(From a J-R seminar at a meeting of the John-Roger Foundation staff in 1988.)<\/p>\n
Originally there were about four or five people running MSIA, and we had a lot of time on our hands, so I did a lot of seminars. Then other organizations started from similar beginnings, and they all spread around the world. Insight started out with three or four people, and so did PTS. The University of Santa Monica started out small as well, and it was originally called Koh-E-Nor while it was incubating for a few years. You make the announcement, put it in the Light, and then it incubates until the people that are part of that start coming in.<\/p>\n
We were doing service all over the world, but the airlines kept charging us, the restaurants kept charging us, and the hotels kept charging us, so we had to start charging just to continue doing it. We found that it got bigger and bigger, so we had to charge more and more, and more people came in and they had to be paid. So we had to do more and more. Pretty soon this thing was just an ugly little beast\u2014and as you know, all organizations are beasts. I don\u2019t mean that negatively. It\u2019s just like saying that light\u2019s on. That\u2019s not saying it\u2019s negative, it\u2019s just saying what it is.<\/p>\n
We tried to set up all the organizations so you can at least cuddle up to them. And we know that in the moment of cuddling, you\u2019re going to get nipped or scratched as the beast moves, because it won\u2019t know you\u2019re there. Even in the NOW Productions video crew, you\u2019d be amazed at how many people got their feelings hurt because somebody pushed a camera in the wrong spot and they got told about how wrong it was. Then they decided they didn\u2019t want to move the cameras because they didn\u2019t want to move them to wrong places. So I did a seminar saying, \u201cmaking mistakes is part of growth,\u201d and people started to move cameras again.<\/p>\n
We were all trying to do things perfectly. The teachings of the organizations are based upon perfection, but that\u2019s something that we\u2019re probably not going to attain here. But if we don\u2019t have it out there far enough as an ideal, we won\u2019t even make an effort to go towards it. And without that effort, we might just as well go out and put on a tin bill and pick manure with the chickens, because our life becomes based on animal instincts of survival.<\/p>\n
We looked at it all and said, \u201cWell, there\u2019s nothing wrong with having a magnificent teaching, a magnificent Insight, a magnificent University. We\u2019re all going to fall short, but let\u2019s do it anyway.\u201d We\u2019d get involved in the organizations, we\u2019d start working and we\u2019d do things wrong. I don\u2019t know how to run organizations. I\u2019ve been learning along with everybody else, and some people were better at it than I am. It was amazing that in the process of getting to where we were going we had to overcome statements such as, \u201cWell, you\u2019re not living up to Insight. You\u2019re not living up to USM. You\u2019re not living up to \u2026\u201d And we would say, \u201cOf course not.\u201d<\/p>\n
As soon as you can live up to something you have to put the measure out further. This is why we make things difficult for ourselves. Just stop and look at it. Does anybody make it difficult for you, or do you make it difficult for you, with what other people give you or don\u2019t give you when you think you should have it? They\u2019ll ask, \u201cWhere\u2019s the report?\u201d They think they should have it, and you don\u2019t have it yet. They\u2019re going to make you wrong in the next statement called, \u201cWhy not?\u201d And then you\u2019ll say, \u201cWell, you\u2019re making me wrong.\u201d I\u2019m not making that light on. That light is on and I\u2019m just saying the light\u2019s on. If they want to justify their existence by always feeling like they\u2019re being made wrong, that\u2019s called playing the supreme victim.<\/p>\n
If I can moan about how wrong you\u2019re making me, I can re-victimize you back to make you feel bad about making me feel wrong, and now you\u2019re the victim. But you\u2019re in the position where you have to convey the information.\u00a0 We had fun with that. We have people in these organizations that are experts at taking some information and twisting it just enough so that you want to kill them, but you can\u2019t. And you want to love them, and you can\u2019t. You\u2019ve got this tremendous love-hate relationship going with that person called, \u201cGod, I feel like I\u2019m married. I can\u2019t live with you and I can\u2019t live without you.\u201d Then we ask, \u201cCould you just get the report in? Could you just do your work?\u201d And the answer is, \u201cOf course not. We don\u2019t do things that way on the earth.\u201d Then we say, \u201cWell at least let\u2019s keep pushing at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was talking to a fellow who was a graduate from one of the big east coast schools. I said to him, \u201cYou know, one of the greatest criticisms I get directed at me is that I don\u2019t live up to the teachings.\u201d He said, \u201cHow can you?\u201d I said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know, how can I?\u201d\u00a0 He said, \u201cNobody can live up to them, but you have to have a guiding light out there in order to see where you\u2019re going.\u201d I asked him the definition of a teacher. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s a shortcut to excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world does a very interesting thing to us. It meets us at the point of our agreement. If you agree to something the world will come and reflect it back to you. That\u2019s why we come together in groups on this planet, because what we agreed to as a group, the world gives to us. Now, here\u2019s the thing you\u2019ve got to watch out for: If you agree to negativity the world is going to supply you the negativity. And it will supply you the reference points for the negativity, and give you all the evidence you need to be very negative.<\/p>\n
Two people coming down the aisle to get married are having the same type of experience, but one has cold feet, and the other has a warm heart. The world is supplying exactly what they put out\u00a0because one says, \u201cIt\u2019s cold in here,\u201d and the other says, \u201cGee, it\u2019s really warm.\u201d It\u2019s the same air.<\/p>\n
Remember the story of the Little Prince? He said, \u201cThe sun will come up, the sun will go down,\u201d because that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to do anyway and he wanted his commands to be accurate and perfect. In these organizations, we can\u2019t do that. We have to go into the imperfections. The difficult thing in being a facilitator of any class, whether it\u2019s in religion, education, or healing, is that you have to leave your high position and come down to wherever that person has their bag of junk stuck, and grab the junk and pull it out. They\u2019re going to hang onto it, and you\u2019re going to go back and forth with them until they let go of it, and you\u2019re going to have their junk all over you. Then they\u2019re going to say, \u201cYou have junk on you,\u201d and your job is to clean it up and go for the next pile of it. I hear people saying, \u201cI would like to be a facilitator,\u201d and I say, \u201cDo you like to play in the junk?\u201d<\/p>\n
People don\u2019t want to win in negativity. They really want to win at the winning edge.\u00a0We have a business consulting division in Insight and I was talking to some of the people who work there. A client said, \u201cYou people must be right on the cutting edge. How do you do that?\u201d\u00a0 And the person from Insight said, \u201cI don\u2019t know that we\u2019re on the cutting edge until we get past it and we look back and see that was the edge at that time, and we were on it.\u201d But when you\u2019re working, you don\u2019t know you\u2019re on the edge because you\u2019re pioneering and there are no reference points. So everywhere you look is really an opportunity for new creation and new growth.<\/p>\n
Years and years ago two women worked with me\u2014Pauli and Candace. I think I worked with them, but when push comes to shove, I worked for them because they would put me through the hoops often. They would come in and say, \u201cWe don\u2019t have any more room to stack boxes, papers, notebooks, etc.\u201d I\u2019d look out there and there was no other room. I\u2019d say, \u201cWell, go back and reorganize.\u201d So they\u2019d go back in and go through all the papers and get rid of a lot. They would come back and say, \u201cWe have some more space for a while.\u201d And I\u2019d go, \u201cWhew.\u201d They\u2019d come in later and say, \u201cWe\u2019re out of space again.\u201d So I\u2019d go, \u201cReorganize it, restructure it, redo it.\u201d They\u2019d go and come back and they\u2019d say, \u201cWe have about an inch more space.\u201d<\/p>\n
So we spilled over into another bedroom. And it wasn\u2019t long until they were coming up and saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough room.\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s a law that we\u2019ll occupy the amount of space and time available for something even if we don\u2019t need that space. If somebody gives it to us we will spread out into it. I thought, \u201cWhat on earth are we doing? We were supposed to be a small group of non-committing people just meeting informally, loving and growing our way to God, and that\u2019s all we wanted to do. What\u2019s with all these papers and boxes and books, and these articles and magazines? Who ever wanted that? It wasn\u2019t me.\u201d I wanted to just go off and walk in the sand and follow the sun. I still do that. I\u2019d like to do it more, and I will.<\/p>\n
Finally, they came to me and said, \u201cThere is no more room in this house.\u201d The only room left was my bedroom, which was the last bastion. I thought, \u201cWhat do I do here?\u201d Then I thought,\u201cWell, it\u2019s time for prayer.\u201d So I did the tradition. I got down on my knees by the bed. And it kind of hurt because I\u2019d played basketball and fell and hurt my knees a lot, so to kneel on them was a terror. So I said, \u201cWait, God.\u201d And I got my pillow and put it on the floor and then put my knees on it, put my hands up on the bed, and I said, \u201cHelp. Thank you,\u201d and got back up again. I figured that if there was a God, He knew, and if He didn\u2019t know then least I\u2019d give him the agenda (\u201cHelp\u201d) and then he could fill in the outline. It wasn\u2019t too long until Greg Stebbins called up and said, \u201cHey, we\u2019ve got this place in Whittier, it\u2019s called the Light Castle and it has this big garage.\u201d It was bigger than two or three of the rooms in my house. I said, \u201cWe\u2019ll take it.\u201d I never look an angel in the mouth. I take the gift.<\/p>\n
Pauli and Candace packed up what was in those few bedrooms, and went down to the big garage that was in the Light Castle, and they spread out all the papers and they filled the garage. I said, \u201cWhere did you get all this stuff to put in this garage?\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have that much.\u201d\u00a0 They said, \u201cWell, there were a lot of papers that were stacked up and we couldn\u2019t get to them because it would take so long to unstack and stack it back up, so we just wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d\u00a0 I thought, \u201cWell, now that it\u2019s spread out, we\u2019ll get more done.\u201d But now they didn\u2019t know where things were.\u00a0 So I\u2019d ask for some information that was in the papers, and they\u2019d say, \u201cWhen do you need it?\u201d\u00a0 Then I knew we were in trouble. I\u2019d say, \u201cWell, at your earliest convenience, but the person asked me about it so now I\u2019m asking you, and they never said when they needed it, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s important.\u201d I don\u2019t know if they ever did get their answers from the papers, but they got their answers.<\/p>\n
Insight does something similar, and I\u2019m amazed that more people don\u2019t use it. Do you remember the sanctuary in Insight? How many of you go into it to find out what\u2019s going on in your life, and in the Spirit life, and in the world around you? If you don\u2019t, you are missing what the sanctuary is about.<\/p>\n
Do you know that you can go in there and find out what\u2019s going on with yourself and other people? Do you remember that when you took Insight you had such a high accuracy rate with the information you got? You thought, \u201cWow, I can\u2019t believe that this inner communication is so extremely accurate. And I didn\u2019t even know these people.\u201d It scares you because you start to realize that in the unconscious there are no secrets.<\/p>\n
So when somebody tells you something you can start to go into your sanctuary while you\u2019re looking at them and get the information for what you know is so\u2014not what is \u201ctrue,\u201d because you can\u2019t do truth on this planet. Down here information is empirical, and there are relative degrees of it. You get in and you start to process and find the information. And I\u2019ll tell you something very vital: the more you use the sanctuary the better it becomes, and the better you become so that you can be talking to somebody on the street and have your sanctuary working like a computer. They can be talking to you and you are just right there with it, not as a feeling, but as a knowing. When somebody says, \u201cWell, I feel\u2026\u201d I almost think, \u201cWell, that just slit our throats because feelings are running the world again today.\u201d And it gets equally bad when somebody says, \u201cI know,\u201d and you know they don\u2019t know because you\u2019re in your sanctuary looking at theirs and there\u2019s nobody in their sanctuary.<\/p>\n
In Insight, everybody who comes in the room brings their own little bit that they contribute.\u00a0 And if we\u2019re bringing the very best that we possibly can at any given moment\u00a0 (and that may be very, very bad but it\u2019s the best you can bring at that moment), we realize that even as bad as it was, it was almost perfect, and it led to your progression.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important to understand the progressions in your life. If you don\u2019t understand them, you\u2019ll be stuck and you\u2019ll have information to beat yourself in the head, to abuse yourself and make yourself more of a victim. I\u2019ll give you an example of one of the worst things that happened to me in this physical life to show you a progression.<\/p>\n
My mother and father died a long time ago and I was extremely distraught. It was such a terrible thing, even though, in a way, I was working with them on other levels. But physically, although I hadn\u2019t been living at home for years, I had such a feeling of abandonment and betrayal. I felt like, \u201cWhy did you go die? Why did you die that way? You could have died of old age.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many years have gone by and now I have two Rottweilers named Annie and Gort. They have been espoused for a long time but they never had any children. So finally we helped Gort figure out how to do it. And Annie was okay with that. About eight or ten days ago she had five puppies. If you\u2019ve ever seen Rottweiler puppies they are so absolutely precious, you just can\u2019t believe it. Little black and brown things, and when they\u2019re eating their little feet stick out straight behind them, and you hear that sucking noise. We were sitting around the table and we heard something and I said, \u201cGee, that sounds like a baby cry.\u201d It was the puppies.<\/p>\n
It was two o\u2019clock in the morning, and it had been raining really hard. I was in a twilight sleep, and Gort came outside my bedroom door and banged on it. So I got Johnny and I said, \u201cHey, go see what that is.\u201d A few minutes later he came in my room and said, \u201cOh God, two of the puppies are dead.\u201d I asked, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d He said, \u201cI think Lady killed them.\u201d Lady is our little white Bichon Frise. I thought, \u201cOh God,\u201d and I went in there.<\/p>\n
I was very dizzy because I have a hard time getting up when I\u2019ve been meditating and I\u2019m away from the body. I got in there and looked at these puppies. There was Annie, and there was blood all over. I reached down and one of the puppies that our friend was going to get was dead. I thought, \u201cHow am I going to tell him that?\u201d I looked over and there was another one that was breathing slowly. I picked it up and blew into its nose, and I got it back. I thought, \u201cWhat on earth am I doing? It\u2019s dying. It\u2019s got a reason to die. Why am I interfering?\u201d So we got hold of someone else at the house and said, \u201cLet\u2019s take them to the vet.\u201d We put them in two boxes.<\/p>\n
Annie was really upset\u2014she\u2019s the female Rottweiler, a really great little mama. She\u2019s really special. I got back in bed and watched TV. About an hour later, John came back and he said, \u201cWell, we lost all the puppies.\u201d I have been so sick because of that. And I saw that it\u2019s amazing that the tragedy of my mother and father dying, and all the things that have happened around me set me up to handle my puppies dying. This was an event we waited for, the timing was correct, and it was really set up perfectly, even though perfect things can\u2019t exist on the planet\u2014which is a very difficult thing for people to understand.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s this little white Bichon named Lady that is probably the most lovable little creature in the world, with this mass of red blood down her face where she chewed up the little puppies. I called her in to see if she was okay. I rolled over, and I was so angry, I smacked her and sent her outside. As soon as I hit her, it sort of let go inside of me. I really felt like wringing her neck, except this is another dog that I love.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the progression: I went into the feeling of the puppies dying, went back to my mother and father, grabbed hold of that emotion, brought it forward through time and space inside of me, hit what happened today and let the emotions come up. You notice that I let them go and I shared them with you. As they came up you probably were aghast at hearing it and felt shaken, but as it came up through me it matured. You might find it maturing inside of you. Healing for one is healing for many. I let it mature and now it\u2019s here inside of me, and it\u2019s still shaking me, but it\u2019s not running me.<\/p>\n
How am I going to get over it? Maybe another batch of puppies, and I\u2019ll be just great. Probably, I\u2019ll go home tonight and go, \u201cAh, life is like that. It seems like somebody is getting killed or hurt inadvertently all the time.\u201d So what do I do now, do I go kill Lady? The little Bichon has been very much in disfavor around our house today. She knows it. She feels bad about it.\u00a0 People at the house were asking me, \u201cJ-R, what was this? Why did she do it? Was she jealous?\u201d I said, \u201cNo. We have to understand where Lady\u2019s coming from. If you don\u2019t understand why she\u2019s here and what she\u2019s here to do, you can\u2019t understand her behavior, and why that behavior, in time and space, is going to be fine. If it\u2019s going to be fine in time and space it\u2019s got to start being fine right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
We all learned a tremendous lesson: Don\u2019t let Lady near puppies. They\u2019ve been known to kill their own puppies. These dogs are territorial. That means they own the space they\u2019re in and they will kill anything that gets in that space. That\u2019s why I have three big dogs with one little one, because she can\u2019t kill them. But she\u2019ll reach up and grab them by the ears and pull them down if she wants to talk to them.<\/p>\n
Keep your eye on what you\u2019re doing. It\u2019s not difficult to watch what you\u2019re doing. Keep your mind on what you\u2019re doing as you do it. Know full well the way you\u2019re being treated now is exactly what you\u2019ve put out to the world, and you\u2019ve agreed to have it treat you that way. It\u2019s treating you in exact agreement to what you put out. If you put out love and joy and happiness, it\u2019s going to agree with you and give you that. If you put out hurt, animosity and despair, it will supply it to you.<\/p>\n
The world is an inkblot. We have to realize that that\u2019s what it\u2019s doing or we\u2019re going to be lost in the confusion of everybody\u2019s inkblot perceptions. Can you rely just on your own experience? Only to a point\u2014because you\u2019re going to go to a place where there are no reference points for your experience. You can read about how to make a pie, and that\u2019s not making a pie. But even after you\u2019ve made the pie, some people can\u2019t eat it, so that\u2019s your experience. As you make the next few pies people will begin to eat them, and you\u2019ll correct as you learn and grow. And then, one day when you are the famous pie maker and everybody\u2019s got you up sky-high in the pie world, you\u2019ll make a bad piece of pie, and they\u2019re going to stick it to you, disregarding all the good pieces of pie you put out for centuries. Life is like that. If you don\u2019t expect it, you\u2019re not keeping your eyes on what you\u2019re doing and keeping your mind on where you\u2019re going.<\/p>\n
Are we going to make those mistakes? I\u2019ve got news for you\u2014nobody really makes a mistake. It turns out that way as you go down the road. We don\u2019t start out and say, \u201cI\u2019m going to make this mistake. There it is. That\u2019s a mistake.\u201d We just go, \u201cThis is a really good thing to do, this will really work.\u201d We start into it and about five days later somebody says, \u201cHere\u2019s why that doesn\u2019t work.\u201d You think, \u201cGod, what a mistake. I made a mistake.\u201d No you didn\u2019t. The mistake was out there because it wasn\u2019t being monitored as you went along. It happens when we take our abilities away from what we\u2019re doing. That thing shows up where it moves off course and all we do is just course correct.<\/p>\n
Do you want to be allowed the privilege of correcting your course whenever you feel it\u2019s necessary? Then you\u2019ve got to give that same privilege to everybody else. Do you know what you have to do as one of the first prerequisites of allowing them that? Forget and forgive what\u2019s happened, or else you have an irreparable relationship. The first step in mental health is to allow forgiveness for your dumbness and possibly somebody else\u2019s. But you can never forgive somebody else until you have the forgiveness inside of yourself. You\u2019ll say nice things and walk away with a grudge in your heart. You\u2019ve got to clean yourself up.<\/p>\n
Michael Jackson wrote a song that said if you want to change the world, change the person you\u2019re looking at in the mirror. Listen to that very carefully. We\u2019re hearing more and more songs that say if you want to change the world, go inside. Change where you live and it will start to reflect it in the world. The world will agree to it.<\/p>\n
How is it that some people can have a lot to and others have nothing? It looks like they\u2019re doing the same thing, and then we judge it based on that. Folks, it is not the same thing. They came from a different place inside and did a different thing inside. Many of our experiences in life are just to teach each other how to do things and what not to do. We say, \u201cI\u2019m not going. I saw you do that, and I\u2019m not going to do that. Thanks.\u201d We all learn from each other. If you\u2019re not learning from the person you\u2019re with, your relationship is being irreparably damaged. You say, \u201cI forgive myself for forgetting that I am also part of God, of life. And I forgive myself for forgetting that everyone else is also, and the permission I give to them to do what they want in their ten percent level, I take to myself. I\u2019m staying out of yours, and you stay out of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
And in that three percent level, where we meet and work together, we\u2019re going to cooperate at such a high rate that just three percent of the time is going to take care of the ninety-seven percent of the time when we\u2019re not together\u2014because we do it effectively, efficiently, and lovingly. And when somebody makes a mistake you say, \u201cForget it, let\u2019s go on.\u201d What if they make the same mistake twice? You say, \u201cHey, watch what you\u2019re doing because you\u2019re making the same mistake twice. Let me draw your eyes to this mistake. Do you see it? I don\u2019t have to tell you anymore, because you can see it. Do you know how to correct it? If you don\u2019t, I\u2019ll show you how.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s never a good enough reason to withdraw your loving\u2014never. There are a lot of reasons why you don\u2019t want to participate, and that\u2019s fine, but when you withdraw your loving from somebody out there you have to withdraw it from that place inside if you where they are also. That\u2019s killing you. You\u2019re being a real nasty person to yourself. Don\u2019t do that. Find what was really great about them, and put that in that place. You don\u2019t have to see them again, but when they come up in your mind, have that place that has loving, happiness, and okay-ness with it. Be smart in your inner life\u2014really smart. This one out here is illusionary. God only knows what\u2019s going to go on out here.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t get the truth out of this outer world. Somebody says that this stone is worth five dollars, and another one says it\u2019s worth five hundred, and they\u2019re both experts. What do you do? Keep the stone, sell it to the highest bidder, or do whatever you see fit. Do what you please in your ten percent. What pleases you, pleases me. If you do what\u2019s best for you at any given time, I don\u2019t care how bad it looks. If that\u2019s the best you can do, that pleases me because you\u2019re doing it. You\u2019re going to learn and grow, and you\u2019re going to please other people.<\/p>\n
Keep the loving going. Loving is a state of forgiveness and openness. When I told you about my dog Lady, if that disturbed you, forgive me inside of you for the disturbance, and make that something that we all just came up through together. My intent was to share with you how to do a progression emotionally, because I can\u2019t go back and change what my dog did. That\u2019s done. But I can change inside of me. And there is no need for me to go to my dog to tell her how bad she is, or to go after people in my house for not having done what they could have done. I can do a lot of blame here, all vindictively righteous and true. But it\u2019s wrong in terms of life and the spirit of who we are. Come back inside, and just put the loving there with people. And if you don\u2019t know somebody, that\u2019s no reason not to be loving. You\u2019re just not going to just put it out there; you\u2019re going to keep it inside if you. When the two of you connect, then you extend it. And when they leave, pull it back. Put it out and pull it back. If you leave it out there somebody\u2019s going to blunder in and hurt it. Keep your heart back where it belongs. Keep your eyes on what you\u2019re doing. Keep your thoughts on where you want to go.<\/p>\n
Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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