Today, I'd like to take a moment to answer an important question regarding self-talk.
Andrew asks:
"I have a question I would like some help with.
If you have voices in your head talking to you and influential feelings within, how do you distinguish whether to act on them or not? This is because it may be:
1 - Your lower self / past experiences still affecting you
or
2 - Your higher self communicating with you
I ask this question because I find trying to make the best decision based on one’s feelings is sometimes tough. Does you have any advice as to how to determine which voice it is?!"
Love and chi
Andrew
Dear Andrew,
Please follow with me here:
1. The Higher-Self (HS) is the Soul. Soul itself is a direct emanation of God, existing in vertical time. Itself, without any wants, needs or desires. Think of Soul as a seed, which itself will exist without action for untold periods of time, all the while, holding the potential of the entire tree or plant within. The Soul is Unconditional Love. The key word here is "Unconditional". There is no line of demarcation between yin and yang here - no "tai-chi", just Wu-Chi.
2. Soul (HS) is actualized by Spirit. In actual fact, all souls on the planet are not "Souls", but are Spirit-Souls. The seed cannot express itself in space-time without earth, water, fire (sun), air, and ether (space) as an experiential matrix. Spirit emanates from Wu-Chi - an ABSOLUTE Vacuum, which is not empty in the sense conveyed by the word "vacuum", but rather ABSOLUTELY Full, creating a condition of Fullness, which in philosophy is called the "plenum". Spirit then, is created by the Absolute exchange of Emptiness or Vacuum with Plenum. Our sun is a very close approximation of this state in that it is absolutely full of itself, yet spiritually, is absolutely empty. One must get past the pure material aspects of a star to understand this. Steiner beautifully describes something that I have personally witnessed many times. The sun is essentially a perfectly spherical mirror within. It contains all the purified souls awaiting bodies and their radiance is so magnificent as to create the light radiating from it. Here we have a condition akin to the human body in that we have a body that can be analyzed from a purely physical perspective (bones, muscles, guts, blood, water, etc.) yet clearly there is a spiritual (soul) being residing within as "conscious". This is the soul, yet within soul (your consciousness) is Soul, or Divine Consciousness - The Watcher. Watching is NOT "doing" it is essentially "being" or existence itself.
The exchange of energy that takes place as God (The Absolute) enters the relative is exemplified as the eternal return in metaphysics. This essentially means that God as Void empties Self at the same rate that God Fills Self. This is exemplified by the infinity symbol, which is essentially a sign-wave that doubles back on itself infinitely and infinitely fast. The result is that spirit is essentially everywhere and nowhere at one and the same time. Soul is the "Nowhere" of it, while Spirit is the Everywhere of it. This may seem complex, but it isn't really. You experience this phenomenon every time you look in the mirror. You are the plenum (full of yourself), while the mirror (void) is so empty as to immediately be full of you! I describe this function throughout the human body in PPS Lessons 9 and 12. If you were to measure the speed at which an object appears in a mirror, it would essentially be the speed of light because it is measured by physical instrumentation that is limited to that speed as maximum, yet, if measured spiritually, via your own soul, the speed of expression would be infinite because the test was completed before it started. Your measurement was completed before you measured it. The soul is a vertical-time reality and to measure anything is a linear time assessment. This is one of the very reasons so many people can't wrap their head around God or spiritual truths. They want a Newtonian framework to explain a quantum reality which is akin to trying to dry off with a towel while submerged in water! "Bless them Father, for they know not what they do!"
3. The body and brain, in which the self-talk is registered, is earth, water, fire, air, ether, mineral, plant, and animal in construction. It is only "man" because of the psychogenic evolution that resides within the body. Rumi states, "God sleeps in the mineral kingdom, dreams in the plant kingdom, moves in the animal kingdom, and awakens to Himself in man."
4. Body is a "desire~will" expression in the biosphere: The emptiness of the Divine Void creates Absolute Desire (exemplified as the female and the uterus in man and most animals), while the plenum is expressed as Absolute Will (exemplified as the male and penis in man and most animals). Seen another way, the female/vagina is the negative pole of a sign wave, while the male/penis is the positive pole, yet since both are reflections of each other and can only be "relative" expressions of Soul (Absolute Unity), to the degree that the male is represented as a positive sign wave, he must also exist as a female, therefore casting a shadow into the negative pole of equal and opposite magnitude. The male's female potential is seeded to the degree that he does not express it. It is worth noting that all Avatars are so equally male and female as to be undifferentiated to the average person's perception. See Krishna and Babaji for examples! This constant exchange of expression of potential (spirit-will-positive) as the male or male personality and the female or female personality (spirit-will-negative) is what produces movement throughout the entire universe! It is also what creates movement within "you!" IT IS ALSO WHAT CREATES CROSS TALK IN YOUR HEAD, for your head/brain is merely an elaborate two-way radio existing in and of the Divine Mind, which is essentially the entire Universe.
Every cell in a living organism of the biosphere has basic survival needs, which are coupled with innate self-serving instincts designed to increase the likelihood of fulfilling those needs. Your stomach is empty and it wants to be filled, your colon is full and wants to be emptied, your eye is empty, yet full of what you look at, your heart is empty but desires to be full, your brain (ventricles) is empty and wants constantly to be full. Ahhh...Yessss, so here we are Andrew....now we come to the point...Each of us with a body has bodily needs:
- food
- warmth
- water
- shelter/security
- space
- Love!
To the very degree that one's body is perceptibly lacking (desire) (perceptibly because many drugs and other psychophysical conditions can create perception of lack), inner -dialogue is created in attempt to move you toward "full-fill-ment" (will). Our job as CHEK Practitioners is to aid people in distinguishing which of their desires are in actuality "healthy or unhealthy" and by guiding them to physical/biological health, we progressively teach them how to manage the necessary or requisite desires for life, such as safety, hunger, and thirst, and how to avoid the unwanted desires from drugs, dangerous processed food molecules, toxicity, and the plethora of mental-emotional ills.
STIR THE BUCKET OF MILK LONG ENOUGH AND YOU GET CREAM, THEN BUTTER!
What most people hear in their head then, is the incessant dialogue of the Hu-man (Hu = humus, man = Ani-man). To the degree that their soil (food and symbiotic biological organisms are deficient or antagonistic/ at war) they are constantly getting messages from the respective organs, glands and tissues, not to mention their indwelling biological organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites to acquire what "they need". Since very few people can distinguish these messages from "their own" because they only associate themselves as "body" (these same people, by the way, are the ones that think the sun is but a ball of hydrogen,the earth a big rock, and God is out there... and while they may tell you that's not true, remember, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!), they find themselves constantly in an internal tug-of-war as to what is and what isn't true, what is and what isn't a want vs. a need...and so on.
When a voice in the head is asking you for something – get some ice cream, you’re horny, go get some sex, you aren't safe, you need a sugar-daddy, get MONEY NOW, or, get love - get love - get it - get approval, you are empty, alone, nothing...get love, get approval – THEN YOU KNOW FOR SURE YOU ARE NOT LISTENING TO THE SOUL!
The Soul has no need in and of itself and exists in, but not "OF" the physical world, just as your reflection in the mirror is "in, but not of the mirror itself". Remember, the Soul is Wu-Chi or the mathematical equivalent of Zero or neutron, while desire = proton and will = electron. There can be no positive nor relative negative save the unconditional love of the neutron, around which all action (will~desire) takes place.
Therefore, when one communicates with or takes commune in the Soul, it is like speaking to your Loving Grandmother or Grandfather, who in and of themselves, have lived so fully and completely that they can give you love and advice without being polarized or judgmental. The advice given from Soul will ALWAYS lead you toward Self-Realization or Unity. The advice given by the body or any other incumbent spirit-being residing within you will always be such that it leads you to think that it's desire is your desire and that your will is it's will! In short, the communication almost always ends up directing you to act in some way to fulfill a desire.
THIS IS WHY I PUT SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON HAVING A HEALTHY BODY TO HAVE A HEALTHY MIND, both of which are requisites for achieving an authentic spiritual life. One must purify themselves enough to be capable of differentiating the lower-self from the Higher-Self as both and internal and an external reality in life. This is exactly why my PPS training begins with Lesson 1 – “How To Find and Live Your Legacy", followed directly by Lesson 2 – “Self Management", which is the study of how the mind is programmed and how the body~mind system actually works.
Love and Chi,
Paul Chek