A  Wonderful  Smoothness  to  the  Movement

from  The Instinctual Compulsion

Martin Cecil   December 14, 1969

Let us remember that life moves smoothly. The nature of that movement may be described as a curve. We may note that in the fields of our observation where the instinctual compulsion is at work there is a wonderful smoothness to movement. Even in the solar system the planets move around the sun in ellipses; they don't move around the sun in square patterns. There are no corners. We find the same evidence all around us in relationship to movement where the instinctual compulsion controls. No doubt you have all watched the movement of a deer. What a wonderful fluid motion there is, and even if there may be seemingly abrupt turns in that movement it is all a smooth operation, isn't it, an evidence of control. The experience of living is a smooth operation.

When the conscious mind gets in there and tries to direct things the zigs and the zags start, and consequently there is a leaving of the natural movement along the course of life. Having zigged and zagged enough, maybe the conscious mind will quit and decide that it wasn't worth it, and we come back to life and the smooth flow of it. But there has been a gap in our experience from the moment when we started zigging and zagging to the moment when we came back, and it is these gaps in the experience of the natural flow of life that may be seen as the fundamental reason for illness and disease. Life was no longer flowing as it should while the individual was off on these angular tangents.

Life always flows smoothly, and we know that experience when we are with it, and we are with it when the instinctual compulsion controls. Dancing is a very good illustration of a flowing movement. The movement of life always produces something graceful, something beautiful, something which gives evidence of control. There has been this obvious lack of control in the experience of people, and particularly so with respect to the generation of younger people at the present time.

The consciousness of what it means to move under control, smoothly with life, is virtually unknown. There has been no development of the capacity to be aware of the real nature of true control, which when it is in operation always brings grace and beauty. Just take a look at the way people conduct themselves physically: the way they walk, the way they do things. Some of you have experience in the dishpan. If you start zigging and zagging, the dishes get broken, because there is no smooth operation, no control, unless one is moving with life because the instinctual compulsion is allowed to operate in one's own experience. Then there is something delightful.

The world is supposed to be a beautiful place, but how could it be a beautiful place, how could such beauty as is now present be maintained even, if there are no beautiful people, no one who has the experience of the true working of the wonderfully designed machinery of life which we describe as our physical bodies, our minds, and our emotions? Here is the equipment for life's expression, the beauty of it, the grace of it, the glory of it; but that can never be known as long as the conscious mind usurps the position, or attempts to, of God, trying to be as God. That's all it can do. It can't be God, because it isn't God. All it can do is to try to be as God, to try to provide the direction and the control of events on earth. Nothing but disaster ensues, because no amount of trying on the part of the human intellect will cause the human intellect to evolve into God. God is God, and the mind of man is the mind of man.

However when that mind is in its place it enables the experience of human being, which is the experience of God on earth. The experience of God on earth is the experience of perfection, uprightness, according to the real character which is already our own, a character that has been obscured by the gyrations of the conscious mind.

Mention has been made with respect to assurance. There must be the flow, the movement, transpiring within our own consciousness to know the truth of it. Life obviously does move and does flow, but if we do not have the experience of what that really is we tend to assume that we have to get busy with our conscious minds to make sure that everything's under control. But the conscious mind, in this well-intentioned endeavor, makes sure that everything isn't under control, because the control was there before the conscious mind put its two bits worth in. If it will just be willing to acknowledge the truth of the instinctual compulsion, then it may begin to become conscious of that truth; because the fact of the matter is that that compulsion is working. It's there. It is moving, but we don't know it unless we are with it. We can't be with it if the conscious mind has taken us off on a zig or a zag. The result of that is a jag.

It isn't as though we become nothing consciously. Our conscious mind is allowed to experience the truth of what is actually happening rather than being involved in the make-believe of its own invention. We really live in a make-believe world. The human mind insists that we believe it. It isn't the way things are at all. The conscious mind can't comprehend the way things are if it is convinced it knows the way things are when it doesn't, or if it's convinced that it knows the way things should be. There is tremendous assurance in the compulsion which operates the cosmos. It is exactly the same compulsion that relates to our own experience here. Therefore if we begin to become conscious of it there is obviously going to be assurance, isn't there? It's undefeatable.

In that experience is the experience of human being, which makes available on earth what is required to provide the answer. Now human minds will get in there and say, “You tell me what will be the answer that you provide.” Well you have to be the answer to know it. The human mind can't sit it out, so to speak, and comprehend anything. It must be available in relationship to the instinctual compulsion to comprehend what that is, and to comprehend what is happening, and to participate in the happening consciously. When that is being done there is no question anymore, because you are doing it. There is only a question when you are not doing it, and if you are not doing it you don't know and you can't know. That's the subhuman state.

There is much food for meditation in our consideration this evening, but it doesn't in any way change or reduce what is basically simple. It is merely an application in a specific realm, of a basic simplicity. This is always the case, but there are unlimited realms for application.

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