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TEA Appendix 2: The world-healing process

T 7.2 Appendix 2: The world -healing process

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7.2 Appendix 2: The world-healing process

7.2.1 Our suffering world can be healed.

7.2.2 You have the power to exert a healing influence on AIDS.

7.2.3 You can positively influence the attitudes which allow terrorism to flourish.

7.2.4 You can help reduce the profound disharmony which threatens us with nuclear holocaust

7.2.5 You can heal the negative karma which threatens to erupt as race war.

7.2.6 Advancing in meditation, it becomes clear that your true material needs are modest.

7.2.7 How to prepare for practising the meditation.

7.2.8 The world-healing meditation.

7.2 Appendix 2: The world -healing process

7.2.0 Empty and powerful, aware of the illusory and non-existent nature of individual life, the enlightened person knows that reality will unfold regardless of individual volition. Dedicated to helping others find release from the relative illusion that suffering is real, through experiencing the freedom of the absolute and the consequent realisation of the ultimate non-existence of suffering, the enlightened person is endlessly committed to a healing course of action. Faced with the ceaseless uncertainties of relative existence, the enlightened person renounces personal control over events and instead relies on meditation-enhanced healing practices to influence the surrounding environment in an impersonal, disinterested and harmonious way.

 

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T 7.2.1 What is the world-healing process?

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7.2.1 What is the world-healing process?

 

We live in terrible times.

 

Our food, air and water are polluted with artificial ingredients. Our natural resources are being abused and squandered on a massive scale. Violence, tension and unrest are increasing everywhere.

 

There is widespread distrust of leaders in most areas of activity in which our culture engages, particularly distrust of political leaders. Widespread long-term unemployment, and the consequent economic deprivation, threaten to create enormous reservoirs of individual futility and frustration. The gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ grows steadily, both within and between nations.

 

Our cultural products – written, aural and visual -are increasingly concerned with the superficiality of glamour and outward appearances. New and fresh works of creativity expressing our deepest needs are appearing with increasing rarity. Our values are becoming increasingly shallow and superficial and our art forms in all media reflect this barren and sterile outlook.

 

On top of all this, we are each subject to the fearful risks of AIDS, terrorism, nuclear war and racial conflict. The world is suffering daily and deeply.

 

We live in truly terrible times.

 

The whole of this is formed, structured and shaped by the evolutionary force of karma, so that across unimaginable expanses of time, this develops a fully conscious awareness of its true nature as that.

 

Know that this desolation and suffering is the result of the cyclic activity of karma, operating on a global basis. Through the decay of our existing social structures and the loss of faith in our existing systems of value, both individually and generally, we are being prepared for the growth of new forms of cultural activity. The old and now sterile ways still hold the power: your task, as a person who has made some progress along the path of understanding the nature of reality through direct experience, is to nurture the growth of new ways of understanding.

 

Follow the promptings of karma, as you work to introduce changes in your environment according to your individual gifts and abilities. Through your own growth in understanding the nature of reality, help others to revitalise their understanding, whatever their model of reality may be. Give this assistance quietly, modestly, unceremoniously and without desire for personal gain or power.

 

Be clear: our suffering world will be changed by the steady, unremitting work of people on the path to enlightenment. The contribution of such people to transcending suffering is of prime importance, regardless of whether or not the world recognises or appreciates the effort. Their primary task is to help others to experience for themselves the true and absolute nature of reality.

 

To introduce others to the standards and values of a way of living based on a deep-seated and genuine experience of the true nature of reality, you must teach through your actions. Convey your understanding of enlightened ways of behaviour by Live-ing and Acting in your daily life. Teach by example and not just by words.

 

In addition, you can contribute significantly to easing suffering by practising the world-healing meditation. This practice is unlikely to produce any dramatic short-term benefits. Yet it is a vital component in the process of re-establishing an harmonious balance in our troubled world.

 

Practicality is the essence of the ordinary Implicate Technology meditative system. At each stage in the meditative process, you can test your progress against given indicators; but such practical tests cannot be applied to the world-healing meditation.

 

Although possession of faith helps you make progress in the ordinary meditative practices, it is not essential: the key element is to learn from your own experience. This sound principle does not and cannot apply to the world-healing meditation. There is no way for an unenlightened person to make a step-by-step verification of the effectiveness of this meditation.

 

The proof that the world-healing meditation works is a direct intuitive experience, which is only accessible to a fully enlightened mind. The enlightened mind, contemplating the nature of this meditation, knows that it works. That is the only form of proof available of the validity of this meditation.

 

A person who has not yet realised the final stage of enlightenment, and who is committed to harmoniously changing the individual and general environment, can only rely on faith as a support in this meditation. From your own experience in the Implicate Technology meditations, you know that they work for you. Accept with unquestioning faith the authority of these teachings on the world-healing meditation, and practise the meditation daily for the benefit of yourself and all others.

 

If you experience doubt about the practicality and effectiveness of the world-healing meditation, your efforts will prove correspondingly fruitless, according to your degree of doubt. Simply focus your concentration steadily on the meditation and work for the good of yourself and all others. Meditate as directed, with faith, pure and undiluted by doubt.

 

If emotional or intellectual doubts remain, it is better to have an attitude of indifference rather than to reject outright these teachings on the world-healing meditation. Each one of us can contribute negatively or positively to the process of healing our suffering world. It is better for yourself and for everyone else that you remain indifferent, rather than that you sustain a negative attitude to the process of world-healing.

 

The world-healing meditation works by progressively neutralising negative karma. Such negative karma has been accumulated both within this lifetime and over many previous lifetimes. This meditation neutralises the negative karma, both of the individual who meditates and of the surrounding environment.

 

The effects of this meditation depend on the power and purity of the meditator. The cleansing and purifying process first affects the meditator and then the surrounding environment. The more people who practise the world-healing meditation daily, the greater the daily cleansing and purifying effect on our suffering world.

 

We will yet live in good times. Through daily practice of the world-healing meditation for a minimum of fifteen minutes, both you and your environment will be cleansed, purified and healed of the suffering caused by the accumulation of negative karma. Practise and teach the world-healing meditation with unquestioning faith, and we will yet live in happier times.

 

T 7.2.2 What can you do to assist in the struggle against AIDS?

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7.2.2 What can you do to assist in the struggle against AIDS?

 

The rise and spread of AIDS is a function of the sickness and aridity of our time. We have, collectively, lost contact with the healing powers inherent in fully realised models of reality. In the widest sense, we have lost sight of our roots in that – as a result, we are sick and the sickness manifests as AIDS, as well as other horrors.

 

The morally crippled, who in our society include many religious extremists and sexual bigots, have a tendency to put the blame for causing AIDS on those who suffer AIDS. Those who seize on the rise of AIDS to enforce their prejudices against the sexual activities of others will, inevitably, incur negative karmic consequences in this life or one of the lives to come. What is required to deal with AIDS is not divisive moral bigotry and complacency, but compassionate activity directed at individual and cultural healing.

 

AIDS is a moral issue in the widest sense of enforcing our cultural awakening to the unified nature of reality. One way or another, AIDS will touch everybody’s life in the late-twentieth century. Quite simply, AIDS hammers home the point that, underlying our apparent separation and isolation from each other, our lives are all connected.

 

The only safe cure for AIDS lies in the development of meditation-enhanced healing techniques. Dedicated meditative practice will bring about the profound changes in attitude necessary to inhibit the progress of the virus, both in individual cases and in general. Mere treatment of the physical symptoms alone, without such a profound change in inner orientation, will inevitably fail to heal the whole person.

 

The meditative techniques of Implicate Technology, or of any other fully developed model of reality, allied to an understanding of the integrated and unified nature of the human psycho-physiological system, offer the best approach to mitigating or curing AIDS. Research into this area can be undertaken by individuals or small groups, without dependence on the chemicals and equipment produced by our expensive and dangerous Western explicate medicines and their associated industries. Practice of the world-healing meditation, as taught at the end of this chapter, will enable you to contribute positively to the struggle against AIDS.

 

AIDS is a problem we all face – East and West, black and white, rich and poor, heterosexual and homosexual, male and female. AIDS transcends any of the artificial and divisive boundaries humanity has imposed on itself. When we learn to accept and express our needs through unifying and fully developed models of reality, then the karmic causes of AIDS will gradually cease to be active.

 

The root cause of AIDS is the widespread cultural and individual disharmony resulting from our fragmented and divisive views of the world. Immersed in a futile quest for individual fulfilment through material prosperity and sensual pleasures alone, our cultural values have led us to widespread conflict and division. This disharmony in our lives has evolved into the matrix of unhealthy lifestyles and barren attitudes which encourage the AIDS virus to flourish. The root cure for AIDS is the individual and cultural harmony which will result from the widespread acceptance of integrated and unifying worldviews.

 

Follow your intuition, as you engage in the world-healing process to heal yourself and others.

 

 

T 7.2.3 What can the ordinary person do to assist in the struggle against terrorism?

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7.2.3 What can the ordinary person do to assist in the struggle against terrorism?

 

Every event, however terrible or savage it may appear, occurs through the infinite compassion inherent in this. Witness and understand the horror of terrorism, with the clear and certain knowledge that it is not possible for an act of terrorism to remain unpunished. Karma ensures that the perpetrators of terrorism, and those who assist terrorists, incur corrective and balancing experiences in this life, the after-death state or in any of the lives to come.

 

Terrorism is an act of violence committed for political purposes by lawfully appointed or self-appointed individuals, groups or bodies, and is perpetrated on those deemed by the perpetrators to be legitimate targets. An act of violence committed by one armed force on another is ordinary human stupidity and not an act of terrorism. Severe karmic penalties will be incurred by those who commit the act of terrorist violence, those who assist, and those who create the climate of authorisation for such violence.

 

The manifest injustice and consequent violence of late-twentieth century life is the product of collective karmic consequences incurred over many, many previous generations of incarnations. The prevalence of violence as an accepted expression of political will is a product of our widespread lack of understanding of fully developed models of reality. Having lost sight of our inherent unity, we rend and tear apart the lives of others in the vain hope of fulfilling our own.

 

Your problem is this: how can you, as an individual, contribute to the end of terrorism? What can you do to stop the actions of anonymous cells of self-appointed killers, or to stop the vast apparatus of state terrorism which is utilised in oppressive wars and repression? How can you alter the destructive nature of forces over which you have no direct control, but which can arbitrarily seize on you as a ‘legitimate’ target for violence?

 

Know as a certainty that all occurrences are subject to karma. Even after you have attained the freedom of the final stage of enlightenment, know that only your mind will be freed from the karmically reactive system and not your body. Your body remains subject to karma.

 

Within this context, the one power you do possess to pit against harsh external forces is the mind’s inherent ability to purify and cleanse itself of accumulated negative karma. If you set about doing this as instructed at the end of this chapter, you will begin to purge your own negative karma. With sufficient effort, the beneficial effects will also spread into your surrounding environment.

 

The meditation taught at the end of this chapter offers you the genuine possibility of contributing directly to the benefit of all other people. Although the results are neither immediately tangible nor measurable, the practice of the world-healing meditation is an important and positive individual contribution to a safer and more peaceful world. Throw yourself into the world-healing meditation, and, as you become proficient, teach others how to do this meditation.

 

T 7.2.4 What can the ordinary person do to reduce the possibility of a nuclear holocaust?

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7.2.4 What can the ordinary person do to reduce the possibility of a nuclear holocaust?

 

Our capacity to devastate ourselves and our world, through the use of nuclear power, is the clearest available indicator of widespread cultural ignorance that this is that. Our political, military, commercial and industrial systems are organised, directed and run by profoundly unenlightened men and women. We are reliant on political leaders whose mandates are invariably based on the promotion of divisive and factional self-interest.

 

Our leaders are not to be blamed for this fragmented and dangerous state of affairs. They are washed here and there by the enormous currents of negative karma sweeping across our ignorant and suffering world. Lacking any coherent framework or strategy, they stumble from crisis to crisis.

 

The intense world-suffering characteristic of late-twentieth century life will cease when the negative karma, accumulated over centuries and coming to fruition in our time, is neutralised. Negative karma on a global scale can only be neutralised, or rendered inactive, by the sustained and committed activity and efforts of enlightened, and relatively enlightened, people. As a result of the progress you have made along the path to enlightenment, you are now able to make a significant contribution to the world-healing process: the process of neutralizing negative karma.

 

There is an activity which you can undertake, on your own initiative, to neutralise the world’s accumulated negative karma. You can also teach it to, and engage in this activity with, any number of other people. The minimum requirement to participate successfully in this activity of world-healing is that the participant must have attained the first or psychological stage of enlightenment.

 

You must be very patient, and have great faith, when undertaking this activity of world healing. It will take the sustained effort of many people in many countries to neutralize the huge amounts of negative karma threatening to devastate our world. It will only happen if you, and all the other people released into or towards enlightenment by fully developed models of reality, proceed with selfless dedication, detachment and commitment.

 

The causes of the abiding late-twentieth century fear of nuclear holocaust can be healed by the sustained practice of the world-healing meditation taught at the end of this chapter. The practice of this meditation by you is a significant and important contribution to world peace. Undertaken with humility and faith in its effectiveness, it will, in time, bring about a cessation of the profound disharmony expressing itself as the potential for nuclear devastation.

 

T 7.2.5 What can the ordinary person do to reduce the possibility of race war?

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7.2.5 What can the ordinary person do to reduce the possibility of race war?

 

Observe the manifestations of karmic activity as reported in the news media. Your mind is now responsive to the patterns of karma evident in the world, according to the degree of your spiritual progress. Observe with detachment, not horror, the steadily increasing karmic indicators of widespread race war.

 

These indicators are to be found in every culture, every nation and every political grouping. Simply watch, listen to and read the news broadcasts. Walk the streets of your own locality with a clear mind, witnessing what does and does not occur, without judgement.

 

Look beyond the race riots, in your own country or in some other country. Look deeper than the ever more likely race war in South Africa. Witness the ordinary, everyday explicit or implicit racist attitudes which masquerade as objective comment in the media and in ordinary conversation.

 

Every country fouls the lives of some of its citizens. Every oppressing group looks away, ignoring the way it fouls the lives of others. When an oppressed group protests that it is getting covered in filth, the oppressing group usually accuses it of being covered in filth.

 

The reality of our late-twentieth century situation is simple and brutal. If the existing negative karma is not neutralized, there will be widespread race war within and between nations. No country will be exempt, because every country has oppressed citizens who are becoming less willing to tolerate the oppression and injustice. No country, no city, no town or village, no street will be exempt.

 

You have made progress towards becoming a fully conscious component of the one unified reality, through having attained at least the first stage of enlightenment. Do not waste your time pointing out to other people the stupidity and ignorance of their attitudes. From your own experience, you should know not to interfere with other people’s fulfilment of their negative karma.

 

The world’s history will unfold as it unfolds, without your interference. Yet you must Act to lessen the possibility of vicious, destructive and futile race wars. You must strive to cleanse yourself and those in your sphere of influence of negative karma.

 

You must throw yourself with commitment and dedication into the world-healing process. Practise daily the world-healing meditation. Practise it and teach it to others, with unshakeable faith in its healing powers.

 

T 7.2.6 What can you do to reduce the profound imbalances between wealth and poverty in our world?

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7.2.6 What can you do to reduce the profound imbalances between wealth and poverty in our world?

 

Both individually and as a culture, as we lose sight of the unchanging reality that this is that, so, too, do we desire more and more of this. Enmeshed in the illusion that this is real in itself, we desire love, wealth, sex, fame, power and so on, according to our conditions and our individuality. In an age bereft of transcendentally vibrant models of reality, material success and fulfilment of the senses become the culturally approved goals.

 

Both individually and collectively, as we begin to regain a vision of the unchanging, all-embracing, transcendent nature of reality, so, too, can we come to accept that our true material needs are modest. Transcending the illusion, recognising and acting on the sound basis that this does not exist in itself but is a dependent product of that, we can learn to accept that what we receive is adequate for our true needs-provided that, as a minimum, we are able to feed ourselves and to have shelter, warmth, education, health, and a life free from unacceptable interference and control. In an age transformed, enlivened and enlightened by relevant and vividly alive models of reality, material success and prosperity tend to become much less important, both collectively and individually.

 

You will know from your own experience, as a relatively enlightened person, that progress along the spiritual path is neither hindered nor assisted by the absence or presence of money. The key to spiritual progress is freedom from attachment to this. Aware of the true nature of reality, rich or poor in material terms, you now live a life of inner wealth.

 

Witness now the gross obscenity of Western wealth and Eastern poverty. Witness the West’s constant struggle to remain materially wealthy, and witness the East’s constant struggle to acquire material prosperity. Observe with compassion the true spiritual poverty of East and West in the late-twentieth century.

 

This world-wide spiritual poverty can be alleviated through a growth in understanding of the relevance of transcendentally vibrant models of reality in everyday life. A shift in economic priorities can become politically acceptable when the will of the people is directed towards healing this. With the growth of widespread spiritual understanding will come a desire for economic policies capable of alleviating the developing countries’ material poverty, and as such policies become vote-winners there will arise politicians who are capable of implementing them.

 

Your contribution is twofold to this process of cultural maturing in attitudes to material needs. Firstly, live modestly in relation to your material circumstances, and follow your intuition in using what resources you have to spare for the benefit of others. Secondly, commit yourself to practising and teaching the world-healing meditation.

 

 

T 7.2.7 How do you prepare for practice of the world-healing meditation?

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7.2.7 How do you prepare for practice of the world-healing meditation?

 

This meditation is best practised either in solitude or in peaceful companionship. Choose any meditation posture with which you are both familiar and comfortable. Daily practice for a minimum of fifteen minutes will be best, but this is not essential – every selfless contribution to the general good is of value.

 

Unlike your everyday Implicate Technology meditations, the world-healing meditation is not a practice which leads to progressively enhanced states of consciousness. Rather, it works on the basis of cleansing and purifying your own psycho-physiological system, and the environment which that is capable of influencing. You are capable of beginning to practise this meditation successfully once you have attained the first stage of enlightenment, and you make progress in its stages according to your level of spiritual development.

 

The world-healing meditation is based on a simple technique of increasingly focused visualization, according to your level of consciousness. The purer and clearer the process of visualization, the greater is the benefit to yourself and others. As you progress in your ordinary meditative practices, so you will be able to experience this meditation at its deeper levels.

 

Approach the world-healing meditation with a humble sense of giving what you are able to, for the benefit of others. Be warned: practising this meditation with a sense of complacency or smugness about your own virtue and selflessness will ensure that you experience karmic activity structured to teach you true humility. Use your meditative skills to ignore any self-centred, self-oriented thoughts which may arise as you meditate.

 

If you are ill and seeking to purify your psycho-physiological system through this meditation, then it is best to concentrate your efforts largely for your own benefit. Be clear: all illness is caused by a preponderance of negative karma, associated with your individual mind, your body or your environment. These karmic imbalances can occur in any degree and combination, and can affect the unenlightened, the relatively enlightened and the enlightened person.

 

If you are ill and practising the world-healing meditation to heal yourself, dedicate your efforts to identifying and understanding the karmic causes underlying your illness. If you are practising this meditation for your own and the general good, dedicate your efforts to identifying and understanding the prevalent patterns of karmic activity in your environment. In either case, once you have identified and understood the nature of the karma shaping your conditions, dedicate your efforts to harmoniously resolving, balancing and healing the imbalances in the prevailing conditions.

 

T 7.2.8 How do you practice the world-healing meditation?

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7.2.8 How do you practice the world-healing meditation?

 

The world-healing meditation is a straightforward visualisation exercise. Simply focus your awareness on the image, as undistractedly as you can manage. The instructions for the meditation, and the inner processes which determine your experience during the meditation, vary at each stage according to how far you have progressed in your spiritual development.

 

Visualise clear, pure, white light. Visualise the light located at the crown, the very top, of your head. The more you are able to focus your attention only on this image of pure clear white light, and the less attention you pay to distracting thoughts, the greater will be the benefits of this meditation.

 

Accept with unwavering faith that this meditative activity immerses you in mind in its purest of conditioned states. If you are religious by nature, you should understand this white light as the manifestation of God’s love. The greater your ability to concentrate on this visualization, the greater will be your immersion in the healing powers of mind in its natural state.

 

The clear, pure, white light is mind in its simplest conditioned form, transcending all accumulations of positive and negative karmic influences. As you meditate, you realise mind in its original nature, according to your effort and level of consciousness. Bathed in this light, your psycho-physiological system is cleansed of negative karma; bathed in the love of God, you are cleansed of your sins.

 

Stage 1: Visualise clear, pure, white light located at the crown of your head. Simply be aware of this image located just on the top surface of your head. If you have attained the first stage of enlightenment, you will be able to maintain this degree of concentration effectively and for an adequate period of time.

 

Stage 2: With each deep, slow in-breath, the body’s inherent sexual energy rises to flow into the purifying light. With each deep, slow out-breath, the body’s implicate energy flows downwards, cleansing as it moves. You will be able to maintain this degree of concentration effectively, for at least fifteen minutes, if you have successfully practised the yoga of sexual energy taught in chapter 5 of Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

 

Stage 3: Focusing one-pointedly on the pure, clear, white light, the mind’s surface activity in response to stimuli fades away and the mind becomes absorbed in the experience of focusing one-pointedly. The focus of awareness moves from the mind’s activities to the stillness of mind in its natural state. You will be able to perform this meditation successfully if you have attained the second stage of enlightenment.

 

Stage 4: Focusing the mind one-pointedly on the clear, pure, white light, the mind becomes absorbed in still, serene contemplation. Witnessing this in tranquillity, observe mind pervading and manifesting everywhere, and experience this as that. You will be able to perform this meditation successfully if you have attained the third stage of enlightenment.

 

According to your ability, heal yourself and heal the world.