Chapter 50

A Dinner with G

This Chapter 50 is a bit like a evening chat. A group of friends touring through various areas. The difference is that at the center of this gathering is E.J. It becomes interesting.

There are a number of topics that are quickly touched upon and the group moves on…

Here are some topics that we should note and that we will touch upon.

[1]     A beggar is he who identifies with but is not aware of, sensing, feeling, or thinking. (p.117) Here the aspirant uses and identifies with one or more centers and proudly displays his or her acumen. But, he is unaware of this. We need to find ways and means of becoming increasingly aware of our centers and when we are in which one.

[2]     Being does not come into existence by itself; it must be intentionally made. “Imagine (a) cinema image with life of its own – after a while it can walk away from (the) screen.” (p.119) Are we aware that we are on that screen?

[3]     The master must at first come as a guest. (p.121) There is an interesting discussion about the master returning.

[4]     On the Mystical Body of Christ: ‘When we say mystical, we mean not an ordinary part of the cosmos; Christ has a continuous existence in another higher cosmos.’ (p.123) A delightful discussion of holding an angelic viewpoint.

There is one area I would like to spend a bit of time studying – here is the paragraph.

“External considering is not for morality. It is to make work possible. When our work is invisible people are not offended and do not interfere. We must ‘steal time’ for our work – time which does not rightfully belong to us. When we are with family, friends, children, the boss, customers, we must appear to have all our attention on them, while actually we have only 25% on them and 75% on our inner work.”   (p.123)

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Chapter 54

Notes of Some Exercises

The chapter lists a number of different exercises designed to aid us in our work on Self.

E.J. starts with a challenge  – Eliminate Negative Emanations – wow. Do we even sense when we are emanating negatively? … yes, sometimes. Then he describes a process called “The Customer is always right.” We will expand on that exercise in class.

A few of the processes shared:

[1]   The Des Moines Exercise: (p. 132)

(a)  We must know where we wish to go.

[2]    ‘I am not that’  (p.133)

Refuse to become false identities.

[3]     The Paradox Exercise

View our internal contradictions impartially.

[4]     Raise Atlantis

Mentate without automatic associations.

[5]     The Muzzling Exercise – (p.134)

Stifle manifestations

There are other exercises following. The final three paragraphs are very interesting indeed.

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Chapter 54

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We will continue to look at the exercises in Chapter 54 – “Notes on Some Exercises.”

We reflected on a number of exercises last week, notably the Des Moines (the monk) exercise. We will continue to peruse the catalogue presented by E.J. Gold in this Volume V of the Secret Talks series, Work of Groups.

[A] The Snowflake – (p.135)

Actually Move your body

[B] Swimming upstream – (p.137)

The process never gets easy.

On a personal note – I wanted to say a few things about my use of the “customer is always right” exercise.

I was able to apply the exercise quite extensively this week (somehow?). The exercise arose as a response many times. “It” seemed to arise for me when it was needed. It became ‘second-nature’ to me.

There was a large festival at our local fairgrounds this weekend. I was volunteering and had to move through the crowd quite a bit. At times, I could feel myself being drawn into the energy and mood of the crowd – more like ‘sucked in.’ During one such instance, the exercise of “the customer is always right” arose. Suddenly the space opened. It was as if the mantra cut a path through the crowd energetically. I realized at that moment that each and every person was operating in their own world. As I watched – the anxiety of being in such a large group fell away.

Find that exercise that becomes “hip-pocket” for you. It can be a life saver.

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