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Methodology of the Perceptible Breath is simple! Everyone can learn it and make it their own. The methods need to be not only simple in their inner structure but rather also able to be carried out by ordinary people in their everyday lives. A method which requires a substantial alteration of the routine everyday would have no chance of finding the necessary recognition by humanity. In the Perceptible Breath it is a concern that those who are working on their own breathing should not exercise only in a structured exercise period as their “breathing program”, but instead that they integrate the breathing experiences into their everyday life. As for the questions of the “how“ and for “what is required“, I would like to refer to the fact that up till now nobody who is alive today has reached the exalted (and most exalted) spiritual heights, and whose higher Mind is strongly developed has reported changes to their physical body – and this although The Mother not only once unambiguously stated that people who were ready could achieve this goal already. For me this is a (further) indication that even a high degree of fulfillment of spirit and the spiritual being exercises no direct influence on the dawning of consciousness of the physical body. I would like to conclude this chapter with a characteristic experience of The Mother from 23rd November 1968: „I've had an interesting experience.... Not yesterday evening but the evening before, someone I won't name told me, "I am fully in the physical consciousness: no more meditations, and the Divine has become something up above, so far away...." Then, instantly, while he was speaking, the whole room FILLED with the divine Presence. "Oh," I told him, "Not up above: HERE, right here." |
And at that moment, EVERYTHING, the whole atmosphere . . . you know, the very air seemed to change into divine Presence (Mother touches her hands, her face, her body): you understand, everything was touched, touched, permeated, but with ... above all, there was a dazzling Light, a Peace like this (massive gesture), a Power, and also such Sweetness . . something . . . you felt it would be enough to melt a rock. And it's the BODY'S experience, you understand, physical, material, the body's experience: everything, absolutely everything is full, full' there's NOTHING but That, and we are like . . . everything is like something shriveled, you know, like dried‑up bark, something dried up. You get the impression that things (not completely—superficially) have become hard, dry, and that's why they don't feel. That's why they don't feel Him, otherwise everything, but everything is NOTHING but That; you can't breathe without breathing Him, you understand; you move about, and it's within Him that you move about; you are . . . everything, the whole universe is within Him—but MATERIALLY, physically, physically. It's the cure of the "drying up" that I am now seeking.I feel it's fantastic, you understand. And then, when I listen, It also says things; I told Him, "But then, why do people always climb up above?" And with the most extraordinary, fantastic humor: "Because they want me to be very far from their consciousness!” |