The Energy Way

 The Way of the Fine

There are quite a few new people here, so I feel that I have to say something about what goes on in the seminars.

That time just now was really my introduction to the seminar, and the fact that you joined me in it very strongly suggests that you have all immediately understood everything. But maybe you don’t know you have understood, so I am going to say some things that maybe you can understand in the normal way.

What goes on here is a way of processing ourselves that is different from most ways, because it doesn’t depend at all upon concepts or viewpoints. It doesn’t even really depend upon understanding. That might be a relief to some of you and it might be terrifying for others.

The processes are based on the view that the mean or average rate of vibration of our energy defines the way that we see life and the way we are, and that the vibration we are, which has come out of our experiences in life, is only one possibility, and that there are almost an infinite number of possible vibrations through which each of us can connect with the rest of the universe.

One way of looking at what goes on is to say that certain fine vibrations are released in the room through me, through what happens between me and each one of you, and also through what happens between each one of you and everybody else. And when a fine vibration meets a gross vibration, it affects the gross vibration in certain ways. The gross vibration tends to meet the fine vibration at the level of the fine vibration, it tends to break up and be attracted to the fine vibration.

If a gross vibration meets a vibration that is even grosser, it will not be affected. It may become still grosser, but you won’t feel anything happening, because the gross vibration gets saturated or lost in the grosser vibration. But when you feel something going on - and you will all feel many things going on inside yourself, physically, emotionally and energetically during the seminar - that means that the fine vibrations that are being released are moving these gross vibrations within you. And if you allow that to happen, then those grosser vibrations will be drawn to unite with the fine vibrations.

At the same time as the fine vibrations are working on all the grosser vibrations to bring them into fineness, the other factor is that these fine vibrations that are brought into the room and released anyway exist as a potentiality in everybody, and these subtle vibrations inside you start to respond to the fine vibrations through what is known as the process of resonance.

If I release a fine vibration, that is one thing. That then acts on a grosser vibration, and then the third thing is that the fine vibration that has been awoken in you also starts to work on the gross vibration. So the gross vibration is affected by the fine vibration coming from outside, and then that fine vibration sets your own fine vibration going and within your own field of energy that starts to work on the gross vibration too. So these forces are working to refine the vibrations that are operating in us and setting the tone of our lives.

If in addition to that process when it is happening - and it will happen to all of you a lot of the time, and for some of you all of the time - you can bring your own alertness, awareness and consciousness to where the fine vibration and the grosser vibrations are meeting within you, it will intensify what is happening. Awareness is one of the finest vibrations that exist in you, because it is always outside everything else that is going on. If you are aware of something that is going on in you, the awareness is beyond everything, so that is already a fine vibration that is as active in you as you are aware. Many of you have done a lot of work on yourselves and have done a lot of exploration and no doubt your awareness is very alive and active, so if you bring that awareness to something going on in you - in your heart or your belly or your shoulders or wherever it might be - that will be an additional help to the dynamic of the process.

If you find that when you turn your awareness on a process, it becomes too strong, which it can do, so that you feel too affected by it, then turn your awareness somewhere else. The process I am describing will still go on, but if you don’t bring your awareness to it, it will be lower key. If you bring your awareness to it, it will be very intense.

The processes of these fine vibrations come from a different space, a different source than the normal source of our activities and behaviour. And these energies can be released by a hand movement, or a look, or by standing in a certain part of the room, because as we continue with the workshop, not only will all the people present be affected and have energies moving within them, but these energies will also move in the room as a whole between all of you. If one is sensitive to these energies, as I have become over the years, one can feel them not only in people but also in spaces. So if I stand in a space some time, turn in a certain direction, or move my hands, that is all part of the electrification of the space here and all the people who are in it. It may not fit with any patterns that you are used to, but then it doesn’t have to conform to them since it is not influenced by them. What happens here is outside all the patterns of conforming that we have been influenced by and continue to be influenced by.

So you have to be open to codes of action, behaviour, movement and gestures that, for the new people anyway, are going to seem a bit bizarre sometimes.

We are working in a field that is outside the normal interactional field that we fit into in the way we go along in our lives, in society, in our jobs and families and so on. If you can accept these strange processes and happenings, at least for these few days together, it is likely that they will influence you sufficiently for you to feel, as if something very profound has happened, and you might even begin to see things in a different way, in a freer way, a more open way, a more cosmic way.

It is this energy that came in immediately I entered the room and we all fell into this deep silence. Even though some people were perhaps not expecting that or even not wanting to move with it, it brought them there, and in that space that we were in just now, these subtle energies that I have described feel very much at home, because then they can move without being damaged or disturbed by the normal energies that are present when we interact in the normal way. In that silence everything stopped. The mind may not have stopped, but a lot of the things that normally happen when sixty people meet in a room, the normal interaction and exchanges that happen when you go to a party or a meeting to discuss something, stopped. And when that happens, the space those energies normally fill becomes free, and then these subtle energies can enter and will immediately start affecting you and moving you in deep and subtle ways. So the parts of ourselves that normally remain dormant or unknown get stimulated, get touched, and begin to join in the processes of what we call ourselves and our lives.

What you experience this weekend may feel as if it is foreign to you at times, or it might feel as if something is being done to you, even though you don’t know what it is, since not so much action goes on. But whatever takes place in you belongs to you. No one can impose something upon you. So if it feels odd or strange or far out or very unfamiliar to some of the new people, that is because you have not yet got to know it. It does not belong to some strange universe that you have been transported to, we are not going to travel to Mars or anywhere else. You are going to travel to hidden dimensions within yourself, and if these come up and you experience certain things you have not experienced before, I assure you that these realities and happenings and experiences belong to you and not to me. If they didn’t, they would not be there, so you have to acknowledge them, accept them and open to them from whichever place you are living inside yourself, and say, “This too is part of who I am.”

But no force is used. The processes used for at least the first part of the seminar will be very gentle and very soft, so you will have time, if you are new, to taste them carefully, open to them slowly, and explore them. They won’t overwhelm you. And if you have a catharsis or a big happening, like the lady who was crying before, then that is because that is ready to happen anyway and the subtle energy just triggers it. These happenings are on the brink of expressing themselves and the subtle energies will encourage them to do that in order to empty the space that is being held by the blocked energy. The subtle energies will try to push out your blocked energies that have been stifled and held in for one reason or another - fear to express them, or doubts about whether they are justified perhaps. Subtle energies will simply move them without thinking about it, without reasoning, without working it out, to bring them to a more subtle level and to create the space into which fresh energies can come.

I am not going to say any more right now, so there is no need to listen any more. Now you can turn your attention on yourself and see what is going on. Right from now, before we go into any actual explorations, just as we are sitting here together, see what is going on. And remember what I said about awareness - you can look and say, “There is some process moving in my chest or my heart or my belly,” and if you bring that awareness to it, you will find that the process will intensify. You can move your awareness around inside your system and see what is going on. Just notice some things and stay with other things that are going on, and see how turning your awareness on these processes affects the power of them. If you turn away from them, it doesn’t mean that they stop, they go on just through the meeting of the subtle energy and the energy of that process that is moving. But if you bring your awareness and make that a third force, so to speak, then while you are with it, you will see that the processes become stronger and more intense.

Talk given during a seminar in Wales, 30.11 2001