ASCENSION SUPPORT TEAM
DAVID AND YVONNE BRITTAIN
EGO VERSUS INTUITION
Everyone is to some extent
familiar with the “Doctor’s Surgery” mode of thought. Our early conditioning
ensures that we immediately slip into this mode if we dare set foot into a
doctor’s waiting room. We may be there simply to read the gas meter, but until
we firmly declare our intentions, it is assumed by the receptionist that we are
there to consult the doctor. If this is correct, often the receptionist may
automatically regard her or his role as that of, “Defender of the Brilliant
Doctor, and of the Brilliant Doctor’s valuable time.”
Knowing as we do that the
doctor has a busy life, (as do most of us!) passively we patients patiently
accept our appointed roles of, “Those from whom the doctor must be defended.”
With unruffled passivity we ignore the fact that all eight patients in the
waiting room, including us, were given the identical appointment time; as if
the patient’s time is considered to be valueless. Daunted by past experience,
we know beforehand that to complain at such treatment is to call down upon us,
horrified looks of disgust and indignation, not only from the bristling
receptionist and the bewildered doctor but also from the other seven passive
patients. Instead, because this mode is based on a deliberately generated
implied atmosphere rather than any thing clearly said, usually with
unquestioning obedience we accept our prescribed passive roles. We go along with the crowd.
The
above paragraphs are not meant to be a diatribe against the “Medically
Unalterable”. They are intended as a description of symptoms to which we all
are vulnerable: The conditioned, unthinking, unquestioning passivity that leads
us individually to automatically assume audience, acolyte, or ‘follow my
leader’ roles. These are the very symptoms we all should be trying to unload as
individually we work towards our ascension.
For
the individual seeker this task is made more difficult to achieve when set amid
a new-age atmosphere geared to the comfort zone level of thought. This
atmosphere manifests itself in the form of a generally accepted attitude that
implies “Intuition” is all that is needed, where as the use of intellect,
(probably because of its masculine past association with dominance), is to be
regarded as, “Limited three-dimensional thinking that we ‘sensitive’ people have outgrown”
This
is a very strange attitude, if adopted and encouraged by people who present
themselves as, “Leading Lights at the cutting edge of New-age thought.” It is
this same reluctance over many centuries; to include the use of intellect and
logic that emptied the churches owned by established religions. In each of our
articles we always urge seekers to develop the three inter-related attributes:
Intuition, Intellect, and Discernment. Discernment is a vital ingredient when
using either of the other two. The reliable use of intellect alone is limited
to the past and the present.
Intellect
only becomes truly reliable when backed by developed Intuition. Why? Intuition
has access to the future. Intellect does not have access to the future.
You
may discuss intuition at endless length with others. You may read all the
latest books about the development of intuition. But you are the only person that can find the time to patiently enter
your own still quiet centre to develop your intuitional link to your higher
self. Until you have done this you are vulnerable to the symptoms we have
described in our “Doctor’s surgery” scenario, you go along with the crowd.
To
illustrate what we mean, now try to visualize this typical new-age scenario:
A friend is “over the moon”
about a lady he or she has heard of, who “channels” Ascended Masters. You
succumb to his or her eager urgings to attend a channeled session. The audience
consists of the usual mixture of very genuine, sincere people. It ranges from
very knowledgeable, highly developed psychic mediums, and learned students of
metaphysics, to the nice lady (in the red hat) who mistakenly thought it was to
be a Spiritualist service. Many levels of spiritual understanding are in the
audience.
Despite
the hardness of the seats, the atmosphere in the hall is of quivering
joy-filled anticipation conducive to generous spiritual hugs all around, and to
a general air of, “Wanting to believe
what we are about to hear, even before we hear it.”
At
this point we all are vulnerable because as we passively succumb to the
atmosphere as described we are tempted to stash our discernment, “outside the
pale” with our already discarded 3D intellect. If we then rely on an intuitive
link that we haven’t bothered to develop, to be our guide as to the
authenticity of the channel’s utterances, we could end up by fooling ourselves.
There are genuine channels that do channel genuine ascended masters. No doubt
those genuine channels would readily agree that for the audience it is
difficult to discern who is genuine and who isn’t. Just like their audiences,
most channels have egos and maybe would admit that it is lovely to be the centerpiece.
Admittedly it may be a tough vocation or career, but what vocation or career
isn’t tough?
Genuine
or not, most channels radiate personal charm and follow a similar format. With
some channels it is difficult to define who is supposed to be speaking at any
given moment; the channel or the ascended master. With some it is a person
lecturing at length about what, we are told, he or she previously channeled in
private. With others it is slightly more clear-cut. The ascended master comes
through, and thanks his or her channel, and then announces that he or she has
crossed the dimensions to be with the audience today. The audience is then
informed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and that it is no
coincidence that each of them is in the audience today.
Next,
maybe they are informed that long ago each of them volunteered to descend from
higher realms to exist in physical matter to help planet Earth and its
bewildered peoples to ascend. Also, because they have all forgotten the task
they came to do, that he or she; the ascended master, is there today to remind
them of their special-ness.
The
ascended master/channel then goes on to speak at great length, and with calm
authority about new waves of energy, reactivated crystal energy grids, Galactic
Brotherhoods, refurbished DNA and RNA strands in a higher dimension, and so on.
Whilst we listen, we all nod knowingly because we’ve all vaguely heard or read
about these items somewhere.
But now maybe you can see the need for
developed intuition?
Intellectually
you cannot prove, disprove, or even test any of this rarefied,
scientific-sounding information. Equally, it is unlikely that the joy-filled
atmosphere would survive too much audience ego-bruising. For example, if the audience
was informed that they are some of the bewildered peoples of Earth to be
uplifted by angelic volunteers, rather than being some of the special angelic
volunteers that came to do the uplifting. For the audience this wouldn’t be
quite what they wanted to hear.
Please
don’t think we are trying to debunk genuine channels or the genuine ascended
masters that are channeled. We are trying to highlight time-wasting diversions
better avoided by the sincere individual seeker. A reliable guideline to follow
could be: Is knowledge of this torrent of celestial tech-science relevant to my
task of working on me: or is it simply "clutter" and “jargon” that
will in turn just make me sound more knowledgeable?
So
that nothing will prevent he or she from recognizing truth when faced with
truth the genuine seeker is at all times trying to eliminate ego, and resist
appeals by others to the ego. Otherwise the entire new-age scene becomes a
pointless ego trip to nowhere, simply a
matter of going along with the comfort zone crowd.
There is a danger until the
seeker’s intuitional link is developed. The danger is that amid the atmosphere
of maybe genuine, or maybe carefully generated, cozy, like-mindedness, he or
she has no way to define whether what was personally felt was, “Truth-chills”
from the intuition, or “Frissons” of pleasure from a flattered ego. The
operative words in the last sentence are, ‘what
was personally felt’, because what anyone else in the audience personally
felt is irrelevant to your personal spiritual progress. Equally, what anyone
else thinks that you should have felt is also irrelevant.
Where does intellect fit
into the new-age scene for the sincere individual seeker? This is far simpler
that it seems. At all times the genuine, open-minded seeker receives more and
more information. Much of this information is received via other seekers, and
is offered in the sincere form of their individual interpretations (correct or
incorrect) of information received by them. The information may be culled from
the latest books, or from channels. Alternatively you may have received the
information direct from your higher self via your intuitional link.
No
matter how you received the information, now
that you have it what are you going to do with it? Obviously you want to
make that information an integral part of you, but before you can allow that to
happen you need to know two things, that the information is genuine, and that
you clearly understand the information. Both are vital if you are to avoid
misguiding yourself and those you will teach.
Let’s look at gurus.
A
guru enters the solitude of a cave to obtain answers that are unobtainable to
him from the big world outside of the cave. Before seeking solitude he has
listened with care to the mixed bag of spiritual conjecture, authoritatively
offered to mankind by the great, established religions, and belief systems of
the world.
The guru seeks accurate knowledge and
personally gained experience that he
can use to transform himself, to
achieve self-illumination, to enable
him to ascend. The guru’s goal is no
different to that of we modern-day seekers, so let’s see how he goes about the
task. The guru in his cave divides his time between two meditative functions,
both of which he firmly monitors with discernment. The first function is used
to get the information, and so he clears his mind of clutter and then quietly
waits, intuitively ‘tuned-in’ rather like a radio receiver. But who will send
the information to him? No one will send it because, as we all have, he already
has it stored with the part of his intelligence that we call his “Higher self”.
The guru’s higher self will release that stored information, via the intuitive
link, at the learning speed of the guru. What applies to the guru also applies
to each of us.
So far our guru, in his
passive, observer’s role, has intuitively received a flow of information in
meditation. Then the flow ceases. When the flow ceases, the guru no longer
remains a passive observer. Now the guru becomes an active participant. The
guru brings in his intellect to absorb and understand the information he has
received so far. This second meditative function is called ‘Contemplation’ and
is used to make that information an integral part of the guru. The information
so far, begins to transform the guru. Only then will higher self release more
information. In this way gradually, the guru (or you reading this article)
becomes so transformed that eventually higher self, the intuitive link, and the
guru (or you) completely merge.
So
we have access to two avenues of information. Intuitively from our higher self
to then be absorbed via our intellect. Or intellectually via books, psychic
channels etc. to then be tested by our higher self via our developed intuitive link. It couldn’t be simpler, and you don’t
have to sit in a draughty cave. A warm, quiet bedroom will do. Or, if you are
the last of the (block-appointment) eight patients, you could try it in the
silence of a doctor’s empty waiting room.
AS USUAL WE OFFER OUR POSTAL
SERVICES FOR TRAPPED SOUL RESCUE/RELEASE WORK, CLAIRVOYANT
BEST
WISHES ON THE ASCENSION PATH FROM...
DAVID
AND YVONNE BRITTAIN.
Note: David and Yvonne
continuously drew down and anchored the light in
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