Gnostic Gems 159

"I can't find any emptiness inside you that can be filled."

Gem: You must empty yourself in order to be filled.


You may be suffering from learned incapacity. You may have so much stuff in your head, you are no longer teachable. If so -- you have to empty out your old wine skins (mental constructs and emotionally held beliefs) before you can be filled with new wine.

A great deal of wisdom depends upon a requisite emptiness inside you. Strongly held beliefs, conditioned opinions, hardened concepts, severely constrained imagination -- all work against your reception of new light. In a sense, you may have to unlearn a lot of old things before you can learn some new things.

It is easy to become a victim of your belief system and to reject anything that does not square with it. This perceptual defense may be so subtle you are scarcely aware of it. It automatically filters out most of the world. You dismiss new possibilities without giving them a second thought. As you grow older you become more and more rigid.

You can do several things to help this situation:

First - hold all beliefs as tentative hypotheses. Be ready to change them when new information comes along. To do this, you may have to overcome the fear, guilt and shame used by rigid authoritarian belief systems that seek to capture you.

Second - investigate other belief systems -- some of which may be antithetical to your current beliefs. Truth is in the possession of no single group on this planet.

Third -- avoid making judgments when something new and different comes along. Keep an open mind. Hear what is being said. You can always set aside the ideas later, if you wish. Don’t reject something you know nothing about.

Fourth -- don’t automatically take on other people’s judgments as your own -- whether they come from your minister, a sacred book, a mentor, or the President of the United States. Be your own person.

Fifth -- practice some system of meditation that enables you to clear your mind of all thoughts, beliefs and ideas. Try to go to the Source yourself and listen.

Sixth -- tread lightly. We are all learners, forever -- there is no final truth. Truth is progressive and infinite in nature. When we try to bottle truth up in our favorite label, we must live with a much reduced version of what is possible for us.

Seventh -- seek to find the truth in all things you encounter. It is there somewhere and when you discover it -- you will be the beneficiary.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

A Little Community Traveling Together

"We have arrived."

At Two Worlds Wisdom School, we are a community of seekers traveling together on our way back to Source. We love, help and nourish one another along the way. We tell our stories and share our experiences. We prepare our food, sing our songs, write our epistles, paint our pictures, and give each other support and counsel. We grow together. There are no doctrinal disputes, because we honor each other’s belief systems. We know there are many ways and each way has value for those who follow it. We are not critical of each other and we never criticize or create deliberate dissension. We honor the same Spirit that works through each of us. We are all leaders and we are all followers. We are all faculty and we are all students. We prize diversity. We know there is no one right way. We are anxious to learn of other ways. We share our intentions and hold space for each of us to pursue our individual passions. We are a sacred community.

As a sacred community we provide a support system for fellow Lightworkers, who otherwise might feel quite alone in the world. We are a haven of rest. We are a fortress against negative forces working against the Light on earth. We are a college of metaphysical studies. We are connected to an ancestral line of wisdom schools that have existed since the early days of our planet. We are connected to wisdom schools on other planets in our universe.

We promote no particular doctrine. We are friendly to all religions and spiritual belief systems. Our students belong to a variety of religious denominations. We also welcome atheists and agnostics. Wisdom can be found everywhere. We are interested in all the varieties of wisdom. We have no guru. Each student is asked to follow his or her own inner light. Our students are at varying levels of understanding and ability, but no one is viewed as being better than anyone else. We are here to help one another in our areas of special strength and competence. Every member is free to come and go as he or she pleases. We abhor any type of coercion. We believe in freedom of choice.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo of Pelicans by Diane Kaiser, Photographer)

Gnostic Gems 158

"Hold your beliefs lightly."

Gem: Nothing is ever completely true -- it is just the best you can do at the time.


Never think you are correct in your spiritual beliefs and other people are mistaken. Don’t ever assume you have the truth and they don’t. Take no pride in your own understanding, however vast it may be.

Nothing you believe is completely true -- it is just the best you can do at the moment. You should remain always a dedicated seeker to a larger truth than you now possess.

Your chance of getting anything even half right is miniscule considering the immensity of our universe and the short time people have lived on this planet. Hold all of your beliefs as approximations, at best. Live according to the light you have and understand that compared to the Source, it is but outer darkness.

There is a reason there are so many conflicting belief systems on this planet. They are all at best simply different viewpoints of a very large mountain called infinity.

If you hold your beliefs lightly, you will never be a terrorist, you will never lead a murderous crusade, and you will never go around killing people for their own good. That being said, it does not mean you should believe nothing or believe anything in particular. Exercise your belief preference, live your truth, however limited, and press forward.

Much of the trouble in our world can be traced to people, nations, and belief systems that think that have it right. Further, it is their God given duty to force everyone else to agree with them. This can apply to a political system such as American democracy or any religious belief system on our planet today. A simple admonition given many years ago by a great religious leader was “Do no harm.” It is hard to improve on that. Without war and violence, a great deal could be done to improve our lives and our earth. That simple admonition -- “Do no harm” might even serve as great corporate ethic for our Fortune 500s.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo courtesy of Diane Kaiser)

Living With Not Knowing

"No one knows for sure and that is O.K."

For some strange reason, humans can barely tolerate ambiguity. They want to know things for certain - so much so they will accept almost any explanation that comes along.

Yet, tolerance for ambiguity is a definite asset on the spiritual path. Holding the question rather than running around trying to find the answer creates a space inside your psyche where profound new insights will be born.

This requires you to learn to live comfortably without having a final answer for many of your questions. You avoid "premature closure" - a quick answer that closes off further inquiry.

Much that passes for education these days closes off the process of natural inquiry by passing on answers before students really understand the questions. The students are not required to live long enough with uncertainty to develop the mental maturity needed for deep and original insights. Students end up spouting platitudes given them by their teachers. Students get an "A" in the class by repeating the teacher’s verbiage, not by saying they think the teacher is wrong or simply has no understanding of what the question is really about.

The challenge you face is learning how to learn. This means learning from your own experience and from your personal investigation of the subject area in question. Of course this may be a long process and may take a lot of time and effort on your part. It may even mean opposing what you are being taught by well meaning teachers.

When asked for your opinion on issues, you may end up saying "As yet I have not made up my mind. For me it is still a work in progress." This is not the kind of answer an indoctrinated teacher wants to hear. When called upon, you are expected to replay the party line, not create doubt or invite extended inquiry.

Some folks would rather be certain, even if they are wrong, than be uncertain. Having firm answers makes them feel less anxious.

Leland Kaiser
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Gnostic Gems 157

"From up here you can see how everything fits together."


Gem: Everything fits together.


We sometimes say – “that just doesn’t make any sense” or “how can you account for that” or “accidents happen.” Actually, in a totally connected universe, like the one we live in, everything fits. It is all one tightly woven fabric. Our lives are simply a small part of an overall, cohesive, coherent pattern. If we had enough altitude, we could see the pattern, rather than perceive what looks like a string of random events, occurring without rhyme or reason.

For something to happen, all the associated parts must converge and be appropriately related to one another. This assembly of events is orchestrated by the laws of karma, which most often operate out of our sight. Causal factors may be coming from our distant past or our distant future. Primary actors in our life drama are fulfilling soul covenants made before our birth. What will happen - must happen - in order for the other things that are coming to occur in their rightful order.

Our lives are orchestrated like a symphony. One score of the symphony occurs before the next and actually prepares the way for it. Do not confuse this celestial dynamic with predestination or fate. It is simply a working out of soul choices we made in our past, our present, or our future. We are the composer of our song. But it takes a whole orchestra to play it. Every chair in the symphony orchestra must be filled with a musician willing to help us realize our orchestral work. Every instrument, every person in the audience, even the symphony hall itself must come together to realize the production. This requires an unbelievable coordination, but the Cosmos does it for everyone, every day.

So look at your life. All the pieces fit together. All are essential and each piece has an essential role to play. If you are very perceptive, you may be able to figure out what all those pieces collectively add up to. If not, wait and enjoy the show. After all – you wrote the script - you are one of the actors on the stage – and you are sitting in the audience enjoying the show. In other words, it is the same you in all three roles, manifesting at three different levels of consciousness.

Leland Kaiser

Nothing Has To Be The Way It Is

"If you don't like your reality, change it."

Nothing has to be the way it is. It could just as well be some other way. Any life situation is what it is, because you are who you are. Reality is infinitely substitutable. Change the way you are, and your world changes accordingly.

Your life situation must always match your consciousness. This is why students of higher consciousness don’t complain about their life situation and don’t blame other people for their circumstances. After all, you are the co-creator of your life. You create the theme and then simply find allies to help you act it out.

Akasha, the universal substance, will take any form you give it. Therefore it will form itself around your consciousness and bring you the life circumstances that document who you are.

It takes time and practice to perceive your current reality as no more or less real than many alternative realities that could just as well be present. We all have the tendency to accept what is and try to adapt to it, rather than change what is to something better. This means we are not yet conscious architects of our life. We are still being shaped by external circumstances rather than shaping these circumstances.

The problem with being a creator in training is that you have to live with your creations. You have created your current life circumstances and you will be required to live with them until you want to create something different.

This is why you eventually stop complaining and blaming. If you don't like what is - there is no one to blame but yourself and complaining is simply denying your creatorship. Live with whatever is until you no longer want to do so. Then, change it. After all - you are in charge of your reality.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Gnostic Gems 156

"For that matter, I was different in the egg."

Gem: The tree is in the seed


In the third dimension, everything unfolds through time. It becomes more of what it already is, what it was, and what it will be. For example – look at yourself. You are becoming more like yourself as you grow older. Only an act of radical free will can change this programmed sequencing.

The seed grows into the tree. Yet, in a real sense, the tree was always in the seed. The tree aspect of the seed simply required more time to fully manifest itself. You don’t plant an acorn seed and get an elephant – so obviously an oak tree, not an elephant lives in the acorn seed.

This seems like an elementary idea – but is, in fact, a very profound notion. It means that everything in our universe, including you, was present in the big bang that initiated our third dimensional creation. All the components of you have always been around in one form or another. It simply took time for all the parts of the current expression of you to come together and manifest at birth.

Your body is composed of star dust. It has been hanging around since the birth and death of the stars. Even more importantly, the eternal Spirit that manifests through you never had a beginning and has no end. So – your Spirit (not your current earth personality) was, is, and will be for ever and ever. It would take a real feat of imagination to perceive the future forms your Spirit might take, although they already exist in the higher dimensions, that are without time as we know it.

The real point of all this is simple - the sooner you recognize the tree in the seed, the sooner and better you can help the inner tree manifest in all its beauty. Eventually, we will do soul scans of a mother’s fertilized egg to identify what kind of child it carries and how we can best help that child emerge and grow. This is the real challenge of child potentiation in elementary schools.

In summary - that how a thing starts, determines to a large extent how it ends. You want things to start in the best possible way so they will flourish over time. Any energies or consciousness present at the beginning will simply unfold in amplified form as time goes by. You might say the handwriting is on the wall from the very beginning. This same phenomenon applies to health care organizations and the programs they initiate.

The end is always in the beginning. A little trouble you now detect will become a major problem in the future unless it is corrected now. There are many warning signs before the final catastrophe. By contrast, positive energies operate in the same manner. A little good will and constructive action, now, will pay off in a huge harvest in the future.

The question is always – what are your seed thoughts, seed emotions and seed behaviors? These will mature and eventually manifest fully in your life and your organization.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by PD Photo)

Consciousness and Place

"I am searching for my space."

Your consciousness is heavily influenced by place. In sacred places, your soul frequency naturally rises. In some instances, it increases sufficiently for you to be able to tap into the coded memories of the place. This is particularly true if there is a lot of crystalline stone nearby.

You are also greatly affected by the geomagnetics of different locations. When you climb The Tor or visit the Chalice Well (Glastonbury) you take in the initiatory energies that are still present in these sacred locations.

We often refer to “the spirit of the place.” This is a collection of energies that have built up over time and have created a personalized force field. In some cases this field will manifest to your physical senses.

Through special magical operations, you can make any place sacred. You actually instill energies that change the nature of the location and form an induction field that will affect you and other people as well. The sacred space in your home is a good example of this.

Every space you visit affects your awareness. You respond to the vibratory qualities of the space. You will pick-up all vibrations that are within your response range. This can include vibrations that are thousands of years old on sacred sites. If you cannot pick-up these vibrations, then your visit to a sacred site will resemble the visit of a tourist more than the visit of a student of higher consciousness.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser)

Gnostic Gems 155

"What you are looking for will find you"

Gem: You always attract what you seek


You do not have to find it. Whatever you are seeking, it will soon find you. Seeking guarantees finding. The whole universe works on this simple principle of resonance. Similar things attract.

When you desire or seek, you radiate an active vibration that moves through the universe looking for corresponding resonances. Before long your call is answered and the thing sought, ends up on your doorstep. This applies both to what you desire and what you fear. Both emotions affect your basic soul frequency in a similar way. You are a creator in training. What you are thinking will soon manifest before you.

You always attract what you need. The reason is simple – your life curriculum must fit the maturity level of your soul. Whatever you are not over – you will continue to attract to your life. This principle of resonance explains why some people get involved in the same “life messes,” over and over again. They never seem to learn from their previous experiences.

When something arrives on your doorstep, realize you ordered it and then ask, “What am I supposed to do with this?” By accepting delivery of the package with no anger, guilt or shame, you can begin to expedite your relationship with it. It will not stay in your life a moment longer than you need to have it there.

When you change yourself – the things around you change, often in miraculous ways. The karma connected with the package may need to be worked through to a successful completion, but that was always part of the deal. What you attract, you are responsible for. This means you cannot be irresponsible and deny parentage of what you have attracted. You must see things through to their logical conclusion and to the best interests of all parties involved.

Accept everything that appears in your life as your soul choice. Ask only for those things you want to receive. When you receive anything – recognize it as your choice and handle it wisely. When there is no longer any attraction between you and it – it will separate from you quite naturally, one way or the other.

Leland Kaiser
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What You Don't Want To Learn

"Please don't bring that up again"

What would your soul like you to learn that you are heavily resisting? This is usually a problem area in your personality which has caused you difficulty and attracted negative people, events and circumstances into your life in the past. It is a barrier to your forward spiritual progress. It is usually surrounded by fear or trauma. It may be the source of serial errors in your life – where you repeat the same problem or troubling circumstance time after time. In fact, you usually have an energy signature in this area which other people can read unconsciously or intuitively. They may sense you are conflicted. The turbulence in your aura can be picked up by anyone who is sensitive to these subtle vibrations. You might say – you stick out all over. People who can read you may use this radiated information to help or hurt you. This is how abusers find their victims. The “availability for abuse” signals are so strong that potential victims can be located in a crowd.

Your soul will nearly always be ahead of your personality or ego in terms of understanding your spiritual pathway. Your soul is located in a vibratory band adjacent to your Spirit and easily picks up the intentions of your Spirit. So – your soul is in a good position to guide you. However, your personality or ego is usually in charge of your everyday life and it intends to stay in that position. It naturally resists your soul’s attempts to provide guidance. The two are in a natural conflict since your ego is more closely associated with the vibrations of the material world. To move through this standoff, you must set aside time to communicate with your soul in quiet meditation. You must convince your ego this is in your best interests and what you want to do. Your ego will resist, but will ultimately yield if you are firm and resolute. At that point, you as a personality will begin to respond to your soul and you will no longer resist learning what you need to learn. However, this may not be easy. It may involve considerable pain and the ego may try to convince you to give the whole thin up and return to an “easier” life. Of course, in the long run, it will not be easier. It will be more of the same old thing all over again.

As your soul grows stronger, you will begin to tackle the hard stuff in your life. You will no longer resist what is difficult for you in the short run but essential for your growth into Spirit in the long run.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser)

Gnostic Gems 154

"I don't know whether I am coming or going."

Gem: Why does everything seem to be happening at once?


Why does everything seem to be happening at once? One of the reasons is that – in fact - everything is happening at once in the higher dimensions. As the earth evolves toward the fourth dimension, we experience this evolutionary movement as the apparent speeding up of time.

As we move into our new century, we are getting closer to simultaneous time, rather than the sequential time we are used to in our third dimension.

In simultaneous time, you experience different events by changing the focus of your consciousness. Everything is happening in parallel. You focus on the stream of events you are interested in experiencing. These could occur in the past, present, or future when viewed from the context of third dimensional reality. In sequential time, you must wait for future desired events to unfold in their natural life sequence. In the fourth dimension, by a simple shift of consciousness, you can experience the egg, the newborn, the mature adult or old age and death of the organism. They are all happening at once in parallel streams.

Also, as your consciousness expands you begin to recover DNA memories from your past and precognitive experiences from your future. This expanded perceptual field causes everything to flow together, rather than seeming to stand alone and be unrelated to what precedes and follows. The more your awareness expands, the more you begin to experience simultaneous time.

With expanded time perception, cause and effect become more obvious. This makes you more cautious of what you send out. Recovery of DNA memories helps you understand your talents, disabilities and inclinations. Precognitive perception gives you a sense of moving forward toward a positive and certain future.

So the next time you are tempted to complain that everything is falling down on your head at once – give the whole matter a second thought and be grateful you have been given evidence of life in higher dimensions and a confirmation of your rapid soul growth.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser)

Always Searching But Never Finding

"I can't seem to find water anywhere."

Always searching, but never finding - this describes one of the most subtle defense mechanisms employed by the ego to protect its status. It is knows as the phenomenon of the “eternal searcher.” What it assures is that the searcher is a very good person, trying very hard but never finding the true path of ascent to Source. This means no commitment or depth will ever occur in the person’s life. The dominance of the ego is thereby assured.

Often eternal searchers are very sincere people, full of intellectual pride. They believe they are doing the right thing – they simply have not found any path good enough for them. They always find problems with each spiritual path. They pride themselves that they are not fooled by what other people believe and practice.

Of course, the fact is, any spiritual tradition will take you to the top of the mountain. All you have to do is “drill down” become accountable and avoid making judgments about what you don’t like or fail to understand. This sincere practice will eventually weaken your ego and will require it to become accountable to the soul. The ego will avoid this at all costs. It is much better to look and never find, than find and have to change.

It is easy to find fault with any practice or any person. It is easy to get mad at your church and leave. It is easy to believe everyone is a hypocrite. It is easy to tear down in minutes what others have labored for years to build up. The ego is an expert at deconstruction of all types.

So - what to do? You can make it to the top of the mountain from wherever you are. Just keep your eyes fixed on the summit and keep climbing. Don’t get distracted by the efforts of others and lend a helping hand when you can.

Leland Kaiser
(Photo by Diane Kaiser)