Point of Power
March 3, 2002
Transcribed by Mark C. Bukator
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on March 03, 2002
© Copyright 2004 Avion Rising Inc.
at The Omega Center Bookstore
2:30 PM Presentation Begins
KRIS: We gladly greet each and every one of you who have taken time from your busy schedules to come here and share of yourselves. Today’s presentation is of Point Of Power.
Exploring personal power and integrity of your being and as our friend Joseph pointed out early this is an issue where many individuals have difficulties. Affirming one’s self, placing of one’s self in a situation where you have to stand your own ground, where you have to determine for yourself what you need to do, how you wish to feel and how you will express your being is often even traumatizing depending on the way that you were brought up, depending on your own background and cultural setting and most importantly how you presently feel about yourself: whom and what you are.
The particular issues involved usually require a certain degree of standing up for one’s beliefs whatever those beliefs are, and acquainting yourselves with your own private power as it were, is an issue that many people are not comfortable with because of the distortions involved in dealing with issues of expressing one’s self.
You have so many taboos and restrictions and limitations that you have accepted concerning the subject matter. For instance many of you believe that if you say no to someone they will think less of you, that if you decline from doing something other than what they are asking of you that you have somehow failed them or yourselves. Expressing your own authority is an issue that sometimes makes some people’s skin crawl because of the distortions of the word authority.
If you express your being as you desire it to be, again what will others think of you? We can present many other such examples but it is important to recognize that the theme here often is: “What Others Will Think Of You”. How you will be viewed if you stand firm on your abilities to do or not do what you are asked as a small example. Though it may seem benign to some, the topic itself can have far reaching implications for many because you have been brought up to always try to be a good person and to some, being a good person means that you never say no because only selfish people say NO I cannot do this, I cannot do that or the other thing that you are asking me.
Even if your schedule is already filled to the brim you will still try and bend over backwards to do what other people ask of you and if you cannot acquiesce then what will this other person think of you?
And when you refuse to actually express your true state of mind and you accept the things other people ask of you, knowing full well that you cannot possibly fulfill their requests, you lie to yourselves and you lie to them. You only add to the burdens that you already carry. Often not only to the detriments of your friendships but also to your own selves, for then you must make excuses. Then you must cultivate a variety of reasons to why you can or cannot do what you promised. This is but a small example.
There are others that are also valid. For instance many of you are fully aware that you have been brought up in various cultural backgrounds but many of you have been brought up to respect the authority of others including your elders and many of you have also been brought up to fear your own individual thought processes to make up your own minds. And as you discover for yourselves the limitations imposed upon you by your cultures and your society, you often feel that you are in a maze with no exits because you need to express your own individuality but you cannot because of limitations that you have accepted.
Many of you feel that you have to accept you lot in life because these are the only cards dealt to you. Many of you feel powerless to get out of situations that have become part of your daily life, and even trying to imagine some way to change whom and what you are and your experiences of life becomes more than what you can deal with.
Personal Power and resources that empower who you are often appear beyond your grasp because the establishment teaches you that your health for instance can only be something others tell you about such as your medical system and your sciences. They are the ones that regulate what you can and cannot consider as far as your health (is concerned). Your educational system teaches you so many venues and not others and society sets specific boundaries as to what kind of experiences you can allow yourselves. And yet in most individuals there is an intuitive knowing that you can go beyond the limitations that you have accepted.
Many people feel that there is a lack of inner resources to break through the spiritual experiences that they wish to bring into their lives. So you run from one Guru to another, you run to the latest book that tells you to how to unleash unlimited power. Not that there is anything wrong with gathering knowledge but you should know that you have within yourselves a font of knowledge that goes beyond those experiences that are apart of your daily life that belong to you. There are resources within yourselves that are not often tapped and less of them used to your advantage.
We have in the past briefly described that already within your grasps is a vast resource of the inner knowledge that you have not paid attention to but has always made itself manifest to you. At the risk of repeating ourselves we will mention them again.
Now you have all gone to school to learn how to read, you have all gone to school to learn how to string together particular words into sentences with proper grammar and proper use of verbs, nouns and adjectives so that you can organize you syntax in a rational manner. You have learned how to write and so on and so forth.
But before you did all of those things you had already learnt how to see without anyone teaching you how to interpret the signals that the cones and the rods in your eyes transmit to your brain. You had already learned how to hear. You do not go to school to learn how to hear nor how to see. We see no evidence of these kinds of schools. There is also no school in your world that teaches you to think. Can you remember how you learned how to think? Indeed not.
This thinking process is an innate process that you are born with. You certainly went to school to learn how to organize your thought patterns in specific structures that you identify as rational intellectually thinking. You also do not need to go to school to learn how to feel. You knew how you felt from the moment you were born and before. You also do not recall how you learnt to walk or even grow your bodies. Did you have to learn how to grow your finger or your ear or your small toe? Indeed not.
Your scientists call it genetics but you knew how to grow your bodies and people have been growing their bodies since before knowing about genetics. The plants and the animals also know how to grow without anyone teaching them. You did not have to go to Mommy and Daddy and ask, “Mommy, how do I grow my nose?” You may have learned how to pick it but you did not need to learn how to grow it.
There is within you even now specific knowledge on how to breath. Did you have to at one time set yourself down and say; “Now I must learn how to breathe properly?”, or how to tell my heart how many times it must beat in a minute? Or how follicles must grow hair? Indeed not. This inner knowledge is also the source of your own Personal Power.
Unfortunately with the passage of time you have superseded that self-authority usually with limitations. You cannot do this, you cannot do that, you cannot think these thoughts, which often continue, throughout your life without you ever knowing that there is an inner font of knowledge that you were born with.
You are not born with a blank slate upon which others write the rules of life. You make your own rules according to what you hear and see in your environment, above and beyond the rules of this inner knowledge and when you are told sufficiently that you must guard against inner knowledge you begin to set up defences against this inner power. You set up barriers between yourself and yourself. You divorce your own being. You basically become two people.
You have learnt then to some degree or another to not rely on your inner power but instead on a network of rules and regulations that seek instead to have you deny the inner experiences that are your true source of power. For instance, some individuals have shared with us that sometimes when life gets difficult and others seem to bother them and many people have experienced this, they will say that “I wish so and so would simply disappear or get out of my life” and they find out a day or two later that so and so may have had an unfortunate accident, maybe even something fatal and then they berate themselves. “Why did I wish them this fate? Why did I wish so and so to go away or to drop dead?” though not everyone has had such an experience many people do, enough to identify with this.
Now if you believe that your singular thought on the subject matter was strong enough to injure another, you have deluded yourselves. You have thought that your egos were FAR bigger than previously assumed.
You do not hold that kind of power but the issue here is that you have assumed along those lines that your inner thoughts, your inner power is of a destructive quality to harm others because you have wished it so. Because you have been taught from infancy that your inner thoughts, your inner power is dangerous and is to be handled with kid gloves because it can be explosive and it will undoubtedly harm others if you but wish it.
Please get over yourselves (humorously)! You do not hold that kind of power but you do hold the key to releasing destructive beliefs concerning your inner power. That is one of the many reasons why you do not tap into it. Because you believe that it is dangerous. That is but one small example.
We are certain that you come up with many more on your own relevant to feeling that energy that is in yourself, that same energy that keeps you breathing without you giving it even one small iota of thought.
Imagine if you had to consciously breathe on your own. We guarantee you that you would not last more than five minutes. There is a wondrous, miraculous nature to your being that you do not pay attention to yet. You [just] try to consciously engage eliminating food stuffs and particles and toxins from your body.
You would not fare [last] for long, for you do not know how to process the digestion involved nor how your various hormones secrete acids and other such things that enable you to derive nutrients from your food stuffs and how to eliminate them from your body.
Try to consciously work the logistics involved in taking one step or even of translating one of your thoughts into a spoken word. It is a task that is consciously nearly impossible. So you rely on the subconscious processes for so many things that it would boggle your conscious mind to take it all into account.
Your unconscious or subconscious mind is aware of every single breath that you have taken from the first until now. It is aware of all the cells in your body that have come and gone, of every hair on your body that has come and gone and filled the trap in the sink. It is aware of every single step that you have taken without you having to keep tabs on any of it.
These inner unconscious processes go on behind the scenes, whether you are aware of them or not in spite of the fact that the unconscious is aware of you and these processes continue uninterrupted, unless you take your own life or you reach the end of the road in this lifetime and yet, still, they continue on other levels whilst you are in between incarnations. So, all of these unconscious processes still are part and parcel of this inner network of Personal Power, even though you are not conscious of all these unconscious processes you are still able to express and affirm your being. We are suggesting to you today that there are other ways to express your being especially if you find yourself in situations where whom you are is being diminished in one way or another through your own belief structures, such as in the examples that we have given you earlier.
We are going now to suggest to you a small exercise of but a few minutes time, if you are also willing and whatever sounds you hear in the environment can be utilized to further deepen the meditation that we will guide you through. So if you are all ready and willing we suggest that you sit comfortably in your chair, preferably with both feet on the ground and close your eyes so that you can deepen the relaxation.
We also suggest that you take nice deep soothing breaths and as you take one and two and more such breaths, you listen to the sound of the air rushing through your lungs and back out so that you become deeply aware of the mechanisms involved in breathing, in inflating the lungs so that air rushes in and leaves the lungs. As you continue to deepen the relaxation and listen to the sound of our voice as the air rushes in and out of your lungs in a nice soothing manner, pay attention to the beating of your heart in your rib cage and become acquainted with the rhythm of your own heartbeat and the mighty rush of blood as it courses from your heart into your veins into all parts of your body.
As you continue relaxing in the breath and rush of blood through your veins into your body, into your arms, your legs, your fingers, your toes, your head, try and grasp the sense of whom you are. Become aware of the essence of your own presence of your own being within the cells of your body. Get an idea of you at the cellular structure. Feel out the contours of your being knowing full well that though you have a body and that the breath rushes into it’s lungs and blood courses into its veins and into all its parts, you are something separate from that same body.
You are an energy, a consciousness that is both a part of and separate from the body, that your energy gives of itself to the body but it is not your body and it is filled with a power that resonates and vibrates with an energy source that originates beyond the body, beyond time and space, beyond our own voice but is still part and parcel of its physical structure and notices the body with an unlimited supply of strength and vitality, that this energy, this inner power is part of parcel of the universe.
It belongs to the same power that makes the leaves rustle when the wind blows through the them, that makes the blade of grass grow and the giant oak rest in its roots. It is part and parcel of the same power that suspends your planet in its orbit as well as all of the other planets that orbit around the sun in your solar system and beyond. Sense this great psychological energy and slowly regain awareness of your own physical body sitting in the chair in this bookstore and breathe deeply so that on the count of three you will be free to return to your normal senses. ONE, take another deep breath, slowly move your fingers and toes. TWO and on THREE now open your eyes and breath deeply.
We are all back in the room? No one is straggling back [there] in space? This is but a small meditation but one that can be used most effectively to get in touch with your own inner reserves of energy and can lead you to understand more profoundly the very nature of this great energy that you are part and parcel of. We now will take a few minutes break. We suggest that you at least move around and chit-chat and then we will come back and wrap up and answer some of your questions.
We have trusted that you have enjoyed yourselves so far and that you have thought of these things, that you have pondered them that you will explore these inner dimensions to your greater satisfaction and fulfillment. The issue here truly is the question of self and inner fulfillment. Without understanding your own nature, which is beyond the physical body, beyond the biological self, you are a spiritual self, without understanding this basic premise it will be difficult for you to truly feel fulfillment in any of its capacities because you always sense that there is something more but you will only rely upon the outer physical senses to bring you data, information that has to do with your nature. Since your own nature exists beyond the confines of time and space and beyond your biological structure, your physical senses must distort and even pervert inner psychological experiences.
You tend to deny them and only rely upon the information that your physical senses feed you. In other words if only the world of matter mattered then you would be in deep trouble to try to understand even the simplest of psychological experiences.
You do not for example deny the validity of grieving for the loss of a loved one or a friend, yet that grieving experience is entirely psychological. It is not related to any outside material at all excepting for the loss of the physical body of your friend or loved one. Even though you cannot hold the grieving in your hand, you cannot dissect it in the laboratory its experience can never be denied. It would take the most foolhardy individual to proclaim that it has no validity.
In the same light the experience of “yourself” has even more validity even if the self cannot be dissected in the laboratory, inspected under the microscope, in any way shape or form. Of course your body can be so dissected but we do not recommend it. We hear that it hurts. But the validity of yourself as you experience that self, the being that you are cannot be denied, and herein lays the power of experiencing that self, apart, above and beyond the physical body that you see when you look in the mirror. That physical body that you see is an expression of that self but it is not you. That is what is different between a living individual and a corpse. A very basic equation: You are alive and a corpse’s life force is gone. It has moved on and shed its clothing of flesh and blood.
The small exercise that we shared with you can be used at liberty but not twenty times a day, once in a while to ground yourself to your own spiritual nature where the true form of power exists, not anywhere else. You cannot run to the hills and find yourself. You find yourself where you are and that is where you will find your power. We hope that you are able to utilize this small teaching and grow in respect for the being that you are and do not diminish its validity.
Though some of what we said may not mean much to you at this time and though some of it may mean much to you at this time we humbly ask that you only examine its potential for you. This is not something cast in stone and there is no great being demanding that you listen to us. There are only the echoes of the voice within you, that inner spiritual power that speaks to you through us now.
So with that we will open the floor to your questions and we simply ask that you speak up when you ask your question.
(Kris here is addressing a young man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia): Now you are seeking an answer and dear most friend, to understand?
Yes.
Indeed. There are no beings possessing you. There are no spirits possessing you. What you do have is some disturbance at the psychological level.
So do I know how to make people think of things?
Indeed, no one has that power.
So I don’t know how to make people think of things?
Indeed NOT.
Okay.
You should take the Doctor’s advice and stay on your meds. This will bring you far more peace of mind until your own chemical balances are re-established. Your schizophrenia is the result of chemical imbalances and it needs to be corrected. You should also consult with a nutritionist who is educated in this capacity. Much of the chemical imbalances can be corrected with the proper nutrition. Do you understand? You will have to research and find someone who can help you at that level. Other than that understand that like all others here you are a blessed individual and not flawed. You understand? Now others have questions.
At this point the audience starts to ask questions. MOST questions are too faint to make out and some are long winded, while others yet are personal. Even though the audio CD continues further, I choose to end the transcription here.
