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Monthly Lesson for February 2012
Master Djwhal Khul
January 31, 2012
Beloved Students:
I greet you this month as the reality begins to sink in that 2012 is here and is already making tracks. Those of you in the U.S. are experiencing the barrage of another election season. Our friends in Canada, the U.K. and the E.U. are somewhat fascinated with the U.S. process, if not completely incredulous at the whole matter. This would be a good time for me to ask you, “What are you learning?”
As you put the flow of 2011 behind you, searching for the salient points that may be taking form for 2012, it should be fairly obvious for most of you that the energetic backdrop for 2012 is quite different than was that of 2011. While such is not particularly unusual, perhaps your ability to pay attention to it will reach unusually new heights in the coming months.
Those of you who attended the Denver lecture on 1/29/12 will recall my laying out the challenges of 2012. Clearly, the challenges of which I spoke are not just now arising as you enter 2012. Indeed, these challenges have been escalating for the past several decades. However, the fact you should not miss is that 2012 and 2013 will serve as a locus of critical mass for the planetary issues to which much of the world’s population has not yet awakened.
We looked at the present state of clean water on the planet, noting that tragically, it is a rapidly diminishing resource. Clearly, if future generations are to have access to clean water, changes must be set in place now. While most of you have surely heard that clean water sources are grievously threatened today, most of you still try not to think about what the future may be like. In case you are interested in taking a deeper look, simply google “A World without Water,” and watch this impressive video. It will likely surprise you and, hopefully, confront the part of you that may be willing to simply sit back and wait for someone else to solve this problem.
In our time together Sunday, we also looked at some of the problems with continuing to generate energy using coal. While the problems of generating energy from sustainable sources have not yet been solved, the coal-generated electrical energy of yesteryear is not only not sustainable, it produces toxic wastes which enter the atmosphere, fall back to earth, and in their wake, wreak havoc on human and animal nervous systems. Further, coal fueled energy production simply cannot meet the escalating global demands of the decades to come.
A clear and present threat to the water of the future lies in the continued practice of “fracking” in oil and gas exploration. The water used for this practice is high quality water, sometimes laced with over 200 toxic and carcinogenic chemicals. There is no known way to re-purify water intentionally contaminated in this manner. Thus ruined, it will never return to the normal water cycle of Earth. Instead, it is merely left in the ground, where it can leak out through porous rock or natural fissures and contaminate other underground reservoirs of pure water.
Taking on the industrial giants that destroy groundwater, or use more than is equitable or sustainable, as well as those buying rights to remaining reserves of pure water (to sell it at a profit) is a shared responsibility of all who enjoy the privilege of clean, basically free, water. Indeed, this is your call to social responsibility. If you enjoy clean water, if you want your children and grandchildren to have clean water, then you must take responsibility for averting a critical point of no return (which could occur in the next 50 or so years).
This work must be accomplished at the social level, involving commitment and collaboration among those who share the commitment. However, as you listen to the recorded lecture for this month (Ascension, Chapter 2), you will likely be struck by the irony of the presented material, particularly in light of the assignment I’m here offering. In that lecture, I weave a case for your not having a personal identity at all. I call you to ask yourself the big “what if” question. Indeed, what if all the ways in which you so adroitly identify yourself (and others) is simply an illusory projection created in your own mind? In that case, who (or what) could take on the corporate giants (and in some cases individuals) that (or who) persistently engage in activities that so compromise the future of life on Earth?
In some remarkably unobvious ways, how you define what you believe to be your “self,” or the identity you have designated to what you assume to be your “self,” draws creatively from how you see the Divine. While the overlay here is not a direct correspondence, still, you likely hold some deep-seated belief that you are a “self” in the same manner the Divine must be a “Self.” (If this sounds complicated, know that the process becomes even more so for those who believe they do not believe in God.)
As you approach the given material in Chapter 2, don’t make the matter any more confusing by thinking you should understand this teaching. As I suggested last month, just practice “trying on” the mental approaches offered in the lesson like you might a garment. The question to hold squarely before you is, “Can I learn to see in this way?” First, you must understand the manner in which you ordinarily see, or there will be no chance of grasping a different way of seeing.
Remember, the mind perceives and projects in a habituated way. Whether in identifying yourself or another person, the projections you use will be long-standing and very familiar to you. Cutting through the trappings of what your mind experiences as familiar can be quite a task in creative exploration. At first blush, it likely seems easy to accomplish. However, what you may find is that your mind has a tendency to simply trade one familiar projection for another, and this is not the same as “cutting through” your mind’s projections.
In truth, most people are not in the practice of questioning every conclusion that the mind draws in the course of a day, an hour, or even a single moment. The easier and least confrontive track is to simply accept whatever the mind perceives (and particularly, what it concludes) as “true,” possibly even “binding.” The mind does this without requiring either formal or empirical “proof” for its perceptions and conclusions. Now likely, that’s a pretty good setup for fostering and facilitating illusion, isn’t it?
As I noted for you last month, my job is to offer teachings and your job is to work those teachings very thoroughly. It turns out that in working the teachings, you are actually working your own mind, offering it an opportunity to stretch beyond the habituated scope of prior perceptions and conclusions. You do this in order to gain new comprehensions and greater mastery over that projecting mind.
There is a further benefit, as well. In your working the teachings, something is transferred into the collective field of awareness that you share with others who also experience in the configuration of your time-space. Like seeds of precious awareness, something is “planted,” and in due season, whatever is grown will offer some kind of harvest.
In truth, the spiritual plane and the physical plane are continually partnering. It turns out that you are the arms and legs of the spiritual plane. This is true even if you have not as yet fully understood the State of Being that comprises the spiritual plane. Such understanding can only result in a mystical, plane-to-plane union, which, it turns out, opens as one takes enlightenment and/or ascension.
I hope you will be both challenged and inspired by the recorded lesson I have prepared this month: Ascension: Chapter 2. Further, I hope you will listen to it over and over, thus con-founding the mind and placing it in the near vicinity of a leap in consciousness. Indeed, let yourself enter them fully.
Your loving Teacher,
Djwhal Khul
Sample Teaching
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