Mother’s Agenda 1967

April 15, 1967

Have you read this report on L.S.D.? What's your impression?

It's interesting. They have experiences that aren't just on the level of brute sensation. That drug does release the consciousness, all the same.

(Mother remains silent)

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It releases from the whole habit of formations.

Ah, yes, that surely.

But he himself says it's better to begin with a guide.

But do you still hold the same opinion after reading to the end? Because you hadn't read the whole thing.

That it upsets the being's equilibrium there is absolutely no doubt. And of course, upsetting one's equilibrium may lead you to a higher equilibrium. But there is a risk.

(silence)

It's probably part of the preparations. The only thing is, the results can be fairly catastrophic.

It could be part of a scientific discipline. But then, that's how it should be done, as a discipline, and under the supervision of those who know.

You see, he takes great care not to say anything about the harmful effects. I have personally met two people who had done the experiment and had met with dreadful effects—they decided never to touch it again in their lives.

They are very careful not to say anything about that.

It should be done as an educational discipline, with all the necessary safeguards and supervision.

It's the same as all the rest: it's the method that starts from below. The true method starts from above—it's more difficult, less spectacular, and it takes more time.

From the standpoint of study and observation, it's very interesting. But it should be done scientifically, in a spirit of discipline and almost consecration, as a means of study.

Of course, just the contact with a small amount of the Force from above disturbs many people's minds; so here, I think the effect would be very general.

It's a risk to be run.

If someone—someone conscious, who already knows much, who is very much master of himself and has control over his reactions—does it as a means of study, it can be very interesting. But giving it to a poor devil who knows nothing and goes headlong into it out of curiosity can be disastrous.

(silence)

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In the last part, what he calls the "cellular level" is indeed the description—ONE description—of cellular phenomena and activities on their level of consciousness, and also on the level of consciousness of the infinitesimal. He speaks of "great currents" and "cellular transformations" and all that; it's quite correct, only....¹ It's what is going on at present, but it's just the consciousness reduced to the dimension of the infinitesimal. And it's a reproduction of what takes place in the other dimensions. But, for example, after all this discipline of the cells that there has been for... several years now, his description strikes me as the same thing SEEN THROUGH AN ILLUSION. And the illusion is caused by that very imbalance: the illusion of an absolute reality, while it's a quite relative reality. You understand, it's the difference between seeing something with a sense of relativity, with a whole immensity of other things, and seeing it all alone as an exclusive and unique reality. It's the sense of the harmony and balance of the Whole that is gone. And so, it becomes "dreadful": as he says, some people may find it frightening. And that's precisely because that equilibrium is missing. It's the same thing in a smaller version in an individual: that vision of the whole which gives the proportion of every event, the importance of every event and every thing, changes completely when you have the sense of the Whole, and what appears frightening or catastrophic or marvellous becomes again just a part of the Whole. It's the sense of equilibrium that is gone. When I read the end, it gave me one more confirmation of my experience.

It may be necessary, in certain cases, to disrupt that equilibrium so as to come into contact with something new, but that's always dangerous. And the way of consecration and surrender to the supreme Power is infinitely superior—it's slightly more difficult. It's more difficult than swallowing a drug, but infinitely superior.

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We could call it "yoga within everyone's reach"! But... it's not without danger.

And they say a considerable number of people are taking it....

(silence)

That the Force is working is without a shadow of doubt, and that this is the result of the action of the Force is also without a shadow of doubt.

There are other, very interesting examples. There's a Burmese (you may have heard of this) who has just received a "peace prize." He has written an article (he is Burmese, I don't know which language he wrote it in, but it has been published in French in a Swiss newspaper), in which he says what everybody knows, but what everybody forgets too: that if all the money wasted on preparing means of destruction were used for the progress of human well-being, we could work wonders. And he adds (I can't quote him exactly): for that to be possible, men—nations and men—must stop distrusting and fearing each other, and live in the sense of unity. And he says, if, for that, HUMAN NATURE HAS TO CHANGE, it's high time it changed and we must all work for that to happen.

I am extremely happy to hear this. Here is a man who has caught the true thing.²

And it's beginning to spread. In Korea, too, there is someone who says the same thing and who is known to thousands of people. They are all asking for the change in [human] nature, a "new consciousness."

(long silence)

There is something interesting in this cellular consciousness: they have a sense of sincerity which is MUCH sharper, and what they call in English exacting, than in the vital and the mind (even the material

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vital and mind). There is a sort of absoluteness in the sincerity which is very remarkable, and they have a rigorousness between them which is quite wonderful. It's extremely interesting. If anything, any part, any movement, tries to cheat, they catch it like this (gesture of nipping it and wringing its neck), and in such a sharp and precise way.... In all the vital or mental movements, there is always a kind of (sinuous gesture) suppleness, something that tries to adapt—while here, oh... it's like this (inflexible gesture). So when there is invocation, prayer, self-giving, surrender, trust, all those things become so pure—so pure, so crystalline, you know, that... oh!

And precisely, there is a growing conviction that a perfection realized in Matter is a perfection that is FAR MORE perfect than anywhere else. That's what gives it a stability it has nowhere else.... If there is something somewhere (when there is a great offering and then a joyous self-giving, joyous surrender), if there is something that comes in with even the slightest self-interest—for instance, a suffering in some little corner (a pain or disorder), which hopes for or wishes or expects some improvement—then it gets caught like this (same gesture of nipping and wringing its neck) and it's told, "Oh, insincere one! Give yourself unconditionally." Then it's magnificent.

It's very interesting.

And this joy, this enthusiasm at the possibility: that being wholly sincere is POSSIBLE; almost, I could say, that it is permitted (these are words): "Life is such a disorder and muddle of insincerity that THAT is really what is expected of us, THAT; THAT is what's permitted, THAT is what must be realized: to be absolute in the joy of self-giving." It's a marvel, a marvel!

Also, the contact with all those beings of the Overmind, all those gods, all those Entities, all those divinities.... There is here, in the cells, a sort of... (what can I call it?) rectitude, and, yes, sincerity and honesty that says, "Oh, what fuss they make! How all this is (Mother puffs up her cheeks) puff! puff! swollen up." It's very interesting, really very interesting. The vision of the world is quite different. It's far more honest—far more honest, far more sincere, far more upright. It's strange.

The consciousness expressed in transformed cells is a marvel. It justifies all those ages of misery. To reach that was really worth the trouble. Really worth it.

Especially all pretence, all exaggeration, all vanity, oh, it's all looked at as through the ingenuous eyes of a very pure child (it's much better than that! The comparison is invidious).

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(silence)

Then there is a sort of internal code of regulations. When there is a pain somewhere, something that goes awry, you should see the others' attitude!... A seriousness that first says (I have to translate, and it loses all its charm), but first it begins with, "Don't you make such a fuss and to-do" (or "don't you all," it depends). Then, a pressure to surrender. And that action to make the Light circulate everywhere.... I am interpreting; with interpretation, the mind always mixes in, unfortunately. The thing itself isn't thought—it isn't thought, it doesn't watch itself be, it's very spontaneous. Very spontaneous and thus very sincere. It's pretty.

It's like an immense society, you understand.

And during the work there are ... (what should I call them?) conglomerations, or very small groups of cells that have retained imprints, imprints made on them. Or sometimes here (gesture to the brain), but there it's full of a great light like that, compact; all the same there are corners—many dark nooks and crannies—and then unfolds all of a sudden, the memory of the circumstances, events, sensations, perceptions that built that (the imprint), all seen in the new Light, and to be eliminated. And then ... yes, as they³ say, you "trip," you travel in an immense world, indeed; and it's not things from the past, it's ... an immense Present in which you travel.

Only, you travel consciously and voluntarily, instead of through the effect of a drug. That's superior.

This morning again, the lesson was repeated with, for instance, bits of old things still clinging, reactions, small movements (inner movements): "Only one solution, one single solution: self-annulment, perfect self-giving, the surrender of everything."

Then there's the joy of Light—the beauty, the joy ... a splendour!

(silence)

It's the only remedy.

Naturally, everything is good, everything is possible (L.S.D.), but... it seems to be a very circuitous route to arrive at the same place.

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