Letters to Gail Vol. 2 – Sri Paul Twitchell
Beingness
May 15, 1963
Dear Gail:
The subject is Beingness. Being is essence, conscious existence of something, as things brought into being by projection. It is that which exists as an actuality or entity in time and space, in idea or matter; also, that which is logically conceivable and hence capable of existence. It is the fullness of life or perfection possible to a thing that exists: as, being is the end of becoming.
So the conclusion of this definition was: being is the end of becoming! This is the part in which we are most interested! Being is often substituted for survival, and vice-versa — that is survival of the Atma or Soul. This is actually summed up in the two words — To Be! Being does not depend upon the physical universe and, in fact, it is lessened by participation in the physical universe. Thus we speak of survival after death — meaning of course, Being. We can separate the Being of the Atma as spirit from Its survival in the physical universe.
The Atma and Infinity can meet in an identity as one and the same thing, by the Atma acting in the capacity To Be! This depends on the opposing scales of attitude — To Be and Not To Be. The high and the low, and the degree of attitude along, or between these opposites depends on the Atma. The extreme opposites of this scale are thus: When the Atma is in the To Be level, It is at Oneness with Spirit, and when in the Not-T- Be-level, It is at oneness with the physical universe. Hence the existence of maya or illusion, in the latter level, as pointed out in the letter on Maya. When in this state it is one of non-participation, or non-creating level, a non-survival state. Hence the term hell, which means a non-creating state. Whenever an individual is failing To Be, he is also failing to exist in some capacity, or reversing himself to a low level in the negative state of being.
One of the chief aspects of negative and positive Being is the aspect of Cause and Effect. When an individual is Cause, he is Being positively. When he is Effect, he is Being negatively. Naturally this is concerned with psychic space, for the more beingness an individual possesses the larger psychic space he needs. So life itself and all its randomity consists of beingness whether it wants you to have beingness. So all things have beingness and all life is beingness. The ants have been granted beingness but do not have beingness itself. The Atma can have beingness anywhere — It can go down under sea and up in the clouds; that is the beingness It is granted for motion. All things including living things have been granted a certain beingness itself. But once you start interfering with the communication line that monitors a line of living things like animals, or insects, you will find something getting awfully angry at you.
The material things can't have ideas, but Life can by granting beingness to something that has given It life. An Atma can grant an unlimited amount of beingness to anything, but he can do this as long as he doesn't resist Beingness in return. For example, no angry person can grant you beingness, for he wants to control your body and mind, and control doesn't give you beingness (Meaning freedom in this case. Or in other words the right to be yourself). Therefore when he refuses another the right to be himself – he also refuses himself beingness. This is the racial problem; by refusing to grant beingness to the minority the majority cuts off its own beingness. When you have lack of freedom it means you have not granted yourself the right to be yourself! This means you are cutting off your own psychic space. Understand?
Anyone who does not grant beingness to a person, a town, or a nation will in turn be granted beingness, kindness and generosity on the lower levels of the tone scale, and especially in larger groups – but the higher one goes on the tone scale, the more beingness he grants to others and the more he receives in return.
The fight between the sexes is actually the granting of, or lack of granting this beingness. So if one does not grant beingness to anyone he is communicating with, he will eventually begin to fight the willingness to grant beingness to all things. If one refuses or resists granting beingness he will be attacked by that which he has refused to grant beingness. This action will force him into less and less space – psychic space – and after awhile he will suffocate with the problem of a lack of space – this being true it is a problem of the individual working against himself. But you generally find anyone doing this will invariably blame somebody else or something for their own problems. It is an introversion of their minds, and by looking at themselves, they fail to see what is wrong, or don't wish to and place the blame elsewhere. It is that old story – never take responsibility for one's own actions, but hand them to somebody else. In the West it seems that to shift blame is a common ailment.
Among those who wish to control others the granting of beingness is a crime; for example, look at Hitler. He couldn't grant beingness to the Jews because it would take away his own controls, so he thought. This was a case of granting too much beingness to one group and not enough to another. Any argument is simply the basic fact that one will not grant the other beingness to something or or to each other. If one can grant beingness to himself, and he is resisted, then he won't grant beingness to others. This is always the making of small or large dictators or those who gain power through control of the masses be it by rule of law or force of arms.
One can develop very heavy somatic problems by the refusal of granting beingness to others. If one becomes introverted he can develop somatic problems (i.e.,body pains, body ailments; example: migraine headaches, toothaches, feet hurting, bowel symptoms such as loose bowels or constipation, pains and ailments caused from emotional charges, etc.) which are caused by the attention being drawn to one's own self. If you want sensations all you have to do is to declare that the sensation has a greater beingness than you have, and that you want the energy that the sensation creates – and that it does happen. If you create sensation in order to get sensation, you will get a superiority of beingness above you that isn't your own, in whatever you are creating the sensation in. But working with wave lengths as this is – you are careful for wave lengths with inanimate objects are not as troublesome as working with humans whose wave lengths can be stuck with yours in the same band you're working within, and the granting can expand or close the energy band in which you are established at that time.
Any artist or writer who won't grant beingness to his work is a very bad creative worker. The more that a writer has to do with facts, or an artist in the same category, the more of a hack they are. An artist must grant beingness to his paintings, a writer to his writings, etc. This beingness is an aliveness, that which shakes with energy. One is alive as much as he is willing to grant beingness to others, all things. No artificial stimulant or love affair will grant him anything more than his willingness of granting beingness to all things.
More later.
Paul
From the book, Letters to Gail Vol. 2 © 1981 Eckankar – Sri Paul Twitchell
Edited by Matt Sharpe