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Consciousness of Oneness, Introduction: Talk with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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This event is part of a series of events which were open to all with a sincere interest in the emerging consciousness of oneness. www.workingwithoneness.org
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- The purpose of these gatherings is to explore this whole field of consciousness of oneness.
- This idea of an emerging global consciousness of oneness and how to work with it.
- And what I want to say from the beginning is this is one facet of a work that many different schools and traditions and teachers are doing
- in different fields, in different parts of the world.
- It's just one particular facet of this work.
- And what was moving for me personally working with Sandra Ingerman two weeks ago was
- to see how she was working in the same stream within the shamanic tradition
- the same emerging consciousness of oneness
- the facet in which I want to ask you to explore together is in a way particularly to do with mystical consciousness
- because I belong to a mystical tradition
- and the element of love belongs to a Sufi tradition.
- So it is an exploration of how to work with this energy
- that is being given to humanity.
- Not as something abstract but as something lived.
- And so the sort of schedule for this afternoon is I'm going to give a talk
- and then we're going to have a meditation which might also have a practical element of working with that energy.
- And then after a break we can have discussion and questions.
- You see for a mystic it's very, very simple because mysticism is about direct experience.
- And many people on the mystical path have had direct experience of oneness.
- And it is not something abstract, it is something lived.
- It is something breathed.
- Once you've had that experience, you think how could it be otherwise.
- Of course everything is one and oneness is very, very practical.
- It is how everything works because everything is this explosive spark of Divine oneness.
- Everything is the Divine oneness expressing itself again and again and again and again and yet still remaining true to its essential Oneness.
- So every moment of mystical experience, every moment the Divine is re-experiencing itself.
- This Divine oneness is re-experiencing itself in this apparent world of multiplicity,
- in this apparent world of differences. And yet it is always one.
- And what is in a way mystifying as human beings, we have lost contact with that essential oneness.
- We have come to experience our own essential uniqueness. And this is part of the journey of consciousness in the West.
- But we have come to experience the I AM. And this is begins in adolescence, a particular assertion of the individual self.
- And we have a culture that has constellated it around this image of this I AM.
- And yet we have lost touch with the fundamental essence of the I AM.
- Which is an expression of oneness.
- So we have kind of got stuck with the I AM without realizing what it really means. Because the I AM essentially means the Divine IS.
- The Divine is experiencing its uniqueness in us for a moment which is also the Divine oneness.
- And then it is lived.
- The extraordinary thing about being a human being is that you can live this spark of Divine oneness.
- You can breathe it.
- You can even enjoy it.
- Because once you experience this oneness, then in a way you step into this whole other element of life
- that is not about struggle, that is not about effort
- Because struggle and effort are always pitting yourself against something else.
- But once you step into that essential oneness you step out of this conflict, struggle, effort dynamic into what I call the real party of life.
- Which is actually happening all around us, to us, in us, but somehow we never get to go to the party.
- We never get to participate in what is actually happening.
- So we live often this angst ridden culture full of all of the petty fears and insecurities that have created kind of a shell around us.
- That separates us from what is really happening.
- And then from a mystical point of view is whether we have the courage to break out of that shell
- that carefully constructed web of insecurities and anxieties and desires.
- Into this much more orgasmic experience which is life happening each moment as an expression of the Divine.
- And to live it then and then to participate in what I call the real party that is taking place.
- Now mystics have always known about this party
- which is why traditionally when you wake up you just laugh and laugh and laugh.
- Because suddenly you're there in this whether you call it a love affair or you call it the garden of creation or whatever you call it,
- it doesn't matter because it's, because you are there where life is happening.
- And there are these two paradoxes in mysticism
- is that on one level one says that everything is an illusion.
- But it's only the everything that is an illusion is what you have created in your mind.
- And there is actually something real taking place.
- There is actually creation really happening.
- This is what the Sufis call the secret of the word Kun, to be.
- That the Real is actually expressing itself.
- And if we can just experience what is actually taking place
- and not just experience but then participate in life that is taking place.
- Because a human being actually has the ability to consciously participate in the creative process of life.
- And we've kind of got a little sense of that in what is called living a creative life.
- If you're an artist or a poet or even a gardener there is a sense that you can creatively participate in a little bit of life.
- But we kind of stop there, we, it's our creative expression whether it's growing a beautiful rose or playing a beautiful piece of music.
- We kind of don't go too far with it.
- We don't explore what it really means to be alive.
- And what I want to do in these meetings is to explore from a mystical point of view is to explore what it really means to be alive
- in this garden of creation and participate in the creative process.
- What is very interesting is at this time is at this time in the cycle of creation is that everybody is being given the opportunity to participate.
- And I say this quite deliberately because in the past only very, very select individuals or groups were allowed to participate.
- This is the whole initiatic process which you had to go through before you were given any of the secrets of creation.
- And it was so hidden, even more hidden than the feminine mysteries that it isn't written down except in a few obscure texts
- which I think have been burned into dust.
- So that was in the past. Yes there is a specific spiritual esoteric teaching about how you participate in the creative process.
- And maybe in some shamanic traditions it is also still alive.
- But the difference now and why we're having this meeting in public and anybody body can come for $8 donation for the rental of the room
- is that there has been this shift in spiritual consciousness.
- which also has to do with the basic principal of oneness which is anybody can participate.
- It is one of those things that is so simple that the fact that it is so completely radical passes us by.
- But this is part of the evolution of human consciousness, also the evolution of spiritual consciousness.
- And one can see this on one level by the way in the last 20 - 30 years many, many spiritual teachings that used to be hidden
- have been made available in the West.
- And even in the last 20 years for example when I first started teaching in America 15 years ago
- and Mrs. Tweedie listened to some of the tapes of the talks that I gave
- and she said this is very, very interesting because you are allowed to say in public what I was only allowed to hint at.
- So there has been this growing revelation of spiritual teachings which we've now got used to.
- You can go into any bookstore and there are 10,000 books on dreams, on meditation, on different spiritual techniques.
- But behind that there is this deeper esoteric teaching about working with the forces of creation,
- working with the primal energies of life, participating in the creative process of creation.
- Not as an outsider, but as a spark of consciousness that is part of life.
- And from a Sufi point of view this means a spark of consciousness that is part of this mystery of this love affair with his creation.
- Just always remember in the background from a Sufi point of view, creation is a love affair.
- If you like, the spirit is the masculine. And this feminine aspect of creation, whether you think of the soul of the world
- or the whole physical manifest world. It is this dance of opposites that is a love affair.
- And until you really realize that, you can't participate fully.
- And it's not a dry, analytic experience.
- It is a love affair full of all the passion and craziness and mistakes that belong to every love affair.
- We still, please remember, we still have in our consciousness this kind of Appollonian idea of a perfect God.
- Which means that any interaction with the Divine demands perfection.
- And this is just a fabricated image.
- This is not how it really is.
- Because if you accept the basic idea that everything is one, everything is the Divine, then you look around and see it is not perfect.
- And to strive for perfection means to deny the reality of the Divine. It means once again you impose your own image onto the Divine.
- And if one is going to engage in any real creative process, that is also a love affair
- you have to try to put aside at the beginning any image of how you want it to be, how you expect it to be.
- Because there are essential energies in creation waiting for us to interact with them.
- They are there. They are dormant at the moment. They are beginning to wake up.
- And they can only fully wake up with the interaction of human consciousness.
- Now what is very, very interesting and quite revolutionary in a way is that they can only wake up with the interaction of individual consciousness
- or a group that allows each individual total freedom.
- This has to do with the Divine nature of creation.
- This has to do with the fact that the Divine is free and the creation expresses that freedom.
- And it has to do with living that freedom within oneself that belongs to the real creative process.
- The freedom that is actually in this I AM.
- There is a tremendous freedom to realize who you are.
- It is, or it belongs to the creative freedom of God.
- And what is paradoxical in this world is that there are laws of creation and yet that is no denial of the incredible freedom of creation.
- And remember when one has freedom then there is the freedom for it all to go wrong too.
- It's not just the freedom that it's going to work out the way we want it to work out.
- There is also the freedom that it might not work out.
- Nothing is definite.
- If you actually realized how indefinite a world we lived in it is quite terrifying.
- It is much bigger than we realize.
- But it is calling for us or for individuals or for bits of light to participate.
- Oneness is speaking to oneness.
- It's very beautiful how this happens, this call.
- As mystics we are used to the call within the heart that turns our attention towards God.
- What one calls longing. The beloved calls us back to Him. We are used to that.
- We are used to the whole idea of spiritual life being a response to a call.
- There is the call and there is the echo. And we are the echo.
- But we are less used to the idea that the Divine within creation also is calling.
- That it needs us.
- That, or it needs something within us that maybe we don't, we haven't realized how precious it is.
- It needs this Divine spark, this bit of light that we have inside of us.
- That is pure oneness. It is very, very, very pure. It is really the greatest gift we have.
- And It can participate directly with the energies in creation because that is how it has always been.
- The only thing is that before it required a certain initiation to give you access to those energies.
- You had to, if you like, say the magic word before the doors opened and you had access to those energies.
- And now those doors have been opened.
- You don't have to say the special word to get there.
- And it is exactly the same as happens on an individual level.
- Part of the spiritual path is working with the energies within yourself.
- This has become quite well known by now.
- When I grew up with the Church of England background, there was no notion that one had energies within oneself.
- You had meat and potatoes and that was it.
- But 30 years later and in California. Or 50 years later in California it is now quite accepted that we have energies within ourselves.
- And we have energy centers within ourselves and we work with them.
- And we relate to them and we channel them. And we dance with them and we play music to them or we meditate with them.
- Or we visualize them and have different colors and different vibrations and sounds.
- And we chant to awaken the sun energies and we learn various techniques to harmoniously interact with the energies within ourselves.
- And this has become part of the whole spiritual landscape.
- It is no longer revolutionary.
- And yet we keep it very carefully within ourselves.
- It is our spiritual process. And this is where I've said many, many times, this is where we make this big mistake or limitation.
- Because the moment you say it's my spiritual process it stops being anything real because nothing belongs to you.
- It is all part of this oneness because you are part of this oneness.
- It is when you work on yourself, a bit of the oneness is working with a bit of the oneness.
- And even to say a bit does not actually make sense.
- Oneness is working with oneness.
- Light is calling to light. So once one realizes that then of course there are energies within creation.
- Just like there are energies within us.
- And of course creation is a living spiritual being just as we are a living spiritual being. Why should we deny the whole, what belongs to us.
- And of course there are ways to work with the energies within creation. And small experiments have been done with that.
- Like in places like Findhorn where they consciously work with the nature spirits.
- And some shamanic traditions go deeper. So the first question is how do you access these energies within creation.
- These primal powers of life. And the beauty is that you don't have to access them because they are here already.
- They aren't anywhere else. This is part of the secret of oneness. If we are moving into an era of oneness, then oneness follows certain laws.
- Just like the last era followed certain laws. And monotheism followed certain laws.
- So the era of oneness follows the laws of oneness. This is kind of built into the genetic imprint of this era.
- And part of the workings of oneness is that everything is already present.
- It is not anywhere else. That's why I always like Meister Eckhart when he describes God as a circle
- with a center as everywhere whose circumference is nowhere.
- What is very interesting is that as a culture we have veiled ourselves from what is actually here.
- We've either done it ourselves or it is part of our conditioning.
- We've actually excluded ourselves from the miraculous process of life.
- I think it has a lot to do with a certain patriarchial power drive that took over and even convinced women that the guy knew better.
- Because the feminine has a much deeper understanding of what is essentially present and how it works.
- Men like things to be somewhere else that they can focus and work on.
- But anyway, the energies of creation are present. It is often we who are not present.
- You don't have to go into the rainforest. You don't have to on a deep inner journey to find them.
- Because in oneness everything is present. All that is required is for us to be present.
- I say all that is required because for many people this is almost impossible.
- Because there is this enormous conditioning and education that says you shall not be present.
- You've got to be worrying about something, or desiring something, or planning for something, or expecting something.
- Or worried that you made a mistake yesterday or frightened about being judged tomorrow.
- And so you are systematically excluding yourself from being present.
- Well that's fine and lots of people continue in that experience.
- And that stops them from participating because you can only participate with what is present if you are present.
- And you also have to allow yourself to be vulnerable. Because the energies of creation are...it is like a newborn child.
- It is alive and it is in a state of vulnerability. It is actually in a state of almost a state so vulnerable it is almost a crisis.
- That life, it is like a newborn child. You think how can it survive when it is so vulnerable when it can be so easily stepped on.
- When it can be so easily damaged. And that is life at the beginning of any era.
- Before it has crystalized, before it has formalized itself, before it has become all of the forms that we are used to.
- For example, if you look at the images of our culture which are actually of a culture that is dying, they do not seem to be vulnerable.
- They don't have that innocence. They are very, very protected with a hard shell.
- All of the corporations and all of the forms of our present civilization.
- Which is actually a civilization which is dying.
- But what is being born is very, very vulnerable. It is almost painfully vulnerable.
- Because it is life recreating itself. Because it is the miracle of life coming into being not knowing what is going to happen.
- Just like the child being born doesn't know what will happen in its life.
- Life is rebirthing. It's coming out of the shell. And this is this crucial moment in any era when life is so vulnerable, so new, so undecided.
- When the dreams of all the possibilities are there. And this is where we are being asked to be.
- This is why it is very, very human to be there in this energy of creation.
- It is to be with one's own vulnerability. One's own insecurity, not an insecurity born of anxiety, but an insecurity born of wonder.
- I don't know if you can feel that kind of insecurity where you just don't know how it will be.
- It is like when you are falling in love and there is this promise and you don't know how it is going to be.
- And there is tremendous vulnerability. And something is calling you like in a love affair. Something is calling you into this experience.
- And what is calling you is life. Life as it really is. Not life as we have been conditioned to think it is.
- Yes, there is part of life that is survival. Although I think we've taken it to other extremes in the West.
- Does survival really mean you have to have two cars?
- But there is another part of life. If you looked at the eyes of a newborn child, it is not survival. It is something else. It is hope.
- The dreams of the future. You know I work with people for many years and you see all the problems and difficulties
- that we kind of accumulate as we go through life. And we're kind of experts at really accumulating kind of complex problems and difficulties.
- And you think what is it all about. And then you see a beautiful newborn child.
- And you don't think when you see that newborn child my gosh what complex problems and relationships and emotional tangles
- this baby is going to get into.
- And I always find it interesting it doesn't cross your mind when you see this newborn child.
- Somehow there is something else in the child that speaks to you.
- It speaks to you about something else completely.
- From this sort of problem-oriented self, from this complex creation that we make of ourselves.
- And that is what in life is calling to us. Something very simple, very undecided. And it needs us here present with us. It needs a dialogue with us.
- Just like when you see a newborn baby there is this strange dialogue that takes place.
- Because something in you remembers what it was like for you once.
- All the possibilities, all the dreams, all the hopes, all the wonder.
- Something undecided.
- You may think what is the esoteric teaching in this. Well real esoteric teachings are always about what it means to be a human being.
- Always remember that.
- Because a human being is the greatest esoteric secret.
- We are his greatest secret and he is the secret of secrets. This mystery of being a human being is a great, great secret.
- And it's strange how we overlook it again and again and again until something draws us back.
- So the energies of life are here. They're already here. They're not hidden. They're not deep underground. They are present.
- And they are calling for people to work with them. I can't repeat that enough times because it just seems so important.
- And the beauty of it is the individual, each of us, anywhere can work directly with these energies of creation.
- We can participate in this miracle of rebirth. If we want to.
- If we open ourselves to this. If we give ourselves to this experience like you give yourself to any love affair otherwise it doesn't happen.
- Because remember creation is a love affair. It is actually a love affair being continually recreated moment by moment, moment by moment.
- And what is extraordinary in creation. And this is one of really the mysteries of creation from a human point of view is that each of us
- can have our own unique love affair in this world at the same time as everybody else.
- As their unique love affair. You don't have to join in anyone else's love affair. This is not a group hug.
- This has to do with oneness. It has to do with the one to one relationship that honors the oneness within you and the oneness within creation.
- In the same way as you can't have a group love affair. It doesn't work. They tried it in the 60's. It doesn't work.
- It is from heart-to-heart. It is the mystery of love. It is always one-to-one. From heart-to-heart.
- And it is from your heart to the heart of the world. If you want to participate in this love affair of creation that is being recreated.
- Then your heart to the heart of the world. From your soul to the soul of the world.
- And then you will find something quite remarkable is the soul of the world starts to speak to you.
- In the same ways it used to to the oracles in previous ages, it speaks to you. This is real communion.
- This is the dialogue with the soul of the world. We know we can have a dialogue with our own soul.
- We are familiar with that now. We've been to enough workshops. Yeah? We've retrieved your soul. We've dialogued with it. We live in Marin.
- And it works. You know it works. It nourishes you. It tells you about itself. It tells you about your life's purpose if you are lucky.
- It helps you to maybe find a relationship that's not too dysfunctional.
- And the world also has a soul. And the world soul can speak to your soul. And the world soul will draw you in to this creative process of life.
- In its own way. Because you are not separate from it. You never were separate from it. That is just an illusion.
- Everybody is part of it, but some of us are being able to participate consciously. To know that we are participating.
- We are being present with the soul of the world.
- That's what it means to be really alive, you know. To be there at the very center of life where something is being born.
- Not thinking about it, but being it. It is why real spiritual work always comes to a place of being.
- And you can do it anywhere. You can do it when you are cooking the soup in the kitchen.
- You can do it before you go to sleep. You can do it in 5 minutes if you have time.
- It does not need a special environment because it is life. And life is not a special environment. Life is alive.
- So remember where you are, it is. Because your soul is part of the soul of the world.
- You are part of this mystery of creation. What is different if you like is we are being allowed to design the future.
- This is really what it means. To bring our light into the creative process of life that happens at the beginning of a new era.
- And it's just life. But life that acknowledges this vast simplicity of oneness.
- So what I want to do is we have half and hour or 40 minute meditation. And please, in the silence, first of all align yourself with your higher self.
- And this is most easily done with the breath. One of the secrets of the breath is every breath connects your higher self with your physical body.
- This is one of the most basic esoteric teachings. Every breath you breathe connects your higher self with your lower self and your physical body.
- Otherwise you would not be alive. Without that light coming down from your higher self, you wouldn't be alive.
- You would be just a physical organism with no consciousness. So first of all, align just with the breath.
- When you breathe in consciously, you are connecting your higher self with your lower self with your physical body.
- You bring the light of your higher self into your body.
- And then go to the place inside of you where everything is still. We all have that place inside of us.
- You don't have to stop the thoughts if you don't want to. Just go to the place, even amidst the thoughts, where everything's still.
- And in that place, remember that you belong to God. In that place where everything is still, you still have to have this moment of remembrance
- that you belong to God. Because that is a key if you like that opens you to the Divine secrets of life.
- Once you remember that you belong to God, you open the door to the Divine nature of life.
- And then when you are present, listen within yourself for the heartbeat of the world.
- Just like you have your own heartbeat, there is also the heartbeat of the world.
- It is there in the silence. You will find it there in the silence.
- And then merge yourself with the heartbeat of the world. It is your own heartbeat of course.
- Because your heartbeat is one with the heartbeat of the world.
- It is really a simple practice to be present not just within your own heart but the heart of the world.
- So we will just do that for half an hour or so, to go into the heart of the world.
- And it begins with the breath


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