Alaya® Presents Ishvara's Spiritual Teachings

Alaya Presents Ishvara's Spiritual Teachings

Life Is Intelligence

Synopsis of Teaching

•	All of Life is intelligence. Molecules are intelligence, physical bodies are intelligence, the earth is intelligence. Because intelligence permeates everything, there is instant communication.
•	However, there is no “intelligent design,” and Life is not a designer. Rather, the intelligence of Life simply is. This intelligence is continually expanding, adding to its possibilities through each experience. There is no direction to the process; it is omni-directional, and can go in any direction at any moment.
•	Knowing and embracing this intelligence brings about transcendence of all religions, all perspectives, all teachers, all masters, all practices, everything; it goes way beyond all of it.
•	We are creating our lives at the quantum level, through our thinking process. At a quantum level, this creation happens very rapidly. However, because the quantum level is so small, it may be years before the effect is manifest at the visible level, but it eventually will become manifest.
•	The earth responds to the energy of divisive beliefs that are held by humans. The earth eventually will move to balance the energy through such events as natural disasters. Such events are opportunities for people to shift the energy by becoming compassionate, and letting go of the obsession with survival.

Some people advocate the idea that there is an "intelligent design" to evolution. If the proponents of this idea were embracing the true intelligence of The Consciousness, there might be some truth to the theory, but "intelligent design" is really just a name for "God." They are saying that "God" is behind everything that happens, which entails separation and control.

There is intelligence to existence. Intelligence is creating Life all the time, but not from separation or control.

On the other hand, science has not been able to acknowledge that there is an intelligence to existence. Physicists are seeking to reconcile quantum physics, where the very act of observing something changes what is observed, with physics at the macro level where such results have not yet been detected. Scientists are searching for the theory of everything, but until they acknowledge that Life is intelligence itself, they will not find their answer. Once they realize that even atoms are intelligent, that there is an intelligent flow in the energy fields, in the morphic fields of existence, that all of it is intelligence continually increasing upon itself, scientists will see things quite differently. Science, however, has been skeptical of an underlying force; science often has seen existence more as chaos and accident than as intelligence.

Scientists at times do seem to acknowledge that things are connected, such as in the theory of entanglement.* Perhaps it is a step towards realizing that such a connection is the process of intelligence, that the connection involves gaining awareness from past experiences.

As I look at Life from the Natural State, I see that there is nothing in me that is not of the intelligence that is The Consciousness. That is the connecting link.  Knowing and embracing this intelligence brings about transcendence of all religions, all perspectives, all teachers, all masters, all practices, everything; it goes way beyond all of it.

Science is approaching it from a certain way, and spirituality is approaching it from another way, and somewhere in the middle there is a body of intelligence that embraces both, an all-inclusive connected Space. As the new species of humanity continues its evolution, it will be able to directly access that Space. Every component of the new species will live in the Natural State, and in the Natural State there is the supreme intelligence that is connected to everything. That intelligence underlies quantum physics and traditional physics; it underlies all of it. Without intelligence, the universe would cease to exist.

This intelligence has been misnamed and misunderstood as "God," but it is intelligence nevertheless. Molecules are intelligence, physical bodies are intelligence, the earth is intelligence.  Intelligence is the supreme force that creates and motivates everything that exists; intelligence is constantly increasing, and thus recreating and adding to itself.

Science will eventually run into intelligence as the connecting link. Once science can get past the idea that everything is solid and capable of being objectively analyzed, it can begin to allow that all-that-exists is energy, intelligence. Because intelligence permeates everything, there is instant communication; that is why, when something happens to one so-called "entangled" particle, the same thing can happen to another particle on the other side of the universe.

At the quantum level--the level of particles--thought affects what is happening.  The speed and location of a particle can be changed just by the observer's attempt to take a measurement.  Thought affects the quantum.  Thought is an aspect of intelligence. So intelligence affects existence at a quantum level, at the level of the foundation, the building blocks of Life.  This effect continues as energy builds upon itself and forms larger particles and bodies, eventually to the point where one's thinking creates one's life.

Our thinking process is creating our life. At a quantum level, we are creating our disease, our death. It takes time for that creation to become manifest, but it begins at the quantum level, because the theory of everything is intelligence.  Intelligence works at the quantum level, bringing about results that are dependent on the frequencies and conditions that are operating. At a quantum level, this creation happens very rapidly. However, because the quantum level is so small, it may be years before the effect is manifest at the visible level, but it eventually will become manifest.

We can begin to change the quality of our existence by changing our intelligence, our thought-awareness of experiences, and redirecting experience into more of a connected, open process that transcends beliefs and concepts.

People believe in "God" because they see the order of things, the intelligence that is at work, and they posit a directing force behind it. However, I see intelligence not as a directing force but as a learning force.  The intelligence that is Life does not have a design or an agenda. It is an intelligence that is spiraling upward on itself; through each experience it is adding to its possibilities. It learns from its experience. Those things that don't work, drop out of the process; those things that do work are added to and continue to increase. There is no direction to the process; it is omni-directional, and can go in any direction at any moment. That is why psychics fail in their predictions: they are trying to put The Consciousness in a realm of predictability, and it is totally unpredictable.

All that exists is intelligence. This is true even of tumultuous events like natural disasters. I have been saying for some time that if humans don't start to wake up, there are going to be some unpleasant shifts.  Human beings are stubborn in holding onto beliefs, clinging to division, perpetuating conflict.  It sets up an energy field with which the planet must contend. That field is going to erupt somewhere. Nature does not make a choice as to where that will occur; it simply happens where it does. One might wish that Nature would be more selective, and inflict the disaster only on the responsible parties, but it doesn't happen that way. Eventually, the earth will respond to that field, that energy, in some way. When a hundred thousand people are killed by tsunamis, we don't see it as war or murder, but the energy is the same. Essentially, there is no difference between people being swept away by a tsunami, and people being bombed to death in an armed conflict: in both cases there is suffering, despair and loss, there is calamity that causes destruction and death.

The earth is shifting in a natural disaster, in a sense trying to draw attention to the energy it is contending with. The earth will take the necessary steps to bring about transformation, but that could come on the heels of a mass annihilation of human life. Humans have been voracious in their consumption of the earth's resources, but the earth is eventually going to keep that in check. The earth will move to balance the raw materials that are available with the people who are on the planet to use them. If humans don't take the initiative in their use of resources, if they fail to be conscious of how their actions are affecting the planet for thousands of years to come, the earth will take the initiative in the way of earthquakes, volcanoes, disease and other disasters, and thus forcibly bring about a balance. Humans can facilitate a gradual transformation through a sense of connection, or they can continue to blindly go about their life and experience the consequences.

The recent disaster in Asia is like a warning, a red light which says: "Pay attention, or else." More events of this kind will be happening if people don't wake up.  I see it as the beginning of a cycle of wake-up calls. Those who are awake will be in the right place at the right time, so it is very important that people begin to put into practice this awareness and presence.

At this level of awareness, we can't direct what Nature does, but we certainly can influence what humanity does. By preventing the disasters--such as war--that humans create, we can better help Nature to prevent natural disasters. Increasingly, Nature reflects the energy that humans generate.

Now, when a natural disaster occurs, it raises people's level of compassion. It causes people to transcend religious boundaries with the result that there can be Christians, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims working side by side to assist those in need. A disaster can cause people to get out of their self-centeredness for a while, and become helpful to those who are suffering; that provides a bit of a reprieve for the imbalance that has been building up. The events of September 11, 2001, brought up a lot of compassion, but a lot of revenge as well. A human-designed catastrophe brings about the need for revenge. On the other hand, a disaster that is caused by Nature tends to leave compassion in tact, so in a way this latest disaster is balancing the sense of revenge that arose earlier, giving people an opportunity to be unselfish, not security-oriented, but compassionate. It is an opportunity for "those who have" to exercise great compassion for the have-not's. It remains to be seen how long this compassion will last. It will require a lot of money, ingenuity, and vigilance to help the people who suffered the disaster to get back on their feet, and the world can become a better place because of that.

Perhaps fewer people will return to being selfish; maybe more people will take the initiative to see what is really happening on the planet. Once a human being experiences authentic selflessness, and sees the possibilities that can arise from that, it is hard to go back to being selfish. Each time a disaster like this occurs, it changes the consensus, the psyche of the world, to some degree.

Also, a disaster can force people to face their mortality and to realize that, try as they might to ensure their survival, there is no security, no assurance that they will continue. It is a strong message from the earth that, "No matter what you are doing to make sure that you survive, it is not working." This can enable people to realize that the preoccupation with creating security is a waste of energy. Perhaps people can realize this; perhaps they can see that "We have to flow with Life, flow with the earth, flow with the energy, make do with what we have, and take care of things." That is the high point of what can come from a disaster. The low point is that people would become more separate, more stingy, more selfish, and in that case they will continue to suffer the repercussions.

It can be helpful to hold the possibility that people will gain from this experience in Asia, that people can wake up because of this, that they will experience greater connection as a result.  Yet the most beneficial thing that anyone can do is to be centered in awareness, in The Consciousness, and be a living example of the new species, because it is through example that people learn.  Words don't bring lasting change, but example does. To be a living example of higher possibilities is the best thing that one can do. Just a few who make the connection can hold things in place for the rest, giving more time for the rest to awaken. This awakening is a movement of the intelligence, the connectedness, of Life.

* The theory of entanglement is that two particles that interact can maintain a connection even if separated by a vast distance.top of page

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Ishvara lives and teaches at Alaya House in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA