Tosia H Zraikat

Message from Spirit

Commit to daily seeking of inner guidance, and follow that guidance. It comes to you every moment, a small voice within, an inner sense of direction that you have taught yourself to ignore. Stop and listen.

Practise inner stillness, without music, preferably in nature where you are solitary and at ease, walking or sitting, lying or floating. How much it would benefit you to float on a board or boat! You have an affinity with water, and require a sense of something solid beneath you, wood on water. Where can it carry you? [In traditional Chinese medicine, I am wood].

You must learn to like people more. Universal love is not effective without liking. Accept them as they are. Look for what is likeable in them, even a small thing, and tune into that. This in itself will be helpful to others for it will allow them to relax their barriers, release their fabulations, and see themselves more clearly.

My love can only come through your love, otherwise it is held back by your thoughts about others. If you would truly  be a channel for My love, My peace, My truth, eliminate in yourself that which hinders love.

Know that all can be turned to good ... every fault, every error, every violation, by opening one's mind to truth regardless of how far one seems from the truth, can become a portal to awakening. Shun nothing but intentional evil and malice, though even that can open a person's heart to their own lostness. Be an impartial observer, one prepared to reach out a hand wherever there is need.

Some, indeed many of life's greatest challenges - its sorrows, pains, illness and grief - are purposeful, manifest out of the soul's intention to know and correct itself. Deep within, a person may sense this and reject your assistance, which could even hinder their growth. 

Never impose your assistance on others 'for their own good'. Rather, be thou a refuge where others can find peace and quiet. Be thou as impartial and free of judgement as the sun whose loving light falls on all without preference. Be thou a mirror in which others may see their preciousness and innate goodness reflected back to them.

Be thou a clear pool upon which the light of Love and Truth that IS GOD is ever reflected.

 

Thoughts on Creating your own Reality

We create our own reality.....

This is an idea that both intrigues us and challenges us. Many of us look around our private world or at the world at large, and think, ‘Who on earth would create this reality? I wouldn't’. But we do create it. We do so individually, and we do so collectively. I cannot tell you why this is so, or how it  works, only that it does, and that it is completely in accordance with modern science and psychology.

(Image: Huffington post)

 

Let me clarify: When the sages and teachers say that we create our own reality, they do not mean that we create the world. 

There is only one primal Source, and it is NOT us. 

Science knows that there must have been a force that existed before the world began, a force that must have caused the quantum fluctuations that initiated the Big Bang, creating something (everything in that funnel in the picture) out of nothing. Call that pre-existing force God, if you like, or Universal Consciousness or just the Source. 

        (Image: Wikepedia)

 

What do we create then?

The reality that we experience, individual and en masse. We create the nature and conditions of our experience in the world, a profoundly creative action that we are continually performing every moment of every day. We do it collectively, on another level of consciousness influencing through our collective beliefs, thoughts and vibrations the world that we see and experience; and individually, imprinting onto our perceived world our own fears, desires, expectations and beliefs that are always mirrored back to us.  

We are not the Creator, but we are supremely creative beings.

One aspect of this is now accepted by science is 'the observer effect': that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. In 1935, Erwin Schrödinge came up with a thought experiment now called Schrödinger's cat to illustrate that.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaAxUO6-Uw

Much later, the observer effect was scientifically confirmed.

See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm

You can read about some experiments on the power of mind to influence matter. No easy videos: you have to read this:

https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/mind-over-matter-experiments/

 

Then there's my favourite philosophical/quantum science question about the falling tree. You’ve probably heard it before.

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Now let’s take it a step further. ‘If there is no one, no living thing around to see or hear it, does the tree even exist?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoUZJWKlyM

(obviously, someone did see and hear the tree fall, but pretend they didn't.)

Some scientists will say yes, that the tree exists and makes sound when it falls whether or not it is ever seen or heard by a living being. That’s the classical view of the world in which things have their own independent nature and lives. Quantum physicists might say no, that if there is no living being to observe the tree, it does not exist, because according to quantum physics there is no thing out there, just probabilities.

According to quantum physics (and also to some philosophies) reality is not made up of things that exist independently of us; it is comprised of infinite possibilities that exist as waves, fields or strings of energy (I go with fields) none of which manifests (in our reality, at least) until one probability is activated through thought or intention - The process for the most part is totally unconscious, but occurs with every choice we make: to cross the street or not, to smile or scowl, to be angry, afraid, calm or not and so on .......

Every choice and action has not just one but many probable consequences, about most of which we remain ignorant. (Some metaphysicians and some quantum theorists say that those probabilities that do not manifest in our dimension do so in different dimensions, but we won't go there).

If you do not see this as supremely creative action on our part, then also consider the intricate and extensive web or pattern of manifestations that each person generates through his or her choices and observations. 

We even have the awesome ability to change the architecture of our brain with our thoughts and intentions. Just as we have created certain mental patterns over our lifetimes by having the same kinds of thoughts, beliefs and reactions to what happens around us, we can change our neural structure - create or reinforce or erase neural pathways by thinking and reacting differently, and changing our basic attitudes and beliefs. Its called neuroplasticity, and it gives us the capacity to heal sickness, replace old negative or fearful patterns of reaction and behaviour with new supportive, life-enhancing patterns. 

You are free, of course, to see the universe as wholly predetermined, and your choices as fundamentally meaningless, but why would you? 

You can choose to believe that your thoughts and intentions don't matter to anyone but you, and have no influence on the world around you. But again, why would you when you could put aside your skepticism and doubts (you can always get them back later, if you like), and enter into a grand experiment with consciousness. 

Instead of feeling worthless, focus on those times you felt good about yourself, or what others find good in you.

Replace one negative, limiting, hurtful belief with a belief that is supportive, kind and optimistic. Work on it for at least a week, preferably three.

Stop lamenting about the state of the world, the environment, wrongdoing, etc. and take time every day to imagine what you would rather see in its place. Don't get too piddly about this, as you could get in the way of the creative forces. Just imagine how you'd like things to be, as if they really are that way.

Meditate, pray or simply send loving thoughts to help bring the world, a situation, a person into a balance and peace 

 

 

 

 

© Tosca Zraikat Oct 2016

Observing the Inner Observer

I have been quieting myself down throughout the day to pay attention to what's happening inside - what's going through my mind, my feelings, and ... strangely enough, what I might call my inner family, those different sub-personalities that talk, criticise, praise, judge, reassure, question, sometimes disagree and argue. I cannot name them, these little personalities for they are ephemeral, undefined, constantly shifting like clouds (cloud people, I call them) in the sky, real but never the same. 

And more and more, as I pay attention, I am aware of an Inner Observer, some aspect of Self that is always there, usually unnoticed. I have always sensed Its presence, strongly in my childhood when it felt to me like a great omnipresent, omniscient God. I think that most people sense It in some way or other.

But now that I am paying closer attention, observing the Observer, one could say, I realise that It is always there, a consciousness that is me yet far more than the small me held within this body. Not something outside or separate, but a primary aspect of Being, of my Being. So I have decided that I can trust it completely.

Rupert Sheldrake did some research into the sense of being watched by someone else. But there is also a very real sense of being watched by an Inner Observer that never changes and is always present. I used to think as a child that it meant that I was somehow special - not good, but different - which I found strangely comforting in a difficult and very lonely childhood. Then I discovered at about age 12 that a great many people sensed the Watcher as well, and I understood that it was not something outside of me but within. 

It was different from Socrates' daimon that used to warn him off wrong choices, or my own inner daimon that I arrogantly named Socrates. That entity, which would appear over my left shoulder, never told me what to do, but always indicated when I should not do something, warning me away. Unlike the Inner Observer, Socrates only appeared when I was making a decision to do or not to do, and he looked sad or scowled when I chose to do the wrong thing despite him, as I often did. 

The Inner Observer is a higher or larger aspect of Self than that. I think that it keeps watch over the spiritual aspect of my being - its growth or sliding backwards in accordance with the motivations and beliefs of the small self at that time. It is part of the primary reality that underlies the camouflage reality that we experience every day.

Seth (the entity who spoke through Jane Roberts) spoke of primary and secondary realities. "If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. If clock time is escaped within the dream state, then clock time is not a primary.

"What you cannot escape within any range of consciousness can be called a Primary Condition."

"Those realities however which appear only in certain stages of consciousness are secondaries."  

(Jane Roberts, Seth, dreams and projections of consciousness).

 

Inner Observer is a primary element of being (really real) because no matter what, it is always there - in my waking, dreaming, daydreaming, imagining, or when my attention and actions are turned fully to the outside. I have only to turn my attention inward to sense it. It is often in my dreams, personified. Unlike my inner Socrates, the Inner Observer offers no guidance, no approval or disapproval. It just is, a still, gentle, totally loving presence.

And because it is part of primary reality, the Inner Observer is always present, always available to us. Always. We might escape secondary reality in our daydreams or sleep, but we are never ever out of the primary reality, never apart from it. It is always engaging us, holding us in its embrace, so to speak. 

Why do we not accept this? It's a matter of trust, I think, of learning to trust the validity of our own inner experience. Most do not. We might think we do, but we don't because we don't recognise the tight, hard barriers to knowing or trust that we have allowed to build around our thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. We don't recognise and are afraid to recognise what we have allowed to ourselves to push away, to shut out, what we have lost and must now choose to allow back in. 

Yet we can know. It is not beyond us. And the Inner Observer shows us how.

- By letting ourselves to simply be, to allow life to be what it is no matter how it might hurt, to observe what our bodies are telling us

- By trusting in the validity and value of our experience, no matter how difficult or ugly it might seem

- By patiently allowing life to unfold 

- When considering which way to go, whether to do or not, to ask, Does this feel right to me? Is it helpful, useful, kind?

Down to earth

A friend spoke the other day about continually trying to keep focused on the spiritual. I had been doing the same for much of my life, I told him, until I had a dream that changed my mind.

Dream:

I am in a dense forest of pine trees, almost perfectly shaped. Despite my protests, two little men in overalls dig up one of the trees, an exceedingly tall, straight tree, almost a perfect triangle. Very upset, I urge the little men to replant the tree, but instead, they upend it and plant the top in the hole where the roots had been.

At first, I am totally perplexed but somehow know that this is meant to be. So I help prepare the hole, and help to balance the tree on its tip in the soil, making sure that the soil is firmly compacted to hold the tree in place, and it does. And I recall that handling the soil with care was a crucial part of this.

Which reminds me of an even earlier dream where a gardener is making holes in which to plant trees and shrubs, and the holes are perfect rectangles. When I ask why he spends so much effort getting each hole perfect, he gives me a withering look, and says, "If you want a beautiful garden, you must create the best possible foundation for it that you can.

Back to the inverted tree dream. The men in my dream were actually several little men in white overalls that sometimes enter my dreams to 'do' things. They never speak, never look at me, and seem to obey some higher power, for they know exactly what to do. 

I intuitively drew only two people in the mandala, representing male and female energies - yang and yin. I have met them in dreams before, male and female, always working together as they are meant to do to draw wholeness into the earth.

The inverted tree represents the channel for divine energy to enter this reality and grow here. The tree of life reaches upward, its inverted counterpart grows downwards, both necessary, the sacred pole - the navel of the world - up which shamans and our souls climb towards the Divine and down which the Divine flows to us on earth.

The spine of the human being with its pathway of energy centres, the chakras, up which the magic serpent rises and down which the sacred serpent flows with its holy wisdom, manifesting spirit into the world. 

Among other things, the bird is the Higher Self, which seeks to become manifest in our present being, that is, to divinize the lower self, the ultimate goal of what Carl Jung called 'individuation.' 

There is much talk these days about being spiritual, about ascending, developing our
higher chakras, creating kundalini experiences to transport us to higher levels of being. A lot of talk about, and striving for results, expecting gardens without the hard, patient, humble work of building good foundations, of creating rich, friable, nourishing soil in which gardens cannot help but grow.

That's our primary task here, to engage fully with this life, to give it all we can, to develop our lower chakras and feed the serpent with that lies coiled at the base of our spine. WE do that by developing positive, loving, helping attitudes and relationships with ourselves and others, to do that wherever we are, whatever our circumstances. That's where the truly spiritual starts - on the ground. 

 

(image from https://workouttrends.com/naruto-uzumaki-seven-chakras)