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The balance of the world needs to be restored by reactivating the heart - the world has reached a critical state of lovelessness. Time is important if we are to save this civilization from annihilation. A worldwide catastrophe could occur due to our lack of awareness of the seriousness of the imbalance resulting from the universal absence of caring. It has become desperately important for all of us to do whatever we can, to help to bring about a change, but we must do it first on ourselves. Both individually and in groups we can all cooperate to bring about the necessary changes, so we need to scrutinize the many different areas of activity in which people are involved, as well as all our different relationships. This survey can show clearly where the "heart" has been omitted and the "head" has become too dominant in every area of life as we experience it now. This book is a cry for help to all those who are truly dedicated to service, whether at the individual level or on a more widespread scale. It will take the commitment of as many willing people as possible to reverse the present trend toward destruction by re-instating the heart and with that re-connecting the heart energy.
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Don‘t By-pass Your Heart
I dedicate this book to Sri Sathya Sai Baba, whose heart overflows with love for all beings. Phyllis Krystal
Phyllis Krystal
Reconnecting the Love Energy
Don‘t By-pass Your Heart
New edition 2003
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Reconnecting the Love Energy
First published in 1995 by Weiser Books, Inc.
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Contents
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Preface of the Editor New Edition
Love
Introduction
Part 1. the Heart By-Pass in Personal Relationships
Heart By-Pass?
What is Love?
Learning How to Love
We are All Three People
“What Do You Want?”
Why are We Here?
The Four Functions in Relation to the Heart By-Pass
Personal Relationships
Partners
The Heart By-Pass in the Family and Home
Reviving the Puberty Rites
Parents Who Cause a By-Pass of Their Children’S Heart
Child Abuse – Sexual and Otherwise
Competitiveness and the Heart By-Pass
The Heart By-Pass in the Work Place
The Heart By-Pass with Service People
Pampered Pets or Victims of Human Abuse? By-Passing the Heart in the Treatment of Animals
The Role of Women in Re-Connecting the Heart Energy
Safe Nest or Steel Trap?
Part II: the Heart By-Pass in Public Institutions
The Heart By-Pass in Education
The Absence of Heart in Government
The Heart By-Pass in Finance
Vanished – Long Lost Luggage
The “Live Happily Ever After” Myth
The Food Industry
The Heart By-Pass in Medicine
Heart By-Pass in Religions
Heart By-Pass in Organisations
Machines, Computers and Other Electronic Devices That Contribute to the Heart By-Pass
Traffic and Private and Public Transport
The Media
Charisma and the Myth of the Public Image
The Fallacy of Self-Importance and the Importance of Self-Importance
Be Happy
Work is Worship
Cracked Urn, Broken Reed or the Stone the Builder Rejected?
Epilogue
About the Author
The Editor
Reconnecting the Love Energy - This book is a cry for help to all those who are truly dedicated to service, whether at the individual level or on a more widespread scale.
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Epilogue
The Editor
Reconnecting the Love Energy - This book is a cry for help to all those who are truly dedicated to service, whether at the individual level or on a more widespread scale.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First, I offer my sincere gratitude to Sri Sathya Sai Baba, for without his love and encouragement I would never have attempted to write. I also thank him for showing me the heart by-pass and for opening my heart and teaching me how to allow the universal love to flow through it to others.
I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Peggy Lenney. With tireless enthusiasm she has patiently typed and re-typed this manuscript, as well as my previous ones.
I am also deeply grateful to my assistant, Susan Leh, for her invaluable help with this book and with all the other areas of my life so that I could devote time to writing.
I thank all those who have been involved in this publication so that I could present this book to Baba on his 70th birthday as he requested. But my special thanks go to Betty Lundsted for her interest and encouragement.
And last but not least, I thank my late husband Sidney for his support during the many years which allowed me to be productive in this way.
Preface of the Editor New Edition
Once Phyllis received the Method “Cutting the Ties that Bind”, she became committed to spreading the Method to as many people as possible exactly the way she had been shown. The Phyllis Krystal Foundation is happy to present you with this new edition of the book, first published in 1995.
Love
Love is letting go
Not holding on.
Love is loving everyone
And not just some.
Love means demonstrating
What true love can do
By bringing joy to many
And not just one or two.
Introduction
Although at the time I was completely unaware of it, the basic theme of this book was given to me in a reverie or waking dream several years ago. I was working with a partner and consulting the inner wisdom or Hi C (Higher Consciousness) available within everyone. Usually, when working in this way, I would be given insight into a variety of problems I myself was facing, or those I had been asked to check for others to enable me to offer them methods to help themselves. However, on this particular occasion Sai Baba appeared on my inner scene as soon as I had closed my eyes in readiness to ask for guidance. His presence felt just as real to me as it is when I have been close to his physical form in India. And his voice was just as sweet to my inner ear as it is to all those who listen to his discourses at the ashram, on audio and videotapes, or in an interview.
He seemed to be beckoning me to follow him, but, of course, in thought only, and telling me that he was going to show me “the real heart by-pass.” I assumed that he intended to teach me a new healing technique, but that proved not to be the case at all. As I mentally followed him, it was as if we were moving high up above the earth. Baba pointed to a huge human figure that appeared to be superimposed over the planet. It reminded me of the diagrams of the impersonal human body found in Yoga books. It was neither male nor female, and the chakras were clearly marked as wheels of light at the appropriate locations. At first, I thought Baba wanted to show me that the earth can be symbolized as a human form; the macrocosm compared to our bodies that represent the microcosm. But I soon discovered that this was not his sole purpose, for he proceeded to deliver a discourse that flowed into my mind just as fast as I have heard him speak at the ashram. As I listened intently within, I felt great sympathy for his translators, who often have difficulty in keeping abreast of his fast flow of words, especially when he starts a new train of thought before they have had time to translate the previous sentences. It must require intense concentration on their part, just as I, too, experience when I receive his inner discourses.
He pointed to the chakras and indicated that they are all interconnected by pathways like beams of light, except for the paths leading to the heart. Those he showed me were either completely cut off, or partially blocked, leaving the heart chakra almost isolated from the others. It reminded me of the blocked arteries around the physical heart that need to be unblocked by a medical heart by-pass.
Very seriously and intently, he explained that this is the real heart by-pass at the world level, but the same condition is present on an individual or personal level in the majority of people in whom the heart, along with true caring, has been rejected. I was profoundly moved and close to tears by this graphic illustration, for I knew only too well how accurate it was. Yes, we have cut off contact with our hearts, or as Baba expressed it, we have “by-passed the heart.”
He then outlined the steps, starting from way back in time, showing how this situation has gradually developed. He explained that in the beginning it was obvious to everyone that women gave birth to new human beings, the babies. The people concluded that the Great Creator, or God, should be worshipped in the form of a woman. I was reminded of the symbolic figurines uncovered during the various excavations of old cultures, of fertility goddesses fashioned with a protruding belly resembling a pregnant woman about to give birth to a baby. In those early days, Baba continued to explain, people were not yet as aware of the man’s role in the creation of a new being, so the fertility goddess was worshipped as a symbol of God, the Great Creator. Later, when the warrior tribes began to infiltrate and conquer the more pastoral groups, they brought with them the concept that God must be sufficiently powerful to help them to overcome their enemies, so they worshipped a strong male figure.
The men of the various tribes waged war on other groups and hunted wild animals to feed their families. But while they were engaged in such apparently heartless pursuits, the women kept their hearts open and active in their role of bearing and nurturing their children. They were able to rekindle the caring qualities in their men when the latter returned to the family after fighting or hunting.
In time, as the men became even more powerful and warlike, the women were gradually and inexorably forced to occupy a more and more debased place in the tribe. They were reduced to being owned and controlled by men, and they were treated like possessions – sex objects or brood mares and on a par with the men’s other possessions. Like animals, they were often used as beasts of burden. Under these unhappy conditions, women withdrew from their connection with their hearts and feelings because it became too painful to feel. So the universal heart by-pass increasingly and relentlessly continued to develop and operate worldwide over the succeeding centuries.
In recent years some of the more brave and aware women have begun to rebel against being classed as second or third-class citizens, or worse. They attempted to fight the situation by copying men. By primarily using logic, while ignoring their hearts and feelings, they furthered the development of the heart by-pass instead of remedying the imbalance in themselves and in their daily activities.
Baba proceeded to explain that the balance in the world needs to be restored by reactivating the heart, but it is the individual who will bring about the changes in the world. Women, who are the natural guardians of the heart energy, need first to open up their own hearts, and then they will be capable of reconnecting men to their hearts.
As Baba outlined all that needed to be done to correct this sad situation, it seemed like a formidable undertaking. But that is exactly why he is here and has assumed a human form, as avatars before him have done at such times when the world had reached a critical state of lovelessness, which is certainly the case now.
But even an avatar cannot work in a vacuum to bring about the changes that are so necessary. It is we, the people who have lived intermittently in the world as different personalities at different times over the expanse of many centuries, who have contributed to the present situation. We need to take responsibility for applying the remedies available as quickly as possible if catastrophes are to be avoided. Time is important if we are to save this civilization from annihilation. A worldwide catastrophe could occur due to our lack of awareness of the seriousness of the imbalance resulting from the universal absence of caring.
As this overall survey of the present situation was being so dramatically unfolded, I was deeply moved, as I instinctively knew how frighteningly correct it was.
At some level of my being I was undoubtedly aware that I was not being given this vision unless I, too, would be willing to participate in finding ways to solve some of the problems, and thereby remedy the widespread dilemma. But I must admit that at the time I had no thought of writing yet another book, let alone this one. I would have forcefully resisted such an idea as being far too enormous a task to undertake, especially at my advanced age and with my travel schedule involving seminars on the Cutting the Ties Method, and talks at Sai conferences and centres so rapidly increasing. It was not until now, several years later, that I received definite instructions from Baba to write this book.
But before that time, and a few years after I had received this vision, during a group interview Baba suddenly announced to the gathering, “Mrs. Krystal is writing another book.” It was the furthest thing from my mind even at that time. But the book to which he was referring was Taming Our Monkey Mind, and he undoubtedly foresaw that it needed to be written before this one. I realize now that it was a forerunner to prepare the way for the heart energy to be reinstated. For, if our desires are too strong and our monkey minds are in control, we are still too self-involved to care about other people.
The Monkey Mind book has been published and presented to Baba. At that time I asked when I should return, which has been my habit each time I am with him. He smiled in a way that caused me to wonder what new surprise he was about to spring on me, and said, “Come next year for the 70th birthday celebration and bring a new book to present on that occasion.” As he spoke, he rubbed his chest with his hand, so I asked if it was to be about the heart by-pass. With a big smile he said, “Yes, very happy.” The 70th birthday was just a bare fifteen months away, certainly not much time to write and publish a book.
During my travels I have been made acutely aware that the world situation has steadily worsened. It has become desperately important for all of us to do whatever we can to help bring about a change, but we must do it first in ourselves. Then it will start to spiral out to others and eventually reach the world.
Baba had shown me the effect of the heart by-pass on both the world and the individual. I realized that the denigration of women involves the suppression of the feminine within each of us, in both men and women. The earth is the Universal Mother by whom all living creatures are nourished, and she, too, is suffering from neglect. In fact, rejection of the heart and our inability to care leads to defacement of the earth.
The balance of Yin and Yang, to use Chinese terms, has been revealed in the ancient teachings to be essential in all areas of life, not least in human beings. But at present the balance has been drastically disturbed. These two strong opposite poles, Yin being the negative, receptive, nurturing pole, and Yang, the positive, assertive, and active pole, are both essential for any type of creativity or action to take place. So, when the earth has been demeaned and maimed, the Sun, which symbolizes the Yang (or father principle) becomes too dominant on all levels, and dries up the waters of emotion.
“As above, so below,” or as with the macrocosm so with the microcosm. When these two great forces of positive and negative energy lose the natural rhythm between them in the world, that same rhythm is lost in human beings, who, by their physical gender, are differentiated into primarily Yin or Yang. But each of us contains both Yin and Yang aspects – or heart and head. These two, on the microcosmic level, mimic the two great parents, Earth Mother and Solar Father on the macrocosmic level. As we demean the Yin (or feminine aspect) and elevate the Yang (or masculine), we add to the imbalance in ourselves as well as in the world.
Many people feel that, as individuals, they are too weak and ineffectual to help the world situation, for any help they might give would be like a mere drop in the ocean. But if many single drops are put together, the sum would be a mighty force. So the responsibility rests squarely on the shoulders of each of us, both men and women, to help correct the imbalance between these two great forces and thus bring about healing of the schism.
What are we all waiting for? Do we expect someone else to start the healing process so that we can then jump onto the band wagon when others have started it rolling? But, as with any other moving vehicle, by the time we decide to come aboard, it may be moving too fast for us to catch up with it; in which case, we may be left behind. Then, we may think that some exterior force caused that to happen and lament our bad luck or fate. But our fate would be due only to our own tardiness, our own timidity and cowardice, our own laziness, and, above all, our own selfishness in expecting others to do for us what we must do ourselves. Each one of us is responsible for our own part in the cure since we have all contributed to the problems.
In the work in which I have been involved for many years, I have lately become even more acutely aware of the important role of dedicated individuals. I have often heard a forlorn lament from someone who feels helpless to make a difference. This attitude is particularly prevalent among young people and is not limited to any single country. It is seen all over the world.
I have often been asked to give talks to groups of teenagers and young adults. I always happily accept, as I thoroughly enjoy meeting youth groups in various parts of the world. They are of the utmost importance as they will form the future population of each country, and will therefore be the ones who determine its destiny.
I have been impressed by the fact that in all the youth groups the same general questions and complaints were forthcoming. By far the most common statement has been that these young people are angry with their elders for causing the present state of the world, which they are now about to inherit. Since I always seek within to be given answers to such questions from my Real Self rather than from my brain, I sought within for an answer to this common complaint. I fully realized that I needed a solution that would not merely satisfy the particular group I was addressing, but preferably would give some direction on how to improve the situation about which they were so worried. The answer I received astonished me. The thought came rapidly to my mind that everyone who is alive at this present time, including all the children and young people, are equally responsible for the present state of the world. The reason I was given that this is, indeed, the case was that each one of us has, in every one of our many past lives, contributed, over many centuries, to negative thought forms that have accumulated so much energy that they are now controlling the world and everyone in it. So it is our responsibility, young people as well as older people, to do everything in our power to reverse the situation we have all caused with our past thoughts, emotions, words, and deeds. The responsibility is then placed exactly where it belongs, on every living person on the planet. It is clearly useless, as well as a sheer waste of time and energy, for any of us to blame others for a situation we have all helped cause.
So where can we begin? We do not need to rush out into the world and take on huge challenges. If we bring about changes in our own personal lives, it will act like the small amount of yeast needed to raise a large lump of dough, in preparation for making a loaf of bread. In this way, by our example, we can raise the consciousness of those with whom we come into daily contact. The way we live our lives can make others aware of what they, too, could do to help correct the world situation, instead of sitting back idly waiting for others to improve their lot for them.
Both individually and in groups we can all cooperate to bring about the necessary changes, so we need to scrutinize the many different areas of activity in which people are involved, as well as all our different relationships. This survey can show clearly where the “heart” has been omitted and the “head” has become too dominant in every area of life as we experience it now.
This book is a cry for help to all those who are truly dedicated to service, whether at the individual level or on a more widespread scale. It will take the commitment of as many willing people as possible to reverse the present trend toward destruction by re-instating the heart and with that, re-connecting the heart energy.
There is only one royal road
for the spiritual journey – Love.
Baba
Part 1
The Heart By-Pass in Personal Relationships
Heart By-Pass?
In order to clarify the meaning of the phrase, heart by-pass, as it is used in this book, the word heart and all that it signifies must first be examined and defined. According to Webster’s dictionary, “the human heart is the seat of emotions, personality and attributes; the moral side of human nature in contradistinction to the intellect, as in ‘he was all head and no heart. ’ ” 1 When we think of the word heart, or hear it mentioned, various qualities come to mind, such as feeling, compassion, empathy, and love, whereas we connect thinking, logic, planning, organizing, and intellect with the brain.
The heart has become synonymous with love. For instance, “he or she has no heart” implies that the person being described is incapable of expressing love, while someone who is described as having a “heart of gold” signifies that this person is considered to be very loving. We even refer to someone we love as “sweetheart.”
St. Valentine’s Day is celebrated each year as a day on which to send and receive love. A custom of giving cards to mark this day is very popular, especially among young people. Most of the cards display a big red heart accompanied by greetings expressing love and sometimes love poems. Unfortunately, many of these cards are extremely sentimental and saccharine sweet and express an artificial emotion rather than true love.
While driving on today’s highways, it is common to see bumper stickers that carry messages such as, “I love animals,” or “ I love skiing,” or “I love gold,” etc. The word “love” is symbolized by a big heart, since a heart and love are connected in many people’s minds.
When we speak of the heart by-pass, or of by-passing the heart, it means that the feeling that is connected with the word “love” is cut off, or by-passed, and cannot be expressed.
We would be well-advised to check our behaviour to see whether we express kindness, affection, caring, even politeness, to others. Our lives can become so full of mechanical activities that acts of kindness that come from the heart are crowded out.
Unexpected acts of kindness and consideration can have a much more far-reaching effect than we could imagine. They can start a chain reaction by affecting not only the people to whom they are given, but also everyone the recipients come into contact with throughout the day. Because of our acts of consideration toward others, their hearts may be opened, and they may be more inclined to give those they meet a smile, a kind word or a helpful hand.
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