Trust and Control
My thoughts today are on trust and control, and my focus is on the Seventh Declaration of Spiritualist Principles, “We affirm the moral responsibility of the individual, and he makes his own happiness or unhappiness as he obeys or disobeys Natures Physical and Spiritual Laws.” The focus is also on Emma Hardridge-Britten’s 1st Law of The Ten Laws of Spiritual Right, “Manifest Temperance (balance) in all things, with regard to the physical. Mental, emotional, or physical.”
Charles Leadbeater of the Theosophical Society states that “MAN is a curiously complex being, and his evolution, past, present and future, is a study of perennial interest for all who can see and understand. Through what toilsome eternities of gradual development he has come to be what he is, to what round in the long ladder of his progress he has now attained, what possibilities of further progress the veil of the future conceals from us, these are questions to which few can be indifferent - questions which have been occurring all through the ages to everyone who has thought at all.”
What Leadbeater is saying is that Spiritual progress is like climbing a ladder on our path to Enlightenment and what wrung we are on along our Soul progression. We are living in the Now, in our 3rd Dimensional embodiment, and attempt to follow a straight path or ladder to our spiritual enfoldment. I would like to say our path is more like our own River of Life, which takes many twists and turns before reaching its final destination.
We come into this life with a gasp of breath and with nothing – no clothes, no money, no material possessions. That Innocence is the Truth that we born with and this is something I’d like you to contemplate about: Our Truth is forever changed by the Trust we put in other persons to form and forge us into whom and what we are.
Our Trust starts with the families we were born into. Our parents clothe us, feed us, and indoctrinate us into their belief system and values. They picked your religion, your schools, your associations, and sometimes your friends. Recall the joke or your reality: you can pick your friends but you cannot pick your family!
Recall that I stated earlier that our truth is forever changed by the Trust that we put in other persons. The United States Tax Code defines a person as an individual or “corporation” – and corporations mean a lot of things. Government, religion, and employers are a few examples, not to mention the Health Care System.
Look at the trust we put in our school systems. What school did your parents put you in? Their trust in “the system” put values instilled in you. And that has changed since I went to school. I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance daily while in elementary and middle schools. The same can be said about curriculum. We are putting trust in what “the system” wants. Even curriculum varies by socio-economic demographics. When our family moved from an Urban setting to a rustic rural area when I was in fifth grade, the math that they we teaching was what I learned in third grade. I was marked down for doing “new math” because the method was not accepted, even though the results were correct.
The school systems are designed to merge their trust into the economy and workforce. The bells for the start of a class program us to start a work day and shift, attendance records resemble time punches and so forth. Good grades equate to good performance, raises and promotions, and if you “trust” the company, your boss will allow you to climb the corporate ladder.
Religion puts a lot of “trust” instilled within you. Christianity baptizes you in water to cleanse you from original sin, inferring you are a sinner and must be saved. Have you done your penance today? Guilt ridden rules based on “Thou shall or shalt not.” Buddhism states that the path to enlightenment is that you must free yourself from suffering – inferring that you must suffer. Religion puts the trust on the congregation and the poor that in tithing you will receive ten-fold what you give. What if you have nothing to give? Is Alms-giving an option anymore?
H.P. Blavaksy in The Secret Doctrine states “The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.”
The point that I’m making is that by putting our Trust in other persons we allow ourselves to be controlled, not only in our actions but our thoughts.
The Egyptian Mystery Schools teaches that Trust is another word for Control. Ponder on that for a moment --- look at our dollar bills – “In God We Trust.” How does it sound “In God We Control.” And that is how we have become the person we are – controlled by other persons’ actions and values.
It is up to you – and only you – to find Truth. Trust and control are a fine balancing line, like a high-wire act. In exists in all our relationships. A wife may trust her husband not to cheat on her, and she may put control mechanisms in place to control his actions. By choosing his friends and controlling where he goes. How smart do you think a “smart phone” is? GPS, call records, all that information that is available at your fingertips, --- and perhaps to a good lawyer, Private Eye and the National Security Administration too. We see thing on television and in reality shows -- that in itself is a negative attachment.
Look at our schools, their values controlling our future, our religions are controlling our thoughts, the corporate structure aligning us to become a slave or robot in their system – aiding the banksters and elite .
By “trusting” in others, we tend to grow attachments to the control we grow into. Attachments affect our physical, emotional and mental bodies. Think about this: Along your River of Life, each bend is an experience, a life lesson, a karmic thread along your soul path. Many energetic cords are attached based on our truths and beliefs or the control mechanisms put in place.
When we follow our path, we must cut Cords of attachment that consist of releasing or cutting away energetic cords that connect you with someone else. You are energetically corded to anyone who you have a relationship with including family members, friends, co workers and acquaintances in some way whether it is harmful or healthy. The Cord of attachment is an energy structure between two persons. It causes patterns from the past to continue into the present. Cords distort thinking and feeling, moving people around like marionettes.
Energy flows back and forth between you and another. However, a cord of attachment is not the flow of unconditional love. A cord of attachment by definition is negative and contributes a unique set of difficulties to your energy system.
When you are corded in an unhealthy way to a “person” – meaning individual or corporation - , these bonds can negatively impact all aspects of your life. For example, you may be influenced or controlled by a boss you are negatively bonded to. You may be easily manipulated, feel stuck, depressed, have low energy levels or simply feel bad in the other person’s presence. I certainly have experienced this situation, and it again had to do with the Trust and Control in a person and corporation. What was Family was not. Once a toxic pattern is established in a cord of attachment, it will usually continue until the day you “die.” Cords to dead parents, lovers, etc. are real, until removal. They send their pull or tug of emotion regardless of whatever happens in the present.
What if, for instance, you have a cord with you father, according to which “I am never good enough?” No matter how positive your attitude, you are unlikely to overcome this problem of feeling inferior—not until the energy in the cord stops repeating within you.
In this case it is important to remove the cords to improve your emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.
Cord attachments in the Physical are based on our ego, our desires and wants. We need to release them in order to focus on the now. Relationships are hard to break, and we often have broken hearts. We often punish ourselves by asking “could I have done something different or treated this person better?
Every time we put these thought forms in action, we re-establish that cord and take a step backward. Release, Release, Release.
This affects our emotions as well, holding on to what is not there anymore. If anything else, what we are doing is kicking ourselves, and not focusing on the Now, not focusing on the new and creating. Release, Release, Release.
Cords affect our mental state as well. We have all heard the term “should’ve, could’ve ,would’ve.” A person can go mad sending these thought forms out, eating themselves away day by day. It is a vicious cycle. We each know a person like this. They attract negativity with those thought forms and attachments. They hinder our Soul Progression. Release, Release, Release. We must learn to attune to the Law of Cycles and work in harmony with it, thus in harmony with all life, and put balance in our lives – attuned to the rhythm and music of Life and the Universe.
When we feel unclear, tired, irritated, upset or drained an important healing tool to use is to sit in meditation and using inner vision, scan one's body, both the front and the back. Energetic cords can be sensed and some people even have the ability to see them. If you see or sense a cord attached to you from another, or a cord going out from you to something or someone else, you can imagine yourself cutting the cords and allowing the energy to return where it belongs. MEDITATE, MEDITATE, MEDITATE. CUT, CUT, CUT. RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE.
We must Trust ourselves and Control our own destiny. In order to live healthfully, we need to have all of our own energy in our own space in our own bodies. We do not try to direct or influence the lives of others or put out cords toward them. We do not need the energy of others to survive. We are all our own power generators with our own life plans, with infinite resources of energy at our disposal. All that we need to do is to tune into that Divine Source of energy and allow it to flow into us. All we need to do is be willing to receive it. There are many techniques and methods which show us the way to open and receive this Divine energy, which is the energy we breathe with each breath and which fills every cell of our beings, giving us life.
There are many Natural Laws. We must follow the 7th Spiritual Principal and find our own happiness. It is our moral responsibility. The Creator never stops creating. Follow the 1st Law of Spiritual Right and put balance in your lives.
The Lakota say The Medicine Wheel teaches about change. It says that which is created will fall apart; that which is loose, will be used to create new. In other words, everything on Earth is participating in a constant change that is being directed by an order of laws and principles which were originated by the Great Spirit, Infinite Intelligence. We humans are equipped with natural change abilities. We have the ability to vision; we can use imagination and imagery; we can change belief, attitude, habits, and expectations. We have Creativity. We need to know ourselves and we need to know how we work inside to enable us to change naturally.
The Law of Attraction IS The Law of Creation. Everything that’s coming into your life you are attracting into your life. As Above, So Below, As Within, so Without. Create your life through your thoughts. Whatever you think about – and thank about – you bring about. Use the Violet Flame and transmute the “should’ve, could’ve, and would’ve’s into “What If.”
We can do affirmations such as “I am so grateful for being a powerful creator of my reality!” and “I love and honor the guidance that is within me always.”
By following our River of Life, we reach the Ocean. The Ancient Egyptians considered the Universe a vast ocean, with Earth being a droplet in the sea. Here, in the Now, we must affirm our responsibilities for our individual happiness, flowing with the universe.
Finding your Truth is by not giving your power away. First, Trust your own instincts, your gut reactions and be, -- just be happy. Secondly, Scrub and re-program your past belief systems and rediscover who you are. You have the power to do and accomplish anything your heart desires. Third, Find who you are by following Natural Laws, make right decisions based on these Laws – think on these religious believe scrubbed - there is no sin, just good or bad actions, and you do not have to suffer, just be Happy in what you do. Put your efforts in yourself – be your own boss.
By doing this, You have the Power, the Power to Trust in yourself. Empowerment is the path to Enlightenment. There you will find your Truth.
I want to finish with a quote from John Lennon, the former Beatle. “When I was growing up, my mother always taught me that the secret to Life was happiness. Later in school I was given an assignment asking what I wanted to be in Life. I wrote down Be Happy. The teachers said I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Be Happy. Find Truth. Namaste.