Use of objective and subjective perspectives

I wish to say some more about love, about how to send it out to others.

But first to contrast two different perspectives which are important for any student of the human condition to understand and perceive. They are the objective and subjective views.

An objective view is when we look at something from the outside of it.

A subjective view is when we look from the inside of something, out through it.

Or put another way, an objective view is when we look at something from the outside inwards, and a subjective view is when we look at something or through something from the inside outwards.

Two Examples:

1.      When we look at a glass fish tank, we are looking at it objectively. When we put our head inside the fish tank and look at it from the inside and look at the room from out of the fish tank, then we are seeing the fish tank subjectively.

2.      When we look at our hand, we are perceiving our hand objectively. When we look away or close our eyes so that we cannot see our hand, but we sense our hand, where it is and what configuration it is in, then we are perceiving our hand subjectively.

Every human quality, condition, emotion, energy, function, state of consciousness… etc, has an objective and subjective viewpoint, that is, it can be perceived from without, and it can be perceived and experienced from within.

It naturally follows that every human quality, condition, emotion, energy, function,… etc, can be defined and described from an objective/theoretical/mechanical view and from a subjective/experiential/operative view.

It is general practice to first approach a subject objectively, then later, subjectively. Or put another way, theoretically then practically, or another way, mechanically then operatively. We learn a little theory, then a little practice, then some more theory, then some more practice…and so on. That is how we learn, progressively alternating objective/theoretical/mechanical learning with subjective/practical/operative learning, and combining the two within our self.   

A careful thinker may notice that everything is relative to everything else, including to its perspective or viewpoint, and so that view which is subjective may become an objective view in comparison to a viewpoint that is further inward or further subjective. For example, we may view an emotional condition objectively such as it appears in someone else, or we may experience it subjectively and personally as we do in our self, or we may withdraw our observing consciousness further within and upward to its position of observation and control in the head and from there observe our emotional condition from a distance. And so we now observe it objectively again, but from the inside rather than the outside. So the terms objective and subjective are always comparative to each other and to other views, and for clarity when communicating it is good practice to include the comparison, as it provides a reference and helps prevent misunderstandings.

Sending Love

The following definition of love, like those in the above post, is an objective definition. Notice that it is descriptive and theoretical:

     Love is the heartfelt wish that others learn and grow with a minimum of suffering.

Here is a subjective definition of love. It puts the reader within the definition. Notice that it is operative and experiential: 

     May you learn and grow with a minimum of suffering.

Although the head and heart think in different ways, for they deal with different energies, they also share energies and can communicate and cooperate harmoniously. For example, we can take a mentally held subjective definition of a heart quality and function, such as the subjective definition above of love, and we can transfer that definition to the heart, by speaking its words within the location of our heart and as we do we can feel the movement in the heart of the definition’s quality and function.

Within the heart, speak the definition and feel its quality stir. Direct the love energy to the indwelling soul of the target individual/s, not to their personality. Love may be directed to an individual, or to a group, or to everyone, and it goes from your heart to their soul.

Bear in mind that love is not ours to give, but is its own living spirit and is the light and warmth of God. So we must include prayer in our love sending. Love comes from above our self, through our self, and goes outwards from our self.

We can combine breath with our love-wish. Breath is the handle by which we manipulate energy. When we combine will and thought (energy) and breath, we have a potent mix, with all manner of potential. In prayer and with exercising the love-wish in the heart, breathe in love from God above, or breath in from your oversoul, and breathe out love through your heart to others. Love is God's wish for others, so to have love flowing through our self then we must align our intent and heart and breath with God's.   


But why bother sending love to others? why would we do it? The reason is because of its power or effect. Love dissolves unwanted habits of thought and behaviour that others are struggling with of which they have learnt their lessons from and are ready to move on. It thus relieves people of their residual habits and their consequential sufferings. Love helps people grow. It also dissolves our own troublesome habits of thought and behaviour as it passes through us, but that is incidental and not the reason why we do it, for if we try to send out love just for our own sake it doesn't happen. Love is for others first, and our self incidentally.

It is like the example in Luke 11 where a man goes at midnight to ask his friend for bread to feed a traveller and his friend gives him as much bread as he requires, including some for himself, because he has asked on behalf of someone else. So it is with love and all the powers of the soul. God does not send his love down dead end channels but only open ones. As water can only flow through an open tap, not a closed one. The tap must give forth the water to receive it. 

Love also aligns our self with God's outflow, and opens up our soul to all manner of possibilities.       

Heart think:

As we can speak thoughts in our head, so too, with practice, we can speak thoughts in our heart. We can learn to think in our heart. But the head and heart think in different ways, for there is difference in the sensation, force and power of thought in head and heart, and with practice we can come to understand how each thinks, and we can learn to work them both together.

Move towards the quality within the form.

The words of the definition provide a formative structure that houses a quality. Maintain the definition, work with the definition, while coming to sense and know the sensate quality of the love energy within. Gradually you will become familiar with the quality of the heartfelt love-wish and will be able to feel and work with that quality as an energy without having to identify and access it via the definition. But in the meantime use the definition, and even when able to access the quality directly always keep the definition in mind/heart as a guide.

Use of breath    

Breath is the handle by which we manipulate energy.

When we combine will and thought and breath we have a potent mix with all manner of potential.

Combining correct breathing harmoniously with any activity increases our potency.

Get the structure of the effort right first, then coordinate the breath with it.   

Breathe in from God as the love-wish is gathered in the heart; then breathe out to others and send the love-wish forth. Then repeat. Reciting the subjective definition in the head, and feeling it in the heart. Breathe in from God, out to man.

Feel the flow of the love-wish going through the heart. With time it will come to feel easy and smooth.

If you cannot feel it, just pretend to feel it, and that will clear the way, prepare the channels and activate the energies. Pretending to do anything, be it boxing, rowing, driving or whatever, will move and activate those energies and free them up. In reality it is not pretence, it is training and activating. 

In time, as the quality of the energy becomes more noticeable, it will flow smoothly and continually through the heart. Now the flow needn't pause between breaths, but flow continually down into, through and out of the heart towards the target. At this stage the breath, be it inhalation or exhalation, breaths with the flow, facilitating the love's passage down, through and out, with both inhalations and exhalations.

Include prayer       
Love, faith and prayer go together, because this sort of love is not ours to give, but is an outflow from God, as light and warmth is an outflow from the Sun, and the heat/energy of all living things on Earth and their cells comes from the sun. So too, love is not ours but comes from God. So we cannot exercise this love without prayer. Prayer is communion or connection between the soul (consciousness) and God.

Faith is the certainty of God. More specifically, faith is the certainty of God in man, and as such is the power of God within our self. That power is love.

Reach within an upward, beyond conscience, to something higher than yourself - to God, the Great Consciousness of the Universe, your Oversoul, a Higher Power ... whatever is the highest reach of your purest faith. This is faith. Breathe in.

Combine the reaching within and up to God with reaching out to others.

Reach in two opposite directions simultaneously, within and upward to your God, to that source to which you pray and from which outflows the spirit of love, and at the same time reach outward from your heart with your love-wish for others. It is as if we are connecting within and upward to God, and outward to others, so we are in between, expressing the love-wish which is flowing down through us and outward through the heart. So we see that this is faith and love and prayer combined, for love is a prayer for others.

These three things - faith, prayer and love - make us a conduit, like a tap or faucet is a conduit for the outflow of water.

Use of hands

Putting a hand on the heart, or both hands together in front of the heart, will help to activate the love-wish, for within each hand is an energy centre comprised of and representative of all the energies of each of the major centres of consciousness (chakras) that exist over the central nervous system. And these centres in the hands resonate in sympathy with any stirring or effort occurring in a major centre, and thus when the hands are placed near a major centre they serve to activate and draw forth the energies associated with that centre.

Take the hands away from the heart every so often so as to feel the difference.

The account of seeing the Earth and the dimensions breathing on the link above is naturally an extreme incident. There have been others similar.

One winter's night I was burning the body of an old ram on a woodpile. I sat in the paddock by the fire, enjoying the warmth and the clear starry winter night. I thought about all the blessings and lessons of my life, great and small. The times of pain and hardships and times of joy and ease, and the lessons and growth that is in it all. I put my hand on my heart and said my thankyous to God, including for all the hardships, sufferings and stresses that I had been through and the lessons of life that are within them for my soul. I thought about my mistakes in life, the suffering caused and the learning and growth that had resulted from those mistakes. I thought about how most of my sufferings had been caused by my own mistakes and by my own ignoring of or resistance to conscience. In prayer I presented myself as I am with all my mistakes and weaknesses before God within and above, and asked for forgiveness and also for forgiveness for all others like me who have similar human conditions. I prayed that their souls may all overcome, and learn and grow with minimal suffering. I prayed that others be alleviated from the suffering I had caused them, that benefit come to them. I thanked God for all the lessons of life, for all the growth to be had for all life, and I prayed that suffering be minimal for all people as they learn and grow towards their better selves. Then with my awareness widened, mind clear and heart opened, and with my breathing moving in line with the energies I gazed at the fire and the burning body of the old ram.

I tuned my attention into the element fire, and because my awareness, mind and heart were in the condition they were in from prayer and love and thankfulness, and because it was allowable in my life, my vision was opened and I saw the fire, the wood and the ram's body as it is behind the scenes with all the living energies involved the combustion. My heart swelled and my vision opened further. I tuned into the nature of fire, and followed its path up and down its sliding scale, stream or spectrum. I watched the fire within the matter of all things, at all levels and planes of being, and saw how it worked and what it does and why. I saw smoke and its equivalent energy at all levels and planes of being. I watched the combustion of natural vitality within life between fire and matter. I saw how vitality is processed through fire into refined vitality. I followed the rise of the refined energy from all the fires in all the living beings in all the planes, and saw how the refined energy is being used, consumed and cycled in an amazing way. My head and heart expanded further and I saw the process Earth wide and beyond. I saw great gathering and harvesting processes through the breathing of beings. That was when I first saw the workings of what some people call loosh and how it is processed and used. It is a sense of stress caused by incomplete combustion between fire and matter, but on the subtle layers of our being, not the coarse type of fire that we are most familiar with. I described some of it on a thread on this forum here:
http://afterlife-knowledge.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1432231022/0#0

It is not imagination but in real sight that I saw these things, for that is the effect that the heart can have on the sight.

So that is another example of how the heart and its energies of thankfulness, prayer and love, can open the vision and perceptions. It can also cause one to rise up out of the body, for one's soul or awareness can be so expanded from the heart's energies that it becomes too much to be contained in the body and must expand beyond it. 

Now to make a significant point:
          
The effect of the heart centre on perception must be treated as incidental, not as an aim

If we try to fire up the heart with the aim of experiencing its effects upon vision and widening awareness and leaving the body, then it will not happen, for the heart does not work that way.

The intent must be upon the energies of the heart for other's sake, and for the sake of growth of ourself and others, whatever that growth my be.

Any of the effects of the heart's energies upon our perception are incidental to what we are doing with the heart.

The prayer, faith, love, forgiveness, thankfulness, come first. They are always the object of our intent and focus.

Any accompanying phenomena is incidental to them. 

Is that clear? I hope so.

So don't get all enthusiastic and think you will develop the heart so you can have second sight and out of body experiences, because that is not how it works.

The heart governs perceptions because perceptions serve the heart

When the heart has been developed or opened to the degree that the physical body and its senses can no longer accommodate its energies then the energies themselves will open up the perceptions wider than the ordinary limits of the body so that you can continue to accommodate and send the volume of energies that are coming through the heart.

It is all for the heart's sake, and for the work that the heart must do.

If you put some selfishness into the process or even if you do not utilise the heart energies upon their expanding your perceptions then the heart will shut down and not open again for many years.

For example: If through much practice your heart is opening and your forgiveness is becoming greater than your awareness of the need for forgiveness in people around you, and so the excess forgiveness in your heart begins to open your awareness and vision so that you can see the sins of others and forgive them, but if instead you just look and do not every time forgive and relieve them of their sufferings then the heart will immediately shut down and not open beyond the physical senses again for another 10 or more years of solid practice, if at all in this lifetime.

Have you ever touched a snail's eye on the end of its stalk and seen how quickly it retracts? That is how sensitive the expanded heart is to selfishness. One touch and it closes up, and does not open for a long long time. Remember the sensitivity of the open heart to selfishness is like the sensitivity of a snails eye to a touch. But the heart closes for a longer time that the snail retracts its eye. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndL4jQ_xqrQ

So do not get too keen on heart based phenomenal experiences, or they will shut down. Just develop the heart for its own sake, practice love, forgiveness, thankfulness, faith and prayer, charity and helpfulness. Exercise and cultivate the heart, nurse it along, develop it gradually, and let any incidental abilities look after their selves. If there is room in your life for extra abilities, and if it be the will of God and of your oversoul, then such abilities will naturally unfold as they are required.       
 

Honesty

Honesty is important for any student of truth to understand.

Honesty is not just speaking honestly, as many think it is, although that is part of it.

Honesty is the ability to see things as they are.

Honesty is pure awareness, is pure observation.

Honesty does not superimpose its own ideas, opinions, interpretations, preferences... over the top of reality.

Honesty sees things just as they are.

Honesty has no preferences, except for truth, whatever truth may be.

Honesty is transparency of soul, and clarity of mind.

Honesty is like clear glass.

Honesty is the medium of truth.

Honesty is a characteristic or condition of the soul and mind, of clarity and transparency, that provides a medium for the perception of, reception of and transmission of reality.

Honesty does not come to us so much through valuing honesty and striving after it, for honesty is a characteristic or condition that results from the value of truth, so honesty comes as a result of valuing truth, of wanting to see things as they are, however they are.

We do not become honest by valuing honesty, but by valuing truth.

If first and foremost we value truth, before we even know what the truth is, and value truth whatever truth may be, then the transparency of soul and clarity of mind that is honesty becomes our condition, and we become able to see things as they are, and that is honesty.

Honesty is in the head, and love is in the heart, and they are related and work together.

As love is irrespective of like and dislike, and as forgiveness is love regardless, so honesty has no preferences, and sees things as they are.

Clear the mind with honesty, and clear the heart with love.

Meditate on these things, pursue them, and they will come to you.

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So we see that honesty is not just speaking things as they are, although speaking things as they are is a continuation of honesty, and is an ability or expression of honesty. Honesty is an internal condition of soul and mind that is able to perceive clearly.

Honesty is not foolish in its expression. It has discretion and responsibility.

I've had a bit of spare time lately so I put up the string of posts above because they cover some basics and essential understandings for students of truth, the soul and the human condition.
At least I think so anyway. Some might disagree.   

Content of the posts may or may not be helpful to someone. I hope it is though.

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Quote:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5j8Jioan1w

The distinction you have indicated is the most critical of all distinctions. And the most tricky.
It is the difference between conscience and emotion.

Emotions are affections, sentiments, moods and feelings; they are reactions as likes and dislikes, wants and not wants, desires for this or that, attractions and repulsions towards things and thoughts of things. They move first as likes and dislikes, become desires, impulses and drives, and effect as sensate feelings on the physical body in the abdomen, chest, throat and hands and elsewhere. There are the feel good emotions and the feel bad emotions, and the energising and energy draining emotions. Emotions are paired and tend to alternate. No one gets to know an emotion without knowing its opposite or the condition that would stir its opposite. 

Between conscience and emotion is self and mind, so these two naturally serve as a wedge which we can use to prise apart the other two. We are our self that wedge.

Although conscience is above the self and emotions are below ↨ and all we need to do is know the difference between looking up and looking down, it is not that easy, for the human state is designed to be disorientating and deceptive, with truth veiled and mixed up with falsity in every possible way all around and within our self. Only by learning to see through this puzzle can truth be fully realised, for truth cannot be known without contrast. First up, though, we must believe in truth, especially that truth exists before we know it, for that readies the mind, makes us receptive to truth.

Those who think they know the truth before they do have snookered themselves and don’t even know it, and those who say there is no truth, only individual perception and opinion, prompt others to turn their back on truth so they can have it for themselves, but then they can’t because love is part of truth so truth cannot go into them.

Regarding conscience and reason, emotion, and manipulation

To some extent I am happy to hand out tips and tricks. The more the general population knows about deceit, manipulation and delusion, what they are, how they work and how they are used, then all the better, for knowledge of the workings of deceit, manipulation and delusion makes deceivers powerless and helps preserve sanity and genuine goodness. It is a sort of arms race though; deceivers get smarter all the time, but so do those who stand with truth.
 
The feel-good and feel-right emotions masquerade as conscience. People everywhere fall into this trap. They think that if it feels good and right then it must be good and right, but they are mistaken.

Then there are those who know very well that emotions are false guides, that they weaken the individual and the collective, and make them easily manipulated. They are the true deceivers, haters and manipulators in the world who are mentally centred but deliberately mislead others by enticing them to follow and believe in the rightness of their emotions.

If we would become proficient in our own self-governance, which all men want to be, then we would do well to study our own psychological makeup and learn how it works, so that we can adjust it, service it, and tune it, so that we understand it and better operate it. As with a motorcar, mechanical knowledge makes us more understanding and conscious of the operating functions of our vehicle and we become better drivers.

Remember when we were boys and would take apart an old wind up clock to see how it works. As men we like to know how things work, and as men who are students of truth and of the human condition we should know how our psychological mechanism works. If we don’t then we are overlooking the most important mechanism that we should study. And our ignorance of it will not only cause us to fall into difficulties of our own making but we also become sitting bunnies for manipulators too.

We should study the nature of emotions, what they are and how they work, and learn to distinguish them from rational sensible thought.

Reason is the ability to weigh up known facts. We should exercise and develop it.
Conscience is our highest sense within our self of what is good and right to do. We should exercise and develop it.
Better judgement is reason and conscience combined. We should learn to bring it to bear upon emotion. 

We should endeavour to become good mechanics and operators of our psychological vehicle.

When you next gaze over a span of water towards the sun, look at the sun and its reflection in the water. Conscience is reflected in emotion like the sun is reflected in water, upside down, diffused, and not the real item. Emotion entices us to look down at that reflection thinking it is the real sun, but it is not, it is water.

We should remember that just because something feels good and right, does not mean it is.

Some objective definitions of conscience

Conscience is the highest sense within our self of what is good and right to do.
Conscience is like a skylight at the inner upper pinnacle of our being. 
Conscience is the crown centre.
Conscience is that part of God within our self.
Conscience is the light and voice of God-within.

Some subjective/objective definitions of conscience

Conscience is my highest sense within myself of how to treat others and what to do.
Conscience is my conscience.
Conscience is faith.
Faith is the (raw) power of God. Faith is the certainty of God-within. Faith is the power of God in man.
Faith is conscience. 
Faith comes in through conscience but the heart is where faith is fulfilled and expressed.
(Faith is not belief. Belief and faith are like oil and water, they do not mix. Belief is an unknown conviction. Faith is the certainty that truth can be known.)   

An example of an assertion to help establish alignment with conscience:

My conscience is my highest sense within myself of what is good and right to do.
I will obey my conscience. 
X 1

Whatever temptations come my way, my conscience is my guide.
Whatever decisions I have to make, my conscience is my guide.
Whatever thoughts I do create, my conscience is my guide.
Whatever words that I do speak, my conscience is my guide.
Whatever actions I do take, my conscience is my guide.
X 10

Repeat several cycles and meditate on the concept.

A repetition that assists in distinguishing self from mind:

I am the rightful master of the mind         X 3
All thought will have purpose, all thought will be constructive    X 1

Repeat several cycles and meditate on the concept.

A warning:

Tread lightly, and cautiously. Do not rush. Think carefully ahead. Be highly observant. Pause and assess every sensation as you advance.

Just like rushing in daily life can lead to accidents, so too, rushing our spiritual development can lead to accidents.

There are slips, and trips, and pitfalls, and all sorts of deceptive traps.

It should be a steady and careful walk.

For example:

The above recitation on conscience might seem quite harmless at first. But it is not. It is potentially very dangerous.   

Imagine if you were to learn it off by heart and recite it every morning and several times each sitting, and meditate upon it, over a period of time.

Energy follows our attention. The conscience is like a little spark, a dull coal. And reciting that affirmation is like breathing on that coal. It gets brighter, and flares into flame, giving out much light.

But what is the fireplace made of?

The fireplace is our personality, our mental and emotional bodies with all their habitual tendencies and inclinations.

Is your personality compatible with your conscience? Of course not. No one's is. In their living, everyone lags behind their conscience to some degree.

Flaring the conscience not only brightens it, it elevates it, increasing the difference between our worst and our best, our darkest and our brightest parts of our self.

All those mental-emotional-behavioural tendencies and inclinations we have that are incompatible with our conscience block its light, cause shadows to be cast down through our mental-emotional-physical bodies. The brighter the light, the darker the shadows. Contrast is the killer.

Conscience is our truest guide and also our most severe punisher.

Conscience uplifts but can also destroy.

Work on the character

Working on improving our character, continually adjusting and correcting our self, adjusting our thinking, our speaking, our behaviour, our interaction with others, must go hand in hand with occult development. If we do not do that work but continue with potent occult development then we will come to grief.

It is like building a fire too hot for a fireplace. The heat cracks the bricks and the house burns down.

It is like a good pianist on and out of tune piano sounds worse than a bad pianist on an out of tune piano. 

Work on the personality/character, keep it up with the brightening and elevating of conscience. Don't build the light and voice of conscience up while leaving it inside, contained within itself, unexpressed, but live it out in thought and word and deed towards others. If we live it out, if we make our character compatible with it, express it in our dealings with all others, then there will be minimal shadows, minimal discord in our system, and we will advance safely.   

   

   

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