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Within this deeper, orchestrating consciousness the part of awareness that needs to know and the part that already knows are both available. ... To learn in this dimension, we discover that words like trust, balance, surrender, allowing and love are more than words, they are reality-defining energies.
*Richard Moss. The I That is We: Awakening to Higher Energies through Unconditional Love.
Your ultimate choice ... is whether to align yourself with a high energy field or a low energy field.
*Wayne W. Dyer. There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem.
Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
*2 Corinthians 6.14c (ESV)
I had my deepest meditation in many months in the morning. Then, I did daily tasks, engaged persons in the public, and had two fun times with my doggies. I cycled, also, for 20 miles. I had felt light bodily during the ride, with a focus of consciousness-energy in my chest. Later in the day, I realized that I had lost usual consciousness of time. I seemed to have been fully in the nowness; I could not even remember when I had ridden the bike.
I fed my doggies, in early evening, and reclined in my chair. I began meditating after reading some. I was surprised how soon I was in a deep meditative process. I accepted it. Well into the meditation, I began speaking inwardly the Fruit of the Spirit. I practiced receiving the energy of each aspect of the Fruit: love, joy, peace, ...
During this I had a spontaneous mental vision. I was seeing each aspect of the Fruit entering an energy Field. The Field was an environment of spirit: a lucid energy Field. This Field was receiving each aspect, yet, it was Pure of all specific aspects. I could not discern the Field as love, joy, peace ...; rather, It was the place where each was included, by my choice. The Field received each aspect as I spoke it.
Words, and thoughts, are energy-carriers. The use of energies in meditation acknowledges this. The Field is Pure Spirit, and That is God, or an expression of God. Or, with Richard Moss, we could call this Field "orchestrating consciousness." In my vision this consciousness was orchestrating varied energies presented to it.
The power of words to convey life and spirit is seen in the Gospel of Jesus Christ:
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
*St. John 6.63 (ESV)
The Jesus in John recognizes the mystery of words spoken when the speaker is joined in a union with the Divine Spirit.
The same principle is applied early in the Christian movement and to written works:
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
*2 Timothy 3.16-17 (ESV)
Likewise, we read of the power of the energy of Word of God to penetrate the consciousness of a person - note, however, later identification of this passage with the Bible is not verified in the passage:
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
*Hebrews 4.12 (ESV)
That particular inspired words had a creative potency was a common belief in the Mediterranean world of antiquity, and this was picked up in the Jewish tradition. An example is:
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
*Isaiah 55.10-11 (ESV)
We can do prayerful meditation whereby we introduce, silently and inwardly, sacred words, phrases, or sentences. We allow awareness to flow into, to feel into, the energy. The energy has the potency to transmute negative energies and nurture a movement to more refined, maturer consciousness - including transpersonal awareness.
Christ is ultimately the Word. Christ is the Field into which we seek more wholly to be drawn into by the energies we engage in prayer: words into Word.
Moss writes: "Shift the quality of the underlying energy and the nature of experience changes. ... It takes a higher principal to refine the reality of a lower principle of being." This is to say, only a higher energy can transform a lower one; therefore, prayerful meditating is an openness to higher, more mature energy in order to transform lower, less mature energy.
This is not as simple, however, as "bad" energy being transformed into "good" energy. Lower expressions of positive energy - like, love, joy, peace - are transmuted into higher energy-expressions of the same.
So, transpersonal Love is not the same as even a spiritual love within the personal. In pre-transpersonal loving, we sense ourselves as a subject loving; in the transpersonal, we are moved to a loss of the sense of a lover, and we become - for the "I acting" drops - one with the process of loving and the beloved. The sense of "I" drops into a sense of "We," as the boundaries of "I" and "You" dissolve in God - this union, with a loss of a sense of separateness, is taught in the teaching of the Trinity, and in the Tri-Unity of Hinduism and the three Kayas in Buddhism.
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An Exercise
Go into Silence. Focus on the word "love." See it visually. Let it, then, dissolve. Move awareness to the center of the chest: Heart center. Breathe in and out through the Heart center, repeating the word "love" inwardly.
Do not try to make anything happen - this is not a "doing" but a "receiving." Let yourself feel into the energy given in the Word of "love."
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*Charitable contributions would be appreciated to assist Brian in continuing his ministry. For contributions, contact Brian at barukhattah@embarqmail.com .
*Brian's book of spiritual love poetry, An Ache for Union: Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major booksellers or the Cokesbury on-line store, cokesbury.com .
*Brian K. Wilcox, a United Methodist Pastor, lives in Southwest Florida. He is a vowed member of Greenbough House of Prayer, a contemplative Christian community in South Georgia. He lives a contemplative life and seeks to inspire others to enjoy a more intimate relationship with Christ. Brian advocates for a spiritually-focused, experiential Christianity and renewal of the Church through addressing the deeper spiritual needs and longings of persons.
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