UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
JOY AND ECSTASY (Calibration Level 540-599)
Introduction
As Love becomes increasingly unconditional, it begins to be experienced as inner Joy. This is not the sudden joy of a pleasurable turn of events but instead is a constant accompaniment to all activities. Joy arises from within each moment of existence rather than from any outer source. Level 540 is also the level of healing and of spiritually based self-help groups.
From level 540 upward is the domain of saints, spiritual healers, and advanced spiritual students. Characteristic of this energy field is a capacity for enormous patience and the persistence of a positive attitude in the face of prolonged adversity. The hallmark of this state is compassion. People who have attained this level have a notable effect on others. They are capable of a prolonged, open visual gaze that induces a state of love and peace.
At the high 500’s, the world one sees is illuminated by the exquisite beauty and perfection of creation. Everything happens effortlessly by synchronicity, and one sees the world and everything in it to be an expression of Love and Divinity. Individual will merges into Divine will. One feels the power of the Presence that facilitates phenomena outside conventional expectations of reality, termed ‘miraculous’ by the ordinary observer. These phenomena represent the power of the energy field, not of the individual.
One’s sense of responsibility for others at this level is of a quality different from that shown at the lower levels. There is a desire to use one’s state of consciousness for the benefit of life itself rather than for particular individuals. This capacity to love many people simultaneously is accompanied by the discovery that the more one loves, the more one can love. Near-death experiences, characteristically transformative in their effect, frequently have allowed people to experience the energy level between 540 and 600.
Discussion
Unconditional Love is the goal of the majority of spiritually committed people and especially of serious spiritual devotees and aspirants. It is also the ideal of Christianity as well as other religions. In the world’s overall population, level 540 is reached by 0.4 percent of the populace. However, Unconditional Love is a practical and reachable goal and not just an idealized, wishful condition for those who seriously choose it as an inspirational, devotional goal.
The consciousness calibration level is indicative of a stage along the scale of the evolution of consciousness that reflects not only the progress made in this lifetime but also the consequence of prior karma. From an overall spiritual viewpoint, this earthly life could be viewed as a transitory staging area that offers maximum karmic advantages, as noted by the Buddha.
The occurrence of advanced states is also facilitated by closely following the teachings of a very advanced primary teacher or alignment with a great Avatar (Jesus).
The serious spiritual student is also benefited by seeking literature and teachings of verifiably high calibrations and avoiding questionable diversions from the path, which are innately merely amusements of astral origin. It is also well to avoid fanciful spiritual claims that are actually fiction, and, despite their popularity, calibrate below 200.
The goal of Unconditional Love is reachable by very simple means, but to bring about results, they have to be lived continually on a daily basis. Unconditional Love is a condition and quality of being with oneself in the world that arises and emerges by virtue of serious commitment to the spiritual principles of willingness to surrender obstacles and all limitations or positionalities and their (often unconscious) pay-offs. By this level, those that are obvious have already been recognized (to be ‘right’, to gain, to win, to be admired, etc.). In place of these obvious limitations, more subtle ones appear, such as the mind’s presumption of “I know,” or “I know all that.” To know about a thing is not the same as to ‘be’ it.
The advantage of experience with mature, genuine spiritual groups or companions is the value of examples, insights and information that is shared, and the inspiration that occurs by cross-fertilization. Rather high levels of consciousness are also exhibited by organizations that are not spiritually committed in a formal manner but act on the level of unconditional mercy, such as Doctors Without Borders (cal. 500) who minister without reference to which side of the conflict a soldier may have been on.
Ego Dynamics of Unconditional Love
By alignment with Love as a primary goal, along with spiritual dedication, the evolution of consciousness is supported and facilitated by an infusion of the powerful spiritual energy that emanates from the Self. The influx of this unique energy starts at calibration level 200 and progressively increases. Its observable effect is the change in brain physiology (as per the Brain Function chart) from dominance of the animalistic left brain to the benign, spiritually oriented right brain.
Acceleration of spiritual energy is facilitated by the relinquishment of narcissistic, egoistic self-interests, such as the seeking of personal gain. The energy is facilitated by the intention and alignment of humility, mercy, compassion, and dedication to the relief of suffering of others in the forms of benevolence, mercy, and kindness.
The spiritual energy catalyzes the transformation of linear positional perception to the greater context of the nonlinear inclusiveness that transcends the limitations of time, space, sequence, or the limitation of the perception and belief in the operant principle of cause and effect. Thus, the revelations that ensue are aptly described as ‘miraculous’ and transformational.
The source of joy stems from the inner subjective experience of the innate source of one’s existence itself, unimpeded by the limitation of presuming the personal self to be a causal or primary agent. By humility and surrender, the imaginary control is relinquished to God and Divine Will. This frequently results in what the world denotes as saintly (cal. 555) and selfless attitudes and behaviors.
As consciousness continues to advance, the innate perfection and stunning beauty of all that exists shine forth like a luminous radiance. All of life becomes more beautiful as innate illumination reveals the Divinity of the Creator. The subjective experience of the flow of the spiritual energy is felt as an exquisite sweetness. It feels as though it flows up the back and into the brain itself, as well as flowing out through the heart region, where it may spontaneously flow externally and even for some distance to influence external events. The energy also influences the subjective state of others who are enveloped by the field, which has an uplifting effect (the traditional Grace of the Teacher).
Spiritual energy (‘kundalini’) potentiates the transformation from perception to vision, and from the limited linear to the unlimited nonlinear nature of existence. This is an expression of the basic reality that all comes into existence by virtue of potentiality’s becoming actuality when conditions (including karma) are favorable. This confirmation is also facilitated by intention and spiritual alignment. Thus, no ‘person’ performs miracles; they are the impersonal consequence of the spiritual energy field itself that acts like a catalyst, as does the energy radiating from the auras of advanced teachers that catalyzes the spiritual intentions of the spiritual student.
While functioning in the world efficiently is still possible, the high 500s may require leaving the ordinary world of endeavor and commerce and abandoning one’s social world and prior occupation. By persistent spiritual alignment and practice, the spiritual energy may continue to flow and increase to the level of Ecstasy (cal. 575), which becomes incapacitating to ordinary worldly function and thereby requires retreat from the customary world of endeavor. It is best to be prepared for the fact that the world has little or no understanding of such a state or the actual necessity for such a transition that others may even resent or find unsettling.
Unlike the calm tranquility that returns again at level 600, subjectively, the state of Ecstasy is one of very high energy and tireless capacity. The beauty of Creation is radiantly exquisite, and the innate Divinity and perfection of all Creation shine forth with a brilliant and overwhelming intensity. Its power is subjectively experienced, and thus the energy and strength of motor performance becomes inexhaustible. No tiredness occurs, nor does one have to stop to eat or even perform basic physiological functions. Instead, for instance, one can dance nonstop for endless hours without food, rest, or respite. Without consciousness calibration, the world would not know whether the state is pathological or one of ‘Divine Intoxication’.
Although the state of ecstasy is recognized in spiritually-advanced communities and the subjective energy, which is the concomitance of devotion (cal. 555). Persistent devotion to spiritual truth and love allows for the dissolution of resistances. Transcendence requires the relinquishment of all attachments, even those characterized by self and society as ‘responsibilities’. Thus, relationships, positions, titles, and social roles are eventually abandoned to the commitment to realize the Self or reach the state of Enlightenment. The reluctant devotee who holds back clings to doubt and asks naively, But what about? The solution is to surrender all the ‘but what about’s’ to God and Divine Providence.
A major transition also necessitates responsibility to others by making necessary and realistic adjustments and helping others to accept the required changes. This transition may therefore take considerable courage and patience as well as conviction, for it brings up residual doubts, attachments, guilt, and the like.
The eventuality of a major leap in consciousness is seldom taken into consideration as a serious possibility, much less a likelihood, among most aspirants who, unless forewarned, may not have made anticipatory plans. Therefore, serious students should be informed and also have spiritual alliances or relationships that are capable of recognizing advanced states of consciousness. The inner state is progressively dominant as self-diminishes by the eclipse of the Self. The consequent changes, both inner and outer, turn out to be more major than anticipated.
The emergence of progressively higher levels of consciousness requires periods of adjustment, such as that required by a new pair of glasses, and thus, worldly function may be impaired periodically due to shifts of orientation. In this reorientation, phenomena are discovered to be happening spontaneously of their own rather than via the usual presumed premise and perception of cause and effect. Pleasure is no longer something one acquires but is innate consequent to the power of the field rather than via some agency or personal decision.
It is also progressively discovered that there is actually no ‘doer’ of actions, and one witnesses the autonomous unfoldment of karmic potentiality from a new paradigm of reality that is beyond the presumptive dualistic principle of causation. Thus, life becomes an endless series of revelations of intrinsic charm and delight that initially seem amazing. Then comes the realization that what appears to be miraculous is merely the constant unfolding of the potentiality of the evolution of Creation by which the subjective experience of time dissolves and is replaced by the knowingness of all Is-ness. Likewise, the perception of ‘change’ is replaced by the progressive emergence of the ongoingness of Creation as becoming the fulfillment of potentiality’s actualizing into manifestation.
With neither past nor future, likewise, there is no ‘now’, and it is comprehended that the past, present, or future are all illusory contextualizations consequent to the limitation of a paradigm. With the surrendering of all belief systems and positionalities, the unfoldment of Creation is self-revealing. The unfolding process may bring up presentations, uncertainties, or transitory doubt that have to be surrendered to faith and devotion as there is very rarely a really advanced spiritual teacher available for consultation. At these points, the Knowingness inherent as a vibratory frequency within the field of consciousness itself unfolds and reveals the reality of the emerging paradigm. By virtue of the Radiance of the Self, the revealing effulgence’s are silent. The world then becomes a revelation of Essence rather than an appearance.
The self-revelation becomes progressively recognized and identified by Knowingness as Divinity. The major shift of paradigm cannot be anticipated or even really imagined, and its onset is sometimes described cryptically as ‘God shock’. The consequence is profound awe by which the mind goes silent in the presence of Divinity and disappears at level 600. Henceforth, all is merely as it is as a continuous unfoldment that reveals itself as neither beginnings nor endings nor divisions such as ‘then’, ‘now’, or the ‘future’. Realization no longer occurs as a consequence of mentalization, thought, or by the agents of a personal self because it no longer exists.
Adherence to basic spiritual principles is requisite to major transformation, and of these, faith, devotion, and surrender are its primary modalities. It merely requires the surrendering of any and all belief systems and the understanding that all fear is illusion due merely to clinging to a positionality and its perceptions, including one’s adherence and faith in the familiar, customary paradigm of ‘reality’. Nothing is actually the way the ego has perceived it for the linear dimension is merely presumptive, and the nonlinear Absolute is a very different paradigm that operates on totally different principles that are self-revealing rather than sequential understandings or comprehension.
In Reality, ‘existence’ is its meaning and identical with it. There is no subject, predicate, or verb, and the understanding is beyond languaging. As can be best stated, the ‘meaning’ of a thing is what it ‘is’. Identity is its meaning. It becomes apparent that all delineation and definition are dualistic abstractions and mentation’s that circuitously reify their original definition. Truth is autonomously self-evident by virtue of its existence as Allness. Without the artifact of the dualistic separation of presumed subject and object, the all-encompassing Oneness of Existence is its own definition and meaning. Thus, a cat ‘knows’ it is a cat by virtue of being a cat and therefore is not dualistically separated from its own reality. The knower and the known are one and the same identity.
The transcendence of spiritual ecstasy and joy depends on the willingness to surrender all to God, no matter what, including even the exquisite state of ecstasy, which is of a dimension beyond description. The state itself is now a temptation and can delay the evolution to the state of Enlightenment. At first, there is a reluctance and dismay to surrendering such a glorious condition to God, and yet, there arises a knowingness that even this wonderment, too, must be released.
The anguish and hesitancy of having to take the step reveals that an attachment to the condition and its wonderment has already unwittingly taken place. Then, because of commitment and intention, there is conviction that yes, this, too, must be surrendered “to Thee, O Lord,” and with its surrender, an infinite Peace prevails that is beyond all understanding or description at level 600.The condition reveals itself to be the actuality of the Peace of God.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness