The Energy Way

 What's Going On

When we work with energy, when I start weaving energy around everybody, then people have very beautiful experiences. Then they get attached to those experiences, and they want to know why they can’t get them next week, or next month, or at Christmas. But the main purpose of the energy group is not to give you beautiful experiences. It’s okay to have beautiful experiences, I’m very happy for you if you do - I always have beautiful experiences in the seminars - but much more than that is going on.

People come to seminars like this usually because there are things about themselves that they feel they want to change. They are limited, or their emotions or feelings or ideas run in certain ways which don’t seem to be rich enough or to give them a feeling of joy or happiness, and so on. Or at a later stage maybe you come because you want to become enlightened.

All these things that you feel are troubling you, or creating problems for you, all these things that seem to be impeding your progress, or your spiritual path, all of these things are simply, on another level, structures of energy. If you get jealous all the time over little things with your boyfriend or your girlfriend, then that is a structure of energy. If you are afraid of other people, then that’s a structure of energy. If you are afraid of yourself, that’s a structure of energy. If you get depressed a lot, that’s a structure of energy.

All the things that seem to be obstacles, they’re all structures of energy. So instead of working on the level of trying to understand and go beyond, trying to see why you are in a certain way and what you can do in order to not be in such a way, talking about it to get new ideas about it, instead of doing all that - which can be endless - in the work that we do in OneLife, we work on those things on a different level altogether - on an energy level. For this, I bring something from a level on the other side of all your problems.

On the other side of all your problems there is a place to be in yourself where your energy is in tune with the basic energy of the universe. And in the seminars this energy is present, and when it hits the energy of your structures, it is going to disturb your structures, it’s going to move to open your structures or dissolve your structures. That’s the direction it’s going in. It may not succeed in doing it in one weekend, of course, but the movement is to dissolve the structures, to open the structures, so that the energy that’s locked inside the structures and which has a certain vibration which is repeating itself, which is fixed on a level which is not enlightened, can fall and dissolve into the One energy. So in that way it is a therapeutic method. All therapies are designed to open structures, or to make the structures more loose, or more open, or more expanded, or more intelligent, and so on.

So that’s the process that goes on. When the interaction happens with the cosmic energy, then you will of course, as the structures get affected by that, be influenced by that, or moved by that, you will get certain kinds of experiences. This basic energy hits the trapped energy, the energy that’s locked in the structures, in such a way that it attempts to bring the energy that is not vibrating in the true way, to the true way, and the meeting of these two energies is going to cause you to have all sorts of experiences.

So that’s one of the things that’s happening. Another thing that is happening is that this place within where the true cosmic energy vibrates, starts to resonate with the energy that I bring, so that your own essence starts to awaken, and then that too starts to work within you on those parts of you that are locked away in structures.

So your structures are being affected positively in two ways: one, by the energy that I bring from outside you into you, and two, through your own essential essence energy waking up and working from within yourself on those structures.

That’s a rough way of describing what happens. And that’s how we will start off. But then later on in the seminar there’ll probably be times when you’ll be working with others. And by the time we do that, your own essence energy will be beginning to work, so that will be there - so your essence energy will be working on you and your essence energy will work also on the other person, and their essence energy will work on them and their essence energy will also work on you. But then the structures of the people who are interacting will also work on each other.

Everybody has different kinds of structures. So your partner in such an interaction will have a certain kind of structure and you will have another kind of structure, so your clarity where they have a tight structure will work on them, and their clarity where you have a structure will work on you. Everybody is a mixture of being clear and being in structures, and where you’re clear, you will help everybody who’s not clear in that particular segment of reality, and where you’re structured, all those people in the room who are not structured in that particular department, their comparative clarity in that area will work on your structures.

So on an energy level, which is underneath what we normally see going on, everybody is already, as we’re sitting here, beginning to work on everybody else, because the energy on a lot of the levels we work on simply flows anyway. Ordinarily, your hand won’t move unless you give the okay for it to move, your feelings won’t go out of you unless you decide to act on them. Of course, they do up to a point - if you’re angry, then of course people can pick up that you’re angry, but really your anger doesn’t move until you get angry and you put your energy out. So you have some control over what your body does, and you have some control over what you do with your emotions and feelings. If you want to make contact with somebody, then in the normal way you have to go and actually do something to make contact with them. But on a lot of the levels we work on in the seminar, what happens has nothing to do with your decision, energies just move. And there is nothing you can do to make them move and nothing you can do, either, to stop them moving, it just happens.

You have to see that the essence energy, your very essential energy, is still and silent. Until it moves into the world, there’s nothing for it to do but to just be. One of the things that Zen Buddhism says - and they do a lot of sitting meditation; they do it for hours and sometimes weeks at a time - is that in the end one doesn’t sit to get anywhere, one sits because sitting is it. That’s just how things are. So this pull towards the silence we experience here is like a gravitational pull. And deep inside you when you start contacting your deep processes, that gravitation is there, and if you allow it, it will simply pull you down further into a deep stillness.

Then when you are in your Being, even for a little while, you are in all Being, because there is only one Being. When you are deep in your Being, you are with all of life. You are with all human beings, you are with the seas, you are with the trees, you are with the flowers, you are with the fields, you are with the birds. You feel you are one with all of existence, and you see that everything is essentially one and the same. Everything is united in one deep state of being. And that is always the case. Even though everything expresses itself in a different way, always that state is present, even if we are not with it or aware of it.

From “With It”, 2003