Christ was talking about the unseen world when he told Pilot, “My kingdom does not belong to this world.”
Bennett was also talking about the unseen world when he gave his talk, The Master Idea of the New Epoch.
Unseen in the sense of energies and forces that are beyond our five physical senses, beyond our ordinary understanding. Beyond our concrete “reality.”
An Unseen but Real World
I like to think in terms of believing in a spiritual reality. But to be honest, this is a vague compilation of emotions and thoughts which distill for me into a longing, a wish, for something— I don’t quite know for what. God? Christ? Grace?
A something I can’t put my finger on yet yearn for anyway.
I believe in the unseen world, but I’m not looking to develop a relationship with ghosts, thank you very much.
Recently I’ve been listening to a podcast, The Telepathy Tapes, which has deeply affected me. The series is documenting severely autistic children who are non-verbal, and the parents, teachers, and therapists who have found ways to communicate with them. What results is mind-blowing. As the tapes unfolded, I glimpsed the access these children have to the unseen world. And how they are acting as a bridge between the two worlds.
They are doing what Bennett says is our task in front of the current world situation and which he talks about in the Master Idea:
“To do everything we can to make ourselves into instruments for the higher wisdom channels through which this wisdom can flow, putting aside our worn wisdom, putting aside any belief in our own powers, to allow the higher power to work through us.”
Connecting with the Unseen
Bennett says the higher powers need us as much as we need them. So how do I begin the work of becoming a channel? For starters, by not clogging my own energy flow with negativity. To work to “manage to preserve a constant state of compassion and abstain from criticism.”
By remembering that we are all mechanical and caught in the events of epochal change, we can work “To not criticize people for doing what they can’t help doing; not to find fault where people are being carried along by a stream without any possibility of changing the course of events.”
Rather than finding fear and blame, let me look at my own lack. Use the tools of the Work to transform my own negativity. Stand in front of what I don’t understand and open to the unseen world of higher purpose.
Thanks Roberta. I have recently become aware of the Telepathy Tapes. I haven’t done much investigating yet. But it is pretty mindblowing.