Let The Christ Live!
We are that to which we pray. Every thought is a prayer. Every feeling is a request we make unto the Universe that is within us.
Our bodies and egos will die, but the Self that is our true identity is eternal. While we're here on the physical plane, we have a choice to live as the God in us, or as an unconscious doer of habits.
For those of us who’s awareness has not yet evolved enough to grasp this understanding, following a belief system that requires God to be "out there" can lead us on a path of enlightenment - but egocentric self-importance usually gets in the way.
I see most religious people comparing themselves to God, judging themselves as powerless and sinful - like unworthy beggars for God's mercy. In this way, they unconsciously make judgment their most common prayer.
Jesus said "judge not lest you be judged". By judging ourselves as "less than" God, we become fearful of the power within, and instead of being Alive through our lives, we live from the habits of humanity that have been conditioned into the subconscious mind over time.
Many people call themselves disciples of Jesus, but they do not know him because their experience of Christ is only from the mind's interpretation of the books that were written about him. Christ is a level of consciousness that can only be attained by letting go of the limitations that having a life experience has caused us to believe.
Satan is not a person, but a personification of ego that follows mind and not spirit. We cannot serve two masters. Either we identify with the mind or with the Being we were born to express.
Wisdom of this world is foolishness with God! When the mind is disconnected from God, the ego is led to believe that we can find God by studying things that are of this world.
But God is not found in the material world, and we are not material beings. Our souls are intricately connected and completely unified with the one and only great Being that is existence itself.
We are here to be ourselves! We can make up whatever we want to "believe in", but if we want to create our lives in glory to God, we will strive to live first and foremost from the fullest expression of the Being within.
In separation, the mind cannot know God, and thus mind becomes the leader of the ego - like the blind leading the blind. This causes the mind to seek comfort from the material world because it can only identify itself as disconnected from the All.
But each of us is really Alone in that our experience of the world is of our own creation. Specifically, the cells of our physical bodies are transmitters of the One great Being as a projection of a particular field of awareness (soul) into the life of the world.
Our minds filter that projection with every thought. The more we align our thoughts with the knowledge of the source within us, the more fully we are expressing the only enduring aspect of ourselves.
Only by seeking the treasure at the core of ourselves can the mind come to know God. When the two become one, we glorify God by using the gift of this life experience to create the Heaven that is our birthright.
When the ego is unified with the Being through unconditional Love, we can come to realize the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus spoke about.
By giving ourselves the eyes to see who we really are, the ego can be married with God and they become One. In this way God is truly glorified because we allow God's presence in the material world through our physical form.
As we peel away judgment and limitations from the mind, we continue to experience the Light of Christ radiating through us into our lives. And, we recognize it within everyone - no matter how much control they have given over to their minds and egos.
The inner Light does not emanate from the mind, the ego or any part of the material self. It is the expression that flowers from our allowing the source within us to be preeminent.
When we consistently redirect our thoughts into alignment with our unlimited aspect, the ego becomes a clearer channel for expression of the Christ within. Mind your mind, and let the Christ Live!!
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SELF Directed (Like Jesus)
Many humans regard God as a person because they cannot perceive beyond the limitations of mind.
A person is a vehicle for spirit to have a physical experience in a material world. God is existence itself, and is thus every person and everything in existence - not to be reduced to a person, people or specific spiritual entities.
God created the material world and everything in it order to experience different aspects of its Self for the purpose of creating harmony within the illusion of separation - thereby expanding God’s energy into infinity. Humans are the leading edge of God's creation because the mind allows us to very specifically create our reality while directing energy to our source.
Many organized religions tend to view humans as only carnal and separate from God, which provides mental comfort while perpetuating the perceived need for the religious organization itself. But in reality humans are infused with God, and we have the choice in any moment to align our awareness with the Godly perspective of unity or with the mental perspective of separation.
In raising our consciousness, it's the ego (or self image) that is given over in service to God, but the root of the human or the Self is the treasure to be attained by our awareness. To declare independence from God is to become dependent on our will and people or things in the world. This is NOT what being Self directed is about.
Specifically, our will, our minds and our bodies are tools for the soul to refine itself to a higher vibratory frequency. These material aspects glorify God when we direct them from the pure Love perspective of the energy that creates them.
Every person has full access to the power of God in equal measure. The separation we see is due to perception through the prism of mind, which causes people to believe that God is "out there" instead if "in here".
We are not even separate from one another. We are one, and we are God.
From the standpoint of individuality, made possible by our minds in this time-space experience, God is seated at the center of each person. Jesus understood this and did his best to deliver the message to people who could not understand.
To this day, most people read Jesus' words through the construct of mind, which causes them to completely miss the message. Jesus was a person who aligned the energy of his material awareness with that of the Divine Self.
Christ consciousness is an energetic resonance that is already part of everyone. It constantly calls us to align with it, and we can commune with that energy by consistently aligning our thoughts with our deepest truths.
We are here to be Self centered with the understanding that our highest Self is existence, and that we are focused through a unique, individual mind and body. Seeking mental comfort from the perspective of subjection (perceiving God as ruling from outside of Self) separates us from Jesus, God, Allah or whatever name we prefer to attach to that which is nameless.
It is our thoughts and feelings that create in this reality, and once we understand how to direct them from the perspective of Self instead of mind, we can realize what Jesus meant by the “Kingdom of Heaven”.
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Love Transcends Judgment and Fear
It’s commonplace for spiritual seekers and especially Christians to deal with judgment and fear as part of a belief system. Seeing the world and fellow humans through these filters resists the Joy that we are meant to radiate through our physical existence while creating more of what has been feared and judged.
Judgment of any kind is choosing one thing over another, which creates energetic patterns that resist our Christ essence. Fear is in complete misalignment with the vibrational rhythm and flow of God, and is the creator of all conflict and struggle until it is used to expand our consciousness.
There is a beautiful Jesus quote in the Bible that says: "Judge not lest ye be judged". Every thought creates a resonant manifestation in the material world, and in this way we create judgment upon ourselves. Upon perceiving the manifestations of judgment, fear is felt, and instead of facing our fear, we cast more judgment – and so that cycle continues through time and space – just as this programming has been etched into our subconscious mind.
Nothing we do is negative or positive unless we perceive it that way. Judgment and fear resist something in creation - and that which we resist is multiplied.
Conversely, unconditional Love judges not – but accepts and appreciates all things in creation, moves in the direction of that which feels Joyful, creates more Joy, and glorifies God. Fear is the BEGINNING of wisdom, but it is only the beginning. In order to garner that wisdom, the fear must be used to discover what has been hidden from one’s awareness.
Through unconditional Love, fear and judgment can finally be used as tools to glimpse the true essence of our own Godliness.
God cannot be known to the human mind, and thus "respect and awe" may be the depth of one's thinking experience of God. But God can be known to the soul, and by tuning our energy to the rhythm of our true identity, we allow the part of us that is unified with God to be preeminent though our material body and mind.
Every soul is blessed and unconditionally Loved by God. We have only to allow our own presence in our lives, and God takes care of the rest. This does not happen through any set of rules, but through feeling and understanding.
I am the Infinite I AM
I AM is nothing and everything. It does not exist, and it is existence itself. It has no beginning and no end. It is the balance from which all extremes are born, and it is also the extremes.
Everything in existence is I AM - the infinite consciousness - the all-knowing awareness that witnesses everything, including every human life experience through our individual senses. Separation from one another and from I AM is the great illusion that makes the human experience possible.
I AM creates and sustains separate human forms and egos to experience the contrast of life through infinitely diverse fields of awareness. And for all the diversity of awareness, the silent witness of every human experience is the infinitely evolving and expansive, I AM.
While the world we know as our reality is constantly being created by I AM, every creation also merges with I AM. As the created and the creator are seamlessly unified, everything already created continues to create as I AM - as each one draws from its source of pure Love that transcends mind.
Humans command the creative aspect of I AM with every thought
All human creativity also originates in the all-knowing aspect of I AM that is pure Love, and humans command the creative aspect of I AM through the filters of memory, mind and separate ego. As such, the Divine creative energy of I AM is converted according to each individual perspective.
In this way, humans have the unique ability to specifically create through individual points of view. The extent to which each human creation represents its source of pure Love depends on the resonance of our thoughts to the part of us that is the all-knowing aspect of I AM.
In other words, the less our thoughts are filtered through the memory of separation, the more we will manifest the reality that we really want. This is where most of us are misled by organized religion, politics, parents and/or society in general.
Humans create struggle and suffering when we perpetuate thoughts that we are detached from or unworthy of I AM. For the most part, we are conditioned to believe we are somehow bad, sinful or shameful - and for those of us who buy into these beliefs, our perspective is very dissonant to the all-knowing aspect of I AM, and we create conflict in our minds just as we project conflict into the world.
The more we shift our thoughts toward the reality that each of us, like everything else, is the embodiment of I AM, the more our life experiences will reflect this truth. When we mind our minds and choose our thoughts in alignment with the infinite aspect of I AM, we command the creation of Love, Joy and Peace through us and for us into the life of the world.
Let's remember I AM and begin creating that now.
Instinct as a Guide toward Pure Being
Our higher self aka the Universe aka God offers guidance through instinct toward that which serves our best interest. By trusting ourselves, we are more receptive to those instincts; and when we follow them, everything else easily and gracefully falls into place.
Although we are conditioned, through our focus on what we know of the material world, that instinct is predominantly necessary for protection from harm and the will to survive, our higher self has infinite other aspects expressed through instinct. The world is only hostile to the extent that we make it so, and when we focus on our need for protection and accomplishment predominantly, we hold ourselves in vibrational patterns that attract more of the same.
Most of us only know God as protective and reactive because these aspects are the most relevant to what is “known” in the material world. We can move beyond these two God-aspects when we open ourselves to guidance toward a state of peace and pure being - which is the birthright of everyone.
Here are the steps I take to explore the more spiritual aspects of instinct:
- Meditation – with eyes closed, a quiet mind and attention to breath, our source energy can communicate directly with every cell in our bodies. This allows our whole body to receive information that will direct us toward the realization of our true desires.
- Acceptance – by allowing everything to be as it is now, we are open to new and ever-expansive possibilities.
- Gratitude – appreciating all that we are projects a vibratory pattern that attracts more to appreciate.
- Faith – knowledge that all the beautiful and wonderful possibilities that we can imagine have already been given. This minimizes doubtful thoughts, thereby allowing us to be more aware of our guidance.
- Joyful action – doing what feels inspired at the time from a perspective of expecting to always create deeper joy throughout our journey in this life experience.
- Love – allowing ourselves to see everything and everyone through the eyes of love is the truest expression of God into the life of the world. When we are in love with everything, we are one with everything, and then we can experience God as pure being.
I Saw God
Victor Wooten sings about how God is you and me. This is a delightful song with a wonderful message!
Part of God
I am part of the real God. Not like those tyrant gods invented by human mind, who rule people and demand to be worshiped.
We are all part of both the creator and the creation - which are always evolving. Loving everything is the form of worship that directs all creativity toward an increasingly joyful reality.
The gifts of insight and understanding (which we give to ourselves) allow us to live from our souls. Without them, we simply become possessed by the rational mind.
Its true that when we live from the heart, our lives and our world continue to improve. But when we live from the head, we do not suffer a wrath from an external oppressor.
We simply attract experiences that match our frequency. The closer we are to being ourselves, the better our lives become.
If reading or discussing these things feels uncomfortable, there is something in our belief system not making sense -which could cause physical and emotional blockages.
Only through exposure to our own consciousness can we begin to unravel the self created by mind, and allow our true selves to be preeminent. It doesn't matter whether we give God a persona or not.
It's more important that our beliefs are strong and flexible enough to be exposed and challenged regularly.
God is Love
Love is the true nature of every human being. Our spirit is pure Love, and contrary to many belief systems, we are not inherently wicked, evil or sinful. The belief that we are anything other than Love comes from our identification with mind.
Through mind identification, we have conditioned ourselves with the idea that we must be unholy because the mind capable of what we consider "evil". When we recognize that mind is nothing more than a tool for identifying and filtering the information we receive through our senses, we can be open to our true Loving nature.
Through the filter of mind, we sense the experiences of this time-space reality. Mind subconsciously evaluates everything. When our internal response to experiences is extreme emotion, our bodies and brains become attuned to repeat those patterns in the mind.
When we are in any emotion that is short of an expression of Unconditional Love, we feel less at ease in our minds and/or in our bodies. This is because the core of our Being is pure Love, and our mind’s identification with anything less is resistant to our true essence.
We are made aware that we are in a destructive thought pattern through uncomfortable or painful feelings in the body and/or mind. If we try to ignore or resist those feelings, we may feel better from a thinking standpoint. But unless we expose those patterns to the Light of awareness, the brain and body become even more attuned to the patterns that caused our dis-ease as we accumulate more life experience.
Many of us look outside ourselves for that which is pure and holy while continuing to condition our mind identified beliefs that we are powerless and sinful. Indeed, the mind’s propensity to separate self from Love has even induced the human mind to create gods who are separate from us.
It’s difficult to see ourselves as pure positive beings when we believe ourselves to be separate from what we know as “God”, the source of all love, joy and knowledge. However, when we honor the holiness of all things in creation, we also realize that we are separate from nothing – and we are especially not separate from Love aka God.
The reality is that God is Love, and Love is the source of everything, including the human spirit. By exposing the shadows created by mind to the light of the Love within us, the shadows fade away without fight or resistance. This can be accomplished through Transforming our Emotions.
When we connect with the source of everything, God is expressed as the unlimited power within each of us.
Everything is God
God is within everything and everything is within God - there can be no duality. Thus religious references to God can be taken as metaphors for the combined universal consciousness; and references to the devil or evil as the workings of the human mind.
All of us are inherently divine, it is only when we identify with the illusion of this time-space reality that our true identity becomes shrouded by mind.
In this regard, when more of us connect to the source of our being and live from our true nature - which is love, joy and knowledge - we will bring about peace aka heaven on Earth.
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