Gamma Council, Support Sector
03/2000

Meeting:

The new spirituality

For the conductor of the meeting:
Aim: Redeem and exchange experiences that, for each participant, had a spiritual charge, transmit to the people that are present that the Movement does not ignore or under valuate them, it tries instead to reveal  their human value and a signal of the new times.

Introduction:
This meeting takes origin from the perception that a new spirituality is rising and that it is expressed by experiences that are from time to time very different among them. It could be sustained that these experiences are old as man is or that they are a signal that comes from the future. There will also be those that will sustain that they are random  experiences and inexplicable, we will not enter in discussing all this, what we are interested in is creating an environment in which every one can talk freely , without prejudices and without the absurd fear of being judged.

Let’s stop then with everyday formalities and let’s start with some games.

Magical eye
Type: on attention, Aim: feeling the attention’s capacity, N. of participants: more than 3, Place: Open air or room, Material: None
The magical eye: Players dispose themselves in a circle, one of them goes to the centre and looks in a fixed point. The others start doing some movements without moving from their place. The person that stands in the middle of the circle, without moving his/her eyes, has to describe the movement of the mates. At the end of the game, it’s useful to make comments on the state of attention and on the register ( feeling ) that he/she felt, trying to keep the state of attention.

Trust
Type: expression game, Aim: obtain a register ( feeling ) of internal distension, increase  trust, work as a team., N. of participants: more than 6, Place: open air or room
Trust: Three people dispose themselves in a line, leaving a space of 70 cm among them. The person in the middle, keeping a rigid body, let himself/herself fall towards companions that, taking and pushing him/ her, pass him/ her to the other. Change of the roles.

Trust Circle
The same game as above, this time however it’s done in groups ; people form a circle and a player stays in the middle, the others push him/her from one side to the other. Every participant has to stay in the middle one time. 

Exchange of experiences
(In groups of 4. Each time the conductor makes a question and if it is well understood, the exchange can start. When all the participants have finished, he/she makes the second one and so on )
1.	Is there a moment in my life in which I felt something that could be defined spiritual? Which one?

2.	If I take away all the “ things “ that were present in that moment ( the place, the people, the text I was reading, the activity or experience that I was doing) can I define and describe the “mood“ felt in that moment.

3.	Today, do I feel close to or far from that experience?

4.	What motivates me most  in everyday life?

5.	How  would be  my life if it was guided by that “ mood” instead of the usual themes?

To strengthen that “ mood” to which we aspire, let’s make a short experience that can be of a great inspiration.
The participants dispose themselves for the experience.

Experience
While you dispose yourself for the experience and relax I will read two introductory paragraphs of “Guide to the Inner Road”, then I will make a pause and read the text of the experience.

Guide to the Inner Road
If you understand what I have explained so far, you can, through a simple exercise, readily experience the manifestation of the Force.
It is not the same, however, to search for the correct mental position (as if this were a question of approaching a technical task) as it is to enter the kind of emotional tone and openness that poetry inspires.
The language used to transmit these truths, then, is intended to facilitate an attitude that makes it easier to be in the presence of internal perception rather than in the presence of an idea of “internal perception.”
Now follow attentively what I will explain to you, because it concerns the inner landscape you may encounter when working with the Force and the directions you can imprint on your mental movements.

The conductor reads “ Guide to the Inner Road“ as a guided experience.

On the inner road you may walk darkened or luminous. Attend to the two roads that open before you.
If you let your being cast itself toward dark regions, your body wins the battle and it dominates. Then, sensations and appearances of spirits, of forces, of memories will arise. On this road you descend further and further. Here dwell Hatred, Vengeance, Strangeness, Possession, Jealousy, and the Desire to Remain. Should you descend even further you will be invaded by Frustration, Resentment, and all those dreams and desires that have brought ruin and death upon humanity.
If you impel your being in a luminous direction, you will find resistance and fatigue at every step. There are things to blame for this fatigue in the ascent. Your life weighs; your memories weigh; your previous actions impede the ascent. The climb is made difficult by the action of your body, which tends to dominate.
In the steps of the ascent you will find strange regions of pure colors and unknown sounds.
Do not flee purification, which acts like fire and horrifies with its phantoms.
Reject startling fears and disheartenment.
Reject the desire to flee toward low and dark regions.
Reject the attachment to memories.
Remain in internal liberty, indifferent toward the dream of the landscape, with resolution in the ascent.
The pure light dawns in the summits of the great mountain chains, and the waters-of-a-thousand-colors flow amid unrecognizable melodies toward crystalline plateaus and prairies.
Do not fear the pressure of the light that pushes against you with increasing strength the closer you draw to its center. Absorb it as though it were a liquid or a wind certainly, in it is life.
When you find the hidden city in the great mountain chain, you must know the entrance and you will know it in the moment your life is transformed. Its enormous walls are written in figures, are written in colors, are “sensed.” In this city are kept the done and the yet-to-be-done. But for your inner eye, the transparent is opaque. Yes, the walls are impenetrable for you!
Take the Force of the hidden city. Return to the world of dense life with your brow and your hands luminous.

Reading
(the text is being read, it’s important to let people make questions, and it’s better if they find an answer, thinking about their experiences . A copy of the text is distributed to all of them)

A new sensibility

Yet a new sensibility is being born that corresponds to these changing times. It is a sensibility that grasps the world as a whole – an awareness that the problems people experience in one place involve other people, even if they are far away. Increasing communication, trade, and the rapid movement of entire human groups from one place on the planet to another all attest to this growing process of globalization. 
As the global character of more and more problems comes to be understood, new criteria for action arise. There is an awareness that the work of those who desire a better world will be effective only if they make their efforts grow outward from the environment where they already have some influence. In sharp contrast to other times, so full of empty phrases meant only to garner external recognition, today people are beginning to find value in humble and deeply felt work, work done not to enhance one’s self-image, but rather to change oneself and bring about change in one’s immediate environment of family, work, and friendship. 
Those who truly care for people do not disdain this work done without fanfare, this work that proves so incomprehensible to those opportunists who were formed in an earlier landscape of leaders and masses – a landscape in which they learned well how to use others to catapult themselves to society’s heights. 
When a person comes to the realization that schizophrenic individualism is a dead end, when they openly communicate what they are thinking and what they are doing to everyone they know without the ridiculous fear of not being understood, when they approach others not as some anonymous mass but with a real interest in each person, when they encourage teamwork in both the interchange of ideas and the realization of common projects, when they clearly demonstrate the need to spread this task of rebuilding the social fabric that others have destroyed, when they feel that even the most “unimportant” person is of greater human quality than some heartless individual whom circumstance has elevated to what is, for now, the pinnacle of success – when all this happens it is because within this person destiny has once again begun to speak, the destiny that has moved entire peoples along their best evolutionary path, the destiny that has been so many times distorted and so many times forgotten, but is always rencountered in the twists and turns of history.
Today we can glimpse not only a new sensibility and a new mode of action but also a new moral attitude and a new tactical approach to facing life. If I were pressed to be more specific I would simply reply, though it has been said time and again over the last three millennia, that today people are experiencing anew the need for and the true morality of treating others as they want to be treated. I could add to this, almost as general laws of conduct, that today people are aspiring to: 
1. A certain proportion, in which one tries to give order to the most important things in one’s life, dealing with them as a whole and not allowing some aspects to move ahead while others fall too far behind. 
2.A certain growing adaptation, in which one acts in favor of evolution rather than momentary concerns, turning away from the various forms of human involution. 
3. A certain well-timed action, in which one retreats when facing a great force (not every little obstacle) and advances when that force weakens. 
4. A certain coherence, in which one accumulates those actions that bring one a feeling of unity, of being in agreement with oneself, and reject those actions that generate contradiction, that are registered within oneself as disagreements among what one thinks, feels, and does. 

Proposal of participation

Goodbye. Peace Force and Joi

If there are questions or anyway there’s some interest in staying and talking about the themes of the meeting, we are at disposition, we are not in a hurry.
(This part of informal exchange has to be foreseen in the total time of the meeting, keeping at least ¼ of an hour, the conductor will launch the proposal after saying goodbye, and will underline his/ her availability, asking the participants if they’ve got questions or considerations on the meeting.)