ORMUS and Meditation
by Barry Carter
Here is my favorite theory about the relationship between
meditation and ORMUS.
I was "initiated" into Transcendental Meditation
in 1969. At that time I had already been doing other "spiritual
processes" for about four years. I started at the age of sixteen. (That's
not all I did, I also got drunk a couple times and dropped acid a couple times
and used other illegal substances a few times.)
When I started meditating, I did not notice much of
anything. On the other hand, when I first took a B vitamin supplement in 1968 I
got a huge rush from it. The second time, not so much. After
that nothing at all.
I also did not notice much of anything when I tasted the
drop of pure ORMUS which escaped from a sealed plastic bottle except that it
"slicked" my lips. I have never had the kind of strong immediate
effects from ORMUS that many people have reported.
In David Hudson's third newsletter he wrote:
"Twelve people have taken the
rhodium and iridium in the 500 mg per day amounts. Of the people -- five have
experienced no effects. Those five people were all anxious for the material to
work but it didn't.
"Four of the five people were
strict vegetarians. They already were hearing the high frequency sound in their
head prior to taking the powder. These four people were already seeing the
angels in their meditations. Rather than working better on these people, there
seemed to be no effect at this rate.
"I have concluded therefore,
that these people had already achieved the first level naturally"
I think that most of the things people notice when they
first take ORMUS have more to do with disorientation or exploration of new
areas of access than anything else. When I first started learning to ride a
bicycle, I was quite wobbly till I started to get the hang of it. I think that
this is similar to "the whirlies".
I would also like to add another word to help define
meditation. For me, the state of meditation is a state of allowing which might
also be described as "forgetting to worry". Over the past 45 years I
have collected many quotes from spiritual teachings which describe this
allowing or "forgetting" receptivity principle including this one
from Rumi:
"For sixty years I have been
forgetful, every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me
stopped or slowed."
Lao Tzu said it as well:
when a man is in
turmoil how shall he find peace
Save by staying patient till the
stream clears?
How can a man's life keep its course
If he will not let it flow?
Those who flow as life flows know
They need no other force:
They feel no wear, they feel no
tear,
They need no mending, no repair.
-Tao Te Ching,
Lao Tzu
Here is a Zen koan on this
subject:
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, the
spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
and a quote
from the I Ching:
Mountains standing close together:
The image of
KEEPING STILL.
Thus the superior man
Does not permit his thoughts
To go beyond his situation
The heart thinks constantly. This
cannot be changed, but the movements of the heart--that is, a man's
thoughts--should restrict themselves to the immediate situation. All thinking that goes beyond this only makes
the heart sore.
and Jesus from
the Sermon on the Mount:
Therefore I say unto you, Take no
thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for
your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body
than raiment? Behold the fowls of the
air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one
cubit unto his stature? And why take ye
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say
unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if
God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast
into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the
-Matthew 6:25-34
Here is another quote on this subject from the Abraham-Hicks
material:
When you are in the vibration of
appreciation, you are in the vibration of allowing. Whatever it is you are
appreciating, you are allowing, with that much more emphasis, in the now. In
other words, it speeds the process.
If we were wanting
to reach for joyful experience, or the experience of connection, we would
superimpose the word "appreciation", because it is a purer vibration
for most. When you say, "I want that, or I have to have that,"
sometimes it can get messy. But when you say, "I surely do appreciate
that," there is very little contradictory vibration within you. And you
are much more likely to then use that as your excuse to allow what you've been
telling the Universe, all along, with your yippees
and yahoos, that you are wanting.
The art of letting it in says,
"Well-being abounds, and I'm a worthy receiver of it. And when I think
that thought, I don't let it in. When I think that thought, I let it in a
little more. And when I think that thought, I really let it in. I choose that
thought." Do I choose that thought because it is reality? Do I choose that
thought because my parents agree with it? No, but I choose that thought because
it lets it in.
From Abraham-Hicks Workshop,
For most people, learning to allow, through meditation, is a
discipline. For many it takes effort to quit expending the effort of worrying
and fretting. I think that ORMUS puts us into a receptive, allowing state but I
don't think that it automatically changes our limiting beliefs (beliefs are habits
of thought). Thus, we may still manifest things we don't want (and manifest
them more quickly) when we go into the state of allowing that ORMUS
facilitates.
I don't believe that ORMUS steals our free will. We can
still focus on suffering and get suffering, while taking ORMUS.
I believe that each of us creates our own reality because
there is plenty of infinity to go around. All ORMUS seems to do is to shorten
the echo time between what we think/feel about and what happens in our world. I
don't believe that anyone else can put something in my life without my implicit
agreement.
I have believed this since I first learned about it in the
late sixties and early seventies especially from reading the Seth books by Jane
Roberts. You can find quotes from the Seth books by doing a search on Seth in
the archives of this forum.
Though I have been aware that I create my own reality for
the last forty years, I am still learning to change the channel from beating
the drum of what I don't want to focusing on what I do
want. ORMUS seems to help by giving me more immediate feedback.