The Four Rays Preparation
(Spiritual Development Course)
This course
will take place on Sunday (Dates to be announced) from 9.30pm to 5.30pm
What are the FOUR RAYS?
They are simply 4 levels of understanding:
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· Time
· Giving
· Receiving
· Transformation
The Ray of Time:
It is probably easier for me to explain what the Ray of Time is not, than what it actually is!
When you think about Time you usually imagine a clock with hours, minutes, and seconds or perhaps days, months, years and centuries. The concept of a beginning, middle and end exists in within all aspects of our daily life and in the world in which we live. When a child dies at birth we mourn their passing as we see their life as a fleeting moment! When an older person of 105 passes we celebrate their life believing that it was full and therefore their death is sad but in a way inevitable!
When we think about time we cannot help thinking about decay and death. Is death really the opposite of LIFE? The truth is LIFE has no opposite! Life is just life! Life is a force in the universe, the creator of all.
I do not intend to go into the philosophical arguments about what happens when we die, all I want to say is the Ray of Time has nothing to do with death and dying.
So what is the Ray of Time? It is a state that can exist within a human being where the observer of his or her existence is experiencing all that exists within and all that exists without simultaneously, and with this experience comes oneness, a connection beyond thought and mind with everything that is and is not.
The Is-ness, could be described as the connective-ness or the thread that holds the fabric of the universe together. Imagine a world made from energy which if observed by a human being would look like a world of light. People and objects would appear as light, barely perceptible if not for the way they vibrate; the separation between the people and objects of this world are like different notes being played within a symphony, all separate but part of the same melody.
Why do you learn how to drive? Why don’t we ask the local butcher to perform brain surgery? The reasons are quite obvious! As with all of the FOUR RAYS a person needs to prepare themselves. The process requires time to learn and experience to master, and self mastery takes a lifetime and by its very nature is wonderful but never-ending process. No one ever reaches the destination because the more you learn the more there is to learn, the inner purpose of all life is ‘learn to learn’ and the process of mastery involves knowledge, experience and practice, but not necessarily in that order.
For a flower to show its beauty the earth needs to be prepared and the seeds sown at the right time. It is ironic to think that in order to experience an absence of time you need time to prepare! Like sowing the seeds for a flower to grow, the program that allows a person to experience these states takes a matter of hours to install, however preparing the groundwork takes much longer!
The Ray of Giving
The Ray of Giving is an experience of surrendering to, and the acceptance of, reality. Again this does not mean agreeing with WHAT is happening, just accepting that it IS happening. The MIND and internal dialogue can understand that the state of giving is preferable to the resistance of reality, but because human beings respond from a state of Self-ness we react to everything from a personal perspective without thought which often comes after the reaction.
Imagine if you turned on the TV news channel and saw a car wreck where it is obvious that people died. Now imagine that the car you saw on TV belonged to your best friend, child or other member of the family. How would you react? What would you do? More than likely you would call the police and try to find out what happened to the people involved. Suddenly there’s a second news flash identifying the victims of the crash and you realise that this wasn’t your family but someone else’s. Your feelings would all change in a split second and you would experience a sense of relief, and your other feeling of dread would subside. Why? Because this information has somehow disconnected you from the emotional pain you were experiencing when you believed it was your friend or family member involved in the crash. You may now be saddened by the loss but the relief is so overwhelming that you would probably turn the TV off and sit down and have a cup of tea.
This is an example where information that’s not even related to you can have a profound impact. Every bit of information you receive through your senses causes you to react emotionally to varying degrees. You experience something, THEN you think about it! Therefore it is very difficult to train the MIND not to react to situations without desensitising your entire life experience. In fact the more you desensitise yourself, the further away you move from being at peace. You may feel relaxed but at the price of losing your humanity. This teaching shows you how not to react to the information that is in your reality while allowing you to perform at your highest functioning level when you have the capability of positively affecting the outcome of any given situation. What an amazing tool!
The Ray of Receiving
In the presence of the right teacher a student is able to have a realisation of the essence of a teaching without having the technical know-how or information. The mere presence of a teacher and the openness of the student allow the most important aspect of a teaching to be learnt without words. The labels we have to use to explain something pale into insignificance when we have the experience. The ability and/or state of awareness necessary in order to have and/or receive an experience, is one of the greatest tools available to a student. It is easier to understand an experience after you have had it than before. It’s like the analogy of the honey, you can learn all about honey, how it is made, the molecular structure, etc., but until you taste the honey you will never truly appreciate or understand it.
This is a teaching and experience that allows a person to learn beyond information through the experience of the information rather than its content.
The Ray of Transformation
Transformation or evolution is the purpose of LIFE! You may have the know-how and even the experience of something, but it’s a whole new level when you allow it to transform you and turn your inner purpose into your outer purpose and thus allow yourself to express the creator inside!
This is a program that helps you do this!