Psychic Development Caretaker Personality by Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz

Today is the 5th of November. It’s around 7:30 p.m. I’m sitting here in the middle of eternity, thinking about nirvana, thinking about reality, wondering how it all came to be this way.

Who are you? How do you think of yourself? Do you think of yourself as a particular person with a particular view on life¯certain things you believe in, other things you aren’t sure about, other things that you definitely don’t believe in? How do you feel about sex, money, God, religion, politics, the president? Are you you because of what you feel and believe? Is that what makes you you? In other words, how do you differentiate yourself from someone else? I mean, what is uniquely you? Let’s say, for example, that you believe and feel exactly the same way about everything that someone else does. Are you them? Are they you? Well you would say, “Probably not. No, of course, we just believe the same things and think the same things, but I’m still me.” Well, what is it that makes you you? “Well, uh, I have a different body.” Well, how do you know that there isn’t one being with two different bodies? Sound ridiculous? Well, isn’t the whole cosmos, all of eternity, all of the planets and universes and the beings the body of God, the body of existence? What is it that is life in us?

In psychic development, there is an explanation, in a way of speaking, for this. Advanced perceivers have found that as they have dug deeper and deeper into that which we are, as you gradually take off the layers of clothing¯you start with the overcoat which is the outer personality, then you come down to the shirt and pants, or skirt and blouse, which is just the way that you feel about things that are very deep and unspoken, then you get down to the underwear level, your deepest and most intimate feelings and intuitions, and then when we take even that off¯there you are, naked as can be. Well, what are you?

Nothing in particular, advanced perceivers say. You’re nothing in particular; that is to say, you are composed of, and part of, all things. You’re just made up of light. When you go in there all the way you’re nothing but light, and the thing that you think of as being yourself, that part of your being, is just like clothing. It just comes on and off. Most people wear their clothing for a whole lifetime and actually they add to their ensemble¯it’s just like getting dressed. When you’re very young you start out and you put on your first shell personalities, and then gradually they evolve and develop through experiences you have, through conditioning, all kinds of things gradually cause you to be or not be a certain way. You’re molded by life and your experiences.

If you believe in reincarnation, of course, then you feel that your experiences are not necessarily limited to this lifetime, but that actually your personality, or something about you that’s within you, has been with you for longer than that. You’ve been you, or formations of yourself, for a long time, and while no personality exactly repeats itself from one life into another, there are still certain carryovers that occur, certain parts of us that definitely remain the same¯feelings, intuitions, emotional complexes that carry on from one lifetime to another. Sometimes those tendencies will come forward more in one lifetime than another. In one lifetime the shell personality, the personality that you pick up in that particular incarnation, may just dominate for the whole lifetime. In another lifetime that shell personality may be almost impossible to get through. The deeper tendencies, be they evolved or not, will just not assert themselves, or they will, they’ll come through totally at a certain age. The shell personality will literally burn away, and then the deeper and more complex selves, the structures of those selves from other lifetimes, will reassert themselves.

Advanced seers believe that we are not just one type of being. Rather, they believe that we are composed of many different beings, we have many different selves within us. In other words, when you scrape the surface down, and see what we really are, we’re nothing in particular, or you could say we all contain everything. There’s a basic substance that is eternity. It’s consciousness, knowledge, awareness. You could call it God or nirvana or nothing or anything you want to, and that basic substance is the universe. That substance takes on different forms and formations. That pure limitless awareness segments itself into particular frequencies of energy and light and attention, and those particular frequencies of energy and light and attention form self-awareness, that is to say, the part of you that says, “I am.”

Psychic development is a process that an individual engages in, in which they gradually work their way through the shell or surface personality that they’ve developed in this life. The reason that you would do this is because you feel that it’s a limited personality, as any personality is. There are deeper and more developed aspects of your being, which this surface personality structure that you’ve evolved in this lifetime is blocking. A surface personality structure is fine to start our life off with. It gives us a description of the world; we’re able to function as normal human beings in a civilization, but gradually it has to fall away so that the more advanced and developed essence of our being can come forward. That’s when we begin to become more knowledgeable, more aware and hopefully funnier! (Rama laughs).

The caretaker personality. Well, if you go all the way inside of yourself, past the personality of this life, and let’s say then even past the personalities from other lives, which you’ve developed, and we get all the way down in there, what will we find? Again, I suggest you’ll find light, energy, essence of existence, and within that essence of existence is everything that you’re looking for. It’s birthless, it’s deathless, it just doesn’t take on any particular character, yet it has all characters and contains all things. It is life. That’s what we are, we are life. We are really all of life, all aspects of it, and it’s quite wonderful when you see and understand that, not just as an idea, but as a living reality.

Almost all religions point to this ideal. They point to this idea that we are all things, all existence. Some separate it, some say, “Well, God is all of that and we can never be all of that,” but the more advanced religions, the more sophisticated religions, particularly the Far Eastern religions, suggest that we are all God, we are all that substance, that universal attention. At the moment, we’re not really aware of that, and psychic development, vis-à-vis self-realization, is that process. It’s a really complex process, because we’re not just discovering that we are that one undifferentiated substance, which is God or nirvana or the totality, because that substance, on the one hand is pure and infinite and free of all conditions and limitations, yet at the same time it creates and houses endless universes, endless dimensional planes, realities beyond counting. So the substance that is the universe, this universal essence, is not just consciousness, but it also becomes manifest reality¯planets, stars, people, flowers, dogs, cats, nonphysical beings, other universes, time, space, other dimensional realities that have nothing that resemble anything in these dimensional realities, some in which time and space don’t even exist. All of it, it’s all part of the universal reality too. We can’t separate the form from the formless. The spirit and matter are one. The body and the soul are one. The body may fall away from the soul (the soul being that essence, that substance of the universe,) but it too is part of this dream of existence. Its molecules, its atoms, are life also.

Life is an inexplicable mystery. God is a jigsaw. Those individuals who have had many, many past lives, usually around 30,000 to 40,000 lives, are drawn into the study of psychic development and self-discovery. Up until that point we don’t know who we are or what we are or where we’re going, and gradually we’re drawn deeper and deeper. We’re drawn to other people who are searching and questing also. We’re drawn to teachers, but I must say that ultimately everything we do, we do ourselves. That is, a teacher is good, but a teacher cannot possibly bring you the deeper understandings of truth. A teacher points the way. If you have a powerful teacher the teacher can shift your attention field, because they have enough personal power to boost you temporarily into altered states of attention, and when they boost you into these altered states of attention you can see and feel and experience them. That’s what I do, but then eventually you will return to your normal, everyday attention unless you then practice the methods that the teacher shows you. If you employ those methods, as the teacher did him or herself, then over a period of time you will store enough personal power so you can access those higher dimensional planes. You can get to those deeper selves, or beyond them, to the totality, that which is beyond explanation, the limitlessness freedom and perfection that is pure being.

Many people make a mistake. They go to a teacher or guru, and expect that the teacher or guru can do it for them. They want an authority figure to rebel against; they want someone to love them, to protect them, to answer every possible question, to do all the work for them. No one can do that, no one can work out your liberation for you. It’s a nice idea. People can help, higher beings can help, but no one can cause you to see the truth, it’s something that you have to see yourself. In the process of looking for the truth you become stronger, and there isn’t just one truth. There are countless smaller truths, eventually leading us up to what we call the truth with a capital T, which is the same as saying, “What is the truth?” Well, it’s the totality, it’s nirvana. Again, we get into that nameless perfection, God, that infinite reality.

We talk about saints and seers and gurus and enlightened beings. Then we make kind of differentiations to say that, well, one is more evolved, one is less evolved. I would simply say that the one who can reach all the way into the totality and merge with it is enlightened. Some can do that for a few seconds, some just do it two or three times in their whole life and it changes them forever and they talk about it forever, and they become saints and inspired beings who tell others. Others can go into those realms for hours, days, weeks, months. The more you step into that realm, every time you dive into the luminous attention fields in the inner worlds, the more you change and transform. So psychic development is really the technical study of how you do that, and how you deal with the changes that are taking place.

There’s a big swimming pool out in the back yard. It’s like the swimming pool in Cocoon. It’s filled with some wonderful substance. First you just put your toe in. It changes you a little bit, you feel different. Next day, maybe your foot. Eventually you jump in just for a second. When you come out, you’ve changed. You feel better, everything is clearer, life is shinier. You’re seeing more. You begin to realize that you weren’t seeing most of life. You can step back from fear and pain. You jump in again and you stay in longer and you see that there’s no death. There’s never anything to fear, because you see that what you are is something that doesn’t die. It’s not just an idea, but when you move into other dimensional planes you can actually see your essence, see that it’s eternal and know that this body is just like clothing that comes and goes.

Naturally, as you progress in psychic development, your lifestyle changes. You learn that there are things that you can do that cause you to save more energy, so that you can sustain yourself in more levels of attention simultaneously. You can be more of what you are. There are ways you can lead your life that cause you to lose power, in which case your attention field is very low and limited to the physical. You learn that there are people who use powers and forces against you. Some people don’t want to deal with that. They just like to live in a fairytale reality where no one hurts anyone else, but you know and I know if you looked around the planet, that’s not true. Visit a prison. Visit a mental institution. Visit a war. No one ultimately kills anyone, that luminous, infinite self lives on forever, yes, it’s true, but it can sure crimp your style.

So there are people who can use the powers in other dimensions to limit you. I’m not talking heavy paranoia here. It’s true! Actually, almost everyone uses the power of attention to manipulate each other. So as you become more aware and more conscious, as you rise up into higher and higher levels and stratas of being, as you jump in and out of that pool more frequently, you find that you can see that. You can see what they’re doing. You can see into those dimensions and prevent anyone from injuring you. You can also stop yourself from injuring others. Harmlessness? It saves energy, the energy used to manipulate and dominate others, the energy used in hating and being jealous, being angry and judging and all these things is a waste of attention. You need all the attention you have, all the energy, all the consciousness, to open yourself up to those luminous worlds and merge into them, so that at the end of this life you will merge with the realities and shift yourself significantly so that you can stay in those luminous realities forever, or go anywhere you want, to any world. If you have enough power, you can do that, or come back and be what you’d like.

So the study of psychic development opens us up to worlds that most people don’t even dream exist. They don’t understand life out there. They just live in the senses, in the maya, in the illusion. You may decide to be different, you may become a voyager. Again, no one can do it for you. As much as you’d like some all-powerful father or mother figure to come by and just say, “Hey, I’m gonna take care of it for you,” anybody that tells you that is just taking you on a journey that’s not very good. It’s fun to do things for yourself. That’s independence and freedom.

Yet, associating with beings who are enlightened, or just advanced, will help you. They vibrate at a higher rate, a luminous energy comes forth from them, particularly from someone who’s “way up there,” so to speak. When you meditate with them you absorb the energy. You feel what it’s like and it helps you in your own journey, and they can teach you a great deal, but then you have to go put those teachings into effect. I cannot stress that enough. I’ve been a teacher for many years, many lifetimes. Even in this lifetime, I’ve taught for 15 years, and so frequently people have heard what I’ve said and they’ve watched me use the siddhas, meditate, change their lives, their attention fields, but they have not applied what I have taught, because there’s just so much energy around me. They ride that energy, but naturally if I disappear the energy goes away, and they’re back where they started. Not exactly, they’ve changed, they’ve seen something, but they don’t know how to get back to it themselves. So it is most important¯I’m not a guru, I’m a teacher, someone who points the way and can sometimes give you a boost with energy to help get you there, but you must do it yourself.

The caretaker personality. In the process of doing it yourself, with help of course from the earth, from plants, from higher beings, hey, take help any place you can, but still remember, you have to do it. That’s the fun, that’s what defines you, is the struggle. You realize that you aren’t anything in particular. Being not anything in particular is fine, but then again, how do you fill out the form for your next job if you’re no one in particular? How do you talk to people, how do you exist, if you’re just luminous energy? So in advanced psychic practice you learn about the caretaker personality. The caretaker personality is like shopping for clothing. You were born without a personality. It’s not something that’s intrinsic. You developed one, step-by-step, and you can also dismantle the one that you have, step-by-step, and choose another or choose several¯my recommendation.

There are different caretaker personalities for different occasions. Just as you’ll dress one way to go to work, another way to go to a party, another way if you’re going to go out and work in the back yard, another way if you’re going to go swimming, so there are different ways to appear in the world, and we call these caretaker personalities. The caretaker personality is a personality that we actually develop and utilize. Since the realization is that we aren’t anything in particular, so if I’m not anything in particular I can therefore take on any personality I want, use it for as long as it is necessary, and then discard it or file it for future use.

Everyone already does that to some extent. You do that. You know that you shift your personality around. At work, you’re a little bit different than you are with your family, than you are with your friends, than you are when you’re alone. You already do that, but you’re more, at this time, probably modifying the basic personality structure that you have. You’re not just totally changing personalities.

It takes a lot of power to do that, it takes a lot of energy. So if you meditate, and you set up your life properly so that you draw more energy into yourself, you can do that. You can shift personality structures whenever you want to. Now this is a little different than schizophrenia, in which you have no control, sort of the multiple personalities, you change back and forth. Actually what schizophrenia is are different selves fighting. You know, we have all those selves from all those other lives in there, different personalities, and sometimes a little war goes on between them as they try and get control, or sometimes a person can be possessed by an entity or a force and it struggles with the personal form. So that’s what we call schizophrenia, and that’s not what I’m speaking of at all, rather, a very advanced Tibetan psychology, in which we realize that we are not anything in particular. Therefore, we can be anything, many different things. Since we are intrinsically one with all of the universe, we can use any part of the universe, since it is us.
Some basic caretaker personalities are the child, the warrior, the friend, the student, the sage, the saint.
The child is a caretaker personality that’s very lovely to use when you deal with meditation. In other words, you become a little child, happy, spontaneous, a good kid. So when you sit there and meditate, you’re very childlike in your meditations as you approach the infinite. If you have that childlike feeling, then the infinite will be very kind to you, very gentle, very compassionate.

When you deal with life, the caretaker personality of the warrior is good. You develop a warrior’s personality, so you go out and do battle¯victorious battle. You’re tougher, stronger, more aggressive.

The student is a good caretaker personality to develop, someone who likes to learn, who loves to learn, likes to be around people or things that they can learn from, is eager to learn¯that’s a nice one.

The sage, the knowledgeable one, this is a caretaker personality that you use after you’ve dwelled in the house of enlightenment for some time. It’s actually a series of interconnected personality structures that have no definite form and vary from moment to moment. It’s the most fluid of all the caretaker personalities. You can be and are anything; there isn’t one singular way that you are ever. You can step in and out of any structure, yet there’s another structure in addition to all those individual ones, which is a fluid structure that defies definition. You are a little bit of every one and everything and yet you are things that are not human, that are beyond understanding.
The caretaker personality. How do you construct a caretaker personality? A little at a time.
First, a good thing to do is sit down, take out a pen and a piece of paper, and write down the ways that you are. Make a list to begin with. Perhaps try it after this tape is over or when you get a chance, sit down, a little formal writing is always fun, just a list. I’m a great believer in lists, a lot of power in lists. Write down all the ways you are. Well, what would those be? How about trying things that you like and things that you don’t like¯attractions and aversions. OK, so make a list of things that you like and list them¯foods, types of people, places, OK, all those things. Then, put down fears, things you don’t like.

Make another list, after your attraction and aversion list, of things that you want to do, not so much just things that you’re generally attracted to, but things that you definitely want to experience before you die, between now and death. What is it that you really want to experience? Write it down! Places you might like to go on the planet, experiences you might like to have¯list them. You might even list them, if you want to get techy, in order of preference, those things that are most important, those that are least.

Now, do another category, category four: a percentage of happiness. Let’s say, how happy are you? Give us a percentage figure, to start with, just generally. How much of the time are you happy, content, at peace, having a good time? 10% of the time? 20, 30, 40, 90? List it, be honest, it’s just between you and your selves. (Rama chuckles).

Now, write down the times of day that you are happy. In other words, let’s do a chart. Morning, afternoon, evening, early morning, if you stay up late or get up real early. Let’s see what percentage of the time you’re happy or unhappy during those times. Does it vary? You might be surprised by what you see.

Make a list of things that you regret having done and once you’ve made the list, throw it away. Never regret having done anything. Life is acting in you and through you at all times, and any experience that you’ve had was definitely on your journey and you can use that experience if you know how. You can draw energy from that experience and use it to free yourself from limitations. There are no bad experiences, there are only poorly handled experiences, and even if something is poorly handled, if you look back on it, you can learn from it and grow from it, if you have an understanding and patient attitude with your selves.

Now that you’ve made that list, let’s take out another piece of paper and make another list, and that’s of your darker side. You are interested now in writing down the tendencies and thoughts and feelings that you don’t really like to deal with. Do you manipulate others? If so, write down whom, whether you do directly or psychically. Do you hate? Are you angry with others? What is it that you really want? Power, domination, control, don’t be afraid to put it down, no one’s going to know but you and you already know. You’re trying to draw things out of the psyche from the deeper selves. Write down the dark side and write down the light side. Don’t be afraid of either. We’re all a mixture of both.

In psychic development, you simply learn to control the dark side; it has to be controlled, you know. Why? Because it’s sloppy. The dark side wastes energy. It needs to be channeled. It’s the part of your personality that every once in a while goes on a binge and spends all the money that you’ve worked so hard for, and you have no money. Those tendencies, when controlled and directed, are good. The energy of the dark side isn’t necessarily bad. I mean, dark/light is just a way of talking. I define the dark side of our being as the inefficient part, the part that wastes energy. I don’t necessarily have a moral or religious point of view here, and the part that conserves and utilizes energy to extend your awareness, or the awareness of others, I consider the light side. I’m not doing yin and yang here, by the way. It’s a little more basic.

Now that we’ve listed all that out, OK, that’s who you are, yay! Now you know! (Rama laughs.) That was easy wasn’t it? Now let’s try something a little bit different. Let’s think of some different people we could be. Write down on another piece of paper the kind of person you’d really like to be. List the things that that kind of person would like or wouldn’t like, would do or not do. That’s one kind of person you can be, but if that’s the only caretaker personality you evolve you’ll probably be pretty miserable, because there are other parts of your being that will think that your description is much too idealistic and they really don’t want to be like that.

So now let’s do some variance. Let’s write down another personality. Try the warrior. If you were to be a real warrior and just dealt with life effectively, let’s list your characteristics: efficient, courageous, write down some situations in your life. Take a situation: going out and looking for a new job. Let’s think of how the warrior would approach that, as opposed to the person you listed before when you wrote down all of your current qualities.

You have to start by visualizing what you want to become. Imagination is a wonderful thing. It’s not just a little creation of the mind that’s hallucinatory. (Of course there are no hallucinations, are there? There are only visions of different realities. Surprise!)

With imagination, one creates all things. If a person couldn’t imagine a house, it would never be built. If a person couldn’t imagine anything, nothing would happen, so imagination is a direct power in the inner world. It takes more than just imagination; then you have to make it work, but it starts with imagination. Imagination is creating a psychic attention field and focusing on something. Now, there are those who take these little mind control courses out there who just figure, “Well, gosh, I can get (Rama playfully assumes an exaggerated Southern accent) everything I want if I just focus. Now, they taught me the creee-aaa-tive visualization, I saw the man on television, he sold me the cassette set and said right there, ‘just write down, Bobby Sue, what you want, and you just imagine all the time, all day long, and you’re gonna get that swimmin’ pool with the great big ocean liner in it, and you’re gonna get them interdimensional beings to come have lunch with you, they’re particularly fond of that there fondue, I understand, choklit fondue?’ So, I’m just gonna sit there in my room and I’m not gonna do a stitch of work ‘cause I know it said in the book if I visualize this stuff all the time, then I don’t have to ever worry about it, it’s all gonna’ just come right true, I read it in the Enquirer, and if it’s in the Enquirer it’s gotta be true. Y’all know what I mean?” (Back to normal voice.)
Unlikely it will ever happen.
No, instead, it’s necessary to begin with visualization, and then move from visualization to action, but our visualization helps us store the power to then go into action. So if you want to make a structural change to a new personality, write down the kind of personality you would like to be, but give yourself a couple of variants, because otherwise you’ll get too idealistic and you won’t do it all at once. You’ll get frustrated and give up.

Let’s start with maybe several stages of the evolution of a new caretaker personality: gradual improvements in who you’d like to become, finally working up to some kind of ultimate something or other, which isn’t very ultimate, that’s just the way you see the ultimate at the moment. Once you get up there, you’ll see there are many levels beyond that one. Then, each day, think of that person. Each morning you should, of course, always meditate and practice some visualizations to clear your mind before the day and store power, and at that time ponder, or look at, that piece of paper and read over the qualities. Even if you do that for a month or so, every day, just spending a minute or two each morning going over that, without doing anything about it, it’ll start something. Then you have to do it, then you have to act and start to make those changes. If you’re meditating each day, and practicing gazing and visualization exercises, you’ll store more power that will enable you to make these changes. You see, the person who just imagines, wants to make the change and may even know what the change is, but they don’t have enough personal power. Whereas the person who practices psychic development does the exercises that create the power, the kind of inner cash flow, and they plug up the holes in their life where they lose energy, and they find new ways to create energy. So that suddenly, and basically without endless effort, you can make major structural changes that came about because you learned the science of the conservation and creation of energy.

The caretaker personality. Create a new you. Not just one, but many. We contain multitudes, as Walt Whitman once said. We are all things. It’s not necessarily hard to do, to step into those other worlds, those other dimensional planes. In each dimension, did you know that you’re someone else or something else? Did you know that you exist in multiple levels of attention, as multiple beings? On this tape, of course, I’m just scratching the surface¯the first few levels of psychic development, but you need to go through those before we can get to the next ones, to see your totality, your infinite selves, stretched across the universe, yet all present. So many things to be and yet we’re nothing¯what a riddle, yet how true.

Another favorite way to evolve caretaker personalities is to watch others. Look at other people and how they set up their lives. Decide which are successful and which are not, according to your definition of success. You will find that you will begin, in a good way, to emulate those individuals. If you want to learn how to make a million dollars, spend time around people who have done it. Not only do you learn the methodology, but you learn the vibrational pitch necessary to do so.

If you want to be a saint, be around the saints and study the lives of the saints. If you want to develop your attention and learn how to be in multiple dimensions, then observe those who do that. On a daily basis our life brings us into contact with many, many beings, all of whom have had countless lifetimes, and they’re not just necessarily the way they appear to be. Start to probe into people. As you meditate and practice your gazing exercises, you’ll become more and more psychic and you’ll be able to see beyond the surface¯within people, and you’ll start to understand, on deeper levels, how they work. Examine their personality structures.

In other words, everybody has evolved one, if not more, caretaker personalities already. There are nothing but caretaker personalities, there is no real personality, and once you realize that, it’s easy to change from one personality form to another. It’s fun.

So begin to look at the caretaker personality structures. In other words, don’t view another person as just a person. They are just a caretaker personality that they have woven in this lifetime or has been woven for them, that they wear. They may have several, and inside there’s something else entirely, it’s just a cover. So look at them and see if there’s anything you like in them, and if there is, add it to yours. If there’s something that you don’t like in others, you probably don’t like it in yourself and delete it. Be an architect of your own being. Design a new you. It’s fun.

And probe even deeper beyond the caretaker personality into that absolute reality within. That is your essence and your substance, from which all things come forth and to which all things return. That’s what we really are, the luminous totality, nirvana. Meditate on that and you will be free!

There is a particular meditation technique that will help you do all of this, and I’d like to describe it to you. It’s pretty simple, and if you practice it once in a while, I think it will help. When you’re sitting down to meditate, relax, sit up nice and straight, in a chair or on the floor, in any way that you’re comfortable¯the back should be straight¯and start your meditation.

Then I’d like you to close your eyes and visualize the sky filled with stars. Now, this is a little astral travel. Imagine that you’re going to leave your body and go right up into the stars, and as you go through the stars you’re going to change. Your earthly personality is going to fall away, and now your etheric self will be there, your subtle-physical self, your astral self. Now you’re going to go above the stars into other dimensions, and you’re going to go through them really quickly, one after another. They’re all going to be different colors, and you’re going to kind of zip through them and just feel yourself going through them.

Needless to say, this is not just a visualization; you’re actually doing it. As you go through each one, more and more of the self that you’ve been is going to fall away, and your being will get clearer and clearer. As you go through these dimensional planes the parts of you that are from them will go back to them. Finally, you’ll get above all the dimensional planes and you’ll enter into a flux, a kind of gold and luminous light, that doesn’t really move nor is it still. There’s no direction, no dimension, and you’re going to go right into that¯it’s like going into the heart of the sun¯and merge with that and be that. Feel yourself in that, get lost in it. Study it, be it. Stop your thoughts, be still. Just hold yourself in it with your whole psyche and all your power as long as you can, and then gradually feel you’re coming back down after a couple of minutes, or a few seconds, as long as you can be in that totality¯just imagine it. Come back through those dimensional planes, and as you do you’re going to come back shiny and clear. As you pass through each color and each dimensional plane you’re going to take on new qualities, new hope, new belief, new power¯finally down through the stars and onto the earth, a strong, new, radiant self. The right self will come back with you, the right caretaker personality. Don’t worry about what it is; it’ll just be from then.(them? then on? does “from then” seem awkward? Should we revise or let go?)

Visualize that, practice that, it really works. Spend about ten minutes on it, fifteen minutes, each time you do it. Five minutes going up, maybe, five minutes there, five coming down, or whatever, you don’t have to time it. Maybe even just a minute or two to start with and increase the time. Eventually it will become timelessness. Good luck! Have fun! The caretaker personality.

Psychic Development Dharma by Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz

It’s around 4:44 in the afternoon, on the 4th of November, 1985. Today I’d like to talk with you about dharma. Dharma is a Sanskrit word that means the way or the law. It has many other meanings. I interpret dharma in the universal sense and an individual sense.

The universal dharma is life; that is to say, the word implies existence as it is ¯the earth rotating at an exact speed, the seasons changing, each year in a proper succession, the sun rising in the east, setting in the west, molecules and atomic structures holding together by prescribed patterns. All of these actions: birth, growth, maturation, decay and death and rebirth, all of the patterns of life, not simply the patterns themselves, but that which holds them together, are dharma. The universal dharma is simply the way things are, but there’s also a more precise dharma¯for each individual, for each nation, for each world, for each dimensional plane. Dharma in this sense means filling the proper absence. A door fits perfectly into a doorway. When you shake hands with somebody, the two hands unite perfectly. So dharma is something, then, that exists for every situation and for every being. There’s a dharma for your life, the way it should be lived. There’s a dharma, an etiquette, you might say, for every situation that you’re involved in. There’s a dharma for meditation and people who meditate. There’s a dharma for warriors and fighters. There’s a dharma for poets, a dharma for accountants, a dharma for lovers, a dharma for the enlightened, a dharma for criminals. For everyone, there’s a way to be. There’s an ancient template, which few people are very much in touch with. When your life is in harmony with your individual dharma, or when the lives of those in a particular world, like our planet earth, are in harmony with their world, then life is very beautiful.

When harmony does not occur, that is to say, when the dharma is not lived properly, then life is in a state of imbalance, there is little or no happiness. So, finding the dharma is the quest, living the dharma is the challenge. What is your dharma?

Now, dharma and karma, of course, are interrelated. Sometimes you’ll hear a person say, well, that’s your karma, meaning that you were in a certain type of situation where something has occurred to you, which was unavoidable. It was unavoidable because at a past time or in a past life you created a certain type of situation where you generated some energy, you acted in a way, didn’t act, you did or did not do something, either inwardly or outwardly, that created a series of causal events, a chain which eventually comes back to you. Dharma’s different than karma.

Karma is the law of cause and effect. You could say the dharma of karma is action and the result of action, but you can follow your dharma or not. If you follow your dharma then you might say that you will generate good karma, and if you don’t you’ll generate bad karma. I personally think that’s a sort of simplistic way to look at it. From my point of view, dharma and karma are not really bound by good and bad specifically. Oh, those are abstract concepts, concepts of good and bad that vary from person to person and culture to culture. I see these things in a much more analytic way.

So the dharma is doing the proper thing, thinking the proper thought, feeling the proper feeling. Naturally, if you’re like me, you’re going to ask at some point, well, who thought all this up? Who says there’s a proper thought, a proper feeling, a proper action? I would think you might get kind of angry at the idea that if your life deviates from a certain course or form or etiquette that it’s going to be exceedingly painful, and that when it’s in that proper balance it’ll be happy. Now I suppose logically, once you find the way to lead your life that makes you happy, it only makes sense just to do it, but I don’t know about you, I’m an American. We Americans feel restricted sometimes, even by things that are right. Good karma, in other words, can bind you too. Doing what’s right can be a real pain if you do it all the time, because then you can get caught in the trap of thinking you’re right and doing what’s right, which is just really another ideation, another philosophical interpretation or way of seeing existence.

So I am very sympathetic with the individual who feels that they’re bound by dharma. It’s frustrating, but let me give you a little piece of advice here. (I better not say advice because that immediately makes people uptight and they want to do the opposite.) Let me make a “vague” (Rama laughs) recommendation, and my vague recommendation is that whether you like it or not, dharma is there, and when you don’t follow the dharma, it hurts like hell and life is miserable and nothing works out pleasantly. When you do follow the dharma everything is perfection. Why the dharma is there, how it got to be that way, no one can really say.

Oh, there are theories, cosmological explanations, but they’re just a lot of words. It just is, the same way a leaf is, a tree is, a person is. You can say, “Well, a leaf is, because it came from a tree and it grew a certain way.” You can say, “A person is, well, they grew a certain way and they evolved,” but you know that doesn’t really explain anything, does it? It doesn’t tell us why it really is. It just is a way of analyzing growth in time, and all these wonderful explanations only trap us into believing that that’s all there is to it.

In other words, you can look at a person and think of them in terms of what they are. A person is the way they appear to be; you know that people come from other people, that people have sex and they produce little people. You know the evolution of the sperm and the ovum, and how they form together to create a type of life, you know about the DNA and the RNA, you know about Sears & Roebuck and buying shoes for little kids, and you know about cotton candy and circuses and Disneyland, and going to school and studying biology and going on your first date, and oh, boy, just getting a job and being sick, having the flu, having to sit around in bed, and oh, pain, and when someone doesn’t love you and you don’t get what you want, and it’s not working out and there’s just nothing exciting happening, nothing good is on TV, ever. (Rama laughs.) You get all these notions and ideas about human life and you look at a person and you figure, “Well, that’s what a person is.” A person is someone who grows a certain way, develops a certain way, is made up of certain things, has the types of experiences that all people do within certain variable limits, and you think that’s what a person is, or a leaf or a tree or a frog or Godzilla.

Well, let me tell you, that’s not it at all. Those are ideas and they may or may not be true, but whether they are or not, to believe that that’s all there is to life and to think that that’s all there is to a person or a leaf or a frog or Godzilla is to not see existence, to miss almost everything.

So dharma, then, has a lot to do with perception. In order to perceive, to perceive the proper dharma for yourself or for any situation, you really need a handle on “seeing.” Seeing is a sense of availability. The cosmos is available to us in various ways and we’re available to the cosmos in various ways, so it’s sort of a time-sharing program, lend-lease. The dharma must be apprehended. Hmmm! (Rama adopts the voice of a Western sheriff:) “We’re gonna put up wanted posters. ‘Wanted, the dharma.’ We’re gonna git it, we’ll put it in every post office, we’re gonna git that sucker, we’re gonna offer a very big reward! We’re gonna find that dharma, then we’re going to lock it up. We’re gonna have us a necktie party!” (Back to normal voice and Rama laughs). I never understood ties, neckties, but I suppose they’re the dharma of business. Anyway, let’s get back to the dharma here.

(Rama again adopts the voice of a Western sheriff:) “Now hold it just a moment there, pardner, you talkin’ about this dharma, now you all tell me about this dharma. I wanna know, what good’s this dharma gonna do me when my cattle die, when the water dries up and when my woman runs off with the camel that lives across the street. I heard of things that’s kinky, but this is ridiculous. Now listen, pardner, I wanna know about this here dharma. Now, are you gonna talk about it buddy or you’re gonna be in big trouble!” (Back to normal voice.)

I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll tell you all about the dharma. You don’t have to apply any force, I’m sorry about your wife and the camel but (Rama laughs) but¯you may wonder at this point what’s happening on this tape and whether it was truly worth the investment. Well, let’s consider it for a moment. What is the dharma of self-discovery? OK, now let’s get right into it and let’s forget all the waffle talk.

What is the dharma of self-discovery? What is your dharma? Well, your dharma is to ____, fill in the blank: meditate, find yourself, pull your power together, get the hell out of this world, find that mystical doorway that leads into eternity, learn to meditate perfectly, learn to be humble and stop being such an egotistical prig, settle yourself down and smile more and frown less, learn to care more about others than you care about your sniveling, miserable, old self. If your dharma is self-discovery and psychic development, then you need to learn, within certain constraints, how to be perfect¯perfectly nice.

Oh, we all house all heavens and hells within our navel chakras, I’m sure. I mean it’s all in there somewhere, but the real dharma, the true way, is obscured. You may be familiar with the term yuga. Yuga is a measurement of time that the ancient Indian philosophers used, and they say that there are four yugas in the cycle of creation. Yugas last millions and millions of years each, and in the first yuga, when the universe is first created, it’s easiest to see and practice the dharma. In each succeeding yuga the psychic fields of attention of the universe become more obscured, the vibratory rates shift¯it’s harder to see the truth, it’s harder to be happy. In the first yugas, it was paradise, and then in each succeeding yuga there’s more corruption, more violence. When we reach the final yuga¯which is the kali yuga, which is the yuga that we’re said to be in now¯we’re said to be in the time of greatest darkness, when everything is inverse, when the ignorant rule instead of the wise, when injustice is prevalent, when darkness covers over the land, when the wisdom of the teachers is ignored and the insanity of the perverse becomes the common way.

So we live in such a time now, and at such a time higher souls come into the world, are born here, for a time, to reestablish the dharma. They bring truth into daily life. We call these souls avatars, meaning that they’re very advanced souls that come here specifically to teach. They have already reached a state of spiritual liberation themselves and they come into this world to teach, to be of service to others and also just to check the world out, because they got the brochure that told them that this was a nice place to visit, for a little while. Sometimes the brochure, like the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, needs a little updating though.

So here we are in the 20th century, in the time of darkness. People talk about a golden age¯don’t hold your breath, it’s not the dharma. This is the end. Yet for every ending there’s a new beginning and there is a golden age inside yourself. I wouldn’t worry too much about a golden age occurring on the earth. If you can attain liberation, if you can reach high levels of psychic attention, then you’ll see beauty wherever you go and perfection everywhere, and it doesn’t matter what the age is or what everyone else is doing. Psychic people and occult people have learned to use attention, awareness, to focus, to reach other worlds and to create those worlds within themselves. This is the dharma of the psychic.

As a psychic person, your dharma is to evolve your psychic abilities, to visit the great teachers and learn from them and see them whenever you can. The more time you can spend in the physical presence of the teachers, the better for you, because the real teachers generate a tremendously high field of energy, whether they’re giving a talk on psychic development or meditation or occultism or any of these things, or they’re just playing, throwing a Frisbee, going to a movie, going for a walk, doing their laundry, it doesn’t matter. Their souls vibrate at very, very high rates. Their dharma is to teach others.

The real psychic teaching, of course, is not done simply through conversation, it’s done through the psyche. Being around that vibratory rate of a teacher changes a receptive individual whose dharma it is to learn the psychic way. The dharma of the psychic individual, which of course is you, is very, very different than the dharma of the individual who’s not psychically developed. I’m really not going to spend much time talking about the individual dharma of those who are not psychically developed. They obviously have a lot of things to grow through and work on. They are souls in earlier stages of development, so that’s what they do. They get married and have babies and learn through experiences of relationships and families, careers. They go through hundreds and thousands of births and deaths, growing and evolving in each incarnation, but you reach a certain point where you’ve kind of worked out most of that. Oh, you still go through it again in each life, but it’s pretty simplistic.

Once you grow up a little bit and understand a little more of who and what you are, you realize that you’re alone. The dharma of psychic people is to be alone. You’re by yourself and always have been, and the facade of family and friends, of career, of meaning, even, falls away. You see that you are alone in the universe, in the universal attention, and that that’s a very good place to be. While you may be alone on your own odyssey¯developing your psyche, recalling past-life fields of attention, becoming complete¯at the same time you see that you are the universe, you are connected with all life forms, all beings are a part of your own self. You are all things and in all things.

So then there’s never any loneliness. The universe is your constant companion, it’s always with you, but naturally, growing up in the world, you’ve been conditioned. You’ve been conditioned to fear being alone, to fear everything, just about. You’ve grown to think of yourself as a person, with the definition of a person that people in this world and this society have, but I assure you that you’re not. If you’re listening to this tape, if you’re drawn to the workshops that I do, or others do, in this area, then that automatically tells you that you have evolution. Your interest in these subjects tells you that you are an evolved being and you need to remember that. It’s nothing to be egotistical about, it’s just a stage of growth, a plane, a level in school. Still, you are what you are, and if you forget that, then you won’t command some of the personal power that you have that will enable you to follow what is the dharma for you.

The dharma for your self is to evolve, to develop your psychic abilities. That’s what we do as psychic people, we develop ourselves and we also help others do the same. We help the teachers with their work by helping them in any way we can, and learning from them, if you’re a student, if you’re one who studies these arts. As a teacher, you teach, channel knowledge and experience, power, and you just exist in the world and vibrate. Just your presence in the world elevates the attention field of the world. You’re not special, you’re just useful, that’s all.

The dharma is to develop your self. So part of that dharma is to have a strong physical body. If your body is weak, you will not be able to deal with the high level vibratory forces that come through the psyche as you develop it. When you meditate and begin to develop your psychic abilities, tremendous surges of kundalini will pass through you, so you need a really strong body. Regardless of what your age is, you need to exercise. It’s very important to exercise¯run, swim, do yoga, tennis, hike, ski, walk, sit-ups, push-ups, aerobics, it doesn’t matter. If you’re elderly, if you’re handicapped, you can still do some type of exercise. Exercise those muscles that move, walk, work with your arms, whatever you can do. It’s very, very important, in any way you can, to build your body up.

At the same time you have to build up your intellect. The dharma for one who practices the psychic arts is to have a very strong mind, so it’s important that your job challenges your mind. It’s necessary to do a very good job at your job. The dharma is perfection for people who wish to develop their psychic attention. That means you can’t cheat anyone, because you will only end up cheating yourself when you do. It means you have to be honest, as honest as you can be in all situations. It means that you have to clear your mind and let go of attachments, let go of the people who you’re trying to hold onto. You can love and appreciate people, have friends, enjoy your family, if it’s enjoyable, but no one should be in your thoughts. If a lot of people are in your thoughts during the day, then that of course tells you that you’re heavily attached, or others are pushing their way psychically into you. You see, you’re very receptive. As a psychic individual you pick up thought-forms and vibrations, and the majority of thoughts that are in your mind aren’t even your own thoughts¯they’re the thought forms of others.

So the dharma for someone who practices psychic development is to learn to clear the mind of thoughts. Naturally the most immediate time that one does that is during the period of meditation. It’s essential, at least twice a day, to sit and practice meditation, to stop your thoughts. When you stop thoughts you cleanse the psyche, and at that time your receptors are turned on completely and you will be able to input the messages from the cosmos, from the galaxy, from other planes of attention, from higher celestial spheres and beings.

You see, everyone vibrates at a different rate. All of life vibrates, and the more evolved you are, the faster you vibrate, the faster you process. It’s like a faster computer. When you vibrate at a higher rate, that creates certain sensitivities and special conditions whereby you need to lead your life in a little bit different way than people who vibrate at a different rate. Someone who vibrates at a different rate may be able to eat a kind of food that would make you sick, but that makes them healthy. They may be able to go to places and do things that don’t work out for you. Yet you’ll be able to do things, vibrating at a higher rate, that they can’t even imagine¯have experiences, perceptions and understandings.

So psychic people and occultists, from time immemorial, have learned to lead a different type of life. Our lives are a little more withdrawn. We’re withdrawn into the self because that’s where our energy is, that’s where our realms are that we explore. We’re voyagers. Yet at the same time, it’s necessary as a psychic or occultist to be able to effectively deal with the world, and not be afraid to go out and mix with people, have a job, work, be successful, make some money, have a good time, go to a good restaurant. The dharma for the psychic individual is not to hide away on the top of some mountain, but to move back and forth between solitude and interaction with the multitude, yet always to preserve a sense of separativity from all others. Otherwise your psychic gifts won’t work well.

In other words, think of it as being an athlete. You want to be in the Olympics, right? So you’re going to spend many, many years developing and preparing your body, and each year the body will get stronger. Occasionally you may have an accident, you may have to take some time to heal, and then you start over, but it comes back more and more quickly each time. Once you’ve been successful at something, it’s always easier to be successful at it the second time, and so on.

So you are developing your psychic abilities, that’s the dharma for a psychic person. To not develop your psychic abilities, to ignore them, is adharma, it’s against the dharma, and that will cause you great pain and suffering. To not lead a life that’s suitable for a person who vibrates at a higher level, a faster pace, to try and pretend that that world doesn’t exist, and that you’re not part of it, to run away from it, to hide, will cause you tremendous pain and suffering. God has given you a gift and that gift is your soul, which vibrates at a certain level, that gift is your evolution, your psychic abilities. To not develop them is to go against the dharma. It will be very painful for you, because you will always know that you’ve failed, you will always know that you are chicken, you will always know that you are unfulfilled, and in your next life the situation will not be karmically very good either. You set yourself up badly for your next incarnation and it will be even more difficult than this one was, and so on and so on. You know, you can go into a chain of devolving incarnations. You know, incarnation doesn’t always go upward. If you set up the karmic patterns badly, it might take hundreds of lifetimes to get back to a solid footing again, so it’s most important to do it right in this life.

Dharma is fun, it’s easy, but you must have the stillness. The stillness is where you sense that rightness. You know, the question of course with dharma is, “Well, Rama, you say that I should follow the dharma, but what the heck is it?”

Well, certainly I and others try and recommend what the dharma is, generally, you know, through the tapes and talks that I give. Mostly the way I teach it is of course just by vibrating at a very high rate. That’s what real teachers all do, real psychics. I’m a psychic, seer, visionary, occultist, enlightened being, and beings like that, others on the planet like myself, the way we really teach is through attention, by shifting your awareness. As I’m talking on this tape right now, I’m shifting your awareness. Naturally I’m not bound by this little piece of celluloid that’s zipping around inside your walkperson or car or tape player or stereo or whatever you’re listening to this on. I can touch you right now from where I am. I’m outside of time. I really don’t need¯for example, let me show you something, show you a little trick. It’s not a trick per se, it’s an advanced maneuver in attention.

I’m going to transmit a block of attention to you right now, and if you listen to this tape again, of course, I’ll transmit a different block of attention, or maybe the same one, who knows? I want to show you something about psychic development here, the way it’s really taught. So in a moment, this is what I’d like you to do. Needless to say, don’t do this if you’re driving in your car and listening. I’d like you to close your eyes and relax. Go ahead close them, close your eyes, fermez vos yeux, close your eyes, babe. Relax, stop the thoughts, don’t think about anything, just listen to my voice for a moment because it’s going to stop in a second. I’m going to transmit something to you. I’d like you to focus on your third eye, that is to say, the third eye is between the eyebrows and slightly above. So just try and feel that area. OK. You might want to put your finger there for a moment and press down between the eyebrows and about an inch above, and then remove the finger just so you get a sense of where the area is. What I’m going to do right now is transmit something to you, from wherever I happen to be at the moment. This tape is just going to be our interactive medium, but I’ll be somewhere when this tape is played, in the body or out, someplace on the planet or off-planet, and when you do this I’ll feel you and I’m going to transmit a block of attention, not a particular thought or an image, but a complex of interdimensional lines. I’m going to transmit them to you right now. OK. So focus on your third eye, feel that area, relax, and here we go¯there’ll be just a minute or so of stillness, well, not that long. I’m going to process something very quickly from myself to you. Here we go, 1, 2, 3, zing. Go.
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Relax, open your eyes. Look at the nice world that we find ourselves in. We’re only here for a while, enjoy it. I’ve just transmitted a message to you. It’s not a message to go someplace and do something, but a message about life, an understanding. That’s how psychics teach, advanced psychics, enlightened beings. The way you really discover the dharma is you have to learn to do this for yourself, and that’s what meditation is all about¯sitting down and stopping your thoughts, practicing gazing and concentration and meditation exercises, as I outline at the seminars and these tapes and in books or as others do, or as you’ve discovered for yourself. The key is to sit down each day for about half an hour to an hour, twice at least, twice is fine. Still your thoughts. Focus on your third eye or your navel center or heart center or anyplace you want or no particular focus, just open yourself to the cosmos. That’s your time when you’re cleansing your psyche. Just like you take a shower every day, to wash off your body, so people who are advanced have to wash their psyches every day, just like the athlete has to go out and work out for several hours a day. So it’s necessary to cleanse the psyche, because the psyche is your tool. If you’re dependent upon your car for your business, your car always has to be in good shape¯if you’re a racing car driver. So in the same sense, if you’re a psychic, your psyche is most important. That is your tool and you have to take care of it and you have to make it stronger and stronger.

So meditating is the dharma for one who is psychically developed, and to meditate with more and more proficiency and love and abandon and discipline, each day, each month, each year, to develop that psyche and make it strong as is possible so that when you die it will be the kite that you will hook yourself onto that will fly you into other worlds. You’ll be able to take flights in this life too, you don’t have to wait till death. The kite of knowledge and power that we fly on, that we affix ourselves to, is our psyche. So that’s why the dharma is to groom your life, to slowly perfect it over a period of years, to not get frustrated and feel you have to do it all in a week or two, to not be upset by little failures that you may have, but to be patient. The dharma is patience for all of us in this field. We know that we live on a planet that’s not very evolved, most of the souls here are not advanced, so it’s very uncomfortable, sometimes extremely painful.

Psychic and occult people, spiritual people, are always misunderstood, so we don’t try and be understood. We don’t tell people what we are or what we do. We’re very quiet and inaccessible. We know each other and respect each other, even though our ways are slightly different. That’s the dharma, to respect other people in the practices, in what we call the arts, and we never interfere with each other. That is the code. The dharma for people in the psychic and occult practices is to never interfere with each other. We never use our powers and abilities to do anything but advance each other. It’s a mutual protection association. We never interfere with each other, we don’t get mad at each other, and if we do we quickly correct that, because it is never the dharma to attack or injure a brother or sister in the practice. Whenever you’re angry with someone, as a psychic person, you develop and project a field of energies. As soon as you’re mad at someone, you slam them with a wall of energy. As soon as you’re jealous of someone, you slam them with a wall of energy. As soon as you focus on someone sexually and you desire them, you slam them with a wall of energy. So we don’t go around desiring people all the time, because we’re just slamming them with energy all the time. It’s a waste of attention. That’s not the dharma for psychic people. The dharma for psychic people is to feel sexual energy when they’re having sex, but not all the time. It takes up too much of your attention, eats up too much memory in the CPU¯don’t need it.

Sexual energy’s interesting; it’s a very erratic kundalini. If you like sex, it’s an interesting exchange of energies. It also causes a residual drop in energy. When you have sex, it requires a great deal of energy, of life force. It expends it. So a lot of psychic and occult and spiritual people do not have sex. Some do, they feel they have the energy to use, but even so, whenever you have sex with someone you create a tremendously strong networking with that individual, a psychic bond that doesn’t end when you get out of bed or off the floor or whatever.

The dharma for psychic people is to love and be very unattached, to know that you’re only in this world for a little while and that you come from other worlds and that one day you’ll return to them. You will only return to them when you fully develop, that’s the karma of psychic people. So your challenge in this life is to develop yourself, through all the hardships and adversities and beauties that you’ll pass through in this life. The dharma for you is to develop yourself, to learn to be honest with yourself and not lie to yourself, to know what your real motives are and not feel bad about them, but at least be honest about them with yourself, with your selves¯to realize you’re composed of many different selves. There are different voices and not all of them are healthy. Only choose to listen to those voices inside the self that are beneficial, that lead you to a good place, to a happy state, to a state of inner stillness. Avoid things that upset you, types of music, types of food, experiences, movies, places, faces in the news, places of power that overamp you.

Work on that stillness in developing the psychic abilities. You have to practice being psychic, it doesn’t just happen. It’s like exercising a muscle. You’ve got to do it and if you do it, it gets stronger and stronger and stronger. Naturally, you don’t have to be a strong person athletically to practice these arts. You have to keep your body as strong as can be, but our strength is in our attention field. That’s where we work our miracles. That’s where we create universes and change our lives.

So the dharma for a psychic person is to be psychic, to develop, to meditate, to be aware, to be kind, to be patient and to know that you have a dark side and it has to be mastered. It’s not bad. The dark side isn’t bad, it’s another part of us, but it has to be channeled in a useful way. You need to learn to be still and all your answers will come from that stillness. Try and spend time both alone and with other people who are psychically developed, with teachers when you can. They’re not usually that available, because they spend a lot of time alone and just send out energy throughout the cosmos, like stars shining, sending light in all directions. Be with your friends in the arts. Be inaccessible and not let people inside you, in your psyche. Preserve your psychic integrity and be kind always. This is the dharma for someone like yourself, of course.

The universe is always changing. Our lives are like water. We flow, not knowing where we’ve come from, not knowing where we’re going, only sure of that which we are. We are not anything particular, we’re attention. We’re awareness. Whatever your awareness moves into, you say that you are. So if your awareness moves into a body, you say, “I’m a person,” if it’s the body of a person. When you go into the astral worlds, when your attention moves into the astral, you say, “Well, I’m in the astral, I am the astral or I’m an astral being.” We are what we assume. When your attention moves into enlightenment you say, “I am enlightenment,” because you are, because that’s what your attention is. We are our attention, our awareness field, that is. So as you expand your attention, you change, you become other things, other beings. We are attention, endless, infinite and perfect. So take the time to develop your psychic senses and your psychic being. That is your dharma. Meditate upon dharma, ask yourself, what is right? What should I be doing? Not just in a moral sense, dharma has nothing to do with the Ten Commandments. It means doing that which comes naturally and spontaneously, but in order to know that you must cleanse and purify the psyche through psychic development, meditation, selfless-giving and having fun, and learning to store and conserve energy so you can reach those other worlds right here and now in this life, and so that after this life you can journey again, to your home, back to the world from whence you came. That’s the dharma for higher psychic beings.

Psychic Development Places Of Power by Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz

The earth is a place of power. It’s alive. Most people think of the earth as an inanimate object. It’s alive. Some people think of it as growing and changing—volcanoes spew forth lava, new islands and continents are created, old ones fall or drift. Civilizations come and go, but the earth is alive, meaning it has awareness, different types of awareness in different places, just as you have different awarenesses in different parts of your body. But your body is not a total reflection of your awareness, is it? So the earth, what we call the earth, is a body, but what is its awareness? Invisible like your awareness, yet you’re aware of it, you perceive through it just as the earth does.

The awareness of the earth changes from place to place. Some places on the earth are places of power—places of power for human beings. Some places are the opposite—they’re places of negative energy, reverse charge, where you lose energy, you lose power, you lose consciousness. It’s better to die in some places than other places, because it’s easier to move from one world to another. It’s better to live in some places. It’s better to be born in some places. It makes a difference. Places of power.

What makes a place of power a place of power? No one really knows, it just is. Yet places of power attract powerful beings that live there, visit there, meditate there, gaze and jump into other worlds from that spot, and that increases the velocity of the place of power.

Places of power, like people, can be drained. Some people go to a place of power, or live near it, to access its energy, but they pollute it. There can be a beautiful lake—clear, crystal, pristine. People go and they live by the lake, they build houses on the lake and they throw their garbage in the lake and they pollute it, with their sewage or their thoughts. Soon the lake is no longer a pure, crystal lake. It’s something else, isn’t it? It’s a reflection of the attention field of the beings who live there.

Well, people do that to places of power. You’ll notice that wealthy people live in places of power. Parts of New York City, parts of Beverly Hills, and every other city have their wealthy area. Did you know that’s a place of power and the reason those people live there is because they draw more energy from there to stay rich and famous? That’s why it’s so expensive to live there. Some universities have more power than others, and of course some people.

The earth is alive. If you could see the earth through the eye of seeing, then you would see that the earth actually changes colors. It’s kind of like color graphics on some of those computer games, when the hero is out walking around from place to place on different landscapes and they change colors. It’s very much like that. Kind of like infrared photography that shows up heat vis-à-vis color. Well, if you could see then you would know that there’s power everywhere, and different types of power in different locations.

The earth is alive—it has an awareness. Now, when you move from one place to another you cross different power lines. The earth is made up of a series of lines that interconnect different dimensional planes. The earth is like a gateway between dimensions, and everyone follows those lines, whether they’re conscious of it or not, from the time they’re born to the time they die. When you can see the lines of power that someone is following, you can predict everything that will happen to them, in a general sense. Most people never change the lines they follow. It is possible to change lines, of course. That’s what mysticism and self-discovery are about. They’re about developing your mind and making it powerful enough, having an enlightened mind, an awakened mind, with which you can consciously choose—or let power choose, life choose—which lines you’ll follow. You can switch, but you have to see them first, naturally, and know what your options are. And of course you need to have enough power to make that switch.

Naturally, the place you live in is the most important. It’s where you spend most of your time, it’s where you sleep, and when you sleep you’re very open to lots of different psychic forces. It’s a time when we recharge ourselves, when we renew ourselves. So if you live in a place that isn’t a good place of power for you, then you won’t be renewed when you sleep, and your life will be very difficult.

So, the first step for someone who practices the advanced arts of self-discovery and psychic development—as a person who wishes to develop an awakened mind, a mind that’s clear and free and sees—is to pick a place to live that has the right power for them—not necessarily based upon how much it costs, but how it feels, not based upon the aesthetics of the house or the apartment or the condominium, but how it feels, because you will draw most of your energy from the place or places you live, not simply when you’re there, but when you’re off at work or on an adventure. You create lines of power to that location and you draw the energy from that location. You store power and compress it there also.

You can draw energy lines from other places too, and from other worlds, not just from this earth, but the primary location is the home, wherever you happen to be sleeping. That’s our definition of home at the moment (Rama chuckles softly,) wherever you’re dreaming.

So, then, you have to pick a spot. How do you do it? Well, you start with a city. Different cities, or the country that surrounds them, have different power accesses. One isn’t right or better—you have to find the one that feels most comfortable to you. How do you know which one? Well, make a list of, say, the 12 or 18 cities in the United States that most appeal to you. Now simply meditate for a while, still your thoughts. Put your finger on each one on your list—write them down, natch. Close your eyes and feel each one. You’ll probably be able to real quickly go down to about four which feel the best.

Naturally, if you’re new to this you should think about it and also decide intellectually if these are wise choices. I mean, you could just make a mistake here, but if you’re truly psychic, this will be easy. If not, then of course think about it all, before acting on any intuitive decisions. Always think about it and say, “Is this wise?” Use common sense always as the common denominator for filtration of intuition. It should make sense to your mind too. Good intuitions are very sensible things. They’re not far-out or weird or nebulous. They’re based upon common sense. It’s just a faster process for understanding and making intelligent decisions. Intuition, it’s that creative spark inside all of us that gives us the right answer at the right time, mysteriously. Sometimes we get it when we wake up—we found it in dreaming—sometimes during the day. We walk around in different states of mind. That’s all there is, are states of mind. We see our mind wherever we go.

So, then, narrow it down to four, then write the four, or whatever number, on another piece of paper, bigger letters maybe, and do the same thing again, until you find one. Or visit the four, or get a poster of each one and look at it, or whatever you want. Figure out which one is right. Then visit it and enjoy it. You’ll know when you get there, actually when you get off the plane, when you land. You don’t even have to see the city. As soon as you get off the plane, then you’ll know. As soon as your feet touch the ground in that place, that place of power, that city of power or that countryside, you’ll know. Your body will say, “Ooh, this feels good, I want to stay here,” or you’ll just figure, “Gosh I could just get back on the plane and go.” You’ll know that it’s not the one for you.

Now there’s another interesting method, one of these strange Rama methods that I’ve evolved to deduce the changing level of attention in different cities. It’s very hard when you’re in a city to tell how it affects you, because after you’ve been in a place for a couple days you become a part of it in a way, and it’s very hard to get a clear delineation, to really see clearly, to determine whether or not that particular place is influencing you. Places have influence, just like people. So, how do you know?

Well, let’s say you’re trying to decide between three or four cities, but you realize that after you’ve been in a city about an hour or a day, it can almost hold you—it has a power of its own—and influence you. Well, what I’ve found is, if you’re really serious about this—and you have a little money or a credit card and you can afford it—get on a plane and go to your two or three possible choices and see a movie. Go to the city, spend the night in a hotel or visit a friend, camp, whatever, and see a movie. Then see the same movie in each city. It can’t be a different movie; it has to be the same movie. When you’re in the movie—allowing for differences of the people who are sitting in your particular theater, the vibration of the theater itself and the quality of the projection—notice how different the film seems, how it affects you differently. It’s the same film, and that’s a way of determining. It’s a reference point for determining the different attention level of different cities.

In any case, pick a city, suburb or countryside, whatever feels good to you. Then break it down into neighborhoods, which neighborhoods feel the best. Naturally it has to be something you can afford. Then start stalking, start looking around, visiting real estate agents.

When you pick a place to live, it’s very important, before you sign the lease, to see it not just one time. Put a refundable deposit down if you want to or whatever, but after you’ve looked at it once, look at it again, because the real estate agent or the landlord or the place itself can influence you. They can almost manipulate you into taking a place that maybe you don’t want. Now don’t get paranoid at this point and think that all places are trying to get you, but places and people have power, and they want to rent it and you’re there. It’s called good old American salesmanship. So it’s good to go back another time, maybe the next day, and even best to go back at a different time of day because, of course, places feel different at different times of day.

When you select a place to live, you’re not only selecting a location, but of course you’re buying into the people around you. If you’re renting, the person who owns the place will obviously have their energy lines there, and you’ll be feeling them, so you should like your landlord. If you don’t like your landlord, don’t rent, because you’re going to be feeling their attention all the time.

It’s a good idea not to live next door to the landlord, unless you really like the landlord, because they’re going to be thinking about you and focusing on you a lot. Pick carefully, but don’t be afraid to pick one. Take the best of what’s around. You can always change, but we have to be practical.

Pick a spot. It’s good to look at it at night too, if you want to. You know, just drive by it and park in front of the place for a minute or two before you sign that lease, and look at it and see how it feels at night. You know, it can be real different. It can be better, it can be worse. Who knows? You have to look and see.

The same is true when you look for a job. Get the job that sounds the best, but it shouldn’t be in a place that drains you. If there are two or three job possibilities, and if one pays a little less, but the place feels ten times better, go for it, because ultimately, if you’re drained, you won’t be able to move on to a better job or a better position. Whereas if you feel good about where you work and whom you work for, that means your body’s telling you it feels good—again from what’s available.

How great can it be? They’re paying you, right? But still, pick the one that feels good. When you drive to work, follow a power line. Drive along the road that feels right. There might be one route that takes ten minutes longer, but the power line is better for you along there. There are lines that run along the earth, invisible lines. They’re invisible until you can see them—drive along those.

In terms of movie theaters, places you shop, supermarkets, everything is on a different place of power. Don’t let convenience run your life. You run your life. Shop at places where you feel good. When you come home from shopping, look in the mirror. See if you look drained. Examine your attention field. Naturally, it’s always draining to a certain extent to interact with a lot of people and places, but some places will pull you down more than others—it’s just like people. Some will renew you, some are fun to shop in, some are exciting.

Also, don’t wear a place out. It’s very important to keep moving, not only because people find you and focus on you when you stay in a physical place too long, but simply because you become too accessible to a place or too accessible to people. Don’t go to the same restaurants and the same movies all the time—you won’t pick up any new power lines.

In other words, if you want to change and store power, great. You live in a nice place, you found nice shops and nice restaurants that you go to, you know, good places for vacations, good power spots. But after a while you’re just going to keep drawing the same power into yourself, and if you don’t switch to new places, you won’t be drawing new energies into your body. So all you’ll do next year is repeat what you did this year, pretty much. Follow me?

Find good things, but then don’t wear them out. Touch life lightly. Look for new places of power, new friends, new shops and new experiences. Naturally, of course, power changes. The earth shifts. Power lines sometimes become weaker, some become stronger. So sometimes a place will feel good for a while, because it is, and then the power shifts. If you stay there, then that place that once empowered you can feel bad and drain you. It’s the same with people, right? People change. You can change. A power that used to work for you when you were in college doesn’t work now. If you lived back at the college that empowered you, and made you feel great, or you tried to lead the type of life that you did then, it won’t work for you now.

So, the places where you spend most of your time are what we’re really concerned with, since every place is a power spot of one type or another. A power spot isn’t just some place you hike out to in the desert or mountains. I mean, how often are you going to be there? The really important ones are the places you spend your time—the houses, cities, shops, freeways, department stores, apartment complexes and people you visit.

Always trust how you feel, and if you’re not sure, look in the mirror. Look in the mirror before you go someplace and see how your attention looks, and then look again when you come back. Sort of gaze, don’t focus on any part of your face, but look at your whole self. It just takes a few seconds, you don’t have to spend minutes, and you’ll kind of get a sense of, “Gee, is there more light and more energy? Do I look good, do I look younger or do I look older?” That sort of thing. Places of power.

Today is the 29th of December. It’s around 5:00 in the afternoon now. The sun is setting here in Boston, in scenic New England, a place of power. There is tremendous, tremendous mental clarity here. It’s a wonderful place to live and work. Now, here’s an example of how lines of power change. Massachusetts, where I’m making this tape right now, had one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation just a few years ago. Today it has the lowest of any state. What happened? How come suddenly they went from one of the highest to the lowest? Obviously, the power shifted here, which is why I happen to be here speaking to you today, because the power here is very strong and very good. So I thought, “What a fun place to come and visit for a while,” because the power here is very strong, something very good is happening particularly, obviously, in the computer industry. But what a fun place! It could change again. Employment is not necessarily an indicator, but it could be, anything could be, but you should see some kind of reflection in the economy, in the way the people are.

Everything is a state of mind, but our states of mind are radically affected by where we live and whom we associate with and whom we think about. Even if we haven’t seen someone in years and we think about them, we touch them psychically and that affects us.

So the person who seeks to find their totality, to become free, has to be extremely concerned with where they live, where they spend their time, who and what they think about, because at every moment you’re gaining or losing energy, your attention field is rising or falling. The strongest effect for most people on their attention field is produced by the earth and the people they know. One day, when you move further into other planes of attention, you won’t draw quite as much from the earth, but you’ll also draw from other realities and you’ll be affected more by nonphysical beings than physical beings.

Of course, there are other places of power—places of power that we go and visit, places of power where we go to be enlightened, renewed, healed, where we gain energy. These are usually places, of course, that are not exhausted. The places where human beings live are relatively exhausted, because they’re drawing the energy there all the time to make their careers successful, to make their lives successful, to make their sexual experiences more exciting, whatever it is. Everybody wants energy. They all want to feel like they did when they were 16 or 17 or 18 or 19. Everybody’s seeking energy, seeking power. They want a certain feeling, they want to feel great, they want to feel wonderful, they want to feel in control, whatever it is.

So people don’t touch the earth lightly. They live in a place, they draw all its power, they don’t leave any over, and then, of course, a place that felt wonderful a few years ago is today’s trashed lake. We see that in some of the most wonderful cities in America and the world. They were great places of power and they’ve been drained.

Oh, if humanity went away, they would renew themselves in time, just as a forest will grow back over the concrete in time, but with humanity spreading and covering every inch of the globe, soon the earth’s power field will drain lower and lower and, of course, then there are certain consequences that have to come from that.

But in the meantime there are still a few good power places left around. Naturally, they tend to be in more inaccessible places. So it involves more driving, more travel. That’s why the guru always lived on top of the mountain or the saint went out to the desert— because there were places of uninterrupted power where there were fewer thought forms, of course, from people. Less people … easier to meditate. But also the power lines there have not been interfered with. Everybody is not tapping into them and putting a lot of diffuse, desire plane energy into them.

Desire is a primary pollutant of power places. People go there to have their desires fulfilled, but if you’re seeking the other worlds and the mysteries of power, you don’t really want to be near all that energy—it confuses you. So there are lots of good power places looking for you, but there are also negative places of power that can drain you.

Let’s stay with the positive places first. There are places of rest and renewal, places of more direct healing, places of enlightenment, places of vision, where you can see particularly well, places of, of course, power, where you store power. There are different types of places out there in the wilderness, in the deserts and the mountains, by the seashore—wherever there aren’t too many people. How can you tell one from the other? Only by experience. You just need to go there and walk around and be sensitive. Meditate as you walk, your body will direct you. Just find an area that you feel good about and go for a drive. When you feel like stopping the car, stop. When you feel like getting out and walking, walk. Naturally, in the wilderness one must always be prepared and bring whatever you need for survival in the wilderness. Be cautious always, particularly if you’re not used to being out there and hiking around.

It’s good for most people to visit places of power during the day and avoid them at night. At night everything is intensified in the occult worlds. The power is different, the power lines run differently. Plus, just walking around in the dark you might hurt yourself. You don’t really have to go to most places of power for very long. As a matter of fact, if you spend too much time at them, you can overcharge yourself and kind of burn yourself out. But once a week, or every couple weeks, maybe on a weekend, take a drive.

The whole journey is part of the experience—your preparation for it, packing for it, getting everything ready, getting your car set. It’s very important to do each thing impeccably and perfectly, because if you don’t you won’t set up your lines right. When you get to the place of power you won’t be focused. It’s important before visiting a place of power to tidy up your life. All the details of your life should be set so that if you never came back, that would be fine. If you just stepped into another world out there, you would have left your affairs in good order. Your will’s made, your check book is up to date, the house is clean, any important calls that you needed to make were made, anything you had to resolve with anyone was resolved as best you could in the time frame that you had before you went, so that when you go, you go free. You can forget about your home, your life, and just go there and look at other worlds, other visions. You’re seeking a vision, a vision of reality, of yourself, of your mind. You want to know, which way to go, you need information, you need renewal, many different things, but your spirit has to be trimmed in a certain way, so that when you go to these places, it works. Otherwise you can just go and walk around and gain nothing.

Of course if you’re not careful, it can work in reverse, because remember, whenever you deal with power, there is danger. There is enlightenment, but there is danger too. That’s the nature of power. Power is powerful—you have to handle it quite carefully, with respect and with knowledge. So always prepare for your journey properly. Spend a day or two thinking about it, unless you spontaneously wake up some morning and are just drawn, then do it. Don’t worry about everything else, but if you live your life as an ordered life, it’s always in a state of preparation, so at any moment you can just go. I mean, your life shouldn’t really be that messy that you have to straighten it up, it should be tight all the time, but we can even make it tighter, and then we go and forget it all. You need complete control in order to have complete abandon. In order to let go completely at the power place, you need to have your life in complete control.

So then you hop in the car, you might bring a friend, you might not, and head out on the road. Drive to the power spot, go out there, hike around, find it. Now, of course, as I said, there are negative power places, places that can drain your energy and attention. How can you tell? Well, there are different colors, if you can see them, if you can see in the subtle physical. Try to avoid the places that are red. They have a reddish-orangish hue in the subtle physical. There’s a good power there, but just not for people. There are places that are kind of a yellow-gold or a white or green, blue, those are better vibratory forms for humans. There are no bad places of power, per se, but there are some that just don’t work with a human life form, with its vibratory energy. If you go to them, you can be drained, lose your energy. There are also beings, naturally, that are hangin’ out at the local power spot, nonphysical beings, and they can act on you and drain you, or they can empower you.

So it’s important to go to the right neighborhood. If you go to the right neighborhood, you meet a nice person and have a great time. If you go to the wrong one, you might get mugged. It’s no different out there in the wilderness. Just let your feelings guide you. You don’t have to be able to see the colors. Just if you don’t feel good in a certain area, keep walking. If you do feel good, sit down and enjoy it.

Places of vision, of course, are usually on tops of hills or overlooking mesas or on a high mountain. They’re places where you can see with extreme clarity. Now, they don’t have to be physically high, but usually they are. Sometimes it’s by a river, by a stream, by water. Water is a reflector of cosmic energy.
There are places of renewal. When you’re tired and you just need renewal, if you lie down in such a spot for an hour or so, or sit there and meditate, you’ll be renewed. There are places of power where you really store a tremendous amount of power. You shouldn’t stay in those too long—an hour, two hours, three hours, it’s more than sufficient.
What do you do when you’re there? You walk around in the wilderness, you find a spot you like, and you sit down on your little mat or whatever you bring with you. Well, naturally, what’s important is what you think about. If you think about negative thoughts out there, or fears, they’ll all be amplified by the place of power. If you think about positive things, that’ll be amplified. If you don’t think at all that’s the best. So it’s important to meditate there. You might bring your journal along and write a few thoughts down, write a poem.

You might, of course, camp there, and practice dreaming there. But be careful! You have to feel very good about the place because it changes at night. When you’re out there alone, unless you really know what you’re doing, you can be a target to all kinds of forces. Places of power, particularly in the desert and high mountain areas, are very strong. If you’re just going to your local forest, I wouldn’t worry about it—camp and have a great time. But in the very remote spots in the desert and high mountains, in rocky areas, you must be concerned. I think it’s a good idea to not do it by yourself, but to bring a buddy, someone to give you a reality check. Then you can practice dreaming. But you can practice that at home too.

Be cautious, always, when dealing with places of power. They’re good, but they’re best taken in small amounts. It’s like eating a wonderful desert. It’s good not to eat every bit sometimes, but stop when you could have one more bite, and walk away. That control is very necessary when dealing with power, or otherwise you can just amp out and gain too much power and start to think strange thoughts and have strange ideas.

Monitor your thoughts when you’re in a place of power, and if suddenly you start to get depressed or paranoid, or become obsessed with fears, it’s time to get up and move! That’s how you tell if you’ve found a good spot or a spot that will drain you. Watch your thoughts. Monitor them. Don’t be concerned about one little strange thought, but if you see a pattern, it’s time to move. You’re being influenced in a negative way. Try and avoid thinking about people you know when you’re out there, or on the trip there. You don’t want anybody else’s attention in your attention. You’re going there just for the energy, just for the experience. If your attention is tight, you’ll see other worlds there, you’ll pass through magical doorways into other dimensions. You can step from one world to another if you have enough personal power, enough control of your attention, if you have an awakened mind. Places of power.

It’s very important to travel. The earth, as I said, has different levels of attention, and a place can hold you and act upon you. If you find that you’re just not traveling a lot, it may not be because you wouldn’t enjoy it. It might be because the power of a place is holding you or the thoughts of the people around you are holding you. That’s why they invented the weekend. The weekend is a good time, from a strategic point of view, to go on a journey. Pack your bags—it’s not necessarily expensive! Stay in your local Best Western motel or whatever your favorite is, doesn’t have to be fancy, go camping, and get away.

Also, people tend to get particularly weird, human being types, on weekends. Normally they’re very focused during the week—they’re going to work, they’re running their businesses—but then when they come to a weekend, they tend to get depressed, because they don’t have anything to do. They try and find joy in their pastimes, but they expect too much. They expect Friday or Saturday night to be a most wonderful thing, or the weekend to be this or that.

So it’s a good idea, if you study mysticism, to be particularly focused on the weekend, because the same applies to you. If you’re working Monday through Friday, then on the weekends suddenly you don’t know what to do. That’s when people get into trouble. You need a focus, and you need a biscuit, right? So, at that point it’s good to go to a place of power, even if it’s just for a couple hours, even if it’s just local, even if it’s just a little place of renewal that’s around the corner, a local park. But try and get about 20 miles away from the area you’re normally in—power lines rarely extend more than about 20 miles—even if it’s to go shopping, even if it’s to go to a movie. Travel, it’s good for you. Go away for a weekend, visit somebody. Drive, drive. That’s why they invented the wonderful automobile. Get out there and drive.

Go someplace you’ve never been, or a great place you’ve been. Get on a plane and travel. It doesn’t have to be expensive. It’ll shift you. It’s easier for you to shift your attention. You can also assess how much people and your environment are affecting you when you’re outside of it. When you’re in it, it’s very difficult to tell. Also, you’ll find some new power places. Then during the week when you’re at work or at home, think about the power places you’ve been to. Keep a little journal, write down your experiences there, and you’ll draw power from those places when you’re not there. So when you’re at work, and you’re working at your computer terminal, or whatever it is you may do, you can occasionally take a power place break, instead of a coffee break. Sit down, visualize a spot.

Hey, take photographs of the place, what a nifty idea, and keep a couple around the office. Have them blown up. Bring them down to the local Photomat or whatever, and have them make an 8x10 and frame it. Don’t tell everybody in your office it’s a power spot. They’ll just think it’s a nice place you like. Access its energy, think about it, feel what it was like when you were there. Travel there psychically. Places of power are power you can draw on at any time, sort of like Eveready batteries, you know, power to spare.

Don’t tell people about power places, as a rule. You might want to bring a friend or two, but if you tell too many people, suddenly it’ll be the next polluted lake. If somebody’s supposed to find a power place, they’ll find one themselves. They’ll be drawn. Your power place might not work for them. It’s good to be discrete about these things, and inaccessible. Also, it’s good if people don’t know the power places you go to because then they can focus on you when you’re there, and draw power through you or try and control you. It’s good if people don’t know where you live and where you are all the time, otherwise you become too accessible to them. They focus on you and they exert a level of mental control over you. Inaccessibility doesn’t mean you’re scared or running away, it just means that you don’t want everybody to know every detail of your life. So it’s good to be inaccessible about the special power places that work for you. Keep them to yourself, or just share them with one or two very close friends, but don’t share all of them with anybody. Always keep a part of yourself just for you. It’s not selfish—it’s quite sensible in my opinion.

Places of power. There are quite a few beings, of course, who stay at places of power. Very strong places of power are interdimensional vortexes. You can pass from one world to another at these places, when you know how. In ages past, on the earth, it was actually possible to even physically step from one world to another at a place of power, but the density of the universe has somewhat changed, and now it’s more difficult if not impossible—well, I wouldn’t say impossible—it’s more difficult to do that, but it’s not necessary. Your attention can go from one world to another when you go to a power place, sit down, meditate and just feel the other worlds, and let your spirit wander. When you wander in the desert, you know, you may actually even physically see the other worlds and beings if your seeing is developed.

I wouldn’t try and seek out the beings necessarily, unless you feel pretty strong. Just let them come and go on their own. If you feel very strong, of course, you can seek one out— a magical being or a being of power that can aid you and empower you. But you have to feel really strong and your life has to be very tight for such an encounter. Otherwise it can be a little bit tricky, dangerous.

Most nonphysical beings don’t have interest in human beings. They could care less. They have their own worlds and their own pastimes, but there are some that act upon people, that either empower or drain, but most are neutral. and they have to be sought out, they have to be found. Usually, you have to look for them, they don’t really look for you.

Some people are very concerned about nonphysical beings draining them and taking their energy. I really think that that’s unnecessary paranoia. The only things you have to be concerned about are either your own thoughts or human beings. Nonphysical beings really don’t care what happens to people. You have to actually seek them out and find them, convince them to aid you. But there are some that can act on you in a negative way in the wilderness, so it’s good to be cautious, as I said.

Always just trust your feelings, and never be afraid of anything. Something can only gain power over you if you’re afraid or unaware. Always feel that you can do everything necessary in your whole life yourself, under your own power, or your power will bring any assistance you need. If you need to develop power, just meditate and practice stopping your thoughts. You gain power from gazing, focusing on yantras, pulling in energy from the other worlds. That’s where power is gained, from visiting power spots, leading a tight life, avoiding situations and energies and people that drain you. Having fun and being happy generates wonderful energy! Also being strong and putting energy back into the system for others are higher occult principles.

So power is important. Without it we don’t live, our attention field falls apart. Places are alive and they affect you much more than you realize. Take the time and put out the effort to visit places of power on a regular basis, and of course, to select a place to live, to work, to travel through, stores to shop in, just the little everyday things in human existence. Select places that have a good energy, a good power, one that works for you. If it changes, change. Visit places of power in your mind. Psychically travel there. You’ll have a magical life.

Also, on an editorial note, try to put energy back into places, not just take it out. Whenever you leave a power place thank it. Feel good about it. Don’t just walk away. Thank it. It helps recharge it and renew it so that when the next person comes there, that good feeling will be there. Don’t dwell on negative thoughts in a power place. You’ll just leave those impressions there. If you can’t think positive thoughts, or no thoughts, leave the spot. Don’t leave your litter about a power place, inwardly or outwardly. Leave it stronger, by going and having powerful and exciting experiences there. When you go to a power place, of course, you can sort things out. At certain places you make important decisions in your life, things like that, but once you’ve made the decisions, feel good about them, and always thank the place. Thank the spirits and forces that live there, that drew you there, that draw you through life and one day will draw you to your death and beyond your death, to your next life. That thanking, that putting energy back in the network, and that touching life gently will cultivate a higher awareness in you, and you’ll see much more with that awareness than most people do.

Places of power, enjoy them, and keep them to yourself! So this is Rama, somewhere in Massachusetts enjoying this great place of power. Massachusetts, with its clear energy and cold weather. It’s wonderful, one of many fine places on the planet to visit. Always consider yourself a tourist of the planet earth—just here for a while, read the brochure, incarnated here, just checking it out, want to see the best spots while you’re here, avoid the worst, and then off you go. We’re tourists of the universe, we’re wandering through different states of mind, wherever we go. We are awareness. See you later.

Psychic Development Psychic Self-Defense by Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz
Psychic self-defense.
Today is the 30th of December, 1985. It’s around 1:30 in the afternoon. Today I’m here in Massachusetts, talking about enlightenment, the enlightenment of your being. Enlightenment—the search for knowledge, illumination and power—is really divided into two parts. One part of course are methods and ways of stopping thought, making the mind quiet and learning to be introspective, gaining access to deeper stratas of being, of mind, of the universe. These methods are taught and can be learned from teachers, fairly freely. It’s helpful to be around people, sometimes, who practice those things. That can be inspiring, or to have a teacher.

But in a way, at least an equal, if not a more important, part of the study is psychic self-defense. Now, what’s psychic self-defense? Well, very simply, it is maintaining the integrity of your own awareness. Life is a happy thing unless someone interferes with you, or of course unless you interfere with the happiness of others. It is natural to be happy, to be strong, to be at peace. Certainly there are other conditions, other awarenesses, but the most important realization for you to come to, in my opinion, is that life is a state of mind. Everything is colored, completely, by your perceptual field. If you’re happy you could be in hell and it wouldn’t matter. If you’re miserable you could be in heaven and it would be hard. Your perceptual field actually is what creates heaven or hell. As someone once said, “Nothing is neither good nor bad, only thinking makes it so.” Well, that’s right! Not simply thinking as we understand thinking, but also awareness. Thinking is a simple way of saying what we’re aware of, our awareness field.

We’re made up of life energy ¯boy, we are! That life energy is electric, it’s filled with power and beauty and whenever our awareness field touches anything, we perceive it. Our awareness field shimmers and shines and moves. It’s made up of the kundalini energy, plasma energy and of other forces.

Our life energy is radically altered when it touches other energies. Some energies affect it more than others do. The energy of other human beings affects it, and there are lots of nonphysical beings. The energy of plants, trees, rocks, places, all of these things affect our energy field. Our energy field naturally determines our awareness—it is our awareness—and if your energy field is high and strong you perceive yourself wherever you go. That’s what you’re seeing all the time—endless reflections of your self. That’s all there is.

Psychic self-defense, of course, is the opposite of psychic manipulation. In psychic manipulation what someone is doing is seeking to gain your life energy, pure and simple, (Rama laughs) or impure and simple, depending upon your point of view. It is possible to tap into someone’s life energy just like you can lift out money from their wallet, if they’re not aware of it. Just like in the old stories the vampire can drain blood from the victim and weaken them, and the vampire can finish them off and just take it all at one time, or they can keep coming back day after day. Just like you can have someone who always gets money from you—who causes you to feel sorry for them—when they could go out and make money themselves. They make you sympathetic when you shouldn’t be and they feed off of you.

There are two mentalities in our world and lots of spots in-between. One mentality I have referred to, of course, is the coyote mentality. The coyote mentality is simply the mentality of the predator. Then there is another mentality that we don’t see too much of in this particular world, on this Planet Earth, and that is the mentality of the magical being that doesn’t seek to feed off of anyone else per se, who doesn’t seek to enslave anyone else. These are happier, freer beings and some of them wander on the earth and of course in other worlds there are more. There’s no right or wrong in this, I suppose, it’s just a point of view, but even the coyote is a little concerned about the pack of coyotes feeding on him, because that happens here.

The universe is wonderful. The secrets of life are fantastic if you get to them, and if you want to you should be able to. It’s not intrinsically hard to have a strong and powerful mind. Granted, we live in a world of constant change. Success is followed by failure, failure by success, life by death, death by rebirth. Still, you can dance along with all those pairs of opposites and have a wonderful time. It’s not necessarily so hard when you know how, like anything, unless someone or something is interfering with you.

In my opinion, everyone is interfered with to an extent by others. People want your life force more than you realize. Now, of course, at this point one can become extremely paranoid and start to blame everything that you don’t succeed at in your life, or every problem that you have, on others who are taking your life force, which is just a wonderful way of excusing yourself and not doing those things. So here you have to be very careful to perceive properly when you are being manipulated and when you are just trying to blame others. If you search your heart you will really know. That’s about all I can say on that subject.

Why do people want your life force and how do they get it? We need to understand how the predator works before we can prevent them—we need to know their strategies. You need to see the designs of others. Well, naturally, if you’re just very, very psychic, if you develop your seeing very well, you can just see it. You can see someone who’s smiling at you and pretending to help you, who’s taking the luminous lines from their subtle physical body and pushing them into your subtle physical body and draining your energy while they smile.

The chief device of a manipulator—meaning someone who doesn’t want you to know what they’re doing, because their purposes are contrary to your own—is to keep your energy level low, because if your energy level is high you’ll be able to just naturally see. Just as your body recoils in pain if you were to touch a flame for a moment—it does that because it’s part of its natural defense system to let the intelligent being in there know that it has to, if it wants to preserve their body, keep it out of the flame—so you have a natural psychic self-defense network within you that reacts with complete sensitivity to psychic manipulation and people draining your energy. If you would listen to it you would always know exactly what to do. There’s no need to be afraid; you’ll just sense, immediately, danger and withdraw yourself from the situation.

But, we live in a world where we’ve been taught to not pay attention to our feelings, and instead to always use reason and logic. I love reason and logic. I write computer programs and love reason and logic, but that doesn’t mean that I think reason and logic are the only modes of perception for dealing with life in the world when I have more. That’s like saying, “I love my little Chevrolet, but I have five other cars and I’ll never use them. I won’t drive the Mercedes, I won’t drive the Ferrari, I won’t drive the Jeep,” that sort of thing. How silly. We have many modes and levels of perception. They are us, we should use them. They protect us, they give us a good life.

But we been taught not to believe and trust our most basic feelings. So what a psychic manipulator does is seek to keep your energy level low. If they can lower your attention level you won’t see what they’re doing, and obviously if you don’t see what they’re doing they can keep doing it, which is feeding off your energy. Psychic manipulators work in a couple of ways. They want your life energy, or sometimes, just for the hell of it—they’re not that interested in your energy—they just want to screw you over. They derive a malicious joy just from injuring, just from seeing people not succeed, or because they haven’t succeeded at something themselves they don’t want anybody else to. It’s a threat to them. It’s like in the middle ages when the church would burn so-called heretics, who were scientists, because they didn’t want to hear about the fact that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe, and so on. They didn’t want to have knowledge, because if people had that knowledge they’d look at the theories of the church and say, “You guys are nuts! You’re not going to run the world anymore. Your theories are not in touch with what is real.”

So the answer on our earth when you come into something knowledgeable that is at all a threat is: destroy, kill, suppress. Shoot a Gandhi if you don’t like what he says, shoot a Kennedy if you don’t like what he says, shoot a Lincoln if you don’t like what he says. If it’s a threat to your little, private economic establishment, your belief system: destroy, kill, mutilate. Welcome to the earth—environment hostile.

Now, I really don’t want to get into a philosophical consideration with you as to whether this is a good or bad planet. I don’t think it’s either. I think it depends on your perceptual state, but to try and pretend that fear and domination, control and manipulation are not the operative modes in this world, among the people who populate the planet, is nuts. Talk to the people who have been in concentration camps. Talk to anyone who’s been in a war, a prison, a family, a business. Needless to say, this is not the only place in the universe. There are places where actually it’s a little bit worse and places where it’s a lot better too. But it can be better in your own state of mind, and to not see these things and pretend they’re not there opens you up for total manipulation. Just because you think you’re trying to be positive, forget it. Be neither positive nor negative, just see. If you can prevent yourself from being manipulated you’ll have enough energy to see wonder in all things. I’ve seen too many individuals in the so-called spiritual fields who think, “Oh, that’s a negative way to think, oh, you’ll just draw negative energy to yourself.” I watch them gradually weaken and fall apart, unless they just have a tremendous amount of personal power.

You need to know what the bad guys are up to, in other words. So, anyway, manipulators come into your life. They want your life energy or they just don’t want you to succeed for the hell of it or whatever it is. They operate in fairly simple ways. It’s not all that sophisticated, but it’s quick. The psychic manipulation game is the fastest game on the planet, next to the enlightenment game, which is a little faster.
What a person will do is get you to think about them. This is the first and most important step.
When you think about someone or focus on them or you think about a place or another world or a God or a being or whatever it is, your life energy touches what you think of and focus on, psychically. So what a manipulator wants you to do is to think of them, and any way they can get you to think of them—any way they can get contact with you, that they can get into your life or get some control over your life or cause you to think that you need them, that they are important—will enable you to lose energy from their point of view. In other words, they’ve got to have you thinking about them, feeling you need them, you love them, you want them, that they’re necessary, that you’re afraid of them—same thing, attraction or aversion—any type or expression of control.

Needless to say, there are magical beings, enlightened beings, beings of power, who seek to do the opposite, who would be happy to show you how to free yourself, who want nothing from you, who don’t need to take life energy from anyone else because they’ve learned simply how to create it by stepping into other levels of attention in other worlds. They will teach you to be free. There are both in the universe, but you don’t have to worry about them. We don’t really have to talk a lot about them. If you meet one, if that’s your good fortune, then trust them, after making sure that they’re that.

We do need to pay attention to the coyote net out there. So the manipulator seeks to get your attention. Now, some of the most obvious forms of manipulation, domination and control are sexual manipulation, manipulation through fear and manipulation through love.

Sexual manipulation is easy to understand. You’re not particularly interested in having sex with someone, you know, a particular individual. They pass you on the street and they project a sexual field of energy toward you, which everyone can, that hits your plasma body, your subtle body You feel it, it creates a level of excitement if you let it, you look at the person, you desire them, they’ve got you.

Now, they’re in your mind and even if you only passed them in an airport, in the office, for a few seconds and you never see them again, if you dwell on them, then you’ll have what we call an energy line into your being, your attention field. You’ve created a link between yourself and that person and they can walk back across that link psychically later, when you’re not physically together, and draw energy from you.

The tease is a popular method of sexual manipulation. Someone doesn’t want to have sex with you, but they want you to desire them like mad. Actually, if you have sex with them that will end the desire for a little bit or you might get so close that you don’t want to have anything to do with them. It’s a control game. So all they do is project a lot of sexual energy and you feel it and they’re saying, in effect, “Come on! Let’s jump into bed and have a good time.” You feel that, but then when you come up to them, look at them, they pretend just the opposite, that they have no interest or there’s something wrong with you for even thinking that. Therefore you get very frustrated because your body is feeling what they’re really saying: “Let’s go for it,” but they’re telling your mind, “What’s wrong with you? That isn’t my intention at all.” So, as you get frustrated you focus on them even more and of course they drain your energy even more effectively. It’s a control game.

In terms of sex, the most difficult time, of course, aside from these that I’ve mentioned, is when you have physical sex with someone—it’s a snap to drain energy and life force from them. During sexual intercourse there is usually a moment when a person will kind of abandon themselves, unless they have great control, to the ecstasy of the physical experience. As soon as they let go they drop the defense shields. You can snap their energy, you can drain them. Once you create a line, particularly through sex, it’s very easy to drain someone’s energy. Now needless to say it’s also easy to raise their energy—that’s the tantric sexual concept—because such a strong line is created during sexuality and after that you can also raise someone’s attention that way, if you’re powerful enough, because having sex with someone breaks through so many barriers. But it can be used either way. It depends on one’s state of mind.

Naturally, one can have sex and not be manipulative, of course. One can go through life and not be manipulative. We’re all manipulative, meaning we all want things and we use our power to get them, but when I’m saying manipulative, again, it’s a point of view. I’m saying manipulative in the sense that you’re trying to injure or hurt another or limit them. One who tells you about the truth is manipulative, too, in the sense that they’re trying to bring your awareness towards truth and you may not be interested in truth. So they use a variety of manipulations to help awaken you, to draw you to the study of truth. You’re glad later, because you have more power and they teach you to be free. We all use manipulation. We’ve had thousands of incarnations where we learned very subtle methods of mind control. There are very few new souls on this planet. Remember that when you deal with them. You’re not dealing with who appears to be there, and the better the deceiver, the more they can mask their talents and abilities. We all have some occult talents.

The dream plane. A very sensitive time is when you’re asleep. When your conscious mind is there you’ll know if someone’s trying to break into your house. When you’re asleep they can sneak in. So, it’s very important to be aware of that. If you wake-up feeling really drained, instead of refreshed, it means that you got hit during your sleep. So it’s good to meditate a few minutes before you go to sleep, bring a lot of energy into your being, read a book that inspires you, whatever, and then when you wake up in the morning, if you feel very drained, just meditate for a while, recharge yourself and review in your mind who you just feel did it. Again, your body knows. There’s something inside you that knows. You just have to trust your feelings. Then, if you break connection with that person, if you figure out whatever method of manipulation they have to get inside you, what level of control they’ve gotten of your life or your emotions or your time, if you eliminate that they can’t really bother you.

People can only manipulate you and come into your dreams and things if you create an opening. If you want them, fear them, think you need them, trust them, then they have to create an opening in your attention field. Somebody could live three houses down from you and you don’t know them. They really will have a heck of a time infiltrating your attention field. It’s the people you know who manipulate you, and the more you trust a person, the greater the possibility of manipulation. That doesn’t mean everyone you trust manipulates you, but those are the most likely candidates. Christ had twelve disciples. He trusted them. One betrayed him and he died. In other words, you can have eleven good apples and one rotten apple. Don’t worry about the good apples. They won’t hurt you, but the one rotten apple, if you miss them, can cost you your life—energy.

Manipulation occurs through fear. If someone can get you to fear them, they get another line in. That’s why it’s important to be absolutely fearless, to realize that you are an eternal being. Fire cannot burn you, water cannot drown you, you’re birthless and deathless. When you see that, when you meditate deeply and see that, you become fearless. But people will inject fears in you. Specifically, psychically, they’ll push those into you that are antithetical to your nature. They’re not how you feel. Psychic manipulation is very, very complex. It involves taking thoughts and ideas that the manipulator has, or wants you to have, and psychically pushing them into your mind. The majority of thoughts that you think are not your own. They’re either thoughts that you’re psychically feeling from people around you that are coming through you, or they are the conditioning that you received growing up as a child—the way that you were taught to think and feel about life in the world, the description of the world that you have. Parents particularly create a description of the world in which you’ll always need them, want them, where you fear them, love them. So it’s necessary to find new ways of seeing, new descriptions of the world that do not open you up to manipulation, where you can view things just as they are and maintain the wholeness and integrity of your attention field.

People have the ability to make you sick. They can enter your attention field, they can project energies. Just like a magical being can project a field of light into your attention field and raise your awareness and lend you personal power for a while, give you a boost, so it is possible for beings on the other side of the forest—the dark side of the forest, the Darth Vaders of the universe, as opposed to Yodas and the Obi-Wans—to project negative fields of attention. If this is happening, you’ll begin to notice the signs. The first place you see these things happening, where you’re picking up negative psychic energy, is in your skin and your hair. Your skin and hair will become very dry. Your hair may start to fall out—we’re not talking about male pattern baldness here—but rather diffuse hair loss, change in texture. These are signs that you’re being hit by abrasive psychic energy. Your skin becomes real dry. Then of course more serious diseases will develop.

I always think, of course, when you see any manifestations or signs that something is happening with your body, even if you know for sure it’s psychic manipulation and occult energy, and though the doctor can’t do anything, I think it’s good to see the doctor anyway. Just to check and get the doctor’s opinion, and see if they say it’s something else. Then, of course, when they say, “Well, gosh, you know, you’re just getting old,” or “We don’t know what it is,” or “There’s nothing we can do about it,” when they can’t find another physiological cause, you know, of course, what it is. The only way to get better is to remove yourself from the awareness field of others by learning to be inaccessible, which is another topic for another tape.

So manipulators work through getting you to desire them, to feel you need them. You’re smart, you’re intelligent, you can figure it out, but someone makes you think you need them—your banker, your lawyer, your accountant, your lover. People get into your life and they start performing simple tasks that you used to perform that you actually enjoyed and empowered you, and they act like they’re doing you a big favor. Gradually they infiltrate your life and you become weaker. It’s very important to do things for yourself. We derive a strength from it and an independence. Watch out for people who want to help you, who want to come into your physical life, that’s what I mean by help. Because, again, if they can get physical proximity, it’s easier to drain you. It’s easiest to drain someone when you have physical proximity … next is just an emotional connection or if they can get you to fear them. If you fear your boss, if you fear the loss of a job, you’ve put someone in a position of control. With that control they can drain your energy, lower your perceptual field, and take that energy into their own bodies.

We see, of course, you know, there’s the older man, younger woman syndrome, where the older man goes with the younger woman and he drains her energy as they live together and grow together, and he takes that energy into his own body. She never realizes it, of course, and he puts it into his life and into his career. He becomes successful. Then when her energy level is starting to lose it—she looks suddenly a lot older, the skin begins to fade, the hair, which means her life energy is low—he goes and finds himself another young woman to use as a power base. Women do the same thing with men, too, of course, but that particular manipulation we see more through men. Men do that of course by causing women to think that they’re weak and that they can’t be economically independent and so on, that they need them. Women do the same thing, only they use sexual energy. We call it wrapping. I discussed it before, where you’re projecting fields of sexual attention and getting someone to think that they’re interested in you, and you could care less. If you fall in love with someone who is just not your type of person, what do you think’s taking place?

The most dangerous of all manipulations is love—most frequently used. Someone will get you to love them or think that they love you. Human beings have this crazy need and the need is not necessarily there, it’s just part of the way of seeing that we grew up with, that people taught us, but that isn’t necessarily intrinsic to our being, and that’s a need to be loved. I don’t really believe that we need to be loved. If no one ever loved you, you could have a perfectly happy life. I do think that we have a need to love, and loving brings us into higher states of attention and makes us stronger, but we don’t actually need to feel anybody’s love to be happy. It isn’t feeling someone’s love that makes you happy. Someone can love you and you can be miserable if you’re not in a good state of mind. But when we love, we are happy, we’re strong, and we take a step beyond the limited self and we see the other. But love creates the greatest possibilities of manipulation—love and ego.

You see, a good manipulator can scan you psychically. They can look at you and feel your fears and feel your loves. Then they play those. They will then mold themselves into someone who appeals to you, and they will pretend not to be interested in the things you’re not interested in. They will pretend to be drawn to the things that you’re drawn to. People have this ability. Believe it. I mean, just consider yourself. How sensitive are you? Can’t you look at another person, and after talking with them for a few minutes, or even just glancing across a room, get a pretty good idea if you wanted to about how to get into their life. Couldn’t you go over there and talk to someone and flatter them, get them to have lunch with you tomorrow, gradually work your way into their life and be a friend just by—you know, you could feel their weak spot, you know what they want to hear, you know what they don’t want to hear. Well, don’t you think other people can do this to you? Maybe they have, and they’re already in your life.

Now you may say, “Well, gosh, do they really know consciously that they’re draining my life force?” Yep, they sure do. They know what they’re doing. They’re predators. We all have that side. You have that side. Don’t pretend for a moment that you don’t. The only difference is, as you evolve into higher levels of attention, you control that side. If you don’t think you have that side, then you’re a terrible manipulator. You’re one of the worst, because you’re now manipulating not only others but yourself into believing that you don’t. Everybody has a light and dark side, because we’re all reflections of the universe, which contains all things.

Begin by admitting that you have that side. Naturally, of course (I’ll come back to that line in a moment), when you manipulate others you create a line between yourself and them, which they can use too, to draw energy from you. It’s real funny, but once you create a line between yourself and someone else—you may create a line to manipulate someone, you play up to them, you want their energy, you want to be around them because they’re powerful, they’re successful—they can take that line and when you’re not aware of it, if they’re manipulators also, they can take that very line that you’ve fastened on them and pull you in with it and drain you.

That’s why I advise people: don’t manipulate, don’t drain. There’s enough energy in the universe for all of us. You know, when you drain life force from others, it doesn’t stay with you. It will empower you temporarily. You can be like the husband with the young wife, or the wife with the strong husband, who’s draining him, and feed on people on a daily basis, and you know, you’ll have a little more energy every day. But of course, from the advanced perceiver’s point of view, you don’t really want to drain energy from someone, because when you drain energy from someone you also pick up their thoughts. If you’re interested in becoming really powerful you can’t have anybody else’s thoughts inside you, because no matter what, they’re not going to be enlightened thoughts. The people you’re draining can’t be that powerful. They haven’t come into their own yet, because if they have, they’d see what you were doing. Follow? So you’re draining a grade B life force, which most people are content with, since they don’t seek enlightenment and total power, but if you seek that, if you seek to go beyond this world, then draining won’t do it for you, gang.

Learning to meditate, focus, learning the occult and mystical arts, this will teach you how to create more than enough energy for yourself, and even to give to some others who may need energy in their quest. But draining energy from others accomplishes nothing.

Love is a manipulation. We’re convinced that we need people to love us. We are lonely. You might be lonely. God, loneliness opens you up to every kind of manipulation there is! You think that you need someone—the Prince Charming, the princess, the wonderful child, the strong lover, the good friend. Every one of these things opens you up to manipulation. You have to reach a point of certainty within yourself, which comes through introspection, that you don’t need anyone. You can enjoy everyone and all things—don’t ever stop enjoying—but if you feel that you need something outside of yourself, then someone can come along and feel that need and play it and drain your life force. Everybody drains life force, literally, on the earth, all the time—it’s a continuous game that no one admits to. If you’re psychic, you can see it, and if you’re very psychic, you can avoid it.

The way you avoid manipulation is by doing everything you can for yourself that is possible, by setting up your life so that you don’t depend on others—you can work with others, but you don’t depend on them. There’s no one in your life who you don’t feel is replaceable. And by never telling all your secrets to anyone, never opening up completely to anyone. If you need to open up completely to someone, open up to a tree, a squirrel, a frog, a celestial being, a magical, enlightened being. Release yourself to God, to the sky, to the earth, whatever, but not to another human being who hasn’t crossed over that border into the world of magic where they never seek to manipulate others for disadvantage. Never open up completely to anyone, because of course they have a lower nature, and of course they’ll act on you.

Learn the ways of inaccessibility. Don’t let people know what you care about, what you think, because they can weave their way into your thought patterns. It’s good not to let people know where you live. You know, when you invite somebody over to your house— you walk them around the house, you show them your bedroom—they fix that place in their mind, and it’s much easier for them to come back there psychically, if they want to. That’s like saying you’re opening up your mind to them. People will come back there, because they’ll feel your life energy there, and they’ll drain it.

Surround yourself with good and happy things to restore yourself. Go to places of power, practice the arts that increase your energy, have lots of plants in the house that emanate a sympathetic vibration with a human form. A pet can be a real good friend, if you need an emotional outlet. It’s real fun to come home to your cat, dog, bird, and give them a nice hug and have them waiting for you. All they’re interested in is the next can of cat food or dog food or birdseed. They just love you, and then sometimes you won’t go open yourself to that human being, who you didn’t really want to open yourself to, but you just felt this need. Of course, if you meditate, you’ll feel light, ecstasy, energy. You’ll see that you’re the whole universe, and you won’t feel the need to look outside of yourself. Again, you can enjoy, more than ever, all things.

But remember, as you’re drained psychically, as you’re manipulated, you won’t even see life well. Life is beautiful wherever you go, but when people are acting on your perceptual field and draining your life energy, when you look at the world, it will appear gray to you. A day won’t sparkle. The night won’t shine. Nature won’t seem as beautiful as it did when you were a child. A painting won’t look as good as it used to. That’s because your perceptual field is lower. Nature hasn’t changed, the painting hasn’t changed—your perceptual field has dropped. You don’t have as much energy. Things don’t sparkle because your attention field is low—meaning that you need to do a systems analysis of your energy flow, which I’ll talk about with you perhaps another time. You need to chart your energy patterns.

So what should you do? Make a list. Make a list on one piece of paper of everyone in your life who you feel empowers you, and another list of everyone who drains you. Eliminate everyone in your life who drains you, and if you don’t eliminate them completely from your life, eliminate a need or a fear or a love of those people, because they’re abusing you. Just feel indifferent. Draw your mind into places other than people. Don’t dwell and think about people. Think about power places, think about art, read books, don’t focus so much on people. That’s what they want. It’s a good idea to keep track of who you think about and how much. Once a week, maybe on Sunday, sit down, keep a journal and write down who you thought about that week and how much. You can even do percentages. If you keep a little journal you’ll begin to see, after a while, a correlation to how well you felt that week. Or you might just jot it down each day at the end of the day, because you’ll forget.

Then, practice not thinking about people, and you’ll notice if you think about fewer people, your attention field will be higher and brighter. You’ll see a correlation to your success. You’ll make more money, you’ll get a better job, because your energy lever is higher. When your energy level is low you don’t draw good things to you. But also, as your energy level increases, as you become more powerful, you become of more interest to manipulators. So as you become more powerful, as you follow the psychic study, inaccessibility becomes more and more of a factor. If you’re poor, nobody wants to break into your house, no one wants to kidnap your daughter. When you’re rich, they do. So, naturally, with wealth and power comes a certain knowledge and responsibility. Don’t be afraid of manipulators, but they’re everywhere, they try and act on you and work on you. The most important thing that you need to do is first just to put this in your mind. To be conscious that this is all really taking place, taking place on the earth, twenty-four hours a day. Just begin to think about these things. Begin to look at people and ask then: how do I feel around this person? The only way you can tell is after you leave somebody. When you’re with them physically, when you’re around them, it’s very hard to tell how they’re actually affecting you. It’s very difficult to know, because they can fool you. They can dazzle you, they can make you actually feel more energized for a little while. Then they can inject a lot of energy and make you feel sick and drop your attention field so that you didn’t see what they were doing. It’s a quick game. It’s like the pretty coral that attracts the fish. The fish goes to it and then it stings the fish. It slowly injects a kind of a chemical into it that paralyzes the fish so it can’t swim away and then gradually feeds on the fish. Someone attracts you to them, they dazzle you, then they weaken you and keep you around. They make you need them, want them, love them, fear them, and then they gradually drain you. They inject doubts into you that you can’t do it yourself, that you can’t be happy, that you can’t be mentally strong, clear and free— nonsense! Anyone can develop a strong and powerful mind. Anyone can learn to be independent if you follow the ways of magic and mysticism. You can learn to be happy and free without depending upon anyone. But that’s your battle, that’s your struggle—to gain your freedom from those around you who, through manipulation, domination and control seek to take your life force and energy.

So be brave, be courageous and you’ll succeed. Keep meditating and you’ll succeed. Be fearless and you’ll succeed. Don’t lose hope and you’ll succeed. And keep looking, keep watching, they’re everywhere!
Good luck from Rama!
Psychic Development Seeing by Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz

Seeing. Today is the 29th of December, 1985. We’re at that in-between point in the year. We’re between two years. The dawn of one year, the twilight of another. We’re between two places. Neither here nor there. Almost not in one year or the other. In America, it’s that week between Christmas and New Year, the time when no one seems to be quite sure what they’re doing—a good time to see, to practice seeing.

Naturally, anytime is a good time to practice seeing, but some times are better than others. Some places are better than others to practice seeing, to see. Some people are better at seeing than others. In the old days, of course, we’d call them, strangely enough, “seers,” people who had that special second sight, that ability to look where most people are simply afraid to look—on the other side of the universe, beyond the realm of the senses.

What is seeing? Well, seeing is a direct, immediate knowledge of something. It does not imply any kind of judgment or moral system or philosophical outlook or religious viewpoint. Seeing is seeing. Right now I’m looking out a window as I’m talking, and I’m here in Massachusetts. There’s a lovely big tree and a small forest and there’s snow on the ground. The sky is a very pale blue with wisps of white clouds. It’s early afternoon. I see these things, because they’re there and I’m here. Now, I could decide that I don’t like snow, or I could decide that it’s the most wonderful thing there is. That’s not seeing, that’s reaction and interpretation: emotion based upon conditioning—maybe I’ve had pleasant experiences with the snow, maybe unpleasant experiences with the snow, it has nothing to do with seeing.

I could decide that the woods back there would be great to knock down and build a nice housing development. I could think that, from a conservationist point of view, that’s the worst thing you could do, but that’s not seeing. Now, if I saw that they were going to knock the woods down and build a development, that would be seeing. Being concerned about it one way or the other has nothing to do with seeing. Seeing is just direct vision—not, of course, physical vision.

What is there to see? Well, to begin with, when you can see, you can see, of course, inside yourself. You will see that you are not just one self, or one person, but you are kind of a conglomerate. You are composed of many different selves. We like to think of ourselves as one continuous being, that we’re just one. Actually, we’re many. Many aggregate selves are within you—many different feelings, many different voices, many different personalities. If you could see more deeply than that, of course, you’d see that there’s something beyond those selves, and that is light, energy, power, nirvana, endless eternity. That part of you is really networked with all things and all beings. It’s not separate. The only separation exists within your own mind, when you categorically, through thoughts, think, “I’m separate from everything out there, or everything in there.” That’s just an idea. If you can see, then, of course, there’s no idea. You’re part of all things and all things are a part of you.

When you can see, then you can see inside others. Obviously, you can see their thoughts, their ideas, their plans. This is useful! (Rama laughs), because their plans and designs might be to injure you. Their plans might be to help you, and you don’t really need the help. You can see those designs. Their plans might be to—who knows what they might be?

You might be able to help them with their plans, because you can see. Not that you can carry out their plans for them, but sometimes people don’t even know what it is they want, and when you can see, of course, it’s very apparent. They’re trying to figure something out, and you can just stand there and say, “Hey, wait a second, I see what it is you’re having difficulty with.” They’ll still have to do it, but you can lend clarity to someone’s state of mind. That’s why people of course used to go to seers. They realized that we lived in a world that has a lot of confusion in it. It’s hard to see in this particular plane. It’s a relative plane that we live in, meaning that it’s a place where everything changes all the time. Conditions are in a state of perpetual flux.

It’s getting harder and harder to see on our planet. Much harder than it was, say, a thousand years ago, let alone several million. In the days of brave Atlantis it was much easier to see. In the days of the ancient Egyptian civilization, or even a thousand years ago, it was easier to see. Why? Well, primarily because there were less people on the earth. If you think of each person as a radio transmitter—and there were only a few million on the earth not that long ago—each sending out a signal, a vibratory pattern. Oh, animals, plants, rocks, nonphysical beings, everything sends out a vibratory pattern, but the ones that we are the most effected by are the ones within our own cycle: human beings. Now there are billions, like McDonald’s hamburgers, of people on the earth. So there are billions of frequencies on this tiny little planet, and they project the population of the earth will double again in about twenty years and then double again.

So, it’s getting harder and harder to see. It’s also getting harder to see because the earth is in a changing cycle. We’re moving into a new age. We’re moving into a mental age and leaving the physical age. Today, what determines personal power in the world is not how strong you are physically, as it was maybe 400 years ago—how many people you could beat, you would be the toughest guy or the strongest woman—but today it depends upon how smart you are. The mind is the strength of this era, so therefore we’re moving from a very physical age, an age of physical consciousness and brute strength and survival, to an age of the mind. Now, the age of the mind is a complicated thing. On the one hand, we applaud it and say, “Hey, this is great! Boy, our time has finally come.” You’re interested in psychic development, meditation, consciousness, so obviously your strength is the mind, so this is your time. What a great time for you. It’s not as good a time, perhaps in a certain way, for the person who just relies on their physical strength. So this is a great time for someone who is psychic. But, of course, the mind is a complicated thing.

(Rama playfully imitates an Irish brogue.) “Aye, it be true, ya know, the mind is complicated. It is not only filled with the good and happy and cheerful thoughts, aye, but the mind is where all the doubts reside. They hang out there, they get together and have small parties. Aye! It’s true. In the mind is confusion, in the mind is illumination. So in the age of the mind, we get a little bit of everything. Aye! That be the problem.” (Rama switches back to his normal voice.)

The mind brings about all things. Everything is part of your mind. The mind contains all hopes, joys and fears. Of course, when I say mind, I don’t simply mean the physical mind that thinks. Mind—you know what I mean. Perception, awareness is mind. There are different levels of mind. How many of those levels do you see?

Seeing enables you to understand what it is that you want, or just to see different parts of yourself. Seeing allows you to see the designs of others. It allows you to see, of course, into other universes, other dimensions or even other physical universes. Seeing allows you to see the designs of the universe itself. The universe, the physical universe that you see, is only one aspect of mind. There are others, and everything that really happens here in the physical universe is caused by a certain template or design in other worlds, in other dimensions. When you can see those templates, well, it’s just wonderful, it’s wonderful to see them. They’re extraordinarily beautiful, but also, of course, then you can know what there is to know.

Seeing. How do you see? Well, the way you see is by stopping thought. Stopping thought is a kind of seeing, but it isn’t all that it takes to see. Let’s say that it’s kind of a prerequisite. Certainly slowing down thought helps—in other words, mental control. The reason you can’t see is because your mind is filled with impressions and images, feelings, desires and ideas. So a great deal of tranquility, and in my opinion happiness (although some might differ with that), is required to see well.

One of the first things you have to do on your way towards seeing is eliminate from your mind the thoughts and impressions and conditioning that have been placed upon you by this world and by others. In other words, your mind is probably not very much your own mind. Your mind is really a reflection of other minds; your mind has been conditioned. O.K., by that I mean that when you were born, your mind didn’t work in a particular way. Oh, that which is you, which was born, which had other lives, in other worlds or in this world, had a certain awareness or attention, but the mind, the physical mind, was blank. Certain intuitive capacities are in the mind, certain archetypal feelings are there—racial history. The body knows things that are stored in it through the DNA and the RNA, but the actual pathways of thought and impressions in the mind are clear. It’s like a computer that hasn’t been programmed. The hardware is there, but there’s no software yet. Maybe there’s an operating system, but no software. Nothing to run yet.

So, your mind is taught to think by whoever is around you as you grow up. Your mind learns to think and perceive, though, not simply physically. That is to say, most thinking, of course, is taught through language. Through language we’re taught a sense of values: good and bad; this is right, this is not right; do this, don’t do this; this is a good action, this is an improper action. You might be taught physically. You were hit because they didn’t like the way you behaved. You were rewarded if they liked the way you behaved.

The dominant impression, of course, that’s taught in this world is fear. Fear is the thing that moves people in our world the most. We’re taught to fear the unknown, to fear those who are bigger than we are, to fear those who are smarter than we are. We’re taught to fear everything. We’re taught through pain what not to do more than through love. Our governments tell us that if we don’t behave in a certain way, they will lock us away. Fear. Fear is the dominant theme, at this time, in the evolution of this particular planet. It’s the primary conditioning device, certainly not love. Love exists, but here we see a world of fear. Everyone’s afraid of everyone else, of everything else.

You adopt the fears of your parents, or of those who raise you. The conditioning that’s done is not simply done vis-à-vis language. Most of the conditioning actually occurs from a kind of psychic transfer. The mind of an infant or a child is very sensitive. Simply being around people it will catch the impressions and thoughts that are passing through their mind, and they will be recorded. It’s kind of like when you are going to transfer information from one diskette to another in a computer. All we do is put a diskette that has the information that we want in slot A and then we transfer it over to slot B, to a blank diskette. We format it and transfer it. Well, that’s really what happens. Your mind is a reflection of the minds that you’ve come into contact with. Until, of course, you start to overcome negative, and even positive, conditioning, which is another story for another time.

In any case, in order to see properly, you’ve got to get everybody else’s mind out of your mind. You have to kind of go out of your mind to come into your mind. This is a process that’s done over many years, a little at a time each day. It’s not done all at once with a sudden burst of willpower. There are many sudden bursts of willpower along the way, but it’s done a step at a time. That’s how all great accomplishments really occur. Sometimes we see the last part of an accomplishment where it comes into manifestation. Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov, Shakespeare writes King Lear, somebody designs a building, builds a supercomputer, whatever it might be. The way they did that was by living their whole life. Everything in their life created a field of power or attention that one day allowed them to sit there, and maybe they even banged the book out in a month, but it wasn’t that they did it in a month. Their whole life is in that book or in that supercomputer.

Your whole life is in everything that you do at every moment. The sum total of your personal power, of your attention, of your awareness, is what causes everything to happen. You can gain awareness, and to an extent you can lose it. Just like a battery can gain a charge or it can lose a charge. Psychic development, of course, is the study of how you gain energy, gain power, gain awareness, gain knowledge and move towards a conditionless condition that is neither above, below, within or without—called enlightenment.

Seeing is an integral part of doing all that. It’s a skill that has to be developed. Just like driving a car is a skill that you learn. Driving a car isn’t essentially hard once you know how, is it? You take it for granted, but the first time you ever got in the car it might have been a little bit complex. Flying an airplane isn’t necessarily much harder—there are more things to calculate. Seeing is similar to both, because there’s a sense of movement in seeing. Seeing is not a passive experience necessarily. It has a certain volition, a movement to it. It has a sense of going someplace. That’s why I compare it to flying or driving or even walking.

Seeing means that there’s a sense of destination, a sense of where you are now. We’re taking points within an infinite universe and creating a mind-set of a type, a kind of geography, a star map, points of reference. In order to see, you have to have points of reference. Well, what are the points of reference for seeing?

The ultimate point of reference is the level of your own attention or consciousness. In other words, seeing is, to a certain degree, based upon comparison. How do you know that your seeing today is more accurate than your seeing yesterday? In a relative world, where everything changes all the time, it’s hard to know. You could wake up today and not feel as well as you did a month ago, but not realize that because consciousness is fluid. Your awareness changes all the time. There isn’t necessarily a sense of how much it changes. We forget who and what we were an hour ago.

When you can see, as I can of course, or others who are ‘seers’ can, you can see how much people don’t see. Naturally, all of us can only see as much as we can see, and we don’t know what we don’t see. So it’s always good to assume, even if you think you’re a pretty hot seer, that there might be some things you don’t see. A little humility takes you a long way in seeing.

Consciousness, as I said, changes. It moves, but it tends to forget where it was. You may remember where you were yesterday, physically, or the people you saw, but can you exactly define the state of mind you were in five years ago? How do you know that the state of mind that you’re in now is vaster? Well, you need a comparison point. In navigation you’re out there on the big ocean and you can’t see any land. How do you know which way to go? Well, naturally, you have to get a point of reference, a North Star, then you know where south, east and west are—the sun setting in the west, rising in the east, something like that. You need points of reference in seeing too.

The points of reference in seeing, though, are a little different. They’re not physical locations. The inner navigation is rather accomplished by a sense of association with awareness. By that I mean that you have to be able to gauge the level of your awareness. Now, let’s not assign levels. Some people like to think of awareness in levels. They, in other words, want to make a list of the different levels of consciousness and stuff like that. I think that’s an interesting practice, but it’s just another idea. You can’t really chart awareness in that way. I mean, you can give it names, but so what? They’re just names you made up. That doesn’t mean they’re true.

But you can tell, without having to name it, when your awareness is shifting. So, step one in learning to see is to find yourself a few places of power. These are places where you will store and recollect shifts in your awareness. You’ll map the ever changing you. Now a good place of power, in my opinion, usually has no people around it, or as few as possible. In other words, it’s some land that still has some energy in it. It’s not necessary to go thousands of miles, to the top of a mountain in Tibet or way down to central Mexico to a little hill someplace. There are places of power everywhere, in every community. It could be a park, and there’s a little quiet spot in that park that just feels good to you. It’s good to pick something that they’re not going to build on (Rama laughs softly), so it’ll be there for a while. It’s good to pick a spot in a nature conservancy or a park, something that’s going to be around for a while. It’s not free land—land that they’re going to build on. You can still use that, but it’s more of a hassle.

Find yourself a nice little park or nature area or a nature trail, but hopefully something that’s again owned by the state or federal government or in some kind of private reserve and it’s going to be there, and go there. Have a couple [of places of power]. Just go there and sit for a while. Look at your life and look at the world and look at your awareness. Notice how you feel when you’re there, what your awareness is like. Step outside of your self for a moment and look. Are you happy? Is your life going well? Are you unhappy? What are your goals? You know, just sort of think about your life for a half-an-hour. Walk around, look at the trees, look at the grass, look at the snow and then go on with your life. Forget about it.

Then you should try and come back to that place about every six months, every three months, every month, every year, every two years, it depends. Only in that place will you really be able to tell whether you’re seeing more or less clearly, whether your awareness is actually evolving or devolving, because when you’re out in the world among people, you can’t tell. Because everyone is psychic. Much more than human beings realize! Everybody is busy thinking almost everybody else’s thoughts all the time. It’s just no one knows that because hardly anyone sees.

But when you go to that little nature area, for you it’s special. It’s a special place for you, and you create a kind of a field of power for the short time that you’re there and you’re walking or sitting or whatever. For that short time, you’re creating a field of power there, it’s your spot. Other people may come and go there, that won’t affect it being your spot, but it’s definitely your spot because you staked it out. When you go there, you’ll see your awareness. You’ll see how much luminosity you have.

You can be drained by others. They can act on you and drain your energy. You can be drained by the thoughts of others that enter you. You can be drained by your conditioning. There are so many things, and you can be drained so far that you don’t realize you’re being drained. It’s happened to me at times. I think it happens to literally everyone on the path to knowledge. So the only way you can tell, the easiest way, is to go to your spot and see how you feel. You will remember how you felt there before. See what I’m getting at? Normally you can’t tell, because you’re so in the flux, you’re so in change, but it’s like going to nirvana for a brief vacation. You’re stepping outside of the circle of your life and you’re examining your awareness. It’s like taking your pulse or going to the doctor and having a regular checkup. No one can do it for you, only you can do it.

Oh, there are simple ways to clock your awareness. My favorite is the mirror. Mirrors are interesting things. Look in a mirror, and don’t just look at your face and think to yourself, “Gosh, I have more wrinkles, I have less, I look wonderful, I don’t.” Again, that’s not seeing, that’s interpretation based upon some kind of expectation or desire. Look at yourself in the mirror, meaning look at your awareness. Stand back from yourself and don’t just look at the nose. Look at the total being. We call it scanning, in occultism. Look at yourself and scan yourself without focusing very intently on your physical body, but gently let your eyes look over your whole being, just for a minute or so.

Sometimes it’s good to do that once or twice a day, particularly after you’ve been through an experience you’re trying to understand. You go out with a friend, you go to a movie, you come in from the office, you come in from hiking out in the power place, whatever it is. Take a look in the mirror. Don’t wait too long. You will see, because it’s hard to know how you feel. It may sound ridiculous, but think of it this way—you get up in the morning, you meditate for 45 minutes, clear your thoughts and you’re in a nice state of attention. Then you go out with a friend. Look at yourself in the mirror just before you go out. Don’t be paranoid, just glance. Get a sense of your awareness. You‘ve been meditating, you look good, you feel good. You’re trying to determine what effect the person you were with has upon you. If they are a good manipulator, you may not know. Good manipulators can act upon us, take our energy and so on, and they can actually leave us feeling better, never realizing that we’ve been drained.

If you look in the mirror when you come back and you look really terrible, well, guess what happened? You were drained. Unless, you yourself, of course, were doing something that would put you in a negative state of attention. On the other hand you could meet someone who has a very positive effect on your life, and you might not like them (Rama laughs.) Or you might not like the experiences when you’re around them. So at that point the best thing to do is to again check in the mirror. See how you look. Scan yourself. Is there more light? Is there more energy in your face, in your eyes?

Sometimes we can be going through a difficult time in life, when we’re not really happy in a way, we’re struggling, but we look great. Our energy’s up. That’s what you’re looking for, not the immediate momentary happiness. That’s wonderful, but we’re looking for a continuous progression, a gaining of energy in your life. Naturally, your physical body, as you get older, will deteriorate. That has nothing to do with your awareness level, though. In other words, your body can get wrinkled, because it doesn’t have as much oil as it did because your glands don’t produce as much. That has nothing to do with your awareness. Your awareness can get stronger and more powerful, more energized, more illumined, provided, of course, you’re leading the type of life that causes that to happen. It doesn’t just happen. It’s like cash flow. Money comes, money goes. We can save it, we can lose it. We can make more, somebody can take it and steal it from us. Somebody can give us some. So it’s the same with energy.

There’s a science to the study of energy, which we call mysticism or occultism—synonymous words. They are a certain approach, through energy analysis, to self-discovery, to enlightenment, to life. Seeing is a large part of that process. If you can’t see if someone is taking your money, then of course it’ll be gone. It’s necessary to see. If you can see where the gold is in the ground, then you’ll know.

So with energy, with parts of ourselves, it’s the same thing. You need to be able to see, to know these things. Seeing involves getting people out of your mind and sometimes out of your life. There are people around you. This is the planet Earth, and the operating mode of the planet Earth is fear, manipulation, domination and control—that’s what we see here. We see moments of self-giving and love, but if you see and you’re not emotional and you don’t want to play goody-goody and pretend that something is here that isn’t, if you really see, you’ll see that we live in a world of power. All worlds are not like this. Not simply planets, but all dimensions. God is vast and infinite. This is one aspect of her being. He has many forms, countless forms. This world is one of them. The world is a state of mind like everything. Life is just a state of mind. That’s what we’re talking about: your state of mind. We’re trying to see it for what it really is, and maybe change it. Changing your mind? Like changing your clothes? Changing the place you live, changing directions, changing your mind. You can change your mind, anytime you want to, no matter what anybody says. You just have to know how. It’s not hard to learn how. You need to see, though. Seeing’s the trick.

A lot of people would like you to not see, because we live in a world that’s on fearnet—manipulation, domination, control. If someone can cause you not to see, by draining your energy, by making you feel ill, by keeping you hassled, then they can do all kinds of things. They can enter into your life. So it’s necessary to see, to understand the designs of others. But people will feel when you’re about to see, and that’s when they’ll get in an argument with you, and by drawing you into an argument, your power level will go down. They’ll cloud you with emotions.

The young woman is about to leave her husband. The young husband is about to leave his wife, because he knows that something’s going on that isn’t right here. He’s not happy, it just doesn’t work, say what you will. He or she wants out. That’s when suddenly they become very romantic, kind, they bring you the present. They get you in an argument over something that doesn’t really matter. Your energy is drained by that. They get you in long conversations—avoid long conversations with people. They can act on you too much, because those people can see, obviously, to a certain extent. They can read your thoughts. You’ve become too accessible to them. They can see inside you. Seeing can work two ways, remember? Someone can see inside you and know when you’re about to make a big shift, and if you allow somebody to see inside you—since many people have what we will call from a certain perspective “impure motives,” what they would call from the predator’s perspective “most excellent motives”—then they can see that shift that you’re about to make, and try and block it. Sometimes they can. Your whole life can be in slavery to others and you never even knew it, because you couldn’t see. You didn’t see the other possibilities your life could have.

You see, in this world there’s the predator and there’s the prey. Then there are magical beings, and there’s not a whole lot in between. Oh, there are non-physical beings that have different volitions, and no volitions, sometimes. But in this world, there are those who seek power and energy and life force. Some of them are nicer than others, I suppose, “nice” being an idea that we’ve evolved, having to do with goodness and partialities. But most are just predators. You have a cute kitten. From the coyote’s point of view, it’s a fine lunch. From your point of view, it’s your cute kitten that you’ll protect from any coyote. Who’s right, you or the coyote? Or the kitten? Hard to say. Point of view, I suppose. The coyote doesn’t think it’s bad for him to have a fine lunch of your kitten. The kitten wouldn’t like it too much. You wouldn’t like it. Is the coyote wrong? Not from a coyote’s point of view. Well, in this world we see mostly coyotes on this planet, in this state of mind. The strong feed on the weak, the weak try and get together—a whole bunch of the weak—to feed on someone who’s strong.

Then there are magical beings. Magical beings are people who have come to see and understand their totality. They can see the designs of others and avoid them. They live free, their minds are unconditioned. They have power. They give power to others sometimes. They’re free. They don’t need to be predators, because they’ve seen that there’s more than enough energy in everything in the universe for everyone, but they still recognize that very few beings see that way or feel that way. So they live inaccessible lives where they avoid the negative designs of power of others and just enjoy how wonderful it is to be in this great universe, to be alive, what a magical thing it is! That’s a great philosophy, and it is true, for magical beings.

But the rest on this planet? Coyotes. Coyotes can change. The coyote can go through a mystical change and become the roadrunner he chases, yes? Beep, beep. That’s what a real smart coyote does. They figure this coyote business is slow. A roadrunner has a better time, but most coyotes don’t see it that way.

So you need to learn to see to even know that that possibility exists, and that’s of course where meditation comes in. Stopping your thoughts and doing a systems analysis of your energy patterns—many topics, which I talk about on other tapes.

But immediately, what can you do to improve your seeing? Well, naturally, practicing thought control. Thought control means that at least twice a day you sit down to meditate to stop thought. Practice gazing, for say half-an-hour, twice a day, 45 minutes, 15 minutes. Start at 15, move to half-an-hour, go up to 45. Even out at about an hour, after perhaps a year or two. Sitting there learning how to practice the stopping of thought.

There are lots of methods that you can use. Loosely we call it meditation, but there’s both meditation and gazing—different practices. You start with concentration by sitting down and focusing on one point for half-an-hour or so, just looking at a dot on a yantra, a candle flame, a pretty colored rock, whatever you want. You just look at it. Blink when necessary; sit up nice and straight. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, you just ignore them. You just try and focus on that image more and more. After a while you’ll get good at it. Your mind will develop muscles, just like your body does when you exercise it. Take it slowly, have fun with it. Look in the mirror afterwards or before, and you’ll see an amazing difference. You gain energy from doing it. That’s where you get energy. You don’t have to steal it from people. There’s tons of it in the second attention, but you have to gain access to the second attention.

So twice a day you practice that. Then what do you do during the day? Well, lots of things. There are two parts of your day: when you’re awake and when you’re asleep. Of course the other part is when you’re practicing gazing and meditation. That’s your third part. So before you go to bed at night, practice dreaming. Give yourself a task in dreaming. Go visit someone, go to your power place, think about your special place that you would like to get to and practice the one don Juan gave Carlos: try and find your hands in your dreams, then look at them and then look away and then look back. Gain some level of control. Think of a place you’d like to go, someone you’d like to meet, think about that for a minute or two before you go to sleep. Don’t get frustrated, it might take months or years. It took me years before I started to find my hands in my dreams, or I could begin to go to places I wanted to. You’re actually traveling.

As you gain more control in your daily life, you’ll see more control in your dreams. During the day, well, start scanning. See. Look at people. Don’t judge them, but look. Remember, they’re going to present a front, but that isn’t necessarily the way they really are. So during the day, look. Don’t look for too long, you’ll pick up too many energy patterns.

Look at your thoughts. Ask yourself, are these thoughts my thoughts, or are they coming from someone else? How can you tell? Well, just say, “Is this the way I really feel in my heart?” It might be. It might not. Take a good look at your parents or the people who you grew up with. Remember them. Remember, your mind is an impression of theirs and of your teachers that you had in school. Gradually begin to dig into yourself and ask yourself who and what you are. Probe yourself, never be satisfied with any answers.

Go to places of seeing. There are certain places that you’ll find, if you want to, out in the wilderness, that are places of seeing. Others are places of enlightenment. Others are places of renewal. Others are negative spots, of course, where your power can be drained. Trust your body, the way it feels, it will always tell you what’s going on if you bother to listen to it.

When you go to a place of seeing, it’s easier to see. You’ll know you found it because it’s easier to see. Step back from life more and look at it. Investigate it. Ask questions about everything. Don’t be afraid of anything. Eventually you’ll be able to see beyond life and death, beyond time and space, beyond matter, and then to the heart of life itself. You’ll see your own luminosity, your own perfection, your own infiniteness, your own power, your own completion. Be around people who can see well. That’s where you learn, of course. A lot of seeing is taught in the same way that you were taught not to see so correctly. The person who formatted you or the people who formatted you—parents, teachers, friends, TV shows, whatever it is that caused your mind to think the way it does—formatted the diskette one way.

It can be reformatted if you meet a magical being, of course. If you get to be around one, at all. Just being around their energy patterns is helpful. There are other ways to see. There’s not one way to see that’s right. You just don’t want to get stuck in any way, and being around a magical being is useful, if that’s your fortune. If you store enough power, you’ll meet one. They’ll come into your life for a period of time and teach you a little bit about seeing, perhaps. Then you can continue practicing on your journey through time and space and eternity. Never be afraid to see anything. Life is wonderful. The universe is wonderful, but there are also beings that would view you as the coyote views the kitten. They’d be glad to eat your life force, your energy, and control your life. There’s lots of them in this world—don’t be afraid of them. When you can see, you can easily outwit them.

Put your time into seeing, meditating and developing your mind. Your mind is everything. Devote your time to it. Keep your body healthy enough to give you a place to walk in, and work on that mind. It’s the best thing you have. Develop it! Don’t be discouraged. If other people don’t do it, it means nothing. You do it. Develop your psychic abilities, develop your mind, develop your attention. Become strong and you’ll have a wonderful life.
So this is Rama, wishing you well in your seeing.