As proposed in the Ethereal Wheels course, it is possible to find a specific correlation between these meditation themes and the effects of the chakras, for example, on our bodies. This correlation is natural because we continually activate centers outside of meditation. And this is natural, and everything that happens like this is. In other words, this is normal.
However, if we talk about meditation, it is necessary to remember that one of the main reasons for affective meditation is to learn to generate the reactions we want to generate, what we want to feel. But this is one of them. The other, as important as this one, is that it helps us discern, understand ourselves, understand things, discern in our life, and keep ourselves on our chosen path. And that we call it Cafh, but in reality what we want is to broaden our consciousness, develop ourselves and get out of the tangle as much as possible.
And one of the things we have to take care of ourselves is not to seek extraordinary sensations in prayers and meditations. The traditional books we read about spiritual life give the impression that the climax of development is ecstasy, in which we are practically totally expanded into another dimension.
But are these phenomena that actually occur? Of course, it is. But it is not the purpose of development. Because the purpose is to unite our soul with God and the Divine Mother. But when we seek this emotion to expand consciousness, we seek to enjoy it. We generally want to possess them and not expand our consciousness. It would be like taking a drug that gives me a state that shows me something that could not come naturally without the drug. But what happens after I experience this state? I want to repeat it.
And the important thing is that, if we really develop, we don't look for these kinds of things for ourselves. If I get out of the tangle, it will not lead me to ecstasy; it will not give me a broader consciousness, nor will I want a consequent emotion. And always, the more it is covered, the more responsible you are. However, spiritual expansion is a permanent thing; it is not the time for ecstasy. It is something else, something else that remains and is what has to elevate us.
It is not a matter of being against seeking a fantastic ecstasy because we can all reach it, but the important thing is what remains in us afterward. Because I have seen great spiritual masters, I am not talking about the great ones like the Buddha or Jesus. No, I mean the ecstatic teachers we know who belonged to religious schools. I do not know if, due to the limitations of these same schools, they could not say what they wanted or did not say it because they adhered to the dogmas in which they believed and continued to persecute others. And, like others, they were also persecuted. I'm not judging them as people. I'm not going against the mystics. But I do not believe that we can take them as models for ourselves. Our path is not a path of ecstatic mystics. Our path is to naturally expand our consciousness as humans who expand and increasingly become aware of more things. It is participation.
And on the other hand, those who seek ecstasy that will lift them out of the misery of this world do not really encompass all of reality. It would be ridiculous to imagine that I could realize God while I don't know how to live together. How can I unite with something so great, so much greater than myself, if I do not unite with you, no matter what you do to me. The immediate step that we, as humanity, avoid is to learn to live together. We see this even in the news. It is not a case of having ecstasy, but rather that we learn to live together. Even to live together as Sons of Cafh, as companions on the way.
May we learn to live with the neighbor we have next door, with those who think differently, with those who want to kill us. Because if we don't have a conscience that encompasses us all as a general human body, let's continue to look for a God elsewhere so that God remembers me and forgets the rest, that he can take me out of this misery and that the world be damned. This is total selfishness.
That is why, if, on the one hand, we teach to expand consciousness, and that perhaps gives us beautiful inner feelings. At the same time, we meditate; we must apply this first to coexistence to our relationship with what we use, starting with how we use our fellow human beings. If we don't start there, where are we going to start. And if some think that this is not mystical, good, or fantastic, let each one develop the mysticism as he wishes. But, from my point of view, at least for me, if I don't learn to live together, if mysticism doesn't teach me to live together, starting there, I don't know where we will go now.
However, if we talk about meditation, it is necessary to remember that one of the main reasons for affective meditation is to learn to generate the reactions we want to generate, what we want to feel. But this is one of them. The other, as important as this one, is that it helps us discern, understand ourselves, understand things, discern in our life, and keep ourselves on our chosen path. And that we call it Cafh, but in reality what we want is to broaden our consciousness, develop ourselves and get out of the tangle as much as possible.
And one of the things we have to take care of ourselves is not to seek extraordinary sensations in prayers and meditations. The traditional books we read about spiritual life give the impression that the climax of development is ecstasy, in which we are practically totally expanded into another dimension.
But are these phenomena that actually occur? Of course, it is. But it is not the purpose of development. Because the purpose is to unite our soul with God and the Divine Mother. But when we seek this emotion to expand consciousness, we seek to enjoy it. We generally want to possess them and not expand our consciousness. It would be like taking a drug that gives me a state that shows me something that could not come naturally without the drug. But what happens after I experience this state? I want to repeat it.
And the important thing is that, if we really develop, we don't look for these kinds of things for ourselves. If I get out of the tangle, it will not lead me to ecstasy; it will not give me a broader consciousness, nor will I want a consequent emotion. And always, the more it is covered, the more responsible you are. However, spiritual expansion is a permanent thing; it is not the time for ecstasy. It is something else, something else that remains and is what has to elevate us.
It is not a matter of being against seeking a fantastic ecstasy because we can all reach it, but the important thing is what remains in us afterward. Because I have seen great spiritual masters, I am not talking about the great ones like the Buddha or Jesus. No, I mean the ecstatic teachers we know who belonged to religious schools. I do not know if, due to the limitations of these same schools, they could not say what they wanted or did not say it because they adhered to the dogmas in which they believed and continued to persecute others. And, like others, they were also persecuted. I'm not judging them as people. I'm not going against the mystics. But I do not believe that we can take them as models for ourselves. Our path is not a path of ecstatic mystics. Our path is to naturally expand our consciousness as humans who expand and increasingly become aware of more things. It is participation.
And on the other hand, those who seek ecstasy that will lift them out of the misery of this world do not really encompass all of reality. It would be ridiculous to imagine that I could realize God while I don't know how to live together. How can I unite with something so great, so much greater than myself, if I do not unite with you, no matter what you do to me. The immediate step that we, as humanity, avoid is to learn to live together. We see this even in the news. It is not a case of having ecstasy, but rather that we learn to live together. Even to live together as Sons of Cafh, as companions on the way.
May we learn to live with the neighbor we have next door, with those who think differently, with those who want to kill us. Because if we don't have a conscience that encompasses us all as a general human body, let's continue to look for a God elsewhere so that God remembers me and forgets the rest, that he can take me out of this misery and that the world be damned. This is total selfishness.
That is why, if, on the one hand, we teach to expand consciousness, and that perhaps gives us beautiful inner feelings. At the same time, we meditate; we must apply this first to coexistence to our relationship with what we use, starting with how we use our fellow human beings. If we don't start there, where are we going to start. And if some think that this is not mystical, good, or fantastic, let each one develop the mysticism as he wishes. But, from my point of view, at least for me, if I don't learn to live together, if mysticism doesn't teach me to live together, starting there, I don't know where we will go now.