More About the Unobstructed Heart's Desire

Question 6:    Last week you described the six streams or bundles of probabilities that humans have mostly remained within until now. You said that within those six probabilities, we are subject to karma. What did you mean by karma?

Mataji/John's response:  By karma, I mean two things, and I'm not sure I've indicated which meaning I've been referring to. There is the karma seen by psychics as a particular kind of energy block. You can learn a specific psychic skill to end this kind of karma, or you can simply exhaust it through experience and new understandings. This kind of karma gives you your resources and challenges within the six streams of probabilities.

There is another way in which I have used the word karma. I have used it to describe the outlines of a person's personal identity. This usage is similar in meaning to, if not identical to, Jane Robert's Seth's feeling tones. Feeling tones are a person's major tendencies. They are the overall feel and direction of one's aura. Feeling tones are built up not just over a single lifetime, but also over many lifetimes. They are what gives each person a different style and feeling. They are perceptible in any interaction and give a person a unique identity.

People create feeling tones as they explore life. The current human project, which has been going on for about three thousand five hundred years, is for humans to individuate. The way the human race has chosen to do this is through the functions of the first three chakras: 1st) by engaging physicality (grounding), 2nd) by exploring our desires and our boundaries, and 3rd) by coming to some understanding of both our own desires and other people's. Then we learn how to act on and choose among the conflicting choices those desires and limited resources present.

We individuate by exploring these three functions in relationship to the rest of society. We learn gradually, both during a single lifetime and through many incarnations, how to coordinate the first three chakras and how to negotiate our choices with society. Whatever we create for ourselves through these three chakras is, in fact, desire organized by our beliefs, and manifested by our grounding. Feeling tones are intense long term cumulations of the desire we have organized and grounded. Until we can coordinate our desires and our soul, they are, in a sense, who we are.

So the six streams of probabilities operate out of our feeling tones, which both result from and govern the scope of our exploration of our desires in everyday life. Within the scope provided by our feeling tones, that is, within the scope provided by our personal identity, we have enormous freedom(1). Still, everything we create flows from the coordination and grounding we can bring to our desires. Creation requires quite a lot of coordinated desire. Large changes in direction, even within the six streams, usually require a lot of time and experience to build sufficient intensities and coordination.

Often, intensity alone not only doesn't speed up the process; it slows it down because it can interfere with the coordination or grounding. What does speed up the process is an attitude of playfulness or childlike engagement, even in the worst of situations. When you cultivate such an attitude, you will be more resourceful, and better able to find your way out. You will also suffer less, as you will tend to be more in touch with the underlying joy and support of the universe. You will be more aware of the sacredness of all experience, an awareness which can genuinely provide comfort and joy.

Soon, I will discuss how one can leap past one's personality feeling tones, past karma. In any case, when you are in a bad situation, you still have many resources within your six streams. First, maybe the karma of your resources and challenges is just about to change, and you can help yourself by staying playful or engaged. Second, you can change your beliefs and use the support and resources available. Inevitably, your experience will improve even if yours is one of those rare situations with an unchangeable underlying situation (within the six streams) like Robert Stroud's. You may recall he was sentenced to life in isolation, yet he became an internationally recognized expert in what he loved, taking care of birds. (See endnote in Question 5.)

The scope of ordinary variability a person has for creating alternate outcomes, given their feeling tones, is both incredibly broad and limited. It is the scope provided by the six streams or bundles of probabilities that people ordinarily have access to at this time in human development, and which I discussed last week. For example, in the baby boomer generation, probably around 10,000 people had the possibility of becoming President of the United States in their six streams when they were born. So, it will surprise no one that, as a practical matter, only a small percentage of people can grow up to be President. Given the decisions those possible candidates made, there would be far fewer who have that probability still available now within their six streams, and it is important to note, having the possibility is not the same as having the likelihood. In fact, most people use only two or three of their six streams. Today, there would be only around 200 baby boomers who have becoming President as an option in their six streams.

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