DISCOVERING OUR HIDDEN FACE

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You've probably had the uncanny experience of hearing the phone ring and knowing who's on the other end of the line before you even pick up the receiver. And chances are that you've felt tension at the office so thick you could cut it with a knife, or felt enveloped in peace and tranquillity while standing in a large church or walking through a forest. In the same vein, you might say, “I feel as if I'm suffocating in my own home.” or “I feel great when I'm over at my neighbour's”. Why is it that some people strike you as thoroughly unpleasant even though, on the face of it, they've never been anything but polite? What makes you doubt someone's sincerity without any concrete evidence to prove it? What are these feelings and where do they come from? The answer: your perceptions.

 

The senses rule both the physical being and behaviour: they let us know when something feels good, or alert us to danger. Like quivering antennae, or a cat's whiskers, the senses are constantly picking up messages from the environment. But there's a catch: propelled by the ego, with its subjective point of view, you can be easily swayed and led to mistrust the self and its perceptions. For example, if you tell your husband or wife that you feel uncomfortable in your own home, they might find your comment rather strange. But the fact is that you, and you alone, know what you're feeling.

The difference between two people's perceptions doesn't pose a problem unless one of you doesn't acknowledge that difference. If you tell your husband that you sense a chill between the two of you, and he makes no effort to understand why you feel this way, or ignores what you're saying, chances are that you'll begin to doubt your own feelings. Sensing your insecurity, he'll decide that he was right all along.

 

In an attempt to be non-judgemental and respectful of difference in others, you may be tolerant to an extreme, which can be very self-destructive. Does accepting another person's point of view mean that you inevitably destroy something in yourself? And why is it that you can sense someone's intentions, yet are unable to reveal what motivates them?

 

 

Because when it comes to our perceptions,

we are easily manipulated.

 

As an individual, if you study your perceptions carefully, you'll be confident when it comes to identifying them; if you are unsure of yourself and emotionally vulnerable, you won't have access to your extrasensory faculties. By honing your perceptions, by stating what they are and getting to know your soul, the feelings of doubt that nag at your consciousness will disappear, opening the way to supramental awareness.

 

There's no right or wrong when it comes to your perceptions. But it can be difficult to control subjective responses when emotions cloud your judgement. This is a very personal way of experiencing things, of analysing and understanding in order to develop cognitive awareness and behaviour. The accumulation of subjective experience is fundamental to human identity; it constitutes the soul's memory, on which our emotions and our vision of the material world are founded. The memory of the soul shapes the personality; the intellect provides a sense of self-esteem and the rational. The intellect is imbued with the subjective ego, the personality. This is how we come to comprehend the world: through experience coloured by emotion, experience which is in no way objective, because this shifting, fertile ground is where our unique nature develops. This is how we perceive life, from the perspective of personality.

 

Logical thought does not acknowledge the unknown as a source of truth.

 

The ability to reason is not an objective faculty. Inevitably, it is influenced by the individual's intellectual capacity. If logical thinking gives the impression of being objective, that is because it is reinforced by memory, and based on accepted values.

 

As a result, when we analyze our perceptions rationally, we always compare them to what we already know, which prevents us from experiencing creative growth. Reason gives rise to a kind of thinking that reflects reality and is incapable of renewal. All thought is therefore only part truth, a mirage of reality, whose real source remains hidden. The result is an impression of unfathomable mystery, depriving us of self-knowledge and potentially engulfing us in deep despair.

 

The personality is sustained by this impression of mystery, making the definition of the self vague, incomplete, and inaccessible. This feeling of never entirely understanding yourself leads to psychological stress, which you may tolerate to a greater or lesser degree, depending on your sensitivity and whether you unload your stress on others or turn it in on yourself. When this tension verges on the unbearable, there are two options: insanity or consciousness.

 

If you do not liberate the ego from its conditioning, you will eventually succumb to insanity. Consciousness emerges from a beam of light which we identify as a feeling of peace. When the magnetic attraction of this peaceful feeling is stronger than the colour and excitement of the personality, the choice is clear. But what lies ahead is the serious task of stripping layers from the ego.

 

The transparency of the ego is what results when sense memory is extracted from the psychological reality of the self.

 

The perceptions (senses) are connected to your degree of consciousness. The more conscious you are, the more you feel the burden of responsibility for managing so much information, in order to have your behaviour conform to your will, which has been programmed by the Majority opinion. The complexity of the programmed self creates a deficiency, causing the ego to suffer. This psychological architecture (the personality), built on socially accepted values (family, society, etc.), collapses when you can no longer tolerate it as the entire foundation of your being. You realize that your parents and society have helped mold your way of thinking, and as a result, your behaviour. You rebel. This is where freedom begins.

 

The task of stripping layers from the ego

begins the moment you reject the lie of your identity.

 

What makes this lie hard to endure is the obvious isolation it implies. As you develop your consciousness, you lose your reference points; the ensuing feeling of solitude disturbs your equilibrium. This explains why institutional systems were established - as psychological buttresses for the well being of humanity, to preserve our equilibrium. These systems are essential to social order in the world, in spite of their tendency to become corrupt. It's better to have a social order that is abused by some, to the detriment of the Majority, than a Majority that comes to consciousness prematurely, only to descend into madness. Imagine what would happen if, simultaneously, billions of people experienced unbearable psychic angst. But there is a price to pay for social order: corruption, which leads to the growing gap between rich and poor. Consciousness affects the individual alone; by dissociating you from society at large, it shapes your mental powers. To maintain your equilibrium, you must face your inner demons and draw on inner strength.

 

Therefore, when we mistrust of our own perceptions, we defer to the other. But who is the other? Someone who suffers from insecurity or who someone has come to terms with their individuality? An insecure person will inevitably defer to the Majority. If your husband begins to quote great thinkers to you, or repeats what friends and relatives say, or cites scientific findings and statistics to defend his point of view, it's likely that he's as unsure of himself as you are. He probably won't acknowledge your feelings, especially if you allow him to keep repeating what other people have said! In the end, he'll be convinced that he's right because his opinions, which are really someone else's, are confirmed by the group. And he'll be very persuasive in conveying his expectations of who he wants you to be, and what he wants you to think and do. But what makes him so convincing? The impression you have that he is very sure of himself.

 

Why do we trust the values of the Majority? To avoid being judged as different. Not that we are so different, but initially, the act of taking responsibility for ourselves as individuals makes us feel as if we've been laid bare, abandoned, making us want to run and hide. Not to mention the terrible burden of solitude and the fear of insanity.

 

Learning to think for oneself can lead to the brink of insanity,

which is why so many people chose not to explore their own identity.

 

These individuals claim that this is a conscious choice. However, if we don't rebel because we're afraid of tearing the veil of truth, however thin the veil, we will lose our identity to that great anonymous power - the Majority. However, the perceptions of the Majority are no more objective than our own.

 

If the Majority is made up of individuals who don't acknowledge their inner vision,

then it is powerless, and easily manipulated. And it is wrong.

 

To have the courage to speak of your perceptions and vision without feeling judged is the first step toward a more accurate awareness of your reality. After this struggle with your intuition, your awareness will, through supramental consciousness, become completely objective. The mind is basically a sophisticated computer. Its functions are restricted to what is rational and may be completely transformed by the emotions. This supposedly rational part of the human being is not, as one tends to believe, objective reality. The intellect has the ability to deduct, compare, and reason with the unseen, which is what we call “philosophy”. But the submental cannot “grasp” pure telepathic Knowledge in a single vibratory pulse because it must compartmentalize in order to comprehend.

 

The supramental is the key to pure telepathic Knowledge. It is governed not by the intellect, the submental, but by the spirit in resonance with the supramental. Extrasensory perception makes it possible to study supramental consciousness, initially, as in all science, by trial and error. However, this path is full of traps, leading to prejudice and fear. But you will learn that the more you experiment with the realm of the pure spirit, the higher your vibration and the more extrasensory your perceptions. That's when you can feel your telepathic connection “pulsing” with your true source. Then you will know that you have acquired pure telepathic Knowledge.

 

Your spirit provides the answers.

 

The little bulb that lights up in your head when you suddenly comprehend something comes from this resonance. The spirit, which exists in another dimension, wants you to progress, to ascend to a higher plane. But first it must strip away your tendency to believe in anything and everything.

 

Life is vibratory, not logical.

And the supramental makes it possible to synthesize life in an instant.

Vibratorily!

 

Preparing the third brain:

The supramental represents planetary attainment of the third brain. Upon reaching it, you will interpret life in a manner that is not simply cognitive but vibratory. Understanding occurs not through earthly perceptions, the senses, but via a telepathic link with your own spirit. It's a matter of adapting your consciousness to objective reality, by way of a transparent ego. You don't need to learn but rather to unlearn how to think, to make the spirit vibrate with the pure telepathic Knowledge you wish to attain. Its energy resonates within you, and you acquire the Knowledge.

 

We sense that the world is ruled by forces greater than the intellect can imagine. Each of us must discover these powers in our own conscious mind and control them in everyday life, both in our professional and personal lives.

 

As humans, we are inhabited by forces not yet revealed to us, which limits us to relying on our animal nature rather than the fire of the individual spirit. You cannot, in fact, objectively merge your light-identity with your intellect because the latter exists solely to reflect the former; before being able to comprehend, the mind must memorize, compare, deduct, and analyze. The logical thinking of the scientist, who intellectualizes using his or her animal nature, the senses, becomes a subjective rationality. Coloured by personal memories and the collective values of the unconscious mind, it forms the personality. Such a person has access only to previously acquired knowledge, and seeks recognition in order to validate their authority.

 

 During the day, at work or at home, how often do you feel completely relaxed?

How often do you worry about your energy level?

How often do you feel like a victim:

- because you can't understand what is happening to you;

- because you feel anxious;

- because you don't want to work like an automaton to be able to buy everything you need or want;

- because others take advantage of you;

- because you take advantage of others;

- because you feel helpless to change yourself or your situation, that it's just too late to change;

or because you don't know what to do with your life;

- you feel overwhelmed by the mystery of life;

- you've been seduced by the ideal of the superhero, the “Superwoman” or “Superman”, someone you can become only in your imagination.

 

 

We ask ourselves these questions, not because we're unhappy,

but because our consciousness wants to open up to reality,

and facing this reality causes blinding pain.

 

When you spend time with someone, you might find yourself thinking: “It's so relaxing to be with this person”, or just the opposite, “This person is so annoying”, “I feel so ill at ease when I'm with this person”. The part of you that senses these reactions is the intuitive, so-called “irrational” part of the self, a part of the self we would never trust because we think intuition is worthless; it's not even recognized as part of our collective consciousness. With good reason, as most of us don't have the spiritual maturity to comprehend the extrasensory world. This explains why people continue to trust the apparent infallibility of scientific logic, even though it too resorts to blind subjectivity when confronted with invisible forces.

 

This also explains why people avoid the fundamental questions, why there is a deafening silence when the day draws to a close, you log off your computer, switch off the late night movie, and there is nothing left to distract you from yourself. So as not to shatter your ego, with all its illusions, you avoid talking about your problems, are afraid to express your emotions and desires. The more superficial your life, the more the mystery of the self weighs on you. But what is this mystery? And who created it?

 

There is no mystery. There is only the human mind, dominated by fear, doubt, the quest for happiness and the fear of losing it, the search for God, etc. Domination is the principle cause of our suffering. Again and again, it deceives our sensory perceptions. The ego wants to be dominated; that's how it avoids taking responsibility for its identity. This domination appears to placate the ego, but later there will be a price to pay, unless, of course, the buck gets passed to the next generation…As long as you chose to remain unconscious, refusing to demystify your identity, you will be unable to control your inner impulses.

 

The thread connecting us to our impulses also leads to the true Self.

But fear intervenes, preventing us from gaining control of this reality.

 

Instead we defer to others. What the Majority thinks clouds the mind and leads to beliefs (political, religious, traditions, trends, etc.) that sap our vital energy. These illusory values are the quicksand of our visible identity, a distortion which has become the norm but constantly threatens humanity's survival. It leads to wars, an overwhelming desire for competitiveness, and violence, which perpetuates hypnotization of the mind. It begins in the subtle bodies of your being, in those areas of your life where your impulses vibrate.

 

How to strip layers from the earthly ego and survive:

A non-transparent ego cannot comprehend what it sees, due to a lack of light, or intelligence. To liberate the ego, you must be prepared to transform your vibratory quality - all those forms of negative and positive thinking locked inside you. This task of stripping layers from the ego may only be carried out on an individual basis, through each and every consciousness that achieves awareness.

 

The practice of stripping layers from the ego is a process of becoming invisible, therefore untouchable. This requires the ability to remain anonymous.

To maintain transparence, the desire for recognition must disappear without giving the ego the impression that it, the ego itself, has ceased to exist. Only the supramental makes it possible for the ego to know that it continues to exist independently. As such, the ego is not subject to domination. The supramental prevails over material existence when communication with the ego becomes transparent and genuine.

The supramental grasps, first and foremost, not the form but the spirit of things.

 

Your identity:

In developing the supramental, you do away with mystery, that revolving door of all forms of domination, and are able to elevate your vibration, namely, the nuclear structures of your true global identity. This way, you can effect change in your environment so that it continues to evolve; you are able to see who hides behind the veil of mystery and work to control the invisible forces within you. Adversely, the non-transparent ego refuses to become aware and attempts to complicate, cloud, and contradict matters, in order to conceal its limitations and weaknesses, and to fill its bottomless pit with doubt and insecurity.

 

We feel dominated because we don't know the true nature of our identity.

 

Once you become aware of the spirit's impulses within the supramental, then both your professional and your personal lives become an endless exploration of the invisible. The invisible besieges the human mind, veiling it in centuries of myth and legend. Let's shatter these myths, these structures of the known, to perceive, at last, the beauty and strength of Our Hidden Face.

 

 

SECTION ONE

PORTRAIT OF AN ALIENATED SOCIETY

“What do you want to be when you're older?

“I want to be famous.”

 

Why not wish to become yourself? Today, people prefer to flaunt financial success and material wealth. Corporate CEOs work only for profit, reporters, instead of delivering the news, chatter on about themselves, politicians tout their image rather than their political program, and avoiding corruption is a major challenge. Meanwhile, the “celebrities” who claim to have God on their side, are willing to sacrifice themselves for shady causes financed by outright opportunists.

 

Without even realizing it, these “stars” yearn to escape from death's control of their consciousness.

 

These pseudo-celebrities, seeking their fifteen minutes of fame, are everywhere. They promise to deliver their very best: young suicide bombers, city hall technocrats, public and private sector bosses, not to mention those omnipresent soul-less singers and navel-gazing TV reporters. We invent our own celebrities: from the supermoms determined to win in the struggle to balance work and family, to the street people who practically assault you as they offer to wash your windshield.

 

These stars fear the void; for them, fame and material wealth hold the promise of immortality and salvation. But fear of death obscures their true strength. In their zeal to misinform, they use politically correct language, which distorts reality; by refusing to call a spade a spade, they exclude important issues from public debate. Abandon reality and whole populations are paralyzed, frozen in an apparently permanent stupor. Apparently, but not absolutely permanent…

 

People no longer discuss burnout, high levels of stress, depression, or workplace absenteeism. Instead, they're resigned to having their hard-earned dollars embezzled by the gurus of high finance, those same wheeler-dealers who promise us a better world governed by the all-mighty advertising agency. Slaves were never this compliant! People believe that the more they work, the more buying power they'll have. Which is fine, except if you overdo it and end up with debts beyond your wildest dreams! A little humility is a good thing. If your ambitions are greater than your ability to realize them, the pressure may be so intense that you lose yourself in the process. So you blame something or someone else: society, your spouse, or your child's school. Anything to avoid admitting that you shouldn't have been so greedy and ambitious, or in such a rush to get ahead. But what about your all-important image?! We know that striving for greater efficiency, with success as the ultimate goal, may lead to utter despair.

 

To a person who is desperate, the world appears to be a very materialistic place.

But cease being a victim of the world you see around you,

and you will begin to understand who you are and where you come from.

Then, perhaps you'll stop looking for someone to blame, and somewhere to run.

 

The business world is conditioned by the submental mind of the manager who would like everything to be logical and infallible. The manager is caught in a struggle for power, a struggle controlled by a handful of individuals whose consciousness perceives only shadows. Obscurity rules our world. The struggle to survive continues to overpower human intelligence. In spite of great material wealth, we haven't yet solved the problem of survival; it's just as it was during the time of the caveman. We are slow to tear the veil from our consciousness, which is the key to freedom. Instead we choose the glamour and glitter of celebrity, hoping to dupe death, which is omnipresent and constantly manipulating our minds. A person may be besotted with the world of finance, his identity held together by money, his consciousness not yet strong enough to sustain him. What he seeks are established, familiar parameters.

 

Once he's been lured by the market into believing in financial security,

or that he will become a legend on Wall Street,

he will be a mere shadow of himself.

Lurking in the shade to conceal the power he has over others,

he is the complicit slave of the dark forces.

 

Life is neither logical nor infallible. Until you are able to demystify your soul, and its stalker - death - you will be subject to invisible forces which take hold of your mind. These forces may lull you to sleep, terrify you, or delude you into believing that the meaning of life is fame, and wealth, material pleasures. Today, as a result of striving to become a “star” – epidemic in our society – people divert their consciousness from the most important practice of the millennium:

 

The development of the third brain, namely the supramental,

which has the capacity to obliterate the devastating effects

of domination on human consciousness, starting with death itself.

 

Humanity needs not reassurance but release:

Government and science tend to soothe our anxieties and occupy our inner lives. But instead of liberating us, they smooth away angst by encouraging dependence - on God, money, technology, drugs, and work. These systems are ruled by economic laws subject to the pressures of senseless clan wars. History repeats itself.

 

We want to avenge the clan, spread our religion to subjugate others, conquer neighbours in the name of some god, and protect the tribe. All because deep down, we feel powerless. We waste our strength and energy fighting wars that cannot be won. Those of us who cling to the belief that one side will come out the winner are naïve. To fuel our desperation, we're willing to forfeit the best humanity has to offer.

 

Lusting after fame or trying to defeat anything other than death

is the result of not knowing your own inner strength.

 

A person who lives in his creative consciousness evolves according to what he needs in order to progress, rather than by looking to others for what he lacks.

 

Debasing the citizen to benefit the consumer:

Money so effectively lowers the citizen to the rank of consumer that even the search for Self becomes simply a matter of shopping for a trend. As consumers, our goal is to buy what we want without delaying our gratification, just like the celebrity who satisfies every whim on demand; many of us bill the cost of such frivolousness directly to our credit cards. The consumer is not supposed to ask questions: just bring home the bacon and avoid cracking up. Which explains the seductive powers of material comforts and easy entertainment. No institution (neither government, religion, nor science) has successfully demystified death, that angst which lies at the root of humanity's greatest problems, because this is a matter that affects the individual. Those death-defying stars do everything they can not to notice; instead they use their charm to persuade the rest of us to live as they do, totally unaware of their real power. As long as they have the Majority - or the board of directors - rooting for them, they'll choose material wealth over freedom from death. What they don't realize is that death preys on the mind, reducing their powers of creativity.

 

To attain wisdom, your goal should be not to go down in History

but to step outside it.

 

While the celebrity CEO stands on his head trying to impress an audience, the rest of humanity, wrung out and exhausted, has neither time nor energy to stand around applauding him. In the end, he makes off with the loot, thrilled that he hasn't been caught. But he doesn't even have time to pat himself on the back; he's too busy keeping up with the frenetic pace of a society that is simultaneously developing and deteriorating.

 

In the so-called “have” countries, once we've acquired the basic essentials,

all that's left is to quit working and lull ourselves back to sleep.

 

It's perfectly logical and legitimate to develop your talents, on the condition that you experience an inner evolution, to prevent you from selling your soul for dollars and cents. But often, due to a lack of maturity, the celebrity doesn't want to develop the ability to discriminate, or the wisdom that comes with time, which would enable them to truly become their own person. Likewise, today's consumers, fending for themselves in a market which feeds them all sorts of illusions about their real worth, no longer take the time to understand their own needs.

 

The star's principal weakness is a lack of internal independence.

Instead they rely on how others see and treat them,

which makes them vulnerable to manipulation.

 

“Person” before “personality”:

People are afraid to really know themselves, to let go of their personality in order to become a person. The aspect of the personality which charms and seduces is often maintained by the illusion of privilege. This allows you to believe that God (the public, the Majority, money, success) stands behind you - and you alone. You see yourself as “chosen” and this helps to bear your pain. The saviour watches over you. But who is this God (this public, the masses)? What does it want in return? Perhaps you're willing to trade in a little self-knowledge...? Often, clinging to their struggle, to what they've had to achieve in order to become the chosen one, the celebrity doesn't question their dependence, for fear of losing all they've acquired.

 

Fear of failure traps you in a psychic prison, where the pain of alienation

turns into a slow asphyxiation of the Self. This is the most perverse form of death.

 

The fear of failure:

To be afraid of failure is to believe in the existence of good and evil. However, with a higher consciousness, you learn to transcend the positive and negative values assigned by the group, thereby entering your pre-personal identity. There, beyond the whims of personality, lies your inner authority, showing you the road to take.

 

As soon as the fear of failure sets in, something in you becomes artificial. Imagine something you would like to possess immediately. Notice how the fear of not having it takes hold of your mind and body. Tension builds, making you aware that you are no longer free. If you maintain this level of tension, your behaviour will change, to meet other peoples' expectations of you. Do you really need the desired object? If you do, be aware that to delay your gratification would be a sign of self-respect.

 

Each evolving being is the child prodigy, abandoned by the gods, wandering the earth in a wretched state.

 

When you stop playing the role of the innocent, the stray sheep,

and assert instead that you are not lost,

it will become clear that you chose to go off on your own.

 

Will God be angry? The free person sees beyond behaviour to what is real, which liberates him from his psychological prison. He learns to live without a safety net, with neither saviour nor spectators. When the celebrity reaches mental maturity, he lets go of his talents and the applause, to delve into himself and discover the greatest treasure of all: peace. True success is found in the consciousness of a person capable of creating peaceful synergy because he is one with himself. Material success is no more than a passage, just as all life is vibratory movement. Nothing ends. A business flourishes for ten years, then folds. Do we suddenly announce that it's moribund because there's been a dip in the figures? It may yet rise from the ashes. Our society perpetuates the celebrity myth by booing the bad times and cheering for fame and glory. However, in the individual's consciousness, there is neither fame nor failure. There is simply a being who strives to raise his own awareness, working tirelessly to negotiate with the invisible, which at any moment, may strike with the weapons of hope and illusion to destroy his peace of mind.

 

Those who crave power and fame still find a place in society

because they aren't aware of suffering from lack of identity,

and because the Majority – the shadow of individual strength –

continues to reward beings who are without substance.

 

Some people like to believe that they are heroes, important historical figures; this superficial identity satisfies their ego. But if you aren't interested in performing like a trained dog or manipulating the masses just to hear the applause – what satisfaction will you get from this reaction? You must break open your earthly self to discover the light-filled part of your identity. By letting go – of convention, of justifying your behaviour, of personality - you will be able to see yourself as a powerful spirit, free to access the greater Self and, through matured consciousness, stabilize the light particles of your spirit.

 

As long as you are unable to embrace your light-filled counterpart, you will be a prisoner of your hidden face,

and will develop the fear of failure rather than the courage to be free.

 

The illusion of a better world:

As long as you romanticize the concepts of the spirit and of light within your mind, you will be estranged from the invisible powers and swept up in the illusion of the realm of death. The trick is to entice you with the promise of a just and beautiful world, even though your submental lacks the strength to create such a world. The individual light source, which has the capacity to create beauty, yields instead to death. To understand death's strategy, and to learn not to give in to it, you must develop a supramental consciousness. Without it, you remain unconscious, and your true beauty, inaccessible.

 

In both professional and personal life, the problem of identity persists. The questions: “Who am I?” “Where am I going?” “What should I do?” resurface from time to time, a reminder that you have an obligation to yourself, something no one else can do for you: to awaken your consciousness and patiently develop your supramental. In our times, religious and other institutions can no longer prevent conscious individuals from questioning the meaning of life. And the answers constitute neither law, political platform, nor religious sect, because the inner life, too vast to be contained by any institution, belongs to the individual alone.

 

Existential angst is caused by an impression of having lost contact with a distant flame.

 

At the dawn of the new millennium, we must prepare to open our higher consciousness

and enter into our multi-dimensional reality. There is no other way to curb angst, ignorance, famine, pain, sickness, mental illness, or anything that causes humanity's destruction. Only together, each in our supramental existence, can we achieve the salvation to which we aspire, and create a better world.