THE ART OF LIVING

Yada speaks in his language and then continues:

Here we are in Cleveland again. Not so much a place but the people are very kind to us of the Circle and to Mark and Irene when she was here with him. (Irene had passed away a few years ago) It is no secret and only natural that people love one another. If I am living love I cannot get anything other than that in return. Man struggles to exist in the physical world, which he has very little comprehension of. The pain that he suffers comes from not understanding that which is called love. Which is the vital force of his being. He must learn to share these vital forces with his fellow man and share them without anxiety as to loss.

How are you going to lose? You cannot. It is without words that I find myself to express this thought. It is here so easy to do, but man does not understand this bringing upon himself all the negative reaction, he becomes totally blind that he is doing it. Man is the king of life, his life. The physical world in itself is also an entity that is doing things to itself. The earth has been churned and rocked and blast all down throughout the ages. Continents have been shifted, vast masses gone down and others came up. Ices have moved across most of the earth. The poles have shifted. Man has been wiped off the earth five times.

Question: Completely?

Yada: Completely, and yet, in reality you cannot kill life. You can only destroy form. In your modern times your scientists, using certain kinds of insecticides have tried to destroy what you call the ‘banana fly,’ a certain species of banana fly. And for a time it looked like he succeeded. They were all shaking hands at their success. No more of this species banana fly, gone from the earth. Then when their back was turned here was this species of banana fly again and now he is asking for the insecticides. Now he wants it – he enjoys it, he loves it. In fact, it is doubtful that he can live without it.

As long as a thing is needed it will exist and undoubtedly this species of banana fly is needed otherwise it would not come back. In fact it would have died out of its own uselessness. The dinosaur did. Nobody sprayed them with insecticide or dinosaurcide. They just disappeared of their own uselessness.

Audience: And that will happen to the horse, I guess?

Yada: Yes, of course. It is moving this way today. Even man is going through some tremendous changes, only the changes are not so much physical now. They are more mental.

Man has stepped on the path of mental evolution.

Maybe with a sigh that it is going to take him a very long time to get anywhere, because look how long it took him to evolve physically. But that is not the truth. Mental evolution is of such nature that the time span for evolvement is very shorter than the physical one. The mental god was mocking up al kinds of form in those early days of man trying to occupy the earth and some of these forms where very ingenious. But they lasted only as long as they were useful. The form of today is going to lose many of its part because of the lack of use.

Think, that in time, because you are not using your feet, you will lose them. Very few have awakened to the fact that any organ of the body that is not used, is lost. For the evolving consciousness, the mental creative self feels that the organ is no longer in use. So why keep it? You can do very well without it. Take your legs and give yourself wheels. You like that? Very few people of today know the joy of walking. After a while the creative mind loses its picture of legs, the symbolic meaning of legs. And so it is with other parts of the body. They are all wonderful, as long as their usefulness remains.

Many people, in thinking about the astral life believe that there is no more working, that there is no more talking, that sound belongs to the world of atmosphere. But sound is of two kinds: Mental and physical. Telepathically a message is delivered by sound. This is different of other explanation of how telepathy works. You hear the spoken voice more and know exactly who speaks to you. The quality of that person is in the voice. This is brought about by a thought that is transferred from one brain to another brain mind and it goes directly to the brain cells. The voice does not go through the ears meaning the telepathic voice but goes directly to the center of hearing in the heart.

Audience: Yada, what is more powerful, the spoken word or the thought?

Yada: This depends upon its use. How are you using it? What for? Nothing has any usefulness in itself or lack of usefulness. Not really. It is the user where lack of brain is concerned in any function of the body. Clairvoyant – to see at a great distance without glasses and with poor eyesight. He sight does not come through the senses as the eyes. It is within. The brain cells are fed like a computer with the outer here called ‘mind substance.’ That’s what space is – mind substance. The voice doesn’t travel any more than sight travels. It is here in the brain. The brain exists like the rest of the body in the Great Mind, this Great Creator or Creative Self. This great Mental Self.

Audience: People in occult societies, Yada, we have trouble to keep it apart, some of them anyway.

Yada: Any experience is a personal experience. So it becomes difficult for me to know about another or how about another. Some days ago in the city of New York I had a chance to talk to a small group there and a lady insisted on my telling her why the world is. That is what she asked me. She kept everyone else from talking while she insisted I tell her why of the world. Ever since then, I ask myself that question so I can get an answer. You know nobody is infallible but the pope. (Laughter.)

Audience: So he thinks.

Yada: And if he thinks, so then it is. This is the belief he has to live by. And so I am not questioning him but I would like to ask him “why is the world?” I think that would stump him. That would prove his infallibility. I have been looking all over for a man who existed in the world called Solomon, to see if he could answer this question for me. You know Solomon? A very smart man, almost as infallible as the pope. Perhaps he has the answer. Can you tell me why it is? I know how it is, but why I cannot say.

Does anyone know the answer to why of anything? Is this a legitimate question? Is this like asking: How high is up or how low is down? Do you have the answer to that?

Very often when I leave here with the promise to come back I say: “I have returned from whence I didn’t go.” Hardly anyone seems to grasp that. They think I am only - as you Americans say – kidding. I like that expression “kidding”. I thought that what goats do? Perhaps I am being made a goat. Why not. I have played many parts, why not a goat. I have been everything else, so why object to a goat? The goat, as a rule, is a joyful little person, mostly as long as you do not turn your back to him. Why is anything? Only one answer It's because. I think that is wonderful. It saves face.

My friends, I will stop and listen to you. Perhaps you have some question to ask me.

Audience; What about the war in Vietnam?

Yada: Yes, what of it? There are so many questions regarding it that I must try to chose one. Is it good, bad, indifferent? Is it popular with the people or not. Should something be done to stop it, enlarge it. I say only this: Violence begets violence. It proves nothing. It solves no problems. Violence is violence and you cannot get anything else out of it. What happened in the Land called Korea? That ended in a stalemate with both sides pretending they had won. They wanted to save face. Man hates man and so, as long as this hate exists, can we find balance? Can peace come to the world in which we live? It is foolishness to think so.

Audience: Man only hates man, though as long as he dislikes or hates himself.

Yada: That is the root of the hate for his fellowman, he hates himself with a great masochistic kind of hate. He is mentally desirous of taking himself off the earth, running from it, escaping. He does not know how to equilibrate himself with matter. Matter is a tremendous pressure on the sensory system. This is the only system whereby we can know the external world.

In the past the ancients used to say that the physical world is a world of illusion. Surely they did not mean it doesn’t exist, but that it is a world of the senses. That is where his existence lies.

Audience: Yada, could you explain “His eyes are open but at the same time he lives in the land of the blind?”

Yada: That is right. He can do no other until he makes an effort to understand himself. There is no work that he can do out here, no aid, no help, that once can offer until he aids himself.

Audience: What about spiritual evolution of men and where do we go from here?

Yada: It is like “Putting the horse back off the cart.”

Audience: The cart in front of the horse?

Yada: Yes, thank you. We cannot talk about steps until we talk about the steps we are taking. We cannot know what these steps are until we know what the steps we are talking are like. We have to know about now, about the present. It is really futile to jump ahead of ourselves because we fall behind more then. I do not mean to sidestep your question. It is much more important for man today to know where he is and not where he is not. The more he knows where he is, the more he knows where he is not. A kind of paradox but a useful one. Paradoxes that get us nowhere are useless.

Audience: People say I know you, but they really don’t know. The only one they can really know is themselves and that is all they ever know.

Yada: That is right. Man comes into the world and lives alone. Every individual coming here lives alone and departs alone. I do not care if twins come here together, two people at a time, three, four, it does not change this. Man, being the creator creates all others. I am all things to all people but no one knows what I am to myself. Now this can sound creepy. Today you are fascinated with creepy things. Think about it. I work alone. I, the creator. My work is creating so I cannot be alone. I am with myself, but I am not alone. Or, I am alone but not lonely. I am with myself, but I am not alone. Many of you understand this. You have come to enjoy your own company. You get lost in your own creation and creative ability. A true artist soon loses himself in what he is painting. That is what causes him to create so beautifully.

The more the creator gets lost in his creation, the more perfect becomes his creation.

Audience: Is this not also the same with music?

Yada: Of course. With all creative arts. That is why people are so fine at their work and others mediocre. The mediocre only say: “Oh, I do not have the talent from that.” That is not the truth. Everybody is a creator and they do have a talent to do what they will. Think of that! How wonderful! I do what I will. But you cannot do this until you give it that wonderful light called love. Love a deep sense of appreciation. It is a fine kind of feeling in which artists – in music and writing, in painting, in any of these things. The artist if he is a writer the words he is writing. The painter, the medium that he is using. The musicians the notes he is making. How wonderful! I Am That! Few realize the marvelous implications behind it, because so few have that kind of awareness about their own being. They waste their lives and often cause others to waste theirs, because those others are from the same mind – not aware. The unconscious moves around with the unconscious. Zombies associate with zombies, because only zombies understand zombies.

No, I am not saying this in a critical way. We all have some kind of zombie within us. That is what makes the seeing of life such a beautiful thing, so we can get the zombie out of us. But he has to recognize it first. It is like the story of the man walking down the road in India and he comes upon a man sitting under a tree. The man is carving elephants out of a block of stone. But the man saw no elephants. “How does he do that,” he thought. So he asked the sculptor which said to him: “It is very easy. All you do is to see the elephant in the block of stone. You picture it there and then you knock everything away that is not elephant.” Is that not wonderful? And that is what we do with ourselves – we must do with ourselves.

The moment I see the human in the animal I knock everything away that is not human and a beautiful human appears.

Audience: But you have to see the duality before you can see the oneness.

Yada: That is right. Those of us who think cannot intelligently object to duality, for that is the very nature of our existence. The creator and someone to admire the creation. Yes, I look into the mirror and I am astonished of what I see. That’s me, the surface of me. What a beautiful painting. What a wonderful piece of sculpture. But I cannot recognize that unless I study myself. Skin – how wonderful, used in part to protect the indwelling entity from letting negative particles in, what you call germs, dirt.

Look, a finger, a hand and look how beautiful and no seams. What a marvelous creator it must be IT, not me. It must be Life. Look in the mirror. What a marvelous phenomena. You will never find anything like this in a séance room. Nothing could awe you more. Then the structure of the eye, if you study it. The brain – to create a computer that can do the work of the human brain you would have to have so much water to keep it cool that you couldn’t walk around in your body. You would have to have a structure many stories high. Amazing!

Audience: Amazing. Someone designing a computer – coming up with something five stories high, or something like that.

Yada: Yes, of course. Think of that! In fact its only nature is to heat because its beginning nature is heat. It starts of as heat, electrical heat. We have what you call ‘neuron showers.’ Can’t you see them? Nice words, of course. Words are never what the thing is.

Audience: What is the best method to accomplish astral projection of consciousness?

Yada: Consciousness? Well, you can stay with consciousness, but there is always the moment of lack of self-awareness. There is a point where you are completely in yourself. (Mark coughs) I lost control a moment here. Sometimes this man’s body is not exactly a polished tool. It has its frailties..

Audience: Putting it mildly.

Yada: Yes, it is because he is human and he lives like you in a world of great pressures. To escape these pressures many negative habits are built up. Many people ask me why I don’t make Mark stop smoking.

Audience: If he stopped he would be looking for something else.

Yada: That is right. But my friends, would you suggest we do something to stop him?

Audience; I don’t think you have to do anything else…..

Yada: No, you do not have to, but most people do. No one has to do anything because, as I said before, the individual is king. He is truly a master, but he does not know this. He does not know this. He is not even a beginning student. He is ignorant. Now I do not accuse Mark of being ignorant. I know he suffers from his own kind of ignorance, but that is his business, that is his life and I must not put my hands in it unless he asks me. I think his fears are so deep for him to ask anyone to do anything for him, because he fears he might lose the habit and have nothing to go on. That is the real fact, but it is still his business. He must find himself, for only then can he be free. (Speaks in his language) I am the way and the light. I am not Yada, not Jesus, not any human form but I, the great consciousness I am forever the Light.

I – the light am not born. I cannot die. Only things that are born – die. Christ is the light. Christ was not born.

The man, Jesus, who attained the Christ Consciousness had to lose body consciousness, ego consciousness, the lower self, so that the Christ could rise out of the tomb of darkness. How wonderful to know this. What a tremendous sense of freedom it gives. How it sweeps away our anxieties and fears, our guilt and uncertainties. Wonderful!

Audience: Could you talk about the importance of man in the universe?

Yada: That is what we have been talking about, man and his importance to the universe. Man, physical, goes in your world so that the positive self could acquire self-awareness. He is the creator of all system throughout. All of this is symbolic thinking of mind. The mind becoming developed in the human being makes him the creator. Anyone want to object? Say what you will, because we are all together in the light.

Audience: I like to ask about the symbols of Astrology, if there is a connection between the ancient symbols and the one’s used today?

Yada: Of course. Basically Astrology is written in symbolic form. It wasn’t until the present time that Astrology was written out in words. The reason was that it needed to be hidden from the unlettered. When we are unlettered we are animals and we tend to trample on the beautiful and delicate things of life. All of the inner teachings down through the vast eons of time had a secret written in symbolic form. Your own body is made up of a series of symbols. To one who understand symbols, the body talks. It reveals itself to one who loves. The body reveals itself.

Man must learn to understand himself. He must!

The personality is made up of attitudes to one’s experiences. Now that personality is carried on into life beyond the physical and the only time it is vanished is when it makes an effort to come back into the physical world. By this I mean, you, as a personality that you are now will never walk that way again. But we are somewhat like modern computers; we store our memories of ourselves from lifetime to lifetime, like a computer stores what it is fed into. It can then be read another time again with something added to it, called answers to our attitudes.

Why does a person take this attitude to an experience and another takes an entirely different attitude to the same experience? There are many reasons for it. One being, in the physical world, the way the individual is conditioned in and by the environment he comes to. In the beginning we are definitely hypnotically conditioned to accept what the conditioned desires us to accept without question and that is mechanic. That makes it necessary for living in the physical world. But in due course, as you grow up physically

You must also grow up mentally and to mentally grow up we have to start reasoning with the conditioning that we have been given in earlier years.

We must start to give these things some thought, for if we go on letting ourselves be conditioned by others, we become lost and we become like a robot.

What is man fleeing from or trying to extend his consciousness away from? Away from his conditioned self, Away from mere acceptance. Acceptance brings us anxieties because we are never certain that we are never told what is really true. We can only hope so. But that is not enough. We must know! This takes work. This takes willingness to look at ourselves – to take inventory of ourselves from time to time. If we do not do this, and leave the world with a conditioned mind we find ourselves in the same position we were while here. No changes. No improvements. This may bring us back and back into the physical world, into the world of dreams. We haven’t learned, we have not gotten out of the conditioned mind.

Do you not think the effort one makes to get out of the conditioned mind is worthwhile? No matter how small the effort, it shows that one is beginning to see himself and life ore clearly. He is getting back his sanity. Man is not immoral, he is not evil. He is just crazy. That’s not enough, eh?

Audience: That is a big curse, ignorance.

Yada: Ignorance. That’s what makes him crazy. Until he overcomes this kind of insanity – he can do no more than frightened people do, start wars and enter into wars. Both individually and collectively. Our hatred for one another has brought on our fear of one another. Your fear comes from not understanding. Look, please, what about Vietnam? But Vietnam is only one and a rather small problem. The problems that face man, not only today, have been facing him for thousands of years.

Audience: Is it really the result of our basic problem – misunderstanding and not understanding?

Yada: That is right. Such ignorance always leads man to violence because he hopes to protect himself and also hopes to get more than he earned, than he deserves. What drives him to this belief that life has so very little in it, so his aim is to get that little before someone else does. He is completely ignorance that there is everything that the individual could want right here in the here-ness of consciousness, to wake up, to realize the bountifulness of his world.

Audience: In fact, when someone comes along who has some knowledge he is attacked by the world and destroyed immediately. That always happens.

Yada: Of course, these are robots, the zombies I have been speaking of.

Audience: The insecure ones.

Yada: That is what a robot is – insecure.

Audience: Never certain of himself.

Yada: Not only certain of himself but not certain at all. And this state of insecurity not only affects his daily life, but his association with his fellowman. It affects him physically. Today with all that everyone has, everyone is struggling for more than they have.

Audience: We are struggling harder now than we used to and this is in all nations. Not only between individuals but also between leaders and nations.

Yada: Nations are made up of individuals and when you get collective ignorance you have a serious problem on your hands, because it always leads to violence. “There is not enough for me.” This thought keeps many of your businessmen struggling daily, exhausting themselves, wearing themselves out, trying to keep up this mad pace. This activity leads to hear attacks, ulcers, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and so on. Is that not a pity?

Audience: That’s because there is free enterprise.

Yada: Yes, and the result of free enterprise is arthritis, especially of the individual who is ambitious, and someone or something that is holding him back. Hardly ever does an unintelligent person suffer from arthritis. It is a disease of ambition. Now I say nothing against ambition. I only say try to know the limit of your ambition and try to push yourself beyond what which you are capable of doing. More, you do not really need to push yourself. Pushing yourself is entering into the mainstream of competition –

“ I must get there first.”

Your medical world is in a spin regarding almost every disease of man. Today, in your highly advanced state of chemistry in medicine and in the use of medicine, the doctors do not know anything about diseases such as cancer, diabetes, about anything.

Audience: Everything starts with the mind and everything ends with the mind.

Yada: Yes. Of course. But these men and women, as intelligent as they are, they also suffer these diseases. In fact, the medical world is burdened with heart attacks. More medical men suffer heart attacks than any other profession.

Audience: What state produces heart attacks or leads to heart attacks?

Yada: Anxiety regarding one’s environment and the drive to keep up with it. Not to know it, but to keep up with it. This reacts badly upon the glandular system. It causes high cholesterol, which the body normally makes for useful purpose but when driven more than the body can handle, it dumps it into the blood stream. This then is dropped into he arteries and you get hardening of the arteries. By itself, no, because when you are in great haste to get where you are not yet, you do not eat your food. You swallow it, bolt it down. You do not tempt yourself with food, therefore you do not excite the taste buds. You sit and talk and listen to politics when you should be paying attention to our food and proper mastication of it.

How many truly masticate their food, so it turns into fluid before it falls into the stomach. Many people start their heart attack that way. Exciting the taste buds before eating, before putting food in our mouth, you do not have time for that. Quick now, eat the food, get it down quick, back to work, getting down with work and rush rush to your home.

Confusion in your home, improper balance for food substitutes Indifference to this leads to poisoning of the body, especially through the intestinal tract where the food sits and rots. Fallen into the lower colon it creates a fine center for every virulent germs, sometimes creating only sickness which seems to be a general social sickness – halitosis. As time goes by you are getting tied up in your stomach what you call constipation. Now with patience and thought you can overcome constipation of the stomach. But it is almost impossible to overcome constipation of your head. When we have negative thoughts, we create blockages so that no intelligent thought can go through.

My friends, I say to you in all sincerity, if you do not consider these things – you are dead before you die. Taking care of your physical body is of the utmost importance. Why? So you can look pretty? No, that is only part of it. So you can feel free. So you can feel your blood into balance so that depression does not alternate so rapidly that you cannot tolerate it, the heart will give out. To prevent this, besides good eating, good cleaning out the body, not only on the surface but also inside. Learning the art of relaxation. But if you give no thought to your daily work or to anything else but yourself, give thought to yourself in complete relaxation. Who can meditate with an itching body? Think how the body starts itching.

Concentrated thought! What will it do for your body? It starts acids to the surface that irritates the end nerves of the skin. This means that you

must have a clean body surface and inside. If you want to truly be a master, not only the art of meditation but of thinking.

More – when the food in your stomach is not digested properly, the blood in the brain keeps going down there trying to help the digestion. So you are getting sleepy, you are getting tired and often having fainting spells. If you are going to do mental work, spend a few moments with your head hanging down to the floor. Just sitting and bending over for a few minutes will relax. You will be amazed at the improvement of your thinking capacity.

Another danger to the body is getting up from a reclining position suddenly. This can bring a stroke or heart attack in the very young, because the very young are not conditioned to take care of their bodies. It is sad, my friends, because the body should last no less than 250 years in good form, not coming apart, but in good condition.

Examining the cell structure you will come to know that there are no reasons for dying until you are ready to die, until you want to die. No real reason except neglect, indifference to the body. Today it is said that scientists are learning to make man live longer. The question is: For what? So long as you abuse your body, how can you enjoy life? Tobacco and alcohol are deadly for the body. In using these you are abusing your body not for any moral reasons or spiritual or religious but for health reasons. Do you want to live? To really live? Or have you become accustomed to poor living, to merely getting by day by day, covering up signals that are coming from your body in the form of aches and pains. Are you accustomed to live like that? I am not here to tell you how to live. You should know that. I am just telling you what is.

Now, many may take care of this body but if he does not take care of the mind along with it - it will destroy the body. If this mental self tries to go beyond the capacity of his body – it kills the body. All things must be considered – the physical self, the mental self and the higher consciousness, sometimes called the spiritual self. This is the truth, the only truth that we should be concerned with.

Alcohol, in some form for the male will destroy the power of the prostrate gland. Tobacco will destroy the sex organs, the sex glands in general. Now Mark is taking a substance that is five to six thousand years old, coming from Asia and is called Ginseng. Some of you have heard this before. It is a gland builder. You grow it here in this country, even this state. You can grow it yourself.

Audience: My family calls it yeast.

Yada: The root is a form of male body. But as long as he or anyone else taking this continues to put tobacco tar through the blood stream, it will do them no good. Ginseng is not that magic. Many people of the orient take that substance believing in its ability as an aphrodisiac. But that is not what it is for. Of course it heals and builds the gonads, but it takes a roundabout way to do this. It first builds the other glands up and lets loose the forces in the arteries that have blocked the blood, clears the arteries of the substance. But if you add tobacco to it – it does not. All we can do with Mark, or with you, is to tell you what is. What you do about it is your business. Nobody can live another person’s life and if they could, they had better not, because they would suffer serious consequences. This life of yours is a do-it-yourself job. Nobody can do it for you. You want to say something?

Audience: I heard one of your tapes and you mentioned about this explosion in Siberia. Also something about an implosion and anti-matter. I wonder if you could talk about this.

Yada; There have been many such explosions, not only the one in Siberia but in different parts of the world. Sometimes certain forms of chemicals together in the atmosphere do not combine. This then causes an implosion instead of an explosion. An implosion creates what you call ‘anti-matter.’ An explosion brings matter again in the open or produces it.

In forming the world these two forces made it possible – one to destroy and the other to build.

I do not think too much is learned by the average person about the mechanics of the physical world. Mostly you have been taught to believe that a God as made it, that you must not tamper with it or ask questions about it. You might hurt God’s feelings. Very touchy fellow.

Man: I do not believe that.

Yada: Yes, I know.

Same man. I like to ask and I hope I am not out of order. It is referring to something you mentioned some time ago. If a group is working on a scientific device useful for mankind and has run into a roadblock or cannot complete this device – like a stoppage of the mechanism, is there a way one could contact an intelligence that can give an answer to what one is seeking?

Yada: Not really. Does this sound surprising? I say ‘not really’ because what you or another person inventing is your job. It belongs to your kind of imagery. Now you can find the answer. One of the best ways to seek is to stop for a time inventing or working on your invention. Turn your mind to something else. Let yourself get free regarding what you are doing and the answer will come in an instant. But as long as you are concentrating on it, it will not come to you.

Audience: Thank you. That is so right. I am glad you brought that out.

Yada: Thank you. You see, when we go to another, no matter where you are in the world or out of it, we are no longer the inventor of this particular thing. More – their idea may add something to it that will cause it to be totally different than what you have thought about. And this is why they would take your invention away. Work on what is yours. Give your mind periodically, and then leave it to cook in the oven of your imagination. Believe me, you will get the answer. You will!

Man: I am really interested in truth and if I were to ask a question it would be about the future of education of the young people in this country and the spiritual ideal in the educational life on earth.

Yada: I think, Sir, that in the beginning the young should not get their academic education mixed up with their spiritual education – in the beginning. Later around twenty from there on they should begin academic and spiritual subjects. Mix them together, because they belong together by right, by life. Now the spiritual education of the young in the world are getting in the schools are useless. It does nothing for them. It has done nothing for them.

I know there has been much talk about whether to permit a child to pray in school or not. There is not only talk about, the talk is all confusion, and it is babble. When we are young we are extremely sensitive. First we should be taught the nature of the matter world. Then we should be given the spiritual values, for all material things have a spiritual value. You cannot, in the beginning, teach them together. We must separate the two, so that we will have more time to apply to that thing.

The nature of the matter world, whether in nature or in the matter world, I know my spiritual worlds very well. I know its value. Praying is not enough, especially where children are concerned. Their minds are out here, not in here. They have been here only a short time and they haven’t had time to comprehend the matter world yet. Their consciousness is in the matter world. They love it. They love the senses and what it does to them. But their love is without that kind of attachment that it puts on these things as we get older. Everything is. There is no question in their minds. When we are young we are quite capable of seeing all the little forces that are operating around us. Different races of people, we call them elves, salamanders and many gnomes and leprechauns.

In every country throughout the world these little people are known. The little people that are the life forces of nature. The little people that take sometimes the form of humans. Mostly, unless the child has been frightened A so-called evil spirit does not enter into its life. An evil spirit is born out of fear. Children, who are taught not to be afraid – they do have love for life. For life itself and not ‘because.’ The active child runs, plays and jumps. Have you ever watched a young animal do the same? They skip and jump around as though they were possessed of the fire force. How wonderful! And we, as children could maintain those life forces in a beautiful manner if we not conditioned out of it. Conditioned to fear, to hate, conditioned, conditioned.

I am sure you know that we need teachers of all kinds. You have an important work, Sir, What a marvelous and beautiful profession. This means you have a great responsibility by the question you asked. We, of the Circle, appreciate it. I do not suppose that you would be allowed to teach the young the truth of life. You hand them today what amounts to fairy stories, the hateful, painful stories. How do you expect to have a sane child? To grow up sane if you continue to follow the same pattern?

Teach the child the value of loving himself, respecting himself, honoring himself.

Do you think if he really understood these things, that the child could hate anyone? Of course not. “You, my child are Gods in the making, but you will never attain that Godhood without proper education. You, my child, the material and the spiritual. You must learn about love. You must learn why you bring pain to your body. You must learn why it comes to you and you must learn why joy comes to you. You must not act like a robot. That is all right when you were a little baby.” Beginning with the seventh year of a child’s life you can feed him the most vital food of human existence LOVE. Without that – he dies.

Prayer is a form of getting in close rapport with your higher consciousness, with that Creative Self of man. In his not knowing, he made a God out of and wastes not only his time but also the God’s time by adoring Him, his head down and bottom in the air. Nothing can be learned that way. Of course, with the head down you get a rush of blood to the brain and that makes you capable of better thinking.

Man must get off his knees. He has to stop making altar worshipping to his gods, making temples. He must! Because now he has set his foot on the path of mental evolution and he cannot get off it. But he can cause himself considerable pain while he is on it. But he does not have to.

Audience: And yet he is doing it. The graveyards are beautiful and the slums are filthy. He worships the dead and ignores the living and he doesn’t even deny it. Is that also conditioning by the theologians?

Yada: Of course. He worships his God and ignores his fellowman because he doesn’t know the source of either. Think of that! He doesn’t know the source of either. Now if you try to tell your authorities that this is the pattern and to take it from your children if you are going to save them – they may put you away.

Audience: They make sure you don’t teach it that way. (Yada) Yes.

Audience: Somebody told me once: Man, when he looked into the water did not see his reflection. When he leaned over the water and saw his reflection up against the sky, and being ignorant. He assumed he saw God. But in reality – he saw himself. That’s the way it all started.

Yada: He saw himself, which is God.

Audience: And he has been doing it ever since. Actually when he looks into the mirror he is worshiping himself.

Yada: of course. There is no greater Self. I Am That That I AM. I AM THAT.

Audience: In actuality he saw himself and that is how it all started. The law and philosophy, the short and sweet. There is no long story attached to it. My home is neither here nor there. My home is everywhere. When the Christ was here, his message was simple. He said: If I can do it – you can do it.

Yada: You see, my friends, I cannot tell you how to live. You must learn it.

Audience: It is all individual.

Yada: Of course. Concerning myself I wanted to come into the physical world. I wanted direct experience with it. I came here for that purpose. I came here consciously. I lived consciously and departed consciously. Many people object me because I seem to refute reincarnation. I am not. Remembering that all is illusion, can I leave reincarnation out?

Audience: No.

Yada: No. This does not mean it does not exist. It exists by acceptance. It exists by illusion. It is a thought, an idea. And those who think and feel it come to live it, going and coming. “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me and what can be the use of it is more than I can see.” That is a mystical story.

Audience: Most children’s stories are based on mystical knowledge.

Yada: That is right. And that is the shadow of the Creative Self. It is going in and out – is creating. That is its nature. Who can escape nature?

Audience: Magicians.

Yes. Because they know how to make more illusions to hide themselves in. I think I will leave. It has been a pleasure for me to speak with you. I want to express my appreciation to you and your continued interest in the study of life. Yada withdraws.