8.  Changing Vibrations

Man is indeed an evolving organism, but natural evolution requires thousands of years.  Only by concentrated effort can man speed up his evolution and it may well be that only a small percentage of men possess the desire in this incarnation to do so.  Only by expanded consciousness can man start to comprehend the contradictions that surround him at every level.  Only by acknowledging that higher states of consciousness exist has man any possibility in his lifetime of moving forward.  It is true that we create our own universe by our conscious actions or lack of them.

Man today, at his present level of consciousness, has been compared to a sleep-walker who thinks he is awake, but is actually in a state of sleep.  Indeed the Bible is filled with cries of "wake up".  

The changing of one's vibrations is extremely subtle.  It is like switching channels on a television receiver.   There are other channels on a subtle level of consciousness we can operate on, if we accept the possibility.  But first we must build the energy necessary to switch the channel.  All mythology tells us of the possibility and hints at higher stages of consciousness.  Jesus, in His Sermon on the Mount, tells us of these higher states.   Two thousand years ago, Jesus spoke of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.  He told us if we had eyes to see and ears to hear we could understand.  He also spoke of not casting one's pearls before swine, in other words not to waste the energy trying to teach those who are not yet awake on a level of consciousness capable of hearing the message.  He ended His mission on this planet by showing man that the spirit was immortal and death was another part of life.

Yet man continues to see himself as a self-contained ego.  He cannot yet see the other man as a reflection of himself.   This is a veil of consciousness we must first remove.  It is the ego that man uses to separate himself, through nationality or through social class, from his fellow man.  To many it is inconceivable to look at another man of a different nationality as a brother.  They do not yet possess the energy to raise their consciousness to even entertain this possibility.  It is again, as Ram Dass has said, "We are caterpillars who do not know or recognize the fact that we can turn into butterflies."

Man has within him a conscience.  This is the small still voice all of us hear and after a time, if we continue to reject it by losing or destroying our conscience, we destroy in essence our potential consciousness.   So again we sow as we reap.  Having destroyed conscience we destroy self-respect.  Having destroyed self-respect we cannot love our neighbours as ourselves.  Say a negative word to someone and watch yourself reap negativity.   Sowing and reaping is the easiest way to demonstrate the meaning of Jesus' words.   He spoke that "Narrow is the gate and wide is the way."  It is indeed a narrow gate we have to drive through our positive energy.  But if we can develop the habit of concentrating our positive energy, we then discover that wide is the way to our own fulfillment, once the narrow gate has been entered.  He spoke again of being trusting as little children.  When we destroy trust in ourselves by killing conscience, we give up the openness demonstrated by small children, because without trust we cannot love ourselves, and God is love.

This does not mean love without discernment.  We can love a tiger and yet acknowledge the need for discernment with a wild animal.  We can love and show compassion to an animal without allowing ourselves to be victimized by its lower state of consciousness.  Love starts with small gestures.  If, at first you do not feel love, practice the gestures of love and soon it will become a habit.  Start with loving animals.  They respond immediately to love, and all men need examples to experience confirmation of the teachings they are receiving.

Man's greatest difficulty is freeing himself from the traditions that have been indoctrinated in him and which have become a form of bondage.  The belief that another man of another race or colour is inferior is a subtle tradition that has been indoctrinated into us over the years.  Once we are in bondage by the acceptance of tradition or the auto-suggestive powers of anyone, we restrict our own freedom and our actions.  To believe one is a king, first one has to free oneself of thinking of oneself as a peasant.  If indeed we are the sons of God, we have to believe it.  Until we can believe it, we are in bondage.  Until one believes that he possesses greater power than he had hitherto conceived, the power will never be awakened.  It is obvious that far back in the past man had this knowledge of how to awaken and control this power, but man's fall was a fall from consciousness.   The knowledge was slowly lost and deliberately withheld from man, because power is knowledge.  It is known that up to a few hundred years ago the control of the printing press was in the hands of the kings.  Nothing could be printed that did not follow their idea of what the masses should know.  Man cannot be kept in slavery if he has the power of knowing who he is.  Man's organism, through lack of knowledge and through bad food and improper exercise has been kept in bondage for thousands of years.  

Any man can now correct his physical body, if the desire is strong enough, thereby increasing his consciousness and can free himself from economic bondage, which is the bondage that enslaves most men, and which has been used down through the ages to control and exploit mankind, as so articulately exposed by Buckminster Fuller in his brilliant book Spaceship Earth.   

Man at the present time, operates entirely from lower nature, which in Eastern terms means he lives and dies in his second or third chakra.  It is the fourth chakra. or the heart chacer which, when opened through additional control of energy, brings man to the understanding of who he is.  The knowledge of how easy it is to manipulate man because he lives in his lower nature and therefore can be manipulated through his emotions was the knowledge that Hitler and other dictators used from time immemorial.  On the more subtle level it is still being used by modern day ad men and politicians.  It is in essence, negative energy being exploited through the knowledge of how to work mass media for one's material advantage.   Raising one's consciousness makes one realize who one is because we raise our consciousness from the gross to the subtle level of awareness.  To a dog, for example, his master is God.  He can provide food at will.  He can open doors and do many things which to a dog are miraculous.

In India it is possible to see certain men who have mastered levels of vibrations, do things which to the Western mind are miraculous, when actually they are simply acts made possible through higher knowledge.   It is difficult writing about miracles without immediately turning off the reader.   Yet it is possible in India to see a man materialize things through his knowledge.   For example, one proclaimed holy man, Sai Baba, born on November 23, 1926 in a village called Puttaparthi in Southern India, actually daily materializes small objects and anybody who wishes to travel to India can visit Sai Baba's Ashram in South India and see him perform what to us appear to be miracles.  His disciples claim that he is not yet started on his real work and that he will live in his present human form until the year 2020.  They say he is still in the preliminary stage of his reconnaissance.

Sai Baba lives most of the time outside a small Indian town called Bangalore, which is only a two hour flight from New Delhi.   No matter how cynical you may be, no matter how much you may feel his acts are simply that of a clever magician, one has only to take the time and the money to fly to India and sit within a few feet of Sai Baba, any day of the week, and see him materialize small objects.  Nothing I can say, I am sure, will convince the mistrusting.   However, for three days in a row I sat watching Sai Baba, within a few feet of his presence, accompanied by two friends.  There was no question that he has the power to materialize objects.  It is done in full daylight and it is witnessed by hundreds of people.

I understand, although I didn't visit them, that there are other men in India capable of doing the same things.  It is totally beyond the rational mind, and I mention it here only to give the reader an indication that such things exist and as Jesus said, we all have the power of such miracles, but should not abuse them, if we have the faith and the faith starts within ourselves by recognizing the possibility that we all have to raise our consciousness to higher and higher levels.   This materializing phenomena is a power; but when will is withdrawn the forms wither, and the vibratory tones of which they are composed slowly vanish.  This is regarded as misuse of power by many, just as materializing séances are created by the ability of the seekers to become negative, receptive, and passive, thereby cleaning themselves of the vital tones, which enables them to bring about vibratory thought forms.   It is regarded as dangerous as it opens the mental door to poisonous psychic auto-suggestion.