Text: Playing in Grace and Mercy Dale Pond, September 21, 1997 During the development phase of the Dynasphere project there were many messages from Spirit advocating the adoption and use of more joy in one¹s life as a prerequisite to working with Atlin, obtaining rotation or other branches of subtle force physics. With joy involved the work becomes play and the etheric subtle forces literally come out to play with us in highly refined and joyous moment of love expressing itself very much like young children happily at play. But what is joy? What is love expressing itself? These are concepts a little foreign to the Western mind set of work hard and make money. A grim reminder we live in a material world. Here, we are being asked to set this aside and find the joy in playing with the effectual dynamics of a higher world which had been forced to find refuge and survive in churches and the like. After all playing was for children. In our dynasphere work we are engaged in dealing directly with things of the emotions, body, mind and spirit. Atlin is designed to operate on these levels as well - and does quite well. To illustrate the need for working in these areas of subtle force physics I quote briefly Blavatsky¹s article The Coming Force, from last month¹s DF. ³That Keely's organism is directly connected with the production of the marvelous results is proven by the following statement emanating from one who knows the great discoverer intimately. At one time the shareholders of the "Keely Motor Co." put a man in his workshop for the express purpose of discovering his secret. After six months of close watching, he said to J. W. Keely one day: "I know how it is done, now." They had been setting up a machine together, and Keely was manipulating the stop-cock which turned the force on and off. "Try it, then," was the answer. The man turned the cock, and nothing came. "Let me see you do it again," the man said to Keely. The latter complied, and the machinery operated at once. Again the other tried, but without success. Then Keely put his hand on his shoulder and told him to try once more. He did so, with the result of an instantaneous production of the current.² So what was done to make the machine run? What force or energy was imparted from Keely that circulated through his hand, into and then through the apprentice and then into the machine to be operated? These are the subtle forces we are speaking of when we say mind, emotions and spirit. The range of frequencies associated with these realms exists far above the light spectrum. Orthodox science does not work often in these realms for lack of instrumentation. However he is overlooking the greatest and finest instrument at his disposal - his own body, mind, emotions and spirit. But then the scientist was taught over and over again not to use these as they are ³unreliable.² This is generally true but these can be trained and honed to the reliability of any fine instrument now found in laboratories and workshops. For this reason it is recommended those so interested in working in SVP or etheric physics to seek instruction and training of these human aspects of our organism. As can be seen from the quote above it is not simply a matter of building a fine etheric force machine to the best of specifications. One must then be able to activate it into motion. This activation process begins in the heart of the operator (see Dynaspheric Force, 9/97). The activating force is sympathetic vibration usually referred to as LOVE. There is a dynamic of mind as it works from moment to moment and holds the key to much greater awareness, understanding and life (life meaning ACTION as in rotation). A beautiful lesson about this love dynamic was brought to my attention while participating in a Medicine Wheel ceremony. For those of you who know nothing of this beautiful ceremony it is sufficient to say it is a series of verbal lessons and instructions on how your life works and what you can do about improving and then enjoying it. The medicine wheel is a symbol representing the many aspects of mind, body, emotions and spirit and how they interchange information between each other. It is a handy tool for personal development. If you¹d like to gain better insight and control over your own mind, body, emotions and spiritual aspects of your life participating in a Medicine Wheel ceremony is highly recommended. So what does a Medicine Wheel ceremony have to do with love and joy? Everything. The ceremony processes the individual in a loving way to explore and re-member their fragmented personalities. This is not done in a single setting but is illustrated through the instructions and conversations to be as a lengthy process of personal application of subtle techniques to one¹s own self. The perfecting or honing of one¹s personality is a personal quest for expressions of a higher self having greater poise, ease, love, joy and success. It can only be done by the questor. Instruction and example can come from others but the full and complete responsibility rests with the owner of the mind, body, emotions and spirit. A powerful tool was illustrated during the ceremony to this writer. Part of the ceremony calls for all the group to pound on drums for an indeterminate time period. The purpose being to seek a unification of the mind force to the body force as the spirit seeks different levels of the awareness. ³Kind of childish playing² we hear from the orthodox crowd. But wait! Are we not seeking to find out how to play with Atlin? Is there not joy and happiness in moving and undulating to music and rhythms? Is not Atlin destined to rotate (play) to sound vibrations? Maybe there is more to this drum beating than meets the ear. For this writer playing was an unemphasized portion of life until recently when confronted with these very issues and a few others of great importance. Part of the reason for attending the ceremony was to ³find joy² (playfulness) and an integration of mind forces with those of the emotions, spirit and body. Atlin requires this as it would always manifest as Unconditional Love which she needs to come out and play. The lesson was this: that joy was not found - it is created. No, it was allowed to express itself. No, it was both of these. To explain this a review of the experience would be helpful. During the drumming session the writer¹s mind wandered aimlessly from one item of interest to another and not really participating in the group affairs. No joy had been encountered yet during the two days of sessions and the thoughts were tending to reflect this lack as an approaching discouragement. However a decision was made that turned the yet unfailed experience into a gem of awareness. ³Let¹s get involved with the others directly by paying attention to each of them individually while we played and as a good focus of mind I¹ll mentally participate in my beating of the drum strike by strike with as much attention as I could apply to it. After all, I reasoned, I can worry at home so no need to waste this great experience on useless worry.² The intent was to be in the moment as fully as possible - and let¹s see what happens. This concept has been bantered around during the events and from the dynasphere project and elsewhere. But what does it mean to be in the moment? Why would this be anything other than something different or foreign to our customary western thought and procedures? To accomplish this required some effort and several minutes of working/playing with it. Look at the baton as it strikes, look very closely as it moves up and down and listen to the beat. See and feel all this as an experience to the exclusion of all other thoughts. Get into it as concentrated as possible. Watch the others play, dance and move about as they strike their drums. Really watch and feel them as they smile, laugh and express their joy. Then, slowly, a little here and then there a ³feeling² begins to spread over the body. The mind shifts from the worries into an active and focused stance. Gently this spreads into powerful movements of the body. A smile gets broader and begins beaming outward. Great feelings of fun, joy, happiness and love begin to radiate. The joy was found! What was work of pounding endlessly on the drum magically transmuted into joy, fun and a fabulous experience and learning. Eureka! Here was joy! Here was a moment in life worth remembering and celebrating. Here was life of a higher kind filled with playfulness and happiness. How did this come about? What took place that triggered the events and mental condition from a negative state to one of absolute positivity? It was accomplished through application of an ancient principle. This principle is calming the mind of extraneous thoughts to allow the stillness of simply being in the moment to take over. This stillness (lack of ego-thought) is of the soul forces and is allied closely to the Grand Neutrality of the Universe which manifests as joy and love when we get our little self (egos) of its way. The ego or mentation states of worry, etc. can be set aside by concentrated effort or via meditation. The ego is enharmonic in its actions. The soul forces originate in the Grand Neutrality of the Universe and always manifest as a harmony which we perceive and experience as love, joy and happiness. A quote from Edgar Cayce (987-4) led me to these thoughts of creating one¹s own future in a way that would be productive, loving and joyous. We are told endlessly about molding our lives with our thoughts but for this writer these all seemed to fall short for whatever reason. None of them seemed to be complete or in some way didn¹t quite formulate into a whole concept which made sense from beginning to end. This reading combined with comments from some of the other attendees about being in the present moment led to the experience. We indeed do create our futures. We create these on a moment by moment basis and here was the point that was missed before. IN THE MOMENT means literally right now. Not in thinking, not in remembering but right in this instant as it is lived. One can sit and meditate, study, plan, think or whatever but these will almost never take hold and grow as my awareness did during the drumming. It is the total involvement in the NOW. The NOW is the instant we are living as we live it and holds the key to these playful forces. Concentrating on the moment gets the ego out of the way and allows the soul to come through. The soul manifests as joy, wonder and love. It¹s natural state is childlike with joyful playfulness. It wants to come out and play and it will if we invite it and then get out of its way. Children have little trouble in playing because they have not yet developed a full blown ego. As they grow and learn about themselves and their environment the ego builds and builds until the playful soul is finally shut off from external expression. They become ³grown-ups² who only play when appropriate or socially correct. The spontaneity is lost, the pure joy of living is lost, rigidity and crystallization sets in and death encroaches at an ever increasing rate. The following Cayce reading details a way for each person to find that joy that is readily available in life. This simple method was mentioned in a message from Atlin. Life is simple after all - child-like. Your life¹s experiences can be dramatically improved as you learn this principle and apply it in each event during the day. As one encounters another human being, show gentleness and lovingness. As one experiences an event of whatever nature, look for the spirit moving through that event and add you gentleness and lovingness to the scenario. In this way, so simple as it is, you build your next events and experiences. As one gives out that gentleness, kindness and lovingness so will the environment begin returning that same energy back to you. This is law and is unfailing. It works every time all the time. It is a simple thing to do and gets easier and easier as it is applied. 10/27/96: ATLIN TO MY BELOVED FRIENDS: ³What do you wish to send out into the world? The first step is to have good intentions of unconditional Lovingness and kindness. This must be linked to like actions. Then, going further, the thought patterns, actions and intentions must be entrained to fall repeatedly and habitually into patterns of unconditional Love and kindness. The principle is simple. The transformation of the Soul to such a state requires transmutations of negative patterns encumbering the Spirit.² [Comments are in brackets.] Cayce reading (987-4) 6. ³For each soul seeks expression. And as it moves through the mental associations and attributes in the surrounding environs [in your everyday life], it gives out that which becomes either for selfish reactions of th[in]e own ego - to express - or for the I AM to be at-one with the Great I AM THAT I AM. [to become one-with means to be like or sympathetic with or to be in love, coincident, harmonic.] 7. What then are the purposes for the activities of an entity in a material plane, surrounded with those environs [in your everyday life] that make for self-expressions or self-activities in the various ways and manners? 8. What meaneth these? That self is growing to that which it, the entity, the soul, is to present, as it were, to the Great I AM in those experiences when it is absent from materiality [during meditation or after death or spirit release]. 9. These become hard at times for the individual to visualize; that the mental and soul may manifest without a physical vehicle. Yet in the deeper meditations, in those experiences when those influences may arise when the spirit of the Creative Force, the universality of soul, of mind - not as material, not as judgments, not IN time and space but OF time and space - may become lost in the Whole, instead of the entity being lost in the maze of confusing influences - then the soul visions arise in the meditations. 10. And the centers [neutral centers, see #20] becoming attuned to the vibrations of the bodily force, these give a vision of that as may be to the entity an outlet for the self-expressions, in the beauties and the harmonies and the activities that become, in their last analysis; just being patient, longsuffering, gentle, kind. THESE [states of mind and attitude] are the fruits of the spirit of truth; just as hates, malice and the like become in their growths those destructive forces in creating, in making for those things that are as but tares, confusions, dissensions in the experiences of an entity. 11. Those then are the purposes of the entrance of an entity into a material plane; to choose that which is its ideal. [One always, in EACH AND EVERY MOMENT, chooses to be kind, gentle - or hateful, malicious, etc.] 12. Then ask thyself the question - gain the answer first in thy physical consciousness: 13. "What is my ideal of a SPIRITUAL life?" [How do you see your ideals, your motivations? WHY DO YOU DO A THING? Do you intend to be as a blessing to others? Or do you act for a selfish reason?] 14. Then when the answer has come - for it has been given by Him that is Life, that the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, is within; and we view the kingdom of God without by the application of those things [the fruits as patience, longsuffering, gentle, kind] that are of the spirit of truth - These then answered, ye seek again in the inner consciousness: [The kingdom of God is the collection of life¹s experiences we would experience if we lived intently by these attitudes of peace, harmony, longsuffering, brotherly love, patience. In their echoing back to us we would be ³bathed in the spirit² in which they were originally sown. We get love and peace when love and peace are sown. We get destruction and disturbance when hate, selfishness or malice are sown.] 15. "Am I true to my ideal?" 16. These become then the answers. This and that and the other; never as pro and con. For the growth in the spirit [mind, body, emotions, spirit] is as He has given; ye GROW in grace, in knowledge, in understanding. 17. How? As ye would have mercy shown thee, ye show mercy to those that even despitefully use thee. If ye would be forgiven for that which is contrary to thy own purposes - yet through the vicissitudes of the experiences about thee, anger and wrath give place to better judgment - ye, too, will forgive those that have despitefully used thee; ye will hold no malice. For ye would that thy Ideal, that Way [The Way is your path, manner and experience of passing through your own life you are creating in each and EVERY MOMENT. You build you own Way by each and every attitude held in mind and acted out.] ye seek, hold no malice - yea, no judgment - against thee. For it is the true law of recompense; yea, the true law of sacrifice. [Mercy from what? Life¹s vicissitudes. The rule here being explained is: should one show mercy to others mercy is shown in return as merciful life experiences. The act of forgiving releases the negative mind set from further continuance of sowing literally the seeds of destruction. Life turns around and moves into the kingdom of God¹s grace and mercy. Meaning as soon as we stop poisoning our own etheric field with negative judgements it stops returning disturbing situations. As soon as we begin modulating it with thoughts of kindness and gentleness it begins to nurture us and bathe us in life, light and love. Herein is the root of the religious ceremony whereby the Holy Spirit is experienced during a ritual wherein one forgives him/herself from their own negative judgments by ³accepting Christ as their Savior by Him taking on and forgiving us for our sins through the shedding His blood.² Forgiveness of self¹s and others¹ supposed faults, failures and shortcomings is the key to this release from an endless wheel of recriminations and destructive thoughts always echoing back to their source (you) as troubles, dissensions and the like.] 18. For not in sacrifice alone has He sought His judgments, but rather in mercy, in grace, in fortitude; yea, in divine love. [Just Œgiving of one¹s self² is only a portion of the task. One must give spiritual ³fruit² to receive spiritual ³fruit² in the form of graces and mercies (reliefs) from life¹s vicissitudes.] 19. The shadows of these are seen in thy inner experience with thy fellow man day by day. For ye have seen a smile, yea a kind word, turn away wrath. Ye have seen a gentleness give hope to those that have lost their hold on purpose, other than the satisfying of an appetite - yea, other than satisfying the desires of the carnal mind. 20. Hence as ye give, ye receive. For this is mercy, this is grace. This is the beauty of the inner life lived. [continued next card]

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