Secret of Shambhala

By James Redfield,

The quote to intrigue and compel you to read this book:   “You must understand that inside you is a great power that can be cultivated and extended, a mental energy that has always been called a prayer field.” The term prayer field in this setting is in no way tangled up in the religious connotations, of kneeling down to prayer.  As Chauncey Gardner said in the great movie starring Peter Sellers Being There, coincidentally a very intuitive person, “you must learn to tend your garden.”  This book, in an entertaining novel way, begins to shine the light on how to do that.  While it seems to be a Secret to too many folks, it’s is my belief that really it’s an intuitive reality that only needs to be, as I write in my book ‘Love is a Blooming Rose’ awakened to. 

This book takes James Redfield’s points from his books Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight and adds to them in what I would call an ‘adstory’, a Murphyism that can be associated with the term adverb.  Adstory more appropriately applies to this book than sequel, because while Redfield takes the same adventurer approach he continues to add to his moral message.  In Celestine and the Tenth Insight he describes how we come to a worldview understanding of a new spiritual awareness.  In Shambhala he elaborates on what you do when you realize that you have it THE SECRET, the title of another intriguing book, and are part of it. 

This adventure takes the reader trekking through the Tibetan Himalayas to a place called Shambhala.  To give the book a sense of adventure and intrigue, trekking may not be the best word.  The main character of the book is actually being chased through Tibet by the Chinese military looking to squelch the secret in the war over people’s minds.  He gets caught and then interacts with his enemy, only to find out that there are no enemies. Upon arrival, the reader comes to learn that Shambhala is a mythical place that only has a geographical location because you are trekking there.  And that trek has a physical journey and a spiritual journey.  Shambala is a place in your mind.

Says Redfield: “On the world view spectrum there are doomsday voices showing us that that our Western lifestyle is not sustainable.  These folks are countered by technologists who invent there way to the next unsustainable plateau.  Which over the history of man is a very short step to the next break through, giving us the impression that time is speeding up.”  But then I ask what is time?  (see my many reviews on this subject…space and time) This book proposes a sustainable future for mankind. It’s somewhat of a paradigm shift for those who have not awakened to the Secret. 

So to navigate the poles of this spectrum, Redfield offers sustainable growth along with humane technology growth.  It is an evolution of slowly turning pages.  This is Redfield thesis in a entertaining venue.  What I hear in those words is: A growth in technology that takes a look at the ‘whole of our social being before it introduces scientific break-thru’s to society.  I call it science with a conscience.  I have been pleading for this for years.  Is there a law of attraction that finally has me read this book?  Imagine, science not conned by the need to push through for the sake of pure science.  Imagine an intuitive move toward the sacred, and optimism based on a spiritual vision of where the world can go.  Spiritual intuition is a metaphor that comes out of the book. So what is that?  It is the subtle turning of pages in your life that embrace synchronicity; those mysterious coincidences that could pop up in a second that makes a page turn on to a new chapter in your life.

Where the book goes beyond previous Redfield books in this area is the subject of prayer.  Not payers that start with “bless me father.”  Not prayers that start with “Dear God I need…”  But prayer that begins with the revealing of your sub-conscience and human nature to be good, do good deeds and have good outcomes in the world around you.  Your intentions!!!  I am talking about a conscience that is a collective conscience that spans not just current/living man, but the history of all man.  This includes the dark chapters.  Why? … Because man survived those chapters.   Good prevails.  This conscience is projected not just outward across the plane of man but upward to the cosmos.  When you come to realize that the light of a star you see at any current moment is a light that is “light-years” old it dawns on you that that all thought, being of the same energy of that star is capable of spanning time and therefore cosmic.  So to spin off of Dave Matthew Band’s song; there is no space between us.  And to John Lennon I say Imagine all the People.

I strayed from my normal review in the previous two paragraphs.  But coincidently and or intuitively perhaps divine order compelled me.  “just sayin.” Perhaps this book along with others I’ve read, the life I lead, and the church I attended while living in Boulder Colorado (2005) converges upon my take of this book. If you can resonate with any of the above, you’ll like the book.

By the way Unity of Boulder is where my yet to be published book Love is a Blooming Rose was conceived.  There is a divine order; even though it seems random…it’s divine.

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Page 14.  If prayer is an affirmation based on our expectations, our faith, then all of our expectations have a prayer effect.  We are, in fact, praying all of the time for some kind of future for ourselves and others.  We just aren’t fully aware of it.

Page 18:  …you must realize that you are already influencing other people with your energy, whether you know it or not..  The important thing is how you set your …field of…intention…”your prayer field.

Page 19:  Shambhala was of great significance to the Tibetan Buddhists, whose ancient writings described it as a holy city of diamonds and gold, filled with adepts and lamas – and hidden somewhere in the vast uninhabitable regions of Tibet of China.

Page 24:  You must understand what Shambhala is.  The people thre aer live human beings, born into this holy place, but they aer of a higher evolutionary state.  The help hold energy and vision for the whole world.

They aren’t like family members or other souls in the afterlife that might be helping us from that dimension.  They are human beings who live right here on East.  Those in Shambhala have extraordinary community and live at a higher level of development.  They model what the rest of the world will ultimately achieve.

Page 36: We are a special sect here in Tibet.  Not Typical.  For many centuries we have held the belief that Shambhala is a real place.  We also hold the knowledge of the legends, verbal wisdom as old as the Kalachakra, which is devoted to the integration of all religious truth.

Many of our lamas are in touch with Shambhala through their dreams.

Page 39:  “You mean to try to fight them [the pursuing Chinese] I asked.  “Yin, you know you can’t win that.”

“I know, I know” he said.  “I just get angry when I think of what they are doing.  Someday the warriors of Shambhala will ride out and defeat these monsters of evil”.

“It’s a prophecy among my people.”  He looked at me and shook his head”  “I know I must control my anger.  It collapses my prayer field.”

Page 42:  “Why has no one ever discovered where it is?  And why do so many prominent Buddhists speak of Shambhala as a way of life, a mentality?”

“Because Shambhala does represent a way of being and living.  It can be spoken of accurately in that manner.  But it is also an actual location where real people have achieved this way of being in community and with each other..”

Page 45:  You must understand that inside you is a great power that can be cultivated and extended, a mental energy that has always been called a prayer field.”

Page 47:  What are dakini”  “They are from the spirit world.  They usually appear as females, but they can take any form they wish.  In the West they are known as angels, but they are even more mysterious than most people think.  I’m afraid they are truly known by those in Shambhala.  The legends say that they move with the light of Shambhala.”

Later in the book:  “No the daklini are other beings who actto awaken and guard humans.  They are and never were human.”

Page 47:  Prayer is not a power that is realized only when we sit down and pray in a particular situation.  Prayer works at these times, of course but prayer is also working at other times.

Everything we expect, good or bad, conscious or unconscious, we are helping to bring into being.  Our prayer is an energy or power that emanates out from us in all directions.  In most people, who think in ordinary ways, this power is very weak and contridictary.  But in others who seem to achieve a lot in life, and who are very creative and successful, this field of energy is strong, although it is still usually unconscious.  Most of those in this group have a strong field because they grew up in an environment where they learned to expect success and more or less take it for granted.  They had strong role models whom they emulated.  But the legends say that soon all people will learn about this power and understand our ability to use this energy can be strengthened and extended.

Page 48:  To find this holy place, you must systematically extend your energy until you emulate enough creative strength to go there.  The procedure for doing this is set forth in the legends and involves three important steps..  There is a forth step but it is known in its completeness only to those in Shambhala.

Page 49:  “Just know that the integration of all all religious truth is important if the force of prayer-energy is to grow large enough to resolve the dangers posed by those who fear.  Also remember the dakini are real.”

Pages 53 – 57:  “What did he mead by mastering the force of my expectations?...”you know that you have an energy field, correct?  A prayer-field flowing out from you at all time.” … “you know that this field has an effect on the world, on what happens?  You know it can be either small and weak or extensive and strong.” … You must first cultivate and then stabilize your energy.” … “the more energy one has, the more others feel that person’s presence.” 

Page 57:  All of a sudden I was imbued with an unusual cal, euphoria, and; rightness.  It was the first time I had experienced what the mystics of various religions have called a transformative state. 

It seemed to come up my spine and out through the top of my head, lifting my body upward.  I felt as if there was a string pulling me upward from the top of my head.”

Page 58 – 60:  “maintaining higher energy within oneself is impossible if one consumes dead matter as food.” … We must assess all the energies we routinely allow into our own energy fields, especially food, and avoid all but the best if our fields are to stay strong.

…  We look like we are material stuff, flsh and blood, but we are atoms!  Pure energy!.  Your science has proved this fact.  When we look deeper into atoms, we first see particles, and then, at deeper levels, the particles themselves disappear into patterns of energy, vibrating at a certain level.  And if we look at the very way we eat from this perspective, we see that what we put in our bodies as food affects our vibrational state.  Certain foods increase our energy and vibration and others diminish it.  The truth is as simple as that.

Page 61:  “  when our bodies drop in energy because of the kinds of foods we are eating, it makes us susceptible to disease. Her eis how it works.  When we eat foods, they are metabolized and leave a waste or ash in our bodies.  This ash is either acidic in nature or alkaline, depending on the food.  If it is alkaline, then it can be quickly extracted from our bodies with little energy,  However, if thes waste products are acid, they are very bad for the blood and lymph system to eliminate and they are stored in our organs and tissues as solids – low vibrational crystalline forms that create blocks or disruptions in the vibratory levels of our cells.  The more such acid by-product are stored, the more generally acid these tissues become, and guess what?

“  A microbe of one type or another appears and senses all this acid and says, “Oh this body is ready to be decomposed.”… When any organism dies, its body changes to a highly acid environment and is consumed by microbes very quickly. If we begin to reassemble this very acid. Or death state, then w begin to come under attack of microbes.  All human disease are the result of such an attack.”

Page 64:  After sleep one must wake up one’s body and begin to accept the energy before he does anything else.”  He was standing with his legs apart and his hands on his hips. As I watched, he slid his feel ytogether and lifted his arms.  His body rose up in one motion until he was standing on his tiptoes with his palms pressed directly over his head.

I blinked.  There was something unusual about the way his body moved and I couldn’t focus on it exactly.  He seemed to float upward rather than use his muscled.  When I could focus again, he was beaming a broad smile.   Just as quickly, his body moved from there into a graceful walk toward me.  I blinked again.

Page 65  “You must make sure your body is open everywhere in order to receive all the energy that is available.  You do this by moving every muscle, every morning, from your center.”   He pointed to a place just below the navel.  “ If you concentrate on moving from this area, then your muscles will be free to operate at their highest level of coordination.  It is the central principle of all the martial arts and dance disciplines.  You can invent your own movements.”

Page 66:  “I began slowly and remembered the basic principle. If you move from your  center and expect the energy to flow into you, you will move in a lighter and lighter manner.  Of course, to perfect this you must be able to open up to all the divine energy that is available from within.”

Celestine Prophecy

By James Redfield

I circled back to read this book with two intentions.  First was to refresh its powerful message in my mind. Second was to write a review and share it on Cigar Room of Books. 

This book takes a ‘new age’ spin on Christ’s message.  It talks about a higher level of consciousness as a function of the energy in thought.  It touches on subjects that for some reason science backs away from.  I honestly do know if they back away in fear, or they refute it in the name of ignorance.  Perhaps they can explain all these mysteries away.  The fundamental concept is that people are energy; molecules housed as one collection in a body.  This is science.  So if energy takes the form of vibrating molecules: can the by product of those molecules the brain, thought, actually control the molecules.  Psycho-cybernetics.

From the book I provide the following excerpt. “When humans begin to raise their vibrations to a level where others cannot see them….it will signal that we are crossing the barrier between this life and the other world from which we came and to which we go after death.  This conscious crossing over is the path shown by the Christ.  He opened up to the energy until he was so light he could walk on water.  He transcended death right here.”  Now there is a lot of dialogue that leads up to this excerpt that would help the reader more fully appreciate the words herein.  Still yet it is indeed quite a leap in what…faith.  So my question still stands to the Neigh Sayers of science:  does not science require faith in their own study of the unknown?

The book itself is an adventure novel in pursuit of Insights across the countryside of Peru.  In my mind as an adventure writer Redfield is a little weak.  What keeps the reader going is to read what he exposes as the Insights them selves.  To that I provide a summary, an excerpt from the book for those who somehow cannot find time for reading any book, let alone this one. 

“I was alert to the mysterious way my life evolved, as revealed by the First Insight.  I knew that the whole culture was sensing this mystery again as well, and we were in the process of constructing a new world view, as pointed out by the Second. The Third and Fourth had showed me that the universe was in reality a vast system of energy and that human conflict was a shortage of and a manipulation of this energy. The Fifth Insight revealed that we could end this conflict by receiving and inpouring of this energy from a higher source. For me, this ability had almost become habit.  The Sixth, that we could clear our old repeated dramas, and find our true selves, was also permanently etched in my mind.  And the seventh has set in motion the evolution of these true selves: through question, intuition of what to do, and answer.  Staying in this magic flow was truly the secret of happiness. And the Eight Insight, knowing how to relate in a new way to others, bringing out in them the very best, was the key to keeping the mystery operating and the answers coming. All the Insights have integrated into a consciousness that felt like a heightened sense of alertness and expectation.  What was left, I knew was the Ninth, which revealed where our evolution was taking us.  We had discovered some of it.  But what about the rest?  ‘

The rest is covered in a few more books by Redfield and many other authors.  But the bottom line is let the energy our thoughts connect with the universe.  In that connection you will find man-kind as One.  Once again John Lennon’s song Imagine fills my day.  If you don’t read start your day with his song.

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Page 5:  The transformation is beginning with the First Insight, and according to the priests, this insight always surfaces unconsciously at first, as a profound sense of restlessness.

Page 5:  He said that when both partners in a relationship are overly demanding, when each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities and ego battle inevitably developers.

Page 6:  First Insight occurs when we become conscious of the coincidences in our lives.

Page 7:  More people every day are convinced that this mysterious movement is real and that it means something, which something else is going on beneath everyday life.  This awareness is the First Insight.

Page 8:  When a sufficient number of individuals seriously question what’s going on in life, we will begin to find out.  The other Insights will be revealed…one after another.

Page 9:  He felt strongly that church leaders would see this fact if they would try to see life as a mystery again and then proceed through the other insights.

Page 11:  At the time I felt full of new ideas and was departing for my home town to work with severely abused children.  I thought I knew how such children could transcend the intense reactions, the obsessive acting out, that kept them from going on with their lives.

Page 19:  I guess the First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious changes that change one’s life, the feeling that some other process is operating.

Page 20:  History is supposed to provide a knowledge of the longer context within which our lives take place.  History is not just the evolution of technology; its the evolution of thought.

Page 22:  The first thing you must understand is that the reality of this time is being defined by the powerful churchmen of the Christian Church.  Because of their position, these men hold great influence over the minds of the populace.

Page 22:  But regardless of which class you’re in, the particular work that you do, you soon realize that social position is secondary to the spiritual reality of life as defined by the churchmen…God has placed mankind at the center of his universe, surrounded by the entire cosmos, for one solitary purpose:  to win or lose salvation.  And in this trial you must correctly choose between to opposing forces: the force of God to the lurking temptations of the devil.

Page 26:  We totally lost ourselves in creating a secular security, to replace the spiritual one we had lost.  The question of why we are alive, of what was actually going on here spiritually, was slowly pushed aside and repressed altogether.

Page 36:  It just happens.  It wouldn’t work for me to just tell you.  You might have the information about each of them but you wouldn’t have the insights. You have to discover them in the course of your own life.

Page 42:  In other words, the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe – as though our expectation itself causes energy to flow out into  the world and effect other energy systems.  Which of course is exactly what the Third Insight would leave us to believe.

Page 44: The perception of beauty is a kind of barometer telling each of us how close we are to actually perceiving energy.  This is clear because once you observe this energy; you realize it’s on the same continuum as beauty.  The very next level of perception is to see an energy field hovering about everything.

Page 54  Oh, I couldn’t see fields that large at first either, he said I had to start by looking at my fingers….Lean back and touch the tips of your fingers together.  Keep the blue sky in the background.  Now separate the tips an inch and look at the area directly between them….take your eyes out of focus a little and move the tips closer, then further apart.

Page 59: Yes, think of the events of your life.  The old Newtonian idea is that everything happens by chance, that one can make good decisions and be prepared, but that every event has its own line of causation independent of our attitude.

Page 63:  Third Insight elaborated on the nature of beauty, describing this perception as the one through which humans would eventually learn to observe energy fields.  Once this occurred, it said then our understanding of the physical universe would quickly transform.

Page 65:  It is said that eventually humans would see the universe as comprised of one dynamic energy, an energy that can sustain us and respond to our expectations.  Yet we would also see that we have been disconnected from the larger source of this energy, that we have cut ourselves off and so have felt weak and insecure and lacking. 

Page 70:  We have always known that this violence comes from the urge humans feel to control and dominate each other, but only recently have we studied this phenomenon from the inside, from the point of view of the individual’s consciousness.  We have asked what happens inside human beings that makes him want to control someone else.  We have found that when an individual walks up to another person and engages in a conversation, which happens billions of times each day in the world, one of two things happen.  That individual can come away feeling strong oe feeling weak, depending on what occurs in the interaction.  For this reason we humans always seem to take a manipulative posture.

Page 71: In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we’re trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically.  This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and at the level of nations.

Page 72:  In fact, this same trauma no doubt happened to her parents before her.  They have to dominate now because of the way their parents dominated them.  That’s the means through which psychological violence is passed down from one generation to another.

  Page 75:  The movement of this energy, if we can systematically observe it, is a way to understand what humans are receiving and when we compete and argue and harm each other.  When we control another human being we receive their energy. We fill up at the other’s expense and the filling up is what motivates us. 

Page 76:  That we humans, although we are unconscious of it, have the tendency to control and dominate each others energy.  We want to win that energy that exists between people.  It builds us up somehow, makes us feel better.

Page 87:  All this is still unconscious in most people.  All we know is that we feel weak and when we control others we feel better.  What we don’t realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person.  It is their energy that we have stolen.  Most people go through their lives in constant hunt for someone else’s energy.

Page 89:  The Third Insight showed you that the physical world is actually a vast system of energy.  And now the Fourth Insight points out that for a long time we humans have been unconsciously competing for the only part of this energy we have been open to:  the part that flows between people.  This is what human conflict in families and employment settings to wars between nations.  It’s result of feeling insecure and weak and having to steal someone’s energy to feel okay.

Page 97:  For the first time in my life, I knew the eart’s roundness not as an intellectual concept but as an actual sensation.

Page 98:   The realization was present that my life did not, in fact, begin with my conception and birth on this planet.  It began much earlier with the formation of the rest of me, my real body, the universe itself.

Page 99:  Mater was only energy vibrating at a certain level, and in the beginning matter existed only in its simplest vibratory form:  the element we call hydrogen.   That’s all there was in the universe, just hydrogen.

Page 106:  So the problem is that everyone is trying to control and manipulate each other for energy, because we feel short of it.

Page 112:  I thought for a minute.  What was the feeling??  Then it came to me.  “Love” I said”I guess I felt a love for everything”…”Your do not make yourself love”  he said.  “You allow love to enter you.”

Page 117:  “Yeah, I said.  “You allow love to enter you. But to do this you must position your mind by remembering what it felt like and try to feel it again.

Page 119 “Think of how the Insights fall into sequence,’ he said, “The First Insight occurs when we take the coincidences seriously.  These coincidences make us feel there is something more something spiritual, operating underneath everything we do.

The Second Insight instates our awareness as something is real.  We can see that we have been preoccupied with material survival, with focusing on controlling our situation in the universe for security, and we know our openness now represents a kind of waking up to what is really going on.

“the Third Insight begins a new view of life.  It defines the physical universe as one of pure energy, an energy that somehow responds to how we think.

And the Fourth exposes the human tendency to steal energy from other humans by controlling them, taking over their minds, a crime in which we engage because we so often feel depleted of energy, and cut off.  This shortage of energy can be remedied, of course, when we connect with higher source.  The universe can provide all we need if we can only open up to it.  That is the revelation of the Fifth Insight.

Page 121:  The key to letting it go is to bring it fully into consciousness, and we do that by seeing that our particular style of controlling others is one we learned in childhood to get attention, to get the energy moving our way, and we’re stuck there.  This style is something we repeat over and over again.  I call it our unconscious control drama.

Page 126:  The first step in the process of getting clear, for each of us, it to bring our particular control drama into full consciousness.  Nothing can proceed until we really look at ourselves and discover what we are doing.

It is always in relation to our family members that we develop our particular dramas.

Each person must interpret his family experience from an evolutionary point of view, from a spiritual point of view, and discover who he really is.  Once we do that, our control drama falls away and our real lives takes off.

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Page 131:  Once we see our drama we are truly free to become more than the unconscious act we play.  As I said before we can find a higher meaning for our lives, the spiritual reason we were born to our particular families.  We can begin to get clear about who we really are.

Page 138:  To discover real self, you must admit that the real you began in a position between their [your parents]truths.  That’s why you were born there: to take a higher perspective on what they stood for. Your path is about discovering a truth that is s  higher synthesis of what these two people believed.

Page 146:  You are here because this is where you need to be to continue the evolution.  Your whole life has been a long road leading directly to this moment.

When you fully integrate this view in your life, you will have achieved what the Manuscript calls a clear awareness of your spiritual path.  According to the Manuscript we al must spend as much time as necessary going through this process of clearing your past.

Page 153:  Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else.  It is a background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course is the energy of God.

Page 154:  First I said, you build sufficient energy, then you remember your basic life question – the one your parents gave you – because this question provides the overall context of your evolution.  Next you center yourself on your path by discovering the immediate, smaller questions that currently confront you n life.  These questions always pertain to your larger question and define where you currently, are in your lifelong quest.

Then the next step is to become very alert and watchful.  Sooner or later coincidences will occur to move you in the direction indicated by intuition.

Page 156:  The seventh Insight deals with the process of consciously evolving yourself, of staying alert to every coincidence, every answer the universe provides you…it talks about the way objects jump out at us, the way certain thoughts come as guidance….the Eight Insight, you will find it yourself when the time is right.  It explains how we can aid others as they bring us the answers we seek.  And it describes a whole new ethic governing the way humans should treat each other in order to facilitate everyone’s evolution.

Page 164:  The Seventh Insight says to compare the story of the dream to the story of your life.

Page 169:  The Seventh Insight says that fear images should be halted as soon as they come.  Then another image, one with a good outcome, should be willed through the mind.  Soon negative images will almost never happen.  Your intuitions will be about positive things. When negative images come after that, the Manuscript says they should be taken seriously, and not followed.

Page 174:  Your body is vibrating at a certain level.  If you let your energy get too low your body suffers.  That is the relationship between stress and disease. Love is the way we keep our vibration up.  It keeps us healthy.  It is that important.  …  And how do we engage this process?  I thought for a moment, “By keeping our current life questions firmly in mind, “ I said.  “And then watching for direction, either in a dream or in an intuitive thought or in a way the environment illuminates and jumps out at us.”

Page 178:  The Eighth Insight is next for you.  It is about an Interpersonal Ethic, a way of treating other people so more messages are shared

Page 179:  The Eighth Insights warns against….your growth being stopped…It happens when you become addicted to another person.

Page 184:  Yes, it is about how humans will eventually learn to relate to each other, and talks of many things, such as how to project energy to others and how to avoid addictions to other people. The Eight Insight is about using energy in a new way when relating to people in general, but it begins at the beginning, with children.

Page 191: When love first happens, the two individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated.  That’s the incredible high we call being in love.  Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from the other person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other – only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back in to their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.  At this point the relationship degenerates in to the usual power struggle.

Page 194:  Oh we can still have romance…but first we have to complete the circle on our own.  We have to stabilize our channel with the universe.  That takes time, but afterward we are never susceptible to this problem again and we can have what the Manuscript calls higher-relationship.  When we connect romantically with another whole person after that, we create a super-person…but it never pulls us from the path of our individual evolution.

Page 195:  By Understanding whose these opposite sexed friends really are on the inside, one breaks past own’s on fantasy projection about gender, and that releases us co connect again with the universe.

Page 199:  That’s right…we have and we were doing it consciously, following the Eight Insight.  By lifting you up and helping you to get clear, we could search for truth, the message, that you had for us.  Do you understand that?  Energizing you was the best thing we could do for ourselves.

Page 201  The more we can love and appreciate others, the more energy flows into us.  That’s why loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves

Because you are giving me more energy than I would otherwise have, I can see what my truth is and more readily give it to you.  When I do that, you have a sense of revelation about what I am saying.  This leads you to see my higher self even more fully to appreciate and focus on it at a deeper level, which gives me more energy and greater insight in my truth and the cycle begins over again  Two or more people doing this together can reach incredible highs as they build one another up and have it immediately returned.  You must understand, thought, that this connection is completely different from co-dependent a relationship.

Page 207:  The universe is energy, energy that responds to out expectations.  People are part of that energy universe too, so when we have a question, the people show up who have the answer.

Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us.  Otherwise they would have take another path, or left earlier or later.  The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.

Page 208:  Thought groups are usually evolving along the same lines of interest.  They think the same and that creates the same expression and outward experience.  We intuitively recognize members of out thought group and very often they provide messages for us.

Page 209When you are appreciating someone at a deep level, you can see their most honest self beyond any facades they may put up.  When you really focus at this level, you can perceive what someone is thinking as a subtle expression on their face.

Page 215:  the idea is for every member’s energy and vibration to increase because of the energy sent by all of the others.  When this occurs, everyone’s individual energy field merges with everyone else’s and makes one pool of energy

Page 222:  The Ninth Insight explains how human culture will change in the nex millennium as a result of conscious evolution.

Page 223:  No one will consume excessively because we will have let go of the need to possess and to control for security.  In the next millennium, life will have become about something else.

Page 224:  The Ninth Insight says the overall culture will transform in a very predictable way….the energy dynamics of the universe, we will see what really happens when we give someone something. Right now the only spiritual idea about giving is the narrow concept of religious tithing.  The Ninth Insight says that once we begin to give constantly, we will always have more coming than we could possibly give away.  “And our gifts… should go to the persons who have given us spiritual truth.  When people come into our lives at just the right time to give is answers we need, we should give them money…As more people engage in spiritual economy we will begin a real shift into the culture of the next millennium.

Page 227:  Paying others for their insights will begin the transformation and then as more and more parts of the economy are automated, currency will disappear altogether.  We won’t need it.  If we are correctly following our intuitive guidance then we will take only what we need.

Page 229:  I was alert to the mysterious way my life evolved, as revealed by the First Insight.  I knew that the whole culture was sensing this mystery again as well, and we were in the process of constructing a new world view, as pointed out by the Second. The Third and Fourth had showed me that the universe was in reality a vast system of energy and that human conflict was a shortage of and a manipulation of this energy.

The Fifth Insight revealed that we could end this conflict by receiving and inpouring of this energy from a higher source. For me, this ability had almost become habit.  The Sixth, that we could clear our old repeated dramas, and find our true selves, was also permanently etched in my mind.  And the seventh has set in motion the evolution of these true selves: through question, intuition of what to do, and answer.  Staying in this magic flow was truly the secret of happiness.

And the Eight Insight, knowing how to relate in a new way to others, bringing out in them the very best, was the key to keeping the mystery operating and the answers coming.

All the Insights has integrated into a consciousness that felt like a heightened sense of alertness and expectation.  What was left, I knew was the Ninth, which revealed where our evolution was taking us.  We had discovered some of it.  But what about the rest?

Page 235:  This document makes it sound as though humans are in control, as though we are in charge in the world.  We are not.  God is.  The only issue humans face is weather to accept the scriptural teachings and thereby win salvation.

My Note:  This is the argument religion poses to all the insights:  And it may be true if the church’s interpretation of the scripture were virtuous.

Page 236:  Yes I fought against evolution as a replacement for God, as a way to explain the universe without reference to God.  But now I see the truth is a synthesis of scientific and religious world views.  The truth is that evolution is the way God created, and still is creating.

And isn’t that receptivity to God’s energy within what culminated in the life of a carpenter’s son, the extent that we say God, himself, descended to Earth?

Page 239:  The Manuscript says that sometime in history one individual would grasp the exact way of connecting with God’s source of energy and direction and would thus become a lasting example of this connection is possible.  Sanchez looked at me/  “ Isn’t that what Jesus really did?  Didn’t he increase his energy and vibration until he was light enough to ….?  Sanchez ended his sentence without finishing it and seemed to be in deep thought.

Page 240:  The Ninth Insight reveals our ultimate destiny….It makes is all crystal clear.  It reiterates that as humans, we are the culmination of the whole evolution. 

Now we can increase our energy and experience the coincidences consciously.

Page 241: Once they [those people of higher conscience] reach a certain level [of vibration]  will suddenly become invisible to those  who are still vibrating at a lower level.  It will appear to the people on this lower level that the others just disappeared, but the group themselves will feel as though they are still right there – only they will feel lighter.

When humans begin to raise their vibrations to a level where others cannot see them….it will signal that we are crossing the barrier between this life and the other world from which we came and to which we go after death.  This conscious crossing over is the path shown by the Christ.  He opened up to the energy until he was so light he could walk on water.  He transcended death right here on Earth, and was the first to cross over, to expand the physical world into spiritual.