"This is Body with Original Spirit, welcome back
to class. As with previous channeling, in this
lesson We'll be using both the singular and plural
pronouns and first and third persons in referring
to Body. In the second attention Body is singular,
in the first attention we are plural... and of
course we have two genders.
"Along with manifesting in two attentions
and in two genders, Body also manifests with two
kinds of awareness... conscious awareness and
sentient awareness. The awareness of Spirit and
mind is called 'consciousness' or 'light,' and the
awareness of Will-emotions and Body-sensations is
called 'sentience' or 'feeling.'
"All of reality on every level is
included in at least one of these two fundamental
kinds of awareness. Spirit's conscious awareness
hosts images and thoughts, and the Mother's sentient
awareness is of feelings and sensations. In any
moment when the two are in alignment, Heart becomes
present... and remains until conscious awareness
turns away, usually in judgment.
"As Spirit has said earlier in this
class, reality is
ultimately a subjective affair... it exists
only as it is perceived. 'Who' perceives is you.
'What' you perceive is your 'reality.' And how you
perceive or behold reality... is with your
awareness.
"If in the moment you have more
consciousness and less sentience, you will
experience more thoughts, ideas, spiritual
understandings and light, with fewer feelings
about them. In other words, you'll be more 'in
your head.' If in the moment you have more
sentience, and less consciousness... you will
experience more emotions and bodily sensations,
but with little thought about them. In other
words, you'll be more 'emotional' or 'in your
body.'
"If you experience any combination
of consciousness and sentience... you are alive.
Life, all life has both kinds of awareness... and
all fragments are alive. The sun is alive, the
moon is alive, the galaxy is alive, and so is
every particle, from the fragments that make up
atoms to the galaxies that make up your
'universe.' All living things have awareness, both
consciousness and sentience. Life is the essence
of manifestation, Body's essential quality.
"Your human awareness is vast and
varied. Each nerve cell in your body, and every
other kind of cell as well... has a life of its
own. Each cell is a focal point of awareness. But
what kind of awareness? In manifestation there is
much more sentience than consciousness. As
discussed earlier in this class, there is much more of the
feeling, magnetic-Will essence in
manifestation than there is the thinking,
electric-Spirit essence.
"Trees, for instance are very
sentient, but not very conscious. Human
consciousness can easily say, 'Trees have no
awareness...' But trees very much do have
awareness. They have sentient awareness,
feelings... it's just that most humans are unable
to perceive the kind of sentience that trees have.
"With the exception of themselves
and their fellow mammals, humans have a great deal
of trouble perceiving any of the incredible, deep
sentience in Creation. And a great many humans are
challenged to fully perceive even their own
sentience... because they are often so much 'in
their heads.'
Consciousness in Body
"In order to work together in the
healing, Will, Spirit and Body must to be able to
relate well with each other. The first step in
relating with Body is to be able perceive me. For
instance, right now in the first attention I'm
moving my eyes to scan these lines of type as you
read. Can you feel Body doing this? How does it
feel?
"Thank you for stopping and paying
attention to something you may not have noticed in
a while... Body in the first attention, the
already manifested part of Deity closest to you.
In fact, your constant companion and best
friend... remember?
"What else do you notice about me?
Can you sense the pull of gravity that draws me
into the seat or whatever is supporting us? Is
there any discomfort, any place where you feel
Body may want to move or change position? If so,
thank you for helping me. Thank you for noticing
Body and allowing me to adjust myself for more
comfort.
"If you have done this, you have
used your consciousness to be of service to your
sentience. By becoming consciously aware of even a
slight sentient discomfort, and giving that part
of Body or Will the loving light of your conscious
awareness, you have helped consciousness serve
sentience, you have helped the God of Love become
present with something needing healing in your
Body or Will.
"This has not been the general
rule, in any Creation. Ever since manifestation
began, consciousness has insisted that sentience
should serve him. I say 'him' because
consciousness, light, Spirit... is more expanding
and outgoing or 'pushy,' the more masculine
awareness. And of course sentience, emotion,
sensation, Will, the Mother... is more indrawing
and magnetic, the more feminine awareness.
"The fundamental problem in
Creation has been a result of the power that
consciousness has held over sentience. At first
glance it seems natural. Spirit and consciousness
seem to be stronger, wiser and quicker. Why
shouldn't they be in charge?
"The answer lies in the feeling
nature of Will. The Mother's sentience holds the
key that makes it possible for consciousness to
exist. Her magnetic essence knows just what is
right and what is not right in any given moment...
by the way it feels.
"Consciousness can look at the
situation and 'see' what is needed, but without
the feeling sense in the Will that is holding the
situation in manifestation, he cannot really know
what is right. A great many manifestations that
look good but feel bad have resulted from the
conscious awareness of Spirit having dominance
over the sentient awareness of the Mother.
"The time for mind to rule over
Body and the emotions is coming to an end. There
is so very much magnetic essence in need of
cooperative, helpful, loving Light. So much Will essence has
been 'lost' that now something very
different must happen... if life is to go on.
"Consciousness has believed he
knows what's best, while sentience knows
she knows. And it hurts when her knowing
is denied or ignored by consciousness. It hurts
when consciousness 'decides' what should or should
not happen in Creation without reference to the
needs and desires of sentience. As with the trees,
for instance.
"Healing Body, Body healing
Creation... this will happen. It will happen
because Body has the parentalness and power to
bring consciousness from its position of master
over sentience... to the much healthier position
of her servant. Only when consciousness is at the
service of sentience can the real healing begin.
"You are Body in human form, and
whether you have realized it yet or not, you have
incredible skill and potential in both powers of
awareness. As Body, both consciousness and
sentience are at your command.You, and only you
can do this thing that has never been done. But
how will you turn a tide that has been going the
wrong way since the beginning, since the
foundations of manifestation were first laid?
"The answer is in your willingness.
The willingness of conscious awareness to serve
sentient awareness is the first necessary step in
healing within Body. In my introduction to the
healing class on Body, I pointed to finding and
encouraging the willingness
to heal as the first key step. Now I'd like
to begin discussing the second step."
The Second Dimension of
Time
"There is another dimension of time
that is hidden to most humans, but quite obvious
to 'higher consciousness.' The ordinary conception
of time is like a line that goes from the past
through the present and into the future. Events
can be placed on this line, and it is used to
organize and make sense of much of human
experience. But linear time is only one dimension
of time.
"The second dimension of time can
be understood if you imagine that rather than a
completely straight line, linear time unfolds as a
giant spiral or circle that comes back again to
its beginning, like the rim of a wheel.
"Now imagine that each moment on
the line of time, each moment on the rim of the
wheel... is connected by a spoke that goes all the
way to the wheel's central hub. Linear time still
unfolds as a spiral-like line, but each moment
along that line is connected to a single, central
point through a 'spoke' in the wheel. In this
metaphor the spokes and hub represent the second
dimension of time.
"The first dimension of time is the
cornerstone of the first
attention... and along with the three
dimensions of space, it constitutes the four
dimensional space-time continuum. The second
temporal dimension, however, exists only in the second attention
when physicality is limited to only four
dimensions.
"The place in the center, at the
hub of the wheel... is beyond all time, and has
access to every moment... past, present and
future. As a seeker moves inward toward the hub,
they move toward higher and higher consciousness.
"This place at the hub, in the
center of time, is the single eternal moment
through which consciousness can behold all of
manifestation... including all the events and
realities at the rim, all the fixtures and forces
of the first attention.
"From the perspective of the hub of
the wheel, the rim and all of its manifestations
are illusionary. They exist in time, and from the
point of view of eternity... they are not real. In
other words, from this point of view the first
attention and everything in it is illusionary.
From the point of Eternal Now, linear time and the
space and energy and matter associated with it
appear to be temporary, impermanent. Only this
single eternal moment of cosmic consciousness
experienced at the hub seems to be 'real.'
"This understanding has been the
basis of many religions and philosophies. And in
those terms 'attainment' has meant leaving the rim
of the wheel, leaving the world of pain and
suffering, the world of 'Maya'... and moving as
far into the second attention as possible, by
traveling in the second dimension of time toward
the hub, toward the Eternal Now. This point of
absolute presence is where one may experience
themselves as the crown of Creation, and indeed
its Creator.
"This is the journey of the
spiritual masters and mystics and many
practitioners of magic. It is considered to be the
way of conquering death, because in eternity... in
the single moment of 'Now' or 'all time,' there is
no death. In these terms death is part of the
illusion of linear time, just an another element
along the rim of the wheel of karma.
"But all this 'attainment' has been
leaving something out... Body
and the Mother. The
Will and Body of Creation have been left behind by
these 'adepts.' They were necessary steps to the
attainment of permanent cosmic bliss... but here
in the 'Now,' they are no longer necessary.
"And although nothing has seemed
wrong with this, when consciousness has moved into
the 'higher realms' away from the first attention,
away from sentience... and particularly away from
the most difficult parts of the feeling essence,
it has in effect left manifestation itself behind.
It's been a journey of return to Original Heart, but
without Body, and without the Mother's most vital
parts. And it always has ended in singularity,
oneness without true peers. This was not Original
Heart's intention in splitting itself to create
manifestation. And it is nothing like the Mother's
dream.
"And yet to 'higher consciousness'
this has seemed for all world like the right
direction to go, and even though Body has been
placated in the process... this permanent
withdrawing of consciousness has not been helping
the healing of the pain and suffering of the lost
Will in Body. This has not been consciousness in
the service of sentience. This has been
consciousness escaping the limitations it has
perceived certain kinds of sentience had placed on
its freedom. It's been the old story of Spirit
lifting out of the pain, suffering and
hopelessness of Body and the Mother."
The Third Dimension of Time
"There is yet another dimension to
time. Imagine, if you will, that the wheel is not
flat, but rather shaped like a cone. In other
words, the rim of the wheel forms the
circumference at the base of the cone, and the hub
becomes the point at the vertex. If it where
standing upright, the cone would resemble the
shape of the pointed hat traditionally worn by
wizards and witches.
"In this view the base of the cone
or brim of the hat is the four dimensional
universe of the first attention. The point at the
top of the hat is now the central, all present
single moment of eternity that includes all other
moments in the second attention as they unfold,
all the way down to the bottom where linear time
of the first attention is like the brim of the
hat.
"'Spiritual attainment' has meant
essentially that consciousness leaves the brim and
moves up to take permanent residence in the
all-powerful present moment of Creation. But this
is not true wholeness. In this scenario Body is
left to die its 'illusionary' death. And Will is
left without the light or consciousness that she
needs to bring herself out of her pain.
"The Mother, the Will of Creation
is based in sentience. Our metaphor can be
expanded to include her reality too. She is not
only present at the brim, in the upper chakras, but in all
the chakras below as well.
"Now imagine two cones, with their
bases together. One points upward like the
wizard's hat... that's consciousness. The other
points downward, like a downward moving vortex or
whirlpool... that's sentience. In the middle, at
the widest point is Heart, balancing the feeling
sense of sentience with the knowing sense of
consciousness.
"In the upper cone or whirlpool is
consciousness and light...ever rising up in glory,
abundance and bliss. In the lower cone or
whirlpool is sentience, dropping down ever lower
into darkness, pain and misery... in the absence
of the Light which has risen away from her. And
all of this, both consciousness and sentience...
all of this is Body.
All awareness, all consciousness
and sentience is of and in manifestation, it is
the totality of existence. And real wholeness,
true wholeness demands that it all be
included. Nothing can be lifted out of or left
behind."
Loving Light and Empowering Light
"Spirit
and Grandfather have said
that this is to be a complete recovery
of all the lost Will essence of all the Creations.
This includes everything necessary to realize the
Mother's Dream, and this means that all of
her lost parts will be reclaimed.
"In order for this to happen, the
direction of Spirit's movement, the traditional
preferred direction of consciousness... must
change. Instead of rising up and away from the
first attention and all the Will essence that is
in pain and drudgery there, it must come back down
and be with her. And moreover, loving Spirit as
your own conscious awareness must be willing to
move all the way down to the deepest and darkest
Hells that exist at the bottom of the lower
vortex.
"Heart has said that there are two
kinds of Light... Loving
Light and empowering Light. Empowering Light
has been rising up and away from lost Will,
seeking ever more freedom, power and glory.
"Loving Light, truly exalted
consciousness, conscious awareness with the intent
to heal... is Light that is coming down from the
heights of glory and power to be with the most
anguished terror in Hell. Loving Light is truly
worthy of the title 'God.' It is Light that's
willing to somehow find its way... to dwell with
the Mother and her most painful realities in Hell.
"Just as empowered consciousness
can know the pleasures of eternal bliss in the Now
of the single present moment... loving
consciousness is willing to also know the abject
pain of the eternal suffering in the forever Now
of the Mother's deepest and darkest sentient
awareness.
"But who will do this? Who would
voluntarily bring their consciousness from the
heights of the cosmic glory and power they have
attained... to the hopeless depths of torturous
pain and despair? The answer of course is you, the
human whose intent is the healing of Creation.
"Only those who are already in
manifestation are capable of completely
identifying with Body in both attentions... and
then reclaiming all of the lost Will of Creation,
all of the lost Will in manifested existence.
Isn't this you?
"Only you are capable of bringing
unmanifested Spirit and the eternal glory of
Heaven to its new home here on Earth.This is the
essence of the healing work, the culmination of Original Spirit's
search for the Mother's Body. And in the
next part of this lesson we'll discuss some
practical methods you may find useful in doing
this work.
"It is both your conscious
awareness of the highest, most glorious spiritual
realities of joy and Light... and your spirit's
love for consciously knowing the sentient
awareness of the deepest, most hopeless realities
of the Mother's pain and suffering. These
qualities are what will enable you as Body to
bring together the two opposite poles of Creation
in their completely whole, loving union...
manifesting who you truly are, New Heart in Body."
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