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Excerpts from an interview with Keith Sherwood in Frankfurter-Ring magazine-November 2000

Q. Would you please tell our readers more about your personal background, the education and training you received?

A. My early education was traditional. I went to grade school and studied European history in college. Even as a child, I could see subtle energy fields and could distinguish between the different qualities of subtle energy projected by people. My ability to see into the higher and lower dimensions made it clear to me that we lived in a multi-dimensional universe.
And as I got older, it became important for me to learn whether I was alone or whether others had had the same experiences as I had. I soon learned that there were ancient traditions where masters and adepts had had the same experiences. And I began to study them particularly Yoga and Vedanta to verify my observations. I was fortunate to be so sensitive. So it wasn't necessary to spend much time doing exercises and practices to increase my abilities. I just used them to study various phenomena, first on the lower dimensions then on the higher ones.

 

  

Q. Describe your work as a minister in the Dominican republic, and as the director of the American Psychic Association. You also studied with a Gurdieff Master. Can you tell us how these experiences influenced you?

A. When I was young like most of my contemporaries, I was interested in finding out how the macrocosm and microcosm interacted and what my place was within them. So I searched for answers or at least what other people had to say about these issues. In my twenties I met several teachers, but was most impressed by a young Gurdieff master. It was clear to me

  

that I should associate with him although I knew from the start that he wasn't going to teach me anything new, only to "forget what I thoughtI knew.' I traveled with him for three years through the Sonoron desert in Mexico and later to Guatemala where we spent six months camped in the mountains in 1976. It was a marvelous experience. But in the end I wasn't satisfied because the central question about the Self hadn't been answered. For the next three years I traveled alone. Finally I became a minister and traveled to the Dominican Republic. The period I spent in the church was particularly important because while I was in the church I began manifest my innate healing ability. It was important for another reason as well; it showed me the limitations of organized religion, particularly dualistic religion which continues to see man as separate from God. I had never experienced that separation and the limitations imposed on me by the church made it clear that I had to abandon religion for the truth that was self-evident within my 'Self'.

After I left the church, I continued my study by observing the interaction of energy fields. When I began to work with people again, it



was independent of any organization. However, my psychic abilities were quickly recognized. And within a year of returning to work, I became the Director of the American Psychic Association, an organization of psychics, astrologers, numerologists and other talented individuals who were involved in metaphysics in the late 70's in the USA. A short time later, I began to work in Europe. Three years later, I moved to Germany and founded the 'Integration Center.'

Q. In 1991, you stopped teaching in Europe and returned to the US. Can you tell us why, and what you have been doing since then?

A. I stopped teaching in Europe in 1991 because I had reached an impasse. I found that heavy karmic energy prevented people who were studying with me from achieving their highest goal, Self-Realization. And I found that after so many years of work, the projections of Karmic energy from people still attached to the external world had taken its toll on me. If I was to continue, I had to go beyond a mastery of Kundalini and Prana, and learn to master the mechanics of Karmic energy, the 'qualitative energy ' that weighs

 

  


heavily on soul, intellect and spirit and is the precursor of physical disease. At the time I had no idea that this study would occupy me for almost ten years.

Q. What has caused you to return to Europe, and what is your focus now?

A. In the ten years since I left Europe, I have learned a great deal about karmic energy, how it is projected, how it accumulates in a person's energy field, and how it disrupts their ability to transmit and transmute energy. I also learned how karmic energy in the form of energy blockages can be controlled and removed permanently from a person's energy field. I'm returning to Europe to complete the work I began twenty years ago.
For some time I have been working throughout the United States and Canada with people who want to focus directly on achieving union with the Self and who are ready to make that their highest priority...it is now appropriate for me to do the same for people in Europe.

Q. What kind of students do you wish to attract now? What do they experience in your seminars? What benefits do they receive? Who can profit from working with you?

A. We recently went through a millennium shift, which was accompanied by a shift in the communal energy field. Since then many people have become aware that by taking full responsibility for their spiritual lives, they could make rapid progress on the road to Self-realization. These are precisely the kind of people who have been attracted to my work in the US. I sense that in Europe

 

the same type of people will be attracted to my work as well.In my seminars students receive a firm foundation in energy work and learn exercises to enhance their flow of Prana, strengthen their boundaries, raise the Kundalini-Sakti, recollect their energy bodies and remove dense Karmic energy from their energy fields. They also experience the kind of energy which will inspire them to advance rapidly on their path home to the Self. The benefits they receive are too numerous to list. Many students have had spontaneous ecstatic experiences as their chakras have become active and their Kundalini has been aroused. Many more students leave with a firm understanding of how energy works and the skills to activate their energy system and regulate the flow of energy through it.
Almost any one can profit from my seminars. The higher the students' goals, the greater the benefits. Greater health and harmony are just the beginning. As students continue to practice what they've learned, they will develop a greater capacity for intimacy and a higher level of conscious awareness, which will inevitably bring them closer to achieving the goal of Self-realization.


 

Intimacy the Elixir of Life
By Keith Sherwood

Introduction
Intimacy is an essential part of human existence and relationship. One is born into a state of intimacy. And it’s the yearning for intimacy which compels one to to transcend the limitations created by karma, as one grows older.
When I refer to intimacy I’m referring to a form of union in which separation is obliterated, at least temporarily. Though related to human love and pleasure intimacy is much more. In fact, to grasp intimacy and its importance one must recognize that intimacy is the direct experience of what is real and authentic in one’s self, one’s partner and in universal consciousness. Like samadhi, the yogic state of union, intimacy emerges from mutual love and comes to fruition when one allows oneself to give and receive pleasure without judgment and fear.
Without the possibility of intimacy, in fact, life in the phenomenal universe would be unbearable. Like time and space, intimacy is part of the fabric which connects everything in the phenomenal universe to universal consciousness, the singularity at the root of human existence.
The Yearning For Intimacy
It is the desire for intimacy which sustains love, creativity and the pursuit of knowledge. And it’s the yearning for intimacy that compels a human being to seek relationship with a partner, themselves and universal consciousness. When one experiences intimacy one experiences themselves as part of an organic whole. When one is not intimate one becomes fragmented and one hungers for what has been lost. Though one may not be able to identify what one yearns for one will be compelled to assuage the hunger for intimate contact one way or another.
It’s important to note that the yearning for intimacy can be misinterpretated-and one can settle, at least temporarily, for attachment and dependency. But the yearning for intimacy cannot be satisfied by what is essentially a counterfeit. It can only be satisfied when one has centered themselves in the higher mind, the authentic vehicle of human consciousness and energy. In fact, it’s only by becoming ‘authentic’ first that one can hope to experience intimacy with a partner, with themselves and-or universal consciousness.
Truth, freedom and unconditional love
To experience intimacy with a partner, oneself and-or universal consciousness one must recognize that intimacy is not attachment, dependency, control or bonding. One cannot have or hold on to intimacy, one must surrender to it by giving up attachment to the ‘I’ and the individual mind and ego which support it. In fact, where there is the will to power or the need to manipulate, hold on or have intimacy will be impossible to achieve.
Intimacy cannot exist in an environment where there is over or covert control and-or oppression. One must have the liberty to be one’s self for intimacy to emerge, and one must offer the same liberty to whomever one shares intimacy
In addition, intimacy cannot exist in an environment where truth, freedom and unconditional love are restricted or lacking altogether. Indeed, intimacy is essentially the ongoing experience of truth, freedom and unconditional love which can only emerge within the context of relationship with a partner, oneself or with universal consciousness. The yearning for intimacy is in fact the yearning for one or more of these three-since only these three bring one into union with what one loves.
The Yearning for Truth: Truth is an essential part of intimacy because one can only be intimate when one is expressing their truth by living with integrity. It’s important to note, however that integrity is not the product of belief and cannot be achieved through effort. Integrity emerges when one lets go of judgment and expresses themselves spontaneously, regardless of the consequences .
Centuries ago Shakespeare declared, ‘...to thine own self be true’. What he recognized was that being true to one’s self and living with integrity could be difficult-because, in many cases it meant defying those in authority as well as the individual mind and ego, which can relentlessly badger and bully one to change or to become ‘better’.
Indeed, trying to improve one’s self and become a ‘better’ person is a fruitless effort since human beings are manifestations of universal consciousness and therefore perfect. In fact, the human field of consciousness and energy, which includes the human energy system, has been designed to be a perfect vehicle through which universal consciousness can participate in the phenomenal universe. Therefore, there is no spiritual justification for living up to any ideal other than being true to oneself, since being a vehicle for universal consciousness is one’s individual and collective dharma.
Dharma is a Sanskrit word which denotes life path and purpose. When a person follows dharma the universe support them in everything they do. In this regard Krishna declared, in the Bhagavad Gita, (the most authoritative text of Hinduism), ‘...better to do your duty badly than someone else’s duty well’.
The Yearning for freedom: Freedom is an essential part of intimacy because a person must be free to express themselves without fear in order to become intimate. Those who are dependent or who seek relationship to feel secure, and-or who need to control or be controlled cannot achieve intimacy. Control destroys love and prevents partners from achieving and sustaining intimacy because it blocks the free radiation of consciousness and energy between them and universal consciousness.
In addition, it’s important to note that the yearning for freedom, (which leads to intimacy) is not the same as the freedom to do what one pleases. Freedom is not license. Indeed, the yearning for freedom is what motivates a person to overcome the desires, (and fears) which attach them to the phenomenal universe and which disrupt the free radiation of consciousness and energy. Freedom, in this context is the freedom to go inward and to express what is authentic through relationship. It’s an act of becoming. Freedom of this sort is enduring. It is a state of permanent Self awareness that cannot be taken away by any outside agency. It can only be forsaken out of ignorance. Even then-the loss of freedom can only be temporary, since the enduring condition of each human being is intimacy with universal consciousness, ‘Om Tat Sat’., (thou art that)!
The Yearning for Unconditional Love: Unconditional love is an essential part of intimacy because it is impossible to achieve intimacy unless one gives up judgment and blame and chooses to love unconditionally regardless of the consequences. It’s universal consciousness emerging as unconditional love which is the foundation of pleasure, human love, intimacy and joy. And, without having a deep and abiding yearning for unconditional love one one will find it difficult to severe their attachment to the individual mind and ego and overcome its opposition to intimacy.
The yearning for unconditional love is in fact the innate yearning for intimacy with universal consciousness. Though one may believe s-he is an individual separate from universal consciousness, it’s simply not true. The truth is that everything that exists emerged from universal consciousness and continues to be nourished by it. On some deep level of awareness each person knows this. That is why all human beings yearn for unconditional love. Freud called this yearning the infantile need to return to the womb. Like many of his generation he misinterpreted what he observed.
The yearning for unconditional love as well as the yearning for truth and freedom are in fact the innate yearning for a return to intimacy. The yearning for even one of these three leads one directly to their individual and collective dharma.
It’s important to recognize that the pursuit of dharma is why human beings incarnate. By incarnating and re-experiencing intimacy a human being becomes a vehicle for unconditional love and fulfills their dharma. Indeed, as interdimensional beings human beings were designed to do one thing perfectly-to be vehicles for universal consciousness. Though it comes in many names, universal consciousness, Christ consciousness, Bhrama, Atman, the Logos and the Self the simple fact is universal consciousness is at the center of human consciousness. And it is through intimacy that a person becomes whole again and manifest unconditional love on every world and dimension of the phenomenal universe.
 

 

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