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In some cases we have students who do what we call “ride the energy.” What they do is, they come in, pick up some energy, ride that energy till they see the teacher next time, and they don’t develop power themselves. This is a very dangerous practice -- because power is a weird thing. I didn’t invent it, just as I didn’t invent the atomic structure; it’s just there.

Let’s say a person is your average angry, hateful, spiteful, feel-sorry-for-themselves type individual. That’s what most human beings are like. You know, “the world owes me a living,” and all that kind of stuff. If you empower a person like that and you just keep doing it and they don’t do yoga, they don’t do Buddhist practice, they don’t do occult practice, meaning they don’t spend a number of hours a day meditating and all of the time monitoring their thoughts, eliminating negative thoughts, only having positive thoughts, reading books, focusing on things that are extremely positive -- if they don’t do that, then what will happen is their hate will become overwhelming. After a while, they will be nothing but hate, they’ll be nothing but desire, they’ll be nothing but frustration. In other words, you’ll create a monster.

So now Sally has power and with that power she can do what would be unthinkable for an average human being. She cannot hate anymore. Oh, the thoughts will come in. She’s also learning to be psychic; she’s meditating every day and she’s becoming sensitive, and she could pick up the thoughts, angers and frustrations of the world more readily than before. But if she’s been paying attention to the lessons that she gets on a regular basis from me, then she will be able to distinguish her feelings from the psychic things she picks up either in dreaming or in waking, eliminate them by meditating twice a day and by monitoring her mind all the time. With this boost I give her, she will be able to purify her emotions. And in doing that, of course, she will eliminate the negative aura from her body and her mind and her spirit and become a being of light, become a being of radiant happiness.

Power by itself without direction makes everything worse. On the other hand, power with direction makes everything fantastically better. So a teacher really spends most of his time admonishing his students to employ the methods of occultism. Not because they have some philosophical idea about, “Gee, let’s be nice,” or because they’re smart. They know what happens if you don’t use the power. If you don’t use the power properly, it reverses; it goes retrograde. It pulls you down. A person may say, “Well gosh, I don’t use this power negatively. I just don’t do much at all. I just sort of continue to be my usual human self.” Uhuh. If there’s a rape taking place and you just stand and watch and you don’t try and stop the person, you’re culpable also. You get locked up, or you should be.

But the empowerment gives you an edge. The empowerment enables you to control your emotions. So if Sally’s a new student and Sally’s your typical angry, frustrated, confused, “I want this” -- she doesn’t know what she wants -- you know, average human being. Her mind is guacamole. Every two minutes a new idea, a new desire. That’s how people start. So I say, “Now, Sally, I’m going to give you power. OK. Let’s meditate together.” We meditate, she sits in the room with me, I amp her up. “Now Sally, go be a better person.” In other words, no more hate, no more anger, no more jealousy -- when those thoughts come in your mind, push them out.

In other words, occultists don’t do things because of desire. I might have a desire to do something, but I won’t do it because desire means nothing to me. Everything an occultist does, if they’re more advanced, comes from the world of seeing. We can stop our thoughts and stop our desires and see past them and see what is appropriate, what will lead to more power, more enlightenment. We only view things that empower us and enlighten us and we avoid things that drain our power and bring us into lower sentient mind states of confusion, delusion, hate, anger, psychosis, neurosis, whatever it might be.

So you’re getting more power, and then at a certain point when you should have some level of self-control and understanding, and if you’ve survived the first year of your apprenticeship, you’re given a task. The task gives you a lot more power. A lot -- because it comes from not the human world, but the world of seeing. As you perform the task it interfaces you with other dimensional realities. The task obviously is always something that’s either beneficial to the apprentice or to the world at large or to other apprentices, or whatever it is. We only do things that assist others because that’s the only way we see life. We’re not mean, angry, petty people. We get all of that out of ourselves. We live in higher auric states where we only see beauty, light and perfection and we have no negative intent towards any organism. We remove that from ourselves. We also remove the self, the ego.

A person who doesn’t monitor themselves properly as they continue to meditate and gain more power and particularly once they’ve started doing the tasks of occultism, which gives them even more power, such a person is headed to disaster. Because as more and more power flows into you, if you’re not using that power as you should be to continually refine yourself to even higher levels, sooner or later something’s going to happen.

So a teacher transfers power to enable an apprentice to go through their apprenticeship more rapidly. But in the West, we seem to see, I’ve observed, that people take a lot of things for granted; they don’t understand this. In the East, occultism has been practiced for a long time and it’s more popularly understood. More people understand it. It’s considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive. Now, bad karma is not a moral, ethical idea. In other words, in the world of power, we’re not philosophical. You may believe in God, you may not; you may believe that a good person does such and such, a bad person does such and such. I don’t know about all that, that’s human philosophy. Maybe it’s true; maybe it’s just somebody’s idea that they like or they’re laying on other people. Occultists are scientists. We deal with cause and effect.

But still, there comes a time when you must be culpable as an apprentice. There comes a point where you have to bear the responsibility for your actions and your thoughts, and the teacher will not step between you and your karma. Meaning, whatever you’re drawing to yourself, finally, you have to experience. Because if you still are screwing around, if you’re still not doing your homework, in spite of everything the teacher has said, and they’ve absorbed all kinds of disasters for you time after time; if you still continue to not do the right thing, obviously this could go on perpetually and you’re not getting your hand burned, so why should you be motivated to straighten anything out? So what the teacher finally does is step out of the way. And they say, “OK, sucker, I’ve pulled the karma for you. I’ve taken this bad energy in my body, you know, it hasn’t been much fun, but I’ve done it because that’s what we do for each other.” The same way a parent changes the diapers and does a lot of things for kids that may not be fun, but that’s what we do as a race -- we help each other out, if we’re at all intelligent, as a species, in order to survive, we do that. It’s just a life process.

It is most important that you understand that there are tremendous repercussions for using power improperly. And you could say, “Well, I don’t use it improperly.” Well, to not use it properly is to use it improperly. It’s not like money that you can just leave in the bank. Maybe you’re not buying guns to shoot people. Good for you. But in this case, if you don’t use it, if you don’t use the power to improve your occult practices, it will intensify what’s already there, which is obviously going to be more negative than positive. This is not the intention of the occult teacher, and it should never happen. It only happens when you have an apprentice who doesn’t understand the repercussions. Now, the Far East people understand the repercussions.

So we’re getting near the solstice -- this is one of these multi-level Rama conversations -- and it’s a very powerful time. It’s a very good time for you to examine your life and ask yourself what you’re doing as an occultist. What are you doing? And you should ask yourself this question every time you get near a solstice or an equinox -- every day. But particularly four times a year you really need to go through yourself and really look -- with a cold eye, with no condemnation, no guilt, just you want to know what’s what.

In the West, my experience has been that people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters. They don’t understand the multi-life sequences; they don’t understand anything. And anything that they can’t see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense. But I’ll be interested to see how they do when they die, these great empiricists. We’ll see what all this great empirical stuff is worth at the moment of death, you see?

You don’t understand the repercussions because in the West they don’t believe in reincarnation. They don’t believe in energy. This is the consumer mentality. “I’m just going to grab what I want and screw everybody else.” You may be able to do that with things that don’t have a lot of power to them, but in the world of occultism, you can’t bring that mentality in. You have to bring a very severe respect for the power of the occult. If you don’t, if you don’t have the respect, obviously, then you will not pay attention to it. If you don’t know what it can do either way, it will still affect you. The effect of the occult energy doesn’t depend on your awareness. You may not know that there’s an area where they had a nuclear test that’s radioactive, but if you walk through it, you’re going to die. Your awareness is not necessary. Your lack of awareness is what kills you.

An occult teacher will, for some time with apprentices, come between them and their own foolishness because that’s part of learning. But there comes a point where, if you want to keep putting your hand in the fire, sooner or later somebody is going to stop grabbing your hand out because they see that that’s not teaching you anything, and I guess you’ve got to get burned.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That’s done in steps and degrees and not in one day -- gradually, with a great deal of common sense, a lot of hard work, a happy sense. A wonderful sense of humor is necessary. It’s a very complicated study, the study of enlightenment, the study of power, the study of perfection.

So we’re approaching a solstice, and a solstice is a time when you can hook yourself to something. That’s what an apprentice does with a teacher. The teacher is a continual solstice. You hook yourself to the teacher -- not as something that is always going to be there. It’s not -- I drive my car and every time I need gas I go to the gas station and it’ll always be that way, since my car is never going to produce gas. But in occultism, what you’re learning to do is develop energy for yourself. And you have to go through a period of time where you have a teacher who transfers power to you in a massive way. But the purpose of that is to enable you to develop your own power and then, if you do what the teacher suggests, you will learn, over a period of years, to develop your own power. As time goes on the teacher will still continue to transfer power, but the power will take you higher and higher because you have more of your own, if you’re developing power yourself.

When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

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But if they’re apprentices, if it’s not just a public meditation, I’m also -- because I want them to advance -- pulling all their energies through my body. So then it’s necessary for me to go -- normally I spend a great deal of time alone after that. I go off into the mountains or to a power place and I cleanse myself. I do a lot of physical exercise, which helps purify the body. I do a lot of meditation. It’s a lot of work! No, I mean seriously, it’s a tremendous amount of work, which obviously one would not have to do if one were just meditating for oneself

But when you have apprentices, when you have people you work with on a regular basis, part of what you have to do is escalate their development very rapidly, and the way that is done is not only by transferring something to them, but you also absorb a certain amount of the negative elements in their psyche and it goes into your body, and then it’s necessary to burn that off. And if you have a lot of students, of course, and if your students are not doing their homework and if they’re just hanging out in low states of mind continuously, it’s extremely toxic. It can make a teacher very sick -- a lot of teachers die quite young, for that reason. But the same is true of every individual.

Somebody’s thinking about eating; you’ve just eaten. You pick up those desires and suddenly you have to go eat because it seems like it’s coming from you. Somebody has very strong sexual desires. And if you’re around somebody and you’re highly sensitized, suddenly their desires become your desires and suddenly you may find yourself having sex with someone who you really didn’t want to have sex with. They weren’t even your own desires. Naturally, it’ll be a deleterious experience because it’s something that your own being did not want. But you find yourself doing things because you have not developed your mind to an extent to filter out and recognize and eliminate the psychic pickup, the desires and thoughts and feelings of others -- you follow?

But at the same time, you have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they’ll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types. If you don’t have a very strong mind -- if you’ve developed the sensitivity side of your being but not the mental strength -- then when you just walk down the street, all the thoughts of all those people will flood your mind, their desires and their ideas, and there may be some people with some very strange thoughts and ideas and desires. If you can’t separate those out and sift those out and recognize them as being other than your own and push them aside, then they will overpower you.

In other words, when I go into New York City -- hey, I’m completely clairvoyant. I’ve eliminated all traces of self through countless lifetimes of purification. When I go into New York City, if I were not careful -- if there are seven million people there, I am so psychic that I could be thinking and feeling all seven million minds. Simultaneously. So when I’m in New York City, I stay completely focused on certain things that shield me from picking all of that up. The same is true at home. You know someone who is unhappy, someone who’s depressed. Now if I think of that person for a few seconds, my mind will enter their mind and I will pick up everything that’s in them and it’ll make me very depressed. Suddenly I’ll be filled with their thoughts, even if I was happy and radiant and feeling great. And if you pick up enough of that, it begins to affect your physical body. It makes you very ill because these are plasma energies that are very, very strong. You may not be able to see them, but it’s like radiation. You can’t see radiation but if you were exposed to too many rads, you’ll die. We’re dealing with inner radiances. And just as there are radiances that are harmful, there are radiances that are extremely helpful. When I meditate, I generate a tremendous field of energy. I’ve spent lifetimes in monasteries refining my ability to push a lot of kundalini, a lot of high gradient, radiant light through me, and anyone who is around me when I do that, picks it up. It’s like a transfer. They pick up a lot of energy and power, and the more sensitized they are, the more they have developed their ability to focus, the more they pick up.

If you have an apprenticeship with an occult teacher, the teacher will then teach you how to become sensitive. But the teacher will also have to teach you how to guard that sensitivity. And so we spend a lot of time developing things that are extremely beneficial to focus our minds on, because once we’ve developed the sensitivity, if we don’t have those things that are very positive to always put our mind into, our mind naturally is going to pick up the toxic residues that are around from humanity and it’ll make us very ill, or it’ll drive us absolutely nuts. In other words, when I go into

Today it’s necessary to become much more sensitive than a hundred years ago, let alone several thousand. But also because the toxic residue of humanity is so much stronger, you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you become so psychic. In other words, if you don’t guard that psychic sensitivity, you can pick up so many pollutants that you’ll become more toxic than before, if you see what I’m saying.

So occultists depend upon, for their very existence as occultists, the internal powers and energies of the universe. We train ourselves; we go through a long training process and purification process, whereby we become highly sensitized. Then we have to guard that sensitivity because once you’re sensitized, you can also pick up a lot of junk. In other words, we have to become so much more sensitive now because the earth is so polluted, but that pollution poses a tremendous danger to someone who’s sensitive. It’s always been that way. An occultist, in other words -- once as an occultist you sensitize yourself, you now have to guard the sensitivity. Sensitivity is a two-way street like everything, and the sensitivity will enable you to do amazing things but it can also be incredibly painful if you don’t guard it properly.

In the time of ancient Egypt, it was a lot easier to feel these things. You could feel the solstice coming much more strongly. Now, you have to be very, very sensitized. The power is there, it’s just as strong, but there’s so much interference, there’s so much gray sludge from the overcrowded earth that it interferes with your ability. An occultist today has to train themselves to a much higher degree than an occultist did even a hundred years ago.

Occultism is really a science whereby we are able to accomplish incredible things, things that other people can’t imagine, because we’re dealing with forces and powers that they’re not aware of -- we train our bodies and our minds and our spirits to be aware of these powers. We do this by continually cleansing ourselves. We purify ourselves endlessly so that we become empty, so that we’re not filled with ego, we’re not filled with vanity, we’re not filled with a lot of stupid desires. And we do this by meditating, leading very deliberate lives. By doing that, we become pure enough to be conscious of these forces and powers. And it’s much more difficult now to do this than it used to be because the population is so great. There’s so much human aura on this particular planet with 5.3 billion people that it’s very hard to feel these things. Human aura is just like a kind of gray smog that covers over things.

So around the middle, you shift. In other words, it’s as if we launch a spacecraft and we’re trying to get from one planet to another -- we aim it at the gravitational pull of a planet. Even though we’re not going to stop at that planet, we pick up its gravitational pull and it will accelerate the spacecraft. Then when we get close to that planet, instead of smashing into it, we fire our rockets, bounce around it, escape its gravitational field and push past it. Then a little bit further along, we’ll pick up another planet, we’ll let it pull us along. See what I mean? Except that in the case of a solstice or during the equinox, it doesn’t trap you. It pulls you to it and then it pushes you away. So let’s say the summer solstice is coming, which it is, you can let the summer solstice pull you to it. But then once we hit the 21st of June, it will start to push you. Then you can use its energy to push off. There’s an energy that you can then use from that solstice, now that we’re into July. You can continue to gain a power from it, but now, instead of pulling you it’ll push you, if you use it properly. And it’ll push you till about halfway. Halfway to the equinox. Then around that time, you’ll pick up the line of the equinox and the equinox will pull you until you reach it, and then it’ll push you, if you know how to use it, until about halfway, in which case you’ll pick up the line, then you’ll let go of the line to the equinox and you’ll pick up the line of the solstice. See?

But then about a month out, you start to pick up the radiance of the coming solstice, which is two months down the road. And then, of course, about halfway through that next month you’re right in between, which is a midpoint. There’s a secondary power spot, there are four more, that are directly between the solstices and the equinoxes, and there’s where you get involved with retrograde energies. There’s an in-between power when you’re directly between a solstice and an equinox; there’s a power there that’s even harder to talk about. You have to be more advanced to use that power.

The day of the solstice is just totality. It’s a very interesting and powerful time of course, but as you get closer to it, if you just think of it as a four-point ratio -- we’ve gone through an equinox and you’ve hit the totality of the equinox on the 21st of March or September, but then you will stay in the field of the equinox for about another month as you leave it; you’re still really in it. We define it as a singular day but it isn’t just a day, it’s a time period.