Be Still and Know That I Am God

In reviewing the flows I wrote from Omraam in 2007, I remembered that the course was based on two of his books, one of which was The Path of Silence. One of the first things I intuited from Omraam was to do a voice fast (no speaking except for emergencies) for 30 days. I had done a voice fast before, but this one was for the purpose of clearing the clutter in my mind so that I could better hear Omraam’s intimations with my inner ear. The seed thoughts of flows are very subtle and can be easily drowned out by “loud” mundane thoughts. That’s why flows are best received first thing in the morning when the world and your mind are still.

A voice fast in combination with the three pillars in the morning and before going to bed plus periodic moments of silent meditation throughout the day is the formula for developing the habit of flowing. One aid, as previously discussed, is focusing on a picture of a master if you’re inspired to receive a flow from that master. You’ll know when a master desires to give a message through synchronicities. Other aids are being in nature if you feel like receiving a flow from an elemental or deva (I once received a flow from the Green Goddess sitting under a tree), and listening to inspiring classical or New Age music. But the most important ingredient is silence or stillness.

For some people like me who are introverts, a voice fast is easy. But everyone, whether they like to talk or not, has an inner dialog that’s harder than verbal dialog to stop. But it is possible to turn the volume down, both in terms of mental loudness and amount so that the pure thoughts of God can be discerned. The inspiring thoughts of flows are all from God, whether or not they’re associated with a master, angel, cosmic being, archetype, the sun, or a humming bird. For God is in all. These Elixir of Life flows come from my Higher Self, which is one with God. David knew this when he gave his flows, which became the Psalms. He wrote in Psalm 46, “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad…the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High [the soul]. God is within her…God will help her at the break of day…he lifts his voice…the Lord Almighty is with us…“Be still and know that I am God.” From this, we can see that David knew that God is within us, that he speaks to each soul in her own flow from the vast river of divine wisdom, and that the best time to hear his voice is at break of day.

When I was in the receptive state just before getting the inspiration for this flow, Simon and Garfunkel’s song “The Sounds of Silence” echoed in my mind. That led to the thought of Omraam’s book, voice fasting, David’s psalm, and I didn’t think the song had any relevance other than the word “silence” in the title. But an hour later, I received an email from someone, complaining about being alone without anyone to talk to during the coronavirus lockdown. He said, “A lot of sounds of silence here in my office/bedroom.” That made me look up the lyrics to the song. The first verse is remarkable. Paul Simon wrote:

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence.

What Simon describes is the conditions and process of flow, of the creative process that every musician, artist, songwriter, and inventor has experienced. Out of the darkness of predawn, a thought whispers in the stillness, a vision sprouts in the mind. The seed of the song, painting, invention, psalm, or blog could be from a dream. It remains in that silence and if you nurture it with meditation at the break of day, it will grow and produce fruit. “The Sounds of Silence” was a flow from Paul Simon’s Higher Self, decrying the materialism, glitter, and alienation of society.