Under the Plum Tree

 

Under the Plum Tree / The Tao of Everything
by Chung Fu
Edited by Marjorie B. Giles
Illustrated by David N. Giles

Earth is a place of education on physical experience.  Scientific thought focuses upon physicality and does not accommodate spirit.  Nowhere in the scientific search for the Theory of Everything does spirit have a place.  The scientific "Everything" disregards spirit, never mind that spirit, or inspiration, most likely initiated the search.  Please consider for a moment the possibility that spirit does exist.  Set your opinions and logic aside and consider these notions as if they had merit.

Tao explains an individual's arrival upon earth is planned by a spirit which feels the need to learn some aspect of physicality, e.g. mental retardation, alcoholism, sex, grief, hunger, fear, parenthood, anger, love, worship, all that.  The spirit sees a conception taking place from the spirit world.  The spirit then examines the genealogy, the political character of the country in which it will occur, the teachings the parents will provide, or not, and the physical characteristics of the new individual.  The spirit chooses whether to use that body as a vehicle to learn what is necessary for its evolution in the spirit world.

If you're balking here, it is likely because the idea of reincarnation is alien to you.  It is alien to about half the world population, but not alien to the other half.  Lacking scientific evidence, neither view is provable, nor unprovable.  The only factor which determines your choice is attitude.  If you disbelieve reincarnation, please try to dismiss it for this moment.

Attitude develops after birth.  You acquire a blank slate which will record whatever you learn on earth, and which will evolve into your person soul.  The soul is also the sub-conscious.  Your slate starts out clean in order that it will record only the needed lessons without influence from past lives.  Your inner spirit's certain knowledge is gradually replaced by what you are taught.

Past lives manage to creep in anyway, as in when an infant picks up a paintbrush and creates a masterpiece, but not often.  Second sight and omniscience may appear in your childhood.  You may have a secret friend and be told that your friend is an aspect of Satan.  You believe that, wanting to please the parent or teacher.  You write the conviction sits on your new slate and there it stays, influencing your decisions until your revise your opinion or do not.

Each bit of true knowledge that comes into your consciousness may be rejected in favor of what someone tells you, in which case the spirit will ride out your life as best it can and then relinquish the body when you do and hunt up another that will teach better.  Once that spirit comes to earth in a new body, its sole purpose is to evolve spiritually.  Learning.  We're all doing it.  Our conscious mind does not need to acknowledge it.  It's happening anyway and every thing you do contributes to the process.  Everything.  What you choose with your free will is how and when your spiritual evolution will take place.

These lessons came from a spirit, who named himself Chung Fu, whose final earth incarnation took place in the Chuang Tsu group of Tao developers.  This Old Chinese from the 5th Century B.C. chose to teach on Earth but, being highly evolved in spirit, had to find a vehicle who would learn to transmit the teachings.  Marshall Lever accepted the role, then was born to intelligent parents.  Marshall became educated in biochemistry, the better to provide nutritional information where it would be useful to seekers of truth. 

Chung Fu's teachings took place in private homes internationally, with the medium (Marshall) in a trance, relaying lessons from the spirit (Chung Fu).  The readings were recorded and transcribed and have been made available in book form.

 

Under the Plum Tree: The Tao of Everything
by Chung Fu
Edited by Marjorie B. Giles
Illustrated by David N. Giles

ISBN: 1-887370-01-3 
3rd edition published by Inkwell Books, 2010
196 pp.  Trade paperback $18.00

A glossary of Tao terms:

Affirmation:  Knowing that you are the God Force and that the God Force is whence all energy comes.

Buddha:  A great master c. 562-c. 483 B.C. in the Mesopotamian era.

Cataclysm:  A refurbishing of the spiritual element of earth and the elements of earth; a shifting of the poles, where the poles go to the middle of the equator and then, in a split second, its axis turns.

Collective unconscious: Our collective unconscious is our pool holding all the wisdom we seek.  We make contact with it more easily in an alpha state in nature and silence.

Confucius: (c. 551-c. 479) a master.

Creation:  the putting together of vibrations.

Death: there is no death.

Earth:  A physical vibration, an entity used for evolution, to learn.  Earth is a combination of energies of the Living Spirit: a place to learn to step above physicality.

Evolution:  What you are as part of infinity; after each existence you return to the spirit world for solidification and renewal; stepping above the physical plane.  Each of your reincarnations (usually there are six) is designed to advance your evolution.  Other elements, of earth, of air, of water, are also evolving.

Expressions:  Expressions are physical vibrations.  They include clairsentience of the etheric web to the heart, the clairvoyance of the etheric web to the eye, the clairaudience of the etheric web to the equilibrium areas of the throat and the ear.

Forgiveness:  Forgiveness is a creation of the priesthood, founded on sin and devised to make men and women reliant upon priests and not upon themselves.

Genetic engineering:  Atlantans made the Perfect Man in test tubes, perfect in structure, in body and form, and a Perfect Woman.  No spirit wanted to reincarnate through that much perfection and only earthbound spirits would take them over. That is why Atlantis fell; there was no impetus for learning.

Hospital:  Nothing but a sterile unreality aligned with the monetary system.

I Ching:  The first scriptural record -- nothing in it says to do this or that, but allows people to find their own energy within.

Jesus Christ:  0 - 37 A.D.  The Nazarene was the highest expression of the physical plane, a combination of all the forces, the God Force, in the highest form expressed through the physical body during this cataclysmic period.

Lao Tsu:  (c. 604 B.C.)  Recorded the original Tao of his experience.

Lucifer:  Lucifer is a creation of man and was designed to put the blame on someone else for what man had created.  Lucifer never was, for the God Force does not recognize negativity or sin.

Master:  A master is a great teacher who chooses to come back to Earth to teach of the Living Spirit and to assist the evolution of mortals.

Meditation:  All too often, meditation puts you in religious worlds of structure and form.  Relaxation is preferable and permits direct communication with the Living Spirit that lies within you.

Noah:  A spiritually advanced man who knew where to be at the right time so the cataclysm would not harm him.  By 2900, scientists say, there will be so many people on this earth that the earth will not be able to move, but by that time there will be hardly anyone on this earth for it will have been refurbished; a natural occurrence of the Living Spirit.

Prayer:  Affirming your God self is the highest form of inner communication.  Always use the present tense, e.g. "Those in power are strong, powerful, peaceful and poised," and you will see them that way.

Pythagoras:  (c. 582 - c. 507 B.C.)  The only western world entity who was ever made a Brahman.  He traveled into Nepal and China.  In Egypt he sat at the foot of the temples of Memphis, Isis and Osiris asking for initiation.  After six years he was finally allowed.

Relaxation:  Relaxation allows your body to open. Relaxation in a disciplined way is important.

Sex:  Mating is not just an act of sexual relationship; it is the creation of energy that allows potential spirits to view what they need to reincarnate.

Sin:  Sins are creations of the earth plane.  You have never made a mistake for there are no mistakes.  There are experiences.  Recognizing the Living Spirit pushes sin into the background.

Soul:  Our soul is the tabula rasa we get to fill up with the programming of our youth, character and memories and later reject or revise.  The filled up record is our subconscious and we are in control of what it (our soul) holds.  Therein lies all grief, anger and bitterness as well as caring, good works and romance.

Spirits: Spirits are the unseen occupants of your world, entities with varying degrees of truth, harmlessness, care, nurture and desires to do good on this earth plane.  When you wish to communicate with your spirits, please ask first for ones who came with good intentions.  Gardeners know plant spirits intimately and derive benefits from the knowledge.

Teotihuacán:  Teotihuacán was associated with the civilization of Lemuria, of Easter Island.  He died during the quaking of the earth.

The Living Spirit or the God Force:  You are the Living Spirit within.  You are the God Force within.  You are not the center of the universe.  You love the Living Spirit by loving yourself and doing so, you express a power beyond any form of evolution known on your earth plane.  The Living Spirit is a definite livingness in everything in your world.  Your evolution will never end.  Man is the highest physical evolution on this plane.  you will have opportunities to go into other evolutions in other worlds.

Vibration:  Each and everything that you perceive through your five senses on the earth plane is a vibration.  Vibrations are a part of the Living Spirit that you perceive through your five senses.  Your higher self is the key to your continuance.

Violence:  Violence and harming others are  physical aspects.  It is a character factor placed in your life for you to learn to step above.  Violence, war, hatred and disease will never be eliminated from earth, but by having peace within yourself, by finding the God Force within, you will not be involved in it.

Zeus:  A master who walked the earth and taught kindness during a former cataclysmic period.

Zoroaster:  (c. 628 - c. 551 B.C.)  A master.  At his baptism by John, Christ reincarnated from Zoroaster.

 

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