“Everyone is psychic!” Master Fwap declared with a broad smile. “When your mind is clear and focused, and if there aren’t too many people in your immediate vicinity, you can feel all kinds of wonderful things.
“You can feel the brightness of eternity, and the ecstasy of creation. You can see the light of enlightenment inside of everything.
“When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.
“You can know what other people are thinking about you, or what is coming at you, and decide whether or not you want to experience it.
“During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery School discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic ability.
“These techniques, when properly employed, allowed them to control and suspend their thought processes for prolonged periods of time.”
Master Fwap then explained to me that by suspending thought for protracted periods—a practice that he and other modern day Buddhist masters refer to as meditation—an individual can perceive and have direct experiences in countless non-physical worlds and dimensions.
The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of “inner space”.
Through their internal meditative journeys, they discovered many secret astral passage-ways that lead to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.
Some of those dimensions are much more “real” than this universe is.
“But how can that be? Nothing can be more ‘real’ than the physical world is. Isn’t that what the word ‘real’ means to begin with?”
“You are having trouble understanding this concept because you are thinking in English. The language you think in can limit your ability to understand something like this.
“You see, my young friend, language is the medium of our thoughts.
“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language that we are thinking in.
“If the language that we think in doesn’t have the right words for what we are trying to understand or express, it’s like trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
“If you have only one word for all the colors of love, then you may begin to think ‘love’ instead of feeling it.
“You may take it for granted that when you think the word ‘love’, you already know, and have experienced all of its possible permutations.”
“Master Fwap, does thinking a word stop me from experiencing what the word describes?”
“Yes and no. Do you know much about Zen Buddhism?”
“No, not really, tell me about it.”
“It is the method of knowing the mind through its own emptiness.
“Zen Buddhists believe that when we think about something conceptually, we cut ourselves off from its true essence.
“From a Zen point of view, it is only by going beyond our limited concept of something, and experiencing its ‘suchness’, or essential nature, that we really come to know what a thing, experience, or understanding truly is.
“The Zen Buddhist monks use concentration techniques to rid themselves of concepts. They believe enlightenment lies just beyond words, in the things and experiences of daily life that are right in front of us in at every moment.
“In short, according to Zen doctrine, happiness comes when we rid ourselves of the concepts that society, language, and structured thinking have given us.
“There is an old saying,” Master Fwap continued, “before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means that enlightenment doesn’t really change anything, yet it changes everything.
“Or you might say, that enlightenment changes everything without changing anything.
“It’s a way of trying to explain enlightenment. Most people have a preconceived notion of what enlightenment is. Naturally, that concept, like all concepts, is limited by the words that make it up.
“So the phrase explains that enlightenment is not a concept.
“Before enlightenment,” Master Fwap continued, “the Zen Buddhist monk chopped wood and carried water. After he became enlightened, he continued to chop wood and carried water.
“Most people assume that after they become enlightened, their outer lives will magically change. They imagine that they will suddenly dress in flowing robes, give up working, and spend their time sitting on top of a mountain meditating in bliss.”
“Well, wouldn’t you, Master Fwap? I mean, what good would enlightenment be if it didn’t change your life? Isn’t that why people seek enlightenment? To get away from the boredom and frustration of their daily experiences?”
“Exactly!” Master Fwap replied. “That’s what most people think. But that is not necessarily the case.
“You see, enlightenment allows you to perceive things differently.
“Perception is the key to everything.
“Before the Zen monk became enlightened, chopping wood and carrying water seemed like mundane, repetitious, and boring tasks to him.
“But after he became enlightened, his perception of chopping wood and carrying water, and of everything else in life, radically changed.
“He discovered that enlightenment exists in chopping wood and carrying water, as much as it does in sitting on a mountain top and meditating all day.
“Before you become enlightened,” Master Fwap continued patiently, “the world appears to be three-dimensional, dull, and boring. But in reality, the world is not three-dimensional, and if you are at all aware, it is anything but boring.
“Life is composed of millions of dimensions. To an awakened mind, life and even the most repetitive tasks in daily living can never be dull and boring at all, because infinity exists in all things.
“Before he became enlightened, the monk’s thoughts, concepts, and mental routines blocked his perception of the infinite brightness that exists within all things.
“After his enlightenment, while the monk’s body might still have been chopping wood and carrying water, his mind was constantly roaming through the ecstatic dimensions of life.
“So the point of the Zen phrase is that enlightenment is not what you think it is, because enlightenment is beyond the power of your thoughts and ability to understand.”
“Once you have become enlightened,” Master Fwap said, “you don’t have to live in a monastery, because the whole universe has become your monastery. You can lead a normal life doing whatever you choose.
“Physically, it might appear that nothing remarkable has changed in your day-to-day life, but within your mind, you will live in a condition of continuous light and ecstasy, just like the Zen monk.”
“But Master Fwap, I still don’t understand how some types of reality can be more real than others.”
“Once you get beyond your conceptions of what reality is, you will transcend the words and concepts you have already developed for reality. It’s really that easy.
“But as long as you continue to think life, instead of directly experiencing it in a non-conceptual way, you will not understand any more about reality than you do today.
“Try thinking of it this way. What makes something real to begin with is the fact that it exists.
“So suppose some things exist longer than other things do.
“Would you say that makes them more real?
“Enlightened Buddhist masters know that nothing in the physical or astral worlds exists for more than a moment at a time.
“But they also know that nirvana exists continuously; [it] is a constant. So therefore nirvana—which is enlightenment—is certainly more real than anything physical or astral because it never ends.
“The only constant outside of nirvana is change! Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next moment, in this, or any other dimension.
“You may think that things do, but that is a trick of your thoughts and conceptions.”
“All things and beings are made up of vibrating energy,” he continued. “Nothing in the universe is really as solid as it looks. For example, an unenlightened person sees a tree as something solid and tangible.
“But an enlightened person looks at a tree, and sees an ever-changing continuum of energy that is currently taking the form of a tree.
“The universe is made up of endless dimensional planes. Some planes are more durable than others, and of course, nirvana is beyond change.
“So the closer a plane of being is to nirvana, in a way of speaking, the more real it is.
“Conversely, the farther away from nirvana something is, the less real it is.”
“But Master Fwap, nirvana is not really a physical place, is it? If that is the case, then how can one dimension be closer to it, or another be farther from it?”
“You’re absolutely correct. Nirvana is not spatial. Not in the way that you mean, anyway.
“I know, as frustrating as it may be for you, there is really no way to explain nirvana at all. Words are useless.
“Nirvana is something you have to experience directly, in order to know it. And nirvana is not something you can know directly, in the way you can know a person, know how to do something, or know and understand a concept.
“The knowing of nirvana is non-conceptual knowledge,” he continued. “That is why, in Buddhist philosophy, we say nirvana is the wisdom beyond the mind’s knowing.
“We meditate to go beyond the limited concepts that keep us in relatively unreal states of mind.
“Beyond the limited states of mind most human beings experience, there are more durable levels of perception that exist in the astral and the causal planes.
“When you experience these more ‘real’ levels of perception, you will be happy all of the time.
“So the members of the Atlantean mystery school practiced meditation and discovered there are varying degrees of reality in the universe.
“In addition, they also discovered that internal harmony directly affects a person’s ability to perceive and experience enlightened states of consciousness.
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“The members of the Atlantean mystery school discovered there was a strong relationship between one’s state of mind and one’s level of psychic attainment.
“They found that an individual who wasn’t happy, emotionally in control, balanced, funny, and at peace with themselves, couldn’t fully develop his innate psychic powers.
“The reason for this is deceptively simple.
“All psychic and spiritual development is dependent upon an invisible internal energy called ‘prana’.
“Prana—which is sometimes called ‘kundalini’ or ‘ki’—is the energy of consciousness.
“The amount of prana people store within themselves determines both their level of day-to-day awareness, and also their ability to use their psychic and occult powers.
“Prana is stored in a internal reservoir inside a person’s subtle body.
“Certain activities like meditating, visiting places of power, and being empowered by an enlightened master, increase the amount of prana a person has.
“Conversely, the fastest way to waste prana is to experience unhappiness, hate, anger, depression, self-pity, and egotism.
“Without the internal energy that stored prana provides, people cannot develop their higher psychic perceptions, let alone gain siddha powers and become enlightened.
“The Atlantean school also discovered the importance of keeping aurically pure and clear from thought-forms, desires, fears, and negative emotions of others.
“They observed that most individuals, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with.
“And an even greater amount of psychic energy from the people with whom they have strong emotional connections.
“If these negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren’t cleansed from our subtle body each day through the practice of meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become extremely toxic.
“The build-up of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically.
“If these energies build up over a long period of time, they can eventually cause us to become physically ill.
“Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.”
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Master Fwap also informed me that during the Atlantean cycle, the Earth’s aura—the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet, and through which all psychic perception flows—was very pure.
He compared the Earth’s aura to its ozone layer.
He said, “The Earth’s ozone layer is an invisible shield that protects human beings and other living things from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation.
“If the Earth’s ozone layer ever becomes severely depleted, most plant and animal life on our planet will perish.
“In a similar way, all living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic energy field that protects them from toxic nonphysical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.
“During the age of Atlantis, there were only several hundred-thousand people living on our planet.
“They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature.
“At that time, because of the purity of the Earth’s aura, it was much easier to meditate, to be in touch with the spiritual side of your being, and to become enlightened.
“Every living being is psychic!” he exclaimed.
“Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we all feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people, all of the time!
“We feel these things with our aura, the outermost layer of our subtle body.
“Did you know that the vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren’t even your own?
“You pick up most of your thoughts and emotions psychically from the people you are physically near.
“And also from people for whom you have a strong positive or negative emotional feeling.
“In addition, you also pick up psychic impressions from where you work or go to school, the roads you drive on, the stores you shop in, the city and the country you live in, and to a certain extent, from all of the people who live on our very crowded planet.”
“In what way are we affected by other people’s vibratory impressions, Master Fwap?”
“Let us say that you love someone who’s very depressed. Even though that person may live in a different part of the country than you do, you may find yourself thinking and feeling that person’s unhappy thoughts and depressed emotions, even though you might be a very happy person.
“Every person’s mind acts like a radio transmitter. It constantly transmits the essence of their thoughts and emotions into the Earth’s aura.
“Now that the Earth’s population has grown well into the billions, there’s so many people’s thought-forms psychically flooding the Earth’s aura, that it has become highly toxic.
“Because of the psychic pollution of the Earth’s aura, it has become very difficult even for individuals with a highly developed psychic facility to perceive things clearly.”
Master Fwap said, “It might be easier for you to understand what I’m talking about if you were to try an experiment.
“Observe how many thoughts you think when you are around other people. Then go for a walk in the woods, on an empty beach, in the desert, or on a mountain.
“When you perform this experiment, try not to walk on a trail or beach that people tend to walk on, or visit frequently.
“Instead, try walking on a trail or a beach that is not as well worn, or depart from the trail to a pure spot where no one has recently been, and spend a few minutes there by yourself.
“After you have spent ten or twenty minutes in a relatively pure spot, observe your mind.
“You will probably notice that you’re neither thinking as much as you were before, nor are you thinking the same types of thoughts that you were earlier, when other people were around you.
“This change in the quantity and quality of your thoughts has occurred because you have physically distanced yourself from others, and also because the natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts, and near oceans, and other large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought-forms and auras of other human beings.”
“Master Fwap, I still don’t understand how all this relates to my question.
“Why couldn’t the members of the Mystery School who died during the destruction of Atlantis, or afterwards in their boats, simply reincarnate, go into their ‘other memories’, and recall everything they had known in Atlantis?”
Master Fwap smiled sympathetically. “It’s easy to understand.
“Just put all the facts that I have given you, together.
“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density—and the resulting purity of the Earth’s aura—made conditions ideal for discovering the secret meditation techniques for the first time.
“But the destruction of Atlantis happened to coincide with an overall rise in the population of other less technically and spiritually evolved civilizations on the Earth.
“So by the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the Earth’s aura had already become so dense that it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques, as had been done so easily in the auric purity of the first days of Atlantis.
“This was the primary reason the Mystery School was formed.
“The first members of the order, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of auric darkness that the Earth was going to lapse into.
“They knew that the vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages made it impossible for reincarnating members of the order to go deeply enough into their ‘other memories’, and recall what they had known in Atlantis, without knowing the secret techniques first.”
“What you’re saying is that they needed the secret techniques to jump-start their other memories.
“And someone had to be around who knew the secret techniques to teach the reincarnating members of the order how to use them, after they were reborn into a new incarnation.”
“Exactly! That is why there must always be at least one member of the order on Earth, to orally pass the techniques on to others, who have recently reincarnated.
“The Mystery School performed this service throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the Second Age of humankind.
“And they performed it later, on into the Third Age of humankind, when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan high cultures flourished.
“But the tremendous increase in the world’s population during the Third Age has made meditation and psychic perception—things that should be easy and come naturally to spiritually evolved people—difficult to practice and participate in.
“All of the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain, not only on the Earth’s natural resources, but also on its aura, making it difficult if not impossible, even for evolved people to become aware of their past life knowledge and talents.
“You must understand that enlightenment is a perfect state of mind.
“When you are enlightened you hear and feel ecstasy—the music of the universe—all of the time!
“Ecstasy is always present, but we are usually so psychically blocked up by our thoughts, our negative emotions, our egos, and the auras of others, that we are completely unaware of it.
“Instead of feeling the innately enlightened and ecstatic nature of all things, we tend to get caught up in our thoughts, emotions, and in the idiotic and idiosyncratic dramas that make up our day-to-day lives.
“To become enlightened, it is necessary to still your thoughts and emotions and become empty.
“This is the beginning of true meditation, to empty your mind of distracting ideas, feelings, and ways of looking at things—which we in the Buddhist order refer to as illusions—and instead allow your awareness to roam through the dimensions and planes of higher light that exist deep within your mind.
“This is one of the goals of higher Buddhist yoga.”
Master Fwap said keeping the secret teachings and techniques alive throughout all of the untold ages of humankind had gone smoothly until very recently.
In 1950, the Communist Chinese had unexpectedly invaded Tibet, massacred hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks, and destroyed or desecrated the Tibetan monasteries.
All of the living members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz, with the exception of Master Fwap, who managed to escape to Nepal, were either executed or worked to death in Chinese forced labor camps.
So for the first time in the history of the order, there was only one member left alive, Master Fwap. He alone had the full knowledge of the secret tantric techniques for rapidly attaining enlightenment.