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THE NATURE OF SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION, AND THE NATURE OF ENFORCED ILLUMINATION. THE SOUL IN CHEMICAL CLOTHES

“The Nature of Spontaneous Illumination, and the Nature of Enforced Illumination. The Soul in Chemical Clothes.”

When you are fairly happy and content in your daily life, you can be said to be in a state of grace. On those occasions when you feel at one with the universe, or come upon an exceptional experience in which you seem to go beyond yourself, you can be said to be in a state of illumination, and this has many degrees and levels. In any such state your physical health benefits, generally speaking, though there may be some beliefs blocking in that direction.

[...] That “breakthrough” cannot be logically explained, but only compared to, say, an illumination — that is, a light everywhere occurring at once, that became a medium for life in your terms. It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce, but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life as you think of it was possible — and at that imaginary hypothetical point, all species became latent.

There was no point at which consciousness was introduced, because consciousness was the illumination from which the first cells emerged. That illumination was everywhere then at every point aware of itself, and of the conditions formed by its presence. [...]

[...] Seth’s presentations clearly illuminate the subject matter of both Jane’s dream and our questions about evolution. [...]

[...] In one way, a state of grace or illumination happens where there is the greatest poised balance of the conscious mind with other levels of the psyche and body — a biological and spiritual recognition of the individual’s wholeness within himself and his relationship with the universe at large.

[...] Here I merely want to point out some of the natural doorways to self-illumination and states of grace. [...]

[...] Any of these natural healing methods can even lead beyond feelings of well-being and strength, physical health and vitality, to those sublime experiences of illumination and grace.

(9:29.) A discussion involving LSD, conscience, the “death and birth of the self,” mental health and spiritual illumination, may not seem applicable to those of you who have not taken drugs. But all of you do hope for illumination, greater vitality and understanding in one way or another, and wonder what methods might help you achieve these ends. [...]

[...] Here we are dealing with an artificial and forced method of, hopefully, bringing about physical, psychic and spiritual illumination. [...]

[...] It never occurred to you that the two aspects could release one another — one illuminating the other — and both be fulfilled. [...]

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of … solving problems or challenges that seem to have nothing to do with the original challenges. [...]

Today is tomorrow, and present, past,
Nothing exists and everything will last.
There is no beginning, there was no end,
No depth to fall, no height to ascend.
There is only this moment, this flicker of light,
That illuminates nothing, but oh! [...]

The paintings are to provide illuminations which are the result of questions and not of problems. [...]

You knew when you would be ready and your emotions, repressed until then, would then emerge as new to illuminate the forms and to fill them out.

[...] The illumination that makes great paintings, again, has nothing to do with time. [...]

Privately this is when human beings find themselves aware of greater illumination, when they make sudden decisions and experience new strengths. [...] There will then be great planetary changes in terms of your organizations, but these will reflect private interior illuminations that become physically materialized. [...]

[...] Privately, they often involve illuminations and sudden advantageous decisions. [...]

[...] In some of these philosophies the daylight is seen as pallid, for example, in comparison with the true brilliance of knowledge that illuminates the dream state, and black is the symbol then of secret knowledge that cannot be found with normal consciousness, or be scrutinized in the light of day.

The light of illumination is experienced as white, yet it often appears to delineate the darkness of the soul, or to shine in the black of night. [...]

[...] In these instances the beauty and illumination of your dream state can be clear in the conscious mind, and used to enrich your physical life. [...]

[...] A fond good evening—and expect the new material on dreams in my book to further extend and illuminate your own dreaming activity. [...]

[...] When he does find himself worried, he should feel free to speak to you, however, as your conversation about the dentist was illuminating to him. [...]

[...] There are many reasons why “illumination” (in quotes) occurs in the third and fourth decade. Such illumination represents the first contact of the ego with its inner self, and is only a beginning.

[...] Now, when the sun shines and the rays fall from the sun down through your solar system, the sun is not consciously aware of its rays nor of the rooms that these rays may illuminate. [...]

[...] It can illuminate many ways and you can feel safe to follow these ways into other personalities that are a portion of yourself—and into other realities in which you also have your existence. [...]

You can use my voice as a light to illuminate those pathways of existence that are now clear to you. [...]

The feeling even astonished you, so by contrast it should show you your own mode of thought habitually, and by implication suggest Ruburt’s. The experience should have been illuminating.

He did better than usual (comma), lately, in the store today, and immediately found himself substituting a bad coughing spell (in the store, P&C)—highly illuminating. [...]

A good relationship between you frees repressed emotion on both of your parts, which then pours over into your work and illuminates all of your interior and exterior landscapes both symbolically and literally.

(To conclude the whole episode I’d like to illuminate, from two additional angles, Jane’s feelings and concerns about needing the understanding of others:

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of illuminations solving problems that on the one hand seem to have nothing to do with the problems. [...]

[...] It never occurred to you that the two aspects could release one another—one illuminating the other—and both be fulfilled. [...]

You made some comments very important to him—further illuminating how his past beliefs colors his thoughts, so that he looked at the worst side of the given picture. [...]

[...] Its character is transformed, so that the “dark” qualities are seen as actually illuminating portions of conscious life, while also providing great sources of power and energy for normal ego-oriented experience.

Illumination concerning the inner self may appear clearly during waking reality, and in the same way invaluable information about the conscious self may be received in the dream state. [...]