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.