Spiritual exercise goes by other names, other synonyms, like “Do all things in the name of the Lord.” The name of the Lord is first of all something that’s inaudible. So that makes it kind of challenging until you realize that name is already being called out. It doesn’t really require much of anything from you other than a willingness and intention to hear and to listen to the Lord.
We use the ear as a symbolic reference point. What we find is that there’s this membrane that acts as a receiver of the vibration. Sound is a vibration more than anything else. Sound is heard because it gets things vibrating. Then those vibrations put out an energy, and then the variations in the vibration can be heard as a sound.
The physical, human ear is tuned to a band of vibration. The spiritual ear is tuned to a much wider band. That’s really the one we’re interested in. So if there’s a membrane, a receiving mechanism for the human ear, then consider there’s a receiving mechanism for the spiritual ear, for however we would manage to hear what is physically inaudible as the sound current.
First of all, that requires a certain kind of intention having to do with bypassing what’s heard physically. There’s something about what’s heard physically that has a grabbing nature. So it’s very easy to get fixed on what we hear physically. We’re conditioned as human beings to do that because that’s how we function physically. There’s an attribute which works for us to be attuned, to listen physically. It has a value in giving us information so that we can respond better. It also has value as a protection.
It takes intelligence and commitment to bypass the physical sound. It’s not about canceling it. So you’re not asked to cancel yourself in your physical experience although some people interpret the physical experience as being unnecessary. What’s important is that you have a willingness to move beyond the physical, to what has been called the metaphysical, the spiritual, or the psychic areas of your consciousness. That’s done because you can.
Spiritual exercises are not based on a physical ability. So if you judge yourself based on your physical ability, you’re likely going to give up before you start. The importance is to have an intention, a willingness, an openness to move beyond your capabilities as you know them. It’s about opening yourself to unknown abilities.
What we talk about is a technique called a tone. As we chant that tone and we do our physical part, it has a magical characteristic that transmits consciousness and awareness beyond the physical. It’s chanting a tone that’s charged, so that’s an important element. It’s not merely what’s written on a piece of paper or what could be spoken. You could have the tones that we work with spoken or written, but they’re still not charged. It takes the spiritual charging. Someone that has that charge can then chant those tones. Once you pick up the charge yourself, then you can, in effect, do it for yourself.
As you vibrate the name of the Lord for yourself, that’s a spiritual exercise that has a way of taking something and sort of shaking it. It has a way of equalizing just by you vibrating with the tone. It shakes out what doesn’t really belong, and it balances out things that are not in rhythm. So that’s one of the great values of chanting the tone. It releases what’s not part of that higher vibration because it just can’t hold on.
There’s a physical process called the centrifuge that’s practiced in chemistry where you spin something very rapidly to purify. If you want to get something that remains in a liquid state, but it has material elements in it, you can put it in the centrifuge and the material elements are spun out. The liquid element is then much more pure. That’s part of what we do as we chant our tone.
When you move with that higher vibration, it’s like centrifugal force. As it moves, things that cannot maintain that movement are thrown off and the things that can maintain the movement hold. So chanting the tone is purifying. You can actually precipitate out by this movement the things that are material, and what’s left can be very pure.
What I would recommend is that you chant the name of the Lord, have that vibration, as you leave the world each day and as you enter it. Those are very important points. It’s like sunrise and sunset. There’s a transition there. There’s a birthing of consciousness as the soul is re-entering the flesh. It doesn’t have to happen just once a day. It can happen many, many times a day.
What we strive for is that it’s constantly happening. So you develop an ability to leave the body and re-enter very rapidly, rather than something that takes a long period of time and only during the sleep or unconsciousness processes. Those times are an automatic way that everybody does in some version.
What we’re doing is we’re refining that process of leaving and entering the body. You can pick up a more charged vibration because you’re doing the spiritual exercise as you walk through the world. You can walk in a refined state that becomes the way of the Lord. It takes care of all the things you brought up automatically because it gives you the altitude, higher vision, knowledge, and wisdom. It gives you the loving consciousness that takes care of yourself.
That loving consciousness overflows as an outpouring so that where you walk, the name of the Lord, the vibration, is charged where you step or put yourself physically and where you put your thoughts. Those thoughts become something that’s charged so that you could look at a plant and it’s blessed in that vibration. It’s much more multi-dimensional than that. I’m giving it specifics so you can look practically and relate to the experience as, “Oh, I can do that” or “I already do that.” There’s a recognition that goes on that wakes you up so you’re remembering yourself as a spiritually-charged being — someone who is known and claimed by the Lord because you carry that vibration.
It’s been talked about as something like a stamp on the forehead, which would be like a physical identification point. It’s more easily seen in the eyes because that vibration will go out through the eyes, but it doesn’t just go out through the eyes. It’s a vibration that resonates all over although it has more of an opening through the eyes. Then if someone can see the spiritual centers, they would more directly see that vibration in others.
Seeing spiritually is usually something that people do obliquely. If I look at you physically, an automatic conditioning is engaged. I’m locked in that physical reference point. One of those things that we’re practicing is relaxing the physical engagement so that we can still be aware of the perceptions.
It takes a lot of practice and tremendous ability to have your eyes and ears open into the physical world and still be open in the spirit. Not too many people do that because it’s a big, big stretch. So we practice, and we’re practicing. It’s not important that you understand and comprehend. It’s important for you to choose it and claim it as your true nature.
One of the ways that people disconnect themselves from their blessings is because they don’t claim the blessings consciously. Instead, they open their eyes, and they identify with the world. Some people dread that it’s morning instead of, “Oh, God! It’s a good morning! I’m born again! I’m awake in the world, and I’m still in the spirit!” That’s the beauty. That’s the magnificence. And it’s allowed to go out as a vibration that makes beautiful what might be considered ugly or profane. It has that transformative quality that dissolves the negative and becomes the good.
There’s a story in scripture where Jesus and the disciples are walking along and the disciples say, “Oh, look at the ugly, smelly dog carcass.” Jesus looks and says, “See those pearly teeth!”
What’s going on? The transformative vision is tuning in to the highest quality of what’s seen and experienced in the world. That’s the same one that says, “When you’re seeing me, when you’re hearing me, that’s the Father,” because there is no real difference here. The lines are open.
That consciousness that is the highest God is transmitting its relationship into the flesh, and it does it with ordinariness. So all the elements of the human being are intact. They’re not somehow put aside or exempted. They’re intact while the vibration of the Lord, the Father, the Father-Mother-God vibration, is transmitting and has the driver’s seat in what’s driving the human being, the flesh.
It’s like using a clutch with a manual transmission. If you don’t have that clutch engaged, you can work the gears all day long and never get your car really moving. So the clutch is a mechanism that is required to put the car in gear.
As a responsible creator you invite or invoke your intentions. If you forget you’re divine, then the tendency is to act from a reactive or lower nature. You tend to remember fallacy and inadequacy and act accordingly. There tends to be a lot of stumbling, fumbling, bumbling, falling, getting bruised, getting upset, wanting to blame, and wanting to take it out on something or someone. All of that has to come back to the creator. It’s not likely very fun when it comes back.
Upon awakening, as you realize you are entering the world, as you come conscious to yourself in the world, that moment is a critical choice point. In that moment, you can become instantly aware of the vibration of the Lord. It’s a sacred, holy vibration. You can have a sense about yourself that you’re sacred and you’re holy first, even if you have done things that don’t represent your sacredness. You don’t need to identify with your negative creation. You can release negativity. You could say to yourself, “That’s not like me. That’s not me. I forgive myself. In fact, it’s so much not like me, I am just going to forget about it. I release the negativity as any kind of a reference point for my consciousness.”
The beauty of grace is that the Spirit does it for you to a certain degree. It takes it out of the conscious memory and puts it in a repository in the unconscious or the subconscious to be dealt with later when you’re more able to handle it. Remember, God gives us only what we can handle.
So the two main points about tuning into the soul vibration are: First — as you’re leaving the world, as you realize you’re going out of the body, which takes some awareness and vigilance, be conscious that you’re moving out of the body. Second — as you do that, you want to have the focus on this vibration. It gives you a target for where you are going as you leave the body. This vibration will keep you directed into the highest levels. If you’re not holding the vibration, then you’re subject to whatever vibration you’re holding, like the last thought you had.
There’s a story from John-Roger of a shop owner and his sons. The shop owner knows he’s dying, and he’s having his sons chant the names of God. Suddenly, he realizes they’re all around him and he says, “Who’s minding the store?” and then he dies. So his last thought was on worrying about who’s minding the store, and he got taken into that.
Another element to that, like the moral of this story, is about the importance of chanting the name constantly and having that constantly on your lips. You may ask, “These physical lips?” No, the ones that are inside, the ones that are spoken from your heart.
It’s also that you’re vigilant in upholding the principles and standards of thy God, the worship, to the end. Take care that you’re not mocking the principles by thinking something like, “Well, I know there’s this redemption plan. So in the last moments, I claim the redemption. Up to the last moments I can mess around, fool around, and not really hold up the standards. In the last moment I’m going to claim that forgiveness clause and claim the Lord like a thief on the cross.”
If you’ve got the opportunity in the last moment to claim the Lord, then claim Him. So no matter what, claim that vibration. But if you know that in reality it’s for you to do now, to uphold that vibration and constantly be raising and lifting yourself because that’s what that vibration does, then maintain that vigilance.
With that vigilance comes a great responsibility to maintain that vibration. You start living more and more sanctified. It’s not so much about the content of what you do. It’s much more the intent by which you do it.
Let’s say that you kill. What does that mean? You sacrificed some form of life, animal, plant, or whatever it was. In order to sustain this level, something gets sacrificed. The life force of that substance, we take in. Some people try to back out of that and say, “I’ll just become a breatharian.” Well, they’re still killing the air. They may argue, “Air is not alive.” It isn’t? You’re saying that it’s not a living vibration? It’s not something that the life force that is God’s energy is in as it is in all of creation? You’re saying it’s not in the elements of oxygen? How long would any of us survive in this world without oxygen? Remember, out of a living God comes all things. All things are alive in God.
We really can’t get away from taking on the gift of God. So in knowing that life is a gift that we receive, we can give thanks. We can give thanks for our breath, for our food, for the clothing we wear, for the places we go that offer us a sanctuary. That’s another way of being grateful, and I’ll spell it this way — graceful. You have God’s grace in and through you in all that you do.
Grace is in our next breath, and that grace is sustained out of a consciousness of the gift that is received. The praise goes up in receiving the gift. Praise is really an appreciation of what is being done for us. You can maintain that appreciation constantly. You can have a constant prayer that is in praise, a praise of God, a praise of the Lord. It’s not about verbalizing it. It’s the attitude that all things are somehow appreciated even if we don’t understand them. We don’t strike out against the least one. We leave it to God as a trust that good is the essence of all of the creation.
Remember the secret of soul transcendence from John-Roger? “Look for the good, the divine, in all people and things and leave the rest to God.” That’s looking for the good and being grateful. When you don’t see good, trust that good is still present. That’s leaving the rest to God.
You might think, “God, I just can’t see the good in this. So I’ll leave it to You. I trust who You are and what You’ve done so all of creation is good.”
You don’t need to understand. You don’t need to know why God would do such a thing or why God would allow such a thing. Choose to trust that it is good, and praise God.
Often the best way to praise the Lord is to do that in silence, inwardly, least we get tempted by what we experience outwardly to react, to forget the divine and to forget that it is all good. One way you can experience it physically is you feel like you’re smiling inside. You feel yourself beaming and glowing within. It doesn’t have to be something that gets out as an effusive quality. It can be just an inner sense that things are right with God. It’s a beautiful day regardless. These are the qualities I associate with the Saints. As the negativity visits them, the Saints just maintain that beaming smile inside. It’s in a transcendent place that can’t be corrupted or somehow taken by what goes on in the world. It really is beautiful. So realize that your sainthood is present because it takes one to know one.
Baruch Bashan
A Blessing of the Mystical Traveler
Father-Mother God, we ask at this time, as those who are gathered as Your initiates and ministers in the Christ and the Traveler’s work being done in this world, that we do extend the energy, the Light, that touches each Soul and turns them to God.
We ask to be those who are emissaries of the Sound Current, those who carry that Sound of initiation, so that where we walk, the ground is touched with this energy and vibration with God.
We ask to be instruments of Your blessing, to do whatever we can to stand in Your place, to speak Your message, to be available to those who do not yet know what they seek.
We ask to be opened in our consciousness, that we are sensitive to Your pulse, to Your direction.
We ask to be willing to be available to put aside our personal agendas, interests, and attachments, that we may bless those, through You, who are looking to have their soul anchored to God.
We take this moment to allow ourselves to see a vision of what this may be, to see all the ways that people are looking — the places, the circumstances — and to see how we may assist and support this action.
We ask that this blessing be extended to all the ministers and initiates in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, whether they are a part of this action consciously or unconsciously, in whatever form.
We extend this blessing into the Christ action that is taking place on the planet, that all may awaken to the love of God that heals, that nurtures, that is the provider of all things.
We are those who anchor this vision for greater peace and harmony on the planet, so we see people putting aside their separation, their animosity, their justification for withholding or taking positions that would go against another.
And we ask through Your spirit to lift all at this time, to lift the negativity of each person and all the people collectively, for the entire planet, that there is a healing that is done by Grace, that is done because we ask in Your will being done.
We also see the vision that we rejoice amongst one another, that greater laughter is heard and felt, and that more and more we find ourselves as one family living on the planet at this time, children of God.
And we ask for the strength and the courage to carry forth our part in this vision.
We give thanks that we have been chosen and have chosen back, and we are willing to choose in Your name to those who are now being chosen and are choosing back.
Baruch Bashan
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