“There is a natural way for us to progress, and then there is a way of progression that is attempting to control and manipulate life. What we need to do is to blend the negative and positive polarities and come into the balance of a neutral consciousness where we can maintain the power of our own Self and hold it while we flow very naturally with all things around us.” – John-Roger

This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, November 1975.

There is a natural way for us to progress, and then there is a way of progression that is attempting to control and manipulate life.  We can look at this in terms of masculine and feminine polarities.  The masculine attempts to control and direct his empire; he always strives to be in a superior position – the “macho” consciousness.  And the feminine doesn’t have to do any of this because she is flowing in a more natural harmony with everything around, so there is no need for rules and regulations and usurpation of power.  What we need to do is to blend the negative and positive polarities and come into the balance of a neutral consciousness where we can maintain the power of our own Self and hold it while we flow very naturally with all things around us.  We take the best of both the masculine and feminine consciousness and blend them.

Yes, it’s ideal; and yes, it’s possible.

Nature progresses in a very natural way, which does not exclude the evolution of man.  Some people ask, “What about the missing link?”  There is no missing link.  There are bridges of one race to another race, to another race, and after a new race is established, there is no need for the “bridge.”  We are in a bridging race right now on this planet.  At some point, many people who are now on the planet will be gone.  There will be no signs of them because this level will be pulled away.  There will be nothing here to indicate that it was present, but the new race will be present.  Don’t misunderstand; we are not dealing in time concepts of two days or two years.  We are dealing in the concept of thousands and thousands of years.

Of course, there will be records kept of all of this, so there will be indicators of man’s evolutionary progression – evolutionary as far as we go in and evolve by knowing all the levels with which we are presently evolved in the physical body – which are first the physical, then the imagination, the emotions, the mind, the unconscious and the Soul.  When you have established that awareness within, then you can move out to the outer levels and find that the outer spiritual world directly aligns with the inner kingdom.  And at that point, you will understand what it is all about.

The understanding will surpass everything and bring with it peace and tranquility.  You may not be aware of that when you focus onto the physical body because the physical body is usually in a state of excitation.  It is here to move.  People who sit in yogic positions until their legs become useless have violated the laws of the physical level.  Many who have been called great spiritual masters have died of cancer and malnutrition because they violated the premise of the physical level, which is to know the physical level.  There are branches of science, and medicine or the healing arts is one of them, designed to know the physical body.  The psychological area was designed to know the psyche or the Soul, but it has become more a study of the behaviors of the body.  And sociology is the study of the interaction of these bodies.  And the psychiatrists are trying to deal with the interactions of the mind, emotions, and body.  That leaves those who are on a spiritual path to integrate it all from the premise of spiritual health, letting the spiritual energy flow through all the levels – which brings the total upliftment of man’s consciousness.

But a very nice thing is to stay close with the people who are in the physical healing arts, because things like massage and tender loving care will certainly help alleviate some pain and discomfort.  Sometimes to go to a doctor and find out that he cares can make you feel a lot better.  Just knowing that somebody cares can help you get rid of illnesses almost immediately.  It’s very important to have loving care, and loving care is the spiritual action.

Every person must be responsible for their total beingness.  This does not mean that we don’t assist one another by scratching backs or getting a friend a glass of water or giving them a ride downtown.  It means all of these things, as long as it is part of their flow of spiritual upliftment.  But maybe sometime you don’t get them the water.  Instead, you say, “There is the water tap and there is the glass; help yourself.”  That can make them feel less dependent and more secure in their own abilities and their own confidence level.  We often do this with youngsters so they can gain experience and increase their confidence.

Too often, when you gain a little bit of spiritual knowledge, you want to grab people and lift them up real fast – but what happens is that you grab them and trip them, and they fall, and then they become very fearful of your approach to life.  Life is very natural, very simple.  You make it complex by releasing energies inside of you through forms of symbology, through mentalizing, and through the wrong attitudes.  And when there is a struggle going on inside of you and, not wanting the struggle, you push it back into the unconscious.  And it struggles there and then manifests through illness or disease that our present-day sciences cannot cope with, cannot clear.  Then you find yourself in a lot of physical trouble.

How can you handle this?  You can practice spiritual techniques.  There are many of them: meditations of various types; spiritual exercises; techniques designed to reach into and clear many levels of consciousness; forms of contemplation; chanting mantras and tones to focus and lift the energies, to tie up the energies, to give them form so you can feel more confident, so that the energies are flowing up in a straight line instead of waving in and out.

As you practice spiritual techniques, you become more and more familiar with the flow of energy patterns that manifest within your consciousness.  As you become more familiar with the many levels of your consciousness, you feel more comfortable with yourself and with others in relation to yourself.  By continually working with the energies inside of you, you learn to recognize what they are, their purpose, their function, their direction.  You relax more and more with your own beingness, bringing forward a greater integration of all the levels of yourself.  As this happens, you are no longer at the mercy of your physical habit patterns, your emotional addictions, your mental games, or your unconscious urgings.  You are able to successfully direct yourself into more positive patterns of behavior and expression.

Baruch Bashan

John-Roger