(The above is a picture I took from Mt. Wilson).
At this point, hopefully, you've read what I've discovered about the journey of the soul or what Tim Boyd calls the one story and Joseph Campbell called the Hero's Journey. The story of who we are and why we are here has always been hidden in plain sight. We write it over and over again. Only when we deal with all of our emotional baggage that we project on the rest of creation can we really see things for what they are truly. By now you should hopefully have read about my meditation on how the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place but a state of mind. Further, you should have read my meditation on Lucifer/Prometheus/Maui...and how they represent us and the disorganization of perception that occurred in our Minds when we created the Ego as an apparatus to experience the physical world. Now, here is something that really shifted my paradigm again. The Mind Of God As I explained before in the Mind of God blog there is nothing in all of the Cosmos that exists outside of All-That-Is/ Source. You can read this here: http://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/category/mind-of-god. Different sources say there are three aspects of this source. The Unchanging One of which everything is composed, The one that perceived itself and created, and then the material world. The Unchanging One that is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. This part doesn't experience the material realm...is more like the data that composes reality or the particles that simply exist. The Egyptians call this the Womb or Nieth. This is the part that composes absolutely everything...this is the omnipotent, omniscience and the perfect aspect. In Kabbalah this is called The Kingdom. From that womb of potential one was produced that could perceive itself (I'm in midst of writing what perception means) and it was upon this sense of perception that, according to Kabbalah, light was unleashed so violently that it caused disorder. In Egyptian Mysticism this was Ra who created names for his members and these came into being int he form of the Gods who are int he following of Ra. From these Gods came "the Millions." (1999, Ancient Egyptian Mysticism by John Van Auken). This suggests that God is both latent and active. We can see a hint of this idea in science. In the Double Slit Experiment (which has been proven with the Scientific Method by several groups), light particles act as waves but when observed they become particles and this is why 'god' can be in two states at once...not only does God compose everything that exists but another aspect acts as an organizing principal that creates what we perceive. No Separation We are taught through Dogma that we must all be good little girls or boys in this life in order to gain entry into Heaven or exit Samsara. We believe that we must 'go' somewhere in order to rejoin with God/Source. The 'truth,' we are taught, is out there somewhere beyond our body and beyond us...we need outside information or some spiritual journey to a place to find the answers (astral or physical). This isn't true. If we are composed of All-That-IS and we are in the image of All-That-Is there is nowhere to go because we are always in contact with and a part of Source. We have never and will never be separated from Source. We can only perceive that a boundary exists because we do not experience communication in the form we expect when interacting on the Material Plane of Existence. The communication and the connection is always there. We only think that we are operating independently. We don't have to earn anything. We don't have to go anywhere. We don't have to die to the flesh to know All-That-Is. Since it is merely our state of mind that prevents us from seeing God/All-That-Is...we merely have to expand our consciousness to the point where we realize we are One with God. That we never left and that there is nowhere to go to find our answers. Instead, we know that we are a divine reflection, a copy (or mirror if you prefer) made in the same image of Source and so we have all of the information stored within ourselves. Once we begin exploring what that means we realize that we can experience the At-one-ment here and now. The experience doesn't become something that we only have when we die...it becomes a part of our life in this instant and every instant that we experience thereafter. Spark of the Flame Here is a simple metaphor. This is an old metaphor. You can see it in the worship of Ra in Egypt. In the Zoroastrian eternal flames. The Eternal Flame of the Goddess Smith Bridget. All-That-Is or Source is like the sun...a glowing disc that is warm and gives life freely. Each of us is made in the image of that sun...we each have a tiny little inner sun within us, that we normally call the soul, that is part of that larger ball of fire. That image is a perfect copy of the sun...it has access and contains all of the same potentials and energy of the Source. The flame of a candle is a smaller version of the fire in he hearth...and single flames compose the larger fire. The Source could not and would not destroy itself in any way shape or form so realizing that we are One does not diminish us nor Source. In fact, it makes everything stronger. The problem is most people act as though their souls are the moon. The moon reflects only diminished light back to the Sun. In order to access the knowledge of Source, to clear our little mirror of debris so we reflect back the full light of Source, we must simply Know Ourselves. That can be as complicated a process as you deem necessary. This involves analyzing our beliefs and how we react to our every day situation with the question, "Does this belong to me?" Too often we take on beliefs that are from our society, our parents, our educational system or some religious doctrine that does not genuinely reflect what we know at our core. We can go out and research this information until we are blue in the face...but knowing and believing information is two different things. That which we do not truly believe never really finds a place at the core of our being. After deep introspection it is easy to identify what is truly something you believe in versus what someone else taught you to believe (often at the punishment of destruction if you failed to believe it). Acceptance Of Self We must take that one step further in order to accept Oneness with All-That-Is. We must learn to love ourselves and not fear ourselves. A lot of the suffering I see comes from people rejecting some aspect of themselves. We walk around with what we think are these big dark secrets that if other people knew them or we admitted their existence to ourselves people would surely reject us. Well, not usually, and not if the people who surround you really love you. Love does not see flaws...it only sees beauty. For example, you might be aware of a great big pimple on your nose. Well, if someone really loves you they won't even notice it. The only people who notice and dwell on flaws in others are those who dwell on their own flaws. That's one of the ways you can tell if people are operating on the Level of Love which is of Source or the Level of Judgement which is of the Ego. Everything that is judged not perfect is cast out and denied in the person who cannot accept themselves. We can see that when people dis-own parts of their reality. They are disowning that aspect of themselves. The reality a person perceives is but a reflection of their inner state...it becomes clear they lack self acceptance and usually in the area that they vehemently deny or try to control in other people. If they hate drunks, they don't accept that they might have been intoxicated at one point and disliked how they behaved. If all they talk about is how they hate cheaters, more than likely they were a cheater at some point or are a cheater...unable to accept the truth about themselves they project their un-owned aspect on someone else. When we look at others and we see them as gross, disgusting or hard to stomach...we disown that in our own way we are gross, disgusting and hard to stomach. There is at least one person we have encountered in our lives that have perceived us that way. To deny this is similar to denying our own existence. We cannot always please everyone and always leave the best impression with everyone. We all have bad days, we've all made mistakes and we have all been the 'bad guy' to someone in our life. However, we can choose to relate to someone who is having a bad day...find that place of sympathy and loving kindness that we developed for ourselves and extend it to them. Instead of reacting in fear and anger to someone who is having a bad day...we can show loving kindness and patience. We can only have this loving kindness and patience when we develop them for ourselves first. We must admit to ourselves that we make mistakes, we have bad days, we are not perfect...and only when we have forgiven ourselves can we forgive all that we encounter. We can then extend the peace we carry within to other people. Conclusion To me this was a mind-boggling realization. I knew that it was the inward path that would lead to God/At-One-Ment with All-That-IS but I didn't realize that there never was separation....just the illusion of Separation to give us room to adjust to our own self-perception. As I wrote in my Standing Unashamed Before God post...it takes a lot before we can stand before God unashamed. A big part of that is forgiving ourselves for our seeming lack of self-perfection. Sure, we are not perfect as this world wants us to be but we are Not Of This World. We are of All-That-Is....and this world is but a fading dream. Unless and until we accept and forgive all of our own faults we will never fill that we are worthy to Stand Before Source. We created this world to hide from him what we thought were inadequacies and try to purge them. Yet, there are no inadequacies within us...yes, perhaps we have failed at some point in life but that is how we learn and we are not always what we think is perfect...but we are always what Source perfectly created us to be because we cannot be anything less or more. Who are we to argue with Source about the perfection of creation? Instead, on an individual level we think there is separation. We think we are alone when we are surrounded by God/Source/All-That-Is...we cannot and will never leave the infinite womb of the creator for we are always One. Yet, we focus on the trees never realizing that we never left the forest. We need not die nor go anywhere to experience the Oneness. We simply expand our mind until we perceive all of creation differently. I know some people are saying, "It can't be that easy. You say simply but it's more complicated then that!" The process needs only to be as complicated as you what you think is appropriate. Those who come to this realization earlier then others are no less valuable then those who make themselves jump through hoops. At the same time, we are aware that we are an individual and when we are awake we can choose to work with All-That-Is through the Natural Order because our role within this play of light is obvious. We realize that trying to impose our will on anything in creation is a fruitless venture. That nothing that Source wishes to exist will ever cease exist. That we are not the creator of our own reality but the co-creator willingly riding the tides of life wherever they may take us filled with wonder of the majesty of it all. Forever safe, forever loved and forever treasured by Source there is never anything to fear because not even Death which most people fear most (as Jesus proved) exists. We are eternal beings of pure consciousness that will exist forever and nothing can harm us.
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I apologize that I did not post as I usually do on Friday. I had the opportunity to visit the Learning Light Center for their Easter Psychic Fair. I experienced a wonderful healing, bought a Lapis Lazuli pendant and some organic honey. I'm posting this a day early and this week will start posting Book Reviews on Wednesdays. My backlog of already written posts are growing so large that I've been neglecting that aspect of my blog. This is one of the most complex and abstract subjects that I have come across. I credit Laird Scranton's books on the Dogon and Daryl Anka's Channeling of Bashar for helping me to conceive of this concept. Once I was able to wrap my mind around this concept a lot of metaphysical teachings became very clear. How is it possible that we are one with God yet an individuality? I have come to accept this concept on a deep level as the Rabbit Dream that I explained back in January indicates (http://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/bunny-dream-interpertation). There is Only One There is only one being here. There is only Source/ All-That-IS. That we are separate is an illusion created by Time and Space. We all exist within a collective of thought. The reason Earth is so special is that we can so quickly create and explore our own individuality on this planet. By not being in direct contact with Collective Thought (Source) we are able to experience and develop our own individual energetic pattern. Then we can retain this when we are on the other side of the veil. Character's In A Book Metaphor To best understand this we can think of God as the greatest Author ever. Think of your favorite fantasy book or movie. Let's look at Star Wars...Luke, Leia, Han, Darth Vader and Chewie are all aspects of George Lucas. Are these the multiple personalities of George? Is he really split into all of these different characters? Yet, through his movies he explored the human condition through these characters...like little avatars in his personal universe. You can apply this to any author and any author will tell you that yes...these character's we create start off as a reflection of ourselves. We experience life through them, we gaze through their eyes based on their unique circumstances and experiences...and then at some point they become reflexive characters that we can tune into but have their own individual personality that is so much more than than what we originally assigned. Just look at Anne Rice and how she talks about the character Lestat, that he breathes in her ear and is very much alive for her...yet, one with her. This is, from my limited perspective, is what God/Source/All-That-IS is doing with us on Earth. We start off as aspects or abstract concepts. Leia started off as just a Princess who's world is destroyed but by the time we come to episode eight she is a multidimensional character that is so much than that first description George Lucas wrote and even evolved so that other people wrote about her. Imagine creating your own world and then realizing that it actually exists. If I were to magically walk through a door and appear in Merosis it would be amazing because I would know all of them are aspects of myself, yet, separate and compete individuals. To me that would be just as amazing as walking into the Star Wars universe. This is how there can be One but Many at the same time. Shards of the Same Mirror This metaphor comes straight from Daryl Anka channeling a being named Willa. He explained that her book was named, "Shards of a Broken Mirror." Meditating on that is when I really understood the metaphor. Think of God/Source as being on one side of the mirror contemplating his own reflection. The reflection is completely shattered showing different fragments of the divine's image. Some are parts of this chin, some are parts of his ankle...etc. Each individual is a broken shard of that mirror. We each reflect back a different aspect of Source/God. Yet, are the reflections of the shards in the mirror really separate from God/Source? No, they are but reflections and perspectives of the Whole but they are inherently one and they are all reflections of the One Source. Different Aspects of God Interacting When working with my dream's, after reading Kevin Todeschi's Book (Dream Interpenetration Made Easy) I realized every character that I interacted with represented an aspect of myself that I needed to work on...then I had a huge epiphany. They say every person that enters your life presents a lesson. I realized that this is how it works dreams. Every character you encounter in those dreams are a part of yourself. I realized that this meant that all of the people I'm interacting with in the waking world are aspects of the Divine. They work in a perfect harmony and unison so I am faced with different lessons I need to learn. Sometimes, I'm faced with something in myself that I don't like so I try to reject the other person. In other cases, I'm just present to show some very lost beings a different way of living. Maybe they take it to heart and start living that way or maybe they don't. Yet, if I do not role model proper behavior (as all natural leaders do...there is never a do as I say but not as I do in a genuine leader) they might never have the possibility of waking up to the idea that they have another way they could live...and they could make better choices. Through this perspective I realized that every time I interact with a human being I am interacting with a part of God/Source. Each is their own unique aspect of the Creator but they are just as valid expressions as I am This and That This is another concept taught by Bashar channeled by Daryl Anka. How can we be individuals and yet one with God? We can be both because this realm is just a reflection of Spirit. We were given Free Will so we could become companions to God/Source, which was lonely. I think we can all relate to that in some way. Yet, nothing can exist outside of Source/God. That is a bit of a paradox but it does make sense that when we cross over (a.k.a. die) we actually return to that energy and that collective mind. We only really experience that sense of separation when we are in the flesh. Some go through some terrible side effects because the sense separation and lonesome is painful. Yet, that's how we develop our own distinguishable individuality. That's why we build here, in this physical realm, our individuality by exploring what we consist of and measuring ourselves against obstacles. We learn more about ourselves in the realm of opposites and separation because we learn what we do and don't like. We test ourselves. Hall of Mirrors The people you draw into your life reflect you. The people you drew into your life five years ago or even a year ago might have been totally different from you today. That's why there is usually a constant cycle of friends leaving and friends arriving in your life. Life is fluid. Nothing is meant to be stagnant and remain the same and a lot of people are like stones unwilling to budge. The few people who are fluid and flexible enough to remain a friend as you develop are worth their weight in gold If you absolutely hate everyone that is around you...there should be alarm bells ringing in your head...because this shows that you hate yourself. We are working within a hall of mirrors...there is only one person here. Every person we meet is our self reflected back to ourselves. Let's go back to my author metaphor for God. To George Lucas, Han was his rebellious side. Luke was his more sensitive caring aspect. We know those characters come from the same person...the same Author...and we know they need each other. We see Han being taught by Luke that there is more to the Universe...that the Force exists. We watch as Luke grows into manhood because of Han's influence. This is how two aspects of the same being can learn from each other. I will go more deeply into my blog titled 'Seeing God In Others.' Conclusion This is a simple and sweet concept yet it is so fundamental. In Egyptian Mysticisim John Van Auken explains in Ancient Egyptian Mysticisim, "Before the creation the Egyptian God Nun (or nu) was all there was...the God Atum was self-created and began the creation within himself...Also, in the book of the Dead the "self created" God is asked, "Who is this?" and she answers: 'It is Ra who created names for his members and these came into being in the form of the God's who are in the following of Ra.' This is the reference to the beginning of Soul-Groups, each following in or reflecting the first cause or impulse that brought them into being. Those conceived int he following of Ra are of the same soul group and would have similar goals and perspectives on life... From out of the un-manifested God came God the Creator (Self-created). God the Creator conceived co-creators, or the godlings. From out of them came "the Millions." The Original Great Creator then gave souls to "the millions. The plan is very simple: Whoever magnifies the Creator's qualities, the creator magnifies them. Its an interrelated network of Oneness and Manyness, of Wholeness in which separateness may coexist. The ultimate gold is to subdue one's sense of separateness by magnifying the Creator's wholeness, thereby becoming one with the Whole whole knowing oneself to be oneself. " Just today, Laird Scranton shared a post on Facebook explaining one of the concepts he's studying, "In Buddhism, Purusa is the name given to masculine energy that comes together with feminine energy, Prakriti, to catalyze material creation. Adrian Snodgrass describes the Buddhist personification of the concept of Purusa as "the first form of the supreme Brahman" who "knows divisions and thinks himself composed of parts." A likely ancient Egyptian counterpart to the term is given by Budge as the word pursh, meaning "to separate". [see Budge, p. 235a]" Another poster explained that the same concept of Pakriti and Purusha. Again, we find the unmanifested unchanging feminine Goddess (Parkriti) and the manifesting God (Purusha). Here is an article on the Buddhist concept (http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/essays/the-true-meaning-of-prakriti.asp). My point here is that we find this in every tradition. We find the same concept in Adam and Eve...first there was just God and then he created Adam and Eve in spirit. As John Van Auken points out there are two points where Adam are Eve are created. First, they were created in Spirit and then they were created in flesh. For me, when I see the same story told over and over in many different religions it becomes apparent this teaching is from the Original Religion that so many claim was given to us from supernatural sources. While I am not in any place to say what that source was I think a valid argument has been created that it exists. I want to note a few things prior to getting into this one.
1. Normally I publish my posts on Monday and Friday. Today I'm breaking that trend because I think this message is timely and I'm actually excited about sharing this interpretation as I've already shared the dream. 2. I will be writing a blog about why Ross, even though he is a skeptic, is the best partner for me. I want to explain how he came into my life as well for those who can't seem to make room for the right person to come into their life. I'm retooling a blog I wrote on the subject already but I will post that blog Valentines week. 3. The synchronicity of both Wolverine and Beauty and the Beast coming out this year and being associated with a Grand Cycle of Time is a bit bigger than I first thought. The Hopi believe that the latest "World" is that of the Animal. In both movies...the characters have the choice to give into their Animal natures...or choose compassion. The next World of the Hopi is that of the Human. * * * I've decided that I want to share a dream and the interpretation that I had because I realized how powerful the message was and that it might have some value to others. As far as I'm concerned all dreams are personal dreams, often times it is our mind crunching data but sometimes I do believe messages from Spirit that can apply to everyone can come through. The perspective that this dream provides about current affairs is what really matters. What I do is not special. Receiving messages from Spirit is something anyone can do and we all dream. All of us have access to the most perfect consul and font for answers every night (or in meditation). Yet, I realize not all people will allow this in their life unless they see someone else model the behavior. So, hopefully by sharing this with you it will move you to start seeking your own answers within. I didn't realize that this Message from Spirit might be valuable to anyone else until I told my mom about it. This has been a strange phenomenon that I have had recently where I don't really comprehend the depth or meaning of a dream until I share it with someone. The Dream A friend of mine from work, Mikey (who I consider to be extremely left brained and logical) had loaned me a DVD. If I answered the question on the DVD correctly I would be granted super powers. As I gave it back to him I said no, I had not been successful. We then went inside to try to solve the puzzle as a group. As we watched we had to count the people wearing red shirts. That was the question that we needed to answer in order to get 'super powers.' We watched the DVD on a small fuzzy tube television. At one point where the video turned into black and white video footage of two football teams. Mikey pointed at the screen enthusiastically, "Here's the trick. This team wears red jerseys so everyone on this team counts as wearing a red shirt." He tapped the screen every time there was a player for that team reaching a mind boggling number very quickly. I retreated from the room. I don't like math games because I have dyslexia and it messes with my ability to track anything but prime numbers (1-10). I was not happy that this "trick" was being employed. What happened if a person was color blind and was trying to answer this puzzle? Then it hit me, I knew the answer in the dream (As I was watching myself from a third person perspective I did not 'know the answer'). I told everyone in the room I knew the answer. Bill Styhe, the actor was there (to me he represents self-assured authority) and he asked, "Are you sure because I think I have a really good guess." I said, "No, I know the answer!" I raced outside the house. By the front door I encountered a Brown rabbit. I told that rabbit for some reason, "I know the answer?" "Do you?" the rabbit asked doing the Pepe the Frog gesture with his hand upon his chin. "Yes, it's One!" "No, choose again-" The bunny replied. I picked the rabbit up refusing to back down. "No, think about," I told this talking rabbit as though this was perfectly normal thing to do, "we are all one at the source. Every person on that DVD is one at the Source level. The answer is One!" The Rabbit smiled and out of the corner of my eye I saw there was a gray jack rabbit that had been hopping clockwise around a white stationary rabbit. The gray rabbit came to an abrupt halt as I said this and looked at me with the most incredible powerful expression. The white rabbit continued to sleep (I reviewed my journal of this and mistakenly thought it had woken up). I realized that I, holding the brown rabbit, the gray rabbit and the white rabbit were all in perfect alignment. I had answered the question at the exact right moment to allow for this alignment. I realized this indicated that I had answered correctly, I was very excited and the dream ended. Dream Interpretation 1. The DVD represents the story that we see in the world. Most of what was on the DVD were news stories or narratives. Interestingly, we could experience it more than once (replaying the DVD) until we came up with the answer. The narratives and stories were a distraction from the main purpose of the DVD. 2. The Riddle: I believe that God/Spirit/Source (whatever you want to call a higher power) is always testing us...have we learned our lessons? 3. Super Powers: I imagine the reason why you would want a super power is because you feel powerless and to help other people. That didn't seem to be what aroused my curiosity however. I like meditating on riddles and puzzles. 4. Mikey, to me, represents someone who is very left-brained. This is an aspect of me, not the actual person that I know...and what this was saying is that I was looking at the issues in the world from a logical linear perspective (which doesn't apply to emotions). 5. Red Shirts: Immediately when writing this I thought of two things...First, the Red Shirts in Star Trek... the joke is that extra red shirts on away missions usually die. The second was Republicans (we associate them with red while democrats are blue). So, I knew this partly regarded the emotional struggle we see in politics going on in the nation right now. 6. The black and white "trick." Right now a lot of people are trying to see the politics in this country as "black and white" or "Good Vs Evil." (I had already learned this lesson). I realized the division into teams was an illusion...a distraction. Too often we over think about things and attach meaning to events that, quite honestly, aren't there. 7. Bill Styhe, as I said before, reminds me of assured authority. You know that one person who seems to think they very much know the answer to everything. He asks me if I'm sure about my answer as though doubting my ability to discern the answer. He only has a guess but he thinks that his guess is more valuable than my answer. This is the part of me that tends to give my personal power over to a strong male authority. 8. Bunnies- My first association is to Easter and Resurrection. My second association when meditating on the subject caused me to refer back to Laird Scranton's book "The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol." A feature of the bunnies that I focused on was the bunnies whiskers twitching for some reason...and on page 48 of the book I read this, "An example of his kind of adopted symbolism is illustrated by the symbolic assignment of the concept of VIBRATION to the image of a hare or rabbit." So in my mind, it is clear, Rabbits represent vibration. 9. The Significance of Three: There is a huge significance to this number. To me this represents the Holy Trinity (in Hindu it would be Brahman, Atman, and the Individual ) and the Spirit, Mind, Body complex of humanity. To me these are reflections of each other. On a different scale it can also me my Mind, Spirit and Source. On a different scale it represents the Higher Self, The Inner Child and the Ego. 10. The Brown Bunny. This one represents my earthly body self...I'd say this is actually the Mind or Ego. This is the one that really doesn't see the bigger picture. This one tried to tell me I was wrong. Maybe, because of it's limited vision perhaps it didn't really understand or comprehend my answer. Yet, it did that smug Pepe the Frog look...so it also has an element of the God Kek (which I don't fully understand). 11. The Gray Bunny: This one would be the Soul level...it stopped what it was doing and looked deeply at me with a sort of deep penetrating Wisdom I've only seen one other place- A past life regression where I saw Jesus. When it stopped Time seemed to stop (it was jumping in a clockwise motion). To me Jack Rabbits are tough. They are the "Doers" in the world of Bunnies. On the level of the Buddha this would be Atman. On the level of psychology this would be The Higher Self. At the same time this is the Soul level. 8. The White Bunny- Source. This would be the Brahman level. 9. The three being in alignment. By realizing that we are all One at the level of Source (represented by the White Bunny) I caused the Gray Bunny to stop hopping around the White Bunny. The three in Alignment suggests that Mind, Soul and Source will's are in alignment. Also, on a level that I didn't realize until today with the bunnies representing Vibration it means that I am in alignment with my "true" vibration (I'll attach a video by Bashar to kind of clue you in on what that might mean). What Does It Mean? The general message is that the apparent division that we see...the battle between Good and Evil that so many focus on in our dimension is an illusion. At the Source of all life there is not Good or Evil. There is no dressing up and playing Jedi vs Empire. All of this is just an illusion...when we are looking at these details we are seeing the trees but not the forest. This apparent division that we are seeing offers a tremendous opportunity to us consciously. Will we give into our Fear...which will lead to Hate and Suffering? Yet, what is compassion? How do we find compassion when we are feeling threatened? The only way is to see the bigger picture, the deeper meaning and purpose of it all. To realize the division and the suffering is all an illusion and this life is the story we are telling ourselves. Too often we go to the news allowing them to narrate and make sense of it all for us...but do you really want the world they are trying to sell you on? A world based on fear, lack and competition? Can't we tell a better story? The Light Side and the Dark Side is an illusion. We are all shades of Gray...To me Black and White television shows always appeared as shades of gray. Trying to sort out what color is what in such a scenario is pointless and useless...it doesn't matter. That's why the answer occurred to me in the dream. At the end of the day all of us are One. Solving the Riddle I was able to see the bigger picture, as it were, and realize that what this is all about is learning that we are all One. The process involves inner work and integration but the work is simple if you are willing to be honest with yourself. This deep soul searching should lead to your ability to love yourself (not that way sicko!). Okay I made you laugh...but really, before anyone can truly love you...you must learn to love yourself...that is the very first step on the path. By realizing that we are all One, by realizing that all of those people in the DVD are One Being Divided battling themselves...I loved all of them. With that realization my Mind, Soul, and Source (or those other three which represent the same concept) came into alignment...my Will was the Same as Source...I had tuned into the vibration of my Higher Self (also sometimes called Christ Consciousnesses) and Source. Within that space there is only love and infinite compassion. Deeper Meditations on the Dream You can stop here if you want...we are about to go into the depths... All of the questions and answers I've ever had are in this dream. Right there, if you have the eyes to see them. So simple and so obvious but so hard to accept at the core of our being after the multitude of games of fear and rejection that we play on Earth (In Alchemy Earth = Fear....the very name of our planet is FEAR!). One Being divided...of course Source does not want us to fight one another. As we find peace among ourselves so too does Source. What we are playing out here is a very very small part of the Cosmos (remember my Mountain Top dream) so it's not that all of Source is this way. Just our tiny little corner of the Multiverse. What we see reflected in the world around us is what is also on the inside. Are we not owning some aspect of ourselves? Are we letting Fear rule us? What we reject in others is what we reject in ourselves. If someone calls you a liberal cry baby....they are denying their inner emotional weakness. If someone is rejecting you because you voted for Trump...it's because they fear 'Change, Chaos, Uncertainty.' Anyone who's had their life torn out from beneath them knows that sometimes we must be reduced to ashes (metaphorically!) before new life can burst forth. The rotten fruit fallen from the tree becomes compost and then feeds the tree so that it may bring forth new buds. This is a natural cycle of "death" (change) and "rebirth" (also change). We just choose how dramatic it will be by how much we resist it and try to hold on to the old. Surprising to some, new is often better...because it represents growth. This is a fundamental part of the experience we agreed to when we came to Earth and to try to disagree with it is to Argue and Deny/Reject Source. Why fight Source, why try to swim against the tide...instead of learning how to swim with it? We come to Earth to learn a multitude of lessons. One of those lessons is to be Individuals our own individuality while simultaneously realizing we are One with Source. We are both. We come from a collective consciousness in Spirit...we don't need to create it on Earth (this is why Group Think is so terrible). What other way can Source create companions for itself? Life As A Dream Alright, and deeper we go... Think of life as a dream. Other people in Dreams are Aspects of ourselves. They are whatever we associate with them. Mikey has his own identity in the waking world. I can't even begin to know what is going on within his mind. By identifying what he means to me in the dream (left brain thinking) I learn about myself. This, on a much larger scale is what God/Source is doing...that's why we were created more or less. WE are God, we are Aspects of God, but we are individual flavors of God. He assigned us different gifts and abilities. He experiences through us...and solve it's own paradoxes through us (please note, that there are three "levels" to God conscious in my paradigm/that I can perceive...the part that we are, the part that is active (learning/Christ Consciousness), and the part that is latent and all knowing. To borrow from Colette Baron Reid think of it as a Cell...there is the Cell Wall (Brahman/Source), Cytoplasm (Active Part/Christ Consciousness/Atman) and us (nucleus)). This is why life can be a metaphor and experience at once (why the Bible can be literally true and symbolic). The flow between these three elements, that are all one but know themselves to also be separate, is fluid. We are the dream and we are the dreamer. At the basic part of this is an encoded aspect which is why 3 pops up so much and 7 pops up so much. This is a very interesting dynamic, delicate and gentle Partnership with Spirit (Christ Consciousness) and Source...a sort of intuitive trusting dance. We can learn to swim with the tides of the Source and the Flow of the Higher Self....and suffering is alleviated. I hope this helps you or at the very least causes you to think. I had two videos attached to this post but I see the one by Bashar has been taken down (happens every time I post one that's not from Bashar communications). If you look into Bashar's work he talks about how by following your highest passion you will tune in with your higher self and find 'a reality that is more alignment' with your true nature. The other video was Peter Woodbury of the A.R.E. but I also found a quote in John Van Auken's book (he also belongs to Edgar Cacye's A.R.E) and in it he says, "To know yourself as yourself and yet one with God." That's the epiphany I have suddenly reached in my life.
The Approach
I do not claim to be different from anyone else. My path has been my own and it has been uniquely crafted for me. I cannot provide proof that goes beyond doubt that what I have experienced is not purely imagination or states of mind. I cannot save you. Only you can save you...I can tell you of my path but it is not your path. You must find your own and it is not my burdern to teach you. I do not present myself as a teacher of knowledge that anyone else can't gain. Anyone can gain this knowledge. I might convey it to others in a unique way based on my experiences. I consider myself a translator of very esoteric "hidden in plain sight" knowledge in a way that anyone can appreciate it. Yet, as Yeshua said, do not cast pearls before swine. I only share with those who seek the informaiton because those who do not are not ready to receive it. My Life Purpose I know that my main purpose in this life has been to achieving a sense of "knowing." This seems very simple but it is not to teach. This is my own inner journey and it does not neccsitate that I share it with anyone else. On some level, the soul level perhapse, we are all connected and one achieves this everyone else in this group enjoys it. So there is nothing for me 'to do' and there is no sense of being special for achieving a little bit of "knowing." I think it's interesting how I came to understand the meaning of the 3, 7 and alternatively 8 concept. I kept running acrossed in so many different religions and material. I couldn't quite grasp it and then it just clicked. That's how much of this has been...sucking in a bunch of information like a sponge and occasional bursts of insight. The idea I have of creation, of the Creator, and our material reality has changed quite often. I can tell that my approach to it is far more balanced then ever before. Summing it up for Those Who are Suffering In a recent interaction of Facebook I wrote this: "Remember one thing, one being, All-That-Is does have control over everything. He gave us free will so we may choose where we want to dwell in experience. You may not realize it but fear and believing things can force their will onto you is a choice. When you feel this way it's a red flag for you to look in the mirror and ask, "Am I forcing my will on others? Am I trying to micromanage and control my life?" This is a tough lesson. The reality you create or perceive in the outer world mirrors You're inner world. In psychology they call it Projection. To stop projecting our own baggage on others we have to do self-healing. Why do I keep creating this negative scenario? Then by following the crumbs to their origin, usually in childhood, we feel the pain, accept it, sometimes journal and it ends the need to project. I have also realized through past lives I've been the bad guys. I've done bad things in past lives and I've done really good things. In spirit it doesn't matter, surprisingly. As long as your doing and learning about yourself...That's all that matters on your soul level. If you create a bad experience here...Well, that's because of the mind in this incarnation but it will make good conversation with your souls group in the after life. In the Celestine Prophecy it talked about being "In the flow." I never understood this until recently until I really started letting go. I started to trust the guidance of my intuition and emotions. You see All-That-Is flows all of this potential to you...You choose what you amplify. What you amplify is what you magnify and if that's helplessness or the sense of not being in control of your life...That's what you'll experience. It can be a magical ride or a scary one. Soon, the different threads of the convergence will start separating. We will be on a narrow band with fewer voices to interact with...But right now we are choosing where we want to go. We are aligning our energy to what we want to experience. You're one line says a lot to me. It says, I feel helpless. It says, I do not own my own power as a creator being. It says, I have little faith in the Creator to take care of me. Careful what you wish for. All-That-Is loves you dearly. Loves you so much that you can choose what you create in your life. All-It-is does not force it's will on anyone. That's why it allows you free will to choose and create your own reality by always flowing to you what you need to do so in every minute every day." We Create Our Own Reality Taking responsibility for this can be a struggle. This requires we look fully in the mirror and see ourselves with all of our flaws. This requires absolute personal honesty. This self-examination can be a tough process. What we think directly affects how we experience our lives. There is no magic to it in any form. All of it is mind set but it's not as simple as thinking positively. The idea is really being authentic on every level of our being, in touch with our emotions and intuitions. This requires, a sense of inner knowing of one's self. The Learning Light Center shared an Abrham Hicks quote: "If you are not excited about it then it is not the path for you." We have become so used to being controlled...by our parents who dictated to us how we should feel about things or society...that most of us have lost touch with this inner intuition, or sense of knowing also called gnosis in some circles. How often do we stop when we are going about our daily chores and ask: "Am I excited about this?" Surely, you say, how can you be excited about washing the dishes? Well, if I have the right environment...the task can become a meditation. As Collette Baron-Reid often says, "Sometimes you have to cut wood and carry water." I find that when I am doing some mundane task it helps to clear my mind. Sitting in meditation is not so effective if I'm feeling restless. That's when I have my epiphanies. Many people experience these in the shower. The mind doesn't need to be present in these basic tasks...and meditation is simply placing the mind on a certain thought. By doing these basic tasks we burn off that restless physical energy and can think more clearly. Healing Anxiety Eventually, the need to narrate completely ends. When something happens I don't have to find a motive, a reason, or a meaning in it. I just accept that it happened and carried on. A lot of people recently at my work have commented, "I can't believe they left you all by yourself." Yes, I could react with some sort of bid for sympathy. Yet, I know those people deserve to go on break and I can handle it. I simply explain that the sun will rise tomorrow and that I get paid the same rate either way. I do not feel sorry for myself in those moments nor do I feel the anxiety that I used to experience. There is a detachment and a realization that nothing requires me to react emotionally to the situation or the people who make those comments. The sun will rise tomorrow, it is not the end of the world no matter how much you wish it to be or think that i is...so you might as well embrace the experience, thank it for teaching you a little bit more about yourself and let it go. Doing so in the moment is often hard but, from my experience completely achievable. After having severe anxiety and panic attacks (from which my Psychiatrists does not believe I can ever be healed) I can say this ability to detach, to frame the moment and put it into perspective given the totality of my life has been very helpful. Perhaps, it is very rare as I believe that I have been healed. I have no desire or need for the medication. This ability to enter the 'zone' at will, when doing mundane tasks, whether at home, in social situations or other places is a new experiencese for me. I'm in this zone of just beingness more often then not lately. Sometimes, I find my mind returning to old patterns. I'm actually a bit quizzical when they come up...why did I decide to respond in a way that did not serve me? I realizet it was an old behavorial pattern that used to alleviate my stress, that caused met to think I was getting even and I realize I no longer have a need to react that way. ​ Service To Others With all of that said, I want to explain something I've discovered about Service To Others. Sometimes, you can best serve others by not intervening in their lives. What I mean by this is very simple. You can't rescue anyone but yourself. To try and rescue someone else from a lesson or traumatic event they have chosen to create in their own reality is disrespectful of them and the Creator. Intervening is not going to help people, because it is much like intervening against the will of the Creator. That person is a creator of their own life, they have set up certain lessons and tests for themselves in this life. Much like a mother doing her daughters homework does not help the child in any way when we try to rescue others we delay their learning and development. The most loving thing we can do sometimes is realize we do not have to share the emotional fall outs of such choices. We can see that the person created that scenario for a self-learning purpose. We can offer our unconditional support but we do not need to take responsible for their success or failure. If someone comes to us to seek advice that is one thing. Yet, if they simply need to emotionally vent...let them do so without judgement. Generosity Letting go of the need to force my will on anyone for any person in any way has been a huge relief for me. Instead, I've learned to meet all of my needs for myself and not look outside to others for my needs. I thank them when they demonstrate generosity. Generosity of Spirit is something I definitely reward. I too will shower others with generosity unless I realize that the other side never reciprocates. The flow of energy becomes unbalanced in relationships with people who do not reciprocate. This is a pattern I have discovered in my own life. There is always some new bit that I discover that needs to be healed and integrated. Yet, I can feel a difference and experience differences with other people. I no longer feel an obligation to others in any way shape or form because I realize if I cut wood or carry water for others...they will learn nothing and that is a disservice. A Gentle Subtle Process The process of self-healing and integration that I continue to under go has been a gentle process. I have learned not to try to hurry the process but to completely and utterly indulge in every step so that the wound I am exploring is completely healed. I have learned to savor the process. So too, I've learned I must be gentle with others. We are all like little toddlers. We are not quite aware of how the universe works and we hurt ourselves more often then not when trying to walk. Just as there is no reason to push a toddler who is learning how to walk..we must not push others. Each path that a person walks to their own self-truth is unique. That path is only known to them and All-That-Is. The path is perfect for them but different from our own. This another reason those who judge themselves superior to others are in error. Just because your path is different and serves you well doesn't mean that it is better than another's path or that the must walk that same path. All- That -Is This one is a bit abstract and many may not be able to follow (if you have been following any of this! Spirit has a way of turning insights into nonsense for those who are not ready to perceive them) but I had a realization. Through a series of dreams and visions I've learned a little thing but hopefully I'll be able to add a video that validates it. The Dogon say Amma, their god, is very tiny...so tiny that he can barely be perceived. Bashar describes that All-That-IS is a particle that moves really really fast to create this entire world. Just as you shine a small flash light on a wall it looks really big...in reality the source of the light is tiny. I see orbs, I can't explain it and yes they may be dust (although they don't really move the right way to be that) all of the time. I cannot explain this but I believe that if there are higher dimensional beings interacting with us this is how I am perceiving them. In a dream my bed was surrounded by what I call orb people. There were these tiny little orbs that looked prismatic and they were projecting a holographic image of people. Those people were the orbs and the orbs were those beings. I won't deny the dream frightened me, I had three similar ones in a row, and they ended because I think I was experiencing too much disannonce and fear (entirely on my side of the experience because these beings were emanating an immense amount of love). Then there is this video I hope to share that validtates that. When a neurosurgeon had a near death experience he experience a globe of light, that was a person, he knew this intuitively. That turned out to be his biological sister he had never met because he was adopted and it was only after his near death experience that he recongnized her. He also expereinced God as a ball of light....both of which validate my own perceptions. (https://youtu.be/qbkgj5J91hE). Conclusion There are subtle nuances to waking up to our multi-dimensional mini-creator reality. Like a flower we gently open ourselves to the loving energy realizing that there is infinite possibility. There is a lot of misinterpertaiton and misinformation out there because people who aren't expereicing it want t be a part of it. Yet, for the person who follows their own inner compass and measures the truth of others by their own inner knowing it becomes clear who is in the Know and who is Not In the Know. There is no pressing need to force others into believing our own unique truth. Just a sharing of information, feelings, and thoughts. There is an innate order woven into the cosmos that All-That-Is has created that leads us to be right where we need to be to share our message with those who need to hear it. This thread of order travels through all cultures, all relgions and all spiritual teachings. That thread remains the same through all of it and it does not matter where it comes from exactly. Only that it exists and that when we perceive it it opens the path to our own knowingness. When we see other people are closed buds in a little box they have created there is no need to change that...because they have an infinite amount of time to learn their lessons and then awaken to their own inner nature. They have their time and date for fruition...and an infinite amount of time to experience what they need to awaken. For me personally, I'm just thankful for where I am, the detachment from the desire to lurch from one best-thing-ever moment to the next and the ability to detach from others emotional states. To be an observer in a world of people who are ruled by their impulses while picking and choosing my own indulgence at will is an interesting stage. One thing Bashar said that rings true with me is that if we were finished here we would simply cease to be here. I realize this is an unfolding process that will take the rest of my life. I am not in a hurry because I realize that infinity awaits me. The stage I'm at has brought me a great deal of peace and eased my anxiety. Watching this time period unfold is fascinating enough of an experience that if I were not ironing out my own issues there would be plenty of justification to be on this planet at this time. In his future lives work Brian Weiss said that we have entered a period that no one can talk about...we each take a unique path through this time period. We are each a thread in a tapestry of reality we create along with the Creator with our thoughts, deeds and very presence. What we are doing here is changing the nature of reality itself...and that's a beautiful and humbling experience to be a part of in any way shape or form. Some may not even remotely be aware...but that's okay too because in infinity there is plenty of room for every experience what they need or want to expereince. For those of us who are consciously aware I think it's more of a blessing because we are given a conscious choice...Do you want to Serve Yourself or Serve Others (which is Serving All-That-IS because others, including you, are what All-That-IS is composed of and without you, along with all those other people, All-That-IS would not be complete). As Yeshua said: Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "Anyone who wants to be the first must be the very last, and the servant of all." What he means, is that those who reach heaven the first are not the greatest of them all. For the last to reach completion will be the one who stays the longest to aid others in their awakening...and in heaven they will be seen as the first.
Tonight I'm going to go off the beaten path of what I have been doing and cover something I've been reading/listening to in my spare time.
Now, I have always felt that there was a deeper hidden teaching that the bible contains. I have, as I said before, had an inclusive perspective of what that teaching might have been. I have sought for the story behind the story, as it were, and I don't believe that Jesus (Yeshua) was in a cultural vacuum. I believe that having gone to Egypt (which is stated in the Bible and possibly India which is not in the bible) he was influenced by the Egyptian "mystery school" and the Buddhist/Hindu perspective. If this is true what he might have been teaching is a little bit different than the Council of Nicea and the Catholic Church portrayed (which gave way to the Protestant, Baptist, and the many other varieties of Christian-dom). Recently, I've been listening to some very interesting takes on this by Scott Mandelker. I will post at the end of this section the first of the Sotapanna Videos and a video where he covers how the Gnostic teachings are in alignment with the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Very few people are inclusive in their point of view only working with certain societies so it's really great to hear someone making these connections. What I have found is that they are also in agreement with what Edgar Cacye and John Van Auken cover about the Egyptians...and not so surprisingly with Laird Scranton's work with the Dogon. This is tied to the information about the Egyptian Neters that I will eventually go into a bit more. The Unfolding Creation, from these teachings, unfolded in a very specific way. I find the way John Van Auken (Ancient Egyptian Mysticism, 1996) teaches it to be the simplest: "From out of the unmanifested God came God teh Creator (self-created). God the Creator conceived cocreators or the Godlings. From out of them came 'the millions'." It is an interrelated network of Oneness and Manyness, of Wholeness in which separateness may coexist. The ultimate goal is to subdues one sense of Seperateness by magnifying the Creator's wholeness, thereby coming one with the Whole while knowing oneself to be oneself." Alright, so in a future blog maybe I'll cover in detail how all of this works out. But here is kind of a chart that covers the idea that Gnostics, Hindu, Buddhist, Egyptian, Native American, Dogon. When we add to this that Laird has gone through and shown the connection between the Dogon, Egypt, China, Scotland, and soon the Maori of New Zealand....I think that we can safely say this was a universal teaching taught in many ways (as Scott Mandelker says in the YouTube Talk I'll post at the end). This my friends, could bring peace to the world if we let it. No separation to religions, all religions with the same exact root... The Simple Chart The Umanifested God (this is the God that is in all things, that we exist within and can never be a part from because all of creation is this God). In Hindu he was called Brahman and the Dogon called him Amma. In Egypt he was Atum (who had a triune nature of Atum, Ra and Ptah). From the Unmanifested God came "The Word." (Many societies call this the word. In Egypt this was Ra. The Christians call this principal of God "The Logos." From him came the seven who created "the millions." I will leave this here, as I will eventually come back to and look closely at all of the Egyptian Neters in a future blog. This concept is enough for now. As Mandelker points out the best image to portray this is the triangle where one ray of light enters it and emerges as the seven rays of light of the rainbow...depicted on Pink Floyd's album and the main image of the YouTube Pink Floyd music video at the top of this post. The Human Reflection Here was a big epiphany of how we resemble the image of the unmanifested God, not the manifested God. Human's are tri-fold in nature: Mind, body and spirit. We have 7 energy centers/chakras: Crown, Forehead (third eye), throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root. That kind of blew my mind when I realized the correlation. To me this explains a lot. A Little Story The best way to conceive the nature of God, as I see it is that there was an unmanifested God that existed within a womb of darkness. Then, a part of this unmanifested one conceived that it existed. That one called out, perhaps realizing he was alone, and brought into existence the seven who then created the millions. This is a simplified combination of the many different ways of understanding the original story. This obviously would also work with explaining the big bang. Balancing The Three From my meditation practice, which I call naming thoughts and dismissing them, I can tell you there is a silent..beingness that is not my thoughts which are a product of the mind nor is it my body. That silent aspect does not a narrator to exist. That part doesn't need a list of to-do's....it simply is without a need for anything else. When we take care of taming the mind or Turning the Mind into an Ally (Sakyong Mipham, 2003) that part of us does not control us. This takes discipline and a daily practice. When we take care of our body we can better tune into that silent part of us. When the silent aspect, or spirit, is manifest there is a state of peace I can't really describe. I've only recently began experiencing this outside of meditation. While I'm not perfect and haven't quite gotten to where things don't unruffle me (although, strangely, I observe them and my minds reaction to them from a distance marveling that I have no attachment to feelings or reason for my reactions which seem more like habits)... it has been quite the eye-opening realization. I am, quite obviously, not my thoughts...those are a product of my human mind. The Fall The idea I have come to realize, and that had popped up in various forms before, is that something went a little bit wrong. Somehow, humans are disconnected from the Unmanifested God. This flaw or error is what makes our universe different from others. As Laird Scranton recently wrote on Facebook: "Among the comparative points of the cosmology between cultures is a Dogon discussion of the structural difference between a non-material and a material universe. The difference is characterized as a "flaw" in the material universe, but in truth it simply boils down to a difference. This is given in two ways - directly, and metaphorically. The upshot of the direct explanation is that the timing is different for a critical stage of matter at which membranes form. (The Dogon explanatory reference for what they mean is the thin covering that surrounds the brain). The resulting structures are comparable to the two types of sushi - one where the membrane-like seaweed wraps around the outside of the rice, one where it wraps around the inside. This pertains to the spiral of matter, where, from our material perspective, mass essentially spirals around light. The Dogon metaphoric explanation is that the eighth of eight ancestors "descended" out of his proper ordinal sequence - he improperly took his turn ahead of the seventh ancestor, rather than after. A Dogon priest Ogotemmeli explains that the myth is purely a mechanism by which to illustrate the concept of two different sequences. Kabbalism uses a different metaphor to explain the "flaw". In the Kabbalist view, Adam and Eve "knew" each other (consummated their relationship) sooner than they were supposed to. That mistake, which occurred over a series of days during the time frame of the era of creation, would take approximately 6000 years to remedy itself within a much slower material time frame. So as not to lose sight of that eventual remedy, Jews were to celebrate the High Holy days, whose symbolism relates to stages of creation. From the view of the Kabbalist myth, "knowledge" was the cause of the structural difference. Comparison of the two myths shows that as presented within the cosmology, this had no more to do with modern concepts of Sin and Judgment than would a discussion of the difference between an inflated tire and a flat tire, and how to fix it. The myths were alternate ways of illustrating the idea of two things being in a different ordered sequence." Disenchantment Until recently, I didn't realize that Buddhist monks choose to become disenchanted with life itself in order not to incarnate on Earth again. Interestingly, this perfectly coincides with Edgar Cacyes take on things. According to Drs. Gregory and Lora Little along with John Van Auken (Edgar Cacyes Atlantis, 2006) what had happened is spirit came to Earth. The Spirits then started entering animal bodies and eventually became trapped in matter. They were so enamored with the five senses that they became "Stuck." So, to escape this form of experience the way to not be "stuck" any more is to become disenchanted with the experience. To let go of everything that "fetters" or bindings that keep us here. Here is the Buddhist worksheet on the subject (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/into_the_stream.html) and here is the first of the discussions about this study guid by Scott Mandelker so you can cut and paste it into your browser (https://youtu.be/TcgPYzbtWak?list=PLymcQt63IVuJerEdhTXwn2HBT5o8bRdRk). I'll go deeper into an examination of this in a future post. Conclusion While these might seem like the simplest concepts ever...it can become super complicated. All of the various different groups attempt to explain how creation began and our place within it. Pick your favorite of those complex systems...these teaching are at the heart of it and everything is a meditation on the meaning of these simple concepts. These videos are a bit deep but I think that you'll benefit from them. Enjoy! |
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