How much are you tolerating yourself? If you cannot tolerate yourself how can you tolerate others?
Questioner: I have a brother with schizophrenia, when he’s not thinking very clearly because of his illness, is it possible that he could attract entities for whatever reason, and if so how could he get rid of them, he wouldn’t know he had them, does he have spirit guides that could get rid of them or is he stuck with them until…?
Munjiji: Good question, one moment. When individuals carry a mental illness which is profoundly impinging on their behaviour, let’s say for most of their lives, it often has to do with having to complete a certain karmic aspect at the physical level. Each case is unique in it’s own right, but we can generally say that although the mental illness is affecting the mind level, it also has a physical effect throughout and the person often has very little control over what is happening to them.
The Soul may have Incarnated to give those around It Certain Experiences
The area that is stuck is a karmic area of the physical aspect, which means an imprint that has been accumulated karmically at the physical level and it will be extinguished once the person leaves that form. Of course it’s a very generic explanation because there are mental implications, emotional implications for everybody and everything in their lives. None should be judged in any manner or way just because they present difficulties from the physical or mental aspects, because it may be a soul that has the specific task of providing certain experiences for those around it. We don’t want you to judge in a limited way the vast scope of these difficulties which are vast indeed. If we keep it very simple and not really going through the details of all and each possibility, we can say that if the person has not much awareness of what is happening to them, once they leave their physical form they will be relinquished of the burden of not being able to function properly at the mental level.
Something may be Accomplished through this Difficult Incarnation
It is as if their arrival has been planned to be enacted in this particularly difficult manner and in a way they are aware of it, but at the same time they are not quite completely present. Now you see everything has countless levels and layers and that’s why we find it very difficult sometimes to answer your questions. Here we are just looking at one of these layers, a soul that is inhabiting a physical form whose mental level of being is proving of great instability, which is a kind of disservice because its not easy to function in that manner. This individual presents aspects of his nature not harmoniously correlated but this very fact may be very harmonious in relation to something that needs to be accomplished and brought to fruition through this incarnation. Of course its not in harmony in the general view of how a human being usually functions, lets’ say it’s disharmonious because the physicality is not in harmony with what is the overall individual consciousness, mind level and emotional level.
Like attracts Like and draws Disturbing elements from the Invisible World
This disharmony, in answer to your question, will produce a calling and response of energies that are not harmonious. Let’s say that perhaps your brother sometimes has some symptoms of aggressiveness or violence, and at other times he does not. Let’s assume that this is the case. When he is in those moments when the aggressive part is active, it will draw closely elemental beings that have that type of energy simply because everything sends signals and it echoes and reverberates back, its not intentional, it simply is. Everything echoes throughout the cosmos and like attracts like and also if you look at the overall picture, the elemental disturbing beings also have a part to play. All those presences that belong to the disturbing elements of the invisible world are there appearing on the stage of existence, they have a part to play, and are there also to strengthen your discrimination and understanding. Above this realm of division and of duality everything is absolutely perfect as it should be, but when you are talking specifically from your experience of life forms, then it is true, aggressiveness for example does attract something negative, that fluctuates comes near the aura and affects it influencing the person’s behaviour. It will produce dissonant echoes and attract dissonant energies or presences.
Only a Strong Negative Intention or a Vacuum will Attract Negative Presences
Whilst dissonant energy is attracted it usually will not be a presence as such merely energy. To have the presence of disturbing beings there has to be an intention, a stronger negative intention or there has to be a big vacuum, these are the two possibilities. Either there is a negative will or there is a vacuum, these are the conditions on which inharmonious beings will gather near the aura of a disturbed person. Otherwise its just fluctuation of movements of heavy energy which has been abandoned here and there and finds a way of filtering down into auras, but this my dear friend happens all the time, happens to all of you, you are constantly letting go, recycling and accumulating new impulses from the invisible so this is not particular to your brother it applies to everyone.
Always Send energy and Light to People in Need
Now would this state of things affect the energies of your brother and increase his difficulties, yes it could, so the best thing is to send always a wave of energy and light to the people in need. A lot of these complexities (energies & others) that touch the aura are at the surface level of the person, and they are easy to remove. With a chronic illness or condition often you want to look more in depth at the aura, because you see the illness or the manifesting symptoms easily but what is surrounding them? Sometimes what is there is well established in the aura and is more troublesome than the illness itself. So by directing healing, by sending positive thoughts, by sending various lights a lot of those troublesome presences actually do respond and can be moved away and this can be done because they are responsive to thoughts and they are responsive to intentions so they actually can leave.
Postscript: the person in question responded well to distant healing and has a vastly improved quality of life although is still assisted by prescribed medication.
When you leave the physical body you can still commit to helping humanity.
Vastness is so subtle, as close as your breath, that you might miss it.
Questioner: you said these are times where what is required is integration rather than renunciation.
Munjiji: Yes definitely.
Questioner:…but that I think was answering a particular individual’s question where he probably had many past lives as a monk.
Munjiji: Well, let’s say this could apply to a lot of people because of the past history of the western and eastern civilisation where the religious people were here and the lay people were there, which was in a sense an imbalance.
Questioner:… it’s a bit like monasticism versus the laity …
Yes, so there were the monastics who felt they were doing the right thing, although inside of themselves many felt that they were not really, or they felt in contradiction with some aspects of their nature. Economic reasons also forced people in this direction including many women.
Less about Renouncing more about Life Balance
Many of you are going through countless incarnations and many of you that are interested in the opening of your own spirituality had many religious lives as monks, nuns, priests and so on. In this era there is not so much need of renouncing again but it is of understanding what renouncing means and what it is that you are renouncing. Nowadays it is a matter of integration rather than renunciation because now the mind of the human being can understand that renouncing will not eliminate the craving of the desire, but could actually create repression and that is very damaging as it will leak out in other ways. Now it’s a matter of looking at your overall life and say: how do I balance, how do I integrate things? It’s not a matter of renouncing the ice cream, it’s a matter of saying is this appropriate to me now, is this what I need?
Renunciation as a Joyous Offering not Victimisation
We are not saying that a conscious renunciation done with skilfulness is to be avoided; if its not a victimisation but is a joyous offering then renunciation is appropriate. In the past people felt that they were sent to be monks, they had not chosen to be monks, there was no other way to be educated so they became monks. Women were sent to be nuns because nobody in the family would give any money to keep them alive, so all those renunciations were not real renunciation but a way to work or a simply surviving.
Renunciation in it’s Real Sense is Subtle
True renunciation is deep and subtle. It is the ability to step back and observe say a repetitive pattern, something like irritability, that is renunciation and its quite hard. Another example is to keep silent when you would like to hit back at somebody, that could be renunciation when you know that you could give a really nasty answer and then you are holding back. However if you did not have a nasty answer and are no good at answering back, that’s not a renunciation, that is a lack of communication. You see then the subtlety that renunciation means and requires. Simply denying yourself elements of the life force e.g. fasting may not be appropriate instead it is a matter of blending accordingly what is given, not stepping backwards.
Renouncing the Wrong Circumstances and Obeying the Wrong Authority
People with strong past lives containing the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience still have them in their psyche and they sometimes enact them in this life by obeying the wrong authority, renouncing the wrong circumstances, and devoting themselves to the wrong activities. So this creates for themselves a life that is a slight distortion. Due to these habitual tendencies that were created through those vows another difficulty is that when a good opportunity comes along the person says: “I could not possibly have this, a job that pays more, I should lead a simple life and be free and earn very little” but this does not help because in the person’s mind there is still so much thinking about not having money that they become more entangled. It is their vow of poverty, their renunciation coming into play again from an earlier life. The time is ripe for the minds of beings to recognise what truly renunciation is. Renunciation is not a lifestyle but it is a subtle level of understanding truly what it means. With that understanding you can renounce but it is not confined to things it’s how you think act and live. Living an illumined life infused by the divine will lead to peace and contentment with what life brings you. Ultimately when you renounce your will in favour of the Divine Will then you can rest.
The more you experience and widen your horizon the less you will identify with the body
You are moving towards Totality as you came from that Totality.
You are here as spiritual beings to illumine this earth nature but will that succeed? Perhaps yes perhaps not, that is the truth. This illumination is part of our work together.
When you begin to know you don’t know who you are that is in fact the beginning.
The timelessness to which you belong is your great inheritance, although now you are in the appearance of time.
Other traditions say you are the children of God.
Munjiji 