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If you utilize the point of power properly (as described in the 657th session in Chapter Fifteen), you will feel the nonphysical energy translated into effective personal power through your intersection with flesh. You will be able to use that power consciously, with purpose, to change your personal experience, and so to change the social framework at least partially. Such exercises aid in the evolution of your consciousness, and will also serve you in fashions you may not suspect. The acquiescence to your own power will automatically flow through your experience, activating your dream life as well and providing additional helpful impetus to your waking reality. You will no longer need to transfer your sense of power to others. All of the exercises given earlier in this book are prerequisites, however; they are necessary so that you understand how the point of power is to be used. The recognition of personal feelings and the working through of beliefs — all of this will expand your understanding of yourself.

Power does not basically imply superiority over. There is the power of love, for example, and the power to love. Both imply great action and vitality, and an aggressive thrust that has nothing to do with violence. Yet many people have physical symptoms or suffer unpleasant situations because they are afraid to utilize their own power of action, and equate power with aggression — meaning violence. (See the 634th session in Chapter Eight.)

If you equate power with youth then you will isolate the elderly, transferring upon them your own rejected powerlessness, and they will seem to be a threat to your well-being. If you agree that violence is power then you will punish the criminal with great vindictiveness, for you will see life as a power struggle, and will concentrate upon the acts of violence about which you read. This may bring such aspects into your personal life, so that you yourself meet with violence — hence deepening your conviction. (Pause.) If you accept the basic idea that evil is more powerful than good, then your beneficial acts will bear little fruit because of your own framework; you assign such small power of action to them.

(9:24.) Now in its way that was a transference of a problem in a unique manner. The need to act and be in control of action is paramount in conscious beings. Augustus therefore actually created from himself a position of power from which he could, at least for a while, operate. He had to pretend amnesia so as to hide this mechanism from himself. As long as power is equated with violence, then you will feel it necessary to regulate normal aggression in your behavior; and considering power as violent, you will be afraid to act to some extent. You will then consider goodness and powerlessness to be somewhat synonymous, and equate power with evil. Not wanting to face such “evil” in yourself, you may then direct it outward and transfer it to another area.

[...] But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. [...]

Yet when he improved he felt that he did not want those “new distractions,” and so the power of his will still kept the body down. The power of his will is amazingly strong. [...]

He did not until today connect up the idea of the power of the will and his body, for he has willed his body down. He sees that the challenge has been won, and now it is time to take up the next challenge, to apply the power of the will to the body.

There are reasons why he “relapsed,” but the point of power is in the present, and this material and its understanding by Ruburt is more important than “past” causes. [...] Instead there have been a series of challenges that Ruburt has met through using the power of his will, and this is simply the next one to be conquered.

You each have literally incredible power at your command—as each individual does. You should both be able to sense that power, however, more than others, and to direct it where you want it, both together and individually.

[...] If you understand your power and exert it, and you can, then you can accelerate the process. [...] You can coax Ruburt more and encourage him, and exert your power more in that direction. [...]

[...] Each of you should now and then try to sense your individual power, for it goes out creatively in the books. [...]

Ruburt must realize that his power and energy can, and indeed is, changing his body for the better. [...]

(Pause at 10:28.) Power is natural. It is the force, the power of the muscle to move, or the eye to see, of the mind to think, the power of the emotions — these represent true power, and no accumulation of wealth or acclaim can substitute for that natural sense of power if it is lacking. Power always rests with the individual, and from the individual all political power must flow.

[...] You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions. Again, impulses are doorways to action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental and physical power, the avenue for your private expression — the avenue where your private expression intersects the physical world and impresses it.

Dictation: Impulses, therefore, provide impetus toward motion, coaxing the physical body and the mental person toward utilization of physical and mental power.

The motive power of the universe and of each particle or wave or person within it is the magnificent thrust toward creative probabilities, and the tension that exists, the exuberant tension, that exists “between” probable choices and probable events. [...]

[...] This is still evocative material, even though she doesn’t know whether Seth will use any of it in his book: “For a ‘Power Chapter’: Each person has his or her own ‘psychic territory of power’ which is not to be relinquished,” she wrote. [...] It’s far better to think in terms of power than of lacks — the power of life, of motion, of speech, etc. People confuse this with power over their environment, or others, then wonder why power over doesn’t work….

(“Yet each individual must eventually realize that you can’t give up power in one area without … ultimately threatening the inner core or psychic territory of power to some extent…. [...]

At a certain point the integers seem to dissolve; their value undermined (“I think this bit has to do with that Planck thing,” Jane said), but here they actually pick up added powers, precisely where you cannot follow, in integer, where its values seem to be undermined. At this point it is raised to another power that escapes the perceptive abilities of the 3-dimensional brain.

Here at the 9th power there is balance with the minus 9, but only for a moment. [...] Here there is the development of new powers, and the negative functions come to the fore.

[...] It is besieged by truth to the 3rd power, truth being one, hand in hand with 7. Three C (E?), 3C, over 9 to the 7th power, will temporarily equate with 9 over 137, might give you truth.

[...] To the 9th—not sure of the word here—to the 9th power or degree. [...]

[...] He believed in the absolute necessity of power, while convinced at the same time that he did not possess it; and further, he believed that in the most basic terms the individual was powerless to alter the devastating march of evil and corruption that he saw within the country, and in all the other countries of the world. No matter how much power he achieved, it seemed to him that others had more — other people, other groups, other countries — but their power he saw as evil. For while he believed in the existence of an idealized good, he felt that the wicked were powerful and the good were weak and without vigor.

[...] Scary stories abound about our nuclear dilemmas, ranging from tales of poorly designed plants, control rooms, and instruments, to the failure to promptly report potentially serious accidents, to the fact that in 1978 every one of the country’s more than 70 nuclear power plants had at least one unexpected shutdown because of procedural errors, mechanical failures, or both. The increasing dependence of the United States upon nuclear power is being deeply questioned, even though that energy is supposed to help alleviate our growing reliance upon foreign oil. [...]

MEN, MOLECULES, POWER, AND FREE WILL

[...] She also picked up from him the heading of Chapter 8 for Mass Events: “Men, Molecules, Power, and Free Will.” [...]

Your effective power of action follows the lines of your beliefs. To believe in your own weakness is to deny yourself the power of action. To accept uncritically all beliefs that come to you is to open yourself to a barrage of conflicting data at best, in which the clear lines of action and power become blurred. [...]

THE BODY OF YOUR BELIEFS, AND THE POWER STRUCTURES OF BELIEFS

Dictation: Chapter Six: “The Body of Your Beliefs, and the Power Structures of Beliefs.” [...]

(Pause.) Because ideas and beliefs have this electromagnetic reality, then, constant interplay between those strongly contradictory beliefs can cause great power blocks, impeding the flow of inner energy outward. [...]

(Notes by Jane from Murphy’s Power of the Subconscious Mind: “The power of your subconscious is enormous. [...] You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a certain specific thing accomplished. Here then is a source of power and wisdom that places you in touch with omnipotence, or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine. [...]

[...] You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a specific thing accomplished. Here then is a source of power and wisdom that places you in touch with omnipotence, or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine. [...]

(Notes by Jane from Dr. Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. [...]

(The power of your subconscious is enormous. [...]

[...] Imagine your future from the power point of the present. [...] In this period concentrate upon the fact that the point of power is now. [...]

[...] It is bad enough to believe that you are at the mercy of one past, but to consider yourself helpless before innumerable previous errors from other lives puts you in an impossible situation; the conscious will is robbed of its power to act. [...] They are other expressions of yourself, interacting, but with each conscious self possessing the point of power in its own present.

In a way that will be explained in another book for those interested in such matters, there is a kind of coincidence with all of these present points of power that exist between you and your “reincarnational” selves. [...] There is a constant interaction in this multidimensional point of power, therefore, so that in your terms one incarnated self draws from all of the others what abilities it wants, according to its own specific, localized beliefs.

THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER.

(Slowly:) The part of Augustus who felt powerful and alien became personified. When Augustus felt threatened then the conscious mind switched over, accepting as operating procedure the system of beliefs in which Augustus saw himself as all-powerful, secure — but as alien. [...] When Augustus Two assumed leadership then the physical body itself was not only strong and powerful, but capable of physical feats far surpassing those of Augustus One.

[...] Before, he was physically powerful when he was Augustus Two, and weak when he was Augustus One. [...] As Augustus Two he could stay up night and day and perform physical tasks quite difficult for the normal human being to do, for he operated under the indivisible idea of power and strength.

[...] At the same time he let his conscious mind wander, and to compensate saw himself as all-powerful, contemptuous of his fellow human beings, and able to work greater vengeance upon them for their misunderstanding of him. [...]

[...] His purpose in this case is quite clear and simple: He is to help Augustus One, to use his power on the latter’s behalf, rewarding his friends and terrifying his enemies. [...]

[...] You have in your history then a male god of power and vengeance, who killed your enemies for you. [...] The male god is a god of power. [...]

[...] If it were tied to money-making, as it once was, then painting became also power-making, and hence acceptable to your American malehood; and I am quite aware of the fact that both of you were, by the standards of your times, quite liberal, more the pity. You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute, for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the painting would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] Generally speaking, creativity has feminine connotations in your society, while power has masculine connotations, and is largely thought of as destructive.

[...] It is a source of revelation and inspiration—but revelation and inspiration do not initially deal with power, but with knowing. [...]

If you learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most effectively to alter your life situation in whatever way you choose — again, within those limitations set by your creaturehood. If you were born without a limb, for example, your power in the present cannot automatically regenerate it in this life, although in other systems of reality you do possess that limb. [...]

In a manner of speaking, each belief can be seen as a powerful station, pulling to it from fields of probabilities only those signals to which it is attuned, and blocking out all others. [...]

[...] The images in your mind draw to themselves all the proper emotional energy and power needed to fill them out as physical events.

[...] Therefore the present is your point of power in your current lifetime, as you think of it. [...]

Nuclear power stands for power, plain and simple. [...] It stands in man’s dreams as belonging to God: the power of the universe (intently). Man has always considered himself, in your terms, as set apart from nature, so he must feel set apart from nature’s power — and there must be a great division in his dreams between the two. [...]

(Early last Wednesday an ominous development began unfolding at Three Mile Island, the nuclear power generating plant located on an island in the Susquehanna River below Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [...] 1 had already been shut down for refueling.] By now the situation is much more serious, however: There’s a chance of catastrophic “meltdown” of the uranium fuel rods in the damaged reactor’s core — the worst possible accident that can occur in such circumstances short of an explosion, and a kind that proponents of nuclear power have long maintained “almost certainly cannot happen.” [...]

Fundamentalists think of nuclear power as a force that God might use, say, to destroy the world. [...] Some of the scientists equate nuclear power with man’s great curiosity, and feel that they wrest this great energy from nature because they are “smarter than” nature is — smarter than nature, smarter than their fellow men — so they read those events in their own way. [...]

[...] “Strange,” I mused to Jane, “that of all the nuclear power plants in the world, we end up living that close to the one that goes wrong….”

[...] You have in your history then a male god of power and vengeance, who killed your enemies for you. [...] The male god is a god of power. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, creativity has feminine connotations in your society, while power has masculine connotations, and is largely thought of as destructive.

[...] It is a source of revelation and inspiration — yet initially revelation and inspiration do not deal with power, but with knowing. [...]

[...] And yet at the same time he was afraid of exerting power, for fear it would be thought that he was usurping male prerogatives.

[...] (Pause.) Generally speaking in your society, power is considered a male attribute. Cult leaders are more often male than female, and females are more often than not followers, because they have been taught that it is wrong for them to use power, and right for them to follow the powerful.

I said (in Session 846) that you have religious and scientific cults, and the male-oriented scientific community uses its power in the same way that the male Jehovah used his power in a different arena, to protect his friends and destroy his enemies. [...]

(With amusement:) The male scientist considers the rocket his private symbol of sexual power. (Pause.) He feels he has the prerogative to use power in any way he chooses. [...]

[...] Organizations cannot survive without individuals, and the most effective organizations are assemblies of individuals who assert their own private power in a group, and do not seek to hide within it (all very emphatically).

THE CONCENTRATION OF ENERGY, BELIEFS, AND THE PRESENT POINT OF POWER

(11:36.) Next chapter [Nineteen]: “The Concentration of Energy, Beliefs, and the Present Point of Power.”

[...] If you recognized the power of your own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater realms of creativity and experience, in which new challenges are inherent — for all problems are challenges.

[...] You can cure yourself of an “incurable” disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present.

[...] It also represents one area where neither of you truly believe that the point of power is in the present. In that one area you grant the power to the past.

The point of power is in the present. [...]

If you believe that the point of power is in the past in certain areas, then you lose out on a very fine advantage. [...]

[...] I do not think you believe what I tell you, and you do not believe me because you do not really believe that the point of power is in the present.

[...] Their effects may have surrounded you, or you may have switched beliefs in one particular area of your life; but each can be changed if you utilize the power of action in the present. [...]

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

Many people assign great power to a hypnotist, yet whenever you have the undivided attention of another, you act as a hypnotist to a large degree.

[...] This exercise should not be done along with the point of power exercise given earlier. [...]