Training Report 2

The first training group of 12 sessions finished in April and was followed by a one day retreat which was held in a cottage atop Mt Dandenong, just outside of Melbourne. It seemed to me fitting to complete the first course on top of a mountain given there is so much in the process that evokes the flavour of the Transfiguration, also known as the Mountain top experience.

This flavour is evoked in our energy transmission process in which the blessing is offered by placing the hands on the head of the recipient in the manner of the early Christians. There is also the grace filled experience of the golden light, an intimate encounter with the Divinity, with similarities to the Master Jesus' mountain top experience. And while all experiences are transient, they are signposts along the way which confirm we are heading in the right direction. It is the emergence of a desire to serve and a growing sense of spiritual purpose that seem to me to be the most important fruits in our Process. An increasing confidence, the urge to be patient, to practise detached concern, forgiveness and fortitude are also signs of the change. So having observed in my own and participants experience some of these elements, it convinces me that this process leads into ever deepening states of awareness.

In approaching the transfiguration of the personality nature we are not always prepared to receive the purifying fires that come with the process. As I write I think of a Chinese tea pot I once bought in order to brew some Chinese herbs I needed to take at the time. It was an earthen-ware pot that was quite porous and it had either not been fired properly or had a hairline crack in it. Having filled it with water and slowly brought the water to the boil the whole thing started leaking and both herbs and teapot had to be thrown away. You can see the analogy!

If the 3 aspects of your personality haven't been properly tempered and purified then when you heat it up with the spiritual and psychics fires you invoke, it will not be able to stand the rigours of the process. In this regard one of the participants in the program said that maybe I shouldn't have called it an enlightenment process, because she didn't have an enlightenment experience. And yet if she had been at that stage where she was ready, then she may well have done so. In the earlier stages of our growth we can sometimes overestimate our point of development but are usually protected from taking on more than we can handle.

With our growing spiritual freedom there is little but our discernment to protect us and so let us refresh our understanding of the prerequisites to be fulfilled before this process of awakening can occur in us. Before transfiguration can do its work of shifting our focus from the mental to intuitive level we need to have refined the physical, emotional and mental bodies. This refinement occurs when we do breathing and pranic energy exercises to cleanse and purify the cells in our physical bodies, a process aided by pure diet, exercise and proper rest. Emotional energy is purified when the blocked and repressed emotions and desires held in our emotional body are released through therapeutic catharsis, breathing, devotional exercises and the practice of values like forgiveness and patience. Mental healing occurs when we gain insight into any mistaken beliefs or convictions, false or distracting memories, as well as prejudices and projections and it is aided by attitudes of discernment, discrimination.

Once the purification of these three levels of our consciousness is on track we may then be ready to receive the transfiguring energies of solar and electric fire from our divine Teachers. What you may find is that if the energies are introduced prior to having achieved a level of purification then they can precipitate a rapid release of all the impurities on each of these levels and a personal crisis ensues. This is not the end of the world, but it does means we may have to work through sudden illnesses, overwhelming emotions like rage and fear, seemingly insatiable desires, inflated ego or manic states or severe depression, all and any of which can confuse and frighten us and lead us to abandon the Path. Better to prepare the ground first.

The purpose of this group is to offer the practices which can help purify all levels of your personality so that you can experience Oneness with the Divine Life. From this awakened view you are then able to recognise your purpose and be a conscious centre of expression for the divine Will to Good.

The session on the mountain included an initiatory ritual and I explained to participants the nature of the blessing process and invited them to help in offering it to the public.

In the next few months we hope to start running programs to share the process with a wider audience.