Chapter Nine
The Lighthouse Level

Becoming a Player at the Lighthouse Level

You sit in the middle of a torus,¹¹² shall we say, of created light that is your interface with all that there is. This is the essence of the indigo and the violet rays. Beyond all the techniques of the discipline of the personality, beyond any detail, skill or technique, there is this one overriding essence of connection between energies that are different in a profound way, energies that, when put together, create of you a true and powerful lighthouse.¹¹³

In this chapter we look at the indigo and violet rays of the energy body. We are looking at them together in this chapter because in many ways they work together to create the Player’s interface with the enhanced Gameboard.

Before we talk about the indigo and violet rays separately, I would like to look at the overview of these two energy centers given in the quote above.

In working with our lower chakras, our concern is to keep the energy pathway unblocked into the heart chakra. We are not reaching upwards to the top of the energy body for inspiration but simply keeping the pathway of the energy body clear for that infinite love/light energy from the Creator that enters the energy body at the red-ray chakra at the bottom of the spine and exits the energy body through the violet-ray chakra at the crown of the head.

We especially want that energy to be clear up to the heart. The opened heart chakra will give even a beginning Player the opportunity to graduate. The higher chakras are very useful to the developing Player but not essential for graduation. So keeping the heart open is job-one.

The indigo ray, like the blue ray, cannot work at all unless the heart is open and flowing. So when we work in the indigo and violet rays, we must keep the heart open. In indigo-ray work we are accessing the possibility of getting help from “above” for the first time. We are forming our intention to reach upwards, through the indigo and violet rays and then through the gateway to intelligent infinity, for specific inspiration from the world of spirit.

I say “specific” inspiration to differentiate between the universal and unconditional guidance of green-ray love and the specific, specialized guidance from metaphysical sources. Only when we access our indigo and violet rays with clear intent can these sources enter our energy fields from the gateway to intelligent infinity.

The Confederation suggests that we as individuals are living interfaces between third-density Earth reality, with its many limitations, and the unlimited world of the metaphysical or time/space universe. We have the native ability to access this unlimited world by forming our intention to do so and then asking for inspiration and information.

Using the indigo and violet rays to access the gateway to intelligent infinity is like choosing to open a computer program by clicking on its icon. Microsoft calls the computer mouse a “human interface device.” Little does Microsoft know that the term has a double meaning for the Player!

In our analogy regarding the use of indigo and violet rays by a Player, the icon itself is the gateway to intelligent infinity. We become able to click on that icon by choosing to move our “mouse” of intent and readiness to that icon. Our click on that “icon” opens the “software” of the metaphysical or time/space universe of infinite time and space and its “menu” becomes available for our use.

The menu one opens by going through the gateway to intelligent infinity includes items like meditation, prayer and work in faith. The Confederation calls the menu itself “the discipline of the personality” or “work in consciousness.” These items are found on the “menu” of many religious systems. However the Confederation is not a religious group in the usual sense. It discusses these items assuming that we will be accessing the gateway from within our own, internalized process of using energy lovingly and wisely, and this is possible regardless of our religious persuasions.

In the quote above, we, as energy bodies, can be seen to be dwelling in the midst of a doughnut or torus of energy. We pull in the love/light energy from the bottom of the chakra system upwards. At the same time we pull in light/love energy through the gateway to intelligent infinity into the violet ray and down into our chakra bodies. This simultaneous action creates a meeting of the two energies and then their union. This union creates a pattern where the unified energies become a circle of light all around us, a cascading fountain that is endlessly replenished. This is the lighthouse effect.

This action is what prayer, meditation and other indigo-ray activities help to facilitate. The Player whose indigo-ray and violet-ray chakras are firing and whose intention is to ask for inspiration dwells in the midst of a cascade of light and love that connects the world of space/time, the here and now, and the world of time/space, the world of infinity and eternity.

We will discuss what the Confederation material says about these two chakras more extensively in Living the Law of One – 103: The Inner Work. For this present volume, we will learn the basics of how the indigo and violet rays function and what issues they cover. Although we can graduate without ever accessing this gateway to intelligent infinity and simply keeping our hearts open, we can refine our Play on the Gameboard endlessly by using these last two chakras of the energy body

The Indigo Ray

The indigo-ray balancing is quite central to the type of work which revolves about the spirit complex, which has its influx then into the transformation or transmutation of third density to fourth density, it being the energy center receiving the least distorted outpourings of love/light from intelligent energy and also the potential for the key to the gateway of intelligent infinity.¹¹⁴

The indigo-ray chakra is located at the middle of the forehead, where some Hindus place a red dot. Although Hindu women generally wear the red dot to indicate that they are married and devoted to their husbands, the Hindu monk wears the red dot to indicate his focus upon his “third eye,” the eye of metaphysical insight. This latter meaning of the red dot is the one which is compatible with the Confederation’s description of the indigo ray.

This is also the location in our physical bodies of our pineal gland, a gland which scientists link to paranormal phenomena and the ability to be aware of subtle energies as well as to cycles of physical growth and development.¹¹⁵ The indigo ray is described by the Confederation as having a three-petaled or triangular shape, for most people. The Ra group notes that “some adepts who have balanced the lower energies may create more faceted forms.”¹¹⁶

Once we Players have become skillful at keeping our hearts open, we will find it very helpful to move into this indigo ray and to do the work in consciousness that this “human interface device” makes possible. Indeed, a lifetime is too short to become truly skillful at using the indigo ray’s vast resources. However, we can have fun practicing!

The Violet Ray

QUESTIONER: Could you tell me how each of the rays, red through violet, would appear in a perfectly balanced and undistorted entity?

RA: I am Ra. We cannot tell you this for each balance is perfect and each unique. We do not mean to be obscure.

Let us offer an example. In a particular entity, let us use as an example a Wanderer;¹¹⁷ the rays may be viewed as extremely even, red, orange, yellow. The green ray is extremely bright. This is, shall we say, balanced by a dimmer indigo. Between these two the point of balance resides, the blue ray of the communicator sparkling in strength above the ordinary. In the violet ray we see this unique spectrograph, if you will, and at the same time the pure violet surrounding the whole; this in turn, surrounded by that which mixes the red and violet ray, indicating the integration of mind, body and spirit; this surrounded in turn by the vibratory pattern of this entity’s true density.

This description may be seen to be both unbalanced and in perfect balance. The latter understanding is extremely helpful in dealing with other-selves. The ability to feel blockages is useful only to the healer. There is not properly a tiny fraction of judgment when viewing a balance in colors. Of course when we see many of the energy plexi weakened and blocked, we may understand that an entity has not yet grasped the baton and begun the race. However, the potentials are always there. All the rays, fully balanced, are there in waiting to be activated.¹¹⁸

The violet ray is basically a read-out of our entire energy body. More than anything we do or say, it is an accurate and unbiased report on our present vibrational situation.

If you have gone to your home improvement center to duplicate a paint color, you have seen the clerk take your sample and have an instrument “read” it. The instrument reads what colors are in the sample of paint, and what the proportions of each color are within the sample. It prints out a report giving the formula for reproducing the sample color. The clerk puts a supply of all the colors on the report into a machine and sets the machine according to the ratios in the report. The machine measures out the colors into a paint can. When the can is filled and shaken up so that the colors are blended, your color sample is reproduced.

In a similar way our violet rays give us a report identifying who we are, in terms of the color values of the chakras of our energy bodies. The Confederation tells us that they do not need to know our names, since they can “read” our violet rays’ spectrographs. They say that this is a far more accurate way of identifying us than using our names. Perhaps other people may have the same name as we. But our violet ray read-out is unique.

Each of our violet rays is different, the Confederation says, and yet each one is perfect—perfect for us. We can use the violet ray for protection and for work in consciousness, as we access the gateway to intelligent infinity, but we cannot do anything to or with the violet-ray chakra itself. It is as it is, an up-to-the-minute report on who we are. It is our metaphysical ID. The Ra group puts it this way:

The energy ingress ends with indigo. The violet ray is a thermometer or indicator of the whole.¹¹⁹

The violet ray is located just above the crown of the head. Its shape is the “thousand-petaled lotus,” which Yogis call “sahasrara.”¹²⁰ They echo the Confederation in their belief that this ray is the center of contact with the Creator.

The violet ray is the most fixed of the chakras. The Ra group says it is the “sum of the mind/body/spirit complex distortion totality.” As we penetrate this chakra, we enter that area which opens to us the sacred nature of even the most ordinary and everyday things and actions.

Balancing the Chakra Rays

Each energy center has a wide range of rotational speed or, as you may see it more clearly in relation to color, brilliance. The more strongly the will of the entity concentrates upon and refines or purifies each energy center, the more brilliant or rotationally active each energy center will be.

It is not necessary for the energy centers to be activated in order, in the case of the self-aware entity. Thusly entities may have extremely brilliant energy centers while being quite unbalanced in their violet-ray aspect due to lack of attention paid to the totality of experience of the entity.

The key to balance may then be seen in the unstudied, spontaneous, and honest response of entities toward experiences, thus using experience to the utmost; then applying the balancing exercises and achieving the proper attitude for the most purified spectrum of energy center manifestation in violet ray.

This is why the brilliance or rotational speed of the energy centers is not considered above the balanced aspect or violet-ray manifestation of an entity in regarding harvestability, for those entities which are unbalanced, especially as to the primary rays, will not be capable of sustaining the impact of the love and light of intelligent infinity to the extent necessary for harvest.¹²¹

Although the Confederation notes the importance to the Player of using the indigo- and violet-ray chakras for work in consciousness such as meditation and prayer, the Confederation does not recommend plunging into a program of these activities while neglecting the lower chakras as a way of becoming more harvestable. Their emphasis is always on balancing the entire chakra body system.

I personally know four people who had “bad trips” on LSD in their youth. They report it to have been a very uncomfortable experience. It felt as though a hole had been blown in their minds. The reason that this happens, and the reason that it is unwise to pursue higher awareness through drug use, is that the person uses the drug to attain a purer and less distorted level of light and love than is natural for him.

Often he attains it, but he does not have a sufficient amount of balance in his energy body to sustain the experience of this state for long. Under the influence of the drug, his energy body crashes as the impact of intelligent infinity “blows” his system, just as an electrical line blows when it receives a power surge in excess of its ability to run the power. Using drugs is rather like inviting lightning to strike one’s energy body. One is liable to be fried!

The Confederation recommends a safe way to work on balancing the chakras and becoming sturdy and stable enough to open and use the indigo ray and run higher “current.” They suggest looking at our thoughts and reactions during our everyday activities. They do not suggest tinkering with these thoughts and reactions. Whatever we are doing and thinking has its own rightness. They do suggest reviewing these thoughts and reactions each evening before going to bed.

This “balancing technique,” as they call it, is fairly simple. The Player is asked, in this exercise, to sit down and enjoy a few quiet moments at the end of each day. During this time, the Player thinks back over the day’s activities. What thoughts has he had? What issues arose? Did he get angry? Was he very happy? As he looks over each “distortion”—for that is what the Confederation calls all of our thoughts and feelings—he asks himself if that was a balanced thought or feeling, in terms of allowing him to remain within his open heart. If any catalyst has caused a distortion which closes his heart, even momentarily, the Confederation suggests working with that catalyst to re-open the heart and to re-balance the system in the following way:

1. First, the Player remembers each experience in its original, distorted form. He even emphasizes or revs up the reaction or emotion which he has experienced, so he can experience the feeling again very clearly and consciously.

2.      Then he asks himself what the opposite of this feeling is. He allows himself to become as overwhelmed with the experience of this opposite feeling as he was with the original feeling. For instance, if he has felt dislike, he first accentuates the feeling of dislike by recalling the episode which caused him to feel that emotion. Then he invokes the feeling of love, which is the opposite of dislike, and lets it sweep over him.

This exercise is intended to balance the Player’s original distortion as he re-experiences it and then experiences its opposite dynamic. Generally this exercise lifts the heavy weight of the original emotion and places it in context with the whole range of emotions and thoughts. It places the Player at some distance from the original reaction and enlarges his perspective. And it lets him know what his issues are. He gets to know himself better each time he does this. As he leaves the balancing exercise, he will usually find that his heart has opened.

The Confederation suggests valuing the chakra system in a holistic way. To their way of thinking it is just as important to have a strong red ray as it is to have a strong green ray. It is just as important to have a strong orange ray as it is to have a strong blue ray. And it is just as important to have a strong yellow ray as it is to have a strong indigo ray. What the Player is working towards is having a chakra system that is open and harmonious within its entire self, so that he can move up and down the chakra system from one chakra to another easily, as the occasion requires.

I take their advice seriously when I channel. I ask for help in setting my energy body to a balanced configuration which is like the “safe” setting one can choose when opening a program on the computer. I deliberately dim down the stronger chakras until I feel that the whole system is in balance and very stable. Then I ask for the highest and best contact I can carry with that “safe’ setting. I have no desire to “blow” my system!

Those of Q’uo say,

“It is impossible to do work in consciousness before you have begun to have a holistic view of your energy, valuing every aspect of your feelings. What you are attempting to do in opening the heart is not to leap from the heart into indigo ray but simply to find yourself able to use the resources of the heart chakra which make work in consciousness ever more possible.

As that heart not only opens but is persuaded by the constant tuning of the individual to stay open, more and more, finally there is a habitual default setting of open heart and dependence upon the concept of love and a need to be a part of the principle of love and light upon Planet Earth. In such a way shall you be able to keep your system open and ready to speak the words of love, to sing the melodies of wisdom, and to reach out, hand to hand and heart to heart, to each other, as you practice being one in love.¹²²

As Players, we will be drawn to spend time working with the items on the “menu” of the gateway to intelligent infinity which the activated indigo ray makes possible. And that’s good. However, it is vital to remember to continue to tune and balance the whole chakra system, even as we explore techniques such as meditation, prayer, inspirational reading and reflection and all the other items on the gateway’s menu.

I stress this because many Players who have become advanced in their metaphysical practices run into trouble or become “burned out.” The culprit is often their devaluing the worth of their lower-chakras. This throws them off-balance, and the whole system starts to shut down, just as it would under the influence of drug use. The items on the gateway menu are potent!

Fortunately, when the balancing and tuning of the energy body is done to stabilize the energy flow, the “wiring” naturally becomes stronger, and it is safe to work in consciousness.

By all means, try the various gateway techniques I describe in this chapter as well as the next two chapters. But use caution and always recall that it is keeping an open heart, and moving from that unconditional love, that the Player brings himself successfully to graduation.

The “KISS” motto of Alcoholics Anonymous really applies here. The phrase stands for “Keep it simple, stupid.” And that is what the skillful Player will always do—keep it simple. Remember the basics and only work with these techniques of indigo and violet ray to the extent that they help you, by your own judgment, without throwing you out of balance. They are the icing on the cake. Do not give them too much importance! Unconditional love is the name of the Game.

Indigo-Ray Blockage: The Usual Suspects

It is important to note that the energy system of the mind, body and spirit of the complex of energies cannot be manipulated beyond certain limits. That is, if there is a blockage in the lower three energy centers, which have to do with survival, the way the self regards the self or relates to other entities one at a time, and the way the self relates to the groups of third density, such as the work environment and the family, then the power of the one infinite Creator that enters the body in infinite supply cannot come into the heart center with full energy.

There are many ways to distort, block or confuse these lower energies. Each is working with the concept of self, with the concept of self in relationship and with the concept of self in groups in ways that distort and filter that energy. And each, being unique, is doing that distorting and partial blocking in her own way. And, therefore, each has what this instrument calls a knot to untangle that is unlike anyone else’s knot; has the confusion to unravel that is not precisely like anyone else’s confusion.¹²³

The Confederation material suggests that the three most common sources of indigo-ray blockage are judgment, fear and unworthiness. Let’s look at judgment first. We have a keen sense of justice. Although we observe repeatedly that our world is not always a just place, we enjoy feeling that we live in a world of stable values.

Most of us have been given the Ten Commandments in Sunday School. We know not to murder, steal, covet, tell lies or disrespect our parents. However, our day-to-day life offers us many chances to “do the right thing” that are not covered by the general truisms of the Ten Commandments. For instance, we might do everything required of us in a relationship but at the same time we might hold resentment at having to do that. Then we might judge ourselves as lacking because of our bad attitude. There are as many ways to fall short of our own ideals as there are grains of sand along the seashore.

The seduction of self-judgment is its tidiness. We like to know where we stand. We like to feel justified in our actions and opinions. And so we judge ourselves and others endlessly. We tend to keep books: credits and debits of behavior and attitude. It is as though we feel spiritual evolution is linear and consists of chalking up more credits than debits. Yet the opposite is true. Spiritual evolution is qualitative, not quantitative. It runs on the energy of forgiveness and acceptance, not score-keeping.

It is inevitable that we will repeatedly fall short of our ideals. It comes with being human. And it is good to note these lapses from self-perceived perfection. As Players, we are always on the lookout for ways to make more skillful choices. These errors are the grist for our mills of self-improvement.

However, if our self-judgment lingers beyond the sincere desire to learn from our mistakes, then that self-judgment is likely to become toxic. Too much self-judgment closes the energy pathway into the heart. The Player’s goal is to keep the heart open. Self-judgment has to go!

The Confederation does not draw a picture of a God of judgment. The Old Testament’s vengeful Jehovah is not to be found. The Confederation’s infinite Creator does not keep score. Instead, It loves us endlessly. It loves us exactly the way we are.

The Confederation suggests that we are in charge of our own judgment, both during life and after its ending. We are responsible for forgiving ourselves and starting over when we find ourselves in error. And we are responsible for walking the steps of light during graduation and choosing exactly within which intensity of light we are most comfortable

If the matter of judgment is left in our hands, then, we have the capacity for being harsh or gentle with ourselves. We can keep score and find ourselves wanting, or we can forgive and begin again whenever we find ourselves in error. The Q’uo group says,

It is your challenge to find ways to open the heart to the present moment and the love therein. You shall fail according to your cruel judgment, again and again. We ask you to know deeply and surely that each mistake, each error, each missed opportunity, is a gift to the infinite One just as much as each moment when you judge yourselves to be, as this instrument would say, on the beam or in the groove. Clumsy or graceful, awkward or flowing, your spirit is utterly beloved.¹²⁴

In order for us as Players to do work in consciousness, then, we need to focus on the love in the moment and if we do err, which we certainly will do, time and time again, we need to engage clearly and consciously in self-forgiveness. We need to clear away the toxic energies of self-disappointment and disapproval and come back to our own open hearts.

Another frequent source of blockage is fear. A lot of our fears are bound up in our wanting to feel safe. We may, for instance, fear intimacy because we have been hurt in a previous relationship. We may not want to explore our own motives in doing key things because we fear what we shall find.

We as Players will almost inevitably feel fear as we get to know ourselves better, once we start uncovering our own shadow side. How can we accept and love those dark parts of our personality that would break the Ten Commandments happily in pursuit of our goals? It is only when we remember the Confederation’s assertions that we are all things whatsoever in Creation, and that it is inevitable that the full circle of being contains the entire shadow side given to human nature, can we move forward fearlessly.

Perhaps the most common fear among Players is that we will not make the grade and graduate. As we wake up and get used to the Gameboard, we will hit brick walls from time to time. We will not know how to go forward. The Q’uo principle says,

We would speak of two minds and two hearts. The first mind is the mental mind. In it there can only be mentally feared obstacles. For one who is an adventurer within its own mind, the barriers of fear do not arise.¹²⁵

The Q’uo’s second mind is the heart. The Player who is an “adventurer within its own mind” thinks from the open heart. The open heart does not fear that it may do the wrong thing. It follows the energies and impulses of love and acts fearlessly. And that is the attitude the Player wants to capture: fearlessness. The process of spiritual awakening and maturing is a bit like panning for gold. We Players will sift through a lot of sand and silt as we seek to find the gold which lies within our deeper natures. It is a messy process sometimes. But this is not something to fear.

Again, fear closes the pathway to the heart. As Players, we know that when we encounter fear within ourselves, we need to work with that fear until we are once again free of its constricting effects. We need to get back into our open hearts.

The third most frequent cause of blockage which keeps us from doing indigo-ray work is unworthiness. Our society gives us many ways to feel less than worthy: we are too thin; too fat; too old; too young and so forth. Yet the Confederation assures us that we need not accept these feelings of unworthiness as real. Q’uo says,

Each entity will have deeply personal areas where the energy is drawn and leached away from metaphysical pursuits. And it is to these rough places of the personality that the worker in consciousness will go in thought, not to condemn the self; not to attempt with the knife to excise surgically parts of the self, but, rather, to see these places as places where the earth is covering the jewels in such a deep way that the focus of service and learning is shifted to trivial concerns.

In no wise do we recommend that entities simply cut out those activities which the self considers beneath metaphysical notice. Rather, we would encourage each to come into a vision or an attitude concerning the self that is epitomized in the phrase, “My Funny Valentine.” We find the words to this song very pointed in this regard. “My funny valentine, your looks are laughable; unphotographable, yet you’re my favorite work of art.”¹²⁶ This is how you may see yourself as a spiritual entity, as a funny, but very, very sweet work of art.¹²⁷

This is the view of the mind of the heart: compassion and affection for the self, just as it is. The heart is willing for the self to be a work of art rather than a set of ledgers, with good deeds recorded on one side and failings on the other, and the self being frequently perceived as being in deficit and unworthy. We need, as Players, to accept ourselves as worthwhile just as we are, even though at the same time we are always striving to improve our moves on the Gameboard.

This self-acceptance joins with fearlessness and non-judgment in creating the right environment within our energy bodies for doing work in consciousness using the indigo and violet rays to access the gateway to intelligent infinity. Resting within our open hearts, we are ready for further adventures!

Revisiting the Balancing Exercises

The places where energy is held in the energy body often have to do with the past and those things that are, to all intents and purposes, dead. Yet, somehow, the function of memory has enabled them to have a spurious and untrue life within an entity, which has for the most part moved from those stumbling-block areas of misperception concerning the self.

When the evening of the day comes, we have recommended that it is well to examine, as one may, the points which hooked one during the previous day’s experience, either for happiness or for woe. Gaze into the way the mind works when it is triggered. Find those triggers. Name them. Get to know them. Begin accepting yourself for having them. Begin attempting to create for the self a safe place where these things can be looked at for however long they need to stay.

In reality, much of getting to know the self is not pushing the self around as much as it is gently sitting around the campfire with all of these different parts of self and allowing each to tell its story.¹²⁸

In order to do work in consciousness, the work of keeping the energy body clear and flowing is central. The gateway to intelligent infinity does not open to those whose minds are focused on patterns of thought which revolve around old grievances, lost dreams or bitterly held memories.

I repeat this here because the work of balancing out these old bits of material is necessary for the Player if he wishes to move beyond the green-ray chakra’s unconditional love and call down inspiration and information from above which may accelerate the path of his spiritual evolution. And it is hard to release old pain.

Keeping oneself in balance during the process of getting to know the self is delicate work. The most helpful attitude is not one of disgust when we find dark parts of the self. Nor is the right attitude complacency and smugness with our shadow side. It is good simply to seek the truth and, as we find it, to submit it to the balancing process. Eventually, we will find that our deeper selves are gradually integrated into our surface personalities naturally and organically as we continue to do this balancing work.

The Q’uo’s suggestion of sitting around a campfire with ourselves and letting all our inner voices be heard in an atmosphere of loving acceptance is very apt and will produce results. Be sure, when releasing old pain, to thank it for the learning it has contained. When our minds are focused on gratitude and thanksgiving, our energy body relaxes and the energy flows clearly. And we are ready for what the Confederation calls the discipline of the personality and work in consciousness.