June 28, 2015
[I am finally getting caught up with my backlog of audio recordings of conversations with the Matakin Sky Spirits. In my opinion, this one is especially powerful. I was recording this material while driving on I-70 and, due to various traffic conditions, the message was interrupted three times. For my own records, I indicate which recording files I am drawing from. — Message channeled by Gabriel Hartley.]
Of course you know that we are with you in Athens as well as here [in the glaciated prairies of western Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois], although the topology of the sky frame is quite different in Athens than it is here, in part because of the difference in terrain. You are in a hilly landscape and have a much smaller slice of the sky, so to speak, at your availability.
But one reason you feel a greater presence, a greater energetic impulse when you come through this region is that first of all there is the fact of a wider skyscape, a wider horizon, so you can take in a lot more of the atmosphere in one particular bodily relationship. It’s not simply an intellectual, cognitive relationship but very much a bodily relationship. Your body—the various layers and planes of your bodily identity are in communication on all those levels with the various beings in the atmosphere. As you visually can take in more at once, you become more conscious—“conscious” isn’t the exact word—you become more receptive to the communications of different beings on these different planes in the atmosphere simply because you have a wider scope of vision. That wider scope of vision makes way for a wider scope of perception, given the dominance of the visual input that marks human relationships to many things.
This particular aspect of your relationship to the skyscape here is so keyed in to the visual that it becomes sublime. It becomes overwhelming to your sensory system, but in a very positive way. It’s a “giddy” sublime, you might say. It is not at all the painful sublime that Immanuel Kant talks about. This sort of Euphoric Sublime doesn’t have a lot of history behind it in terms of human attempts at understanding. Humans have, perhaps understandably, been more drawn to the traumatic elements of the painful sublime experiences.
Even the Mathematical Sublime is taken to be painful because we are confronted with such scope of reference that your cognitive capacity simply falters, falls apart in trying to take that information in.
But the Euphoric Sublime is something quite different. The Euphoric Sublime is the recognition once you’ve given up on the sense that your cognitive capacities are the predominant ones for your coming to terms with what it is you take in as experience of things outside yourself as well as within yourself, you can no longer feel that as pain. And it’s not simply because you now trust in a God that can see what you cannot see—that certainly exists, that’s certainly a part of the experience—and that was about as far as Kant could take it. But what is available to those who are able to step out of that Mathematical Sublime as well as the Dynamic Sublime is to simply open up into the expansiveness of the human sensorium. It is far more capable than Kant was able to take in.
There is so much more that humans are capable of than they’ve given themselves credit for. Much of this gets attributed to angels, and to a certain extent that is right. Angels are obviously capable of this. But a lot of what is proper to the human is parceled out to various other levels of being, including the Sky Spirits. There are certain cultures for whom the Sky Spirits are the ultimate. And as we suggested the other day, we are not here for you to worship; we are not here for you to surrender yourself to and offer up prayers as if to the gods. We are made up of many different beings who are at many different levels of evolution in terms of spiritual path, and as Monitor has made clear, some of us are directly in contact with the Adic Plane of existence. That does not mean that all of us are by any means.
In any case, there is no cause for you as a human being in your particular path, at your particular stage of development, to render office to any being outside yourself in that sense. The recognition that some being, including other human beings, might be much farther down the path than you as an individual have arrived at is inconsequential in the end. Certainly a sense that here is a place where you yourself can go, here’s a path for you to follow in terms of a recognition of opening, a recognition of potential and capacity that is available to you as a human being, as a Soul at this particular point in your development. But at this point we simply want to say that humans are suffering from a lack of self-confidence.
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Gabriel, as we were saying before, humans are capable of so much more than they give themselves credit for. But this cuts more than one way. This gives you a sense of the expansiveness that is available to you. Just imagine what you yourself have experienced! Imagine the kinds of beings you’ve been able to contact, the messages you’ve been able to hear, the kinds of experiences you’ve been able to draw to yourself and step outside of the normal bounds of space and time experience for humans, and to realize so much more.
[car accident]
As we were saying, this recognition cuts both ways. The infinity of extension that is available to you as a human being means that you are capable of such positive and uplifting evolutionary experiences.
On the other hand, if you think of the other information we’ve been giving you up to this point, humans are capable of exerting a considerable negative influence on the connections that they come into contact with, that they are constantly in contact with for as you are now learning, Gabriel, about the wider and wider expanse of the human bodies and the planes of existence and the ways in which all of these different dimensional levels interact, you can well imagine how, with the old dictum “As Above, So Below,” the negative experiences, the negative actions, the negative thought patterns, the negative energies that humans send out into the universe travel quite a distance and affect quite a few other beings in this extended cosmic continuum. So in addition to the capacities you have before you for good, you have a great responsibility for being aware of what you send out into the universe.
In this sense, the significance of the other old dictum, “You reap what you sow,” is that when you send these negative patterns out, you often draw negative patterns back in your direction. This is not a moralistic statement. It is basically a recognition of the patterns of existence. On the other hand, you are also learning of the notion of the Golden Light of Grace, a Divine Light extended to all creatures in existence that allows them to overcome their karmic hindrances if they truly open themselves up to these moments of Grace that are shed in this Golden Light. This is another way you can make something possible for yourself in this great continuum of existence and ways you can hinder your development and the development of others.
[3rd recording for this session 20150628 160341]
Gabriel, now that we’ve gotten through that confusion on the highway we can come back and repeat the message that was getting a little garbled previously.
The point was and the point remains that this recognition of the expanded capacity of humanity is an element of the human condition that cuts in many directions. On the one hand, it is very important and very uplifting for humans to realize exactly how expansive their being is and how connected they are to an infinite number of rays, of grids, of networks, of planes, of different levels of existence. In short, humans are multidimensional beings who are taking time to pass through a three-dimensional existence.
This is more or less a cliché these days among what is called the New Age, but it is still a very important point to always keep in view. You are here taking a ride, a short ride in terms of the expanse of the Soul, through the three-dimensional existence of this Planet. And it is in particular your recognition as Souls when you come into this plane of three-dimensionality on the primary conscious level that you choose to come here in order to participate in the evolution of the Planetary Being. That is why humans came here in the first place. And it is through the development of their own Soul resonance that they are best able to contribute to the Soul resonance of the Planet.
So to return to the question of the infinite expanse of human resonance that we were mentioning in the earlier part of this message, this is a very critical element to understand for human development, for human evolution, for human uplifting. But again it cuts both ways, and this means that humans also have a great deal of responsibility. Their actions can lead to upliftment; their actions can detract from the evolutionary movement of the Planetary Being. The human energy goes out into the cosmos, and it is answered, it is reflected back to itself in terms of what was sent out in the first place. As Above, So Below. And this also means, of course, As Below, So Above. When humans participate in the celebration of the cosmic relationships of harmony, then those are the effects that they get resounding back to them. If they choose, on the other hand, to enter into activities that send out negative energies, then that is what is reflected back to them in the end. This is a simple element of truth. This basically the Law of Karma.
So to make a long story short: This infinite capacity of humanity allows for humanity’s expanse and simultaneously the expanse of the Planetary Being. But the negative energetic expulsions of human capacity also express themselves negatively throughout the cosmos and bring back negative cosmic return. So part of the task here is to find ways to encourage humans not only to become conscious of their expanded capabilities but to become conscious of ways to expand their capacity for simple happiness, for simple contentment, for love, for the positive radiances that they can contribute to the development of the Planetary Being.
In some ways to a certain extent this has been the task assigned to Buddhism. In particular, once that pacific component of Buddhism is developed, then as we were speaking earlier of the Euphoric Sublime, the meditative practices of the Tibetans, for instance, allow for the cultivation of this Euphoric Sublime, which is a step that comes after the ability to still one’s mind, achieve true detachment, and then to experience this ecstasy and this euphoria still without attachment. So this is a detached euphoria.
An attached euphoria becomes an addiction. Detached euphoria is simply the capacity to appreciate those elements of consciousness and existence that allow for the letting loose of the expansive capacity of humanity without addiction, without a need for that particular euphoric element.
