I began my career as a historian examining how late-Victorian authors in English Canada represented the process of growth. (1)

They believed in something contemporary historians came to call “creative repression”: We grow by denying ourselves.

The body was seen as a fixed energy system. If we wasted our energy physically, we’d pay for it emotionally or psychologically, etc. There would be a snapback, a boomerang effect.

Women who give too much vent to emotions come to suffer from neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion. Men who bleed off their sexual energy through masturbation go mad.

Or so the theory went.

My generation, which was looking at the late Victorians, viewed its own philosophy as being “creative expression”: We believed we grew by expressing ourselves. Let it all hang out. Cool, man, cool. We tried everything, explored every path, visited every sacred place.

I’ve covered what happened to the flower children elsewhere. They were destroyed by the same forces that now want to rule the Earth.  It was easy for them; they had a secret weapon called “automation.” (2)

But let’s leave that and fast forward to the present.

Now we stand on the brink of monumental breakthroughs for civilization. Not only are we in a consciousness shift, but going alongside of it is the opportunity to meet the many star civilizations which have always stood as our protectors.

They’re bound by universal law to allow us our freewill so they stay in the background, but they keep us from becoming totally overwhelmed by evil forces roaming the universe.

We’re their descendants. They’re our ancestors. For many from the star systems concerned, this is a reunion.

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When we consider meeting a more-highly-developed star being, letting it all hang out won’t cut it. Hiding our light under a bushel won’t make it either. We’re called upon to offer them a spiritually-mature adult (don’t think I don’t find this challenging; I do).

This is not the lifetime to repress ourselves or make ourselves objectionable by being overly exuberant. It’s a time to consider how these other civilizations operate and how we can accommodate them.  Having read their messages on how challenging it is for them to meet with us and how Ashtar, for instance, refuses to come below the Fifth, I feel humble.

If we can raise our vibrations and moderate our exuberance enough to meet with them, I imagine they already know about it and will welcome our partnership at the appropriate time.

The place we need to come from if we’re to meet them at something of a level field I’ve called before our balancepoint, middle, center, heart, soul, or Self.

What can we call a philosophy that espouses coming from that place? Keeping with the naming convention, why don’t we call it “creative balance”: We grow by balancing ourselves.

And the methodology itself? The context or paradigm? Why don’t we call that dynamic balance or flow.

I assert that this is the paradigm or context that will be called out of us by contact with higher-dimensional civilizations.  If we want to prepare for First Contact, I suggest we look at mastering dynamic balance or flow.

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We need not only be balanced sitting here in meditation, but remain balanced when we get up off our cushion and recover everyday reality.

It’s easy to flow in a body as light as the down at the base of a feather, such as our astral bodies. Flowing is then natural.

It’s here in these dense 3D physical bodies that it’s a distinct chore, if we even get up to thinking it might work.  Many of us – perhaps even most of us – are sunk in what Hindus call the guna of thamas or lethargy – deep sleep.

At least that’s how we may appear to higher-dimensional beings, when compared to their own extraordinary lightness of being.

Meanwhile the more balanced we are, the more easily we can absorb and assimilate the higher energies being sent to us for our gradual Ascension. Nothing impedes their entry into us when we’re in the stillness and quiet that comes with balance.

Therefore neither creative repression nor creative expression is particularly useful to this generation. From a number of perspectives, however, creative, dynamic balance or flow would definitely be.

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As we get more and more balanced, we’re less under attack by our own strong emotions. We feel lighter and happier, more joyful and satisfied, more loving and blissful.

If we look, we find that we’re located in the middle, in the center, in the heart, the soul, the Self. All is quiet here and still, materially. But here the immaterial divine qualities flow freely.

Let me draw a line under that: There is no material movement here, but there is a flow of the immaterial divine qualities.  This immaterial flow has been largely overlooked in the classical view of enlightenment.

The mind is quiet. The heart is full of love. The knowing here is from a deeper place than the mind.

I’m convinced that the heart is the portal for us to all the higher dimensions.  I once described us as a balloon that was twisted into two. One part is “us.” The other part is the higher dimensions.

To untwist the balloon is to experience the full and permanent heart opening that is Ascension. Now the balloon is untwisted and … it’s found to contain the same air (love) as the rest of the balloon.  Heavens. It was all One. This false partition prevented us seeing that.

That’s about the way it is.

As we journey further and further into this mystery, meeting our galactic forebears along the way, all depends on balancing out more and more appetites, desires, wishes, wants, and anything else that attracts us “away from” God (as if that were possible).  The basic spiritual movement is from the world to God. The goal is mergence with the One again. (3)

When we’re in balance with our earthly desires – neither craving nor avoiding – the longing for liberation can assert itself and draw us Home. (4)

Footnotes

(1) The Bad Tobacco of the Mind: Cultural-Historical Aspects of the Fiction Question, 1867-1897. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1976.  Not accepted: “not historical.”

(2)  On these themes see “Basic Third-Dimensional Illusion: Separate Selves Struggling for Survival amid Seeming Scarcity,” May 17, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/05/17/basic-third-dimensional-illusion-separate-selves-struggling-for-survival-amid-seeming-scarcity-2/

“Killing for Market Share: The Old Paradigm in Business – Part 1/2,” April 16, 2018, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/04/16/killing-for-market-share-the-old-paradigm-in-business-part-1-2/

“Killing for Market Share: The Old Paradigm in Business – Part 2/2,” July 15, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/07/15/killing-for-market-share-the-old-paradigm-in-business-part-22/

(3) Seng T’san describes the state of equilibrium or balance:

“The Great Way isn’t difficult
for those who are unattached to their preferences.
Let go of longing and aversion,
and everything will be perfectly clear.
When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction,
heaven and earth are set apart.
If you want to realize the truth,
don’t be for or against.
”
(Seng T’san, The Mind of Absolute Trust
[The Book of Nothing].
from a literal translation
by Robert F. Olson
https://selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmSengTsan.htm.)

(4) “[The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with the ego-sense and so on, down to the physical body itself — through the realization of one’s true nature.” (Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 36.)

“All things long for [God]. The intelligent and rational long for it by way of the stirrings of being alive and in whatever fashion befits their condition.” (Pseudo-Dionysius in Cohn Luibheid, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 54.)