Excerpt from "The Hathor Material" by Tom Kenyon & Virginia Essene (Also see the Table of Contents in the bottom. )

The Hathors with Virginia and Tom Kenyon wrote:

" The Fulcrum Point

We would now like to address what we see as one of the most opportune moments for your evolution and the acceleration of growth in human history. It has to do with the speeding up of events in this dimension so that, as we have said previously, you will be experiencing more and more awareness in less and less "clock" time. This is creating, and will continue to create, strong emotional reactions and feeling responses. The feelings and emotions that you are experiencing in this period of greater intensity ar e to be treasured, not avoided, for they are your modern-day initiations into higher consciousness. You do not need to enter a Mystery School these days for your various trainings and initiations, as once humans did in Egypt.

There, the ancient temples of Egypt were spread out along the Nile River in a successive order of difficulty and the initiates would go to these temples to receive instruction. Each temple would present them with some new situation to master. The temple initiations were part of their evolutionary process. Now, however, you do not need to go to Egypt or any other place to experience your initiations. The trials and tests that you face in your physical body, in your relationships, in your work, and in your sp iritual endeavors are your modern day initiatory trials for higher consciousness. By viewing them in this way, the difficult experiences of your life can be experienced for what they are-initiations-instead of something to be avoided or something by whip to feel victimized. Many humans call out "Why me?"

and blame God for their negative circumstances because they do not understand the part their own consciousness plays in the unfolding of their lives.

We've called this chapter "The Fulcrum Point" because the metaphor of the fulcrum is an apt example in regard to understanding consciousness at the three-dimensional realm. The fulcrum is like the balance point of a childhood seesaw or teeter totter often seen in parks. Two children will sit at opposite ends of a narrow board that is supported in the center (the fulcrum); and the children take turns pushing up, forcing the other end of the seesaw (and child) to move down. The fulcrum point is the point at w hich the seesaw board pivots. As long

as there is movement, there is the force of the polarities (up/down

movement) on the fulcrum point. This is a beautiful metaphor for consciousness itself-for as consciousness moves into duality from its still-point of non-duality, opposite forces come into play. As with the seesaw, in your world of polarities, as something moves up, something else must move down and so on.

In your current life as a human being on this planet you are experiencing a rapid acceleration of many multidimensional forces-physical, mental, emotional, cultural, social, spiritual, global-and many of these are happening simultaneously. The fulcrum point for you, as a human being, is where these multi-dimensional forces interconnect in the present moment. If you've ever sat on a seesaw, you know that there is the possibility of a balance point in which the opposite ends of the seesaw are parallel to the ground and there is no movement. That moment is a perfect balancing of dualities, and the fulcrum point would be in a neutral state of friction or activity. However, when the dualities begin to move again (one end moves up while the other end moves down) the fulcrum point experiences an increase of activity and friction.

You, as a human being, experience that friction as an increase of pressure through the emotional or feeling nature-so that as events intensify, your feelings also intensify in the present moment. The point about which these feelings intensify is your fulcrum point. This is the initiatory portal. This is the doorway to your soul's accelerated evolution and ascended awareness. The fulcrum point of your life, moment to moment, instant to instant, is experienced within the most sacred temple of your physical bo dy. How you deal with your experiences is your choice as an individual. Yet if you fail to see your life and this planet as a sacred space, fail to see this life as an initiatory process, then you may go into blame, discounting, or avoidance. There are many ways to avoid the present moment of one's life. However, if you align with this understanding that the events and experiences of your life are your initiatory process, then you will hold sacred whatever is occur ring, even if it is difficult.

The initiatory process is essentially strewn with difficulties, tests and trials. For this is how the soul grows. Mastery over a particular level or domain of the self brings mastery to the soul. Fundamentally, you are working through the emotional, mental and spiritual "contents"

of your own consciousness. And this is experienced through the events of your life, specifically the thoughts, feelings and emotions that these events trigger within you. If you honor the fulcrum point (the present moment of your life) as that center, that pivotal focus of your own consciousness, then you are prepared to move into a different relationship with your experience. Honor your experience and feeling responses, for they are the meaning, context and purpose of your life.

This very instant, you are using the experiences of your life, whatever they are, as footholds to climb the mountain of your own consciousness. From our understanding there is an element that needs

to be added, and that is mastery of one's energy. You may have noticed that when your emotional reactions are strong or when things occur that are overwhelming, you are less able to deal effectively with them-less able to cope and make the right choices for yourself-and less able to use that opportunity as fuel for the transformation of your own consciousness. What we have often observed is that when people go into moments of intense overwhelm and slip into unconsciousness, they will attempt to avoid awareness of the present moment (the fulcrum point of their experience) by dr ifting, sleepin g, overworking, or avoiding the whole thing in some other way such as drugs, food, or alcohol. For some of you, even meditation can be a subtle form of avoidance. The tools that we share in this material are meant to help you master your energy so that when you enter into a fulcrum or pivotal experience and the intensity of that moment increases, you have the energy mastery to align yourself positively.

You will have both the awareness of what is happening and the mastery of your energy fields to make correct choices for yourself in that moment. These two aspects together create a powerful vortex that allow you to flow quickly into higher levels of consciousness. Both must be in place, however. You must understand, appreciate and honor your life experience. Then you must use your feeling responses in the initiatory process to achieve the energy mastery that stabilizes and allows you to take advantage of th ese growth opportunities.

It is ironic and paradoxical that consciousness can create either a heaven or a hell around the same event. The reactions that you experience in response to various different events actually have very little to do with the events themselves. This is the initiatory awareness-the coming to understand that whatever occurs, you are creating your emotional or feeling responses, and you are responsible for them.

There are emotional states you tend to experience as hellish, a kind of purgatory, in which you are tormented by the demons of your own attachments-fears, pains, angers and sadnesses. And there are emotional states where you feel content, centered, loved and fulfilled. Simply recognize that these two polar states, heaven and hell, are within you, within your own consciousness, within your own being. They are not located physically in space anywhere. They are within you. They are polar opposites that work and move and pulsate from one to the other. The fulcrum point ofyour li fe experience is that edge on which they teeter. As you acquire this understanding and master your energy flows, you will be better able to balance the polarities within yourself.

Taking the metaphor of the fulcrum point even deeper, we would say that those events that seem to be happening externally are actually catalysts that create a response within you. The events themselves are essentially empty. They are triggers, however, that are causing something to respond from within your own consciousness. As you go through the initiatory process of your life you will have feelings or emotional responses to innumerable and often challenging things. This

is your nature as a human. But if y ou experience these emotional feeling responses with awareness and self-compassion-look lovingly within yourself, so to speak-you will find the polarities within your own being that are creating your suffering. These polarities are ruled by your beliefs and choices from the deepest levels of your own consciousness.

The purpose and nature of initiation is to provide a mirror to reflect back to the soul so that it can clearly see and understand the choices it has made. The initiatory processes of your life that you are living today, and the people and the situations you encounter, are all holding a mirror for you. Consequently, when you experience something difficult, and if you do not look at what you are feeling inside of yourself in response to the event, you will miss a tremendous opening to greater awareness and cl arity. This is the power of the fulcrum point. It is a sacred moment. Every moment of your experience is sacred and when you find yourself in situations that are difficult and challenging, know that you have entered another initiation opportunity. This makes it a time for rejoicing, a time for awareness, clarity and self-compassion. As you master the tools that we have given and will continue to give, your energy body will align in such a way that you will be able to take advanta ge of these initiatory exper iences in a constructive and creative manner. So shall the soul advance.

We would now like to share a story, a legend, that we have in our culture concerning one human living in that earlier historical period you call ancient Egypt. In a way, this story symbolizes the current human experience on Earth.

It seems there was an initiate who came to the temple of Hator (Hator, the goddess of love and joy) desperately wanting to experience these states of love and joy. But he wanted to enter the initiation process at the highest level without going through the lower temples of the underworld. Each time the hopeful initiate would come to the Hator temple of love and joy, he would be sent away with the comment, "You are not ready. You must enter the underworld."

    This person, being very crafty, used various disguises to present himself as a woman, a crippled man, a sage, or even a beggar. Yet he was still the same person and was sent away. Still he returned time and time again to the temple of Hator, wanting and seeking initiation into the mysteries, but without the willingness to go through the lower temples first. Every time he appeared in disguise, he was sent back to the underworld where he refused to enter and begin the initiation process which would have eventually earned him his heart's desire. The point of this tale is that you cannot bypass your own underworld. You must go down into the catacombs of your own

unconscious- ness before seeking the higher spiritual mysteries.

You see, the higher you go in consciousness the deeper you must delve to remain in balance. If you go too high in consciousness without balancing your hidden depths, including your own unconsciousness, then you are unbalanced and potentially dangerous. Why? Because then you

are acting without awareness of the crucial parts of yourself that are in your own underworld-those aspects that are not evolved, such as your angers, your hatreds, your jealousies, your rages, your fantasies, even your death wishes. The se things that you try to keep out of awareness are part of your human nature and your task as a human being is to integrate and to heal all levels of your experience in this dimension!

One of those levels of this experience which must be healed has to do with what you call darkness, which we call unawareness. The darkness is unawareness. The task of evolution, as we see it, is to expand awareness so that it is all-encompassing and becomes incorporated into all of your beingness. The processes, the circumstances, and events that are occurring on your planet at this time are of such an intense nature that they are activators for those feelings and beliefs that live in your underworld. The f ulcrum point of experience, the intensity of the momentby-moment experiences of life, are the initiatory portals allowing you to move into an awareness and understanding of the depths of yourself. Never doubt your nature is profoundly capable of this task for your consciousness includes the light, the celestial realms of your own being, as well as the dark demonic worlds of your own being. To hold these two polarities in compassion, consciousness, and love is to balance them a nd to heal the darkness through the power and the light of awareness. This is the task of evolution, as we see it, for this level and your dimension.

Your Earth is evolving, arising into a higher level of awareness, vibration, and consciousness and so, friends of Earth, are you.

Now Virginia, do you have questions for us?

Virginia: Greetings again. My first question today, suggested by information in this chapter, but in other places as well, concerns your advice regarding what humans presently term "psychology." Could you comment about our present effectiveness in using psychology for healing purposes? Also what do you recommend that our counselors and psychologists do in order to understand and apply energy as a part of their personal and professional process?

Hathors: Psychology as practiced currently on Earth is extremely limited. Its outcomes are very limited and the understanding of most psychologists is very narrow from our understanding and perspective.

Psychology, for the most part, aims at getting humans to adjust to their society in a way that creates as little difficulty for the individuals as possible. So the basic vision or goal is simply one of adaptation. And this adaptation is to a society that is essentially oppressive in regard to human potential . The human being has far greater potential for expression and emotional and mental experience than is conceived of by most psychologies. Many psychologies deal with areas of consciousness that are language based, which requires much talking, and very little time is focused on resolving fundamental energy issues.

You see, everything that is held emotionally in the body and in the subtle fields as a distortion, as pain, or as trauma, has an energetic

component. Therefore, one can talk and talk but nothing will fundamentally have changed because the energetics have not been addressed. So we would say that if individuals working in this field wish to expand themselves and their repertoire to become more effective in healing work, they should include the energetics of emotion and mental states in their methodology-so th at the emotions and the energetics of those emotions are addressed directly with their clients.

When the energetics of a situation are addressed, then the trauma, the discomfort, is resolved and the nervous system and behavior come back into a state of equilibrium and balance. This brings an increase of wellness in the individual. And from that stable platform, one can then reach the higher mystical, spiritual states of consciousness that heighten effectiveness as ascending human beings. Without addressing the emotional state, and their energetic components, you simply avoid the problem.

Even worse is the use of drugs to suppress the energies. Because it is possible to chemically alter the brain so that emotional problems can actually be suppressed, a person becomes dependent on the drug to achieve a semistate, a quasi-state of chemically-induced balance.

However, as soon as the drug is withdrawn, the person comes back into chaos because the original energies persist, so this is not a solution. This is just making matters worse. There is a relationship between brain chemistry and the energe tics of emotion and thought forms and beliefs, but the science of it on Earth is in its infancy.

The methods you now use to control brain chemistry with drugs are like using a club to hit a gnat. One needs to be more subtle, more gentle and more discreet.

Virginia: Thank you. Could you comment on earlier practices of shock treatment using electricity and other devices?

Hathors: It is simply devastating to the person's field, to the nervous system, and it creates rips and tears in their subtle bodies.

Since the etheric body is damaged, especially the Ka, or pranic body, shock treatment is a very, very poor choice. There are some occasions where it is effective in creating a behavior change in terms of suppressing certain emotions when everything else has failed. But it's not really understood in the psychology of your day as to why shock treatments sometimes work. It has b een observed that it sometimes does help. However, it often leaves the person without memory and with other problems in their energetic fields that are not observed because the observers are not sensitive enough to sense what happened to the auric field. The reason that a shock treatment works at all is because when there is a bolus or a surge of energy into the brain and its biochemicals, it's as if an explosion has gone off and the brain comes back to a different type o f equilibrium than it had before. So metimes that equilibrium is better and sometimes it is worse, but it is a very poor, clumsy, crude method to alter brain chemistry and activity.

Virginia: Thank you. Then do you perceive any use of electromagnetic energies in doing emotional healing?

Hathors: Yes, and this will become clearer during the coming decades.

Sound will also be used much more in the treatment of emotional and mental problems as well as electromagnetics, and of course the use of magnets will become much more understood in this regard.

Virginia: You've spoken about wellness. How is it that poor health in the physical body affects or influences our attempt to balance these two inner polarities that you speak about here in "The Fulcrum Point"

chapter?

Hathors: If the vitality of the Ka is not strong enough, then one cannot balance energy polarities nor can one take full advantage of the initiatory opportunities in one's life. If one is fatigued and exhausted, one simply cannot focus; it's not possible. One has to go to sleep or rest and recoup one's energy before one can focus again.

Virginia: So if there is a chronic degenerative condition, as many people on the planet are experiencing, especially those in technological countries, what advice or recommendations do you have for us in order to do the best we can to balance these inner polarities?

Hathors: This is a wide topic and in practice things would be tailored to the individual rather than giving broad sweeping information.

However, we'll employ a broad sweep in an attempt to answer your question. As we said earlier, the vitality of the planet is decreasing as a result of the loss of minerals and the decrease of oxygen. So, basically, what you can do at a biological level is to increase the levels of minerals and oxygen. This increase will help many, many conditions that are now being experien ced. Recently your scientists have uncovered something called colloidal minerals which will be found to be very helpful in this regard.

There are also products and substances that increase the oxygenation ofyour bodies. Eating more live foods will help the entire process, specifically sprouts and young, tender greens before they become mature. These hold within themselves a very high level of complex proteins and minerals that will help in this process. So eating more live foods with the enzymes undamaged will assist this process of mineralization and increase the absorption of oxygen. This requires your soil to be healthy and pure, of course; and the same for water.

At the physical level these are a few things that will help greatly.

But it's a synergetic process of doing everything you can to increase your vitality, including clarification and elevation of your beliefs and interactions with others. As you strengthen the Ka, the life-force, then other aspects of your consciousness will be strengthened. You will have more focus; you will have more energy and stamina.

At the emotional level there is another aspect to consider. Remember that the thought forms and the emotional movements of energy taking place in the planetary mass consciousness tend to degrade life-force, tend to pull lifeforce out. So as you become a sensitive life-force person, you must protect your energy. Your life energy is precious and you don't give it away to just anybody. You keep it for your own enhancement and those who are close to you. So you don't give energy

away frivolously and you don't t ake on the negative emotional patterns or the emotional neediness of others. Why? This is one of the things that drains life-force quicker than anything. In our experience of Earth we often observe the misuse of emotion and the misuse of emotional need.

As we previously mentioned, this planet is a school for emotion so it is a very intensely emotional place where emotions abound. And this will only increase as the planet, and this entire area of the solar system, increases in vibratory rate. So those who give their own energy away "to take care of others" will find their energy depleted.

This depletion of your energy comes directly out of your Ka. As you become more sensitive to energy in general and to your own energy in particular, you can sense when som eone is drawing your energy out, or when you're giving it away. You will feel fatigued and drained.

Virginia: So is that a warning to all of us?

Hathors: Definitely It's a particular warning to all humans who are emotional caretakers. One can so completely take care of another person emotionally that one has nothing left for oneself and this is not spiritual enlightenment or attainment. This is simply misuse of energy. It may come out of a place of compassion, of wanting to help the other person, but if you have drained yourself in the process then you have damaged yourself, your Ka, your own vitality, and this is not good.

Virginia: Agreed. And we do appreciate this message. Now, regarding your explanation of the fulcrum point, it's been my experience that many young people today have never been on a seesaw in the park. So I'm asking if there's another analogy you can use to clarify the fulcrum point?

Hathors: We would say to those who haven't yet experienced a seesaw to, by all means, go and experience one! However, we can offer a computer analogy. The joystick is a device that many people use while playing computer games. If you have used a computer game you will know exactly what we mean. When the joystick is pulled to the left, the little image or the character on the screen will do something, and when it's pulled far to the right it will do the opposite. So you have two polarities-to the left is one action, to the right is another action-and so the same principle applies. You can swing back and forth between left and right and have two opposing actions.

Virginia: Yes. Thank you for that. Has there ever been a civilization or a culture here on Earth that actually achieved a balanced fulcrum point?

Hathors: Yes, there has been. However, one needs to understand that when we're dealing with civilizations we're dealing with individuals, and within a civilization's population stream you may have 100,000 who have attained a fulcrum point position and another 3,000,000 who have not. But a general principle would be that if no one in a given culture has attained a balanced fulcrum point then the entire culture, by definition, would be in chaos. So it needs to be understood that the fulcrum point is something that is attained by individuals, riot by the civilization. It's only when you have amassed enough

individuals who have attained balance within a cultural stream that the civilization gains a balanced fulcrum point. There was a general sense of stability in the Golden Age of Egypt, the Golden Age of Greece, Lemuria, and even Atlantis had a certain level of attainment and balance before they overemphasized the mental.

Virginia: In Egypt, was that in the time of Moth?

Hathors: Yes, in the time of Thoth.

Virginia: So does this imply that the Hathor civilization, which you say has ascended, didn't all happen simultaneously? Or let me just ask how you explain your present ascended civilization in terms of reaching some kind of a fulcrum point somewhere along the way?

Hathors: That is a most intriguing question that no one has ever asked before, although it seems quite obvious. We would not say that we entered the state of ascension simultaneously but it was very close.

At the moment that we entered this dimension through the portal of Sirius, we were already an ascended civilization. We came here as ascended beings. The reason we were requested to come to assist this ascension process was because we reached ascension on our planet in a similar fashion, though not exactly like what is occurring on Earth.

So there was a very strong resonance because we had gone through something similar.

Virginia: ...in your own Universe?

Hathors: Yes, as mentioned this was beyond Sirius which is a portal to this dimension. We were actually in another dimension, another Universe prior to coming here.

Virginia: So because of the experience you had by mastering your own emotional nature-that's what achieved your ascension, your accreditation?

Hathors: Yes. Yes, our credentials. We are considered masters of love and sound and the reason we are masters of love is because we have balanced the emotional body and we have anchored ourselves in the Great Mystery. It is the potential for all humans to be anchored and balanced in love, for love is the highest coherent emotion generated by humans. It is a powerful focal point and balance point within the human emotional body. What is going on now is that there are a multitude of emotions playing out as a result of several billion peoples' different thought forms, beliefs, and perceptions. This creates all types of emotional responses.

    Nonetheless, in terms of human evolution, love is where you are heading it is your potential to experience the emotion of love continuously on all levels of conscious- ness. This is something that we have attained and that is why we are aligned with you; and this is why many be- ings from other realms throughout the Universe are observing you. They can observe your situation and your emotional responses even though some of the beings ob- serving you don't have feelings and emotions themselves. They yearn to have it. It's a missing piece for them and the funny thing is that many humans avoid what these beings find desirable, namely feelings and emotions.

Virginia: Do you have an explanation of why the Earth is a training school for learning the emotion of love?

Hathors: Well, it goes back to the beginnings and it has to do with the unfolding of Earth and its position in relationship to the physical Sun. Here on Earth the development of vegetation and the oxygen stream that surrounds it enabled life, as you know it, to emerge. And there is a vital relationship between emotion and oxygen as your methods of working with the breath that the yogis call pranayama demonstrate. Altering the breath to balance emotion is founded in this understanding that oxygen and life-fo rce, or prang, hold a direct relationship to emotion. So you have a planet which has developed an environment that is highly conducive to experiencing emotion which was recognized quite early by many cultures and civilizations intergalactically Thus, the word went out and souls deliberately incarnated to experience this opportunity."

"We see Earth as a sacred space, an outpicturing of the Sacred Elements of the archetypal realm of consciousness itself. We see Earth being as close to God as any other realm, for the continuum is whole.

Whether one experiences oneself as close to divinity or separated from it, has nothing to do with whether one is on Earth, embodied or not.

One's view is something that is held in personal consciousness. It is possible to be in deep communion with the Divine, to feel completely at home in consciousness, and still be embodied. It is not necessary to leave Earth in order to go "home," for home is a state of consciousness, a state of connectedness generated from within yourself.

We see a dangerous situation upon the Earth at this time, especially in highly technologically-developed countries. This situation is the separation of oneself from nature and the elements. Modern culture has isolated itself and insulated itself from the natural elements, the natural world. Western society has taken the biblical inscription "to have dominion over nature" to irresponsible heights. Humanity is oppressing nature. Humankind, in the modern world, is not only oppressing nature and the elements bu t is seriously separated from them and, as a result, has lost much of its connection to the higher continuum of consciousness. "

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Get the book "The Hathor Material" By Tom Kenyon & Virginia Essene for more interested stuff.  The following is the contents of the Table of Contents.

Chap 1. Who We Are and Why We Have Come Chap 2. The Human as an Energy System Chap 3. Feeling and Human Evolution Chap 4. The Fear of Opening Chap 5. The Pyramid of Balance Chap 6. The Ascending Spiral Chap 7. Stabilizing in Chaos Chap 8. The Sacred Elements Chap 9. The Fulcrum Point Chap 10. Sound as Key Chap 11. Changing Destiny Chap 12. Rods of Power Chap 13. The Unasked Questions List of Diagrams and Exercises