Lecture by Yada di Shi’ite through Medium Mark Probert – 1968

Yada: Sinas and Sinehas, I am Yada di Shi’ite.

Comment: Good evening Yada. Welcome

Yada: My honorable friends, it is a joy to be here again. Some years ago, in your world here, during one of the many wars that your world is in most of the time, they were making room on the big plane – you know, the ship of the sky – making room on the big, big plane ship – you know, of the sky – making room for what you call entertainers. So there was a lady on this ship who had to lose her seat – you better keep sitting on yours or you’ll lose it too. Ha-ha. Is that alright?

Comment: Ask Jack. He’s here. He’ll give you a rating on it. But, she had to get off the plane.

Comment: That’s what they call “bumped”.

Yada: And she cried and she made a big fuss. Then the plane – it go and it came down, it crashed and killed everybody aboard. Now we go back to this lady, and she is jumping for joy that this happened to her one minute – tears; the next minute – smiles, laughter; joy. So, what is a mistake? What is good; what is evil? What do we mean by these terms? You should know, because you are using them all the time. But how many stop to think of what is back of these terms? Very few. Instead we get into emotional terms with them; misunderstanding; not being able to look into what is called ‘the future’. And what is the future? The future is the present. If it were not so, you could never come to it. What is the intelligence of complaining about anything? What do you gain by it?

Comment: Attention.

Yada: That’s all – and negative attention mostly. No one can change what is. No one can stop what is happening. Man labors under the impression that he does things on his own. But almost no one can do things on their own. There is that condition called ‘the great mind’ – the great cosmic consciousness – the highest center of awareness which the low self, the conscious self, the ego-conscious self is not aware of.

Sometimes, this great mind is called THE CHRIST – the light of the Christ. Now, not the Christ you have been taught of – a man who has come to save you; but the Light – out of which all has come. There is nothing throughout all existence that has manifested apart from – away from – this great creative Light. And you know, the joy of knowing this is freeing oneself from anxiety regarding one’s life. Some people, entering for the first time into the broader fields of metaphysics, getting away from the orthodoxies they are in a hurry; they want to learn right now everything there is. How are you going to do that? There are special kinds of study that we must use to prepare ourselves to open the centers to the Light. It is not simply knowledge we are trying to get; we are trying to get something more – it is called wisdom. And wisdom is how we use our knowledge – and this always takes a great deal of concentrated thought about what we are doing at any given moment.

Why am I doing this or doing that? That which I didn’t do before, why am I doing it now? What is the purpose behind it? Is the material life – is it a mechanical chance of chemistry? Of course not. It is a product of the mind – the great Inner Mind, the great Light. From this approach we find beings – going back to the most ancient of times — who were sun worshippers. Did they worship the sun as a god? No, but as a source of the Light, knowing they came out of the Light, they are beings of the Light. So they made symbols regarding the sun, the Light which they used at times when they were paying homage to the Light. Man knows he is a sun being.

Now today you have beings coming into your atmosphere, which you have come to call UFOs or flying saucers. These beings come from other civilizations in the vast regions of space. But because you know so little about them, you are doing what man always does to the unknown, to that which he knows so little about – you are worshipping them, giving them adoration! And this adoration is of an emotional nature – it is sentimentality, which is alright for man is a sentimental being. He lives on his emotions most of the time. So, if he wants to do this, that’s alright – do it.

The only trouble is that when we adore, when we love, without knowing what our love is, we gain nothing by it; nothing by it. It is nice to have faith, but faith without substance is of little worth. Many people think of me as they think of the space being. They think, because they have heard of spiritual life after death, that I also am a spirit. That is, the nice ones talk about me that way. Others call me spook, ghost, astral shell or whatever. But you know, I am never what someone else thinks I am. You are not what someone else thinks you are. You are, to yourself, something entirely different – just as mysterious as any beings in the outer spaces, just as great, just as divine. For all is born of the one source – the LIGHT.

So, who can be something different? Who can be greater, or less great than another? We walk together. We go together in the LIGHT of Life. (Yada speaks in his language.) We walk together or we do not walk at all. No man stands alone. We all need one another. I thought I heard someone starting to ask me a question. Would you care to do it now?

Question: You were speaking of faith without substance, etc. Is this to mean without substance – without soul?

Yada: That is right. Without substance is without soul, without meaning. You know, there was a lady in San Diego who made a statement when someone was complaining to her about an event which she did not feel pleased about. This lady said “Well, it’s better than a blank, isn’t it?” And isn’t that a wonderful statement to make. Whatever happens to you, it is better than nothing happening to you. When nothing happens to you, you are out in a void – a blank – a nothingness. Pain is not always what we think it is. Pain comes to one, to also open that one up from their dream of matter, throwing a greater beam of light upon the darkness of their ignorance; forcing them to pay attention to their higher mind – their higher consciousness.

Pain is an individual experience. No one can comprehend my pain. If you have never had what you call a toothache, how are you going to tell another, who has never had a toothache, what it is. Headache – how are you going to tell someone else? All you say is,”I have a headache”. If you have never had one, you say “Oh, what is that?”. I am going to take this or that medicine for it, which is advertised on your picture boxes – your TVs. What do these drugs do? There are arteries in your brain which are getting too much blood at one time, and this causes the arteries to extend; they are gorged with blood. These drugs quiet the throbbing of this artery as it seeks to get through the brain, so your headache stops.

But, you really haven’t gotten at the cause of the headache; you have just stopped the effects. Now, if you do not find the cause of the headache, you are going to get it again. Some inner excitement, some form of anxiety has set the blood to moving too fast through the limited width of the veins, or arteries of the brain. What are you worried about? What are you anxious about? What are you afraid of? Every ailment of the body starts in the mind, in the mental self. You may talk to me about diseases, about germs, about microbes – but how did they get started? Why haven’t they killed you long ago? Because you were born with them. Your body swarms with these micro-organisms, both inside and outside. Of course, knowing this, makes making love difficult. But, because the drive to make love, is greater than the fear of microbes, we go on making love. What is your choice? All you are doing is exchanging microbes, but you cannot stop loving. Loving is a natural thing for the human being.

Comment: ….microbes build up anti-bodies, so you are helping the person.

Yada: Very good. That should, what you call – cool you. You then, do not mind if the bugs are ‘grooving’ on you! Your microbes cannot be killed. They are chemical substances which have a coating that is like armor. You can put some microbes in the most intense electrical heat and the moment you stop the heat, they are alive and active again. You cannot cremate them. Of course, there are some that you can kill, with very little effort. In fact, their very life kills them. When you breathe, you kill many of these micro-organisms. And when you breathe out, you produce some more. Man lives in a condition that I can only call parasitical. Everything is living on the life forces of everything else. For life, is for life. There is no death.

But, again, there is death, it is called the death of ignorance. And we kill it with learning, with education as to what is as opposed to what isn’t.

Question:: Regarding what is, and what isn’t – the other night, we were discussing illusions and it was said that everything is real and there is no such thing as illusion. So the word ‘illusion’ is an illusion and that makes everything real….

Yada: Sir, you shouldn’t have come here tonight because, what you are saying is of two natures – it is true and it isn’t true. Truth depends upon what the individual means by that word. To the dreamer, the dream is true. When we begin to learn that there are different sides to life, we begin to see that there are different states of truth. What can you live with?

What can you have – not happiness, because happiness is a will-o-the-wisp, but peace of mind is constant, once we acquire it. In happiness we are seeking only to get something; our joy is predicated upon possessions of some kind or another.

Comment: Not necessarily. You see, it comes up a lot of time – indecisions – what is or what isn’t.

Yada: But Sir, if you get this, if you know how to think in that manner, you are acquiring something much more important, which I call peace of mind. Then you are not seeking to possess anything. You leave things alone. You let life, instead of trying to make it. This is where man finds his unhappiness. He is constantly pushing his ego self into changing things; but he doesn’t know what to take in the place of this or that. He doesn’t know what decisions to make. He is not comfortable with any decision he ever makes because he is not certain of its nature, of its ability to cover all possibilities, of bringing him into a negative state. Peace of mind lets one live; it does not make him live.

Question: You say we all come from the light and I agree, and that we’re all responsible for each other as children of the Light. How responsible are we really though, as our brother’s keeper? How far do we go in our responsibilities?

Yada: A keeper is one who has love for you, and for everything. Now, it is nice and necessary; it is natural, to be our brother’s keeper. But, if we are not careful, we may seek to possess – and this makes us our brother’s jailer, instead of keeper. We want to confine – we want to restrict – we want to possess – and in so doing, we bring a quick and very painful death to those whom we seek to control and dominate. Now, it is said that there are spooks who are obsessing and possessing spooks in the flesh! There is more spookiness going on among yourselves, in your world, than between the worlds – more will to dominate, to control. Few of us seem to have a life of our own that will keep us busy and prevent us from entering into the business of another.

And, there are many spooks in the astral world who are trying to live the lives of people on earth. When they were on earth, they didn’t seem to know how to live their own lives. They were possessing while they were still here in the flesh, and they go on doing it after they lose the flesh body. There is only one chance of having another person come into your dream, and to be safe with you in your dream. This one chance is called love. We have no touching upon another’s dream until we have this one attribute of the heart, of the mind, of the spirit, of the soul – it is called love.

We are truly lost creatures in an illusionary dream until we have this love which brings us into rapport with all other human beings. It washes from our minds, that which was hypnotically put there – called prejudices, of all kinds. Look please – there is a madness rising, called racism. This is insanity. Out of this kind of thinking, man reaps the wild winds, the wild winds of his negative doing. “You hit me and I’ll hit you”. This goes on continually – like an endless nightmare; and will go on until man learns that there is only one being anywhere – that one great being within each of us, who knows nothing about these prejudices. Skin coloring, race, languages, religions – none of these things has anything to do with that great being within us. It is only a part of the nightmare that we, as individuals, concoct for ourselves out of our ignorance. Ignorance meaning not knowing truth – that is all.

Question: You said before that faith was nothing without substance. Where does the substance come from? How do you put substance in your faith?

Yada: Love is that substance; that feeling of continuity that I have with you, that you have with me; that knowing feeling we are one, we are one and the same. We are born of the Light. Things in the world are appearances; this is a projection. This vibration called the matter world is an idea – it is a part of consciousness called the matter world. Can I – am I making this clear please? Am I? It is of great importance that my words do not lead you into confusion, but out of it.

Question: You are saying that substance is consciousness?

Yada: The substance is consciousness; and therefore, the substance is life. And that life, the substance of life, is love. What does love mean? It is understanding; conscious awareness; knowing – not just taking things by faith, but by knowing.

I AM THAT – THAT I AM. I AM THE REALITY. And when I say that, you say it. It is your words; your thoughts; your I-am-ness which you are speaking of; your divine nature – divine, meaning love; not holy. Holiness comes to us when we fall out of love. We become what we think is good, which is what the ego thinks; not what is really in that great self within us. It is the low ego-self which is a wonderful thing for the physical world, for physical living. The ego is a necessity. You cannot destroy it, but you can guide it so that it doesn’t destroy you.

Question: How do we know, Yada, how can we be sure?

Yada: Not so much by reason. Reason is a very complex thing that goes on in the brain. We come to reason by relating one thing to another thing. But there is a sensing that we come to, which is beyond reason. I call it a feeling of oneness. I love you. Can you understand what I mean? Are you loved? There is only one love. It is ours. Do you love yourself? To love yourself, is to honor yourself. To honor yourself, you must have understanding of what you are honoring – what self? The physical self? Yes, in part, because it is a necessary point of the consciousness, of the human being. But also the spirit, the soul. Now you may not be able to picture what a soul looks like, because it doesn’t look. The spirit is breath, spiritus, meaning breather. Breath is Life. Life is a sense of the divine within us. I know my source, therefore I am not an alien. No matter where my consciousness is, I am not an alien to the people of that state of awareness. I am acceptable, by my love, to all things alike.

Comment: You are free then?

Yada: Free. Freer than the winds. Free, as energy is always free.

Question: Could we reach this source of knowledge through meditation?

Yada: Of course. But remember, while I say that, you must know that it is going to take you a great deal of work before you can arrive at that point in your meditation – where you will come to know what is. Now, once you do this, as grand as that experience is to you, it is not going to let you run screaming with joy, with the belief that you can tell it to someone else. No, it brings peace to your mind and to your body. You feel it moving through you like a marvelous sense of pure joy. I have listened to many people talk about the joy they get in taking trip on lysergic acid. It is nothing like this. It is grander – much more so. There is no drug that can bring you to that level of pure joy; no drug. But you can find it in the quiet of your own being, in what is called meditation.

But look please, at the work you will need to do. The first thing you will have to develop is a sense of patience with yourself – no pushing, no anxiety to hurry you. Wait. Be patient, and all that is yours will come to you. You cannot lose it. You cannot keep it away from you – it is yours. You are the creator of it, and for the first time, you are beginning to create consciously – aware; knowing what you are doing. In patience, we begin to find the cause of our sickness, our insanity, how we got off the track from our divine nature to our limited ego nature.

Question: Yada, how do the ways we seek love in this world, compare with the way others seek it in other worlds?

Yada: My honorable friends, I am having a difficult enough time, telling you how to do it in your world. Now, if I should try to lift your awareness to higher states of awareness, and to let you see what is going on there, you would instantly vanish into those other worlds yourself – if you could comprehend them. You know, I am not trying, not making any effort to not answer your questions; to not give you satisfaction. No, I want to give you satisfaction. I want you to understand. It is so necessary that you do, just for your daily living. If we who labor in our physical world, without comprehension of what goes to make up the physical world – if we do not get to learn that, how can we learn about other states? You live in the physical world. You must know how to handle ourself in this vibration. Then you can learn about other vibrations. Sometimes people do think that I am avoiding answering their questions.

When I was talking through Mark in Palm Springs, there was a man who insisted that I tell him how not to leave a body on the earth when he dies, and why not to. I tried to tell him that I couldn’t tell him, but he would not understand because there was no language to explain this to him – no exchange of meanings, of words. But, I no more got through telling him all this when he said, “Well try me!” Ka Sida – that is the best expression. Wow! You see, I talk to you; I use my own language. I know you do not understand it, so I am not really talking to you, but to myself – expressing my feelings about certain thoughts that I hear in your world.

But then I try to translate what I know into English and it does not always translate well. In the Mysteries, in the inner schools of the ancient times; there were no real mysteries, but the things that were taught, were taught by specially made-up languages for those who were knowledgeable on such subjects. So, the outside person would not know what was being talked about, because perhaps he was not ready for it yet.

What are illusions? They are misconceived ideas about what is going on around us. The ancients never meant to imply, when using that expression illusionary, that a thing or condition did not exist. They were trying to say that the world of matter is a world of the senses; it is sensory, therefore you are seeing not what you are looking at.

Illusions. (Yada hits the table) It appears to you, both by sound through the ears and by observation through the eyes, that Mark’s hand – which at the moment is my hand – I just borrowed it, and I’ll give it back to him after a while, it looks or sounds as if the hand is touching the table. Doesn’t it, to you? But it is not and you could have the proof of it if you had a sensitive enough gauge to measure the distance between the surface of the skin and the surface of the wood of the table. There is a vast space; they are not touching. No two pieces of matter ever touch. It is a sensing, a belief born of the senses, therefore, not an actuality. But for all purpose of your physical world, it is good enough – I am touching the table.

Now, where are you? It appears that you are sitting in a room. A room is a measurement of space, yes? But, this again, is an illusion of the senses. How much space? How far apart are you from one another? Often it looks as though some of you are very close together. That’s nice. But are you close in mind, too? Your bodies may be touching, but are your minds touching? Very often, our sex urges drive us to take another, of the opposite sex, to bed with us. We say these two people are together in bed. But are they really? They may be mating in body, but there is no communion in their minds. So the physical mating does them little good. They think they have gotten some satisfaction from it, but unless they are mentally communing, besides physically, they get no real substance from one another. There is no exchange. It is a little tickle, for a moment. And if it is not tickling in the brain, in the mind, also, the tickle will bring no laughter of joy, but pain and disgust. Do not cheat yourself. Know what you are doing. Do you want to say something to me please, anybody?

Question: Is the universe in harmony?

Yada: The universe is always in harmony. Only our misconception about what is going on around us, makes it seem to be out of harmony.

Question: It is in harmony though?

Yada: It is in harmony.

Question: Then, when stars or galaxies collide, that is part of the harmony?

Yada: Yes, it is part of the harmony.

Question: That violent action is part of the harmony?

Yada: Everything is, but we, in our thinking, make it out of harmony,

Question: Now, I agree that it is in harmony.

Yada: It is, of course. Were it not so, nothing would exist. No thing. You would have but energy moving, but not creating anything,

Question: Then, great collisions of mass and violent changes are in harmony?

Yada: Are in harmony. But this, to man, is not so.

Question: Why not?

Yada: Man cannot create by violence. He destroys – and destroys in a very negative way.

Comment: But he would not be destroying – he would be modifying.

Yada: Yes. But man, remember please, is a conscious being. He has something the rest of the universe does not have – Self awareness.

Question: The rest of the universe does not have self awareness?

Yada: Does not have self awareness. There is no-thing, throughout the entire universe – and universes in toto, that has that wonderful thing that man has, called self awareness; so that he can say, in the most profound way, and mean it, and know it I AM THAT – THAT I AM. I AM THE REALITY. It is this great consciousness which flows through man. He doesn’t own it. It flows through him constantly. He walks in it. He is of it, and it gives him the feeling that he is creating it. He alone, by that sense of self awareness, becomes the creator of all – all in all, both individual things and mass things.

Comment: I still don’t understand why violent changes within man, and to man, are not in harmony, if violent changes are in harmony with galaxies colliding.

Yada: But you see, galaxies do not create violence. It appears, to the eye, that there is a great deal of violence, but if you could get out there in the vastness of space, you would not see it as violence you would only see changes taking place.

Comment: Think about the violence in the digestive processes.

Yada: They are not violent. No, it is not really violent. It is what you think is violent – from your own sense of violence. It is not violent. There are sometimes two chemicals which need to be brought together. But they seem to oppose one another, very often in a violent way, so there needs to be some way to bring these two chemicals together. So, you form another chemical substance which you call a catalyst, which helps them to link themselves together in a quieter, more peaceful manner. In man, the catalyst, to keep the violence down, is called love. It is difficult to put this in clarity – very difficult, because man has brought with him from the primeval swamp, a very violent side of himself. And he has difficulties in renouncing it; in trying to get into the body of love and peace.

Question: Why is he having all this difficulty? I asked you, a little while ago, if the universe was in harmony and you said yes. If man is part of the universe, then he is in harmony; so why are we sitting here and why is there all this talk about the ego self?

Yada: My honorable friend, you misunderstand. I speak not with a forked tongue, when I say that man is a creator. He is just not awake to this fact, and so his desire to create, destroys.

Comment: We’re in harmony; we’re just singing in the wrong tune?

Yada: Right. (Several other comments are exchanged here between the listeners.)

Yada: Now you are getting into semantics. You see, there are some things that you simply cannot talk about, with the use of words. I try, because I find it necessary to do for man here on earth. I try. This is my work. This is what I come here to do. So I try to find the best tools – words. English words mostly in your case; and it does not always make clarity. I regret, but that’s the way it is.

See Part II here.