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Be Still - Part 1 by Roy Masters

The Nature Of The Subconscious Mind

When excited
by emotion, the
subconscious
mind retains
impressions.

We can describe the subconscious mind as a middle man between two

worlds. It can either express the truth we know as common sense, from
within ourselves; or, it can mimic worldly impressions, like a parrot.
In other words, the subconscious mind is a vehicle for converting
impressions into idea substance. We use the word impression to describe
making an "imprint" upon someone's mind. People are impressed in many
ways; by the clothes we wear, by our personality and charm, by the glitter of
lights on a stage; or by our impatience and anger.
This is demonstrated through impressive rituals in our church or club. The
average ceremony is designed to create an emotional impact, in order to
prevent disloyalty by compulsively attaching us to an external, controlling
"conscience. When excited by emotion, the subconscious mind retains
impressions and holds the thoughts, until the emotional energy charge
passes away. When the emotion dies down, the idea floats away by itself,
and we say that we forget .

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However, we never truly forget, because we learn to emotionally respond

more and more, to less and less stimulus; so that the aggregate of
accumulated responses keeps alive the previously impressed images. In
other words, our present anger holds before us the entire spectrum of past
memories.

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When people are angry, notice how they develop a good memory for the
unpleasant situations, because anger breeds more anger. The emotion,
energy never passes away, and the past negative thoughts are continuously
supported; while newer ones are added with each experience.
Be Still - Part 1
(continued)

A strange complex evolves when thoughts are held compulsively by

emotional irritation. The ideas soon begin to flow back into feeling; feeling
affects our actions; and we are compelled to act against our better
judgment : which upsets us again.

The Importance of Self-Induced Meditation

The mind can be energized by influence from outer sources, or from inner
sources. This energy is stimulated from the body, either through experience,
or from conscious control.
Without the natural, creative, motivating effects of the meditation, people
need some other method of stimulation which will move them into action,
like watching a horror movie or an exciting ball game in order to become
excited in safety. The nervous energy created in this manner can be worked
off at work or at home.

The meditation
exercise is a
kind of selfmotivating,
psychic
energizer.

Two people with bad habits may bet each other that they can change their
ways; but, without the inhibiting, painful shame of the fear of failure, or the
selfish desire to win the bet, neither person could succeed.
However, the meditation exercise is a kind of self-motivating, psychic
energizer, which turns on the flow of natural inner energy toward
environment, counteracting the negative effects of the outside forces.
Some people experience numbness in their limbs because of this
phenomenon. Energy, now being directed away from the mind (outward)
causes the subject's pain threshold to be increased. Discomfort, such as
pain, usually flows from the source toward the mind, but in the exercise, the
opposite is true. Energy is turned away, toward the point of discomfort.
When the mind is merely a receiving instrument, the purpose of
consciousness is lost. The mind is motivated solely by pleasure and pain,
representing external pressures. The mind becomes filled with attempts to
escape pain. Distractions often neutralize common sense and good
judgment, and in this pursuit-of-ease-matrix, conscience and Principle can
not mature.

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Through the meditation exercise, any discomfort can be tolerated and the
mind freed from the subtle claws of passion, which distort fact and truth.
Thus free, the mind can now receive instruction, based upon what is wise,
rather than what is pleasant, and can be taught to cope with any existing,
uncomfortable condition.

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The Stages of Meditation
If you do not discover the all important way to control your mind from within,
you will fall victim to outside compulsion, which wars against your inward,
common "higher sense.
Be Still - Part 1
(continued)

To find the rapport with your inner, higher consciousness, lines of

communication must first be established. For example, when you are upset,
invisible threads are established between your mind, feeling and body, and
between your body and the temptation.
Thus, emotional reaction of anger "tears us away" from our conscience, and
ties us to the provocation.

The gap
between man

and "spirit"
widens with his
"fall" to
temptation.

If we wish to tear ourselves away from worldly entanglements, we must first

conceive of a higher attachment within ourselves.
The process of true mind and body development is unfoldment from within.
The body must learn to respond to an inner source of common sense - or
the body will become possessed by worldly, cunning "manipulation.
Understanding must be born in you. It cannot be "given" by conventional
methods of learning, or it would then be merely another source of outside
control. The umbilical cord of "gravitational relationship" to the outside world
grows with each response to its source.
If your knowledge of spiritual direction is derived from outside teaching, you
only become more easily directed each time, yet less "satisfied" with the
direction, because it is not the proper relationship.
Ideas must be carried by energy, similar to the way in which the voice is
carried through telephone wires by electricity. In both instances, when you
cut the "power," you lost contact; you lost the "voice," or the idea. In
meditation, the object is to "cut the connection" from the old, outside source
of power.
Without self-control from the inward impression, we enter an "outer" world of
"compulsive" contemplation and illusion, in order to save ourselves from our
"inner" shame.
The gap between man and "spirit" widens with his "fall" to temptation. The
secret of meditation is to unite man's body with his soul; to make him
"whole" again. The true art of meditation is spiritually "compelling. That
detachment is the "attachment" to the new Truth, which flows out of the true
Source.

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The concentration of disturbed people is only focused upon their agony;

their meditation is illusion, and their contemplation is the flow of
meaningless, mental chatter, and excuses that lead to oblivion. By
choice, however, we can learn how to find that inward, life giving cycle.

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The most important steps leading to meditation are:
1 The desire to understand, and for God's will to function, overshadowing
our will.
Be Still - Part 1
(continued)

2 Repentance, which is the realization of error.

If you recognize the Truth written here, it is proof that you already possess
a starting point. Your mind must be a channel for higher insights which
lead to higher action, no longer requiring "memory," as you knew memory
to be.

The conscious mind, which we know as "spirit," inherits the Truth, and the
power with which to overcome life's problems. Through meditation we
must learn to still our intellect; to overshadow our selfishness and fear,
with the extending of a knowing - from within.

Concentration

The conscious
mind, which we
know as "spirit,"
inherits the
Truth.

Concentration implies that the understanding be focused upon a place in

the mind (middle of the forehead), which causes this understanding to be
impressed upon the brain. The brain, emotion and body of man can be
excited either by his soul, or by the pressures of environment.
True concentration is the "turning point" in man's direction and teaching. It
shuts down one's own efforts, obliterating scheming plans and worry. It
shuts down the compulsion to move, based upon primitive desires to
overcome the problems of life. You now begin to feel that you are learning
something valuable, yet you cannot "intellectually" recall what it was. You
sense that the new ideas are coming through you, but not to you. You will
see this process as Intellectual learning when you discover the effect of
your new source of intellectual motivation.

Meditation is the temporary stillness of physical mind, feeling and body,

"created by concentration, in which condition we experience the flow of life
force in varying intensities, according to the degree of attainment in
experience.
The first meditation may be more "exciting" than later ones, because of
the utter relief of guilt, hate and fear; but, after the "contrast" wanes, there
is a lessening of pain, and a lessening of the excitement, which we know
as 'good feeling.

The windscreen is much bigger than the rear view mirror.

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Seeing a Little More Clearly

by RV Peviani
Just a comment on an experience I had the other night, while sleeping,
after meditation, which confirmed for me in an obvious way what Roy has
been saying about a lot of things, including the not so obvious dangers of
music.
I was just coming out of sleep when I heard a loud whisper of friendly
seeming nonsense in my ear. I was immediately aware that this was not
my mind speaking to me and I watched; a jolly seeming hobo or clown
face immediately appeared in exquisite, beautiful detail; this I also
watched, knowing it was not part of me. This face made a metamorphosis
from one of friendliness to one of incredible horror and detail, and failing
to bring a reaction of any sort from me, it disappeared as if blown by a
wind.

He will tempt us
with the
seemingly trivial
nature of
rhymes and
music.

While seeing the evil of that face, I had also to admire the fourth
dimensional detail of it that was greater than so-called reality, and also
the beauty that this fourth dimensional detail illustrated, I suggest that this
experience demonstrated somewhat the strategy of the Enemy, Satan.
He will tempt us with the seemingly trivial nature of rhymes and music,
attempting to occupy our minds. Succeeding in this, he can have the
unwary soul for life; failing, he will appeal to our egos in a friendly
manner, and thus capture more unwary souls. Finally, he will attempt to
terrorize us in a very skilful manner, and, failing in this, he will flee us in
search of prey more susceptible to his nature and methods, leaving us
strengthened, and himself to face the truth of his own nature.
I wish somehow that I could capture the intense, indescribable evil of that
face, for it would make a wonderful illustration for the New Insights. I
wonder if, as a person comes closer to the Light and Truth, he is also
forced to face the reality of Satan more vividly and powerfully than he
ever did in his previous state. I think so.

Where thought is, God isnt.

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The Fool Serves the Body

by Benjamin Franklin

hen I was a little boy, I

remember,
winter's

one

morning,

cold
I

was

accosted by a smiling man with an axe on

his shoulder. "My pretty boy," said he,

"has your father a grindstone?" "Yes, sir,"

said I. "You are a fine little fellow," said he;
"Will you let me grind my axe on it?"
Pleased with the compliment of "fine little
fellow," "O yes, sir," I answered. "It is down
in the shop." "And will you, my little

man," said he, patting me on the head, "get

me a little hot water?" How could I refuse?

Tickled with the

flattery, like a
little fool, I
went to work.

I ran, and soon brought a kettle full. "How old are you and what's your
name?" continued he, without waiting for a reply; "I am sure you are
one of the finest lads that ever I have seen; will you just turn a few
minutes for me?"
Tickled with the flattery, like a little fool, I went to work, and bitterly
did I rue the day. It was a new axe, and I toiled and tugged till I was
almost tired to death. The school bell rang and I could not get away;
my hands were blistered and the axe was not half ground. At length,
however, it was sharpened, and the man turned to me with, "Now, you

little rascal, you've played truant; scud to school, or you'll rue it"! "Alas"
thought I, "it was hard enough to turn a grindstone, this cold day; but
now to be called a little rascal, is too much."
It sank deep in my mind; and often have I thought of it since. When I
see a merchant over polite to his customers, thinks I, that man has an

axe to grind. When I see a man flattering the people, making great
professions of attachment to liberty, who is in private life a tyrant,
methinks, look out, good people, that fellow would set you turning
grindstones. When I see a man hoisted into office by party spirit, without
a single qualification to render him either respectable or useful; alas me
thinks, deluded people, you are doomed for a season to turn the
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grindstone for a booby.

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there
may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms
with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant; they, too, have their story. Avoid loud
and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.

In the noisy

confusion of
life, keep peace
in your soul.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for
always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your
achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career,
however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But
let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high
ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not
feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of
youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do
not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue
and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you
have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the
universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labours and
aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

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With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

The Selling of a Depression

There was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He
was hard of hearing so he had no radio.

Are your
judgments
based on what
you know or
what you hear?

He had trouble with his eyes so he read no newspapers. But he sold good
hot dogs. He put up signs on the highway telling how good they were. He
stood on the side of the road and cried: "Buy a hot dog, Mister"? And
people bought. He increased his meat and bun orders. He bought a
bigger stove to take care of his trade.
He finally got his son home from college to help him out. But then
something happened. His son said, "Father, haven't you been listening to
the radio? Haven't you been reading the newspapers?
There's a big depression. The European situation is terrible. The
domestic situation is worse. Whereupon the father thought, "Well, my
son's been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio, and
he ought to know". So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders,
took down his advertising signs, and no longer bothered to stand out on
the highway to sell his hot dogs.
And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight.
"You're right, son", the father said to the boy.

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"We certainly are in the middle of a great depression". Are your

judgments based on what you know or what you hear?

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The Key to all Knowledge

by Roy Masters
Truth is a difficult thing to hear, that is, to hear it clearly enough to act on it in
a right way. Many people come to my lectures and enjoy listening to my
radio programme and nod their heads in agreement to every word without it
once entering those nodding heads to act on my teaching in a right way.
They feast upon my knowledge second hand and my insights, in spite of the
fact that I am constantly warning them away from this practice. Unless you
find the basic Life essence for yourself as I have, nothing in your life can be
meaningful; nothing can be right. So if you are one of those nodding
"ameners", please note well what I am about to say.

You cannot hope

to know the
truth intimately
until you have
first seen your
own miserable
self.

The first truth we see is the truth of our failing. You cannot hope to know the
truth intimately until you have first seen your own miserable self so clearly
that you will be pained to repentance by the sight. You will see how you
have been sitting in the seat of judgment like a king on his throne all puffed
up. You must first step down, allow the Light of Truth to expose you to
yourself in all your helplessness, and cry out to that Light for correction. Few
people are willing to suffer the pain of this necessary first step, this
humiliation of the ego that leads to salvation, but many are those who call
themselves "truth seekers".
You will see these people piously searching out the "truth" in Bible verses,
metaphysical writings of the present day and the distant past; and the more
they stuff themselves with this outer knowledge the hungrier they become
alas, not for truth, but for ego building knowledge. The direct experience of
truth would humiliate them and require something special of them, and this
would never do at all, for their search is aimed at finding words and
experiences that will glorify and justify themselves as they are. So their
search goes on and on.
Truth gathered in this way is inferior to us and our need but we imagine it
shows us in a good light. Seeking to "know" truth in this way also implies
that unless we stuff our minds with knowledge, we are without reason for
existence, without hope of betterment. But what we are actually doing is
moving from a zero point of no understanding to a point of great
misunderstanding from a somewhat inert guilt to an active guilt.

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Deep down we are seeking a smaller god than us who will serve us glory,
one who will love us as we are and "save" us from having to face our faults.
This is a way of denying the existence of a greater (forgiving) God than us,
substituting a more acceptable lesser one who loves us just the way we are.

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What an ego relief it is to find a teacher or saviour who loves us like this.
Also, by keeping so busy looking for "truth" we circumvent the unfoldment of
understanding that could come about naturally.

The Key to all

Knowledge
(continued)

Through

knowledge we
lie to ourselves.

When we study truth we are betraying our basic hopelessness and

insecurity. By setting a course to its own glory our ambitious ego remains
cut off from true life and wisdom and makes us impatient to become
something and make something of ourselves. This, in turn creates in us an
inordinate hunger for learning that can never end. Through knowledge we
lie to ourselves, and through knowledge we lie to others to get the positions
we desire; and through those positions we are tempted to become less and
less what truth would have us be. Knowledge becomes the justification for a
rising guilt which requires more knowledge to smother it. For this reason we
are guilty again and again.
Only when we have given up pride and abandoned personal ambition are
we able to perceive and receive within ourselves certain very delicate
essentials and principles through which any purposeful objective may be
obtained. But then we could not claim any of the credit-the puffed up feeling
of personal accomplishment so necessary to a person with pride. The real
seeker of truth knows that he can never truly attain to glory or a sense of
great achievement, for he is primarily an observer in the early stages, and
at best a co-creator in the later stages.

When pride is put aside, truth and wisdom reveal themselves a little at a
time. They come to motivate us toward a hidden plan created out of
something above and beyond our earthly knowledge. We are then
fashioned out of obedience to moment-by-moment insights, one small step
at a time. Ambition blinds men to a greater reality than themselves;
therefore, in not seeing true purpose, they think that unless they set their
own goal and purpose, that life has no purpose-which is the same as saying
there is no God but them. But it is because of that very ambition that life's
true meaning is hidden from them. Because of that very ambition life seems
hopeless. In an effort to create hope for themselves, men set goals that are
accessible only through knowledge.
Unaware that their ambition has already blinded them, they have no
discretion about what they learn. They insist on their right to "see" what to
aim for, what to acquire, how best to manoeuvre in the direction of their
hearts' desires. Information becomes not only their tool but their weapon,
used to dominate and control life about them without realizing the harm they
do because they have rendered themselves incapable of realizing or
recognizing Truth.

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Knowledge that is motivated by ambition moves us in an outward direction,

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The Key to all

Knowledge
(continued)

away from what is true, toward frustration and guilt, because we can never
completely escape the knowledge of our soul's rebellion against the greater
Will, the One, the "Will (that must) be Done." But, oh, how we try when we
are proud and ambitious; how we cling to the knowledge that excites us
toward greater misunderstanding as if it were meaningful. When faced with
our blunders, we refuse to accept responsibility for them. Instead, we call
upon our storehouse of acquired knowledge to find the excuses for our
weakness, the rationalizations that will throw the blame elsewhere, and
allow us to continue merrily on our unrepentant way.
By this very activity of seeking goals and knowledge, we are proclaiming that
there is no power of knowing greater than our own minds, and no purpose
unless we make one. In our egocentricity we deny the Reality of God.
When we make welcome the light of Truth, it illumines our consciousness
and makes us aware of the Pride we are taking in false knowledge. This
causes us to repent, and a true regret is soon replaced by a new kind of
knowledge and strength from within. With the successful meeting of each
successive moment, our faith grows that we will be graced by the same light,
the same insight, in all the moments to come. We have no use for worry,
scheming and pre-planning.

We can never

completely
escape the
knowledge of
our soul's

rebellion.

Most of you have not found this light. When you meet experiences you react
blindly because you are not guided by insight. When you fail to meet a
moment correctly, you feel guilty and afraidand you struggle to excuse
your failure by a twisted mental reconstruction of what has taken place. So
as not to lose face, you plan a more successful campaign by analyzing all
your words and actions to discover where you went wrong and prevent its
happening again. You try to prevent your weakness from re-appearing by
preplanning everything you say and do. But when the moment arrives, it
usually contains some unforeseen element.
Your plans don't fit and you fail again! You cannot function because you
rejected your real selfhood when you chose "your plan" over faith in the
Light. Failing again, you fall back on your old tricks of planning and
rationalizing. First you must rearrange the facts concerning what has taken
place, bend them a bit if need be, even to the point of turning them
completely around the other way, and then, after having gone to all this
trouble to put a new face on the past and conceal all trace of your error, you
must start planning ahead to make sure that you will not repeat your blunder
in the future! It's as though you were saying to yourself, "I didn't make any
mistake but Ill be darned if I'm going to be caught making the same mistake
again!"

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Those that judge never understand and those that understand never judge.

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Your Letters
Terribly Wilful

From the time I can remember, I have been wilful.

My father took all the fun out of doing things, because his presence would
sap up all the innocence, and he would replace it with ambition.
He would do this by, let's say, rowing a boat. If my friends and I were
having fun and giggling over rowing the boat on a lake, and we weren't
going in a straight line, he would start swearing and yelling how stupid I
was and if I couldn't do it right, not to do it at all.
He would be this way on every project at which we worked together. I
remember the only way I could be around my father: I would have to make
my mind blank, so as to exist.

As a result, I
inherited
ambition.

As a result, I inherited ambition. Because I had so many hang ups, such

as anxiety, whenever I attempted to do something with tension, I had to
use a lot of will-power to get things done.
Eventually I learned to hate and rebel at anything that had a will over me,
including God!
Whenever God wants me to sit still and do nothing or do something, I can't
do it because of this awful ambition. It would seem like I'm doing the right
thing; but ambition poisons what I do, and I am always left with greater
conflict, even though I am seeing more, and you might say I am improving.
I gave up smoking, but I didn't even give it up right; I did it wilfully.
I was having some difficulties and this man friend of mine tried to correct
me. I took what he said and madly, ambitiously tried to follow his orders.
Something inside was fighting to turn him off, and still trying to do what
was right at the same time.
This is so deep seated, that, to my horror, when I was meditating I found
that I would take common sense things and start the ball game in my
mind where contradictory thoughts will go back and forth creating
confusion, to give me the excuse to disobey God and do the opposite of
what he really wants me to do.
This is a horrible realization as I became so rebellious with my earthly father
and mother, that I was determined to destroy everything that made
sense and got in my way.

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Your Letters
trying to get them out. Yep, "god" has to deliver herself. Whenever I start
to have an exorcism, and I can feel one leaving my body, I start pushing
and hoping, and then it just goes back and settles itself down again. And
then I have the temptation of god getting mad at God for not doing it
right.
The demon hasn't left yet; he has just been relocated up above to
where his powers are nil. He will either come out or go settle himself
down in my stomach again. Dear God, please let him come out. Help
me to give up my will, so as to have a clear, simple, yet intelligent mind
while You, my father, and I do projects together in the light.
USA - Anonymous

The Weary Mouse

He asked the
white tailed
deer, the cotton

tailed rabbit

Standing at the edge of a huge wood was a small harvest mouse. Tired but
desperate to reach the other side, the mouse proceeded to ask the other
animals if they would carry him.
He asked the white tailed deer, the cotton tailed rabbit, and even the
evasive Mr Raccoon, but all denied his request. Then, just as he was about
to give up, the weasel began to approach him.
"Fear not," he said, "for I will help you where those other rude creatures
have abandoned you. Please allow me to carry you through the woods."
With great joy the mouse agreed. And as the weasel exited the other side
of the woods alone, Mr Raccoon was heard to say, "Those who seek a free
ride never reach their destination."
By Valjon Levis - USA

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