What If The Devil Went On Vacation?

"What do you mean the devil made you do it. The devil is on vacation!

What if the devil (assuming there is such a personification of evil) went on an extended vacation? What would happen? I suggest he would not even be missed. I think all that would happen is that our theological systems might be turned upside down. With the devil gone who would there be to blame or fight?

Perhaps the real question is not who can save us from the devil, but who can save us from ourselves? I believe if the devil ever leaves our planet, nothing will change. A lot of earthlings now have the system of evil down pat and are busy keeping it into motion.

Word on the street is - the devil has submitted an application to heaven for unemployment insurance. He is no longer needed on earth. In fact, newer innovations in evil are coming from some of his former students that have now surpassed his ability.

Of course, I say all of this, tongue in cheek. But there is an element of truth lurking behind it all. We like to blame Satan for all of our secret and cherished “sins.” After all -- someone is to blame for them and it certainly is not us. We like to think we are tempted by outside forces that are aligned against us. We like to think we are so important that the forces of evil single us out individually for special treatment.

Often at church I hear folks blaming the devil for all of their misdeeds. Just a few of my fellow transgressors have such extensive lists of trials, temptations and tribulations the devil would have to work day and night just to service them. Fortunately, we are told the devil has a lot of helpers that pitch in to do the work for the rest of us.

Back to my premise -- if the devil and all his associates took a permanent leave of absence, no one would know it and the earth would continue to operate as usual. We no longer need any assistance from non-human forces. We have the drill down pat.

Some of my fellow church members think if we could destroy the devil, the earth would get better. I disagree. The seat of evil resides not in the devil but in our hearts and minds. We must assume accountability for our thoughts, feelings and actions and stop foisting our responsibility upon the shoulders of Satan.

The fact is simple - we love to do what we do or we would not be doing it. We love our temptations or we would not be chasing them with such vigor. Sorry to say - the devil is now redundant. He and his hordes will have to seek employment elsewhere.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Gnostic Notes 168

"Always focus on the potential, not the problem."

Gem: Become potentiation centered, not problem centered


You will never make anything better in the long run by simply focusing on what is wrong with it. A problem centered approach is doomed to failure because it employs negative energy and negative energy is not creative -- it is dissolutive.

Rather than focusing on what is wrong with your employee or organization - focus on what is right and then move on from there. By invoking unrealized potential, a positive force is released in the person or organization that promotes growth and further unfoldment. Often, half or more of the so called problems simply disappear of their own accord, since they are no longer needed and are not consistent with the new emerging energy profile.

Thus, we do not want to be problem-centered. We want to be potential-centered. Focus upon what is now working, and if increased, would make the person or organization even better. Focus upon unrealized potentials that are waiting to emerge.

As a people helper, you have to sense what is trying to happen in the person or organization and then simply enable it to appear.

At any given time, in any person’s life, some birth potentials are in manifestation -- most are not. These umanifested potentials are carried at the soul level. By using your intuition -- you can contact the person’s soul and request an intuitive revelation. If you are viewed by the person’s soul as an ally, the requested revelation will be forthcoming. You then can create external circumstances in the person’s life that will evoke these hidden potentials. As the potentials emerge, the person will begin to expand his self-concept. The emerging self-concept will delete some of the old problems that are no longer consistent with its new identity. Thus -- you have solved the problem by never focusing upon the problem.

This same principle applies in your work with organizations. This is why environmental management is so essential to potentiation. The environment needs to actively draw potentials from its residents. This is true of all living environments whether they be homes, schools, churches, hospitals or nursing homes.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser, Photographer)

The Deva of Each Animal Species

"The Deva can manifest its full power through any of its animals."


A special Deva (angel) looks after each animal species. If you have great love for one or more of these animals, you will attract the attention of its presiding Deva. The Deva may bring injured animals of this species to you for your aid. The Deva will also send members of the species to you for your admiration or even to help you in times of special need. For example, there are many cases of dolphins saving drowning swimmers.

A special gift of the Deva is enabling you to communicate with members of its species. This is a special type of human/animal thought transference. It permits the animals to call out to you and to guide you in special times of your need. Dog are well known for this type of communication ability. The bottom line is -- if you love members of the animal kingdom -- you will be loved in turn by these animals and by their presiding Deva.

It is easy to underestimate how much an animal can help you. We are used to thinking about the capabilities of the animal and not the capabilities of their Deva. A Deva is a high ranking angel responsible for the evolutionary unfoldment of a life stream. A Deva has tremendous power. The Deva can operate through the animal or outside the animal depending upon what needs to be done.

Loving an animal, spending a lot of time with it and naming it, accelerates its evolution. It transfers some vibratory power from the human evolutionary stream to the animal evolutionary stream. This is why some animals and their human caretakers end up looking alike. Their etheric bodies comingle to an extent.

The evolutionary streams of animals and humans are separate, yet there is some sharing of energy between the two streams.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Gnostic Gems 167

"You are simply the sum total of your life connections"

Gem: Volunteer to incarnate a possibility in your life

As stated so well in the Kabbalah, the plan of the Divine is to re-connect all of its lost parts. When the Light descended into matter (creation or the “big bang” if you prefer) it broke into many pieces. Each piece is a spark or emanation of God and is a kernel for the formation of a soul. Thus Unity became diversity.

The Divine plan is to restore Unity by reclaiming all the scattered pieces. You are one of the pieces. There are many ways you can do this. You can choose anyone of an infinite number of possibilities and volunteer to incarnate it in your life.

Behind manifest creation is the quantum field -- the background of creation. It came into existence at the same time as the sparks. It is the staging area for creation. The quantum field possesses total connectivity and can do anything. It has no limitations. The sparks have free will and can employ the quantum field to attain anything they desire. Thus, the conditions for the battlefield of Light and Darkness are established.

In your meditations, as you draw closer to the Source (God or Creator) you will see what needs to be done and you will want to participate in this Great Work of reclamation and redemption. You will volunteer to do your part in putting Humpty Dumpty (the fallen world) back together again, ie, begin the processing of bringing the many parts back into harmony. When this is finally accomplished, in some future age, the Source will be more than it was before the scattering. It will have gained the experiences of all of the individual sparks that descended into gross matter (fall of man).

How do you begin the Great Work? Where do you start? You start where you are. Look around at what you can do to make our world a better place. How can you help repair its brokenness? Then, volunteer to incarnate this possibility in your life. Call upon the power of the quantum field to assist you. God has provided all that you need. But it is up to you to declare your intent and act upon it. You are a free-will agent, living on a free will planet. You have to hear the inner call to greatness and respond.

Leland Kaiser

Calling Upon Your Totem Animal

"Join the Lemur totem and explore ancient Lemuria."


Humans share many characteristics with various members of the animal kingdom. This should not be surprising since humans are animals. Because of these shared characteristics, humans throughout the ages often wanted to become regal like a lion, strong as an ox or clever like the fox. They adopted these animals as their mentors and believed the animals also adopted them as members of the respective animal tribes. Thus the idea of totem animals was born.

Your totem animal becomes a special teacher and friend. As you study the animal’s behavior, you learn from it. You are also able to protect the animal and assist it in times of special need. The animal can also assist you at special times. Thus a totem hawk might fly ahead of you and let you see through its eyes far down the trail. You could thereby locate and avoid dangers that lie before you on the path.

Carried to an extreme this identification with animals can lead to shapeshifting. You begin to look and think like the animal you have identified with. Some friends of mine already have the beginning of such a totemic relationship with their pet dog or cat. They assure me they can understand what their pet is thinking and they are certain their pet can read their emotions or their mind.

This idea of totem animals seems strange to many modern humans because we have lost their contact with nature. But, totemic ideas are common among indigenous peoples or even in modern folks who have chosen to leave civilization and live in the wilds.

Just the fun of it, imagine you have adopted a totem animal. Which animal is it? What about your totem animal do you admire and want to emulate in your own behavior? Are you willing to engage in conservation efforts to ensure the survival of your totem animal? Has your totem animal ever appeared to you under rather strange circumstances?

Stretch your imagination a little and you will begin to understand what this whole issue is all about. Because of our elevated human status on earth, we are the guardians of the animal kingdom. We are like them in many ways. Their survival is our survival.

Leland Kaiser
Photo courtesy of PD Photo)

Gnostic Gems 166

"It begins and ends in nothing."

Gem: In the beginning there was nothing.


In the beginning there was nothing, then there was something, then there was everything. This occurred in just a few seconds. Of course, what I am describing is the birth of our universe. The interesting thing is -- whether we consult the “big bang” theory of science or the description of our origins in the Jewish Kabbalah, or the days of the creation week in Christianity (God spoke and it stood fast) - the story is the same. All of us emerged from nothing.

When out of nothing, we became something -- at first a tightly packed ball of energy or light - we existed in absolute unity. There were no lines of separation. Then, we expanded from something to everything and created diversity. Our challenge now is to connect all the diversity and create a second unity. The first unity was one of non-differentiation. The second unity will be one of extreme differentiation. The gap between the unity of non-differentiation and the unity of differentiation is called learning, unfoldment or evolution.

The important thing to remember is that everything is connected to everything. In fact, everything is everything. There are no lines of separation. The universe is non-local. This means we are really in every other thing and every other thing is in us. We are a microcosm of the macrocosm - as above, so below. The challenge of consciousness is threefold - to become conscious of ourselves as parts -- to become conscious as each one of the other parts, - and finally, to become conscious of all the parts constituting the Whole. In this way, we eventually achieve a new unity of the diversity.

In the hierarchy of universal consciousness - you are placed according to the inclusiveness your awareness. The more you can become aware of -- or take into account -- the higher you are placed in the scheme of things. Obviously, then, you grow by becoming better connected to All That Is. This makes you a natural peacemaker and bridge builder. You gain skill by connecting things that are having difficulty getting together. You become an expert matchmaker. Your goal is to achieve a united Planet Earth functioning as a full member of a united Universe. When this occurs -- Planet Earth moves up to its next higher level of harmonic expression. It enters a black hole of dissolution and is then reborn into a new white whole of creation.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Conversations in the Womb

"I think you picked that up while you were still in the egg."

The soul of the unborn child and the soul of the mother are in constant communication during the uterine period. In some cases the unborn child communicates with the father as well. This is one reason it is good for both parents to talk to the unborn infant and assure the infant of their love for it. The infant learns to discriminate these voices and recognizes them after birth.

It is important to realize that the soul of the unborn child is highly developed even though the brain and nervous system are not yet developed and cannot respond to its guidance until later. It is important during the fetal period for the mother to avoid any turbulent emotional upsets. Very negative emotions can affect the development of the astral body of the child. It is also important to read good literature to the unborn child. This stimulates the mental body and helps prepare it for abstract thought.

During the time the fetus is being carried in the womb, the child’s body elemental is busy at work building out the child’s physical body and the connections to the subtle bodies. The body elemental gets its instructions from the child’s soul. The body of the child must be prepared to enable it later in life to accomplish its soul covenant. This means the foundational talents and abilities must be built in. Also important connections will be made to the relevant ancestral DNA.

When birth time is imminent, the birth elemental works with the body elemental to accomplish the birth sequence. This is an important time. The birth elemental will work with the infant as it passes through the birth canal to the time of the first breath, when the soul imprint is fully received in the infant’s various bodies. Then, the infant’s body elemental takes over fully from the birth elemental. This is true whether the birth is at its natural time or is accelerated by the attending physician.

The infant’s soul is constantly recording all that occurs in its immediate environment although its brain and nervous system are not yet developed enough to record the transactions and give them meaning. It is important to keep this in mind in all conversations around the newborn child.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo courtesy of PD Photo)

Gnostic Gems 165

"It sounds like you have a pretty small God"

Gem: God is as big as you are

What is God like? What are you like? The answer is the same for both questions. The reason is simple -- God is the ultimate projection test. You project onto God your own image and then react to that image as if it was God.

God is beyond all images and cannot be described or contained in any way. You cannot even name God -- for a name is a kind of limitation. God is a Source about which nothing can be said.

Primitive people have primitive Gods. Violent people have violent Gods. War-like people have war-like Gods. People go around doing what they want to do and then attribute it all to God. This is why so many bad things throughout history have been done by religious people.

As you grow -- your perception of God grows. This will be true throughout eternity. You will keep getting a larger perception of the Source, without beginning to exhaust its possibilities.

Our initial perception of God comes from out parents. Then, we pick up additional ideas at church and in our individual study. We end up with a very ethnocentric perception of God. This encourages us to discount other people’s perceptions -- or worse yet -- label them as wrong or misguided. Bad parents mean a bad God. Good parents give us a good God. It will take a lot of learning to erase these early memory traces.

The most inconceivable thing in the world is a religious war -- yet history is replete with them. We are all children of the same God. How can this even happen? It happens every day from the pulpits of our churches. We breed intolerance, mistrust and hatred. Never think you are right and all of those other dissenting folks are wrong. This is the prime ingredient for a Jihad or “holy war.”

Understand that all of us have come from the same Source and are equal in every way. God’s children are scattered throughout all churches and non-churches. View every person and every system as your teacher. Truth is where it is found and it is found everywhere. If you prefer one religion over another -- that is fine -- it is your choice to make. God welcomes you in any case. No church or religion has ever come close to containing God. None ever will. God is bigger than that. God is big enough for everyone.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser, Photographer)

Becoming Non-Defensive

"They had better keep their distance."

Who can push your buttons? What are the issues involved? What makes your blood boil? Under what circumstances do you feel you need to defend yourself?

If you know what is true of you and what is not true -- why would you care if you are misjudged? How does your ego get involved in this whole thing? Why can’t you just thank your accuser for his or her opinion and get on with your work?

It is important to know your snag points and remove them. People will use these weaknesses to give you a bad time. When you react badly, you are actually helping your accuser. If someone can upset you -- you have given your power away to them. Why would you do that?

The more vulnerable you are -- the more defended you are. This whole emotional drama feeds upon itself. Break the loop and become non-reactive. Just don’t get upset. What does your upset matter in the overall scope of things? Are you running in a popularity contest?

How many days can you go without getting upset about anything (including the times you are driving in traffic and waiting in line)? The next time you feel yourself about to get upset -- just let the whole matter go -- like thoughts in your meditation period -- you just watch your thoughts pass by and do not lock upon them. Do the same thing with potential emotional upsets. Just watch the potential emotional upset come and go. Don’t actualize it.

Defensiveness is an indication of a fragile ego you are trying to protect. It demonstrates your dependence upon how other people perceive you. If you know who you are and you are comfortable with whom you are - why does it matter what other people think? You are accountable to Spirit, not to friends, professional colleagues, or strangers. You are a work in progress. You never have to defend your soul status to anyone.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser, Photogapher)

Gnostic Gems 164

"Say it again with different words."

Gem: It’s how you say it



It is not only what you say -- but how you say it that counts. Use the wrong words and your communication fails, or even worse, does damage to the listener.

What is involved here is your skill in wording or languaging, as it is sometimes called. This is an essential skill for any counselor, coach, teacher, pastor, intuitive or any other kind of people helper.

Your words must be carefully chosen with regard to your receiver’s belief system, education, culture, consciousness, and psychosocial maturity. Put yourself in your listener’s place. What would be most helpful? What would build upon what he/she already brings to the table? What statements can you make that will not create unhealthy conflict? Remember, it does not matter what you think about the issues at hand. You are not talking to yourself -- or at least you should not be. Your communication is designed for a very special set of ears.

Anyone you attempt to help should be better after your intervention. If they leave you confused and lost -- you have not done your job. If you cannot determine in advance what is appropriate to say and what is not -- it is better to say nothing.

Working with others is an awesome responsibility -- and a potential karma generating situation for you. You are responsible for your affect upon those you try to help. Never discount anyone’s previous life or experience. Never make negative comments about your listener’s religion or belief system. Never make him/her feel guilty, shameful, stupid or wrong. Don’t share any insights he/she is not yet able to understand and accept.

Advanced spiritual guides or angels follow these guidelines very carefully. They accept you where you are. They take you to only where you can go. They make no negative comments about where you have been. Inferior guides, from the astral plane do not abide by these rules and thereby cause a lot of pain and mischief.

If you are going to use your intuition to help others -- follow these general guidelines. Watch what you say!

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Acting Upon Principle

"Its the principle of the thing that is the problem."

An important requirement for spiritual students is to act upon principle rather than upon expediency. Doing what is right and letting the chips fall where they may is often a hard thing for all of us. It is a risky behavior and the ego tries to avoid it. The ego always wants to play it safe.

In one of the highest initiations, the initiate must be willing to risk losing his or her life rather than act against Divine law. A safe rule is to seek first the “Kingdom of God.” Daniel discovered this when facing the lion’s den.

When making a decision it is always important to analyze the principles involved, then, act upon the highest principles. This may require you to move through your fear. You may be tempted to do the wrong thing to “save your neck.”

If you understand the 108 Divine laws and seek to operate within them, you have a practical guideline for your actions. Another approach to determining what is right in a given situation is to ask yourself, “If I was a Christed being, what would I do in this instance?”

When you act upon principle, you often have to confront and defeat your ego. Your ego uses the standards of the world when making decisions. You want to use the standard of the Spirit. These often seem opposed, although if the ego was a little more enlightened, it would see they are really not opposed. What is right is right. Acting upon right principles may not be the political thing to do and may even put you in personal or professional jeopardy. However, in the long run, Spirit will look after you and will always work in your best interests.

As you grow in Spirit, tests of your character will grow more subtle. Evil in its most refined form often looks good. With spiritual vision, you will see evil for what it is and will avoid it at all costs even if you could benefit greatly from it in this world. You won’t ask --”what is in this for me?” You will ask -- “what does Spirit command me to do?”

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser, Photographer)

Gnostic Gems 163

"That was your truth yesterday, but not today."

Gem: Truth is always progressive



Whatever you believed in the past was your truth for that time. It was the path you walked upon to bring you to where you are now. It was a sacred path. For that reason, you always honor your past. It created the foundation you can now build upon. Never feel your past was in error. It provided a sure footing for the new structure you are now building.

Truth is always progressive. When you look back on your previous religious or spiritual education - it was simply a more limited form of truth -- appropriate to your age and experience. As you gain more experience in the universe you expand those early religious forms to create an even larger truth. You never seek to abandon them. They are part of your root system and they continue to feed your soul.

A small circle is not in error when compared to a large circle. The large circle simply goes beyond the limits of the small circle. It contains more. So it is with your early religious or spiritual beliefs -- they were the smaller circle that enabled you to expand into a larger circle.

Truth must always be appropriate to the needs of the student, at that specific point in time, and in that particular stage of her unfoldment. That is way, as wise teachers; we never discount or diminish any student’s sense of truth. It is the student’s present vehicle for truth and is taking her where she needs to go. If she is ready -- and only if she is ready -- the teacher we will show her how to enlarge her circle. But this adding process never takes anything away from what she already has. She will simply see the same beliefs in a much larger context. This is why Jesus taught his disciples a more expanded truth than he taught the multitude. The disciples could maintain a larger circle since they had daily contact with their teacher. To the multitude he used parables. To his disciples he taught the inner workings of the universe.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo courtesy of PD Photo)