Staying Vertical
Staying vertical is being now without thought or intent. It’s a conscious state of receptivity to the inner and outer hemispheres of existence. Inherent in the immediacy of now is the power of Will, which is the executive agency of the divine creative source or God. The closest word to describe Will is purpose, which encompasses the idea of life in its myriad manifested forms. Without purpose in the life an individual will operate below their true potential, since the life’s direction will be largely influenced by the personal demands of the self and the aberrant emotional energies. Staying vertical as intelligence in matter is the point of the spiritual life.
Emotional energy, which is created in time and not the timeless, is circuitous and follows a prescribed orbit outside the body in what is known as the aura. All movement of the mind happens in external space which, from the perspective of universal consciousness, includes the subconscious realm. Beginning in the dark recesses of the subconscious, a quantum of emotion arises as a reactionary force triggered by outer events or through calling up the past of some experience stored within the memory. Once activated, an emotion is compelled to reach the surface of existence to the light where it was conceived. But as a reinstatement of living past, its presence in the present creates a conflict in time. This manifests as a selfish inclination in the person to reinforce the pain of existence and to take wilfully for itself.
Magnified a billion fold, the combined emotional force of the world rolls on unabated as a black cloud of negativity which now encircles the earth. This enclave of intensified space is the human intellect, which consists of every idea relative to the human condition of ignorance. These include ideas such as business, wealth gathering, technology, religion, politics, minorities, therapy and various forms of entertainment as an escape from reality – in other words, everything created in elapsed time and not in the original moment of eternity. Virtually everyone on earth reflects off the human intellect continually due to the absence of staying vertical within the body. The effect is a constant drain on the finest energies due to the momentum of the mind literally going around in circles.
Deeper into space is the terrestrial intellect, which is the depository of ideas relative to the betterment of humanity such as love, truth, virtue, compassion and justice. These ideas are continually informing humanity, but are degraded as they pass through the denser level of the human psyche before entering the sensory realm. Only in someone whose personal space has been purified sufficiently through living the divine life can these inspirational ideas be effectively communicated without causing more doubt and confusion. The quality of space, both inwardly and in the objective universe, becomes finer the deeper the perception is able to reach.
Spiritual power ‘travels’ on a vertical trajectory though the gradations of the psyche but is unable to enter existence in its original state of purity. Consequently, anything to exist bends or bows to this invisible but all pervasive source of reality; this is why there are no straight lines in nature. And yet as a spiritual imperative, the way through the emotional resistance of self can only be realised by staying inwardly vertical to offset the forces of existence. To this end is love, the conveyer of truth as the two aspects of life lived through these mortal forms. When love and truth are aligned as the divine radials of supreme intelligence and beauty, the simplicity of being is supported by the clarity of intellect and peace is restored to planet earth.
Thank you, Lance Kelly, for this wonderful new perspective on your theme of needing to subdue emotional attachment in order to reside in the pure space of spiritual existence. It often reminds me, in it’s basic premise, of the Buddhist equation of attachment = suffering.
That tradition uses an array of practices that blend physical and mental concentration to overcome this demon: meditation, recitation/chant, and other techniques that have, along with other spiritual traditions, also helped shape the modern concept of ‘mindfulness’. Have you struck upon any techniques or activities that can encourage this complex shift, activities/modalities that can actually assist us in breaking through those hardened layers of emotional sediment you describe?
I know for myself that mere mentation on this struggle does not suffice. Not only do those granite-like layers seem impenetrable but they also are added to on a daily basis in the current corrupt sensory space of our world. If there is one thing I know as a musician of 45 years is that although practice does not make perfect, it can bring the seemingly unattainable within reach. This knowledge appears to be innate to your being ( and I thank you for sharing it! ), but for the rest of us who struggle to find this balance I am curious if you have developed any techniques/practices you can share. Thank you!
It’s not the subduing of the emotional attachments but the transformation of the negative content, which is attachment to the pain of existence. Although certain techniques in spiritual practices can be helpful in the early stages, they eventually become crutches and an extension of the self’s attachment to the ignorance of the world. Many Buddhists meditate and chant for a lifetime and remain attached to their own psychic structure of reality which, as with any religious indoctrination, is a terrible burden on successive generations.
I only know of one thing that guarantees enlightenment and that begins with gratitude to God or the Source. But for this to be effective, the individual must have a reached a stage in life where they have suffered enough to be looking for something more real and enduring. Unless someone is sincere and one-pointed in their search for reality, they will fail and make excuses that it’s too hard or else settle for a life of compromise.
As far as I’m concerned, the time for spiritual practices and techniques is over. They are there for anyone who still needs them, but really they are not necessary for our times. We live in the hi-tech push button age and, as such, any spiritual teaching mirrors the evolution of the times. It’s now possible to ‘jump’ the time barrier from the robotic self-reflective intelligence to the faster than light speed of cosmic consciousness. All that’s required is to be as nothing and discard everything that’s ever been absorbed or thought about to do with life, love, truth, death or God. The ultimate truth is to be psychologically vulnerable to the moment, which is the now that never ends. The more this state can be held, the greater the sense of freedom and spiritual liberation. The reciprocal to attaining an uninterrupted peace of mind is attending to the existential life and dealing with any problem areas that could disturb the inner harmony.
The only power which can neutralise the compulsion to experience life, whatever the cost in human misery, is within the body. As an individual perseveres in denying the usual robotic self-expression of negativity, gratitude turns to devotion to the invisible subtlety of the spirit. It is quite natural to repeat within the being, ‘I love Thee’ or ‘I want nothing but to be with Thee’. It all comes down to loving the indefinable mystery of life in its formless state before anything or anybody in the objective world of form and motion. The man or woman must indeed be willing to bear the awful agony of the dissolution of their self through being present as the impersonal consciousness while simultaneously containing the energy of the transformative process. I am here to help those in this noble undertaking as a mirror of truth in this world of deep confusion and uncertainty.