Use (Ch. 11 of 'The Impersonal Life)

Image credit: Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'Unnatural Selection'

Episode 7 of Season 2 of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' is titled 'Unnatural Selection.' In it, the crew grapples with a mysterious disease which accelerates the aging process, causing humans to die of old age within a matter of days.

The disease affects the DNA, and the solution at the end is to cause the transporter to filter out all but the person's original DNA which is stored in the computer program (as in the image above.)

This science fiction contains a particle of truth, as human DNA is blocked and not fully activated. It is like the original design for fully realized humans was manipulated with blocking agents.

The Star trek analogy has been useful in visualizations where my attention scans my own DNA (from head to feet or bottoms of feet to top of head) and 'filters out' all but that which belongs to the original design. I then give the dross, after asking, to my spiritual team either underneath me in the earth or above my head, and give thanks.

Scanning my body now. I filter out all which does not belong to the original design of my DNA for a fully realized human. 

Practitioners of Goenka Vipassana meditation also do a body scan, as described in the article 'Investigating the Body’s Reality' from Insight Meditation Online:

"... at the beginning of a sitting session, check to see if the body is relaxed and if at any time during the session you notice that the body has tensed, do a body scan, that is, scan the body part-by-part, relaxing each region as the awareness moves through the body, while softening into any tension or contraction you find. If the body is contracted so must be the mind. Be open and allowing, as the practice is about receptivity and openness, allowing a ‘tuning in’ to what actually is manifesting." [1]

A meditation practice can be highly beneficial and a page on this site offers some excellent resources. After experiencing a variety of meditation techniques, I choose to simply live a meditative life and bring awareness of the One Being as my True Self into daily actions. 

Chapter 11 of 'The Impersonal Life' says that the proving of one's realization is the practical use of it in service to the I AM (creative source, pure consciousness, True Self, O.B.)

While writing the above, my 4 year old grand-daughter wanted help turning off the water that was filling her swimming pool. In times past, I felt resistance towards having my writing repeatedly 'interrupted.' This time, instead, I laughed to myself and got up to turn off the water as a service to the I AM in her and in me. When one is wholly living the One Being-True Self, there is no such thing as an interruption.

There is a fine line, however, between serving the I AM of us all and the O.B.-absent awareness of personas who demand attention and seek control. I have encountered this especially in life assignments as a therapeutic couple and house parent with my partner — caring for seniors, other-enabled adults and at-risk teenage youth. Can I give a controller what they want while serving the One Being?

It is no wonder that some retreat from the world and avoid interactions altogether. There is nothing wrong with that, and the idea is tempting. Another way is to consciously remain in the midst of challenging personas and situations, and thereby grow stronger. Note this is not the same as the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.' [2]

As 'The Impersonal Life' says, we encounter no challenging aspects in others which are not still carried in ourselves. I add, the gift of the challenge is that it affords an opportunity to become aware of what is in me and thereby make a shift in myself towards living from the pure consciousness of the True Self.

A challenging situation is where I am now, with my agreement, until such time as I am called to a new assignment. While trusting the I AM that being where 'I am' has a higher purpose, the hunger for a lifestyle where my talents are well-used remains. According to T.I.L., as I interpret it, that hunger is also in service to the original design.

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The Impersonal Life, Chapter XI
USE

​These Chapter 11 excerpts speak to the themes running through the Whole Human blog posts:

Therefore, as I begin to awaken in you a realization that I AM within, and more and more cause your human consciousness to become an Impersonal channel through which I can express, will I gradually reveal to you the Reality of My Idea, dissipating one by one the illusions of the ages which have hidden Me from you, enabling Me thereby to manifest through you My Heavenly Attributes of Earth in all their humanly Divine perfection.

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Before you can become conscious of all this and can truly comprehend it, you and your human personality must make it possible for Me to reveal it, by turning within to Me as the One and Only Source, bringing to Me your measure absolutely empty of self, and with mind and heart as simple and trusting as those of a child. 

Then and then only, when nothing of the personal consciousness remains to prevent My filling you full to overflowing with the consciousness of Me, can I point out to you the glories of My Real Meaning, for which this whole Message is but the outer preparation.

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Just so will You soon be thinking My Thoughts, and be conscious that I AM speaking within directly to your human consciousness, and you will then no longer have to come to this book or to any other of My outer Revelations, either spoken or written, in order to perceive My Meaning.

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All that remains for you to do is to enter into the All-consciousness of My Mind and abide there with Me, even as I abide within My Idea in Your Mind. Then all things shall be Yours, as they now are Mine, being but the outer expression of My Idea, and existing only by reason of the consciousness I gave them when I thought them into being. 

It is all a matter of consciousness—of your conscious thinking. You are separated from Me only because you think you are. Your mind is but a focal point of My Mind. If you but knew it, what you call your consciousness is My Consciousness. You cannot even think, much less breathe or exist without My Consciousness being in you,—Can you not see it? 

Well, then, think, believe you are I, that We are not separated, that We could not possibly be separated; for WE are ONE,— I within You, and You within Me, Think this is so; determinedly image it as so; and verily the moment you are conscious of this, that moment are you with Me in Heaven. 

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This book and its message will be to you hereafter merely a fount of inspiration, or      a door through which you will be enabled to enter into the Impersonal estate and to hold sweet communion with Me, your Father in Heaven, when I will teach you all things you desire to know.

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Yes, all things you receive have their use.  If you are not conscious of such use, it is only because you can not yet acknowledge Me as The Giver. 
 
You could not honestly acknowledge Me as such until you knew I AM, The Giver. Your personality, in fact, had become so engrossed in trying to get rid of or to exchange many of the things I had given you for other things you thought were better, that of course you could not even dream, much less acknowledge, Me, Your Own Self, as The Giver. 

Possibly you do now acknowledge Me as The Giver, as the Inner Essence and Creator of all things in your world and in your life, even of your present attitude toward these things. 

Both are My doing, for they are but the outer phases of the process I AM using in the expression of My Idea of your inner Perfection, which Perfection being My Perfection is gradually unfolding from within you.

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Yes, all these I may be doing through you, but of absolutely no benefit is any of it to you personally, unless you use and apply these harmonies of sound in your every spoken word, so that to all hearers they will seem as the sweet music of heaven; and unless your sense of color and proportion so manifests in your life that only kind, uplifting, helpful thoughts flow from you, proving that the only true art is that of seeing clearly My Perfection in all My human expressions, and of allowing the quickening power of My Love to pour through you into their heart, picturing to their inner vision My Image hidden therein. 

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You at the time will probably know nothing of this. You may even be still longing to serve Me, and hungering for a more intimate consciousness of Me, thinking you are doing nothing, are still making many mistakes and failing to live up to your highest ideals of Me; not realizing that this longing and hungering is the avenue through which I pour forth My Spiritual Power, which being wholly Impersonal, is used by you, unconscious of its being I within you using it, to bring about My Purpose in your heart and life and in the hearts and lives of My and Your other Selves. 

So, as you finally grow into the realization of all this, as you surely will, and prove it by the practical use of all you have in My service, will I gradually give you the strength and ability consciously to use Impersonally My Power, My Wisdom, and My Love, in the expression of My Divine Idea, which is eternally striving to manifest through You Its Perfection. 

Therefore will you soon see that your human personality, with all its faculties, powers and possessions, which are in reality Mine operating and manifesting through you, is likewise for My use wholly, and that true success and satisfaction can never be found except in such use. 

For such use develops, as the planted seed develops the harvest, the ability consciously to use all My Spiritual faculties in the final perfect expression of My Idea, which can be expressed only through your human personality.

[1] 'Investigating the Body’s Reality' from Insight Meditation Online
http://www.buddhanet.net/imol/retreat/retreat03.htm

[2] "Mayhem and chaos don't toughen you up, and they don't prepare you well to deal with the terror of this world. Tender love and care toughen you up, because they nurture and strengthen your capacity to learn and adapt... "
- Psychology Today

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THE IMPERSONAL LIFE, UNABRIDGED