Let Your Field Serve You

Many years ago, long before Crimson Circle and long before I became deeply involved in metaphysics, I was having lunch with several business acquaintances. Somehow the conversation wandered into religion, spirituality, and psychic phenomena. I had always been interested in what lies beyond conventional reality, even though at that point in my life I certainly didn’t have the vocabulary or understanding that I have today.

One of the men at the table was adamant that psychic phenomena were nonsense. It was all fake, manufactured, wishful thinking, or outright fraud. I actually agreed with him that a lot of it probably was, but I told him there were also things that happened that simply couldn’t be explained in the usual way. He challenged me.

Sitting on the table in front of us was an empty drinking glass. I looked at him and said, “That glass can move without me touching it.” He laughed, and we ended up making a $5 bet.

Now, I should point out something important: I had absolutely no idea how the glass was going to move. I wasn’t secretly planning to bump the table with my knee, I hadn’t noticed anything that gave me a clue about what was going to happen, and I certainly didn’t possess some extraordinary psychic ability that allowed me to levitate drinking glasses at business lunches. From a rational standpoint, it was a stupid bet, but something in me said to make it.

So I took a deep breath and waited. Everyone at the table stared intently at the glass. They were waiting for me to concentrate, wave my hands over it or perform some sort of psychic maneuver, but I did nothing. About fifteen seconds later, the waitress walked up to the table, noticed the empty glass, picked it up and walked away with it.

I looked at the others. The glass had moved, and I hadn’t touched it.

The man who made the bet initially refused to pay me. “You didn’t move the glass!” he protested. I reminded him that I had never said I was going to move it. I had simply said the glass could move without me touching it.

Pay up. It was only $5, and the whole incident was hilarious, but I never forgot it. At the time I didn’t fully understand why. Today I think I do.

The important part of the story wasn’t that the glass moved. The important part was that I didn’t know how it was going to move.

Humans have an almost compulsive need to know how something is going to happen. We decide what we want, and almost immediately the mind begins constructing the pathway. Who needs to do what? Where will the money come from? What conversation needs to happen? What steps do I need to take? What could go wrong? What is Plan B? In other words, we don’t simply choose an experience; we also try to manage every movement of energy involved in creating it.

That can be useful when you’re assembling furniture or planning a trip, but when applied to life itself it becomes exhausting. More importantly, it assumes that the human mind has access to all of the relevant information, intelligence, potentials, and energies involved in a situation, when in fact it doesn’t. The mind sees only a tiny portion of what is actually happening.

While I was sitting at that table wondering how the glass could possibly move, another intelligence was already operating within the situation: the waitress. She had her own awareness, her own purpose, and her own reason for approaching the table. I didn’t control her, mentally summon her or even know she was coming, yet fifteen seconds after I made the ridiculous bet, she provided exactly the energy and action needed to create the experience.

Reality walked over, picked up the glass and essentially said, “Like this.”

Perhaps the miracle wasn’t that the glass moved. The miracle was that everyone was staring so intently at the glass, waiting for something extraordinary to happen, that nobody noticed the waitress.

Something similar happened to me recently, although under much more practical circumstances. One of the Crimson Circle staff members handles a wide range of responsibilities. She is very creative and has the ability to see the bigger picture rather than get lost in minutia.

One area of her responsibility involved endless details, schedules, follow-ups, and organizational requirements. She simply wasn’t suited to that highly detailed part of the job, and I could tell she wasn’t happy with the obligations it required. I finally realized that having her manage this area was not good for her, or for Crimson Circle.

Something needed to change, but I was dreading the conversation. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings or imply that she wasn’t valued. She does an incredible job with her other tasks, better than anyone else who has ever handled them. I simply needed to explain that this one part of the job wasn’t the right role for her, while making it clear that there were other things she did very well and that I wanted her to continue doing them.

Like most humans, I began anticipating the conversation long before it happened. How should I say it? How would she respond? Would she be hurt or become defensive? What would I do afterward, and how quickly could I find someone else? I was standing in front of a closed door, mentally preparing myself to push it open.

Then something remarkable happened. Before I could tell her that I needed to relieve her of some responsibilities, she told me that she hated doing that specific work and would be perfectly happy if we found somebody else to do it.

The door opened from the other side.

Within two hours I had a replacement. There was no confrontation, no hurt feelings and no drama. She was relieved, I was relieved, and someone else stepped into a role much better suited to them.

I like to call moments like this grace.

For many years Adamus Saint-Germain has repeatedly told us, “Let energy serve you.” It sounds simple, but for humans it is a radical statement.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that we must manage energy, accumulate it, protect it, push it, direct it, work hard for it, and manipulate circumstances so that we can get enough of it to create what we want. Even many metaphysical teachings simply put a spiritual coating over the same old concept: Visualize harder. Focus your intention. Manifest the outcome. Project the correct thoughts into the universe so the universe will deliver what you ordered. 

The human mind remains the manager.

But our understanding has been changing. In our recent explorations of presence, light, intelligence, wisdom, and fields, another way of understanding Adamus’ statement is becoming apparent. Perhaps it is time to expand “Let energy serve you” into something larger: 

Let your field serve you.

There is an important difference.

Your field is not simply a container of energy surrounding your physical body. It isn’t an aura, and it isn’t an invisible warehouse where all of your metaphysical supplies are stored. Your field is living. It contains and connects your light, energy, intelligence, wisdom, potentials, and awareness. Most importantly, you are present within it.

When you are present in your field, these elements no longer need to operate as disconnected forces. They can align. Intelligence can recognize potentials the mind cannot see. Wisdom can bring the distilled essence of experience without dragging the wounds of the past into the present. Light can reveal possibilities that were previously outside awareness, while energy becomes available to support the experience.

All of it can begin to serve the one who is present — not the personality demanding an outcome, not the mind issuing instructions, and not an old identity trying to repair itself, but you, the I Am.

This brings us to something that may be even more fundamental:

Presence doesn’t make the field obey you. Presence allows the field to know you.

How can your field serve you when you’re not home?

When you’re lost in worry about tomorrow, replaying yesterday, operating through an old identity, struggling with self-worth, or trying to mentally control every possible outcome, there may be enormous amounts of energy and intelligence available, but the relationship is distorted. The field still responds, but what is it responding to? Fear? Control? Old patterns? Conflicting desires? Other people’s expectations?

When you are truly present — I Am Here — something changes. There is clarity, although not necessarily mental clarity, about what will happen next. In fact, quite often you still have no idea what will happen next. But there is clarity of you, and with that clarity, the various intelligences, energies, wisdom, and potentials within your field can begin aligning naturally.

You don’t have to conduct the orchestra. You need to be present for the music.