What is the Mahatma energy How does it differ from the higher self How can I tap into it To begin with, let's look at the Mahalma energy as an aspect of yourself as it relates to the Whole. In a sense it is the same as the monad, that highest part of yourself; but in another sense it is the monad seen as the whole of your potential, which even the highest part of yourself has not yet enfolded. It's your ultimate connection into the Whole; it takes you back into the Wholeness and allows you to become the Whole, literally, when you have finally resolved everything that separates you from your centre point of origin, from your Sourceness.

When we talk about becoming part of the Whole, we must presume a paradox. There are always two ways of looking at this, because although you are an individual, you are also a unique aspect of the Whole, and you are never separate from the Wholeness. So in a sense you are the Creator. In another sense you are an aspect of the Creator that has had a unique experience, who understands the whole in a specific way, unlike what anyone else experiences. So in the end you take this uniqueness back into the Whole and it becomes part of the Whole. At the end of a creative experience there is no separateness, of course, only a Wholeness, and yet your uniqueness remains within it.

Separation Is a Gift to Explore & Expand Potentials You can look at it from the standpoint of the collapsing of time. That time when you felt separate is now the same time as that time when you feel whole, so the separateness becomes a part of the Wholeness and they exist simultaneously.

The experience on Earth is a struggle to regain this sense of Wholeness and to deal with the separateness; yet separateness is actually what gives you your unique perspective and the ability to gain something special from the creative experience, which you can then contribute to Source. It's your separateness that allows you to make your contribution to the Whole.

So separateness, in a sense, is a gift, and the gift is utilised by finding out how you fit into the Whole and how your particular talents are unique within It. So you can look at the Mahatma energy as the sum total of all of your potential creativity, that which you are using now and that which you will have the opportunity to use. This connects you into many other dimensions, in each one of which you exercise a certain aspect of your creativity. Right now you are exercising the creative ability to find ways of feeling secure within yourself and of shaping your light into a structure that will allow you to use more of your potential that you have not yet integrated. We've said before that everything around you is a reflection of yourself - a reflection of your sub- conscious beliefs and also of those parts of yourself that you have validated (as well as those you have not validated) As your mind expands and matures, you learn to see your environment and understand it in new ways; and as you do this, your environment expands, because there is a correlation between thought and what is around you. In other words, you are creating your environment as well as your physical body from what you know of yourself. At the same time your environment is stimulating a greater awareness of what you truly are, so that you are always interactive with the creative sphere around you. You are at the centre of the universe, you might say, and your understanding of how you relate to that universe is expanding as you integrate what you see to be your environment or your space.

Children now have a different perception of themselves and their environment and of what their opportunities are than they did, say, 50 or 100 years ago. Even that short a time span has created an enormous expansion.

Internalisation of the Old Gods

So as you expand spiritually, you also expand your perception through a sort of interdimensional perspective. You begin to see yourself as a physical being manipulated by the gods. Ancient peoples saw themselves as sparks of light animated by cosmic beings outside themselves who created the world and who cared for them. As the mind of man has grown and as man has grown in his spiritual awareness of himself, he has taken these gods more and more into himself. They have become archetypes of his own potential. Thus, the Greek and Roman and Egyptian gods, at one time spiritual beings to be worshiped as superior to self or as controllers of one's destiny, now, for most of humanity, are archetypes that have become part of the subconscious structure. They are parts of yourself. They represent different aspects of your psyche, different ways of responding creatively to what's around you, and they have been internalised. Now all of these archetypes are being integrated into the realisation of the god within - the realisation that you are in control of your own environment, in control of your life and in control of your physical as well as spiritual destiny.

The Mahatma Energy, an Expanded View of God Within So we have a natural progression now into the concept of the Mahatma energy, which is the expanded view of that god within.

It takes you beyond the limitations of physical existence on the Earth and allows you to interact with creation from an interdimensional perspective, from many levels of self. It allows you to see that you are a creator not only at the physical level but at the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well. It also shows that you are a part of a group. The Mahatma concept is the realisation for humanity that each individual can no longer act alone, for his or her own benefit, but must take into consideration the needs of the whole. The United States was founded on these principles of providing an environment where every individual has an opportunity to exercise his creativity to the extent that he chooses. Ideally, it provides an environment where each individual can grow and exercise his creativity to the maximum so he can to reach his potential regardless of who his parents are, what colour his skin is and so forth. Any limitations are placed on him or her by the physical environment itself.

Although the system has not perfected itself yet, the Earth has been moving toward this concept and will continue to do so. The Mahatma concept arises out of this global perspective, this democracy perspective, this personal-freedom perspective.

Obviously, no one can be free if another is enslaved, because those who are enslaved are now a part of you and your environment. You know about them, you know what their circumstances are, you can understand and learn about their feelings and their responses to what's going on, and their limitations become yours. The personal response to hearing about victims of slavery, abuse and so forth is often a feeling of fear that the same thing could happen to you. And in a sense, it is happening to you because you are a part of the continuity of what is going on on the Earth. You're a part of the Earth and therefore you share her experiences as you become more aware of who you are cosmically.

As you become more centred within the creative viewpoint of the whole, you become more a part of everything going on within the Earth. Anyone who is suffering becomes a part of you, and this must be resolved in the end. I'm not saying that you're responsible for the whole, but as your awareness grows you will gain a much different perspective on what it means to be human. Certainly the expansion of communication and of the media on the Earth, and the way learning has expanded in the past few hundred years, has expanded the mind of humanity enormously.

So all of this is showing you what you can become, but it's also showing you how much is left to be accomplished. Your Mahatma can show you how to fit into the whole; it can help you to integrate all of these aspects of self, these aspects of life on Earth that are hard to integrate; and it can show you how to solve these problems within yourself. It doesn't mean that everyone has to go to the difficult spots on the Earth and deal with hunger and slavery and war, but it does mean that everyone has to somehow resolve that issue within himself and see what he can do within the scope of his purpose to help with that.

The Value of the Mahatma Energy at the Physical level The Mahatma is not something that takes you outside of yourˇ self; its something that brings you into a greater reality at your physical level. And I think perhaps that has not been stressed much in what has been said about the Mahatma energy. It's not doing you much good if it's simply elevating you to a point outside yourself where physical existence seems insignificant. The Mahatma energy becomes most valuable when it is applied at the physical level: when it helps you to understand who you are when it brings you that spark of self awareness and that spark of courage and understanding and love that allows you to deal with the situations at hand. It's a connection Into the serenity, support and unconditional love of the Whole, allowing you to solve the problems of your life from a perspective less limited than the one you have as a purely physical individual limited by the three dimensions of your present reality.

The Mahatma can show you the reality of your godself - of yourself as a cosmic creator - but it can also show you how to focus that energy into the problems of physical existence on the Earth so that you begin to energise a more creative approach to life here. If you can begin to focus some of that unconditional love from the highest aspects of yourself and channel your infinite creative potential into your physical life here, then life becomes less restrictive. Life becomes an opportunity to allow the Creator to be creative through you, to manifest the Divine Plan through you.

How do you connect into this yourself; Well, you're already doing it. Your fascination with this concept shows that your mind has reached the point where it's ready for this expansion. What's necessary is for you to say, "I'm ready to take the responsibility for using this higher concept of what I am. I'm ready to step into a new level of awareness of what I am and use that at the physical level. I'm willing to allow this new level of understanding of what I am to change my concept of what life is. I'm willing to allow it to show me a new way of looking at my life and at the opportunities that are actually available." You might feel that the opportunities here are limited by forces beyond your control. But when you allow this new perspective to come in and reshape your environment, you will find that it opens up new areas of creativity, new opportunities to do things you never dreamed you could do before.