Chapter Seven
The Green-Ray Energy Center

The Outer Courtyard of the Heart

To the untutored eye there would seem to be a unified and holistic heart that awaits the one who approaches the gateway to the open heart. However, in point of fact, the heart chakra has two distinct levels. We would call them the outer courtyard of the heart and the inner sanctum of the heart.

You come into the outer courtyard of your own heart when you are ready at last to face your shadow self. Whatever you have not yet recognized or developed within your full personality meets you in the courtyard of the open heart. It is here that you will find your shadow self. In order to enter the inner sanctum of your own heart, you must do the work of greeting, understanding, accepting, feeling compassion for, and eventually redeeming every bit of undeveloped light that is a part of yourself. ⁷⁶

In the last three chapters, as we have discussed the red-, orange- and yellow-ray chakras, we have repeatedly emphasized the need to keep the energy body’s pipeline to the heart clear. Our object is to secure a continuous, full flow of the Creator’s infinite love/light energy into our heart chakras.

In the early years of my study of the Confederation material, my impression was that they were suggesting that once we achieved full energy into the heart chakra, we could rest in the cathedral of our open hearts without further effort.

But further questioning of the Confederation sources on this point has revealed that there are lions guarding the entrance to the open heart, protecting it from our premature entry. We Players have one more hurdle to cross before we can enter our open hearts. That hurdle is the outer courtyard of the heart chakra.

When I hear the term, “outer courtyard of the heart,” I think of photographs I have seen of Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, as seen from the vast plaza that fronts it, with its thousands of pigeons pecking at the crumbs left by tourists. Begun in C.E. 829 and first attaining most of its present form in 1071, it houses the bones of St. Mark and was the Venetian Doge’s “chapel” until 1797, when Napoleon forced the last Doge, Ludovico Manin, from office. It became the Cathedral of Venice in 1807.

This towering, Byzantine-style cathedral with its domes and its bell tower stretches across the entire far background of the photographs in panoramic splendor. But it still looks small in the photographs because the plaza leading up to it is so immense. It looks like a very long walk across that plaza to get to the entrance of the building itself.

When we set out to enter our own hearts, we have the same kind of long hike before us. Yes, we Players now know that we need to keep the lower energy centers clear. As issues come up of red-ray survival and sexuality, orange-ray personal relationships and yellow-ray formalized relationships, we know that even if we cannot solve these issues right now, we Players can still choose not to worry about or contract around the problems we see in our lives. This keeps the energy flowing through the energy body.

As we approach our heart chakras, we find that we as Players also need to work on “greeting, understanding, accepting, feeling compassion for, and eventually redeeming” all that we know of our seeming imperfections. We need to forgive ourselves for being ourselves. We need to come to like ourselves.

It is interesting to note that the service-to-self polarizing Player ignores the heart chakra completely. He does not have to know himself or like himself. He is interested only in achieving power over others. The heart chakra is useless to him. However, the successfully polarizing negative entity knows well what he wants. Positive polarity is about knowing and loving the self and other selves. Negative polarity is about manipulating the self and those about the self to achieve those ends which he deems useful.

Getting To Know Me

Difficult emotions can be seen as messages expressing to the heart the need for working with those emotions in such a way as to be able to balance and clarify those feelings. For there is a deeper truth within each emotion. The key to working on emotions is to realize that the seat of emotion, shall we say, is the green-ray energy center or heart chakra.

If one attempts to work with blocked and negative emotions from the energy center in which they originate, without moving into the heart chakra, there is little chance or opportunity for self-forgiveness. Therefore, while it is very important to assess and evaluate each negative emotion as probably stemming from certain energy centers, it is well to work with these emotions with the model of keeping the energy in flow, moving again and again into the heart chakra and resting in that primary emotion which is called faith.⁷⁷

Have you heard the Oscar Hammerstein song from the film, The King and I, “Getting to Know You”? The lyrics, in part, go like this:

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me.
Haven’t you noticed, suddenly I’m bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new things I’m learning about you
Day by day.⁷⁸

As we Players walk across that great outer courtyard to enter the sacred space of our open hearts, we will find along our way negative emotions and buried longings thicker than the pigeons on the plaza in front of Saint Mark’s. The Confederation does not encourage us to work on these dark emotions and unquenchable yearnings from the level of our lower three chakras. It urges us to engage in coming to understand these feelings from the level of the heart chakra.

We will engage in a more detailed discussion of life’s lower-chakra problems in Living the Law of One – 102: The Outer Work, looking at the Confederation suggestions on finding good solutions to problems and a stable sense of peace amidst the bustle of life. For now, in this present volume, the goal is to bring you only the essential information needed to play a winning Game of Life.

In order for us Players to play a winning Game, it is not necessary to solve our problems. For playing a winning Game and graduating from third density in service to others, what is needed, beyond serving others, is that we come to understand and accept our feelings about ourselves. And this is not easy for most of us. It is hard for us to relax around the shadow side of our human-hood.

We all have qualities we perceive to be good ones. These generally do not constrict our energy bodies. However we also have qualities we perceive to be flaws. Usually, we repress many of the negative feelings and emotions we have about our undesirable qualities. We judge these darker emotions and traits as unacceptable to us or unworthy of us. We hide them from our mental view.

However, repressing them or denying that we have them does not work. We need to work with them until we can accept ourselves as we are, unfortunate emotions and all.

A simple example of this human-hood is me and my shopping gene. Left to myself, I would wear something new every day. I would be bankrupt if I bought so many clothes! So I repress my constant desire to purchase pretty clothing. But I do not repress the fact that this is one of the quirks of my human nature. Rather, I work with it.

I have taken time and thought to understand why I so love clothes. Here is what I found. As a child I had a chronic lack of clothing. Whether I was in school or starting work as a young adult, I never had enough nice outfits to last me from Monday through Friday. This created a problem for me, as I could not wait until Saturday to do the washing and ironing. In those days everything needed to be ironed. I was constantly skating by on my last ironed piece of clothing. I still feel needy! I am not likely to lose my desire to have plenty of clothes in this lifetime.

I accept myself as having that distortion, that foolish yearning which is never satisfied. I see it as shallow but I do not condemn it in myself. I have come to accept myself as I am. When I wish to enter my open heart, this quirk of my personality, while I see that it has no spiritual merit, does not stop me. For I know myself. I have reconciled myself to having a lustful shopping gene. I analyze my shopping yearning as orange-ray in energy. It is part of my relationship with myself.

Of course there is more to our shadow side than clothes lust. Our work in crossing the outer courtyards of our hearts may come from energy blockages or over-activations involved with any or all three of the lower chakras. For example, the persistent feelings of unworthiness which I experience come from my red-ray energies of survival. And the continuing work that my husband and I do to come to our marriage each day as if it were a new creation stems from the yellow-ray chakra.

Your blockages and distortions will likely be different than mine. I offer these personal examples so you can get the sense of how to approach the work of getting to know and to like yourself.

Did we come to this earthly life to fix ourselves? I do not think so. We came here to learn better how to love and to be loved. Coming to understand and accept ourselves as we are is not done because there is something to fix. It is done because we need to know ourselves well enough to accept and love ourselves genuinely, especially the “shadow side” we like to keep hidden. We need to do this work so we can enter the inner sanctum of the heart and rest at last in unconditional love.

Is this easy to do? No. The shopping gene is not hard for me to accept in myself, but I find the murderer gene more difficult. And I know I have one, because, twice in this lifetime, I have responded instinctually to an attack with an unthinking attempt to kill the attacker. In one instance, I was too short to reach a bully’s eyes and could only rake my fingernails across his cheeks. I would have killed him if I could. In the other case I happened to be cutting salad vegetables with a chef’s knife when my boss, the head chef, made a pass at me. I was lethally armed. But the cook was very quick to run when he saw that I was about to use the knife on him.

In neither case did I do more than slight damage to another human being. However I know that there was murder in my heart. I experienced a powerful part of my shadow self then.

Here is another example of the shadow side of my personality. In fourth grade I found a quarter on the washstand in the girls’ bathroom. How tempted I was to steal that quarter! I wanted to buy new crayons and a big pack of them cost twenty cents in 1952. What a struggle I had with my conscience before I brought the quarter to my teacher so she could find who had lost it.

I imagine that you can forgive me easily of my errors. They probably seem small to you. I have not actually stolen. I have not actually murdered. I have not actually bankrupted my family because of my clothes gluttony.

But have you forgiven yourself for the same sorts of distortions in your own personality? Walking across the outer courtyard of the heart, that is our work. When we can embrace ourselves in all of our imperfections; when we can at last feel “free and easy; bright and breezy” about ourselves, we have come a long way towards being ready to meet the lions at the gate of the inner sanctum of the open heart.

Now there is always a shortcut into the open heart—blind faith. If a seeker chooses to claim a symbol of that open heart’s unconditional love, he can take a short-cut and hitch a ride. In the Christian walk, that shortcut is the name of Jesus the Christ. In the Buddhist way, that faith-filled shortcut is one’s guru. We can always slide into the open heart, riding right past the lions at the gate, on the coat-tails of our faith in Christ or our guru.

The drawback to this method of avoiding the inner work needed to balance our emotions and feelings is that we never become Players. We never become self-realized, magical entities. We never interiorize our faith. We never cross over from the outer world to the inner world. We believe in something outside of ourselves but we do not believe that this something is also found within ourselves.

As Players, we believe in ourselves as a holographic part of the one Creator.

The Confederation encourages our participation in any type of religious walk of faith which we find useful. They are supportive of whatever we find useful in our seeking, be it orthodox religion or unorthodox sources of inspiration. But the Confederation sees the free-will choice of service to others as our personal responsibility rather than as a rote response to “orders from above.” They suggest we interiorize Christ-consciousness.

Jesus did not instruct his disciples merely to follow him. He also asked them to take upon themselves His cloak of Christ-consciousness or, to put it another way, to become co-heirs of the Creator, and to abide in the Creator as sons and daughters, as did He. He instructed his followers to do all that He had done and more.⁷⁹

In the Buddhist lore, the instruction, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him,” has much the same meaning: do not simply follow the guru but become the guru.

Generally, established Christian religions and Buddhist gurus do not teach this. Their pastors and priests preach dependence upon Jesus and the church or upon the guru. They would have us come into the open heart only through the ministrations of our pastor, priest or guru, who is the earthly representative of unconditional love. They would say the Confederation is blaspheming if it suggests we can do without our dogmatic obedience to religious figures.

If you agree, then you are linked with many people who have never felt a need to know anything about themselves except that they have accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, or have accepted their guru as the personification of unconditional love.

This report, however, is of the teachings of the Confederation, a source which lies outside of dogmatic traditions. This report is offered as a resource for people for whom this mindless adherence to dogma does not work in their lives. I am one of those people. Perhaps you are too.

I am a faithful follower of Jesus the Christ, in my mystical and non-dogmatic fashion. My life witnesses to Him and I go to my parish church to sing and worship Him whenever its doors are open.

But I also accept the personal cloak of Christhood. It is that practice of taking individual responsibility for our spiritual walk which the Confederation encourages us to practice.

And in this practice, as we cross that outer courtyard, we need to note each difficult emotion and blocked energy as it arises within us and then bring it into our own heart centers. There, on the steps leading to the entrance into our inner sanctums, we hold our imperfect selves in our arms and forgive ourselves. It is a back-and-forth flowing of energy, from the lower chakras to the heart and back down to the lower chakras, where our self-forgiveness clears the lower centers ever more fully.

This work is never completely finished during our human lifetimes. We are always finding out more concerning our shadow side as we meet new situations in life. We do the work of forgiving ourselves in new ways as we discover within ourselves new ways in which we can make self-perceived errors. In our Games of Life, we will spend time in the courtyard leading up to our cathedral of the open heart throughout our time of Play.

One way to understand the reason for this division in the green-ray chakra is to realize that the Confederation places this outer courtyard of the heart in space/time—the outer, physical world—as opposed to time/space—the inner, metaphysical world. As humans or “mind/body/spirit complexes,” we live in both worlds. Our lotus-shaped, crystalline green-ray chakras sit astride and connect the outer world and the inner world.

Our red, orange and yellow rays, and the outer courtyard of our green-ray chakras, are located in space/time and have to do with our outer world. They involve our minds and bodies.

The inner sanctum of the green-ray heart chakra and the higher chakras of blue, indigo and violet rays are located in time/space and have to do with our inner world. The energies of these higher chakras involve our spirits as well as our minds and bodies. They help us to develop our spiritual natures.

In the “Harry Potter” films, Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the regular, space/time train station to take the train to Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry and his friends cannot reach Hogwart’s along the everyday-life locations of tracks nine or ten. They must take what the Ra group calls a ninety-degree deflection which has the qualities of a tesseract.⁸⁰ Not that they know this intellectually! However, they find “Platform Nine and Three-Quarters” and shift to the magical, time/space train station. Then they are on their way to Hogwart’s!

When we have crossed the outer courtyard of our heart chakras, we are ready to do the equivalent of boarding the train at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. As we climb the steps past the lions at the doorway, we shift from the everyday, outer world into the magical, inner world of the open heart.

The doorway to the inner heart can always be blocked by our self-dislike and lack of self-acceptance. Our work as Players is to achieve attitudes towards ourselves that are loving, affectionate and self-accepting. Will we ever achieve a lack of errors in our thoughts? Not likely! Nonetheless, we can definitely come to enjoy ourselves for precisely who we are. And before we can become more than we are now, we Players need to fall in love with the parts that we see so far.

What Blocks the Green-Ray Chakra?

Green ray is the movement, through various experiences of energy exchanges having to do with compassion and all-forgiving love, to the blue ray, which is the first ray of radiation of self regardless of any actions from another.

The green-ray entity is ineffectual in the face of blockage from other-selves. The blue ray entity is a co-Creator.⁸¹

Have you noticed how hard it is for us to keep our hearts open? We can do all the right things for a Player to do. We can meditate, pray or simply will ourselves to be of service-to-others polarity at all times. Attending services at church, temple, mosque or ashram or sitting in meditation can lift our hearts and minds to soaring heights. An inspiring artist, speaker, writer or musician can do the same thing. We feel lifted up, loving, compassionate and steady.

Then the telephone rings and brings us back to earth. A salesman, friend or family member is calling who wishes only to manipulate us. Can we keep our heart’s compassionate focus entirely on that person’s worth at the soul level while that person does his best to bully us into doing things his way?

Or we are driving in heavy traffic on the expressway. We are tail-gated and then passed by another vehicle at high speed. Sometimes I have driven all the way in to downtown Louisville, about 25 minutes away from my home, being passed early on by such an eager beaver. And I can still see the speeder’s tail lights up ahead when I get to downtown. In all that time the speeder has shortened the time of his trip by all of 30 seconds or so. Can we hold him in honor at the soul level while he puts his own and our lives at risk for close to nothing?

If we can keep an open heart throughout a telephone solicitation or a relative’s manipulation, we are Players indeed! If we can do the same thing for the time it takes a speed demon to make his dash around our cars, then we are up extra points in the Game and going for a halo!

And it is not just the frontal assaults of connivers and users upon us that can give us reason to close our hearts. At least the users are straightforward. A lot of other catalyst comes to us indirectly, by the way people talk to us. Others’ opinions of us, spoken or implied, can also close our hearts. Words CAN hurt us. And with our feelings hurt, we may well forget to keep seeing the people around us at the soul level.

In order to keep an open heart, we must accept the challenge of seeing people as one with us, no matter what their behavior may be. As Players our goal is to love them unconditionally and without any expectation of return. Knowing the Game, we choose not to react to such users or insulters by reciprocating in kind.

It is extremely easy and very tempting to let ourselves be thrown off-balance by the manipulation, fear, rudeness, disrespect and sheer stupidity of others. But in just one heartbeat of reacting at the lower-chakra level to such people our hearts can close, if we let our naturally upset feelings have the chance to act out in our lives.

It is perhaps for this reason that we have so very few politicians and other powerful people who are acting from the open heart. Open-hearted people who enter the realm of politics and power will be enormously challenged in trying to view people and situations with open-hearted compassion. Their green-ray chakras usually close tightly in a short time. Power is much more attractive to those vibrating in yellow and orange rays to the exclusion of green ray.

It can be said that we are foolish to let our heart chakras close when we are subjected to the discouraging words or actions of another person. But our heart chakras were not designed to be wise. They were designed to be full of love. Jesus, on the cross, shows us a good example of a person who refuses to close his heart chakra in response to being treated badly. Hanging from the cross, a crown of thorns piercing his brow, battered from being whipped, He prays, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

That is the great key to our forgiving the people who use and abuse us. They do not really know what they are doing. They are not seeing us as souls. They do not yet know how to see us as souls. They are not yet Players.

They are still in the earthly world, where all of us are taught the skills of using people. They see us as resources, not real people. To them we have become “cannon-fodder units”—pawns in their game on the flat gameboard. Our challenge is to stay on the enhanced Gameboard. As Players, when our feelings are hurt by others, we choose to respond by retaining the view of them as souls. We need to retain that sight of them as a part of the Creator, just as we are part of the Creator, in order to stay in play.

We will probably fail at the attempt to do this again and again. That is all right. We always have another chance as long as we retain the determination to start anew, to

Find a place;
Make a little space;
Start all over again

as Cliff Richard wrote.⁸²

How do we find a place to forgive ourselves?

How do we make the space to do that?

We call on the Player’s resource of faith. If our earthly impulse tells us not to forgive, we can call upon our faith to ignore that voice. Spiritual masters can forgive anything. We are very young spiritual masters but we have what it takes. We CAN forgive ourselves. And in turn, this creates for us the magnificent ability to forgive others.

Faith and Forgiveness

One must accept the utter vulnerability of unknowing, of acting as if one were faithful. For only when one acts in this way does the process of spiritual evolution accelerate, so that one may eventually have immediate experiences of tabernacling with the Creator.

It is this immediate experience of unity with deity which informs one’s faith. These moments upon the mountaintops of your experiences within the incarnational pattern are precious gold, to be treasured within the memory and to be brought to remembrance again and again.

For faith does not have its place upon the mountaintop. Faith has its place in the “valley of the shadow of death,” if we may quote from your holy works.⁸³ Thusly, one acts as if one has faith and, in so doing, is faithful. For nothing can be understood or known. This is very important to realize within your illusion.⁸⁴

In Chapter 5 I talked about choosing to act as though I loved my boss when I landed my first job as a professional librarian. My natural inclination was to dislike her immensely, for she had many a quirk and oddity which made her a difficult person with whom to deal. Nevertheless I pretended to love her dearly and in only a few weeks, I genuinely did. I made room in my heart for seeing her in a new way, and that space was filled with a far more compassionate view of her.

Such is the nature of acting as though we have faith.

Do you know Led Zeppelin’s classic song, “Stairway to Heaven”? In part, Robert Plant’s lyrics go like this:

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.⁸⁵

I do not know if Robert Plant intended the “two paths” to be the path of service to others and the path of service to self. However the meaning works well here, in terms of understanding faith. The path of service to self is a path of materialism, of buying that stairway and the house of which it is a part. If spirituality is taken up by a service-to-self person, it is a spirituality in which all things are known. The negative path is all about things which are known and can be controlled.

Dogmatic religions offer that feeling of sure knowledge of right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable. Negatively oriented people often profess religious faith. But their faith tells them that only those who believe as they do are acceptable. That stairway they are buying is a place of black and white, right and wrong. It is part of a sturdy, self-righteous house. Though it may be built on sand, it is a reassuring place for some. All values can be learned by rote and accepted without thought. Then those values can be used to judge, to condemn and to separate oneself from most of the other people in the world.

For us as Players on the path of service to others, our stairway “lies on the whispering wind” of spirit. Nothing is known. We are not in control. We dwell in mystery, paradox and unknowing. We have no material proof that our faith has merit, only intuition. We never shall have any such proof, except subjectively.

As we look back on our lives after being Players for a while, we will have much subjective proof that the whispering wind knows precisely what it is doing. At the beginning, though, we are all fools. We have only our faith as we step confidently into the abyss.

The whole point of faith is that we choose to take the leap into faith with no outer proof. We leap because we embrace the mystery, the paradox and the state of unknowing which characterize a life lived in faith. We let these qualities call us forth into the mid-air of unproven faith. And we find our feet in that very mid-air, and come into our faith organically, once we make the leap.

I think of Neo, in The Matrix, diving off a building after Morpheus makes a seemingly impossible but successful jump to the next building. Neo does not make it across the gap on his first try and falls to the alley far below. Neo is hurt. “I thought it wasn’t real!” says Neo. “Your mind makes it real,” replies Morpheus.

In just such a way, when our minds solidify around another’s hurtful words or actions, we make them real. Only then can they hurt us or throw us off-balance.

Later in that film, Morpheus takes Neo to a place where children are being trained to have faith or, in the film’s terms, to escape the Matrix. Neo is handed a spoon. “Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible,” a child says. “Instead only try to realize the truth—that there is no spoon.” Neo then bends the spoon.

“There is no spoon” becomes a rallying call, bringing Neo back to the realization that the “real world” is an illusion, while the seemingly unreal world of ideals and pure intentions is the only true reality.

Our minds’ viewpoints will make us either Players in our own Game or pawns in someone else’s. To make that jump or to bend that spoon, before we ever feel that we have the faith needed to do so, we act as though we had faith. In so doing, we find that faith has mysteriously entered our hearts. Each time we choose to have faith that all is well—for that is the essence of faith—we strengthen that “muscle” of faith.

Our lives are not usually as dramatic as The Matrix. Instead of being asked to make an impossible leap, we are asked to treat the Agents Smith, Brown and Jones in our lives as we would wish to be treated, regardless of how they are treating us. Instead of being asked to bend a spoon, we are asked to see through the behavior of difficult people, seeing instead their true nature as souls of great beauty.

Our first act of faith, as we pass the lions at the gate of the open heart, is to forgive ourselves. As the old hymn says, “just as we are,” ⁸⁶ we come to the seat of unconditional love. And we come to that cathedral entrance self-known and self-forgiven.

As I write this report, the shift centered around 2012 has commenced. It will continue for a century or more after 2012, according to the Confederation. We are now experiencing wave after wave of fourth-density energy. It is time to let go of self-judgment concerning our past behavior. Think upon that phrase, “Let go.” When you feel self-judgment, let it go. When you feel a lack of self-esteem, release it. Players need to travel light! Old judgment is unneeded baggage.

In the world of the green-ray chakra, today’s errors are enough to carry and by evening, it is time for the Player to lay them down, give them up, and empty the pockets of all mental and emotional baggage. It may seem wrong at first not to punish the self for perceived faults and errors. However the Player will find that this practice results in a tuned-up, freed-up mental and emotional attitude.

It is not that the Player is now immune to error, or free of responsibility. Rather, the Player is so aware of his responsibility as a part of the Creator that he deals with his shadow side in the present tense, day by day. He sweeps his “outer courtyard every day with conscientious self-examination. And when he awakens in the new day he, too, is new, fresh and self-forgiven.

Seeing with New Eyes

The penetration of the veil may be seen to begin to have its roots in the gestation of green-ray activity, that all-compassionate love which demands no return. If this path is followed the higher energy centers shall be activated and crystallized until the adept is born. Within the adept is the potential for dismantling the veil to a greater or lesser extent that all may be seen again as one. The other-self is primary catalyst in this particular path to the piercing of the veil, if you would call it that.⁸⁷

The Confederation describes us as having a “veil of forgetting” in place within our minds as we live our everyday, third-density lives. This veil closes us off from any immediate awareness of our sub-conscious minds. This veil is in place in third density to enable us to choose how to think and act by our own free will.

When, by the exercise of our free will, we as Players choose to polarize in service to others, we have begun to penetrate the veil. As we offer service to others without asking for or expecting a return, our compassionate and generous actions create their own energetic environment in which we grow as souls. We discover the magical feeling of making a difference. As we keep making positive choices, we create for ourselves a whole new inner world.

Buoyed up by this inner atmosphere, we can feel ourselves vibrate in love. We can feel ourselves glowing and radiating that unconditional love that comes through us. And we begin at last to believe in ourselves. It is a feedback operation: the more we practice the ways of service to others, the more we can feel the lightness and radiance of our beings. And the veil begins to lift.

Seen from this vantage point, the telephone salesman, the tail-gater and all the other irritating and rude people whom we meet become very helpful to us. They are the people upon whom we can practice the ways of love. We can now fall in love with people all over again, at the soul level. Our world becomes transformed. We are no longer victims or sinners. We are Players, ready to meet the next person who will provide us grist for our mill; practice for our ways of love.

There is a practical side to our open hearts’ compassion. When Don Elkins asked the Ra group about the green-ray response to a person who is starving, he presumed that the open heart would dictate that the hungry people be given the information needed to achieve graduation to fourth density. Ra said,

This is incorrect. To a mind/body/spirit complex which is starving, the appropriate response is the feeding of the body.⁸⁸

An open hearted person does not simply love the people around him. If they are hungry, he feeds them also. For they and he are one. He is feeding himself.

The Inner Sanctum of the Heart Chakra

Come with us into the heart. Come with us now. Feel that energy coming through those distortions in each center, yet moving upwards to the heart. See that energy coming from above, as it were, that calls for inspiration and flows like liquid into the heart. These two meet where lions guard the door. And you bow to the lions. You do not say, “I deserve to be here.” You say, “Have mercy on me, for I seek love.”

And the lions bow to you and the door opens. And you walk into this room, this holy of holies. This is the open heart. Sit down. Take off your shoes. You are upon holy ground. Now you are with the Creator, who can give you rest. You are loved with a passion that creates and destroys worlds. Oh, how you are loved! ⁸⁹

Many are uncomfortable with the idea expressed in “Have mercy on me.” The reason is that asking for mercy seems to be an evasion of responsibility, and a kowtowing to a higher power. However, the lions are symbolic of our own guards to the open heart. We are asking ourselves to have mercy.

The central work for a Player is to come ever more fully into the open heart. This is always the first priority. Upon this work of returning again and again to the open heart hangs the Game.

The open heart has an attitude. This attitude informs all our outer work and helps us make our choices well. All outer work takes second place to this central focus of dwelling in an inner atmosphere of unconditional love.

Sometimes when I am out of tune with love I slip right off the Gameboard. I plop down onto the flat gameboard. I feel weary, jumbled and fuzzy. When I realize this and decide to get back to the Gameboard, I can do it in a heartbeat. I mentally go to the gateway of the inner sanctum of my heart, collect my tattered self together, pray for mercy and tumble into my heart chakra. Whew! It feels so good!

Did you ever chant this ditty as a kid?

Here I stand, all ragged and dirty!
Kiss me quick or I’ll run like a turkey.

That is just how I feel sometimes as I come to myself and remember that I am a Player, not a victim. And yet the lions at the gate let me pass, for I accept my own dishevelment and dare to believe in unconditional love, even in all my playground dirt.

Our ability to enter into and stay within our open hearts is crucial. We are running out of third-density time in which to become Players. At this point in Earth’s third density, with our present world getting ready to switch over to fourth density, the density of love, on the winter solstice of 2012, we need to make that initial Choice now, clear our lower three chakras and come into that realm of unconditional love that resides in our inmost temple, ready to offer us the balm of Gilead.

The inner sanctum awaits us. We need not fear that we have somehow lost our chance to find and to rest in this highest love. We can clear our energy bodies and collect ourselves into our hearts in just a second or two. It is a matter of choosing to do it. And choosing to do it is a matter of two things: remembering what we wish to do and where we wish to be, and setting our intention so to do and so to be.

Setting our intention is a signal to the metaphysical world which waits to help us. As we firm our will and reach within for remembrance of our intended goal, all the forces of the Creator flow into us. Inspiration and strength flow through our crown chakras at the top of our heads and down into the inner sanctum of our hearts. When we set our whole minds in pure intent, the whole of the Creator-principle responds.

This is the essence of kundalini rising. The energy of the Creator, streaming in endless supply up through our lower chakras because we have cleared them, leaps to meet the inspiration which we have activated from the world of spirit by the focusing of our will. Well is it said, “Ask and you shall receive.”

Setting Sail for Graduation Day

We encourage each, when thinking about the right use of time, to remember to consider before all else whether the self is tuned to match the vibration of love. Each feels this constant within, and we would pause for a moment at this time to allow each person to move into the heart, to move the attention into that place within which is the metaphysical equivalent of the heart, the green-ray energy center.

Here is the seat of love coming into the created body. Here is that holy of holies where love dwells fully, undistorted, and pure. Moving into this sacred place within, open the heart and feel the love of the one infinite Creator.

Like the sun lights up the sky, the Creator rests in full strength within you, lighting your way. The key that opens the door into your own sacred heart is silence, a turning within to listen to the silence. And this habit of turning within, of centering first upon the Creator which is Love, shall stand each in very good stead as each attempts to seek the truth of its own being and its own journey.⁹⁰

I shall talk more about using silence to enter the open heart in Living the Law of One – 103: The Inner Work. For now, in this first “bullet” volume of my report on Confederation teachings, the bare concept that silence is always a key to opening the door to the inner heart is sufficient.

Silence is powerful for the Player. There is much more information in silence than in our words. When we think or hear words, we know that it is human wisdom speaking. When we focus into the silence, we can trust that it is the Creator and all the forces of spirit speaking, in thoughts too deep for words. These thoughts are going right into our hearts and giving them huge amounts of light-filled information. We do not hear it. We feel it. We feel its strength and its restorative power. We feel the unconditional love that is imbedded in that silence. When the mind stops, the Creator is right there.

We do not have to meditate formally in order to enter the silence. We can go fishing and listen to the water. We can play golf on the quiet links. We can take a walk in nature and let bird calls and the croak of tree frogs decorate our silence. We can exercise, taking the ear phones off, leaving the iPod behind and letting the silence feed us as we go. We can turn off the television and abandon the internet. For a minute or two, we can just sit and invite the silence. In cases of emergency, a moment of silence, sought sincerely, will do its good work within us, restoring us to remembrance.

The Confederation encourages us to see all of our lives as sacred; all of our experiences as offering ways to live the life of a Player. We can play the Game of Life as we go, grabbing our silence by the moment if we must, whether we have access to leisure right this minute or not. And that is a good thing, for we are all short on time, not just in terms of living crowded lives but also in terms of our nearing the end of third density.

As I write this, our third-density light is waning. After 2012, the emergence of fourth-density light will be complete. Those who have already made their Choice by then are in good shape. There is enough third-density light left for the work of further polarization and graduation.

But for those who have drifted, unawakened to the world of spirit, during this incarnation and have never made that first Choice, it is a different story. People with only third-density-activated bodies will no longer have the amount of third-density light needed to make their initial Choice.

If they are still unpolarized after the onset of fourth density, it is likely that they shall be permanently baffled by the outer picture during their present lifetime, to the point where they will choose to retreat to simpler times and confine their thoughts to the beginning energies of third density: protection and defense of one’s clan and conserving the clan’s resources. Indeed, the outer picture shows that many among us have already reverted to those values, to the exclusion of entering their own hearts and seeing the Oneness of all.

The Confederation encourages us to have faith that all is well. If you are reading this book, you are already in the midst of awakening and choosing to become a Player. Opening the heart is not a long course. It can be done very quickly.

In a way, the situation that we face can be imagined as if we were in chemistry class. It is as though our souls were dissolved within laboratory beakers, here in third density, beakers in which there are two upper spouts and a lower reservoir. We as souls enter this lower reservoir at birth. As we work with our catalyst and make choices in service to others, we begin to collect our soul liquid into the right-hand upper spout. If we make sufficient choices in service to self, on the other hand, our essence will instead rise and be collected into the upper left-hand spout. Either way, we are progressing in polarization.

By the end of our incarnations, the essences of the Players among us will be contained in one of the two upper spouts. The essences of those who have never made the choice of polarizing, either in service to others or in service to self, will remain in the lower reservoir.

When, in the fullness of time, our physical death invites us to the Harvest of third density, we Players who have polarized sufficiently to be contained within one of the upper spouts will walk the steps of light and graduate to fourth density, either positive fourth or negative fourth. When the non-players, whose essences are still in the lower reservoir, pass through the gates of death into larger life and walk the steps of light, they will remain within this present density. They are “blinded by the light.” ⁹¹

This is not a tragedy. If we do not graduate in this third-density harvest, we will soon find ourselves in new physical bodies, placed on another third-density planet for a repetition of this third-density cycle. We shall repeat third grade, as it were, in this cosmic school of souls. The Confederation speaks neither of heaven nor hell but simply the soul’s natural evolution. They do not describe a final and ultimate ending for us as souls when our bodies die. They see us as citizens of eternity.

The graduates who have been harvested to fourth-density positive during this period will most likely remain on Earth. Planet Earth is already vibrating almost entirely in fourth-density positive. Those few who graduate to fourth density negative will go elsewhere for their fourth-density experience. We Players will take Earth’s stage once again for the beginning days of fourth density

Becoming Adepts

Resting upon the energy of the open heart, it is then that the disciplines of the personality begin.⁹²

As we Players seek to bring ourselves ever more into our inner hearts, we become adepts. The word, adept, has a secret, occult ring to it. And yet it is a natural outgrowth of the Player’s process of making conscious choices to increase polarity. And it is a practical, down-to-earth process as well as one which calls for inner work. We Players become adepts as we apply fourth-density positive values, such as compassion and seeing others as ourselves, to the circumstances of our everyday lives.

No group manifests the truth of this more than our growing Indigo population. There are many Players who have recently died, according to the Confederation, who have graduated to fourth density positive already. And they have all chosen to return to third-density Earth, their souls’ energy bodies linked into their dual-activated physical bodies. Their physical bodies can still exist in third density. But they can also exist in fourth density. The Q’uo group says about them,

As the interpenetrating energies of green ray buffet this planet more and more, the challenge to all entities is to be able to face the truth of themselves clearly and straightforwardly. Double-activated entities have a head start in being able to become completely honest with themselves. This creates an atmosphere in which they may be more calm and serene under conditions which may seem challenging.⁹³

We have come to call these children “Indigo Children” or “Crystal Children,” among other terms. I believe that the great majority of all children being born now are Indigos.

For them, the veil is quite thin. Some of them, like Neo, can bend spoons by mentally requesting that they bend, or do other seemingly miraculous “tricks.” But Indigos are not usually interested in such impractical demonstrations. They are focused on solutions.

They are born system-busters. This new breed is interested in the practical aspects of healing the environment and seeing to the physical needs of the third-density humans who still live on Earth. The deeply imbedded skill which they bring through the birth process is to see more easily through this veil of forgetting.

When they encounter neutrally or negatively polarized thinking, they reject it. They have a firm grasp of the Golden Rule. And they do not use that to seek the solitude of the cave or mountain-top. They are ready to stride into our meanest city streets and our bruised and battered countryside and make changes for the better. They are adepts in the making who need no outer badges of sanctity such as titles or uniforms. Jeans and a tee shirt will do nicely.

A good example of such an Indigo Child is a young Canadian, Ryan Hreljac, who, in second grade, learned from his teacher that there were people in Africa who had no access to water. He vowed to save money to make a well for them. He did chores until he had raised the amount needed for a well. By this time, many others had heard about his work and had begun to donate to this cause also. As I write this, 17-year-old Hreljac’s foundation has built 266 wells and is going strong.

Hreljac did not ask the government to pay for this. He did not appeal to existing non-profit corporations. He initiated his campaign personally and, in time, formed his own non-profit organization, Ryan’s Well Foundation.⁹⁴ He intends to dedicate his life to seeing that all Africans have access to water. These Indigo Children are Players, even at a young age.

Indigos are children, however. They still need the guidance of loving parents and friends as they are growing up. The key to working with these sometimes very independent children is to remember that they are vibrating in service to others. Instead of disciplining such children, it is far more effective to partner with them.

If we as parents need our Indigo Child to be quiet, for example, it is usually not effective to tell him to be quiet with no explanation. It is far better to explain our needs and ask him for help. His veil is thin. He wants to help. He is very ready to give and receive love.

And we can follow his example in choosing to dwell, in thought, within our green-ray heart chakras. As we spend more and more time tabernacling within our open hearts, our experience of life will gradually alter. Living in a state of remembrance of who we truly are, we shall not be so likely to be caught up by passing difficulties. Our resilience will increase as we get used to dealing with life’s little and large catastrophes from a point of view which in part remains always on the Gameboard. Then, fixed in a heart-full atmosphere, we can remain serene and self-confident, even as we may vary widely in our immediate, surface responses to incoming catalyst.

Will this happen to us all at once? Usually not. The normal process for spiritual evolution is two steps forward, one step back. The creation is set up to test our awareness cyclically. Once we have pursued and learned a lesson of love once, whether it be patience, faith, the right use of will or whatever other lesson is ours, we will have a “ten-minute quiz” on that lesson.

We Players can count upon being tested repeatedly. The Confederation does not promise us any sort of once-gained-permanent-forever enlightenment. Their information indicates that we will be working with our catalyst, improving our polarity and our balance, right up to our last breath. It will never be effortless to remain in our open hearts. But it will be increasingly easy to do so.

As we Players more and more become ones whose lives wrap themselves in inner remembrance and unconditional love, we shall begin to experience personal “heavens on earth.” We shall penetrate the veil by the love we experience from the one Creator and by our responses of unconditional love to the Creator and to the creation around us.

Green-Ray Sexuality

If both vibrate in green ray there will be a mutually strengthening energy transfer, the negative or female, as you call it, drawing the energy from the roots of the being-ness through the energy centers, thus being physically revitalized; the positive, or male polarity, as it is deemed in your illusion, finding in its energy transfer an inspiration which satisfies and feeds the spirit portion of the body/mind/spirit complex, thus both being polarized and releasing the excess of that which each has in abundance by nature of intelligent energy, that is, negative/intuitive, positive/physical energies as you may call them.⁹⁵

When our attitudes towards our mates are marked by unconditional love, we can enjoy the life-enhancing experience of sexual energy exchange at the green-ray level. The Confederation suggests that males and females are dynamically opposed and beautifully harmonized in their sexual natures.

They agree with Eastern thought in suggesting that the female sexual energy is “yin”—dark, waiting, accepting, fruitful and full of the inspiration which comes from containing the ability to gestate new life. They characterize women as having an abundance of this inspirational energy, but having a tendency to lack in physical energy.

The male sexual energy is seen by them, as well as in Eastern thought, as “yang”—light, aggressive, reaching and forceful. They characterize men as having an abundance of physical energy although they have a tendency to lack in inspirational energy.

In green-ray sexuality, the two are truly lovers. They love and accept each other for exactly who they are. As they become one physically, they automatically transfer to each other the energies each has to offer, thus balancing both lovers. In this energy exchange, both are fed, but neither lacks anything, for both have given from abundance. It is in green-ray sex that the term, “making love,” becomes literally true.

I recall an episode of the television series, All in the Family, that touches upon green-ray energy exchange. Archie and Edith Bunker are husband and wife in this series, played by Carroll O’Conner and Jean Stapleton. Edith answers an ad she finds in a magazine, thinking that it is for those wanting to meet other couples and socialize with them. In truth, however, the ad is for “swingers.” Edith’s bewilderment at the other couple’s behavior and her growing panic as she realizes what they want of her makes for lots of laughs.

At one point Edith and the visiting woman are talking in the kitchen alone. The other woman, understanding at last that Edith and Archie will not be swinging with her and her husband, talks of finding her marriage dull and flat. She says that the swinging helps them to fill the empty places left by their own boring sex life. “Don’t you feel the need for more?” she asks Edith. Edith replies, “When Archie and I are together, it is like Thanksgiving.” Green-ray love-making is a feast indeed.

Once the two lovers are both vibrating in green ray, there is a tremendous freedom that occurs. Ra says,

It will be noted that once green-ray energy transfer has been achieved by two mind/body/spirits in mating, the further rays are available without both entities having the necessity to progress equally. Thus a blue ray vibrating entity or indigo ray vibrating entity whose other ray vibrations are clear may share that energy with the green ray other-self, thus acting as catalyst for the continued learn/teaching of the other-self.

In other words, the green-ray energy exchange lifts both mates to whatever level of sexuality either of the mates has achieved.

Green-Ray Healing

The energy which is used is brought into the field complex of the healer by the outstretched hand used in a polarized sense. However, this energy circulates through the various points of energy and passes through the green energy center in a microcosm of the King’s Chamber energy configuration of prana; this then continuing for the third spiral through the blue energy center and being sent therefrom through the gateway back to intelligent infinity.

It is from the green center that the healing prana moves into the polarized healing right hand and therefrom to the one to be healed.⁹⁶We will discuss healing more in Living the Law of One – 103: The Inner Work. For now it is enough to touch upon this subject. I wish to include this section because there are many people who are natural healers, already known for their healing touch. If you are one of those people, it will be of aid to understand what the Confederation says about how green-ray healing works.

One of the many magical things about pyramids is their healing ability. The Confederation states that this pyramid shape has natural faculties for healing stemming directly from its geometry. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the best example of the dimensions of such a healing pyramid.

The Confederation states that the love/light energy of the Creator is scooped into the base of the pyramid by the natural functioning of its geometric shape and the ratios between angles, height, width and so forth. This structure was given to the Egyptians by the Ra group as an aid to seeking the Law of One. It is interesting to read their description of how they came just enough into our third-density reality from sixth density to talk to the material used to make the pyramid and to ask it to form the structure. According to Ra, there were no tools used to build this structure. Ra simply requested of “eternal rock” that it form into the pyramid, a request that was granted. Just as the Bible says, if you have faith, you can literally move mountains.

This pyramid shape causes the scoop of incoming energy from beneath the pyramid to be spiraled naturally into a point within the lower part of the pyramid. Then it spirals out again into a double teardrop shape; that is, a rounded shape that is pointed on both ends. In the middle of this teardrop, the energy passes through what archeologists call the King’s Chamber position.

Anything placed in that position will be offered the opportunity to re-balance or re-boot the energy system of its body. Food placed in this position within a pyramid, is kept fresh indefinitely, because food is second-density in nature, and always accepts the re-booting, having no veil of forgetting. Razor blades placed there retain their edge even after many uses, for the same reason. We humans, with our free will, when offered such a healing opportunity, can accept the re-balancing of our energy system or we can reject it.

To complete the explanation of how energy spirals through the pyramid, the Confederation notes that the energy does a second double-teardrop spiral, after the first, healing spiral, which ends at the tip of the pyramid. There, as the energy leaves the tip, it fans out into the third spiral, rather like a candle flame atop the wick of a candle.

The beginning of that third spiral, too, has magical properties. As it leaves the tip of the pyramid, it creates a vortex which is transformative. We see this mostly in places like the Bermuda Triangle, where a pyramid built by the ancient culture of Atlantis has sunk to the sea bottom and is sadly out of tune. This causes it to emit a distorted burst of this energy from time to time. When an airplane or ship passes through the area above where the sunken pyramid’s departing spiral is cyclically emitting the energy of this vortex, the craft disappears right out of our consensus reality.

To resume our discussion of green-ray healing, the Confederation suggests that healers are the living equivalent of a King’s Chamber position. When they hold their hands over a patient to be healed, they offer that patient an opportunity to choose to re-balance his energy body.

Healers can most skillfully offer their healing energy by allowing the love/light energy of the Creator, which pours through us at all times, to come through their hands, rather than by forcing it by using their will. If a healer uses his will to heal, he is healing from the yellow-ray chakra. That healing may work for a while, but it will soon wear off.

If a healer simply offers himself as an instrument through which the Creator may work, then the healing comes through him and has the King’s Chamber properties. So if you have found through experience that you have healing hands, know that you are working strictly as an instrument, and let the Creator play Its healing tune while you focus on love and offer yourself quietly in service to others. The energy offered to the patient will know where it is needed and what to do. And before you work with a patient, always obtain his permission to receive the healing energy you will channel.

It might seem that somehow, the healer would have a build-up of such energy and in some way suffer. On the contrary, just as in the pyramid, the prana spirals once more through the blue and indigo energy centers of the healer’s energy body and spirals out of the body at the violet-ray chakra, being collected back to the Creator.

This type of service to others can be learned. If Players are drawn to such a service, the Confederation suggests that they investigate Reiki healing, which is set up so that the healers know that they are not doing the work in and of themselves but rather are instruments of sacred healing.

We have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. So let us review.

We need to do three things In order to come into our open hearts.

1. We need to get to know ourselves, even our worst faults.
2. We need to forgive ourselves completely.
3. We need to accept ourselves unconditionally, just as we are.

This process is our leap into faith.

In order to stay in our open hearts, we need to repeat the process daily, looking within to be sure that we remain self-forgiven and self-accepted. Forgiving and accepting other selves is simply an extension of forgiving and accepting ourselves.