Section Theta  Lesson Theta Two: The Spiritual Compass In Evolving Gestalts of Consciousness  The Quantum Potential & Expansion Of All That Is  Once we have the enlightened perspective upon the concept of evolution as ongoing co-creation, we can begin to recognize the undeniable spiritual unity within the material Earthly realm. For indeed, the expansion of All That Is, the unfolding of universal consciousness itself, underlies the energetic/information wisdom that moves each organism to fulfill its unique creative purpose. It is this expanding action force that drives the interacting processes of stability and change which accomplishes all forms of evolution. The informational networks we have been describing are simply the particular flow and attunement channels, or self focal points within and between the overall consciousness of All That Is.  All systems have describable characteristics. The qualities and the processes of interchange are what define the particular characteristics which we recognize and relate to. We imitate, emulate and identify with all physical and mental reality to whatever degree we choose. What we often fail to achieve is the understanding of the roles nature offers us, thinking such is there to be exploited or controlled. This is basically the result of our sciences and religions indoctrinating us with the fear element and failing to make us fully aware of our own creative qualities.  With each individual life experience, regardless of whether that life is an atom, a molecule, a cell, an organ, an organ system, a vegetable or animal organism, or a human being, the motion of its electrical existence alone legislates interactive influences with the quantum potential which is the energetic manifestation of the consciousness of All That Is. Indeed, that which physicists have begun to recognize and term the quantum potential, is indeed the energetic informational database of cosmic consciousness, the Akashic Record of all experience, the Brahman of truth, the source of omniscience, of "God" and is also known as many other names---all of which imply the ultimate divine informational source. This is the spiritual energy/ information that both guides and drives all organisms in the unified and ever-expanding cooperative gestalts.  On a limited level, this so apparent "truth" has been labeled in a limited fashion in such terms as the survival instinct or the Tao, for those more metaphysically inclined. Some have called it the forces of nature, for lack of a better description. What might better describe it might be the term omnipotent interconnection. It is not simply that "All Is One", but that such "One" is in a perpetual state of expansion. It is not just that the physical universe is in a state of expansion, but that each form of life is in that state as well. It might be added that in a dynamic universe, each state of movement is a form of life.  For humans to take their rightful place in evolutionary history, it now must be understood that it is this co-creative process, with its delicate balance of biological predestiny and free will, that allows all organisms to mutually coexist. For it is the guidance of spirit as communicated and accomplished through the experience of emotion and feeling which regulates and maintains this balance and ushers maximum value fulfillment and expansion of all forms of consciousness. Through purposeful responses to each inner guiding impulse, all the physical life forms participate in the ongoing co-creative process, likened unto vessels steered about on the material sea by ever-present guidance signals from the cosmos.  We are never far from a source of personal navigation. It exists to assist us in our every step along the progressive pattern of our physical, mental and spiritual development. It is not something that we have to qualify for. The indigenous societies and the most technologically sophisticated ones are equals in the qualification to the tapping of this source. We of that latter category might find ourselves more handicapped, but only because we have been programmed to believe in our limitations.  Receiving The Purposeful Guidance  Just like the ancient mariners learned how to steer their ships by learning about the patterns of the stars, humans have also been in training to learn the most pure form of directional guidance by observing the patterns within human feeling. For like the light energy perceived from the stars, the quantum field sends forth spiritual signals which are fine tuned to each of the living receptors which offer unfailing, individually tailored, directional guidance toward the highest purposes.  Unlike the ancient mariners, the guidance of human feeling does not need to rely on available outside technology but has been equipped with its own system located within. Connecting with our human feelings is not a capability of one gender versus the other. It need only require the overcoming of some early conditioning.  It is most useful to think of the spiritual signals from the quantum field as likened unto radio waves available on various bandwidths. Each form of organism is equipped with specific receptors and innate responses which are effected by the radio signals it is designed to receive. Thus, by simply attuning to and reacting to the available information, the organism regulates the self activities necessary for purposeful experience. As organisms conduct their daily business, their thoughts, and actions affect changes---physical energy manifestations---that are encoded with information which cycles back into the quantum field, expanding its wisdom and potential guidance. Since the information is continuously sent forth from the expanding ultimate source, it contains within it the requirements of all other organisms---all bodies---within that physical cooperative. This force is the infinite cyclic action of consciousness, the ongoing information flow between and within the multiple aspects of the human self, the body, mind, and spirit.  The very concept that humans, not to mention all of nature itself, can and do contribute to the ever expanding gestalt of the All That Is should attract the attention of anyone seeking to expand beyond their current perimeters. In many quarters, this proposed "principle" would have to be considered to be sheer sacrilege. In fact, it pays tribute to what is described as "God" by suggesting that we are no less noble creations than those whom we conceive and strive to bring to maturity in our own homes.  These are the evolutionary dynamics which take place in the Earthly ecosystem, manifesting as the scientifically observable interactions between organism and environment. The grand, economic, need-meeting marketplace runs smoothly due to these inner mechanisms. These are the interactions that allow the chaos within the quantum field to become the orderly ecological interactions that underlie the idea of "natural selection" and the idea of "the intentions of nature" or the "divine plan of the Creator". Since the separation between any form of consciousness is an illusion necessary for unique forms of physical experience,there is no real division between organism and environment. But all the richly magnificent diversity within nature is based upon the relativity of the "self" unit.  There is no greater proof of the validity of this observation than nature itself. It is our grandest "need-meeting marketplace" and even when it appears to be malfunctioning, it is merely indulging in a form of self-correction or balancing, if you will. While what often appears to be a whole picture, under close examination reveals itself to be a grouping of separate units and, in turn, what is often labeled as separately functioning parts does, in fact, have a holistic quality. A prime example of this might be the human physical body.  Indeed, the self is every bit as relative as time and space beyond the Earthly physical boundaries. Although this might come as a shock to the human ego consciousness, who knows itself as a separate, distinct, and perhaps superior life form to a plant, an animal, or a rain drop, such is still the case. For it is the self-defined identity, the self-consciousness experienced by the organism which corresponds to a specific bandwidth of quantum informational guidance that creates the illusion of separation and the resplendent wonders of diversity within the unity of All That Is. The internal "self" environment of any given organism is that which receives information directly through its emotional signals from the quantum field, and the external environment is everything outside of its innate identity.  Might it be considered proper to suggest that a "rain drop" could enjoy a state of immortality? Yet, why should any form of sub-atomic vibration be excluded from a permanent state of existence. Because its level of "self-consciousness" might be at a different specificity of vibration, it need not be excluded from all the potential of the most refined form, no more than the Morse Code beeps of a short wave radio should be excluded from the same broadcast reception that delivers the strains of a violin concerto.  Thus, in the ultimate sense, the quantum potential comprises the entire environment---with internal and external boundaries as arbitrary as space, time, and any self distinction. And although the boundaries of consciousness may change, the self-regulating spiritual dynamics remain the same. With this in mind, we can explore the various manifestations of self and the interactions which underlie the mysteries of life itself. For these principals underlie the Trinity of the human self and facilitate both its cooperative unity and collective progress, or its competitive diversity and ongoing suffering.  There is a constant in the referred "spiritual dynamics" that remains such in order to support an environment of unity necessary for a confidence in progression; for the All That Is must remain in place for "All That Are".  The Self In Evolutionary Context  Every self consciousness knows what it is. An oxygen atom even recognizes itself as distinct from perhaps a hydrogen atom. Through the simple knowledge of the boundaries of itself, it interacts with the quantum field (its internal environment) and with other atoms (its external environment) to form the foundations of all organic life. Likewise, a cell knows itself as a cell, an organ knows its identity as a heart, pancreas, or kidney, and an animal knows that the boundaries of its skin or fur mark where the self leaves off and where the world begins. (In the humans, the precision of the immune system defines that which is the body self, and protects the body against invaders that are non-self, while the ego defines the self-parameters of mind and seeks stability through the protection of the self-identity from any incoming information that might be too painfully overwhelming.) Like humans, but in less complex forms, each self of any given species is attuned to its particular frequency within the emotional sensory waves of the quantum field.  What constitutes the difference between an Einstein and a water molecule? Did the former play out his role in society because he was perpetually aware of the level of his genius, while the water molecule plays out its role without giving it a second thought. We are beginning to consider the existence of a quality described as "emotional intelligence" and, of course, presume it to be a quality of humans only. But what we may have to do is come to expand the definition of the word "emotional".  But within each self consciousness unit, there is also a gestalt of mini-selves---a collective consciousness attuned internally to its signals and changes of collective "body" as part of the interactive information exchanges within the spiritual network. Each gestalt of self, regardless of its complexity, both gives and receives energy information from the quantum field that allows for the cooperative interactions that facilitate the need-meeting of all organisms involved. As stated, this is orchestrated by the emotional signals received within the range of its relative receiver.  While we may appear to be sole individuals operating independently from one another, the above paragraph suggests quite the opposite, i.e. that each of us is a part of a collective whole which operates at the physical, mental and spiritual level and has a built-in support system at each of these levels. The efficiency of the interchange of information between these three systems is conditional upon the development of our feeling skills.  As we now know, the emotional spectrum spans electrical, chemical, motivational, and cognitive ranges that bring many forms of sensory guidance. As a general rule, as self units become more complex, their physical structure, sensory equipment, and brain size dictates how much of the bandwidth of emotional information is available. The less complex the life form, the more simple the experience, the more pure and of relatively short life duration as compared to more complex forms. As the complexity increases, there is also an increase in the free will of the organism to choose self-directed behavior. In other words, a simple self is a body only, while a more complex self is joined by a mind as well. Thus, with any form of mind, comes volition and more potential misuse of free will, so nature provides safeguards in the form of more levels of emotional guidance to ensure both the quantity and quality of physical and mental development of any given life form.  Free will appears to be a compliment and a reward for advancement of complexity. Just as the teenager has reached that stage in life where he/she can get a driver's license and begin the practice of moving tons of metal around in some safe and responsible fashion, so other life forms take on greater responsibility as the mind becomes more developed. It is presumed that youthful drivers probably have "guardian angels" that are required to perform extra duty.  For example, an atom is attuned purely to the electro-magnetic positive/attraction and negative/repulsion properties of emotion. It has little ability to freely choose imaginative behavior, although it follows its innate feelings of attraction and repulsion that allow it to enter into chemical bonds with other atoms which underlie other material life forms. (It is due to this relative lack of free will that the Newtonian precision of the material universe can be counted upon.) But it is the thrust to expand encoded in all information from the quantum field that drives the atoms to enter into unions with other atoms which orchestrates the chemistry of all organic life and creates higher and higher levels of self consciousness.  There is in the lower/lesser forms of existence the will to "expand", but there is also the minimal ability to choose "imaginative behavior" that maintains orderly expansion in the physical universe. It is the evolution of the "mental" aspects of the species that results in the tapping of the spiritual energies and the capability of creating the near unlimited form of one's reality.  By simply following the inner guidance, atoms participate in cooperative gestalts to create molecules that are consciously aware of themselves as a self unit, and molecules to participate in gestalts to create cells, and cells to create organs, and organs to create organ systems, and finally entire plant and animal organisms whose self consciousness perceives internal information from the gestalt collective consciousness of all its component parts. This is accomplished by specific sensory attunement to a broader and broader bandwidth of emotional guidance. A good deal of the bandwidth information, (the electrical and chemical aspects in particular), are carried out below the level of conscious awareness of the complex self-identity, thus not having to burden the mind with extraneous details.  The human mind/body has a similar system in place which is commonly referred to as the subconscious mind or the involuntary nervous system. This system keeps our heart pumping blood and the gastrointestinal system digesting our food, etc. But because we have evolved imaginative capabilities, we also have the capacity for greater creativity in the exercise of free will. This "capability" can override all other systems within our reality.  For example, consider the man-made automobile. It would be unduly burdensome if the driver needed to consciously direct the operations of the pistons, the gears, and the rotation of the tires in order to use the car for its intended purpose---transport his body from one place to the next. The details of traffic negotiation and avoiding accidents would be much harder to keep in mind if the driver had to consciously concern himself with controlling all workings of the car as well. Thus, they run automatically by design. Such is the case of many life forms. But as life forms become more complex, they also are designed with more attunement to the guidance---guidance which is necessary for the conscious participation of the willful mind.  To continue with this analogy, the modern automobile has a computer system which shuts off the headlights within a minute or so after the motor is turned off, in order to avoid discharging the battery when the driver forgets to do so. The human mind can condition itself to carry out many automatic functions, but we have yet to tap the full creative capacity that lies just below the surface of our normal functionality.  Like in our car and driver example, human life forms are intended to use conscious free will to design a mindscape that allows for living within the three purposes. Simply trusting and respecting the feeling signals will ensure that all the inner mechanisms of the body remain in peak performance without undo interference from the mind. (Humans need not consciously concern themselves with the cooperative efforts of their cells and organs, other than awareness that they are intended to regulate, correct, and heal themselves.) The ego self of mind must instead attend to and heed all our incoming regulatory informational signals in the secure knowledge that the body speaks its needs in this manner, and all will be unified and well.  Of course, the process of keeping ourselves in an optimum state of good health does not get much support from the modern media which bombards us with drug commercials (and the side effects connected with each of them) which are supposed to correct whatever physical ailments we are troubled by. It only re-enforces the belief that all solutions come from outside of ourselves, rather than from within. We have yet to appreciate how such experiences as reflected in our dreams, for example, can be much more helpful in maintaining a state of balance than can the medical profession.  Thus, the self-regulating guidance system exists as a natural force. By natural law each self-identity marks the bounds of conscious involvement and the Earth falls together by all organisms exercising varying degrees of free will choice. This accomplishes the on-going, co-creative, adaptive, evolutionary expansion while also preserving the genetic integrity of the life forms that consciousness can inhabit. Through the interaction of unconscious and conscious information processing, life forms enjoy a spectrum of behavioral guidance ranging from nearly complete instinctive or "autopilot" self-regulation to nearly complete "manual" control, free will self-directed self-regulation which only intervenes automatically when low quality choices are made. And as is the central message of these Lessons, it is through the emotional corrective signals that are received within the motivational and cognitive bandwidths that the guidance is both communicated and carried out in such complex forms as the human being.  As humans, we are complex creatures. But at times, we fail to appreciate and often confuse the differences between conforming behavior and a state of what is often defined as mental illness. We just recently began to understand and appreciate the mental state known as "idiot savant", for example. Eventually, we will come to realize that when placed in a collective environment of like kind, these people can operate a near perfect society without the help of the outside world.  But humans are also subject to all emotional information whether it is processed consciously or not. It is crucial to be aware of and trust the influence of the electrical, chemical, and motivational aspects of emotion in order to interpret the encoded information of the cognitive feeling experience in order to offer the highest kind of creative participation in the life process, to live within one's highest purposes. This means that although humans are much more complex, they are also subject to simple autopilot self-regulation that can come into conflict with the manual directions of the mind. Mindful humans must ensure the right use of free will to maintain the integrity of the body, just like a driver must be aware of his or her role to avoid mistreating or wrecking the car. (Not to mention if the driver misguidedly puts brake fluid in the gasoline tank, the car would experience breakdowns in its smooth operation, or blatantly ignoring warning lights and road signs would crash and burn.)  This may be where the emotion of love plays its most important role. If we can approach a normal activity such as driving with a loving attitude toward our vehicle and those who operate such vehicles in our environment, we can begin to experience a much safer driving style, as well as protection of the "health and well being" of our own vehicle. A similar attitude toward our physical/mental/spiritual conveyance will likely do wonders to improve our respective journeys in that sphere.  Autopilot, Semi-Autopilot and Manual Modes of Guidance  Autopilot Self-regulation  In order to gain full control and the highest benefit of the emotional guidance, it is essential to cognitively understand how it operates at three basic levels. For it is the ignorance of mind and gaps in self-understanding that allow the breakdowns in communication between the electrical, chemical, and motivational signals of the spirit's emotional guidance that lie at the cause of mental and physical breakdowns of the body and mind.  What we don't understand results in a malfunction of a process that, when grasped at a mental level, can lead us to correcting this "malfunction". We need not have PhD's in psychology or biology or even chemistry to grasp a system that pervades all of nature, of which we are a normal part.  Humanity must recognize that all mini-gestalts of self within the bounds of the physical body and mental identity know how to do the best things in order to keep the whole functioning---without much intervention from the mind of the person involved. This is the autopilot level of self-regulation that is characteristic of atoms, molecules, and cells which make up the body proper. They are attuned to the electrical and chemical bands of the emotional sensory spectrum and both give and receive information within the whole body that keep each piece well, intact, and operating toward its highest purpose.  Observe a woman in the pregnant state. She does not have to concentrate on the act of building a human being within her own body. This process takes place in a natural pattern, time after time. An interchange is taking place automatically between woman and the child who is in the process of becoming. Nowhere does there exist a more perfect example of what is being discussed above.  Although at the autopilot level, self-preservation is the primary purpose, self-development also occurs even at these most simple levels of organization, as atoms, cells, and organs adapt themselves in order to cooperate and adjust to changes in the environment. This kind of adaptive self-development also allows for higher, more elaborate and complex forms of self-consciousness to emerge.  In the human, there exists a capability to be physically and mentally innovative when forced to deal with an unanticipated change in environment. A person moved from a particularly warm climate to a cold climate, will find his/her body adjusting to change in simple ways such as thickening or thinning the blood. Over longer periods and more dramatic changes, other portions of the body will do what is necessary for self-preservation. While scientists may see this and wonder at the capability of the body, they inevitably miss the whole picture.  But at the autopilot level, the flexibility of behavior is relatively fixed, that is to say there is not much willful choice over the actions of an atom, a cell or an organ beyond their hardwired responses to the electrical and chemical messages they receive. Honor, respect, and gratitude should be given them, for their fixed type of experience provides the essential and necessarily reliable building blocks which give foundational support to all life within the grand ecological dance. Like automobiles, higher gestalts of consciousness could not exist without the nuts, bolts, and gears which comprise them.  It is evident that all portions of the collective whole are programmed to carry out necessary functions to maintain a total state of balance; and while some systems have limited functions and ambitions, they are just as necessary as those which exercise more complex and sophisticated patterns of behavior.  But the experience and purpose of an atom or a cell is every bit as important and "rewarding" as any other more complex life form. Indeed, it cannot be overemphasized that it is through the individual cooperative participation of these autopilot forms of consciousness that the Earth exists with the predicable trustworthy continuity upon which more complex forms rely. They respond with predictably reliable actions of attraction and repulsion to positive and negative electrical polarity within the emotional signals, they respond with agonizing (cellular bonding and creating change) and antagonizing (blocking and preventing change) responses to the chemical messages of emotion, but are far less aware of the familiar sensation of hedonic pleasure and pain than higher life forms. For example, an atom or a cell can quite happily die when it is no longer needed by the whole without feeling any lack of purpose or discomfort---for its purpose has been served, its potential has been actualized---it has lived its chosen life. Atoms can spontaneously be reborn in some other organization or form, as they transform from one complex gestalt to another as part of the grand energy exchange process. Certain aspects of the human experience are just as fixed and spontaneous. (The human spiritual challenges are orchestrated through inborn instinct and movements to meet the universal needs.) When the mind becomes aware of these innate patterns through the feeling language, the development of less automatic kinds of volitional adaptive behavior begins to arise.  Going back to the automobile analogy, as we become more familiar with the operation of the vehicle and trusting of the performance we can expect by carrying out actions on our own part, we set aside our conscious attention to these functions and allow the vehicle to "do it's thing". It is this level of trust and understanding that results in a more perfect and productive relationship. Herein lies the potential for all the relationships with our physical universe, whether it be with the auto carriage or our personal physical carriage (our physical bodies).  In sum, the experience at this guidance level is fixed, automatic, and ruled mostly by the natural laws of the physical realm. The self-consciousness is less complex, the identity is more merged with All That Is, and it is only the grace of these autopilot organisms that allows the continuing expansions of higher and more complex forms of life to emerge.  A long-standing relationship between the lesser energy forms and the All That Is, supports the necessary stepping stone to the next level of existence (below).  Semi-Autopilot Self-regulation  To the degree that the life form has sufficient neural complexity, sensory networks and a broader emotional bandwidth receptivity, it begins to be able to move about a bit under its own self-direction with creative kinds of adaptations based upon not just its hardwired responses but from learning from past experiences.   These are animals ranging from reptiles all the way up past mammals on the evolutionary ladder, who have specific brain structures to process a new kind of emotional information, the motivational bandwidth, the sensations of pleasure and pain.  Here is where we can observe how our pets relate to the world around them; how they seek out those things which give them pleasure (i.e. eating, sleeping, being given human attention); and how they make certain independent decisions to achieve those goals.  With brain processing capabilities that can pair emotional experiences with memories, these animals can learn through classical conditioning how to respond to situations before the outcome actually occurs, based upon past experience. This allows for tremendous adaptive and creative advantages. Although this kind of guidance does not yield much free will, it does allow for much more behavioral flexibility than in lower organisms which have fixed attract/repel motions from the feeling guidance. At the semi-autopilot level, there can be memories that create electrical and chemical responses within the cells and tissues that allow the whole animal to move protectively away from danger and move instinctively toward things that bring growth and pleasure.  We, as humans, have the same built-in hardwiring and, when trusted, will bring the same self-preservationary results, not to mention "growth and pleasure". It is often when we worry and doubt in the universal All That Is, that such natural qualities are short-circuited in our electrical and chemical make-up and unsettle our natural thinking/feeling progress. Our mothers, often in the belief that to worry is to do what mothers are supposed to do, are actually undermining a process which can serve us well as we grow into adulthood.  At more complex levels within the semi-autopilot category, the emotional experiences of joy and fear are added to the perceptual receptors from the spectrum of emotional information. This allows for more complex, long-term, kinds of conditioned learning known as operant conditioning, wherein the animal knows that there is a link between its actions and the outcome that was created. The feelings of joy and fear form electro-chemical loops in memory that allow for even better adaptive self-developmental actions to take place. (Such patterns underlie the energy body and emotional memory that can be recognized within the human chakra system later on in the evolutionary scheme.) Feelings of joy promote behaviors that are creatively adaptive, such as play. Play serves as practice for real life situations, and marks the threshold into willfully cooperative behavior, the preferred adaptive strategy over simple competition alone.  Young animals are seen playing in a natural way and we know that such activity, even with our own young, can contribute to the development and adjustments that will be needed later in adult life, so long as such activities do not stretch beyond enjoyable play into the stress of achieving perfection for the sake of a parental goal. All life should be an experience of learning and pleasure. Pain need not be essential to progress unless we make it so.  As we now know, the general pattern of increasing self-complexity includes increasing complexity in conscious volitional experience. The semi-autopilot level is essential so that an evolving mind can have time to learn, while the body and its needs are still protected by the hardwired responses of attraction /repulsion and approach/avoidance. Thus, this kind of learning is not conscious learning, but it has conscious corrective results. The emotional guidance comes in the form of the feeling which follows a given action, but gets stored in the cellular memory in order to activate defensive responses in the future before another disaster strikes. (Perceiving fear when a threat to survival is looming, and being able to run in the opposite direction before it strikes is highly beneficial.) But the animal is not truly conscious of what has occurred until after the fact. This level is also apparent in humans, as learning experiences create cellular memories and flexible habits and attitudes that can either contain gems or slivers. (Ongoing fear, of course, robs humans of their conscious participation.)  Fear has its role in our existence, but it is only to stimulate the sensible action of fleeing a life-threatening situation and to, thus, maintain our physical existence and comfort. Once this has been accomplished, "fear" can be compartmentalized and we can go on enjoying that life we so naturally just preserved. Keeping it at the forefront of our thinking will only end up obstructing our growth and development, which is only a more subtle form of death.  Manual Free Will Self-regulation  In the highest animals and in humans, the emotional experiences of joy and fear branch out into the six basic feeling signals which not only offer approach and avoid motivational guidance, but also the opportunity to comprehend the cognitive informational messages within the feeling tones themselves. As experiences are remembered and external situations become familiar, the feeling of fear speaks of external threats, the feeling of anger speaks of potential obstacles to need-meeting opportunities, the feeling of sadness speaks of losses that must be replaced, and the feeling of disgust speaks of unwholesome foodstuffs that should be expelled and avoided in the future. The motivational urges still operate upon approach and avoid impulses, but the joyous feelings associated with growth also prompt a good deal of purposeful creative innovation.  With greater emotional development comes the complexity of choices which can often lead to levels of anxiety that get beyond our control. What passes for simple self-concern can become a state of obsession/compulsion and, eventually, neurosis/psychosis. If we can practice sufficient detachment from ourselves occasionally, we can spot these trends and make the necessary course corrections. We can also rely on those who love us to make these observations and suggestions.  As humans pursue that which brings them joy, they begin to learn more and more about their innate needs for freedom, power, connection, esteem, creativity, and meaning. Conquering the spiritual challenges fully opens the chakra centers and allows full conscious experience and fosters excellent mental and physical health. It is through the successes of their creative adaptations that all human culture arises, and mass consciousness takes a place in the creative formation of the life experience. It is at this point when right and light responses can replace the cruder fight/flight, and approach/avoidance responses that served only self-preservation purposes.  There comes a point of morphic resonance when the human race turns from its less evolved practices associated with such emotions as fear and anger and begins to relate to each other in ways that promise greater joy and fulfillment. Each of us contributes to the achievement of that "point" with our personal commitment to that end.  With full manual control over one's actions, the emotional guidance becomes even more important than ever. Because if the self is not attuned to all the available information within the motivational and experiential aspects of human feelings, the mind can create all sorts of slivers that will promote thoughts which electrically stimulate chemical messages which operate oppositionally upon the inner selves (the cells, tissues, and organs.) This is how the mind and emotional baggage can create all breakdowns and disease processes within the human self system.  Now we have an explanation of the direction relationship between a state of mind and the state of dis-ease in our physical and mental bodies. It is not the complexity and stress of our societies that cause our states of illness, but how we react to that stress and what steps we believe we can take to remove ourselves to an environment where we can exercise our creative nature and experience the joy we should feel we are entitled to as participants in the All That Is.  It is also only in the highest life forms that an experience of time (past, present, and future), and a cause and affect relationship can be drawn between actions and changes they create---for their commission, their role in the entirety is to create meaningful change instead of maintaining the status quo. Non-physical entities (the higher gestalts which direct their human personality manifestations) do so from beyond space-time allowing for an overall perspective that enfolds all human "incarnations" at once and indeed, many alternate forms assumed simultaneously. The manifestations of creative change in all sentient organisms come from the impetus of the entity and bear the distinct mark of conscious, purposeful intention and of course are communicated through spiritual feeling signals.  It is the establishment of contact between ourselves and our "higher" selves that can and should be the goal of our existence on this earthly plane. There are a variety of methods to establishing and maintaining this state, but the first step must be desire and the second, intent. Creative opportunities will follow.  The choice to embody a specific life form is open and available to all gestalts of consciousness, and indeed many who think of themselves as isolated identities have far more roles than they can possibly be aware of, different focuses of the gestalts of which they comprise. But then this is part of the fun for All That Is to be able to experience so many unique aspects of itself. Simply knowing of these types of consciousness games can tremendously enhance the meaning of a single individual. The knowledge of one's role in greater challenges and games is communicated during the dream sojourns and awareness of this fact can tremendously enhance the guidance.  Think of oneself as an "us" and not just a "me", and consider the possibility that the experiences that each "me" of the "us" has can be shared during a non-active portion of our daily lives. This would occur at that point when we put our intense focus (active consciousness) aside and open ourselves to a vast array of information that can enhance our individual lives in a plethora of ways.  Indeed, it is through dream sojourns that entities interact directly with personalities, as the ego gate is closed for direct interactions and exchanges occur with the higher gestalts of self within the quantum field. It is in the dream state when collective missions get carried out on psychic levels that facilitate the optimal evolution of the species. For humanity has been collectively creating the evolutionary course of its species---and with some pleasurable successes and with some very painful limitations.  Here is a field of opportunity which has barely been tapped for the rich source of wisdom it is capable of providing. If appreciated for its full potential, much of the "pain"mentioned could be replaced by a greater sense of joy.  The Emotional Evolutionary Destiny of Humanity  The trust for expansion and value fulfillment of All That Is can be likened to a force that desires the fastest straightest course for each of its living vessels or "ships". But since life is not all autopilot, that creative free will and imagination can define and influence the life course, the fastest most direct course is that which is mindfully imagined and purposefully created, but under the full guidance of the spiritual compass. This means that there will always be varying degrees of value fulfillment, courses that are more or less meandering and indirect, and with potentially less than complete value fulfilling journeys. This fact is built into the physical system and its reincarnational nature so that necessary ignorance can be accommodated as the species evolves its consciousness. Indeed, human ships can turn in continuously misguided circles, repeating the same mistakes again and again until the patterns of self-created pain are too powerful to ignore. Such is the tradeoff for the gift of free will.  On the surface, this may appear to be a callous system which is not concerned about the level of suffering which might result from repeated errors in judgment. However, the alternative to such consequence would be to remove the "free will" quality from the human creature and surrender control of all activities to a "Higher Power". While this might result in a more consistent state of contentment, it would also result in a total absence of the development of the divine quality of creative will. It would further result in limiting the benefits of varied experiences enjoyed by the All That Is.  But it is always true that positive feelings will mark the most direct pathway and negative pain will steer the vessels away from misguided courses. With the strategies of attuning to and acknowledging each feeling signal, immediate progress and recovery from past slowdowns is possible. The key is in the acceptance of as much incoming information as possible, the broadening of consciousness, that begins with letting in the feeling signals themselves. When the individual human ego consciousness attains divine acceptance, formerly painful situations will then be experienced as neutral and the mindscape will be built into the evolutionarily desirable perspectives that will promote positive feelings in all situations.  It is beyond the time when we should put aside the misbelief that the more suffering one endures the greater one's reward in heaven. This distraction has led many to states of unhappiness that were better avoided. The path to enlightenment can and should be a joyous one.Anything less is misdirected and should be brought to a halt as soon as possible.  Indeed, the evolutionary path is away from pain and toward the highest pleasures, and ultimately to the feeling experiences of universal oneness with All That Is. The beating stick of pain is merely a crude form of spiritual guidance, and when the static is removed from the clouded consciousness, all inner channels to broader bandwidths of information can become consciously available through direct intuitive insight. The mind will become consciously aware of how information is received directly, electrically, through the very action of each breath. Humans will then breath in insights as easily as the air. This is the transcendent destiny of humanity, that will come as consciousness expands at the direction of the emotional messages of spirit.  This is the direction and means that humankind was meant to travel as a natural process in the continual acquisition of enlightenment. We are but ships traveling toward a home port and, in the process, bringing with us the tails and lessons learned on our various adventures. Unlike those who read about the experiences of others, we are in this physical environment to create our own ships and do our own sailing, which is what being in the physical is all about.  On an individual level, development progresses in designing the optimal mindscape through the spiritual challenges which can be chartered by the feelings that occur in the present. Humans can use the evolving course of feelings to examine and refine thought processes and to reframe perceptions within higher feeling states in order to heighten their individual progress. The chart on the next page offers a general pattern of the human spectrum of feeling and a picture of how the expansion of consciousness toward universal oneness is experienced along the way. It can be used to assist individual examinations of the life course. It can be used to determine how close one might be to acceptance, and to offer insights into how to find alternative beliefs that can immediately replace slivers with gems. Such activity will, of course, rapidly increase the progress upon the destiny path, and the more individual efforts, the faster the species mass consciousness can evolve its own value potentials. With these dynamic patterns in mind, we can now turn to the evolutionary patterns within the human species that have carved out human history.  Each building block of spiritual information can play a role in accelerating the process of development. We need only open ourselves with the intent of gaining that which is given.  Evolutionary Path Of Evolving Consciousness and Feeling Experience  - - - - + + + + + + Fear => Anxiety => Growing Pain => Acceptance => Learning Anticipation => Confidence => Excitement ð Courage => Faith => Universal Oneness  Anger => Frustration => Annoyance => Tolerance => Acceptance => Patience => Curiosity => Mirth => Compassion => Universal Oneness  Sadness => Loneliness => Acceptance => Liberation => Attachment => Trust => Hope => Love => Universal Oneness  Disgust => Annoyance => Tolerance => Acceptance => Curiosity => Camaraderie => Attachment => Friendship => Compassion => Grace => Universal Oneness  Envy/Guilt => Anxiety => Frustration => Acceptance => Confidence => Compassion => Grace => Universal Oneness  Attachment =>Trust =>Hope =>Love =>Compassion =>Faith =>Universal Oneness  Worthiness => Confidence => Pride => Gratitude => Devotion => Universal Oneness  * * * * * * * * *  Watch your thoughts - they become your words  Watch your words - they become your actions  Watch your actions - they become your habits  Watch your habits - they become your character  Watch your character - it becomes your destiny\  We create our spiritual destiny with our repeated thoughts and most of those thoughts are implanted in our minds by others who suffer long-standing mental mis-presumptions which are seldom, if ever, examined. These Lessons are an invitation to indulge in that examination. Rejection of it will only add a level of delay and pain that is clearly not necessary.  Table of Contents