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Alright, before getting into the technique and visualizations that you can use to expand your body’s connection to the Fabric of Consciousness, I would like to spend a few moments talking about mental control. Now my basic advice here is quite simple. Before you start opening up your “channel,” before you start expanding your connection and drawing consciousness more fully into your body, you need to practice mental control.

It’s really very important.

If you don’t practice it, if you don’t achieve a degree of control over the way your brain throws up thoughts into your consciousness, you can get yourself into a lot of psychological trouble.

Why?

Well, it has to do with the nature of the limited consciousness of your physical unit and its relationship to the unlimited consciousness of Spirit (a.k.a. the Fabric of Consciousness). The thing is, expanding the connection between your physical unit and the higher consciousness that animates your body is a lot like taking a lit candle and exposing the little flame of that candle to a room full of pure oxygen. If you do that you can experience a kind of mental explosion that can knock you off your feet, or worse. Truth is, when combined with the damage personality structures of an abusive or pathological upbringing, opening up to the oxygen (O2) of higher can even plunge you into a psychopathology from which you (and by you I mean your physical unit) may have a difficult time getting out of.

And I’m not exaggerating.

So it’s advisable to prepare.

The actual practice of mental control is not rocket science. To accomplish successful mental control, all you basically need is proper conceptual/intellectual foundation and solid practical technique. From a conceptual level, you want to be sure you fully understand what’s going on when you “open a connection” and that’s not hard. All you have to do, really, is understand a few basic concepts. Understand what I mean when I say “Fabric of Consciousness:”[1] Understand the interconnected nature of monadic consciousness in The Fabric: Understand the relationship of your bodily consciousness to monadic consciousness: Understand something of the power of The Fabric.[2] It’s not hard. The concepts themselves are relatively straight forward and understanding them is not that difficult. However, understanding them is a prerequisite to more open communication with The Fabric. A proper understanding (i.e., right thinking about consciousness) can go a long way towards helping you stay grounded and in control when you start to “open the doors” to the oxygen of higher consciousness.

So when you fully understand the basic concepts of consciousness, then the next step forward in your conceptual understanding is to understand this. Just because you are connecting to the Fabric of Consciousness in a more direct and full time way, just because ideas begin to flow into you from “inside,” just because you are rockin and rolling with an expanding connection to glorious consciousness, does not mean you are automatically and all of a sudden some kind of universal conduit for truth.

That is, you have to understand, just because an idea comes to you from the “inside” does not make that idea true.

You got that?

If not, make sure you do.

Repeat after me.

“Just because an idea comes to me from the ‘inside’ does not make that idea true.”

“Just because an idea comes to me from the ‘inside’ does not make that idea true.”

Now I know this might seem a little dumb to you right now, especially if you come from a scientifically grounded epistemology that eschews interior wisdom, but it’s not. The advice I’m giving you here really is important. One of the easiest and most common spiritual blunders you can make (and even die hard, Harvard paid scientific gurus have made this blunder) is to assume that every internally generated idea is correct. Bottom line, you have to discern… and although you might be sitting there thinking “well of course I’m going to discern,” the truth is, when you make that first authentic connection to your higher consciousness, all your critical sensibilities might just go flying out the proverbial window.

And don’t sit there shaking your head saying “not me” cause I’m too smart or irrational or grounded or whatever cause the truth is, you just don’t know what it is going to feel like , and nobody ever warned you (except maybe me), and so when you connect with “the power,” all your “normal” defense mechanisms may just vanish in a puff of frying neurons. I mean, when you make the first full bright connection to higher consciousness, the ideas that come to you are going to seem remarkably brilliant no matter how full of shit they might really be. The ideas will come and you’ll be like “wow,” and you’re going to go “cool,” and you’re going to think like “right on.” In the worst cases, you may even tempted to abandon your identity and start believing you are Jesus or some other dead prophet!? But if you want my advice, don’t do that. Take my advice. Take a deep breath. Ground. Remember who you are and consider. The information you are getting might be true, but then it again it might be a pile of steaming horse shit soooo….

….use your discernment.

And if you’re scientifically trained, don’t think you’re immune. If you want my opinion, those of us who are scientifically trained are even more susceptible to what we might want to call “spiritual psychosis” because we’ve got the intellectual training and egos to provide conceptual and ideological buttresses for whatever holonic moronic garbage we choose to put through. Heck, a well trained, left brain dominant intellectual can make slime seem appetizing.[3] Unfortunately, having a well trained left brain doesn’t make you immune to stupidity. If you ask me, it makes you more susceptible and, what’s worse, makes it harder for “you” to break through if you get trapped.

You want to be careful.

No matter how bright the ideas might seem, don’t just assume that what you are getting is correct.

Now if you are curious as to why you can’t just automatically trust and idea from inside, there are two very good reasons. Reason one is simply this. The first few times you make a wider connection with the Fabric of Consciousness, the first few times you flash your little candle light with the oxygen of your higher self, you may be exposing your conceptual apparatus NOT to the higher light and wisdom of your higher self but to the unconscious and dogmatic programming that you were exposed to as a child.

“How’s that?” you say.

Well, in order to explain this, let’s go back to our oxygen metaphor. As I’ve already said, think of your bodily consciousness, the consciousness that emerges out of the quantum operations of your physical unit, as a little candle flame. Now think of the opening of a connection to The Fabric of Consciousness (i.e. crown chakra activation) like opening an oxygen pipe as big around as your head. Imagine what happens to the little candle flame when you do that. The oxygen feeds the flame so when oxygen hits the candle flame, it’s going to cause it to flare up. And that’s pretty much how it is. The first time you make a wider connection to the Fabric of Consciousness, you are going to “flash your brain” with the oxygen of higher consciousness and when you do that your bodily consciousness is going to light up like a roman candle. As that happens your brain and all it contains is going to come front and center first. That is, before you make any connection to the Fabric of Consciousness, before you start to bring any amount of “higher wisdom,” you’re going to have to confront what’s in your head first.

Now, if you’re not sitting on a lot of fears, repressions, and issues, and if you recognize that it is your body’s consciousness that is “coming forward” first and not some kind of higher and wiser spiritual entity, then confronting what is in your head can be a cool experience. But if you make the common blunder and just gaze wide eyed and bushy tailed at the “new consciousness,” you can into trouble. I mean, think of all the nonsense that gets piled into your consciousness. From day one you’re bodily consciousness is filled with so much excrement that I can’t even say. Not surprisingly, when you open the crown chakra and light up the candle, all the dogmatic and abusive crap that “they” filled you up with will come out first and it might not be pretty, which is OK as long as you don’t blunder into the belief that all that stuff is divine revelation.

Don’t scoff.

It’s terribly easy to do.

No matter brown and smelly the ideas might be, in the light of your turbocharged little candle flame, they seem so bright and glorious that you just can’t believe they are anything other than divine revelation.[4]

It’s true.

I’ve seen it happen many times.

So be careful.

Discern.

Now the second reason you can’t just assume that all ideas that come to you from the inside are true arises out of nature of the Fabric of Consciousness and you’re connection to all that is in it. Remember what I said in the Book of Light. Consciousness is an interconnected fabric of monadic intensifications. What that rocket science really means is that we are all part of this grand and glorious Fabric of Consciousness, and we are all connected to it, and because of that we (and by we I mean “you”) are potentially connected to all times and all places in this physical universe.

The Fabric of Consciousness embraces all time and all space and even though you exist “here and now,” you can still connect with all parts of creation with minimal effort.

It’s an important point because, when you do finally get past your bodily consciousness, when you do successfully put aside the dogma and programming of your physical unit to the point where you can actually get an authentic connection to higher consciousness, then you gotta remember you can connect to any point. There is really no restriction and given this fact, you have to ask yourself, who are you going to connect to.

An archangel?

Maybe.

God?

Possibility.

Ancient Annunaki colonizer?

If you ask the right questions.

Fundamentalist preacher down the road.

Well, if that’s what you are used it, yes. It just all depends, so you have to be careful otherwise you risk, at best, becoming just another unglued mystic puking out uncritical insights or, at worse, ending up a psychological and psychopathic mess like Crowley or Hitler.

SO STOP AND CONSIDER.

Are you sure you know who you are really talking to?

Are you sure the knowledge you are getting is true?

If not, think about it.

Be cautious.

Go slow.

Until you get grounded, until you develop a strong critical sensibility, until you’ve released any pathological ego controls, until you’ve got a good sense of what the highest spiritual truths look like, be careful cause when you’re staring out, you just never know.

And now this brings us, finally, to the practical side of mental control. Once you get the idea into your head that conversation with The Fabric is just like any other conversation (i.e., you don’t believe everything you hear), then the next step is to practice the actual art of mental control. And thankfully, that’s not rocket science. It’s also not transcendental, by a long shot. It doesn’t require you to meditate for long periods in uncomfortable positions (and who has time for that anyway?). It doesn’t require you to “still your thoughts” and become “empty.”[5] It also doesn’t require above average smarts or long periods of training. In fact, it’s actually quite simple. If an idea pops into your head and you decide you don’t like it, kick it out of your consciousness.

That’s mental control.

If you don’t like an idea, don’t think it.

Just get rid of it.

And if it comes back, push it away again.

Find something to do that takes your mind off it. You have a right not to think thoughts that you don’t want to think so if you don’t want to think a certain thought, don’t think it. J

And if you do have problem, if you find yourself obsessing about certain ideas, maybe you need to talk to somebody with more experience because no matter how you slice it, obsessing ideas is not good. As I like to say, as above in consciousness, so below in matter. If you are obsessing, if you can’t control what you think, you are in jeopardy of manifesting unpleasantness. So if you need help with that, get it. Use whatever assistance and props you need. And over and above whatever assistance you get, trust your ability to learn. You do have it in you, I guarantee it. Eventually you’ll get better at it and the ability to control your thoughts will become easier.

Now most of us shouldn’t have too much problem getting rid of bad ideas. The mental facility to do it is easy to develop. What’s not so easy is identifying which ideas are bad ideas. When you are starting out, how do you know? Well, I can give you a few simple rules about that. Kick out all ideas that smack of hierarchy, exclusion, judgment, and punishment, but that’s easier to say than to do. The problem is that on this earth, bad ideas are intentionally wrapped up like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Ideas that come to you can seem good, but when you examine them more deeply, or when you follow them to their logical end point, they can lead you down a very dark and sometimes violent tunnel of misconception. The christian idea of rapture is a good example here. On the surface it looks like a good idea, but when you follow it to its logical conclusion, it means an incredible amount of unnecessary suffering caused by hierarchy, exclusion, judgment, and punishment. I mean, really. The idea that everybody “left behind,” from little baby to aged grandmother, would be left to fend for themselves is positively satanic and when you think about it, the idea begins to lose its sheep’s cloaking and is revealed for the horrid and violent idea that it is. Of course, if you’ve followed that idea because you thought your connection to the fundamentalist preacher down the road was a connection to God himself,[6] by the time you realize how negative and hateful the ideas really are, it may be too late to easily extricate yourself from the powerful, but nasty, ideas.

And that’s about all I care to write at this time on this topic. Now, I will talk more about the importance of ideas, and what to do about the ideas that come into your head as a result of an opening (or open) crown chakra, later. Before closing though, allow me to say a couple more things. Thing one is a “practice tip” that you can use in relation to the technique of mental control. The tip is simple. PAY ATTENTION to what you are thinking. If you haven’t done it before, start now. And I don’t mean in the 10 minute way you do in meditation, I mean throughout the day. You need to always be aware of the types of thoughts that are popping into the physical unit of yours, and when I say always I mean always. Don’t let a minute go by where you are not paying attention to what is happening in the conscious part of bodily consciousness. It’s obvious advice really. If you are going to practice mental control, if you are going to make a decision about what ideas you are going to let into that noodle of yours, then of course you have to be aware of what’s in there.

So practice.

Now as I said, there are two things I want to mention before closing. Thing one is the need to be aware of your thoughts. Thing two is a confidence thing. If you are going to practice mental control, you are going to have to be confident in your ability to discern. What’s more, you are going to have to feel worthy enough to eject the ideas that you decide don’t belong and this might hard, especially at first and especially if you confront ideas that are all “lit up” by oxygen from the crown chakra. It’s a big problem, unfortunately and while I don’t want to get into the details of why we lack confidence as adults here, I must say that you are going to have to develop it because without it you won’t be able to reject the dumbass ideas that come popping into your head, and you need to be able to do that. So, take some steps to develop confidence.

Now finally, I just want to say that opening up to The Fabric really does assume you are moving from a position of relative emotional and psychological health. Before you attempt a more concrete crown opening, you should be familiar with the Lighting Path core teachings, you should have practiced the Great Invocation and cleared issues, you should developed basic technique, you should have right thinking, and you should be relatively open about things. If not, proceed with caution. Keep a life line handy[7] or give somebody permission to slap you if you start to get carried away. And remember this advice. Although I do provide a lot of cautions when it comes to opening up the crown chakra, it’s really not that hard. In fact, under healthy conditions, it’s the easiest thing ever—virtually automatic in fact. All you really got to accomplish is some basic spiritual training (training that should have been provided to you in high school) and you’ll be fine. So don’t be afraid. Embrace the power and glory that is your full consciousness. When it comes right down to it, expressing the full power of your higher self is the reason you incarnate into a physical unit.

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