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The spiritual energy crisis

This podcast is based on a lecture by Dr George King available on CD and download.

The main energy crisis on Earth today is the spiritual energy crisis. If this crisis was solved, no other energy crises would exist. The problem, as Dr George King has explained, is that people put their “gross physical energy desires” before their “spiritual energy needs”.

It is simply not enough to put all our faith in cold materialistic science – all the while leaving spirituality on the dusty shelf of theory. It is practical applied spirituality – spirituality united with an open-minded, yet precise scientific approach, which will herald the dawn of a new and better world.

This podcast is based on a lecture called The Spiritual Energy Crisis by Dr George King:

The spiritual energy crisis

Pendulum dowsing – how does it work?

This podcast is based on a lecture by Dr George King which is available on CD and download.

A pendulum is a weight suspended on a thread, which by its movement, reveals answers to questions that our conscious mind wants to know. It is a tool that can register responses from our subconscious and superconscious aspects. The reaction starts off in the mind and is then translated through the aura, the psychic centres, and then the brain, into impulses which in turn move the pendulum through the bodily muscles and nerves.

The first thing to do before trying pendulum dowsing is to determine which way it swings when it is giving you a ‘yes’ response, and a ‘no’ response. This is done simply by picking up the pendulum by its thread and holding it between the thumb and index finger in whichever hand is most natural for you.

For centuries the pendulum has been used to discover those things which the conscious mind cannot perceive. From finding underground water and missing objects, to determining individual food requirements – plus a myriad of other unanswered questions.

With the aid of a pendulum, and after sufficient practice, we can sensitise our brains to receive information from both the subconscious and superconscious aspects of the mind. By doing this we can tap into the vast knowledge stored within the subconscious mind as well as the higher inspiration from the superconscious mind. When we do this we can learn many things about our health and well being as well as the world around us.

Pendulum dowsing – how does it work?

The Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth

The Ascended Master Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, Saint Germain and the Lord Maitreya are some of the names you may have heard of as being Ascended Masters who are part of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth. But what does this actually mean?

This podcast is based on a lecture by Dr George King which is available on CD and download.

Sometimes referred to as the Great White Brotherhood, or simply as Ascended Masters, it is a tremendously important mystic order. The reference to “white” has nothing to do with skin colour and in fact white skinned Masters are in the minority. “White” simply indicates they use white magic, as opposed to black magic. There are both male and female Masters.

Through the process of karma and reincarnation, over countless lifetimes we gain experience in the classroom of Earth. Eventually there comes a time when we have gained all the experience possible in this classroom and so we are ready to move on to a higher classroom. Ascension is the ‘graduation’ from the classroom of Earth to a higher sphere, literally another planet, where we can gain further experience.

All of us will eventually reach the stage of ascension and it is up to us whether it takes a long time or a very, very long time. It is the culmination of lifetimes of practices and service so it can’t be gained in just one lifetime and there are no special exercises that can guarantee it.

Once a person has reached the stage of ascension they can leave Earth to live on another planet and gain further experience, or they can stay here on Earth to help the rest of humanity. It is those who stay on Earth that form the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth. So Ascended Masters are highly elevated – essentially interplanetary beings – but they have chosen to give up this honour in order to be of service to the rest of us who have not yet reached this stage of evolution.

This all comes from Dr King who has actually met a number of members of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth and visited one of their retreats.

He gave an talk entitled ‘The Great White Brotherhood’ which is an excellent source of further information on this subject. This is available to purchase as a CD or download from our website.

The Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth

What is meditation?

This podcast is based on a lecture by Dr George King entitled Concentration, Contemplation, Meditation which is available on CD and download.

In the west today meditation refers to various states of mind, but Dr King had a much stricter definition of the term. He described it as the raising of kundalini up the spine, which is dangerous unless taught by a Master.

There are several forms of yoga: among the fastest paths to enlightenment are raja, gnani and kundalini yogas. Dr King undertook all of these and, after 10 years of intensive meditation practice, achieved the highest state possible in a human body, i.e. cosmic consciousness.

Today the correct path to enlightenment is the slower but much safer path of karma yoga, the yoga of service, as has been declared by the Cosmic Masters.

The fire of kundalini is like a three-and-a-half-coiled serpent and lies sleeping in muladhara, or the base of the spine psychic centre. When the meditator consciously brings together the universal life force and the latent kundalini power, the primeval force of kundalini moves upwards through the channel in the centre of the spinal column. It actually ascends through the tiny channel within the spinal column, called citrini, which is about 1/100th part of a human hair in breadth and extremely subtle.

As the meditator consciously raises kundalini up through each psychic centre in turn, each chakra is closed down when the power leaves it.  For instance, when the kundalini leaves the solar plexus centre, the meditator’s legs and hips become paralysed.

In the deeper stages of meditation the meditator becomes one with that upon which they contemplate. They may project their consciousness onto high planes, and receive great enlightenment and bliss. They become a Master, and may meditate for 5 minutes or 200 years.

When the meditative state can be attained at will, the even deeper state of cosmic consciousness is possible. In cosmic consciousness the meditator becomes one with that which is the object, and hence that which is all objects throughout the cosmos.

Cosmic consciousness is rarely attained, and a full description defies words. Dr King has given an excellent general description of this advanced state in the books The Nine Freedoms and Realise Your Inner Potential.

These days it is service, otherwise known as karma yoga, which is more important than the lofty goal of meditation and enlightenment.

In karma yoga, all the stages on the path to enlightenment will be reached without undue force when the karma of the path brings us these opportunities. Of course the student of karma yoga can still practise breathing or other yoga exercises as they offer many benefits.

In the words of the Cosmic Master Mars Sector 6:

Serve – and the mighty power of kundalini will rise in natural, unforced fashion and open the chakra jewels in your higher bodies. In will pour inspiration and you will be standing on the verge of the Initiation into Adeptship.

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What is meditation?

The spirit world: what happens when we die?

In this article and podcast, Tanya Solberg looks at the spirit world, the place all of us go between each of our many incarnations.

There is more to life than meets the eye, and in a way, there isn’t really such a thing as death.

In order to understand what happens when we die, we need first to understand a bit about the auric body. We are not just the physical body. Around the physical body is a psychic counterpart called the aura. This aura is a psychic reflection of the physical body. It not only reflects the state of physical health, the emotions and psychic development, but it is the part of ourselves that does not die and disintegrate with the physical body. It moves on after death to a different realm of existence around this Earth. Because the aura contains our memory and personality then this also goes with us when we die so we do not forget who we are or who we knew.

These realms are just like the physical realm we now inhabit in that they have trees, mountains, rivers and houses. But the spirit realms are more mental than the physical. For instance we may be able to manifest things through mental visualisation.

The physical body and the auric body are connected together by what is termed the “silver cord”. This is an etheric cord located at the back of the neck which connects these two bodies together. A person who has a near death experience is able to come back to life again because the cord has not been broken. Once it is then the physical body can no longer be inhabited. If you, the spirit, were to try to get back into the body you would flop right out again.

There is more than one realm of existence beyond this physical. In fact there are ten distinctly separate spirit realms. If we include this physical realm this means that there are 11 different vibrations of existence of life around this planet.

Six of these realms operate on higher vibrational frequencies to where we now are and four realms operate on a lower vibrational frequency. This breaks the spirit realms into two distinct areas – the higher realms which are above the physical, and the lower realms which are below this physical realm. In biblical terminology this separation between the realms is referred to as heaven and hell.

Each realm is on a different energy level and if you were to travel from one to another you would become aware of subtle changes. The higher up the scale the more alive it becomes – absolutely scintillating with life and music and colour. Then if you were to move down to the lower realms they would become darker with not so much light.

Each of the six realms above this physical realm has a higher and higher vibration. Just as each of the four realms below this physical, becomes lower and lower in vibration. To differentiate between the realms Dr King numbered the physical realm as level 1, the higher realms as level 2 to level 7 and the lower realms as level -1 to level -4.

Unlike the physical realm which is a melting pot for all kinds of people, all on different levels of experience, undergoing different karmic lessons – the spirit realms distinctly group people together based on their level of spiritual evolution and current experience cycle. This makes for a very pleasant realm of existence if you happen to be living on a higher realm. But not necessarily a very pleasant place to be if you are on the lower realms – although in saying this many of the people living there excel in this environment.

We must remember that when people pass on from the physical realm they do not suddenly become angels or saints. We retain our basic memory and personality and continue in much the same way as we lived on this physical realm.

When we pass on we go to the realm that we deserve to go to based on how we have lived our lives. This is reflected in the vibration of our aura. If we have been a deeply spiritual person then the vibrations of our aura will be heightened. We will then pass to the spirit realm that is vibrating most closely to our own aura which will be, in this case, on the higher realms.

Likewise if we have been a negative immoral person, the vibrations of our aura will be much lower. When we move to the spirit realms we will naturally be attuned to a lower realm. The realm to which we go is not a punishment – there is no such thing as eternal hell and damnation – we merely pass to the realm which is most in tune to our aura and therefore most comfortable for us to exist upon. A person of lower vibration would not be able to exist for long upon one of the higher realms, in the same way that a person of a higher vibration would not be able to exist for long on one of the lower realms.

Your everyday average good person would go to level 2 whereas a saint might go to level 6. Conversely your everyday average selfish or unpleasant person may be on level -1 whereas the mass murders would be on level -4.

In Dr. King’s lecture on the spirit realms he gave us some insight into what people do while they are living there. One of these is that people have an opportunity to attend the many schools of learning on various subjects which exist on these realms. They have large temples for worship and halls of learning where people learn subjects such as prayer, healing, writing, art, music, the sciences and so on. You don’t have to attend these schools if you don’t want to but many people choose to learn new things, as well as become experts in subjects they have already excelled in while on the physical.

People can move between the different realms but they may not be able to remain long in that realm if there is too much disparity between their auric vibration and the vibration of the realm that they are on. So they may attend a school of learning on the next level up or come down from a higher level to provide teaching to those on the realms below them.

For some people the time on the spirit realms may be relatively brief – say five years – for others it may be for many hundreds of years – each case is different.

In each instance of life we have the opportunity to improve our karmic pattern and the vibrations of our aura through the choices we make in this life. This means that the next time we pass to the spirit realm we may find ourselves in a different realm, whether that be higher or lower, depending on our actions in our current life.

Ghosts are people who when they have died have not moved directly to the spirit realms but have lingered in spirit on the physical realm, sometimes due to a strong draw to something on the physical realms or a stubborn refusal to believe that they are dead.

If you see a family member in spirit this doesn’t necessarily mean that they are a ghost, they may just be having a short visit from the spirit realms. Ghosts can be caught for long periods of time on the physical realm and may need help to move onto the spirit realms. Once they do move on though, they rejoin the cycle of life on the spirit realms and then reincarnation back to the physical.

Dr. King gave a few pieces of advice when he gave his lectures on this topic. The first thing he said was to look after not just our physical body but our auric body as well. Because it depends upon the purity of that auric body as to what environment we must come back to. We are evolving two sets of bodies – one is the physical body we inhabit for maybe 80 odd years, the other auric body we inhabit for thousands of years.

One of the best things we can do for our auric body are yogic breathing exercises or spiritual exercises of any kind. The aura of an 80 year old person who has been breathing correctly will be in far better shape than that of a much younger person who has been taking drugs for a few years. When the 80 year old person passes on, because their auric body is virile and pure, then they won’t be like an 80 year old person on the other realms but will appear much younger.

The second thing Dr King said, was that in his discussions with people who had passed over they usually said “If only I had my life over again I would do this and this and this” – and when they are saying this they don’t mean buying flash cars and houses, they mean that they would do things that would help their spiritual development. Although we have experience on other realms around this Earth, it is this physical realm where we can make the most strides in our spiritual evolution and as such it is the most important realm.

If we want to pass on to a higher realm then we should focus on our spiritual development. We should help others and give service wherever possible. This way when we pass over hopefully we will not have as many regrets as most of the people Dr George King met.

One great way to be of service to the world is through the practice of The Twelve Blessings – find out more.

Get the original lecture on the spirit worlds by Dr King available on CD or download.

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The spirit world: what happens when we die?