Intuition: The Other Vehicle

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Last month I wrote to you about the legacy of Shamcher, and how this legacy (like a seed) resides in all the people who were/are connected to him. This contact with him made such a remarkable difference in so many of our lives and our life endeavours through the years. People tell of a greater scope for expression, new confidence or blessings in life, or even some dreams coming true. This wasn’t just meeting an interesting person or remarkable man. Such a meeting was closer to catalytic transformation.

Shamcher understood all that. He was a cultivator of intuition in all its many aspects for others, since he operated from the intuitive reality throughout his own life. He described it as “that other vehicle”, the vehicle of intuition. He encouraged all who would listen to develop intuition, and to put all ideas and perceptions into their rightful places. (Or, as a philosopher might say, moving from doxa and social opinion into apprehension of truth.)

In this excerpt from his correspondence in the 1970s, Shamcher goes into some of the main ideas that he often repeated to those who were in his sphere of contact. It wasn’t teaching, per se, but advice from an elder. I’ve added expanded quote images to highlight key points. These are not just for illustration, but also to slow down the reading process and give us time to reflect on what is being said.

Shamcher wrote:

All titles or hierarchies expressed in this world, while pretending to be functions, are not true functions but dilettantic games. You have a very good mind. Why do you still worry about these things?

Now as to direct communication: That happens in a world for which the language we use, such as English, French, or Arab or Russian — has no words. Therefore any explanation would be entirely faulty. I knew, not always but often, people’s feelings or thoughts when I was a child. I could communicate directly with Inayat Khan at age 26-29 but not with others at that time. By simple meditations I gradually regained lost talents — though not until I was in the seventies. Patient meditation did it.

Often you write to me about your feelings and views that I already know. But it seems to me you are more angry with me than you express in your gracious letters. Your ideas on this would be appreciated.

Can I teach you to thus communicate? No, and I believe nobody can. But I can tell you how I achieved a half-way ability and you might try the same: Meditation at definite hours each day. For example from 4:20 a.m. on in the morning. That suits me. And the breathing I taught you before that, in fresh air. Now, what kind of meditation? For you I would think: No object: no person, no picture but simply void your mind of appetites — for food, sex, possessions, progress, money, wealth, fame.

In the emptiness a third part of yourself peeps forth: Intuition. After many or few years. After months or centuries. That is all I can say.

There are psychics. They are called, in my book, distorted. They tell you they can predict events with 80% accuracy. Phooey on them. God has not even decided on those issues and they try to rob God of his options. So many astrologers do the same. You may call the psychic talents “gifts”. Mostly they are gifts produced by a misdirected urge, another appetite. An appetite for being different, able to do what most others cannot do. Not bad in itself, perhaps, but bad when predicting happenings — instead of creating those happenings by our actions.

Not merely mystics but doctors, economists, senators play the stupid game of forecasts. Forecasts become excuses for inaction. They are based on past follies rather than the future we should create. In that sense psychics are undesirable. You may reach a stage where you see patterns, but you know or should know that these patterns may not necessarily occur. You try to change what ought to be changed, rather than advertising your wonderful sixth or fourteenth sense.

Shamcher was always giving out this sage advice, directing attention away from the things of the world, and into the greater view. As all the sages have said, it cannot be taught. But he did recommend contact with any people who had made the leap into this vehicle.

After he had gone to a retreat taught by an accomplished yogi, a friend reported to Shamcher that he felt nothing from the experience. Referring to connecting to the yogi, Shamcher commented:

On the other hand, after those three days with his environment, you might have established contact, which you seem not to have done. This is a matter of spontaneity. Maybe you reason too long and somewhat ineffectually instead of taking the leap.

He was referring to the communication via the other vehicle, and being in presence of one who has made the leap. It doesn’t necessarily mean he was to talk with the yogi or meet him in a private interview face to face, but rather to open to the kind of contact that would bring about the beam of the vibration he called “Silent Reach.”

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