Spiritualizing Your Grosser Self

How to Change the Stress in our Lives to Inner Peace;

Change Antagonism to Love; Change Failure to Success

April 5, 1992, Sunday Lecture

My subject is supposed to be Spiritualizing Your Grosser Self.

I want to tell you a story that began about 9,000 years ago on the banks of the Nile at the Temple of On, on the Isle of On at the Temple of Thoth. There was a little priest there that somehow or other could not quite do what he wanted to do. He knew he should do it. They trained him in all of those lovely things he was supposed to do but somehow when he wanted to do it, he just never quite did it right.

Do you ever have that trouble? Do you ever want to do something and all of a sudden you find out you’re not doing what you wanted to do? Let me tell you it’s in almost all of the great religious theories through time; Buddhism will mention it, Taoism will, Christianity will, but especially in The Song of God there’s a place where Krishna has to answer the question, “Why do I do bad when I want to do good?” And he tries to answer it. I don’t think he answered it correctly but the book has been in existence now for 2,000 or 3,000 years and people have been saying he answered it correctly so somebody’s been getting some good from it.

But, now I want to give you what the little priest finally figured out for himself. And he brings it up to you to handle and do with it what you will. I understand that it’s supposed to have something to do with removing stress to get to inner peace, removing antagonism to get to love, and removing failure to get to success. Well, he had lost all of those and he had to do something significant for himself. The priest figured it out and he left it to us and we will take it from there.

First of all let's understand what we are talking about. We are talking about the grosser self. In the economy of the Egyptian bodies there is the Ren, Khat, and Ka; Ab, Ba, and Khaibit; Sekem, Sahu, and Khu . Well, we’re talking about the second part of it now which is going to be the Khat. We are talking about the Khat literally the sub-animal part of you.

And you say, “Oh well, I don’t have to worry about that because I’m human.” Oh yea? Before we get through I hope I shall convince you that you need some help, as a human being, to control that animal part of you.

We have from ancient times absorbed into every cell of our being the concepts of our race. Psychologists make millions writing books about the race soul and race beliefs. You have inherited almost as an instinct, but not quite, and that is where the dichotomy comes. Not quite an instinct but almost as an instinct, a learned procedure in a race that has gone on for so long that it has transferred, it has become a part of us. But, that’s not quite an instinct because it doesn’t always deal with taking care of your fundamental self but almost that.

We are talking about literally taking this clay man, the man that was the fundamental essence of mankind and turning it into something much better. I said this to someone I was counseling and she said, “Oh, you want to make a Sod God.” And I thought maybe that meant we would make gods out of sod.

The red body of the Egyptian, the Khat, however is not as easy to handle as we might like. It is worse than a wild beast because it has some culture to destroy. It’s more like the bull in the cultural china shop and you are that china shop. And believe me, it intends to take you over, rule you and handle you, the way it wants; because its desires are the fundamental desires. It’s called the red body. It’s called the animal body. Let me give you an idea of what it is. It is the all inclusive record of all the lives, of all the individuals in your past. It is the indelible record of the totality of all the lower than human self that you possess, all the knowledges and instincts available through and to your race. It’s the history of the race soul, it is in constant rebellion, it is disobedient, it constantly has a desire of some kind and has to be overcome by force. Now, if you have ever wrestled, you know that you overcome by force but you also overcome by not applying force when it’s expected. And that’s our out.

This strong absolutely unbridleable beast can be tricked. And that’s how we’re going to get our ends. If we don’t trick it: it owns us.

And we are going to get to what I am supposed to talk about: stress to inner peace; antagonism to love; and failure to success, that’s really the only can opener you have into this can of vicious worms that you have to control.

This body has a desire to survive at all costs and a desire to escape restrictions. It can be obedient if educated and disciplined. Here are some points to remember. Now get out your green wall and put these on it:

It responds only to action or to vital thought. In other words you can’t be sweet with your animal body. You have got to be positive and powerful! It has a habit of behavior. It’s called morals. A habit of behavior and this can be useful once you get that pry inside. You can use that as a leverage with which to pry. Morals, as you know, are man made. And they fit into the ethics of the culture that makes them. But, it is important to know, regardless of the culture you are in, that the influence of the animal body is controlled by letting it play with the mores of the culture.

The morals of the culture are made not to do anything specific. They are set up so that you won’t have a feeling of guilt of some kind of a transgress. Watch it! That animal self gets one little bit of you and it wants the whole thing. There is no dichotomy in your life, no choice between the race soul and yourself that the race soul can seize on. That takes a bit of doing doesn’t it? You really have to educate it. It requires behavior in terms of physical and mental action. You don’t win it by not forcing but you don’t have much basis to force from. It is the basis of the growth of all the other activities (bodies) so unless you get it you don’t get anything. You’ve got nothing to stand on. It has a race memory and it's smarter than your cell self.

I hope you heard that and I will repeat it.

Your animal self has your race memory and its smarter than your cell self.

It’s smarter than your human self. And it can not be commanded if physical actions are outside of your own and your cultures belief system. You can not coerce it or command it especially if you don’t really believe what you are trying to do…or doing anything outside of what you believe….and its controlled desire may be trained into this animals body IF we learn how to get inside and get control and slowly, slowly educate it, to do what we want it to do beyond its instinctual reactions and then we let it do its stuff and it will happily race you to the place you want to go and you’ll say to yourself, “Boy, am I good!” but all of a sudden you have learned to let your self be at ease with your Self.

Now, the priest on the side of the Nile, he discovered that he needed some props to help, some way to train this animal self that he possessed, that he couldn’t really control and so he wanted to invent some modes or methods or whatever you want to call it. So he did. And it came down to us and we have given it titles. We put titles on everything we get. Anyway, it’s Ten Commandants to Spiritualize Your Grosser Self. They seem very simple: never condemn, never criticize, never withhold love, never restrict totally, never challenge a belief system, never be proudly different from others, never destroy a sense of security, never doubt or cause doubt, never crush an ego, never accuse. Notice, they are all in the negative? Why do you think the little priest put them in the negative? Let me tell you. That animal self is always in the negative.

It gets to negative much faster than it gets to positive. And I am going to talk a little bit on that. Now we turn it over and we make it positive. Always exonerate, always praise, always give love, always…..and now the little priest developed something that I think you can use if you want to and you can help me do it. Put I will then the number one of the negative followed by also the number one of the positive

1) I will never condemn and always exonerate.

2) I will never criticize and always praise.

3) I will never withhold love. I will always give love.

4) I will never restrict totally but always allow freedom.

5) I will never challenge a belief system but always respect a belief system.

6) I will never be proudly different from others, I will always be proud to be like others.

7) I will never destroy a sense of security, I will always assure security.

8) I will never doubt or cause doubt. I will always remove doubts and fears.

9) I will never crush an ego. I will always respect an ego.

10) I will never accuse. I will always commend.

I think the priest suggested that maybe you could learn those and say them daily until they are driven into your great unconscious and if you did you would have an armamentarium with which to shoot, at least holes in your grosser self.

Let's talk about a few of them to see what was really being talked about there. You never condemn. The basic nature of the ant is to busily build and to defend what he has built with a very painful sting. The basic nature of the serpent is to slither stealthily but to defend itself with a killing strike. The basic nature of man combines both. It’s basically to be of good will but to promote the good of all and defend that nature by destroying with sting or strike to keep it the way it wants it to be.

Never criticize, Buddha came up with this. I think it’s terribly important to us. You know we think, “Hey Joe, your tie it’s not tied right, pull it over to the left”; it’s little things, “Darling, you don’t look as good this morning as you should” or one of the criticisms that I used to see destroy girls. I taught girls public speaking and we had this business where we would have them get up and criticize each other. Well, I saw what was happening. They’d get up and say, “Darling, it was a beautiful speech but you should talk louder.” Now what happens?

She doesn’t know how to talk louder except by raising her voice and screeching and all of a sudden, we have all these voices that are up there high and they are not pleasant at all.

Right away I got myself in trouble and got fired and I’m so glad because I said, “Nobody’s going to criticize anybody in my class. There will be no criticisms.” And they said, “ But this is going to be nationwide and this is how they do it.” And I said, “Then, you’re not going to do it with me as your instructor. If you’re going to do it, you’re going to show them the good points and let them figure out what was bad. Don’t worry, they’ll get the bad part out faster than you can tell them. But you’re not going to tell them in my class." Well, the class disappeared.

Two years later I got a phone call, “Dr. would you consider coming back and teaching the class?”

I responded, “No!”

“But, Dr. you can teach it anyway you want. We’ll do whatever you want.”

I said, “No criticism?” They said, “No criticism.”

So, I went back and taught them for two and a half years. Some of the finest young women in this town developed with never a moment of criticism.

Stop it in your life! I want to tell you why. Buddha got the idea a long time ago. He said, “If you criticize others you harm yourself.” He was a master of understatement. If you criticize others you destroy yourself…literally. You take on the faults you concentrate on. You take on the faults you see. One of the great things in our lives and one of the things that causes us more stress, more antagonism and less love is you take on the faults that you concentrate on and you, darling girls and you, wonderful boys, take a look at your relationships with your parents. Children can grow angry and distant from their parents and they can find fault with them and they can judge them and then they can leave and all of a sudden they find they are exactly like their parents. They are doing everything their parents did. They’re destroying their children as their parents destroyed their children. Why? Because when we focus on what is wrong we can’t see what is right. And that we remember. Believe you me, when I counsel a person, the first thing I ask is how do you get along with your parents? Because that is going to be the pattern that has to be broken before we can get anywhere. You take on a certain anger against your parents and you live with it forever.

Another thing we will touch on today is never challenge a belief system. Why? Two reasons: doesn’t do you any good and secondly you can do it a better way. Any person that has a belief system is going to hang on to it with all the power that they possibly have. They have come to a belief system only because it was either taught them at their mother's knee when it was too early for them to think or know, or it was taught to them by some catastrophic thing that happened to them and changed their life in some way. Either way you haven’t got a chance against it.

Just forget about trying to say, “Well, it would be better if you came over and believed exactly as I believe because my thoughts are so pure and perfect and I learned them perfectly and I know how to relay them to you and you will get along much better if you had them.” Not true. You can’t change a belief system and besides if you could impose your belief system it might not work for someone else. So, never challenge any belief system. And I’ll tell you one thing I believe that it is the most heinous crime. It’s not punishable by jail but it should be by flogging, (you see, my animal soul gets wound up in these things sometimes) but simply…don’t challenge. No matter how difficult you think you see someone making their life, you don’t challenge it because it's an act of extreme cruelty. It doesn’t do any good for the individual you’re trying to help, but what it does to you anathema!...and that’s really bad.

Three things are terrible: the first is you never try to destroy a mothers love for her child, the second is you never try to destroy a nightingales power to sing, the third is you never destroy a dreamers dream. You’re culpable. You should be punished and you will punish yourself.

In managing your khat or grosser self you add to stress so many different ways. But you add to stress particularly when you try to be different from others. Look at it this way, the little priest figured it out and left it for us to remember: human beings are part of a gregarious group, we like to be together with people, we like community, we like family, we like and enjoy friends. How many think you can get along without friends?

You can’t get along without friends, really. Without friends your life isn't rounded and mellow. Yet, you make enemies. Your animal body makes enemies of your family even. Why?

And this is another point. You take yourself apart. "I don’t like that person, something must be wrong with him. But something’s wrong with me, I feel guilty because I don’t like that person.” You got a right to not like any person you don’t want to. Let your animal body express itself. “I don’t like her! Why? I don’t know.” It’s because you have inherited something in the race line that makes it not possible for you to relate to that individual at this time. But you may love that individual later when you come to understand them. So, the important thing is to understand yourself.

Your animal self needs to have the adjacency of friends, family, something that will give you community. And you shouldn’t feel devastated when you become belligerent, self assertive, or animalistic in your nature. Let it have its day. It will be controlled eventually. But your grosser self recognizes the wisdom of being with others.

And now I think we will take the final two points and I am through.

Never destroy a sense of security. How often we do it. Someone has done a piece of work or someone does something. They feel good about it, but you find fault. You say, “Uh, no.” You say, “It has to be done this way, it should be done this way, it should be done this way.” What you are saying is, “It has to be done my way. I’m the one to say how it’s going to be, so you go and redo it!” And now you have completely destroyed the security of that person in his own belief, in his own capacity. How do we get around that?

You know in business, business men give all kinds of orders. They’re always ordering, always ordering. I spent 38 years in business and I was sometimes up there a little. But, I am noted for the fact that I never gave an order. I never gave an order. Why? Because I believed what the little priest taught and the little priest taught that human beings want to do right. They want to do right and in each circumstance because they want to be part of the group they will do right if you let them. So, if you’re not quite sure that what they have done is the right thing or the thing they should have done then you simply ask them to consider a different approach to see if it would help them, not for you, but to help them.

Remember the you view point and there you have it. You know one of the things that happens when you begin to be bosses or try to force our wills on others is that we begin to forget the goodness of the good and the morality of the great. And in that comes basically the seed of our own ruin. No matter how good we are, no matter how great we think we are going to become we don’t have all of the facets of ourselves. And we better be cautious about trying to impose our ideas as being the finalized ideas, as being the basis for the behavioral pattern of that animal body over there. We can do what we want with our own but don’t try and give orders for another one.

So, we deliberately try to stay away from ripping people to pieces. Right?

Now, never destroy a sense of security. We said that we want to hang on to it. But one thing I leave you with is this: that in all the religions throughout all times there has been a basic concept of a supreme being and the religions differ only in how they interpret that supreme being. But there is always a supreme being. We call it God and the little priest would want me to read this to you which he thought out on the banks of the Nile more than 9,000 years ago.

He called it Neter. We call it God.

God is warmth and bitter cold.

God is right and terrible wrong.

God is all and must be naught.

God is love and vicious hate.

God is peace and lasting strife.

God is all things death and life.

And if you can come to that realization you can’t be judgmental. You cannot try to impose your will upon others. You can only accept that God is all things…even you. Hey, I love ya!