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Life Response (sudden good fortune)

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by Roy Posner and MSS

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What Is Life Response
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Life Response
Life Response is the capacity to attract or create favorable circumstances and events from the world around us that appear to occur by 'chance' or 'luck' rather than as a direct result of our own physical actions. (MSS)

Life Response
Life response is the term applied to the action and initiative of life that occurs in response to the thoughts, feelings and actions of individuals that are not readily explained by external cause and effect. It often takes the form of what appear as accidental, coincidental, 'chance' meetings and occurrences that are not consciously planned or initiated by any person to support the purpose they ultimately serve.

The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response

"Life Response" is the way life suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds positively on the outside to a corresponding change of one’s consciousness within, defying normal notions of cause and effect, and space and time. E.g., you change an attitude and suddenly a moment later someone who you never knew before contacts you from half way round the world with news of a big contract or substantial monetary gain. We can learn to invoke such response all of the time, enabling vast accomplishment, success, and happiness in our lives.

In life response what might have taken considerable time occurs rapidly, as events, people, place, and things conspire to overcome normally perceived constraints of life, evoking unexpected circumstances that render new, creative, and dynamic realities.

Life Response
Life response is life suddenly responding with good fortune to our changes in consciousness within. It is made possible because of the undifferentiated existence between the inner person and the outer reality.

Life Response
Life response is ready help coming in an inconceivable fashion. (MSS)

Invoking the Miraculous

A miracle is usually ascribed to the sudden intervention of the Divine Will. That God initiated it without any real participation on our part. My position is that we too can invoke the miraculous at any moment in time through a certain elevation of consciousness.

For example, by moving to a certain higher level of consciousness-

• Stolen family jewels are suddenly found.

• A 6-month persistent and painful neck ache suddenly vanishes.

• A desired full time job position is suddenly secured by one who has unhappily worked a decade in temporary positions.

• An individual attracts by far the biggest sale of his career from out of nowhere. 

• A man on the verge of bankruptcy, due to a $100,000 uncollected receivable, suddenly secures a financial windfall that overcomes the obstacle from seemingly out of thin air.

Each of these occur as a very sudden or even instantaneous, miraculous-like response from life. What appears like a miracle on the surface, was actually brought about by a decided shift in consciousness on the part of that individual -- whether a change in attitude, the overcoming of a certain reluctance, the taking to a decision, a self-offering of the problem to the spirit, and so forth. It is the phenomenon of "Life Response" in action.

I invite you to discover the inner power you have to evoke such instances of sudden good fortune, thereby resolving any problem in a flash or otherwise elevating your life to an entirely new plane of existence. 

Life Response
By Life Response we mean life is a plane of equilibrium of forces, and when one force moves, it creates corresponding movements in connected places. There is a certain balance at all times of forces which when altered causes life response. If a man's personality constantly raises the combined strength of the positive forces and keeps the negative forces down, that man will be constantly evoking life responses. (MSS)

Method of Life Response
In life response what might have taken considerable time occurs rapidly, as events, people, and place 'conspire' to overcome normally perceived limitations and constraints, enabling unexpected circumstances to arise that render new, creative possibilities, overcoming the slow, meandering workings and unfoldings of Nature.

Life Response
Life response is the term coined during the 1970s by Mother's Service Society (MSS) to indicate how life suddenly responds on the outside to a change of consciousness within. 

Life Response
I call this phenomenon of ready help coming in an inconceivable fashion 'Life Response'. (MSS)

Life Response
The universe is an ocean of creative energy in equilibrium. It creates by its own choice, Self-conception, by a movement. Its rhythmic movement is an equilibrium of existence in cosmos. It does not permit any other movement except what it chooses for creation. Such a movement will be a disturbance, which it readily dissolves by restoring its equilibrium. Man being the conscious tip of this energetic existence, can, by his initiative make this ocean Respond with readiness. It creates a new development of an opportunity. We call that Life Response.

• Thus, Life can respond positively or negatively.
• Positive Life Response creates opportunities for Man.
• Negative Life Response that restores its equilibrium is expressed as nature's cataclysmic catastrophes.
• Man is capable of making Life Respond.
• Man can do so not by his surface thoughts or ideas.

Man can do so from the depths of his real emotions. (MSS)

Memory in Things and Life Response
Every act, article, object, material, word, has 'jeevan' -- and they remember every thing we do to them-and give appropriate response in appropriate time. (MSS, paraphrased)

Life's Sanction
Life sanctions by bringing results, positive, neutral, and negative based on determining factors -- including the individual's conscious and subconscious status, the same for the parties one is interacting with, the atmosphere of those circumstance, the social intention and atmosphere, the energies of that time (compared to say today), the evolutionary movement, and the cosmic.

Life Response in Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is a story about the family of Mr. Bennet. His five daughters each have an annual income of 50 and are awaiting marriage. Bingley and Darcy  come to their place. Bingley is a pleasant young man of exceedingly agreeable qualities with an annual income of 4000. Darcy with 10,000 is a stiff, aloof aristocrat of selfish character. His unthinking comment alienates Eliza, the second daughter with whom Darcy falls in love later. Neither knows the other's attitude. In this context Darcy's proposal is vehemently rejected by Eliza who changes her mind on receiving Darcy's explanation through a letter. She now loses all hopes of his renewing his proposal. By an unpremeditated action, she happens to visit Pemberly, Darcy's estate. The magnificent estate and the reports she hears there about Darcy make her shed her lingering hesitations about his character and she tells herself, "I could have been the mistress of this place". A few minutes later when she walks out of the place she runs across Darcy who has returned to Pemberly a day early. This leads to their marriage. Her own deep resentment when shed brings him face to face with her in a few minutes. This is a rare act of Life Response; an inner change brings about the outer act. (MSS)

What is Life Response
Life response is a phenomenon in which favorable conditions appear before one in response to one's transition in consciousness. The response from life appears to us as sudden, abundant, and subtle. It is sudden because instead of having to make a long, time-consuming effort to accomplish something, it comes to us rapidly - even instantaneously - on its own. It is abundant because instead of receiving limited, finite benefit through one's actions, one receives vast, often unprecedented results. It is subtle because it does not require physical proximity, or any direct or indirect form of communication, interaction, or association amongst the parties for it to occur.

Life Response Examples
'Life Response' describes the phenomenon of how life suddenly responds with overwhelming good fortune to our changes of consciousness within -- defying our notions of what is possible, of cause and effect, and space and time. For example, you change a wanting attitude, and instantly someone from half way round the world contacts you with news of a big business contract, or word of a huge monetary gain, or a phenomenal new career opportunity. Such 'instantaneous miraculousness' occurs all of the time, in many forms, in every field of life. We just need to open our eyes to perceive it.

• Life response is what occurred when a diligent, hard working executive at a major financial institution overcame a reluctance to clean up a pile of trash, which attracted a sudden overwhelming response from life that helped bring about the fruition of the multi-trillion dollar credit card industry.

• Life response was at work when a manager at a manufacturing plant in India changed his attitude towards his workers, causing not only his machines to suddenly operate at double their rated maximum capacity, but attracted a flurry of sales orders from seemingly out of nowhere, that doubled the companies revenues in virtually no time.

• Life response was at work when a formerly unemployed woman made one extra final physical effort that attracted an overwhelming $400 million settlement for the victims she represented -- the largest decision of its kind ever recorded.

• Life response is what occurred when a weak consultant stood up to his client about the true facts of a project they were collaborating on, causing a six-month excruciating neck pain to instantly disappear.

• Life response was at work when a computer reseller, about to go out of business, discovered a power within himself that suddenly attracted $100,000 from out of nowhere, saving himself and his company from financial ruin.

• Life response was at work when a woman  who had found out that she had a cancerous growth on her x-ray, made an inner adjustment that caused the problem to miraculously disappear on a verification, follow-up scan shortly thereafter.

• Life response was at work when an individual invoked a power within himself that caused an energy crisis that affected 35 million people to suddenly end.

Examples of How the Outer Can Be Moved from Within
The inner consciousness has the power to act directly on the outer world and, in fact, does so unperceived at every moment. Our sudden interest in a subject or need for a particular type of information has the power to attract that information without any initiative on our part to obtain it. A change of attitude toward a colleague thousands of miles away had the power to evoke a response from that person which opened up an entirely new career opportunity. A selfless patriotic urge for a developmental opportunity to benefit the nation evoked collective initiatives by state and national governments, resulting in new public policy backed by huge government expenditure. The act of giving attention in consciousness to a particular issue can project that issue into public view, provided the attention is sufficiently intense and disinterested. (MSS)

 

Life Response
The vibration of an impulse such as joy, anger, lust or impatience itself constitutes an action that can generate consequences irrespective of whether or not the impulse is expressed in physical action. Although not yet recognized or subject to systematic study by scientists, vital forms possess the same capacity for nonlocal connections, acting and generating consequences instantaneously over long distances. This is the phenomenon of 'life response.' A decision formulated in the mind or an emotion intensely felt can result in instantaneous response from the environment, without the intervention of any known physical mechanism. An impulse of fear can attract the object of fear. A nervous vibration of impatience or expectation can delay the arrival or completion of that which is impatiently expected. A silent act of determined will can bring about the result willed for without the intermediacy of a physical act. The systematic study of these phenomena will revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and the world and tremendously enhance our capacity to solve the problems that plague humanity. (MSS)

 

 

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Principles of Life Response

• The phenomenon of life response reflects the principle of inner-outer correspondence.

• Inner-outer correspondence indicates that the inner and outer are One.

• The inner and outer are one single contiguous stream of existence.

• Inner-outer correspondence also indicates that the entire universe is contained within.

• The outer reflects the inner state.

• If you change, the inner, the outer instantly responds in kind.

• When life responds, the parties come into an alignment.

• When an act creates a disequilibrium, the response creates a new equilibrium.

• Each act that evokes a response causes the universe and its associations to realign.

• Life response creates a constant refreshing of the cosmos.

• Life responding occurs within the context of the constant realignment of energies in the universe.

• Life responds at the gross/material, subtle, or causal plane.

• Life responds because all and everything are interconnected in the cosmos.

• All is connected in the cosmos because of the Conscious Force behind it.

• The Intent of the infinite, timeless, spaceless, immutable Being is behind the alignments in the cosmos.

• Life response occurs in ways that transcend normally perceived limits of space, time, causality, and possibility.

• Life response is due to physical, vital, mental, spiritual energies moving out and aligning with corresponding energies.

• Life can respond positively, negatively, or neutrally.

 

 

Life Moving Towards You

The other day I had an extraordinary experience. One after another, life responded with a series of powerful positive events. It was as if I were on a magic carpet ride, but rather than being carried aloft, life was coming to me with one wonderful benefit after another. First, I had a superb meeting that far exceeded my expectations. Then a financial discussion unfolded so wonderfully and speedily for my benefit, I could hardly believe it. Then a computer operation went far quicker than I would have imagined. And so forth for nearly two hours. I was left breathless by the stunning chain of events.

It was at that point that I grasped something truly profound. I understood clearly for the first time in my life that the only thing that matters is whether life is moving towards you. Effort, skill, knowledge, aspiration, strength, action, decision, etc are all fine, but they mean nothing if life isn't moving toward you bringing it bounty on its own. I also realized once more that life is alive and conscious, and constantly responding to the state of our consciousness within.

In fact, life bringing you results on its own without need for outer action is proof that you are rightly disposed psychologically. More often than not, it is an indication that you have made a shift toward a more positive attitude -- perhaps overcoming a reluctance, or shedding a hostility, or restraining one's self from asserting, or having an inner faith that all will turn out fine, and so forth. When we take to such attitudes, life moves towards us "on its own," which is really a reflection of a momentary or longer-lasting transition we have made in consciousness.

There are also the magical, cosmic occasions when life comes through a storm of good fortune, as it did for me the other day. All one need do in such situations is NOT interfere and ride that wave, surrendering to and having complete trust in the unfolding. Life moving toward one with one positive event after another is also an indication that you have evoked the Spirit; often occurring in tandem with a significant transition in attitude, opinion, or belief. As it turns out, I deeply consecrated that day's very important activities to the spiritual Force, attracting that two-hour blizzard of good fortune. 

The most important thing that came out of the experience was a profound new view of existence -- shaking me to the core. I saw that in terms of success, accomplishment, and fulfillment, all that mattered was whether or not life is moving in my direction with positive results. Everything else is mere potential, effort, thought, wish, hope, and dream. Life coming to you on the other hand is kinetic; it is realization; it is results; it is effortless fulfillment; and is all that really matters in terms of accomplishment and fulfillment in life.

As you go about your day, look around and consider if life is moving toward you through positive, helpful, beneficial events. If so, then you know are doing something right within. Equate the outer result with a corresponding shift in consciousness. Now that you know the cause, repeat it ad infinitum as often and as frequently as possible. The energy you release will be enormous, though you may not feel it, as it has moved in the subtle or subconscious plane. But then at the right time, life will start moving on its own, which can build up and become a torrent of successive positive events, occurring in a short, tight timeframe. Then you too may have a vision of the power of life to move on your behalf, which will also give you a glimpse of the Marvel behind all existence.

Hypothetical Benefits of Life Response

• Instead of the weeks or months to find a solution to a problem, it comes to you in a flash.

• Instead of waiting months or even years for a longed for job position to open up, it comes to you suddenly out of nowhere in a week.

• Six months of very high-paying work suddenly comes your way, when just a moment earlier you were desperate for anything.

• You suddenly receive a series of unexpected calls from colleagues commending you on your recent work efforts, when a day earlier all indications were that you had completely failed.

• From out of nowhere, someone comes into your shop and purchases six months worth of inventory, when you were lucky to sell a single day's worth of stock.

• The ongoing strife and conflict in your family suddenly disappears, miraculously attracting an atmosphere of harmony and goodwill.

• A very expensive piece of jewelry that had been lost for years is miraculously found.

• An acute pain that had been gnawing on your nerves suddenly disappears. So does a friends long-term illness and suffering.

• A perceived negative situation suddenly shifts course and turns into a vast opportunity.

• You find yourself interested in and excited by entirely new aspects of life, whereas earlier you felt like a hallow shell.

• You begin to feel an inner peace and serenity you never felt before.

• You begin to feel a spiritual presence that changes your entire outlook on life.

Life Response as Phenomenon of Life
Life response is not so much a principle of life, but an expression of a phenomenon of life, indicating that the outer existence can be moved by one's inner consciousness.

The Nature of Life Response
From the perspective of life itself, life response occurs because there is a fundamental Oneness underlying all existence. As a result, not only are all objects and individuals in the universe interconnected, but there is a fundamental association and relationship between what is occurring outside ourselves and our own psychological condition within. This is reflected in the principle of 'inner-outer correspondence,' which not only indicates a correspondents between the inner me and the outer world, but suggests that if we change our consciousness within, then the outer will suddenly and abundantly respond in kind. This is in fact precisely what occurs in a life response incident.

From the perspective of our own individual being, life response occurs as a result of our changes of consciousness within. When any of these move further to the positive, or away from the negative, a sudden and abundant positive response can come our way.

All Life is Available for Life Response
Q: "No isolation of any aspect of life. This is what i really like about Life Response."

A: This is a very important point you have raised.

The Indian spiritual giant Sri Aurobindo said that all life is yoga, meaning everything in our lives is a potential means of our progress, evolution, and transformation.

Life Response is the measure of that progress. As we rise in consciousness, life is constantly responding. As we rise in consciousness, we are able to control and manifest the outer reality from within, and so instantaneously.

In Indian Sanskrit 'Siddhas' or powers are generated through yoga, i.e. conscious evolution. Life response is one of those powers, and it is available both to the evolving yogi as well as to the householder who wants to accomplish and be happy.

In either case, any aspect, occasion, matter, circumstance of life can be a means for life response. That is why it is called 'Life' Response. All life is thus a field for the instantaneous miraculousness of life response.

Life Response and Conscious Evolution (Yoga)
Life response is a step towards a life dedicated to conscious evolution, called yoga in some places. Aside from spirit, it is the cleaning out of all untoward attitudes dead habits, faulty knowledge, limits of awareness, physical problems, etc. The progenitor of conscious evolution goes a step deeper by connecting to the spirit. There are many approaches there, and all are valid. But one is to go deep within and discover our True Self, which is as you say unlimited. From that poise, changing all of the other aspects above is facilitated greatly -- i.e. accelerated. Thus from the depths within in the evolving soul space one has ultimate power over the outer life. It is where the timeless and time meet, which is the point where life response occurs.

Making Life Response Conscious

Sri Aurobindo tells us that there are three levels of awareness for the individual: that which is subconscious to us i.e. below the surface of our normal awareness; that which we are conscious of, i.e. what we do in fact perceive; and that which is superconscient to us, i.e. a higher, cosmic consciousness beyond our current level of awareness.

Sudden good fortune -- i.e. “life response” -- can issue from any of the three. However, the overwhelming majority of the time, it is a subconscious movement originating from points below our normal state of awareness. For example, in Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy’s marriage proposal is turned down by Eliza Bennet, who considered him proud and arrogant. As a result, he makes the stupendous effort to change his nature. When he makes that change, life responds and gives him an opportunity to resolve the elopement episode, which causes Eliza to change her view of him, leading to a second marriage proposal that she accepts. The opportunity afforded to Darcy to resolve the elopement is life responding to his inner efforts to change his wanting attitudes. The response itself however was subconscious to him, for he never intended to attract the circumstance that allowed him to demonstrate his changed nature, and, as a result, marry Eliza. In fact, in 99% of cases where sudden good fortune comes our way, it was never our intention to attract it. It was however the “intention” of our subconscious.

Conscious life response on the other hand has a decidedly different dynamic. In these situations, there is an active awareness that what is about to be done inwardly or outwardly will bring about a positive response from the environment. For example, one not only changes a wanting attitude, but simultaneously perceives that doing so will evoke a positive response. This is conscious life response, and is indeed a rare occurrence. However, it can occur through our conscious choice, and one way that can happen is by accessing the spiritual dimension. Let me explain.

If we open to the spiritual Force before undertaking an activity or dealing with a problem, one is in essence anticipating a positive response from life, and is therefore a conscious act. For example, if we consecrate an upcoming important meeting to the Higher Power, and we perceive that a life response can be generated as a result, then our initiative is a conscious one. When life then responds, we are overjoyed, yet somehow not surprised, since we anticipated something along those lines. In essence, we were aware of, even intended a possibility, which was then realized, making the process conscious.

Now this does not mean that we cannot practice conscious life response in other ways, aside from spirit-based consecration. I remember one day, I was closely observing the signs unfolding around me in anticipation of a delivery of a computer printer. I knew that if certain things transpired in a different domain (vacuuming the carpet), that a delivery person would show up at the door immediately thereafter. In other words, the vacuuming had nothing outwardly to do with the delivery, and yet I sensed the association of the two events. As it turned out, the delivery person arrived precisely at the moment I completed the vacuuming. It was in essence a conscious life response; in this case, anticipated and perceived through a subtle understanding of the unfoldings of life.

Let me add one other thought on subconscious response. If we are not intending sudden good fortune to come about, and yet it does -- i.e. it is subconscious to us in its origin -- then what is it in us that is evoking it? From a cosmic perspective, we can say that our shift in consciousness releases positive energies that align with corresponding positive conditions across space-time, bringing the fortuitous outcome to our person. But at what point does the response come about -- i.e. how much subconscious effort or energy needs to be released for the response to be triggered? The answer is that the subconscious awareness needs to reach a certain level of saturation, and when it does, the response manifests for us.

For example, we know that goodwill attracts good fortune. Let us say that over time, I have inwardly and outwardly demonstrated goodwill towards a business associate, but have noticed no response during that period. (In fact, I never considered such a possibility since it is subconscious to me.) But as my positive feeling towards that individual reaches a certain threshold, I evoke a powerful response from that person’s company in the form of the biggest business referral of my career that garners the highest commission of my life. What has happened is that our subconscious has become saturated at that point, evoking the powerful response. I.e. behind the scenes, below our conscious level of awareness, the intensity of our goodwill has reached a tipping point that evoked the results. In fact, most life response happens just this way -- i.e. it is saturation of a positive element in our being that is subconscious to our normal level of awareness.

Interestingly, even if a life response result issued from our conscious awareness, saturation of intensity, energy, etc, still needs to occur to attract the result. For example, I have often seen that if a person is having financial problems or hopes to change a dangerous situation in the world, it is only when that person’s emotions are so intense that his energies spill over, compelling the spiritual Force to move into action. Anything less will not do the trick -- i.e. not evoke the instantaneous miraculousness of life response.

Therefore, a key to becoming the master of Life Response -- i.e. so it occurs repeatedly on demand -- is to move the act from the subconscious to our conscious level of awareness. We do that by (1) becoming aware of the principles of life response, (2) evoking the right behavior in a given moment in time, and (3) having the ever-present thought that we will elicit a response by making that effort. As a result, we will generate far more and more powerful response in the course of our days.

Underlying Nature of "Life Response"
We find also that our perception of discrete separateness between living things gives way before a complex web of interactions and interdependencies with the wider field of Life and with other points of action, resulting in correspondences and consequences that defy a materialist understanding of contact and causality, phenomena we can categorized by the expression 'life response'. As in the case of matter, we discover non-linear patterns of correlation and correspondence which point to a deeper plane of causality.

Life Response

• The life we experience around us is a reflection of our inner condition. If we change the inner, the outer suddenly and abundantly responds in the positive. That is life response. (Inner-outer correspondence is then the principle that enables the phenomenon of life response to occur.)

• The knowledge of bringing life under one's control; i.e. making it respond as we wish is the meaning of the term "Life Response."

• By Life Response we mean life is a plane of equilibrium of forces, and when one force moves, it creates corresponding movements in connected places.

• Life is a field of all life responses. Without life response there is no life.

• "Coincidences" are not so; they are determined. (I.e. they are really life response, which are always determined.)

Principles and Examples of Life Response

Life Response is the phenomenon by which life suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds on the outside to a corresponding change of our consciousness within; defying our ordinary conceptions of what is possible, and the nature of cause and effect, and space and time. E.g., you change a wanting attitude, and suddenly a moment later someone from half way around the world (whom you have never known before) contacts you with news of a big contract, or a huge monetary gain, or a dramatic new career opportunity. Here then are several principles and examples of this miraculous-like phenomenon of life.

• The separation that we perceive between our inner status and the world around us is an illusion. They are in fact part and parcel of the same contiguous reality. Therefore, if you change your inner condition, life outside yourself will instantaneously change in kind, attracting sudden good fortune.
• A change in attitude will instantly attract sudden good fortune from the environment. E.g., an individual overcomes her sense of psychological weakness toward her ruthless boss, and contemplates addressing the matter in a more forceful way. Before she even acts, someone suddenly steps forward and takes actions that causes the boss to unexpectedly act kindly to the first individual; and, several months, later leads to the manager stepping down from his position.
• If a negative situation suddenly descends on you, discover a corresponding negative propensity that attracted it, overcome it, and watch as the problem suddenly dissolves. E.g., a parent sees her child in great difficulty. She sees how it is indicative of her hostile relations to another. She overcomes that hostility, and out of nowhere sudden good fortune descends on that woman.
• If you want someone else to change, change a corresponding wanting element within yourself. Then life will respond, and circumstances will change for that party. E.g., a mother who is concerned that her son has suffered due to lack of unique skills in life, sees that she is not forceful enough with him, which suddenly causes him to find a position that demands the most talent he is capable of, and provides the most pay of his life.
• If you want to change the world, change the corresponding element in yourself. E.g., if there is hate between two nations, discover what irritates you, and life for those nations will begin to suddenly reverse. 
• If you want to change a social problem, take a great interest in it, know all the details, and then offer the problem intensely to the spiritual Force. The problem will begin to give way. E.g., when a man saw that a power shortage, going on for months, was crippling his state, he called the Force, the problem suddenly ended, and has not appeared since.
• If you want a personal problem to dissipate, offer it intensely to the spiritual Force. The problem will begin to give way. If it does not, you must first make an effort to overcome the corresponding wanting element that precipitated or is otherwise related to the problem. Then the previous invocation of the Force in tandem with your action will cause life to quickly move in your favor.
• Any deep interest in a subject will suddenly attract information of a similar nature. E.g., a man took a great interest in an obscure subject in the news, and in the days that followed, he saw references to that subject from a variety of parties, when not only was that subject not being discussed beforehand, but none of the source providing the information had any idea that this story was circulating.
• A deep intention to accomplish a thing will attract results very quickly from the environment. E.g., a man took up an interest in a new venture. Suddenly he received response from various quarters of life, even though none of them had been communicated with about his intention.
• Merely thinking about the reality of inner-outer correspondence and life response, will attract additional instances of sudden good fortune.

Inner-Outer Correspondence and Life Response

[The following is a letter sent to an individual who mist unexpectedly met a few very famous celebrities on the street as a salesperson. -editor]

The streets provide an opportunity for endless observation of "coincidence," which we call "Life response." Life response is based on the law of inner-outer correspondence -- that the outer is a reflection of our inner state; and, in particular, if you change the inner, the outer responds. The latter is life response. Those outer events you describe then is life response based on your changes in consciousness within. (I am writing a book on the subject, which I hope to complete in '05.) It's a phenomenon that is truly a wonder to behold. The first stage of having life response knowledge is to be constantly seeing the wonder around us. The 2nd stage is to directly correlate it to our own transition of consciousness, behaviors, and action -- micro and macro -- within. Then it can be an ultimate tool for accelerated growth and success, because we can change the entire universe outside ourselves suddenly and abundantly from within. We describe this power of life to respond as "Instantaneous Miraculousness."

 

Inner-Outer, Law of Attraction, Sow-Reap, etc,
"look in whose company you are and that is who you are"

 

I don't mean this in a particularly negative sense. It is just a powerful neutral statement that indicates the positive, neutral, and negative in one's life and surroundings. It is what I call 'Inner-Outer Correspondence' -- the 3rd chapter of my book on life response. 'The Secret' Chopra, and others call it the power of attraction or use similar terms. The rishis of India knew it 5ooo years ago. It can also be looked at as a corollary of the law of karma. We are waking up to it here in the west. (We have a mild version of it ourselves in 'what you sow is what you reap.')

 

What the book on life response says however is that if you change the inner, the outer will instantaneously change. We just need to know what the key is for ourselves, overall, in particular situations, in terms of our psychological growth, etc. to make that happen. Thus, life is completely driven from within. Mostly the problems are there in our attitudes.

 

Ways to Make Life Respond

1. examine anything negative happening outside yourself and correlate it to a wanting action, feeling, attitude, opinion, belief. Then reverse it.
2. think of several negative traits you have and make the concerted effort to reverse them. Do it through an organized plan of action.
3. change a problematic attitude towards others and towards life
4. change an opinion based on the wider truth of things
5. aspire to achieve something
6. make an important decision
7. take an important action
8. accept the givens of life, i.e. what is necessary, i.e. what life puts before you
9. make the necessary full (or even extra) effort
10. fully take up opportunities that come your way
11. raise your cleanliness and orderliness one level higher
12. take to systemizing an object to a greater degree
13. make the maximum use of a resource - material, money, time, energy, etc. to the nth degree
14. organize thoughts, ideas, principles in your mind for greater clarity
15. organize your life by following a process of growth and accomplishment from vision to manifestation
16. follow the laws of money by giving it greater attention, circulating it, and paying off any old debts
17. take full responsibility for difficulties that occur, even when you see no obvious connection to your own limitation
18. take the other person's point of view
19. give inanimate objects greater attention
20. give animate objects more attention
21. give people more attention
22. practice unadulterated goodness; grow by practicing selflessness and self-givingness
23. move from ego sense and separateness to connectedness with others
24. send people goodwill from within
25. feel gratitude for what has come your way, and towards people who have supported you in life
26. whatever your vocation or avocation in life, make sure it is something that you really want
27. really intensely want something
28. raise your level of psychological strength
29. speak less, as well as in a softer voice
30. do not speak out a thing in your mind; be silent so others express it. (i.e. Silent Will)
31. call the spirit in an object to show gratitude, or to solve a problem with it, or simply to be in touch with it
32. practice equality, calm, and patience in difficult situations
33. move from assertion of the ego to non-assertion
34. see the positive in a negative circumstance
35. apply current or new personal values (like honesty, tolerance, self-reliance, etc.) to work, life
36. perfect a work to the ultimate degree
37. open to the Force of the Divine before special occasions, before any activity, or even the smallest act (i.e. practice Consecration)
38. consecrate any major past or current problems
39. intensely consecrate a problem that affects the collective; be especially knowledgeable in that area for maximal results.
40. orient your life around consecration
41. move from the surface to the depths within whenever possible
42. discover your True Self, your evolving soul.
43. orient your life around your inner being, consecration, and aspiration for continuous, endless life response
44. focus on 3-5 strategies in this list
45. consecrate any of the strategies you take up

 

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Life is a field of all life responses. Without life response there is no life.

 

Life Response is Movement to More Positive
Technically life response is not only a shift from the negative to the positive, but a movement of any status to a more positive status. E.g.  you can move from being friendly to truly warm; maybe even from being a virulent thief to a person who only cheats on occasion.  

Life Response on Same Plane as Origin
On close examination we can see that a life response to a change of behavior will occur at a parallel plane to the behavior or action that triggered it. E.g. one company that started developing a strategic plan for itself, suddenly had a flurry of orders for its own commercial strategic planning program, a product it had not had a single order for months on end!

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The energy we give out comes back to us. Life never fails to return good for good, bad for bad, truth for truth, and falsehood for falsehood in its own time and manner. (MSS)

A Startling Experience at the Cinema
The other day I went to see the new American film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.' It is about a man who is born as an infant with the wrinkled body of an old man. As he 'matures' over time, his physical body grows ever younger, even as he develops psychologically inside. At the end his life, he will die as a fully aware infant. Watching the transformation he undergoes throughout his life is a rather startling experience. Having said that, now let me tell you about what happened before the movie started playing.

I was sitting in the darkness with my friend, watching a series of advertisements go by on the screen. In fact, they repeated ad nauseum until we were familiar with nearly every nuance. It turns out, we had arrived a little too early, and the on-screen film quiz continued in an endless loop.

Finally, there was a change from the quiz to a series of public announcements, such as the need to keep one's cell phones off, the opportunity to purchase refreshments in the lobby, etc. etc. Then an advertisement for the theater itself came up. It was something I had seen before in other locations. In essence, a woman on screen was presenting the idea that companies could rent out the theater to hold local meetings, or even broadcast it around the world to interested viewers.

As I watched the familiar ad, I leaned back and whispered to my friend half-jokingly, "And now presenting The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response!," (a reference to the subject of the book I have just written). We both laughed at the outrageous idea of renting the theater for a worldwide presentation, and then watched the ad continue.

Our smiles however suddenly turned to utter amazement when the ad stopped and a new one came up announcing the imminent release of a new film, 'Beyond the Secret.' We were stunned because the film is in essence the very same thing as Life Response, which I had just jokingly referred to!

We sat there startled at this one in a billion 'coincidence', and could not help from crying out in amazement. Not only was it a startling synchronicity, but proof of the very principles that Life Response and The Secret represent! It not only revealed the principle involved, but also the infinite potential to utilize it.

It was certainly one of the most dramatic life responses I had ever experienced, and perhaps the most startling synchronicity I had ever shared simultaneously with another individual. It turned out to be an occasion of pure delight -- not unlike the film we were about to watch.

On Coincidences
"Coincidences" are not so; they are determined. (I.e. they are really life response, which are always determined.)

In the last few years Growth Online, in collaboration with its sister organization Mother's Service Society, has launched an initiative to fully understand the extraordinary phenomenon known as "Life Response."

INTERVIEW: Extraordinary Phenomenon in Life
In this Growth Online interview Roy Posner, president of Growth Online, discusses a number of extraordinary phenomena in life that normally go unnoticed by us. However, if we learn to access their powers, we can live lives of never ending, ever-accelerating accomplishment, success, and delight. Included are discussions on the phenomena of "life response," "contradiction are complements," and "consecration;" i.e. opening to the Force, amongst others.

 

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Utility of Life Response
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Life Response as Guide to More Conscious, Successful Life
You will see every attitude of one's own reflected in a positive or negative response soon thereafter. Of course, the "negative" results observed serves to make us more self aware, sensitive, empathetic, etc.

Life response itself can thus be a means of constant self-learning, as it consistently mirrors on the outside what is within. It is thus a secret Guide to help us live a far more conscious and successful life.

Benefits of Living a Life Response-oriented Life
Life response is the phenomenon where sudden good fortune comes your way due to shifts in one's consciousness within. For example, when a challenging situation arises, instead of being skeptical, cynical, or vindictive, you look on the bright, optimistic, positive side of things, which quickly attracts a spate of good news thereafter. There are many inner and outer behaviors that elicit such miraculous-like results - such as overcoming a negative attitude, focusing one's intention to accomplish a thing; even taking to higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness.

In addition, as a result of having these miraculous-like experiences, your view of life begins to change. If you then orient yourself around this new understanding, you begin to live a very different sort of existence -- one that I call a "New Way of Living." Here are several benefits-

• You constantly attract good fortune.

• It descends on you suddenly; and from seemingly out of nowhere.

• It unfolds as a miraculous-like experience.

• It often comes without making any outer effort

• Whatever you want to achieve quickly comes to pass.

• Life continually cooperates with your efforts.

• Everything tends to work out.

• You attract vast success, wealth, health and well-being.

• You are able to control the outer life from within (this is key!)

• Routine life becomes thrilling existence.

• You are energized to no end.

• Joy and Delight of being is your normal state of being.

• Difficulties tend to quickly dissipate; often turning into vast opportunities.

• There is a continuous sense of calm and well-being.

• You are continually in harmony with the unfoldings of life.

• You constantly have the knowledge of what to do; and what not to do.

• Whenever you take action, it tends to result in success.

• Your relations with others are harmonious and joyful.

• You constantly look out for others; you are selfless and self-giving.

• People are attracted to you, and want to me near you.

• Everything and everyone you are in contact tends to make progress.

• You have a deep faith that all will work out -- and it usually does.

• You have profound insights into and a comprehensive knowledge of how life works.

• You perceive your deepest purpose in life.

• You have a profound understanding of the meaning of life.

• Your days constantly unfold like a miracle.

• Every day is occasion for great inner and outer discovery.

• You are able to create the greatest results with the least effort in the shortest period of time.

• You are constantly growing and evolving as a person.

• You are able to think for yourself -- without being influenced by the herd.

• Your inner orientation consistently reveals the truth of things.

• Your days are filled with illuminations, intuitions and revelations of knowledge.

• You feel a deep connection to the universe and the spiritual Reality.

• You feel connected to your True Self and Soul.

• You perceive how your own life fits into the wider, universal scheme of things.

• Your existence is very different from anything known before.

• You are the Master of your life.

• You are a pioneer and harbinger of a New Way of Living.

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What Enables Life Response
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What in Life Enables It to Occur

Overview of Changes in Human Consciousness that Precipitate It

Specific Human Behaviors that Generate It

 

 

What in Life Enables it to Occur
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The Character of Life, Energies, and Life Response

The phenomenon of Life Response can be explained in terms of life's character, including the Oneness of life, the principle of Equilibrium of Energies, how forms are connected through related Energies, how forms Align in space and time when those energies are shifted to the positive or negative, and so forth. Here are some of those principles with commentary.

Oneness of Life, Energies
-Life is a universal plane of energy much like the oceans of the world form a single, undivided body of water. [Comment: the Infinite consciousness is One, and has projected Its oneness among the forces seen and unseen in the universe.]
-We may think and sense that we are separate, but that is only mind’s perception of an undivided reality. [Comment: Mind is in its element as an instrument of division, not for perceiving Oneness, which is the truth of existence.]

Principle of Equilibrium
-Life is a plane of equilibrium of forces. [Comment: All in life tends to want to keep in balance; and to therefore operate in a smooth flow.]

-When the equilibrium is disturbed, life seeks to restore the balance, which it does through a fresh act, which comes as a response from life. [Comment: In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy changes his attitude about himself, particularly his arrogance and haughtiness. Thus, the previous equilibrium of smooth flow (relative to his and local conditions) are disturbed. Life then seeks to restore the equilibrium and balance, which it does by suddenly offering him the opportunity to overcome the elopement debacle. When he accepts and then completes the task, the balance energies of life relative to those circumstance are fully restored, albeit at a higher level for several parties.]

Connectedness of Forms through Types of Energy
-There is a free communication of consciousness between life forms. [Comment: We only perceive surface interaction; but it is constantly occurring through our thoughts and feelings; conscious and unconscious; i.e. at the more subtle/invisible planes.]

-All forms are related and connected through energy of various types.

-Life energy assumes fixed and variable forms which we perceive variously as attitudes, desires, impulses, emotions, fear, etc. [Comment: Everything around us is a reflection of our preferences, habits, attitudes, beliefs, values, etc. The idea is to overcome the wanting ones, and strengthen the positive ones; even seeking out new positive ones as in new values never prescribed to before.]

Similar Vibrations of Energy Attract
Vibrations of energy attract similar vibrations which resonate at the same frequency; e.g. positively or negatively at the at the level of attitudes, desires, impulses, emotions, fear, etc. [Comment: Darcy and Eliza keep meeting in space and time as they are increasingly caring for one another. Their vital energies in particular are in sync.]

Alignment in Space and Time
Forms that are on the same frequency, wavelength of consciousness, connect and align precisely in space and time.
[Comment: When Eliza changes her attitude about Darcy at Pemberley, she aligns with his movement returning back home due to canceled meeting. They align precisely in both space and time at Darcy's pool in that given moment.]

Attention Creates Relationship
Whatever we focus our consciousness on comes into relationship with us. [Comment: We energize the field when we focus on a thing, which can range from a passing interest in something to an intense aspiration for a thing to come about. Life then responds with more of it. 'The Secret' is organized around this principle, which it calls "The Power of Attraction."]

Acts Repeat
Each expression of an act unleashes an energy of a characteristic type and that energy or vibration goes on repeating itself. [Comment: E.g. when you come to a gathering periodically, almost the same events repeat, or the same consciousness of individuals is expressed, or there are the same discussions, the same extenuating circumstance (e.g. the same type of interruption), similar vibration and atmosphere, etc. Another example: Work keeps coming to me at fixed quantities, unless I disturb it by showing a deeper concern for my students. Then life responds and I receive abundant work, since the repetition has been disturbed. A third example: When I do something wrong; someone else does the same back to me to my determinant, then it happens to them, ad infinitum (it is repeating), until a strong enough positive force prevents the repetition.]

 

Inner-Outer Correspondence; Oneness of Existence

Cause of Life Response
Life response is enabled by the underlying principle of inner-outer correspondence; that the inner and the outer are not two separate realities but are part and approval of the same contiguous stream of existence.  I.e. the inner and outer are One. Therefore, if the inner me changes, the outer instantaneously changes in kind.

Life response occurs due to a shift in consciousness on the part of an individual that causes that person to move in alignment with positive conditions that are experienced as an immediate instance of sudden good fortune.

Life Response & Inner-Outer Correspondence
The phenomenon of life response expresses the principle of inner-outer correspondence.

No Inner or Outer
Though we constantly speak of the Inner and the Outer it is only a way of speaking. Life does not recognize any inner and outer. It treats both as parts of the same plane.

Inner-Outer Correspondence
Observed carefully, one can find a finely grained system of correspondence between life events around and character traits inside. Not one outer event can ever claim exception to this system. All circumstances are move by pressing inner keys only. (MSS)

Inner-Outer Correspondence, Oneness, Energy and Force, and Life Response
In our analysis of the guiding principles behind the phenomenon of life, we have come to recognize a correspondence between our inner state of consciousness and how life reflects outside ourselves. We have identified this as the principle inner-outer correspondence.

Moreover, we have suggested that this principle is made possible because there is a subtle unifying force and energy behind all existence that binds all objects and individuals in the universe across space and time. This unifying mechanism enables the correspondence and connection that we have pointed out between what we are inside ourselves, i.e. our consciousness, and the world around us.

Finally, we have determined that within this associative framework, a change of consciousness -- expressed through transitions in our opinions, thoughts, habits, knowledge, insights, decisions, and actions  -- intensifies the subtle connection between ourselves and corresponding objects and individuals across space and time, enabling a return of energy from that element, which we experience as a sudden abundant positive response from life.

Non Local Connections of Physics
Non local connections of physics speak about the mysterious relations existing between two apparently unconnected things. It is a point of understanding an aspect where Spirit and Life meet. (MSS)

One Man Can Change the World from Within
What a shock it gives to our human mind when we admit that this huge universe has no independent reality outside of God's consciousness and that the whole stuff is within him only. Sri Karmayogi goes one step further. He says that all that we see outside of ourselves is only appearances and the reality inside is many many times bigger. It is a big mistake to accept the appearance as the reality. That is like mistaking the records a company keeps about an employee to be the employee himself. The employee's personality is surely much bigger than what is on a company's record. Similarly our outward achievements are only a tiny portion of our inner potentials. If any individual man is bigger inside than his outside achievements, how much more should be lying in potential in God's consciousness than has manifested so far! Non-being is truly greater than being! Asat is bigger than Sat. It is because the inside is much bigger than the outside that Sri Aurobindo is able to say that one man's perfection can save the whole world. That is why Appa says that no matter how big a problem is and no matter how many people have contributed to the generation of the problem and no matter how many different angles and dimensions are there to the problem, one man sincerely accepting full responsibility for the problem and correcting himself inside can dissolve that problem. One psychiatrist who was assigned the task of curing a bunch of lunatics in a mental asylum took the stand that all those lunatics were only extensions of his inner self and that if he corrects his inner self they are bound to be cured. By a patient effort he healed his inner self and to the amazement of fellow doctors and hospital staff, all the lunatics got rid of their lunacy and became normal. That psychiatrist working in a mental hospital in Hawaii was no disciple of Sri Aurobindo or Mother. But he knew their teaching better than us! And that is what matters. (N. Asokan of MSS)

Inner-Outer Correspondence
What we experience on the outside is a direct reflection of what we are inside. I.e. there is a correspondence between our inner psychological condition -- including our habits, wants, feelings, attitudes, opinions, and beliefs -- and how the world takes shape outside ourselves. This would suggest that if we were shift to a more positive psychological condition inside, life on the outside would instantly respond positively in kind.

Such sudden response of the outer life to our inner condition can take shape in two ways - positively or negatively. E.g. just after I decide that I will no longer allow myself to feel negative feelings towards another, I am informed that I've been selected to head an exciting and lucrative new project.  Inversely, a moment after I feel an intense negative emotion towards a fellow worker, I am informed that an important project I've been working has been cancelled.

From this perspective we see that our normal views of what is logical and possible, of how cause and effect should relate, of how space and time should function, are rendered obsolete. Instead, we develop a new view, a new perception of the true subtle association and relationship amongst objects and individuals in the universe.

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Everything outside us is a reflection of our inner status. If we want to change the outside for the better, we need to improve our inner status to the same degree. Changing our inner status has 100 times the power of acting in the outer. Its effectivity to enable instant life responses is one of the great miracles and marvels of life.

Inner-Outer Correspondence
Life on the outside reflects what is inside ourselves. What is positive or negative outside us reflects what is positive or negative inside us. Thus if inside ourselves we change a negative to a positive, the corresponding thing outside ourselves also changes.

Inner-Outer Correspondence
Observed carefully, one can find a finely grained system of correspondence between life events around and character traits inside. Not one outer event can ever claim exception to this system. All circumstances are move by pressing inner keys only. (MSS)

Inner-Outer Correspondence
As we move along the path of personal growth, we begin to see that the deeper we go into our inner consciousness -- even to the depths where we discover our personal soul being -- the more we begin to perceive the power that enables us to move the outer world from within ourselves.

Life Response is the Result of the Inner Moving the Outer
When we change our inner consciousness relative to a situation or condition, life can respond with sudden and abundant goof fortune. This results is we call a response from life, or a "Life Response." Life Response occurs because of the Oneness between all existence, including our inner condition and our outer reality, which we call "Inner-Outer Correspondence."

Moving Life from Within as Harbinger of New Way of Living

Normally to achieve in life we develop a level of intent for something to come about, and then act on it. Without following this process of inner intention followed by outer activity, little is accomplished. This is the method we have instinctively learned for a thousand generations. And yet this approach may not be the preferred approach in the future -- at least for a potential group of emerging individuals whose orientation is no longer determined outwardly by social influence, but inwardly as a Spiritual Individual.

For the person of the future will move life from within himself, as he will be able to harness vast inner powers and in effect dramatically reduce the amount of outer action required on our part to produce a result. In addition, the outer results that do come from this inner orientation and approach will unfold miraculous-like -- i.e. suddenly and abundantly. Let me provide a simple true-life example.

An individual is frustrated that a friend of his does not readily take to higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness. He has suggested to her often that organizing her papers will improve her life -- i.e. attract sudden good fortune -- but to no avail. One day, he is about to make that same suggestion again after several untoward minor events, but instead he withholds his insistence. He then goes a step further by releasing the intensity and emotions behind his intent, to the point where he is able to forget the matter entirely. Soon thereafter, he is stunned to find out that the woman has suddenly begun organizing all of her business papers -- a highly unusual occurrence -- without any prodding on his part. In fact, this behavior would continue on in the weeks ahead. Somehow, she was moved to carry out his inner-directed behavior of non-insistence. Life then responded to his effort of self-control, which brought about the object of his desire. (It also brought good benefit for her as well, as she now has a more organized environment, which itself has the potential to attract its own sudden good fortune.)

The life of the future man is then to move life around one's self from within, with minimal communication of one's intention or other forms of outer action.

There was an Indian saddhu who lived alone and apart from normal life, and yet maintained a deep concentration within, taking fully to the life of the spirit. There was also a beloved king who was nearly the opposite -- as he had vast influence, power, and fortune. One day there arose an opportunity to build a great temple in honor of the spiritual personality of Krishna. From his side, the king marshaled all of his resources to plan the temple; while the humble saddhu -- deeply devoted to an inner life of the spirit -- imagined from his deepest consciousness within what the edifice should be like. At no point did he reveal his conception and intentions to others.

Five hundred years ago, a wealthy, noble and enlightened king in South India decided to dedicate the last years of his life to the construction of a magnificent temple to Lord Krishna. The task involved the labor of thousands of workers and skilled artisans over a period of more than 10 years. As the work progressed, the king turned more and more to prayer and meditation and gradually withdrew from day to day affairs.

One day while the king was meditating, he had a vision of Lord Krishna. Krishna appeared in a resplendent form and asked the king what boon he would like. The king asked Krishna to install his spiritual presence in the new temple on the auspicious day selected by the astrologers for anointing the inner sanctum. Krishna smiled benevolently at the king and replied, "I am sorry, but I have to sanctify another temple that is being completed on that day at a far off village in your kingdom." Then the vision vanished.

The king awoke and was startled to contemplate what the vision had told him. It was almost unthinkable that anyone but a king could have the resources needed to build a temple and it was inconceivable that any temple could be constructed in his kingdom without the king's knowledge. The king called his ministers and inquired about the other temple. No one could provide any information. Then he called for a retinue of horse guards and immediately set off to the distant village to inquire personally.

When the king reached the village he called the head man and asked about the temple. The village elder looked puzzled and assured the king that no temple was under construction in the village. Indeed, in such a poor village it was simply not possible. When the king persisted, the elder advised him to consult a wise old hermit in the village. The king asked to be taken to the hermit.

The king entered the man's hut and found him sitting on the ground in mediation in lotus position. When the king knelt before him, the hermit opened his eyes and bowed humbly to his monarch. The king explained the reason for his coming and asked the hermit if he could explain the strange vision of Krishna. The hermit nodded and smiled. "Yes, great king, I can explain it. It is I who am constructing a temple to Lord Krishna and sanctifying on the very day you mention. I prayed to Krishna to consecrate my offering on that day and he has consented." The king was baffled by the hermit's words. After a few moments, he asked, "But where is this temple you speak of? How is it that no one has seen or heard of it? How could one single man construct it?" The hermit smiled again and then replied, "Oh King. I have constructed the temple to Krishna in my heart, stone by stone, brick by brick for the past 10 years." Then the man fell silent.

The king sat in bewilderment. Then knowledge dawned upon him. He realized suddenly that the temple he was constructing in the capitol was the yogi's temple. He was only the outer instrument. The true creator was this poor, humble devotee. The yogi created the temple within. Life, in the form of the king, responded to his aspiration and fulfilled it in the external world.  

Over the years I have made an explicit effort to capture incidents where individuals were able to instantaneously move life outside themselves from within -- experiences that I call instances of 'life response.' There are a variety of ways this phenomenon can occur. As we see in one episode above, it can happen by withholding our insistence on a thing, which involves blocking a demanding emotion and not expressing it on the outside. Life response can also occur by simply not expressing a thought we are eager to communicate to another. Doing so causes subtle, invisible thought and emotive waves to be generated, which then move out into the field of life, are picked up by another individual, who express it as if it were their own. To withhold verbal expression of our intent and another suddenly express it is to practice the discipline of 'Silent Will.'

There are a number of other such laws and principles that generate life response -- where sudden good fortune comes to us as a result of taking to certain inner behaviors. Perhaps the most powerful one is to identify and then change one of our negative attitudes. When we do so, life suddenly springs into action and attracts overwhelming good fortune -- often arriving from the most unexpected of quarters. E.g., A huge order is placed by a client whom we have never contacted; a job offer doubling our salary rolls in from out of nowhere; a dispute we thought was hopeless, suddenly gets resolved; a project delayed unexpectedly gains transaction, and so forth. Life responds to us because we shifted our negative point of view to the positive, which mysteriously attracts life on our behalf.

Though on the surface this does not seem plausible, yet it is the way life works. This miraculous unfolding is constantly occurring just below our surface level of awareness. When we move our center of consciousness to a deeper poise, and examine the world from this state of 'silent witness,' we see that our movements within are constantly evoking a response from the world outside ourselves

Refraining from expression our intention is the very opposite of what we have been taught about human achievement. Through hundreds of generations, we have been told to acquire a skill, seek out the object of our desire, and when we discover it, do your duty practically and diligently. And yet, directing the course of life from within is a far more effective and efficient overall approach to accomplishment. It enables the greatest result in the shortest period of time with the least effort.

Individuals who have this inner-orientation have been known to evoke miraculous-like results -- such as suddenly ending a serious energy crisis, or even resolving conflicts and wars. Sounds far-fetched? Once you have had the experience of achieving without having to move a muscle or communicate a thought, then you begin to see life with very different eyes. Then the world is perceived as an endless opportunity awaiting our beck and call; all instantaneously accessible from within.  At that point, we will have taken a decisive step toward a very different sort of existence -- one that I call a 'New Way of Living'.

 

Inner-Outer, Law of Attraction, Sow-Reap, etc,
"look in whose company you are and that is who you are"

 

I don't mean this in a particularly negative sense. It is just a powerful neutral statement that indicates the positive, neutral, and negative in one's life and surroundings. It is what I call 'Inner-Outer Correspondence' -- the 3rd chapter of my book on life response. 'The Secret,' Chopra, and others call it the power of attraction, synchronicity, or use similar terms. The rishis of India knew it 5000 years ago. It can also be looked at as a corollary of the law of karma. We are waking up to it here in the west. (We have a mild version of it ourselves in 'what you sow is what you reap.')

 

What the book on life response says however is that if you change the inner, the outer will instantaneously change. We just need to know what the key is for ourselves, overall, in particular situations, in terms of our psychological growth, etc. to make that happen. Thus, life is completely driven from within. Mostly the problems are there in our attitudes.

Moving the World from Without and from Within
The pioneer westerner seeks outer action to change the course of life, away from disaster and suffering. He seeks ending nuclear proliferation, environmental degradation, disease, poverty, etc. He is a man of outer action. The eastern pioneer -- i.e. the yogi -- seeks to change himself within, causing corresponding life on the outside to instantly change. He is a man of inner, soul-based action.

Churchill rallied the people at the retreat at Dunkirk, a masterly outer action that saved the world. Meanwhile Sri Aurobindo from within invoked the fog there that shrouded the forces and saved humanity. Even His force was behind the ascent of Churchill to lead the world in battle against the Nazi oppressors, only to withdraw it when the prime minister resumed his colonialist activities. Once again, we see the outer man of the west and the inner man of the east in action having an equal power over the outer reality; with each seeing the world from their unique vantage points.

We too can follow in their footsteps and change the outer world through these two entirely different approaches. Which one we choose or how we integrate them together in our own lives depends on our mind's intention and the deep aspiration of our soul.

Reconciling People of the Spirit and the Inner-Outer Correspondence
People who know the secrets of the Spirit, the Divine, are often completely unaware of the subtle workings of life. They do not have life knowledge. Even the spiritual Masters were not fully cognizant of the subtle movements, working, and principles of life. In recent years, people are re-embracing the ancient wisdom of the Vedas and Upanishads, which indicate that life around you is a reflection of what you believe inside. It is a powerful knowledge that is advancing in this new modern area, as we think about it rationally, communicate its many shadings to one another, etc. It gradually becomes part of a science of life, even as connecting to spirit as a science of the Higher Life.

In addition, these people of the Spirit who are unaware of life principles, mention the non-dualism of the Spirit. Well if there is no inner and outer, which is the right spiritual view, then just as we are contained in the universe, then the universe is contained within us. Thus if we change within, the outer life in the world instantly changes in kind. Thus, the non-dualistic spiritual view -- i.e. the Oneness of life -- is actually proved by "inner-outer correspondence," by the Law of Attraction, by Life Response, which are all basically the same thing.

Taking Responsibility for Lack of Strength Relative to Society
Society does not teach character to its people. It is not part of the education system. It is done mainly by parents. Or one learns through the unfoldings and hardships of life. When the school system, the upbringing of children through schooling, the society's values, etc. start teaching the nature of and how to elevate character, then those who are psychologically weak will be able to become strong, and thus defend themselves from malevolent and mercenary influences. It also takes a multi-side knowledge of what is happening around us, so that we have the mindfulness to perceive the influences -- positive and negative -- around us.

The spiritual view of life is that we are responsible for all. That we cannot blame society or anyone. That if we want the world around us to change, we need to change first. Life will then respond in kind accordingly.

The active political view is the opposite. When the outer changes, we will be less exploited. (That view itself is a sign of inner weakness.) It is not an invalid way of looking at things and relating to life. It does work, but slowly through life's -- i.e. Nature's -- difficult method.

The universe is contained within. We can change all conditions outside ourselves from within. Also from that higher consciousness there is a concentration of energy that prevents anyone from exploiting us. In this way, we are the Masters of life, instead of being its helpless victims.

Any negative outside ourselves can be related to an inner wanting quality. Then if you change the inner quality, the outer instantly responds in kind -- for our benefit! Then we become life's master, reversing the equation!

The Discipline of Inner-Outer Correspondence
In one way all of life for us can be reduced to a simple idea; that everything that is occurring around you that is positive can be related to something in your consciousness that is positive, and that everything that is occurring around you can be related to something in your consciousness that is negative. That is, the outer reality around you, is a reflection of your inner status. If you watch this unfolding in the course of a day, your life will never be the same. You will now have in your hands the awareness and power to change the reality around you. Overcome the source of the negativity -- a bad feeling, thought, habit, opinion, or action -- and life will respond positively in kind. That can be your single discipline, which if followed assiduously, will propel you to pinnacles of accomplishment, success, and happiness in life. There is no question of this working.

Inner-Outer Correspondence
-Outer life events reflect the inner consciousness of each person related to the event.

-External circumstances and events are a precise expression of the psychological condition of the people involved. (MSS)

Experiencing All Points of Space
And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions of itself, Space also might offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, -- no less subjective than Time. (Sri Aurobindo)

Things Coming On their Own is Reflection of Inner
Anything coming on its own is a reflection of what we really are inside. (MSS)

The Inner Can Control the Outer
The outer reflects the inner. All life outside is under man's control. (MSS)

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The inner controlling the outer is the Spirit ruling over human life. (MSS)

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"The outer shifting to the inner brings the whole universe inside." (MSS)

Make Unmoving Life Respond
If life is not moving for you, move within yourself a shade deeper than your current functioning, and it will begin to move. If life is already moving for you, go deeper still to make it move even more, enabling ever greater accomplishment and success. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Organizing the Inner, and the Outer, Enables Life to Respond
The more you organize your inner consciousness, the more life will respond in kind -- instantaneously, abundantly, and miraculously. The same holds true for organizing the life around you.

On Inner Self-Conception
When man's self-conception becomes [inner, spiritual-based] Self-conception, the man who is dominated changes into one who now determines the outer as well as inner forces. It is a decisive moment in one's life. Once he reaches there, he becomes the master of his own destiny. (MSS)

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Liberation is insight into the inner cause of the outer effect. (Variation of The Daily Guru)

Opening the Infinite
If you break into the infinite within yourself, you break out the infinite outside yourself.

Creating from Within
We can create the world outside us by connecting to the Being inside us, just as God, the Original Source Being did in creating the universe from within Himself.

Non-Local Connections and Beyond
Remarkably, recent developments in quantum physics confirm this view. Scientific experiments have shown that two particles of matter can affect one another even though they may be on opposite sides of the globe. Scientists have conclusively proven that if an electron of a single atom shifts its spin direction, a second electron of that same atom hundreds or even thousands of miles away will suddenly begin to shift its spin! This phenomenon of 'non-local connections' is a physical version of the wider principle of inner-outer correspondence, which accounts not only for this subtle, nonlocal association of material objects, but of the power of our emotions, feelings, attitudes, and decisions to effect objects and individuals at a great distance. In this way, our old view of causality is replaced with a new view in which distance is overcome, time is reduced to instantaneousness, and where the infinite realities of life can rush in to replace what once seemed a limited and finite possibility.

Move Life on the Outside from Within
We see that if we take an outer action (a movement, a communications, an act, etc.), life moves in response accordingly. What we do not know is that if we don't move at all, not take any action, if we center ourselves within and call from there for what we aspire for, life will also miraculously move and respond on the outside.

Can you imagine such a thing; causing life on the outside to move without lifting a finger, without a scintilla of motion or outer force and energy on our part; just willing an outer result into being from our inner station of consciousness that calls to the Force? It is a technique that can be acquired to be practical reality in your life, bringing endless, instantaneous, infinite abundance to your doorstep. It is the power of spiritual mind over matter. It is a secret of our future evolutionary inner power over outer life.

Persons Around Us are Representative of Our Consciousness
The persons around us are human representatives of our characteristics. The events that surround us are life representatives of the same. (MSS)

Silent Will Power
A powerful way to see the principle of inner-outer correspondence in action is by practicing a simple but profound technique that we call "Silent Will." If instead of expressing your thoughts to another person, you withhold it and remain silent, shortly thereafter, the other person will express the very thing you held back. Consider this experience of a colleague of ours:

A business management author and consultant was seeking an interview with high officials at a very large corporation for a book he was writing. However, when he presented the reasons for meeting the officials, he was rebuffed by the contact person. The writer then thought of additional arguments to persuade the contact to allow him to meet with staff members. However, instead of expressing these thoughts, he remembered the principle of Silent Will, and withheld their expression. A moment later, the contact person began expressing the very thoughts that were on the mind of the author! Even with this encouraging development, the writer still remained silent. Subsequently, the contact person completely reversed his point of view to the point where he acknowledged the great benefit of the writer's undertaking. In the end, not only did the writer secure the interviews he longed for, but years of fruitful business association between the author/consultant and that very large corporation followed.

That is the power of Silent Will to move the outer world from within. It is but one indicator of the infinite capacity of our inner consciousness to move life outside ourselves. However, we can take it even a step further. If one knows how to, one can even change the outer without taking any physical action at all! Consider this powerful tale of the East:

There was an Indian saddhu who lived deep within in the spirit. There was also great king who lived the expected life of great influence, power, and fortune. There came about an opportunity to build a great temple. The king marshaled all of his resources to plan the temple. The humble saddhu moved into the depths of his being where he had often resided, and imagined what the temple would be like. He told no one. In the period that followed, the magnificent temple was built; miraculously matching in detail, structure, and beauty the same vision of the saddhu.

Three Stages of Inner-Outer
The inner reflects the outer in three stages. When the inner is most powerful it creates the outer; when it is very weak it reflects the event in the outer. In between it has both the relationships with the outer to varying degrees. (MSS)

Overcoming a Limitation for the World
If you perceive something wrong in the world, you can overcome it by conquering the corresponding element in one's self. In this sense we are universal beings on the road to discovering our universal Selves.

The Power to Change the Outer Outrage from Within
If you are bothered by an outer outrage, seek to discover and change the corresponding element within yourself, and watch the outer perceived negative suddenly dissolve before the power of the inner movement. If you seek to solve all such problems this way, a new perception of life will envelope you, and a new vast spiritual power will always be at your disposal.

Why By Going Within to the Subliminal We Can Move Outer Matter
This is one explanation of how the inner moves the outer; i.e. inner-outer correspondence

Thoughts originating from the subliminal mind within will move the outer matter.  Why from there will it move matter?  The subliminal is there on the surface of the subconscient where connect with the Superconscient forces and powers of the universe. The subconscience is the evolving aspect of the Inconscient (which is Matter). As the subliminal is Matter in touch with the Superconscient's forces and powers, when we move to that realm and aspire we are able to move matter outside us.

-An individual follows his inclinations, impulses, urges and exhausts them in the course of which he enjoys. For him, life responds with low income, tension, violent enjoyment and their direct consequences. If he correlates the specific negative character to the corresponding negative outer results, and acts on it (through an action, a changed attitude, habit, opinion, value, etc.), he can change the course of his life. (One is not making a moral judgment about the person's actions here, but just stating how life works.) 

Likewise for another individual who wishes to attain high income, peace of mind, quiet, rich smooth enjoyment, he will need to correlate it to the corresponding elements of his character, take the necessary inner or outer initiative to trigger these positive conditions from life. (MSS)

Beyond Inner-Outer Correspondence (there is no inner & outer)
What do we mean by inner-outer correspondence? Where is the inner and the outer? At the plane of spiritual substance, there is only oneness. No inner or outer. Inner-outer is valid from the perspective of the human mind and ego that lives on the surface. But to the spiritual vision, even that is only an expression of the spiritual oneness of all matter, life and mind.

Inner-outer correspondence reflects the oneness of all manifestation in time. Beyond space and time, there is no manifestation and therefore no inner-outer. (MSS)

Inner-Outer Correspondence in Pride and Prejudice

Article on Principles of Consciousness in Work
(Consciousness approach to business management; including laws of inner-outer correspondence)

Thoughts on the Individual's Perception of the Oneness of Life

 

Theory of Equilibrium; Movement of Forces

Life Response and Equilibrium of Forces 1
By Life Response we mean life is a plane of equilibrium of forces, and when one force moves, it creates corresponding movements in connected places. There is a certain balance at all times of forces which when altered causes life response. If a man's personality constantly raises the combined strength of the positive forces and keeps the negative forces down, that man will be constantly evoking life responses. (MSS)

Life Response and Equilibrium of Forces 2
There are individualized force in life of both positive and negative character that move to an individual in response to what he is and what he does. Their combined operation maintains an equilibrium of smooth existence. When the equilibrium is tilted in favour of the right side, and in that measure, forces of life precipitate a positive act in his life. (MSS)

 

The Cosmic Equilibrium
The rule of life demands that nothing can be given without taking something else in return. It is the rule of cosmic equilibrium. (MSS)

Life Response & Equilibrium of Emotions
Life responds by a beneficial, miraculous act when the equilibrium of emotions is restored. (MSS)

Life Response and Equilibrium of Energy
Imagine that the universe is an ocean of energy that is in a state of equilibrium. When we make certain changes in consciousness, we 'disturb' that equilibrium and smooth flow of life relative to the point we are involved. (This can be a positive or negative disturbance, and points in between.) The universe however always seeks to restore energies back to a state of equilibrium. It does so through a fresh act. That fresh act is the life response coming back to the individual from a corresponding element across space-time (as a positive, negative, or neutral response). As a result, the equilibrium is restored; or we could say that a new equilibrium is created. Life then waits for the next cycle to unfold ad infinitum throughout the seen and unseen universe.

Theory of Equilibrium
Though I have tried to explain certain cosmic forces, principles, phenomena, et al at work in life response, we are just at the beginning stage of understanding the variety of details, the cosmic particulars if you will that make it happen. I have indicated the underlying principles -- including inner-outer correspondence and the oneness of life -- that make the life response phenomenon possible. I have also described the movement of energy from the initiator to responding circumstances, events, people, objects, etc. across a mysterious subtle web of life in this process.

With that in mind, I would like to add another dimension to our scheme of things. I call it the Theory of Equilibrium. What follow are a few initial expressions of that theory is, although I invite others -- such as scientists, scholars, spirit-minded people, and other interested parties -- to explore these possibilities in order to develop and take the theory further. That richer understanding of the physics of life response will not only enable us understand the phenomenon tat much better, but will give us additional clues and insights on how to continually evoke it. Here then are a few initial statements of a Theory of Equilibrium.

Theory -- When an individual releases a certain amount of energy because of a change or reversal of consciousness, the conditions of life are altered from its previous state of equilibrium. When life then 'perceives' this disturbance in the equilibrium of things, it seeks to restore life back to a balance and its smooth state -- i.e. to equilibrium -- once again. To make that happen, it issues forth a fresh act. That fresh act is the response from life that goes back to and is experienced by the initiator of the event. At that point, the equilibrium relative to that circumstance is restored.

Metaphor -- Imagine a state of relative calm on the surface waters of the ocean. Then a disturbance occurs, such as a sudden change in weather conditions that precipitates a disturbance, in this case a whirlpool of some sort within the water. Through the laws of physics, the ocean is then compelled to refill that vortex with surrounding water, which then reconstitutes and restores a smooth state of calm waters once again in that locale.

Example -- When I decided to learn the new software application, I created a change in the equilibrium of things, of energy for that occasion at that point. Life then perceived a shift and disturbance, and, as a result, issued forth a fresh act to restore the balance and equilibrium of energies. It did this through the circumstance of more work coming to me through the call I received from my agent. That response from life in essence restored the balance, the smooth flow, the equilibrium of energies relative to that event in space and time.

Process -- The process is then one of equilibrium, disturbance/disequilibrium, and restoration of equilibrium.

Life Response
The universe is an ocean of creative energy in equilibrium. It creates by its own choice, Self-conception, by a movement. Its rhythmic movement is an equilibrium of existence in cosmos. It does not permit any other movement except what it chooses for creation. Such a movement will be a disturbance, which it readily dissolves by restoring its equilibrium. Man being the conscious tip of this energetic existence, can, by his initiative make this ocean Respond with readiness. It creates a new development of an opportunity. We call that Life Response.

• Thus, Life can respond positively or negatively.
• Positive Life Response creates opportunities for Man.
• Negative Life Response that restores its equilibrium is expressed as nature's cataclysmic catastrophes.
• Man is capable of making Life Respond.
• Man can do so not by his surface thoughts or ideas.

Man can do so from the depths of his real emotions. (MSS)

 

Various Ways Equilibrium is Restored
- The rule of life is equilibrium. It is also the rule of Nature.
- Cyclone is Nature's restoring the equilibrium in atmospheric pressure.
- Health is equilibrium of physical, vital and mental energies.
- Harmony is equilibrium by destruction of the difference.
- Opportunity is life restoring its equilibrium positively or creatively.
- Tragedy is life restoring its equilibrium negatively or destructively.
- A work is accomplished by the harmony between its components and the equilibrium of the energies in the field. (MSS, paraphrased)

 

Universe Constantly Recreating Itself
According to The Mother at each moment the Universe recreates itself in every one of its parts. though for us it looks all the same. (MSS)

The Life Response Process
In all instances of Life Response, there is a distinct pattern at work. A situation arises (or one is contemplated), an individual takes to a certain behavior, and life responds suddenly and abundantly as a result.  

This is the general pattern, although we can also describe it in terms of 'energy flow.' In a moment in time an individual is faced with a situation, he then takes to certain behavior of a requisite intensity, which releases subtle energies into the atmosphere, which in turn attracts corresponding energies and the forms of that force to which we experience as a sudden response from life of supportive or harmful elements or individuals.

We can then begin to extend our view and see life response as a process of life that has a specific dynamic. At the start of a given instance of this life response process, an individual can be said to be in a state equilibrium relative to the coming event. Then circumstance arise the individual experiences and consciously, subconsciously, or unconsciously deals with. If he responds with a certain intensity, the smooth flow of life is disturbed; i.e. relative to that circumstance, for that individual, in that point in time away life and its energies move to a state of disequilibrium.

The process continues, as in response to the disequilibrium, life seeks to restore the energies back to a state of equilibrium/smooth flow again. That is accomplished by the compulsion of life to create a fresh act.  That fresh act occurs in the form of movements of corresponding objects, elements, or individuals across the subtle web of existence back to the individual who created the disequilibrium. These corresponding forms bring their related energies that have the effect of neutralizing the disequilibrium of energies. These formations, representing their own hidden energies, come to the originator in the form of positive (or negative) fortune. These formations also tend to come to that person rapidly and in great abundance.

As a result of the fresh act, which is experienced by the initiator as a life response, life and its corresponding energies is restored back to a state of smooth flow and disequilibrium for that person in that moment in time for that situation. The fresh act has brought its own energies that neutralizes or absorbs the extra energies that individual had created through the inner or outer behavior that created the disequilibrium. Life is once again in a state of smooth flow and equilibrium for that individual for that moment in time in relationship to that concern or circumstance.

Life Response and Theory of Equilibrium
-When an individual releases a certain amount of energy because of a change or reversal of consciousness, the conditions of life are altered from its previous state of equilibrium. When life then 'perceives' this disturbance in the equilibrium of things, it seeks to restore life back to its smooth state -- i.e. to equilibrium -- once again. To make that happen, it issues forth a fresh act. That fresh act is the response from life that goes back to and is experienced by the initiator of the event.

-Imagine a relative calm state of the waters over an ocean. Then a disturbance occurs, such a sudden change in weather that precipitates the onset of a whirlpool in the water. Through the laws of physics, the ocean then is compelled to refill the vortex with surrounding water, which then reconstitutes the previous smooth state of calm waters in that locale.

-When I decided to learn the new software application, I created a change in the equilibrium of things, of energy at that point. Life then perceived the shift and disturbance, and as a result was compelled to issue a fresh act to restore the equilibrium of energies. It did this through the circumstance of more work that came through the call from my agent. That response from life in essence restored the balance of smooth flow, of equilibrium of energies relative to those circumstances.

-The theory is then one of equilibrium, disturbance/disequilibrium, and restoration of equilibrium.

-Many issues and questions arise out of this assumption, several of which I will address here.

-We can postulate that at any moment, various energies are gathered -- from the individual, from society, from cosmic forces of gross and subtle planes, etc.

-These energies can be seen as positive, negative, and neutral in quality.

-For the disequilibrium/disturbance to take place, the individual must release the necessary amount of, intensity of energy to invoke the response.

-The energy released must meet the conditions of life at that moment. (What the conditions of life are is a great question that demands further inner and outer research on the subject.)

-One possibility is the sum and intensity of the energy released by the initiator must overcome the energies of what is around one in order to produce a life response result.  (Another way of looking at it is that the energies released must be able to penetrate the abundance of or the current 'shield' of energy in the environment to produce the life response effect.)

-Since there are positive, negative, and neutral energies at play, then the disequilibrium initiated by the individual must be intense enough in the positive direction to overcome the negative forces to create a positive life response. (The same principle applies in the reverse for a negative life response.)

-E.g. if the social atmosphere surrounding the initiator's release of energy is decidedly negative, then the positive energy released by the individual may or may not be strong enough to create the equilibrium/disturbance that moves across space-time to produce the instantaneous positive life response effect.

-If the surrounding energies are decidedly positive, then it is possible that even a relatively small amount of energy generated by the individual can create the disequilibrium/disturbance, and in effect, the positive life response that follows.

-We must also consider the energies on the receiving end as well -- i.e. of the recipient circumstances, and the elements, individuals that in this process that in essence restores the equilibrium, producing the life response effect back to the initiator. What strengths, and weaknesses, positive and negative qualities, and other factors determine whether a response is precipitated from their side.

-Out of this principles of equilibrium, as well as other principles of life response, we can arrive at a comprehensive 'physics of life response', which can eventually be abstracted into a Formula of Life that we can learn to adhere to and follow to produce endless life response results.

-The process is total is Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, Choice of the Individual with the Requisite Intensity, enabling Restoration (the Higher or Lower Equilibrium).

 

Energy and Life Response
One way to look at the events you have described is in terms of energy. We have a certain amount of energy. Life requires us to have a certain amount of energy at a given time. If there is an imbalance between the two, all sorts of problems erupt. If you rise to meet the energies required of life, especially in fresh situations, you can be catapulted to the heights.

 

Positive and Negative Energy and Attraction in Pride and Prejudice
in P&P Wickham's arrival comes in response to Darcy's attraction to Eliza and her antagonistic response to him. She becomes his self-appointed critic. Wickham is attracted to her energy of antagonism to weave his false accusations against Darcy. Elizabeth is energized in opposition (falsely) and Darcy responds and is attracted to her impertinence because he maintains a false self-esteem which is parallel to Wickham's false front of pleasantness. (MSS)

 

Restoring the Equilibrium in Life
A rule in life is equilibrium. It is also the rule in Nature. Cyclone is Nature's restoring the equilibrium in atmospheric pressure. What we call health is an equilibrium of physical, vital and mental energies. Life constantly disturbs the equilibrium of the bodily health. Body and mind constantly restore that equilibrium. Our problems of life and problems of health - disease - are the process of that equilibrium being disturbed and restored. (MSS)

 

Forces Moving Together to Create a Powerful Response from Life

A number of years ago my spiritual teacher Sri Karmayogi explained how certain forces, action, and events move in parallel, and thereby relate to a common response from life. Specifically, he wrote:

"In any [life response] event that precipitates, there is a prime mover supported by several subordinate forces. Neither of them by themselves can precipitate the event. When both are present in their combined strength, they precipitate the event."

Though I understood it in theory, I never really fully grasped this principle before, and therefore did not quite address the issue in my book ('The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response'). That is until a series of experiences I had today. Here is what happened:

For months now I have been developing a new business enterprise. After an initial spurt, the work seemed to slow down, and as a result, I wondered where things were headed next. The web site we built was fine, but how to follow-up that effort seemed unclear. Today, however, I suddenly uncovered an entirely new approach for marketing our products, which is likely going to be the next great push in our overall market campaign. Though the opportunity seemed to come out of nowhere, and it did, I saw three separate actions from three different people that precipitated this powerful life response outcome, substantiating the theory above.

First, I myself started getting serious about the state of my business, and therefore today went through some training materials and videos on the web to upgrade my skills and improve my documentation. This showed that at some level I was determined to attract the market; something I had been somewhat lax in of late. More dramatically, this morning I finally received a cost report via email from an associate of mine that gave my new company a clear indication of our future sales expense rates. This was crucial to understanding the profitability of our endeavor. After reviewing it, there indeed seemed to be tremendous and lucrative potential. Finally, another business associate of mine decided to seriously clean up her work area, which in the past has always attracted sudden good fortune soon after.

Well it turns out that the confluence of these three changes in consciousness is what attracted the dramatic new marketing opportunity that suddenly presented itself this morning. It was a confirmation of my teacher's insight that when several forces move -- in this case through three physical actions of three individuals that had a will and determination behind them -- their combined strength can precipitate a powerful response from life. Because our separate yet related efforts were so strong and concentrated in time, we released powerful energies that aligned with powerful positive conditions that attracted a result that had the potential to change the course of our business lives.

It was a confirmation of a life response principle I long had understood in theory, but now saw dramatically unfolding before my eyes.

 

Neutrality of Life and Life Response

Why the Not So Good Attract Wealth and Comfort
M asks why not-too-good or even bad people are flooded with money and comforts, often coming as powerful response from life.

In one sense, life is not moral -- i.e. simple good for good, bad for bad -- but is 'amoral' and neutral, which takes in a variety of factors in determining whether it will respond in one's favor. E.g., life responds not only to goodness, but also to STRENGTH. Rich people often are strong, and life responds positively to that strength. The energy they release outweighs the negative, so life responds positively for them. On the other hand, if they lose their strength and will, there is likely to be a steep fall downward! Also, if they have been negative, they will incur the wrath of karma one way or another down the line in other dimensions of life or through the wealth itself.

We know that money and comforts are not the goal of life. They are the means to higher things. If all the not-so-good or bad people have is Money and Comfort -- i.e. they are devoid of true happiness and fulfillment -- then they will have gotten what they deserved!

In addition, these individuals often know the processes that attract money; not only how to outwardly earn it, but sense semi or subconsciously the subtle, hidden laws that govern and attract it.  We know that life responds to following the process of creation -- i.e. having a vision of a thing, intense will to have it come about, organizing the details, and executing in a timely way with high skills. One can be a good or bad person to follow that process. Universal Life is neutral and amoral and thus responds to such neutral factors. Of course, if they bring negatives, it will come out somewhere, whether in another domain (e.g. with family, or reputation, or respect) or through problems of the wealth itself. Karma is real.

Strength, knowing the process of creation and accomplishment, high energy, drive, skills, etc. attract. Anyone can have them -- good, bad, or in between. But Genuine Fulfillment comes through the adoption of Truth, integrity, and other high values when pursuing money. The spiritual person aims not to possess wealth, resources, etc. but to go after it for the sake of others, so it can spread to the collective, so that humanity can use it for the highest of purposes. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother say Money is in the hands of the Asura (dark forces), and we must win it back for the Divine through our high consciousness. If we also bring strength, power, energy, drive, and vision to bear, then we will attract staggering positive results, which we will experience as profound Joy and Everlasting Fulfillment.

 

Time and Life Response

Time's Arrow

One of the interesting discoveries I made in analyzing hundreds of cases of Life Response -- i.e. instances of sudden good fortune -- is that Time works quite differently than our normal conception. For example, let's say that I change my attitude towards someone from hostility to goodwill. When I then open my mailbox, I discover a check for thousands of dollars from a customer who owed me that sum for years. It is simply life responding to my change in consciousness, which put me in alignment with that individual's remittance. It turns out that long ago I had a similar experience, and when I asked my spiritual teacher Sri Karmayogi if the check would have been mailed days before in the past had I not changed my attitude here in the present, he replied that it would not have. This indicated that the present is indeed affecting the past!

Our normal view is that there are three divisions of Time -- past, present, and future. But from the spiritual position, there is only one Time that is undivided. If this is so, then events today may be affecting circumstance in the past, just as events in the future are determining the present. For example, if someone decides not to shift his attitude to the positive in the future, it might cause me, who was about to pay, to suddenly not pay in the present. Again, it is the future effecting the present, just as the present can affect the past. In fact, any period can affect any other.

Interestingly, it is only when we rise in consciousness beyond Mind proper, to intuition, and higher still to a 'Truth Consciousness' that we can discern these true movements of Time. From these planes beyond the ordinary functionings and logic of mind, we can begin to see the arrow of time moving in any and all directions. If this is true, if time has these astonishing qualities, then the very foundation of our belief system must come into question, including views of history and science, not to mention Reality itself.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this vastly expanded view of time is that we have the power to become its Master. Not by travelling in a Time Machine or using other forms of technology as presented in science fiction, but through shifts in consciousness within. In fact, science itself has begun to understand the extraordinary ancient Indian principle that Time depends on the consciousness of the observer. For example, most of us have noticed how fast time seems to pass when we have a stimulating conversation. Similarly, science tells us that if one approaches the speed of light, time will slow down or speed up depending on the relative position of the observer. And yet the ancient Indian insight is far more profound, as it suggests that if we elevate our consciousness in a given moment or circumstance, any and all limitations of time can be overcome. If e.g. I change a wanting attitude to the positive, and, as a result, attract an opportunity of a lifetime, then I have drawn a future possibility and made it real in the present. What would have taken years to accomplish has instead occurred in an instant. Or to put it another way, the burden of time has been completely eliminated.

It turns out that this inner power to attract something to us thereby cancelling time has also been verified by recent discoveries of science. Its theory of Non-local Connections indicates that if one particle of an atom moves, it can affect another particle of the same atom, even if it is on the other side of the universe. Non-local connection not only overcomes the normally perceived limitations of cause and effect, but allows for instantaneousness between objects no matter the distance. Yet another discovery of science -- proven by the latest mathematical calculations measuring and defining the cosmos -- is that the outcome of any event is dependent on the person observing it! Thus, my observation of an event can affect a different outcome for it than if another person observes it, indicating that consciousness determines reality. This is a startling scientific discovery that confounds every individual who contemplates its meaning.

Sri Aurobindo takes this several steps further and says that we can discover an inner dimension within our being, a soul space, from which we are able to overcome every aspect of time in the outer world. At the point that we touch our evolving soul within, we move into a realm where past, present, and future become one single, undifferentiated point. Thus, when we act from that space, life immediately reacts to our intentions. Moving to this Psychic Being within is a step beyond a change in consciousness, such as a shift in attitude. Rather it is a movement into the center of consciousness. There we come in touch with universal and transcendent powers, where gives us access to the greatest time controlling and affecting power in the outer world. From these deepest depths, I am able to change the conditions of life -- past, present and future -- in an instant.

Time's Arrow thus moves in every and all dimensions to the degree we express our consciousness. It reaches its apex and greatest capacity when we discover our evolving Soul within. From there we become masters of the outer life, as any intention originating there is instantly fulfilled.

Reasons for Delay in Providing Redress to Our Negative (or Positive) Deeds

To the question of why there is immediate redress through Life to one's negative consciousness, behavior, and acts, while other times it is slower, here are some thoughts along one particular line:

• Brahman knows what our status is, and what is the best timeframe for redress.

• The Divine knows based on our character, our current progress, where we are heading, the effectivity of the redress now or later, etc.

• There are many forces at work that Brahman can see through.

• E.g. there are social forces, environmental ones, karmic ones, etc.

• What I am calling Brahman is the same as how Mother sees it from Her highest poise.

• Brahma, Divine Mother sees from the loftiest perch and responds with Maximum Efficiency at all levels; i.e. for maximum effect.

• Sri Aurobindo speaks of Nature’s ultimate efficiency of resolving many things simultaneously through a certain difficult outcome.

• We are part of that Efficiency, so Brahman, Divine Mother, Nature waits for the maximum, efficient moment that relates to many other things.

• Thus, the redress comes at the time that it serves this efficiency (for ourselves, others, the society, universal forces, etc.)

• This is in essence the question of the speed of Life Response -- positive, neutral, or negative; or, in this case specifically, speed of life to respond to a negative consciousness and behavior.

• In other words, what we think is the right time for redress for negative consciousness, instead waits for a time where there is maximum effect for multiple parties reflecting Nature’s Way of Maximum Efficiency. It also reflects at some level the Will of the Divine Mother, of Brahman, i.e. the omnipresent Reality.

• We can speak also in terms of "Energies," including their type, content, intensity, etc. and its effect on redress time period and outcome. Still we return again to Nature and Her Efficiencies that demand that the negative life response results occur in certain timeframes and circumstance for maximum effect.

• There is also the phenomenon of Life's/Nature's tendency to "restore the equilibrium of energies" to add to the equation of the timeframe and intensity of the redress.

• By the way, what is negative life response in these situations for the one side is often positive for the other. So there is that to include in the “due date” of Nature’s Redress.

 

The Universal and Spirit that Makes Life Response Possible

Inner Oneness
Surface relations are an expression of inner oneness. The connection between external events exists because division is only on the surface of life, consciousness and existence. Beneath the surface, there is oneness of consciousness and being. We see separate and apparently individual actions and people on the surface, but underneath there are movements of a common force and one consciousness expressing through multiple forces and forms. That which moves from one person to another or one event to another is a force or vibration of a single underlying being and intention, social or spiritual, just as the different words and actions of an individual emanate from the same being. (Paraphrase of MSS)

The Universal Rhythm of Response
All in this universe is connected through an invisible link and each action by us affects all in the chain known or unknown and creates a rhythm of response across the universe. This rhythm affects each involved in a good or bad way depending on what type of stimulus they have given. (MSS)

Reason Inner-Outer Association Exists
What aspect of life enables a correspondence between out inner consciousness and the world around us? The short answer is that everything in the universe is related in both energy and consciousness. All existence, seen or unseen, forms a unity of relation, association, and purpose. The separation that we ordinarily make between our consciousness within and the world outside ourselves is an illusion, a falsehood that is rooted in a fundamental Ignorance of our being. However, as we rise in consciousness, as we move to a deeper poise within, we begin to perceive the inextricable association between our inner psyche and the condition of life outside ourselves. We begin to sense there is an essential oneness and unity behind all existence that determines the relationships amongst all objects and individuals in creation.

The Web of Life
We can imagine that all individuals, objects, and energies are connected in an organized pattern across a vast 'web' of life. Along this web of life, corresponding and associated physical, vital, mental, and spiritual energies interrelate and interact. E.g. when life presses on me and I make the choice to make a decisive change in my attitude, I set in motion a force, a vibration, a disturbance, along one or more of the strands or pathways of this web that I am related to. When that occurs, related elements or individuals along that particular strand respond to the incoming force. These associate entities then formulate their own force and energy in response, which then track back along that same strand of the web to the related source object or individual; in this case, myself.

Just as a telecommunication system moves currents of force very quickly, if not instantaneously, affecting related points on its grid or web, so to our changes in consciousness (a) engage and amplify forces and powers of our being that then move out to related elements along the strands of the grid or web, and (b) attract corresponding forces and energies back to us, often appearing to us very quickly or even instantaneously as responses from life. In this ultra-subtle organized field, time, space, finiteness, and limitation of the possible are replaced by no-time, spacelessness, and a limitless infinity.

The Web
Mira Alfassa, a woman known to her followers as 'The Mother', and a partner of the Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo commented on this apparent web of life in the early 1970s:
 

"I have a curious impression of a kind of web -- a web with ... like very loose threads, I mean not tightly meshed, connecting all events, and if you have power over one of these webs, there's a whole field of circumstances that apparently have nothing to do with each other but which are linked together there in such a way that one necessarily implies the existence of the other ... And I have the impression it's something that envelops the earth.

And it's not mental. They are circumstances that depend on one another, in a completely invisible way outwardly, without any mental logic, and yet as though connected to one another.

If you are conscious, really conscious of that, that's how you can change circumstances."

Spiritual Essence Behind All
Our own view is that behind all existence there is a spiritual element that enables and supports this ultra organized intelligence. Every part of our being, as well as every aspect, element, object, and being in the universe contains, and is supported by a hidden spiritual essence. From out of this essence has emerged a vast subtle system of organization, reflecting the essential integral Knowledge, Wisdom, and Consciousness of the spirit.

And this spiritual essence exists in the first place because everything in creation is based on, is a reflection of the one original and still-unfolding Spiritual Reality. That Reality and its permeating spiritual essence is the power behind the profound intelligent system that binds related objects across a vast subtle web of existence. That Spiritual Reality and Source, including its expression through a subtle web of existence, enables the fundamental Oneness by which life on the outside reflects our inner status and consciousness.

Reasons for Delay in Providing Redress to Our Negative (or Positive) Deeds

To the question of why there is immediate redress through Life to one's negative consciousness, behavior, and acts, while other times it is slower, here are some thoughts along one particular line:

• Brahman knows what our status is, and what is the best timeframe for redress.

• The Divine knows based on our character, our current progress, where we are heading, the effectivity of the redress now or later, etc.

• There are many forces at work that Brahman can see through.

• E.g. there are social forces, environmental ones, karmic ones, etc.

• What I am calling Brahman is the same as how Mother sees it from Her highest poise.

• Brahma, Divine Mother sees from the loftiest perch and responds with Maximum Efficiency at all levels; i.e. for maximum effect.

• Sri Aurobindo speaks of Nature’s ultimate efficiency of resolving many things simultaneously through a certain difficult outcome.

• We are part of that Efficiency, so Brahman, Divine Mother, Nature waits for the maximum, efficient moment that relates to many other things.

• Thus, the redress comes at the time that it serves this efficiency (for ourselves, others, the society, universal forces, etc.)

• This is in essence the question of the speed of Life Response -- positive, neutral, or negative; or, in this case specifically, speed of life to respond to a negative consciousness and behavior.

• In other words, what we think is the right time for redress for negative consciousness, instead waits for a time where there is maximum effect for multiple parties reflecting Nature’s Way of Maximum Efficiency. It also reflects at some level the Will of the Divine Mother, of Brahman, i.e. the omnipresent Reality.

• We can speak also in terms of "Energies," including their type, content, intensity, etc. and its effect on redress time period and outcome. Still we return again to Nature and Her Efficiencies that demand that the negative life response results occur in certain timeframes and circumstance for maximum effect.

• There is also the phenomenon of Life's/Nature's tendency to "restore the equilibrium of energies" to add to the equation of the timeframe and intensity of the redress.

• By the way, what is negative life response in these situations for the one side is often positive for the other. So there is that to include in the “due date” of Nature’s Redress.

 

The Oneness of All in Creation

 

Influence of the Atmosphere

Understanding the Process of a Life Response
Life Response is a PROCESS that ends in a result. It is initiated by an act or thought or even emotion. Each act of Life Response follows one of the rules, sometimes more than one rule. The initiating act, the law that acts, the result will be the sequence to which a detailed explanation can be added in terms of the general atmosphere, the atmosphere of the person, the direction of the rules -- as the same rule acts in both directions --, the specialties with respect to the incident.

E.g. I may act in some fashion, or have some thought, or express some feeling. Each of these three expressions of life movement follows one or more rules. These rules are ones we must come to understand by examining life's subtle workings. By examining the initiating life movement, the law(s) of life response that apply, and the result, we can see the sequence, and thus provide a detailed explanation of that particular life response event. To that however we must include the atmosphere surrounding the event and its impact, including the general atmosphere and the atmosphere of the person. We must also consider the directions of the rules, as the same rule acts in both directions, and we must consider the specialties with respect to the incident.

 

The Evolutionary Force and Life Response 

Alignment in Life Response and the Intention of the Evolutionary Force
There is an evolutionary movement (biological, social, and spiritual) that is unfolding in life. It actually ranges from progress to transformation. When each side makes a transition, they are not only aligning to one another, but to this evolutionary force or vortex. It is in fact through the alignment of these two sides, that they are able to join, to be pulled along collectively by this evolutionary force.

 

Formula, Mathematics of Life, of Life Response

 

Formulae of Life Response

-Einstein tells us that E=MC2, at the material level

-In life response, we could say that energy is released that attracts matter at the speed of light.

-The energy released occurs at all planes -- including vital, metal, and spiritual.

-A "physics of life response" would discover the metaphysical reasons why.

-It is there to be discovered through Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine'.

-It can then be extended and truly understood through spiritual intuition.

-New formulae of life would emerge, that would implicitly include laws of life response.

-Then we can begin to understand life response from this new perspective, which would enhance our capacity to invoke it.

Formula of Life
Out of this principles of equilibrium, as well as other principles of life response, we can arrive at a comprehensive 'physics of life response', which can eventually be abstracted into a Formula of Life that we can learn to adhere to and follow to produce endless life response results.

Mathematical Formula of Life Response
If we know the rules of life response, cannot we then abridge them into a mathematical formula? In this way we would the seemingly limitless possibilities of life response into a more finite mathematical knowledge.

Turning Life Response into a Mathematical Formula of Life

• Mathematics is the Queen of Sciences.
• There is no object in life that cannot be described mathematically.
• The path of a stone thrown into the sky -- projectile -- follows a formula of mathematics.
• Astrology has reduced all events of Life into formulas that can be defined in mathematics.
• Computer follows the rules of grammar because they are represented mathematically.
• Zero is a wonderful conception of mathematics when it captures the secrets of creation.
• Einstein discovered the mathematical equation of Energy that is matter, which enabled science to predict the movement of objects.
• Sri Aurobindo speaks of a mathematical formula of creation -- one in terms of yoga -- and says it is intelligible only to Him.
• By applying Sri Aurobindo to all other sciences as well as life, that field can be reduced to a formula.
• Life Response represents that idea about the movements of life.
• Sri Aurobindo mentions the route of life from the finite to the Infinite in various ways of which mathematical architecture is one.
• Life events lend themselves to prediction because they are movements according to measurable rules.
• In a planned work in a factory or administration one can predict what will occur at a given future date or time.
• Production is a controlled activity confined in Time and Space. Life is in widening Space and in limitless Time.
• Mathematical knowledge brings the limitless into limit.
• Invoking the Spirit raises one's power to act.
• Knowledge has a clarity which power does not have.
• Moving from will to knowledge, one lands in mathematics.
• That mathematics in the field of life is Life Response.
• We know all the rules of Life Response.
• Would they all abridge themselves into a Formula? (MSS)

Mathematics of Life Response
I recently was reading over A's extensive notes on P&P that we worked together on. At one point I made the statement that to know life response is to measure all of the energies of all individuals (plus the surroundings) and see its net effect on life response. (E.g. perhaps it takes the sum of three people to create the effect of sudden good fortune.) He thought it was a fresh area worthy of further investigation. The note below made me think of it. Enough energy came from Mrs. Bennet to make the marriage possible, so long as the negative in her also didn't hold sway. There were enough positive energies, from others and the environment, to enable her to attract three marriages through her intensity of aspiration, despite her character flaws.

It as if we could run all of this through a computer and see the likelihood of it generating a life response.  Or, going the other way, running all the data we have on a given life response (including people's and the environments contributions, positively and negatively) and see if it can come up with conclusions for us. E.g. it could conclude that it took the net energies of three particular people to generate the response.  

Appa has also written about the major and minor drivers (people, forces, etc.) in every life response result. E.g. Darcy was the main driver in the central part of the story that attracted the response of the end of the elopement and his marriage. Perhaps we can say that Mrs. Bennet was the main drive of the entire story. Or we could say that Darcy was the main driver that fulfilled Mrs. Bennet's aspiration!

It almost becomes a question of mathematics.  That math would include A's theory of equilibrium. (I.e. one math constant would be that Life always tries to self-correct disturbances in its equilibrium. That is Life Response.)

We could conceivably develop a mathematics of life response that would indicate future life response, as well as provide insights into existing ones. The TV show Numb3rs demonstrates the power of math to give insights into the unfolding of crimes. The hero there also has visions of these mathematical truths not unlike Einstein, and knows through intuition precisely which math principle/theory to focus on in a given case. For him life is reduced to pure theory through the mind. He becomes its master through math. We can do that too, provided we first gather together the rules of life and life response.

MSS Paper: Mathematical Formula of Life

 

Overview of Changes in Human Consciousness that Precipitate Life Response
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Cause of Life Response
-Shifts in consciousness to the positive evoke sudden good fortune -- i.e. life response. (Shifts to the negative evoke negative response.)
-There are an endless variety of human behaviors -- inner or outer -- that evoke response.

 

Behaviors that Elicit Life Response

• Shifting the inner or outer status to the positive, elicits positive response.

• Shifting the inner or outer status to the negative, elicits negative response.

• There can also be neutral response due to neutral behavior.

• Life responds to one's aspiration, attitude, decision, and action.

• Reversing an attitude to the positive instantly attracts good fortune.

• Moving from selfishness to self-givingness attracts.

• Taking to higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness attract.

• Shifting from psychological weakness to strength attracts.

• Accepting the other man's point of view attracts.

• The surrounding atmosphere, overt or subtle, determines the outcomes of events.

• Taking to restraint, withholding initiative attracts.

• Intense aspiration attracts.

• Opening to the spiritual Force (Consecration) attracts.

• Silent will compels another person to speak out the thought, feeling we withheld.

• Soft speech attracts positive conditions. So does reduced quantity of words.

• Eliminating too much thinking attracts.

• Remaining calm in the face of difficulty, reverses it, and attracts positive conditions.

• Sending goodwill to another, others attracts benefit for that party, and one' self.

• Gratitude attracts powerful positive conditions.

• Honesty, integrity, doing what is right attracts positive conditions.

• Perfecting a thing attracts powerful results.

• Right dealing with money - including dealing with debts, circulating it, etc. attracts more of it.

• Perceiving the signs and acting as indicated attracts.

• Negative attitudes attract instant negative conditions.

• Meddlesomeness attracts negative results.

• Anticipating cancels or delays.

• Overzealousness after a success cancels in the next round.

• Calm after a success build up energy and attracts more success in next round.

• Speaking out an opportunity before it is real, cancels it.

• Overcoming ego attracts.

• Creating higher harmony attracts.

• Making an exhaustive effort attracts.

• Maximizing the use of a resource attracts more of it.

• Taking responsibility (rather than blaming) attracts.

• Forgiveness attracts.

• Non-complaining attracts.

• Positive attitude always attracts.

• Non-reaction attracts.

• Right action in cross-road situations attract.

Life Response and Human Consciousness

• Individual Moving Outside Current Status Enables Life Response -- When an individual takes an effort to extend himself outside of his current status for whatever reason and act in life with a certain alignment of his inner conditions, it can trigger the expression of a life response outside him.

• There is a certain balance at all times of forces which when altered causes life response. If a man's personality constantly raises the combined strength of the positive forces and keeps the negative forces down the man will be constantly evoking life responses.

• The ultimate triggers of the life response are our opinions, preferences, thoughts, prejudices, habits, and constructions of the outer and inner mind. These determine our understanding, attitudes, and motives, which trigger life responses.

Effort in One Area Attracts Results in Another
Normally, we believe that if we make an effort in a particular area, we will elicit results that will lead to success in that domain. For example, if I seek a mate, practically speaking I need to make an effort to find her and woo her, which will hopefully secure her love. Never does it occur to us that if we make the right crossroad decision change in a related area, that we will attract the object of our desire; in this case, the one we adore.

The Right Space and Life Response
When we let go of what we are overly attached to, positive things occur -- i.e. life responds. The more we focus on the thing attached to, the more it retreats. (This is subtly different from a reasonable aspiration for something, which has the opposite effect.) An example: if we focus on an illness, it tends to get worse. Likewise, if we focus on what we cannot have related to money, i.e. the money itself, the situation deteriorates. (There is an opposite to this as well  -- in the case where we are monetarily negligent, and therefore required to get to the cause and do something about it, which will attract a better money situation.)

It is knowing when to move to ease that will attract the positive benefit, as A points out.

A man I now had the power to evoke rain on demand. It is said that he was an incarnation of the God of the sea that produces this rain. For years whenever he arrived, it would pour, especially in India. One year, there was drought in California. He prayed for rain, and he and others expected it to rain because of his supernormal power. However, it did not happen. He felt frustrated. He told his guru of the fact and the spiritual teacher replied that this time he should "forget rain" and not think about it. At the point he was able to do that, rain came in abundance.

When the vital being rises and demands selfishly, we prevent positive conditions and reinforce negative ones. When we move from self to the needs of others, we create the 'space' Anjez is referring to, which opens the portals of infinite possibility.  That space occurs when we move out of ego and self absorption, either through detachment and ease, or through inner or outer self-giving behavior.

 

Methods of Evoking Life Response

• Changing a negative attitude

• Increasing the level of one's cleanliness and orderliness.

• Really wanting something to come about.

• Moving from selfishness to selflessness and self-givingness.

• Giving something that deserves it greater attention.

• Holding back a thought or desire when conversing with someone.

• Moving from weakness to psychological strength

• Following the process of creation from vision to organization to action

• Overcoming negative feelings towards another

• Managing one's money to perfection

• Making the extra effort

• Embracing the work before one, instead of wanting something else

• Feeling real enthusiasm in the work one if doing

• Taking responsibility rather than blaming

• Overcoming negative feelings towards others

• Making a decision

• Taking to an action

• Really aspiring for something, and sustaining it.

• Remaining calm when a difficult situation arises

• Remaining silent when compelled to speak or express a view.

• Offering an activity to the spirit (consecration)

Causes of Life Response
Your note is perhaps the best note yet I have read from OV members on life response. It is poetic, insightful, and full of lessons. Thank you A for sharing this wonderful statement!

What you seem to be saying is that life response comes -

-by being in the flow of life
-by not pushing or forcing things
-by accepting the givens of life it has laid before us
-by living through our highest center of awareness in any moment
-by maintaining high, positive attitudes
-through gratitude
-through deep appreciation of the small things
-by being sincere towards life
-by being trusting toward life

You have expressed it much better, in a poetry of living.

 

Life Response and Human Behaviors
Life response is how life responds in kind on the outside to one's own consciousness expressed in our behavior and actions. Life response can occur instantaneously, and from anywhere and anything around the world and across the universe. It can respond positively or negatively; reflecting the individual's positive or negative inner consciousness, behaviors, and outer actions. It can bring sudden responses of abundance, wealth, power, and joy to the initiator of the response. Through this power we can becomes the masters of life. 

Among the human behaviors that trigger instantaneous and abundant positive life responses are overcoming limiting attitudes towards one's self, others, things, and life; by moving to a higher level of orderliness, cleanliness, and organization in one's life; by acting from strength when one is weak or in a weak position; by acting in a more giving way, especially when one is not that way by nature; by overcoming reluctances one has in life; by making the full effort in one's work; by taking any action that makes a situation more positive (e.g. moving from anger to calm, or criticism to acceptance, or impulse to inaction, or from inaction to necessary action, etc.); by opening to the spiritual Force; and many others. 

If you master the behaviors that trigger life response, you can becomes the master of life. Infinite accomplishment, success, and joy will be at your fingertips. Your days will be one's of endless accomplishment, success, happiness, joy, delight, and calm astonishment.

Life response defies all of our normal ideas of cause and effect, space and time.

At any point in a situation where there is a state of equilibrium, and there is a change in that equilibrium, life responds in kind.

Life responds from within yourself to points in the universe that are related. Those points can be related people, related situations, related aspects of consciousness, etc. This relationship occurs through forces and powers that are subtle and unseen by us.

Human Behavior that Attract Life Response
Here are number of practical ways to evoke life response (i.e. sudden good fortune; luck). (The list does not really include directly spiritual approaches, save one or two. That is for another day.)

- Overcome a wanting attitude
- Be positive, optimistic, and cheerful
- Give up a dead habit, opinion, belief
- Try to make any situation better
- Choose what is positive and helpful
- Move out of ego, sense of separateness
- Move from agitation to stillness
- Turn negative emotions positive
- Elevate a situation to a higher level
- Make a decision about something
- Take the necessary physical action
- Embrace what life has put before you
- Overcome any reluctance you have
- Feel deep enthusiasm in your work
- Make the full exhaustive effort
- Take responsibility for a situation
- Increase cleanliness & orderliness
- Systematize an activity
- Organize facts into ideas
- When right, deal with a problem
- When right, ignore a problem
- Maximize the use of a resource
- Give individuals/objects more attention
- Implement money-attracting strategies
- Shift your focus to others
- Be selfless and self-giving
- Forgive others when wronged
- Take to greater psychological strength
- Practice Silent Will power
- Take the other person's point of view
- Show gratitude to others, life
- Send others good will
- Speak less; and in a low, soft voice
- Eliminate unnecessary thinking
- Be calm and equal when problems arise
- Execute an activity perfectly
- Open to the spiritual Force
- Take a deep interest in a subject
- Really aspire for something to happen
- Plan, implement, and execute a goal

Making Luck Your Never-ending Reality
We normally think of 'luck' as good fortune; fortuitous circumstances that seems to come on its own without our hand in the matter. But those who have developed their consciousness over time have come to understand that luck is the direct result of who we are and how we act; in particular, those right inner and outer behavior that we take to in our lives.

Then what are the human behaviors that elicit these positive circumstance; that attract luck into our lives? Here are a several key ones:

• Embrace Life's Conditions -- Accept the work that is before you; i.e. the givens of life, instead of what you want to be doing or working at. When you do, life will immediately respond to that right attitude with startling positive circumstance.

• Overcome Wanting Attitudes -- Consider any negative feeling, emotion, attitude you have about life, yourself, others, and your work. Then reverse it. As soon as you do, positive conditions will suddenly appear, often from the most unexpected sources. There is no faster way to attract luck into your life!

• Be Equal During Difficulty -- If there is a difficult situation or circumstance that you are experiencing, and you remain calm and equal in those moments, positive conditions will quickly move towards you. In fact, the apparent negative you are experiencing will often quickly turn into a positive. It happens all of the time.

• Be Self-giving to Others -- At the point that you shift from yourself to the needs and concerns of others, luck will be your companion. When you give up your ego and self-orientation, and look at matters from the other party's perspective; when you show a deep concern for their interests and needs, life will quickly reward you with good favor. It is luck issuing out of harmony, goodwill, and affection.

• Aspire for Something -- When your mind focuses on a thing, or you develop an intention for something to come about, life quickly formulates that into a living reality. I.e., circumstance conspires to fulfill that aspiration and intent in short order. It is a powerful way to bring luck into your life; i.e., the specific luck you hoped to achieve.

• Use the Spiritual Force -- If you open yourself to the spiritual Force before engaging in an activity, that act will unfold in the most marvelous of ways. E.g. if before an important meeting, you open to the Force, a starling new development will take shape, or a problem will be cancelled, or a small positive will turn into a much larger one. The more intense your spiritual aspiration during that act of consecration, the greater the result. It is the power of spiritual faith in action.

If you follow one or more of these approaches, luck will be your never-ending reality. Life will shower you with a continuous stream of good fortune, often coming through startling, miraculous-like events. Success, happiness, inspiration, energy, opportunity, and harmony will be your constant companion. Moreover, as a result of these experiences, you will begin to see life from a very different perspective; developing very different views of space, time, causality, and reality. At that point, you will have surely arrived on the shores of a New Way of Living.

Behaviors that Attract Life Response
-Higher levels of organization attract, including cleanliness, orderliness, systemization.

-Giving attention to a thing neglected in full or part attracts.

-You can attract Luck often by just making a decision for improvement w/o even executing it.

Some background: The pool of four major factors that every life response event draws from are Aspiration/Intention, Attitude, Decision, and Action. It can be any or all of these, but in any life response incident at least one is involved, often 3 or 4.

In some case, you do not even have to take an Action to attract results. You can e.g. merely make a Decision to do something; though there may be a degree of aspiration and attitude shift as well; thus 3 out of 4.)

In Pride and Prejudice Mr. Bennet merely decided to give more attention to his daughters after the elopement incident, and attracted its sudden end, saving him and his family. He hadn't yet acted on it, just as in your situation. He changed his attitude toward them, had the aspiration to give more attention, and made the decision to do so. He did not yet act. Yet life responded in overwhelming fashion. It even opened the door for Darcy to act in the resolution of the elopement, be a hero, and thereby attract Eliza to marriage and vast riches and social prestige for the Bennet family. Mr. Bennet's decision changed the history of the story.

-Attraction often comes through vital plane formations -- e.g. sales, money, romance, business opportunities.

-Space and time are of course overcome. And the current finite expands toward the infinite in terms of quality and quantity of results.

-Several, multiple intentions mixed together creates added power, and thus more LR results.

-When one is amazed by a response, it can continue vibrating and attract another response. Or to put it another way, focusing on a response or the fact of Life Response gives the current event(s) power to respond again in some fashion.

-The spiritual Force is always working in the background for devotees of the Spirit, including the Divine Mother, adding causal energy, power, and results.

 

Higher Consciousness and Life Response
Life response -- i.e. sudden good fortune -- is simply a matter of consciousness.  The higher the consciousness, the more frequent and more intense the response. Then what is consciousness? It is the degree to which I am aware of my existence and my potentiality in life.

By what standard can I evaluate how conscious I am? If I live in time, ego, separateness, limitation, ignorance, conflict, and suffering, then my consciousness is low. If I am not bound by time, am in unity with my surroundings and with others, live in abundance, have many-sided integral knowledge, and experience endless creativity, love, and bliss, I am in a higher consciousness.

How then can I live in high rather than low consciousness? I can do so by first moving my orientation from the surface of life to a deeper poise within. Second, I can also make an ongoing effort try to identify and then improve all of the wanting parts of my being. Third, I can open to the Spiritual Force.  Ultimately, I can surrender to the Divine Reality and live only for Its Purpose and Intent. Any and all of these will expand my consciousness.

By taking these approaches, I move from the individual to the universal plane, enabling my energies to flow freely and align with corresponding positive conditions. These miraculous-like instances of sudden good fortune are not only indicators that my consciousness is rising, but that I have embarked on a new existence in which I am able to move the world around from within.

 

Thoughts, Thinking, and Life Response

-Thoughts have little power in life without the vital urge of some sort; i.e. the urge of belief in it, for it to manifest as a living reality; etc.

-Thought then can be reinforced by an intention/will, attitude, a motive, a value, etc. These are the determinants of the power of thoughts.

-When there is intensity behind the thought, then it becomes alive. It gains the sanction of the emotions and will.

-In that way, our aspiration and intention attracts.

-Attitudes, which are part thought, part vital, have vast life response power, positively and negatively, and often attract instantaneously.

-High values-shaped thoughts have vast power of accomplishment in the long run, particularly if the atmosphere is supportive and there is intensity to make it real.

-A thought consecrated to Mother has causal power. It there is also aspiration/intention, will, intensity, right attitude behind it, then the response can be overwhelming, changing the core of life.

-Thought of itself merely attracts more knowledge and thought if it attracts anything,

-Thought with will expressing an intension attracts vital results (sales, money, romance, etc.).

-Even thinking only positive thoughts is an attitude or value; a spiritual attitude/value. It also attracts.

-Thought can attract life response when one organizes it; e.g. understanding a concept not understood before; breaking a mass of knowledge into categories, etc.

-An instructor organizing this way attracts work. And yet even there it is often an overcoming of an attitude of breaking a reluctance or working harder that elicits the result.

-Intuition is a response of knowledge coming in without thought. It just appears in the mind. It is a kind of response of the spirit.

-Supramental thought has the complete, integral knowledge of a matter, and the complete power for it to manifest and become real. It has causal life response power to attract.

-Thought can move from conception (an idea) to perception (an experience of the thought) to sensation (realization of the thought as an essence of one's being).

-Reducing thought is a spiritual movement. It attracts.

-Silence of thought and will ("Silent Will") also attracts.

-Moving from the individual to universal plane puts one in touch with universal knowledge/thought, coming through as insight, vision, intuition and supramental perception.

-Moving to the depths, culminating in the psychic being (evolving soul) enables the mind to rise and thought to come in without thinking.

-Constant consecration opens one to the depths, and therefore enables one to rise beyond mind to spiritual mind where knowledge pours in.

-Knowledge pouring in (without hard churning thought) is what we seek. It is a kind of life response.

-Also personal values of the mind (i.e. vitalized beliefs) becoming real is another thing worth bringing about.

-The first spiritual movement is not to react; i.e. to have no thought (or feeling).

-In stillness all thought tends toward the positive, as the vital status, particularly the attitude is purer.

-Silencing the mind, constant consecration will open one to the pure, helpful thoughts. The attitudes will change commensurately.

-Patient learning of principles of life and inner growth is also helpful. They build up consciousness that allows for right and positive thinking and doing that attract.

-It is helpful to now the planes of mind and their relationship to the types of thought, thinking that emanates from each. E.g. facts are processed in the physical mind, values in the vital mind; pure thinking in the mental mind; light, intuition, and revelation in the spiritual mind.

-Thought, or rather knowledge is not of the brain; but of Mind, which is everywhere.

-Negative thoughts not only come from the vital, but from the subconscient mind which is pessimistic, carrying for millenia of pralaya and dissolution.

-Thought, or rather knowledge is not of the brain; but of the Mind, which is everywhere.

-Many thoughts we think are ours are coming from others around us.

-Mind is a transitional instrument. It is limited, weak, exclusive, dogmatic. The thoughts it generates are only partial truths. Integral knowledge always knows the full truth of things. Thoughts generated there are multi-faceted and integral; connected to the essence and truth behind. Constant consecration enables this, as it creates an opening in the depths and above.

-Through higher consciousness comes right thought. If there is a vital urge and intensity behind, then life also moves (at the subtle plane). Adding Mother, the results are dynamically different and new, occurring at the causal plane.

-We can build up our nature and consciousness to have right and positive thoughts all the time. Life will respond to the degree that there is an urge for the idea to manifest in the world.

 

Factors that Determine our Receptivity to Life Power and the Incoming Grace

Receptivity is the capacity of the Human Vessel to receive the incoming Grace from Life and from the Divine Itself. The degree to which Life responds with good fortune for us through those Powers will ultimately depend on our level of Receptivity.

Our receptivity increases-

• When our aspiration is for something significant or even great; rather than what is surface and superficial.

• When we are focused on a goal, which attracts the power to that particular intent.

• When we are not scattered in our being, which avoids deflecting the incoming Power.

• When our Mind is still and silent, instead of filled with thoughts.

• When our heart and emotions are calm and serene, detached from the intensities of life.

• When our consecrated efforts do not demand or expect anything; but are open to and accepts what the Spirit brings.

• When we are not bound by our fixed habits.

• When we are attitudes (towards self, others, work, life) are fully positive, instead of negative.

• When we are not want to our prejudiced opinions and wrong beliefs.

• When our Ego is the background, distanced from our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

• When we are patient, positive and cheerful in our thoughts and feeling.

• When our level of organization, inner strength, skill, capacity, effort, focus, etc. is the maximum it can be.

• When we take actions that are sensible and not rash or foolish.

• When we go the extra mile, and make the extra effort (e.g. in work).

• When we are constantly self-giving, rather than taking.

• When we express our own individuality, uninfluenced by the herd.

• When we surrender our life to the Higher Life; to the Divine.

• When our Surrender to the Divine moves from our thoughts to our emotions, culminating in the very fiber of our being.

• When our aspiration for the Divine is intense.

• When we have completer Faith in the Spirit, not in ourselves or life.

• When we are sincere in all parts of our being.

• When we take to higher values likes tolerance, openness, honesty.

• When the center of our being is deep within, rather than the surface.

• When we touch the psychic, the evolving soul.

• When we are able to constantly consecrate, which has the added benefit of penetrating us and forging an inner life.

• When the Mind sheds its vital and physical influences, including its perceptions tarnished by our desires, passions, and needs.

• When the Mind moves to silence, and then to intuition, universality, and supramental perception.

• When we perceive that the Inner, not the Outer is the ultimate determinant of our being.

• When our life movements are in touch with the evolutionary movements of the society around us.

• When the atmosphere of the surrounding collectives is positive, not blocking the descending power and grace.

• When one's own wishes are in alignment with the Will of the Divine.

• When we become receptacles of the Real Ideas of the Infinite Consciousness.

• When we are receptive to spiritual values like oneness, truth, wisdom, goodness, power, creativity, delight, joy, love, timelessness, and infinity.

• When we are pure of heart.

• When we are open to any and all possibilities.

• When we are One with, not separate from the Field of life.

Growth and Response in 'Hanna and Her Sisters'
Last night I watched Woody Allen's 'Hannah and Her Sister.' I had seen it many times before, but now I saw it a new way. In the end, everyone evolves in the story and it happens through and within their relationships. It was like Pride and Prejudice in many ways. There is as very positive outcome for everyone, including the three sisters and the two suitors.

The Michael Caine character is in love with and carries on an affair with the Barbara Hershey character, who is the sister of the Mia Farrow character that Michael is married to. After months of anguish, he eventually sheds his relationship with Barbara, comes to really appreciate his wife Mia's goodness, which deepens his love for her and they remain together. Meanwhile over that time Barbara is tired of waiting around for Michael to commit (and also sees how she would hurt her sister Mia if she found out) and immediately attracts a man who she falls in love with and marries. (Mia also becomes more self aware as she sees that she is always giving in her relationships, and avoids asking for anything in return.) The third sister, the Diane Wiest character, overcomes her self-doubt about her capacities, becomes a writer, and attracts Woody, who a year earlier had a disastrous first date with her. Meanwhile, Woody overcomes his fear of death after the threat of a brain tumor, meets Diane in a bookstore, is willing to look past his horrible start with her, and forms a relationship with a now far more confident woman, bringing romance that leads to their marriage. In the final dramatic and sweet scene of the film, she tells him that she is pregnant.

It is a magnificent story of people evolving through their romantic relationships. Michael through higher love. Mia through greater self-awareness. Barbara through greater strength. Diane through a sense of self-worth. Woody through shedding fear. Life responds with good fortune for each for these inner psychological efforts.

Life Responds to Smart Decisions
Today I was taking my usual half hour walk. On occasion, I treat myself to something tasty somewhere along the way. This time I headed out on the main street, on which a MacDonald's loomed where I could stop for some ice cream. However, as I approached that street, I realized that it was 12PM, and it was Friday, which means a huge rush at this time of the day. Instead, I detoured and headed down a side street, at the end of which is a quickie-type food mart.

When I arrived at the convenience store, there wasn't a single car parked in the lot, which was unusual any time of the day, but downright remarkable at 12 noon, when so many take off for lunch or go shopping. When I then entered the store and looked around for an ice cream treat, I was surprised to find one right in front that turned out to be a new offering, and very inexpensive. I was really surprised by the development. But would the low-cost item taste any good? Well, it tasted better than anything of this sort I had ever had at the store at any price! As I chomped away on the bar, I was startled how delicious it was, and at such a low price. It almost seemed to good to be true.

All in all it turned out to be a multiple response from life -- a quiet parking lot with no cars, an inexpensive new item unexpectedly available, its appearance right at the front of the shop, no customers on line at checkout, in fact no customers at all in the store(!), my immediate check out, and a very tasty product that I enjoyed to no end! What an unassuming, yet startling and enjoyable moment of life!

When we are mindful of life unfolding around us; perceive the subtle signs indicated, and move in the right direction, we attract remarkable conditions. Or to put it another way, when we make smart decisions based on subtle signs, life conspires to bring positive, unexpected, and charming circumstance. And besides, the results can be quite enjoyable!

 

Sudden Good Fortune is Sign of Right Consciousness at that Plane
When positive circumstances suddenly come to you on their own seemingly from out of nowhere, then you know that you are moving in the right direction at that plane. E.g. if an opportunity comes your way when you least expected it, then it is directly linked to corresponding shifts in consciousness you made that generated the right energies that aligned with and attracted that corresponding positive results.

One man forgot his negative feelings -- actually all thoughts and emotions -- related to a difficult conference call. Days later out of the blue, he was asked to join a call with those same individuals. This time however all went well and he was able to make a great positive contribution. It would prove to be a truly rewarding experience, energizing him and others no end.

By giving up his intense attachment to the situation, including his negative thoughts and opinions about certain matters and people, he cleared the way for these positive developments to rush towards him from out of nowhere. Sudden good fortune is thereof a sign of right consciousness at a corresponding plane of life.

 

Individual Consciousness and Life Response
The ultimate triggers of the life response are our opinions, preferences, thoughts, prejudices, habits, and constructions of the outer and inner mind. These determine our understanding, attitudes, and motives, which trigger life responses.

If an individual when participating in any event can constantly raise the combined strength of the positive forces and keeps the negative forces down, that individual will be constantly evoking positive life responses.

To invoke positive life responses utilizing the Force [e.g. consecrating each event] is the real spiritual custom we are seeking to establish.

When we lose our ego sense and open to a Higher Power we open the floodgates of causal life response. If we want to have endless causal life responses, we need to move our consciousness out of the ego, that which binds us to our own needs, concerns, desires, etc.

Offering Wanting Attitudes to the Spirit to Evoke Positive Response
We feel that our opinions and attitudes are always right. First of all we have to stop saying this. As long as we feel we are right we are fully identified with our ego. There are no right or wrong attitudes, there are only attitudes that help or hinder our growth. Positive attitudes help our lives expand. Negative attitudes make it contract. We can pray that the negative attitude should change. The attitudes we have created are one of the ways by which the Infinite has become finite. Our job now is to reverse the direction and make the finite Infinite. The way we do that is to reverse our attitudes of which we have thousands. There is a method that can work for all of us. Wherever we feel a strong reaction, without trying to justify it in any way, let us say "I offer this attitude to You, Mother. Let me give it up. Let me make a progress."Call Mother at that point to reverse it, to dissolve that attitude. There is infinite prosperity behind each of our opinions, attitudes and habits. Each time we come forward to give one of them up, we release an enormous energy that translates in our lives as the disappearance of a problem or the sudden appearance of a great opportunity. Surrendering these aspects of our ego is the surest way to invite infinite prosperity into our lives. (Ragini)

Forms of Humility that Evoke Life Response
The wise man says: "Humility is the other name of Luck." When we shift out of ego, we move from the limited individual plane to the wider universal domain where our energies align with corresponding positive conditions that return to us as instances of sudden good fortune -- i.e. luck. At each point we move towards humility, selflessness, self-givingness, goodness, gratitude, et al from their opposite, we overcome limits of time, space, and finite and open ourselves to instantaneous miraculousness.

 
Life Response and Human Choice
Our overriding theme here can be summarized as this. At various points life builds up a kind of pressure and presents us with situations in which we can respond one way or another. Our ability to move towards the positive is ultimately a choice we can make or not make. That conscious choice of movement toward the more positive is the foundation of all beneficial life response. It is the nexus, the opening to the great Beyond that enables the Infinite potentials of life to rush into our finite reality. When we engage the situation, make the necessary reversal, or take the right action, or otherwise move the problematic or symptomatic situation in the direction of a greater positive, we have made the critical choice that attracts life to us, that brings all of life to our doorstep.

 

 

Peculiarities of Life Response

Multiple Life Response Around Common Circumstance
We see how life response (sudden good fortune) unfold in single, individual incidents, reflecting unique circumstance related to that person, collective, or entity. However, if we look closer, we will see that life response often -- maybe always! -- comes in bunches around common circumstance. To show you what I mean, consider this example from literature and film.

In the 1999 Masterpiece Theater adoption of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, young David in 19^th century England has been sent away to work at a wine factory in London by his cruel stepfather. There he meets with the Micawber family, which gives him some relief from his gloomy situation. Unfortunately, Mr. Micawber, though a good man, is constantly in debt, and is at one point put in debtor's prison.

One day David out of pity and concern goes to visit Mr. Micawber. The older man is grateful to David for showing such kindness. In response, he tells David that if he were to leave the wine factory, he should visit his own aunt in Dover. It will turn out to be the most important bit if advice David ever receives. (I.e. when he leaves the factory, literally walks across the country, and meets up with her, his entire life is changed fort the better.) Thus, this great bit of advice from Mr. Micawber is a life response for David for showing such concern for the man while he was in prison, especially when he visited on that particular occasion.

But the life response outcomes did not end there! As soon as Mr. Micawber gives his precious advice to David, his wife immediately bursts in on the scene and informs him that he has been released from debtor's prison! Because he in turn showed deep interest and concern for David, life instantaneously responded with news of his own release. Thus, we see two interconnected life response outcomes occurring around the same essential event.

Now we can take this a step farther. If we were privy to Mr. Micawber's wife's situation, we might discover that when she received news of her husband's release, it was due to an inner or outer behavioral change on her part as well. And even in the future, when David takes up Mr. Micawber's advice and walks across the country to meet with his aunt, we would see that she attracted the boy she has not seen since birth due to her shift in consciousness; and through David's arrival, her life would change as well.

Thus, we see a closely meshed, interconnected series of life response outcomes related to the same essential circumstance. David's primary action initiated a startling series of positive events, each unfolding in the form of sudden good fortune.

Self-Givingness Attracts Love in Scent of a Woman
(How Shift in Consciousness in One Area Attracts Response in Another Domain)
Life Response (sudden good fortune) has many subtle rules, nuances, and peculiarities. One example of the latter is that if you shift your consciousness to the positive in one area of your life, you will often experience a response in a very different one. For example, when you finally get the courage to stand up to an abusive boss, life rewards you when a previously non-responding woman you have been wooing suddenly appears at your doorstep ready to begin a serious relationship. This ability to attract from one domain by reversing our consciousness in another is a fascinating aspect of life response. Here is another example from a film I watched recently.

In 'Scent of a Woman,' Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home for Christmas, Charlie takes a job looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who is now blind, alcoholic, eccentric, and difficult to get along with.

Charlie is distracted by a very big problem he is having at school. Three students have played a prank on the school's headmaster, Mr. Trask, by placing a balloon filled with plaster and bearing a profane image above his expensive car, which was presented to him by the school's board of trustees. Trask then pops the balloon, causing the contents to rain down on him and his car in front of the entire school. Only Charlie and another classmate, George knows the identity of the culprits, as they had seen them setting the booby trap the previous night. However, both of them refuse to reveal the culprits' names. After threatening both with expulsion, Trask tries to bribe Charlie by assuring him admission to Harvard if he names those who committed the prank. Charlie still tells him nothing, but is warned that he must or suffer the consequences for being a "cover-up artist."

When Charlie originally took the job, he was told that he would only have to stay with Colonel Slade at his niece's home and look after him. However, Slade had actually planned a visit to New York, and therefore enlists Charlie's help on the trip. He takes a room at the Waldorf-Astoria. During dinner, Slade reveals the real purpose for the trip: to eat at an expensive restaurant, stay at a luxury hotel, see his big brother, make love to a beautiful woman, and then commit suicide.

Charlie learns how Slade lost his sight by foolishly juggling hand grenades while drunk. Slade's crude behavior at dinner further alienates his brother and other relatives. Later, the blind Colonel tangos with a girl whose perfume captivates him. He drives a Ferrari with a very nervous Charlie in the passenger seat. Slade tricks Charlie into leaving the hotel room to buy him a cigar, but a suspicious Charlie comes back to find Slade ready to commit suicide with his gun. After a few tense minutes, Charlie is able to stop Slade from killing himself.

By this point, Charlie has become very loyal to the Colonel. Charlie becomes the sole person to stand by Slade, and defend him against the Colonel's own family. Charlie's loyalty is not lost on Slade, as Slade offers him advice numerous times and even comes to see him as a true friend. In their intimate discussions, the Colonel reveals that more than anything in his life he would like a good woman.

Charlie eventually returns to school, where George, is about to reveal the names of the students involved in the incident. Trask conducts a courtroom-like assembly of the student body and the Disciplinary Committee. He questions George, who with the help of his influential father is able to weasel out of the jam by claiming to be only partially certain of the culprits' identity, suggesting that Charlie might have had a better view than he did. Charlie then refuses to give the students' names, and is about to be expelled when Colonel Slade surprisingly enters and delivers a compelling speech on his behalf, revealing that Charlie had been offered a bribe to inform on the other students. Slade then wins over the students and the committee. The students who played the prank on Trask are placed on disciplinary probation, George is given no recognition, and Charlie is exonerated.

Now here is the part of the story that I would like to direct your attention. As Charlie and Slade walk outside of the school, a beautiful middle-aged woman walks up and congratulates them on their effort. Slade though blind is dazzled by her beauty and intelligence. He indicates that he would like to see her, which she seems to desire as well.  In fact, she seems to be everything he had (earlier) dreamed of. Slade then returns home. No longer bitter, he seems to have a new look on life, a new young friend in Charlie, and the real possibility of befriending the woman of his dreams.

In this story, a broken man changes his attitude through deep friendship with a student. He then offers his services when the young man is about to be condemned in front of the student body. That act of self-givingness instantly attracts the woman he so deeply yearns for now in his life. As we see, when we shift our consciousness to the positive in one area of our lives, we often attract positive conditions in another. If for example we have a deep aspiration to love someone and then act in another domain in a positive way -- through an act of self-givingness, or greater psychological strength, or higher attitudes, etc -- life instantly fulfils that deep, original aspiration. When Slade attracted the lovely, sensitive, and intelligent woman at the conclusion of the story, it was the final outcome in a process that began when he expressed his deep aspiration for such a person, and then self-gave of himself in another arena, helping a young friend avoid a catastrophe.

We too can utilize this approach, if we are first clear about what we want, look around and overcome a glaring limitation in our being in any area of our lives -- whether a poor attitude, ego and selfishness, poor organization, weak effort, lacking psychological strength, etc. Life will then reward our efforts by bringing the object of our desire, whatever that is, to our doorstep.

(Thanks to Wikipedia for their film summary.)

 

Make Unmoving Life Respond
If life is not moving for you, move within yourself a shade deeper than your current functioning, and it will begin to move. If life is already moving for you, go deeper still to make it move even more, enabling ever greater accomplishment and success. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Organizing the Inner, and the Outer, Enables Life to Respond
The more you organize your inner consciousness, the more life will respond in kind -- instantaneously, abundantly, and miraculously. The same holds true for organizing the life around you.

See Details on Specific Behaviors that Generate Life Response

 

Energies, Planes, and Life Response

Human Energies, the Cosmic Scale, and Life Response

1. Human Energies
There are four essential planes of existence in the universe -- the physical/material, the vital/life, the mental, and the spiritual. In the individual human, that expresses as the physical body, the vital/emotional being, the mental being, and the spiritual being. In addition, each of these human dimensions express as energy -- i.e. as physical, vital, mental, and spiritual energy.

2. Cosmic Scale of Life
All life also expresses along a 'cosmic scale of being' through the gross/material plane, the subtle plane, and a causal (i.e. super-subtle) plane. For simplicity sake, we can think of the gross/material plane as the visible plane; i.e. where we see things. E.g., I see the car moving at the grass/material plane. We can think of the subtle plane as the invisible plane, where things are occurring but are invisible to us. E.g., someone thinks a thought, but I cannot see it. We can think of the causal plane as a super-version of the invisible plane, but where new things literally are being created out of nothing. E.g., the Force is invoked, and suddenly something new, that never existed before is generated from out of the invisible realm.

We can expand this definition a bit and say that that when we experience things through any of our five senses, it is occurring at the physical/material plane. If it cannot be perceived by the five senses, it is subtle or causal to us.

3. Putting it All Together
Now let's see how each of the four types of energy we generate -- physical, vital, mental, and spiritual -- relate to the three cosmic planes of gross/material, subtle, and causal.

The physical energies that emanate from our physical body generally express at the gross/material plane, though they can also express at the subtle plane. E.g. when I walk, visible physical matter can be seen by the eyes to be in motion. One can also touch and feel that matter. On the other hand, x-rays are matter too, but they cannot be seen or perceived through the five human senses. They have a greater capacity to more easily move across space. I.e. their substance is far less gross.

Vital energies generally express at the subtle plane; i.e. they cannot be seen. For example, when I change an attitude or quietly feel an emotion, vital energies are released that cannot be seen or otherwise perceived through the five senses. Plus, they move freely across space and time, and can be picked up by others who have a certain subtle sensitivity. What I am calling life response, generally occurs at the subtle plane because there is subtle connection between the initiating and responding elements and objects.

Mental energies are subtle like vital energies; they cannot be seen or perceived by the five senses of another person (unless I speak it out which would make it gross/material). Since mental energies are subtle, they move freely across space and time. When I think a thought, it can be picked up by anyone who has a certain subtle sense even if they are half way across the world. 

Spiritual energies are also subtle in that they are invisible, and cannot be perceived by the five senses, and can move freely across space and time. However, in addition, the causal plane has a super-subtle sense that can literally create new things where nothing existed before. When I open to the Force, I generate spiritual energies that evoke the new at he level of the causal plane. We can think of the causal plane as simply the Spiritual reality from which the never-existing-before manifests spontaneously. Life response through the Force occurs at the causal plane.

Thus, when life response occurs as a result of adjusting our behaviors in a moment in time, subtle or super subtle (causal) physical, vital, mental, and spiritual energies move along the cosmic web of life which directs them to corresponding elements that are aligned with our own intent, behavior, and action.
 

Miscellaneous

Cosmic Framework for Life Response
A cosmic-oriented framework for life response to consider:

-In the upper hemisphere existence is timeless, spaceless, infinite.

-Seeking Delight it created a universe.

-That universe is determined by 12 spiritual properties/determinants of Spirit.

-The universe is inconscient, evolves some consciousness, and continues that upper movement.

-When an individual in creation moves to a higher consciousness, he embodies a bit more 1 or more of the 12 spiritual aspects.

-At that point energy moves out and aligns with corresponding elements (individuals, objects, circumstances) which appears to the initiator as instantaneous miraculousness of results -- i.e. life response.

-Life is organized in some fashion, that when an individual moves up in consciousness, i.e. when 1+ of the 12 are embraced to a small or great degree, there is a close association of energies between corresponding particulars across space and time, creating life response.

-When the individual changes consciousness, life is organized and moves from time to timelessness (the item comes in no time), space to spacelessness (the object appears in front of you), and finite (what appears is far more than what was there before) -- i.e. there is a life response incident.

-The evolutionary movement to timeless, spacelessness, and infinity is tied up with the 12 determinants. The energies of life are connected through a cosmic intelligence that ties these two together. It is there in the universe. It is even there within us, in the soul. 

Accomplishing Infinitely by Acting on the Universe Contained Inside Ourselves
For 10,000 years we lived our lives based on our perception of physical space and measured time, which the Internet now threatens to abridge to a considerable degree. And yet the deeper inner consciousness of an individual can contain the entire universe within himself at any moment, negating space and time altogether. E.g. he can take actions from those depths, using that Force, enabling life to instantly respond up to an infinite degree from anywhere on earth within seconds. Even the Internet is a scratch of the surface compared to the accomplishment and joy that can emanate from this timeless, spaceless, infinite existence that we can contain from within.

Results of Spiritual Power
Results of Spiritual Power when released into action by the truth of inner sincerity are INSTANTANEOUS. (MSS)

Changes in Attributes and Sub Attributes at 1-9 levels that Enable Life Response

• Various attributes appear, i.e. predominate at each level of 1-9 levels; e.g. sensation at level 6, feelings at level 5, sentiments and values at 2, etc.
• Attitudes appear in level 4 (of 9).
• Any level could conceivably be measured in intensity as well as positive/negative tendency for the individual at any moment in time. (It could be a life computer or other system.)
• Even each attribute can be broken down into sub attributes or components to see their intensity and positive and negative propensities. E.g. There are at least 50 identifiable attitudes; each of which has its level of intensity and positive/negative measurement for the individual at a point in time.
• An attitude, which is at level 4, can move from a negative to a positive, or a more positive. This enables positive life response. (Negative life response moves in the other direction.) More particularly when any, or small combinations/constellations of the 50 sub attributes shift to the positive, there can be response. E.g. at level 4 I change my attitude from indifference to concern and disinterest to interest; or at level 6 a fear of heights can change to absence of fear of heights. Or a false value or sentiment at level 2 can be shed or neutralized. Or a confusion or unclarity at level 1 can be made clear. Etc.. All such reversals can trigger life response.
• Every attribute, including sub-components of that attribute that exist within each 1-9 level can move from its current status to a more positive status, enabling life response.  

Speed of Life Response
Life moves at different speeds. Some initiatives accomplish or evoke a response from life after a prolonged period. Others bring almost instantaneous results.

Since life is a field of force, the speed of life events is determined by the intensity of those forces. That intensity depends in turn on the plane of consciousness or part of being (mental, vital or physical) in which the force is generated. The mind is an instrument of knowledge and will. It has power to release the energy of the vital and the action of the physical, but it is the farthest removed from physical action and therefore the slowest medium for accomplishment. Mental acts express a force of will in the form of decisions. Decisions have a power to accomplish, but unless powered by vital energy and physical action, the time required may be quite long. The vital is the source of energy and enthusiasm. When the vital endorses the mind's idea and decision, it releases the energy and enthusiasm of the personality for accomplishment. The greater the vital emotional intensity released, the more rapid and powerful the response of life. The physical is the seat of action. What the physical knows and accepts it acts on instantaneously. Therefore, when the physical experiences, decides or wants something, it tends to occur in the shortest possible time. (MSS)

Previous Alignment Steps that Lead to the Response
One of the things I have come to realize about Life Response is that it doesn't necessarily come upon us all at once. It happens in steps, with the two parties gradually aligning with one another as we saw in Kathy's example here. In the famous episode in Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice where Eliza and Darcy meet near the pond -- a life response to her changing her view of him and enabling her to marry him and become wealthy -- we see that she and him were doing things in higher consciousness earlier that were gradually bringing them closer together. E.g. she earlier started to change her attitudes somewhat toward Darcy, causing him (or aligning with his decision) to cancel the remainder of his trip to London, which soon after enabled him to meet her at the pond, sealing the fate of their relationship. The two sides over time moved into alignment until that time when the big response took place.

Greatness of Seeing Life Response in the Smallest Acts
-For one who observes and wants to learn, no move or event is too trivial to study. The more trivial the act is, the greater is the revelation.

-Only when we are able to SEE the laws of Life Response in every act, do we understand it.

-Analysis will reveal there is no simple ACT, but all acts are complex processes, each is a marvel, defying classification.  Understanding is to find the complex in the simple. (MSS)

Changing Ourselves to Change the World
So long as you do not have the power to change the world, it is useless to say that the world is wrong. And if you abolish in yourself the things that are wrong in the world, you will see that the world will no longer be wrong.  (The Mother)

 

 

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SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS THAT GENERATE LIFE RESPONSE
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General | Increased Energy | Psychological Strength | Effort and Hard Work | What One Truly Wants | Intention, Aspiration
Greater Direction & Focus | Organization, Systemization, Cleanliness | Knowledge and Skills | Higher Attitudes | Sincerity
Make Situations More Positive | Overcoming Reluctance, Take What Life Gives | Taking Responsibility
Concentrated Will | Attention to Others, Things

Givingness | Goodwill | Goodness | Taking Interest
Greater, Higher Formulations of Thinking | Perfecting, Taking Care of Details of a Work | Right Handling of Money

Utilizing Personal Values | Equality in Face of Difficulty | Soft Speech | Silent Will | Taking Another's Point of View
Opening to the Spiritual Force (Consecration) | Moving to Higher Plane | Other | Negative Life Response

(Note: most of these are links to other pages)

 

 

General
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Life responds suddenly and abundantly to higher attitudes, overcoming a reluctance, higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness, making a greater effort, clarifying a concept or idea, utilizing the Force, following the process of creation, giving greater attention to things, and many other human behaviors and actions. If you learn these essential behaviors you become in essence the master of life.

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At any moment take any negative in the atmosphere or within, and turn it into a positive. Life will likely respond in kind.

Doing What One Can in A Difficult Situation Attracts a Great Outcome
Sometimes you will find yourself in problem situations where the solution is for the most part are out of your hands. If instead of worrying or complaining or cowering, you try from your side to do whatever you can to improve the situation, to make circumstances more positive, to take any possible practical action, life will suddenly move towards you, bringing abundant results from seemingly out of nowhere, resolving the situation to your complete satisfaction, and then some.

Value of an Initiative Based on Life Response
When you take an initiative and others respond, it is a sign of the value of your venture, i.e. life's, Nature's compulsion to take it further. The response from life means you are on the right track; it is worthy of further focus and effort. Results are in that sense the litmus test of an initiated effort.

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An individual got responses on a continuous basis, to which he hardly put in an effort or even thought much about as it continued to unfold. When life responds in such a way that does not raise our focused interest, we are somewhat oblivious, though it can be the single great indicator of our concrete contribution. It an irony born of our unconsciousness!

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Life responds to excess energy and perseverance, not a mere idea. (Paraphrase of MSS)
 

One's Revolutionary Change Attracts a One in a Million Mate
In the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding we see a woman suddenly transform herself from a homely, bored, non ambitious waitress in her family's restaurant to a vibrant individual looking to learn, grow, and develop a new career. It is a remarkable evolution, as great in its own way to Eliza in Pygmalion. Just as striking is the fact that she attracts an almost perfect man of her dreams, who is not only handsome and intelligent, but is even happily willing to put up with her near impossible family. Such a man is a one in a million dream, which she realizes by a once in a million change and evolution of her being.

 

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Individual's Inner Movement/Outer Life Response that Results

• Non-stop work = non-stop flow of funds for all kinds of uses
• Refusal to accomplish in work what one can = Normal procedural functions in government offices, outside firms etc. get stuck
• Conscious utilization of money, energy, etc = Glut of money, energy, etc.
• Waste of any item = Shortage of item
• Hard feeling or thoughts = Violence, fire, damage, public resistance
• Sexual indulgence = Loss of money, even theft (MSS)

One's Readiness that Attracts the Work
If one prepares himself for any work, the moment the readiness is complete, the work moves towards him. (Grace always meets the aspiration with a field of expression.) (MSS)

Crossing the Other Side of the Line that Makes Life Respond
Serious attention is very good. It is still on this side of the line. The ten fold or hundred fold expansion is on the other side of the LINE. Expansiveness will help you cross the line, not great interest. Once you cross the line, the opportunity will at once present itself. From opportunity to accomplishment, there is again a distance. Expansiveness of the consciousness brings the opportunity. Organisation of that expansive energy -- consciousness -- allows the opportunity to acquire further concrete shapes. Gratitude -- Truth, Sincerity -- opens the substance. Thrill is the sensation of gratitude. Ecstasy is thrill steadied. Ecstasy accomplishes in the outer life. Attention rising to expansiveness helps cross the line. Attention is vital, one aspect of the vital.

Attention    /   Expansiveness

Understanding /  Clarity

Decision  / Determination

Self-interest /  Selfless-interest

Taking  / Giving

Personal understanding / Impersonal understanding

Remembering by memory  /  Remembering by understanding

Calculation  // Spontaneity

Efficient Planning  / Unplanned efficiency

Productive  /  Creative

Self-importance / Self-respect

Selfish individuality  /  Individuality of independence.

 

As work is concrete, ALL the opinions, attitudes, motives will be on the surface.  You cannot miss even one detail. Work out what the executive has to acquire to cross the line. He crosses the line surely when on all scores he is right. Life responds the moment one crosses the line. (MSS)

 

How Life Responds through Our Relationships with Others

Sudden good fortune comes to those who move their consciousness to a higher level. It can come by reversing a negative attitude, intensely wanting a thing, or opening to the spiritual Force, amongst others. It can come through our relationship with life, or more specifically in our contact and connection with others.  Just as there are laws governing life response in general, there are principles specific to our relationships with the people around us. Here are a few, though certainly not an exhaustive list.

• If you think of another person's needs and concerns before your own, life will tend to unfold in a more perfect manner in the period that follows. E.g., you shift from your shopping needs to that of the person accompanying you, and as a result, your effort together unfolds magnificently -- bringing extraordinary efficiency to the experience. Or, if you focus on a relationship partner's immediate concerns rather than your own, then what takes place for yourself thereafter will unfold wonderfully in perfect sequence -- negating any misgivings you might have had.

• When we think negatively about a person, another individual will soon come forward who will express the same or similar negativity toward us. E.g., we are angry with an individual, and an hour later another person in a different field or domain of our lives steps forward to express similar annoyance with us. In essence, our negative energy aligns with negative expressions from other individuals across space and time. (The same principle works for positive views of another -- attracting wholesome results from other people.)

• If we give up our annoyance with someone, the problem that we originally perceived through that person tends to quickly dissipate. However, if we give them more attention, the problem intensifies -- i.e. the other person will do even more things to attract our wrath. For example, a person is rocking back and forth in a seat in front of us at the movies. If we give them greater attention, the rocking will intensify. If we shift our focus elsewhere -- e.g. to the film or some other area, or to non-thinking -- the rocking will cease. That other individual may even realize that they are not enjoying the film and suddenly move to another location!

• When a negative comes to us from another, do not react. Doing so will tend to dissipate the problem. It is the power of "equality of being" expressed in life -- a spiritual-like approach. For example, someone tells us that terms on an invoice owed has been increased from Net 10 days to 60 days -- dramatically delaying payment for us. The tendency is to react with fear or anger. If however, we respond with utter calm and stillness -- i.e. equality of being -- the condition will soon reverse. E.g., the next day they will unexpectedly call and ask us if they can pay through a simpler method, such as credit card, which enables them to pay the very next morning!

• We can also take the difficulties and challenges that come to us from another individual as an opportunity for personal growth. E.g., we perceive that cancellation of money coming to us from a friend is a result of our tightness and stinginess toward someone else. If we change that corresponding attitude, opinion, habit, belief, etc. in ourselves, then money or related benefit will fly in our direction. If we also see that the experience is as an opportunity to grow as a person, then joy and delight will be our never-ending companion.

• If abuse comes to us from another person, it means we must deserve it -- i.e. is there is a corresponding aspect of our being that attracted it. If we can shed it, that would be best. If we offer the matter intensely to the spiritual Force, to the Divine that it never occurs again, it will be self-corrected forever.

• The best attitudes towards others are goodwill, self-givingness, and gratitude. Each of these expressed or taken to at a higher degree will certainly attract good fortune -- often of the life-changing sort. There are endless occasions to express such heartfelt goodness and self-givingness towards others. Can you identify several?

• Finally, when we express gratitude to those who have brought us benefit, then not only do we fortify emotional bonds, but life tends to quickly move in our favor. E.g., at the point, we finally express our thanks and appreciation to an individual who helped us many years ago, startling positive developments quickly present themselves.

• Interestingly, we can even express gratitude to those who have abused us. Not to the person directly (because they will only abuse us more), but to the Divine in that individual that allowed them be an instrument for our further growth and progress. It is a powerful, spiritual-like approach to life.

Spiritual Approaches to Life Response
People normally relate to Spirit in only one way. It can be summed up as "God, I am having such and such problem; please help me overcome it." It is usually accessed in times of great need. That is not spiritual life, but normal human existence, deferring to the Divine only when we perceive that we are powerless to change things on our own. It often brings the desired results -- especially when the invocation and prayer is sincere, heartfelt, and we are reduced to utter desperation. We see instances of it in the cinema, in literature, and in our own lives.

Of course, that spiritual Power can be invoked at any time, enabling us to instantly invoke the infinite potentials of life whenever we choose. However, we are too caught up in our ordinary lives and a limited view of reality to consider the possibility. Nor does the social life around us support such an atmosphere. It is often cold, indifferent, and brittle -- especially here in the West. We thus fail to avail a vast power to move life from within -- instead depending on Nature's difficult course to determine the course of our lives. It is the difference between those who practice conscious evolution -- know as 'Yoga" in India -- and the less conscious ordinary individual seeking life's fulfillment through the exigencies of Nature.

We have also come to believe that those who take to Spirit are a breed apart; that spirit is left to those who tend it in a location separate from normal life -- perhaps on a mountaintop, or in a cave, or a monastery, or at least in some place apart from worldly existence. Of course, that is the old way of looking at things, as we now know the Spirit is available at every single moment to every single individual on earth. We can experience that Spirit and Force at this very instance if we choose to. It is in the surrounding atmosphere, moving ever-deeper into the earth's consciousness, and available to every individual who wishes to avail of it. All we have to do is find the best methods to come in contact with It, in order to use It. Which leads to this discussion of the variety of approaches to the Spirit, and how those methods can invoke the instantaneous miraculousness of "life response," -- i.e. the onset of unexpected and sudden good fortune.

One approach to spirit beyond the occasional and the persistent connection to our faith as described above is taking to Silence. Silence is stillness of thought. We come to that state when we remove ourselves from the surface of life, including the sense-data streaming into out minds, and instead turn within and build an inner life. Then silence, i.e. non-thought, takes hold and comes on its own. Until then, we must tend it by overcoming our mental indulgences. We need to learn not to think when it is unnecessary. From that poise, life can respond instantaneously in several ways. E.g., when the mind is silent, one tends to withhold one's point of view in a discussion, which causes the other person to speak it out shortly thereafter. It is mental form of life response, otherwise known as "Silent Will." Try it sometime; you will be amazed when others express the very thoughts you were thinking. In addition, by moving to thought-less Silence, one begins to acquire knowledge and the full Truth of things through sudden descents of light and intuition, rather than through the hard churning process of thought. It is another form of life response in that life simply sends one answers to problems and issues of existence without having to engage in thinking. To experience this phenomenon several times is to be startled by this higher, spiritual functioning of mind. Einstein experienced such descents -- as do most geniuses. Spiritual practitioners are able to invoke that power on demand. It is said that it will be the way we will come to know and understand things in the future.

As one moves within, one develops not only mental silence, but an emotional stillness, known as Equality. It is the state of non-reaction to the intensities of life. From that status, when one meets with aggressive positive or negative circumstances, one does not react, as we are settled in a stillness within. Eventually, the stillness within moves to the surface of our lives, and we become spontaneously equal in all circumstances. The obvious advantage of this approach is a life of less stress and anguish. However, I have also noticed that when a vigorous negative event comes one's way and one practices Equality, the trouble has a way of quickly disappearing! It is another instance of life response through a spiritual power.

Out of Equality issues several other spiritual qualities such as Detachment and Non-Initiation. Spiritual detachment is to be involved in life, but not to be egotistically desirous or attached to the object or subject involved -- whether physical, vital/emotional, or mental in nature. It comes from a poise of equality arrived at by living in the depths of Silence down to our connection to our evolving Soul. From that detached status, one avoids all of the negative behaviors, actions, and other pitfalls that can attract negative life response -- such as the sudden onset of a cancelled order or a failed project. Detachment avoids the negative human propensities that cancel a work and attract harmful circumstance.

Non-initiating -- the state of not initiating an act or action, but to wait for life to first come to us -- likewise avoids the negative; even as it tends to more readily attract the truth. True non-initiating relies on, waits on the call of the Spirit's influence before taking action, which means all actions taken tend to have more perfect outcomes. On the other hand, most of us need to initiate to achieve. And yet, the individual advanced in practicing spiritual evolution/yoga does not need to initiate actions to succeed, as life continually moves toward him. It is yet another form of life response of the Spirit.

Faith, opening to the Force (consecration), silence, silent will, light/intuition, equality, detachment, and non-initiation are methods by which we can approach and utilize the Spirit in our daily lives. I invite each of you to learn more about them so that you can utilize them to continually attract good fortune in your life.

The 20^th century was the age of the Common Individual. The 21^st century is for the emergence of the Spiritual Individual. It is actually the Age of the Spirit for the average person who develops a vast inner power. That person is able to direct the course of life simply through adjustments of consciousness within. As a result, life will come suddenly and abundantly to that individual on its own. Spirit will thus become the critical tool for ongoing, successful modern life, rather than something accessed on occasion in moments of acute stress, trial, and tribulation.

 

 

Increased Energy
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Effort and Hard Work
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What One Truly Wants
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Greater Direction & Focus
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Organization, Systemization, Cleanliness
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Make Situation More Positive Attracts Positive Life Response
Any attempt to make things more positive in any situation attracts positive responses from life. 
 

LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-A man was having getting poor pictures in bright light with his new camera. His friend suggested they go to the nearby Sony center to get a lens for bright light. He was so frustrated with his pictures, that he barely heard her. When he settled down, he decided to move from his ego sense, and listen to her. He immediately went to get the lens. He found it very quickly, tried it out, and was amazed with the results. As a results of that thousands of pictures he took thereafter came out so much better!

 

Making the Negative Positive
The higher entering the lower changes the negative into the positive. The higher can be a person, a consciousness, an attitude, or an understanding.

 

Contradictions into Complements
We must make every situation that looks contradictory, and make it complimentary.

 

Overcoming Reluctance, Take What Life Gives
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Taking Responsibility
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Concentrated Will
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St. Augustine's Concentrated Will Enables Great Life Response
St. Augustine was looking for an answer to a problem that racked his brain. He prayed to God for guidance. Suddenly a small child wondered nearby and called out some words that made him think of something very closely related, which he undertook, and thereby found the very answer to the problem he was looking for! We can say it is God who helped him, or we can simply say that it was his concentration of will to get the answer that invoked the positive life response. (We also see that in the smallest thing comes an answer. Rather than being bothered by the child's appearance in the midst of his anguish, he was open, and then received the answer to his prayers.)

 

 

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Taking Interest
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Greater, Higher Formulations of Thinking
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Perfecting, Taking Care of Details of a Work
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Right Handling of Money
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Utilizing Personal Values
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Equality in Face of Difficulty
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Soft Speech, Silent Will
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Taking Another's Point of View
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Moving to a Higher Plane
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Life Responds to a Move to a Higher Plane
In Pride and Prejudice Eliza moves from a physical/material view of another person (Darcy) to an idea (i.e. a mental thought) of a possibility to be with that person, while Darcy himself moves from a limited physical view of his life to a more idealistic, i.e. mental view of his relationship with Eliza. As a result they coincidentally meet in the middle of nowhere to continue the relationship that will end in their marriage. "Her physical consciousness releasing an idea of approving Pemberley readily meets with his vibration of mental consciousness of idealism of one whose wealth and status are in his blood."  

 

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Right Action in Crossroad Situations Attracts Positive Life Response
In any situation or circumstance at which point there is a crossroad decision to be made or enjoined, opt for necessity over convenience, activity over inactivity, involvement over uninvolvement, success over security, real benefit over superficial benefit, utility over frivolity, etc. 
 
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-A man was watching a sports event, and wanted his team to win. However he had other things to attend to. He decided to take the more important path and did the necessary work. After completion he found out that his team easily won.

 

On the Inviolable Nature of What is True
Nothing is simpler than knowing the True from the false in a work. If the same truth is there in successive layers of existence with no admixture of falsehood at any level, it is Truth, pure and simple. One easily knows such Truth about property, jobs, rights, etc. Such possessions are unassailable; they need no defence of law, argument, etc. If your work is true, your right is true, and the benefit the property received from your work is true, NO force on earth can take it away from you. The property, the job, the right will take initiative to come to you, to be with you. The truth in them will stir in favour of the truthful man.
 
 When an attempt was made to take away the property of a person with unwritten rights to half of it, the whole property came to him. Another who never had any rights or harboured any such claim, but gave the TRUTH of service and support to another property, was offered that property even without claiming it. Truth defends itself; it needs no defence. (MSS)

 

Utilization of Unused Tool for Valid Purpose Enables Mirrored Response from Life
If you suddenly utilize a tool, instrument, software application, or the like that has remained dormant in your keeping or never used at all, life will unexpectedly respond with some instance from somewhere with something related to that same tool. Something made use of for a valid purpose attracts like positive responses from life. E.g. a man used a presentation software tool for a new service he was to offer. He had not used that particular application in years, when a few hours after its use he received from seemingly out of nowhere an email related to that same tool, something that his associates had not referred to in their communications in years. Thus we see how the utilization of an unused tool for a valid purpose enables a mirrored response from life.

 

Overcoming Limiting Personal, Socially-Accepted Beliefs Attracts Positive Life Response
Individual's have limiting beliefs that may be partial or fully untrue. Any effort to understand and overcome the limiting belief attracts positive responses form life. The limiting belief may be one's own, or one accepted by society. Ultimately it is what one believes that determines. That being the case if one does not accept that there has to be cycles of recession after boom, or that there must inevitable be inflation, or that the sales of one's products is not determined by exchange rates and prices, or that if a failure in that industry such as technology or the Internet means he has to fail when he is in that industry, then one becomes one's own determinant of the reality; and life responds positively in kind. "You become you believe you can become" Bhagavad-Gita.

 

Token Effort Attracts Positive Life Response
Sometimes life presents situations which may not be perfect or seem limited, but if one takes an initiative to see them through, life will respond positively from other fields in one's life.
 
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-A temporary type employee had been out of work for awhile. She was finally offered a temp position in a far out of the way location requiring a difficult commute. Rather than turn the temp job down, she accepted. At the end of the day she found out that the job would only last a one day or two. The next day, however, her temp agency called her for a new temp job, which turned out to be not only nearby but lasted for over six months.

 

Overcoming Limiting Personal, Socially-Accepted Beliefs Attracts Positive Life Response
Individual's have limiting beliefs that may be partial or fully untrue. Any effort to understand and overcome the limiting belief attracts positive responses form life. The limiting belief may be one's own, or one accepted by society. Ultimately it is what one believes that determines. That being the case if one does not accept that there has to be cycles of recession after boom, or that there must inevitable be inflation, or that the sales of one's products is not determined by exchange rates and prices, or that if a failure in that industry such as technology or the Internet means he has to fail when he is in that industry, then one becomes one's own determinant of the reality; and life responds positively in kind. "You become you believe you can become" Bhagavad-Gita.

Overcoming Corresponding Element in Ourselves from Negative Person Around Us
Positive people are of positive value. What can we do with negative person? One who overhears, gossips, abuses, carries tales, sets one person against another, neglects his own work, and feels an intense jealousy, is impossible. The best course for us with such personalities is to avoid them, or at least NOT to give them scope to train their guns on us.

In the scheme of God, nothing happens to us which we do not invite. When someone knocks me down on the road unintentionally, does it mean something in me desired it? Spiritually, the answer is Yes. An abominable person around me in the office or at home, by that definition, is there because something deep in me has a spiritual need of him.

As long as I avoid a bad person, my inner knowledge keeps the inner Ignorance at arm's length. Avoidance is austerity; acceptance is prosperity. He is there for us to make a corresponding progress. When we make that progress, mysteriously he vanishes. He tells us by his jealousy that there is jealousy in us. We are not aware of it, or we are unwilling to concede it. That is the positive value of a negative person. The moment we recognize the correspondence within ourselves and exhibit a willingness to give up the bad trait, that man disappears.

In essence, what occurs is that when a little of our Ignorance consents to transform itself into knowledge, our focus and intent becomes a power which enables the individual to disappear as a response from life.
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Negative Life Response
A movement to the wrong side of consciousness will precipitate a corresponding negative reaction sooner or later. It can come instantaneously from seemingly out of nowhere, defying our normal perceptions of what is possible and logical. e.g. you take on a negative attitude, and an individual you have not heard from in yours suddenly calls with bad news.

 

Negative Life Response
If you think of someone or some group in a negative manner (i.e. with negative feeling), you will almost be sure to have a negative life response somewhere thereafter to this expression. In that sense we can trace all negative responses in life that befall us back to such negative feelings, actions, etc.

 

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Disturbed emotions attracts negative life response.

 

Negative Behaviors that Grind Work to a Halt
Lack of effort, unwillingness, extraneous motives, etc. in colleagues lead to a grinding halt of work. (MSS)

 

Examples of Positive and Negative Life Response

Individual's Inner Movement/Outer Life Response that Results (positive or negative)

• Non-stop work = non-stop flow of funds for all kinds of uses (positive)
• Refusal to accomplish in work what one can = Normal procedural functions in government offices, outside firms etc. get stuck (negative)
• Conscious utilization of money, energy, etc = Glut of money, energy, etc. (positive)
• Waste of any item = Shortage of item (negative)
• Hard feeling or thoughts = Violence, fire, damage, public resistance (negative)
• Sexual indulgence = Loss of money, even theft (negative) (MSS)

 

Negative Life Response in Literature and Film 

We normally think of the phenomenon of “Life Response” as instances of sudden good fortune precipitated by taking to higher levels of consciousness. While this is true, it can occur negatively as well; i.e. life can respond in ways that are deleterious to our being based on our wanting inner or outer behavior.

We can observe this darker side of the phenomenon in several ways: including its occurrences in our own lives, as well as the lives of others. However, it is often easier to see this dynamic at work in literature or film, as we are able to follow the flow of events, and perceive the subtle ways life responds to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the characters. If we do, not only can we learn from such experiences, but we can use that knowledge to avoid those very same wanting behaviors that elicit negative outcomes in our own lives.

With that in mind, here are several examples of negative life response I have garnered from works of literature and contemporary film, which in some cases were later redeemed by taking to higher consciousness that cancelled the negative and attracted a positive outcome.

• In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s wealthy, aristocratic, and anachronistic aunt, Lady Catherine tries to block his engagement to Eliza Bennet. However, it has the opposite effect, as Darcy finds out through his aunt that Eliza still cares for him! This emboldens Darcy to meet with Eliza again, where he finds out that she still loves him, causing him to propose, which she more than gladly accepts. For Lady Catherine, the result is a completely negative response from life due to her closed-mindedness (she did not want her nephew marrying someone from a lower social class), and her meddling in their relationship. Of course, for Darcy and Eliza it is a fortuitous outcome!

• In that same work, Pride and Prejudice, Eliza Bennet has an unfortunate crush on Mr. Wickham, a scoundrel if ever there was one. In one episode, she is miffed that he has not shown up at a festive gathering of the townspeople. Her anger and frustration is immediately reflected in life around her, as her sister plays an intolerable amount of ill-suited music for the ensemble, and her family members gathered there act rowdy and uncouth-like, embarrassing Eliza to no end. It is all a negative response to her anger, frustration, and disappointment.

• In one of Jane Austin’s other novels, Emma, the main character (Emma) engages in a series of match making efforts that prove disastrous. Each time she tries to meddle in others’ affairs by matching people up in relationship, it results in negative consequences. Though she is warned of this fact by the man she comes to adore, she does not listen, until the fiasco rises to a crescendo of absurdity. The resulting calamity is a negative response to her meddling actions, much of which can be traced to her inability or unwillingness to have romantic relationships of her own. Interestingly, when she gives up matchmaking, she quickly discovers that her best friend is the man she adores, and as it turns out also adores her. As a result, they fall fully in love and are married. (This final outcome is in effect a reversal of the earlier negative response, through her positive attitude, behavior, and action that attracts the overwhelming positive.)

• In Gone with the Wind, Rhett and Scarlett are so at odds with one another. It gets so bad that it leads to downright hate. At the peak of their hostility, their beloved young daughter is killed in a riding accident. It is a negative response to their intense, dark feelings and emotions toward one another.

• In one scene in the film Seabiscuit -- based on a true story about an underdog racehorse that electrifies America with its successes during the Great Depression of the 1930s -- we watch as Red, Seabiscuit’s future jockey, is angry and bitter because his parents have not contacted him over the years, which reinforces his bitterness about his continual failure as a rider and boxer. Immediately after, things falls apart when he has a disastrous race at Tanforan. There is also a similar incident where he becomes embroiled in a whipping contest with another jockey during a race, which causes Red to lose focus, opening the door for another horse's victory. It is a bitter defeat. Once again, his negative attitudes and feelings -- in this case intense anger and hostility toward his fellow jockey -- attracted a decidedly negative outcome.

• In Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, the English Captain refuses to listen to his crew, including his first mate who feels he is fanatical in taking a dangerous initiative in pursuing the enemy French ship. As a result of his inflexibility and obstinate attitude, the crew attracts a near tragedy when the Captain’s first mate and best friend almost dies in an accident aboard ship. It is a negative response to the Captain’s fanaticism and unwillingness to listen to rational arguments. Shattered by the incident, the Captain perceives his wanting ways, and returns the ship to the Galapagos Islands so his friend and first mate can recover. (There is a happy ending to the story however. As a result of the Captain's shift of attitude and action, the very same best friend/first mate who has now recovered and gone on a field trip to collect plant and animal specimens on the island, ends up spotting the very ship they after on the other side, docked on-shore in a very vulnerable position! The crew then immediately sets sail aboard, traverse the island, and destroy the vulnerable, much larger French enemy vessel, fulfilling their entire military mission. In other words, because the Captain changed reversed his attitude and action, they attracted the enemy from out of nowhere, and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. It was a complete reversal from the previous negative life response outcome to a glorious positive one -- for the Captain, his crew, and his country.

As in the case of the Captain, we too are capable of observing a negative outcome, discovering the correspondence in our being, and reversing it, thereby attracting positive conditions in its place.

Another example of that powerful dynamic occurs for Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. At one point in the story, the terrible elopement takes place in which the youngest Bennet daughter Lydia takes off with the scoundrel Wickham. As a result, Mr. Bennet is in mortal fear that due to the brewing scandal his family will be financially and socially ostracized. In essence, the elopement was a negative response because he was not serious about rearing his children. allowing his wildest daughter to bring shame.  However, Mr. Bennet comes to recognize his fault, and makes an inner commitment to be fully involved in the future rearing of his daughters. As a result of making that decision, life suddenly returns the favor, when the elopement is very quickly cancelled, when his reckless daughter is compelled to marry Wickham, thus avoiding a scandal, and saving Mr. Bennet and his family from financial and social ruin. Thus, out of the extreme negative situation (which he attracted though his wanting attitudes), Mr. Bennet reversed himself and attracted a startling positive outcome.

We too can do the same by taking responsibility when any negative outcome comes our way. When we then shift our attitudes to the positive, the negative conditions will quickly evaporate, while attracting overwhelming positive ones in its place.

 

Our Surface Understanding	Life’s Way of Responding (negatively)
1. We wait for our loans and receivables to come to us before we clear loans we have taken from others and dues we have to give to others.	Only when we clear our loans and pay our dues will the inflow from outside come.
2. We want to please others to the fullest extent possible.	The more we try to please others the more demanding others will become as there is no such thing as full satisfaction.
3. Power and authority enable us to dominate over others for the joy of domination and assertion.	Exercise of power without discharge of responsibilities cannot last long as these two go together.
4. We expect thanks for help we give.	The more we expect, the less it will come and the less it is on our mind, the more the person will be grateful.
5. We expect life to support truth and justice and be fair and proper.	Life supports strength only and will side with truth or falsehood whichever is stronger.
6. Self-initiative is what people like.	Life’s own initiative is far more sure to succeed than our own initiative.
7. We run after money for its own sake.	Pursuing work and accomplishment will fetch us a lot more money than if money is pursed directly.
8.  We think that by demanding more we will get more.	The less we demand the more we will get.
9. Money seems more important to us than man.	Man is actually more important than the money he is having.
10.  We think we will accomplish more by holding on to our money safely.	The more we worry about the safety of our money, the less we will accomplish. It is people who courageously face risks who accomplish more.
11.   We wait for opportunities to knock on our doors.	Life has scope for generation of new opportunities.
12.   We believe in bargaining as a strength.	The more we bargain, the more adamant the other person will get. The more generous we are, the more generous life will be.

 

On Insistence
If you insist in the present, another will oppose in the future. If you withhold insistence, the other will at some point come around to your point of view.

On Bragging
Bragging about something brings the opposite to that person in short order.

Collusion Fails
Collusion backfires and turns into collision with unfolding circumstances.

Unexpectant Mind Accomplishes
If the Mind is unexpectant, it loses the capacity to interfere. Absence of interference accomplishes.

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Expressing a negative thought, such as a mischievous, unpalatable idea to others, will attract negative life response to the perpetrator a short time thereafter.

Reversing One's Folly through Spirit
Life tells a man that it is difficult if not impossible to reverse the current plight he finds himself in because of his earlier folly. In Spirit, acts of earlier folly can be reversed through recognition of past error, and a deeply felt emotion of that recognition. The Spirit tells him, 'If you genuinely regret in your emotions the folly of an earlier act, or reverse your past attitudes that led to that folly now in your understanding and feelings, the results of your folly -- such as huge debt, lack of work, failed marriage, etc --  will fully, quickly, and irreversibly dissolve, liberating you forever.'  Spirit corrects physical FACTS by the reversal of TRUE feelings deeply realized. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Problems Solved by Releasing Emotion
If you have a difficult problem, release the negative emotion inside you, and turn it into thought or even non-thought. Life will respond positively in kind by reversing the difficulty.

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Whenever there is an intense emotional reaction, there is bound to be a setback of some sort immediately following it.

Disturbed Emotions Attracts Negative Life Response
In Pride and Prejudice Caroline's comments about E's looks and about Wickham come as a disturbance to her (Eliza's) emotions. She is a girl worth 20,000 pounds and has that weight on her side, which makes her remarks hit hard. Their disturbed emotions are followed the next day by an elopement with a man connected with Darcy. Disturbed emotions attracts negative (LIFE RESPONSE). That elopement is indicated the day before by Caroline's provocation. And a few days earlier when Elizabeth visited Pemberley, she told her aunt that they might be deceived about Wickham, from Mrs. Reynold's talk.  Disturbed emotions attracts negative life response.

Harm of Giving More than Another Deserves
The surest way of bringing trouble in a relationship with anyone is to give him more than he deserves. (MSS)

Meddlesomeness Backfires

When one forces an initiative, it will backfire. E.g. Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice tried to meddle in a situation and it only leads to her failure. When Lady Catherine tries to interfere, life responds exactly the opposite turning around the entire story! (She tried to prevent the marriage and instead unconsciously causes the parties to come together, who might not have otherwise done so.) In Austin's Emma, Emma's meddlesome is the main story of the novel. Every match making interference she attempts backfires on her.
 

The Power of Intention that is Great; that Backfires 

One of the more powerful insights into the nature of human existence is the notion that what you really want tends to be accomplished. If you have an intense desire to achieve something, and focus your energies on it, excluding all other matters, life ends to cooperate and bring the object of your desire. It may happen sooner or later, depending on the intensity of energy you bring to bear, the surrounding atmosphere, and other subtle influences of life.

When life suddenly brings you your heart's desire from seemingly out of nowhere, then you have experienced an instance of "life response," which appears to us as a miracle. E.g., a man aspires to rise to a higher position in his profession, and focuses all of his energies on its achievement. From out of nowhere, he suddenly receives a call and offer for employment from an officer of a company who had no idea that he was looking for a better-paying, more satisfying job! It has thus come as a miraculous-like response to the energies the seeker has released -- somehow aligning him with the intentions of corresponding individuals and circumstances.

On the other hand, there are also instances where you really want something to occur, but the opposite takes place! That usually happens because the thing wanted was not helpful, or the energies you released stemmed from a wanting aspiration, attitude, decision, or action.

There is a well-known example of this in Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice. Near the end of the story, Eliza and Darcy are working out their romantic relationship. At one point Darcy's aunt, the very wealthy and powerful Lady Catherine gets word that her also-wealthy nephew Mr. Darcy might marry Eliza, who is from a lower class. With her entourage in tow, Lady Catherine rushes over to confront Eliza to determine if she intends to marry Darcy. Eliza, strong-willed and independent, refuses to be bullied into an answer, though she does not deny that she would marry him if she so chose. Unsatisfied with her answer, Lady Catherine rushes off in a huff. The next day, Darcy appears before Eliza, and they agree to marry. Darcy indicates to Eliza that he had come to see her because he had heard from his aunt Lady Catherine that she (Eliza) would not necessarily turn down his marriage proposal! As a result, now the two are engaged and marry -- the exact opposite of the intention of Lady Catherine. We could call this a "negative life response." Though her intention was great and focused, it worked in the opposite direction. There are several reasons, though one stands out: her anachronistic propensities were working opposite to the positive energies that were emerging in the story. She tried to force her intent through her willfulness and position of wealth and power, when in fact the story was how the middle class was emerging as a new power in rural England.

We see this same process of negative life response at work in world history. In the 18th and 19th century, Britain aspired to build an empire around the world. It succeeded for a while, until WWII, when it was nearly crushed, and then forced, out of necessity, to give up its empire. Now if one goes to London, there is hardly a Londoner in site, as 75% of its people are non-English, most from countries representing its former empire! It is in essence a negative life response (for the traditional Londoner) to centuries of English chauvinistic intention. The modern world is now in fact moving in an opposite direction.

When we wish for something whose motive originates in lower consciousness relative to the conditions around us, we are likely to receive outcomes the opposite of our intention -- i.e. life quickly responds to us with instances of ill-fortune. In one of Jane Austin's other novels, Emma, the author has constructed an entire novel built around this idea. Emma is an individual who is hopelessly meddlesome, trying to match other people up in romantic relationships -- utterly failing with each attempt. Life consistently responds in a negative fashion to Emma's lower vibration.

Fortunately, in the end, Emma sees the error of her ways, and comes to understand that it was the love she was avoiding for herself that she sought to bring about in others. To that change in attitude, life responded with overwhelming good fortune, when her life-long companion proposed marriage, which she gladly accepted. It was the happiest moment of her life.

Though we may have generated negative response from life due to our wanting inner and outer behaviors, we can overcome that quality, reverse it in full, and observe thereafter how the deepest object of our desire --whether a fantastic new job, or the partner of our dreams - suddenly moves towards us. It is the miracle of life response.

 

Negative Situation that is Harbinger of Many Positives
A calm response and action to a "negative" situation will reveal a plethora of positive events related to the original circumstance thereafter. It is a subtle miracle of life currently lost to our outer perceptions.

 

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Those who assert a superiority over others are forced by life to reverse their assertion and chase after those they asserted against or submit to those above them in the same way that they try to dominant those below them. (MSS)

Overconcern Increases Problem
The more you concern yourself with a pain or illness, the more it will grow. The same principle applies to a negative emotions, attitudes, or false actions.

Consequences of Anger
Anger, even an intensity of angst-ridden negative thought, attracts not only negative life response but hostile forces from within or without that can enable serious consequence.

 

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Even a fairly advanced spiritual man can experience sudden outburst of anger, for the seed of physicality is entrenched deep in the inconscient and subconscience within, and in the attraction and repulsion of sensation in the physical substance of the body.

 

Negative Life Response to Unclarity of Self-Conception, Self-Limitation
When you are not too clear about what you want to accomplish, and you set out on an act to achieve it, watch how life responds negatively with confusion or other forms of unsuccess. From this we see the need for self-conception, i.e. to conceive of what we wish to accomplish in the first place, and self-limitation, i.e. a mental gathering of ourselves from a wider to a specific narrower focus, mimicking the Creator who followed parallel processes in manifesting this universe.

 

Good Will Towards Those With Ill Will Can Ruin One
A servant girl was good at heart. Hers was pure goodness. Her mother and brothers turned against her, teased her, punished her, tyrannised her, and wanted to ruin her. The atmosphere of Grace where she worked effectively protected her against the ordeal of tyranny. Grace gave her a great marriage and wealth. Now the family woos her. One of her well-wishers advised her to help her family rise as a gesture of good will, little realising that ill will served by Good will would ruin her completely. Not only that, the family would enjoy trampling her under their feet when she fell. Family affection in the presence of active ill will is a sure self-poisoning. It is a dangerous experiment. Society lauds it. Spiritual experience warns against it. (MSS)

 

Harm of Giving More than Another Deserves
The surest way of bringing trouble in a relationship with anyone is to give him more than he deserves. (MSS)

 

Security without Truth
Seeking physical security alone without getting at its true cause enables greater insecurity.

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A man puts off fixing something that is broken for now, unconsciously figuring that no problem or accident will arise from it in the short run. He doesn't realize that the future, when the problem will occur, is really the present. i.e. the Ever-Present when one connects to the Highest Consciousness. He has in that neglectful moment in effect caused a serious accident to occur in the present, his present, the human present.

We can view all social development issues, including impediments and anachronisms, from this perspective. Looked at closely, we will see that life works like this virtually 100% of the time.

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By helping others materially (altruism), if at the same time you want to impose your own viewpoint on them, you will kill their soul, because moral and social rules can be no substitute for the inner law which each one must receive from his soul. (The Mother)

 

We Reap What We Sow in Ways that Defy Human Logic
It is not easy to see how one's indulgences come back to haunt one at another time. One idealist lecturer allowed students to pass who were not even close to passing, and should have failed. Many years later his own son became a loafer. The father one day begged him to take an examination in order to rise in life, but he refused. How could the idealist know that when he was indulging his students, he was setting in motion a vibration that would return on him as it totally spoiled the whole career of his own son? Life responds this way, which we sometimes call the "law of karma" or the idea that "what you sow is what you will reap." That law holds true as Nature brings circumstances that substantiate this in ways that defy our ordinary perceptions of cause and effect, and space and time.

Reasons for Delay in Providing Redress to Our Negative (or Positive) Deeds

To the question of why there is immediate redress through Life to one's negative consciousness, behavior, and acts, while other times it is slower, here are some thoughts along one particular line:

• Brahman knows what our status is, and what is the best timeframe for redress.

• The Divine knows based on our character, our current progress, where we are heading, the effectivity of the redress now or later, etc.

• There are many forces at work that Brahman can see through.

• E.g. there are social forces, environmental ones, karmic ones, etc.

• What I am calling Brahman is the same as how Mother sees it from Her highest poise.

• Brahma, Divine Mother sees from the loftiest perch and responds with Maximum Efficiency at all levels; i.e. for maximum effect.

• Sri Aurobindo speaks of Nature’s ultimate efficiency of resolving many things simultaneously through a certain difficult outcome.

• We are part of that Efficiency, so Brahman, Divine Mother, Nature waits for the maximum, efficient moment that relates to many other things.

• Thus, the redress comes at the time that it serves this efficiency (for ourselves, others, the society, universal forces, etc.)

• This is in essence the question of the speed of Life Response -- positive, neutral, or negative; or, in this case specifically, speed of life to respond to a negative consciousness and behavior.

• In other words, what we think is the right time for redress for negative consciousness, instead waits for a time where there is maximum effect for multiple parties reflecting Nature’s Way of Maximum Efficiency. It also reflects at some level the Will of the Divine Mother, of Brahman, i.e. the omnipresent Reality.

• We can speak also in terms of "Energies," including their type, content, intensity, etc. and its effect on redress time period and outcome. Still we return again to Nature and Her Efficiencies that demand that the negative life response results occur in certain timeframes and circumstance for maximum effect.

• There is also the phenomenon of Life's/Nature's tendency to "restore the equilibrium of energies" to add to the equation of the timeframe and intensity of the redress.

• By the way, what is negative life response in these situations for the one side is often positive for the other. So there is that to include in the “due date” of Nature’s Redress.

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A person can be effective when he tries something in his own plane. But if you try something at a higher plane it won't work. E.g. Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice tries to influence Mr. Bingley who is in a higher sphere, and her plans do not work.

Ultimately what accomplishes is authority whatever the context is.

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We know that good can come from bad, but do we also know that bad can come from good? For example, elevating a hostile man to a position of authority out of our sense of goodness enables the project to be ruined. Or bending over-backward to help a bad man only brings trouble to the helper.

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Loud speech, excitement cancels; i.e. it invokes negative life response.

 

The Will that Enables Success Beyond a Government Bill
Though a legislative or other government or institutional bill that is of great benefit to the community may pass, it may fail in the course of time because it was undertaken reluctantly. The collective's will is the determinant and guarantees, where bills only indicate a potential. Beyond bills there is the power of the Will that has a life of its own.

 

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People of lower plane (i.e. consciousness) acting on those in the higher plane receive the opposite results when they use their own strategies. (In Pride and Prejudice) The purpose of Lady Catherine's visit to Darcy later is to expose Elizabeth as an obstinate, headstrong, scheming girl; but it has the opposite effect on him.

 

Failure to Avail Opportunities, Luck
Failure to avail of opportunities, i.e. Luck, is one of the perpetual human tragedies. When jobs were scarce to be had one man refused a position he was offered because it was not in his home town. Another leader wouldn't listen to the brilliant opportunity for the organization presented by a subordinate because he was a subordinate. There are endless examples; a number of which if sincere we can present from our own lives. Such reluctances, unwillingness to avail opportunities is pushing Luck away from us at the feast of life.

 

Good Will Towards those With Ill Will Can Ruin One
A servant girl was good at heart. Hers was pure goodness. Her mother and brothers turned against her, teased her, punished her, tyrannised her, and wanted to ruin her. The atmosphere of Grace where she worked effectively protected her against the ordeal of tyranny. Grace gave her a great marriage and wealth. Now the family woos her. One of her well-wishers advised her to help her family rise as a gesture of good will, little realising that ill will served by Good will would ruin her completely. Not only that, the family would enjoy trampling her under their feet when she fell. Family affection in the presence of active ill will is a sure self-poisoning. It is a dangerous experiment. Society lauds it. Spiritual experience warns against it. (MSS)

 

Disturbing Underlying Forces of Society Attracts Negative Response
Soon after the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas (March 2001), they were invaded and thrown out of power by the USA. It is a powerful example of life response. When you disturb the subconscious and entrenched forces of society, they respond. Taliban acted with impunity to challenge a greater power embodied in the Buddhas and was eradicated with impunity by a greater power! (MSS)

 

Negative Expressions that Attract Negative Response from Life

Any Ego Movement Wanting Attitudes – towards life, others, self Wrong Decisions, Actions Selfishness Stinginess, Miserliness Greediness Pride, Arrogance, Conceit Disturbed Emotions Anger, Irritation, Arguing Hatred Fear, Worry, Anxiety Doubt Insecurity Habituality, Fixidity, Rigidity Closed Mindedness Reluctance Expectation Overeagerness Impatience Desire, Craving Possessiveness, Attachment Being Critical, Judgmental Irresponsibility Feeling Criticized Feeling Offended Complaining Lack of Self-Esteem Jealousy Depression Confusion Skepticism Cynicism Sarcasm

Forceful Imposition of View Ignorance, Error, Falsehood, Evil Superstition Mistaken Assumptions in Life Naiveté, Innocence Negative Atmosphere, Social Context Coarseness Meanness, Cruelty Anachronistic Tendencies Corruption Ambition Uncouth Behavior Misjudging Others Spitefulness Feelings of Superiority Interference, Meddlesomeness Boisterous Behavior Dishonesty Deceit, Deception Giving to the Undeserved Helping the Hostile Psychological Weakness Surface Judgment (of Sense) Mocking Others Bitterness Physical Violence Sexual indulgence Stupidity Disorganization Recklessness Mindless Gossip False Assumptions Lack of Clarity

Blocking Forces of Progress Overreacting Expecting Failure, the Worst Trusting the Undeserved Mindless Action Insensitive to Others Mischief Uncontrolled Wanting Emotions Unskilled Activity Ill-Will, Hostility Ingratitude Loud Speech Too Much speech Disturbed Reaction Hasty Initiative Inattention to Things Gloominess Faulty Logic Acceding to Others' False Direction Carelessness Recklessness Vindictiveness Lack of Focus Insensitivity Intolerance, Closed-mindedness Procrastination Wasting Energies Limited View of What is Possible Opportunities Untaken Celebrating Before Achieving Speaking Of It Before Achieving Vindictiveness Back-stabbing Reluctance, Unwillingness

 

Negative Life Response
-Every wanting behavior returns as negative response sooner or later. When it happens quickly and with no apparent outer causality it is a life response.  E.g. a man hope to taunt another, and thereafter everything he does at the meeting goes wrong for him -- even before he has actually done the taunting!

-Sudden good fortune coming one's way is positive life response; sudden ill-fortune is negative life response.

-Ill-fortune suddenly coming your way for no apparent reason has its origins in a wanting inner or outer movement of consciousness.

Negative Life Response
All positive and negative qualities within us return to us. It is the law of karma. It can do so instantaneously, which is negative life response.

Thoughts on Negative Life Response
-Every negative that happens around you is a reflection of a negative inner or outer behavior. It is a negative life response.
-Negative physical, vital, or mental energies move out into the field of life and align with corresponding negative conditions. It appears to us as a negative life response, i.e. sudden ill fortune.
-Since the outer  is a reflection of the inner, a negative result outside ourselves is always reflective of some corresponding condition within us.
-The inner reflects the outer because the inner and outer than One. They are not two separate entities. Thus when we shift the inner to the negative, the outer responds similarly.

 

Avoiding Negative Life Response
We are constantly attracting negative life response to ourselves -- i.e. the sudden onset of ill fortune, though we don't know why. It's simple really: every negative bit of luck that comes our way can be directly attributable to a wrong attitude or action expressed previous to it. For example, we express hostile feeling towards someone, and 10 seconds later from out of nowhere, we receive news that an important business contract of ours has been cancelled. In essence, our negative energy moved out into the field of life and aligned with corresponding negative circumstance that now appears before us as ill-fortune

We can observe this phenomenon by watching the simplest of TV shows, knowing that what is in the mind of the author is a subconscious awareness of how life really operates. For example, in one episode a partner A plays a practical joke on the other B, much to the detriment of the latter. Within 10 seconds of the conclusion of the matter, A receives word of bad news via post. Or, in another episode C scolds his partner D, when he could have been more understanding, and D immediately is confronted with ill fortune on a related matter.

While it is fairly simple to observe this subtle phenomenon of ''Life Response" in the attitudes and behaviors of others, it is more difficult to see it in our own lives -- i.e. trace back the negative fortune that has just come to us to a negative propensity expressed or felt moments earlier. And yet we can train ourselves to do that as well.

It can actually be quite useful to detect this cause and effect relationship because if we know the cause of the sudden onset of ill-fortune, we can avoid such wanting attitudes, habits, and opinions in the future, which will mean that our fortunes will continually move to the positive. If we do this on a regular basis, life will unfold as an endless procession of good luck. For example, accomplishment and success will not only double, but increase by 10 times or more. And it will come by sudden burst of unexpected good fortune. It's the secret miracle of life that awaits us all when we become conscious in every moment and avoid the negative.

Overcoming the Vitriol of Fans
Can a negative attitude precipitate and elongate a problem -- i.e. attract persistently negative circumstance?

For 50 years, the Giants have played baseball in San Francisco after moving from Manhattan in the late 1950s. They have not won a single championship, having an almost unmatched record of futility. One of the mantras of the team is "Beat LA," meaning Los Angeles. Actually, it is expressed in terms harsher than that. Interestingly, in LA they rarely say anything so scurrilous as the fans in San Francisco. Could this negative attitude on the part of fans in SF attract persistent negative results that have deprived them of a single championship in 50+ years?

Consider the results. There have been many instances where the Giants were in the pennant run, only to be knocked out at the end by the LA Dodgers. When the Giants finally made it to the World Series several years back, they were poised to win, only to be deprived of the prize by the Los Angeles Angels at the last moment! This dynamic has occurred repeatedly over the years. The fans' vitriol always seems to rise before they are about to play an important series with their Southland rivals; and invariably the futile results follow -- often in the most ''creative" of ways.

And yet there is a solution. If the fans and media can learn to control their LA contempt, shed their inferiority complex, and take to playing solid ball, conditions will quickly arise that will put them in contention; even in a position to win a championship. Sounds far-fetched? It is precisely how life works. The very same dynamic holds true for each of us in our own lives. If you discover and overcome a wanting attitude, areas of failure you have experienced will quickly turn successful, as positive circumstance will appear out of nowhere. Why not test out the theory?

The Potential Positive Power of Negative Life Response
Life responds positively and negatively; i.e. with good or bad fortune, reflecting your inner condition at the time. It is the phenomenon of "life response" in action, which is predicated on the principle that the outer is a reflection of the inner.

When a negative circumstance comes your way, it can be tied to one or several wanting qualities on your part -- perhaps a wanting habit, a negative attitude, a wrong-headed belief, a wrong decision or action, or any of these in combination. One man had his car towed and perceived a plethora of wrong attitudes that attracted this negative circumstance from life. It indeed consisted of a combination of the previously alluded to factors.

The key of course is to avoid such attitudes in the past which will prevent life responding negatively. It will also be an opportunity to come to grips with limitations in your nature; i.e. it is an opportunity to grow as a person. In that sense every negative that comes to us is a positive in disguise.

 

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Negative Life Response in Pride and Prejudice

· Mrs. Bennet's meddling in trying to win over Bingley for Jane backfires. (As we shall see later on, Bingley will leave with Darcy for London, nearly breaking Jane's heart. This is a negative response to Mrs. Bennet's meddling.) (negative life response to Mrs. Bennet.)

· Jane tells Eliza that Bingley disbelieves Wickham's account of Darcy; as does Jane's sister. Still Eliza cannot fully believe those so close to Darcy; i.e she distrusts them because they are prejudiced for him. This causes Eliza at the party to become very confused and distraught. Her mood turns decidedly negative. Suddenly around her everything responds to the negative state. Her mother talks very loudly and vulgarly, embarrassing her again, Mary's piano playing and singing become a source of shame, and Lydia accelerates her wild nature and carrying on. (Negative life response for Eliza.)

· At the dance Mrs. Bennet speaks out of the fact that her daughter Eliza will surely marry Collins, a verbal boast that proves completely false. (This is a negative life response to her boasting (i.e. loud speech; as well as forceful speech in the light of uncertainty, which is weakness.)

· Lady Catherine meets with Eliza and orders her to stop any sort of marriage plans with Darcy. The opposite takes place, which is a negative response to her negative motives. (This in turn creates a positive response from Darcy's perspective, who later learns of that meeting between LC and Lizzy. The fact that Lizzy refuses to say to LC that she wouldn't marry him, encourages him to see Lizzy again, which ends in success as he and Lizzy agree to marry. (Negative life response for Lady Catherine. Meddlesomeness) Also Eliza's strength enables the outcome (i.e. her marriage to Darcy) to be an eventual positive life response from her side.

Negative Attraction in Pride and Prejudice
The other day I randomly opened Pride and Prejudice with a similar concentration one would have before opening Savitri.

It was the section where Eliza is walking along with Wickham, obviously smitten. Thereafter she meets with Jane who informs her that she received a letter that Bingley is going off for a while, suggesting a possible halt to Jane and Bingley's relationship.

We know that later Eliza is furious with Darcy about this development when he proposes the first time -- i.e. that Darcy instigated it (which Darcy said was for Bingley's own good, believing Jane did not truly love him). I believe these were the events.

Well it struck me that in fact Eliza is responsible for that development! Because she had just been with Wickham, which was negative for her, she aligned with negative circumstances that Jane was now reporting to her. So what Eliza blamed Darcy for, splitting Bingley up from Jane, Eliza ''instigated" herself.

MSS Comment: It a striking insight. Wickham's arrival is associated with Bingley's departure. Wickham is false and his consciousness is such that it destroys relationships because there is no true underlying basis  --  the outer perfection is an appearance covering the heart of a rogue. Your comments brings out the fact that it is not so much Wickham's presence but Elizabeth's response (attraction) to him that brings about Bingley's departure. A perceptive Indian (or reader of your book) would have immediately noted the connection between Wickham's coming and Bingley's going.

Small Negative Movements Attract Negative in Pride and Prejudice
At the Netherfield Ball, Elizabeth feels what Austen calls an irresistible temptation to tease and taunt Darcy and raise the issue of Wickham. The movement of irresistible temptation spreads like a tsunami wave from her and reflects in the embarrassing behavior of Sir Lucas, who approaches them to speak about Jane's imminent marriage, Collins who insists on approaching Darcy, Mrs. B who openly abuses Darcy and brags about Jane's marriage, Mary who wants to play piano, etc. Elizabeth never realizes the whole movement began with her uncontrolled impulse.

Later Mrs. B taunts Mrs Lucas with the prospect of Jane's fortune marriage and says she hopes the Lucases are as fortunate very soon, fully convinced they will not be. Two days later Collins proposes to Charlotte and the Lucases inherit Longbourn! Had Mrs B known that her taunt would not only help Mrs Lucas achieve but transfer the Bennet good fortune to her, she might have been constrained to silence. That is the very truth of it. Ill-will transfers our good fortune to others.

Negative Action Returns
An eldest son who deerted his dependent family thus and retired as a high official discovered that his son after graduation refused to take a job and could not be married till he was 50. The father had consciously deserted his desperate family. His son gleefully enjoyed life, spent his father's money and chased women. (MSS

The Meaning Behind the Offending Phone Call
It is said that the Lord works in mysterious ways. They are mysterious because we do not understand them, and yet we are fully capable of doing so. I believe it is His wish.

Interestingly, it also works in the reverse. You will receive an unwelcome phone call at precisely the wrong moment because of something you have neglected in the past or otherwise precipitated on your own end. They are expressing their right action, but you are attracting them at precisely the wrong time because of the negative energies you released previously.

There are two examples of how the Lord -- or rather the cosmic unfoldings of life -- works in mysterious ways. To recognize the underlying intent and background is to ascertain the meaning in the offending call. And therefore know what they or you have to overcome to move to the positive to avoid repetition in the future.

Life is full of such lessons, if we only penetrate the surface.  It is a study I have engaged in for decades, the results of which can be found at the Growth Online web site. We welcome all who wish to learn the subtle secrets of how life unfolds in the universe.

 

 

 

 

Reversing a Negative Life Response

Reversing a Negative Life Response
A woman was paying a bill at a restaurant. In the middle of the transaction with the waitress, the woman's friend interrupted the waitress and asked for some brochures that lay in back of the cash register. The brochures were for some local attractions. The waitress continued with the transaction with the woman after which she gave the man the brochures. An hour or so later when the man and the woman went to visit the attraction, it was closed. What had happened was that the earlier negative interruption by the man attracted a negative life response in a related area (i.e. at the attraction which the brochures referred to).

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. The man was able to see the connection between his rude interruption to gain the brochure for that attraction and the closed status of the attraction. As he realized the mistake, the woman mentioned that in fact the attraction would be open in an hour, and that that the man had misunderstood what he thought was a closing for a delay. They went to the attraction and had a fine time.

When an individual realizes his mistake it tends to reverse the negativity that it addresses. When he understood and then accepted his fault in the affair, life reversed and cancelled the negativity of the past. A positive life response was invoked.

These are the never ending ways of life's subtle workings. To be aware of them is to become conscious, and to enable a vast mastery over life.

 

 

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On Trying to Understand Life Response
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Facts, Laws, Truths, Essence, Integrality, et al of Understanding Life Response

• Facts, on examination, reveal laws of Life Response.
• Our probing into facts should not stop till we see the laws.
• Laws are infinite in number as well as they have infinite ways of explanation.
• Law is a relationship between events.
• The laws have behind them principles or Truths.
• Truth is not final as it is outside.
• What is seen inside is the truth. It is the essence.
• The essence of truth is Existence.
• Life when understood as the essence of existence inside is Reality for our purposes. We can stop there. Then Life Response will explain itself.
• Life is a whole in the gross and subtle planes. Only when its integrality is understood, the facts and laws we have mustered will blend into a useful understanding as a sure guide for action. (MSS)

Mastery of Life Response in the Higher Life
Life Response exists at all levels. To us, two of them are important and stand out. 1) In human life, all events answer to those rules, 2) in higher life too, rules remain the same with one difference, i.e. there is no failure, nothing is negative, protection is implicit, not to be sought after. To comprehend the latter aspect, one needs to know that the Being is indivisible, defects are greater than strengths, negative is part of the whole not to be given up, actually greater than the positive. (MSS)

Education, Values, and Life Response
Education can organize unorganized energies of youth through dissemination of knowledge, including the knowledge of values. Education itself however needs to be organized to comprehend and explain those values. In the business world, the value of values is appreciated. It produces results, and profits. Now it needs to come to education, where the scope is greater. Educators can learn from the experience of businesses, and teach the benefits of values, look around, and see the benefits when applied to the wider life and its various disciplines.

Experience of, perceptions of, and a knowledge of Life Response would be very helpful here because it shows how transitions towards values quickly produce results. Such knowledge can be disseminated through education. Educators themselves experiencing the wonders of life response as a result of making the inner transitions that attract its sudden and abundant appearance would not only champion values, but a knowledge of the various triggers that enable life response to occur -- including higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness, a switch from a negative to a positive attitude at a crucial moment, accepting what life gives, knowing what one truly wants, greater psychological strength, etc. These can be taught as values.

Predicting, Anticipating the Response through the Predecessor Event
We can look at life response in the reverse. That there is an intuition of knowledge we can have that is also an indicator of a response that is coming. It is both the cause of and the predecessor of the coming response. E.g. for some reason I think of a very large company where I worked before where the head of the firm was under investigation for financial fraud. I have not been to or thought of that client for at least a year. That individual also has been out of the news, whereas in the previous few years he was constantly in the news. Now just after the thought about that company where I worked comes to me, it and the former head under investigation make the headline in the paper! Actually only a half hour later! That is the response. Why not look at it the other way and say that as I think of the man, I am creating the possibility that he will soon thereafter appear in the news. It is a realization that whatever you intend, decide on, act on, etc. will ripple forward and create a successor event that will quickly descend on one in one form or another. To understand and control this power will enable us to expand the idea of conscious choice. One can have a power to predict the future or at least anticipate it from intuitions of knowledge or simply through any unfolding one is involved in. It seems to be a whole new opening for understanding life response power.

Reversals and Life Response
I very much enjoyed reading your article on Hock in the latest issue of Consecration. His reversal of attitude leads to remarkable results. A is constantly speaking of the power of reversal as the key to human progress. This illustrates. Darcy's reversal of his attitude and his behavior brings Eliza to his very door. Eliza's acceptance of her family's vulgarity as an expression of her own consciousness and her reversal of her resentment against Darcy for making her conscious of it brings him and his proposal. It would be interesting to view various instances of life response as expressions of reversal the way Dee reversed his reaction and resentment. In accepting the teller's job, he acted externally as one renouncing the social distinctions of his former high position. What he had done outwardly, the garbage made him do inwardly and the response was magnificent. (MSS)

'Indirect' Life Response
Life response can seem paradoxical or confounding in certain instances; at least on first observation. I had an insight that I am trying to grapple with.

We know that when a man transitions out of a negative attitude, life can respond in a big way; often from an indirect source. E.g. if I overcome my bitterness towards someone at home, out of the blue I get given an exceedingly high Xmas bonus soon thereafter from management at work.

Now let's look at an inverse example. A man has problem getting paid from a customer, not necessarily because he has bad habits relative to that customer, but because of a wanting attribute he has in relationship to one of his associates!

Normally one would think, especially if one perceives inner-outer correspondence, that one must change a quality relative to the customer to move things to the positive for that customer. And yet one needs to change a quality that relates to the associate to overcome the negative of the customer's non-payment! This is the inverse (or negative reverse) of the man who transitioned out of the negative attitude in the domestic situation and received a positive response of reward at work.

What are the implications? One seems obvious to me. Just continually make the effort to change the inner wherever you see it is wanting, regardless of any and all situation on the outside, and the world will respond, from whatever plane or source. This would mean a dedication to an inner life of endless introspection, change, conscious reversal and conscious attraction, without concern for the form the outer positive response takes. (Even intention may not have a play here.)

Another is that when any negative comes, examine every part of your life in your relations to others, opportunities, etc. -- not just something related to the object that responded negatively. 

And yet there must be a correspondence between the negative object that responded and the indirect cause of it. Certainly there is a correspondence at the level of energy and vibration, even if mind cannot fathom its association in terms of recognizable wanting inner or outer behavior.

Another example of a life response-related paradox at the surface: Eliza put off Darcy and pushed away fortunes because she believed he was arrogant. And yet he was until a certain period of time. And yet she almost ruined everything by putting him off. (Just as we are asked not to think in linear time to understand the ultimate outcome of this situation, so too we are asked not to look in terms of direct cause and effect in the situations I address above. It all seems to come down to the quality of the energy, that is how it is being raised, regardless of the outer manifestation -- i.e. its time, its space, its objects, members, etc. There is a higher vibration that is being worked out, that at one level is indifferent to these things.)

Principles of life can be discovered to address these issues through further analysis of life situations .. and through deep introspection of our own nature.

 

Previous Alignment Steps that Lead to the Response
One of the things I have come to realize about Life Response is that it doesn't necessarily come upon us all at once. It happens in steps, with the two parties gradually aligning with one another as we saw in Kathy's example here. In the famous episode in Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice where Eliza and Darcy meet near the pond -- a life response to her changing her view of him and enabling her to marry him and become wealthy -- we see that she and him were doing things in higher consciousness earlier that were gradually bringing them closer together. E.g. she earlier started to change her attitudes somewhat toward Darcy, causing him (or aligning with his decision) to cancel the remainder of his trip to London, which soon after enabled him to meet her at the pond, sealing the fate of their relationship. The two sides over time moved into alignment until that time when the big response took place.

Subconscious Presentation of Life Response that Can Be Conscious

"Life Response" is a startling phenomenon in which an instance of sudden good fortune is precipitated by taking to a higher level of consciousness, such as shedding a negative attitude, or having a focused aspiration to accomplish something, or engaging in an act of self-givingness. Life quickly responds to such reversals of consciousness and quickly returns the favor to that individual in the form of a life response event. It is miraculous thing to experience.

One interesting aspect of life response is that it is occurring all the time, but we do not have the subtle sense to perceive it. I.e. when good fortune happens to us, we aren’t aware of the shift in consciousness on our part that precipitated it. While true in real life, we also see this dynamic at work in works of literature and film. Instances of life response are constantly being presented there by the author in these stories, but we don’t recognize the effect, let alone the inner cause.

Another interesting point is that though the writer readily presents life response incidents in his work, he is unaware that he is demonstrating this miraculous-like phenomenon. Then how does it come to be written? The answer is that it comes from the author's subconscious. While the author has a conscious sense of the flow of events and character movements, the inner truths and subtle life principles of life he has revealed are subconscious to him.

Then where does the subconscious knowledge come from? It is there in his inner being, in a buried knowledge passed on through generations that the writer subconsciously taps onto. It is also there in the atmosphere of life that the author becomes an instrument of.

It turns out that all great writers present life response in one form or another, as they are more attuned to the intricacies of human relationships and character, even as they are unconscious and unaware of the subtle life principles at work. For example, if you watch closely, you will notice a startling array of life response incidents in the works of Jane Austin; particularly in her great novel Pride and Prejudice. There if one pays close attention one can easily trace the change in consciousness that precipitate sudden good fortune for an individual. E.g. when heroine Eliza Bennett gives up her hostile feelings towards Darcy when visiting his enormous Pemberley estate, he immediately appears out of nowhere (when he wasn't expected for weeks), which has the effect of kindling their romance, directly leading to their great happiness and marriage. Life has responded in her favor to her shift away from hostility to greater understanding, appreciation, and good-will. There are at least two dozen major life response incidents, and dozens of minor ones that I and my colleagues have traced in the story.

As I mentioned, it is there in all the great authors’ works -- from Shakespeare's plays, to Valmiki epic Mahabharata. It is even there in the most mundane and banal soap operas, or in more serious tv and film fare. Here is an example:

The other day a friend and I were watching the TV series The Good Wife. At one point I asked her to temporarily pause the on-demand presentation. I then turned to her and mentioned that one of the three principles in the law firm in the show had just made a decisive shift in attitude, and as a result somewhere soon life would respond in her favor.  When we resumed watching the episode that is precisely what happened soon after.

Which brings up an interesting question: what if an author or writer was conscious of the phenomenon of Life Response, and had the capacity to subtly show how the inner behavior of the characters precipitated sudden good fortune in the outer events? How would that work out?

It turns out that an associate of mine Garry Jacobs has written a fascinating work of fiction called The Book. It is in essence a 500 page mystery-story that is filled with the most profound secrets of the workings of life. Included in it throughout is the phenomenon of Life Response. Not only do the characters experience sudden good fortune in a variety of astonishing ways, but several of them become aware of their ability to evoke it, which they do on a regular basis!

Garry has thus written a novel that not only includes a plethora of life response, which is a result of his conscious awareness of the phenomenon, but also has his characters aware of its workings. This is so because Garry has studied the phenomenon from all angles for thirty five years, and is able to incorporate it in a spiritual-oriented adventure story of unprecedented depth and power.

Likewise, each of us can become aware of instances of life response in our own lives. Better still, we can come to understand the changes in consciousness on our part that precipitate these startling outcomes. Best of all, we can constantly be aware of, and then consciously make the effort to raise level our consciousness relative to given circumstance -- e.g. by practicing non-reaction to another's intensity, by holding back from expressing our thoughts (silent will), by opening to the spiritual Force before engaging in actions, etc. -- which will quickly evoke luck from life.

In that way, not only are we conscious of the life response phenomenon itself, but use it to attract a continuous stream of good fortune into our lives.

The Process of Realizing the Guru's Realization and Beyond
A guru is the pioneer who provides a greater comprehension. We now can have experiences that verify that knowledge, giving us that same knowledge, possibly even greater than the guru in that specific domain. Parallel to this acquisition of the knowledge of life, we are opening to the higher Power ever increasingly. It occurs through consecration, but a consecration that is ever-increasingly one pointed (i.e. all inclusive). As a result, our concentration deepens and the personality moves away from the surface and down centered in the depths, culminating in the Psychic Being, which is the springboard of Surrender. That in turn is the basis for further spiritual transformation. Or in R's scheme, a higher seeking and embracing of and being enraptured and enfolded in Mother.

Here is an example that may illustrate. Karmayogi developed principles about Life Response ~2001 that were pioneering. I took up his challenge and began to write a book on the subject (2003). To do that I asked others to send me their 100-200 experiences of LR which were helpful. However, until I experienced these different aspects personally, it didn't have the power of true understanding. I was however able to have many of these experiences, documented the various human behaviors that precipitated it (~50), gaining a great knowledge in that particular, narrow domain. In some ways, I surpassed the guru's knowledge (i.e. of the specific behaviors, not the deepest insights).

Along the way, I increasingly consecrated (opened to Mother), and documented the variety of ways to do so that elicited (causal) response of their own. My consecration efforts are still limited in that it is not yet close to being all consuming and all-inclusive. When it does, the pathway to the Inner Being will be forged, including the possibility of reaching the Psychic. Then True Surrender begins, which parallels R's scheme of connecting to Mother at levels 4-7).

It would entail a sincere, dedicated commitment to a life of Yoga that has further stages of spiritual (mostly light and higher knowledge, intuitive, supramental experience), and supramental transformation of all planes of the being.

Of course, our choice, Human choice, -- which in this case can be thought of as Spiritual Aspiration -- would determine the level one wishes to rise to in this process.

 

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Predicting Life Response
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Predicting Life Response
Life response is the arrival of sudden good fortune. If we are conscious of its laws, we can make it happen on demand. We can even know precisely when it will occur.

On this particular morning I had been working diligently, but was now feeling a little tired, and so needed a break.  I was ready for my afternoon walk. However, rather than take the walk, I had to wait at home for my FedEx package with my new HP laser printer to arrive. In essence, I had nothing to preoccupy myself with.

For several days, I had tracked the package and knew that it would likely arrive sometime that day. Yet at that point in time, the delivery still hadn't come.

Then it struck me that I now (at 2pm) needed to vacuum the floor a bit. And so I took out my new, month-old vacuum cleaner and began the task. Unfortunately, the dirt was not being sucked up into the machine. Then I recalled that the previous three or four times I used the machine, the same thing happened: i.e. it was spitting out dust balls even as I seemed to be picking things up. I figured on these earlier occasions that this was the sacrifice I had to make for buying such an inexpensive machine; and that was probably why the store sold it so cheaply. This was my rationale!

Then I thought that cannot be the case, and so I opened up the machine to see what was going on. Lo and behold I saw that the bag inside was not collecting any of the dirt. I therefore hunted down the manual and went searching for the problem. It turns out that I had not put in the hose properly when I first assembled it, causing a lack of suction. When I then went ahead and fixed it, it worked perfectly.

Now comes the best part. I vacuumed for ten or fifteen minutes, but I was concerned that I would miss the delivery of the printer since the vacuum would be too loud. Then it occurred to me that when I finished the cleaning, the delivery would come.

I had been waiting for delivery during the entire course of the day, and now at 3PM, it still hadn't come. Still I suspected a relationship between the fixing of the machine, the completion of the vacuuming, and the arrival of the printer.

As I finished vacuuming, I was almost certain the delivery would arrive as soon as I completed the task. A minute after I was done, I walked over to the window, had that thought again, and instantly saw the delivery boy with the FedEx package containing the printer walking up the pathway! He arrived right on cue!

In essence, I had predicted the exact moment down to the nanosecond the delivery would take place based on the flow of previous events, as well as a knowledge of the workings of life response. (What attracted the delivery was at once the attention I gave to the machine, the willingness to get at the heart of the matter and fix it, and the physical effort of cleanliness.)

Interestingly, this is the third or fourth time this has happened in the past month. Such incidents show the power we have to anticipate, even predict the future down to a level of micro prevision. It is a harbinger of a new way of life that awaits those who wish to explore the subtle unfoldings of life.

 

Evoking the Darkness and the Light  

The other day I had a memorable experience that was filled with irony. It was a life response of the highest order; one that was not only a continuation of a pattern of previous responses, but one which touched me and the recipient dearly. It was also one that brought out both the darkness and the light in life; literally and figuratively. Let me explain.

For nearly a decade, I have been attending meetings of MPUG, the Microsoft Project User Group in San Francisco. Held at the Microsoft district headquarters on Market Street, the gatherings have always been lively affairs in which we watched interesting and informative demonstrations, at the end of which prizes were handed out to lucky winners. It turns out that over the last several years, I had the good fortune of not only winning several of the biggest prizes, but often knew in advance which prize I would win, and at what point I would win it. In other words, I was able to predict a life response event before it occurred. I was able to accomplish that inner feat because on those occasions I had the subtle sense of how life was unfolding, and perceived how life seemed to be moving towards certain outcomes, including the disbursement of certain prizes at specific moments.

Just as startling was the fact that in the course of the last several meetings I won the exact same prize from amongst many. Moreover, in each situation, I proceeded to give the prize away to someone else who had need for it, since I had little use for that product myself. In other words, because I knew that life tends to repeat, and because I sensed the subtle unfolding of circumstance on those particular occasions, I sensed in advance that I was going to win that precise prize, at what point it would occur, and if I did, knew I would probably give it away. It is with that background that I would like narrate the events of our latest meeting.

When I arrived at the Microsoft district headquarters this time, I noticed that there had been some significant changes. Now the quarterly meeting was being held on the other side of the building. This indicated to me on some level that changes were the order of the day.

As usual, I arrived a little early that evening, and instantly saw our host and main speaker talking to several members gathered around in a group. As a result, I held back from bursting on the scene, and waited in the large break room to gather and prepare myself for the upcoming meeting. A while later, I summoned up the courage and entered the presentation room. Immediately, on entering the room, I was very surprised to see an associate of mine, who I had not seen at these gathering for a several years, and who also was the chapter’s previous president. Let us call this individual “J.” I was surprised not only because I hadn’t seen him at meetings for a long while, but he was the one individual I had a somewhat poor relationship with among the members. For example, in the past, we would clash on my participation and involvement, or lack thereof, in helping run the meetings; and also had difference of opinions about the quality of certain presenters. Most telling of all was that he had a conservative political and social bent and was not afraid to let me know about it. In any case, our past relationship was dicey at best, and yet there he was, the first person I met when I entered the large room to start this latest gathering of MPUG.

I should also point out that J and I had a common friend and associate, namely M, who was not only the chapter head who led every meeting, including this one, but was also about to make the two major presentations that evening. It is also true that I referred a half million dollars worth of business to M, which was a powerful response from life I have described elsewhere. Now as I pondered the current dynamic, I wondered if J would have such a harsh opinion of me since I had created the largest client for his friend’s business in its decade long history.

With these thoughts circling in my mind, M, as head of the chapter and host, began the meeting and proceeded to give the first of his two presentations. After he was done, I drifted to the back of the room where the refreshments were. A minute or so later, my occasional detractor and former head of the chapter J arrived there as well. I then commented how very effective M’s presentation was, and then went on to say that I thought that with such excellent presentation skills, he could indeed become mayor of a renown local town; something M indicated a passion for in the past. I then added that I would vote for him no matter what his political persuasion. To that J shot back with words to the effect that he would only vote for M if he had a conservative agenda, burst off, and returned to his seat, leaving me a bit stunned at his abrasiveness. Now as I sat there, I thought of our past experiences, as well as this latest brusque retort. My mind then focused on the current economic environment, and realized that like others, he still had not learned the foolishness of the laissez-faire view that had almost brought down the world economy. With that little flash of irritation, I quietly let out a charge of emotional and mental energy.

A moment later, just after the Microsoft rep that was in charge of logistics for the meeting had begun striking up a conversation with me about the smoothness of the meeting so far, the lights suddenly went out in the entire large room! Not only were we all now in the dark, but M, who was getting ready for his next presentation, could not easily see what he was doing. Immediately I understood that my flash of irritation had precipitated a negative response in the form of complete darkness,

Perceiving this, I decided from that point forward to withdraw any harsh feelings and emotions toward J, and instead foster cordial and good relations whenever possible. A moment later, M began his second presentation, as the viewers, except the overhead presentation, watched in the dark. Fortunately, the lights came back on not one minute into M’s speech, indicating that he was never discouraged by the darkness, so quickly attracted the restoration of the lights.

M’s second and very effective presentation ended an hour later, and now the prizes were being given out. I then recalled many of the astonishing events in the past involving the disbursements of these rewards; experiences I have documented in other essays. Once again, in this situation, all and everything seemed possible.

As the gift-giving proceeded, I saw a thick, valuable book on the table in front of the room. It turned out to be the same book that I had won on two or three previous occasions! It was now but one of 10 prizes to be given out. Those past experiences were remarkable, and yet there I was once again confronted with the possibility that it could occur a third consecutive time!

And so the prize-giving proceeded. This time however, my name was not selected for any of the first eight prizes. Still two prizes remained; that same valuable purple technical book, plus an online software application with a $3000 value. M’s helper then shuffled the remaining ballots to determine who would win the thick technical volume. At that moment, I once again felt the world disappear, while having the presence of mind to perceive that the same book come to me again. When M then called out my name as the winner, I was stunned, bemused, and ecstatic all in the same moment. When he then proceeded to hand over the book to me, I instinctively did what I had done on those previous two occasions when I predicted and won that same prize: I simply offered it to someone who could use it since I had limited use for it. I then called out and asked who in the group could use it. Immediately, the woman who was sitting right behind me said she did. I agreed, and M handed her the book. I then saw this as yet a third manifestation of what had occurred in the previous two meetings. Each time I serendipitously won that same book, I not only handed it off to another person, but it was given to the person I had struck up a conversation with previous to the evening’s presentations. On each occasion, I had shed my shyness, and took an interest in the particular person sitting next to me, engaging in conversation about why they were there, their needs in terms of the technology, and so forth. And in each meeting, it was the person who I had made contact with, sitting next to or just behind me, who called out that they wanted and had a need for the book when I offered it. It was yet another startling dimension to these events.

But there was more to be one more turn in these events. Because I had handed off the book prize, M now put me back in the queue with the remaining contestants for the biggest and final prize; the $3k 1-year subscription to a highly specialized online software application. When he then drew from the lot, I subtly felt a kind of whiteness, with everything going blank. M then announced the winner of the grand prize, and it turned out to be none other than myself! In that wondrous moment, I had the presence of mind to perceive that because I gave my previous prize to a person who needed it, I was put back in the cue, and then was put in position to attract the much bigger one.

I then stood up, both shock and bemused to receive the prize, while fully realizing the inner workings of the situation. How could I ever explain this dynamic to anyone! Then as I stood there and pondered the nature of the prize, I realized once again that I really had no need for it despite its great monetary value. And so once again I called out to the group and offered it to anyone who could use it.

What occurred next was one of the most astonishing moments ever. When I offered the grand prize to the group, a person just in front of me turned around and indicated that he could really use it. It turned out to be none other than my nemesis J! Stunned, I agreed that I would hand over the prize to him.

I then sat down in utter wonder at what had just transpired. In fact, over the next several moments, J stared at me with a very special look that seemed to be a wellspring of gratitude. It was so strong and heartfelt that it started to feel my own heart. Here was my one periodic adversary in the group, perhaps my only one in business in years, with an expression on his face that seemed to say “Are you really giving this to me? And is it really you whom I am receiving it from?” And in those moments when our eyes locked, I saw the welling up of emotion in his eyes.

As we see in this incident, when we change an attitude from one of irritation and hostility to one of goodwill and harmony, life quickly moves in our favor, life’s conditions shift to the positive enabling an enemy to become a grateful ally; cancelling the effect of past difficulties and tensions in a single instance. When I shifted from a flash of irritation that earlier had literally and figuratively evoked the Darkness to one of hope for hoped for goodwill, I set loose a vibration that had attracted the Light that expressed as a revelatory experience. It was truly one of the most memorable moments and delightful experiences of my life.

 

 

 

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History of the Development of The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response

[Several individuals asked about the history of the development of the book on Life Response, so I responded as follows:]

Though I have been associated with Karmayogi and Garry Jacobs since 1975 in various ways, it was in 1997 that a new turn took place. For several months that year I had regular day-long meetings with Garry and his business partner on essential principles and ideas that Karmayogi aspired to bring to the world. Among the themes were the power of personal attitudes, the utility of psychological strength, how the inner moves the outer, the phenomenon of life response, personal values, consecration (power of the spiritual Force), living in the depths, and a dozen or so others. At their home in Napa, California we had very stimulating and often intense discussions on these subjects. Out of these conversations came a series of articles I wrote on each of most of these subjects. This became the original foundation of Growth Online, and was later captured in a compendium book Essentials.

From ~2000 through 2003 I had regular contact via email with Karmayogi. I asked many questions and he answered all of them; personal and philosophical/life-oriented. He also wrote perhaps his first major overview of Pride and Prejudice, running over 300 pages. I then entered my own comments and questions, section by section into that document, and Karmayogi gave further clarification. The deepest meaning of life, profound insights into the nature of society and social existence, the nature of spirit, Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine -- actually virtually every dimension of life -- were touched upon. Life response was of course there everywhere in his writings; and was the subject that consistently caught my attention. In many ways, this powerful interactive document became my own personal bible. I learned much from it; plus many questions and issues were raised in my mind that I continued to explore.

Along the way, my interest in Life Response increased as I experienced the phenomenon more frequently. At one point, Karmayogi wrote a powerful, comprehensive paper on the subject, including what it would take to fully grasp and explain it, and even write a comprehensive book on the subject. Many statements were utterly remarkable; while others were elliptical and confusing to me, though later on I would understand their profound meaning.

For a time, I thought about writing that book on Life Response, but did not quite have the confidence to do so. In one discussion about trying to understand its true nature, Karmayogi suggested I gather 100 instances of response from my own life, from others, from current events, and so forth. I first began to do that in earnest when I took a vacation trip across the western USA to visit the Arches and the Mesa Verde National Parks. This wonderful expedition revealed a series of astonishing responses (later captured in my narrative Journey of a Lifetime.) After I gathered the necessary 100 life response incidents -- including by the way, many remarkable experiences from devotees of the Mother and Karmayogi), I began to think more seriously about writing a book on this profound and wondrous subject. In 2003 something clicked, and I decided to make that effort.

Aside from the incidents themselves, the writing came somewhat slowly at first, mainly because I did not have the full context, the Big Picture understanding of the phenomenon, and therefore did not have a comprehensive approach and outline for the book. Though I had intended to finish by 2005, the book was not completed until 2008. Since then I have tried to perfect it, and have added some additional content, though it remains however mostly as I left it in October 2008, which was in effect my own personal deadline.

Since that time I made a small effort to have it published, but did not get very far; though at one point I did receive quite a bit of excellent feedback and advice from a writers’ consultant, which proved very helpful. After that, I simply made it available as a free PDF to the world. Since the notion of free content was spreading throughout the Internet, I found this a reasonable experimental approach. The book now receives around 5000 downloads a year, which is modest, but also heartening. Also, the response about the book from others has been very positive. Interestingly, some of the best response has come from Indians, because they understand life response in their very bones!

One great irony was that at the preliminary release of the book, I learned that the film and video of The Secret had come out. I was stunned, as it contained so much of what I had already been writing about! At one level, I felt slightly deflated; at another, I felt that The Secret was itself a response to my exhaustive effort to write the book! In reality, The Secret and my own book seemed to me to be a response to Karmayogi’s Aspirations for that profound phenomenon to be consciously understood and deployed throughout the world.

Concurrent to that effort and continuing till this day, I wrote ~350 short essays which touch on subjects related to but often exceeding Life Response -- i.e. to ALL dimensions of existence. The articles have now been compiled and organized by subject into another book entitled A New Way of Living. I am hoping that this content plus a series of nearly 5000 statements I, Garry, Karmayogi, and others have developed (which I have been laboriously capturing), will be the basis of a new book to be written tentatively titled The Character of Life. Meanwhile for the last several years, I have been engaged in writing a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, which has deepened by understanding of life’s character that much further.

I mention these because this widening purview of Existence has enriched my understanding of Life Response that my original book on the subject (The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response) does not fully capture. This includes such subjects of contradiction are complements, the nature of acts, society’s influence on events, the utility of the positive and negative, the theory of Creation, the nature of the Reality, etc. – which are expressions of Sri Aurobindo’s and Karmayogi’s worldview. It is in this potential new book on the Character of Life that I hope to more fully express Life response’s Nature, as well as many other subtle principles that explain Life’s nature.  

I have also been listening to a number of Garry Jacobs’s talks through Karmayogi.net, and reading and extracting content from his extraordinary, all-encompassing, profound new novel The Book. Plus I am interacting with others online to expand my and their understanding of a number of life subjects. Most powerfully, I learn from my own inner and outer experiences, which are increasingly connected to my relationship with and opening to the Mother. Of course, Karmayogi’s words guide me every step of the way.

 

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Six Scales of Life Response
Life exists in (at least) six scales that relate to life response.

1. From the physical to vital to mental to spiritual to spiritual mind and above
2. From the surface to the depths
3. From the gross/material to the subtle to the causal
4. From the self to the universal to the transcendent
5. From the finite to the infinite and from time to timelessness (perhaps this is a space-time+ scale)

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It is one thing to see the marvel of invoking a positive life response due to one's inner action; it is another to have taken an action that was actually a life response to someone else's invocation!

Life Response Multiplier Effect
If you take up an area you were hesitant to address before, life will respond by giving you a benefit in a related area from seemingly out of nowhere. If you then take up this life response benefit, another response will come, likewise in areas related to the original area and its response, again from seemingly out of nowhere.

"Inside" a Life Response
Normally we are "outside" a life response. That is we experience it as an effect to our own causation. We can also be "inside" the response, and observe it from there. For example, a woman is cleaning out her living quarters to a higher degree than normal, which is life response attracting. On the other hand, a man is about to make her a payment that is due to her of which she is uncertain of its receipt, which is the response her higher cleaning will attract. The man is aware that her cleaning will attract a positive response, even as he knows he is the very instrument that will enable the response in terms of money. He is thus a part and parcel of the response; i.e. he is "inside" it. For one familiar with life response one can study this angle of being within it.

Constant One in a Million Results
When one changes, once-in-a-million type responses from life become commonplace. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Preventing Repetition & Life Response
Life repeats unless a greater energy is brought to bear, which overcomes the repetition which enables, establishes something new, which is life response.

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The method to invoke life response that experiences triple time vision and universe inclusion within is through connection to the psychic and spiritual consciousness.

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Life Response reveals to observations, when one listens to the other man's point of view.

Respond to Others First
A conscious man should respond first to people's responses to him.

On Writing about Life Response
Life response is non-fiction that can be expressed with the energies of the great story telling of fiction, because it involves stories.

Writing that Attracts the Audience
-Clarity, fluency, utility, and emotion of thought attract positive life response from the reader. Interested individuals appear in droves from seemingly out of nowhere.

-Thoughts that relate to the emerging aspirations of the audience attract abundantly.

Life Response
Life response to any person or event will carry their stamp.

Education, Values, and Life Response
Education can organize unorganized energies of youth through dissemination of knowledge, including the knowledge of values. Education itself however needs to be organized to comprehend and explain those values. In the business world, the value of values is appreciated. It produces results, and profits. Now it needs to come to education, where the scope is greater. Educators can learn from the experience of businesses, and teach the benefits of values, look around, and see the benefits when applied to the wider life and its various disciplines.
 
Experience of, perceptions of, and a knowledge of Life Response would be very helpful here because it shows how transitions towards values quickly produce results. Such knowledge can be disseminated through education. Educators themselves experiencing the wonders of life response as a result of making the inner transitions that attract its sudden and abundant appearance would not only champion values, but a knowledge of the various triggers that enable life response to occur -- including higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness, a switch from a negative to a positive attitude at a crucial moment, accepting what life gives, knowing what one truly wants, greater psychological strength, etc. These can be taught as values.

Harm of Giving More than Another Deserves
The surest way of bringing trouble in a relationship with anyone is to give him more than he deserves. (MSS)

Spiritual Personality that Overcomes Limitations of your Social & Psychological Personality
We have several personalities lying in layers inside us. The social personality acts according to circumstances. Here the reward [and response, positive or negative] is for your social standing, not for your capacity. Deeper than that is the personality of psychology. Life rewards [and responds positively or negatively] here for your motive, disregarding capacity. Deepest is the Spiritual Personality which seeks spiritual experience. There, only GOOD exists. It is above life. Ability to invoke our inner Spiritual Personality overcomes our social circumstances, our motives and even our capacities. Here rewards [including positive-only life response] arise according to what you are inwardly, not what you do. (MSS. with slight additions)

 

TO BE CATEGORIZED

 

 

Life Response

Definition

Life Response

Life response is the reflection back to you of positive, neutral, or negative circumstance concomitant with one's current level of or shifts in consciousness – physically, vitally, psychologically, mentally, and spiritually.

 

Nature of Life Response and the Fulfillment of Intention

Life response is a subtle or material reaction from the universal plane that seeks to help you realize your ongoing intentions in part or in full. It originates in taking to higher consciousness, which puts you in alignment with positive conditions that appear before you.

 

Higher Consciousness and Life Response

Life Moving Towards You and Higher Consciousness

The deeper and higher your consciousness, the more life moves toward you on its own in a positive way.

 

Unconscious to Conscious to Superconscious Based Life Response

Levels of Overcoming Personal Limitations that Evoke Life Response Results

There are several levels from unconscious to fully conscious by which we can overcome a wanting attitude or behavior or condition, and thereby evoke powerful positive response from life.

1. UNCONSCIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS action that reverses previous behaviors that evoke the response. This occurs often in life. E.g. a manager allows a younger player to play in the game, which he was previously reluctant to do, and in his very first at bat on the team hits a home run (in US baseball). The manager was hardly aware of his earlier reluctance, yet through his altered decision attracted the life response result.

2. CONSCIOUS method that sees the personal or life problem clearly when it arises, and then overcomes it, and thereby evokes powerful response. E.g. a man clearly understands that he is reluctant to work weekends when asked by the boss. He examines his past behaviors and lack of success, works those weekends, and attracts the greatest sales revenues of his career.

3. SUPERCONSCIOUS method where we engage in a conscious, token experiment where we take the time to identity and change a deficient area in our being that not only can evoke magnificent response, but enables further personal growth. E.g. we scan our being and discover a virulent reluctance to be involved in a group discussion and decision. When we then consciously make the effort to overcome it, while offering it to the Divine Mother, we evoke a tremendous, unprecedented, causal response that changes our life.

 

Inner-Outer Correspondence as Basis of Life Response

Inner-Outer

That the Inner moves the Outer is the basis of Life Response.

 

Changing the World from Within

We believe the entire world exists outside ourselves, but it also exists inside. Therefore, we can change it from within, without any outer action, especially when we make use of the Spiritual Force.

 

Knowing Life Response Principles

Predicting the Future through Life Knowledge

The more you know the laws governing Life and Life Response, the more you are able to predict the future. Naturally that extraordinary capacity should be practiced in all humility, without it tickling the ego.

 

Life Response and Destiny

Coincidence (Life Response) and Your Destiny

Every coincidence [i.e. life response] is an opportunity for you to become the person the universe intended you to be. (paraphrase of Deepak Chopra)

 

Life Response as Luck

Luck, Infinite, Finite

"Luck" is the ability to attract the Infinite from the finite.

 

Luck that Replaces the Finite with the Infinite

What I mean by "Luck" are instances of sudden good fortune precipitated by a shift to a higher consciousness in a particular moment or over the long term. I use the term "Life Response" to indicate this sudden onset of Luck. This is different from how people ordinarily use the term Luck; yet even there they miss the fact that their higher consciousness precipitated the sudden or long-term attraction of Luck Into their lives.

Sudden good fortune, luck, life response (all meaning the same) has the character that the current limitation before you is overcome and is replaced by great abundance of some sort -- physical, vital, mental, or spiritual. E.g. you have US$100 in the bank, change your attitude towards someone from hostile to neutral or even friendly, and you suddenly attract commissions worth US$10,000 from seemingly out of nowhere. In essence, the Finite that was previously there has suddenly been replaced by an Infinite-like result. Thus we can say that through Luck (i.e. life response, sudden good fortune) the Finite is replaced by the Infinite.

This has added significance and meaning when you consider that the Infinite Divine wants to express Itself infinitely in the details of life in the universe. When we raise our consciousness (through higher attitudes, values, strategies, efforts, etc.) we tend to quickly attract these vast results, fulfilling that Divine Intent. "Luck" is the manner we experience this. It is the positive response from life; an instance of sudden good fortune.

This is virtually the same philosophy and truth of life expressed in the best seller book The Secret, based on this same ancient wisdom.

 

Consciously Evoking Luck by Changing Our Limiting Nature

The terminology "Luck," "Life Response," et al comes predominantly from my spiritual teacher Sri Karmayogi of South India, who developed it from his intense study and interpretation of life and the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. I have developed it further in my own way.

As for looking for and finding good luck, it always comes from within. Change something limiting inside, and the outside instantly moves in your favor, i.e. brings good fortune, which is Luck. This is a new perspective in the world that many are starting to grasp.

Or we can say that we currently move the outer from within unconsciously, and we are trying to make it a conscious process. If we do, any and all problems can be solved in an instant, just as the Cold War miraculously ended through one man's initiative, backed by the spiritual Force.

 

Theory of Equilibriums and Life Response

Theory of Equilibrium Behind Life Response

Life response occurs when a shift in our consciousness creates a new imbalance in the universe, i.e. a disequilibrium, which life then restores through a fresh act into a new equilibrium, which we experience as corresponding good or bad fortune.

Further comment: This is in essence Karmayogi's theory of Equilibrium of Energy behind Life Response. Energy is in balance in a micro moment. The Energy is then "disturbed" due to shift in consciousness. The Energy seeks to move back to equilibrium, which it does through a counterbalancing act. (The vortex of imbalance compels Life to fill it.) That act we experience as a Life Response, restoring the equilibrium, but now at a higher level of consciousness.

 

Negative Life Response

The Negative that Has Come to You, You May Have Done to Others

When negative circumstance befall you due to someone else's actions, you might discover that you perpetrated the same or similar on somebody else. If you perceive your mistake, then the present parallel negative condition affecting you will instantly evaporate. This phenomenon holds true for positive circumstances as well.

For example, payment was held up for a businessman, causing his business to move to the edge of failure. Everything he tried to secure the payment failed to produce the desired result. He felt the bill payer was completely insensitive to his desperate plight. He then thought about the matter and realized he had done the very same thing to another party in the not too distant past. After much delay, the money due him suddenly appeared in his account the very next morning!

 

On Attracting Abuse

If we are abused by something or somebody else, you can be sure there is something in our nature that attracted it.

 

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Often the results that Life brings forth are opposite of our intentions. It happens to individuals as well as collectives, such as nations. It often occurs because a consciousness lower than what the Truth of the situation required was brought to bear. Here are a few examples from history:

In trying to help the Mujahedeen in their fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the US, particularly under Reagan, in effect helped give birth to the Taliban and Al Qaida, which attacked the US on 9/11.

In trying to stop the Russian Revolution in 1917, the West in effect radicalized the leaders into what became the Soviet Empire that stood against the West during the Cold War, which led to the threat of annihilation of life on earth through nuclear confrontation of the two sides.

By not throwing the British out when he had the chance to on several occasions, Gandhi instead practiced non-violence, which enabled the British to stay for a long while, leading to the eventual partition of India and Pakistan, millions dead in the aftermath, and two nations standing against one another with nuclear weapons. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother indicated that his Ahimsa was a fad and disastrous for the country, even as they deeply admired his works.

In attempting to Christianize India, the British brought Eastern philosophy to the Western world. This is obviously not what they had intended.

 

The Negative that Has Come to You, You May Have Done to Others

When negative circumstance befall you due to someone else's actions, you might discover that you perpetrated the same or similar on somebody else. If you perceive your mistake, then the present parallel negative condition affecting you will instantly evaporate. This phenomenon holds true for positive circumstances as well.

For example, payment was held up for a businessman, causing his business to move to the edge of failure. Everything he tried to secure the payment failed to produce the desired result. He felt the bill payer was completely insensitive to his desperate plight. He then thought about the matter and realized he had done the very same thing to another party in the not too distant past. After much delay, the money due him suddenly appeared in his account the very next morning!

 

Smallest Negative Attracts Instantaneous Negative Response

Even the smallest sarcastic or otherwise negative remark will instantly attract a negative response from life.

Comment: This remark was precipitated by the fact that I told a checkout person slightly sardonically that after 20 years I still don't which way to put the credit card in the reader. Immediately the printer on her device became jammed with bunched up paper! I have had this experience many dozens of times over the years. So imagine the repercussions of having truly negative feelings. Not too good. 

 

The Secret, Accomplishment

Law of Attraction in The Secret

The Law of Attraction as explained in The Secret is the work of Mind and Emotion to accomplish what one wants through the universal Force. (MSS)

 

 

Formula of Life

Attempt at a Formula of Life/Life Response

Here is an experiment to create a formula of Life/Life Response along one line of thought; i.e. based on Karmayogi's Theory of Equilibrium in a Life response event.

• Equilibrium is a state of non-change (of energy, consciousness, etc.; in a given moment in the universe, or one's domain, etc.).

• Change in Consciousness is a change positively, negatively, or neutrally.

• Life response is what brings things back to equilibrium (i.e. balance).

• Equilibrium we can give the variable "E".

• Its normal constant value is "0".

• Thus "E(0)" is the original values of the equilibrium.

• The shift in Consciousness is the variable "C".

• It expresses positively or negatively, i.e. as +C or -C (there is also neutral).

• The response of life is a fresh act (which one experiences as a startling life response event).

• The response of life completes the circle of the event and brings about a new equilibrium.

• "L" is the variable of the Life response; the response from life.

• L is the complementary reversing energy movement of a +C or -C.

• "r" is a function expressing the reversal.

• Thus the formula of the response of life is: L = (r) +/-C.

• The total life Movement is the shift in consciousness and the reversal that is the fresh act experienced as a response.

• "M" is the variable that is the total life Movement.

• Thus a formula for the total life Movement from equilibrium to change in consciousness to fresh act that creates the new equilibrium is M = C+L.

• When the fresh act of the response comes, things are set to a new equilibrium; not quite the same as before, but an equilibrium nonetheless.

• The restoration to a new state of equilibrium is the variable "R."

• A formula for the restoration to a new equilibrium would be similar: R = E(0) + M.

 

 

Other

Our Intense Reactions to Life Response Results

Surprise, wonder, and shock are the hallmarks of our experiences of the unique, positive result that comes from self-offering an act to the increasingly penetrating spiritual Force.

 

Predicting the Future through Life Knowledge

The more you know the laws governing Life and Life Response, the more you are able to predict the future. Naturally that extraordinary capacity should be practiced in all humility, without it tickling the ego.

 

Positive Decision Synchronous to Others' Actions

The decisions one makes in a positive direction are already synchronously being acted on by others we are in harmony with.

 

 

Inner-Outer Correspondence

Others Mirror Ourselves

Direct and Semi-Direct Correspondence in One's Self in Feeling Outrage towards Another

‎"Everything that shocks me in others means a work I have to do in myself." (The Mother)

We will see a correspondence between their outrageous behavior and a limiting element in ourselves. Often it will be directly obvious, other times it is there, but in a different shading and form.

Direct Correspondence:  A man is outraged by a politician's lack of organization of his constituency in his attempt to be elected, while the man himself is fully disorganized in his work.

Shaded Direct Correspondence: A parent is fixed and does not want to change. The daughter rebels and joins a religion, but it of a type that is fixed and narrow-minded. When the daughter is shocked by the mother's unwillingness to change in an important situation that has come up, she only has to look inside herself for a corresponding, though somewhat different manifestation of the same limitation through her hardened religious beliefs.

Thus, sometimes the correspondence is directly obvious; other times it is there but through a different shading of the original fault.

 

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The entire universe is inside us, and we can change it from there.

Comments: It is because the division we make between the inner and the outer is an illusion. They are rather one continuous stream of existence. Which means we can have an impact on the unfoldings of life around us without any outer action. The most direct way to do this is to utilize the spiritual Force. Focus on something you want changed in the world, consider all the details, and then offer it to the Divine Mother with intensity, sincerity, optimism, and without expectation. Life WILL move!

-How to overcome 100,000 years of conditioning that these are two separate realms, and we only have power over the outer by directly enjoining the outer through outer action? It requires a New Mindset. It can come e.g. from transcendent experience that we are one with All; through experiences of life response where we previously evoked a response from the outer from within; by just consecrating everything (opening to the Divine Mother's Force) and letting it all unfold before our eyes. All of these can overcome the 100,000 year influence, and change our view to something that was once utterly unimaginable. It is that we truly are one with All and everything, and have a power over any aspect of that All from within.

 

The Phenomenon of Life Response

 

Overview

Life Response

Life coming to you, apparently on its own with positive benefit is what we call "life Response." Others may call it luck or coincidence. such instances of sudden good fortune are the result of a previous shift of consciousness on one's part that aligns with and attracts corresponding positive conditions. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Response and Alignment of Consciousness

When a life response occurs, my consciousness has aligned with another person's consciousness, as do our circumstance. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Why is this Happening to Me?

At any moment, we can stop ourselves and ask the question "Why is this happening to me?" I.e. why are positive or negative circumstance occurring outside ourselves? If we then relate it to something inside, we will be well on our way to living a more conscious, successful, and fulfilled life.

For example, if our child seems to be reacting irrationally, rather than scold them, we can ask what it is about ourselves that attracts this reaction. Perhaps we are not trying to understand what the child needs; not interested in their development at some level; not in touch with what they are subtly aspiring to become.

The fact is that life on the outside is a perfect mirror of our inner condition. If we see that particular corresponding wanting attribute inside, and then reverse it, life will instantly respond in our favor. This is the principle of inner-outer correspondence in action.

In that way, everything happening around us affords us an opportunity to grow. If this is so, then why not make "Why is this happening to me" your mantra for the next several days, and see if you can catch the correspondence between what is happening around you and your inner condition. (It is not only true for negatives, but positives as well.) If you discover it, reverse it, and evoke a response from life, you will be ushered into a new way of living; which is one of infinite consciousness, power, and joy. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life's Benefit Coming to You on Its Own

Accomplishment and other benefits should not happen by struggle, but as a result of life coming to you, on its own, as sudden good fortune. It is the power of attraction -- i.e. the phenomenon of "life response" in action. We can garner such results by understanding and then acting on the subtle principles of life that tend to evoke such Luck. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Coming to You

When you are conscious, life comes to you, instead of your having to go after it. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Coming to You

You know that you are on the right path when life is constantly moving toward you with benefit; instead of your having to struggle and go after it to bring about results. For example, you are taking an action on a project and suddenly realize it is much easier to accomplish than you had thought; or that a powerful shortcut is now available, dramatically reducing the necessary work and effort; or that there is now a startling new opening and possibility you had not noticed before. That is life coming towards you, instead of your going after it, indicating one's higher consciousness is at play; that you are on the very best and right path.

The guru sits on the mountaintop, aspiring for outer conditions without making the least outer, physical effort to make it occur. Individuals of significance come to him without his invitation, and bring word of good or great fortune. In other words, he draws the best of life toward him from within.

Tip: aspire for certain thing to come to you in life without taking any outer action. Also, offer that matter to the spiritual Force available in the atmosphere. Then watch for results over time. Remarkable outcomes will present themselves in short order, as life moves toward you, not the other way around. It is the power of a concentrated will carried forward by the highest consciousness that brings life to your doorstep. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

On Luck

What we call "Luck" is really the product of our higher consciousness. (2009-2011 Q1)

  

Levels of Consciousness Related to Life Response

• We can see three levels of life response (i.e. sudden good fortune): unconscious, semi-conscious, conscious, and super conscious.

• If you come upon sudden good fortune, and do not consider or notice the causality, i.e. what inner behavior on your part precipitated it, you have "experienced" unconscious life response.

• If luck suddenly comes your way and you perceive the inner cause on your part that evoked it, it is semi-conscious life response.

• If you know that you are deficient in an area, such as having a negative attitude toward certain close friends, and both make the effort to overcome it and know that it could evoke good fortune, and does so, then you have experienced conscious life response.

• Finally, if you evoke the spiritual Force in anticipation of an upcoming event, or to deal with a problem, or for other concerns, while knowing that this consecrated effort will produce miraculous-like results, and it occurs, then you have experienced super-conscious life response. It is super-conscious not only because you are conscious of a coming unprecedented, infinitely creative, positive outcome, but you are in sync with a superconsciousness Itself that knows that it will occur, while exercising its Infinite power to do. (2009-2011 Q1)

  

A Global 'Response' to Life Response Book

For 10 years, I put all of my energies into researching and writing a book 'The Miraculous Phenomenon of Life Response.' It is an exploration of the ways we evoke sudden good fortune from out of nowhere. It is based on the principles of life discovered by the multi-dimensional spiritual genius Sri Karmayogi 30+ years ago.

However, life has not responded to my effort, as sales have been anemic. Yet just as I was finishing the book, another somewhat-similar volume came out called 'The Secret,' which has sold millions and has become a worldwide phenomenon. Rather than fret, I saw it for what it was, an overwhelming response to my intense decade long effort to bring a great teaching to the world.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Response Living and Our Spiritual Future

Life response living is a stepping stone to the spiritual transformation of humanity and a collective divine life on earth. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

On Negative Life Response

Life responds to the state of our consciousness, positively, negatively, and neutrally.

If our consciousness is low, or we lower it from our normal status, we tend to quickly attract negative response from life.

Negative life response is often due to negative attitudes towards others, life, ourselves; ego movements; dissipation and depletion of energy; anger; dishonesty; expectation; premature celebration; opinions aguishly expressed; and loud, boisterous speech, amongst others. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Power of Tiny Act to Attract Positively and Negatively

Just as a tiny positive act of consciousness can attract an infinite result, so too a tiny negative act of unconsciousness can attract a powerful negative outcome. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Coming Together/Aligning Physically in Space and Time

Depending on the depth of our aspirations or intention, we can suddenly align with conditions that are highly beneficial to us. E.g., really wanting something can evoke powerful positive conditions for us, such as the fulfillment of our wish or some other useful development. This is called a "Life Response," or the "Power of Attraction."

Interestingly, we can even align with another by meeting in a common point in space and time. Recall how in Pride and Prejudice, Darcy and Eliza suddenly and most unexpectedly met at the pool at Pemberley. They were intensely thinking of one another beforehand (power of intention), and so the point of commonality they experienced inside caused them to suddenly align in common physical proximity outside. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Responding for Others, Not Self

Life response can occur in ways where you do not so much bring good fortune to yourself, but only to others. For example in the 2-part Masterpiece tv presentation Return to Cranford, Matty Jenkyns is constantly engaged in acts of self-givingness. Every time she does, it has the effect of bringing together the two young principles William and Peggy; even though those acts have nothing directly to do with them. This dynamic may occur because she is so utterly selfless. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

Life Response

 

Catching a Negative Emotion Always Attracts Positive Circumstance

When you catch a negative emotion and neutralize it, good fortune will suddenly come your way.

This morning I was feeling out of the loop; feeling ignored in relation to an important forum, as well as generally in relation to certain associates of mine. I then caught that feeling and rejected it out right. Right after, I received notice that several people had enthusiastically responded to comments I had made earlier, whereas up to that point there had been complete silence.

Each time you sense that your ego has been pierced, or are feeling or acting through your lower self, or are otherwise expressing inwardly or outwardly a wrong attitude, catch yourself and reverse that tendency. Life will immediately smile on you with good fortune. It will do so unfailingly!

 

Involution/Evolution, Life Response, and Service

Involution is in the descent from the unmanifest Spirit to Matter. Evolution is the ascent from matter back to Spirit, where the seed of consciousness buried within, involved there through the Divine Action and Will is brought to the surface through elevations of the consciousness of the form, including us.

Question from Reader: Can you kindly support this through a life response example?

Answer: Lizzy in Pride and Prejudice has enormous capacity for success for a woman of her times. She is intelligent and dynamic. However, success remains only a potential for her; it is Involved. After the elopement, she acknowledges the foolishness of her family. Because she does so in such a heartfelt manner, Darcy arrives out of nowhere, proposes to her, she accepts, and they are married, thus evoking great success for her and her family. Life has responded beyond all measure. Through her higher awareness and acknowledgement of the Truth, her involved great capacity for success comes to the surface. I.e. there is Evolution.

Question from Reader: Can you put forth your views on What is Involution and Evolution in Service to Karmayogi and Mother. I will be Blessed. Thanks.

Answer: In involution we serve our lower self, which is Ego. There is however the lurking potential to serve the Divine. Commitment to and taking action to serve Karmayogi and Mother brings that potential to the surface; makes it actualized and real, which is Evolution. Complete Surrender utilizing all Their methods is a further step, enabling integral Transformation of our being and all life around us. We thereby become instruments of Divine Life on Earth.

Inner-Outer Correspondence

Life Response and Inner-Outer Correspondence

The phenomenon of Life Response occurs because of the principle of inner-outer correspondence. It indicates that the inner and outer are not two separate entities, but one continuous stream of existence. Therefore, if we change our consciousness within, the outer will instantly respond in kind in a positive manner. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Our Outer Life is a Reflection of Our Inner Being

If we want to know what we are, what we truly believe, and what our attitudes are towards others and life, we need merely look around and consider our outer life conditions -- from our work situation to our personal relationships to the state of our health. The outer circumstance are a perfect mirror of our consciousness and psychological status within. If we want to improve the outer conditions, then we must find and reverse the corresponding wanting inner qualities. If we sincerely make that effort, life will respond rapidly and forcefully with great unprecedented benefit.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Around Us as Mirror of Our Consciousness

The world around you is a mirror of your current and past consciousness. Everything that comes to you, that surrounds you, is a reflection of your aspirations, attitudes, decisions, and actions.  In that way, we can examine all that comes our way, discover the corresponding element within, and overcome the negative, while reinforcing the positive. Life will then reflect more positive circumstance in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. The more decisive the change, the more quickly life will respond, both quantitatively and qualitatively. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Response and Inner-Outer Correspondence

The phenomenon of Life Response occurs because of the principle of inner-outer correspondence. It indicates that the inner and outer are not two separate entities, but one continuous stream of existence. Therefore, if we change our consciousness within, the outer will instantly respond in kind in a positive manner. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

What is the Problem Trying to Tell You?

Every time a small or large negative comes, ask yourself "what are these conditions trying to tell me?" E.g., you are washing the dishes, and the cap for the liquid will not come off. It is telling you something else that might need your attention and scrutiny -- whether outwardly or inwardly. E.g., you may be acting too fast, or you may have neglected something in the past, or your attitude concerning the endeavor is wanting, etc. The same holds true for an untoward event that has occurred in your work, your job, on the street, or elsewhere. In that way, every negative is an opportunity for greater mindfulness, consciousness, and self-discovery. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Inner Orientation of the Spiritual-oriented Individual

The ordinary orientation of the individual is outward. However, for the spiritual person it is inward. He finds his purpose there, acts from there, and changes the world from there. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Permanently Reversing a Negative

Every negative outcome that crosses your path has a corresponding wanting quality within you. Reverse that inner behavior, and the outer negative will quickly dissipate, or even change to a powerful positive. Reverse it fully, through sincere commitment for change, and by offering it to the spiritual Force, and it will never occur again. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Others' Negative Qualities Reflect in Yourself

When you perceive a negative quality in another person, it likely reflects the very same trait in yourself.

In Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, the insufferable, difficult Mrs. Bennett accuses various individuals of a variety of faux pas, each of which she embodies herself!

Another individual I know continually condemned a friend for not being attentive to him, which he himself practiced to a very large degree.

If you are brave and see the correlation between the fault you see in others and its correspondence in your own self, you will be well on the road of personal growth, which is nothing less than an ecstatically joyful experience. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Response 'Shlokas'

• 'Shlokas' is the Sanskrit term for short, pithy statements that express a certain level of profundity. Here are a few that relate to life response; i.e. instances of sudden good fortune due to changes of consciousness within.

• The outer is a reflection of the inner.

• Change the inner, and the outer instantly change.

• In reality, there is no inner or outer; but one continuous stream of existence.

• Changes in consciousness create disequilibrium; the response of life restores things to a new equilibrium.

• Everything inside -- thought, feeling, and action -- will come out sooner or later.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Moving Life from Within

-Each time you are unable to move life on the outside is an occasion to move it from within.

-Outer life unmoving indicates you have to go deeper and find the right inner lever to change things. Often it is found in a resistance or a wanting attitude in your being. Overcoming it will cause life to suddenly spring into action on your behalf.

-For those on the path of the Spirit, outer unresponsiveness and resistance is also an opportunity to increase one's level of faith in something Higher. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

Organization of Existence that Allows for It

Interconnectivity and Life Response

Since every single thing is related to everything else, when there is a recognized, dramatic change in one object, person, or event, there is a simultaneous change in corresponding others, even if they appear to have no connection on the surface. This is the foundation of life response.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Oneness of Life

Despite the division we see on the surface, there is actually an inner Oneness to life that we can perceive. If we rise to our highest level of consciousness, we will sense that everything in existence is associated and interconnected. That there is behind our surface perceptions a universal web of existence in which everything and everyone is bound in an integral Oneness. To bring that view to the forefront will enable us to function from our highest possibility, and enable the perfection, even the divinization of life around us. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Interconnectedness of All at the Subtle Plane

Everything is connected with everything else. Though it is not perceived in the physical world (at the material level), it is more apparent from the subtle plane. From an inner poise away from the surface of life and its sense influence, we can perceive that oneness and interconnectedness. Having that perception, we develop a power over it; knowing what inner and outer strings to pluck to evoke good fortune for ourselves and the world around us.

Moreover, through that process, we bring the oneness of life to the surface; i.e. to the Life and Material planes. Then we will bathe in that Interconnectedness everywhere we turn; indicating the infinite, divine-like power that awaits us in the future. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Human and Spiritual Behaviors that Evoke Life Response

Q: What causes life response; i.e., instances of sudden good fortune?

A: Everything is connected with everything at the subtle plane. When we move our consciousness to the positive, we align with others whom we are associated with. I.e. they and/or their circumstance move towards us, and we toward them. It can happen by overcoming a negative attitude, through an intense aspiration or intention for something to come about, by taking to higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness, by making a decision, by taking responsibility for a problem, by a self-giving gesture, and so forth.

In addition, if utilized, the spiritual Force's causal power cements this dynamic of moving our consciousness to the positive, expanding it exponentially -- in terms of precision, perfection, intensity, volume, quality, and quantity, --  depending on our level of receptivity. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Entanglement and Non-Locality Beyond Normal Causality

It is exactly one hundred years to the year since Einstein formulated his Special Theory of Relativity, which provides the conceptual framework for the unification of space and time into space-time. He proved that time behaves precisely like a fourth dimension of space. Since then physicists have outgrown the superficial notion of spatial causality and accepted the principles of quantum entanglement and non-local connections, which are consistent with the concept of time as another dimension. But the logic of conventional materialism still insists on a concept of causality as outdated as the geocentric universe. (Garry Jacobs, from 'The Book') (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Entanglement between Humans

In her 1998 book The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, biophysicist Mae-Wan Ho informs us that "the visible body just happens to be where the wave function of the organism is most dense. Invisible quantum waves are spreading out from each of us and permeating into all other organisms. At the same time, each of us has the waves of every other organism entangled within our own make-up ..."

This strikes me as another form of the famous "Entanglement" of physics, also known as Non-Locality, which is the scientific principle that supports the phenomenon of Life Response. (I.e. two electrons of the same atom on either side of the universe can affect the other in an instant.) It is due (as we know) to the Oneness of all existence. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Coincidence is Subtle Connection of Oneness

There is no such thing as coincidence, for every thing is bound up with every other in ways that defy our outer experience. What we call "coincidence" is therefore subtle association and connection rooted in the Oneness of life. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Attitudes, Emotions and Causality

The action of thought and feeling is not limited to our surface consciousness, anymore than the electromagnetic spectrum is limited to the wavelengths of visible light that we perceive. If life is a field of energy and thoughts, and attitudes and emotions represent forms or waves of energy, then they must be able to act whether we are conscious of them or not. (Garry Jacobs, from 'The Book') (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Perceiving the Deeper Causalities

We only see the surface cause of events, missing the deeper causality of vital and mental forces, energies, intentions, etc. that evoke positive, neutral, and negative conditions and response from life.  (2009-2011 Q1)

   

 

Human Behaviors that Evoke It

Human Behaviors that Attract Good Fortune

Life responds positively to any elevation of consciousness, including a focused aspiration and intention to accomplish something, shifting an attitude from the negative to the positive, to higher levels of organization, to exercising greater psychological strength, and to acts of self-givingness. All of these attract positive conditions back to that person or collective of people. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Life Responds to Decision, Emotion, Action

Life responds most powerfully and quickly when our mental decision is endorsed by our vital emotions and by our physical actions. E.g. if I decide to initiate a new undertaking, and then sustain a deep emotion for it to come about, while taking every necessary action, life will respond overwhelmingly, quickly bring me what I was after. It can even come instantaneously, at the beginning. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

What We Put our Focus On, Quickly Manifests in Other Areas

We know that when you intensely focus on a subject, it suddenly crops up in other areas of your life. It is a wonder that comes to us miraculous-like. It must happen to me a dozen times a week; sometimes a day. At least, that is how often I notice it.

For example, this morning I was reading the entertainment section of my local newspaper. In the movie section, I noticed a review that was about a serious, even disturbing subject. I then wondered to myself, "Does every film or play that comes out have to be so intense. Is life really like this? Can't it be absorbing without being so passionate?" Then I thought of perhaps my favorite novel, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and realized how forceful and intense that story was; in particular, how the main character, Jean Valjean went through enormous difficulties in the course of his life. Realizing this, I turned the page of the entertainment section of my newspaper, and saw a big picture of an actor. It was Liam Nielsen, the star of the recent film version of Les Miserable, and the actor who played Jean Valjean!

Whatever we put our focus on, soon, if not immediately manifests in other ways. It is an extraordinary phenomenon that at once appears like a miracle, and also forces us to grapple with the deepest mysteries of life. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Focusing on Something Attracts More of It

It is a fundamental principle of life that when you focus your attention on a matter, life brings more of it to you. It is something I have experienced thousands of times over the course of my life.

E.g., today I came up with an idea for a technological multimedia solution. I then received in the mail a brochure for just such a solution, though I have never thought of this issue before and never receive technological literature in the mail.

Concentrating your thoughts on an issue, such as a new technology will cause it to quickly manifest in various forms around you. You will see it in your own life at least several times a day if you only recall that what you are receiving now is a manifestation of something you focused your attention in earlier; even things that you have never thought of before and never corresponded with anyone about.

It is the fundamental miracle of life. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

All Things Have a Consciousness that Responds to Attention

There is a consciousness in all things, even the most material, which responds to attention we give it.

One man cleaned a machine that had been neglected because it had not been used for production purposes to fill an order in the company. Soon after, the cousin of the owner arrived, took notice of the machine, and used it to create a very successful enterprise.

In another case, a business owner who was going through hard times, was advised to and then cleaned the dead stocks that had been lying dormant, unsold in the basement for a long time. Very soon after an individual came along and bought six months worth of inventory, thereby pulling the company out of the doldrums.

In a third case, an individual decided to give more attention to a neglected machine, which suddenly started working at double its rated capacity!

There are also known cases where individuals have made contact with the essence and "soul," of a material object, only to see it suddenly generate unexpected benefit to the individual. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Ascending the Steps of the City

The other day I had an interesting experience. I was walking in the city and was approaching an area where you walk up two dozen steps in a wall that takes you from one street to another street that crosses over it. It is a little unusual, though I had walked up it many times on the way to my car. In any case, on this day I started to walk up the steps as usual. Normally when I ascend the dark passageway I like to chant "Om," as the sound reverberates and I feel that in that ascendance I am calling the universe into my being.

This time however, I did something else. On the way to the passageway, I was thinking about Appa's comments on how evolution has occurred on earth through the ascendance of one societal development after another. So this time as I climbed the stairs, I thought of each of the stages one by one in their natural progression. I climbed the first few steps and said to myself, "Spirit was born in India." Then I climbed several more steps while thinking, "Mind was then born in Greece." Then I continued upwards I thought, "Rome brought law and organization." As I traversed a few more steps, I thought, "Europe brought Mind into science, business, and art." Then as I approached the top, I said "America discovered freedom for all and practical organization of material well-being for the masses."

When I reached the final steps, I hesitated to catch my breath. (It was a sharp incline!) I then hesitated for the next thought, but then remembered and said to myself, "and now India has taken America's material well-being and can apply it through Spirit, completing the circle" As I finished that happy thought, I ascended the final step, and then came out into the light of day. Immediate, on the bright street, I saw an individual pass me by. She was a well-dressed, prosperous Indian woman in a sari -- the only person on the street in a busy high-end residential district! I was thus simultaneously startled, shaken, and thrilled as I realized that I had manifest my last thought about the role of India before my eyes! It was a wonderful experience, both a response to the intensity of my focused thoughts, as well a confirmation of the insights of my spiritual teacher.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Change an Attitude & Life Will Rescue You

As soon as you change your attitude about others, a matter, or a work, life instantly comes to your rescue. One man changed his life long attitude about his son, and was astonished when his son appeared out of nowhere and rescued him when he was held hostage and his life threatened.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Reversing from Selfishness Attracts

At each point, we reverse out of selfishness, life immediately responds in our favor. We can make an experiment in the course of our day and watch for each instance of selfishness as it arises in our thoughts and emotions. At each point we catch ourselves and overcome that approach (even moving toward self-givingness), life will instantly move in our favor, whether in the form of more money, more work, new opportunities, and other ways. (2009-2011 Q1) 

 

The '5Gs' that Always Evoke Positive Response

There are five closely related behaviors that have a great propensity to elicit overwhelming positive response back to the benefactor. They are Self-Givingness, Goodness, Goodwill, Generosity, and Gratitude. I call these the '5Gs.'  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Self-Perfection and Delight

All movements of self-perfection attract powerful results from life, as well as feelings of deep Delight. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

On Negative Behavior and Response from Life

-Each time you have a decidedly negative reaction to a thing, such as a commentary in which you strongly express your disapproval, negative circumstance will quickly follow.

-When an impulse to react negatively raises itself within you, hold back from expressing it. That way you'll avoid an immediate negative reaction from occurring -- whether in the form of bad news, personal accident, or other.

-If negative conditions descend on you, consider the intention, attitude, decision, or action that precipitated it. If you reverse that quality from that point forward, luck will quickly come your way. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Coincidental Meeting and Thinking About One Another

When two people meet coincidentally, it is often the case that they have been thinking pointedly about one another beforehand. It is life responding to that common focused interest that previously and now occurs in shared time and space. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Non-initiating vs. The Secret

Q: You say that controlling our urges, desire to act, i.e. non-initiation conserves energy and attracts what we want towards us. But the book 'The Secret' says that the process of creation works in three steps: ask, believe and receive. In the third step, we should pay attention to our inner urges and 'act' on them; otherwise, we cannot manifest what we want in the physical world.  Now this is contrary to the advice of non-initiation that is advocated by you. 

A: Both methods are completely valid. The Secret's method of intention is perfect for the average person. Understand and visualize what you want, ask for it, believe in the results, and receive it. It is to a large degree the universal process of creation and accomplishment in action. Like following this process for ourselves, the Divine followed this process in extending Itself to create a universe of forms. In this way, infinite results are made possible out of nothing through a process of intention, will, and manifestation.

Non-initiation is for the person somewhat more developed in consciousness. That individual uses inner silent power to attract things to him. The Spirit's first poise before creation is Stillness, Stability, and Silent Witness. Non-initiating is one form of that for the individual. (Silent Will, soft speech, non-reaction are several others.) That approach also attracts. E.g., the yogi on the mountain sits in utter silence for hours if not days, focuses his mind on a thing, and it occurs shortly thereafter. He has taken no action. The urge of an intention is hardly there. Yet, through non-initiation and restraint, life responds overwhelmingly. He has built up powerful inner energies of Silence that attract.

The Secret has one central method for attracting; i.e. to accomplish the object of one's desire. But there are many ways to attract. E.g. increased -- psychological strength, cleanliness, reversing negative attitudes (a big one!), the silence methods mentioned above, and so forth. Depending on your level of consciousness, you have a myriad of inner methods at your disposal. Also, we do not have to attract for the purpose of accomplishing a particular thing, but simply to have the world continually operate in our favor. Beyond that, we can surrender to the Divine, and through these and other methods -- particularly consecration -- life conspires to work in Its favor through us. All of these are forms of Attraction.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Human Behaviors that Attract Good Fortune

Life responds positively to any elevation of consciousness, including a focused aspiration and intention to accomplish something, shifting an attitude from the negative to the positive, to higher levels of organization, to exercising greater psychological strength, and to acts of self-givingness. All of these attract positive conditions back to that person or collective of people. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

  

Negative Life Response

On Negative Life Response

Life responds to the state of our consciousness, positively, negatively, and neutrally.

If our consciousness is low, or we lower it from our normal status, we tend to quickly attract negative response from life.

Negative life response is often due to negative attitudes towards others, life, ourselves; ego movements; dissipation and depletion of energy; anger; dishonesty; expectation; premature celebration; opinions aguishly expressed; and loud, boisterous speech, amongst others. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Negative Feelings Attract Wanting Outcomes

Irritated and hostile feelings towards others, events, and circumstance attract instantaneous negative results, such as mistakes, errors, blackouts, accidents, and other wanting results.   (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Effect of Negative Attitudes

Every surge of negative attitude inside attracts a surge of negative results outside. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

On Negative Behavior and Response from Life

-Each time you have a decidedly negative reaction to a thing, such as a commentary in which you strongly express your disapproval, negative circumstance will quickly follow.

-When an impulse to react negatively raises itself within you, hold back from expressing it. That way you'll avoid an immediate negative reaction from occurring -- whether in the form of bad news, personal accident, or other.

-If negative conditions descend on you, consider the intention, attitude, decision, or action that precipitated it. If you reverse that quality from that point forward, luck will quickly come your way. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Permanently Reversing a Negative

Every negative outcome that crosses your path has a corresponding wanting quality within you. Reverse that inner behavior, and the outer negative will quickly dissipate, or even change to a powerful positive. Reverse it fully, through sincere commitment for change, and by offering it to the spiritual Force, and it will never occur again. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Negative Expressions

There are endless ways we can express ourselves negatively. In this regard, there are several things to keep in mind:

(1) Negative expression tends to attracts corresponding negative conditions, sooner or later.

(2) If we identify a negative expression and withhold it, positive conditions will quickly present themselves.  

(3) If we make the effort to change an ongoing fundamental negative quality in our being, life will respond with resounding good fortune. Often it will occur instantaneously. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Creating a New Center Of Consciousness to Evoke Life Response

Discovering the True Center of Our Own Being, and of Life Around Us

Behind the surface personality in man, lies his true inner being. By contacting this deeper center he gains freedom from all the conflicting elements of his personality and the power to mould them into a unified harmonious whole. He discovers the Divine within himself.

So too, behind and within all other living beings and material objects, there is a center of pure consciousness. By entering into conscious relationship with that center in other things and beings, he gains a direct knowledge of his external environment and the power to influence conditions and events. (Karmayogi) (2009-2011 Q1)

 

  

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Today's International Life Response Event

Apple just hit its 10 billionth download for its ITunes music store, and gave out a prize to the one who made that online purchase. The name of the 10 billionth song the person downloaded was Johnny Cash's "Guess Things Happen That Way." Indeed they do! The title is no coincidence.

Oh, by the way, the winner received a $10,000 reward of ITunes music, not a bad way to spend some 'Cash.'  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Another Work Required for Initial Desired Work to Blossom

Often the results from an effort you made in a work does not come about until after you make a necessary in another work or domain; often when they outwardly have nothing to do with one another. Only then does the first work come to fruition, blossom.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

On Negative Behavior and Response from Life

-Each time you have a decidedly negative reaction to a thing, such as a commentary in which you strongly express your disapproval, negative circumstance will quickly follow.

-When an impulse to react negatively raises itself within you, hold back from expressing it. That way you will avoid an immediate negative reaction from occurring -- whether in the form of bad news, personal accident, or other.

-If negative conditions descend on you, consider the intention, attitude, decision, or action that precipitated it. If you reverse that quality from that point forward, luck will quickly come your way. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

Negative Feelings Attract Wanting Outcomes

Irritated and hostile feelings towards others, events, and circumstance attract instantaneous negative results, such as mistakes, errors, blackouts, accidents, and other wanting results.  (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Effect of Negative Attitudes

Every surge of negative attitude inside attracts a surge of negative results outside. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

Not Forcing Yourself on Others

When you force yourself on others, life pushes back, often through sudden negative outcomes. Better to be restrained and practice calm, patience, and silence. Then life will flow much better. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

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