universe is breathing? Why not? But what an insight! While the human mind finds such comfort in breaking things down into mechanical processes, physics has never taken seriously the idea that the universe may in fact be a living, biological entity or, at the very least, behave as a living entity would. I have never seen a living entity spontaneously explode, have you? Well, there was that scene in the movie Scanners, but that is beside the point. The expansion/contraction shape is consistent with all things that exist in this world. Why should the universe as a whole be any different? Get over it! MPS: OK, if the universe is breathing and we are in the inhalation breath, that would explain the expansion, but why would it exhale and contract? What causes the transition from expansion to contraction? Is this what science might call the Big Crunch? Will the universe collapse back to infinitesimal energy in an infinitesimally small space? MJ: It did not come from infinitesimal energy in a n infinitesimally small space, as you put it, so the question of going back there should not arise, should it? Nothing is repeated and nothing goes backwards. Let me give an example of the mechanism. When the energy of the universe reaches critical mass, the energy of expansion is less than that of contraction. In a linear way, you can
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view it as a seesaw with a weight that moves along its length. Eventually the see-saw tips over simply because there is a point where change is triggered by the energetic laws that naturally govern such things. MPS: Right, so if we compare the metaphor to breathing, would it be like the reflex action of the lungs? One of the triggers of breathing, as I understand it, is the build up of carbon dioxide in the body. We do not need to be aware of it. There is nobody pulling a lever or flipping a switch. MJ: Thats right. The breathing process is not mechanical or preset. It just occurs when the right conditions are attained. MPS: Thank goodness for that. I was worried that the universe might forget to breath without an email reminding someone to pull the lever. Orranut tells me that there is silence from Master Jacob. MPS: That was a joke. MJ: Indeed. It took Master Jacob a while to get used to my humor. I hope the reader will afford me the same patience. MPS: OK, moving onso universal breathing is no different to, say, the changing seasons on Earth? When the energetic conditions are right, the temperature, the moisture, the wind, the air pressure etc. the process simply changes automatically? MJ: This is correct. MPS: Contemporary scientific opinion says that the current universal exhalation breath, if I can call it that, has been on-going for around 13.7 billion years. Does that correspond with your historical record?

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MJ: Time is not something I wonder about. The reader will note as we progress through this work that Master Jacob is consistently uneasy about using time periods, not because he does not know dates but because he feels that time tends to reinforce the linear impression people have of their lives. He has often tried to explain to me why the use of time paralyses the mind in a fictional reality but it is still hard for me to grasp how being five hundred years late for a dinner appointment would not be considered ill-mannered in any dimension. Regardless, Master Jacob has made it plain to us that the measurement of time is not an important focus, although he always tries his best to give details whenever he can. MPS: I understand that time is not something you are comfortable with discussing but I think you are very familiar with the need of humans to place events on a timeline in order to comprehend them in sequence. MJ: I am constantly fascinated by how unhelpful it is. MPS: Right, OKbut would you help me out by confirming whether the 13.7 billion year timeframe is reasonable? MJ: I will not argue with it. MPS: Do universal contractions and expansions always have equal duration? MJ: No. They are different. Again, it is like human breathing. Sometimes deep, sometimes shallow. If you listened to your own breath you would realize that every breath is unique. If you listened to the universal breathing it would be as enlightening as listening to your own. MPS: What does the exhalation breath do? What is its purpose? MJ: It is like cooking.
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MPS: Do you mean it prepares conditions? MJ: Something like that. MPS: And the inhalation breath iswhat exactly? MJ: Serving the dish. MPS: So the out-breath, as the universe shrinks, is the gestation phase and the in-breath is the creative phase, as it expands? MJ: You could put it in those terms, yes. MPS: What created this process? Is this God? MJ: No one knows. What is known is that energy is continuously rippling out across the universe fueling the expansion. The energy is not finite. MPS: Oh, so the Big Bang theory basically postulates that there is a fixed sum of energy-being spread out thinner and thinner across space. What youre saying is that there are interim ripples, like mini-bangs, between the expansions and contractions? MJ: Correct, but without the bang as you put it. MPS: I see. And what do these ripples do, exactly? MJ: They add impetus to the movement. They are like the fuel to keep it going, if you will. MPS: How long might one of these ripples last? MJ: It varies but lets say one human lifetime, for arguments sake. MPS: And can we speculate that energy is somehow sucked back in during contraction, like ripples going the other way?

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MJ: You could speculate that. MPS: It sounds like the waves of the sea landing on the shore and then withdrawing back into the sea. MJ: Another good analogy. There are many such analogies as this pattern is repeated throughout the natural universe. The breathing, the tides, the ripples, the expansion and contraction; the very motion of the universe is totally applicable to motion right here on Earth. Youd think in a universe of this size and age it would have thought of some different patterns by now, wouldnt you? Its just the bone idle laziness of the youth of today, I say. MPS: Human science also speculates that there is a black hole at the center of the universe. Could you confirm this? MJ: How can there be a center of something infinite? I kicked myself. MPS: I mean, could you confirm that there is a massive black hole at the point where the expansion and contraction emanates from. MJ: Yes. A black hole exists at that place. MPS: What is its purpose? MJ: It is like the nostrils in the center of your face, breathing in matter and spewing energy back out. This energy is the stuff of creation. MPS: Is this energy what scientists call dark energy or dark matter? *3
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About dark matter and dark energy the NASA website says roughly 70% of the Universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe.

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MJ: Indeed. MPS: This process sounds like a tree breathing in carbon dioxide, transforming it and breathing out oxygen. MJ: Once again, a very good analogy. MPS: So they are not, as science speculates, so gravitationally powerful that nothing can escape them. MJ: No they are catalytic entities spewing out creative energy to nurture the universal process. They are also like universal timekeepers constantly clicking. MPS: Ah, radioactivity, like a nuclear clock. MJ: Yes. They are not as frightening as humans might believe they are. Even your sun has a black hole. Do you believe that? Master Jacob was describing to me the way the universe moves in a totally natural phenomenon: breathing. There is an in-breath and an out-breath, a expansion and a contraction. It is just yin and yang. No Bang needed. For years I had been telling my students a karmic lesson about the Pebble in the Pond, and how you cannot take back a choice once it has been thrown into the waters of time. Ripples expand out across the lake from the point where the decision hit and rebound back to the source once the ripples have hit the bank. Now, speaking to an energetic being from another universe I was hearing the same story repeated back, and this time, it was a story related to the creation of nothing less than, well everything. Your life is an environment, it is an ambience, it is a recipe brought to realization through the taste buds of your experience and it exists in the same universe that Master Jacob describes as expanding and contracting in a continuous fluctuation of highs and lows, strength and weakness, creation and destruction. How you

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prepare yourself to suit that environment and the behaviors and habits with which you create your life within it defines the quality of your relationship with nature, and thus how authentic your life feels to you. The more authentic it becomes, the better you feel. This feeling is all that really matters. Like a badly fitting shirt, too tight and it feels constricting, too large and it drowns you. It doesnt matter a jot whether the label says its your size. Its all about how it feels, right? Life is the same way. If life feels good, you must be doing something right. Changing your perception of what a good life might be made from is a vital step in creating one. The right house, the right job, the right income, the right spouse, the right family, the right hair cut, the Playstation 15 and the Gibson Les Paul may have the right ring about it in a mind that meets all your spiritual needs through physical solutions but the end result is attachment to the physical world and the resulting suffering that goes with it. We reach out for physical solutions to life's ills becausewellwhat other options seem credible? Religion has let me down. Politics is corrupt. My marriage has failed. I hate my family. Even my dog has eaten my slippers. What else can dull the pain of life but a good dose of shiny stuff? Why is life so painful anyway? How on Earth did I even get this gig? What was God thinking when he made me? No need to answer that. The first issue each of us has to address is how to create a life that actually works in the environment in which we live. You may have gone out and got yourself a terrific Lamborghini because you imagine the universe to be a racing track, but if the universe is shaped more like a sky dive youve just invested your entire lifes earnings in a vehicle that is going to crash and burn however much fun it may seem on the way down. Piling on the juice just makes the inevitable quicker. Your life may just become the biggest bang going. Any ideas why you suffer yet? Orranut and I spend much of our time healing and counseling and many of our clients lives do indeed look frighteningly similar

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to a car wreck. People take a single problem and smash it into a million different parts and then sit paralyzed not knowing which part to work on first. But heres the answer: understand where you are. Understand your environment. Understand what the universe really is. Understand what it will take to live in rhythm with it. And, if its a sky dive, buy a parachute. MPS: What is the shape of the universe? I asked Master Jacob, some days later, once again driving back home from the south of Phuket after some healing sessions on the island. I looked at Orranut sitting in the back seat of the car and she is smiling. She informs me my question has been met with laughter. It was good that Master Jacob was finding his sense of humor but it was somewhat unsettling to have an ancient energy-being giggling at you, whatever the cause. MJ: What is the shape of your mind? I think about it. MPS: Are you saying the universe and mind have the same shape? I realized how dumb the question must sound even as it leaves my mouth. Silence from the back seat. Orranut: Hes laughing again. MPS: Fair enough. My mind, like everyone elses, is stuck looking for reassuring shapes and patterns that conform to the preconceived notions of what is real and what is not. They are wholly illusory. If we assign our universe a fixed shape, if it is donut-shaped or orb-shaped or spiral-shaped or even shaped like a cute little teddy bear then, by virtue of this, we must conclude that it would also have dimension and with dimensions come walls, barriers, starts and ends etc. From
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this paradigm, the theory of the Big Bang becomes very plausible, and from within this mindset we extrapolate our linear tale of how the universe must have started, grown to a certain shape and size, created the Earth, built each of us separate and independent of one another and so on and so forth. It is the greatest linear illusion in existence. When we set up our mental environment to entertain such notions as a fixed shape and size, everything we think, say and do is extrapolated from it in order to support a consistent model. Lets put this as succinctly as possible: the Big Bang Theory is a fantasy based upon the initial assumption of a finite mind. MPS: If I were to take a physical telescope that could see forever, I asked, would I ever see the end of the universe? I sat back in my chair, awaiting what I expected to be more inevitable laughter. I was quietly surprised. MJ: It has the physical properties of shape and mass but it is also infinite. MPS: Were I to take a telescope that could see forever, would physical planets exist at every point that I looked into the infinity? This was definitely a giggle-inducing type of question. Master Jacob can some times lose patience with questions that stretch the point of the point to the point of pointlessness. And I am an expert at just those types of questions MJ: I have never been there. I do not know. A reply in true character. I left it at that. Understanding the way in which the universe moves is of no use to us whatsoever unless we apply those shapes to our lives to make our reality more compatible with the natural order of things. What we have learned is that nature creates, recreates and creates

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once again the same shapes throughout the entire universe to inspire our greater connection to the natural processes by which we must all live and through which we must all get along with one another. We may sometimes feel alone and vulnerable in this world but that is simply because we have not learned to connect to the multitude of natural signposts revealing our purpose and how we can get there in joy and contentment. Stacked into every gram of soil, every cubic inch of air and every milliliter of water on this Earth are the patterns and shapes that encourage human entrainment with nature, but the human mind has the unprecedented capacity to relegate nature from possessing profound meaning to meaning nothing more than commodities. We separate and detach from our natural connection to such an extent that we forlornly believe that human life can be acted out in a sterile artificial environment where the nature of nature is mute and irrelevant. But nature has a deafening voice if we learn to turn up the volume through our personal sensitivity. It talks to us, interacts, communicates on so many subtle levels but we must learn to listen. The way in which we organize our lives to entrain with natural patterns and shapes defines, to a very great extent, the shape of energetic feedback that can either nurture our spirit, our sense of connectivity and our feeling of interdependence, or whittle it away to nothing and leave us all feeling separate, alone and purposeless within a world closing in on us. Neither of these choices happen without effort. It is not random or a case of bad luck if we feel disconnected from our natural world or if our life seems meaningless or empty. It is entirely up to you which effort you apply to your reality just as it is entirely up to you what you believe to be right and wrong in that reality. Bearing in mind that our wealth and status-driven economy has encouraged humanity to invest so much time and effort in the competitive processes of winners and losers, clearly you must make a different investment in your life if you are seeking inclusion and not

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exclusion, community and not self, respect and not prejudice. It is not a cakewalk, I admit, but I guarantee it will require no more effort than that you have so far invested to create the reality you already have. Life is a spiral. It is breathing. It is ebbing and flowing just as surely as your world is changing, your lungs are inhaling and your heart is pumping blood around your body. Learning to build the bridges between you and your authentic self is just a single step in the direction of creating harmony and balance, for in attaching to the mental markers that have created the barriers of beginnings and endings in your life, you have forgotten that you are the greatest pattern of them all, floating without attachment to the natural patterns that created you. While the universe breathes in and out, so do you. As is outside, so exists inside. Listen. Feel. And if one day the talking stops, silence reigns within and life feels good all at the same time, you will know that the shape of your reality has aligned with the shape of the entire universe. And both you and the entire universe will laugh as one.

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Chapter 2 Energy-Beings
Memory is a curious thing. I dont know why it should be important but I remember we were eating a particularly impressive stew in an Irish pub in Patong, Phuket when Orranut first started channeling Master Jacob. It was May 2007, almost exactly nine months before the birth of our first son and suddenly she was telling me of a man who wanted to talk to me, his face commanding and powerful, his mustache strong and broad, voice low and deliberate. It was very good stew indeed. Master Jacob describes himself as a psychologist and a philosopher. He is a passionate being, there is no doubt about that, somewhat impatient at times, especially if his expression is being compromised by the difficulties in translation that always occur during channeling. But there is also no doubt that he is compassionate, dedicated, incredibly connected to nature and energetically highly evolved, all characteristics that you would want from a being who professes to tell you where you come from and what you mean. But he is no fortune teller, thats for sure. Indeed, he can get quite impatient with any questions that step into the predictive realm. The reason for this, he is quick to explain, is that the future is always changing and we should all learn to pay more attention to the present, which we can do something about. When Orranut sees Master Jacob in her mind, she often sees him sitting in a large three-roomed house, which appears to be his house or office. One room is a high-walled library bedecked with ancient literature, another is a domed meeting area with a huge skylight where the stars beam out from the inky black canvas of space and the last is a study or writing area where an ornate lectern stands with a thick tome resting upon it, wide-open and ready for enquiry. Sometimes when she is awaiting an answer from him
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Orranut can hear him flicking through pages of a book or murmuring in consultation with other beings. Clearly, the physical body and the noble abode is just the form that Orranut sees. Master Jacob describes himself as an energybeing, so I doubt he has much need for a physical house, books or writing areas, let alone a physical body with which to walk between them. As every channel will tell you, each energy-being channeled comes replete with a set of personalized characteristics unique to the being but some of which may be a product of the channels mind itself or a reflection of the channels past experience of that being. The reason for this seems to be to put the channel at rest by appearing in a familiar form or a reflection of how the channel may have met the energy-being in another corporeal existence. After all, who knows what an energy-being really looks like? The first time we met Master Jacob he told me in no uncertain terms that my teacher was coming. Nine months later, my son was born and since then he has taught me more about myself than perhaps I learned in my first forty years of life. Regardless, what we knew about Master Jacob until recently was very little. Then, one day late in 2009, I decided to ask him if I could write a book of our conversations that would place the conventional history of our universe, the planet and humanity in a spiritual context in order to guide people to create a future better suited to the universal reality that is so often obscured by human purposes. He replied that I should have started some time ago. So, now he gets interested in time. MPS: How did your species begin, Master Jacob? MJ: We do not know. MPS: You have no history recording your species evolution? MJ: Yes, we do but it is not important to us in the same way that it is important to human beings. We do not need to know our past

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ancestry in order for it to define who we are now. Time is a notion that, when clung to, holds back a beings development so we do not focus on what is past. MPS: OK, so this explains your reluctance to talk in terms of time. MJ: Indeed. MPS: But you will also understand it is important for human beings to know a little about who you are and where you have come from. MJ: Of course. MPS: If you were to put a time frame of the creation of your species, what would you estimate to be your historical creation point? I know it is not sensible to talk in Earth years about this but perhaps you could gauge it against the universal breathing or the life of our planet? MJ: It would be about 10 times the current life span of your planet. MPS: Science estimates that the Earth is some 5 billion years old! MJ: No. Earth is much older than this. It came into being as potential long before it became a physical entity. MPS: How much longer? MJ: About three times MPS: So your species is 150 billion years old? MJ: I have told you that I really cannot work well with your numbers but if you need a figure, then that will suffice as a reference point. MPS: There must be some granddaddies among you!

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Orranut advises me that Master Jacob is not sure if I am joking. I change tack. MPS: As you are energy-beings, I suppose you do not die as a human being dies. MJ: Human beings do not die either. It is the great illusion that captures you all in your attachment to physical life. You too are energy-beings. You just inhabit a physical body that dies. MPS: Right. But I mean how does that work? MJ: Your science says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, doesnt it? MPS: It does. MJ: All energy is the same and once it reaches a certain vibration it can be said to be immortal. MPS: A vibration? That sounds like something hippies would talk about in the 1970s. Explain to me what it means. MJ: All energy-beings vibrate. Imagine a guitar string that is plucked: the tighter the string, the higher the vibrational pitch. MPS: Right, so humans vibrate too. MJ: Indeed. Everything vibrates. MPS: Everything? So everything is an energy-being? MJ: Not as such. But everything that moves is alive? MPS: Even rocks and air? MJ: What you call life is merely a certain physical form of energy. You place such criteria on what is alive and what is not when the

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distinction is not so obvious at all. To energy-beings even rocks and soil can be said to be alive even though they do not have organs or a brain. Your view of this is very biased towards human life because you cannot imagine that anything without a brain can make choices or interact with the world around it in meaningful ways. All matter vibrates at different frequencies therefore everything is alive. We are just different kinds of life, like a rock is a different kind of life to a human being. Energy-beings are non-physical, like a wave or a vibration. As our vibration develops, you might call it raising our vibration, this is how we evolve. MPS: So you cannot be seen, as such? MJ: Not unless we choose to appear in order to communicate with someone but even then, this is more of a projection in the mind of the person. MPS: What forms have you manifested in? What do people see? MJ: Different people throughout history have said we look like smoke, clouds, light balls; when we enter a physical place like Earth we assume a form according to its atmosphere or environment. MPS: Do you procreate? MJ: We do not. MPS: OK, but how did you grow in number from your origins? MJ: We have never counted our number so we do not know whether we are more or less than we once were. We know we have groups with different specialties but counting us is like counting the number of stars. MPS: OK but I can assume that you did not simply all appear together and that over time different energy-beings have somehow been created or manifested, shall I say?
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MJ: Energy-beings sometimes choose to donate their energy in the act of creating other beings for certain purposes but it is not something we do in order to have a family as on Earth. It is a higher form of creativity, not of procreation as such but you might suppose that even energy-beings have a kind of ancestry, just as human beings do through their DNA. MPS: Can you understand how strange that statement is to a human being? We only know the physical cycle of birth and death and we believe we leave a piece of our self behind in the form of our children. MJ: This I understand but humanity must also comprehend the immortal nature of its own energy too. You must now see beyond the physical body that lives and dies and aspire to immortality. This is not just a gimmick. It is the way that all energy learns and grows. MPS: Your perception of the universe must be very different from the human perception, Master Jacob. I would like to know a little more about your understanding of it. I think people would like to know whether our sciences are on the right track. It would help people come to terms with this idea of immortality and energetic growth. MJ: It would help people to evolve, yes, but it is important not to get too focused on explaining the way things are and forget to actually apply yourself to change the way things are within you. MPS: I understand that this is a key point. I want to just touch upon something I think will be very important for our evolution, which is to discuss how energy-beings evolve, the states they exist in and the differences and similarities between energy-beings and human beings. Firstly, I would like to know more about the energy vibrations that you spoke of as being analogous to the identity of each energy-being. I understand that energy-beings attain levels or planes of vibration that are connected to their evolution. Can you tell me a little bit about these planes?
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MJ: There are twelve known planes of existence, Michael. Each holds different vibrations of energy from the starting with the gross physical levels and ending up at level twelve, the most subtle and pure energy. As you learn and grow you evolve through the planes. On Earth you might call them qualifications but, in energetic terms, no one awards you the right to take your place on one plane or another. Your vibration simply changes. You actually vibrate at a new pitch and become more closely connected to the plane that vibrates most closely with yours. MPS: How do you achieve a higher vibration? MJ: A good question. What do you think? MPS: My understanding is that we must attain self-realizing through self awareness. MJ: Indeed. Very simply put, you live in the present moment, expanding your awareness and connections between your personal energy and that of all other beings. MPS: Have you experienced all twelve planes yourself Master Jacob? MJ: No. MPS: How many have you experienced? MJ: Seven. MPS: Has any energy-being ever experienced all twelve, to your knowledge? MJ: No, but that does not mean none has. MPS: Please explain what you mean by that. MJ: Those beings from planes eight and above do not usually communicate with us.
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MPS: Why not? MJ: They are the Ascended Masters. They have liberated themselves from the need to work in the same ways as we work as guides, mentors and teachers. They have their work and we have ours. MPS: They do not want to mix with the hoi poloi, perhaps? MJ: A very human interpretation. In our structure the Ascended Masters do not interfere or order any events to take place. All energy-beings are interconnected so we intuitively know what has to be done. They do not distance themselves from us out of snobbery or a sense of superiority as you imply. They are always there to offer their different skills and abilities when needed. Everything we do is interrelated and occurs in natural time in the right place. No force or planning is needed. MPS: It sounds like a kind of organic relationship between the planes and the different energy groups. MJ: That would be a fairer interpretation, yes. MPS: So how do you know there are twelve planes in total? MJ: It is a calculation we have made from the potential of the universe based upon projections of what we know to be so. MPS: What is the twelfth plane? MJ: Nobody has ever come back to tell us but we believe it is infinite contentment. MPS: Would you call this God? MJ: We do not use this term. It implies many things. We prefer to use the term High Being. The relationships that you have had with

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us throughout your history has led you to call us God, but we are not. If we were Gods, the twelfth plane beings would be super Gods. MPS: What do you expect the High Being to be? MJ: A very smooth, detailed, subtle, calm, soft, smooth and warm energy. It would be full of compassion and love energy. There would be a different relationship between things, purely innocent and devoid of suffering. There would be no more need to ever again combine spirit with body and mind. MPS: It sounds incredible. MJ: It is what all energy-beings are seeking, consciously or unconsciously. MPS: Could you explain to me what each of the 12 planes are like? MJ: I can explain one. MPS: Only one. Why? MJ: They are a secret. MPS: Which plane is humanity on? MJ: The first. MPS: I should have seen that coming. MJ: Do not be offended by this. It is neither good nor bad. While your planet may occupy this plane, it does not mean all beings that are here also occupy the same plane. There are great beings from many planes here. Earth provides the greatest opportunity for growth.

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The plane that Master Jacob described to me was like a plane for creators. It is an academy where energy-beings learn how to create in different environments and become more efficient at the process. It seems that these planes play their role in maturing or developing energy-beings to higher vibrations. As Master Jacob has said, to his knowledge, no energy-being has ever reached the 12th level because none has ever come back to say theyd made it. Having had a glimpse of the enormous intelligence, power and potential of Master Jacob, he is a seventh plane vibrational being, I do wonder what a twelfth plane being would be capable of! The 12 planes are not strictly separated by boundaries. They are not qualifications. They are more like gradients of colors spread out across the spectrum. As a being energetically expands their vibration they naturally rise to their vibrational plane like a balloon might rise to the height where the air pressure would best support it. From a physical viewpoint, the 12 planes could analogously be said to stretch above us with the physical plane of Earth being at the bottom of the heaviest and grossest level. You might look at it as a huge body of sea water with the water pressure on the sea bed being heaviest and most compressed and nearer the surface becoming lighter. Now, all humanity must put our collective pride aside here. This is not really about higher or lower, bigger or better, it is about diversity of experience and, as Master Jacob has hinted at, the Earth that we inhabit offers even the highest energetic beings the greatest known resource of potential experience from which to grow and learn. While the human mind sadly seeks to categorize one person as better or different or less than another, energetic beings do not suffer from such prejudice. It is not only against their nature, it defeats the entire notion of learning that is an integral part of their nature. But there is more to these levels than the so-called vertical planes that define vibration. Within each plane there is a wondrous expanse of potential whose existence humanity has only just begun

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to speculate upon. It is a potential that turns on its head the notion of a universe of Big Bangs and crunches for, in this reality, all possibilities exist concurrently. MPS: Where do your energy-beings originate from, Master Jacob? MJ: Do you really want to know that? You might not like the answer. MPS: I think it would help people to understand a little more about you all. MJ: We share your sun. MPS: You come from our solar system? Which planet? MJ: You call it Earth. MPS: How can that be so? MJ: We come from what you might call a parallel universe where Earth exists as it does for you, except that it is far, far lighter and the energy behaves very differently. MPS: I think a lot of people would find that very hard to believe. MJ: I told you that you might not like the answer. Just because it is beyond your current comprehension does not make it untrue. MPS: So, in effect, you are Earth beings? MJ: Yes, you might say that but understand that our Earths energetic vibration and resources are very different to your Earths. They may be the same physical place but they are also very different in their properties. MPS: Can I start calling you brother now?

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MJ: That was a joke, right? MPS: You are learning my humor. MJ: Indeed. MPS: Please describe for me how these parallel universes work, Master Jacob. MJ: Well, you have described the planes as vertical in dimension, so lets call the parallel universes lateral in dimension. MPS: Right, so together they create like a universal grid, like a hologram? MJ: Correct. MPS: How many of these parallel universes are there? MJ: I will not say they are infinite but I would not like the job to count them. MPS: Nicely put. But let me try and understand this a little better. Earth is just one place in our physical universe and in each parallel universe Earth would exist in some shape or form. MJ: Yes. MPS: But each universe would have its own properties. For example, in one the hydrogen atom may not exist or oxygen may not connect with any other atoms. MJ: Yes, something like that. I was beginning to see a picture of how this all fitted together. The universe is an intricate web of possibilities all playing out simultaneously. If you imagine that this scenario of infinite potential is enacted in universe after universe, each a random

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cocktail of properties based upon the basic universal laws, every possibility exists simultaneously in some shape or form. If you were inclined and able to do so, you could quite literally go through infinite histories of Earth and experience every single possibility of what it would look like, how it would be shaped, what would grow upon it and how history would evolve; every single one. However, its not the comic-strip reality where you can jump universe and meet yourself. The conditions for you to exist are present in only one universe because you are a product of unique conditions. The parallel universe structure is not for the purpose of the individual beings who exist within them, it is to explore infinite potential. The universe is a giant movie-house of unlimited possibilities, all playing out on separate screens alongside one another, each slightly different to the next, in order that the universe explores every avenue of potentiality within it. Master Jacobs energy-beings are just one potentiality that evolved in a parallel universe to our own. It was a universe of very different properties to ours but no less unique. But why Earth? Can it be coincidence that life has been created in such abundance on our Earth as well as giving rise to energy-beings on a parallel Earth? Whats so special about this place? MPS: Master Jacob, I find it hard to believe that it is mere coincidence that Earth is the home for your life form as well as the abundance that currently resides on ours? What is so special about this place that such potential exists in more than one universe in the same location? MJ: You would be right. It is not coincidence. When you understand the nature of parallel universes you will realize that it is natural for beings who have evolved on a particular planet to seek evolution through parallel versions of that planet. The best place for higher evolution of beings is often a different version of those beings home planet because the order of energy is such that it fits best with their vibration but also helps to evolve it because it is not exactly the same.
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MPS: I assume that other beings in the universe are able to travel as you do, between universes and different potentialities of their own planet? MJ: Indeed. MPS: Can a human do this? MJ: All energy-beings can do this once they become equanimous. MPS: What do you mean by that? MJ: The path of balance and harmony is the purpose of energybeings. Achieving equanimity in the physical form leads towards what humanity would call enlightenment. This frees an energybeing from the limits of physicality and allows us to explore the multitude of potentiality that exists on other planes and in other universes. MPS: Did your group develop this method? MJ: Not as such. It is the way of all energy-beings, including yours. It is as natural as breathing but to see it, first you have to wake up to your true nature. MPS: You talk of other energy races, Master Jacob. Are there other races connected to your group, or are you here alone? MJ: We are closely connected to six other groups of energy-beings like ours. MPS: Where did the other six come from? MJ: Earth. The same location as us. MPS: Thats incredible. Seven different species all evolved from a parallel Earth.

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MJ: Well, I wouldnt call us different species as we are all energybeings. The distinction is not the same as that between a tiger and an elephant, for example. The Seven are aligned by talents, abilities and vibration, not difference in DNA as might classify a species on Earth. MPS: I see. Are you organized like a council or a political body that we would understand? Orranut tells me he is laughing. Loudly. Finally he answers: MJ: Our relationships are very different from human relationships too. The physical barriers that inhibit your connections to one another do not exist between us because we are not on the physical Earth. As an energy-being evolves through the energy planes, our vibration naturally induces greater trust and respect because we feel greater interconnectivity and interdependence with all beings. Like the behavior of water when it reaches 100 degrees, boiling cannot be prevented. In the same way, expanding trust and respect is inevitable as you refine your energetic vibration and evolve through the planes. MPS: I see. Human society, structure, hierarchy and attitudes often demand this respect as a matter of social responsibility rather than it being a natural product of our consciousness. MJ: Indeed. This is what your collective vibration creates and these are counterproductive relationships that eventually foster rebellion and conflict. To The Seven groups, a relationship is a feeling, not a duty or an expectation of one being to another, as it often is in your societies. In our structure, if you would call it that, the beings of a lower vibration are not subservient to those who are higher. Indeed, we would not even use the idea of lower and higher but it is difficult in your definitive language to find a word that expresses it better. There is mutual respect and alignment of purpose in The Seven. Consensus is agreed and harmony
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maintained. We all seek equanimity for the same purpose: enlightenment. MPS: You mentioned earlier about the different talents, abilities and vibrations of energy-beings. Please explain a little more about how The Seven are organized around these criteria? MJ: There are no strict divisions between the groups. Each group has beings of different vibration but there is a loose correlation between the overall energetic vibration of each group and the talents of the individual energy-beings within it. However, the characteristics of each group are different too. Each energy-being also has specific characteristics, preferences and roles. Like human beings, we are each unique. For example, my characteristics are what you might call a philosopher and psychologist. MPS: How do these characteristics evolve? MJ: In the same way as humans evolve. We practice them just as I am practicing them by talking to you through Orranut. In the energy world, there is no magic for getting better at something, as there is no substitute for effort on Earth. We instinctively know what our talents are and practice applying them to attain a higher and more subtle level. This is how we evolve. This is how all beings evolve. MPS: You spoke about the practice of equanimity. Is this a practice shared by The Seven? MJ: Well, there are many practices that promote equanimity but the basic equanimous practice of all energy-beings is the same. MPS: Could you share with us what this basic practice is? MJ: You already know. Humanity has been given this secret many times throughout your history but you are yet to apply it consistently. It is called non-attachment and grounding.
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This didnt come as much of a surprise to me. Non-attachment and grounding are the core practices of the Bah' Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Jainism, Kabbalah, Taoism and, in different forms, of all major religions in the world. In effect, prayer is just another version of it. Its purpose is to focus the mind on the present moment and entrain the physical body with the energy of the Earth to create strong energetic roots. By freeing the mind from the reactive process that has been learned since we were all children, you can bring it into the present moment where it is calm, easier to observe and more ready to be molded into a shape that serves the higher purpose of spirituality. Humanity has evolved across five billion years, through innumerable wars and conflicts, over the bodies of tens of millions of people lost to ideological argument and then, in a single instant, we discover that the universal creed is a form of meditation! What can you possibly say to that? Forms of meditation have been bequeathed from generation to generation of humanity long before writing was available to record them. They have been coveted as the mystical, magical secrets to the gods and the means to elevate humanity to a higher realm. Yet we learn from Master Jacob and The Seven that it is something that all energy-beings do as a matter of course. It seems that the connection between The Seven and humanity may be more than just being from the same planet. MPS: Master Jacob, you have said that the alignment between The Seven is based upon the mutual desire for enlightenment. How did you agree that this was the goal of all energy-beings? Laughter again. It was becoming clear that I was not entirely au fait with the precise dynamics of energy-being relationships. MJ: Michael, we do not have to get to know someone to discover their purpose in life, as your species does. We are connected to them all and they are connected to us. We feel them. We feel their

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intentions as we feel yours. It has always been this way. Even when energy-beings or groups exist on different planes or in parallel universes we still feel them. The connection is never broken. You just have to tune into it. MPS: OK, is this the case for all energy-beings in the universe? Do all species feel this connection to one another? MJ: Yes. Humanity is learning this. It is learning how to feel the connections between all things. This was getting interesting. I understood the interconnectivity and interdependence of all things on Earth, even in the universe, but it is something very difficult to get people to feel. While I can show people on a flip chart why cooperation is more beneficial than competition or can help them to feel some form of energy through meditation, it is not easy to get people to break down the psychological resistance to the sense that each of us is individual and separate. Master Jacob was defining a state of being that is truly alien to most people, for to feel the intense connectivity that energy-beings naturally feel would require the basic characteristics of human life to evolve to the point where human purpose was fundamentally changed. While much of human life promotes the sense of individual achievement and success, the search for energetic connectivity appeared to be an inherent purpose of all other beings. MPS: I am trying to understand this, Master Jacob, so please be patient with me. You do understand that this is not the way things are on Earth, right? There are very few people who might be called intuitive enough to know others simply through awareness and not having to meet them and observe the practicalities of verbal communication and body language. MJ: I understand this. Energy-beings do not need to observe these social niceties. We do not have society like human society. We are

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not organized as you are. You place all kinds of obstacles between different people, races and nationalities. Energy-beings simply live in awareness of the natural order of the universe, which is the interconnectivity of all things. This is the language we observe and respect. MPS: Why is it so difficult on Earth? Whats different about humans? MJ: You are no different in actual fact. But the physicality of your planet is unique. It gets in the way of your sensitivity to energy, to the connections that bind you to one and to everything. This barrier takes on a life all of its own, which you call ego, and it grows to divide one thing from another until each ego exists in an entirely separate reality based upon its attachment to fear. MPS: This fear is exhibited through such behaviors as hoarding possessions, conflict and materialism, right? It creates a sense of scarcity rather than abundance. MJ: Correct. MPS: I suppose this feeling drives all our social systems in some form or another, which is why these motivations seem so natural and ordinary to us. We even attribute their connected behaviors positive names like healthy competition and try to justify them with natural sounding names like survival of the fittest and such like. But, am I right in saying that the result of the continual reliance on fear and threat in our lives is the inevitability of physical war? MJ: Indeed. MPS: Then let me ask on how many other planets have you experienced this kind of physical behavior? MJ: None.

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MPS: What? Are you telling me that there has never been a physical war between any other species in the universe as you know it? MJ: Not as on Earth, no. MPS: And how many other species are there in the universe? MJ: You know I hate it when you ask me for numbers. We have never counted. It does not matter. MPS: Could you humor me? MJ: You could say there are infinite species. How do you follow up on that little tidbit of information? Not only is humanity the only species in the entire universe that has ever had a physical war, and lets face it, weve not just had a few, we are skilled masters at it; we are also the only warring species from an infinite and innumerable variety. If Master Jacob had said there were ten species you might not feel so bad being one of ten, although its still not very cool. But infinite species? Thats a lot. You might even call that more than a lot. If you wanted to be cruel you could call us the only murderers in an infinite universe of peace lovers. But only if you wanted to be cruel. So, lets be a little kinder. Perhaps we are merely exploring our infinite potential (cough cough) and were still at the pointy end of it. MPS: I must say, Master Jacob, it doesnt do the human ego much good to know that we are the only race in the universe, in fact, all the universes, who wage war. Is there something wrong with us? MJ: There is nothing wrong with you or with the creation of a warring ego. Your planet is a unique place where ego can arise in the way that it does. I am not saying that war is fantastic either! Just that we do not judge what universal potential brings into existence.

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If you found a unique planet like this you would cherish it, would you not? Therefore humanity should be proud of the uniqueness of Earth and not let your ego be dented by this information. MPS: But its not, like, good news, is it? Its not like winning the universal lottery or being Best of Show at a universal dog exhibition. I mean, its pretty bad in that context. MJ: What is good and bad? Humanity is so busy at placing things in boxes that you fail to see the positive in things that you perceive to be negative. This is why you get stuck. The universe does not get things wrong. It does not create bad things. It is pure potential that we must all learn to use to our advantage and part of that process is understanding what is a disadvantage, am I correct? Wouldnt it be better if you asked yourself to what purpose the conditions on your Earth support warring behavior? What if you quietly enquired as to the great leaps of evolution that could be made if you decided to resist the temptation to fight, hoard or compete and choose to be gentle, compassionate and harmonious? MPS: You find a silver lining on every cloud, dont you? MJ: This is what humanity must learn too. Every situation has energy within it and energy has no notion of good or bad. It is only humanity that judges it based upon bias and receives the energy in that flavor. This is why you get stuck with it. You believe that things can only be one way: war is bad and peace is good. But peace can be as unjust as war if it is scarred with tyranny. It is not the universe that makes things this way but humanity. However, it is not difficult to see the best in things. It is only a perceptive choice to see the worst. You can learn to see learning in everything, whatever it is. MPS: Right, but I am still a little dumbfounded by all this, Master Jacob. Could you please describe the relationships between other beings in the universe if they are not beating the living daylights out of one another?
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MJ: Let me reiterate what I have said previously in relationship to this behavior. All beings are simply different vibrations of the same energy and our behaviors reflect the energetic planes where we reside. War is just a form of expression but a lower form that serves the purpose of an energy-being experiencing the grossest forms of physical experience, which includes physical death. Until you learn from these experiences, you will not evolve and war will be your reality. It is no different than a student having to keep taking the same test until he passes and no longer needs it. This is how personal and collective karma works. We understand and accept the existence of war on your planet, and this is not a judgment, but it does not serve you to keep repeating the same lessons for such an extended time. Your search for your true identity is really no different than that of The Seven. You are energy-beings too and no energy-being is better than the next. None need take what they do not own or fight for resources that they do not need. There is enough. We are all endeavoring to leave these divisions behind and work together for the mutual elevation of the group vibration. MPS: That makes me feel a little better. MJ: All energy-beings innately give and receive energy, Michael. It is as natural as the sea speaking to you in the language of waves. It is in the interests of all energy-beings to learn this because the mutual giving of energy is what enables beings to evolve and grow. It is a process of reflection. If you reflect war, you get war. If you reflect love, you get love. What I send to you is mirrored back at me but I do not give in order to receive but to aid those of a different vibration with their growth and development. MPS: So it is like a universal law that higher vibration beings help lower vibration beings evolve? MJ: Not law, no. It is instinct, if you will. No being decrees it to be so. It is no less natural to us than the newly born calf suckling his

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mother. The calf does not owe the mother anything. The mother has no obligation. But there is a bond, a feeling, an instinct that they are the same thing of the same energy, just different shapes and sizes. On Earth you become so infatuated with the shapes and sizes of things that it becomes difficult to break down the obstructions of differentiation. Do you understand that a child is born on your planet to teach the parents? Your perception of student and teacher is based upon ego and a false hierarchy, not the reality of energetic vibration. The universal reality is that the relationship always assists both parties. The patient helps the doctor. The felon helps the lawyer. The student teaches the teacher. MPS: I hope this doesnt imply that it is OK to go out and do horrible things to people because you are helping them? MJ: Of course not, Michael. It means that giving relationships serve the growth of both parties. Unless you stop the cycle of taking relationships and start a more evolutionary cycle, you are destined to repeat the same test again and again. Relationships that end in negative results such as physical abuse, death or war are being played out because past actions have conditioned them to occur. It does not mean they have to keep recurring. MPS: Cause and effect. MJ: Correct. Only when the victim is aware enough of the nature of cause and effect can effects be perceived as causes and causes as effects. In this awareness, each person realizes that they can choose which causes they will then create. Do you wish a powerful effect that has occurred in your life to be the cause of suffering that will be repeated in the next? Or do you wish the effect to be the cause of the evolution in your being that it is intended to invoke? When you choose the latter, you evolve. MPS: In effect you are saying that humanity needs to forgive and start being more charitable.
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MJ: Yes, in part. Only ego fails to see the energetic trade that must be made to remain harmonious. For example, the conversation between me, yourself and Orranut helps us all. I am not just giving you information. Your questions also help to stimulate and expand my energy as they will expand yours. Having said that, my intention is not to help myself, but to offer myself where I feel I can do the most good. Do you see? Energetic transfer is always a win/ win when it is shared in the right spirit. If we simply return nothing more than what others give us in kind we will not raise our vibration but lower it. As we encounter each effect, which are the words and actions of other people towards us, we must create a higher energetic cause in response, which means words and actions of higher energetic intention. This creates an energetic spiral towards evolution and growth. MPS: Yes I see. Rather than merely living out the effects that come at us we must be the cause of our own happiness, transforming effects into lessons that cause our spiritual evolution. MJ: Exactly. One of the more dangerous ideas of human beings is that they should not give without receiving or expecting something back. People only give what they receive and what they think other people deserve and therefore so little is given, which dwindles the energy of giving within the everyday environment. You have a scarcity mentality that there is not enough to go around without understanding that the more you give the more is created. You are not sensitive to the enormity you receive in return when you give selflessly, so you would rather give nothing. MPS: So youre saying that energy-beings naturally incline towards sharing energy freely, no matter what energy vibration they might be. MJ: Correct. Without the barriers of ego in the way, giving is as natural to an energy-being as breathing is to a human being.

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MPS: Can you characterize the energy that you share with one another? MJ: You might call it love. MPS: So all species are projecting love at one another? MJ: Well, love, compassion, hope, joy, whatever it is that they need. There is no point in giving a being what it already has in abundance and giving something you do not need is not really giving at all. We are all in the process of learning and we learn through the receipt of different energy and higher vibrations. MPS: Was there ever a time when you did not do this? I mean, did you evolve into this sharing cooperative species or were you simply created like it? MJ: It is our nature. We know of nothing else. But do not forget it is in your nature too. Only fear prevents it being more palpable to you. MPS: How do you know that projecting this benevolent energy is so worthwhile? Explain the process so that I might understand it. MJ: We feel it. Every projection is sensed and integrated into our very being. For energy-beings the urge to give is like a persons urge to work except that a human works to receive payment, whereas an energy-being gives unconditionally. One could argue that, having learned the natural return of giving to other beings is that they will reflect back at you what you have sent to them, energy-beings might merely mask their selfish desire to grow by giving only to receive. Its cynical, but I bet some readers were thinking it. Go on, admit it.

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MPS: Master Jacob, how can you be sure that no energy-beings give in order to receive? Perhaps there is a hidden agenda? MJ: Michael, please understand the nature of this universe. Giving and receiving is based upon intention as intention has an energy all of its own. It cannot be hidden or disguised if one is truly aware as energy-beings are aware. Even on your Earth, if you accidentally walk into someone it has a very different energy from deliberately attacking them, right? MPS: Of course. It has a different feeling altogether. MJ: You can feel the intention, cant you? You know in your gut whether someone is being genuine or not. MPS: Yes. Its very subtle, but it arises as suspicion or a sense of unease. MJ: So, imagine that human feeling multiplied thousands of times in the pure energy state and you will understand what an energybeing feels from an intention to give. We do not have to justify or explain motives as humanity does in its physical courts of law. There is no other judge than the laws of the universe and the intentions of energy-beings cannot be corrupted as they are by the physical properties of Earth. MPS: I cannot understand how the human experience can be so different to this, Master Jacob. We do not normally sense a return on our investment when we give unconditionally. It is very, very subtle and only a comparatively few extraordinary people have evolved this sensitivity. And yet in your reality, indeed, the reality of all other beings in this universe, it is the only one you have ever known. MJ: This is true. And you have put it well. But humanity is not bad, Michael. It is not corrupt. It is not in error. Do not misunderstand the incredible creation that you are, your

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uniqueness, your immense potential and the extraordinary earthly environment that creates events and situations that can not be experienced anywhere else in the universe. I cannot overstate the importance of Earth experience to all energy-beings in the universe. There is quite literally no other physical form like yours. This should give you some inkling of why we are here and why we have taken such an interest in your species. Over the eons, we have never lost faith in your capacity to evolve. MPS: How many eons are you talking about here? MJ: A very long time. MPS: How long exactly? MJ: Since the beginning. MPS: The beginning of our species? I asked, amazed. MJ: The beginning of your planet. he replied.

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Chapter 3 Earth Birth

At some time or another most people have probably pondered the question of how or why humanity came into existence. The answer is vast, meaningful and profoundly impacts upon the lives of individuals and our purpose as a species. Most of us will have made a distinct choice between two basic answers: one conveyed by science and another conveyed by religion. Some believe the very future of their soul depends on which side of this argument they choose. Others believe nothing of the sort and that there is no such thing as a soul to have a future with. We are products of chance, chemicals, natural selection and mutation, they say. It is the greatest question of all isnt it? Are we created by God or are we products of evolution? It seems that there are not many people who sit on the fence on this matter. The two mutually opposed arguments are entrenched behind stark battle lines that often simmer with resentment and can rarely find any common ground. But before getting into this ideological minefield, lets put the question aside for a moment and look simply at the very idea of absolute truth: whether this argument can ever be settled by facts and how beliefs form that shape our sense of self. What we do know about beliefs, whether right, wrong, true or false, is that they assume a life all of their own within the individuals mind. Many of our beliefs are formed from a grand, core idea such as whether we are products of God or evolution, and blossom into an ideology by which we shape our view of life. Many of our essential choices then hail from this interconnected pattern. We see everything in life in the same way and relate every thought, word and choice to it, so we feel consistent.

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When such an ideology sits at the foundation of your belief and values system it is an overwhelming part of your identity; therefore the integrity of your very existence may seem to depend on guarding the idea, protecting it and defending it from anyone who would cast doubt on its integrity. And that is indeed what occurs. When we cling to any idea as if it were a part of who we think or feel we are, it becomes an energetic attachment that literally becomes a part of our physical make up. The ego stages an energetic coup whenever that belief is threatened and we become a victim of our belief rather than its master. Beliefs are not fixed or permanent unless we hold them to be so. This is the choice that Master Jacob was referring to in the last chapter. We have to let beliefs go when we serve them and embrace them when they serve us. In my previous book, Provolution, I called human beliefs mind rafts because a belief is really nothing more than an idea that we use to take us from one point in time to the next, like a raft takes us from one place to the next. It is like crossing from one bank of a river to the other, this bank being the present and the far bank being the future. Because most of us have falsely learned from religion, science and our society that some truth is absolute (this is the very first belief that colors all others by the way it is responsible for the ego) even when we arrive on the far shore and step back onto land most people will cling to the belief, pick up the raft and carry it on the land too. This makes sense to the mind that believes in absolute truth, because why would you leave behind something that will always be true wherever you go? If you believe that learning is a process of collecting more and more truth until one day you might have all the truth in the world, acquiring it seems to be a sensible course in life. In fact, this approach is one of lifes greatest traps. It is called attachment. It may come as a surprise to some readers, indeed, it may even seem a tad insane to those of us who have burdened ourselves with so many of these rafts already, that leaving truth behind is a form

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of adaptability that is essential in the pursuit of contentment. Many problems occur physically, mentally and energetically within people who are trying to use boats on the land and cars in the sea. They keep applying their old beliefs to life in the belief that they are absolutely true, failing to realize that the truth is momentary and fleeting. All they create is more and more chaos around them because the river they were once crossing has long since become jungle and desert while the belief remains merely a fixed point in an ever-changing landscape. However terrible the belief may make them feel they will cling to it come hell or high water, if youll excuse the expression in our age of global warming and end of days prophecy. Truth is a vehicle not an absolute, and we must all learn to adapt. All that really matters is whether a belief serves your purpose of equanimity and peace. Does it make you feel better? Does it make you want to go out and hug a tree? Does it leave you breathless with the awe of living? If not, perhaps your old belief has seen better days. Its on its last legs. Never mind, there will be another one along in a minute. Now back to God and evolution. Here is the tall and the short of it ladies and gentlemen: unless you have personally been told by God that He created the Earth in six days and then took a wellearned rest, what evidence exists to show that it is true? The same question is more or less true for the scientific approach too. Unless you personally sat and watched the Earth form around 10 billion years after the Big Bang, what proof do you have that it is a product of uninterrupted evolution? Ah, scientific evidence, you say? Before Copernicus there was oodles of proof that the Earth was the center of the universe. At least, it looked like proof then glug, glug, glug! Another mind raft gets stuck on the land and another car sinks into the river of the ever-changing reality... I am not saying that scientific fact does not matter but fact and profound truth is not the same thing. When I talk about profound truth I am referring to the nature of the universe. When I talk of fact

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I am referring to the accuracy of information. However many facts you have, you cannot describe the truth of nature using them. You would have to factually describe everything to describe one thing and that would take omniscience, which, as far as I know, only exists in the egos of one or two politicians. On the other hand, blind faith is useless too. All lifes choices are made with reference to our experience, and adaptation should occur when we keep experiencing negative results from the same thoughts, words or actions. That is what our natural environment is teaching us. No teachers words should be taken at face value. That is just dumb. We must test every theory in our lives, experiment with every idea, practice and apply what we have learned, keep what works for us and discard the rest. We must have faith in our teachers, sure, but must be wise enough not to be manipulated by those who use their teaching and status to demand our obedience. We are not sheep. We are born to express every last ounce of our human energy by becoming unique and awesome spectacles of this truth in action. We must each practice and become scientific in our approach to life and by scientific I mean conscious and aware of the results we get back through application of thoughts and ideas to our reality. When we get good results, keep the thoughts, words and actions that created them. When we get bad results, change our approach. As Gandhi so rightly said, As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. If you tell me that you believe God made the world in six days because it makes you come out in hives to think otherwise, now, that is reasoning I can understand, whereas it makes no sense to me at all that you believe in God because you have been told you will go to hell if you believe in anything else. Fear is not the motivation of anything or anyone but ego. Likewise, it sits handsomely in my mind to hear that your belief in the evolutionary creation of the Earth by coincidental physical

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forces is driven by the fact that you foam at the mouth and your heart stops beating whenever you contemplate creationism. That too I can understand. Who wants to feel the foam? Not me. However, to conclude that science is opposite faith and faith is opposite science is to miss the interconnected nature of both faith and fact. We must take the best of both aspects of consciousness and accept that we will discover facets of reality that will always require faith in order to explore them as well as aspects that will require a more measured approach in order to understand them. Luminaries such as the Dalai Lama have written extensively on the need for science and faith to unite to attain some common interpretation of reality that is useful in peoples lives. The constant attacks of science on faith and the cultish obsession of some faiths to their doctrine is neither helpful nor healing. We need a chink of light through which we can attain a deeper understanding of both. So lets add to the mix by contemplating what if neither evolution nor creationism actually happened? Could we possibly consider some alternatives without too much queasiness and mouth goo? As of 2011, with seven billion people, more or less, believing one or the other of the these ideas I admit it is a long shot to expect people to change but, hang on, why is that? What is perpetually true about belief is that we do not build defenses around our strengths, only our weaknesses. Those who are moved to strike out and attack when their belief system is challenged in any shape or form are not confident in their beliefs. Anger, frustration, resentment; these are not the qualities of people who have found peace through their philosophy, only conflict and insecurity. It is even more mindless when that belief has been given a sheen of flawlessness by those whose hierarchical status in society is dependent upon maintaining the impression that they are in sole possession of the only truth that matters. This is the case for both popular scientists with reputations and jobs to protect and religious leaders with congregations to maintain.

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The point is that, as we have already learned, behavior evolves as the vibration of an energy-being evolves and awareness expands. As Master Jacob made clear in the previous chapter, if we remain attached to ideas that sit at a lower vibration, conflict and war are the inevitable behaviors of choice. If we raise our vibration, we begin to realize that ideas are not possessions, they are not limbs that we cannot cut off without a sizable insurance claim and a lengthy period of involuntary psychological analysis. We can let them go as easily as we learned them in the first place. As we evolve our energy, our ideas, our beliefs and our values, our words and our actions also evolve. So do the potential choices that we can perceive before us. The only risk is daring to let them go. Raise your energetic vibration to the point where it is open and responsive to new ways of seeing the world around you and you will evolve from the gross planes into the more subtle planes. As your personal energy becomes more and more subtle, truth also becomes less and less dualistic. Until, one day, truth disappears and you simply accept what is for what it is. It would be enormously fruitful for humanity to integrate into our behaviors one important principle that will recur throughout this book, which is this: to cling unwaveringly to a belief in something or for something or against something is to hold to the concept of eternalism, that there is anything that lasts forever in this world, while the nature of the entire universe holds fast to the principles of transience and change. If there is one idea that this book will repeat over and over it is that we must all evolve as individuals, as a species and as a planet by letting go of our mental, emotional, physical and energetic attachments; to grow our truth commensurate with the growth of our energetic being. The fact that our science has evolved its truth over the centuries is to be lauded because scientists implicitly understand that they must test their theories by application in reality and when ideas do not fit, the truth must evolve. But the ordinary person in the street must not be spoon-fed their truth, relying on higher or more aware

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beings to give them what they need. This will never happen. Each person must field-test every idea in reality and choose it or dispose of it themselves. While faith is a vital ingredient of how any human can progress through life in peace and harmony with a chaotic environment, it must not be applied in the face of stark evidence that manipulation and greed sit at the base of some peoples most fundamental intentions. This is not faith. It is delusion. It is now time for creationists and evolutionists alike to open their minds to a different theory regarding the birth of Earth and our species in order that we can evolve beyond the petty squabbles that scar humanitys relationships in the game of life that we all take so seriously. Were we to accept life for its truly transient nature and people for who we really are, leaders would down their tools of war, thinkers would swallow their words, billionaires would never want another penny; everything would change, not because Gods laws had changed or science had exposed the essential kernel of physics but because we would all finally see the universal joke for what it really is. Only by evolving beyond the pious jealousies that guard our notion of truth can we expand our minds to crush the barriers of our ignorance and evolve into a universe that has truly created us in its own image. MPS: Master Jacob, did God create the Earth? MJ: What or who is God? MPS: Many people would define Him as the Creator of all things. MJ: Then, if He created all things, He must also be The Creator of the Earth too. MPS: OK, perhaps I should be clearer. Does God exist? MJ: I am trying to demonstrate how difficult the question is to answer in the definitive way that human beings require. We discussed before how the universe didnt start from a fixed point.

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Without a first cause, so how can there be a creator of all effects? The best answer I can give you is from our experience, which is that most energy-beings no longer look for Him. I cannot say He is real or not. MPS: Are you saying that energy-beings have given up looking because they havent found Him or they dont care about the answer? MJ: Neither. It is related to our energetic vibration. All beings evolve into an awareness that God is not to be found like you might find treasure. Energetic existence is very different from physical existence. Things appear very differently and we intrinsically know which questions are worth asking and which are not. Many of us simply feel that the question of whether God exists is not worth asking, so we do not seek its answer. MPS: But dont energy-beings, like human beings, also wonder how they came into existence? Have they really stopped asking who created them and what life is all about? MJ: There are some who ask but we most have come to understand that it is just another attachment to be discarded. It can become an obsession, which leads to suffering and results in a lower vibration. This is why we do not fixate on it. We have learned that energetic evolution alone provides insights and understanding without needing to ask the questions directly or worry about the answers. As you evolve you naturally and intuitively know. So, during the course of energetic evolution, we have faith that all questions will be answered when the time is right. Like a flower blooming, the process cannot be rushed just because you want to see it in full bloom. You have to enjoy the whole process in the present moment. Indeed, if you try to open a flower too quickly, you may destroy it. MPS: But you can understand how human beings have a need to understand where they come from?
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MJ: I do. But your question has a false premise and God is not the answer you seek. You cannot come from anything when there is no beginning to it, can you? Discovering whether or not God exists is unlikely to help you suffer less. It has not helped so far. MPS: Well, it has helped some, hasnt it? MJ: Believing in yourself would help more. If you wish to hear it in religious language: you are the key to heaven. You do not need God to open it but I am not saying the idea of God is wrong or those that believe in Him are incorrect. If God serves the purpose of your energetic evolution and is not used as an excuse to express your prejudices, then keep Him. It is healthy to believe things that evolve your energy, your connectivity and your awareness, but unhealthy to believe things simply as an excuse to remain ignorant of truths that might serve your purpose better. MPS: Thank you Master Jacob, your answers on this theme have been most enlightening but lets move on. Could we discuss something close to many peoples hearts? I would like to know how Earth was created. Many on Earth believe that God created the Earth in a day. Others believe it is a product of evolution. Is there anything you can do to help this dispute? MJ: I am not sure any information, however true it might be, can settle a quarrel between such opposites when the objective is winning, not enlightenment. The rules of such a game are corrupt in and of themselves. He has a point. MPS: Quite. But what is your understanding of Earths creation? Perhaps it would help us to have a different viewpoint. MJ: As far as I know, Earth has always existed. MPS: What do you mean by always? Like the universe has always existed?
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MJ: Yes. MPS: So why does the geological data and other information not indicate this to our scientists? MJ: "Your science is collecting data from the bottom of a big waterfall and trying to prove what falls from the top. It has caught a piece of information in the pool at the foot of the waterfall and deduces its conclusion from within a paradigm of beginnings and endings. It is possible to make very plausible and consistent theories with very little information. All you need to is keep looking for information from within that narrow spectrum and everything seems to back up what you want to believe. It is like looking at the red spectrum of light and saying everything is red and simply refusing to look at the blue light because it conflicts with your prejudice. Remember I told you that your Earth exists in a parallel universe to my Earth? MPS: Right. MJ: And you asked me how old my group was? MPS: We agreed upon a figure of 150 billion years, if I recall. MJ: Indeed. So your Earth is at least that old, isnt it? MPS: I see. But how come we cannot find any life earlier than about 3.5 billion years ago? MJ: The existence of Earth does not necessarily mean existing in its current physical form, Michael. Nor does it mean in the epoch of life that is present in the forms it exists today. The very special conditions that diversified the potential of Earth were a result of the last universal exhalation, what you would call the Big Bang. MPS: OK, that makes a little more sense to me. This is more in line with traditional thought on the matter but it is very interesting to hear the
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difference in process. Are you saying that each round of universal breathing creates new conditions for life and energetic development on all planets in the currently existing universes? MJ: Correct. MPS: So a whole new range of potential is spewed from the center of the universe with each breath. You say that Earth acquired special conditions after the exhalation. Can you characterize exactly what was special about these conditions? MJ: Indeed. When I say special I mean that these conditions were so special that The Seven had never experienced such conditions in the entire history of our existence. MPS: That sounds quite intriguing. MJ: Unique, in fact. MPS: Well that makes me feel a little more special. We may be warring brutes but we do it with style! MJ: Indeed. Earth is very special and so are all life forms that live upon it. After the last universal exhalation we detected that the Earth in your universe had acquired certain properties that enhanced its potential for life. We travelled here to investigate further. MPS: What did you find? MJ: We found a material planet forming much as had been there before but this time it had an intelligence that was new to us, fresh, unconventional. MPS: What do you mean by intelligence?

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MJ: When we use the term intelligence we mean the potential for growth and awareness. We do not mean mental intellect, as humanity is so fond of comparing. Earth is a living being and each living being vibrates, as I have explained. The vibration of the Earth and the diversity of resources that we detected here gave us great hope that what we had found was a unique environment that could act as a learning resource for all energy-beings. We had never experienced a planet with quite the same level of intelligence as this. MPS: I am trying to understand why these conditions occurred only in the human universe as opposed to other parallel universes. Could you explain a little about that? MJ: Each universe has a different, how would you call it, passion. MPS: Do you mean intensity? MJ: No, passion is a better word for it. You have a passion for things in life, right? MPS: Yes. MJ: So does each universe. My universe has a passion for peace and tranquility so it tends to nurture beings with similar properties. Yours has a passion for growth and evolution, which makes it excellent for beings to grow and evolve. Each universal purpose is expressed through the passions of the individual universes and creates energy-beings with similar characteristics and traits. These are the passions I mean. MPS: OK. You described Earth as an incredible learning resource for all beings. Could you explain to me what you mean by this learning resource and your purpose in traveling here? MJ: The diversity of elements and resources on your planet are extraordinary. Some of these resources exist in some universes,
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some exist in other universes but the combination of elements on this version of Earth is extraordinary. They augured the development of a diversity of physical forms that was potentially astounding. MPS: Why is Earth like this? MJ: We do not know. MPS: Have you ever found a planet like Earth before? MJ: We have found planets that have plant life like yours. Many energy-beings have evolved from such planets but nothing that ever gave rise to the multitude of physical beings that can move as your planets species do. The diversity of forms here is very exciting. MPS: What is the significance of this diversity of forms? MJ: It is another sign of intelligence; the potential for growth and development. The more physical beings that might be produced on Earth, the more likely it was that we could exchange energy and conduct mutually beneficial interchanges. It presented us with the potential to grow and to expand our energy. We wished to interact with it in order to evolve through the planes. MPS: How do you interact with a planet? MJ: I repeat: it is a living being, like you and I. Just as The Seven exchange energy between us in order to evolve, so too did we wish to exchange energy with Earth for this purpose. We believed that this exchange was a vital step in our evolution. MPS: How did you decide this? What made you realize that Earth was such an important part of this process for The Seven?

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MJ: By your counting, we have been in existence for billions of years, Michael, and we reached a point where the connections between us were no longer generating the evolution we required for our energetic vibration to grow. It was as if we were exhausting the options to explore our own potential. We drifted for a long time seeking a source that would offer us the potential for further evolution. It was not until Earth appeared after the last exhalation that we found what we were praying for. MPS: Hang on. Youre saying that The Seven had been wishing for a new way to evolve and raise your vibration and one day, voila! It appeared? MJ: You could put it in those terms. MPS: It seems a little coincidental that you needed a new source of inspiration and suddenly the universe provided you with one. MJ: Indeed. It is not coincidence. There is no such thing. It is the nature of the universe to create what is required. All you need do is work hard enough and wait long enough. It is difficult to say whether our need created the conditions or the arriving conditions inspired our need. It is always a combination of both. This is why sensitivity and awareness are so vital. Just by expanding awareness of your own feelings you can feel the future, the past and the present simultaneously. MPS: How did you decide to move forward once you had found Earth? MJ: There was some deliberation between The Seven as to exactly what the benefits would be of working with Earth's intelligence. Some beings believed it a worthy endeavor, albeit risky, as we did not know how these conditions would evolve and the direct effects upon us. Others believed that alternative challenges might be more appropriate for their collective vibration.

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MPS: What happened? MJ: Three groups left to work elsewhere. Four stayed here to work with Earth. MPS: What work did the remaining four do then? MJ: We calculated what we would need to do to help Earth mature and grow as a planet. This determined the type and shape of the energetic connections between the planets surface and ourselves. MPS: How do these connections work? MJ: They are the same connections as energy-beings make amongst ourselves in order to learn, grow and develop. Before we found Earth one of our main means of evolution was to project love, compassion and other energy at beings who needed it. Our calculations with regard to Earth helped us to decide how many energy-beings would be needed to project sufficient energy to the planet, where they would need to project it to and from where they should project it. MPS: How many energy-beings were needed for this projection process? MJ: One hundred and forty-four thousand. MPS: Could you elaborate as to who comprised The 144,000 energybeings tasked to do this? MJ: The 144,000 is comprised of three of the four groups who remained to work with Earth. MPS: Wow. And they are still here? They are still playing this role? MJ: Yes. They have been doing this for 15 billion years.

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It was an awe-inspiring revelation. Energy-beings have been present since the birth of our planet as a life-enhancing intelligence, have nurtured the energy here and still to this day hold Earths nature in place like the pillars of a building. MPS: Thats just an awesome insight, Master Jacob. It turns the conventional battle of evolution vs. creationism on its head. MJ: The purpose of my telling you this is to bring insight and with it, hopefully, wisdom. MPS: Hopefully. Please explain the mechanism by which the energy of The 144,000 helped to develop the Earth? MJ: We formed what you might call an energy bubble around the planet and projected energy towards specific points on its surface. We felt that the intelligence of this planet would respond to the projection of positive energy flows such as love, compassion and acceptance: it is a gross green energy. MPS: How exactly do you project this energy? MJ: In the same way that we project it at each other, indeed, the same way that humanity creates it for one another. It comes from intention. All energy emanates from this. We spoke of the universal breath and the intelligence of your planet, well, Earth breathes too. We transmit this energy according to the breath of your planet. The 144,000 and the planet breathe as one: synchronized and connected. MPS: Thats a vivid image. Thank you. It also reminds me of a healing technique we often use during Reiki, which is to synchronize breathing with the receiver in order to entrain with their energy. MJ: Exactly. It is the same intention and process with the Earth. MPS: I see. What did the projection of this energy achieve?
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MJ: We helped induce greater connectivity between resources on your planet as connectivity is the driving force behind the whole process of evolution and growth. If energy cannot connect and share freely it will devolve. It will die out. So, in order to ensure that the Earth was diverse and fertile, the energy of The 144,000 helped nurture the attraction between atomic matter that allows for the development of compound structures. MPS: Youre saying the energy of The 144,000 basically helped nurture the critical interactions between all life? The chemical rules, if you will? MJ: Correct. In your universe, many planets exist with diverse elements but they do not all turn into Earth with its great abundance of life. MPS: But that process sounds incredible to me. I mean, you can create the conditions for hydrogen and oxygen to connect and create water or for cells to form, just by projecting love, compassion and other lovely intentions like that? MJ: You would be amazed at what the energy of love can create, Michael. Let us just say that the energy of The 144,000 nurtured the potential for the creation of physical life that was already present on Earth. Master Jacob, Orranut and I have had many discussions on this topic, as you can imagine. On one occasion it struck me that The 144,000 were nothing less than chickens sitting on the proverbial egg and I asked Master Jacob whether he saw it as such. I believe he learned a little about human metaphor and humor that day. He didnt disagree with the analogy, however. Still, it struck me that The 144,000, from a traditional religious perspective, could be compared to Gods or at the very least be said to have played the role that some religious have ascribed to God or Gods. I wanted to address this with him in order to clarify how the energy-beings saw their role in Earths development.
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MPS: Master Jacob, some will perceive the energetic involvement of The 144,000 like being that of God during The Creation in The Bible. Granted, The 144,000 took a little longer than a day but could you give me your impression of the work that you have been doing all these years and how humanity can best interpret it. MJ: Humanity must begin to realize that human beings and all energy-beings, including those of The Seven, are essentially no different. You are energy-beings too. You have chosen to occupy a human body in this lifetime. The only difference is the uniqueness of our vibrations and the energetic qualities that define our individual talents and preferences. The role of The 144,000 in the development of Earth should be given no more credence than the rain or the sun and humanity needs to recognize that the potential within you is no different from that realized by The Seven. In relationship to the development of Earth, we simply have nutrients that the Earth needs to diversify and evolve and it is our duty to supply them like we would supply them to any beings whose purpose is growth and evolution. Humanity has long since evolved past seeing Sun Gods and Rain Gods for the most part, so it would be pointless to see us as love gods or compassion gods or such like, wouldnt it? We are simply versions of your own future. The best way for you to interpret the history between The Seven and Earth is as a guide to step beyond the traditional limits that humanity places on its own evolution and to become higher versions of your own selves. MPS: Ok, but let me just take the God analogy a little further to quench my personal appetite. I understand that the efforts of The 144,000 were to participate in the creation of an environment where mutual development, growth and evolution could occur. Many people on Earth have the notion that God is perfect. I am assuming that energy-beings are not perfect. MJ: All things are perfect, Michael. We are the creations of our own intention and effort, just as every human being is. There is no

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more perfect mechanism than this in the universe. You are what you create and what you create, you experience. MPS: I suppose I am really asking whether you are infallible? MJ: Something that is perfect in that way does not exist in the universe for it would be unchanging and there is nothing in nature that does not change. Let me be clear, things are a lot clearer in the energy planes, Michael, but that doesn't mean that we dont have disagreements, politics to a certain extent, even emotional clashes. Energy-beings are all at various stages of development just as they are on Earth. I implore all people to begin thinking of yourselves as energy-beings too and understand that what we are, so are you. If you think of us as higher beings, then you are higher beings too. If you think of us as Gods, then you are Gods too. Everything is in a constant process of growth and learning. All things. Therefore, how can there be perfection in this sense? It is evolution. Humanity can learn that growth and evolution is your purpose and you do this best in unity, appreciation and respect of all the beings around you, not in division and conflict. There are no limits to the energetic resources available to any of us. We must nurture and grow them together. Our goals are the same. All that differs is the awareness to see them as one. MPS: Thank you. That makes it a lot clearer. I know that many people will have a hard time getting their minds around the idea that beings not from this planet are not alien and that beings who helped developed this planet are not God. It will take a lot of time for us to let go of these popular misconceptions. MJ: Perhaps. It is just a case of people remembering in their bodily form what is quite obvious in their energy form. People have to choose to live as if their body was not who they are. It makes waking up and remembering that much easier.

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MPS: Please tell me a little more about the results that The 144,000 achieved when they started projecting their energy at Earth. MJ: When we arrived here, there was actualized and latent potential of course, but we had never experienced any environment like Earth before. Its unique blend of elements translated into unique behaviors that were an entirely new experience for us and therefore we could not have predicted the results that occurred. MPS: What do you mean? MJ: Well, we have spoken of our nature and the nature of all other beings in the universe. Prior to working with Earth, we had spent billions of years of our evolution projecting our energy at other beings and receiving energy back. We have evolved through selfless love. As this had been our experience in every other interaction with every other being, physical or otherwise, we had no reason to expect that Earth would be any different from this. I found myself waiting for the next line cringing, somewhat like the parent awaiting the teachers painful revelation of what naughtiness their incorrigible child had perpetrated now, about how our little world had, once again, thrown evolved energetic beings into a quandary. MPS: I suppose youre not going to tell me that Earth was a normal, common-or-garden, happy planet. MJ: Well, I dont really know what that means but Earth didnt mirror back energy in the same way as we projected it. MPS: So, its a naughty planet? MJ: For some reason, the energy points that we had calculated to interconnect across Earth werent connecting together as we had expected them to. We didn't know why. As I have said, we had

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never experienced anything like it before. In our experience, it should have worked as normal. But it didnt. MPS: What did you do? MJ: We decided that the only way to correct what was going on was to go down to the surface of Earth and try to interconnect the energy of the planet and The 144,000 from there. It is hard to imagine energetic beings seeking new experiences and learning, crossing from parallel universes and other planes to emerge in a unique place much like their own solar system but where the energetic rules were so totally different to those they had previously known, that their past techniques no longer worked in the way to which they had been accustomed for billions of years. Discovering a new continent pales into insignificance in comparison. We are not just talking about new mountains, cultures or habits here but entirely different physical properties that distinguish the planet Earth from all others that The 144,000 had previously experienced. And that is no mean sum of experience to reflect upon. It is like crossing the border between USA and Canada and discovering that, actually, gravity falls upwards in Canada.4 What would you do? Moreover, despite the shock, they then spend billions of years working on the processes to understand and nurture this environment so that they might learn from it and evolve. If thats not dedication, I dont know what is. MPS: What happened when you arrived on the surface of Earth? Master Jacob laughed

Just to be clear, gravity is nearly normal in most of Canada.

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MJ: Well, firstly, we didnt just pop down to the surface. Its not a shopping trip. We had to prepare very special connections to allow us to travel there in the energetic form. When we first arrived upon the surface our initial impression of Earths colossal promise was reinforced. It truly possesses properties that are astounding. We could literally feel the enormous potential of the planet pulsing through it. We were very excited about it. However, we also realized that the energetic connections we were seeking in order to generate a reciprocal flow of energy wouldnt occur through the normal energetic forms. We needed to work with actual physical forms to do this. MPS: You needed physical life? MJ: Yes. MPS: Did this answer why Earth didnt react and respond as all former intelligences had reacted. MJ: In a way, yes. The unique grossness of energy restricts the way it moves and connects. Unlike other planets, which are much lighter and we can share our energy freely with other beings, Earth energy must be conveyed in more material form. You need to make physical connections, which means having physical vessels to do so. At the time of our first arrival on the surface of the planet, there was no such life capable of receiving and reflecting the energy of The Seven. We were still at the point in Earths development where molecules were forming into gases, liquids and other matter. So the energy-beings realized that projecting energy alone was not enough. Earth is such a unique environment that they would have to evolve a new strategy, one that they had not used anywhere else in the universe. They would have to stay with the planet for as long as needed to nurture its energy and help create physical forms

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that were capable of holding the level of energetic vibration that would reciprocate the energy projected by The 144,000. Earth had suddenly become a long-term project, if you dont already consider a few billion years long term, that is MPS: How did you go about nurturing these physical forms capable of holding the energy of The Seven? MJ: Patience first and foremost. We began nurturing the natural patterns that were forming on the planet in order to encourage their development into life forms with the potential intelligence and awareness to connect, transmit energy and evolve. MPS: Are you saying you accelerated evolution? MJ: You could put it like that. We were hoping that the Earth would naturally generate a physical form that was efficient at connecting with energy and reflecting it back as energy-beings do quite naturally. MPS: Oh, so this is how the relationship with humans began? MJ: Indeed. After billions of years it became clear that the ape form was the form with the most potential to do this. MPS: Tell me exactly what your intentions were? MJ: Remember that we had to come to the surface of the planet to evaluate why our usual techniques for sharing were not as successful working with Earth from outside its energy field. MPS: Yes. MJ: The physicality of Earth means that it is necessary to actually be born as a physical being on Earth in order to experience the greatest benefits that the planet has to offer.

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MPS: To be born as humans? How does that work? MJ: Humanity must understand that it is the nature of all physical forms that they are merely shells for energy. Every human being alive today is a mind, an energy-being and a body. When the body dies, the energy-being leaves it and transfers to another shell, if that is what is necessary for its learning process. The benefit of physical existence is that we learn and grow more quickly than in a purely energetic environment. As Earth is the most physical planet we have found, it offers the greatest potential for personal energetic development. MPS: I am trying to understand this. Please clarify what happens to the human energy-being if one of The Seven is born into a human body. He laughed. MJ: It is not like that, Michael. No energy-being is replaced with another. Human bodies are not reserved for native Earth energy. If you knew how the energy system worked you would understand how strange that idea sounds to me. It is just as strange as my explanation of this process sounds to you. But I will try to explain. MPS: Please do. MJ: All beings await the right body for them. When one becomes available, the right energy-being enters that body. Nobody jumps a queue or takes the place of another. Please understand that this happens everywhere else in the universe too, not just on Earth. All energy-beings use physical bodies in order to experience different types of physicality. If a native Earth being achieves a certain degree of enlightenment, the energy-being can travel anywhere it wishes and experience whatever body is best for its continued growth. There are no possessions in the universe as Earth people have possessions. Bodies belong to every being, everywhere.

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MPS: I see. Thank you for that explanation. You are certainly right that the idea sounds incredible to me. But it is also wonderful. Any Earth being can be born anywhere in all the universes? MJ: Indeed. You may just be visiting Earth for the first time, or it may be your thousandth time. However many times you have been here you will believe from your family heritage that you are a fixed asset of the planet. But that is not true in any shape or form. The illusion of Earth is a strong one. MPS: What did being born in human form teach The Seven? MJ: Once we began to manifest as humans we realized the experience of this planet is different to anything any of us had experienced before, even for The Three 5, most of whom are of higher vibration than The 144,000. None of us have ever known anything like it. MPS: That sounds ominous. What are you getting at? MJ: All energy-beings are susceptible to attachments, Michael, whomever we are. Attachments lower the energy vibration because they act like heavy luggage that pins you down and prevents your energetic vibration from rising up through the planes. When The Seven began to take physical form on Earth for the first time, suddenly, we were hit by the enormous weight of its physicality, its colors, its flavors, its sounds and its feelings and all that this implies to beings who have, for eons in some cases, been used to light physicality and the slower learning curve that carries with it less risk of attachment. On Earth, the shock can be so great that some of the physical bodies of higher energy-beings simply died at birth. The energy-beings could not take the immense shock of physical

Meaning: The Three energy groups who left the Group of Seven while the remaining four worked with the energy of Earth.

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birth and no physical body can exist without an energetic being within it. MPS: Wow. The Earth experience is really so different to other planets? MJ: Yes. When you are born into your physical body, you do not leave the energy world behind. You remain connected to it all times by a silver cord. On lighter planets, reconnecting and staying connected to the higher self is relatively easy for the mass of the planet and its attachments are easier to traverse and overcome. Thus the being is somewhat or mostly aware of their energetic nature. They know that they are just living a life in order to evolve. There is less chance to become attached to the world and think it is all they are. However, the energy of Earth is so heavy that, usually within the first couple of years of life, the energy-being becomes almost totally submerged in the physical world. It can take some energy-beings a long, long time to reconnect to their true self with sufficient clarity to follow their chosen path. If they can do this, if they can reconnect, they will stabilize their energy and realize their purpose. MPS: But what happens if they do not reconnect? MJ: They may forget who they really are and become a part of your world. MPS: Did this happen to any of The Seven? For a while, no response and then came Master Jacobs familiar response: MJ: Indeed.

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Chapter 4 Evolution of the First Civilization

The great assumption with evolution is that it only occurs independently, at a natural rate. The story of Master Jacob, The Seven and The 144,000 suggests otherwise, at least on Earth anyway. Even though this planet possessed more potential than any other planet these ancient beings had ever before encountered, the projection of their nurturing energy was a vital constituent in bringing that potential to fruition in its current form. Clearly, if we are to see the history of our planet for what it really is, indeed the history of the entire universe as an spontaneous or self-determining physical phenomenon, we need to leave behind some of the old mind rafts regarding our notions of universal creation and human evolution. This is not just key to learning but, as we will discover from this chapter forwards, it may also be the key to our very survival. Lets start with some frank statements to clarify a few popular misunderstandings of who and what humanity is: we are not products of unassisted evolution. We are not accidents of chemistry. We are not deliberate acts of God. We are not just bags of blood and bone. Unless you are living in awareness that your life is absolutely a search for energetic enlightenment, whatever alternative you have thus far created may explain any and all discontentment that exists in its place. What we have learned from Master Jacob thus far is very simple, albeit very different to what we may have learned up to this point in our lives: Earth is like an energetic school where energy-beings from all over the omniverse interact. Earth is not just some evolutionary fluke. We are all living on a unique cosmic classroom that teaches the rudiments of enlightenment to any beings who wish to be born into an earthly physical body.

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Now this may sound decidedly mad to anyone who works nine to five, has two point two children and wants to live in a neighborhood with white picket fences and a local Wal-Mart but thats just the point, isnt it? The hardest part of evolving is in letting go of the familiar old skin that covers your reality in comfortable routines and conventional hues. To do that you must first recognize that the old skin is whats holding you back from evolving. Its a bit of a catch-22 really. Unless you evolve, you wont see whats holding you back. Unless you see whats holding you back, you wont evolve. I just hate it when life suddenly becomes so simple that it gets complicated. How do we resolve this catch-22? Well, just believing Master Jacob would be a great step but that would require a little faith in his rather quirky description of reality. People may have no problem in accepting that Roswell was a weather balloon, Kennedy was killed by Oswald and Big Brother is fine television entertainment, all of which takes the faith of a gold-plated, diamond-studded saint, but accepting that humanity is energybeings born here for the sole purpose of energetic evolution? Well, thats just stretching the imagination too far. Forget the fact that all the major religions have given us the formula for how to create energetic evolution in multiple, albeit disparate versions across millennia, despite what we have actually done with the message. Forget the fact that ancient self-awareness philosophies from India, China, Tibet, Greece, Mexico and others have, for thousands of years, handed down the notion that humanity must look inwards and create balance in order to evolve. Even forget the fact that we have tried just about everything else except working on our own selves and all we continue to create is growing conflict and greed. Even though the truth of our existence is screamed out of every pore of nature, all it takes to whack humanity off track is a happy jingle, some nice graphics, a pair of well-rounded boobs and the ideological genius that no one should be ugly, everyone should own an I-Phone and drowning to death in

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a tub full of hard green backs is paradise found. Now theres an image to inspire a little faith. Human history is littered with examples of paradigms being shattered by a little new information and the future will be no different. The point is to look at how a newfound perspective can bring benefits to our lives. In the case of humanity, establishing our evolutionary history with Master Jacob does not have a scientific purpose. We are not seeking to ascertain what is correct and what is not. It is a spiritual quest to realize the inspiration in our lives to commit to new practices and habits that better reflect our energetic nature. This is the foundation for genuine happiness in human form. How The 144,000 has interacted with Earth and humanity over the last 4.6 billion years is key to understanding the nature of our planet and the purpose common to all humanity. As we have already discovered, Earth was an alien environment to our energetic brothers despite it being a refection of their own world and so they too have needed to uncover the true nature of Earth through experience and learning. The conditions they discovered upon arrival are unique in their vast experience and thus the traps and attachments of the physical plane had an equally profound impact on their evolution. Thus, in Chapter Four we are going to look at how The 144,000 began to overcome the challenges of Earths physicality so that we too can break the patterns that affect modern people struggling to find their spiritual place in this physical world. MPS: Master Jacob, was humanity a conscious creation of The 144,000? Are we a result of some design orchestrated by The Seven? MJ: No. Why must humanity turn every process they do not understand into an act of God? Even if you do not intend it, please do not make us sound like Gods. We merely sought to nurture Earths natural potential to foster a physical form suitable for higher enlightenment for all energy-beings. We didnt know what
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that form might be and didnt plan it to be human form. If the form that emerged had been a crab, that is the form we would have taken. It is the energetic profile of the species that is important. It must be able to hold a certain vibration of energy. Since Earth was a new phenomenon to us too, we couldnt know whether a physical form suitable for this would emerge or not. It was a calculated choice that Earths abundance would eventually nurture such a powerful physical vehicle as yours. If you wish to have an analogy, it is like throwing down thousands of seeds and only one blossoms in the colors that you desire. It is not luck, because you have put in so much effort. But neither is it design. MPS: So why humanity? Why the apes? MJ: The physicality of Earth is such that the hands, legs and brain of a human allows for the evolution of the highest potential awareness. We did not choose these criteria nor did we specifically nurture them. Humanity is just one beautiful expression of Earths potential, not created by The Seven but augmented by the love, respect, compassion, joy, humility and other positive vibrations with which The 144,000 nurtured the Earth. If I show you love and you yourself become a loving parent who produces loving children, I cannot claim to have created your children. This analogy is like our relationship with Earth. We showed the Earth great love amongst other energetic expressions and its children were many species. In a very real sense, humanity is a product of a universal process that has always been in existence. MPS: Ok, let me ask the question in a slightly different way. Would humanity have existed in our current form if not for involvement of The 144,000? MJ: It is difficult to speculate, of course, but I do not think so. The energy we sent helped boost the actualized potential of the entire planet. More of its potentiality was realized and therefore different

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life forms emerged than might have emerged if it was left to its own process. MPS: What would happen if The 144,000 stopped sending energy to Earth today? MJ: We would not stop. MPS: OK, but I would like to be a little hypothetical so that people can understand the impact the energy of The 144,000 has on our modern Earth. What would happen to the human species if The 144,000 disappeared today? MJ: Well, nothing would change immediately for there is a strong residual energy but eventually human consciousness, morality, values and all sense of collectiveness would eventually be eroded. It would be as if we took the head away from your body. The human form would return to having the awareness of animals and it would be less suitable for the higher evolution of energy-beings. But I tell you this only to answer the hypothesis. I know it is difficult for human beings to trust others, especially if they do not have faith in their motives, but the values of The Seven preclude offering our energy with thought of reward or return. We do not think of our work here like an investment as humans invest in things. If some of you think of The 144,000 as your parents, a comparison we do not like but is worth using for this example, the love that we have for all energy-beings on Earth is the same as parents towards children or brothers and sisters towards siblings. MPS: I see, so, in effect, The 144,000 have created an artificial environment? MJ: No, not artificial. Again, be careful with your description because you make it sound as though we are doing something unnatural when I must state very clearly that anything unnatural would simply not work. It would fail. It would be corrupt. Nature

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is the God, not us. We can only live within its laws and the first law is love. There is nothing more authentic than love. The Seven have focused our energy on Earth to enhance the natural environment, not to manipulate it. We are all creative beings in this universe. It is the natural inclination of all beings. So, what we are doing on a planetary scale here on Earth is really no different to what you or any energy-beings do when you interact with one another on a personal scale. By being loving, compassionate and caring towards one another, we enhance reality, right? If I project unconditional love towards you, you cannot claim that I am doing something artificial. Do you see? MPS: Yes, I see. MJ: Our relationship with Earth is not so extraordinary, Michael. I realize that it is a new concept to you and therefore seems strange but you must also try to see this new situation in new ways and not with the old set of judgments and bias. It is the nature of humans to create in the same way that energy-beings create. Indeed, it is the innate nature and purpose of all beings is to practice the skill of creation and, by practicing, master it. There is nothing more natural than this. Each individual being is capable of contributing their energy to the world in ways that enhance the natural wave of evolution rather than conflict with it. Because we all have different characteristics and abilities, the unique creations of each being are perfect expressions of universal potential, do you see? This is why learning to create through love is essential. You begin to create a reality that is authentic rather than based upon illusions. In turn, this contributes to the liberation of all beings. Our interest in Earth is to help develop an environment that enhances the energetic prospects for the evolution of all beings. MPS: Explain to me what evolution is then. I am not sure I have a clear understanding of what you mean by the word.

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MJ: Evolution is a constant process of learning conditioned by the interconnected relationships of all beings. Though you perceive yourselves as individual beings and humanity as a separate species, this view is just as flawed as viewing the Earth as a separate planet disconnected from the rest of the universe. In fact every part is connected to the next, each world to every other world, each galaxy to other galaxies and each universe to each parallel universe. They are all just different aspects or expressions of the same energy. As one evolves, they all evolve. On Earth, species evolve individually, in groups and collectively as one, not just in the physical form but also mentally and energetically too. All energy-beings on Earth are learning to evolve in a balanced way by integrating the physical, mental and energetic forms that they possess in order to meet the changing conditions of the planet. The evolution of an individual energy-being on a higher plane is connected to the evolution of all species or all planets. MPS: Is the process of evolution the same throughout all universes, in your experience? MJ: In principle, yes, but Earth is a very unique environment and so it has unique properties that change the way in which an energybeing must go about the process in order to be successful. We have learned this lesson through hard experience on Earth and humanity must learn it too. MPS: Please explain what you mean by that. MJ: Successful evolution on Earth requires the integration of mind, body and energy-being into one harmonious entity. Yet this is not easy. As I have said, the heavy physical environment of the planet exaggerates any imbalances in one or the other aspect to create stronger attachments than we have experienced on other worlds. For example, at present, human beings routinely become attached to gross physical possessions such as their cars, houses or

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wealth and this weakens the mind and energy-being within you. Other people become so fixated by the properties of their mind that they attach to a greater and greater sense of I and me, which creates a further imbalance. It is like taking your eye off one part of your garden and only tending to a small section of it. The other parts become overgrown and unruly, right? MPS: Right. MJ: So, awareness of your purpose; your need for energetic evolution by connecting to your higher self through your silver cord, can become buried under the weight of material desires. Thus the motivation to attain a higher vibration wanes. This creates a kind of atrophy in your energy-being. People become like sheep. They follow the leader and the collective intelligence of your species is diminished as the corresponding diversity diminishes. In effect, the structural integrity of your species begins to weaken. MPS: You mentioned previously that the intelligence of Earth was contained within its diversity and awareness, which meant potential for growth and development. Is this potential being lost in humanity as we globalize and all seem to want the same things and follow the same trends? MJ: Very much so. It is like the atomic elements that you have on your planet. You have many, many atomic building blocks that allow such diversity of physical forms to grow. But, if you only built with a few of them life would all be the same, if it could exist at all. Please understand that the very nature of Earth is diversity. Its vibration is built upon it, as we discovered when we first came here and became so excited by its potential. If you do not also have the corresponding diversity of energy and mind that is equal to this vibration, it is as if the energy of the planet becomes unsynchronized with your race. It leaves you behind. The planet wants to evolve at a certain pace but humanity has slowed down to

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a different tempo, trying to cling onto your attachments and maintain things as they seem, not as they really are. What do you think the result of this is? MPS: Errit doesnt sound good. MJ: It is not about good or bad, Michael. It is about natural processes. Why do you think the dinosaurs died out? MPS: A giant meteor hit the planet, didnt it? MJ: The meteor is just the physical manifestation of an entire range of creatures who were unable to adapt. Energetically, they were stuck. They couldnt keep up with the pace of change on the planet. In your language you call someone a dinosaur if they have failed to adapt, right? This failure is what killed off their species. MPS: Is humanity at the same point in our progress: adapt or die? MJ: I would not put it so dramatically but lets say that never in the history of this planet has the level of humanitys collective power of awareness been so diametrically opposite to your immense power to destroy billions of years of evolution. MPS: That doesnt sound much less dramatic than my version, to be honest. MJ: Well, quite, but if you imagine the evolving energy of your planet being like a wave, species that are evolving in synchronicity will generate wavelengths that entrain with it. Now take humanity. Many of you are indeed moving in the same direction and because we are talking about a large mass of people, this creates a big energetic wave but this wave is not entrained with the natural wave at all. It conflicts with it. However, despite the obvious conflict with Earths energy, humanity doesn't realize it because the wave you are creating is so large it nurtures the belief that it is the only wave around and the only one that matters.
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MPS: We lose awareness. MJ: Indeed. And without awareness it becomes very difficult to correct. If you create conflicting wavelengths like this, it literally clashes with the living energy of the Earth. But the purpose of all living beings is to evolve in harmony with the breathing process of the planet and therefore the universe. This enhances diversity and awareness because you tap into the awareness and intelligence of the entire Earth. It expands upon each individuals potential to create in new forms and achieve enlightenment through their own unique process. While it may seem that many on Earth are pulling in the same direction, there are many that oppose it too, some in greater awareness and some in even greater ignorance. This pulls the energy of the planet in all directions. Humans must learn to evolve their energy so that it harmonizes and does not conflict with that of Earth. MPS: Earths energy being pulled in opposite directions is an interesting analogy, Master Jacob, for it seems to me that at this time in history humanity is polarizing into two distinct groups: one that is realizing the spiritual and energetic nature of their life and one that is still clinging to attachments and possessions through materialistic and intellectual pursuits. It is almost like we are branching into two separate species with different evolutionary paths. Is this a result of the two groups either harmonizing or conflicting with the wavelength of the Earth? MJ: It could be said to be like that, yes. MPS: Could we compare this to the branching of humanity between Neanderthal man and the Cro Magnon man that produced modern man? MJ: Indeed. MPS: What exactly caused the extinction of Neanderthal man? MJ: The same reason as the dinosaurs.

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MPS: Could you be more specific? MJ: One species burned brightly and the other burned dimly. The dimly burning species can either brighten up by learning from the brighter species and evolving, or it will not survive. But take care not to perceive this event as a group of energy-beings dying out. Not at all. A physical species is a phenomenon of physical energy but that species can get trapped in mental energy through ideas and habits that are passed on through generations and never evolve. The dinosaurs, when they saw brightly burning species, did not adapt, they cringed from the light in fear of it. If any species reacts in this way, refuses to let go of habits, rituals and beliefs that slow down their evolution, it will effectively disconnect from the energetic wavelength of the Earth. Nature does not select species, as your evolution claims. Species either select or deselect themselves through their awareness and sensitivity to the choice of change. All choices are based upon awareness but if a species is not aware enough to feel the evolving energy of the Earth and adapt in connectivity with it, it becomes like an evolutionary off-shoot, lost in a belief that it can become something different or separate from the energy of the Earth that gave rise to the physical bodies that shape its very presence. MPS: Will one group of humanity die out if we continue to polarize in this way? MJ: There is no need. All can adapt. All can grow. All can change. But time is short. MPS: How do we do this? How do we adapt? MJ: People must wake up and read the patterns of nature. All around you the Earth is telling you what you need to do. It is not a secret to your species. All you do is turn off the receiver or turn on the receiver. You must learn to embrace the nature of your own world.
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MPS: Master Jacob, could you describe for me how The 144,000 began to work with Earth beings to develop the physical form. I mean, how did an ape evolve into a human? MJ: Once it became clear that the ape was the species with the most potential awareness and ability to learn, The Seven began to work energetically with those individual apes exhibiting the greatest potential in order to accelerate the actualization of their own evolution. As we worked with each successive generation, they took on more and more evolved properties until the energetic profile of the ape was akin to what you might call a modern human. The modern form provided The Seven with a physical body capable of holding the vibration of our energy-being, which meant that we could manifest in human form and experience fully the process of birth and death as you experience it on Earth now. MPS: To most humans, death is not particularly an experience we are looking forward to experiencing. MJ: Humans are so attached to your physical bodies because you identify your existence with your survival. When you understand that the body dying does not mean that you disappear, there is nothing to fear in the transition. This is the equanimity you must seek. MPS: But what was so attractive about experiencing physical life and death to The Seven? MJ: Michael, the purpose of all energy-beings is evolution. The unique physical environment of Earth offered us an entirely new experience that promised a different approach to enlightenment. Look at it like this, if you are a chef and you discover a new country, would you not want to experience all the fruits, vegetables, meats, cooking styles, tastes and aromas in order to enhance your craft?

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MPS: Of course. MJ: Well the same is true with energy-beings who find an entirely new energetic environment. We wanted to experience it fully so that we could evolve and grow but we had no idea what incarnation inside a physical form like yours would truly mean. MPS: It sounds as if you were surprised by it. MJ: We discovered complications that we had not imagined. MPS: Like what? MJ: Well, once the human form had achieved a certain degree of evolution we decided to be born to human parents and experience life for ourselves. We were very excited by the prospect. MPS: I am sorry, but I cannot image you getting excited about anything Master Jacob. MJ: It is a different type of excitement to human excitement, Michael. Believe me, we too have goals that motivate us. MPS: I see. What happened after you were first born into human form? MJ: We began to create a form of community and civilization in order to explore the boundaries of where the mind, body and energy-being integrate as one. MPS: What was this civilization called? MJ: You would know it by the name Atlantis. MPS: So Atlantis really existed? MJ: It did.

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The first account of Atlantis is contained in Platos dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC. Plato described a continent that existed "in front of the Pillars of Hercules", which are taken by some to mean the Gibraltar straits. This would place the lost continent somewhere in the Atlantic although no physical evidence has even been produced to demonstrate where that might have been. Plato wrote that, 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC, the naval power of Atlantis conquered much of Western Europe and Africa. However, many scholars believe that he was using allegory as a political tool or was even drawing upon other epic battle tales such as the siege of Troy. Master Jacob had another version of the story MPS: The only historical account we have of Atlantis is from Plato. But he hardly even mentioned it. Why has the account been lost? MJ: We thought it better that contemporary civilizations didnt know of it and developed in their own way. MPS: Where was Atlantis situated? I cannot believe it was in the Atlantic as Plato said. MJ: He didnt say it was in the Atlantic. MPS: Well, he said in front of the pillars of Heracles or Hercules, which are taken to mean the Gibraltar straits. MJ: Yes, but he was referring to the star system of Hercules. MPS: Oh, its an astrological reference. MJ: Indeed. MPS: What is its significance?

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MJ: The Hercules star system is that which projects the energy of growth. This was the star system most aligned with the Atlantis project. Plato used this reference because he understood that only certain people would grasp its fullest meaning. MPS: I see. So astrology has some merits. MJ: It does. Each star system, indeed, each planet in your solar system, possesses a vibrational energy that projects at the Earth in a unique way. MPS: I see. If we went to another place in the universe the star patterns would all look different, so I suppose the energetic cocktail they project would be different too. MJ: Indeed. Each star pattern is a collective energy that affects the Earths development. MPS: But surely the stars are so far away that their affect is negligible. MJ: Their light arrives here, doesnt it? So, other energy arrives here too. Distance is not what it seems, Michael. One meter or a million miles are insignificantly different in energetic values. We are all connected and connections are instant. It is like your internet. Communication can be instant over huge distances when once it would take months to deliver a message. Suddenly your perception of time and space changed. The limits that humanity places on these things do not exist but you want to measure things in how far light can travel but light is just one form of energy. It is not all energy. In the time of Atlantis we used the energy from the stars to our advantage. This application has been all but lost in your modern age. MPS: Where was Atlantis really located then if it wasn't in the Atlantic Ocean?

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MJ: It was actually on all continents but the primary location was what you would now call the Antarctic. MPS: So Plato was some way off then MJ: Plato was not even supposed to mention it. As I said, we preferred people to live in the present, not speculate on the past. MPS: But hold on. Why would you say that Plato wasnt supposed to mention it? Was there some agreement or communication between The 144,000 and him? MJ: The connection was deep. MPS: Exactly how deep, Master Jacob? He was one of The 144,000 born into human form, wasn't he? MJ: Actually, he was one of The Three. MPS: So they returned to Earth to be born into human form too? MJ: Well, to be accurate, they never really left. I only mentioned that they decided not to participate in the preparation stage because this stage was not one of development for them. Each group did what they needed to evolve. The development was the job of the four remaining groups and carried out by The 144,000, who are comprised of beings from three of those four groups. MPS: Right. Just out of interest, what about Socrates, Platos teacher? There is much speculation by scholars as to who he was. Was he one of The Three too? MJ: He was not in physical form. MPS: What do you mean?

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MJ: He was a creation of Plato in order that he could teach in the way that he needed to teach. 6 MPS: Do you mean that there was no such living person as Socrates? MJ: Well that is technically accurate, but Socrates was really just the Greek name that Plato gave to the energy-being he was channeling. MPS: Plato was a channel? MJ: Well, do not be so surprised. All energy-beings have this ability. For most people it is merely the connection with the higher self. For some it is the connection also to the energy-beings or guides that exist alongside the beings higher self. Remember that I told you all beings are connected to their higher self through their silver cord. This connection gives access to much information that is stored in the universal consciousness. All energy-beings can do this, dependent upon their degree of awareness and the plane on which they reside as energy-beings. This is how I am able to communicate with you through Orranut. She just happens to be very good at connecting in this way. It is her natural gift as mine is a psychologist and philosopher. MPS: I see but I thought The Three were energetically elevated above the need to be on Earth in physical form? MJ: Not at all. The energy of Earth is such that it can teach all beings, particularly those on planes one to seven. Also, certain roles need higher vibrations to ensure that energy-beings do not become too distracted by the physical difficulties inherent in a physical incarnation.
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MPS: So The Three come to perform special duties as well as to learn. MJ: Indeed. The Three are normally great healers but in the case of the energy-being who was Plato, he was very well connected to his higher self and had few limits to the knowledge or energy-beings available as his resource. Rather than talking in terms of energybeings or spirits, he chose to create Socrates to pass ideas to his students that could be disseminated throughout the world as parable and philosophical musing. MPS: But who exactly was Socrates then? MJ: It was Platos higher self. MPS: So he was really just tapping into his higher consciousness and feeding through to Earth learning that he had acquired from previous experience. MJ: Indeed. It was a very clever strategy. MPS: Well, I didnt see that coming. MJ: If you look back through your history, your finest teachers will appear wise for many have this same connection. They have not told a different story to Plato, because the story is always the same and it comes from exactly the same place. They have just told it in their own styles, manicured for the abilities and awareness of their audience. That is how they are remembered. MPS: You mentioned earlier that Plato wasn't supposed to talk about Atlantis, so why is it OK for people to learn about it now? MJ: In your time it is now important for people to understand where they came from so that they can know what the present really means and act accordingly.

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MPS: I understand that The Sevens development had stagnated before your arrival at the Earth, Master Jacob, but could you tell me a little more about the motivation of The Seven to experience Earths physicality and to build Atlantis? MJ: For billions of years we experienced suffering, Michael. Do not misunderstand the way of energy-beings. We too suffer and therefore we always knew we were incomplete because suffering is the symptom of incompleteness. If you bring to mind any human experience that causes you suffering you will realize that suffering is a message. It is telling you that all physical experience is incomplete and life is a process of continually seeking completion so that a being is liberated from suffering forever. MPS: I see. MJ: Until the Earth formed during the last breath we had no trusted method of elevating ourselves beyond this suffering but on Earth we realized that the completion we sought is contained within the very nature of this planet, which is realized through the mind, body and energy-being connection that constitutes all life on this planet. Full surrender to and integration of these three constituent parts is the ultimate completion and offers all beings the prospect of final liberation from all suffering. Of course, there were countless beings who achieved this before we came here but Earth is the fast track, the vehicle that seems to be uniquely suited to this end. To fulfill the potential of this planet we had to find a way to connect our energetic form with the mind and body in order to be born in the physical, learn the techniques and practices that enable an energy-being to attain equanimity in the physical form and by doing so, practice them in life to attain liberation from the physical need for rebirth. MPS: How does an energy-being know when they have achieved this?

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MJ: They arrive on the eighth plane and become ascended masters. There is no devolvement from these planes. MPS: I see. Thats a truly motivating goal. How did you go about achieving this union of mind, body and spirit? MJ: Remember I told you that when we first arrived we were surprised that the planet did not energetically behave in the way we had expected because the connectivity was not as fluid as it had been in our previous experience. We went to the surface of Earth to understand why the energy we were projecting was not connecting together or projecting back at us in the way we expected. Atlantis was the project we needed to help us understand how to connect the Earths resources together better and to develop effective practices in life that could be passed on to future generations so that they could attain the same. MPS: What is the primary technique you learned from Atlantis. MJ: It is not very shocking. You would call it developing nurturing physical relationships. MPS: Please expand on what you mean by that? MJ: Energy-beings do not have the kind of relationships physical beings have on Earth. We do not have fathers and mothers or brothers and sisters as such, neither do we have relationships with physical objects that are developed and sustained through special effort. It is natural for us to feel a part of everything and connected to everything so relationships only offer a certain degree of benefit because the challenge is not so great. On Earth however relationships are not so easily maintained because Earths physicality engenders all sorts of emotions, ideas, opinions and beliefs that cloud the interconnectivity and interdependence of all things. You begin to feel separate and disconnected very quickly. So, to overcome this ignorance you need awareness and through

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awareness you begin to realize that the more selfless relationships are, the more you detach from them and the more you detach from them the more awareness you generate. It is like a spiral, do you see? MPS: Kind of MJ: Let me put it another way, look at Earth like a relational puzzle, which you must solve if you are to evolve. Relationships that are needy or demanding are conditional. Relationships that are giving are unconditional. Learning which serves you best and practicing relationships of that type with everything and everyone will define your energetic learning. MPS: Right. MJ: The point of Earths physical characteristics is to guide an energy-being towards the conclusion that conditional relationships create more suffering than unconditional ones. But, the catch is, to know this, you must be aware of when you are suffering and why. In the energetic form, we feel the intention in a relationship. In the human form, most energy-beings become desensitized to this, which is what we call ignorance, and must learn it through gross physical affects like hatred, anger, bitterness, even such things as poverty and homelessness. If you find a way to observe and monitor this suffering through awareness you will see the suffering in others, as well as yourself, and realize that the only way to alleviate it is through non-attachment to events, people and objects. This is unconditional love. On Earth, the extra effort that is required to find a way to drop attachments and build unconditional relationships yields a higher return for all energy-beings than they could achieve in the energy world because the connections are automatic and unhindered by the force of such powerful egos. MPS: Now I get it. The very act of learning as human beings what we already know as energy-beings is transformational. Its like forgetting who
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we really are and the process of finding out through a variety of different and new environments teaches us the ultimate energetic lesson: unconditional relationships without attachments. MJ: Indeed. MPS: And on Earth, because the challenge is greater, the potential for attaining higher vibrations is greater too. MJ: This is so. MPS: Please tell me a little more about the way in which Atlantis attained its goals. MJ: The Atlantis project allowed us to build communities and begin to experience human interactions in ways that we had never before experienced. The whole process of being born, living with others, learning and sharing together before dying and transforming back onto the energy planes being was incredibly rewarding and powerful. MPS: So, was Atlantis purely a society of The Seven born into human form or was it a combination of your energy and native energy from the Earth? MJ: Michael, our purpose is not to come and set up walled communities. Please remember that we do not look at the energy of Earth as us and them. Our purpose is to be among the energy of the planet and to coexist as equals. That is how we learn together and evolve together, by experiencing different things. Atlantis was primarily native human energy and as The Seven was born into human form we were able to help the society develop communal purposes through which native energy learned how to be more aware, how to respect nature and how to connect with other beings and the energy of the planet. We were both teachers and students at this time, as were the native energies of Earth to us.

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MPS: Tell me a little about this Atlantean society you created. Please expound a little on its political structures, social interactions and technologies during its golden age. MJ: Politically, we operated a very decentralized power structure because our connection to one another was still so pure. This connection creates trust and respect between individuals and feeds the creative expression that can only exist when one believes in ones self and is given the room to express that belief. MPS: How would this compare with a modern democracy? MJ: Your politics are very old fashioned, if youll excuse my bluntness. Trust and respect is not cultivated as it should be and therefore communication is not pure or complete. The connections have broken down and much is said that is not meant and much is meant that is not said. MPS: You clearly understand our political process very well! MJ: I do. The decentralization of Atlantis was most productive as it accelerated the actualization of our creative energy and allowed us to progress quickly. MPS: What were your social structures? Did you have hierarchies as we do? MJ: Yes, we had hierarchies but they were not based on master and servant, as yours often are. Atlantean society and economics was very natural. We tried to base them on our experience as energy-beings. Everyone helped everyone else. We harvested together, built shelter together, experimented together, played sports and had activities together. The natural connections that we sought in order to raise our vibration came very strongly and we all learned a great deal.

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MPS: It sounds like some of the earlier periods of recorded human history which were also characterized by this communal effort. Perhaps this was a spill-over from Atlantis? MJ: You might say that. MPS: How did you trade for goods and services? MJ: We bartered. If you had a sheep and I had grain we would swap. MPS: That is interesting as bartering is not generally recognized by economists as an efficient way of trading because different people have different products at different times of the year. It is not known to have existed on Earth anywhere as an orthodox method of doing business. MJ: This is because it requires so much trust. I give you grain when I have grain. You give me fruit when you have fruit. This is good bartering. It is also good community. MPS: And good for the memory! MJ: Indeed. MPS: Did you have money? MJ: No. It was not outlawed but everyone instinctively knew that it was not the right way to go. MPS: Why not? MJ: Why hoard what you do not need? In Atlantis we lived attuned with nature. Nature provided what we needed when we needed it. There was no reason to take what you did not need or to hold on to what another needed. MPS: There is a lot of faith required to practice that ideology, Master Jacob. Your bond with nature must have been very great.
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MJ: It is a good observation, Michael, for faith requires living in the present moment, a great tool of generating awareness and our connection to our higher self. To reduce that faith is to reduce the ability to live now. If you reduce your ability to live now, your reduce your awareness of who you area and why you are here in the first place. MPS: I see. MJ: If you go back through your history you will find that all ancient human groups have a bond with nature because it is the connection that feeds the energy of their culture, almost like the mother suckling her child. This is how energy entrains and people live according to the energy of the planet and the nature of the universe. When everyone is practicing hard at making this connection by teaching and learning practices of equanimity and being present it becomes much easier to know yourself as a part of the Earth and not separate. It is a connection that is being increasingly eroded today. In Atlantis, for instance, our connection with energy was so great that we could communicate with the energy-beings of trees and animals without words. Communication was telepathic and with vibrations because nature communicates in subtle ways that are only accessible by the self-aware. This was a very pure form of communication that cannot be misinterpreted as is so common in your modern human languages. As humanity has become more self-absorbed, the subtlety of awareness has been lost and gross languages and habits have evolved in their place. MPS: Did this expanded awareness affect your technologies? MJ: Certainly. It affected everything we created as you cannot create efficiently without first being aware of the resources available to you. Atlantean technology was far superior to anything available on Earth today, not because of the power of it but because human technology does not take into account the energetic patterns of

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nature with as much consideration. We utilized the flow of nature as our power like you might use the flow of a river to generate electricity. The difference is that modern human technology often forces nature to conform with human desires but our technology applied the same premise as our approach to Earth energy itself, which is to be in harmony with it, not to change it or force it to do something that will eventually have powerful consequences. The technologies we developed were related to the Earth elements: fire, earth, air and water. We were able to harness energies and apply them through technologies that today you would call magical. There are techniques that can be learned that would be considered impossible by current human comprehension of how energy behaves and yet modern civilization might call us primitive because we hardly made use of electricity and had no nuclear power whatsoever. MPS: What was the lifespan of a human at this time? MJ: It was around 200 years. MPS: That also goes against the grain of modern thinking, that human lifespan is becoming progressively longer through technological progress. MJ: Well, the high vibration and purity of energy-beings born into Atlantean bodies helped to prolong the life span of the physical form. However, it wasnt always practical as the body still aged and it creates difficulties to have a young productive spirit in a body that is breaking down. MPS: I can imagine. How did energy-beings of The Seven take to being born into human form? MJ: For many of us it was the first physical incarnation that we had ever experienced and it was very powerful. Most did not know what to expect from the body/mind phenomenon because the energy form was all we knew. It took a lot of adaptation for beings

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to be able to handle it. You cannot imagine how much of a shock it was. It was somewhat strange to hear an evolved energetic being describing his shock at being born on Earth. I suppose for those of us already here we dont know what all the fuss is about. Life on Earth with all its physical issues seems mundane to us. We are used to the average, everyday suffering that clouds our days and the raging highs that brand good memories into our minds. But for energy-beings, who for billions of years previously had experienced only subtle hints of the gross physicality that exists on Earth, the depth of mortal desire, craving, pleasure and suffering must have taken many by surprise. Even if you were to meticulously explain the ins and outs of our physical world to an energy-being, however vivid you may make it sound, the deepest ramifications of feeling and emotion would be beyond anyones ability to express in words. It must be felt to be known. Look at it from the opposite point-of-view: humans do not remember the energy world that energetic beings take for granted. The energy world is no less confusing to human beings than the physical world is confusing to energy-beings. Discussing the energy world is little more than fantasy to the average human mind. Earth energy causes us to forget our energetic qualities and become one with the physical world. Yet though we might call them hindrances, this environment allows us to accept these challenges as the motivation to evolve and make connections to each other and to our higher self if we are to ever reconnect to that purpose. Explaining this to you and having you accept it is no more farfetched than explaining our world to the energy-being and having them realize how it feels. It is far easier for the human to fall back on left-brain thinking and dismiss the whole prospect as ludicrous than for the mind to yearn for the key that offers it the ultimate freedom it seeks from the beliefs that enslave it to repeat the same habitual patterns.

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MPS: Can you explain to me what was the most shocking part of being born onto Earth for an energy-being, Master Jacob? MJ: It is the addictive qualities of physicality. In previous incarnations we have had in other physical worlds, none was as potent as Earth. When we realized that mind and body were the missing ingredients for our evolution, energy-beings in human bodies started to become obsessed with experiencing it and exploring it to its fullest. Some beings began to indulge themselves and became attached to experience, ideas, objects, places and people. Minds sought knowledge. Bodies sought pleasure and power. We began to indulge in what you would call spiritual materialism. MPS: Explain a little more what that means. MJ: It is when pride becomes a key feature of spiritual growth and we begin to hold our past spiritual achievements in higher esteem than the continued process of growth. From this attitude, beings become ensnared in the trappings that come with exalting their achievements such as possessions, social status, energetic abilities or other ego-based measurements. These are all fickle aspects of spiritual growth and are, in fact, counterproductive. MPS: What happened because of this? MJ: The decision of energy-beings to cling to these attachments fuels the great secret of physical life that so many people in your world fail to comprehend. The balance of mind, body and energy becomes corrupted by conditional love while the Earths physical weight burdens each being with these attachments and demands that we take responsibility for our attachments, learn and let them go. If we do not let them go, there are ramifications. It is very important that modern people learn this secret for the same problems in Atlantis are recurring in your age.

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MPS: What is this secret exactly? MJ: Some people on Earth call it samsara: the physical cycle of reincarnation. MPS: Why do you call it a secret? This has been known for thousands of years. MJ: By whom, Michael? Only a handful of people on your planet live as if it were so, even among those who profess to believe in it. Knowing is not enough. So few understand it. So few realize what it implies. If you have a book full of secrets and it stays on the shelf, unopened, unregistered in the mind and ignored through deeds you cannot say that people know the secrets. If you read that book and do nothing with your life, you cannot say that people act upon these secrets. To understand a secret it must be thrust into the light and lived as a way of life. People are ignorant of how present events in their lives are created, preferring to see the hand of fate or coincidence when the truth is that they have constructed each event, block by block, piece by piece from the effects of their past choices. They will be endlessly reborn until they connect together their mind, body and energy-being in true harmony and balance on the physical Earth in order to create awareness, a clear connection to their higher self and a realization that they are the creator of their reality and their own birth. If people opened up their minds to this secret, the mysteries of their lives would be revealed and they could stop looking for some illusory comfort in the purely physical realm. It doesnt exist. It is just repetitive suffering. MPS: Are you saying that Earths purpose is the lesson of experiencing the process of birth, dying and rebirth and letting go of our connection to it? MJ: I cannot say it is its only purpose but it is a unique trait of your beautiful planet. Like you and I would have a character or nature, so the nature of Earth is to process energy-beings through a
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physical stream of experience, which offers us all the opportunity to evolve or to keep trying. It is an intoxicating experience and can become addictive. This is the great challenge of Earth: to see the addiction for the illusion it is and evolve beyond it, to rise above it. People must choose a different path than simply sinking into it like one would sink into a comfortable mattress. You must begin to see the suffering in these false comforts and the true comforts in the liberation from suffering. There is no longer time to wallow in contented misery. On Earth, values become so twisted and corrupted that up becomes down and down becomes up. This is what the human mind must tackle and transcend if it is to find the peace it seeks in its higher nature. MPS: Is Earth some sort of spiritual trap? MJ: It is not a trap, no. If you drop a brick on your foot you do not call gravity a trap, do you? MPS: No. MJ: You have to get used to gravity just as you have to get used to samsara. You must become a master at balance, at jumping, at throwing and running, at fighting and spinning around. The trick on Earth is to master all the conditions of the planet, not just the physical ones. Let me reiterate: rebirth is the nature of this Earth. It is a mechanism present to coax energy-beings to grow and evolve. As such, it is an incredibly powerful process because it not only holds you until you get it right but it also enables you to evolve more quickly than any other environment we have found in all the universes put together. Some energy-beings can enter on a low plane of energy and in one life achieve huge leaps to higher planes, which would be almost impossible in the purely energetic realm. MPS: Youre saying that Earth accelerates energetic growth.

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MJ: Indeed. Earth is a marvel. But, as you say, there are threats and an energy-beings vibration can be lowered as well as raised by the experience if they pass through it in ignorance. People must learn to nurture unconditional love, which is a very different practice from nurturing desire. We do not say that people must become robots or monks, not at all. People must find harmony and while I cannot tell you exactly what harmony means, when you achieve it every human being will feel it in their bones, in their skin, in their minds, for it automatically creates a sense of peace and tranquility within them. And when you attain it, you must stay aware enough to feel it slipping away and adjust accordingly, not simply mourn its passing in ignorance of the inevitability of change. You must let the planet guide you and to do that you need to connect with it, respect it and become a part of it fully and with total acceptance of who you are. Although harmony may be fleeting at first, it will always return when you adjust back to it for your mind, body and energy-beings are at their most comfortable when harmoniously balanced with the Earth. The trick for all energybeings on Earth is to find a practice of equanimity that keeps reminding you to come back to this realm. MPS: Are any of the Seven still caught in the cycle today? MJ: Yes, but please do not look at it as if they have done anything wrong or have failed in any way. Some beings choose to stay and help with the elevation of Earth's energy. Some even enjoy the challenge of repeatedly escaping the cycle. All energy-beings can raise and lower their vibration from life to life, not just The Seven. We are not infallible. We are energy-beings like you. We do not look upon any being who is not enlightened as any less than one who is. We are all working towards the evolution of all beings. It is not a race or a competition. For some beings it takes longer than others because it is their nature and the nature of all beings is beautiful and perfect. If only people would see that in themselves and in one another. For those who succeed and achieve liberation, they work
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to help the others. It is a natural process for energy-beings but it is difficult to connect with this high purpose from the dense physical vibration of Earth. MPS: And is there anywhere else in the universe where this cycle of samsara occurs? MJ: Not in our experience. This is why Earth is such a valuable experience to all energy-beings whether they are native to Earth or not. My mind is whirling. Energetic beings arrive at Earth during its first few breaths and realize they have found an environmental phenomenon that is unique in their 150 billion years of experience. It is a place where a body can meld with an energy-being and create a mind that has the capability to evolve the vibration of the energybeing into the planes of the Ascended Masters in a single life. Over billions of years they nurture this energy to the point where physical forms eventually evolve that are capable of containing high vibrational beings. Yet, when these beings are born into these physical shells some are simply unprepared for the consequences and they experience such trauma that they are sucked into the Earths energetic mechanism of physical birth and rebirth. But hang on. Theres more Earth is the only place where this has ever happened. All other physical existences are one time deals. And on that bombshell... MPS: How long did Atlantis last? I asked. MJ: Time again. You are always so fascinated by it. MPS: I know that its not your most beloved subject, Master Jacob, but people like to use it as an anchor. MJ: About 80,000 years.

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MPS: Thats an enormous length of time. If you consider that some of the earliest human civilizations connected to our current epoch would have been on this Earth less than 10,000 years ago, Atlantis lasted 8 times the length of all recorded history since. MJ: It was a remarkable, if flawed, project. MPS: And what destroyed it? The myth is that it was inundated or sank. MJ: That occurred. The Earth always seems to refresh its energy using water, but its demise originated through self-destruction by the Atlanteans themselves. MPS: Please explain. MJ: As I have mentioned, great leaps in energetic vibration are possible when beings connect together through earthly relationships but great problems can arise when the opposite occurs. The first signs of deterioration in the Atlantean culture began as people disconnected from one another. Trust and respect began to be eroded. MPS: How did this occur? MJ: There were many factors involved. I think you are familiar with the process of relational breakdown through declining trust and respect. MPS: I see. Basically people started to become selfish. MJ: You might put it like that. The creativity that was realized by our excitement to explore Earths qualities eventually became a source of petty jealousies and competition. Over many generations ego began to arise, factions grew and a cold war eventually began where communication was affected and the connections between people slowly degraded.
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MPS: What began this cold war? MJ: Greed. MPS: How did people become greedy? I thought you said that people bartered and that there was no money. How do you become greedy without money? MJ: At first we had no money. But money eventually started on a black market. Gold, gems, precious metals began to be traded instead of bartering things of true value like food, clothing or tools. Once the attitude and need began to evolve, it was difficult to stop. MPS: What was the outcome of this? MJ: I have already mentioned that people became obsessed with the physical and mental aspects of their form. Earth is such an attractive place and the ambitions of energetic beings so strong that it was a potent mix. As people disconnected and looked inwards, this is where their energy was projected. By projecting energy inwards at me people began to get sick from the energy they were holding on to as mine. They clung to energy just as they clung to possessions that they did not need. MPS: What was this sickness? MJ: You might call it a virus, but it was actually created by the individual's own body. It started in a few and we didnt immediately know what was causing it. The Three offered assistance by using their energy as healers, like you might use Reiki. They tried to stop the sickness but it became clear that it was coming from within the Atlanteans. MPS: And all this was due to greed?

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MJ: Greed is the symptom but ego is the true cause. When the mind, body and energy-being become disharmonized, ego arises to fill the gaps. It was also our mistake in that we did not prepare the Atlantean body as perfectly as we might have done prior to being born as physical beings. Such was our enthusiasm to be incarnate that the structural integrity needed to promote balance between mind, body and energy was not perfected and it could be corrupted too easily. We did not know this at the time but began learning of it when we were many millennia into the Atlantis project. MPS: Is this internal process where modern sickness comes from too? MJ: Yes. Much sickness on your planet is created by those who do not live in accordance with the natural laws that allow for the integration of mind, body and spirit into one form. These laws demand balance in all three but in Atlantis the energy-beings incarnated into human form were too focused on seeking their enlightenment through mind and body. They were becoming afflicted by an energy disease. MPS: An energy disease. What does this mean exactly? MJ: Do you not think cancer is an energy disease? Do you not realize that heart disease has energetic roots? All of these so-called modern diseases are merely modern reflections of a persons life or lives. If we obsess about anything, it is an attachment to it. We hold on to energy that we should allow to pass through us as feelings or thoughts. If you hold onto food you get constipated, right? This is not healthy. In the same way, holding onto energy, over time, it will materialize as physical problems. MPS: This is like the process I described in Provolution. The translation of emotional addiction to physical issues occurs through peptides that

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attached to major organs and can become serious illness if the behavior patterns do not change. 7 MJ: Indeed. The collective consciousness takes on an aggregate form of all consciousness together and slowly the entire species begins to slip into the same patterns. MPS: This is what I call we-go. It is like a collective ego. As people learn habits and traits from one another they become a part of the tribal persona, if you like. We would call it culture but it is just as much a collective personality as it is a series of physical rituals. If all the tribes across Earth slowly meld into one, as is happening with globalization, the collective wego becomes a mammoth entity with such energy and power that it is difficult for free-thinking people to divorce themselves from it and freely express atypical or creative ideas. The power of peer pressure, global advertising, social mores and other influences become so difficult to resist that conformity seems the better option. MJ: Exactly. In this case of Atlantis, the collective consciousness became sick because of this very phenomenon. The Atlanteans objectives, once diverse and individual, became single-minded and selfish. Remember that I said the great intelligence of this planet is found in its diversity. Atlanteans slowly forgot this, as the physical form is prone to do, and began to follow a single path towards their goals: mind and body development. As diversity was lost, the intelligence and ability of the race to adapt was compromised. No sum of healing from The Three could turn this around. It was up to the Atlanteans to heal themselves by first realizing their mistake.

The process of sickness being created inside an individual and the external virus or bacteria being a mere switch for the sickness to occur is covered in my previous book Provolution. In short, the receptors for the amino acids called peptides were discovered by Dr. Candice Pert in the 1990s. These peptides were found to be released by glands in the body when emotional reactions took place and attach to organs, bone, muscle and other tissue. Over time, peptide can build up and become activated into physical sickness as serious as cancer. This is just one example of how attitude, emotion and belief can affect physical health but there has since been many experiments conducted on the effects of various emotional states on physical health that add solid empirical evidence to the theory.

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MPS: I suppose they did not manage that. MJ: No, they did not. MPS: So they caused their own extinction? MJ: Yes. MPS: Is there likely to be this phenomenon of sickness again if we do not adjust our ways? MJ: Indeed. People must learn how to heal themselves of their energetic disease through greater awareness of the roots of their suffering. This will help them to sow diversity again and to appreciate in one another the uniqueness of experience that makes a species wonderful. It is not wonderful for everyone to want the same things or to look and act in the same way. That is bland. Nature would create clones if it wished this to be our learning path. Realizing that each human is blessed with unique gifts to create unique things would quite literally transform humanity from a species stuck in repetitive cycles to one that was finally free from them. MPS: But, with all due respect Master Jacob, if Atlanteans could not do it even with help from The Three, what hope is there for us? MJ: Do not think like this, Michael. You have much help from all energy-beings too and the connection between mind, body and energy is different today than it was in Atlantis. No one on this planet is alone. No one is helpless. No one is stuck in any way, except if you choose not to move, choose not to see, or choose to stay asleep. You are all being aided in your pursuit of energetic freedom. We must work together to bring diversity and healing to this planet. It is your species most urgent task. MPS: Could you give me a little indication of how to help achieve that? We live in a world that is so confusing for so many people right now. The
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economy and societies that once supported us seem unsustainable. Politicians have little credibility. Religion has fallen on hard times. The environment seems to be crumbling around us. People are afraid and need a clearer way to move forward. MJ: Yes, it is very confusing for people at this time but the confusion only arises because they misunderstand their place in nature and the significance of every energy-being alive on this world today, no matter their status or role. Ask yourself this: who were the Atlanteans? MPS: You have said they were the first incarnations of The Seven communing with native human energy. MJ: Right, now did you know that when you create a new child on Earth, the energy of the parents is, literally given to the child? MPS: You mean DNA? MJ: More than that, Michael. Your offspring are not just physical progeny from a sperm and egg, they are also energetic progeny because each parent donates some of their energy to the human form and when the energy-being enters the new body that the parents have created, their energy becomes shared. Evolved energybeings can be born on any planet and so this natural process of sharing energy fuels evolution on all planets as beings seed the energy across them and fuel the process of evolution as energy becomes shared. You see, this process of energetic parenting has a wider implication for both humanity and for The Seven. MPS: I see. The native energy of Earth and the energy of The Seven began to mix. MJ: Correct. Our Earth energy became a part of your Earth energy and yours a part of ours. But think even further on this, Michael. I am using this example to demonstrate to you where every human

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being comes from in order that you can place the difficulties in your lives into a greater context of where we all come from and what we all mean. Humans look at yourselves as blacks, whites, Asians, Spanish, Japanese or tall and short but you have no idea what your energy really is. It is not your body. That is your shell. MPS: Every human is really a mixture of energy from other species, right? MJ: Exactly. But not just the conventional species that you might suspect of possessing such energy. All beings. The energy system on Earth wastes nothing. You are all products of this energetic system. If you want it in terms of time, six billion years ago, there were no human on Earth; so where did your energy come from? MPS: The building blocks of a human are the building blocks of all things: atoms and molecules. MJ: Yes, but you are more than chemicals, Michael. MPS: I think I see what youre getting at. Each person has an impression that we are somehow this pure human being from a long ancestry of physical human evolution but the essential part of each one of us, the energy-being that resides within the human shell, this is not innately human at all, is it? MJ: Well, you could put it like that. MPS: What is a human? We think it is a line of DNA that has morphed into a definitive shape since the beginning of Earth time but that is merely a line of physical instructions within which each energy-being is suspended during a single life time. MJ: Correct.

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MPS: Within each body is this mass of energy, this being whose composition is identical to all energy in the universe but possessing unique characteristics that make one being different from the next. MJ: Indeed. You are beginning to understand. MPS: So, native human energy is not exclusively human at all. We have all evolved from the energy of the land to the sky, the sea to the fish, the fish to the grass, the grass to the trees in an endless procession of energybeings born into new forms, integrating the energy of their parental species into their own energy-being and experiencing new ways of life in the multitude of shapes that flora and fauna have attained on Earth. Just because we are born human now, does not make us human energy at all. We are all just cocktails of grass energy, tree energy, amoebic energy, lizard energy, fish energy, animal energy, even the Sevens energy just going around in this cycle of samsara. Thats evolution! Thats incredible! MJ: Ah, now you have it. People need not evolve their basic understanding of who they are any further than this for the ego, who claims that I am this, this is mine and these belong to me, to naturally dissolve. It cannot exist once it truly integrates that it is not a fixed object but merely the illusion created by a fixed mind. There is no such thing as a human being. It is just a shape into which an energy-being is born. All energy-beings within that shape are collective energies from the entire Earth and beyond it, born from the breathing universal potential that stretches to infinity. If humanity can grasp this then what are the barriers between you? They are illusions. This is the path that the equanimous take towards liberation from physical birth on Earth. It is the same path that you all walk but so many know nothing of it. MPS: As amazing as it seems to me, Master Jacob, I am not sure people can accept they were once trees or birds, but it is an amazing thought. Master Jacob was laughing, somewhat ironically, I think
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MJ: Im not sure the human energy-being can admit they were products of anything that would seem beneath them! But they will remain attached to their egos until they do. MPS: Yes, we can be quite arrogant. But tell me more about how evolution works then, Master Jacob. For instance, how can a tree evolve into an animal? MJ: It is quite simple. The physical shells of Earth, the bodies of flora, fauna and inanimate objects, can sustain certain vibrations. For instance a tree, throughout the course of its life, can sustain a certain sum of energy and hold it within its form, but over that life the energy of the tree can evolve as its vibration is nurtured by experience and learning. MPS: How can a tree or a flower learn? Dont you need a mind to learn? MJ: That is a human assumption, Michael. All matter is life. If it moves, it lives. If I was to tell you that there is life on every planet in your solar system, you would not believe it. If I told you that there are beings capable of being born into human form on most of the planets in your solar system, indeed, currently incarnate on your planet, you would not believe it. You are not seeking awareness beyond the limits of your own egos. You have this idea that intelligent life must be an ape but all things are full of energy. There is just different learning potential within each life form but no less value. An ant has a brain but may live for only a few days, so the learning potential of the energy within it is not so great as an elephant. A tree may live for hundreds of years and does not have a brain as you would call it but it still experiences the world around it, albeit in different ways to the ant. That is learning too. The energy within all physical bodies learns through experience, and awareness can be cultivated by all beings regardless of their perceived status or rank within the natural order.

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MPS: OK, but specifically, how does a tree learn or make choices? MJ: A tree has a different kind of will than, say, a human. Its brain is not a central organ like a humans. It is a collective set of parts that synergistically create the capacity to choose and learn based upon the events it attracts towards it, as all life does. While its range of activity may not be the same, a tree, like a human, can achieve enlightenment. MPS: I hope that statement helps people recycle paper! But how does the energy of the tree evolve into, say, a lizard? MJ: During the course of its life, a trees energy may evolve through the process of experience and learning. When the shell dies, the body of the tree I mean, the energy-being within it may have reached a vibration suitable for a different body, perhaps a lizard. So, when the lizard body becomes available and the tree energy enters it, the tree energy gets mixed with lizard energy because the egg of the lizard is already blessed with the energy donated by the lizards parents. MPS: That kind of rewrites evolution. MJ: The process that I have described to you is the true process of evolution. It is the evolution of energy and mind from body to body. Charles Darwin did a good job but he tells me that if he could have rewritten the theory to include the evolution of energy and mind he would have. MPS: Dont tell me Charles Darwin was one of yours too? MJ: He was one of The 144,000, yes. MPS: I should have guessed. MJ: Many times during history we have been incarnate to bring in information and techniques that may be helpful to the evolving
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energy-beings. Our role has been to try and put in place learning that people can choose to incorporate into their lives to create the environment where their energetic liberation becomes more likely. Understand this, Michael: there is nothing and no one who cannot achieve enlightenment in this lifetime. If there are those of you saying it is impossible, or impractical or implausible, therein lies your barrier. In actual fact all beings are capable of reaching the point of evolution where they are never again reborn on to this physical Earth in this lifetime, if that is what you truly desire. However, to do this, you must first be aware that you are in the cycle of life and death. This is humanitys first challenge. MPS: That is an incredible statement and truly inspiring but I want everyone to understand what that means because there will always be those that say OK, what about the starving, poverty-stricken villager in some impoverished nation? What chance do they have for enlightenment? MJ: Do not think because people are poor or suffering more than others that they do not have the same opportunities. You do not need to be comfortable to be aware or to grow from experience. In fact, it is often only through suffering that people are motivated to change and grow. All people regardless of where they are born, their economic problems or their social status can be aware, expand their energy and evolve, even if it happens in their dying breath. This is the enormous promise and potential of Earth. No one is forsaken. No one is alone. No one is less able than anyone else. MPS: OK, but what of the baby born for one hour. How can enlightenment be attained in such circumstances? MJ: There are two possibilities here, Michael. People do not understand the nature of energy and suppose that life is a physical phenomenon only. Sometimes, the environment into which a child is born is enough to kill a baby. This is a physical problem that will

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create karma. Sometimes however, the energy-being that is born in the child simply gets shocked by the physical nature of Earth and is shot out of the body, which cannot survive without an energy-being held within it. I want all parents on Earth to know and understand in their hearts that children who are meant to be here will be born. Those that are not, will not. Sometimes karma just creates a lesson to help the parents evolve. There is nothing cruel in this. The lessons of physical life are the most powerful because people invest so much love and expectation in their children. If a situation has created great sadness, this is because the energy is great. Use that energy for greatness. Be thankful for the experience. Let go of the past and you will have learned a great lesson for your evolution. Please, do not use lifes power as a reason to be unhappy or bitter. What good can come of this when the trigger for your unhappiness is the purity of an energetic child? I cannot state the awe with which I hold this incredible natural process described to Orranut and me. I also cannot state the degree to which it has shifted my consciousness from the way I saw the world before hearing this to the way I now see other people and beings. I now look at everyone I meet as an energy-being, a brother, and a person in need, just as I am. Everything on Earth is alive and growing and sharing its energy to give energetic birth to new creations and new energetic beings. Every energy-being within every tree, fish, antelope and dolphin is evolving through experience of this natural world, by being detached from their environment while expressing themselves to the full. Dear reader, there is no such thing as a separate human you. Your energy-being may be a composite of energy from all over the universe amalgamated through experience and born in this life into the human form. Perhaps it is your first human life. Perhaps it is your fiftieth but you are no more human than the shell that you see in the mirror. Every one of us has the same opportunity to wake up and begin making the connections to who we really are, not this
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visual illusion of thumbs, brains and bipedal mobility. You are an energy-being on a journey of provolution. When I look at a tree today I no longer see wood and branches, but a version of myself standing there. Each plant, each life form, each being is alive to realize the opportunity to evolve, to reach a vibration where they dont have to do this anymore, unless they choose to do so. Every life form has consciousness. Every life form has experience. Every life form fits into the monumental puzzle of Earth and the universe and each is trying to do the best they can with what they have. We focus so much of our energy on making things right outside of us, of building a path through life that attains the right job, the right family, the right pay packet and the right status, that we become confounded by the details until they obscure the bigger picture. When we focus on creating outside, we create inside in ignorance. When we focus with awareness on creating inside, we create outside what is essential for us to experience. This is the great irony of existence. People are so fixated on possessing or becoming something important in the external physical reality that it creates inside a plethora of desires and attachments that hold an energybeing within the cycle of samsara and rebirth. We try to shoehorn a reality into our true purpose without stopping to listen to what that true purpose might be. Rather than stilling the mind to listen to the inside and allowing the outside to become a reflection of that stillness, we create in the image of a grasping mind continually seeking to possess more peace, more satisfaction, more pride until everything feels better. But it wont get better. Not like this. As Master Jacob says, the problems of Atlantis may be recurring but we are in a position to do something about them. All we need is a little more self-awareness, a little more love, a little more tenacity to overcome the doubts that inhibit change and a little more faith that the answer to all our problems lies within the present moment. Though our species may be dividing into the materialistic and the spiritual it is vital to stress that the choice of the wise is not between

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which camp you place your feet in or the corner you fight, but the way you walk your personal path through life. Your actions, your words, your intentions choose where you stand and what you mean, not the color of your flags or your sense of smug superiority. You cannot win a war of spirit. No one need shed blood or unleash a weapon in anger. Your finest weapon, that with the keenest blade and unswerving precision is the energy that resides in your body and knows the way home without a single rifle cocked or banner hoisted. It is this spirit that instinctively rejects power though enslavement, freedom through limitations or wisdom from confusion. Our own bodies are beginning to work against us. Our own minds are sowing the seeds of our demise. Our very beliefs are structuring a pathway into terminal decline. But it is not too late to change tack. As Master Jacob makes very clear, we are not alone. The illusion of being born alone and dying alone is one enforced only by the inability of human minds to stretch beyond the superficial reality in which we live our daily lives and to listen to the quiet beating of our hearts, the soft breathing of our lungs and the soothing whisper of nature guiding us through what we know to be true through the silver cord of our higher selves. For 13.1 billion years we have had more friends than we could ever dream of. The forces of the earthly mind, those who might wish you to consume as you have consumed, speak as you have spoken, think as you have thought, behave as you have behaved and generally slink quietly into the night in endless repetition of the same life patterns, could not reckon on the roar of spirit that is awakening within so many on this planet. We are all individual players on a globally connected stage and none are tiny, small or insignificant in the act that is being played out on the stage of life. Some wish the world to evolve, to adapt and to grow while others wish it to remain divided and to continue playing out the same scenes life after life after life. The global society, for all its airs and graces, all its technologies and inventions, all its glitz and its

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razzmatazz, is a show that is reaching its climax and we can each step up as lead actors and play the role of the energy-being ready to evolve or we can remain extras in a crowd that is losing its way.

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Chapter 5 The Roots of the Modern Age

It is time to address the period of history from the decline of Atlantis to the beginnings of the current era. This spans a period of time circa 50,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE years and stretches from the European Stone Age, through the Bronze Age and to the end of the Iron Age, although this classification varies from continent to continent. Our purpose is not to cover each historical age individually or in great detail but to reinterpret how this great swathe of time cradled human development. The historical evidence of this period is sketchy and so we are left to sift through ancient books and archeological sites whose reasons for existence are contextualized by a hypothesis, which we now know to be incorrect, that humanity during this period was building our first steps towards a civilization, when we were really recovering from the destruction of the first. This transformational period of history, spanning a majority of the last ice age, laid the foundations of human society and culture that still endure today. The question is, what forces propelled human social groups from being hunting/gathering nomadic tribes into a communal species that farmed, traded, wrote languages and composed laws? In this period of time seminal societies blossomed across the Earth from the golden crescent of Mesopotamia and the rise of Egypt and Greece in Europe, from Caral in the Peruvian Andes to the Mayan Civilization in Central America, from the Bhimbetka rock shelters to Vedic civilization in Northern India, and from the Xia Dynasty to the Han Dynasty in Ancient China. In this chapter, we shall look at why these and so many other influential cultures and civilizations arose with such gusto that the two million years of evolution from Homo Ergaster to Homo Sapiens seems, in comparison, so languid as to be positively absurd.
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The basis for many peoples understanding of this historical period is derived, directly or indirectly, from religious accounts such as the Old Testament of The Bible, the Vedas in India, the Pantheon of Gods from Greece, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of China and many other such influential works that emerged with humanity from this mist of pre-history to teach a remarkably similar set of parables and metaphors. The Bible alone affects the lives of 2.1 billion Christians, 1.2 billion Muslims, 12 million Jews and a large proportion of the world who frequently come into contact with its related icons and messages. While we may not agree on which books to revere, many of the tales within them are remarkably similar. At this point in our journey we will begin to examine the ways in which The Seven worked alongside humanity after the fall of Atlantis to bring back into human consciousness some of the great truths that they learned from the Atlantean experiment before it eventually collapsed. These lessons were not only crucial for the times that we are about to investigate, but are just as poignant today, for they relate to us the essentials of living in the physical form and of raising the energetic vibration of energy-beings everywhere. We have already learned much about the creation of Earth from the birth of our universe to the development of our planet and the nurturing of our species over 15 billion years and our purpose here is not to correct history, but to offer people a modern interpretation of the epoch from how our species was brought to life to what life is worth living for. MPS: Master Jacob, I want to talk a little about human history before the current era so that people can understand the way in which The Seven worked with Earth after Atlantis and the institutions that were put in place to guide us towards a higher energetic vibration. Being a product of a Christian background and because The Bible affects so many people worldwide, I would like to look at it from this perspective but before we

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begin, would you like to comment on how similar many of the ancient records are. Do they, more or less, say the same thing? MJ: Good morning, Michael. Yes, there are many versions of the same ideas residing on Earth. They were taught differently to suit the energy of the places in which they were taught and the existing awareness of those who were learning. MPS: Is it wrong to say that one is more true than another? MJ: If you tell a child that a baby comes from love is it less true than to tell a child about the reproductive process in great detail? MPS: I see. So while the different documents may approach the same subject from different angles, dependent on how different regions and peoples might respond to the teaching, they are all just different aspects of the same thing. MJ: Indeed. The nature of people is that they will be drawn towards the vibration of the work that most closely connects to their own. This is why it is not correct to say that one version is more accurate than another. People must learn that the most important aspect of a message is not the words that are written but its vibration. This affects people in subtle ways. The greatest books and messages on your planet hold a vibrational truth, not just facts or insight. Of course, over time, all texts have been altered from the original forms in which they were taught but there is still vibrational truth in them all. People must open their eyes to how this vibration entrains with their personal vibration and allow these messages to open up their hearts and minds. It is time to be a little more inclusive and not take everything so literally. MPS: OK, thank you. Let's look specifically at The Bible in order for people to understand the general message contained within all these great works. I would like to know more about some of the accounts within it and ask what the reality is behind some of those stories.

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MJ: The first thing to understand is that communication between energetic beings and the human being is complicated, Michael. Much can be lost in translation. It is not like a telephone call that can be recorded and transcribed or an email. Indeed, the message can sometimes be totally changed from the original intention. MPS: And this is the case with the historical works in question? MJ: This is the case with all human history and all documents that claim to be historical or from God. At present, the accepted view of science is that humanity is a creation in a linear process from sea creatures to apes and ultimately humans. In The Bible the universe was a weeklong creation of God. In Greece it was the creation of Chaos. As you now understand, the current human civilization is neither the first to exist nor has the universe been created from nothing. The true history of humanity, although told to people in many different ways on many different occasions has been lost, discarded or simply altered to suit those people who altered it. Only now are humans beginning to wake up to their true ancestry. MPS: I understand. MJ: But let me be clear when I say that the differing historical interpretations of monotheistic and pluralistic gods are not in opposition to one another. These accounts were created to inspire people to have faith. The biblical version of this has the same purpose and today, as you rightly say, billions still base their faith upon it. The faith brought about by The Bible, and others like it, is one of the great achievements of humanity but the modern reader must also interpret these writings intelligently and act responsibly. At the time, the notion of God was relevant to people who were afraid of anything in nature they could not control. They had wind gods, fire gods, and sea gods all of which were used to stoke the flames of fear and fear brings about great darkness in peoples energy. The Bible was written to help people raise their vibration by

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understanding their place in nature and to realize that everything in nature had a useful purpose. This is as true today as it was then. People had nothing to fear then and you have nothing to fear today. MPS: In a few words, what would you say is main message of the Old Testament of The Bible, then? MJ: Take responsibility for your own health mentally, physically and spiritually and connect to other beings with the same intention. MPS: Thats a worthy interpretation to build upon. Thank you. I am sure if we look at it from this perspective we will read it very differently. Now, weve already touched upon some of the themes of creation in The Bible, but lets talk about Adam and Eve. How did this story evolve? MJ: Many of the stories in The Bible are, of course, allegorical. Also, many have been passed aurally across thousands of years before they were written down, so the main protagonists of the stories were often changed or adjusted according to the purpose or characters relevant to the storytellers. Adam and Eve is a good example of this. MPS: I see. I have always assumed that Adam and Eve were representations of male and female energy: yin and yang? MJ: That is correct but there are many levels to this metaphor. MPS: And the snake, temptation, was a symbol for ego and the temptation to indulge in physical pleasure rather than maintain our energetic purity. MJ: Indeed. It is also about transformation and the shedding of skin.

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MPS: So, when Eve takes the apple and gives in to her desire she, in effect, lowers her energetic vibration through attachment. She is cast out of the Garden of Eden, which is a metaphor for losing her purity or perfection. MJ: Yes. This is so. The 144,000 have a great interest in teaching people how to raise and maintain their energetic vibration, so many of the stories that talk of perfection, imperfection or sin, are often simply telling people in one way or another to take care of their energy and not to create impurities through attachment to desires. The problem is when people take an idea such as sin and use it for fear and threat. This becomes counterproductive as fear too is the very sin which we were warning people for it lowers vibration and causes people to attach to life, to survival and to avoiding things rather than achieving. MPS: This is a very important point, I think. MJ: The Garden of Eden represents a state of high energetic vibration or consciousness. When an energy-being attaches to something, this creates an imbalance that wobbles or lowers the energy. The story is about people maintaining a balance in their energy and not succumbing to physical attachments. MPS: It is very interesting that the story uses a snake. Is this a reference to Kundalini energy, which is often represented by snakes? MJ: This is most perceptive. MPS: In Indian tradition, Kundalini energy is a transformational force that lies coiled like twin snakes at the base of the spine. If we practice daily to prepare our mind, body and energy systems, we can awaken this energy. It travels up the spine to fully unlock and open all the energy centers in the body. Are Adam and Eve really telling people that attachment keeps the energy coiled up and non-attachment helps us to evolve energetically?

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MJ: Correct. It is a warning to people of the effects of and the resulting connection to samsara and the cycle of birth and death. Kundalini energy exists all around us actually, not just in human beings, but everywhere. In the energy planes we do not call it Kundalini but simply the test. It is an energy that causes us to have experiences that enable our vibration to be raised if we integrate the experience effectively. All energy-beings must entrain and integrate this natural force on their journey towards enlightenment and any thoughts, words or actions that block this energy naturally also block the ability to pass the test and move on. MPS: OK, I think thats pretty clear. Can we talk a little about the story of Noah? MJ: Indeed. MPS: Was he a real person? MJ: Yes. MPS: Was he one of The Seven? MJ: Yes. MPS: Which group? MJ: One of The Three. MPS: They do get around. And what was his task? MJ: Actually it was to be a teacher and to record the way in which humanity responded to the teachings. We wanted to know how effectively native energy would grow and evolve when stimulated with parables that encouraged them to connect to one another and understand their interdependence.

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MPS: Did he achieve this? MJ: Partly. Rather than recording the results however, he spent more time teaching and the record of his results became more verbal than written. This is how many of his tales have become altered from their original intention. In fact, Noah was a great traveler and story teller. MPS: When was he alive and where? MJ: It is difficult to say as your history does not record the race but he would have been in the region of where Sumer was located in later history and existed around 15,000 years ago. MPS: Master Jacob, the story of Noah, of a great flood that inundated the entire world, is a powerful tale repeated in many ancient accounts all over the world including the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, Deucalion in Greek mythology and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh, for example. Could you please tell us why this story resonates so strongly in the collective human consciousness? MJ: People remember well those things that scare them but we wish that they would remember so well those things that make them stronger and their vibration higher. Fear does not do this. MPS: Point taken. But could you tell me a little bit about why the story is such a strong element in human mythology? MJ: There have been many floods. The nature of Earth is evolution and change and water is the great purifier of this planet. Some change is violent and sudden. Some is deliberate and slow. MPS: Were the Atlantean and Noah flood the same? MJ: No. MPS: What caused the Atlantean flood?

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MJ: The core of the planet warmed up and melted the polar ice caps. Earths energy just shifted. It was a natural event that occurs at intervals. But this is not to say that the Atlanteans did not play their part in speeding up the process. MPS: Got it. And the biblical flood, what type of flood was that? MJ: It was a tidal wave in the Mediterranean Sea. MPS: What caused it? MJ: There was a sudden movement of the Earths plates in that region. MPS: So it was a Tsunami. It wasnt a global flood? MJ: No, but it did affect much of the continent through the Middle East and, to a lesser extent, Europe. MPS: I suppose that was the entire world to those people. MJ: Indeed. MPS: When was this event? The Bible timeline would put it at around 2,500-2,600 BC and it lasted for 110 days after the 40 days and nights of rain. Is this correct? MJ: Humans love numbers! The story sounds a lot more real to you when you make the numbers catchy like this. The Biblical flood happened around 20-15,000 years ago. It wasnt about rain. The numbers used were just to excite people. MPS: Got it. But how does a tidal wave in the Mediterranean get translated into a global flood and the saving of every species on the planet in a big ark? MJ: Noah told the story to warn people of the consequences of their bad deeds and to remain virtuous. It did not originally have
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him in the title role. As with the Adam and Eve story, much of this was told to people as metaphor and allegory in order to encourage moral behavior. MPS: Did the original story have God in it? MJ: Noah told it this way, yes. MPS: OK, could you please explain why The Seven chose to use the concept of God to give the story its authority? Surely, the ultimate result of this was increased fear and threat among people. MJ: We did not create the idea of God, Michael, nor the fear and threat humanity began to associate with Him. People were already seeing gods in water, air, rock and fire. It is not our job to come along and tell people to throw away thousands of years of belief just because it isnt the way we understand the universe to be, nor would we do that now. All energy-beings evolve and grow at their own pace and change must be natural and flowing. As I told you previously, The 144,000 had to get the mind, body and spirit connection right in order to expand the potential for all energybeings to attain enlightenment within the human form but a body cannot do this alone. We also wanted to establish a nourishing moral and spiritual framework so that humanity could naturally grow more loving, accepting and peaceful. To do this, the teachers born into human form chose to teach in a format that respected the myths and legends that were already in place. MPS: I dont mean to be rude, Master Jacob, but there must have been more wars due to humanitys preoccupation with God than any other reason. MJ: Sadly, this is true. However, I reiterate that people fight over their differences and their egos, not over God. God is just used as an excuse by warring egos. He is an easy target. It was people who made God into a figure of jealousy and distrust between factions,

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not The Seven. It is the nature of your Earth to make it difficult for people to see two sides of the same thing and overcoming this challenge is one of the great achievements towards enlightenment. People have just chosen to make this achievement increasingly difficult by building exclusive clubs and sects that claim the only truth. Even those differing groups who accept the same old and new testaments as truth have a difficult time being peaceful towards one another. This has little to do with God or the books, does it? We accept that we did not always understand and factor in the nature of Earth in our dealings with humanity but we are learning too. Humanity must acknowledge that for tens of thousands of years you have been unwilling to accept your role in your own creation. You have always sought some external creator when the ultimate creator of your own reality is yourself. MPS: OK, thats a very powerful message and Ill come back to those issues later if I may but for the time being lets focus back on the flood. Can I assume that the idea of the ark is not true? It seems more than a little far-fetched. MJ: The Noah story is a combination of two stories. One about the flood and the second about the real ark which was created by The 144,000. MPS: So, the ark is real? MJ: In a way but it is not a boat or a spaceship. It is like a laboratory, at least, that is the equivalent in human terms. MPS: And what goes on in this lab? MJ: Nothing anymore. We no longer use it. But it was like a repository for DNA. MPS: I see. So the story of taking two of each animal on board a big boat was more like storing each creatures male and female DNA in a lab.

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MJ: That is a closer description. MPS: Is the lab still here? MJ: Yes. MPS: Where is it located? MJ: In the Himalayan Mountains. MPS: Could it be found by humans? MJ: Well, it is not a physical lab, as such. I do not think there is any technology on Earth that could find it at present. MPS: God was said to have made a covenant with Noah whereas he blesses Noah and his sons, tells them to populate the Earth, places all plants and animals under human command, forbids eating meat with the blood still in it, forbids murder but commands humankind to shed the blood of those who shed blood, promises that he will never again destroy all life on Earth by flood and creates the rainbow as the sign of this covenant for all ages to come. Its quite a covenant, Im sure youll agree. What can you tell us about it? MJ: The covenant that is written in The Bible is a dramatized version of Noahs personal life contract. All energy-beings born on Earth agree a contract for their life, so to speak. It is an agreement of their purpose and what they will aspire to during their lifetime. Noahs covenant was not with God but with his higher self, his energy-being, and included teaching moral stories and recording the feedback from humanity. MPS: People have a life contract? How does that work? MJ: Correct. Before you are born in the physical form, you pledge to achieve certain things in life and with certain people.

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MPS: Who do we make the contract with? MJ: Do you want to hear that the contract is with God? MPS: I just want to know the truth. MJ: Well, the contract is with yourself. MPS: Your higher self? MJ: Indeed. MPS: OK, but how detailed are these contracts? MJ: It depends. Usually it works that the higher level your vibration the more detailed your contract can be because you can tap into your higher self more easily and therefore tap into greater detail of what you should be doing and when. MPS: I see, and how detailed can they be? MJ: They can be quite detailed. They may have certain times, dates, locations to achieve specific events. MPS: I suppose the contract is intended to keep people working towards eliminating their karma and raising their vibration. MJ: Indeed. MPS: So how many people actually complete their contracts? MJ: Not many complete them totally. MPS: And if everyone did complete their contracts, what would the outcome be? MJ: If everyone completed the contract that they have made for this life, everyone would realize enlightenment.

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MPS: How do we know we are fulfilling it? MJ: Life will feel right. MPS: There are a lot of people for whom life does not feel right. MJ: There are a lot of people who are not fulfilling their contracts. MPS: I see. What happens if they do not do so? MJ: They come back and try again. MPS: Right. Better to get it right first time then? MJ: Indeed. MPS: OK, back to the Noahic Covenant. Can you give me an example of how Noahs contract relates to what was actually written in The Bible? For example, how does the idea that God gave humanity dominion over the animals translate back into what he agreed to do in his life? MJ: Firstly, just let me say that the interpretation in The Bible stems from the egos interpretation of what it imagines Gods intentions would be. If you believe you were created in His image, it follows that you become God-like and are destined to rule all things as that is what people believe God does. In fact, this line refers to Noah agreeing to live his life in respect of nature and to help people connect their lives to the natural reality. Humanity was not given control of the Earth but is required to live in outward harmony with it if it is to achieve inner peace. MPS: Lets move on now, as this is where I think we can tie together Biblical and human historical information to some extent. I want to talk about Shem, Noahs eldest son. I assume he was a real person, not just a metaphor? MJ: Correct.

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MPS: What interests me about Shem is that the word Semitic is derived from Shem. Why is it that the Semitic peoples perceive themselves as all being direct descendants of Shem?8 MJ: They are not the physical descendants as they believe but the followers of Shems institution: his teaching. MPS: Oh, so Shem was a prophet? MJ: Yes. He was much like Jesus. He set up the practices and applications that would serve to raise humanitys vibration. MPS: And these became the basis for religions? MJ: Yes. But our intention was not religions but inclusive spiritual practices, regimens, if you like. In the same vein as The Bible, we gave people a way to live healthily and in harmony with the Earth so that the end result would be spiritual evolution. MPS: I see MJ: But be aware that Shem was not the only one. MPS: Right, Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. MJ: In the biblical account, but the idea that all people are descended from Shem is actually another distorted interpretation of the real events. The misunderstanding stems from the belief that Shem was a single person when he was really one of seven teachers who were his peers and contemporaries. Collectively, we knew these seven teachers as the Generation of Shem, a term that has been passed down to you as if it only refers to the son of Noah. The

The Semitic people trace their lineage back to Shem and his children and can be broadly dened into four groups: Hebrews, Adnani Arabs, Qahtani Arabs and Syriacs. Semite is now used incorrectly to describe the Jewish people but is used in this work in its former meaning. Semitic is still a commonly used term for the Semitic languages, as a subset of the Afro-Asiatic languages, denoting the common linguistic heritage of Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Phoenician languages.

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Generation of Shem began seven powerful movements around the world that instituted humanitys spiritual foundation for thousands of years. This is the derivation of the idea that people descended from Shem because the belief systems that evolved from these teachings were descended from these seven Shems who taught the practices. MPS: And each of these teachers, including Shem himself, was actually an incarnation of The Seven? MJ: Correct. MPS: What did these seven prophets do exactly? MJ: They were each sent to specific regions to institute practices that would lead humanity towards a higher vibration. MPS: So, this also explains the somewhat ambiguous biblical allusion to God bestowing racial coloring on Noahs sons. MJ: Correct. Each one was born in a different area but also represented different energy, which is another interpretation of race. MPS: I see. Where exactly were they born? MJ: One in Kenya, one in Greece, one in Tibet, one in India, two in Persia and one in Mexico. MPS: Thats incredible. It would explain from where many of the great religious traditions of humanity originally emerged: The Vedas, Tao, Paganism; The Bible; its a litany of humanitys most revered institutions, texts and practices. MJ: This is correct. Humanity was given the spiritual keys to elevating vibration from the very beginning. There are no secrets, just interpretations.

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MPS: This time, rather than starting just one culture, like Atlantis, you decided on hedging your bets and going with seven? MJ: You might put it like that. We learned from our mistake with regard to the relationship between the mind, body and spirit. The practices and attitudes we taught people created much more stability in how these three elements of a human being could integrate into a more unified whole. MPS: And this occurred around 15,000 years ago? MJ: Correct. MPS: OK, but there are no records of any human civilizations that flourished at this time. It is about 10,000 years too early from even the earliest civilizations in the middle east, like Sumer. MJ: Nurturing energy isnt an instantaneous process, Michael. It takes a long time. I want to reiterate that this process cannot be forced or imposed upon any group against their wishes. People will behave in individual ways because they have their own minds, their own body and their own energy. We merely offered humanity different options. People have to choose which options are best for them and when many people choose together the results can finally arrive like an explosion. MPS: Is this what happened in places like Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley when civilization just seemed to spring up out of nowhere? MJ: Indeed. MPS: In these regions the incredible rise of schools, laws, money, political systems and other civilized mechanisms were relatively spontaneous advancements if you consider the hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution that occurred before 10,000 BCE. I mean, it took humanity nearly 1.4 million years to evolve from the knife to the bow and arrow but carts and writing appeared almost simultaneously.
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MJ: Indeed. The Generation of Shem were seed-sowers. They put in place the framework for people to evolve and these seeds took time to blossom into civilizations recognized as such by your historians. MPS: I assume these teachers set up societies or groups to do their work after they passed over. MJ: This was the plan, yes. MPS: Oh? Are you intimating that it didnt quite work out like that? MJ: In some cases there were unexpected complications in the acceptance of the teachers by the native people. MPS: What do you mean? They were killed? MJ: Yes. We were not entirely aware of how humanity would react to teachers challenging the status quo, however gently they did so. We were nave in this respect. MPS: Well, humanity has a history of killing those whose message differs from the view of those who hold the power. MJ: Indeed. MPS: I suppose this would have setback evolution in the populace somewhat. MJ: So you see why some areas didnt evolve as quickly as others. MPS: Ah yes, I see. Lets discuss some of the Generation of Shem and how they are remembered in human records, if at all. What was the name of the one sent to Greece? MJ: You would call him by the name Apollo.

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MPS: Apollo was a real person? What about the Titans he was said to be fathered by: Zeus, his father, or Gaia, his grandmother? MJ: These were Apollos stories like Noah told his stories. They are just different translations of the same parables. Zeus was a creation of Apollo in order to give the Greeks the impression of power. It is not that different to how Plato taught through Socrates. Apollos stories told the creation of Earth to inspire people to respect one another and understand their earthly roots. MPS: So the stories of the pantheon of Gods was Apollos way of teaching morality to Europe as Shem himself taught what have come to be known as the biblical stories? MJ: Correct. If you look through The Bible with the eyes of a person who is not looking only for God but is seeking a fruitful way of life, you will find everything you need to know about living virtuously, in awareness, as well as how to farm, harvest, keep your self well in mind, body and spirit and to create good, flourishing communities. The stories of the Greek Gods were similar. They spoke of how to understand the elements and natural phenomena, which is why each God represents aspects of nature that are important to understand and respect too. MPS: So in India I would guess that the Shem generation would have been the father of The Vedas? MJ: Correct. MPS: Was the name of this teacher Krishna? MJ: Correct also. MPS: He wrote the Vedas? MJ: He was responsible for the stories in the Vedas. He did not personally write them. The role of each of the seven was to be role
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models for all others. Like Jesus and Buddha, for example, neither of those great teachers wrote anything down either. MPS: Ah, so each teacher was teaching their own version of how to be equanimous. MJ: Indeed. MPS: So why are they different? MJ: They are not so different, if you read them looking for the connections and not just the differences. As I have said, the energy that The 144,000 projected at Earth was calculated according to the energy and qualities of each location. Each area of this planet vibrates differently. It is not consistent. It is a living entity. This accounts for why different human cultures, myths, habits and traditions have arisen in different places. The Earth is a diverse energetic phenomenon and each teacher taught according to the energy of each area and the vibration that existed there. You may see them as being different because you see them from the perspective of your personal vibration. If you look beyond that intrinsic bias, in effect, they are just different vibrations of the same thing. MPS: I assume the Generation of Shem also began the monastic heritage of Tibet. MJ: Indeed. He began the roots of the Mahayanan practice. MPS: Wasnt that what Buddha did? MJ: All flowers have roots. MPS: So they are connected by the heritage of the tradition?

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MJ: This is correct. Although Buddha did not learn directly this path, they are energetically of the same stream. Their intentions are one. MPS: There is considerable debate whether the religion called Bn 9 was the precursor of the original religious practice of Tibet. MJ: This is true. MPS: I have researched this and Bn is purported to have been started by Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche but virtually nothing is known about him other than legend10. Was he Generation of Shem? MJ: Indeed. MPS: I see, thank you for clarifying. Lets move on to Kenya. What was the objective there? MJ: The same as in all other places but the region is far tougher to work with and the Generation of Shem was not as successful as in other places. MPS: Tell me why that was. MJ: The system was set up like the Apollo system in Greece but while Apollo became very successful and was the talk of The Seven at the time, the energy in Kenya blossomed but faded quicker than we expected. The elements available in the region at this time were
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Bn is acknowledged by H.H. The Dalai Lama as the ancient, indigenous religious and cultural tradition of (Tibets) ancestors A Letter to The Bon Foundation, Bon Foundation website, http://www.bonfoundation.org/letter.html
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"gShen-rab mi-bo is the founder of the Bn religion. He occupies a position very similar to that of kyamuni in Buddhism, but in contrast to the Lord Buddha, we have no available sources with which to establish his historicity, his dates, his racial origin, his activities, and the authenticity of the enormous number of books either attributed directly to him or believed to be his word. The latter, the Bonpo say, were written down after his death in much the same way as the Buddhist scriptures were assembled. It is only from later sources in which fact and legend are woven together that we can get any idea of his life. - Karmey, Samten G. (1975). A General Introduction to the History and Doctrines of Bon, pp. 175-176. Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, No. 33. Tokyo.

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not as abundant as in the other regions. It was a harsh environment. MPS: Now, the Mexican Shem. When we look at the historical record here, there is not much civilization beginning in Mexico until the Teotihuacan around 300 BCE, although there is evidence of farming maize, which occurred independently and within a couple of thousand years of Mesopotamian farming practices. However, in Peru, its a different matter. Perhaps the descendants of the Mexican Shem may have influenced the Norte Chico in Peru, particularly in Caral where there are many pyramids that are contemporaneous with the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza? MJ: Yes, the Generation of Shems teachings did influence this civilization, as it influenced much of the development of the American continent. MPS: But the evidence for any civilization before around 4000 BCE is sketchy. MJ: Your history is not recorded perfectly, Michael. The story in different continents picks up at different places. Some of the interpretations begin in the middle or towards the end of the story. This makes the timeline look incompatible. However, the use of pyramids in South America is a sure indication that the civilization was influenced by the Generation of Shem. MPS: Right, I see. So what are the pyramids for? MJ: They are like energy satellite dishes built to a precise formula and geometry. They feedback information about the health of a culture to The 144,000 like a thermometer might feedback the temperature of a patient. MPS: Oh, so theyre intergalactic Electro-Cardio Graphs! MJ: Something like that.
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MPS: So why are there no pyramids in China or India for example, if the Generation of Shem was working around those regions too? MJ: The building of pyramids is only effective at certain planetary latitudes and longitudes and along certain energy lines in particular places. Not all areas are suitable for this technology. MPS: Do the other areas have their own way of projecting energy that would be equivalent to the pyramids? MJ: Yes. Stonehenge and other great monuments like this serve the same purpose in Europe; India built a plate into the ground and China built great tunnels in the Earth11 that served the same purpose. MPS: And why does South America not seem to have a holy book as was written in Europe and Asia? MJ: Actually there was a book but it was not as popular as in other places. South America was unique because it developed in closer connection to nature than other cultures and did not need to record everything in writing as became the traditions of other places. Much of what was learned in this continent was related to animal and natural traditions that already existed and simply connected with what was already there. As I have said, the Generation of Shem connected their teachings with what was already present. They did not try to change culture, only to blend in and enhance it
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by using the culture like a lens through which to project universal truth. MPS: Which brings us back to Shem and one other in the Middle-East. Who was the other one? MJ: He was called Zoroaster. He came to teach people about the stars, their movement and their meanings. MPS: Zoroaster, is that like Zarathustra? MJ: They are the same. MPS: Wow, the fact that he was one of the seven explains a great deal as to why so much of the Sumerian astrology and astronomy survived through thousands of years even to this day, such as dividing a circle into 360 degrees and each degree having 60 minutes. His teachings had such power they have survived generation after generation. MJ: Indeed. MPS: So rather than the traditional interpretation of a single Shem being the progenitor of all species, there were actually seven contemporaries who taught a way of life that aligned humanity with the laws of nature; the same laws that would raise our vibration for the purpose of liberation from suffering. MJ: This is correct. But as with so many of the teachings, the vibration of humanity interpreted the teachings in ways that would benefit them physically rather than energetically. Some of the purposes were to exert control. It is true that each of The Seven were sent to institute practices that can be traced through to modern day religions, but they were not sent to institute religions. The seven simply told stories that suited their audience for the purpose of helping them evolve. MPS: Were religions a mistake?
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MJ: No, not a mistake. Please understand that religion has inspired many people to evolve but there are two sides to it as there are with all things. If it is used as a mechanism for control and negative emotions, it causes suffering. But if it encourages people to practice in their life the lessons they learn from the stories in order to create equanimity and liberation from suffering, then it is beneficial. Both are possible. We do not condemn religion just because people use it wrongly any more than we should condemn a forest because someone uses a tree branch to beat us. All humanity must check its intention for that is what pulls down the vibration of your species, not the tools you have been given to raise yourselves up. MPS: Very well put. Thank you. I want to talk a little bit more about some of the more influential parts of The Bible because they have so deeply affected Western thinking and the resulting shapes and patterns that now affect globalization. Is that OK? MJ: Please go ahead. MPS: OK, I am referring in particular to the covenants made to Abram or Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and Moses. Firstly, were these covenants real events? MJ: Yes, they were real events. MPS: And were they promises to the entire species or more like personal contracts as made with Noah? MJ: Neither really. They were proclamations telling the Hebrews of the great truth behind cause and effect. MPS: OK, but The Bible claims that these covenants were agreements with God. So, if God was not talking to the Hebrews, who was?

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MJ: You have in The Bible, many mentions of the word Elohim 12. MPS: Right. It is taken to mean God or Gods, I believe. There is some debate over its exact interpretation in English and whether the usage in the plural as Gods might be some throwback to the pagan belief in multiple Gods. MJ: The Elohim were indeed interpreted as gods but this was against our wishes. MPS: So, what are you saying? The Elohim are from The Seven? MJ: Correct. MPS: How many of you make up The Elohim? MJ: There are 12 now. It is a calculation based upon the planets in your solar system. MPS: But dont we have nine planets? MJ: There are others. MPS: Thanks for just dropping that in.

Excerpts taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim): Elohim ( )is a Hebrew word, which expresses concepts of divinity or deity, notably used as a name of God in Judaism. It is apparently related to the Northwest Semitic word l "god". Within Hebrew, it is morphologically a plural, in use both as a true plural with the meaning "angels, gods, rulers" and as a "plural intensive" with singular meaning, referring to a god or goddess, and especially to the single God of Israel.
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Elohim occurs frequently throughout the Torah. In some cases (e.g. Exodus 3:4, "... Elohim called unto him out of the midst of the bush ..."), it acts as a singular noun in Hebrew grammar (see next section), and is then generally understood to denote the single God of Israel. In other cases, Elohim acts as an ordinary plural of the word Eloah, and refers to the polytheistic notion of multiple gods (for example, Exodus 20:3, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."). In still other cases, the meaning is not clear from the text, but may refer to powerful beings (e.g. Genesis 6:2, "... the sons of the Elohim (e-aleim) saw the daughters of men (e-adam, the adam) that they were fair; and they took them for wives... ," Exodus 4:16, "He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you [Moses] were Elohim to him [Aaron]... ," (Exodus 22:28, "Thou shalt not revile Elohim, or curse a ruler of your people... ," where the parallelism suggests that Elohim may refer to human rulers).

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MJ: Youre welcome. MPS: In Phyllis V. Schlemmers book The Only Planet of Choice, Tom was supposed to be a speaker for the 12 who were also identified as The Elohim. Is this the same group? MJ: Yes. MPS: What is the purpose of the Elohim? MJ: As The 144,000 are the energetic structure of your planet, so the 12 Elohim are the energetic structure of your solar system. MPS: I see. Could you please go into a little more detail of the intention of the Elohim in addressing the Hebrews in this way? MJ: Essentially, we coached them with guidelines for life laid down in the format that if you do thisyou will achieve that but people wished to interpret them as orders or as commandments from God. MPS: I can only imagine how some of these things were interpreted because some very odd things were asked of humankind in order to make these covenants, at least they seem odd without the benefit of the context in which they were made. For example, did The Elohim really promise the Hebrews all the land from the river (wadi) of Egypt to the Euphrates? It doesnt make much sense that a spiritual journey would require the Hebrews to be given a piece of physical land. MJ: Indeed. This was a reference to the energetic properties of the region. The Hebrews were products of that region and their energy entrained best there. We did not offer them physical land but explained to them where they would flourish best for that is their energetic nature. Unfortunately, this has been taken to mean that they have a right to land ownership, which is a cause of much conflict but seeing as we have been consistent with our suggestion that relinquishing attachments to possessions is the best way to
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achieve energetic evolution, the claim to possession of land is not exempt from this. Why would we give land? People need to learn to share. This is not a higher lesson but a basic need of all beings. MPS: So the idea of the Promised Land, is what? Youre saying it is not a country? MJ: It is certainly not a physical place. It is an energetic reward that every being attains when they reach a certain level of awareness and vibration. MPS: Err a reward. What do you mean by that? MJ: Let us just say for the moment it is like passing the 1st level examination for energy-beings. As a successful graduate, you get a certificate, right? MPS: I suppose MJ: So the promised land is your certificate of attainment. The promise was that if the Hebrews followed the practices they had been given by the Elohim, they would attain a level of vibration that would afford them this gift. MPS: Can you tell me exactly what this gift is? MJ: Maybe I will tell you later. MPS: Thats very mysteriousbut what of the idea that God made Abraham a father of many nations and seemed to suggest the Hebrew people should assume some form of leadership. MJ: Indeed they should. But so should all others who are the descendants of Shem and have been given the practice of equanimity. Humanity was asked to be role models by all seven of the Generation of Shem. Only by living your lives with greater equanimity can you evolve from Samsara.

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MPS: OK, we will come to the Mosaic Covenant in a moment but first I wanted to look at Exodus just so you could clear up what occurred. Was Moses from one of your groups? MJ: Yes, he was 144,000. MPS: Before Moses undertook to free the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, God spoke to him from a burning bush that did not burn. Could you explain what this means? MJ: The burning bush is a metaphor for Kundalini energy. If you recall, God was trying to convince Moses to liberate the Jews from slavery. Do you not think this metaphor bears a remarkable similarity to the idea of liberating someone from suffering? MPS: I see your point. Not only are we talking about freeing a tribe from enslavement but also freeing the spirit from its attachments. In other words, Moses was being encouraged to lead his people towards an elevated vibrational community. MJ: Ah, now you understand. MPS: But Moses was not convinced by the burning bush, which surprises me. As you intimate, if it really was a burning bush it would probably be pretty convincing to anyone, let alone one of The 144,000 who was channeling guidance from his masters! Anyway, The Bible says that Moses asked God His name and the name He gave was Yahweh. The translation of this, as best as I can tell is actually I am what I am or I will be what I will be. What does this mean? MJ: It was another direction for being equanimous, present and grounded. Remember, If you are what you are or are aware of everything that you are doing, in essence you lose your personal identity and become one with everything in the moment. Once we realized that whatever we did would be translated by the human mind into the word of God, we used this to tell people that to

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become one with God they needed to live in a certain way and become the living creation of the moment. Moses, as the leader of his people, was being instructed on how to raise the vibration of his people. MPS: Well, thats quite an elaboration of the original idea. MJ: Indeed. But the point is not to criticize how the story translated the idea but to emphasize that human awareness has grown sufficiently for your interpretation of events to grow too. As events were recorded thousands of years ago, they were recorded according to the awareness of the time. Awareness has grown since that time and people must begin to create their future with a higher consciousness, not with the old consciousness that created the past. MPS: Thank you, Master Jacob. But let me ask you this: did Moses really lead the Hebrew slaves to freedom from Egypt? MJ: Yes he did. MPS: But the story tells of Gods intervention in this process, of turning the river red with blood, of taking the first born, of pestilence and plague, surely this wasnt a role played by The Seven? MJ: No. Moses was very intuitive. We communicated with him as we communicate through Orranut, your wife. He was sensitive to the future of Egypt before it happened and used it to his advantage to escape. We did not create these events. He was clever and resourceful. MPS: I understand. He used natural events to his advantage. But the parting of the Red Sea, what really happened there? MJ: It was tidal. The Hebrews crossed at low tide and the Egyptians met the high tide.

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MPS: Youre saying there was no intervention from The Seven. MJ: Well, let me put it like this, the tide was lower and higher than normal. MPS: You tweaked nature? MJ: You might put it like that. MPS: Remarkable. Thank you. Please tell me why it was important for The 144,000 to take such an interest in the Hebrews at this time? MJ: It appears to you as if we took a special interest in them because the biblical records are so ubiquitous within western culture but what about Greek mythology, The Vedas, Bn and so on? Stories of how we have guided humanity directly and indirectly are contained within all the philosophies of the world that are concerned with the elevation of human vibration. We talk of The Bible now but you will find similar accounts with different cultural interpretations in all the holy books of the world. The point is not to criticize what The Bible said or did not say but to show humanity how all people are connected to the same evolutionary ideas. Every culture has a resource that tells them the same thing. All that differs is the interpretation. MPS: Why is the interpretation so different in some cases? MJ: If you look at many sides of a mountain, each visage will be different. The same is so with universal truth. Human energy has seven levels, right? MPS: Are you referring to the chakras? MJ: Indeed. If I was to teach you truth from the second chakra energy level it would be different from the mind truth at the sixth level, not because one is truer than the other but because it is different aspects of the same thing and can therefore even appear to
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be seven different things to those looking for the differences and not to see how the intended outcome can be very similar. MPS: I see. MJ: If you look more closely at their teachings, Mohammed taught from the second Chakra, Buddha from the sixth and this is why their approaches are different. There is nothing right or wrong or better or worse about them. They were born in different regions, which are full of different energy too and were also aimed at different intellects and classes. This is why they are different. MPS: I get it. So our perception of differences in the great teachings is really just an inability to see the interconnectedness in them. I have always believed that. Rather than using these books to seek truth inside we so often use them to impose our authority on others outside. MJ: It is a recipe for recurring suffering. People must let go of their attachments to books and words and start living a life of equanimity and awareness. This is what the books ask people to do but they become so attached to the idea that they have found the truth. MPS: I completely agree. Now, I would like to finally look at the Mosaic covenant because the resulting Ten Commandments certainly stick in my mind as one of the most profound passages of writing in the history of humanity. There is little doubt that they still affect billions of people today. In the context that all the covenants except Noahs were real attempts to educate and guide humanity, can we discuss the Ten Commandments and ask what they could mean to modern people? MJ: Yes, go ahead. MPS: Firstly, the commandments are actually depicted three times in The Bible, twice in Exodus and once in Deuteronomy, each time a little

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differently. Could you please clarify which is most accurate to the original teaching? MJ: The first one 13 is most accurate. MPS: Can we assume from the start that The Ten Commandments were not really commandments, as such? MJ: Indeed. They are a guide for people to generate real results in their lives. MPS: But they are often portrayed as being the ultimate orders from God. To break one of the Ten Commandments is to commit sin. MJ: We have already spoken about sin. It is a misinterpretation of an act that affects vibration. What is sin from an energetic viewpoint, Michael? There is no punishment from God for your behaviors but the natural order of the universe means there are consequences for every action to which you commit your energy. This too is contained in the Mosaic Covenant. The covenant has been recorded rather too zealously by the author but if you understand and live the essence of this covenant, you will evolve. It is that simple. Rather than a parent controlling a child through commandments, the covenant is intended to be more like the experienced student who has already passed the test providing the new generation with a crib-sheet of answers. The student would be wise to pay attention, would they not? MPS: Would you really pass on a crib-sheet? Thats naughty. MJ: This is a joke, right? MPS: Youre becoming more human by the day, Master Jacob. MJ: I take that as a compliment.
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MPS: So, to the Ten Commandments 20:2-20:17 which is Do not have any other Gods before me. Please explain. MJ: Teachings were given and passed down from the Generation of Shem 8,000 years before Moses. We asked Moses to teach to his people to have faith in these teachings because they were the essential truth of living, as they are still the essential truth today. They taught people how to live peacefully, creatively, relationally, healthily. We had learned a great deal from Atlantis. This commandment was merely meant to tell people to keep on going and not to give up. MPS: OK, what about You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth. What does that mean? MJ: This concerned human ego. Ego has the property of attaching to things that it desires and we were warning Moses to guide his people to follow the path of energetic evolution, not one made of attractive imagery but with no meaningful substance. In todays society, the great danger from this is reflected in materialism because material attractions gravitate people towards external fixation rather than internal awareness. Understand this because it is important: idolatry, in this sense, means attachment to anything that leads a person astray from a greater consciousness of who they really are. MPS: I thought this was also about not creating images of teachers because of the human tendency to create attachment to the teacher and not the teaching. MJ: This is also so and attachment to a teacher is no less a form of materialism that should be avoided. Islam forbids the creation of idols for this very reason. When you pay homage to an individual person but do not live in the way they lived, your life becomes
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ritualistic and ignores the teacher as a role model. The Generation of Shem brought real-world practice to the lives of so many human beings and the religious practices that sprung from them are the fruit. Even today, people who make idols of physical beings get stuck in a cycle of attachment to a face or an image or a purpose when the only purpose that is valuable for any human life is that of evolution. We see this so often with people and their gurus when a real guru teaches a person to be a guru, not follow the guru. MPS: It is hard to understand the next commandment because I understand the idea of God very differently now that we have adjusted our interpretation of universal creationism. Anyway, what does it mean that You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments. MJ: This is a reference to karma. If you do good deeds you get good deeds back. Bad deeds will result in the same. MPS: The notion of karma exists in The Bible? I thought that was eastern in origin. Is there reincarnation in The Bible too? MJ: The idea of rebirth was present in all original teachings. In the revised biblical account it was removed by those whose paradigm was not suited by its inclusion. MPS: That makes sense. Why does it say, I am a jealous God? MJ: This is just a metaphor. Jealousy means wanting what another has, like wishing to see the other person in their own reflection. Karma is about energy being reflected into peoples future.

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MPS: Got it. Now: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses His name. What does this mean? MJ: Its truest meaning is about showing leadership, doing things yourself and not relying on outside assistance but it also refers to those people who would use a God to justify their own actions or to create fear to manipulate others. MPS: Not wanting to sound too dramatic but isnt religion fundamentally about threatening people with hell, the devil, bad karma, whatever it may be, unless they behave according to the rules. MJ: So you see why we are writing this book. We must explain that religion is about practice, not about idols or truth or fear or threat. You must each choose to separate your lives from the illusions of men and connect with the needs of your own energetic self. MPS: Good advice. Thanks. What does it mean that we should remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy and the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God, you shall not do any work etc. Is it saying that we have to take a rest? MJ: This has been misinterpreted. The real meaning is that people must not be extreme in their practices. They must find a middle path. In times gone by, too many people were very dogmatic in their beliefs and often practiced strict asceticism. We wished people to understand that causing personal suffering through such strict practices wasnt helpful to their vibrational cause. It is far better to live more casually, to practice daily but not to take life so seriously as this. We never intended for people to have a holy day. Life itself should be holy. Life is the practice. Just keep it gentle, not extreme. MPS: Thats quite a powerful interpretation.

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MJ: The wrongful interpretation can cause more suffering. Of course, these days, we wish people would practice more. There never seems to be a harmony with human endeavor. MPS: It would be ironic if it wasnt a little bit dangerous. MJ: Indeed. MPS: Now Honor your father and mother. Is this self-explanatory? MJ: Yes, it is with regard to family, but it also has a higher meaning as in the Earth, everything upon it, and your higher self. This is your true mother and father. Your physical parents are your connection to your physical body and your values but there is also an energetic connection to the essential components of the Earth that made all things on this planet. MPS: Orranut and I often tell our clients that we are born alone and die alone and by honoring our essential self, we raise our vibration. MJ: This is correct. You are only responsible for your own evolution but by honoring others and your natural environment you do the greatest honor to your own self. This is what helps people evolve; by seeing the connections between their own evolution and all things around them. MPS: After this one the commandments apparently become a little less subtle. You shall not murder, for example. MJ: Actually, these interpretations are not as obvious as they seem. We were really trying to encourage people not to give up. Murder in this case means to destroy hope, creativity, your connection to each other and your higher self. It is obvious that killing is not helpful, especially as we had already given people the concept of karma. What is being said here is that to elevate your vibration humanity must maintain its spirituality, not cut it off or ignore it. Reducing the collective vibration and connectivity of people creates
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the conditions for physical murder to manifest but the murder of ones own energy is a choice to reduce an energy-being to a lower vibration that does not condition human life at all. MPS: You mean a being may be born as either flora or non-human fauna? MJ: Indeed. Energy-beings can lower their vibration to the point where they are born into a physical form that has less potential to do themselves so much harm. Many lives can be spent in these forms learning just a single lesson whereas a human life can learn so many lessons simultaneously. It is why your opportunities to grow are so precious and why it is so important for humanity to nurture their own and each others energy systems in awareness. MPS: Thats a vital point. I hope people will listen to it and start taking a little more care about the qualities of their actions. Tell us what You shall not commit adultery. means? MJ: That was not in the original instructions to Moses. MPS: Really? MJ: There are so many things that lower vibration, Michael. We cannot just list them all and tell people to avoid them. You must use intelligence as to the actions that are of benefit to your vibration and those that are not. These commandments were a general guideline for people to connect with their higher self, show leadership and not lose sight of the spiritual objective of life. It should be obvious to all people what actions are beneficial in this regard and which are not. MPS: I see your point. Finally You shall not steal? MJ: This is just about sharing. To connect in a community people must share. It is not helpful to take what does not belong to you but it is equally unhelpful to keep what you do not need when another
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needs it more. This too is a form of stealing. The Earth is a bountiful place and people need no more than they can use at any given time. It could be said that life is entirely an interpretation. While we all cling so tightly to our little corner of truth, humanity wrenches pieces of itself from the whole, jealously guarding our own little speck of truth. Jews fight Muslims, Christians fight Pagans, Hindus fight Jains, Buddhists fight Taoists; whether our cause is political, social, religious or economic, we are all just bashing the hell out of our interpretation of what is real and what is not. It would be ironic if it were not also so deadly. Across the millennia the path to our energetic liberation has been handed to us through letter and symbol, voice and ritual, each continent producing its own blends of truth styled to the energy, culture, awareness and readiness of the recipients. From this perspective, each truth looks tainted to the outsider but from within it, it shines. There is no absolute truth in this matter but also nothing that prevents us from finding a personal version of it that inspires us to reveal aspects of our own dimensionality that generates equanimity and peace. Each of us must decide for ourselves whether we are prepared to let go of the cause of our suffering or if we simply prepare, once more, to fight for our own little speck of reality. The truth has come to us, not just in the faces of the obvious such as Buddha and Christ, or Mohammed and Krishna, but from Einstein to Beethoven, Plato to Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa to the Dalai Lama, Gandhi to Mandela, from both native Earth energy and the energy of beings who have come to us across eons of time and from different universes, none of whom are any less human when they accept the challenge of this mortal human shell and cling to the experience of living. And yet we squabble over the virtues and vices of these heroes and nit-pick their lives like the truth should be cleaner than clean and people who know stuff should not really behave like people.
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But theres the true irony. The truth we seek is dirty and impure like a well-worn shirt. When we put it on, it fits. It may not be the freshest piece of attire, because it has probably been around the block a few times, but it is comfortable with us and we feel good in it. This is the truth to which we should all aspire, not the truth that does little else but cause us to wonder why we bother getting up in the morning, or the truth that leads us to question the point of it all, or the truth that tells us we are not good enough or strong enough or bright enough or wise enough to invent a reality where everything just fits right in. At the end of the day, the truth will be yours, not because it is true, but because it fits. We exist in a goldfish bowl of interpretation. Even The Seven have had enormous issues getting untarnished messages across and down through the years. One message becomes another and one truth becomes hyperbole to the point where interpretation is the best they could hope for. One thing stands out through it all though: whether you listen to Apollo, Krishna, Zarathustra or any of the other Generation of Shem, all will tell you that to know yourself is the key to your own liberation. This is not so much a matter of conjecture. You dont even have to read any of the holy books on Earth to discover its truth. All you need to is accept one very simple fact: one man has already done it. He is known as Buddha. And if he can do it, so can you.

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Chapter 6 The Ascension of Buddha

Buddhas birth over 500 years before the birth of Christ heralded an astonishing life that would imprint itself forever on the energetic footprint of this planet. Well documented in the sutras written shortly after his death, Buddha taught a form of practice called the middle way and taught people how they could elevate their energy through a meditative practice comparable to the practices that Master Jacob has told us are in use by energy-beings across all the universes. As will become clear, we have included this chapter in order to sooth the doubts of any readers who question their personal potential to evolve. Liberation from suffering is possible for all of us. Moreover, it is possible not just as the slimmest of potentialities glimmering at the furthermost point of infinity, but it is there, before each of us, awaiting action, now. This may seem somewhat fanciful to the penniless, the afflicted, the depressed or the beleaguered but life has an unerring ability to serve up everything we need for the greatest transformations possible. While in the pits of despair, it may be difficult to look up but rest assured, up is always there. I wanted to discuss with Master Jacob a few of the interpretations of Buddhas life from a secular viewpoint of how an ordinary man became one of the holiest icons of faith and devotion in human history. What was the purpose of Buddhas final life on Earth? What was he here to achieve? And how did his practice come about? From these answers, many lessons can be learned for all in the search for true liberation from suffering.

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MPS: It is said that Siddhartha14 descended from Tusita Heaven on a White Elephant before being born from the side of Lady Maya, the wife of King Shudhodhana. Im going to assume that there is some rampant symbolism here, Master Jacob. Could you translate it for me, please? MJ: Do not be lazy, Michael. Can you guess what Tusita Heaven is? MPS: From our previous conversations, I would guess that it is one of the planes of existence to which energy-beings ascend as they evolve. MJ: Very good. I award you one point. MPS: Thank you. Which plane was it exactly? MJ: The third. MPS: OK, but what about the white elephant? MJ: What does it symbolize to you? MPS: Intelligence? MJ: Yes, but also royalty and rarity 15. MPS: Of course. Prior to his birth, from the side of Lady Maya, it is written that his spirit entered into the side. I assume this is talking about conception but not immaculate, right? MJ: No, it is not about the conception at all but is referring to the assistance from The Seven that Lady Maya received in order to prepare her body for the right conditions to receive The Buddhas energy.
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MPS: I see. Was Siddhartha one of the Seven? MJ: No. MPS: Where was his energy from? MJ: He was entirely native energy. MPS: Really? You mean he never spent a life off planet Earth. MJ: Indeed. It was a great time of celebration for all The Seven. This Buddha was the first of all native Earth energy to attain this degree of liberation. MPS: Total liberation from the cycle of Samsara? MJ: Yes. There had been many before who had attained forms of enlightenment that allowed them to choose their birth but Siddharthas enlightenment was totally pure. He is an amazing energetic being born from the Earth to return to the energy realm. He represented a great achievement to us all and a proud culmination of potential for the planet. What this means is that a 15 billion year project from The Seven was finally bearing incredible fruit. Siddhartha Buddha was entirely native energy. While this may not sound much it says that any of us can achieve the same state as The Buddha, regardless of where you are from. Any of us! He was not God. He was not special. He was not the chosen one. He was simply native Earth energy, cycling like the rest of us through life after life until he found a way to elevate his vibration to the point where total liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth could be attained. You can do it. I can do it. Anyone can do it. MPS: It is said that Siddhartha was born in the forest. MJ: He was.

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MPS: It says that he was born from the Queens right side. In healing this would be the male side, so is it simply referring to his masculinity 16? MJ: Correct. MPS: But the tales of nature bending before him and blooming automatically, these types of things, I assume they are being overly dramatic. MJ: Well, yes, obviously they are embellished for effect but the reality of his birth was that, energetically, nature was tremendously affected for a great distance around him. Those who were connected to the spiritual world through their practice or the animals and plants that were attuned, all felt his arrival because the Earth itself felt the great presence that was born upon it. This was why he was born into nature in the way that he was. A great shift of energy occurred because that is what happens when elevated energy is born into the physical realm. MPS: How did nature know that his future was to become The Buddha and achieve enlightenment? I thought that the future was dependent upon choices. MJ: You are right but not all choices are made in human minds. We all have contracts, remember? The future is a projection and, as it is projected from the present, it also projects from the future back into the present like a ripple returning. This ripple can be felt by those who are sensitive to it and some parts of the future ripple more strongly than others because they are such strong possibilities according to what has already been chosen in the energy planes. Siddharthas future was like a tsunami in time because he had done so much work beforehand. It was no accident and his energy was such that his enlightenment was virtually assured.
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MPS: Thank you for clarifying. When Siddhartha was born he was said to have thirty-two major marks and eighty minor marks on his body. What were these? MJ: They were not physical marks. They were an energetic formula. MPS: What does this mean? MJ: In your sciences you talk of powerful numbers like Pi or the Golden Ratio, so, let us just say that the marks upon his body were sacred numbers that foretold of his heritage and his future. MPS: OK, now Siddhartha was born a prince so his early life was one of a sheltered palace upbringing. It is said that Siddhartha didnt go beyond the walls of this palace for twenty-nine years and therefore never experienced sickness, poverty or death. Even though his upbringing was sheltered, it is a little hard to believe that he lived in a palace for this long without any experience of the such things as sickness or death. MJ: You did not see the palace, perhaps. It was a huge settlement, more like a citadel. Sickness was not allowed in. Dead bodies were ushered away. The Kings regime ensured that it was a totally controlled environment. MPS: There is a story that Siddharthas faithful servant Chandaka was the first to take him beyond the palace walls because he was ordered to do so by Siddhartha. So the story goes, in four separate journeys he saw an old man, a sick man, a dead man and finally an ascetic begging for alms; was this accurate? MJ: Not in four distinct trips like this, but it is true that it happened in this way. Chandaka was more than a servant to Siddhartha, however. He was a friend and, one might say, a teacher to guide him in the right direction.

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MPS: Are you hinting that Chandaka might have been one of The 144,000? MJ: Perhaps. MPS: I see. A friend to keep him on track! When Siddhartha decided to take up the ascetic life, it is said that he took Chandaka and his horse Kanthaka with him and rode for one night before cutting his hair, handing the reins of his horse to Chandaka and then setting off on his journey. Was this how it happened? MJ: Not exactly. He travelled for around one year with Chandaka and Kanthaka. It was only when he realized that his two companions were his final attachments to his princely life that he let them go. MPS: Ah, so this was their role. They taught him that he had to let go of all his attachments to who he was before he could become someone new. MJ: Indeed. MPS: Next, Siddhartha undertook the ascetic life in merciless fashion. For six years he tortured his mind and body seeking a path to enlightenment. Is this the case? MJ: He nearly died on numerous occasions. Siddhartha had the mind of a scientist. He tried every combination of practices ticking them off one by one, seeking a route through the austere and extreme. MPS: But it didnt work for him. He kept hitting a barrier. What was that barrier? MJ: It is attachment to technique that reveres spirituality without balancing the mind and body. Remember I told you the story of Atlantis where we became attached to mind and body? Well, it is

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possible to become attached to spirituality too, which is why in The Bible we recommended for people to take a middle path. MPS: So the middle way of The Buddha is just a way to find harmony in all three. MJ: Indeed. This is what The 144,000 had always been seeking. It was the missing element that drew us to Earth and the great motivation we had for nurturing the potential of this planet. Siddhartha found the way we had been seeking for billions of your years. The Middle Path of Siddhartha was not a way to walk between the extremes that he put his body, mind and spirit through but to truly transcend them. MPS: His practice eventually opened up his mind to all things. He did not discard one thing or another. He became totally inclusive, not exclusive. MJ: Exactly. MPS: So this is when Siddhartha decided to retreat and meditate? MJ: Yes. MPS: Where did he get his techniques from? Anapanasati 17 and Vipassana18 are such key meditation techniques that they are still esteemed today as two of the most powerful techniques to attain enlightenment. They are powerful tools indeed. MJ: Yes they are and he used them without knowing he was using them when overcoming the physical pain he was experiencing during his ascetic years.

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MPS: I see. So it was worthwhile after all? MJ: All experience is worthwhile, Michael. MPS: Of course. Now, he battled with Mara during his retreat. I suppose this was his ego? MJ: Correct. MPS: But I cannot believe that he sat down under the Bodhi tree and meditated until he was enlightened. It must have taken some time. MJ: It took about six months. MPS: That really isnt long at all. MJ: Not when you consider that it took him 10 human lives in total and over 230 other lives as flora and fauna to get to this point. MPS: So theres hope for us all then? MJ: Everyone can achieve what he achieved but it does not need to be so dramatic. There are plenty of people who have achieved enlightenment through quiet lives. Nobody would even know they were enlightened. Indeed, many do not even know themselves. There is no great fanfare or explosion to mark the event. You would walk past them in the street. MPS: It is important to reiterate this. MJ: Indeed. All humans must know that they can achieve incredible things when they apply themselves to their awareness. MPS: Just how spectacular was The Buddhas triumph? I mean you mentioned that he came to Earth from the third plane. Which plane did he leave on?

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MJ: The ninth. His is an extraordinary achievement. MPS: I can hardly imagine how extraordinary it must have been. We discussed the planes earlier and you mentioned that no one had been above nine? MJ: Yes. But I did not say no one had been above nine. I meant that no one had come back to tell us about any planes higher than nine. MPS: Buddha came back? MJ: Energetically, yes. He is the only one we know of to have done so. He wanted to share what the ninth plane was like so that we could all have experience of it. This is why The Seven have such great respect for human energy. You all have such incredible potential. Siddhartha Buddhas life is legendary both on Earth and in the energy world. Not only did he ascend six planes in one lifetime but his compassion to love and share was so great that he returned to let other beings know of what awaited them all, a feat unknown in the history of The Seven. One of the greatest achievements in the history of energy-beings who have nurtured this planet since its very birth is the ascension of native Earth energy to these rarified heights. This should make us all feel proud but at the same time cause us to realize that one energy-being, whether formed on Earth or not, is journeying the same path as any other energy-being. There are no aliens on Earth. Just energy trying out shapes and forms for size. The time for the divisions between this body and that body, this race and that race, these creatures and those creatures, this life from and that life form, is about as relevant today as apartheid or antiSemitism. As energy-beings, the time has come for us all to renounce the very notion that we are separate and individual from the universal environment that has set up this system of life and
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birth in order that we learn and evolve from it. Only by embracing life and accepting the absolute integration of extraordinary beings into ordinary universal mechanisms can we unlock the door to human liberation. Whichever religious denomination you may be, from whichever country you hail, whichever age, status, color or size of body you might be contained within, all of us are little Buddhas awaiting the explosion of light that blasts us all into the ether and separation from the cycle of rebirth. Earth is no more to us than the physical gravity that we must thrust against like a rocket rising up from the ground. It is our home base from which we are launched into the heavens. We are no longer blacks, whites, yellows and browns. We are no longer Uzbek, Spanish, Paraguayan or Nigerian. We are the children of many planets, many systems, many universes; all energy-beings asking the same question. Some of us ask it in the backs of our minds, quietly, almost inaudibly until we one day find the space to really listen to the whisper that ghosts in and out of all our heads. Some of us hear the question clearly enough but avoid answering it, preferring to fill our lives with the junk that distracts us from what really matters and submerges us in the triviality of the mundane. Others are filled with the urge to scream and their souls roar in unison with all those who connect with the soaring spirit of The Buddha and all the ascended masters who were born before, have been born since and will be born in the future. Humanity is not a species. We are a vessel. It is time to understand that the energy that fills each vessel is the stuff of stars, of black holes and of the soothing wave of a universe that is breathing. It is not us and them anymore. It is everything and it is everyone. *****

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Chapter 7 The Life of Jesus

It is without doubt that the life of Jesus Christ has been one of the greatest influences on European culture over the last 2,000 years and, by inference, all those countries whose cultures have been affected by European social, political, economic and military influence. Christianity boasts a following of 2.1 billion people across 30,000 denominations around the world19 and approximately 83 million Bibles are distributed every year, adding to the 6 billion copies that are estimated to have been distributed since Saint Jerome compiled all 80 books of the Old and New Testament in 390 CE. The influence of Christ is vast. And it has not stopped growing for two millennia. But who really was Christ and where was he from? He is believed to be the Son of God by many but, if we are to understand that even The Seven cannot tell us who or what God is, the question of Who sent him? might not be so useful as it seems. A better question is How do we place the life of Jesus in a context that furthers our understanding of ourselves? The purpose of this section is not to undermine the great faith that so many Christians and secular people alike have placed in the New Testament accounts of Jesus life. Like many people who have become disillusioned with religion, I once mistook the life and message of Christ for the institutions that were built around his teachings and discarded both as the same thing. They are not. Over the past five years, I have grown increasingly conscious of the awesome undertaking of Jesus and the great work that he accomplished during his lifetime using the courage, dignity,

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compassion and love with which he shared his message of hope. I am in awe of any person who can live in this way. So, while this section, in keeping with the rest of the book, challenges the conventional interpretation of events in Christs life in the New Testament and what they mean, my objective is to celebrate the man who was Jesus, understand the times in which he lived and place his incredible achievements into a new context of greater meaning and profundity. You may ask How can there be any greater meaning than being the Son of God who died for the salvation of Humanity? but in the following pages, reading them with an open mind, you will learn that while his death was indeed for the salvation of humanity, it was also to inspire humanity to save itself from the darkness of an age that was slowly swallowing our collective spirit. If we only use what is written here to enslave us even further to this darkness, my intentions will have failed. But if we use it to grow and realize a little more of our potential for light and consciousness, then that is a transformation within you of which even Jesus would be proud. Christs ministry rewrote Gods Old Testament message. It demonstrated to people that life could be lived most effectively, not by waiting for command nor covenant from an external force, but by emulating the attitudes, habits and behaviors of the role model: Jesus. By simply behaving in accordance with the love, respect and trust that Jesus lived in his own life, anyone could, so the saying goes, enter the kingdom of heaven. As we navigate a period of unprecedented transformation on Earth and in its species, it is time that people began to evolve beyond the blind faith by which we rationalize ungodly actions by human beings and to understand that Jesus power was not miraculously siphoned into a book written by others but lives on today, in the practice by which he lived his life. To quote The Bible, to be in awe of it, to honor and praise his life helps neither God nor mankind. Unless we can practice what he practiced, not only with mechanical prayer but with acts of kindness, generosity, healing,

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compassion and true leadership by application, we will remain stuck in the dark ages in which he came to share his illumination. As we shall learn, Jesus life was not lived by this incredible being in order that we can each gaze passively into the light that shone from his mind, his words and his actions. He lived so that each of us may become the light on our own accord. MPS: Master Jacob, we have learned how the gods of ancient cultures were really wisdom from extraordinary teachers, encouraging humanity to live our lives in good health and connectivity with the natural world. However, human history remains strewn with tales of one god, many gods, commandments and supernatural wrath. Yet, Jesus depicts a very different God to that characterized in the Old Testament. Gone is the God of blood and thunder, jealousy and revenge and in saunters the Son of God, a force for love and forgiveness. Indeed, God doesnt even show up in the New Testament, unless Jesus is His personification, as some believe. What can you tell us about this change in the way the message was presented to people? MJ: You are right about the difference between the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus. The underlying message of Jesus was for people to stop relying on faith and to use their own spiritual power in the present. He asked them to exercise their spiritual energy through the body and mind to achieve the highest awareness. It was a very different approach that many people at the time did not like and could not even comprehend. MPS: Why then was the approach so different? MJ: Different times, different approaches. It was a quantum leap for human evolution and, as people evolve, we must also evolve information content based upon peoples vibrational ability to integrate it. We cannot just dump the blinding truth on people who are not ready to hear it. It would do them no good, in fact it would be counterproductive. Nor can we lie or manipulate people in order

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to get results faster. Life must unfold naturally, in freewill by all beings. It is important for people to understand that evolution cannot be hurried or peoples awareness be artificially stimulated to realize the message behind the message. As people evolve and grow, the subtle meaning behind the superficial messages will become more apparent because they become more ready to receive them. In effect, Jesus didnt update the message of the Old Testament. He actually added a new dimension to it that helped people grow into a phase of spirituality that was more reliant upon their own motivation and faith. MPS: This could be equated to how you likened the message of Mohammed to the second chakra and Buddha to the sixth. While the messages of the Old and New Testament seem very different, they are just coming from a different type of light. MJ: A good analogy, yes. MPS: Now I understand that Buddha was native energy but how about Jesus? Was he also native? MJ: No. Jesus was the energy of The 144,000. MPS: That message may be difficult for many people to accept. MJ: Why? When an energy-being is born into human form, the task is the same for us all. He achieved great things. It is no easier just because he was not native energy; in fact, it can be a lot harder to achieve what he achieved because he had to become acclimatized to the nature of the planet. Jesus told people to follow his example. It does not matter who he was or where he came from if his example is worth following. It makes Jesus no less great nor his message less powerful. Please realize this: it is no easier for The Seven to achieve liberation from physical birth than native energy. Buddha showed us all that. Jesus was a remarkable teacher and

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inspiration for all energy-beings, regardless of where his energy originally evolved. MPS: I hope that people will see it that way but they are still looking for God, not aliens. MJ: Aliens is such a funny word to us. It reminds us of how one race on Earth sees the color of the skin of another race and sees only differences. When once you called us God, now you will call us aliens. What next I wonder? Supercomputers? You are simply making up new names for refusing to see The Seven, Buddha or Jesus Christ within your own self. When you stop doing this, this is when you will accept total responsibility for your own evolution. MPS: I think it was Carl Sagan who said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. If we apply this idea to the magic performed by higher vibrational beings like Buddha or Jesus, is the human condition merely the refusal to accept that magic from Gods or prophets is simply the energetic future that they refuse to see in themselves. MJ: That is a good way of putting it, yes. There is some comfort found in the notion that God exists to judge and welcome you into His kingdom upon death, but little other than hard work if one believes that the kingdom you seek is found in the human heart within this life time and those beings you call Gods are merely role models of all you can aspire to yourselves. You have brothers who are role models, dont you? You have fathers and mothers and friends who are role models too. You dont call them Gods, do you? To become a role model yourself implies that you must work hard now. Greatness does not just rub off because you sit next to the statue of a great role model or a great book or a great leader. You have to become it yourself through hard work and perseverance just as Jesus had to. It implies that you must be present. You must be grounded. You must seek equanimity from the foundation of a

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shaking and imbalanced mind and energy system. This is an unpalatable inconvenience to people who would rather pray for salvation. MPS: Is faith in God wrong? MJ: No, we are not saying this. I have already told you that God is very useful for some people if it creates faith in the present moment and a sense of security but there comes a point when consciousness evolves enough that you have to take another leap of faith. Do you dare to stop wondering who God is and start wondering who you are? MPS: This is a difficult step for many. It means letting go of a lifetime of belief. MJ: Of course it is difficult. Letting go of attachment always is. But with evolving awareness comes an evolution in responsibility for who you are and what you can be. You cannot take responsibility for your own energetic evolution if you perceive it as being entirely at the grace of God. MPS: I see but what is the timing of this message? Why is it important for people to understand and recognize the true nature of Jesus message now? MJ: There is no more time for misunderstanding and apathy, Michael. There are people who have the truth in their hand, it shines brightly like a beautiful gem, it rings as clearly as a crystal bell in their eyes but they do not even take the trouble to rub the sleep from their senses and wake up to experience the truth of this life for what it truly is. Millions are this way. For sleeping souls, even the most poignant truth can appear to be a lie. The time for humanity to evolve is here and now and you will do this through acceptance of what is real and true. Only if you transcend the reactive need to conflict or rage against ideas that do not suit your

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view of how the world should be can you discover the awareness that made Jesus into the healer, the prophet, the teacher and the pure one that he was. Native or non-native, human or alien, God or man, what is the difference? He knew the way. You do not. Only a blind and sleeping man would reject the light when his life is already so full of darkness. Follow his way, live as he lived and keep practicing it without failure and you too will know the truth that is within the beauty of his life. MPS: Thats a strong message. MJ: But it comes from love. There is no intention from The 144,000 to damage the faith and awe you have in God, Jesus or any other energy-being who has lived for the evolution of us all. We all have guides and mentors too. We need them to see a brighter light and a more conscious way. Do not discard anything that helps you grow but always ask whether it is still helping you grow or simply becoming a burden carried around because it is a familiar burden and preferable to the unfamiliar feeling of lightness and freedom. You are all one with us. Remember this. We are all one of you. Faith is a vital ingredient for us all but it must be tempered by conscious choice, action and total responsibility for everything you create. This is the great benefit of awareness but also its drawback. When you realize why Jesus lived the way he lived, you will also realize that he lived with total responsibility for everything that he thought, said and did. You must do the same if you wish to emulate his great life. You must have faith that his life was a fine example of equanimity and practice it in your own. MPS: Thank you Master Jacob. Thats most inspiring to me. I would like to know a little more about the background of Jesus though. Firstly, why was he born and what was his purpose? MJ: Jesus was born in a dark time on Earth. If you were to characterize it in a classical sense you might say that evil had found

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a strong foothold on the planet. But the night is always darkest just before the dawn and Jesus was intended to be the dawn because in darkness people are always looking for an exit, a hope, a better way of life. Such times are therefore powerful epochs for change and evolution, holding great reserves of energy that can fuel the ripples of change spilling out across time. If there is a shadow over the planet it is because light is being cast upon something that is blocking it, right? At such times, all that is needed for the light to shine through is a trigger that sets off a chain reaction in consciousness and the birth of awareness that removes the veil. MPS: It sounds as if you are saying that the birth of Jesus was a natural phenomenon. I thought you said he was from The 144,000. MJ: I have already made it clear that these two things are not mutually exclusive, Michael! It was a natural phenomenon just as the birth of Buddha was natural. I have been very clear in saying that we do not interfere or change the natural rhythms of the planet. We do not just randomly place energy-beings to try and manipulate history. That would be disastrous. We simply watch fruit ripen from season to season. Opportunity arises for energy to be born and beings are born only according to this opportunity. I am sure you have it in your mind that The 144,000 are chess players moving pieces in a great strategic plan but understand this: there is no plan, only effects playing out endlessly. You and all other energy-beings are creating life in chaos but you can make sense of that chaos by listening, as we do, to the tides, the winds, life cycles, the natural rhythms and shapes that flow through the process of change. These are the voices of nature. They are bearing forth opportunity, ripe with energy. MPS: How do you predict these patterns? MJ: When you catch a ball in your hand you can do so because your mind has become familiar with gravity and can predict the arc

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of the ball as it loops through time and space. Awareness of the true nature of nature creates the same predictive quality in those energybeings who are attuned to higher planes. As you grow in awareness it is as if your sphere of connectivity extends outwards across the universe so that you are entrained and attuned with the way that you connect and interact with all things in time and space. This is not an exclusive skill of The Seven, but all energy-beings. The Seven simply await the naturally occurring conditions for energy-beings to be born and bring into the human earthly realm new potential for growth and evolution. MPS: Right, so you must have known some time before the event that the conditions for the birth of Jesus were approaching. MJ: Indeed. It was a time of great effort from all The 144,000. We all came to Earth in either energetic or physical form around this time in order to help with the energetic conditions that were building towards this great explosion of light from within the encroaching darkness. MPS: Over what time period are you talking about? MJ: Around 500 years. MPS: Of course, this period of history was remarkable for the spiritual insights that arose such as Heraclitus writing of the logos in Greece, the emergence of the Tao Te Ching in China, the birth of Buddha in India and then the coming of Jesus. Some of the worlds most spiritual writings and teachers were born in that era. It was like an explosion of spirituality. Are you saying that the rise of these great beings were, in part, due to some energetic effort of The 144,000? MJ: Well, the coming of Buddha was like the first wave and Jesus Christ the second. In between these two waves many opportunities arose for us to be incarnate or energetically present to teach the ways and means for the liberation of energy from the Earth.

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MPS: Whereabouts were you incarnate in preparation for Jesus? MJ: One important group gathered in a place called Qumran. MPS: I researched this and found that Qumran is where the Dead Sea scrolls were found. It is speculated that the Essenes were possible inhabitants of this community and the Essenes are connected with the life of Jesus.20 Is that correct? MJ: Yes. MPS: So, can I speculate that the Dead Sea scrolls were their library? MJ: That is correct. MPS: There is much debate about this among scholars who claim that the different languages used make it unlikely that they were written by one group. MJ: Well they are correct to a point. The scrolls were not written by the Essenes, this is true. They were written by a sect that moved before the Essenes arrived. The scrolls were an accumulation of

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knowledge but they were also written in different languages as a security measure, to protect the information contained therein. MPS: Why did they leave all these scrolls? MJ: They did not leave them all. They only took what they needed. There are many such repositories of information around the world. They will be found when the time is right. MPS: So the Essene was this exclusive, secretive sect of priests and clerics who lived as a strict Jewish community. They arrived in Qumran around a century before Jesus birth and left less than a century after. In the mean time, some of The 144,000 were incarnated into this group. But for what purpose? MJ: They came to support Jesus, both prior to his arrival and during his ministry. MPS: Oh, so this is why some of their beliefs and rituals of the Essenes were compared to Jesus own teachings. How did they support him? MJ: They created a series of scriptures, works and messages that predicted Jesus arrival. The Essenes were well known for their predictive work in the region and they helped to create a sense of expectancy in the communities where Jesus would work. Their role was to ensure that Jesus arrival and ministry would have a profound impact in the region, like a prophecy being realized. MPS: Well I suppose they succeeded now that Christianity has grown so popular. MJ: Indeed. MPS: I assume that the Essenes also played a major role in Jesus life once his ministry began.

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MJ: Yes. Eight of the 12 disciples were from the Essenes, although their membership of the group was not publicly acknowledged. MPS: I would like to look at some of the key events in Jesus life and put them in perspective, if I may? Firstly, I personally have doubts with regard to the authenticity of Jesus immaculate conception. MJ: I think the doubts surround the idea that Mary was a virgin in the physical sense of the word. Well, what else do you think the word virgin might mean? MPS: Purity? A high energy-being? I think the interpretation of virgin has been taken too literally. MJ: Correct. Mary was a very high vibrational being. Her story with that of Jesus has been grossly misunderstood and misrepresented. However, in the case of which we speak, her virginal status was related to her purity. MPS: Before we go on, there has been much speculation that Mary and Joseph would have had more than one child. Could you tell me if they had other children than Jesus? MJ: They had four in total. MPS: Four? MJ: Yes, all male. MPS: Was Jesus the eldest? MJ: Yes he was. MPS: What was the role of the other three in this? MJ: They were like his guards. His angels, if you will. Jesus needed a large group to protect him, which is also why the Essenes

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were in place. Do not forget, for every movement of the light there is movement in darkness also. MPS: Are you talking about good and evil, God and the devil? Surely these things are just projections of human fear, creations of institutions that want to scare us into obedience. MJ: Do not underestimate how powerful projections of the mind can be. If you believe it you will see it. After all, what is stress but a manifestation of a future event in the human body? Humanity has enormous creative potential and there are those who harness and apply all types of energy to get what they want. Having said this, keep yourself bathed in light and you will never be touched by darkness. MPS: Thank you. It is important to put these ideas into context. Lets talk about the story of Jesus as it is represented in the New Testament. How about the Three Wise Men? Youre not going to tell me that three kings saw a brighter-than-usual star and wandered in with gold, frankincense and myrrh are you? MJ: No, but I will tell you that three did visit the baby Jesus. MPS: Oh? Who were they? MJ: The Three. MPS: Oh, I see. Three energy-beings from The Three? MJ: Indeed. MPS: And what was their purpose? MJ: Upon birth Jesus was not strong. They came to heal him and to reinforce his strong energetic vibration. They acted like his doctors.

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MPS: Wow. It would be nice to have such powerful nannies. MJ: You are joking I know but, in fact, all children have these energy nannies, as you call them. But Jesus was fortunate to have three such powerful beings to look after him. MPS: What about the gold, frankincense and myrrh? What does that represent? MJ: Use your intuition, Michael. What do you think it means? MPS: Erm, maybe purity or perfection? MJ: You lose one point. It means mind, body and spirit. MPS: Oh, I see, they came to work with him holistically. MJ: Correct. MPS: But the birth in a stable, this was accurate? MJ: Yes, much of Jesus story in the New Testament is accurate, including this. MPS: Thank you. Right, on to his life in more general terms. It was said that upon hearing of the birth of a messiah, Herod ordered the death of all the first-born males. Was The Massacre of the Innocents a real event? MJ: Yes, unfortunately it was. MPS: Was this unforeseen? MJ: Of course. We would hardly intend it. Humanity has endless potential. Sometimes, darkness influences it, sometimes light. MPS: Herod was evil? MJ: This is a strong word. People are corruptible. Nobody is evil. Nobody is good. But everyone is capable of both and, in ignorance,
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darkness if you will, it is easy to lose sight of your true self, which is pure and loving. In these moments anything is possible. This is why we urge people to remain conscious, aware and alert to their own energy. In this state of consciousness, people will only act consciously. MPS: I see. The intention of the act is what creates the energy of good or evil? MJ: Correct. MPS: And was Jesus really raised a carpenter in Nazareth? MJ: Actually, no. The accounts tried to make him more personable, a man of the people, but actually he was more like a doctor, a healer. MPS: Why is there so little in The New Testament about Jesus early life? MJ: There is no specific reason that I know of, other than it was not recorded. It was not a secret, if that is what you are asking. MPS: The account of Jesus life between 12 and 30 years of age is omitted virtually in its entirety from the New Testament account of his life, Master Jacob. There has been much speculation among scholars that during this time he was taught by masters in order to acquaint him with the skills and techniques he would need to be the great healer and teacher he became. MJ: Yes, he travelled. He learned what he needed. MPS: Where did he go? MJ: Many places.

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MPS: OK, let me ask more specifically. I have heard that he went to India to study, is this true? MJ: I can confirm this. He studied in two places in India. MPS: What was the first? MJ: He was in Bangalore. MPS: Was this Ladakh? MJ: Yes. He studied in a temple there. MPS: A temple? What was its name? MJ: I do not think it is still there. MPS: OK. Srinagar in Kashmir is the other place I have heard mentioned. MJ: Correct. This was very important for him. MPS: Why? What did he learn? MJ: It finished his training. In effect, he was in retreat there. He learned mindfulness, healing, the practice of living and dying and evolved to the point where he was capable of performing what would be known as miracles in the New Testament. MPS: After this he returned to begin his ministry? MJ: Indeed. MPS: I have heard that Jesus only taught for about three and half years. Is this so? MJ: Yes, about three, I think.

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MPS: OK, I dont want to go into too much detail about his ministry because we would end up writing War and Peace, not a modest work like this, but could you just summarize for us the idea that Jesus was a healer, a miracle worker and a teacher. MJ: Jesus was very, very powerful. The miracles of healing that he performed were real but exaggerated in the biblical texts. For example, he was able to lay hands and heal but it wasn't instantaneous as is written in the New Testament. Regardless, these were not special acts from The Seven. This was a human being healing. All people can do these things but it is very rare nowadays. You have lost the connectivity that Jesus had. MPS: Well, we rarely practice with as much commitment or faith as he did. MJ: Indeed. MPS: But why did he use this technique? In Buddhas life, the enlightened being that he was, he did not perform one miracle, other than those that were attributed at his birth. MJ: It is a good question but I must once again answer by referring you to the times that Jesus lived in and the darkness that existed at that time. Sadly, unless Jesus healed miraculously, created miraculously and loved miraculously, who would have listened to his message, the real point of all his effort? MPS: I see. MJ: This is another reason why Qumran and the Essenes set up was necessary. Jesus needed to make a deep impact because of the terrible times in which he was born. MPS: Please explain a little more.

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MJ: Attaining a powerful impression in the minds of people in the region was essential to Jesus purpose on Earth. It was the seed to everyone who has learned his way since then. While he needed great support to make this so, there is also a more simple explanation to why Jesus healed than simply making a dramatic impact. He trained to be a great healer because the times demanded that he healed. He lived in a time of great disease. MPS: What type of disease? MJ: I do not know what you call it but it is a skin disease that slowly eats people. MPS: Leprosy? MJ: Yes. And there was another disease, which we believed to be air born, that caused strong dysentery. Both caused great loss of life in the region. MPS: It sounds almost like the Atlantis story. MJ: Well, there are remarkable similarities because Jesus ministry coincided with the same global phenomenon that finished off Atlantis. MPS: What is the name of this phenomenon, Master Jacob? MJ: We call it an energetic reset. It is a naturally occurring process whereby species or beings that cannot evolve are reintegrated into the Earths energy. MPS: How do you mean reintegrated? MJ: All species and beings are energy, Michael. Just like a body dies and its atomic matter reintegrates into the planet, so too can the energy of an entire species or parts of a species be reintegrated.

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MPS: Like the dinosaurs? MJ: Exactly. MPS: I see. Thats very interesting as in the Old Testament, leprosy is written of as a kind of physical and spiritual pollution. MJ: Well, nature chooses its methods very carefully but, yes, it is actually a symptom of people unable to evolve and grow. They naturally die away. But do not look upon these types of sickness as some form of natural retribution. Suffering in any form requires compassion as well as medicine. All sickness comes from within, as we have discussed. We are all seeking health through a more equanimous life. In a very real way, sickness is a choice that each individual makes. It is always born from seeds of attachments to ideas, feelings, people or objects that individuals cannot or refuse to relinquish. MPS: I see. But you are saying that it was more than just darkness that Jesus was born to confront. He was actually born to affect the energetic reset. MJ: I do not want to say too much about it at this point but you are correct in assuming that the energetic reset would need a great healer to help. His purpose was to raise peoples vibration so that the impact would not be so great on humanity. MPS: Can we talk about this energy reset at a future point? MJ: When the time is right, yes. MPS: OK, lets move on for the moment. Can we discuss the crucifixion? This was a real event? MJ: Yes. MPS: But Christ survived it?

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MJ: Why would you ask that, Michael? MPS: You said in India that he learned to master living and dying. I assume that means he was able to slow his heart beat and bodily life signs to the point of appearing dead. There is some scholarly debate regarding this. Could you confirm that he survived? MJ: I can. MPS: This is a shocking revelation, Master Jacob. Jesus faked his own death? MJ: No. People believed he died but his intention was not to trick anyone but to survive. What would you do if you had been wrongfully arrested, tried and sentenced to death but had the ability to survive the ordeal? MPS: I suppose I would do the same. MJ: Of course. MPS: But his crucifixion is now recorded as his dying to save humankind. MJ: Did he not do that? Was his legacy not one of love, compassion, humility, charity and unity? What else do you think will save humanity? If his presumed death helped to spread those values among a population who believed in his God, then his crucifixion did indeed redeem the species. It helped to bring humanity out of a dark age. MPS: Well, I agree but Christians will not be happy about this information. MJ: They will not be happy that their prophet survived and went on to live a greater life? Or they will not be happy that Jesus was not God, which they cannot be themselves, but a high energy-being

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who taught them how they too can attain the same liberation from suffering through love? Only those whose egos are bruised by the truth would make a curse out of a blessing and a blessing out of a curse. I am revealing to you that Jesus continued with his work and that all human beings can practice living as Jesus did, without exception. Can that really upset people? MPS: Well, I agree once more but the Christian Church has 2,000 years invested in the truth of Jesus death. MJ: It is time to reinvest that faith in his life and to live as he would have wished people to live. People are quite welcome to believe that Jesus died. This is their choice. But the only way he ever really lived was to think, speak and act as Jesus. It was all he asked others to do because he knew a better way than anyone at the time knew. MPS: I see. But how exactly did Jesus survive? There must have been others in on this plan. MJ: Yes. That is so. MPS: The disciples? MJ: No. MPS: Of course: Mary. His family. Mary was the pure one and was connected enough to receive all this information. She knew his plan from the very beginning, right? MJ: Indeed. MPS: So his reincarnation motivated the disciples to spread the word after his death?

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MJ: They were motivated by this, yes. But once again, the intention was not to fool them one way or another. They simply saw Jesus alive and told it as his resurrection. MPS: It didnt harm the effect. MJ: Indeed. MPS: Where did he go after this? MJ: He returned to India. MPS: He must have had assistance to escape, after all he was a well known public figure after all he had done for three years. Seeing as the disciples were not in on the plan, who helped him? MJ: His brothers. That was their purpose. MPS: Much of Jesus life in the New Testament is one of interpretation. MJ: Indeed. Seen through the prism of God then it is natural for Jesus to be that God or at least an aspect of Him. But seen through the prism that dark times needed a light, then Jesus is a man of high energetic vibration who could be that light. Which is more accessible to people in the modern age: Jesus the immaculate God or Jesus the loving man? We are all energetic beings and when energy is elevated to the point where it is truly one with the physical vibration we can all do things that seem miraculous but are actually just natural. All Jesus was really teaching in his ministry was that all people can enter the Kingdom of Heaven during life. You do not need a physical death to become enlightened. He did it during life. So can you. MPS: But with Jesus departure to India, the disciples continued his work reaching out to more places than Jesus could have done alone. Hence Saint Peters little trip to Rome.

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MJ: With Jesus life, the teachers of his way had the opportunity to take the path of the mind or the path of consciousness. For the most part they chose the mind; a reverence of Jesus and an understanding of energetic liberation, not the daily practice of love and compassion needed to achieve it. MPS: I suppose there had never been a better opportunity for people to realize better lives than through Jesus. MJ: Indeed but please understand, this was not just one opportunity, it was two. MPS: Two? What do you mean by that? MJ: There were two enlightened beings, not just one. MPS: The New Testament says nothing about there being another. MJ: Of course it does not. The second story was not so popular with the powers of the day. MPS: Who was the second? MJ: I have already spoken to you of her great purity. MPS: Mary? MJ: Mary. We wanted to show people that anyone can ascend to this level. It is not just the male form but the female too. MPS: What happened to her story? MJ: It has been lost. No one could see it because they could not believe a woman could do as a man could do. MPS: Mary was as powerful as Jesus?

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MJ: Indeed. There is reverence of Mary today in the religious institutions, and her energy is actually revered in many eastern as well as western religions, but much of her impact was not recorded and her way went unrecorded. The story of Jesus Christ is indeed a remarkable one but, in my mind at least, it becomes no less remarkable if Jesus is believed to be the Son of God or whether his godliness is simply interpreted as a higher vibration of humanity. Master Jacob has a point when he wonders why humanity should be so upset to find out that Jesus didnt die and wasn't the Son of God. Is it really such bad news to know that you can attain what he attained? Sadly, much of humanity is still clinging to religious icons as if they are belongings. Jesus is a belonging, Mohammed is a belonging, Buddha is a belonging or Krishna is a belonging. In the same way that one might own a house that we have filled with the trappings of a lifes journey, so we clutter the simple lives and messages of high beings with paraphernalia, symbolism and ritual, jealously guarding our personal interpretations of these masters lives as definitive. But these teachers, these prophets, these leaders of humanity need no interpreters. Their words need not be ratified by council or interpreted by the ordained. There are no owners of this truth, guardians of the holy or arbiters of what is sacrosanct and pure. Only the human heart that has fully experienced the ways of these men and women can appreciate the profound message expressed through the way they lived their lives. They are, and must become once again, public property personally interpreted by people emulating the great deeds and tasks to which the masters dedicated their lives. Their ways must shed the mystique and exclusivity generated by clergy and anointed leaders and return to where they were intended to be the bricks and mortar of ordinary lives turning extraordinary. Each of the masters revealed the true nature of their souls by the way in which they lived their lives just as we do with ours. But we should not make the mistake of believing that our lives have a
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lesser purpose or any less power than theirs. OK, Jesus did not munch back pizza, drive a BMW or have the hots for Angeline Jolie, but to master the ways of the equanimous does not mean that you have to learn to lay hands on people or turn water into wine either. You can learn to balance what is fun and enjoyable in your life with the work that really matters in the animation of the soul. Organizations dedicated to this, whose intentions are truly pure, must resist the temptation to exclude other people from a practice or a group because their ideas do not fit with a particular interpretation. Celebrating and honoring these masters is a personal matter because living life is a personal matter. We all live different lives so a Masters Way can have billions of interpretations without any of them being wrong. Once we demonstrate which interpretation gets the best results in life, by living as the masters lived, only then will people begin to adapt from lives that enhance suffering to lives that create wellbeing. We cannot open minds to this prospect through extremism or zealotry. This merely reinforces the exclusivity that created the conditions in the first place. Can we really find a way to live by emulating how the masters lived, not with zeal, not with arrogance but with passion and innocence? In such a fractious and polarized world, it seems difficult but there are some simple steps we can take to get going. If we simply recite words and chant platitudes, nothing changes inside us, which is where everything that can change will change. You cannot simply look at others as dumb and yourself as knowledgeable just because a person doesnt see what you see or believe what you believe. It is, in part at least, our intellects that have got us into this mess in the first place. Intellectualizing matters of the soul and matters of the heart have twisted the lives of our Masters into doctrine and law when the compass of our consciousness and awareness is the greatest interpreting tools we have in our possession. To unite over the appreciation of Masters and not over the hatred of each other we need to forget everything we know about who we think we are and remember again what it

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means to know nothing. We have become so blinded by our expertise that we no longer have room for the shape of discovery to squeeze between the gaps in our knowledge. We must take the dialectic approach to learning, seeking answers for the betterment of both sides of an argument, not winners and losers of ideas that can never be shown to be right or wrong. It is time to open our minds to what a real master is and what it means to be a real student: equanimity in speech, equanimity in mind, and equanimity in heart. This is the path to evolution that does not require facts or external interpretations, just openness and equanimity. Much of humanity has forgotten what it is like to have a master. This is the master who teaches the student, not the master who rules the slave. It is a relationship based upon implicit trust and respect. Arrogance, pride, shifting culture and the emphasis on empirical information rather than wisdom has reduced the relationship that was once sacred to that of eccentric obsolescence. But, when I look at Buddha, at Jesus, at Mohammed, at Krishna, at all the great teachers who have been on this Earth and have been a testimony to the wonder of elevating their vibration to that of mastery, I know that it matters not whether they were energy from The Seven, from the Earth, born from tree or grass, or bird, or horse or from one of the multitude of planets where energetic life so joyfully exchanges physical bodies. Masters are not really teachers at all for it goes beyond the act of telling and receiving information or honing skills. True masters are more like alchemists; their mere presence accelerates the transformation of human lead into energetic gold. While we await a savior to begin this transition we miss the countless opportunities that drift before us in the shape of all those who change our lives merely by being here and now, with us, alive, today. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Humanity has forgotten this lesson. We have become besotted by a misguided faith in our own minds, our way of life, our infallibility. Our culture gives rise to few masters but many teachers

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whose heads are filled with enough knowledge to argue the hind legs off as many donkeys as we can line up in front of them but whose hearts have little connection with the Earth and little comprehension of what it really means to be alive. There are plenty of good debaters, but few good practitioners, a plethora of doctorates but few minds deftly formed by the unerring discernment of true wisdom. Awareness cannot be given nor can it be read. It is an art that must be acquired through practice scrawling upon the canvas of ones own mind, body and energybeing. While I do not advocate the fear that the search for God still stirs in mens souls, there is something sacred about the nobility in this search, the stretch that it creates in mens bones and the faith in something so infallibly pure that it spontaneously arouses a little more purity in our own hearts. The awe of this sacred quest that all human beings once undertook during the course of their lives whether through religious practice, rite or ritual, has been sacrificed to the sterility of scientific proof that epitomizes our search for lifes meaning. If the path of Jesus taught us one thing it was that the search for God is more important than finding Him. We just have to know where to begin looking. As of this moment, the world changes forever. We no longer live on an Earth full of ordinary people or of animals or of flora or of physical laws. As of this second you wake up and know that the universe is brimming full of misinterpretations of what these things are and what they actually mean. You wake up with a clear head, clean heart and clean mind able to open yourself to the ultimate clarity of universal truth, your personal truth, for through the filter of human misinterpretations we have, for many millennia, muddled through our lives aiming at false goals and buoyed by false promises. Some of us may have recognized the shining figures ghosting through the darkness of our lives and hurried to apply ourselves to creating the shine within our own being, but only a few. Others saw the luster and turned away, too frightened by the shadows that awakened shapes within us that were best left

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dormant. Others knew the light in all its glory but instead of becoming it themselves they simply recounted its radiance to others, raging with passion from the darkness but ignoring their own unadulterated silence where old habits are cast off and new identities bloom. Well, now, as of this moment, we start again. We arise refreshed. We can all accept that none of us are masters knowing, ignoring or pretending to know this light. We are all students once more. We are all energy-beings because we are all here on Earth, alive and because there is always a Jesus, a Buddha or a Mohammed somewhere around us, learning, studying and growing in vibration. This is the purpose of life and of living. We too can study, learn and grow in vibration if we seek the mastery ourselves rather than reveling in the achievements of the masters. Jesus was nothing less than a master but nothing more than a human. He was also nothing greater than a mind, a body and spirit. This too is your own nature. This we all share in common. Mastery of this connection is the deepest aspiration of the equanimous. It is the heritage and the future of us all.

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Chapter 8 The Energy Reset

History is riddled with doomsayers. From the biblical account of Armageddon to the prophecies of Nostradamus and the more recently hyped conclusion of the Mayan Calendar in 2012, we could be forgiven for thinking that cataclysm and calamity was so totally inevitable that quivering incontinently in the corners of our homes was the only viable reaction. The media is happy to jump on the speculative bandwagon, serving up a diet of death today, destruction tomorrow and a quick annihilation for the weekend. The outlook, say those who can make a quick dime from a little doom, is imminent catastrophe with an increased probability of soul reaping by the anti-Christ. Isnt that just peachy? And people cant seem to get enough of this misery. The public appetite for doom mongering books, movies and spiritual hyperbole continues unabated fueling humanitys collective fear of the future. If www.ibetmylifeonit.com existed it would have already closed its books on the predestined destruction of planet Earth around December 22, 2012 at about 11:15, starting just outside a little diner in Cleveland. If the worrywarts are to be believed, on that dark day, no one should leave the house without an industrial strength flame-retardant suit and stout titanium underwear. But what if all this scare-talk was just another symptom of humanitys current energetic malaise? Rather than being a reaction to a very real threat, perhaps it is our reaction itself that is the greatest threat to our energetic health. Look at it this way: if fear itself is an energy, global human insecurity is not a helpful contribution to the little blue planet whose energetic vibration is intrinsically connected to our own.

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In this final Chapter of Part One, we will discuss a little of Earths future, the great transformation that is occurring here and what it implies for ordinary people. The point of this is not to foretell the future, as this does no one any good. Master Jacob is most fond of reminding Orranut and myself that the future is a projection, so, if we believe something to be true, we can create it. It is far better not to know the future but be sensitive to the present and by practicing greater consciousness now, create the future with confidence and passion. Therefore, our intention at this point in Equanimous is to encourage a greater participation in the creation of your present moment and to dismiss the impression that you can do nothing about the grand scale of life in which your personal contribution seems so paltry. None of us are too small, too insignificant or too powerless to affect change because your job is not to evolve the planet, but to evolve yourself. When you evolve individually the entire energy of the planet evolves with you. We are all individually responsible for the state of our own corner of reality and it is time that we took that responsibility seriously in the context of our present epoch. Many people have been brought up on a diet of apocalypse and Armageddon but these words have been greatly misinterpreted (shock, horror!). Deeply imbedded into the human psyche there appears to be a need for a future something, indeed anything, of which to be afraid. It might be as spooky as the bogeyman under our bed or as nefarious as the terrorist with the dirty bomb in our cities or it might be as irresistible as the alien in the flying saucer or as intimidating as the devil awaiting to snatch our sinful soul, but in each and every case some silent, invisible, intangible and yet seemingly inevitable threat seems poised to engineer our downfall at some vague point in our future. People almost expect the destruction of the planet and, were I to be a tad more cynical than usual, I might even anticipate a public outcry if it doesnt happen! I can just see the December 23rd 2012 newspaper headlines now:

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Mayans blunder again. Planet still here. Raised on a diet of disaster movies and the need to simply fear something, anything, is it any wonder? If youre looking for an apocalypse, the first place you should look is Wikipedia. In fact, the word Apocalypse comes from the Greek meaning revelation. There were many works that could be called apocalyptic and few, if any, foretold of humanitys destruction. According to Wikipedia Apocalypse (Greek: Apoklypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of mankind. Thus, even these humble pages could be called apocalyptic in the strictest sense, but I assure you I will not be talking of anybodys demise, future wars or even revealing next months lottery numbers21 but rather discussing how the natural completion of one epoch inevitably transforms into the initiation of another. It is only humanitys appetite for beginnings and endings that perceives transformational events as finite and final. Just like the universe breathing in and breathing out, each eon rises and falls in the spiraling cycles of nature. Nothing ends. No ones soul disappears. There is no final judgment. What humanity has failed to learn in the last 20,000 years, or 100,000 if we include the Atlantis project, is that everyday the battle goes on and the war wages within us. But, like the person who does not see a forest because his way is blocked by all the trees, it feels as if we are experiencing the inexplicable trials of life when all we are really feeling is the war of the ego seething within us, a war in which peace is wholly possible. In this section we are going to look at some of apocalyptic ideas and their misinterpretations and understand what is really happening to the energy of this planet at this point in time, why it is happening and what part each of us can play in the continuing evolution of one and all.

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MPS: Master Jacob, I would like to know exactly who wrote The Book of Revelations in the New Testament. There is some debate over whether it was written by John the Apostle, the same man who wrote the epistles of John, or if it was another writer. MJ: It was the same man. MPS: And did he write this on the island of Patmos during exile? MJ: Correct. MPS: There is some speculation that he wasn't exactly of sound mind at the time of writing it. MJ: John was from the fourth group 22. He was highly intellectual and intense. This sometimes creates mental complications. MPS: Some say that Johns writing was not really a prediction of the future at all but a political commentary on current events. So, is Revelations really prophetic? MJ: It is both prophetic and a commentary on the times in which he lived. If you recall, I told you that Jesus was born during a time of great darkness. He came to heal and to teach people how to heal themselves spiritually, physically and mentally. John wrote within a century of Jesus life when this darkness was still present and its consequences were still being felt globally. MPS: How can it also be predictive then? MJ: Because the phenomenon that Jesus and John both experienced is cyclic in nature, like all phenomena. In Jesus time,

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this phenomenon accounted for great plagues and sickness like the leprosy that we spoke of earlier. MPS: Can you be a little more specific about the nature of this phenomenon? MJ: John called it The Great Tribulation. MPS: Right, but what exactly does that mean? MJ: It is the point of culmination in two opposing energies building up like water on opposite sides of a dam. When the concrete of the dam is finally crushed between them and the energies meet, this is The Great Tribulation. MPS: You mentioned that the effects of this was sickness and disease in the time of Jesus. Is this the only symptom of it? MJ: No. Its implications are vast but first you must understand how it is created in order to understand its consequences. You see, every energy-being on Earth has the capacity to invest in these two opposing types of energy based upon the choices they make in life. MPS: How do we do that? MJ: Selfish choices invest in one kind of energy and selfless choices invest in another. It is a choice to detach from things or attach to things. MPS: It sounds like you are talking about good and evil again here? Havent we already discussed this concept? MJ: We have, but it is important that you now understand a deeper meaning of it. Many interpretations miss or ignore the subtlety needed to interpret it correctly and instead turn it into a conflict when it doesn't need to be understood or applied in that

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way. Humanity has undoubtedly described the energy as good and evil in the past, yes, but you might just as simply call it darkness and light, male and female, force and power, strength and flexibility; it has many names but has been best represented on Earth by the yin-yang symbol23 in Taoism. MPS: I see. So the energies are interrelated, both opposing but also giving rise to each another, separate but also interdependent. MJ: Correct. This universe would not exist without these forces. They are a part of everything we are made from. Each of us has a higher self and a shadow self, a yin to each yang. The shadow self looks out for the illusion of me while the higher self looks out for the unity of the whole. The great trick of life is to see through the illusion of ego and to see the connection between yourself and the unity. MPS: You are also describing the difference between the intention of the human ego and the human spirit, arent you? MJ: Exactly. Any motivation that is self-based and excludes other selves divides rather than connects. It is a motivation driven by ignorance of ones connection to everything. It is unaware of the yin-yang nature of reality and lives in a dream world of independence. I have said all along that the fundamental mechanism of this entire planet is making connections, so the motivation of the authentic human spirit is to connect together the mind, body and energy-being to create a harmonious balance of the three. When you connect together, you feed the whole as well as

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yourself. When you break apart, you feed the individual at the expense of the whole. MPS: So, when we feed the ego through selfish motivation, we nurture one aspect of the yin-yang energy field and when we feed the higher self by behaviors that connect together, we feed the other side. MJ: This is why love and hate are so equally powerful. Yet they also possess diametrically opposed intention. Over the millennia, the energies of these intentions accumulate as habits, rituals, social mores and behaviors of people. This is how trends are created. If you look at your current world of globalization, you will find trends that are truly global in scope and therefore carry with them such great power. But these energies also accumulate in the Earth and build up in antithesis to one another. When human behavior occurs without awareness, you harm the Earth without thinking or feeling your connection to it. This amasses a huge sum of stress on the energetic integrity of the planet, pulling its energy one way and the next until the planet is forced to correct the energy imbalance created. The two energies amass to the point where they attain critical mass and the The Great Tribulation occurs. MPS: So what is this exactly? Is it the apocalypse? Is this when good and evil go head to head in the final dust up? MJ: Lets not use the words good and evil, Michael, however tempting it might be. It is too misleading. The connotations are too strong for people and you must all learn to temper your desire for strict divisions between forces and find commonality. This is the equanimous way because it stems from cultivating enough personal awareness to see the subtleties in the energy that connect things together, not the grossness of energy that divides things apart. It is far better to simply accept that there are intentions that raise energetic vibration and create unity and there are those that lower vibration and create division.

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MPS: So good and evil do not really exist? MJ: Not in so many words. We all just sow seeds and those seeds will grow and bear fruit. If we like the fruit, we call it good. If we dont like it, we call it bad. People must evolve beyond the old idea of good and evil because it not only maintains a motivation of fear for those who believe it is true, which is never helpful, but, to those who scoff at the idea of Christ and Anti-Christ, it cements their belief that their intention doesnt matter and that physical outcomes are paramount in the definition of success. No delusion could be further from the truth and nothing harms an energy-being more than their disconnection from the suffering of the spirit that is wrought when the body and mind take control of lifes spiritual endeavor. Look at it in these terms: if you choose charity, compassion and love, your energy expands, your vibration grows, your light brightens, you connect deeper with others but if you choose hatred, greed and cruelty your vibration fades, your energy diminishes, your light ebbs and you disconnect from the world around you. MPS: I see. MJ: We live in a universe where connectivity is the essential ingredient of all energy-beings nature, Michael. So, what do you think happens to energy-beings who consciously choose to disconnect from others, the Earth, their place in the web of life and their spiritual contract? MPS: Can I pass on that one? MJ: No, it is important that you understand. MPS: Err, they get sent to the back of the class? I mean, sorry to be a little flippant but Im trying so hard not to say anything Biblical. Its a little difficult when youve been taught that doing evil creates a hellish future of fire and brimstone and all that jazz

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MJ: Look at it like this, Michael, the Earth is a living, breathing, energetic being, just like you. You are not just a part of it, essentially, you are it. You have been a part of it since it was a boiling mass of atomic particles and you have evolved through the eons to become a living, breathing, thinking, feeling, sentient energy-being who is seeking further evolution. What you say affects it, what you do affects it, everything you become affects it. You nurture the Earth and the Earth nurtures you and you have attained a certain sense of independence so you can use your freewill to choose to connect and overcome the challenge of feeling separate. If you then choose in your mind, in your body, in your energy-being, to live disconnected and oblivious to the interdependency of your own existence and that of all things around you, do you think this is a healthy situation? MPS: No, I do not. MJ: Do you think it furthers your energetic development? MPS: I imagine it is quite detrimental to it. MJ: Indeed. It would be as if the Earth itself was becoming sick, devolving rather than evolving. Now imagine that a huge sum of Earths energy has attained such a degree of liberation that they are considered individual energy beings to be born in human form and to be offered the challenge of evolution through spiritual connection but so many of these energy-beings have become stuck in trends of behavior shared on the internet, on TV, in all your media that supports and reinforces the proliferation of the same ignorance, the same sickness, the same obliviousness to their true nature. What would happen to Earth? MPS: I suppose it would become sick too, seeing as we are all connected to it.

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MJ: Correct. The Great Tribulation is the symptoms of Earths sickness and its effects are felt across the entire planet, in the minds that are connected to it, the bodies that live upon it, the energybeings who have taken up residence in its forms. The symptoms affect all things and all beings in its energy field because the energy is collective as well as an individual contribution. MPS: So, the sickness that you spoke of in Jesus time was just one aspect of The Great Tribulation. Were there extinctions at that time too? Wars? Natural disasters? MJ: Indeed. MPS: So, if John was writing about the times of Jesus was he also writing about the past as well as the future? MJ: Yes. There have been five great tribulations including the one at the time of Jesus. MPS: When were they? MJ: The dinosaurs reset was first. Atlantis was second. Jesus was third. And the fourth was a time that you would call the Middle Ages or Dark Ages. MPS: What about the fifth? MJ: I spoke to you of John writing prophetically of The Great Tribulation and I also said that he was describing a cyclic event. MPS: So, can we expect a fifth Great Tribulation to come again in the future? MJ: Indeed. MPS: Can you tell me when? MJ: It is happening now.
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MPS: Right now? MJ: Yes. MPS: When did it start? MJ: It started before the war that you would call World War One. MPS: Is it coincidence that it started at a time when the world was beginning to exhibit its most unattractive traits on a global scale? MJ: No, it is not coincidence at all. You said earlier that you felt humanity was dividing into two different species. These groups would be defined by their actions and beliefs, right? MPS: Yes, of course. MJ: So understand that the events, types of people and their actions in modern times are not just random. People are symptoms of the tribulation too. MPS: You mean that peoples characteristics and behaviors somehow reflect the process as well as feeding it in some way? MJ: Indeed. The rise in anger, fear, hatred and division between humanitys diverse groups is not just a coincidence; it is both a driving force and a symptomatic result of the energetic situation. The energy build up reaches a point where it is in free flow towards its inevitable conclusion. Do you not feel as if time is speeding up at this moment in history? MPS: I do, yes. Many of my friends say they have the same feeling. MJ: People who have lived their lives in ego or in spirit, ignorance or awareness are now finding it easier and easier to practice their ways because the well-oiled habits and behaviors have accelerated

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the energy flow and thus the movement towards The Great Tribulation gathers pace. It is as if time itself accelerates. MPS: You are saying that the acceleration of ecological destruction, social disintegration and polarization is actually a global process that the entire planet and everything on it is reflecting through the contribution of their actions and interactions? Its almost a subconscious thing? MJ: Exactly. Everything is connected and little is truly aware. The Great Tribulation is in full flow and has been for nearly 100 years. This brings me back to the unanswered question that I posed to you earlier, Michael. What do you think happens as the process accelerates and the tree of life on this planet is full of old branches that are failing to grow? MPS: ErrEarth prunes the tree? MJ: Correct. The Great Tribulation is both the polarization of energy into its two most basic forces as is happening in the polarization of people into spirituality and materialism and also the culmination of the necessary power for the Earth to reset itself, just as it did with the Dinosaurs, just as it did with Atlantis, just as it did at the time of Christ, just as it did in the Middle Ages, just as it is doing again now. The Earth is pruning the tree. You are experiencing an energy reset. MPS: So that new buds may grow. MJ: Indeed. There are always numerous replications of natures mechanisms if you look for them. This is not about humanity, as such. It is about those energy-beings who are intoxicated by their path, who can find no other way than the extreme of their ego and the energy of greed and selfishness. They are the architects of their own future as we all are. In a way, they have become tools of nature, reflecting and enacting the base traits that humanity is exercising as a single entity in order to hasten the process of

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energetic reset. The ongoing wars and ecological destruction are the physical symptoms of what these energy-beings have created and, ironically, are also the path towards a new future. MPS: I know what you mean, Master Jacob. There is so much evidence now emerging on Earth of secret institutions like the Illuminati, of world governments being planned, of nefarious schemes being enacted against the populace. I mean, there are conspiracy theories all over the place. Is this part of the shift too? MJ: Yes. The truth will come out. Those in darkness most fear the light. MPS: It seems that people are being treated like sheep in the system that a few greedy people are creating for themselves. There seems to be an appetite among the political establishment to maintain a continuous war, fear mongering, terrorism and the political hype of nuclear threat. Are these just more symptoms of the general malaise? MJ: Indeed, but do not be concerned with these things. Do not focus on what is wrong. Do not focus on who is right or wrong. Do not look for people to blame. Understand the energy that is created when you do this. These situations are reaching their natural end. Those who believe they are in control do not know just how adrift they are. The superficial reality they create for the public is meaningless. It is just an illusory canvas upon which they paint their desires. For all those who are angry about this I will be very clear: let it go. Be equanimous. Do not fight a war on a battlefield created by those who are best equipped for the battle. You cannot win on those terms. Fighting such a war is the way of the ego. You must be yin to their yang and use their energy against them for the power that they most fear is the power of light that illuminates the inner consciousness of every energy-being and from where freedom from all attachments to this world is possible. To conquer ideas and people on the outside merely enslaves you to the process of life and

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death because you will only address the problem in the physical realm. The only fight we all face is within our own self and our attachments. As the fighting continues on the outside, do not be drawn into wars you cannot win and fights that are not yours to fight. Be grounded. Be centered. Know your enemy and realize that they are your own demons. MPS: This is easy to say, Master Jacob, but many people are very angry at what they see as state and global manipulation. MJ: I understand this but what does anger do but fuel anger? Does it feel good to be angry? Does your body get healthy through anger or get sick? Can you become different than your enemy if you use exactly the same tools of emotion and violence and fear and threat but you do this to yourself? No, you become the very enemy you say you wish to defeat. You feed their energy by pushing against it and giving them the practice that makes them stronger. This is not awareness. Humanity has tried fighting fire with fire time and time again and it always loses more than it gains. To get different results you must try different things. Humanity must stop living with its head in the clouds, believing that you are fighting for land, truth, rights, freedom or God. All you fight for and against are illusions created for and by the ego. The time has long gone to fix what is wrong outside of you. It is time to focus on what you can personally change inside. Leave the rest to nature. You are not in control of anything except you and if you do not begin to live in the present and seek the truth inside, you will remain out of control in that realm too. It is vital that people cast off their ignorance of the most essential purpose of all beings, a purpose that can change everything here on Earth. MPS: What do you mean by that? I thought we had discussed the process of an energy-being seeking liberation from suffering. Isnt this our purpose?

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MJ: Yes, it is. We have spoken at some length as to how energybeings elevate their vibration but we have not spoken at any great length about the notion of soul, have we Michael? MPS: I assumed they were the same thing. MJ: They are not. MPS: OK, then please explain what soul is. MJ: Do you remember that we spoke earlier of The Promised Land.? MPS: I do. MJ: I told you that The Promised Land was like a reward. MPS: Right. In relationship to the Hebrews you said that it was not physical land at all. MJ: Indeed. That is because The Promised Land is soul. MPS: How can this be an award? Dont all people have a soul? MJ: No, they do not. MPS: ThenI dont really know how to phrase the questionerrwhat is soul and how do people go about earning it? MJ: A soul is a vessel for your energy-being. It supports a higher vibration than a human body can ordinarily contain. Only people who attain a certain vibration attain a soul. MPS: You mean that soul is like the reward for passing the energetic test that you spoke of earlier? MJ: Exactly. Energy-beings must earn their soul. They must work towards it by calming their vibration and dampening the great

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peaks and troughs caused by extremes of mood, idea or pleasure. The reward for people who develop sufficient awareness of their own self and their energy fluctuations is the promised land: the soul. This is where all energy-beings need to dwell in order to make that leap to the higher planes and ultimately to liberate themselves from the cycle of birth and death. It is like a staging post for all energy-beings. MPS: So this is why it is spoken of so frequently in The Bible, not as a place but as a minimum requirement for human evolution. MJ: Exactly. I have told you that books like The Bible were written to help humanity grasp the fundamentals of living: good health, good emotional stability, good farming practices and good family environments, this sort of thing. Well, the purpose of all these things was also to help energy-beings claim what is rightfully theirs: soul. The way of the equanimous is the way of earning your soul and nurturing it when you have attained it. MPS: Of course. The equanimous have learned to seek inwards and listen to their vibration, listen to their soul. But what of the idea of heaven and Gods judgment on the soul and such like? MJ: There is no judge of your actions other than cause and effect, Michael. It is a natural phenomenon and those people who become upset or frustrated through situations they ascribe to coincidence or bad luck must adjust their perception. There is no such thing as coincidence or bad luck in this universe. Billions on your planet profess to believe in God, a perfect creator being who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. How can they also believe in bad luck? You create your own reality and it is judged, if you will, by the natural mechanism of cause and effect. Those people you perceive to be bad are simply those that have not learned to create the right effects from the right causes. They are stuck in ignorance and they are here to learn as you are. They are

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like children in a new universe that they do not understand. How do you best deal with these misdemeanors of ignorance? Anger? Revenge? Hatred? Or compassion, education and understanding? MPS: Society doesn't generally go in for that wishy-washy stuff. Normally we just put people in prison, execute them or invade their country. MJ: Indeed. Ignorance fought with ignorance is not a recipe for a wise or compassionate state. But, please let me be clear on this: beings who have not yet attained the vehicle of soul are not bad, nor are they failing in any shape or form. We do not bring you this information simply so that humanity can find another cause to manufacture more prejudice. We tell you this as it is time for human beings to focus their efforts on creating environments where all energy-beings can earn their soul and elevate their vibration in order that their awareness expands, their values adapt, their attitudes adjust and the species as a whole can evolve away from the selfish me-centered ego-based society and into its hidden legacy: a home for the equanimous. MPS: So the idea that a person can sell their soul to the devil, is this kind of true? MJ: Well, the devil is a metaphor but both those who have attained a soul and those who have a right to earn one can act in such ways as to devolve their energy and this can damage the vehicle. MPS: So the soul can be damaged? MJ: You might be surprised to learn that it is perhaps harder to keep the soul in tact than to earn it. Too many people throughout history have earned their soul but shattered it due to their actions and then it can take many, many lifetimes to connect it back together again and evolve further.

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MPS: Give me an example of what you mean. MJ: Well, people get into a position where they lose touch with their own sense of harmony in the mind/body and energy-being connection. They become ungrounded, lose their equanimity and ego begins to seek control, not real-time awareness. Actions that have the intention of greed, selfishness, self-aggrandizement, envy, all such motivations are based on future desire to attain without awareness or care of effects. Thus, they not only create invisible effects that are the karma of an energy-being, they simultaneously lower their energetic vibration and attract more and more powerful lessons towards them. MPS: Could you give me some historical examples? MJ: Hitler and Stalin are good examples. They are both energybeings who evolved to a certain vibration to attain soul in one life and then devolved through gross extremity in the next. After his life as Stalin, the energy-being who lived that life was next born a snake in order to learn what it is like to crawl. Many will look at this and see revenge or Gods judgment, but no. This is merely cause and effect. Being a human is a great achievement but it is fraught with opportunities to become ignorant, devolve your energy, even shatter a soul that has already been earned, and be born again as an animal where simple lessons are learned slowly. MPS: So many people are being born in and out of human form, missing the chance to earn their soul and evolve? MJ: Yes. Many indeed. Look at your own life today and see what you are creating for the current reality and the next. Everything you invest in your life, you get back. It is an absolutely efficient return on your investment, dont worry about that. This is why equanimity is so important for constant expansion of energy for, in equanimity, you are aware and conscious of the affect of your thoughts, words and actions on your own being and other beings
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around you, thus you act accordingly. If the energy-being acts without awareness and creates more and more suffering, this can cause the energetic vibration of that being to dip so low that the soul can no longer contain the energy, effectively shattering it. Many, many life times can be spent healing this, as will be the case of the beings we just mentioned. The only place you can do anything about this life, the next, past lives or any time or place is in the present moment and the only action that will create the seeds of liberation from all lives is awareness, equanimity and the cultivation of connectivity between all beings and all life. MPS: So the seven deadly sins are kind of deadly after all. MJ: Well, not deadly, but any action taken in selfishness lowers vibration and causes more and more energy-beings to cling to the cycle of samsara. It is an infective motivation, thats all that matters energetically. MPS: You have said that past energetic resets were marked by disease, war, natural disasters and such like, but you have also said that the reset is discriminatory, affecting those beings who have chosen to remain ignorant and unevolved. How can such vast and seemingly indiscriminate acts such as war or disease actually be a form of selective evolution? MJ: Let me reiterate a point I made earlier, Michael. There are no coincidences, nothing is indiscriminate, there is nothing left to chance. The nature of the universe is such that it can manage to tie together every connected thread however intricate or improbable it may seem to the human mind. Having said this, one event does not imply that everyone affected by that event is affected for the same reason. Ten people who die in the same event may have ten different reasons for dying. MPS: I see, but I still find it hard to think outside the concept of human justice and injustice. I know we have discussed this but I think a lot of people will have a problem understanding the reset process when, for
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example, we look at the reset in the middle ages and see how 30-40% of the worlds population died from Bubonic Plague? How can that be discriminate? MJ: All disease is discriminate because its roots come from inside the person, not outside. People create the capacity for disease through how they live, what they think, whether they exist in awareness or ignorance. Running five kilometers a day does not keep a person well if they are hateful, vengeful and ignorant all the time. The mind, body and spirit must be in balance. MPS: Right. There is lots of empirical evidence to suggest that just thinking happy thoughts and being positive raises the ability of the body to fight disease for example. Is this what you mean? MJ: Indeed. Being mentally sound is an important aspect of human wellbeing. MPS: I see, and sorry to belabor the point, but war is another example that I find hard to explain. In the Battle of Stalingrad during World War Two, over a million people were said to have died during a period of less than six months of fighting for the city. How can it be that a million people are simultaneously all in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the right time, depending on how you look at it? MJ: I cannot give you a formula for why it is true, Michael. There is no mathematical rule that would make it comprehensible to you. It is just the way the universe works. People take responsibility for the events they have created. MPS: OK, but what about freewill? MJ: What about it? Dont people have to choose ignorance over awareness? MPS: Well, yes.

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MJ: Dont people have freewill to choose their life before they are born? MPS: In their contracts you mean? MJ: Indeed. So, some people will have chosen their death before they were born while they were negotiating their contract. This is freewill too. They have chosen to be at the exact point of their death and they are attracted towards it by conditions that they put in place themselves. Some will have hastened their departure because they have been unable to adapt according to their contract. There are so many reasons, we could go on endlessly, but the one condition that ties them all together is that the time and place of a persons death is absolutely the right time and right place. MPS: But arent we all free to choose anything we want? MJ: Yes, you are indeed but everyone must die somehow. Few people choose to be aware of their own actions, choosing instead to react with the old patterns. And if you are simply repeating old patterns, this is not really freewill at all, is it? It is like being a robot. Rarely do people choose freedom or choose to be individualistic or to fly while others trudge through the mud. The choice is yours but so many choose not to evolve, not to grow, not to suffer the process of change but suffer the misery of stagnancy and decay. This truly characterizes the energy reset; the experience of decay that starts from within an energy-being and spreads out to affect history. MPS: So the current future is not fixed for people now? The energy reset is also a choice? MJ: Yes. You have freewill. Choose awareness. Choose equanimity. Choose to come alive and to wake up and you will be choosing to feel life for the first time. But do not delay. Make your choice now. MPS: But the process of the reset is inevitable?

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MJ: The process, yes, but each individuals place in that process, no. This book and others that will be written will help people to understand their place in the universe and choose, through awareness, to change their habits and beliefs about their purpose in life. This changes their energetic vibration so that they can rise above the reset and be a part of a different future of humanity and planet Earth. This is the purpose of this work and others. It is not about telling people that this will happen or that will happen in the future but asking you all to take responsibility for your own energetic process now, so that you might learn the power of being grounded and present and realize that what happens in the future is just a movie playing out and the actors in the movie are just actors. By practicing being equanimous you can observe the movie, not become one of the actors yourself because, like all bit-part actors in action movies, they are expendable, whereas the audience doesn't get hurt. MPS: What will the future of Earth be like after this reset, Master Jacob? What do you see? MJ: We see a Golden Age, Michael. It will be a time when the energy of creativity and natural respect emerge just as they did in Atlantis but this time the balance between mind, body and energybeing will be more stable and people will find it easier to reconnect to their higher self. Institutions will arise that enable people freedom to express themselves in this way. They will be cooperative and not competitive. Human society will evolve to the point where it is able to support individual choices to learn and grow in individual ways, all connected to the benefit of the entire group. This is very much as it was in the early days of Atlantis too. It is very much the way it is in the energy plane. Earth can mirror this. The whole planet can be a school for energy-beings in physical forms. MPS: This is a grand vision.

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MJ: Indeed. People must choose to have faith in this future today and work on their energy now so that they can play their part in it after the reset is complete. You must each ask yourself in your heart, do you want to be a part of a world where sharing, cooperation and creative spirit have evolved and greed, violence and egotistical impulses have fallen away? If you do, then play your part today by sharing, cooperating and nurturing the creative spirit that arises by calming your own mind, body and energy system to entrain with the vibration of the planet. MPS: How can you be sure of this Golden Age? MJ: I have told you that the great ability of energy-beings is to feel the future vibrations. The reset is not a negative event, Michael. As in the time of Jesus, it augured great opportunities for people to evolve quickly. The time is once again coming when great teachers will be born on this Earth. They are coming to ensure that the Golden Age begins in a way that will encourage the future elevation of energetic vibration for all beings. The Seven will work with humanity to make sure this occurs. MPS: You are sending new teachers? MJ: Not sending, it is their time. They arrive like fruit grows on a tree. Remember Michael, this Earth does not belong to humanity. Humanity is but its child. You have grown up to become independent but the independence you have attained does not allow you to possess your mother as if she was an object. The Earth too is an interconnected energy-being of the universe upon which so many beings are manifested simply because it is their time to be incarnate, to learn, to grow, to evolve and in doing so help others around them evolve. Earth belongs to energy. Earth is energy. Humanity must evolve to embrace that concept and become one with their energetic nature. This is what the teachers will help humanity to do.

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MPS: How many teachers can we expect? MJ: There will be seven. MPS: Kind of a magic number. MJ: No, not magic. It is just what is needed. MPS: When will they come? MJ: Soon. MPS: When exactly? MJ: When they are inevitable.

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Part 2 : The Way of the Equanimous

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright (1856 - 1950)

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Introduction The Four Lessons of History

While the revelations in Part One are astonishing, being astonished does not change anything other than your mood. Equanimous is not about the glamorous shock and awe of revealing who you are and where you came from but about spiritual graft and putting in the hard yards. It is about taking action now that differentiates you from who you were when you started reading this book. If you just go about life from today with no other reaction than a head stuffed full of different information to tell your friends about then this book has not worked for you. It is great to learn new stuff but Equanimous is not about raw learning: it is about doing something different in your life. You are an energy-being, not a human being. You just happen to be in a human body, a body that is perfectly constructed for the purpose of energetic growth. But lets face facts: if all you have learned in your life thus far is how to survive it in the most comfortable way you can, then you are a stranger in your own skin. You are oblivious to your true purpose or potential. Like having lost the manual to a glamorous new technological gadget, you have been born into a body capable of the most amazing feats of evolution and yet youre not too sure where the grow button is! But now, here you are, an energy-being facing a future where the pursuit of a higher vibration is your only way out of the physical cycle you have been born into. Whats your next move? Think of your dilemma like this: in one physical body or another, as fish, trees, antelope, human or mongoose, for as many lives and centuries that it took you to get from your first incarnation to this page in this book, (which may have been millions or billions of years, by the way) you have been seeking the

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answers you have just read in Part One of Equanimous, not for the bragging rights of simply knowing the truth, but to remind you of the contract you made as an energy-being in this life and have been making for countless other lives. This is the life in which you will truly honor that contract because it is more than likely that until this point in all your incarnations, you have been unaware of your lifes purpose. Now you are aware. Therefore, please do not waste this opportunity to realize how blessed you are to be here, alive and empowered to create enlightenment in this lifetime. Do not put this book down and entertain any more doubt that your next move will determine the rest of your life. It will. So what are you waiting for? Do something. Not sure just how blessed you really are? Lets clear that up. In Buddhism they compare the blessing of a human life to a wooden hoop bobbing in the middle of a vast ocean the size of the universe. The frequency with which an energy-being attains a human existence (the most cherished of all existences because of its enormous potential) as opposed to that of other flora or fauna, is akin to the frequency with which a blind turtle would surface for air in the middle of that hoop. In other words: bloody rare! Every tree, every flower, every insect and every fish on Earth has an energy-being within it, so thats trillions upon trillions of potential bodies for you to be born into and yet, here you are, human, alive, looking your life purpose straight in the eye and youve found a one in seven billion body to be born into at almost impossible odds in order to get the job done. Start recognizing just how precious human life really is. What is even more precious is that someone would conveniently write your purpose in a nice little paperback book alerting you to your lifes direction and how to achieve it. You cant get luckier than that! If you believe in fate then youd better start believing that this is the life where you got lucky. Live differently. Make a difference. Evolve. The other aspect to this, dear friends, is that you could be dead in five minutes. Sounds morbid? Forget that. Embracing the

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inevitability of your own physical death is just one highly important aspect of letting go and being present. Anyone of us can fall over stone cold dead or get hit by a bus in the next second. Unless you are entirely familiar with death and with dying and totally embrace it, you are clinging on to a sense of permanence that fuels the illusion of selfhood. Start practicing from this second and use whatever time you have left for your personal growth. If you become a master at it in your remaining minutes, hours, months of years of life, so you will know how to die peacefully and without struggle for you will know it is just the final attachment of the ego to let go of the physical body it calls me and mine. Or would you prefer to go in fear and trepidation? The choice is yours. Over the last million years or so humanity has evolved from apes into humans and from Atlanteans to modern humans. It is now time for our next stage of evolution: from human beings into energy-beings truly conscious of our heritage. Animals will simply evolve or die out because they were unable to evolve. However, humanity has both a copious ability to suppress the normal pressures of nature by hiding behind a technological barrier and an ego large enough to actually believe that it is in our best interests to do so. The combined effect of this has dragged humanity's evolution to a standstill. As we weather the incredible pressures of nature demanding that we change, our egos refuse to see the signs, our bodies refuse to budge and our energy refuses to expand. Welcome to the triggers of the current energetic reset. During the energetic resets of Atlantis, Jesus and the Middle Ages, people were at an enormous disadvantage to us: they didnt have Master Jacob and the information he has given us in this book. Our advantage is stark. Master Jacob has spelled out the energetic lessons that we each need to learn before evolution can take place in our mind, body and energy systems. We couldnt ask for a greater head start than that. Our challenge now is to learn from history, understand the traits of humanity that have become

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hindrances and then commit our energy to practices that evolve us beyond these barriers to meet the challenge of change. So, in a nutshell, what are the lessons of history that Master Jacob has taught us? 1. EGO: Disconnection from the present causes people to disconnect from their higher self, connect to the physical self and begin living in the future and the past: We begin to lose sight of the present moment and our energetic purpose by focusing on life as a uniquely physical problem. This creates imbalance between mind, body and energy-being. ATTACHMENT: As the physical imbalance is fed by desires, people become greedy and hoard things of perceived physical value: Scarcity creates distrust and disrespect between people. As selfish interest overtakes community needs, disconnection accelerates and collective community vibrations begin to falter, further accelerating the process of individual disconnection. ADDICTION: Our minds become trained to seek constant physical satisfaction, this is passed on through our culture and social mores and we collectively become embroiled in a spiraling cycle of desire and aversion: Restlessness and clinging becomes the accepted nature of mind rather than a symptom of its problems and thus we obscure the true roots of our own suffering (the mind imbalance) professing that it is somehow the cure for it. STAGNATION: As the above three conditions are repeated over long periods, evolution in the energy-being slows while the conditions for energetic reset accelerate: It also extends the period of connection of an energy-being to the physical realm as our attachments grow and cause a continuous

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cycle of birth, death and rebirth until we learn our lesson. This increases human population, places further burden on the ecology of the planet and expands the need for accelerated energetic reset. This pattern was evident in Atlantis during the second reset and no less characterizes the present one. The rise of ego, attachment and addictive behaviors that support and replicate it are the culmination of 20,000 years of human history that modern people falsely claim to be progress. In this period we have evolved from hunters and gatherers into urban dwellers but as human technology has advanced and the belief in our unalienable right to govern this planet has intensified, the human energetic vibration has not evolved at the same rate. If it had, we would be doing more evolved things. We would not be selfish. We would not be greedy. We would not wage war. For many, unconscionable behavior still makes economic sense and while these perverse values find the fuel of rationalization in our minds, perverse behavior will endure and appear justifiable to our minds when it is effectively suicide to our energy-being. There is a correlation between the capacity of the human intellect to justify nuclear weapons, wanton consumerism and ecological degradation and the incapacity of our energetic vibration to perceive the illusion that supports it. Raise our vibration and the justifications disappear because the illusions disappear too. In Part One we learned the lesson that evolution is a process involving mind, body and energy systems. In effect, human consciousness must adapt if evolution is to happen. In this second part of Equanimous, our task is to create a practical foundation by which we can begin to nurture our personal energy toward this end. There is no longer time to await leaders to change things, prophets to raise consciousness or for the systems of this planet to spontaneously adapt themselves. Each of us conscious enough to realize the vital role we can play in the energetic growth of all people must embrace our personal responsibility to participate in

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locally available, convenient and functional groups that can help people to explore their energetic evolution. Part 2 will help us to build these groups together. Our children await the creative space into which our species can evolve. There are many being born on Earth right now who are ready and prepared to take up the mantle of leadership that will propel humanity towards an energetic Golden Age where higher purpose and higher ideals evolve out of selfish interest and greed. First, the adults who are in possession of all the power and so little of the will to exercise it must transform their lethargy into a realization that the only power they need comes from within their selves. We have dallied with the excesses of ego as the way forward. We have built civilizations based on scarcity and need. We have educated our progeny to conform and not encouraged them to explore the enormous potential of everything beyond the status quo. Through the energetic reset, Earth is taking off the gloves and it is time for conscious people to do the same. We must not await circumstances to force change. We can reset ourselves, reset our lethargy, reset our full diaries, reset our faithless attitudes and come out fighting for an environment that begins in the mind, extends out to our families, includes our communities and interconnects nation upon nation. Now is the time for each of us to wrench back the responsibility for this process that we have placed in the hands of governments and other external bodies and begin to do what we must all dare to do alone: evolve.

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Chapter 9 Share Circles

How do we create a sea change in the direction of our species within the framework of our current lives? The perfect conditions are not suddenly going to crop up, thats for sure. The global economy is not going to spontaneously convert into a utopia where work is an optional pastime and the basic necessities of food, water and shelter miraculously appear on our dining tables without our having to dedicate a sizable portion of our lives to creating them. It is somewhat ironic that we once spent so much time hunting and gathering to stay alive but in the modern world we hunt and gather for someone else so that they might feed, clothe and pay for our shelter in return. Trs bizarre! Your personal evolution will stall unless you start doing something different. A good start is simply accepting that the prevailing westernized approach to happiness is founded upon a flawed premise. Happiness cannot be bought. Being a good consumer does not create a better life nor a well planet. Also, contrary to popular belief, spiritual or communal development and economic prosperity do not need to be mutually exclusive. Focusing on one to the exclusion of the other is an example of the thinking that so characterizes modern western culture: If I am right, you must be wrong. What a recipe for conflict and mutual destruction we have created. Through its every pore nature screams the pragmatism of developing a symbiotic relationship between human purposes and natural processes but we do not listen. It is time we did. Evolving human behaviors must reflect natural means in order that our lives beat in rhythm with the patterns of the natural world. If they dont, we will not make it. Of course, there are so many reasons not to change. Peer pressure, doubt, fear, lack of motivation, the dog ate my homework;

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a long list of humanitys best excuses for doing nothing is testimony to our skill at avoiding what is absolutely necessary but there are also so many positive reasons to get motivated if we really put our minds to it. After all, the world is changing whether you like it or not. The energy of the entire planet is shifting in a natural process and your natural role is to shift and become one with it. Of course, it is your choice but your motivation should not be fear that you will be left behind but the prospect of raising your own vibration to the point where clarity is attained and fear is no longer given space to breathe. It does not take a motion in Congress to create this change, nor do you need to Google it just to check that its real. You just have to make your mind up that the way things are in your life today are fear-based, guilt-based, desire-based, selfbased or whatever and that these conditions are not conducive to your personal liberation from suffering. Thats enough. Start the process of self-awareness by asking what is causing any suffering you feel today and work the rest out as you go along. Google can wait. Your life cannot. As the global energetic reset progresses over the coming decades, it augurs a highly spiritual period when you will be able to make great progress in your personal practice but you have to learn how to be centered and grounded to make the most of it. You cannot do this if you are afraid of what the future bodes or tremble in doubt over the path you have chosen. There is a major difference between being motivated by the fear of failure or the prospect of success. One is an ego-based motivation of avoidance and one is the spirit-based motivation of achievement. It is not surprising that while the former has shaped the old world, the latter will play its part in creating the Golden Age. Clearly, to create a new age, you need to practice new ways of doing things founded upon an entirely new vibrational motivation. To change your life you must actually change something you think, say and do in your life. This may sound a little obvious but I state it quite simply because I have met so many people who want

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to change everything that they feel without personally changing anything that they do. They want a magic pill that will make everything better, but there isnt one. The primary source of power to evoke change through the individual is not to be found in our cries for a better world: the economic, political or social institutions that shape daily life, but is exercised by evolving our personal lives within the context of these institutions. By doing so, we change everything that would normally gives them oxygen to breathe, survive and endure. As soon as we find good reasons within ourselves for the institutions we have built from yesterday's ideas to become redundant, they will naturally die away and new institutions can arise to take their place. This is profound transformation in and of itself, without violence and built upon self-love, but the effect on the practical way that you live need not be as dramatic as the effects your transformation will have on the world around you. To affect real change you do not have to become a monk, a nun or an ascetic eating only lentils and bean sprouts, not that theres anything wrong with that either. You simply focus on what will make you genuinely happy, leave behind a little of the superficial happiness that you have been relying upon to fill the void of yearning within your heart and adopt a few simple practices and habits that, in just a few minutes, can fill your life with an energy that is transformational in scope but leaves the structure of your life relatively in tact. Transformation in these terms is not about dramatic or extreme change but efficient change through small adjustments that profoundly impact on your consciousness. At present you may not understand the extraordinary power that would be unleashed if everyone in the world simply dedicated 0.5% of their life to the exploration and growth of their own energy. Thats 7.2 minutes per person per day, folks! Collectively it would be like, each day, creating an 89,000 year old spiritual being who has contributed their entire life to developing the human energy field. How many of those would we need to create to change everything?

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Chaos determines that the smallest of changes can collectively create a huge impact on the overall energetic integrity of the Earth. You personally contribute to this effect by creating a finer balance in your own life; developing a harmony between what you already have and what you actually need. If your life is sick, you need the awareness to know what is sick, the motivation to change it and the wisdom to change only what is necessary to create the genuine happiness you deserve. If the sea has a few drops of poison in it, you dont have to empty the entire sea and start again, do you? Likewise, you dont have to discard the entire structure of your life and start again just because of an ailment or two. Just bring to your life the ingredients that cure what is sick. To create a life recipe for contentment you must live in ways that create contentment. Once again, this may sound a little obvious but it does not seem in any way apparent to the seven billion of us who support the current set of values by which we seek it. Our values are all out of whack. We have collectively strayed just a little too far into the dont need category while relegating many of the must haves values into the nice to have group. By mentioning values I dont mean we should resuscitate draconian morality or yield to the conservative politician's rallying cry of back to basics! but for all of us to reacquaint ourselves with the innate needs of a human being, to institute in our own lives values common to all nature and to live them through our words and actions. We may pay homage in our cathedrals, pray in our mosques, congregate in our synagogues, prostrate ourselves in our temples or meditate in our ashrams, but if we do not take back into our homes the universal values of peace, love and connectivity that we cultivate in those special places, then our practice is useless. Actually, it is worse than useless because we draw false comfort from the erroneous belief that our best contribution to the collective energetic vibration of humanity is to be nothing more than participants in holy rituals when it is vital that we actually become

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willing practitioners of habits and behaviors that cultivate connectivity between diverse peoples and cultures, not conflict. It is no longer good enough to read love thy neighbor time and time again without actually loving thy neighbor. It is no longer worthy of God to scream God is Great and not to cultivate greatness from within. It is no longer wise to chant Om Mani Padme Hum without living every day as The Buddha lived. The old ways of practicing, holy, sacrosanct, hallowed, sacred or otherwise, have produced a global population of tens of thousands of individually separate religious orders that have collectively failed to translate into a social environment supporting human evolution. It is time for each of us to change that by changing our self. Translating your heart-felt beliefs into a functional heart-based society, founded upon a heart-based family is the true fountain from which springs all social cohesion. We will not create peace or contentment building things, earning things or becoming things for the purpose of more comfortable physical surroundings but by developing the means by which a citizen can contribute meaningfully towards a healthy society while simultaneously contributing meaningfully towards their own energetic health. The greatest contribution any being can make to any society is to be well mentally, physically and energetically for your own wellbeing naturally offers a positive contribution to everything and everyone that exists connected to it. So, how do we blend our hectic patterns of life with a regular practice that promotes transcendence of those patterns and the emergence of strong personal growth? My contribution to this purpose is Share Circles: small neighborhood groups organized locally and comprised of friends and acquaintances who have chosen to commit a little of their time to the process of their personal evolution. Share Circles are so-called because their purpose is for all members of the group to freely share among each other in three distinct areas that contribute to the wholesale energetic growth of the group. They are intended to be a

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free, local, regular and hassle-free framework for ordinary people to incorporate simple energetic practice painlessly into their busy lives. Quite literally you can start a Share Circle in your kitchen, on your front lawn, in your loft or anywhere else where there is enough space for a small group of people to sit down together and share thoughts, a meal, ideas, a meditation, spiritual advice and suggestions. Due to their casual, convenient and excuse-proof design, there is no reason why you cannot create a Share Circle in any neighborhood on Earth and, if there isnt already one near you, there is no excuse not to create one yourself. Lets answer some questions of what Share Circles are all about and how to set one up. Share Circle FAQs How do I set up a Share Circle? You create a Share Circle simply by calling a few friends and telling them thats exactly what youre doing. Agree when and where youll meet and your Share Circle can then get together to share life experience, advice and awareness practices on a loose, flexible schedule that suits the needs of your group. Due to the fact that you dont need to hire a space, room or a hall, your highest cost may be a tea bag or two. You dont need a leader or committee to start one either, just a few people who want to work on their lives and make improvements. Perhaps you can rotate the location of the meets among the members each week in order to share the organizational workload too. Its up to you. What do you Share in a Share Circle? You start with The Three Shares included a little later in this book. They are important only to connect groups together in purpose and maintain a healthy level of trust

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and respect between members. Dont take them too seriously. They are not doctrine, just guidelines! The practices and methods that evolve in each group are entirely up to your group and your needs. There are no obligatory routines or practices that you must adhere to within that loose structure. As you begin to share, your Share Circle will evolve too and you can change and adapt your routines in order to keep the meetings fresh and motivating. How Should a Meeting be Structured? Its totally up to you. One group may eat together once a week before having a guided meditation, then the next week come together to share thoughts of how they applied what they learned in the previous meeting. Another group may choose to meet twice a week, cooking for one another or bringing along some food to share before practicing tai chi or reading from one of the members favorite and most inspiring books before a short yoga routine. Another group may just wish to meet every day for a half hour meditation and nothing else. It is really up to you. The point is for you to develop your Share Circle around The Three Shares but with a loose structure that suits your individual needs. The form and structure of group sessions can be as light or intense as the individuals need it to be. It is your process. What if youve never practiced anything like this before? Where do you begin? Dont be overawed if you have never meditated or conducted any form of spiritual practice before. There will be hundreds of people in your communities who feel the same way but need the same thing. It is the easiest way out to simply say I dont know how to start, so therefore I wont. There are several practices in this book that you can

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practice alone first and become familiar with before practicing with other people in your Share Circle. There is also a free download at the Provolution Center website that is all about learning practical meditation and, if that isnt enough, the web is absolutely chock-a-block with practices. Just Google Free meditation and find out. Any other Resources we can Tap into? A key dimension to Share Circles is our online community at www.provolutioncenter.com. Its purpose is for all people to read about the variety of groups that have evolved, their diverse approaches and their unique techniques. Both practitioner and curious web surfer alike can tap into as much information as they need about setting up a Share Circle in their community through models, practices, FAQs, discussion threads and online queries that have been posted by participants. New or current groups can replicate successful models that have been posted there or copy particular meditation or awareness practices that have worked well in other groups. The idea is to build an open forum of Share Circles across the world that compliment, share and work together towards evolving better ways in which to make these groups more effective and more accessible to everyone in their communities. It may also be that you already have something set up like a Share Circle now. So, lets not worry about names. Lets get together and bring all of these groups under one umbrella, which creates a powerful movement for mutual evolution. As long as your purpose is more or less the same, lets share ideas and practice among us all so that we can all benefit from your experience and techniques. Is there a Share Circle club or membership needed?

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They are not clubs, nor do they require membership, nor should anyone charge for setting one up or running one. They are simple gatherings of like-minded people who have come to realize that evolving alone is more difficult than in groups. Plus, groups are more fun! And thats a key point: Share Circles are set up to make evolution fun. Have fun sharing. Its possible you know. There is no reason why Share Circles should not be instituted in all countries on Earth, in every town and in every village, as their flexibility and inclusivity allows for any religious denomination, any creed and any race to practice in ways that are familiar to them. The Share Circle model contained in this book is not supposed to be the finished article. Like all models it too must evolve and grow according to the needs of people who will, hopefully, also be evolving. The structure should merely be a platform from which people can build a support network for their personal evolution, whichever cultural background they may hail from. Share Circles are intended to be a diverse and bountiful local resource available like a spiritual convenience store on every street and in the living rooms of ordinary people who have simply realized that they are powerful enough to evolve without anyone telling them exactly what to do, where to go or how to do it. It is an empowering social phenomenon to integrate your energetic practice by meeting like-minded people and sharing ideas that connect people together and raise the collective energetic vibration of the group. There is no excuse not to. There are so many reasons why you should. *****

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Chapter 10 Organizing Share Circles

In this section we will look at the basic structures of Share Circles by discussing the Three Shares and what they imply. It is germane to point out here that the descriptions I have used for some of the information in this section are quite brief as deeper descriptions are outlined in more detail in my first book Provolution: A Guide to Changing the World Through Personal Evolution.

The Three Shares

The Three Shares are intended to guide people as they start out building their groups. Their purpose is not to create clubs or exclusive sets of rules that people have to obey, but simply to ensure that participants are starting out on the same page and are aligned in purpose in what they are doing. They are as follows: 1) Shared Purpose 2) Shared Values 2a) Equanimity 2b) Awareness 2c) Connectivity 2d) Perseverance 3) Shared Responsibilities 3a) Practice 3b) Feedback Lets look at each of these in more detail.

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SHARE ONE: Shared Purpose

The shared purpose of a Share Circle is simple: Enlightenment. There is a saying that if you shoot for the moon you may hit the stars. I do not believe in setting eminently attainable goals but to aim for what we most need in life and then work to dispel the doubts that place the goal beyond the limits of imagination. A mind consumed by doubt also dines heartily on destroying its own potential for growth so, for enlightenment to be natural and therefore attainable, you must prepare a mind whose bounds are as near to infinite as the possibilities present in nature. Do not tell me that enlightenment is impractical. It is the only practical objective for beings stuck in a cycle of rebirth. Do not tell me it is impossible. It has already been achieved and not just in the spectacular way by such luminaries as Siddhartha Buddha or Jesus, but millions of times and in a multitude of ways by ordinary energy-beings, not unlike you and me! Enlightenment is our natural birthright. It is the purpose of all life on Earth. But to see it, you must first believe it. The average western life reminds me a little bit of the 1976 movie Logans Run in which the inhabitants live in a postapocalyptic dome. At the age of thirty, they must all undergo a rite of passage that, they have been told, offers them a kind of liberation from the dome. However, the real purpose of this ritual is a slaughter that annually thins the population of the overcrowded dome. The same mass deception has occurred in humanity. We have forgotten the authentic rites of passage that used to connect us with a path of liberation and awareness and have adopted fraudulent artificial purposes that appear to offer us liberation but actually cast us further into the clutches of the deception. We willingly participate in the ritual of attaining possessions, social status and wealth in faith that these things can somehow offer us liberation from the routines of life but these objectives only shroud

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our true energetic purpose in a political, economic and social status quo that fuels our suffering rather than tempering it. Challenging ignorance is the only way to generate light in our lives but there is a huge hurdle of faith we all need to leap if our objective in life is to be enlightenment, not ignorance. Being logical people, we assume that our belief in what is real and what is unreal is based upon empirical evidence and that faith is superfluous to the process. But is this really the case? There cannot be any greater faith exercised by humanity than that placed in the technologies, economics, politics and social structures that govern us because we believe that these things will create contentment and satisfaction in our lives when their most striking tangible effects are the ruination of our planet and its species. Yet, still we place such unbending faith in the potential of these systems that we dedicate our lives towards playing the game of winners and losers economically, politically and socially. How can we possess such unshakable faith in processes with such awful tangible results and still hold to the notion that faith itself is anathema to the rational mind? The truth is that faith is vital in the process of all change for none of us can know the future or predict with absolute certainly the results of our current choices. However, we can all analyze the process of life in which we currently invest our freewill and understand whether this faith is placed in tangibly positive or tangibly negative results. For example, if your life is ultimately a search for contentment, understanding how suffering is caused is a vital step in becoming content. As you buy that new car, TV or computer in the hope of experiencing the pleasure that dulls the throb of mundanity for a few hours, do you realize that the feeling you are seeking is temporary? Seeking temporary solutions to permanent problems is the cause of all suffering. Eventually the sparkle of expectation and excitement wanes and the target of your desire must shift if you want to sustain the feeling. So, next you want a new job. You get the new job but the new job eventually loses its luster and becomes mundane once more. So you head off

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on the holiday that will make everything better again, but even on holiday the strawberry daiquiris and poolside lazing eventually becomes a bore and sooner or later you are happy to get back to work. What is going on in this process? It is a cycle of suffering, created by our faith that pleasure is the antidote to boredom and pain. It is not. Liberation from suffering is a process of stilling the mind, not stoking the flames that animate it in search of the perpetual experiential high. The very nature of mind, indeed, the nature of everything natural, is temporary. It is impossible to continually feed the mind with pleasurable experiences and to aim your every choice in the pursuit of it is not a profound occupation. It is ignorance, which creates suffering and through this suffering life is screaming at you that your existing solution is, in fact, the very cause of your problem. You must place your faith in different solutions if you want different results and that means cracking open the illusion of your life and reinvesting your energy in a practice that actually works. Investing your future in enlightenment is not such a heady goal as it first seems. What does enlightenment mean to you anyway? It sounds pretty imposing, doesnt it? In his 1784 essay Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment, the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, encapsulated the basic spirit of the word in one sentence: Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. And with this he summarized humanitys greatest challenge, not to become the perfect being but to realize the state of our current being and to use it to expand the light already within us. The first of these realizations is the acceptance that we are all slumbering like babies through an immature perception of where we are from, where we are going and how on Earth we are supposed to get there. Although enlightenment is connected most closely with Buddhism and the state that The Buddha achieved in his lifetime, this interpretation doesnt do you and I much good, does it? Buddhas immeasurable purity doesnt seem an entirely practical

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objective to the average beer-drinking, coffee-swilling, steak-loving Joe who has the greatest difficulty giving up nail biting, let alone our addiction to physical rebirth. We need to understand that enlightenment is neither an exclusively religious concept, nor the exclusive purpose of the holy or spiritually inclined. We must bring the very idea of enlightenment down from its pious perch if we are to embrace its fullest meaning. As Kant so rightly puts it, enlightenment begins within the essential necessity of all human beings to grow up and become aware of our true nature. You do not need to become Gandhi to do this. To start, all you need to do is to accept that your energetic nature is an important factor in your ability to feel good about yourself. Not so difficult, perhaps? Grab a coffee and sit down next to me. You are indeed enlightened. Enlightenment is not a fixed point on a spiritual map but a progressive process of raising your energetic vibration. There were times in the course of my discussions with Master Jacob that he told me I had become enlightened and he used this expression to demonstrate to me what I am now able to tell you. Enlightenment is degrees of awareness or insight into the true nature of things. But, in fact, the vast majority of these things dont matter a jot. It doesn't matter a single iota whether you know that the universe is breathing or Atlantis existed or Buddha was earthly energy, because they will not help you attain total liberation from Samsara. But they are enlightening all the same. There is a great story that exemplifies this point in Buddhist scriptures. After picking up a handful of leaves from the forest floor The Buddha asked his monks whether there were more leaves in his hand or more in the forest. Of course the monks replied that there were more in the forest. The Buddha replied that in his enlightenment he had realized as many things as there were leaves in the forest but only a handful of them were necessary to teach and practice for the process of enlightenment. In a sense, you cannot become enlightened. There are just different aspects of it. We are all enlightened, to some degree or another. A good analogy is of a dimmer switch connected to a light

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in a pitch-black room. As you slowly turn up the power, the room is gradually illuminated, awareness of its contents increases and you become more and more connected with everything in the room. Those objects in the room were always there, they just werent revealed to you and thus it seemed logical to deny their existence. Enlightenment occurs as you expand your self-awareness and become more and more connected to the present moment and your constantly evolving self. This expands the light and connects you to all the hidden things about you that were always there. It does not just define the state of Buddhahood. Indeed, in a very real sense you can be said to have achieved a degree of enlightenment simply by accepting that enlightenment is a possibility for you in this lifetime. Just by opening your mind to this potentiality, enlightenment expands, doubt contracts and the path to your liberation from suffering becomes just a little more probable. Many people will have achieved a high degree of enlightenment without even knowing it. They will have committed to living life worry-free, present and grounded in the moment but will not have done a days formal meditation in their life. This is why we must be so careful to remain inclusive in how we organize Share Circles to help facilitate this process. Everyone from lawyers to criminals, drug addicts to doctors, laborers to lab technicians, have the seed of enlightenment within them and it will have been nurtured by the awareness they have generated in their lives thus far. This process can be accelerated by any equanimous technique, whether a formal meditation practice or some wonderfully mundane task such as washing up. Any action carried out with awareness is liberating. There are as many paths towards liberation as there are beings on the path. Sharing the purpose of enlightenment is important in a Share Circle and I want to reiterate that enlightenment is not some distant, outlandish, cultish holy grail, but a task that seven billion people and counting have been delaying while we wait for perfect conditions to occur. They will not. Today is as good a day as any to

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start. In fact, it is the only day we can start. We must each create our own conditions and commit our energy to a higher purpose than survival. As Master Jacob keeps reminding me, we would not be here unless we could get out. One life is enough for anyone to achieve the goal. We first have to set it. Then we have to act.

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SHARE TWO: Shared Values

a) The Value of Equanimity b) The Value of Connectivity c) The Value of Self-Awareness d) The Value of Perseverance 2a) The Value of Equanimity The first thing to understand about yourself is that you are not who you think you are. Your emotional responses have been programmed into you. Jealousy, bitterness, sadness, frustration, desire, disgust; the switches have been set in your mind like the conditioning that trained Pavlovs dog to react to a bell. Dont be insulted by this comparison because we are all conditioned. There are no exceptions. Right and wrong, good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable: all of these judgments are conditioned and yet we go about life in the belief that our choices are an act of freewill. But are we really exercising freewill when, as children, our minds were pre-installed with ideas, values, beliefs and habits learned from parents, family, religion, school, society, our peers and every influence we had around us as we were growing up? If we simply react to events using this conditioning, can this be called freewill? Unless we each challenge and change the conditioning that has built every child a fine collection of beliefs, values and principles that we all carry forward into adulthood, we will be destined to repeat the same lives that our ancestors lived, along with the same mistakes. Is it any wonder that we say history repeats its self? Equanimity is the power to rise above this conditioning and begin to reset the switches that obscure your authentic self with automated responses to events. It is attained by any practice that trains your mind to observe your self in the present moment, rather than simply reacting according to the old patterns. It is crucial to understand that our attachment to the ideas and beliefs that power
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these reactions and cause us to make the same choices over and over again also powers Samsara, the cycle of life and death that causes us to be reborn on Earth again and again and again. Through awareness and equanimity we can see through these conditioned attachments and work to achieve liberation from physical life on Earth. One great example of an attachment common to us all is that of becoming. Emotions are great examples of becoming, which is why they are also great subjects for your equanimous practice. If you go swimming in the sea and a wave wipes you out, do you become that wave or do you remain separate from it? Of course, you remain separate. Just because the water engulfs you, you dont become the sea, do you? You get out of the sea, dry yourself off and go and have a chicken schnitzel. Emotions are waves just like this, so why do most of us usually become angry, become sad or become bitter when that wave of emotion washes over us? An emotional response to an event is just an energetic wave that fills your entire being. It has been learned through past conditioning to events and situations. Therefore an emotion is not who you are at all. It is just acquired energy that sits in your body waiting to be released as events trigger it to arise. Just as the sea releases energy through waves, so does your body. Rather than perceiving that wave as a learned response, you allow the learned response to feel as if it is a tangible part of who you are. Quite literally, you choose to become the wave. Have you seen the movie Jurassic Park? Before the Tyrannosaurus Rex appears for the first time, the two children are in their car when they begin to hear a menacing series of thumps from the dinosaurs approaching footsteps. To illustrate the power of the tremors, Spielberg shows the children gazing wide-eyed at a glass full of water as ripples begin emanating out across its surface. As an event disturbs your equanimity, your personal energy is prone to ripple in exactly the same way, resonating to the beat of lifes every shock and stress. Just as a glass of water is sensitive to

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the smallest vibration, so too is your own energy system. As the emotional wave is triggered and it acts like the dinosaurs plodding feet, sending shock waves of emotion through your body. This reactive state is called being ungrounded, which is the polar opposite of equanimous. It means that your energy is literally not anchored to the Earth. This may seem strange to you, but as we are all products of this planet, it makes sense that we should all try to be energetically connected to it. Unfortunately, most societies encourage people to channel more and more of our energy towards our heads, analyzing and thinking about our emotional reactions, justifying them or suppressing them as a weakness so they dont recur. I said at the beginning of this section that you are not who you think you are. What I meant by this is that your self-perception is an aggregate of all these becoming reactions reinforced time and time again through years of unconscious practice. Every time you become a wave of emotion you may use phrases to justify the feeling like This happened to me, I am unhappy because of you, My jealousy was caused by that event, or No one feels sadness like mine. As your emotional energy rises to the surface you throw it like paint onto the connected events and people so that your memories become colored by your conditioned reaction. But the reaction is not inevitable. The emotion is yours. Therefore the choice to react, albeit so frequently an unconscious choice is also yours. You are in control if you want to be but so often you choose to give that control away and live in reaction, not conscious action. No one thinks jealousy, hatred or bitterness are good, do we? Our societies teach us that we must explain why these bad feelings have arisen in us and, if we cannot explain these horrible feelings, then we must be pretty mean ourselves. People may say pride and envy are sins, or hate will send you to hell, so it is prudent to have up your sleeve some excellent justification for why the subject of your rage, resentment or general umbrage deserves every iota of it. Thus we spiral into a shame and blame game that serves no higher purpose than distancing people from the true significance of

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their feelings while driving a wedge between us and those people we blame for creating them. Society is a past master at judging the qualities of human feelings but its judgments are not usually kind. Happy people are good we say. Sad people are unwell. Loving people are kind. Angry people are bad. Thus, the populace is forced into rationalizing in our minds those sensations that cannot be worked out or broken down in logic. We must ponder in our minds the sensations of the human body that are a perfectly normal part of being alive for any sensitive, feeling animal who must explain nothing, let alone a human being, and define exactly why we feel the way we feel. If we cannot then we must be guilty in some way, for being unable to rationalize the most natural energetic response on the planet: feeling. By thinking about the emotion, not just feeling it, we feed its energy and get ourselves into more and more of an emotional bind. This doesnt release its energy in any shape or form. In fact, the energy expands and is stored in our body, awaiting another event to trigger it and offer us, once again, the opportunity to free the energy from our system rather than trapping it within us and becoming the emotion. The more we suppress or think about emotions, the greater the long-term effect they will have upon our mind, body and energy system. We need to stop perceiving emotions as a symptom of who we are. This causes us to attach to them as a possession. It is better to look at each emotion as separate from who you are and more as a little warning flag that your body raises to indicate your strongest attachments and conditioning. If you ignore these signs or fail to observe and let emotions go equanimously, you will strengthen your attachment to them and their energy becomes progressively more stuck inside you. Each time you become emotional your body releases an amino acid, called a peptide, from glands in your body. If you do not let go of the emotion, if you hold onto it by mulling it over in your mind looking for some explanation for it or someone

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to blame for creating it, your body will squirrel the peptide away inside your cells, muscle, bone and organs. This process reinforces the cycle of samsara and rebirth. You quite literally bind your energy-being to the physical Earth as your cocktail of beliefs are translated into becoming a fixture of your physical cells. It seems normal to live in emotional attachment because the average reality is one built from non-awareness and ungroundedness. We attach to events, emotions and people as me and mine and reinforce the misperception that emotions are caused by other people or things other than yourself, which is not true. When we live like this, is it any wonder that we cannot cultivate a life of peace and quiet for our self? Rather than dealing with the root cause of our dissatisfaction (the learned conditioning that predetermines our reactions to events) we focus on seeking and sustaining emotional highs that can mask the suffering of loss and fear, and blame others for our long slide into dissatisfaction. Learning how to be equanimous in the face of our own ego is the key to enlightenment. If you can learn to steady the energetic glass where your true self floats, the waves of ego simply disappear into the water. When my wife and I talk to clients about freeing the mind from its attachments to the highs and lows that oblige them to react and respond, rather than recognizing that they would become more human through this process some people ask Dont I become a robot? They believe that letting go of conditioning that compels people to repeat thoughts, emotions, phrases or actions that are ultimately hurtful to them also sacrifices their individuality and turns them into a machine. On the contrary, you are already the machine. Your reactions have been learned from family, school, religion, peers, society and all those around you to the point where, according to Tibetan tradition, by seven years of age, much of your conditioning for the rest of your life is already in place. To change this you must first be aware that it even exists.

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Valuing equanimity and practicing being present and aware, reduces the highs and lows of life to the experience of a boat on the sea. It simply rises and falls but does not become the water. Sharing the value of equanimity within your Share Circles is the primary way of expanding your awareness of what is happening around you and letting go of the conditioning that compels you to react. This is the primary means of attaining deeper and deeper states of enlightenment. 2b) The Value of Self-Awareness No problem can be solved without first identifying it as a problem. No sickness can be cured without first identifying it as a sickness and no person can change without first perceiving the potential to change. Without recognizing both the problem and the potential to change, you will plough the same furrow for the rest of your life. We hope that Part One of Equanimous enables you to see the potential present within every human being to manifest change. Now you need to understand the method. The foundation of equanimity is self-awareness: knowing your authentic self. You may think that you already know who you are but, if this was really true, you wouldnt be here on Earth in the first place! In fact, the vast majority of people are asleep, unaware and living at some time other than the present moment. A simple test of this is to take a few minutes to sit, still your mind and attempt to observe it without interruption. It will not be more than a few seconds before your clear mind will be interrupted by the radio static of thoughts and ideas that continuously flow through your head. Understand that these musings, plans and concerns that punctuate your day are not conscious deliberations. They are not meaningful. They are not who you are. They are more like a series of word associations, flitting from one to another without order or reason. Rather than being the revelation of your true self this mental chatter is the background noise obscuring it. Without

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calming this background noise, fuller states of enlightenment and genuine happiness will not be possible. Meditators are often taught to compare the mind with a grabbing monkey. It flits from one thing to the next, snatching out at what attracts it: a memory, an urge, a feeling, each connected together by desire or aversion. In this state, you are not really in control of your mind at all. Therefore, neither can you be in control of what you create in your life. It is like this: imagine that your mind is a garden. You are the owner of the garden but you watch it on closed-circuit TV. Like any garden, there are plants, trees and grass and this flora is growing because seeds have been sown and the right soil conditions, light and moisture exists for them to grow. It is a great lesson for you to observe this process, learning the connections between cause and effect and how events in your garden are connected together and condition one another. You will observe things grow, die, flourish and wither and, if you retain in your mind that you are watching a garden on closed-circuit TV, you will understand that each plant has been conditioned to grow, die, flourish or wither dependent upon the soil conditions, light and moisture affecting it. However, what if you forgot about the closed-circuit TV and began believing that you were not observing the garden, but that you had become the garden? It would appear as if the evolution of the garden was actually happening to you, wouldnt it? You might lose perspective that each plant is grown from seeds and the right conditions, especially if you forget that the garden has been in existence for many, many life times and many of the seeds had been planted long, long ago. You would wonder where some of the plants had even come from, forgetting when and where the seeds were planted. Suddenly, everything would become mysterious and seemingly disconnected. Why is this happening to me, you might ask. You might forget the connectivity of each plant to all the other plants and the reasons why some plants grow and others die. You

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might become obsessed in trying to sustain the life of all your favorite plants and killing all the weeds that keep trying to suffocate them. You might begin to fret and worry about which flowers were going to grow and which were not. Suddenly, you would lose objectivity and stop seeing the interconnected and interdependent relationships between al the plants and seeds and start trying to control everything in order to experience only what you desired to experience. Imagine the suffering this would begin to create, when previously you were just sitting back, observing it all with your feet up, a coffee in your mug and a biscuit in your hand! You would begin to feel so connected to this garden that emotions of fear for the future, sadness for the past and frustration for the present would begin to flow freely through you as if your very being was intimately connected to the state of the garden. The emotions are not who you are either, they are the natural symptoms of a body warning you in myriad flavors of the attachment you have created and the becoming you have initiated, blinding you to your true relationship to the garden. However, such is the deepening state of the attachment, the emotions are not perceived as signs at all, but as a further part of who you are. As you become deeper and deeper embroiled in the illusion of becoming you would forget that every time you act in one part of the garden to correct a perceived problem or redress a perceived imbalance, the whole garden is affected. As you adopt one solution, it results in another problem, each effect giving rise to another cause, each cause giving rise to another effect in an endless cycle of a cat chasing its tail. As you forlornly endeavor to attain perfection in the garden everything just keeps changing and you would experience this mechanism as a frustrating and puzzling problem to be solved but, in reality, each round of cause and effect and each connected emotional event offers you a very simple chance to open your eyes and awaken by detaching from the illusion of becoming

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and stepping back once more to be the observer of the reality you can watch on closed-circuit TV. In the realm of your mind, when once you were the observer of the garden, now you have become the garden in the belief that the space in which ideas grow and die in your mind is your true self, when it is really just a place where the reaction to everything you have been in all your past lives plays out to its inevitable conclusion. The tendency of all people is to become the mind because our societies have cultivated an unhealthy obsession with this single aspect of the mind-body-energy triumvirate that it allows and encourages a great disharmony to affect the individual, which in turn affects everything we create on Earth. We reward and support the values and images growing and dying within the mind and allow them to manifest as ego; our belief in a separate and permanent self. This sensation of self-hood becomes so familiar that we consider it fruitful to manipulate the outside world to create temporary happiness, attempting to isolate only joyful experiences to stimulate the mind and recoiling from anything that creates suffering. Yet, the only authentic peace we can ever really attain is by recognizing that the mind and our true self, our higher self, are not the same thing. By rising above the mind and observing it, not becoming it, we can detach from our tendency to identify our self with it and return the mind to its rightful role as a hub for the passage of experience. The cultivation of self-awareness is the practice of observing the behavior of your mind, your body and your energy-being. It is a journey to experience the way things are and not the way they may seem. If you apply this technique to your mind, you will inexorably witness the grabbing monkey at work. It will snatch at beautiful things and discard ugly things, trying to sustain an artificial environment of pleasure by rejecting what it perceives as suffering and obscuring that suffering with as much temporary pleasure as it can find. The very force of attraction and repulsion of a mind in perpetual movement, swinging from one state to the next in an

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endless cycle, fuels the energy of discontentment within us like a kinetic device generating its own power from the movement of life around it. The monkey mind is not a mind in which you can be said to be awake. It exists in a frenzied dream. The opposite of the monkey mind is the self-aware mind, which has been trained to watch emotions be born, grow, mature and die without becoming that emotion. The grabbing monkey attaches to emotions as mine and begins to defend or attack in response to an event. This sustains the energy of the emotion because the mind gets involved in it and begins to rationalize and justify it but the self-aware mind knows that emotions are like flowers growing in the garden; just effects of previous causal events that have conditioned them. They will be born and they will die. All you need to do is wait, be patient and observe. Rather than correcting anything inside you, your reaction to an event becomes the cause of the emotional trauma you attribute to the event whereas observing the event releases attachments to it, freeing the mind from its conditioning and helping to create equanimity. The habit of reacting and being an effect feels so normal but it is only normal because we have become such masters at it. If you live in reactive mode, you repeat the patterns of the monkey mind and bind yourself to repetitious energetic patterns projected into the future. If you live in observational mode, you stop becoming events and cease to fuel the very cycle of life and death that requires your presence here on Earth. Being a cause of nothing but love creates no karma. Awareness gives you the space to feel an emotion as it arises in you. You can learn how to become familiar with the characteristics of emotion, how your breath changes, how your body feels as it is arising, no longer being surprised by the reaction as it reaches its zenith but feeling it grow all the way to the top of its curve before falling away and dying to allow something else to be born in its place. The emotion will follow its life cycle, if you allow it to do so. By observing the stages in equanimity, the emotional episode will pass

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and some of the energy stored inside your body will be exhausted. But, if you react and begin to stoke the fuel in the growth stage, your mind will get involved in the process and begin to add thoughts, justifications, rationalizations and shame and blame, which initially extends the life of the emotional reaction while also adding more fuel to your body to ensure that the next emotional reaction will be just as powerful, or more so. While you may typically break events down into causes and effects, blaming people for negative causes and feting them for positive ones, understand that all causes are also effects and all effects are also causes. It is like dominoes toppling. Each domino is not only a cause of the subsequent one falling, it is also the effect of the one before it toppling. You can modify your life by choosing to become a cause and not an effect. So often people excuse their actions as the effects of other peoples causes. We rationalize our actions claiming that If he hadn't done that, I wouldnt have done this, or She made me feel like this so I had to react or other such cop-outs. The most liberating and aware statement of your own equanimity is accepting that you are your own cause. You cause your birth. You cause your death. You cause your rebirth. You therefore cause everything in between that you experience in life. Do not be ashamed or proud of that. Simply assume responsibility for it and this assumption of responsibility will enable you to become a net giver in life; the cause of all things that you would like to happen to you. The more people who do this, the better the world will be. Working with your emotions in this profound way challenges not only the normal perception we have of the events transpiring all around us and in the world at large, but also our part in those events and our power to affect our life in dramatic ways by simple and small adjustments to our habits. There are literally hundreds of awareness techniques that can be practiced by your Share Circle to help cultivate self-awareness. Meditations are great and there are so many of them that any group can find a suite of them that will meet

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their members objectives, levels of awareness and cultural orientation. But there is no reason why you cannot use movement, art or other techniques to bring about a greater understanding of who you are. Awareness can be cultivated in so many ways and is really defined by each person learning more and more about their self in ways most suited to their energy-being. Just have a couple of kids and you will understand that awareness of your reactions can occur in any and all situations in life, so dont let the limits of your own mind get in the way of what it means to practice or which practices have the most merit. 2c) The Value of Connectivity Awareness practice is a process of individual discovery but it impacts enormously on the quality of society as a whole. Yet, society is not aware of this. It gears its main purpose not towards the needs of the individuals who serve it, but towards an illusion that it misguidedly believes is good for everyone. That purpose, directly or indirectly, is wealth. The structural apparatus that supports the economy molds society holistically and thus affects all people within it. For you and I, this means that our wealth defines our social potential, for it cannot be doubted that greater possibilities exist for those with greater wealth to throw at the problem than for those who do not possess any financial resources at all. Dependent upon whether you were born into a rich or poor neighborhood, wealth automatically defines the likelihood of your being caught in the maelstrom of social unrest. It defines your access to quality health care and medicine and the likelihood of eating healthy food or getting plenty of exercise. It limits or frees the sum of potential positive learning experiences that you might be exposed to in early life, the quality of education that leverages more or less opportunities for you in later life dependent upon the schools you attend and thus your eligibility for the work that you will end up performing as an adult. The accumulated impact of

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these and so many other examples related to wealth ultimately defines something very, very simple but very, very important; how much time do you have in your day to focus on something other than economic survival? The essential ingredients of life are stitched into our cradles, molding us through life-models that, whatever the freewill and hard-work brigade might tell us, are incredibly difficult to escape from because the conditions that created them become hard-wired into peoples brains as surely as they are hard-wired into the social, political and economic systems that define us. Society says we are economic creatures, not energetic. This is the cold, hard reality of a global structure whose primary purpose may be none of the above effects but whose faith in its own methods supports them all and writes off its failings as an unfortunate side effect of the best system we have. Sadly, we are a long way from society gearing up to fulfill the potential of each individual. Thus, our ambition in Equanimous is to ask the individual, you, to awaken to your own potential and take personal responsibility for it by building better connections between yourself and the people closest to you in your life. Societys apparent proclivity to fragment is a direct result of people fervently supporting the creation of their reality in the world outside and ignoring the individuals exploration of the infinite creativity that exists inside each of us. Building connections between family members, families, neighborhoods and communities is the role of society but connectivity becomes nigh on impossible when we live according to social objectives that advance competitive economic goals and pit one person against the other for a slice of survival. It is time that we each took responsibility for creating the reality that we desire and deserve all on our own, for we have wasted enough lives waiting for other people to do it for us. Equanimous awareness practices give us a life tool to truly experience the connectivity that fuses all beings together as one. The sense of unity we engender through this guides the conscience towards actions

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that serve everyone, not just the ego. We mistakenly believe that studying other people and understanding them will help us to build better quality relationships when studying yourself actually performs this duty far more effectively. Self-awareness is considered an irrelevant distraction by those for whom ignorance is a prerequisite to maintaining their worldly belongings and aura of power and status. The missing ingredient of all societies; the gap between what we think other people need and what they really need, is found by answering what you really need. Imbalanced, out of sync and dysfunctional relationships are the product of giving other people what we would not want for our authentic self. The sad fact of the matter is that people are blind to the damage they do in relationships because they are blind to the damage they are doing to themselves. How can you repair either when you are not aware of it happening? Society can actually learn a few basic lessons from simple corporate team principles. The author Marvin Weisbord said Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement. And hes right. If you really want to understand the dynamics of people connecting together in the social environment we have created for them, look at it as basic team dynamics. I am not saying that society needs to build a highropes course and practice community trust-falls in order to grow but that there is not much difference in principle between building a team and building a society. In both cases, objectives must be broadly aligned and the needs of the individual and the group must be given equal precedence if each individual is to work towards mutually agreeable objectives. Granted, it is easier to get people in an organization to work towards objectives when you are giving them cold, hard cash to do so but the principle of inclusivity is exactly the same: people have to feel connected to social purposes and feel that social purposes are connected to them. To create meaningful connections between large groups of people, the

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general purpose of the group must be broad enough to encompass all people but sensitive enough to include individual needs. How can we really expect current society to be a particularly cohesive unit when our social, educational, political and economic structures are primarily competitive? On one hand society desires cohesion, which is achieved by sharing objectives and the values that are applied to attain them. On the other hand, society encourages its members to kick the hell out of each other by creating economic winners and losers. This paradox sows contradictory values that bloom in the form of confusion and breeds conflict as a solution to more problems than is healthy. It disables and creates a kind of atrophy in our capacity to cooperate, share and seek mutually beneficial objectives in life because, at the end of the day, we simply do not practice these skills frequently enough to become masters at them. Master Jacob made it clear that greed and the resulting creation of a monetary system was the beginning of the end for humanity in Atlantis and for 5,000 years now humanity has been walking the same path. Although the ultimate solution is to abandon money altogether, that is not a practical current solution. For change to occur in society, by which I mean a fundamental realignment of values and purposes, it has to occur from the bottom up with individual people abandoning some of the principles that reinforce the economic status quo and disconnect them from their mutual dependence. The current trends are so tightly wound around the hands of politicians and economic gurus that there will be no hero on the white horse coming to transform things for us. No amount of political slogans insisting upon change in policies, legislation or punitive threats will really impact upon a global environment that passes the prevailing attitudes along like a bad cold. I have used money as the physical example of so many underlying values but it is the underlying values themselves that we must address and this process begins inside you. Money is a symptom of humanitys current state but it is a creation of fear. It is

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the need to hoard for tomorrow more than you can spend today. Fear drives all destructive human endeavor. We are afraid of not having enough, of being unable to support our families, of being socially outcast, of being poor, of being alone, of becoming sick, of failing to pay back what we owe, of all the projections of every possibility that could, should or might harm us in some way. Our minds have become entrained with fears that are all placed into the future, perhaps a few minutes, a few hours, a few days, a few years, it doesn't matter when. The point is that fears, by their very nature, cannot exist in the present moment or within an equanimous and aware mind. They are a unique projection of the human mind that the immortal energy-being inside each of us subscribes to as somehow being a real and present threat to our mortal existence but, like any other illusion, fear can be overcome through awareness and sensitivity of our true condition. The nature of fear is really no different from the nature of the general illusion under which all humanity labors. We create the values, we create the fear, we create the illusions, we create the disconnection of one person to the next. We create the suffering that results. By the use of Share Circles, you can affect this trend on a personal, local level. As we learned in Part One of Equanimous, energy-beings are all connected as one and thus, whether we like it or not, our objective is the same: to raise our energetic vibration by connecting together the mind, body and spirit with other minds, bodies and spirits. Master Jacob described to us how, when they first arrived here, The Seven were surprised that Earth did not reflect energy in the manner to which they had grown accustomed over billions of years of prior experience. The act of giving is as natural to an energy-being as breathing is to a human being. However, this innate connectivity is diminished in an earthly body due to the physical properties of the natural environment. To put it bluntly, Earth is extraordinarily heavy. Add to this weight the fact that each energy-being makes an agreement to forget their energetic heritage in order to maximize the potential learning in

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each life; the objective is to become aware of who we are, then you will begin to understand why the connection between one person and the next and our race to every other race on Earth is more important than could possibly be known by the unconscious mind. This means we have to work at making connections all the harder. The prevailing social context is a final complication in our search for authentic self. While Earth's nature is a heaviness that we sink into and which causes our energetic being to forget who we really are, the resulting blindness has contributed to the creation of a social, political and economic whirlpool that sucks into it all but the most grounded and centered of minds, for minds that are focused in the present and aware of the illusion will not react or respond to the pre-programmed emotional switches of fear and greed. Share Circles value connectivity because we realize that connectivity is enhanced not by taking or hoarding what we do not need, but by giving other people what they need. The Buddha said If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. Sharing and making connections through sharing is one of the key values that help us to enlighten our day. The Value of Connectivity in our Share Circles is a reminder for each member that our personal awareness and equanimity is a launch pad for relationships founded upon sharing what you have, giving what you do not need, using only what you do need and creating a life that remains as balanced and harmonious with those outside you as you remain balanced and harmonious inside. Share Circles naturally rely upon connections between its members and there are some techniques that we will explore when we discuss Sharing Feedback by which trust and respect can be enhanced through a few simple ideas. Yet, building equanimous relationships must really begin from the bottom up where all our relationships begin. The first of these is the relationship we have with our parents and siblings for family is the core human

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relationship upon which all human lives are founded. Your parents brought you to this Earth. They supplied your body. They raised you. They protected, nurtured and created a learning environment for you that was the best they could create with what they hador maybe they didnt. Perhaps you were adopted or your parents split up when you were young. Either way, the familial connection or disconnection that has built up in your mind, body and energy system creates the bedrock upon which your energetic vibration is built. In energetic terms, your body has seven main energy centers called chakras and the base chakra, situated at the tail of your spine, is the one that represents your family. Take note that the energetic significance of this relationship warrants a chakra all of its own, which indicates how important it should be to you. In physical terms, your legs represent family and your formative years but your legs are not merely limbs to support your own weight, but, energetically, represent the balance, strength and stability of your entire life. It makes sense that your parents are the connection of your body to the planet that made your body and the quality of this relationship will impact upon the quality of the foundation you create for yourself in life. The sperm and the egg of your physical conception came from the Earth, the nutrients that fed you in your mothers womb came from the Earth, the food and water that nurtured you during your growth to maturity came from the Earth and you continue to be sustained by the energy of this planet on so many levels. Therefore it follows that the physical part of your body responsible for this connection would be the legs and feet by which you walk upon the soil of the planet. In our healing work, Orranut and I regularly consult with people who have familial conflicts because, to be frank, most of us have unresolved familial issues that impact upon many other areas of our life. Maybe you did not receive the love or support that you required when you were growing up or have been a party to familial breakdown, divorce or adoption, for example. Even if you

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were brought up in a competitive environment or were taught that you should be withdrawn or are undeserving of love, there is a plethora of factors that contribute to energetic wobbles in the base chakra, legs, knees, shins, ankles and related bone and tissue that can even result in physical accidents, broken legs, damaged knees or ligaments; physical manifestations of the energetic issues alive and well (or unwell) within your body. Without facing the issues related to your family equanimously and coming to terms with them through forgiveness, acceptance and love, it can be difficult for you to connect to your own children and spouse, to relate to other people in love and acceptance, to stay grounded and not become too head-centered and can cause you to be affected by a variety of other issues that create challenges within a person because the energy of their lower body is imbalanced or weakened. Our spouse and children are a second level of family that is no less important than our parents and siblings. These relationships are a key factor in our contentment and have deep energetic impact on our heart, lungs, liver and just about any other organs that get in the way emotionally. An unhappy home life is unlikely to create for you a better overall experience of life, but marriage, in Western countries at least, is something of an ailing institution if statistics are anything to go by. The problem with this is not just that nearly 40% of EU marriages break up24 and nearly 50% of US marriages end in the same result25 but that in some countries up to 50% of children will witness the breakup of a parent's marriage. Of these, close to half will also see the breakup of a parent's second marriage."26 What do these relational experiences project into the minds of children who
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will use them to define the standard of treatment that they can expect from other people and therefore the benchmark of what will be expected from them in return? It isnt exactly a high bar now, is it? Sadly, society has created a kind of energetic sickness that reinforces in peoples minds unskillful relational beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that eventually disconnect marriages and families with alarming frequency and in frightening quantity. The fact that the human body reserves one of its seven main energy centers for the institution of family indicates the great significance it has in our overall health as a society and as individuals within it but clearly society does not hold it in such esteem. I believe that this trend reveals the conditioned tendency of people to reject those things that they have become bored of or too familiar with and attach to things that excite them or bring a new thrill into their lives. It is the spiral of suffering in another form. We expect a thrill from love and marriage. We fall in love with the high of our sexuality and the buzz of being in love. We are transfixed by the impossibly perfect Hollywood-style hope that we will walk into a perpetual sunset of love and romance, but the reality of life is not like that in any realm of experience, is it? What happens when we realize that a marriage must actually be worked at, that there is pain, disagreement, that the people we loved when we were 25 years old are not the same people we love when we are 50, that we must learn to be forgiving, to be loving, to be kind, to be generous, to be all of those things that we have not been conditioned to be? When the stark reality strikes and we realize how tough it really is to love without conditions, we react in exactly the same way as we might react to a TV getting old or a laptop breaking down: we upgrade to a new model. As we have become material junkies for electronic and consumable goods, so too have we become material junkies in our relationships, placing upon people the same expectations that we have placed upon the possessions that we expect to chauffeur us from one emotional high to the next, constantly in search of a

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sustainable feeling of peace and of wellbeing. But we will not find this state in the relentlessly changing nature of nature. As we have lost touch with the great truth of life; that all things change and that high needs low and happy needs sad, we have also forgotten that human relationships have phases as all things do that are born, grow, mature and die away. While we pine for what we have lost, we continually forget what we have and place a kind of materialism on our wives, husbands and children that has no place in the valuation of unique people. You see, none of us have been taught the most liberating of attitudes towards our relationships, indeed, towards life in general. In the act of giving without expectation we find the purest of motives: it is unconditional. In contrast, most human relationships are not unconditional. Even familial relationships are not. None of our social conditioning is geared towards giving without receiving. Indeed, it is the very antithesis of our economy. This is why parents disown children, children end up hating their parents, divorce rates skyrocket and so much trash from familial relationships drifts down into society at large. There always seems to be an implicit agreement that says I do this for you because you do this for me or I will not do this to you unless you do this to me. Eventually, this attitude breaks the connections between people because one party at some time, inevitably fails to deliver their side of the silent bargain. In an economy where you always expect more than you give, relationships become an investment in me, not the investment in you and us as they truly need to become if the word society is to have any greater significance than a collection of egos competing for rewards. I once had a client whose life philosophy was that he would treat other people as they treated him. He was pretty well convinced that he had reached the summit of philosophical brilliance with that little gem. But when I had overcome my own egos temptation to slap him I realized that such a philosophy is little different to the environment in which we place our children, is

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it? So few people are out there leaving the world a little better than they found it, tidying up as they go along, treating others as they would wish to be treated themselves, actually living the platitudes that we might write on bumper stickers and motivational posters. Is it any wonder that the heights of relational excellence boil down to the application of treating others as they treat you, which results in a deteriorating spiral into conflict and social degradation? Each of us must start taking responsibility for the little bubble of reality which sits within the human body that we inhabit, the mind with which we perceive the world around us and the energy-being that is here to make the world a better place by simply being a more powerful energy-being than the one that was born here at the beginning of your life. If everyone treats other people one percent better than they treat you, the worlds energy purifies by one percent each day. If you base your world on only giving what you receive, the result will be a net loss felt in the economy of love, the family unit and the society that cries out to be one and not seven billion divided individuals. But what would happen if you treated everyone ten percent better than they treated you? What if you said no to the habits that disconnect yourself from others for a day or two and took it upon yourself to truly champion the value of connectivity that accepts that all people are in your life because they need to be there, not to be suffered but to be appreciated for what they teach you about yourself, lessons that you could never have learned alone? What if the giving that we each so often see as charity, really began in the home where the smile, the touch, the recognition of each individual persons uniqueness and talent could inspire you to find within yourself the incredible potential to act as an inspiration for that potential within all those who play the role of husband, wife, children, parents, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, grandparents and other kin, realizing that the role that each of us really plays is simply energy-being; looking to grow and evolve as all energybeings are looking to grow and evolve?

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And what if you accepted the responsibility to become so aware of your own reactions and feelings towards these people that you began to remove your expectations of them every time you do something, say something or create something? What if you simply gave? What would happen to you if you realized that your heart was a bottomless, endless, infinite pool of energy primed to give and shackled only by the limits you have placed on your mind by a world that cries out the lie that there is not enough to go around and that we must earn before we receive. Well, we have earned. We have all been through the trial of birth, the test of forgetting our energetic roots, the trauma of disconnecting from every memory of our true energetic family and been born into a world of suffering that can only be alleviated by kindness and love and the ability of one being to give to one another, not because they deserve it, have earned it or are good enough to receive it, but because they are simply here and in front of you, now. That is enough. The reward has already been earned. Just give it. In your Share Circles, you can extend this unconditionality out to those who are within your sphere of influence. You will not be perfect. You will not catch every moan, or whine, or bout of anger, jealousy or spite. You are here to be human for a while. Enjoy it. The point is to adjust your intention, just as we adjusted our lifes purpose to include the raised bar of enlightenment. Just because you choose to seek unconditional relationships does not mean you will walk around like Jesus everyday blessing the meek with your equanimous love of the rapist, murderer and granny mugger, but it will begin a process of forgiving yourself for not being who you really want to be, the person who would make everything seem alright, who would earn enough, be the right shape, live in the right district and serve perfectly every time you play tennis. Unconditionality begins with accepting yourself, which is why it is a process of awareness first and foremost. You cannot accept someone you do not know. Know yourself! You are the first person in every family because you are aware that you can do something

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about your involvement by contributing a little more to your own authentic self. While the ego will hold you enslaved in a vice-like grip of self-loathing for as long as you allow it, so too will you view other people as being no more worthy than yourself of receiving love that can be given without reason, indiscriminately and without expectation. If you begin with yourself, if you give unconditionally, you begin to unwind the cyclic soundtrack of childhood that conditioned who you are today, what you can achieve, of what you are deserving or not deserving, how good you are, whether you can do it or cannot. These connections to preset beliefs and values live on inside you in the memories that play out in your phrases and actions just as powerfully as they still reside physically within the flesh, bone and muscle that ties your body together in the base chakra and legs. So many of the people who visit Orranut and I arrive in a state of denial about these childhood factors but unless we all forgive, not forget, but learn and evolve away from the patterns that we have acquired from our families and accept those patterns as gifts, then we will always be shaming and blaming someone for what we have become or what was done to us. There is no judge, jury or sentence from anyone outside of you, and that includes God. You do the job all on your own. Unconditional acceptance of your own brilliance right here and now undoes all that intolerance and renders any power it has over you totally and utterly impotent. The power of connectivity begins by connecting to the self hidden within the connections to the past that have defined who you are and what you can be today. When you let these go, you realize how amazing all people are and how your own act of giving can inspire others to find what you have begun to discover within yourself. Unconditional relationships do exist and they are utterly beautiful. I spoke in the first part of this section about setting the bar for our objective at such a height that the impossible becomes possible and the unlikely moves into the realms of giving it a go. In

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a practical sense, we make unconditional relationships possible within Share Circles by the initial institution of relational boundaries governed by trust and respect between Share Circle participants. These two human values are the twin pillars holding up all relationships and I suggest that you define what constitutes trusting and respectful behavior for yourselves as these things vary greatly throughout the world. What does it mean to your Share Circle participants to trust someone? What is respectful and disrespectful language? How do you communicate on a level that is acceptable to all people? Defining these issues before setting out your Share Circle will avoid all kinds of relational pitfalls later on. The point is for each Share Circle to recognize that a foundation of unconditional acceptance stems from assuming that actions and words spoken in the circle are not intended to be disrespectful or to create distrust and from this foundation greater acceptance of violations can occur as people breach these stipulations, which they inevitably will. Due to negative experiences in previous relationships, many people today will simply assume that people are not to be trusted and are therefore not worthy of respect. We must turn this around in Share Circles by creating the environment where trust and respect exists unconditionally and is applied equally. Do not forget that each person is responsible for their own behavior, but also do not forget that each person is also responsible for how they respond and react to other peoples behavior. Become a cause, not just a reaction. If you take it personally, you will lose track of your own self-awareness and get caught up in your reaction to the event. Unconditional acceptance takes practice. Each time you get caught up in the event, be thankful, learn, move on. Forgive yourself and each other. 2d) The Value of Perseverance Mark Twain said, The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. Much of what we prescribe in

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Equanimous has no empirical basis to it. There is no proof. There is no statistical probability determining that it is more likely to create happiness than any other truth you might care to dream up. Yet, having said this, you also cannot say that its application requires any more faith than that you have given to creating your current reality. As Mark Twain so rightly intimated, few spirits are brave enough to let go of what they have found and, through hard work and effort, take ownership of a previously untested power on an uncharted track in the hope of attaining a spiritual goal that has been elusive by any previous effort. Nothing stands between you and enlightenment except effort. What stands between you and effort is merely an attitude that says it is worth it or it is not. One might argue that an attitude is not a real thing like a wall is a real thing but it is no less a barrier than a wall. Therefore it is real. Everything in your life is a battle between what you think is real and what you think is unreal. Many of the wars that you will fight to define truth within yourself will not be fought over a tangible set of objects of which you can say this exists and that does not exist but over what you wish to believe and wish not to believe. These things most directly define where you go in life and what you will hope to achieve and will be fought over more brutally than any physical plunder. Whether you can overcome the barriers that are present not because they physically exist but because you have placed them in your own way is a question of how much effort you are prepared to exhaust in the process. The search for truth, not the demonstrable truth of science or the physical truth of one object or another, but the truth that sits quietly within you, lasts at least a lifetime and maybe many lifetimes. The energy to go on, to pick yourself up when you are down, to believe that the journey continues beyond all the locked doors hemming you in, this is the energy of perseverance. It is the energy to sit down and listen to your heart and mind when the last thing you want to do is to sit down and listen to anything. It is the passion to attend your Share Circle and share with others how much you want

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to give up searching and how hollow the whole search has become in your mind. It is the awareness and courage to admit that you are not always a full cup. Share Circles are designed to top you up, to invigorate a tired approach and energize the exhausted. To be quite frank, most societies quite happily drag people back into their ranks to plough the same ruts that create a sense of normality but normality serves little purpose if it created the conditions of despair that drove you to seek an alternative in the first place. Each participant in a Share Circle has a duty to share the power of perseverance and find ways to maintain the passion and the commitment to transformation. The key is in the recognition and utilization of what Osho might have described as the pain of change. In his mind the doubt, boredom, frustration, anger, eroding confidence, lethargy, angst or guilt that surrounds any ordinary practice of self-discovery should be held in great esteem for however miserable and disconcerted it may make you feel, such feelings are the tangible reaction of a mind, body and energy-being whose cogs and wheels are beginning to turn in different circles. They are the sensations of change to which we are unfamiliar and thus they arise in our body as feelings of discomfort. Many of our clients come to Phuket from overseas and stay here for a wellness break or holiday. Orranut and I always talk to them about making commitments to their selves by writing down exactly what they intend to do when they return to their normal life. Perhaps they intend to meditate once a day or join a class of some type, eat a certain diet or repeat affirmations for removing a blockage they have created. Whatever the commitment is, it is important to make one or several depending on what you need. In your Share Circles, the commitments to your own practice are the commitments to persevering through thick and thin and of sharing the highs and lows of the journey with those members who are connected to you through their journey. Do not be fooled: the process of change in a society that really does not want to change is

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not an easy task and becoming lethargic and demotivated is one of the quickest ways for a Share Circle to fall into disunity. Having said this, Share Circles are not about strict discipline either. A meditation Master of mine once told me that As soon as the meditator starts hating his cushion, something is seriously wrong! Share Circles are about finding a middle path for your group. You should not get into the habit of looking scornfully upon people who attend irregularly or who have not practiced in the week prior. Compassion and understanding are better motivators and backing people into a corner only creates resentment. Trust, respect and the creation of stronger connections between individuals is a commitment to unconditional acceptance of each members effort, as each is responsible for the energy that they contribute and the energy that they create inside their self. Individually, write down what you are prepared to do for yourself. Stick your commitments on the fridge, your notice board or somewhere in your house. Share them with your Share Circle participants and ask for them to encourage you if ever you let your commitments wane, which most of us will do at some time or another. Find ways for your Share Circle to celebrate ongoing achievements rather than focusing on perceived failures. Dont let your Share Circle become a weekly bitching session, political discussion or chat about the most recent sporting events. Stay focused on enlightenment but do not look at any practice as being set in stone. They can be readily replaced with better or different practices as you get to know your true needs and Share Circles correspond with one another through our web-based forum in order to share new and exciting practices that have helped with particular issues. Perseverance is like an engine run on passion. Even if you are running dry, the engine can run on almost nothing, mere willpower perhaps, until you get the chance to refuel. Remember that the commitment you make to yourself is a commitment to a process that, by its very nature, will have as many ups and downs as the life

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you lead now. Just as you must soldier on to get work done, bills paid, children fed and tests passed, your energetic evolution is no less of a task that ranges from the wonderfully intoxicating to the mundane and dreary. Know in your heart that however it feels today, this too shall pass. Perseverance says you can. It says you will. It knows it never runs out unless your mind says it has

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SHARE 3: Shared Responsibilities

3a) Practice The point of Share Circles is to practice together ways of raising your energetic vibration. There are as many ways to practice as there are people on the planet, which is why the Generation of Shem each taught a different way. However, while the heritage that has been passed down through history created very different practices, they are all linked, albeit sometimes in subtle ways, to the first three values of Share 2: Equanimity Self-Awareness Connectivity In this section, I want to offer some practices that can be used to help kick off your Share Circle. I have included some examples of basic energetic practices and will help to show you how seamlessly they can be integrated into anyones life regardless of how busy or complicated life might be. Like riding a bicycle, these skills must be practiced before you will remember them and, no less like riding a bicycle, you may start the process by falling off a few times! Unless you are a complete natural, all new skills feel a little awkward at first. You may begin by being a little clumsy or disconnected with the rhythm of the exercise but just remember that these feelings are just the mind, body and energy system adjusting to new stresses and strains in the same way that your body would react to a new workout. You are in control, however, and it is up to your power of perseverance to keep getting back onto the bicycle until you can simply slip into these exercises at any point in the day when you need an energy boost to revitalize you, a grounding to let go of painful emotions as they arise or a heightened sense of gratitude to appreciate people who do not always engender appreciation automatically.
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Preparing to Practice One of the fundamental purposes of meditation is (read the next part of the sentence very carefully) to observe without judgment who you are in the present moment. There, Ive said it. The secrets out. Its not about becoming Buddha, reaching enlightenment, single-pointedness or emancipation from the chains of suffering, it is about simply listening to who you are here and now. Yes, I know I have said that the point of a Share Circle is indeed to share the purpose of enlightenment, but we must not become fixated by the goal and rather become dedicated to the method of attaining it. It is a very important distinction. While so many of us set goals and objectives in life (a better job, marriage, a house, status etc.) and never look anywhere else other than the end result, this kind of lifestyle places your happiness at a point in the future, possibly forever. What happens when you attain a goal? You set a new one, some time in the future! The irony of meditation is that the end result, enlightenment, will never occur unless you learn how to be here and now with such mastery that you realize that living at any other moment is a waste of time. Remember, meditation is the act of observing the garden, not becoming it. It is a formal method of allowing the heat of the mind to cool. This heat feeds the monkey-mind that attaches to this and that as me and mine and renders awareness of your true self almost impossible. If you soften the mind, relax, but stay alert, the heat will dissipate naturally and your higher self will be revealed effortlessly. But if you head off on that journey towards enlightenment like a person possessed, with the ra-ra-ra of a fanatic, while the passion is great, its focus will be counterproductive. More heat will be produced, more tension, more expectation and potentially more frustration. So, meditation is about finding a middle path within your practice. You may keep your eye on the motivation of enlightenment but during your meditation all that matters is the

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observation of who you are, not of becoming anything else than what you can see, feel, taste, smell, hear and intuit. The meditations and awareness practices we are going to share are deliberately chosen both because of their effectiveness and, in some cases, their ability to be practiced almost anywhere and at any time. The way in which Orranut and I ask our clients to view their meditation is like a practice that occurs before application. Before a race there will be plenty of practice, right? But the point of that practice is not the practice itself, it is the application in the race. So, in effect, meditation is not about being totally equanimous during the practice, although that may come, it is about being able to take the practice and become equanimous during life. This is what Buddha attained. This is the nature of all human potentiality. So, translating meditation into awareness and sensitivity in life is the name of the game. This is why I have included in Equanimous practices that are specifically designed to be practical within the working day. They are the type of practices that allow us to relieve ourselves of anger, frustration and generally let go of the numerous numbskulls that may invite us to abandon our hard fought equanimity and enter into a period of extreme ungroundedness. This is best avoided. Posture So, how do you meditate: sitting, standing, walking or doing? Yes, is the short answer! To be honest, it doesnt matter which posture you adopt because you can be aware of yourself in any of them and at any time but there are certain practicalities to be aware of and certain postures are better at certain times. First of these is that lying down is more likely to make you sleepy, so avoid it if you are prone to being plagued by sloth or torpor. This has been one of my greatest hindrances, which basically means my mind gets heavy and sleepy, so lying down is a position I have rarely used. This is not to say it is inferior to other positions and is certainly great before bed in order to have that 10-

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minute awareness check before drifting off into a wonderful sleep. It is also great for anyone with a bad back, although I would seriously recommend using a chair in favor of it. Standing is very possible, especially if you plan to open your eyes, and there are some great meditations that make use of it, as you will see. Walking meditation is one of them, especially for those of us (yawn :o) who have a tendency towards falling asleep. Another is grounding meditation, which can be very powerful. If you do plan to meditate standing up, choose wisely and perhaps learn to meditate with your eyes open, which will help with balance. A good technique is to slightly open your eyelids and angle your eyes towards the ground at about 45 degrees. Try it and see if it works. I have found various open eye meditations very helpful at various stages of my practice. However, sitting is the favored position for many meditators. Some levels of awareness can be quite intoxicating and disorientating, so in a strong sitting position your body should stay upright, especially if you adopt the tougher sitting postures such as the lotus or half lotus. These postures offer stability although they are hard to impossible for beginners. If you start young, however, it is a lot easier! Regardless of your posture, one of your challenges as a meditator will be to train your body so that the posture itself is not a barrier to your meditation. In theory, no posture should be a barrier at all, if you are simply observing how things feel in your mind, body and energy, but in practice, few of us want to sit through 30 minutes of excruciating knee or back pain when there are easier ways to become acquainted with the practice before moving on through postures that may help you attain higher levels later on. Again, dont be inflexible with your choices of posture. If you want to lie down one day and sit the next, do it. Do what feels right for you at the time. There is no right or wrong way. When you are

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sensitive to your needs, sitting when sleepy, lying when needing to relax for example, the practice will take care of itself. Getting Comfortable Meditation is not a chore. It should be enjoyable. It should be pleasurable but there are a few tricks that can be employed up front to avoid some of the inevitable pain that occurs when your body is asked to sit in a posture that, for the first 92 years of life you have singularly refused to practice! Firstly, dont be cheap on a good cushion. If there is one thing absolutely guaranteed to screw up your back it is a soft, limp, squishy-thing of a cushion. You wont notice it for about the first four minutes but after that you will realize that your body is moving ever-so-slightly with every breath and pump of blood, causing your back muscles to make slight adjustments as the cushion moves. While these may be the most minuscule, even imperceptible movements, your back wont care. It will just hurt. I like to use two cushions, one to place my bottom on and the second underneath and large enough for my legs to rest at a slightly lower level. This posture naturally pushes my hips forwards slightly, straightening the back and creating a solid base, when coupled with good, solid cushions, of course. There are plenty of cushions designed especially for meditation. However, a good, old-fashioned study chair will do just as well. You dont need a cushion at all, if you choose to sit upright. Just be sure that chair is solid and wont move. Dont use your office swivel chair or the Fit-ball. It wont work. Another great device is a meditation bench which you sit on and tuck your legs underneath the seat, as if you were kneeling. The seat takes your weight, not your knees and it gets over the problem of painful knees and legs, while also helping to straighten the back naturally. Another part of being comfortable is to wear the right clothes. Loose fitting clothes are probably preferable but you have to be

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aware of climate and temperature of your meditation space. It is also preferable to wear natural fibers whenever possible as humanmade fibers are not so cool energetically. If you have chosen to sit there are also numerous postures that you can choose. There are a number of different cross-legged postures that are common but, once again, I urge you to find the right position for you and not feel that there is some accomplishment in being able to sit for an hour with your legs wrapped around your ears or something like that. This is fine, if you are in a circus, but unnecessary for meditation. The old fashioned cross-legged posture you used to sit in while watching TV as a child is one of the most basic positions. Try it out and see how it feels. If you find that your back is getting sore, stiff or collapsing in the middle, try leaning against a wall for support. Over time, you will get used to the position and not need the support any longer. You can put one leg in front of the other, if you so choose. This is called the Burmese sitting posture. Another is the half lotus, where you bring one leg over the other, like the childs cross-legged position, but end up with the bottom of your foot pressing into the opposite thigh and the bottom of the foot facing up to the ceiling. This can be hard on the ankles at first, so be warned. I wont even go into the full lotus position. Before you meditate, decide what meditation you wish to do and how long you wish to practice and find a way that you will know when the time is up. 20-30 minutes is a good time to meditate but dont worry if you only have 10 minutes. It is better than nothing. Some people like to play relaxing music when they meditate and look at how long the tracks are so that they can judge the length of their meditation session. Other people will set the alarm on their phone or clock, but this can be distracting if it is loud. Find a way that is best for you but keep to your meditation plan and time restriction in order to structure your practice.

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The final point about creating comfort is to be aware of the shape of the posture that you have chosen. Sit with your back straight, but not tight or even forcing it into a concave shape. This creates tension and you will feel it as the meditation progresses. Be aware of tension in your shoulders, neck, stomach or any other areas where there should be no tension. Focus on it and let it go. Stretch your back, swivel your arms, move your hips until any kinks are ironed out and relax into your posture. Keep your head slightly back, as if it is resting on your neck, not pushed forward or artificially constricting the throat. Due to its weight, having your head forward or backwards can unbalance you and create tension. Be aware of whether you are pushing out your chest too. You shouldnt be. Finally, slightly open your mouth and push your tongue gently to your palette and against your teeth. It should feel quite natural to rest there without any effort. Basic Techniques for all Meditative Practices Just a few short notes about the basics of beginning a meditation, which in many cases are founded on studying how you breathe. It may seem a little too coincidental to the reader that studying the breath is The Buddhas key technique of meditation while the foundation of the very universe in which we all exist is also a process of energetic breathing. Of course, this is no coincidence at all. Vipassana, which means insight or to see things as they really are is one of the primary meditative techniques used by The Buddha to attain enlightenment. When you study an object with the mind using expanding awareness and consciousness to gain a deep understanding of what it really is, this is Vipassana. Imagine then, that you study the breath with all your consciousness, a breath that mirrors and reflects the very breathing of the universe, what do you think you would eventually discover?

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This is why being conscious of breathing is a great technique and I personally begin every meditation with some variation of it in order to relax the body, mind and energy system. After you have assumed your meditation posture and got comfortable bring your awareness to your breath. Breathe naturally, without forcing it and observe how the body moves as you are breathing. Observe whether you are breathing from your chest or from your stomach. If you are breathing from your chest bring the breathing down into the stomach. It may feel a little unnatural at first but stay with it. All breath carries with it chi, which nurtures the life-force of the body and all living things and this chi centers in your belly at an energy center called the dantian, which is located just below your belly button. Just stay with the breath and follow it all the way in to your body, down to the dantian and all the way out again. What you will eventually discover is that hindrances to your observation of the breath will begin to arise, probably quite quickly. This is very normal, even desirable, as you will learn. A hindrance to your meditation can be a distraction from your mind, body or energy system. One of the most common is thinking. If you are following your breath for a few cycles and suddenly you realize that you are thinking about where you went on holiday last year, what do you do? The normal reaction is for a person to get annoyed, especially if this distraction happens frequently, which it probably will in the first stages of your meditative practice. We get annoyed because we have an expectation that we will sit down and be little Budhhas in 20 minutes, but it may take a tad longer than that! If we cannot remain focused on our breathing, we think something is going wrong or we are not doing it right or we are failing. Each of these responses, while quite natural, is neither helpful nor correct. Meditation evolves the way our mind, body and energy system interact. We create this evolution by focusing the mind on an object of meditation, which, in this case, is the breath, and returning the

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mind to its focus whenever it gets distracted. Your mind will have been a loose cannon ever since you were born if you have never practiced meditation so, when you start asking the mind to focus on an object as mundane as breathing, after a short while it will find the object so bland that pizza, TV shows, music and sex become far more attractive things to contemplate. This is very normal. It is the mind reacting to a new set of conditions that you are creating for it. So, dont be upset when the mind reacts to this in the same way that a child may react to a new rule. Treat it like a child and gently bring it back to the focus of the issue every time it gets distracted from it. Do it with kindness, gentleness and love, not frustration, anger or a sense of failure. Remember, every time you bring the mind back to your breath, you are adding another drop of awareness to your overall ocean of consciousness. One day, the ocean will be over half full with it and the world around you will begin looking very different! Look at any distraction as a blessing. Does a weightlifter view the weights that he will practice with as an annoyance? Does he get angry when they sit on their cradle and dont miraculously lift themselves into the air? No, he perceives the weights as a blessing, as a technique by which he will attain his goal of becoming stronger. The same should be true for the distraction of mind, emotion or energy that arise in us as we meditate. They are blessings that allow us to flex our awareness muscles and become stronger and stronger each time we gently return the mind to the position of equanimity and awareness. About ending a meditation; when you are ending the session, take a few moments to make a wish. This may sound a little strange but if you imagine that meditation is a process of feeding yourself with energy, what you accumulate during the session is a gift of energy, which, like all gifts, should be given away. So, dedicate any energy you have accumulated to those people in your life that need it. This can be anyone, it doesn't matter, but this dedication process is powerful and important.

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Finally take care to end your meditation gently, not abruptly. Try not to jump up from your cushion and dive straight into the hustle of life. Try to ease back into it with care and attention, taking the awareness you have built and spreading it further into your day, reminding yourself of it as you go through the hours. This is how we transform practice into application. Meditative Practices for Equanimity i) Centering Overview Have you ever felt scattered, as if your energy is spread too thinly? Have you ever felt as if you have lost power or that your concentration is waning when you should still be full of vigor? A frequent cause of these feelings is related to how you use your energy system which, if you are not aware of it, can scatter, attaching to ideas, thoughts, tasks and objects just as the monkey mind is prone to do. As an energy-being, awareness of your energy system and learning how to consolidate it into a solid foundation is a very important part of being healthy and happy Being able to work with your energy effectively is, for an energy-being, no less important than being conscious of diet, nutrition or exercise for your physical being. One of the easiest and most powerful ways of doing this is through visualization. Consciously or otherwise, visualization plays a pivotal role in what you create in your life, expanding the energy of your present so that it can impact on the future. When you really believe it can happen, can feel it happening, this is the most powerful visualization possible. We have already spoken about how the projection of fear, a belief that there is something to worry about in the future, helps create the energy of the reset, so we can begin to understand that projecting any kind of feeling or energy has some

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kind of effect. The more we believe it is happening and feel it happening, the more likely it is happen. In more empirical terms, visualization has been proven by sports science as a very effective method of producing more winners. One of the keys to winning is the belief that you can win and a mind that has already experienced winning, experienced the thrill, experienced crossing the line first, even if it is through visualization, is a mind that is creating its future. This is how visualization oils the wheels of probability. The difference between visualization and imagination is that with visualization you actually immerse yourself in a situation and experience how it feels to be there. You become what you are visualizing and live it in the present moment. Rather than having the mindset: This will be if I do this, visualization is more like I am this now bringing the potential from the future into fruition in the present. Centering is the process of visualizing your energy in a consolidated and powerful state residing in your belly: the center of your body. We have already discussed how our mind-preoccupied world often channels energy to the head or how our emotional attachments lead us to dilute our energy and become the emotion rather than being equanimous and observing it. These orthodox ways of dealing with the world diminish your overall power as if a part of you is leaking out and going to waste. Therefore, the practice of centering your energy is a powerful alternative to this reactive state, offering you the means of focusing and amplifying your personal creative power rather than dispersing it through emotional or reactive states. The Practice Close your eyes and breathe normally, allowing your body to relax. Become conscious of your breathing. As you inhale, visualize in your mind that you are drawing energy into your body through every pore of your skin.

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As you exhale, visualize that energy condensing into a glowing ball of energy the size of a tennis ball sparkling one inch below your belly button. With every breath visualize the ball growing stronger in radiance and power, composed, solid and yet mercurial. Choose the color of the energy ball from how you feel. There is no right or wrong color. Let the ball fill you with a sense of personal power, control, awareness and lucidity. You feel confident, energized and ready for anything. Notes This practice can be a meditation for ten or fifteen minutes or, once you have learned the overall feeling of the energy in your belly, it can be recalled when you feel an emotion overwhelming you or a situation where fear arises. It is a little fear-extinguisher! ii) Grounding Overview If centering is the process of building and consolidating your power, grounding is the practice of stabilizing it. Equanimity in your energetic field is achieved by mastering the centering and grounding techniques. If you are able to generate a wealth of energy, letting that energy simply fizz around unchecked can be as dangerous as having no energy at all. In order to be able to control your energy, you need to ground it which, as it sounds, means getting in touch with Mother Earth. If you have ever felt dizzy or flushed, or your head is full of thoughts and sounds, this can often be the result of ungrounded energy. Just like a hot-air balloon that is not properly tethered to the ground, it will float backwards and forwards and can even tear up its moorings and float away. Your energy needs to be controlled and

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connected to the Earth from whence it came if you are to be able to utilize it effectively. One very powerful grounding technique is visualizing yourself as a tree with roots that stretch deeply into the ground all the way to the center of the Earth. Just as you did with the centering technique, this means becoming the tree and feeling those roots dig deeper and deeper into the Earth. It is best to do this exercise somewhere a little natural, like a part of your garden, but it can really be done anywhere. The Practice Stand with your feet a little way apart, your knees slightly bent just enough so that you are not standing stiffly. You may wish to keep your eyes open for this practice as some people can get dizzy with their eyes shut! Bring your attention to your breath and feel your body rising and falling as the breath goes in and out of your lungs. Now visualize your breath coming, not from the air around you, but in the form of energy that is coming from the Earth, in through your feet, all the way up your legs, into your lungs and then out of your body in the out-breath. It may be a good idea to imagine that you have a set of nostrils on the bottom of each foot! Spend some time feeling how this feels and connecting with the energy of the Earth. As you breath in, now visualize physical roots growing down from the soles of your feet, into the soil, into the rock, into the depths of the Earth, each out-breath sending them deeper and deeper, each in-breath now coming from deeper and deeper in the Earth. Feel the support that this creates. Feel how solid and steady you are becoming. Visualize your energetic strength growing from your deep connection to the Earth.

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Notes As with the centering exercise, grounding can be a longer practice if you wish and, as you become skillful at them both, they can be practiced together in the same meditation. You dont have to stand up for this. Much of the grounding that I will do will take place driving, walking, sitting, whenever I feel that my energy has become irregular or shaky. Meditative Practices for Self-Awareness iii) Awareness of Being Overview We have spoken at some length with regard to the advantages of expanding personal awareness. If we were all aware of our mind, our body and our energy system at all times, this would be the ultimate enlightenment. Lets keep the bar high! It bears repeating that we cannot change anything meaningful until we are aware of its existence and aware of its state. Our own mind, bless it, is an unruly thing and getting to know it is one of the key objectives of any awareness practice. As you will discover, much of our initial practice will not be so much discovering the inner workings of human consciousness, but simply to keep bringing the mind back to focus on what you are asking it to do! Awareness exercises teach us, somewhat brutally at times, that the mind is not who we are. It is a spoiled child and it is time to get some discipline. Awareness of Being is much as it sounds. How are you feeling right now? This awareness technique explores the answer to that question by cycling through your body parts and raising your sensitivity and awareness to each of them, from toe to crown. It is a Vipassana technique. As you move from body part to body part, you will gradually build up an overall impression of how your

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entire body feels as well as your taste buds, your sense of smell, your hearing, your vision and even your intuitive ability in order to get a holistic impression of the world in yourself and yourself in the world. As you practice this, once again, it is a great exercise to bring up during your day, sitting at your desk, driving your car to work, eating an ice cream, whenever you have a few minutes just to check on your own status. You will often find tension needing to be released, feelings that were hidden underneath your preoccupied mind or an agitated mind that is in need of just the type of peace and quiet that Awareness of Being helps you to manifest for yourself. The Practice Start by breathing in and out in a comfortable, unforced manner. Watch your breath by bringing your attention to a point on your nose where you can feel the breath going in and out of your body with the strongest feeling. It may be the tip of your nose, it may be your upper lip, it may be inside your nose its your nose! Observe this process for a minute or two and you will feel your body relaxing, your breath slowing. Be aware of how your breathing feels. Now begin cycling through your body parts, starting from your toes and working up towards your head, spending 10 or 15 seconds observing how each part feels before moving on. You may feel strong sensations, weak sensations or nothing. It doesn't matter. You are not trying to feel sensations, per se, just feel how you feel. As you move from body part to body part, add the parts together so that you have an overall sensation of the parts you have already covered and the individual part you are focusing on. You will understand what I mean as you practice this process.

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When you get to your head, start including how you feel in your mouth, your teeth, your tongue etc. Then add hearing, smell, vision, including in your awareness all those little things that you have missed in your environment. As you extend out your hearing you will become aware of all the little external distractions. Do not rail against them or attempt to block them out. Include them in your meditation until your are conscious of everything you are sensing, without judgment, without exclusivity, just with pure awareness. Remain focused on your awareness for as long as you have planned. Imagine yourself becoming a part of every sensation, not separate from it but included and connected to the entire experience of being. Notes There are many obstacles to meditating. They are all you. This may not be good news or particularly appetizing fare but you are the only barrier that exists. Your mind will tell you that it is not working, that you are bored, that this isnt for you, that you should try something different. There are officially one hundred and twenty-seven gazillion reasons why you cannot do what you want to do and all of them are spelled y-o-u. Distraction is normal. Keep bringing the mind back to the object of your attention. You are training your mind to be yours, first and foremost. Only when you have calmed the beast will you be able to master its application, firstly through meditation and secondly through how you apply it to the creation of a life that suits your purposes. The awareness of your breathing exercise at the beginning of this is an excellent way to begin any meditation and is actually a variation of Anapanasati, the very meditation that The Buddha used when he achieved his

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enlightenment, so dont turn your nose up at it, if youll forgive the expression. Awareness of Being is also a great way to handle emotional events in your life. As emotion arises, bring your attention to it without adding the mind to it. Let the emotion grow, mature and die away while being conscious of it but not becoming it. This is how you reduce attachment and suffering. At first, practicing awareness of being will help you to be more aware more frequently of your physical self but over time, as you practice regularly, it will bring your awareness closer and closer to the present where you will be able to catch yourself reacting and step into awareness of being so that you can begin the process of observing and letting go of the emotional attachment that drives unconscious reaction. iv) Awareness of Doing Overview If you add together awareness of being and awareness of doing, these two exercises just about cover everything youll need in terms of awareness development. Add to that little snippet of joy the enormous simplicity and applicability of both to any moment of your day and you have an all-in-two enlightenment regimen that can go with you everywhere, be applied by anyone and be practiced at all times. Whereas awareness of being expands awareness of how you are feeling and hones your sensitivity to what is happening in the present moment, awareness of doing is about bringing your awareness to every task that you undertake throughout your day. Most people dont actually do what they are doing. This may sound odd but think about it. When you get up in the morning, perhaps you first take a shower. When you are showering are you really showering or are you thinking about your day, planning

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meetings, prioritizing activities, running through the events of the night before or pondering some amazing idea that just happened to pop into your head the moment the water hit your skin? Being aware of what you are doing is basic awareness practice but is significantly absent in most peoples day. Our focus is normally districted and sporadic and if our focus is distracted, so is our energy and our ability to observe and not react to situations. When practicing doing what you are doing, awareness acts like a faithful guard dog, watching the doorways of your emotion to make sure none sneaks through without awareness of its presence and the groundedness to let it pass without turning into an emotional train wreck. I always talk to clients about meditation being a practice but the practice is insignificant if the application, the next 23.5 hours, is conducted in ignorance. The key purpose of meditation is to fill the cup for the day ahead so that awareness can flow through every task, however mundane or important it may be in the scheme of your life. The Practice Whatever task you are doing, just do it. Bring your attention to that task fully. If your mind becomes distracted bring it back. Feel every movement and moment of the task. There is no second bullet point. Ergo, no third. Easy huh? Notes Without doubt you will lose focus and concentration many, many times during your day. This is absolutely normal. When you regain consciousness, so to speak, it may be many hours after you lost it. That doesn't matter. Just keep persevering. It is not easy to conduct your day in awareness

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but, if you do, it is likely to be far more productive and less likely that you will live it in suffering. Meditative Practices for Connectivity v) Metta Loving-Kindness Meditation Overview Loving-kindness is the way in which we begin to create love for ourselves and people around us. Love is an energy, first and foremost and therefore, as energy-beings, we are quite capable of creating it at will, depending on how hard we practice. Throughout life we pick up many aversions to people who we feel have done us harm in some way or another. When we carry this energy around with us, it doesnt affect them, it affects us. Do you deserve to feel anger or hatred or bitterness when you recall a persons face? No, of course you dont. It is like being a puppet and whenever the person appears they grab control of you emotionally. There is no freewill in this. The ability to generate love through meditation is one of the key ways in which you can begin divesting yourself of stored reactions that serve no purpose in your life, other than creating more suffering. Freeing yourself of these reactions would help to sow the seeds of genuine happiness in your life. The Practice Bring yourself into your meditation space for a few minutes, following your breathing or being aware of your body through awareness of being. Begin breathing green light into your heart space. Imagine a beautiful green bud growing in your heart and with each breath the bud begins to open and bloom. Keep breathing into your heart like this for five minutes.

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Now bring into your heart the face of someone you love very dearly. Visualize this person and visualize yourself embracing them. Feel the energy of love passing between you. Feel the way in which you share mutual love without limits or boundaries. Feel that you are lovable. Feel that you are deserving of love and through that sense of worthiness, that you are full of love to give. Keep this going for five minutes. Now bring into your heart space a second person alongside the first. This should be someone who you are ambivalent about. It can be anyone from a distant relative to a coworker, someone who works in the local store to an actor, it really doesn't matter. Visualize this second person alongside the first person. Visualize the three of you holding hands in a triangle and the same depth and power of love that you shared with the first person now being shared by the three of you. Visualize love traveling into your left arm across your shoulders and down the right arm into the left hand of the second person you have brought into your heart space. Keep this going for five minutes. Next bring into your heart space the face of someone you have a relational difficulty with. Bring that person into the group of four, standing to your right. Share love between you, in through your left arm and out through your right arm. If you lose the sense of love, look back at the first person and remind yourself how easy it is to generate it. Keep this going for five minutes. If you wish to extend the meditation, visualize the energy of love from the four of you extending out to fill the room, your neighborhood, your town, your country and all across the world, affecting every living being. Notes

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It is worth reiterating the idea that when you believe it you will create it. Many people I have worked with first doubted that working with imagined love could improve a relationship, but they were soon won over. The power of visualization, of love and forgiveness, is an incredible force to bring to a relationship. Do not imagine that, just because someone has passed over, this meditation cannot work. Energy knows no limits. We are all one. So sending love to dead people is not really sending love at all. They are still with us, all around, and mending broken bridges can help both the human and the energy-being alike. vi) Disadharmma Overview Disas are directions, so Disadharmma is the directions for humanity to follow the dharma, or the truth of nature, as it might be called. The late, great Thai monk Buddhadasa Bhikkhu wrote a book called Disadharmma to demonstrate to the layman how to find gratitude for six different groups of people in our lives, who are represented by the six cardinal points. This process of gratitude is key to developing and maintaining relationships that are built on good energy and spirit. The following are the cardinal points and what they represent. North Parents Our parents are not just baby-makers. Our head-truth may tell us this but there are moralistic and energetic issues that are ignored with this view. Yes, they give us our bodies, this is their first gift, but they also create an environment in which our learning can be best attained. The best and most powerful of these lessons is that of gratitude.

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South Children, Spouse Children are not just the physical lumps of flesh and bone created from the human reproductive system. They are sources of liberation for the parents for they offer us the opportunity to be selfless and refocus our pleasure-seeking lifestyle on the creation of contentment and not just material pleasure. Our spouse is our support in this venture. They offer the unconditional love and acceptance that evolves a close-knit family A spouse helps us build a union that offers moral, financial, emotional and loving support for one another and the children that will be born from this. West Friends and Relatives Although friends and relatives may be considered different, in this Disa, they are not. Of course, blood relatives are important and are respected in this Disa but also we use the term of relatives as those related to us by energy and whom we may call brother or sister although they are not technically blood relatives. These are people who journey with us on the path and share our energetic purpose in life. They offer the support and encouragement that creates passion and perseverance in tough times. East - Teachers We are all teachers, to a certain extent, but this Disa asks us to respect those who in our past or present offer us insight into our journey and contribute to our wisdom. Sometimes this is a person who is playing the role of a teacher; other times this is someone who teaches us a lesson through less formal means. We must stop looking at teachers as those people who are employed by an educational system and start seeing them as people who sow seeds of learning and growth. In this Disa we reaffirm our respect and gratitude for those who have taught us through both formal and informal means.

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Upward Spiritual Leaders If you belong to a religion, this Disa pays respect to the priests, clerics, imams, monks or other initiated people and the leadership they bring to your spiritual foundation. To others, this may be the spirit guides or guardian angels from whom they receive guidance and inspiration. To others still, this may be the respected teachers whom they look up to as being great ambassadors of a lifestyle and philosophy that brings quality to life such as Gandhi, Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela. Downward Spiritual Followers, employees, those people less fortunate than yourself. We all have spiritual followers. We are all on a spiritual path. We can recognize our spiritual maturity without being arrogant about it or overly proud of it. As such, it is our duty in this world to offer others the benefit of our wisdom and insight, as well as our charity, compassion and respect for all people, whatever role they play in society or status they have achieved. The Practice This practice can be done standing up with movement, which makes it a little different than other practices. Stand facing north and bring your hands up to your chest, as if in prayer. Bring into your mind your parents and begin cycling through your mind everything for which you have gratitude about them and your relationship with them. Spend about three minutes on this. In sequence, turn to the south and perform the same ritual with regard to spouse and children (if you have them, if not, people who have supported you in life), east for your teachers, west for your relatives, upwards for your spiritual teachers and downwards for your subordinates or people for whom you have responsibility. Spend about three to four minutes on each.

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Notes Disadharmma helps us to remember these six important groups of people and guides a gratitude practice. It is a great idea to cycle through them before sleeping and give thanks for the day you have just had.

3b) Feedback
Communication Circles Share circles are all about communication. We communicate through a meal. We communicate by sharing a practice. We communicate by talking and listening. So, to help us communicate in a way that is always productive and caring, I offer six guidelines for feedback that make up a communication circle. 1. Suspend your Ego Ego says I am right you are wrong, this creates conflict. Everyone has different experiences and ideas so removing your ego from a Share Circle helps you to become both a student and a teacher, learning and teaching without preference for one role or the other. 2. Observe your Emotion Emotion is important to experience but it is not great to act upon. People will feedback or say things that trigger emotions inside you. Watch them. Listen to them. Use them for awareness practice. 3. Speak your Truth Your truth is unique. Without it, the world would be different and thus it is vital that you express it so that it is not forever lost

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inside you. In Share Circles everyone has a duty to speak their mind but to do so with love and respect of others. If you have feedback, say it with love. If someone else has feedback, listen with love. 4. Listen with Love If we dont listen to others, we cannot learn from them. Maintaining full awareness when others are talking is an act of respect and appreciation. 5. Nurture Trust and Respect Whatever we say and however we listen, always maintain faith in your mind that the words are being said with respect, even if they are challenging your thinking. What you then say in return can be founded in respect. None of us can change others. Our words are not a force for change. They are tools that others must pick up to use on themselves. 6. Have Fun! While we may take our practice seriously, life is a joy ride and should be kept light. We do not make light of problems, but we lighten peoples load and give them the power to raise themselves up. Keep your Share Circle a place of light. Keep it fun. Conclusions It is important for me to reiterate that Share Circles are all about the practice of sharing spiritual growth. Thats why I have included the meditations. But do not be limited by them. Keep growing and exploring new techniques and sharing them on the Share Circle forum at www.provolutioncenter.com We can do better than this. This is just a start. With your help we can build something wonderful. It is easy to start meditating. It is difficult to keep it going. I know many people who start with great intentions but we all know

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which road is well paved with good intentions. To change this world, we must change our own world. That happens person by person, household by household, street by street and neighborhood by neighborhood. I can think of no better starting place than you. The world is undergoing a great energetic shift and staying grounded and centered is vital. We can rise above this process and observe it or we can becomes its victim. The former takes practice. The latter we are already old hands at. Spend 20 minutes every day grounding, centering, being and doing in awareness and you will learn how to observe these shifts in consciousness, not to fall back on the old games of fear, shame, blame and becoming. Being afraid is as easy as falling off a log. It hurts just as much. Learn a new trick and the suffering can end for all of us. Start a Share Circle. Join a Share Circle. Phone some friends about it. Link on your website. Blog about it. Tweet about it. Write a status update in Facebook. Do whatever it takes to create a buzz that change is coming and you are its face, you are its voice and you are its action. Create change that is worthy of your name. There is no more time to be passive and await it to happen. You have already created you, here, today, reading this. Now use Equanimous to create what happens next. Make it something different than what happened in your life yesterday and we may all just wake up tomorrow in a world thats getting better.

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Epilogue
MPS: Master Jacob, does everyone have a spirit guide? MJ: No, not everyone. They, like all things, are connected through karma. Some spirit guides will stay with an energy-being through many lives; others will come and go according to events and situations to help people through certain key moments in life; still others volunteer for certain tasks. MPS: Why do some people not have one? MJ: There is not a single answer to this. Perhaps it is best to say that people with spirit guides are not special or privileged. Some people just do not need one. Everyone has a higher self-which, when listened to, can guide all people towards an intuitive solution to their lifes issues. MPS: What do spirit guides do, exactly? MJ: They guide people to follow the terms of their contracts through the media of symbolism, inspiration, gut feeling and instinct. If you feel inspired to do something, go somewhere or take some form of action, this may very well be a guide drawing you towards a useful course of action. MPS: Right. And when we die, do they continue to work with us? MJ: Yes, they can. Most will guide the energy-being back from the Earth to ensure they do not get lost. MPS: So, are ghosts just energy-beings that got lost? MJ: They can be. Some energy-beings are ill-prepared for their physical death because they have formed a powerful attachment to the earthly realm. The shock of death may cause malfunction in the transitioning of the energy-being, so to speak. Thus, they get stuck
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for a while. This can be a karmic issue too. MPS: In normal conditions, what actually happens after the energybeing has left the body and returned to the energy planes? MJ: You might call it confession. MPS: Like Christian confession? MJ: No, I am joking a little but there is a process of debriefing by which spirit guides take energy-beings through their life and discuss cause and effect so that the contract can be reviewed. After this, energy-beings go back to school. MPS: School? MJ: Yes, each returns to their learning group. MPS: How are these groups organized? MJ: By vibration, level and skills. MPS: What skills do you mean? MJ: Every energy-being has skills that can be grouped. I am a philosopher, for example. There are schools for all talents. MPS: What do we learn in these groups? MJ: You learn how to develop your natural potentialities and deal with certain situations that you may not have dealt with so well in the physical realm. In the energy planes, the learning process is much easier than on Earth but on Earth the benefits are much greater if you practice what you learn. MPS: Is this spiritual school what Christians might call the afterlife? MJ: Yes. But it is not after or before anything. It is a continuation.

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MPS: It is interesting that you would call it a continuation because I would like to talk a little more about how an energy-being develops from life to life, if I may, Master Jacob? MJ: Please do. MPS: The universal breathing that we spoke of months back, that whole process is one of refreshing energy, right? It sows seeds, in a manner of speaking, am I correct? MJ: Yes, in a manner of speaking. MPS: Right, so if we go back to the last exhalation 15 billion years ago, the raw energy released in that breath, over eons of time, connected together to build compound forms that became the physical structures of everything in the universe including the stars and the planets. MJ: Not everything, no. There were already structures in place. The last breath simply enhanced them. MPS: I see. The enhancement that occurred on Earth was an expansion of the molecular diversity that makes this planet so special. I am guessing that the truly special ingredient of Earth, which makes this planet so abundant, is its ability to connect together hydrogen with oxygen. Am I right? MJ: Yes, it is water. The abundance of oxygen here is rare. The abundance of water is even rarer. MPS: On Earth then, as the planet formed from gases into solids and then from molecules into compounds, sentient life was the next step. First simple cells evolved into complex cells, then multi-cellular life, animals, arthropods, fish and amphibians, plants, insects, reptiles, mammals, birds and flowers; over billions of years, each molecular formation became a greater and more powerful vehicle for energy to experience sentient existence.

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MJ: Correct. MPS: Am I also correct, based on our conversations that, as life evolved into more complex organisms, this complexity correlated with the evolution of more highly evolved energy-beings? In other words, the evolution of physical and energetic forms is related? MJ: Indeed, Michael. Do not forget that the energy of a planet and the physical forms upon it cannot be separated from each other. They are the same thing like a yin-yang relationship. As life develops on a planet, the energy of the entire planet develops interdependently. MPS: And as a planet energetically evolves it creates more and more diverse forms of life capable of holding more evolved energy-beings. However, Master Jacob, my understanding of this evolutionary process is that higher states of mind and energy also offer an energy-being a greater sense of separation from the planet? MJ: This is true. The evolution process is one of energy growing out of the collective self, detaching from planetary energy, and becoming an individual but connected self: an energy-being. MPS: But what is the grand plan here? What end does this evolutionary process serve? MJ: Use your mind, Michael. MPS: Is it so that energy as a whole can develop into and experience as great a sum of potential shapes and forms as possible? MJ: Indeed. MPS: Then God really does play dice, so to speak. The breathing process eventually creates infinite free thinking beings, ignorant of their true heritage who can explore endless sums of energetic potential through the dice roll of freewill.
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MJ: Ah, now you have it. MPS: A single entity that knows everything that can be known about itself learns nothing. The process is one of learning. MJ: Correct. It allows unique, new characteristics to evolve that express greater potential and diversity. This is how and why individual energy-beings become philosophers or scientists or artists and so on. MPS: Right, but the inevitable side-effect of all this energetic independence is the potential for more powerful ego to arise, isnt it? Ego separates and divides everything and too much ego can lead the energybeing into Samsara and continuous rebirth. MJ: This is so. But ego is essential for the illusion of separation to arise. MPS: I see. This is how an energy-being grows, I suppose. By disconnecting from the planet through ego, the potential for karma, individual destiny and freewill also arises. MJ: Exactly. But understand that this process is progressive. At lower vibrations an energy-being can be shared among many connected physical forms because the energy is dispersed and lighter, not dense like human energy. This is neither good nor bad, but it means that the being has less of a sense of ego than a human. This occurs in shoals of fish, grasses, forests, ants and other creatures like this. Consciousness is shared among many physical bodies, always seeking to become more and more individual and self-determined in order to express its fullest potential. Many energy-beings have evolved from planets to the energy planes in this way. Planets are the energetic mechanisms by which the universe transforms raw energy into free-thinking energy-beings capable of free expression.

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MPS: In other words, the idea of Mother Earth is absolutely correct, except planets are really mothers and fathers all rolled into one. MJ: Indeed. They are catalysts of creation for new energetic beings. They create the physical bodies through evolution and then dedicate their energy to the beings who will explore the unlimited potential of the universe. MPS: And not just Earth. MJ: No, most planets have sentient life of some sort, even in your solar system, although it is not as physical as on Earth. MPS: Really, even in our solar system? MJ: Certainly. Many on your planet in human form began their existence as energy of planets from your solar system. Humanity is not all Earth energy, Michael. Beings from all over the universes enjoy experiencing life on Earth, in the most physical form possible. MPS: Thats incredible. MJ: No, just natural. MPS: But you have said Earth is quite a challenge. Im sure that energybeings from other planets can get stuck in the cycle of samsara, of rebirth too, right? MJ: This is so, but please do not misunderstand samsara. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with it. It is not a failure. The majority of beings remain in samsara because it is a natural state and simply means that beings are still closely connected to the physical plane from which they were created. On Earth, this serves the purpose of nurturing a being, like a mother nurtures a child by keeping them close to her. However, evolving out of samsara is the only way to grow and the easiest way to do that is to evolve into a physical
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form that allows greater self-determination and accelerated learning. The human form is a magnificent vehicle for that, but it is not the only one and many choose not to be born on Earth, of course. Even on Earth, there have been flora and fauna of all types that have attained enlightenment, but this is rare. A more common process is the one you described: energy evolves to the point where it can be born into human form and possesses the potential to escape the cycle. However, rather than attaining this wonderful liberation, many energy-beings attach to the gross physical experience of life on Earth and become more deeply embroiled in it. MPS: I get it. Energy-beings who are at the stage of collective consciousness cycle automatically through the process of death and life. As the bodies die they are automatically reborn in a physical form suiting the energetic state they have attained. This is the grossest form of samsara and connection to the mother planet. MJ: This is so. MPS: Then, as an energy-being moves through more evolved physical forms and creates a greater separation from the planet of their creation, they win the prize. If they can create equanimity in mind, body and energy-being they attain The Promised Land: soul. MJ: Thats right. Now think carefully about what the true purpose of soul is? What does it allow an energy-being to do, Michael? MPS: It is the vehicle that enables an energy-being to pass into the energy planes when their physical body dies. MJ: Exactly. So, rather than samsara being automatic, they achieve the right to pause between lives and learn from the masters and guides with whom they choose their next incarnation. MPS: Oh right! This is how freewill is exercised before being born. We

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can decide how best to burn off karma by choosing our life and writing the choices into our contract. MJ: Exactly! Do you see the endlessness of this process? The energy-beings in human form were all once raw energy spewed out in a breath of creation from black holes. Over the eons of time this energy gravitated into the human form and, simultaneously, the energy of Earth gradually produced more and more independent energy-beings capable of attaining soul. But you have all forgotten the multitude of physical forms that remain inside each of you as you evolved towards attaining human form; the snakes, trees, bears, fish and single-celled beings that you experienced before this human life. The very purpose of Earth was to develop new and diverse life that could give rise to energy-beings born from the unique energy of the planet but many have become attached to the idea that I am separate from this Earth, separate from the universe from which we were all created. Minds have grasped too strongly at Me, when to liberate your energy from the Earth entirely, you must be Yahweh: I am what I am. MPS: But it seems very ironic that amongst all creatures on this planet, humanity, the species with the most potential to evolve, is also that which has become most disconnected from the energy of nature? MJ: This is so. Humanity is a species that has transcended the collective energy of the Earth where all is one, you have attained the degree of individuality necessary for self-realization and the liberation from samsara but have then chosen to simply stop being aware of your connection to everything and focused almost solely on self-gratification. You have all become so stuck on what you think you own and attached to who you think you are that the energy of the Earth is necessitating change that you are unwilling to make through freewill. MPS: And so the energy reset. To un-stick all that is stuck. So that

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energy can evolve once more and Earth can be what it is supposed to be: a physical reflection of the energy school that awaits all soul beings on the energy planes. MJ: Indeed. MPS: We must learn to let go of every attachment however important it seems. Buddha, Jesus, Allah or Krishna are no less attachments than wealth, beauty, truth or anger. MJ: And what do you think happens to a soul who can let go of all attachments, Michael? MPS: Enlightenment. MJ: But what is enlightenment? What part in the cycle of life does it play? MPS: It is the liberation from samsara, from the planetary energy. MJ: Which means what to the energy-being? MPS: They attain mastery on plane eight or above, just as Buddha did. MJ: So, what then is plane 12? I had to think a while before it struck me. It was as if I had always known the answer, but I had never been able to connect all the dots from the first breath to the last. MPS: My goodnesswe were the point all along. MJ: Indeed. MPS: We are the source. We are the breath. The point of all lives, of everything living, is self-realization: the realization that the purpose of the journey is to return to the source of the original breath from which our energy began. That is plane twelve. It is home.

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MJ: Now you have it. But what would happen if every energybeing returned home? MPS: You mean if every energy-being attained enlightenment? MJ: Yes. MPS: I dont know. Peace? Love? MJ: Let me put it like this: What does the feeling of being one or individual create in the human mind? MPS: Ego? MJ: Indeed. And what is the natural result of ego?

Final Words Dear reader, it is easy for you to put this book down and carry on with life as if nothing has changed. It is safer to remain a couch skeptic than an active instrument of transformation. But every energy-being is a vehicle of transformation and that is exactly what you are. Change in this world is coming whether we like it or not. There has been an energy reset occurring on this planet for nearly a century and no manner of economic plan, social scheme, political uprising or targeted assassination will divert the process. Our only choice, at least the only choice made in consciousness, is to work through this energy personally, from the inside-out. We must each become an observer of the process and not an actor in the movie. We can witness the shift together, in harmony, in Share Circles and communities that care about one another, or we can fall back into the old patterns of fear, distrust and disunity that have divided and conquered humanitys spirit and left so many disenfranchised from a meaningful life or purpose.

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It is a choice to be equanimous or afraid. And the choice is yours. You can live as a human being or as an energy-being; it is up to you, but living as an energy-being requires a shift in values, a shift in purpose and a shift in what you think, say and do in this world. None of us get out of here alive. The nature of physical birth is physical death and we are all going to transfer back into the energy realm at some time or another. This time around, lets make it the last time for as many of us as possible. Lets use the enormous transformational power of the reset, not to sow more misery and karmic ripples but to fulfill a few more of our contracts and spend our remaining decades, years, months, days and minutes of life working to build connections between our mind, body and spirit. This nurtures greater connectivity between families, communities and nations. Lets commit to never giving up on that purpose until we reach our final breath and make that last exhalation of our lungs the soft sigh of a soul who knows they have done everything they could. No regrets. No last words needed. No fight. Die with nothing more to do. Run out of breath because youre all used up. Equanimous has not been about killing sacred cows or shattering illusions. It has been about practice and meeting the terms of our life contracts. It was certainly a part of mine and I hope I have done it justice! I want to spend whatever time I have left in my life practicing awareness and building more and more bridges between all beings on this Earth. This wont happen by conflicting and arguing about what is true and what is false. I will not participate in this process. We can only create peace by offering opportunities for everyone to pause for a second, put down the barrier of intellect that deconstructs everything into meaningless parts and begins seeking something profound from within. Every one of us is born from the breath of the universe. We all began eons ago as fundamental matter. We formed into the Earth. We became the rock, air and seas of the planet until, one day, this Earth did exactly what all other planets in this universe are intended to do: it combined elements into forms that could

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eventually engender the individual consciousness and selfhood that makes us all think I am Me, and caused each of us to fall apart into separate egos. It is time to reconnect. Now is the moment when the rest of your life has meaning. And it is not the meaning that Master Jacob has given you or any of my interpretations of it have offered up. It is not the meaning of Equanimous that matters. It is the doing. Spend the rest of your days looking for your personal meaning in who you are through the awareness practices that work best for you. Nothing else has any consequence on this beautiful planet. There is no other point to being here. Your personal energy, your sense of consciousness and of what you think you are, has been nurtured by the breath of the universe, by the catalytic processes of the planet, by the love of The 144,000, by everything around you because you are an energy-being in a human body, capable of ascending the planes and attaining the ultimate liberation from everything: ascension back to the source. It is now your turn to do it for yourself. It is your time to take responsibility and summon enough courage for the final charge towards your liberation. You have been an amoeba, a squid and a fish and a crab and a tree and a lizard and a dinosaur and a possum and a chicken and a camel and a bear and a tiger and a human, all the time seeking the state of consciousness by which you can finally attain your purpose as an energy-being and free your energy from the arms of your real mother and father: the Earth, that donated its energy to create you as an entity. Now is the time. Now is the best chance you will ever have. You evolved from the indivisible energy of this universe, to feel, become and believe, so that your unique talents and creativity could expand the quantity of expressed potential within an omniverse of limitless potential for the expression of all things. Your path today is no longer to hold onto any of these experiences as yours, but to give them back to everything by returning to the source. To do this, you must relinquish your sense of separation

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and personal identity and realize that you are energy, the breath of the universe, simply believing in the ultimate fantasy: that you are a human, that you are a solely physical being, and that you are divisible from anything that you have ever experienced. That kind of you does not exist and never will however many cars, partners, bank account and debts you acquire looking for it. The universal process I am describing to you today is simple and yet it is can be so, so difficult for us to apply to our lives, when the mechanisms of society deny it with such zeal that we are called mad for adopting any other approach to life than the dreams that have created the current nightmare. But what if we did? What if we were to practice daily, to let go of the sense of separation and connect inside and out? Everything about why we are here, what we are doing about it and how we envisage we could do it better, would change, wouldnt it? And it would change forever. Our assumed identity as John, Suki or Miguel is not who we are. We are not teachers or carpenters or taxi drivers. We are not old or young or middle-aged. We are all one experiencing this oneness individually. Only by dividing into parts could we be nave enough to amass new experience of everything that is possible in a neverending process of never-ceasing possibilities. Our existence is of dividing into parts and returning to one, of disconnecting and reconnecting all things together. We are all, and have always been, breathing. So the message of Equanimous is this: be you. And you dont know who you are until you look. When you finally do look, when you finally take your life contract so seriously that you can approach it with a light heart, dont choose fear. Dont choose to turn away from being different to those who cower in horror of embracing both light and darkness. Dont choose the status quo of people doing the same things and attaining the same divisive results. Dont accept the logical interpretation of life that makes everything into a risk. You have agreed your path before you were born, so wheres the risk? Be you. Be you-nique! Be whatever you

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are with nothing more and nothing less than everything you can be. Living a life of spontaneity, creativity and intuitive choice is no gamble. It is the ultimate jackpot for it places you on the path of the equanimous, where you recognize your energy-being as an experiential entity dispatched into this universe at your own bidding to express yourself in the fullest, most loving and creative manner that is energetically possible. Entertain no more doubt. Grasp freedom with every fiber of your soul and be here. Be now. Be equanimous. And you will be well and at one with everything that feels exactly the same way.

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