December 10, 2005 Saturday Afternoon, Part 4
Aaron’s talk to Friends of the Casa – Westport, CT
Q&A on negative polarity, navigating relative reality from pure mind/no-self, what is the pure mind state, why are some healed at the Casa and others not, what are Aaron’s skills, can we learn without pain and suffering
During the break, Aaron was asked about energy and healing, not recorded. Someone sitting near Aaron was experiencing pain, and he inquired if he could be of help.
Aaron: You know that the Casa is built over a strong crystal base that supplies some of the energy for the Casa. It’s helpful. It’s not essential; we see that Medium João and the entities are able to do this work in Germany or other places, so the Casa’s work is not fully reliant on that crystal base.
(Aaron helps the person in pain, putting his hand on her leg and assisting her energetically)
There is but one energy, One. Everything is an expression of that One, call it God, Goddess, call it what you will. Your personal energy is an expression of it. The crystal energy is an expression of it. That which the Entities use is an expression of it.
You are learning how to recognize that energy, to cherish it in yourselves as the personalized expression; to utilize it skillfully and to give it out to others skillfully. As you practice in the personal sense, you come into a greater understanding of the fullness of that which you are, your deepest essence. You are coming to know that you are divine; you are beautiful expressions of that One. So much of the Casa’s work is simply to remind you of that truth.
I know you have many questions. This brief introduction to energy is our basis upon which we will build, so now I’d like to hear your questions.
Q: When Barbara goes out and Aaron comes in, she mentioned the protection against something that could come in and that dark side. What is that and why would it want to come in?
Aaron: On the ultimate level there is only positive polarity, only light but on the relative level there are distortions of that light, which we call negative polarity. It is important not to think of this as dualistic with light, and yet the expression of it is with an intent for service to the self rather than to others. And it gratifies itself with the fear of others, feeds off fear and pain.
One must learn not to hate negative polarity. To know it simply as a distortion of the light, but also to respect that it exists. We spoke earlier of the power of compassion to say no. Compassion must say no to negativity and say it with love, not hatred.
When one does the kind of work that Barbara does, it attracts many non-material beings who wonder how they can use Barbara’s gifts. These may be what we sometimes call mischievous spirits, though beyond that are beings that are deeply negatively polarized and would like to bring in great distortion, perhaps to find some feeding place in Barbara’s ego or Barbara’s body situation.
This would be something that could come in and nudge at Barbara, saying, “Oh we can fix the hearing, we can fix the vision, for you are too special to bear such infirmities.” Or, “Would you like to set yourself up as being more powerful, not to give yourself humbly?” So, negativity may offer a temptation.
Barbara knows she is not doing this work; God is doing this work. She simply offers the body and mind in service to God. She accepts whatever the situation is with the body with love, so she is able to say no to that kind of temptation. But it’s hard work, requiring mindfulness and care.
Certainly you have heard of channels that do bring in a lot of distortion, who bring in a lot of fear and negativity. They may have started the work very purely but then, because they did not do the inner work as was needed, the distortion comes.
One of the reasons that Medium João is so successful in his work is that he truly knows he does not do this work. God does this work. He does not accept personal gain for his work, in a sense of demanding a lot of money and power. If he did, it would destroy him. He knows that.
Barbara also knows this. It is essential to offer the work freely, though one may receive gifts of appreciation that allow one to maintain a livelihood. But if there was greed and fear, that would make the spirit, mind and body vulnerable to negativity.
When I come into the body, the body is vacant and therefore vulnerable, just as is a house that stands vacant and may be entered by anyone. This is a time where the utmost care must be given that the body is safeguarded so negative energy cannot move into it.
I am a high sixth density entity. I have not explained the meaning of these densities; I’ll do that tomorrow. But a being that is negatively polarized sixth density, a very powerful negative sixth density, can feel very much like me in its vibrational frequency.
It is like the balance beam. You have a weight far out to the right and another weight far to the left that will seem equal. Such an entity will not speak words of hate but will bring forth subtle distortions and push its way in using whatever are Barbara’s most vulnerable places as opening. For this reason, we protect the body. Barbara protects it through the statement of her intention and, if there is any concern at all, we call in the four Archangels to form a circle, to hold a force field around the momentarily vacant body as I come into the body. Does that answer your question?
The reason I’m going into this in detail is that each of you has visitations by negative polarity and you must learn how to say no. When temptation comes your way to lie, to take something that doesn’t belong to you, to act in a self-centered way that does not serve others, be aware.
There is not necessarily a distinct, separate entity supporting this temptation; it may or may not be. Simply, here is some force of negativity; how are you going to respond to it? As you practice responding to it in a clear, compassionate, loving way, saying no, you will not do this or that, will not tell an untruth or create a distortion because it would be a disservice to yourself and all beings, as you practice that, you learn how to say no to negativity in a very compassionate and clear way.
Q: When one is in pure mind, pure reality, no thought, no object, no self, is there a way to be in that state and navigate ordinary reality?
Aaron: Absolutely. You come to one of the week-long meditation retreats and we’ll teach you. I can only give a few words about it now. There is the everyday mind. I like the Tibetan vocabulary here. They call the every day mind sem and that which I call pure awareness mind, rigpa. Through these words they make the distinction that there are these two levels of mind—the mind that is based on the conditioned realm, thoughts arising and passing away, and that which is centered in awareness.
In the Tibetan dzogchen trainings—dzogchen means non-dual awareness—we teach in stages. Seeing the view is seeing this pure awareness mind, just getting a quick glimpse of it, knowing, “This is it.” Just seeing it.
Then you learn the meditation practice, which is why you need the week. The meditation practice stabilizes the non-dual awareness. Within that practice, when a thought comes up that pulls you off center, you ask a question about that thought or experience. The way I phrase the question is, “Is there anything here that is not an expression of the Unconditioned?”
For example, if a negative thought such as an angry thought arises, instead of creating separation around that thought, one observes this thought arose out of conditions and it is an expression of those conditions. When those conditions cease it will cease.
Think of the ocean. When certain conditions are present, waves arise. When the conditions stop, the waves calm down. But the waves are never separate from the ocean; the waves are always an expression of the ocean. Whether it is a small wave or a giant wave, a tsunami wave about to engulf and kill thousands of people, it’s just an expression of the ocean. Certainly it is a powerful wave, and it’s going to do some harm, but it’s just an expression of the ocean.
The wave of anger comes—it’s just an expression of the ocean, the ground of being, the Unconditioned itself. It’s an expression, albeit a distorted expression, of love.
So in the meditation practice, you stabilize. The more waves that come, figuratively speaking, the more chance to practice. So, we don’t try to stop thoughts, but each time a thought comes and the idea, “This one is bad,”—ah, it’s just thought. Separating. Anything here that’s not an expression of the Unconditioned? And we see there is only non-duality, only the ocean. But we are still doing some form of meditation practice. Once the practice is stable, then we move into the third leg of the practice, which is the action leg. We take it out into the world. But you don’t try to do that too soon, you have to wait until it is stable in meditation first.
Q: I want to know about being in a high transpersonal state, perhaps at the level of the Divine, the Godhead. How is this possible?
Aaron: The Pure Awareness mind is the natural state of being. This is the transpersonal state. Superimposed on that is the everyday personal consciousness.
Personal consciousness arises and falls like the waves. The ground remains, the transpersonal state. But you cannot hold to that transpersonal state in suppression of the waves. This is the dilemma that most people get themselves into. They think they can access either/or; they don’t recognize both can be present simultaneously.
There is another beautiful Buddhist teaching. I’m tossing a bit of Buddhist terminology at you, but there is no English equivalent. The primary word is kaya, which means body. Dharmakaya is the truth body; nirmanakaya the form body, the outer expression. We see them as dualistic, that there is either the truth body or the form body. But they are contiguous.
Put a bridge between as if you were to span a deep abyss with the form body on one side and the truth body on the other, a bridge that is grounded deep into each side. As soon as you put one foot on the bridge, you’re in both. This is the sambhogakaya, or wealth body. It contains the fullest wealth of Dharmakaya and nirmanakaya.
This is your human work. Most humans through so many lifetimes have created and believed in a duality of divine body and form body, the outer world and the inner world, the ever-perfect and that which is distorted. The whole focus of your learning at this point is to transcend that duality and hold the space, so you have glimpses into the transpersonal, though you don’t yet know how to rest there.
The first important step is simply to recognize that it is real. Begin to see the expressions of the mundane realm not as separate from the transpersonal but as expressing out of it.
This is very precise. One’s anger, one’s confusion, one’s impatience, watch the way you separate these out and say, “This is other than.” Stop yourself and ask, is there anything that is other than? Right here with this anger can you see the Divine? Such seeing does not give you permission to act out the anger of course, but right here with the anger is the Divine.
Where are you going to rest your attention? When you move your attention deeper and deeper into that divinity, you find increasingly that you can hold the space, that you can live with no denial or dismissal of the heavy emotion, but rather the ability to hold the space, allowing it to bubble up until it goes, poof, like a bubble.
It takes ongoing practice. I think that the heart of the practice at the simplest level is just to remember the question, is there anything here that is not an expression of God?
You are going to have to do some work with that, those who are convinced that negative thought is not an expression of God. Clearly it’s a distorted expression, but it’s not evil; it simply has arisen from conditions.
There is dirt outside the house. If we had a heavy rainstorm, it would turn to mud. If we had flower seed, it would turn into garden, but the dirt’s still there, just expressing differently. You step in the mud and say, “Ick.” But it’s just the earth, and necessary for the flowers.
Q: At the Casa I know there is a difference between healing and being cured. Why do some people get seemingly healed and some people not?
Aaron: This is a difficult answer for you to accept. Let’s say that a local Brazilian farmer suffered an injury with his tractor that left him incapacitated, unable to do his farming work, unable to care for his children. His primary interest is to heal this body so he can again take care of his family and function in the world. He has no secondary interest, just that. Certainly there is some karma working there but he’s not much concerned with the karma. He just wants to get back to the health to support his family. He is more likely to heal.
Barbara, on the other hand, went to Brazil saying, “I would like to hear if it is for the good of all beings, but if what supports the good of all beings is my conditioned deafness, I am willing to bear with it. If to carry this deafness is useful in resolving past karma, I’m willing to continue to carry this deafness. If there is karma that is yet unresolved, I am willing to carry it as long as needed and ask help to resolve the karma.” So she’s got a different intention.
Sometimes it’s not so conscious an intention, but for many of you, you do come with the intention of that which is for the highest good, not just to heal at all costs.
This is not one hundred percent true, of course. But usually the Entities follow the highest intention to deal with what they are able. The farmer with his injury is healed. He goes back to his work, and it may be ten years before he starts to think about what happened, starts to look at different personality traits that are not wholesome, to wish to learn to release the traits that are harmful to people. And he comes back to the Casa and asks, “How do I release this in the way that I released the terrible injuries?” It may be another lifetime before he is ready to ask that question. Each being invites the healing for which they are ready.
The healing may also happen at a very deep level and yet not at the surface level of the body. I’m sure some of you have experienced that. I want to be careful here. What I speak of here are my own perceptions. The entities, if you were able to ask them, could give you a different explanation but this is what I perceive.
Q: Could you tell us more about yourself? At the Casa there are those who perform surgery because they have that skill. Is there a particular skill that you have that has brought you to this work?
Aaron: My brother, basically I teach from my non-dual awareness and invite others to come into that space with me. I am of high sixth density and very much a part of the Brother/Sisterhood of Light, deeply committed to the teachings of love and non-duality, deeply committed to serving as a guide for those of you who have courageously come into the incarnation to co-birth the Earth into its transition to higher density and to birth your own consciousness into transition into higher consciousness.
Although I put on a male energy, it’s simply that Aaron was a karmic ancestor who was a wise and loving teacher. Barbara did not want to call me “Hey, you,” so putting on the personality was skillful. But I have no attachment nor self-identification to that personality. This is the personality I chose to adapt in becoming a teacher to make it easier for you to talk to me. I am not Aaron, it’s just somebody that I was once. I am androgynous, a spirit. As spirit, I can help you also to know yourself as spirit. Aaron was an articulate teacher. I also am that.
In my final human lifetime, I was a meditation master in Thailand in 1500s. I found liberation from this whole cycle of birth and death and resolved all karma. I opened to the realization of my divinity in that lifetime using the meditation practices I teach you here, and have given Barbara to teach. Although in that final lifetime I was Buddhist, I do not identify myself as of any one religion, but do deeply respect the value of this path to liberation.
In that final lifetime, I was considered an expert with this form of meditation drawn from the Buddhist tradition, vipassana or insight meditation. After my own enlightenment, I helped many others find liberation with this path, so this is one part of what I teach, though what I teach far transcends the tradition of Buddhist teachings. Yet, one does not lightly put aside a tool that is so useful, so this is what we teach.
I am quite proficient with physical healing, but I do not do a lot of it. My energy is too high to connect directly with most humans. I am not trained in the precision to scale down and direct that energy precisely to serve the human body.
With students with whom I work regularly, I may do some energy work, and I can see into the body and give some guidance into what might be needed to balance the systems of the body. But I leave most deep body-plane healing to my more skilled brothers and sisters. I do work more on the etheric and astral levels, and also do assist you with the seeing and resolution of karma.
Q: My understanding of pain and suffering helps me now to understand that I experience pain in my life, but chose suffering. And through that pain and suffering, through that process, I experience growth. Can we learn without the pain? Does there always have to be the pain for the growth?
Aaron: For the human, there will always be pain. That is the nature of these bodies. The nerves are jangled and ache or burn. That is how the body is. Eventually the human race will learn how to attend these nerve twitches to bring quick balance, little pain.
Since nothing is permanent, you cannot hold onto what you love, and there are feelings of sadness, loss and the pain of loss. So pain will come, but suffering is not necessary. Suffering invites you to pay attention. It is not the suffering that teaches you; paying attention teaches you. When you start to pay attention without the suffering, you don’t need the suffering anymore as condition for learning.
You suffer in large part because it is habit. This is something that I think touches many of you. You come to a point in your evolution where you so deeply yearn to come home, whatever that home means to you. You see the radiance of the Divine, the light of the Divine, and superimposed on it you see what seems to be your own shadow, and there is despair about the shadow.
The habit energy then is to pick up scouring pads and try to scrub away the shadow. If there was dirt on the window glass, would it stain the window itself or change the nature of the window glass? What if, seeing the dirt on the window glass, you picked up heavy steel wool scouring pads and began to try to scrub away at it? Then you inflict damage on the window. The dirt on the window is just dirt. Wipe it away.
But the habit energy is to see the movement of negativity and to contract into the “fix it” mode, because you so deeply want to reconnect with the light, to come home, and you feel that the stain on yourselves is what separates you from the light and that it must be destroyed.
You can never destroy it. You come to a point where you recognize that the attempt to destroy it is just more negativity, and you say, “I don’t know what to do.”
The answer is right there in your hearts—love! Love the foot that has the tack in it. Love the human that is experiencing anger, jealousy or impatience. Don’t act out the emotion, but offer love. It is through this process, and only through this process, that you learn. It is not that you finally come home; you begin to see that you have always been home. It’s only this misguided idea that you must fix something which has kept you from knowing that you are home.
Let us take a break here – 20 minutes.
(break)