Martial Arts

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Some people believe that the martial arts can accelerate our evolution. Others, notably Dr. Vieira of the IIPC, feel that all martial arts involve violence and are thus anti-cosmoethical. Please share with us your perspective.


Hilarion: Indeed, this is true when it is understood from the highest energetic perspective that in the working with the energy in its purest form, all of those acts of violence, of aggression, of aspects of the deliberate action of some response to fear or ego will be manifested, and this can of course be cleared if one understands the energies themselves before they reach such a point.

This is the ultimate intent of all fully developed martial arts, with perhaps Aikido being that which is most further developed and able to address this issue quite directly. This is no accident that it is perhaps considered one of the least violent of true martial arts.

But in understanding and working with energies, people must have the avenue available to them that is most easy to access. Indeed, in a child or a soul that has not developed sufficient maturity to recognize energy in its purest form, the bigger issue comes up. In this world, faced with fear, faced with the potential to be hurt, faced with other people's aggression, and such, an individual not having full development of consciousness, will naturally fall into their own resonances of fear and find themselves attracted into situations where other people are feeling such a fear and wish to take advantage of such a person.

What can that person do? Yes, they may be exposed to energy directly, but their own development around such issue may not allow them to grow sufficiently to work with the energy directly. For such a being, they will sometimes be forced into martial arts for self-defense, for finding out how to do things in the world in a way that has more confidence or energy associated with it. 

Many souls will of course find that if they make the direct current or direct path to the heart of martial arts, in any of the martial arts, they will expose that powerful energy and know it directly. This is perhaps why there is such a clear relationship between Qigong, or other oriental disciplines of a pure healing nature, and martial arts, that indeed many of the great healers in areas of chi gung began in working with martial arts. And many of the Qigong masters are naturally adept at any martial art. So therefore one must see this in the larger light of where one fits into society around such issues.

There is, of course, the other side to this. So many people ingesting so many foods of toxic nature, meaning specifically fats and oils heated past 104F (that is 40C), that the mobilization of these through the lymphatic system by regular exercise is absolutely necessary for their own health. If they don't do it, they will have all kinds of problems in their physical bodies. This is why exercise is so strongly recommended for so many people.

Martial arts is generally one of the best exercise regimens, unless of course it is overemphasized in any area that hurts the body, because it tends to emphasize many of the smaller muscles in the body, looking for deeper control, looking for the underlying energy that activates the muscles. And so this is a good way of staying in good shape, and by comparison to other means of activating, exercising the physical body, it is perhaps more exciting, less boring, than stair-steppers or treadmills or other things that certainly have benefit but still might be that which is a little boring. 

[For more about 104 degrees F, fats and oils, and our deep need for them in our healing, see Aajonus Vonderplanitz' revolutionary book, We Want To Live.] 

So the real question as one goes deeper into this is one of suitability. As one becomes more advanced and understands higher and higher vibrational levels, you will eventually put yourself to a test around such. You may find that you are in a situation where there are others who are indeed engaging in violence, perhaps against someone else but not against you.

You could in that moment leave the situation, but if you understand enough about energy, you can ask yourself that question, "Might I be able to correct the situation, to help all of those involved?" This is a very difficult situation, of course, because you would have to apply your help equally to the aggressors as to the victim in such a situation, and this means a very difficult perspective held on your part that nobody is wrong, that they are simply doing that which comes naturally, doing that which is best to them, and that which might ultimately cause a great deal of harm for all involved.

So, for you to step into such a situation with sufficient energy to make a difference, you can see this as a true test of your own enlightened perspective. This will be the question we would ask of anyone who is involved in energy work. Is this possible for your being, for your nature? It is one of the essence ideas of energy that the highest martial arts teachers continue to share, many of these from the nonphysical levels. It is one of the important lessons of your interaction with violent, and in many cases misguided beings when you project your consciousness; when you find yourself in a dream or a projection situation where another being is doing something that is quite uncomfortable or difficult for you. It is so interesting to notice that if you engage in fighting with such a being, it only tends to worsen the situation. 

But, here is your practice, you see, because the stakes are not physical. You are not going to wake up from that with a broken nose if that being punches you in the etheric nose. And so indeed, it is your opportunity to project a powerful love, an energy that says, "I know you are capable of much more than you are simply allowing right now." Or an energy that says to that being, "I want to know more about you, why you are afraid, what is happening within your being that needs healing at this time." This is the practice that many of you may indeed be engaging in in your projections, in your consciousness, before you put this into actual practice in the physical world.

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