Chapter 3- Philosophy: 5

Activities Contraindicated

• Role playing
• Drama classes or performances
• Rebirthing
• Sales positions
• Mediumship

As the ego is inflexible to new and varied thought, the individual needs build a strength upon a strength, rather than come to tax himself in ways which would prove too difficult to manage, or too confusing to his already weakened sense of self.

When the student attempts to assume differing identities outside of his own true experience, he begins to make ‘cells’ (cells alike to honeycomb cells added one upon another) around his veneer of personality. These cells dissipate if not used regularly (not fed with a vitality from interest or action) or will break off after death. However, even though they are artificially contrived by the man they are not of the man. They are distinct, because in fact they are not directly of his being’s lively essences.

Spiritually speaking, everything a man does and says lives in and about him for a while thereafter. Memory is everywhere - we, our bodies, and that which is in the immediate around us, is impressionable to all that we do and say. It is reliving a constant recollection in mime continually.

Now when we set about to manufacture or enact out a role which does not come from a reasonable source within us (i.e. has not a history of experience to verify it, or does not contain the preceding causes for our arriving at that given particular in our behaviour directly) then it happens that we begin to assume personas which can be cells as described, (cankerous cells) or even as ghosts of our own maintaining.

It is true to say that role playing can be useful when it comes to an effort of experience in strengthening the empathetic/sympathetic nerves. However, it is far more valid and reasonable an experience to pursue such empathies in the moment, in the first response, rather than by a reenactment of a past and dead episode now gone. To be moved by a need and respond to it - rather than play-act what should or should not have occurred in the hindsight.
 

Rebirthing is a nonsense to the consciousness. It is a little alike to trying to move your memory into your toe to begin to interpret the sensations it experienced on the bush walk that brought you the blisters. You can communicate these impressions back into your consciousness if you consider it important - yet it is no clear comprehension of the individuality who drove the body, the foot and the toe at that time at all.

The incarnating process takes many, many years before the layers of a man are fused together and awakened into a full knowing. During the sacred passage into this life, when the individual enters into his infancy and drives down into matter with a ferocity of spirit, love and great joy - he has supporting him, and within him, the fiercest advantage and the greatest of ecstasies (not to mention vitalities) as he shall ever have during the course of his life to follow. 

Minute by minute the heavenly forces retire slowly unto death - however, at the point of birth and for the first seven years after, the soul within the frame is completely protected from the trauma that the consciousness of the adult might come to know later. It is a blissful existence, empowered by the innocence that the wisdom from heaven does bring.

Rebirthing only begins to become meaningful as an interpretive review from the time of puberty in which the forces then negotiated and begun to be comprised, unfortunately bear down upon the soul much sadness, which was not formerly felt before. This will not be the case in the future adolescent to come - yet particularly now, when the forces spill out and into the awakening ego as they do, materialism is painful and the emanations of men become as an immense pressure to the soul within.

Mediumship is destabilizing - as is the example shown to us by the many suffering schizophrenics, who have weakened to such a condition which do admit all kinds of ‘inhabitants’ to them. All of us are inspired by sources of consciousness which are outside of our own - this is common enough. Even in mere day-to-day thinking dialogues of inner argument occur. However, for the individual who has not the capacity or the strength to exercise his discriminatory thought processes as well, there shall only be a huge confusion to follow if he pays attention to outside sources, valuing them higher than his own directives.

This is one of the main reasons it cannot be stressed enough to students that they needs come to all ideas respecting their own heart and mind in every matter foremostly. Added to this is the respect we shall give to ourselves by saying there is no better entity to motivate my body and my mind and know my heart as myself. Therefore, why give it over to an unknown? 

The glamor of the invisible soon becomes tedious if there is no good substance to the offering. Unless an individual is born with a blood-clairvoyance which of itself develops naturally (without the opening of the fissures through drug taking or development circles etc.) then the mediumship might just require a medium-tugboat to get it back into more safer waters than before!

It is true to say that dramatic roles can actually forge a reality for the actor - that he shall truly become the part that he plays, should he enliven that reality by working his consciousness intently. By living it as it were - he can invoke it to repeat itself right here within his physical circumstances. However, for the philosophically weak this practice inhibits the individual from getting on with the necessary task of knowing himself.

Usually, when one is flexible enough, it is both useful and enjoyable to learn about the nature within by contrasting without. It is not uncommon either to watch men who are powerfully adept in their philosophical thinking to be able to summon many personas and assume them temporarily, knowing the whole character as if from the inside. But they are not doing this, at their stage, to learn about themselves in the process - they are moreover experiencing the other person in the practice - and this can be achieved safely only when their own sense of selfhood is so firmly proven and known to themselves that it is unshakeably unimpressionable to the personas they then go on to assume. The cells may become as reference points, but are not distracting to the consciousness as they would be amongst the egoically weak.