Teachings
Carrying Others
In this teaching, I want to begin to explore how each of you can determine who you are carrying in your thoughts, in your emotions, or in your physical body. As we develop spiritually as healers and helpers, carrying others will naturally happen. If you don't know how to determine what or who you are carrying, you will not feel well most of the time.
What I need from all of you in the next month or so is to review the information about the subtle bodies. I am going to make a review today, simply for the preparation for the classes that I will be teaching in April and May, as well as beginning this subject today. For this reason, we will not have to review it that much when I see you, and we can go into a new body of information together.
IThis information I am sharing today is extremely practical not only for your personal life but also to assist you in helping others during these difficult and chaotic times. Each of you will be called to work more than ever before in order to help stabilize and support the people that are around you. In times of spiritual and human transition, there are always a body of individuals and groups, like an army of saints, who are working for the Divine to ease the suffering.
We have been working as a community and have been developing our strength together, and in a sense we have been preparing for this time together and need to be better prepared. One of the very simple parables that Jesus gave is where a woman, a widow, is pleading to the Divine over and over again for help. I am going to read the parable: Luke 18, 1-8.
There was once a judge, who neither feared God nor cared about men. In the same town, there was a widow who constantly came before the judge asking for justice against her adversary.
For some time, he refused. But finally he said to himself, "Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow is such a great nuisance, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her persistence."
This parable is a story that really is for each of us. If there is someone who does not care about people, if we are persistent in telling them the truth, in asking for something, the Divine will even work through them in order to help us. Which means, the Divine hears our prayers, even through the people who have a dark face. God is willing to serve us even through the face of those that look and behave like they are unjust.
Here is the connection with the subject with which I began. What happens to many of us is that we begin to think a thought of another that is negative; we begin to feel the feelings of another that are not good feelings; we sometimes even have illnesses that are not our illnesses. We believe these are our thoughts, our pains and our illnesses. And what I have experienced with many of you is, in that moment, you lose your persistence with the Divine. I don't expect you to change this by today's teaching, but we are going to correct this. And I do expect—depending on your abilities and the nature of your work—that you will have thoughts, feelings and perhaps illnesses from others. The difference is passing them through your body in a very short period of time&mdashone thought, one feeling, maybe a short time with an illness. That is very different than keeping these and calling them your own.
The difference is this: I often have to think your thoughts. Not only do I have compassion for you but I have understanding, because I have stood in your shoes for a moment. Sometimes I experience pain that you feel in your heart, so that I can stand in your heart for a moment. Sometimes, if there is permission, and not all of you have this work to do, my body carries your pain and disease for a short period of time in order to lift some of the burden. But this does not mean that I am meant to be sick. All of you who are on this call and all the people that I am teaching at this time carry the thoughts, the feelings and the physical states of the people you work with and you love.
This year, we are going to develop the ability to determine what is yours and what isn't and how to release it. Also, you will determine what exactly is your gift when it is necessary to carry another's mental, emotional or physical pain. I am going to give you some hints. If you have a very strong, clear mind, you are going to be a person who will be best served to help people clear their minds. You are able to take a thought and pass it through your mind to help correct it.
Some of you are very strong in your emotional body. You may not have a 100% discipline, but you still have a very strong emotional body. You will be those who can transmute and work with the emotional body the easiest. I have developed a very clear mind, but my emotional body is actually my strongest body, and I think that you know what I am talking about. I can handle a lot of chaos emotionally, a lot of insanity, a lot of love, without jarring me. My mental body is much better since I have been living with Ted for 17 years, but it is not my strongest area. So I easily can handle and pass your emotional energy through my system without in any way being jarred. There are others of you that have very strong emotional bodies, and some of you have not given yourself permission to use it fully, and some of you get thrown off because you don't recognize what is yours and what is another's. But that does not mean that this is not your strength.
There are others that can handle a tremendous amount physically, and there are also some of you that have this strength, and you try to use other bodies instead of using the one that you actually have accessible to you.
My intention is for each of you to be responsible for what your strength is, and for some of you I am going to train you to use all of your bodies in precision. In order for us to be successful in this endeavor this year—I would like to complete this subject in a year because there are other subjects that will need to be coming in the future—I need you to be versed in your understanding of these subtle bodies, at least mentally. I don't expect you to be complete in your inter-dimensional awareness. We will continue to work with that this year, as well.
Review of the Bodies
I am just going to make a simple review again of the bodies.
We have the physical body, and we have the subtle, etheric double of the physical body, and this is composed of etheric matter. When the etheric double of the physical body has enough mass to it, we can see it. Throughout history, we have sightings of certain saints who appear at different places at the same time. This means that the etheric double of their physical body is projected through expansion of their etheric field, as the double cannot be detached from the physical. From this intention, their double appears as physical in one place, and their actual physical body appears in another. Two examples of saints who bi-located are Martín de Porres and Father Pio. This capacity comes from the capacity to focus coupled with a Divine purpose.
We have an emotional body and its etheric double. We register feeling forms with our emotional body. For example, when we enter a room, we can know if there is anger, love or grief in a space. Sometimes these feeling forms can have a sense of appearance, a tangible energy in the space that may appear as qualities of moving light.
Some of you have seen these light forms. I am not talking about dancing little dots that come from an electrostatic charge in the air. I am talking about undulating movements of light in larger form. This is the light of the emotional body. This body and its etheric double is composed of a high component of kinetic/movement and sensate/feeling etheric energy.
The mental body and its etheric double is composed of and functions in relationship to our mind and thoughts, and this is not felt, but it is known and it communicates through thought forms. The imprinting/pattern ether is the strongest component of the mental body and its double. The etheric double of the mental body is a bridging point to the causal realms and the causal body.
When we travel interdimensionally, we more often move in a combination of our mental and emotional body as a unit of preception and action. Simply described as an emotional mental body. This is similar to how we function in our outside world. In this way, we are able to better preceive the subtle relationship of thought to feeling and feeling to thought. When these bodies are joined, we can experience them as a singular unit of perception appearing as a subtle light form. The density of that form and the ability of others to perceive it is determined by the capacity of the individual to focus on the density of the body and maintain that focus when projecting it interdimensionally.
Here is an absolute rule: a body cannot communicate with another body other than itself. A physical hand can communicate with a physical hand; an etheric double of the physical body can communicate with an etheric double of the physical body. The laws of the physical body are similar to the laws of the etheric double of the physical body. But they are just a little bit more subtle with the etheric double. When I travel to you in my physical etheric double, you can feel me physically in the space. I can brush up against your body, and you can feel me from your etheric double to my etheric double. With Martín de Porres or Father Pio, you could actually see them physically in their etheric double, because it is so close to the laws of the physical. With the emotional body, we feel when we are emotional, don't we? And we feel others when they are feeling. The perception of that body is going from the perception of the feeling body to the feeling body in relationship to its own laws.
The difference between the emotional body in presence with another person and the emotional as the etheric double of it, is a difference of subtleness. When we are in the presence of others, we are in the presence of their emotional body, and you know what it feels like to be in a room with somebody who is angry and what it feels like to have close proximity to their emotional body. When we are not in the presence of somebody and we feel something, in most cases we are feeling the etheric body of the emotional body of that person. The intensity can be different in that case, and that is one of the reasons we often separate ourselves from someone who is angry, but at the same time we can still feel it, and that would be the difference between being in the presence of the emotional body and being with the emotional body's double. In both cases, you will be perceiving it through your emotional body and through the double of your emotional body—that would be the order of perception. I did say that you would have the experience of a light, a type of light, but it would be a light that generates a quality of feeling. Some people perceive this like an etheric smoke, but this is very different than what happens with the etheric double of the physical. When it concerns the physical, you actually feel like there is a body in the room, and you start looking for it. That is a very different feeling. When it comes to the mental body, it is easier and more subtle, because this is the place that most of you have the biggest problem.
I have to backtrack for a moment. The speed of commincation and movement of the physical is slower than the emotional, and the emotional is slower than the mental. The mental is very, very fast. You can think about this for a moment: how quickly you can think a thought and then the feeling comes, and usually the action of the body comes afterwards.
As a side note, most of you are processing very quickly literally trillions of thoughts every day, and almost none of them are yours. In fact, Sri Aurobindo made a comment in one of his discourses that he determined that probably just about none of his thoughts were his, because most of them were historical. We might say that the only time a thought is ours is when we have an original, creative thought. It does not happen with many thoughts, does it kids? Hilda used to call us all kids, so forgive me, that was a Hilda moment. It's pretty incredible when we think about that.
When you perceive the emanations of the mental body, you will perceive them as thought; a thought will come into you. It comes into your mental body, and you will have the knowing that you have entered a moment of perception that is devoid of feeling and devoid of physical matter, but it has ideas in it. This is one of the great uses of our universities and one of the great reasons to have a laboratory to work in. Because they are structures that hold thoughts. They are essentially an institutional mental body, and you will notice that you will study better and think more clearly in this particular environment, and that is because they are geared and set up to support the mental body. It's not as easy to determine the mental body and the etheric double of the mental body as subtlety of thought. Many of you will experience the subtlety of the mental body as an almost geometric light force.
Here are some of the places you might experience it. Some of you, when you are on phone calls, make little pictures. Most of the time these pictures have to do with the subtle mental body. You are actually making physical structures on paper that are transmuting and receiving the subtle in the mental body. This is almost entirely from the mental body. Some of you, when you are talking and working with the mental body, you move your hands in a particular way, or point your finger, you bend your wrist with your hands up, move your legs, and cross them. Ironically, this has primarily to do with the thought forms and how you process the mental body in the subtle.
We are going to become acutely aware of how we receive the mental and how we receive the subtle body, so we can use them better. There is no problem with the higher mental body, the causal, or the higher feeling body, the buddhic, because neither of these bodies can be penetrated by the personality. They function fully as part of the Divine will, so it is our three lower bodies where we have the most difficulties.
I know that this was a lot of information, but I want you to review this, to think about it in relationship to yourself.
The One Body
Here is a side thought in relationship to this. I have been working with most of you, and hopefully all of you will understand this in time, on something called the One Body. The One Body is absolutely connected to the etheric double of all of your bodies. In other words, the etheric double of your physical, emotional and mental bodies in conjunction with the whole universe, comprise the One Body. I have taught you that the etheric matter of your bodies is the medium of communication between your bodies. The understanding and the experience of this requires us first to be familiar with our distinct etheric nature and then to experience etheric unity with all creation while recognizing our distinctness. We are meant and created to be in the One Body. We are meant and created for a unified consciousness. We are meant to live in the Christ Body. When Christ went through his resurrection, the reality of the One Body was made in form for humanity.
Here is the lineage of the One Body. Originally, at Mount Zion there was a covenant between God and the Jews, and the Jews made One Body, and they made that One Body with the Divine. The reason that the covenant was not made sooner with all people is that the Divine essentially experiments for a period of time with each of the creations. There was a period of time when He experimented with the people of the Holy Land to develop the Law, also to see the problems, because if you look at the line of the Prophets there were a lot of issues that were worked out in the course of their lives and a lot of gifts came through them. What we can see is that at a certain point, the Divine gave birth to the carrier of not only the deep secret love, but also the carrier of the One Body for all humanity. This is not an action of separation from the Divine will. The Divine is extremely merciful and has created streams of religions and different streams of purpose and destiny and service to the Divine will. Every one of you on this call and every one of the people with whom I am connected in the healing school and the Journey, are actually from the line of the Prophets. It does not mean that you cannot practice Buddhism, Hinduism, or Taoism; this is not a conflict, but your roots came out of this particular tradition. Therefore, you have been mandated by your creation and by your Creator to come through the One Body or the Christ Body. That does not mean that Jesus has to become your personal savior, because the people of the Prophets are Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze. The Druze—their prophet is Jethro. There is a whole body of people from Jethro. When the Christian missionaries spread the Gospel of Jesus, and when the Muslim clerics spread their religion, the people they gathered were destined to be called to the line of the Prophets. It is very uncommon, for example, for a Buddhist to become a Muslim, or a Hindu to become a Muslim, because each person came, like a tree, to do their job for the Creator.
I want to go back to the One Body. This time—the 40 days of Lent—and the time of the Easter Sunday celebartion of the risen Christ is a time for us to learn and to develop in a deeper way what it means to come into the Christ Body, or the One Body. That is one of the reasons why I wanted you to work consciously with your isolation, because isolation has nothing to do with the One Body.
For the 40 days of Lent and in the future, I am asking you not to isolate. I am asking you to become One Body with everyone in the universe. I am asking you, and I am telling you that the One Body includes all of the etheric doubles of the whole universe, and I also said to you that you have problems determining what is yours and what is another's, and I said to you that isolation is not a choice to solve the pain and strain of carrying others' suffering. What most of us do when we become overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings and physical problems is: we isolate. The actual medicine for this is to connect consciously to determine what is yours and what is another's. I am wanting you to learn how to be in a big hot tub with the whole universe and know where your body is and know where some one else's is. You are interconnected etherically, but you are not interconnected in your actual emotional, physical and mental bodies. You have a distinct part that is your creation, and then you have a part of you which is etherically connected to the universe at the same time. This is what we are going to work with this year, so that you can actually determine that distinction, not need to isolate, and can stay connected in service and in truly following the Christ message without suffering as much as you have been suffering.
One of the deep esoteric meanings of Jesus the Christ suffering for our sins, is that the One Body actually can carry the whole of humanity. So that when we form the One Body with the whole universe, we process the negativity through that body without being touched. We always see pictures and statues of Christ suffering, but he actually was not suffering—in this state of consciousness, there is no suffering, but it is hard for the human being to comprehend what it is and how it is that the One Body can carry the whole of humanity. But this is something that you are going to come into a direct and immediate awareness of, or if you already have it, you are going to grow it.
I want you to look at the story of Jesus very carefully, at the Stations of the Cross. It would serve you to go to a church and look at them, to read them in the next few days. We are coming up to that that time on April 10th, 11th and the 12th, where we travel the stations of the cross with Jesus. These stations were given to humanity through the Life of Jesus as a means to process, step by step, a thought, an illness or a physical structure for ourselves or another. It can happen in seconds. Walk with him and enter ressurection. When Jesus said he was The Way, it was a very literal explanation. It is not airy fairy. With every single thing that we do, when we are helping ourselves or another, we actually have the opportunity to move through these stations very quickly into a state of resurrection and liberation.
One of the ways of looking at this, is that each of you at a certain time will stop at one of the stations. That would be another way of describing what happens when you get stuck with the thoughts, feelings and the physical sensations and problems of your own or of the people with whom you are associating. Jesus not only gave us the One Body for all of creation, but he also gave us the medicine or the technique by which to pass through the different states of mental, emotional and physical suffering. That is why it is such a great gift. This is something that you can take to reflect on. I don't expect that you have complete understanding of this, but I really expect some of you to start using some of these tools a little more consciously for your own evolution. One of the simplest practices that I have ever done in my life that came from my mother Hilda, is to go to the Stations of the Cross and walk in a church and see at which one you stop. That can tell you where you are spiritually in the moment and can also tell you where you are stuck.
Now I am going to go back to the story with the widow. That moment before you are stuck is the moment to be persistent. Your personality has been stuck in a particular place, and you have to use your persistence and your yearning and your will to allow yourself to not stop with any of the pictures. So we can actually move through and into resurrection and eternal life again. You have all heard me say: Don't stop with the pictures. If you want to make that very simple, it would mean: don't stop with any of the Stations of the Cross, because every picture could come under that metaphor. So as we approach the time of the Easter and the risen Christ, that is what I want from you. Don't stop with any of the Stations. Allow yourself to move through them into the One Body and the Divine.
Nura